Afraid of Cao Cao is not too embarrassing.

But if Cao Cao's prestige in later generations is put aside, Cao Cao at this time is actually far from reaching the point of being feared. Xu Chu couldn't help laughing at himself: I regard Cao Mengde as a 'jackal, tiger and leopard', but I forgot that I have a lot of talents under my command, and I myself am not also a 'jackal, tiger and leopard' in the eyes of others?

turned to look at Guo Jia and the others, and said: "Fengxiao, Zhicai, Yuanzhi, I want to raise the banner of righteousness with Cao Mengde and denounce the national thief Dong Zhuo!" ”

Guo Jia and Xu Shu are right, but there are indeed some drawbacks in raising volunteers with Cao Cao. But what Xi Zhong said is also very reasonable. In addition to what Xi Zhong said, Xu Chu had considerations that the three of them did not know.

This consideration is where he will go in the future. This history is familiar to Xu Chu. The coalition army that crusaded against Dong Zhuo was divided into four parts, one was Yuan Shu in Nanyang, the second was Cao Cao, Zhang Miao and other princes who were stationed in sour jujubes, the third was Yingchuan, the assassin of Yuzhou, Kong Ling, and the other was Yuan Shao and others who entered Hanoi from Jizhou.

In the current situation, Yuan Shu was listed as a general, and he had already arrived in Nanyang, and Yuan Shao also went to Bohai County to be a taishou, and there was a **, the coalition army that crusaded against Dong Zhuo would still be divided into these four parts, even if there were some deviations, it should not be too far behind. So, where should he Xu Chu go from?

There is no need for Yuan Shu to think about it, Xu Chu will definitely not go, Yingchuan can be considered, but Kong Ling, as a state assassin, his strength must be much stronger than Xu Chu's 2,000 stone Taishou, Xu Chu went to Yingchuan, wouldn't he become Kong Ling's command? Speaking of sour dates, it's even worse there. The princes who raised troops to recruit Dong Zhuo, most of them gathered in the sour jujube, Liu Dai, Qiao Mao, Zhang Miao, Cao Cao, Bao Xin, etc., which one is not bigger than his Xu Chu's name, in addition to a few people, how many princes' troops will be less than Xu Chu, if it is said that Yingchuan and Kong Ling together still have some right to speak, then go to the sour jujube, it is like returning to Luoyang when the chaos was in Luoyang, the famous and heroic people in the hall gathered, Xu Chu has the intention to kill the thief, and I am afraid there is not much opportunity to express his opinion.

In the last Hanoi, even if Xu Chu wanted to go, he was afraid that he would not be able to go because it was too far away.

In order to seek a greater reputation and greater benefit for himself in the crusade against Dong Zhuo, no matter from which point of view, Xu Chu must change history and find an opportunity that is enough to make his own side take charge.

It was an excellent opportunity to raise volunteers with Cao Cao. If Xu Chu persuades Cao Cao to go to a certain place to become a town, the two parties will join forces, Cao Cao will have a small name, Xu Chu will have a real name, and the two will complement each other, and they can also become a climate. In this way, while Xu Chu got a reliable ally, he could also find fighters to fight a few beautiful battles, so that it would be worthwhile to send troops to fight Dong.

In addition to Cao Cao, can Bao Xin, who has the same interests as him, also pull over to hold big things together?

All this, after Xu Chu put aside his 'fear' of Cao Cao, he decided to 'advocate volunteers' together.

Xu Shu went out of the house, turned over on his horse, carried the letter in his arms, took Zuo Heng, the small colonel of the Huwei Battalion, and quickly went to Chenliu.

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It snowed heavily for three days, and it never stopped. The entire Shu County was covered with a layer of silver, and a heating stove was also raised in the buildings in the county government.

Yao Sheng, the governor of Danyang County, crossed the river by boat on a snowy night, and at this time he had arrived in Shu County. Yao Sheng went to Xiang'an County first, where he contacted Sima Gan Ning, who was under the command of Xu Chu, and Gan Ning asked Zhou Yu to accompany Yao Sheng to meet Xu Chu.

This escort is both protection and surveillance. Now that the two counties are in extraordinary times, some things have become much more sensitive. Gan Ning seemed to be rough, but in fact he was quite careful, so he asked Zhou Yu to go back to Shu County and talk to Xu Chu about the defense of Xiang'an County.

From Xiang'an to Shu County, less than a hundred miles of road. Zhou Yu and Yao Sheng hurried and hurried, chatting all the way. One of the two is a beautiful young man from a famous county, and the other is an official for many years.

Because Yao Sheng shouldered the life of the envoy, after crossing the river, he began to carefully observe the situation in Lujiang County. Gan Ning and Zhou Yu's soldiers and horses stationed in Xiang'an bore the brunt and received his attention.

