As soon as he heard that Liu Bei was coming to find him, Guan Yu was excited, and immediately asked Cao Cao to resign, and then prepared to pursue Liu Bei, from this incident, maybe the people of the world saw Guan Yu's loyalty, but ignored Cao Cao's righteousness.

Guan Yu left all the things that Cao Cao rewarded him, and then took Liu Bei's wife and children to prepare for the road, but the guards along the way did not get Cao Cao's release order, Guan Yu wanted to leave in such a grand manner, I am afraid that something is wrong, so Guan Yu was also blocked a lot on the road.

Guan Yu repeatedly explained that his relationship with Cao Cao was not subordinate, and he also had his reasons for leaving, and the guards would be suspicious, but they just refused to let Guan Yu pass the checkpoint, and Guan Yu was angry and began his five levels and six generals.

In the end, Cao Cao's palmistry was all on fire, Cao Cao's general Xiahou Dun personally led thousands of troops under his command to surround Guan Yu, seeing this, Guan Yu did not dare to do it easily, even if he was a martial saint reborn, but others could have thousands of people beat him, how could he withstand it.

However, at this most critical juncture, Cao Cao's messenger finally came, in fact, Cao Cao had already gotten the news on the way, he was just thinking about one thing, whether it would be too much of a loss to let Guan Yu go in this way, although Guan Yu also explained that he beheaded his face and punished Wen Chou, and helped Cao Cao solve the big trouble, which was regarded as repaying Cao Cao's great kindness, but Cao Cao was still a little reluctant in his heart.

But in the end, Cao Cao still made up his mind, the reason why he cherished Guan Yu's talent was entirely because of Guan Yu's loyalty, and now Guan Yu wants to pursue his loyalty, why shouldn't he Cao Cao allow it? Thinking of this, Cao Cao sighed helplessly, and finally waved his hand and let Guan Yu go.

When Cao Xuan understood all these things, Cao Xuan looked around, they had already arrived at the Sili generation, walked through Chang'an, and were now in Hanoi County.

This is almost Cao Xing's destination, and the former Hanoi County is close to Luoyang, which can be said to be a rich land. However, today's Hanoi County is a little peculiar, although it is still relatively prosperous, but it is not as prosperous as it used to be, just because the current Hanoi County seems to have become a buffer place between Qin and Wei.

The Qin State occupies most of the private interests, while the Wei State occupies Chaoge, and the border line between the two Guo Jia is also set here in Hanoi County, so Hanoi County is now about to be reduced to a three-way zone, and the people who are looking for this place are probably also out of this consideration.

Cao Xuan directly asked most of his army to be stationed outside the city, and then slowly walked into Hanoi County with Chen Hu and others, and then Cao Xing took his people to the largest restaurant in Hanoi County, where the people who wanted to find Cao Xing were here.

Before Cao Xing walked up, he saw a large number of civil and military officials waiting outside, which seemed to be the officials of Wei State, and it seemed that they had a lot of pomp and circumstance in order to welcome Cao Xing, including Cao Cao's famous scholar Cheng Yu. With such a big pomp, the people Cao Xing will see later must be not small, maybe they have all reached Cao Cao's level, of course, Cao Cao is impossible to come in person, after all, Cao Cao is still anxious to stay in front because of Yuan Shao's affairs.

Cao Xuan slowly walked up to the restaurant, opened the curtain and took a look, looking at this scene, Cao Xuan had a rather speechless feeling in his heart, a young man was hugging two women. New joy, when the man saw Cao Xing coming, he suddenly realized, and immediately reined in his spring-filled ecology, beckoned the maids to go down, and then sat on the main seat and looked at Cao Xuan seriously.

"Leader Guo is really interested!"

Cao Xing was walking halfway and received a letter, which was a letter of invitation, and the person who invited Cao Xing to come to Hanoi was not Cao Cao of Wei, but Guo Jia of Wei.

Cao Xing's identity is the King of Qin, and logically speaking, if you want to meet Cao Xing in this way, you must be the King of Wei of equal strength, but Cao Xing finally came, because the person who wanted to see him was Guo Jia, a ghost talent in the Three Kingdoms period. So Cao Xuan still decided to come and meet, anyway, the defense work has been deployed, and I don't believe that Guo Jia will play any tricks. And with a conceited person like Guo Jia, he disdains to play that kind of conspiracy.

