The second year of the early peace of the Han Dynasty is destined to be an eventful autumn!

In autumn and July, the princes led troops to the east one after another, and the Dong Alliance officially disintegrated!

In the autumn and August, Beiping Taishou Gongsun Zan fell under the command of the 'White Horse Yicong' stormed Jizhou, unveiled the prelude to the princes' siege of the city, Jizhou assassin Han Fu could not resist, specially invited Yuan Shao to send troops to help, as a result, Yuan Shao's army easily entered Jizhou, and then he took the four strategists Tian Feng, Xu You, frustration, Feng Ji to engage, seize the power of Jizhou, Han Fu had no choice but to abandon his wife and children, and escaped alone!

Then Gongsun Zan wanted to divide Jizhou with Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao did not allow it, and the two armies fought and stalemate!

In autumn and September, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao fought with Sun Jian in Jiangxia in order to seize the jade seal, Sun Jian attacked the enemy, ambushed in the canyon, and ten thousand arrows pierced his body and died, and a generation of heroes fell!

Just when everyone in the world thought that the Sun Group would collapse, Sun Jian's seventeen-year-old eldest son Sun Ce showed his might, captured Liu Biao's general Huang Zu in the chaotic army, and then replaced Sun Jian's corpse, and led the army alone. ’

At this point, the Han Dynasty has completely entered the era of princes competing for hegemony, and heroes from all over the country have seized the city, dominating one side, and the conquests are continuous!

Just when everyone was busy grabbing a piece of territory for themselves, Cao Cao stationed troops in the east county of Yanzhou, and acted in a low-key manner!

At night, outside the city of Dongjun, in the rear tent of the Xuanjia Army, Xiao Yi was humming a tune he had made up while wiping his armor, "The little handsome guy wipes the blade, polishes the blade and goes to battle, the eagle spreads its wings and flies, the beauty snatches home, and a big bag of gold and silver treasures ......"

Armor and blades are the life-saving things of soldiers, and they also rely on them to eat, so every general will regard the blade as life, whether it is a general in the army, or a small captain, even if it is a lazy person, he will wipe the blade with his own hands, this is an unwritten rule in the army, only the blade that is personally cared for will have spirituality, can be one with the master's mind, and become the soul of the soldier!

Xiao Yi is a master of maintaining blades, on the one hand, thanks to his carefulness and patience, on the other hand, he has seen a lot of small knowledge of maintaining cold weapons in the forum of later generations, and he is even thinking that he should sort out this knowledge and compile a separate book, called "Xiao's Art of Raising War", which will be passed on to future generations to earn some copyright and manuscript fees for future generations, so as to save the descendants of the Xiao family from having no money to buy a house or a car when they marry their daughters-in-law......

In his previous life, Xiao Yi suffered a big loss in this, but his beloved beauty ran away with the rich man, this is an eternal pain in his heart, and this kind of pain must not be repeated in his children and grandchildren. ∈ 8 ∈ 8 ∈ read ∈ book, .2∞3.↓o

In this era, there is no anti-corrosion passivation treatment technology, and the armor and blades made of pure steel are easy to rust, so they must be maintained diligently, and the blades can not be wiped with water, only the best grease can be used, and it must also be vegetable oil, dipped with fine linen, plus lead powder, and carefully polished a little bit!

The grinding skills are also very important, different parts of the blade have different wiping methods, such as the boring body of the phoenix wing gilt boring, it is necessary to wipe in a spiral shape, so that it can be anti-slip when swinging, and the boring blade should be wiped with the trend, and must not be wiped back and forth, which will damage the sharpness of the blade......

After wiping the armor, the blade, and the last wipe is the bow and arrow, each arrow cluster is extremely sharp, this is a killing weapon, Xiao Yi has a lot of arrows, wolf tooth arrows, swallowtail arrows, armor cone ......

When the last cloud-piercing arrow was rubbed, Xiao Yi suddenly stopped, looking at the arrow in a daze, there was a mung bean-sized 'cloud' mark on the arrow shaft, which was given to each other by him and Zhao Yun when they worshipped in the deep mountains.

After a few years, I don't know what happened to which of my righteous brothers is now......

Late at night, Cao Cao also had difficulty sleeping, the princes of the world began to move, only he was still watching, he just wanted to see what tricks these princes had, and when he saw through everyone's hole cards, it was when he soared into the sky......

But before that, he had to discuss a big matter with Xiao Yi, otherwise he still felt a little uncertain, thinking of doing it, Cao Cao changed into civilian clothes, did not alarm the team, only took Cao Chun and a few personal guards, and rode straight to the camp of the Xuanjia Army. Cao Cao's entry into the Xuanjia Army camp was the same as Xiao Yi's entry into his Chinese army's big tent, no need to report it, and he went straight in, this is the greatest trust between the two!

When Cao Cao and the others came to the tent, they happened to hear Xiao Yi humming a small tune inside, and immediately made several guards laugh, but they didn't dare to laugh out loud, so they had to cover their mouths with one hand and their stomachs with the other......

No one thought that the murderous 'ghost-faced Xiao Lang' on the battlefield would have such an innocent side, like a child......

"Don't worry about seeing Cao Gong!" Hearing the footsteps outside, Xiao Yi knew that it was Cao Cao who came, and he used his footsteps to distinguish people, which is one of the necessary skills of the condor shooter!

