It is precisely because of this that when the princes of all parties need to go to Beijing to meet the emperor in person, they will not send their capable ministers and fierce generals to go, for fear that the emperor will be happy and seal an official position, and their confidants and generals will never come back.

Cao Cao's coercion of the Son of Heaven to order the princes to issue an edict in the name of the Son of Heaven has long been known to the whole world.

But this is the first time that someone has been asked to enter Beijing by name.

Cao Cao also knew that this kind of action was tantamount to openly digging into the corners, and the princes of all parties would not pay attention to it, and if he did so, over time, he would lose his authority, and make the already unconvincing holy decree even more pale.

It's just that the current situation seems to be very delicate.

If Fa Zheng enters Beijing at this time and leaves Chengdu, he will be able to get out of danger and get rid of the passivity of the moment.

It's just that if he goes, there will be no possibility of returning to Yizhou in this life.

Liu He felt that for both sides, this might be the best result.

As Liu He expected, Fa Zheng accepted the holy decree, but the appearance when he received the holy decree was a little different from what Liu He thought.

Liu He originally thought that Fa Zheng would happily accept this life-saving talisman that fell from the sky, but he didn't think that it was a helpless and even a little sad look.

The appearance of that holy decree made people forget their doubts about the Fazheng.

The people's thoughts are actually very simple, they only care about the hottest topic at the moment, and what people talk about the most after tea and dinner these days is the matter of Fa Zheng being summoned by the Son of Heaven.

They all felt that Fa Zheng should not come back when he left this time, and he would have nothing to do with Shu from now on, whether he was a good person or a bad person, and what he had done, it didn't seem to matter that much.

The day after Fa Zheng left Chengdu, Liu He also embarked on the road to Xuchang.

Only this time, he didn't go to make trouble in the palace, nor did he want to steal treasures, but was ready to swagger into Cao Cao's mansion and negotiate a deal with Cao Cheng, who was in power.

The biggest deal in the world.

Liu He didn't take anyone with him, just carried a bag of marijuana on his back, and went to Xuchang City alone.

The news that Liu He was going to visit Xuchang again had already spread in Xuchang City.

On the way here, the guards at every pass were dumbfounded when they heard that this weak scholar who was going to Xuchang alone turned out to be the famous Mr. Tianji.

For a while, none of them could guess what Liu He was going to do, let alone rashly act to stop it, but they just asked people to report the news to Xuchang quickly.

As the messengers came more and more frequently, the people in Xuchang City knew that Mr. Tianji should be there soon.

So when Liu He openly appeared at the gate of Xuchang City, almost all the people in Xuchang City came to watch, just to see if this Mr. Tianji, who didn't know how to write the word dead, had the legendary three heads and six arms.

All of a sudden, thousands of people were empty.

And Mr. Tianji seemed to have expected this kind of scene a long time ago, and he was very calm, and waved his hand to the onlookers with a smile, and then carried the sack on his back and went straight to Cao Cao's mansion.

Sleeping all the way, the sack, which was not very strong, had already become a broken sack, which was a little incompatible with the beautiful outfit that Liu He had specially changed into before entering the city.

This is the second time Cao Cao has had face-to-face contact with Liu He, but compared with the last time, the situation of the two has just changed positions.

At the beginning of Huarong Dao, it was the worst loss in Cao Cao's life, and Cao Cao had no room for bargaining for Liu He, who was guarding the last pass.

And now it's different, this is Xuchang City, on his Cao Cao's own territory, with just one look, he can ask for the life of this guy in front of him.

But Cao Cao felt that it seemed that Liu He still had a sense of superiority, but he himself was always in front of this person and couldn't raise his head.

Cao Cao thought for a long time, and finally gave Liu He to his seat, and then repulsed left and right.

He figured out one thing, Liu He didn't come to take his life this time, otherwise with Liu He's person, he would have kicked the door of the mansion open and broken in, instead of walking in slowly and methodically like just now, which looked quite polite.

Liu He sat there, looking around, as if he was very interested in the home of this extremely powerful man in troubled times, and never mentioned the purpose of his visit this time.

Cao Cao's heart became a little impatient, he looked at Liu He for a long time, and finally said in a deep voice: "What do you want to do when you come this time?" ”

Liu He retracted his gaze and smiled, "Since you are so happy, I won't go around in circles, I came this time to discuss a deal with you." ”

As he spoke, Liu He stood up, picked up the broken sack from the ground, and threw it on the table in front of Cao Cao.

Cao Cao frowned, stared at the sack for a long time, and was about to reach out to open the bag, but as if he thought of something, he took his hand back and asked, "What's in it?" ”

"You don't have to be afraid, it's not poisonous, and it won't bite!" Liu He smiled and untied the mouth of the bag and poured out the contents one by one.

Looking at the countless crystal clear jade stones that fell out of the sack, Cao Cao was dumbfounded, even he had never seen so many fine jade stones in his life.

"I bought it from southern Xinjiang at a great price," Liu He said with a smug face, "I'm afraid I won't find a better stone than this." ”

Cao Cao smiled and did not speak.

These priceless jades, in the mouth of this Mr. Tianji, turned into stones.

Cao Cao picked up a piece of jade and looked at it in his hand.

As if he had discovered something, he picked up another piece of jade, put it next to the previous one, compared it with the previous one, and then picked up several pieces in a row.

After some comparison, Cao Cao had determined that the place names engraved on these jade stones seemed to have been designed by Liu He a long time ago, and they were obviously written by the same person.

Liu He took out a sheepskin map from his arms, spread it on the table, pointed to the large and small place names on the map and said: "This is the map of the Han Dynasty, there are almost more than three hundred places marked on it, I counted them, among which the important places are one hundred and eight, and the one hundred and eight jade stones are engraved with these one hundred and eight place names." ”

Cao Cao looked down at the jade stones on the table, thought for a long time, and then raised his head and asked, "What are these jades used for?" ”