"King Qin has been doing well lately!" Guo Jia still said to Cao Xuan in a somewhat drunk state.

But Cao Xing waved his hand, and asked directly to the point: "Your King Wei is fighting in front of the situation is okay, let go of Guan Yu, Yuan Shao is also missing a Liu Bei, and then you should have a real duel, you still have the leisure to run here to look for flowers and ask Liu, aren't you afraid that you will be guilty for the king!" ”

However, Guo Jia smiled suddenly, and then his expression became respectful: "King Qin, I won't tell you anything, I have received the consent of King Wei on this trip, and I am here for a routine business!" And this matter must be related to King Qin! ”

Speaking of this, Guo Jia respectfully took out a map and put it in front of Cao Xing, the corners of Cao Xing's mouth curled up with a smile, and slowly opened the map, and after a closer look, Cao Xing's expression changed, and Guo Jia's expression changed as usual, Cao Xing may not have expected that Guo Jia's hand is so big, it should be said that Cao Cao's hand is too big.

"King Qin, this is the fifteenth city of our Wei Kingdom, please accept it!" Guo Jia said to Cao Xuan with a smile, but Cao Xuan was silent, and only looked at Guo Jia and said after a while.

"Commander Guo is very calculating, the area of Chaoge, when I fought with Cao Cao, it was also your life and death, and it was finally taken by Cao Cao, but as time went by, the entire Si Li has been taken by me, so Chaoge's land is a pity for you Wei State to be tasteless and abandoned, there is a feeling of chicken ribs, you throw it to me now, I guess you also evacuated all the people there, leaving me with just an empty city!"

What Cao Xuan said can be described as the truth, this Guo Jia is completely trying to empty the gloves of the white wolf, and exchange an abandoned city with Cao Xing.

But since he was thoroughly explained by Cao Xing, Guo Jia didn't feel anything wrong. Instead, he looked at Cao Xing again and said.

"King Qin, you shouldn't be able to refuse this matter!"

"Hehe, what's the matter!"

"Dare to ask King Qin how he knows!"

When Cao Xing heard this, his eyes narrowed, and Guo Jia saw this, and he was more sure of the conjecture in his heart. No matter what Cao Xuan said, he has been up and down in the sea for so long, Guo Jia knows that these things must not be able to deceive Cao Xing, rather than rambling here about something useless, it is better to find out directly, so he did not hesitate and said directly to Cao Xing.

"King Qin, please take a look, now that the strength of the Zhao State is probably beyond our imagination, what is in front of us is a behemoth!"

Cao Xuan squinted his eyes and lit up Guo Jia for a long time, Guo Jia in the Three Kingdoms period was resourceful but at this moment, he would say these words to Cao Xing, it is conceivable how much trouble he encountered, Cao Xuan did not hesitate, waved his hand, and motioned Guo Jia to tell his difficulties first, and then decide whether to help.

The two talked for half an hour, and after half an hour, although Cao Xing's face tried his best to remain calm, he had already set off a storm in his heart.

It's not that Cao Xing's concentration is not good enough, but he looked at the battle report in his hand, and his heart trembled.

This matter may have to start from two years ago, two years ago on the border of Zhao State, whether it was the army or households, they began to pile up grain, piling up grain layer after layer in their homes, as if they were afraid of lack of food, you must know that Zhao and Wei, including Qin, are all big countries, and the domestic situation is very stable, so there should not be any shortage of food to eat.

But they did just that, and when the border residents of Zhao felt that they had enough food, they stopped buying grain from abroad, but there was a local trend that they liked cotton textiles. Using cotton to make clothes can keep you warm to a great extent, after all, Zhao is in the north, and it can be described as very cold in winter.

However, most of the arable land in Zhao was used to grow grain, but few were used to grow cotton, so people on the border of Zhao could only buy from the people of Qin and Wei.

And it also shows a trend of short supply, the border people of Qin and Zhao often see those merchants from Zhao who come from Zhao to buy cotton at high prices, and basically supply it all year round.

Everyone wanted to make a little more money, so the people on the border of Qin and Wei also began to do the same, they began to stop using their own arable land to grow grain, and planted cotton in a large area, so they sold it to some nobles of the Zhao State in exchange for a lot of money.

