Seeing Ma Chao involuntarily showing a smile, Cao Tai was suddenly a little stunned. A very ominous premonition rose from the soles of his feet to the Tianling cover, and in his ears, he heard Ma Chao say a sentence leisurely: "General Cao, have you heard of installment payment?" ……”

"General!" Without waiting for Ma Chao to finish speaking, Cao Ang Huoran got up and interrupted quickly. His identity and keen intuition determined that he had to say a few words for the Cao family at this time: "General, the Ma Cao family is now an indispensable prince of the Han family, and they should do their best for the unification of the Han family. There are major and small things, and now the 14 states of the Han Dynasty are still divided, and the two families do not think about how to unify wholeheartedly, but they are once again calculating, which is to sacrifice the big righteousness and the small righteousness. The general has already been powerful in the world, and his martial name is well known at home, and at this opportunity, he should be more vigorous and move his army south to restore the rivers and mountains and restore the Han Dynasty. If Liu Zhang is exterminated within two years and Jingzhou is obtained, then all the heroes in the world look up to him, and the general will not be unified with His Majesty, and he will cling to the old accounts of the two families, and he will not take it from the general. ”

"Very good, Cao Gongzi said very much. That being the case, should the Cao clan hand over the power of 200,000 Qingzhou soldiers to the Holy Lord, in order to show the loyalty and righteousness of Lord Sikong? "Talking nonsense about righteousness and other nonsense, Ma Chao has long been useless. Peng Yang, who was sitting at the bottom at the moment, directly fought back: "Cao Gongzi is really a big breath!" As the son of Sikong, I don't talk about how the Cao family should be loyal, but here I am talking nonsense about the Ma family, and I don't know how Cao Gongzi can open his mouth! ”

Peng Yang's words were really harsh, which made Cao Ang's face blush and white for a while, but even so, Cao Ang and Cao Tai did not dare to fight each other. After all, if the two of them continue to be entangled in any moral issues, they can only pull the peace talks, which have finally entered the stage of substantive negotiations, back into endless delays. Such a result is something that the current weak Cao clan is unwilling to accept.

"The momentum is also, and the time is also. If today's son is young and does not know the dangers of soldiers, it is also a matter of time for Sikong to take charge of the army. Cao Tai was very aware of his situation, and after a little justification, he pulled the topic back: "It's just that the hussar general said that the installment payment has never been heard of, and I hope that the adults will give ......."

However, Cao Ang, who has more contact with Ma Chao than Cao Tai, knows that Ma Chao's next words will definitely make Cao Tai regret not being at the beginning. As a result, the two Cao family members started infighting first. After seeing Cao Angpin and Cao Taishi look at each other and Cao Tai turned a blind eye, Cao Ang stood up again, interrupted Cao Tai and said to Ma Chao: "The hussar general is a benevolent and virtuous person, and he will definitely treat Li Dian, Le Jin and tens of thousands of soldiers leniently. The focus of this discussion is in the four counties of Jizhou, why do the two families avoid the important and waste time here? ”

Cao Tai only took a serious look at Cao Ang at this time, and he knew in his heart that the bottom line of this negotiation was that Cao Ang, the heir of the Cao family, and the two confidants must be brought back. But Cao Ang knew this, and would rather take advantage of the result of his own hardship in the Ma family, but still wanted to prevent the 'installment payment', as a result, his face became very solemn, silent, and respected Cao Ang's opinion.

At the same time, Ma Chao also raised his eyes to look at Cao Ang, the heir of the Cao family who did not leave much record in history. Only then did he have a very specific impression: on the surface, Cao Ang was humble and kind, with a legacy of literature and morality. But once the core interests are touched, he is definitely a person who does not retreat. Moreover, in the conversation, the ability to adapt to changes is no less than that of Cao Tai, who is an envoy. opened his mouth twice, and his thoughts were like springs, and he introduced the topic to the void without a trace.

