Xuchang, the sky is fluttering with snowflakes falling one after another, on the ground, on the house, has accumulated a thick layer of snow, a somewhat down, but always maintain the honor guard of the team appeared outside Xuchang City. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Chief, who are those?" The soldier who was so cold that his cheeks were red stabbed his waist and pointed to the team that was slowly approaching this side, this ghost weather, there were few pedestrians in and out of the city, and I didn't hear that any team would come over recently, which naturally aroused the vigilance of these guards.

"I don't know, look at the clothes, it's not like Middle-earth, let the brothers be vigilant!" Menbo moved his palm, which was already a little stiff from the cold, pursed his lips and let out a long howl, informing the guards on the city wall that there were three or four hundred people in this wave, plus this heavy snow, although he didn't think that there would be any ambushes near Xuchang, but everything was better to be careful.

An archer on the city wall watched indifferently as the group of people slowly approached the city gate, and when the other party approached the place outside the city gate, he quickly drew his bow and arrows and shot an arrow at the front of the opponent's formation.

"Poof~"

The shaft of the arrow sank into the snow, leaving only the arrow feathers humming and trembling in the wind and snow, and the refugee-like team suddenly stopped, and a man ran out of the crowd, dropped his weapon, raised his hands above his head, and walked slowly towards the city gate, saying in a jerky official language: "We are not enemies!" ”

Menbo took a war horse, turned over on the horse, ran more than 20 steps, pointed the spear in his hand forward, and said coldly: "Someone stops!" ”

"Yes, yes!" The person who came bowed humbly.

"Who are you waiting for?" Menbo frowned, these people, there is really no danger, all of them are yellow and thin, they look like refugees, but the temperament on their bodies is not very similar to refugees.

"We are the Baekje envoy group, and we have come to meet the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and present our national credentials, and we are willing to pay tribute to the Han Dynasty!" The person who came humbly knelt on the ground, his forehead touched the snow, and his voice carried a sense of pathos: "I also hope that the Han Dynasty can open up the net and let my three Han people have a way to live." ”

"Uh......" The doorman looked at the visitor with a confused expression, it was Baekje and Samhan, what the hell was it? But he also heard that these people should be people from outside the world, and a small country came to claim it, and this kind of thing, it is really difficult for him to make decisions as a little protégé.

"Wait here, I'll report it." Menber thought for a moment and said to the other party.

"Okay, good~ The envoy walks slowly, don't be in a hurry." The visitor nodded and bowed to the doorman.

Although he didn't say anything, he was still very comfortable in his heart, he was a little uncle, a general who belonged to the lowest level in this Xuchang City, standing on the city wall and throwing a stone at will, he might smash out a person with a background than himself, when did anyone treat him so respectfully, and it seems that the other party is still the envoy of some country, a sense of superiority of the Heavenly Empire arises spontaneously, and his body can't help but be more straight.

"Chief, who?" When the gatekeeper returned to the city gate, several of the gatekeepers asked.

"I don't know, it seems that some kind of envoy from Baekje came to worship the Son of Heaven, you guys look at them, and I will go to the city to report." Menber Road.

"Whoa." Several soldiers agreed, and the doorman galloped into the city, heading straight for the direction of Xu Duling's mansion.

In this era, people's rhythm of life will naturally not be as tight as in later generations, the snow is all over the sky, every household in Xuchang City has hid back in the house, this kind of day, Xuchang Ling is also very idle here, Chen Qun held a bowl of tea soup, leisurely looked at the snow outside the door, thinking about going home after noon, it looks like there will be nothing wrong today, turned his head and glanced at Zhong Xuan, who came to the door, and said: "Brother Yuan Chang, after noon, how about you and I go to Guiyan Pavilion for a drink?" ”

"Good proposal, find a few more colleagues to take a look, I heard that there are a lot of newcomers in Guiyan Pavilion recently." Zhong Xuan put down the scroll in his hand and smiled.

Guiyan Pavilion is a green building, the story of the talented and beautiful woman is a very elegant thing for the scholars, and the green house and the brothel are not the same thing, the women of the green house, most of them are the kind of art that does not sell their bodies, they belong to the geisha, if they really go to the green house to prostitute, they will be despised.

This Guiyan Pavilion is the largest and most prestigious green building in Xuchang City, and even Cao Cao occasionally entertains guests there.

"Your Excellency!" At this moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside, followed by a general who turned over and dismounted, and rushed in.

"What?" Chen Qun frowned, no one would be too happy when they met someone who came to find trouble when they were about to get off work.

"A team of envoys from outside the city said that they wanted to come to see the Son of Heaven." Menbo found that Chen Qun's face was not too good-looking, so he hurriedly bowed and said.

"Fanbang envoy?" Chen Qun and Zhong Xuan glanced at each other, and they didn't know why, so they looked back at Menbo and said, "Have you ever asked who it is?" ”

"They said they were from Baekje, and then they said what Samhan people were, and my subordinates didn't know very well." Menber smiled bitterly.

