Yuan Shu stood at the door of the big tent, tilting his head and looking at the bright stars in the night sky. With his hands behind his back, he rubbed the scabbard of Qiyao, but his mind was on the six-dragon sword.

The torches in front of the tent whirred, and Yan Xiang's three strategies swirled in his mind.

Compared with the last time when he simply cut off Sun Jian's military rations, Yan Xiang gave him more choices this time, but he pondered it carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that these three strategies were all pitfalls. To put it bluntly, these people are jealous of Sun Ce and want to get a piece of the pie, but they refuse to say it explicitly, but they want to put on a posture of thinking about him.

Do you really think about me? Yuan Shu sneered in his heart. The world is bustling, all for profit. The world is crowded, all for profit. As the son-in-law of the Yuan family, he knows better than anyone what these people think, on the surface he is moral and righteous, but behind the scenes, he is more greedy than anyone else, even those street rangers.

Best? Making peace with Yuan Shao is the best policy for you, but for me it is a policy that I can't make any more. Cao Cao is already a turtle in an urn, why should I let him go? Even if he is useless, he is still a dog of that concubine, and killing him will only have benefits and no harm.

The only trouble is the dependents in the city, these people are pinched in Cao Cao's hands, and their lives are in danger at any time, once Cao Cao uses them as bait, anyone around him may become an enemy.

The hateful Xu Yu, the hateful He Xian, the hateful Nanyang family.

The upper strategy is not feasible, and the middle strategy is the same, there is no essential difference between negotiating with Cao Cao and negotiating with Yuan Shao. The only way at the moment was to agree to Yan Xiang's strategy, let the generals attack the manor like Sun Ce, capture the families of each family to counterattack, and satisfy their greed at the same time. It's not impossible, but the conditions they put forward are too disgusting: they want Sun Ce's modified stone thrower.

obviously doesn't have Sun Ce's ability, but he wants to rob Sun Ce's interests, these people are not even as good as robbers, and they all deserve to die.

Yuan Shu clenched the scabbard, eager to pull out Qiyao, like robbing pedestrians on the streets of Chang'an, rushed to various camps, and killed those people one by one. They spare no effort for their own interests, but who really thinks about me?

Damn, all deserve to die.

Cai Mao walked briskly from a distance, followed by twenty knights. Yuan Shu's eyebrows jumped, his eyes became warm, and the killing intent in his eyes disappeared. He stepped forward. Cai Mao approached and bowed. Yuan Shu stretched out his long knife, supported Cai Mao's arm with the scabbard, prevented him from saluting, and reached out to wrap his shoulder around him and lead him into the account. Cai Mao was embarrassed. He was very unaccustomed to Yuan Shu's way of expressing family affection, but he didn't dare to disobey Yuan Shu, for fear that Yuan Shu would suddenly turn his face and turn against him.

When Yuan Shu introduced Cai Mao into the big tent, he gave Chang Nu a look. Chang Nu understood, took a step sideways, and guarded the tent door.

Cai Mao was even more uneasy, and her expression became frightened. He regretted a little, he shouldn't have brought twenty squire knights to Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu had just suffered the loss of Cao Cao's cavalry, and he wanted to build his own cavalry, but he didn't have enough war horses, showing that these knights were simply showing off their wealth in front of the robbers and killing themselves.

Yuan Shu squinted at Cai Mao, inexplicably happy, and couldn't close his mouth with joy. Cai Mao was uneasy, and she didn't dare to ask Yuan Shu what she was laughing at, so she had to laugh awkwardly. The two looked at each other and laughed, laughing for a while, Cai Mao's legs were weak, and she might kneel down at any time, Yuan Shu said: "De Jue, do you know why I invited you here?" ”

Cai Maoqiang smiled and shook his head, a hint of foreboding rose in his heart. Yuan Shu smiled so fakely, it must be nothing good.

Yuan Shu leaned forward and crouched on the desk. "I'd like to ask you for a favor."