However, at this time, Ma Chao had already won the game, and he changed his previous politeness, implicitly threatening: "Since the Cao family has the intention of giving up, the Ma family will naturally not be too much to have two more famous generals." There is also a shortage of people on the edge of land reclamation and grazing next year, which is just enough to use these tens of thousands of captives...... As for the matter of the four counties of Jizhou, there is no need to talk about it at all, since the covenant has already written the belonging, the Ma family naturally does not give up an inch of land and has full authority to accept it! ”

"The hussar general really wants to take over the four counties of Jizhou with full authority?!" Cao Ang and Cao Tai categorically did not expect that the negotiation would come to this point, and Ma Chao suddenly made a 180-degree change, and he really wanted to take over the four counties of Jizhou. They were speechless for a while, only seeing the disbelief in each other's eyes.

In the end, Cao Ang reacted a little faster, although he couldn't swallow back what he said, but he wanted to know why it was anyway: "General, we can still talk about the negotiation of the four counties." Just this? ......." At this point, Cao Ang suddenly didn't know how to continue, after all, the Ma family had always insisted that the four counties were their own, and from beginning to end, it was they who had misjudged that the Ma family wanted to give up the four counties.

Ma Chao naturally heard Cao Ang's secret words, and said with a hint of indescribable ridicule: "The time is also, the momentum is also." The current situation has its own current situation, and there is also a current trend at this time......." When Cao Ang and Cao Tai heard this, Jun's face couldn't help but flash a trace of shame. There is no doubt that Ma Chao used Cao Tai's words just now to satirize the insincerity and scheming of the two.

Of course, the most fundamental change is because when he was dancing the sword, Ma Chao saw clearly that Duanmu was at the door and made an 'OK' gesture. Before, the Ma family didn't want the four counties, it was completely for the sake of the overall economy. But with the wealth injection that Yuan Shu has been searching for many years, Ma Chao believes that this wealth can definitely fill this loophole. As a result, when he saw the opportunity, he instantly changed his attitude towards the four counties, which made Cao Ang and Cao Tai chaotic.

In the short term, although the four counties do not have much economic benefit, they may also drag down the Ma family. But they are of extremely important strategic importance to the Ma family after all, and once the Cao clan lets go of the four counties, its power tentacles will no longer be able to extend to the north bank of the Yellow River. And the recovery of Wei County, where Yuan Shao's glory was once located, can make all Jizhou people shake the Ma family's military control ability, which is of great significance for the integration of the three states of Merger, Hebei and Youzhou into the Ma family as soon as possible and the general strategy of connecting the Ma family under the rule of the Ma family.

And by this point in the whole conversation, Cao Ang and Cao Tai had been completely forced into a corner. Ma Chao's sudden change accepted all the reliance in their hands that they thought could be clamped. But Cao Tai can't go back here, he didn't come here just to be alone, to go alone - Cao Cao's bottom line is that he will bring Cao Ang, Le Jin, and Li Dian back no matter what!

"General, general......" Cao Tai, who was stubborn and didn't dare to raise his head, and felt that his face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, opened his mouth to Ma Chao with great respect and humility: "No, I don't know what the general said before, but also count?" If the Cao clan could accept it, the two families would be happy, and tens of thousands of soldiers would not have to leave their homes...... Tai, Tai would like to thank the general for his magnanimity in advance......"

Cao Tai didn't know how he finished speaking, but he felt that after he finished speaking, the muscles and joints of his whole body became tense and stiff due to shame and shame, and he couldn't even lift his bent waist.

The victor Ma Chao took a sip of wine in a leisurely manner, and said in an extremely pleasant tone as if teaching a class: "This installment payment, as the name suggests, is a workaround for some transactions with long cycles and high costs. The Cao clan was in a dilemma, so naturally they couldn't redeem Master Zixiu, the two generals and tens of thousands of soldiers. And the Ma family is the most profitable...... Oh, in order to make peace between the two families and the people to return to their hearts, they can sacrifice a certain amount of time to recover the ransom bought by the general attack in several parts, and correspondingly, the captives will also be sent back to the Cao clan in batches......."

Cao Ang and Cao Tai are both people with clear minds, and they know everything by listening to it, and their complexions can't help but change a lot at the moment! And Cao Tai glanced at Cao Ang with deep fear and remorse: This Ma Chao is going to use such a means to kidnap the Cao family for at least a year! The ruthlessness of his heart and the poison of his means make it impossible to prevent it......

'This guy is a devil who is better than the battlefield and above the battlefield!' The two of them wailed in their hearts, but they fell into the abyss like a defeated bird with broken wings, and their bodies were extremely cold.