"Baekje? Samhan? Zhong Xuan smacked his lips, looked at Chen Qun and said, "Changwen knows which family this is?" ”

"Samhan?" Chen Qun thought for a while and said, "Goguryeo was later divided into three Koreas, and then there was Baekje, but the people there used to call themselves the people of three Koreas. ”

"The Baekje envoy came to see the Son of Heaven? I'm afraid it's not that simple, right? Zhong Xuan sneered: "Four years ago, Lu Bu trained sailors in Bohai, it seems that he was just to clean up these people, and this time, I am afraid it is not just as simple as meeting the Son of Heaven." ”

"Report it to the lord first, this matter is indeed not that simple, it is still up to the lord to decide." Chen Qun nodded and said, "It's a pity that today's banquet can only be done." ”

"It's important to get down to business." Zhong Xuan nodded, also a little helpless, the original good interest was suddenly destroyed.

"How many of them came?" Chen Qun looked at Menbodao.

"About three or four hundred people, and they look pretty down." Menbo hurriedly bowed and said.

"After all, it's the envoys of friendly countries, let them go to the post house to settle down first, let the tiger warriors keep a close watch, don't let these foreigners make trouble in the city." Chen Qun nodded, and after giving an order, he and Zhong Miao walked in the direction of Cao's Mansion.

In Cao Cao's mansion, Cao Cao is now taking his second son Cao Pi and Xun Yu and others to talk, it is rare to be peaceful for five years in the world, but recently, as Lu Bu continues to send books to Kanto to sell cheaply, the world family feels the crisis, and recently many influential families have come to Xuchang to ask for the blockade of the pass and cut off business and trade with Guanzhong.

"Can't be broken!" Cao Cao leaned on the railing, looked at the snow in the garden, sighed and shook his head: "Guanzhong Lu Bu is getting stronger and stronger, if we cut off business and trade with Guanzhong, we will still lose, and more importantly, if we really disconnect the contact, how to find out the news from Lu Bu's side?" ”

Xun Yu smiled bitterly: "What the lord said is reasonable, but I am afraid that the major families have complained a lot, and Lu Bu has touched their roots this time." ”

"And not just this time?" Cao Cao shook his head when he heard this: "From the battle of Jizhou to the present, Lu Bu has touched the foundation of the family again and again, I often think that if he is allowed to develop like this, I am afraid that in another ten years, without a single soldier, Lu Bu will be able to take over the entire Central Plains." ”

As a neighbor and the prince who has fought the most with Lu Bu, Cao Cao knows better than anyone that Lu Bu has grown over the years, Cao Cao has also developed steadily over the years, but he can't catch up with Lu Bu's development speed, this feeling of being surpassed by others is really not a taste, especially when the opponent is still a defeated subordinate of his own, that frustration is even stronger.

Now from Yingchuan to Xuzhou, many things are brought from Lu Bu's side, among the princes, Cao Cao's reception of Lu Bu's technological development can be said to be the fastest, but the more this is the case, the heavier Cao Cao's worries, Lu Bu can't selflessly run to help them, those technologies that have been passed over, are basically leftovers from people's homes, to put it bluntly, use garbage to exchange money with you, the real core technology, such as military equipment, Lu Bu is not generally tight, Cao Cao has sent several times to steal the other party's core technology, and although Xuchang's high-end technical talents were not much worse than Lu Bu back then, after several years of development, Cao Cao heard that Lu Bu was constantly recruiting skilled craftsmen from foreign lands, and the attraction of skilled craftsmen in the Central Plains had never been interrupted, and Cao Cao's side, limited to economic and geographical reasons, could only be watched, and the gap was constantly increasing, especially the large loss of low-level technical talents, making many things on Cao Cao's side unable to achieve scale like Lu Bu, which is also a problem that Cao Cao has always been worried about.

"Wen Ruo, until today, I didn't know how terrible Lu Bu was, it's hard to imagine that the tiger who was played by Chen Hanyu and his son in Xuzhou between applause would be so terrible today, I knew that today, I should have killed him at all costs!" Cao Cao said with some regret.

When Lu Bu escaped from Xuzhou, Cao Cao actually had the opportunity to kill Lu Bu, but unfortunately, at the beginning, Lu Bu was surrounded by few soldiers, and hundreds of people were cavalry, so it was too laborious to exterminate, and Xuzhou was already in the general situation at that time, no matter how powerful Lu Bu was, he couldn't turn over, who would have thought that after eight years, Lu Bu has now become a figure who is enough to resist the princes of the world, and it feels ridiculous to think about it.

Xun Yu was silent when he heard this, in fact, even after Lu Bu occupied Chang'an, except for Guo Jia, who really cared about the tiger? Not only Cao Cao looked away, but most people looked away, and it was precisely because of everyone's contempt that Lu Bu did not encounter too many obstacles in the early stage of development, so that he had today's troubles.

"Lord, Chen Qun and Zhong Xuan ask to see each other." A family member came in and bowed to Cao Cao and Xun Yu.

"Oh?" Cao Cao frowned, nodded and said, "Let them in." ”

Soon, Chen Qun and Zhong Xuan came together, and after the ceremony, Cao Cao asked, "Why did the two gentlemen come together?" ”

"My lord, there is a Baekje envoy who has come to meet the Son of Heaven." Chen Qun said solemnly.

"Baekje?" Cao Cao looked at Xun Yu blankly: "Where is it?" ”

"To the east of Lelang, on an island in the south of the land of Dongyi, there are tens of thousands of households." Xun Yu thought for a while and said: "It's just that he and my Han face each other across the sea, and they rarely have any contacts, so this time we see each other, is it ......."

"I'm afraid that Wen Ruo was unfortunate enough to say it." Chen Qun smiled bitterly. (To be continued.) )