By the end of the month, the end of the year was approaching, and the recruitment of troops had come to fruition.

Xinbi recruited 5,000 new soldiers from this county, some of whom were veterans from various counties, and their combat effectiveness was okay. In Danyang, Xu Chu let He Zhen and Zhao Zhao go on a trip, and according to the previous agreement, they raised 1,000 Danyang soldiers.

In winter, the weather was cold and freezing, and the people lacked food and clothing, and the recruitment of soldiers went much smoother than usual. It must be too late to teach these 6,000 recruits to stand up and queue up, and all Xu Chu can do is to let them understand simple military orders and military discipline as much as possible. To put it bluntly, except for a few veterans among these people, their biggest role is to 'wave the flag and shout' and 'strengthen the momentum', and it is unrealistic to expect them to compete with Dong Zhuo's tiger warriors on the battlefield.

But as mentioned before, even if the flag is waved and shouted, it is necessary to gather enough for this 10,000 people, and the number of people largely determines the status of Xu Chu among the princes of the world before, during and after this war.

As soon as the soldiers returned to the county, they were all arranged to the Shu County military camp to train with those veterans.

Approaching the end of the year, as a certain influential figure, Xu Chu's entertainment has also increased, and there is an endless stream of people who visit and pay homage to the county government, and there are many people who want to write letters and send gifts to show his kindness. Busy until the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, Zuo Heng returned from Chenliu with a reply from Cao Cao.

After Cao Cao weighed it, he agreed to Xu Chu's request to enter Yangcheng.

Another one, Cao Cao expressed his worries in the letter: since the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu fled from Luoyang, it has been a long time, and it is clear that it is imperative to discuss Dong, but it is Cao Cao and Xu Chu who are the first to advocate the volunteers, and the specific date of the army has not been set to this day.

Cao Cao's worries are also the worries of Zhang Miao, Bao Xin, Wang Kuang and others.

Because Xu Chu has the food and materials transported from Yingchuan, it doesn't hurt to wait a little longer. The others are not good, they have just been appointed by the imperial court to the county and the country to serve as the chief guard and the minister of the state, even if they have the heart, they have no time to rectify the agricultural affairs in the county and the country, and now because the general trend of the whole world has been very clear, almost everyone has begun to recruit troops and horses, and hoard grain. Soldiers, horses, and grain can only come from the people in the county and the country, and the wool on the people's bodies has long been sheared. Yuan Shao couldn't determine the time of the army for a long time, and the further the days dragged on, the more beneficial it would be to Dong Zhuo. It is conceivable that if the army cannot be raised in another three or four months, Dong Zhuo will not have to move his head and butt while sitting in the Luoyang Palace, and there will be civil chaos in Hebei, Shandong and other places, and the general trend has gone.

Xu Chu doesn't remember the date of the discussion of Dong in history very exactly, but it should not be far away.

Guo Jia came over to ask for a meeting, saw Xu Chu sitting in the hall holding a letter, and saw Zuo Heng on the side, so he asked, "Cao Mengde has a reply?" How? ”

Xu Chu said.

Guo Jia nodded and said happily: "Cao Mengde really has foresight, and sending troops to Yangcheng is the best choice. He said with a worried face: "Yuan Benchu has been in Bohai for a while, but there has been no news yet. ”

Xu Chu also knew these two reasons: the first reason was that Jizhou Mu Hanfu sent people to Bohai County to monitor Yuan Shao, so that although Yuan Shao had a place to raise troops, he could not concentrate on preparing for war; The latter reason is the question of the 'justice' of the army.

