As Guo Jia said, a hungry wolf is eyeing Qingzhou.

"Gongtai, now that the Central Plains is like an iron plate, how should we act?"

Lu Bu asked a little confused.

Since fleeing from the Chang'an Rebellion, he first chose to defect to Yuan Shao. But how can he be tolerated by Yuan Shao with his unruly temperament? soon left Yuan Shao, and then went to his old friend Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang is a kind-hearted person, he has an old relationship with Lu Bu, and he also knows what kind of goods he is, so he wants to hand over his territory to Lu Bu, and he hangs under Lu Bu as a general.

But the more Zhang Yang said this, the more Lu Bu couldn't pull down his face. Lu Bu is an arrogant person, and Zhang Yang is not Liu Bei who pretended to let Xuzhou in history, but his old friend.

This old friend sincerely wanted to help when he was most down, which made Lu Bu a little embarrassed. In addition, he has always had a shameless feeling for this place in Bingzhou, so Lu Bu ruthlessly gave up Zhang Yang's assistance and came to the Central Plains instead.

As a result, his luck was bursting, and he happened to meet his mastermind on the road, Chen Gong.

Chen Gong respectfully bowed his head: "The lord can rest assured, the Central Plains looks very calm and four-legged on the surface, but the palace has a way to make the lord easily take the land of a state." ”

Chen Gong, who left Cao Cao, finally chose Lu Bu, the lord with a good temperament but not bad in nature.

Under the kind invitation of Lu Bu, who was not weak in his own right, Chen Gong, who had almost nowhere to go, finally chose Lu Bu in a desperate bet.

It doesn't matter if you don't have foresight or poor brains, as long as the other party can listen to your own plan, with these 30,000 merge state iron riders, it is not difficult to break out a foundation and dominate one side.

Chen Gong, who has been wandering in the Central Plains, has already had a plan in his heart, and has already figured out a path to hegemony for Lu Bu.

"Oh?"

Lu Bu's eyes lit up, and he said directly: "Gongtai quickly say it." ”

Chen Gong said confidently: "Of the four states in the Central Plains, the most powerful is Yuzhou, followed by Xuzhou. And now among the four major princes of the Central Plains, only Cao Cao of Yanzhou and Liu Bei of Yuzhou have the posture of the hero, so these two states are not desirable. ”

"Although Xuzhou Tao Qian is old, the Danyang elite soldiers under his command have good combat power, plus Liu Bei and Cao Cao are salivating over Xuzhou, so Xuzhou is not advisable, even if it is defeated, it is also a wedding dress for Cao Liu."

"Therefore, our goal can only be Qingzhou!"

Chen Gong said solemnly.

Lu Bu was puzzled: "But if I attack Qingzhou, it is inevitable that Tao Qian and Cao Cao will not come to help!" What is the difference between this and attacking Xuzhou? Moreover, Qingzhou now has a lot of displaced people and thieves, and it has faintly become the end of the four states in the Central Plains, and I am afraid it will be difficult for me to resist the other princes. ”

Lu Bu is actually more optimistic about Xuzhou, after all, it is a big state comparable to Yuzhou, and Tao Qian's command is not only Yuzhou, but Tao Qian of the other three states has taken a lot of advantages. On the surface, Tao Qian's power is the strongest existence among the four princes of the Central Plains.

However, strong power does not mean strong combat power, Tao Qian has soldiers and no generals, Lu Bu is confident that he can easily take it down, so Lu Bu's desire to attack Tao Qian is actually the strongest. If he is allowed to have a powerful force like Tao Qian, Lu Bu is confident that he can beat Cao Liu.