This matter is not big or small, no one will care too much, this is just a free trade, but when the relationship between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao accumulates to a certain extent, the war is finally about to break out.

At that time, Guan Yu was so majestic that he led the army to take advantage of the situation and captured the first three cities of Zhao in one fell swoop.

However, Guan Yu's behavior was still controversial in Wei at that time, because Guan Yu was so brave that he was killed at one time, and Yan Liangwen and the second general should continue to attack it in one go, and he could capture more cities, but Guan Yu did not do this, and many people whispered there, thinking that Guan Yu was not selfish.

However, Guan Yu is a loyal and righteous person, and he sits upright, he said that he is deeply favored by Cao Cao, and he must spare no effort to do things, and the reason why he can no longer continue to conquer the city is because the army is short of food, and the local people have no food to increase.

When Cao Cao first heard this, he was still suspicious, and Guan Yu's reason seemed to be a little nonsense, until Xun Yu changed the local people's feelings. It was only when Cao Cao finally realized the seriousness of the problem when he wrote it in the form of a letter, and there was a famine on the border.

There is no other reason, natural disasters are great, there is no harvest, and it coincides with the war between Wei and Zhao, because of the problem of food, the army is inevitably required to collect some grain from the people, but Wei also explicitly prohibits, it is okay to collect grain from residents, but enough money must be given.

However, when Guan Yu sent people to collect food, the people were not given alive or dead, some soldiers were in an impatient mood, and in a fit of anger, they shot and injured people, causing bloody conflicts, and then the local people really had no food to eat, and they all began to migrate rapidly, but in ancient times, transportation was too underdeveloped.

Many people could only starve every day, and as for the army's food, those soldiers did not have enough to eat, so how could they distribute it to them, so there were scenes of famine after famine, and even more than thousands of people had starved to death.

When this news spread in the Wei State, it could shock the whole country, and Cao Cao was also a little dumbfounded, in the ancient feudal period, all the rulers paid great attention to farming, thinking that if there was a natural disaster in any year, resulting in no harvest, it would be to starve people to death in pieces.

Therefore, Cao Cao also attached great importance to the issue of grain, and he adopted the same strategy as the Qin State, that is, to implement the tuntian system, and give all the wasteland that is not used to the peasants, so that they can have land to plant, so that everyone can have food to eat, which is a very good system.

But then again, the world is bustling for profit, the world is bustling for profit, if you have spare money in your hand, you can directly buy food, and why bother to farm hard, it is based on this, so those people on the border no longer plant arable land, all go to plant cotton, the result is that because Zhao and Wei have started a war, so all trade on the border has been cut off, and the people of Zhao no longer buy cotton.

The Wei people have no extra money and grain in their hands, and as for the border grain prices of Wei, they have also begun to increase rapidly, and this time they have completely suffered the people on the border, and they can no longer buy any food, but they can't fill their stomachs, so they can only starve.

So caused such a scene, when Cao Xuan learned the news, he immediately shouted outside the door, Che Wu entered in response, Cao Xuan immediately asked Che Wu to hurry back, don't say so much, tell Feng Yun directly. Let him carry grain directly from the treasury to the border line, and now the Qin State has not turned against the Zhao State and believes that that kind of thing has not happened yet. Cao Xing, I hope everything is still in time.

After saying all this, Cao Xuan took a deep breath, but Guo Jia told Cao Xuan something deeper.

He Guo Jia is conceited and self-conscioning, and has the ability to build the ghost clan into an intelligence organization like Qin Guojinyiwei, this time Yu Zhao invaded his intelligence organization, and naturally he was also against Xu You, but under this duel, Guo Jia found that he had some ability to underestimate Xu You after all, he directly took out two small books from his arms and handed them to Cao Xing's hands, Cao Xing looked at it, these are just two very ordinary books, and there is also a booklet, one is the Tao Te Ching, and the second is the Analects.

But the key is the booklet that Guo Jia took out at the end, and the booklet was all the numbers one, two, three, four, five. This is completely a code book, and it is completely the art of treachery in later generations, but it has also appeared in this world. Take a look at the latest chapter of "The Strongest Marksmanship of the Three Kingdoms" to read for free for the first time.