"General Ming...... Say, "Whoever is effective will die...... No resignation. ”

"Don't die." Yuan Shu shook his hand and touched his nose again. "It's a bit dangerous, though. I don't know if Sun Ce will kill you with a knife after hearing the news. ”

"Sun Ce?" Cai Mao let out a long breath. He was afraid of Yuan Shu, not Sun Ce. That's right, Sun Ce once wanted to uproot the Cai family, but that was in the past, and now Sun Ce and the Cai family have a very close relationship, Sun Ce's brother Sun Fu is the son-in-law of the Cai family, and Huang Chengyan, another son-in-law of the Cai family, is the most important staff officer by Sun Ce's side.

Yuan Shu nodded and said Yan Xiang's three strategies. He didn't mention Yan Xiang's name, but with Cai Mao's cleverness, he could definitely guess who it was. He also talked about his difficulties, so many hostages are controlled by Cao Cao, there may be changes around him at any time, there are many dreams at night, he needs to solve Cao Cao as soon as possible and recapture Wancheng, and he has to temporarily wronged Sun Ce.

Yuan Shu patted his chest and assured Cai Mao. "Cai Deqi, I, Yuan Highway, am not an unrighteous person, this time I really can't help it, I hope he can understand my difficulties. Your Cai family and the Sun family are related by marriage, and the person he can trust is you, you must help me. If you help me this time, the ordnance business will be handed over to you, and you can eat as much as you want, how about it? ”

Cai Mao was in the middle of it and agreed.

"General Ming, don't worry, I'll leave now."

Yuan Shu was overjoyed and personally sent Cai Mao out of the big tent.

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Cai Mao walked into He's house, and as soon as she walked into the vestibule, she heard an old voice.

"The Qiang people are chaotic, first, the land is barren, coupled with the greed of the officials, the exploitation is harsh, it is difficult to make a living, and they have to fight to the death. The second is that the generals sent by the government are incompetent, they can only talk about morality, but they do not understand the military, and they have no intention of fighting to the death, so they have been defeated repeatedly, and the court has tens of millions of dollars, and the last half has gone into the pockets of the generals, and a small half has been given to the Qiang people. The reason why Liangzhou Sanming was able to succeed was that they were familiar with military affairs, but more importantly, they were determined to serve the country and not take official affairs as their ability. Therefore, if you want to think of a famous general, you must first aspire to ......"

Cai Mao was surprised, slowed down, and said to Pang Tong, who came to greet him, "Who is this?" ”

"Yin Gongzizheng."

Cai Mao thought for a while before remembering who Pang Tong was talking about, and couldn't help laughing. "Why did General Sun invite him out? When he is old, he can't pull a bow or ride a horse, what else can he do, as a spiritual seat? ”

"Lecturing." Pang Tong led Cai Mao into the door. The lights in the hall were bright, Cai Mao raised her hand to block her eyes, looked at it intently, and couldn't help but be taken aback.

The hall and the court were full of seats, at least fifty or sixty people, not only seats, but also a few desks, on which there were pens and inks and slips, and lamps were lit to illuminate the whole courtyard. The five big and three thick men either sat upright on the mat, like a little Mengtong, or lay on the desk, holding a pen to record. Cai Mao glanced sideways and saw a man sitting by the door holding a pen, not only in an awkward posture, but also with a red face, which was more difficult than holding a knife. There were a few ink marks on the wooden slip in his hand, and Cai Mao's eyes were about to crack, and he didn't recognize what he was writing.

"Cai Jun, come here."

Pang Tong led Cai Mao and walked down the corridor to the bottom of the hall. Sun Ce, who was sitting in the hall and listening, quietly moved his hand and motioned for him to wait for a while. Cai Mao nodded, and quietly stood under the porch, looking at the people listening to the lecture. Sun Ce now has a total of more than 5,000 people, Huang Zhong and Dong Yu are leading the troops to attack outside, Sun Ce should only have more than 1,000 people around him, according to the current number, it should be the captain who leads 50 people and the tun commander who leads 100 people are present.

Cai Mao shook her head secretly. It seems that Sun Ce also knows that he has offended the family ruthlessly, and he can't count on it, so he can only cultivate it himself. But how can it be so easy to cultivate a talent, most of these people are born in the army, and it is difficult to even write their own names, let alone read military books.

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