At the beginning, Yao Sheng despised Gan Ning very much, and even didn't care much about the well-known Zhou Yu. The children of the scholar clan look at people, they have always worn 'colored glasses', he has never heard of Gan Ning's name, although Zhou Yu is from the Lujiang Zhou clan, after all, he is too young, with Yao Shengju as Maocai, appointed as the secretary, and elected as the general's qualifications, he does have the capital to despise them.

However, after walking around Xiang'an Water Village, Yao Sheng's contempt disappeared. After Lujiang experienced that large-scale rebellion, it has not recovered so far, so that Lujiang's shipbuilding industry has also been greatly affected, Gan Ning, Zhou Yu's troops did not have a few decent warships, so they let the soldiers practice tactics on the conscripted fishing boats and merchant ships, and practice the advance and retreat of the ships.

After watching it for less than half an hour, Yao Sheng knew that Mo said that the land battle was a water battle, and Xu Chu also had generals who could compete with the Danyang warriors.

In addition to the military aspect, when walking with Zhou Yu on the road, Yao Sheng deliberately asked Xu Chu about his actions after entering the county. Zhou Yu was so smart, avoiding the important and lightly saying how Xu Chu was harmonious with Xie Zhen, Zhang Yun and other old officials, and how he "got along" with the Lujiang Shi clan, Yao Sheng was half-convinced, and arrived at the Taishou Mansion in Lujiang County, Shu County with complicated feelings.

After the ceremony, Xie Zhen, the main bookkeeper who played the right in the county government, Peng Zhouyi, and Zhang Yun, who was Gong Cao Peng, came out to greet them.

Everyone is a celebrity in Yangzhou, and Zhang Yun and Yao Sheng are even older acquaintances, and they walked in while greeting each other.

"Why do you happen to be here?" Yao Sheng asked. Each Cao Peng has its own house, and usually, if there is nothing important, they all work in the house. Today, it was Xu Chu who summoned all the Cao chiefs to discuss the matter of "Dong Kou", and was hit by Yao Sheng.

Yao Sheng thought that Xu Chu would let him wait for a while, but he was directly led to the lobby by Zhou Yi and others, and saw a tall young man sitting on the main seat in the hall, wearing a robe and clothes, without a crown, and his tiger eyes were shining.

When Xu Chu saw Yao Sheng coming in, he got up and said with a smile: "I have heard that Yao Jun is famous for a long time, but unfortunately I couldn't meet you when I was in Luoyang." ”

Yao Sheng hurriedly replied: "I am making a bad name, and I don't dare to disturb the ears of the prince." The prince and the prince were shocked and Yang, and they also regretted that they could not meet the prince and the prince before. ”

After the polite words, Xu Chu invited Yao Sheng to take a seat.

Yao Sheng is a very important person, if Xu Chu has ideas about Yangzhou in the future. Not to talk about it, from the time he returned to his hometown, Chen Wen and Zhou Xin sent people over to extend his prestige in Wudi. What's more, he is still the governor of Danyang, such as Lu Jun, the governor of Jiujiang, who can depose officials and become a government of his own. In other words, in the eyes of Chen Wen and Zhou Xin, Yao Sheng is enough to represent the words of some Yangzhou scholars.

"Forcibly keep Yao Sheng and send Zhang Yun away."

When he heard the doorman report that Yao Sheng was visiting, this thought rose in Xu Chu's heart, and he couldn't get rid of it.

At present, there are many people in the hall, and Yao Sheng and Xu Chu will not start negotiations on the matter of negotiation. Instead, after Xu Chu discussed and finalized all the details of "Dong Kou", he dismissed unrelated people and others, leaving Zhou Yi and other county chiefs and his own confidants to negotiate with Yao Sheng.

Yao Sheng sat in the seat and listened to Xu Chu's arrangement, and it was a coincidence that this matter in Danyang County was handed over to Yao Sheng to be responsible.

So about how Xu Chu arranged how to prepare the Kou Dong thief, Yao Sheng pricked up his ears and listened carefully. Xu Chu's general arrangement was: to allocate grain from the county government, and to have the rank and pavilion chiefs of each township in the county use this grain to levy and train the young and strong.

Yao Sheng was secretly surprised. This method is indeed a good method, Yao Sheng did not think of it, but in Danyang County, Yao Sheng did not adopt this method, because the food consumed was too much. Xu Chu will not know about this section, and the grain storage situation in Lujiang County is only worse than that of Danyang County, why does Xu Chu insist on going his own way?

Yao Sheng thought about it for a while, and thought of two reasons: the first reason, Xu Chu, who had served as Xu Chu's county guard in Yingchuan, had brought grain to take office; The second reason is that the young and strong who spend a lot of food training can not only prevent the harassment of winter thieves, but also have other uses.

Yao Sheng looked at Xu Chu's gaze and couldn't help but become complicated, this young man in his early twenties, or is it true, as rumored, not only can use soldiers, but is also good at governing the county?