Some time ago, Cao Xing was in Pingding Hanzhong, and he really didn't have so much time to watch what was going on in other places, if it weren't for Guo Jia telling him everything today, maybe Cao Xing would have been in the dark until now.

Indeed, as Guo Jia said, Cao Xing underestimated Zhao State after all, on the surface, Yuan Shao only occupied three states and counties, but if you think about it carefully, the three states and counties he occupied were all large counties in the north.

In ancient China, the population of the north was not only more than that of the south, but more importantly, the north was rich in cavalry, and cavalry was a big killer in the era of cold weapons, sweeping the world.

Therefore, Yuan Shao has occupied the right time and place, and what is in front of Cao Xing and Cao Cao is not only Yuan Shao's three states and counties, but also a behemoth.

But if you are timid because of this, it is not, just because Cao Xing believes that even if the opponent is strong, you have to face it, because only by facing it can you have a chance to solve the problem, if you even lose the courage to face it. It's all going to be over.

However, new problems also appeared, and it was exactly what Guo Jia was worried about, that is, Xu You.

Xu You is a very courageous person in history, but what if he is bold? It's not that he can't make any big waves, but Xu Yu is different in this era, he knows many things in later generations, what economic and trade wars, what treacherous techniques, he plays all of them like the one broadcast in the TV series in later generations, and now the code book has been made, which Cao Xuan never thought of before.

When Cao Xuan heard the news, he was in a cold sweat in his heart, this Xu You looked like a difficult guy.

Cao Xuan accepted the map on the table and nodded to Guo Jia, he and Cao Cao are both princes, and they will not be because of a little favor. And to change their attitude towards each other, what they pursue is only the ultimate in interests, and they will only do things that are good for their own country.

Now that Yuan Shao is so powerful, how can Cao Xing do nothing, so he accepted the fifteen cities of Chaoge.

Guo Jia saw this, laughed twice, seeing that it was not early, Cao Xing was about to leave, and Guo Jia was personally sending each other, the two walked outside the inn and found that many ministers had stopped there. Among them, there was a person who looked like a civil official, who stood up and punched Guo Jia and said.

"Commander Guo, dinner has been gathered, please move and enjoy!"

"Hehe, that's really Lord Laosima!"

Guo Jia responded with a smile, and then he waved his hand to the middle-aged man, signaling the middle-aged man to do whatever he wanted, the middle-aged man was just about to leave, but Cao Xuan grabbed the middle-aged man's sleeve, which startled the middle-aged man, and looked at Cao Xuan with some trepidation, after all, he was facing King Qin.

Guo Jia's eyelids also jumped, although because of interests, he and Cao Xing chose a temporary alliance, but everything is driven by interests, Cao Xing inevitably has some self-cooked taste, and he caught the people of their Wei State as soon as he came.

Cao Xing, on the other hand, didn't care about the eyes of others, just stared at the middle-aged man with a smile, and then asked, "How many Simas are there among the officials of the Wei State!" ”

The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, and then didn't say much, and replied directly to Cao Xing: "King Qin said that I am Sima Fang of Hanoi, as for Wei Guozhong, there are no officials surnamed Sima, I don't know this, but it should be very few!" ”

After hearing this, Cao Xuan didn't say anything, just smiled, and asked Sima Fang to do whatever he wanted, and at this moment, Chen Hu also came over, and Cao Xuan also issued a series of arrangements, so that Chen Hu could inform the people of Qin State that they could rest in place.

When the people on both sides were almost arranged, Guo Jia and Cao Xuan walked together again, Guo Jia looked at Cao Xuan with some puzzlement, and he asked Cao Xuan why he was interested in Sima Fang.

In fact, before this, Guo Jia had also thought about it thousands of times, and he took Sima Fang's resume to take a look, Sima Fang turned out to be Jing Zhaoyin, but because of Dong Zhuo's dictatorship, he didn't like it in his heart, so after he resigned and went into hiding, he stayed in his hometown in Hanoi.

His eldest son, Sima Lang, is a local official, and there is nothing special about the rest.