For the righteousness of the army, whether it is the current or later generations, many people think that it is irrelevant, but after Xu Chu arrived at the end of the Han Dynasty, he 'followed the customs of the villagers', and through various 'words and deeds', he felt that these three words were very important. The Han family has been in the world for 400 years, and the people's hearts still exist, and most of the people in the scholar clan have hopes for the Han family. That's right, the current imperial court has been controlled by Dong Zhuo, but the imperial court is the imperial court after all, no matter how famous Yuan Shao is, no matter how prestigious the Yuan family is, no matter how powerful he is to fight against the imperial court, without a suitable excuse, this soldier will not be able to rise. Cao Cao, Xu Chu, and Zhang Miao can naturally ignore it, and Yun Cong raised troops, but what about the other people who are not very close to Yuan Shao? Including Cao Cao, Xu Chu, Zhang Miao's subordinates? It is hard to say whether they will follow the 'rebellion'.

Xu Chu thought hard in his mind, but he never remembered who was in history and how to solve the problem of 'justice'. If he could think of it, he wouldn't mind discussing it with Cao Cao and doing it like this.

While pondering, Xi Zhong suddenly walked in, and there were Zhou Yi, Xie Zhen, Zhao and others behind him.

Xu Chu looked towards the door, and when he saw everyone walking in a hurry, he couldn't help but be curious: "Zhicai, you are in a hurry, but what happened?" ”

Xie Zhen strode forward a few times, took out a piece of text from his sleeve, and presented it to Xu Chu, "Ming Mansion, this is the three princes transfer book that I just received!" ”

Three public transfer books?

Xu Chu hurriedly unfolded the text and looked at it, and laughed after reading it: "The army is about to start!" When he handed the text to Guo Jia, Guo Jia took it, and saw Dong Zhuo's perverse behavior in the text, and said at the end: "I hope that the volunteers will relieve the national disaster." The signature of the document is none other than Taiwei Huang Wan, Situ Yang Biao, and Xun Shuang, who has just been recruited by Dong Zhuo as Sikong.

Xu Chu only remembered after reading the article that the person who solved the problem of the justice of the war was the Taishou Qiaomao of Nadong County, and this so-called 'Three Princes Transfer Book' was naturally fake.

Guo Jia and Xi Zhong's faces were happy, and Xi Zhong smiled: "With this text, as the lord said, the army is about to start!" At the latest, at the end of the first month, people of insight from all over the world will gather in the clouds and enter Luoyang to the east to relieve the national trouble. ”

Xie Zhen and Zhou Yi's faces changed. The officials under the county government knew that Xu Chu was going to respond to Yuan Shao's army to attack Dong Zhuo, and the two of them had a close relationship with Xu Chu and participated in Xu Chu's series of actions, so they guessed seventy-seven eighty-eight. When I received the letter from the third prince, I felt that the probability of Xu Chu raising troops should be ninety percent, and now I saw the looks of Xu Chu, Guo Jia, and Xi Zhong who were 'eager to try', and I knew that this matter was real.

The two of them are not uninformed people, and they often pay attention to the movements of Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao, and know what kind of predicament Yuan Shao is facing. Now Yuan Shao's predicament has been solved because of this text - not only solves the problem of justice, but also makes Han Fu dare not continue to monitor and block Yuan Shao's actions.

"Ming Mansion, the three dukes moved the book to spread the Tianxia Prefecture and County, the person who said 'righteous soldiers', dare to ask who it is?" Xie Zhen asked Xu Chu.

There is nothing to hide at this moment, Xu Chu said with a smile: "Since Yuan Benchu and Yuan Highway are the leaders, Wang Gongjie, Cao Mengde, Zhang Mengzhuo, Bao Yuncheng and other righteous people are from Yuncong. ”

"Presumably the Ming Mansion is also among them?"

Xu Chu nodded and said, "The eldest husband should be like this." ”

"Dare to ask the Ming Mansion, are the soldiers, weapons, grain and grass ready?"

"There is still something lacking in the armament...... What does Xie Jun mean? ”

Xie Zhen said generously: "The children of the Xie family have always received the grace of the country. If the Ming government does not dislike it, the contempt clan is also willing to do its part. After speaking, he looked at Zhou Yi, and Zhou Yi immediately said: "The same is true for the subordinates." ”

These two old foxes should have passed through the qi beforehand. Xu Chu laughed twice and said, "With the help of two high-ranking talents, the county is worry-free!" ”