Chen Gong said indifferently: "The lord is wrong. If the lord attacked Qingzhou, Cao Cao and Tao Qian would definitely not come to help. ”

Lu Bu was puzzled: "Why?" ”

"The lord must also know that Tao Qianming has the strongest power on the surface, but in fact, he is strong on the outside and on the inside, if it weren't for the three forces of Cao, Liu and Yuan to contain each other, Xuzhou would have been carved up long ago. Tao Qian himself also understood his current situation, so when the lord went to attack Qingzhou, Tao Qian definitely did not dare to send troops. It is easy to be taken advantage of by Cao and Liu, not to mention, and it will also attract the resentment of the lord, and Xuzhou will be embattled by then. ”

And Cao Cao, in order to prevent Liu Bei from taking the opportunity to occupy Xuzhou, would definitely not dare to send a large army to aid Qingzhou. Because once Liu Bei occupied Xuzhou, then most of the Central Plains was already under his command. And Liu Bei is not like Tao Qian, there are Chen Qun and Liu Ye under his command, and Wu Guan Yu Zhang Fei, once the general trend has been achieved, it will be difficult to fight even if we join forces with Cao Cao. ”

"In addition, there is also Yuan Shu watching outside. Therefore, both of them have scruples and will definitely not come to help. As for Yuan Shao of Hebei, he is now at war with Gongsun Zhan, and he will definitely not come to trouble the lord. Therefore, the difficulty of attacking Qingzhou is the same as that of Xuzhou on the surface, but it is actually much simpler. ”

Chen Gong's plan was well thought out, and it took him nearly half a year to sort out the situation in the world, especially in the Central Plains, and easily found the best entry point for Lu Bu to gain a foothold in the Central Plains.

"Besides, Qingzhou is not as bad as the lord said. Countless homeless thieves are all war-torn young and strong, and with a little training, they are elite soldiers. Kong Rong and Confucianism won't take advantage of it, don't you know it, lord? ”

"In troubled times, military power is everything. If the lord has enough troops, he can wave his army in Xuzhou and take the opportunity to win in the chaos, so as to become the overlord of one side! ”

Chen Gong's plan is very correct and clear, and it is indeed Lu Bu's best choice at present.

In troubled times, military strength is the most important, and Qingzhou has not been peaceful since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and it is the most rampant area of the Yellow Turban Army, full of rogues who have experienced many battlefields.

At first, it was because Kong Rong confronted Dong Zhuo head-on, but Dong Zhuo didn't dare to kill him because this product was a descendant of Confucius and was famous all over the world, so he sent him to Qingzhou, the most chaotic city, to serve as the minister of Beihai.

Although he is only the minister of the North Sea, the identity of this product and the name of his ancestors make everyone dare not underestimate him, and regard him as a prince of Qingzhou. The identity of Confucius's descendants is so powerful, especially in Qingzhou, the hometown of Confucius.

It was later that Cao Cao didn't dare to kill Kong Rong easily because of all kinds of unhappiness, and it wasn't until someone pushed him in the end that he made up his mind to kill Kong Rong's lineage, and only wiped out one clan. Changed to ordinary people, not to mention the destruction of the nine clans, at least the three clans are the foundation.

As the most holy teacher of Confucianism, in this era of exclusive Confucianism, Kong Rong's identity is much stronger than that of the descendants of the Han family, and even Dong Zhuo does not dare to kill him easily. Liu Bei, who was the minister of the plains at the time, was surprised: "Kong Beihai actually knows that there is a person like me Liu Xuande in the world?" ”

However, Kong Rong is just a civil servant after all, and in Kong Rong's opinion, these rogues may be a big trouble that is difficult to solve. But if he is replaced by Lu Bu, with his name and ability, he can recruit tens of thousands of combatable soldiers by going out and taking the army around casually.

In the eyes of Chen Gong, Qingzhou's Liukou was completely a piece of fat, enough for Lu Bu to become a force in a short period of time, standing tall with the princes of the Central Plains.

If it weren't for these conditions, Chen Gong really didn't have the confidence to be able to support Lu Bu. After all, although Lu Bu said that he had 30,000 iron horsemen in the state, he was indeed poor and had no foundation.