Then with Guo Jia's resourcefulness, he couldn't figure out why Cao Xing suddenly became interested in Sima Fang, but even if Guo Jia couldn't figure it out, but with his intuition for many years, he could still be sure of one thing, Cao Xing would never be targeted, in fact, this is also the reason why Guo Jiajue's Cao Xing is magical, some things can't be seen through, can't be said, but it's very accurate, so he Guo Jia came to find Cao Xing.

However, when Cao Xing heard this, he smiled: "Commander Guo, haven't you always been curious about Xu You?" I'm telling you, your ghost pawn can do it now! ”

Guo Jia was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't seem to understand what Cao Xing meant, but the next day, when Sima Fang finished the day's reception work and dragged his tired body to go back, suddenly, Sima Fang looked back, he always felt that someone was following him, but when he looked back, there was nothing behind him.

Sima Fang thought that his nerves were too nervous, and there should be nothing, but the next day, the ghost pawn actually came to find Sima Fang in person.

Sima Fang didn't dare to slack off when he saw Guo Jia's people coming to him in person, so he hurriedly invited the ghost pawn's people into the house, and entertained them with good wine and water, but the envoy of the ghost pawn didn't eat anything, just stared at Sima Fang with burning eyes, but didn't say a word.

These two ghost pawns directly looked at Sima Fang with some hairiness in his heart, he wanted to ask, what did these two people Guo Jia look for him, but he didn't dare to ask, after a while, he saw these two ghost pawns look at Sima Fang and nodded, and then stood up and prepared to leave, but when leaving, these two ghost pawns still stopped, and one of them looked at Sima Fang with a meaningful eye, and then asked.

"Sima Gong, there is a sentence, I don't know whether to say it or not!"

"Oh, both of them came to do business under the orders of Commander Guo, if you have anything to say, I know everything and say everything!"

"Yes, since Sima Gong is so generous, then we will ask directly, we just want to know, is there any unsightly person or thing in your house that Sima Gong has!"

When Sima Fang heard this, the whole person's expression was stunned, and he didn't seem to react, after a full three breaths, when Sima Fang saw the ghost pawn's smiling expression, he finally came to his senses, and hurriedly waved his hand, and said to the two ghost pawns again and again, there is absolutely nothing unsightly in his house, and please don't joke with these two ghost pawns.

However, the messenger of the ghost pawn, after hearing this, smiled and said nothing, and just drifted away.

And Sima Fang watched the two of them go and hurriedly followed, until he saw the messengers of the two ghost pawns leaving the door of their house, Sima Fang finally stopped, and at this moment Sima Fang's back was already soaked with sweat.

Just now he tried his best to keep his composure, so he didn't show too much of his feet, at this moment watching the ghost pawn people go, he faintly had a bad feeling in his heart, he couldn't figure it out, he couldn't figure it out, why the ghost pawn suddenly came to his house, and asked such a question, it really made him unbelievable.

But at this moment, Sima Fang suddenly had a hand behind him, choking Sima Fang's neck, Sima Fang's whole person was frightened, quickly turned around, and even clenched his fists, but when he looked back, he found that it was just a six-foot-tall teenager, standing behind him, but this young man looked a little peculiar, his neck seemed to have some slender eyes, and it seemed a little narrow, which gave people a strange feeling, this person was Sima Fang's second son Sima Yi. He is now sixteen years old.

"Dad, what did those two ghost pawns say to you just now!"

Listening to Sima Yi's question, Sima Fang waved his hand a little unlucky, he was taken aback by his son just now.

"Go back and read your book, and don't worry about anything else!"

Sima Fang's expression seemed a little impatient, as if he didn't want to say anything more to this son, but Sima Yi stared at Sima Fang with burning eyes, and the back of the person who was about to leave suddenly took two steps forward and said to Sima Fang again.

