"Mr. Li, how am I doing today?"

Above the court, Liu Xie also noticed Cao Cao's gaze, so he was very satisfied with his performance today.

Liu Xie, who is getting older, has become more and more reluctant to be controlled by Cao Cao, and he began to try to break free from Cao Cao's control, and he has no power in his hands, how can he escape?

So Liu Xie was like Li Ru, who was alias Li Xian, asked for advice, which led to this scene staged during the day.

"Your Majesty is too deliberate, so it is easy to make Cao Cao suspicious."

"Hmph, has Cao Mengde always been at ease with me before? What does it matter if I don't have any doubts, I just want to let me know that I, the emperor, are not powerless. ”

Seeing Liu Xie's slightly crazy appearance, Li Ru sneered in his heart, but on the surface, he continued to say to Liu Xie: "Although Liu Bei has been given the name of the imperial uncle by His Majesty, it is not enough to confront Cao Cao, have I asked Your Majesty to prepare all the people ready?" ”

"Mr. Li, rest assured, I have ordered someone to spread the news of Liu Bei in Xudu City, this person seems to be a little capable, but unfortunately he was taken away by Lu Bu Xuzhou, otherwise it would be a safe place for me to take people to Xuzhou."

Liu Xie was holding a copy of all Liu Bei's information in his hand, of course, from the things after the yellow scarf, watching Liu Bei walk step by step from buying straw shoes to the position of Xuzhou Mu, Liu Xie actually felt a trace of admiration.

"Well, whether Liu Bei served as the minister of the plains or the pastor of Xuzhou later, he had no offense with Minqiu and was deeply loved by the people. In comparison, Cao Cao's massacre of the city in Xuzhou was even more murderous, and Liu Bei persuaded Cao Cao to retire with a letter. ”

Just when Li Ru and Liu Xie were discussing how to use Liu Bei to contain Cao Cao, a little yellow door quietly walked out of the palace, and his target was Cao Cao's mansion.

"You said that the person who gave His Majesty advice has always been in the palace?"

"Yes, that man's name is Li Xian, it is said that he is a benefactor of His Majesty, and he has always lived in the palace, usually only in his own room, and will only go to His Majesty's place when His Majesty invites him. I heard that this man's face was ruined, and he always wore an iron mask. ”

"Iron Mask?"

At this time, Cao Cao also remembered that when he went to see Liu Xie before, he seemed to have seen such a masked man, and he didn't care what game Liu Xie was playing at that time.

"Okay, I see, you can step down."

"Yes."

In Xudu's palace, most of those eunuchs are Cao Cao's eyeliner, and Cao Cao knows every move in the palace well, but even so, that iron-masked man Li Xian can still hide himself all the time? This made Cao Cao very curious.

You must know that Cao Cao's original order was that everything big and small needed to be reported to him, and this person was still able to hide his traces, so that he didn't know anything about this person before this.

Cao Cao didn't believe that this person was giving advice to Liu Xie for the first time, but it was the first time he knew about this person, which showed that this person did have something extraordinary.

However, Cao Cao did not take Li Ru out of the palace at the first time, and he decided to dig Guan Yu and Zhang Fei from Liu Bei first.

As long as these two people are lost, Cao Cao believes that Liu Bei will not be able to make any big waves.

Since Liu Bei named Liu Xie as the emperor's uncle, the civil and military officials who didn't care about Liu Bei, who had just joined Cao Cao's command, handed Liu Bei invitations and invited him to come to the mansion as a guest.

Cao Cao took advantage of this time to send gifts to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei from time to time.

For Cao Cao's gift, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei naturally refused, unlike Zhang Fei who directly drove the gift-giver out of the house, Guan Yu politely declined.

But Cao Cao would not give up easily, and would send people to send gifts from time to time, sometimes even two or three times a day.

Liu Bei went out to a banquet, Zhang Fei couldn't bear Cao Cao's harassment, so he simply closed the gate and drank and practiced martial arts in his yard.

Guan Yu also disdained Cao Cao's gifts at first, but as the number of times increased, Guan Yu's attitude towards Cao Cao slowly changed.

At first, he was also very disgusted with Cao Cao, just like Zhang Fei, but as Cao Cao's gift-giving activities continued, Guan Yu found that Cao Cao didn't seem to be bad, but he still didn't keep those gifts.

"Lord, it seems that Liu Xuande has been frequently in and out of various mansions in the past few days, and I heard that there were still cries at the banquet last night."

Because he couldn't get a reaction from Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Cao Cao was annoyed, and couldn't help sneering after hearing about it, what do those people want to do, even if no one tells him the specific content, Cao Cao can probably guess it.

"Let people invite Liu Xuande to come to my house tomorrow, doesn't he like to go to the banquet, I will personally invite him to the banquet tomorrow."

Liu Bei, who was still immersed in the flattery of civil and military officials, immediately woke up after receiving Cao Cao's invitation.

"Duke Cao also personally invited the lord, and it seems that the lord's prestige in this capital is getting higher and higher. I have heard rumors of the Lord's righteous deeds in the streets in recent days. ”

Sun Qian said to Liu Bei with a smile.

"What, when did it start?"

"It seems that it started on that day when the lord was canonized."

Sun Qian didn't know why Liu Bei suddenly became so excited, but he just said everything he knew.

"Oops."

Now Liu Bei didn't say that the wine was completely awake, and cold sweat broke out all over his body.

"Do you know what I heard at the feast? It's all Cao Cao's coercion of the Son of Heaven, as well as Cao Cao's indiscriminate killing of innocents, the day before yesterday in Lord Wang's mansion, the old ministers were still crying because of this matter, and I could only pretend to be drunk and mix it up. ”

"It seems that today's invitation from Cao Gong is not a good banquet, eighty percent is a Hongmen banquet."

"What, Cao Thief wants to kill my brother?"

Saying that, Zhang Fei went back to the house and took out his Zhangba snake spear, looking like he wanted to find Cao Cao desperately.

"Third brother, Hugh's Hugh."

Liu Bei walked quickly to Zhang Fei, snatched the snake spear from his hand, and then threw the snake spear to Guan Yu on the side.

"Third brother, this is Xu Du, don't make a mistake. I'll decide what I'll do tomorrow. ”

Looking at Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Mi Zhu, Sun Qian, and Yi who were present, Liu Bei suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are both martial arts masters, but they have no political sensitivity, and they are useless for their activities in Xudu.

Mi Zhu is a bit of a talent, but his ability is more reflected in the economic aspect, when Liu Bei served as the pastor of Xuzhou, Mi Zhu provided Liu Bei with a lot of help.

As for Sun Qian and Yi who followed him first, although they are also talented, they are more good at internal affairs and diplomacy than strategy.

How good it would be if someone could plan the path for me now, Liu Bei, who was lying on the bed, didn't sleep all night.

He is now very confused about where his way out is.

Since the beginning of the army in Zhuoxian, Liu Bei has always followed the teachings of this teacher Lu Zhi, never participated in any corruption and bribery, and never exploited the people, which really made him have a good reputation, but he only had a good reputation, and he still had nothing.

Even though Liu Bei was reluctant, the sky was still bright, Liu Bei washed with well water, and cheered up to meet Cao Cao.