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"Xu Shu?"

Liu Bei's eyes flashed with doubts, unlike Kong Ming and Wei Yan, Liu Bei did not order Xu Shu to come, so he took the liberty of coming without saying hello, there must be something important to discuss.

Liu Bei didn't dare to slack off, waved his hand to signal Ah San to retreat, turned around and came to the octagonal pavilion, and said softly: "It's Yuan Zhi who is here, Wen Chang, you better leave through the back door!" After going out, go straight to the original post, don't stay, I will directly pass the order to you if there is something. ”

"No!" Wei Yan intervened and went to the back door.

"Kong Ming! You can meet Yuan Zhi with me, I guess Yuan Zhici will have something to do with the national examination. ”

Kong Ming was personally responsible for arranging the national examination, and only Kong Ming knew the layout of each middle school and the personnel and military strength of each department, so naturally Kong Ming was indispensable for his participation.

Kong Ming waved and rushed to the front hall with Liu Bei.

In the vestibule.

Xu Shu was standing upright at the door, with his hands behind his back, looking at his eyes, these hands were not restless, but as if he had been rubbing something, it seemed that his heart was extremely uncalm, as if something had really happened.

Probably because of his unsteady thoughts, Xu Shu didn't even notice that Liu Bei and Kong Ming had already come to the front hall, and they were behind him at this time.

"Yuan Zhi?" Liu Bei said softly.

Xu Shu was stunned, and hurriedly turned around, the frowning and the look clearly hidden a kind of apprehension.

"Yuan Zhi, don't worry, let's talk about it, what happened?"

Liu Bei's face was still calm, although he was also a little nervous at this time, but he was the lord, and he must not be more frightened than a courtier at all times.

raised his hand to make an invitation, and motioned for Xu Shu and Kong Ming to sit next to each other.

On the side, Kong Ming also shook the feather fan lightly, with a calm expression: "Brother Yuan, don't worry." We have still broken through the battle of Chibi, and who in the world can find it difficult to get us! ”

Xu Shu nodded heavily, took a deep breath, calmed down a little, and said, "Lord! That's the case, this time, we sent people to promote the content of the "Virtuous Order" in Yingchuan, Yecheng and some places in Qingzhou. It really attracted a lot of people who participated in the national examination!

But after all, these people are from the Cao thief region, just in case, Shu naturally didn't dare to slack off, and ordered someone to carefully check the identity information of these people!

I don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it!

This time, there were 73 candidates from Yingchuan and other places, including 30 candidates from Yingchuan, 22 candidates from Yecheng, and 21 candidates from the former residence of Kong Rong in Qingzhou. ”

"So much?" Kong Ming couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's really worthy of Yingchuan Academy, it's really admirable!" ”

Contact Xu Shu for the matter. Liu Bei faintly felt a hint of something wrong.

"A lot, indeed." Xu Shu nodded and continued: "If all these people are sincere to participate in the national examination policy, they will give up, but a large part of them are spies sent by Cao thieves!" ”

"Spies!?"

Kong Ming was taken aback, thinking about it carefully, this should not be difficult to understand, Xu Du is an authentic imperial court no matter what, and it is still easy for Yingchuan students to participate in the official career with the care of Xun Yu and others from the Yingchuan faction.

On one side is the authentic imperial court. On the other side, it's just a scientific expedition held by an imperial uncle, and the two are compared. As long as it is an individual, he will not hesitate to choose the former.

Now that these students are abandoning watermelons and picking up sesame seeds, they either have a problem with their brains or have other plans!

After a little hesitation, Liu Bei opened his mouth and asked, "Has the number of spies ever been determined?" ”

Xu Shu nodded: "The approximate number of people has been determined, but there are still some who are not sure!" Shu originally thought that he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one. However, most of these students live in post houses and restaurants in the city, and the target is too big, and once they are arrested, it will inevitably have a great impact. ”

"Easy!" Kong Ming stroked the feather fan and said: "Fabricate a few charges, insert them at will, and arrest them directly!" It's all this far. Hesitation. ”

Xu Shu sighed and explained, "Brother Kong Mingxian! These students seem to have been prepared for this, so they hype up their identities in restaurants and post houses every day, without concealing it at all, and threaten to fear that Uncle Liu Huang will discriminate against or deliberately suppress them because of different regions. ”

"The more you cover it up, the more it proves that there is something wrong with these people!"

Liu Bei's eyes were dark, he kept chewing on this sentence in his mouth, muttered for a long time, and said, "Since they can't be forcibly arrested, then let them participate in the national examination!" Got their wish! ”

Kong Ming came to his senses and couldn't help but say, "That's right! The qualifications for taking scholars are in our hands, as long as we have the list of these people and refuse to admit them, this trick is much more clever than catching a few weak scholars. ”

"No!"

Liu Bei directly waved his hand to interrupt, with a faint smile on his face: "If all of them are not admitted, then Cao Thief will inevitably be suspicious, he will suspect that the spies planted in Xiangyang have been exposed, which will lead to such a situation, and these students from the highest universities in the country are not yet allowed to go to high school, which will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the students, which is also not conducive to us!"

Public opinion is sometimes the same sharp knife, it kills without a trace! ”

Xu Shu sighed: "This is really what I'm worried about!" Once a part of Yingchuan students is hired, it will be difficult to prevent something, and deliberate avoidance can only make them suspicious, and it will be self-defeating if they don't do it. ”

"Don't worry about that!" Liu Bei looked at Xu Shu: "At this time, let's take the lead, Cao Thief uses this group of people to spy on intelligence, and we can also use this group of people to deliver news to Cao Thief, for this news, Cao Thief's trust in it must be much stronger than the news we deliberately created." ”

"But the lord and this gang are also not easy to match, in case I mean in case they find something, our losses are immeasurable!"

Xu Shu was stunned, leaned forward, and reminded Liu Bei.

Kong Ming on the side waved his head: "Lord!" Liang seconded the proposal, these people absolutely want it. ”

"Huh!" Liu Bei waved his hand: "When the water is clear, there are no fish!" It is inevitable that the treacherous thing will be spy, even if the Cao thief fails this time, he will also send someone next time, hum is not afraid of the thief stealing, he is afraid of the thief, since the Cao thief has targeted me, then I will take it! Could it be that I, Liu Bei, am still afraid of him? ”

Liu Bei's words are very reasonable, so that Xu Shu and Kong Ming don't know how to refute them, and for every time Liu Bei's decision, it is useless for them to refute, in the end, they just try to do the best thing.

Although it is very helpless, the result is always unexpectedly good every time, and from this point of view, accept it. (To be continued......)