"Dad, don't lie to me, the ghost pawn is a direct agency of the King of Wei, and they have the power to supervise hundreds of officials, although you were Jing Zhaoyin when you were young, but now you have resigned and returned to seclusion, and there is only one big brother who is an official in the court, but the eldest brother is a young man who is upright, and he does not form gangs, and he will not provoke the head of the ghost pawn for no reason, is the ghost pawn eyeing something in our family!"

As soon as Sima Yi's words came out, Sima Fang was shocked, turned around and pointed at Sima Yi and wanted to scold something, but when the words came to his mouth, he didn't know how to speak, and finally he could only sigh heavily, and then said: "These things are not your responsibility, you go back first!" ”

After Sima Fang said this, he didn't seem to want to say anything more, so he left, Sima Yi also shook his head helplessly, and walked back to his room, but when Sima Yi was about to step into the door, he hesitated a little, and finally withdrew his front foot.

On this day, Sima Fang can be said to be very worried, he wants to break his head, but he can't figure it out, what is the reason why the ghost is looking for him?

He Sima Fang has always been low-key, and only one eldest son Sima Lang is an official outside, even if Sima Lang really has something, it will not alarm the ghosts, after all, he knows that his son Sima Lang is just a small official, and it is impossible to have such a big pomp.

Sima Fang thought about it for a long time, thinking that someone who is not a ghost pawn made a mistake, in fact, this is also possible, after all, people are not sages, who can do nothing, Guo Jia may also be hot for a while, so he came to find Sima Fang, or maybe Guo Jia came to Sima Fang, not directly to Sima Fang, but to use Sima Fang, to investigate something, maybe it, after all, Sima Fang was also the county commander of the capital when he was young.

It may be Guo Jia's misjudgment, so he found Sima Fang's head by mistake, there is indeed this possibility, but Sima Fang, he is not a person who has not understood Guo Jia, and he remembered a certain comment.

"This young man was born in a humble and rose in Qianmo, this person must have something extraordinary, just like the original drama talent, otherwise how could he come from behind and be on an equal footing with Xun Lingjun and others!"

Thinking of this, Sima Fang immediately jumped up from the bed, asked his wife and concubine to dress for him, and then quickly went out, Sima Fang's wife wanted to ask where Sima Fang was going, but Sima Fang did not answer.

In this way, Sima Fang hurriedly walked out of the room, but he did not walk out of the door of his Sima family, but kept wandering in the courtyard of Sima family, as if thinking about something, he paced for a long time, and finally made up his mind, and walked to a certain place of the Sima family, which seemed very quiet, surrounded by pavilions and pavilions, but no one lived in it, just a huge wooden house in the middle.

Knock knock, Sima Fang finally knocked on the door of the wooden house, and a deep voice sank.

"Jiangong, come in!"

Sima Fang took a deep breath and walked into the room, only to see that even though it was late at night, there was still dim candlelight in this room, and one of the old men who looked like he was about to die was sitting on the bed.

"Dad, I'm really sorry to disturb your rest so late!" The old man in front of Sima Fang was none other than Sima Fang's father, Sima Jun.

Sima Jun slowly opened his eyes, although he looked drooping and old, but there was a shrewd look in his eyes, it was obvious that even if his limbs were a little numb, his brain was still flexible.

On weekdays, Sima Fang followed his father's words, and would not easily disturb him, nor did he allow other people in the Sima family to enter this room at will, except for sending some books into the room according to his father's requirements on a regular basis, Sima Fang did not bother his father again, except for one circumstance, that is, when the Sima family encountered a major event, he Sima Fang could not make a decision, he would come to find his father.

Although Sima Fang is the current head of the Sima family, then again, in the face of many tricky things, Sima Fang had to ask his father for advice in order to make an effective decision, and this time was the same.

Sima Fang did not hesitate, and directly told him about today's ghost pawn, and after Sima Jun listened to it, he muttered for a long time.

"Betha knows that!" Sima Lang asked in his majestic voice.

In fact, Boda is Sima Fang's first son Sima Lang, after hearing this, Sima Fang thought for a moment, and then shook his head firmly at Sima Jun.

"Father, Boda has been obedient to my discipline since he was a child, and I didn't tell him about it, and he will never know!"