"No need to be polite, come to visit late at night, disturb Xiao Lang!" Cao Cao stepped into the big tent, while Cao Chun and the others were very obedient and waited at the door with swords, and there were some things that even if he was a child of the Cao family, he couldn't listen to them.

"No worries, so interested!" Cao Cao pointed to the newly polished phoenix wings and said, "It's a pity that such a divine soldier is useless!" ”

What a character Xiao Yi is, he immediately heard it, Cao Cao is using a blade to metaphor people, that is, he is talking about Xiao Yi, I am more afraid that he is referring to himself, he has been in Dongjun for several months, and tens of thousands of troops spend food and grass every day, but they do nothing, it seems that even Cao Cao can't sit still!

"Gong Cao, at the beginning of King Chuzhuang's ascension to the throne, he just ate, drank and had fun and ignored the government, but as a result, he didn't fly for three years, he soared into the sky, and he didn't sing for three years, and he was amazing!"

"Haha! Or don't worry about knowing my heart best! Cao Cao nodded in agreement, "But if you want to soar into the sky, you must have full wings, how should the old man cultivate his wings now?" ”

"Well, in the eyes of the last general, the monarch's wings are not the number of cities, not the name of righteousness, not gold, silver and jewelry, but talents!" Speaking of this, Xiao Yi also came to the spirit, "The most important thing in the competition for the world is to compete for talents, a long, long time ago, there was a powerful person in my hometown who said, save the land and lose people, lose people and land, save people and lose land, and gain both people and land!" ”

"Save the land and lose people, lose people and land, save people and lose land, people and land gain ......" Cao Cao recited silently several times in a row, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and he felt like he had found a confidant, "Okay, well said, the hometown of no worries is really a brilliant person...... this is my heart, and the person who can say such a thing can be called eloquent, but it is a pity that I can't talk with this person and discuss the world's major events, it's a pity! What a pity! ”

Looking at Cao Cao's yearning look, Xiao Yi rolled his eyes, of course, he was eloquent! This sentence was said by the **** Taizu in later generations, it was a male lord who only came out in hundreds of years, but history is like this, heroes always sympathize with each other, which Taizu didn't also say in a poem, the past is more than a thousand years, Wei Wu whipped up, and the east is in Jieshi......

"Talent? …… Talent! Cao Cao turned around in the tent several times, frowned and said, "Talent, there is no birth in the sky, and it does not grow on the ground, how can you get it?" ”

"Hehe, simple, two ways, one is to recruit, the other is to visit, Yanzhou is the world, has always been a place where students gather, as long as Cao Gong posted a notice to seek talents, I believe there will be a large number of talents to take refuge!" Xiao Yi is very sure of this, and posting notices to recruit talents is a common means in later generations, so the emperor's capital in later generations will be full of small advertisements......

"If the princes are recruiting talents today, in terms of prestige, I am far worse than Yuan Benchu of the fourth and third dukes, how can I beat him in the competition for talents?" If you want to recruit talents, you must first have a very high reputation, just like a lamp, the brighter it is, the more it can attract flying insects, and Cao Cao's fame, the descendants of the eunuch's adopted son, can stink for 800 miles in the wind, this is his biggest heart disease, and it is also the purpose of his late night here!

"Yuan Benchu is a famous and famous person, it is not a problem, he recruits some famous people in the world, most of these people are from the clan of the gate lords, famous but talentless, just good-looking, silver-like wax gun heads, when they get to the battlefield, I will break them one by one sooner or later!"

Xiao Yi slowly stretched out his five fingers and made a pouting motion, "And even these people Yuan Shao can't make full use of his talents, it's just to decorate the façade, so why should Cao Gong worry?" Besides, even if the children of the scholar clan don't come, won't there be other talents? ”

"Oh, where did you come from?" Cao Cao's expression became a little excited, and his tone was not asking for anything, but the excitement of finding a like-minded person!

"Since Confucius founded a private school, countless children from poor families are waiting for the opportunity to become a leader, if Cao Gong can ignore the background of the family, treat them equally, and post a notice to seek talents, announcing to the world, countless talents will flock to it, so it will be successful!" Speaking of this, Xiao Yi stepped forward with a serious face to pay respects, not for himself, but for the children of the poor families in the world, and for those poor children who can't even eat enough and are still studying hard, asking for a hope!

The Han world has always been monopolized by the Shi clan gate lords, even if the princes are now fighting, most of the officials used are the children of the Shi clan, and in the end, no matter who wins or loses, the only one who can win is the Shi clan door lord, once Cao Cao begins to recruit the children of the Han clan as officials, it will inevitably cause extreme hatred of the Shi clan gate lords, and even crazy revenge, this consequence is not something that ordinary people can bear, it may be a catastrophe!

That's why Xiao Yi is so supportive of Cao Cao, as long as you are willing to recruit children from the poor family, I will be in the same boat with you to fight the storms of the world!

"Okay, good, I don't have to worry about my heart, you look at what this is", Cao Cao took out a roll of silk from his arms, opened it and saw that it was a long-written order for talents, with eight big characters on it that attracted the most attention, "No matter where you come from, only talent!" ”

It turned out that Cao Cao had long held the idea of 'meritocracy', but he also knew how much of a consequence this would cause, so he came to Xiao Yi to discuss, hoping to get his support, but he didn't expect the two of them to think of going together, what a heart!

"We're in the same boat through thick and thin!"

"Life and death!"

The two powerful hands clasped together and challenged the system of this country and the rules of this world!