Chapter 368 Three swords and two sides

Regarding Yuan Shao's expression of sending Lu Ren to Jizhou, everyone's opinion is different.

For example, Cao Cao and Guo Jia, their opinion is that Yuan Shao is trying to find a way to curb the good economic development trend in Cao Cao's territory, after all, Lu Ren made many things that no one thought of at that time, so Lu Ren has an irreplaceable role in Cao Cao's economic development;

Another example is Yuan Shao himself, his intention is to make Cao Cao suspicious of Lu Ren, in other words, to play a discordant trick under his "scheming" fault;

For example, some people in the court who are more optimistic about Yuan Shao, they probably didn't think about it so much, but they were a little envious, jealous and hateful of Lu Ren. Come to think of it, it's no wonder, what is Lu Ren's background? Although it is said that he is a child of the Lu family in the fourth surname of Wu Zhisi, Lu Ren was just a begging guy on the street at the beginning, and he was not even a scholar from a poor family, let alone a family reputation or anything. Why can such a guy be favored by Yuan Shao, the leader of the Fourth and Third Princes?

Back to Lu Ren himself...... To be honest, Lu Ren also has some messy ideas. However, for Lu Ren, the biggest possibility for Yuan Shao to write this expression is nothing more than wanting to dig into Cao Cao's corner and reduce Cao Cao's strength and prestige to a lesser extent.

Because of this kind of thing, Yuan Shao did a lot of things, such as at the beginning of Emperor Liu Xie's relocation of the capital to Xuchang, Yuan Shao wrote a text, wanting Cao Cao to cut Yang Biao and Kong Rong, because Yuan Shao had some personal grudges with these two; Then when Yuan Shao realized the benefits of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the candidates", Yuan Shao wanted Cao Cao to transfer Emperor Liu Xie to Juancheng. Divide the fat from Cao Cao's mouth...... In short, Yuan Shao just likes to play some such tricks, but he is always doing useless work.

So Lu Ren didn't pay much attention to this matter, and of course he also made corresponding justifications to Cao Cao. But Lu Ren believes. With the stupid things that Yuan Shao had done, as well as Cao Cao's own cleverness, he would not be able to fall for Yuan Shao's cleverness. Even for Yuan Shao's desire to get himself to Hebei, Lu Ren also regarded it as a situation like Yang Biao and Kong Rong, that is to say, Lu Ren thought that Yuan Shao just wanted to make trouble with Cao Cao, and he didn't really want to take advantage of himself.

Besides, Lu Ren didn't have the heart to go to Yuan Shao's place to mess around. As a traverser. Of course, Lu Ren would look down on such a person as Yuan Shao. Regardless of this, Lu Ren knew very well that even if he expressed even the slightest intention to go to Yuan Shao, Cao Cao's murderous plan here would be raised immediately. And the worst thing is that he is not alone now. The net worth and life of a large group of people are on their own bodies, and Lu Ren doesn't want to harm these people even if he is no longer a thing.

And take a step back, isn't it quite good for me and the people around me to mix well in Lao Cao's little life? If you really go to Yuan Shao's place. With the situation of Yuan Shao's clan forces. Most of the small days will not be so moisturized in Lao Cao's place. And there is a precedent for this, because one of Lu Ren's trading partners, Zhen, is not very good, and he has to use Zhen Mi to exchange for a peaceful day.

All in all, Lu Ren is such a mentality that he doesn't take it seriously. But now that Lu Ren saw the letter written to him by Yuan Shao, he felt as if he was thinking wrong, did Yuan Shao really want to recruit himself?

Thinking about it carefully, Lu Ren realized that it seemed that there was nothing impossible. A few years ago, he didn't seem to have much to care about Yuan Shao. But today's self seems to have some possibilities that interest Yuan Shao. For example, official positions and fame. At present, Lu Rendu is no longer small, and he is ...... in economic construction

Yuan Shao has just finished beating Gongsun Zhan, and the economy in his territory really needs to recover as soon as possible, and if there is such a number one person as himself, Yuan Shao's strength can recover quickly. With Yuan Shao's mentality of being anxious for quick success, it is normal to think that he has his own internal affairs minister. After all, Yuan Shao also has his wise side, otherwise how could he make the territory of influence so big, and no one will be invincible for a period of time?

Now the main problem ...... If it was Lu Ren in the past, he wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to Yuan Shao's letter at all, but now Lu Ren has become a little hesitant about such a question after experiencing a lot of things.

Why the hesitation? In fact, it is very simple, Lu Ren is still worried about the butterfly effect that his outlier may cause. Lu Ren had already worried more than once that Yuan Shao would suddenly become wise in the Battle of Guandu and take a correct military decision, which would lead to Cao Cao's defeat. And this is not an impossible thing, Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, and Xu You have all planned a very correct military decision for Yuan Shao, especially a strategy planned by Xu You, Cao Cao himself exclaimed, "If this is the case, I will be defeated."

It is precisely because Lu Ren has such a mentality that Lu Ren has already done several things that are simply two-faced to put it mildly, and the purpose is not to be able to protect these people around him as much as possible in case of Yuan Shao's victory? At this time, in the face of the letter written by Yuan Shao, Lu Ren was also under the influence of this mentality, and he didn't dare to do things too much.

Because if he expresses himself too decisively, he will definitely be considered by Yuan Shao to be Cao Cao's sworn friend. In case Yuan Shao really won the battle of Guandu and advanced to Xuchang, then settle accounts with these people left by Lu Ren...... In those days, these warlord leaders were the three tribes of Yiren at every turn!

The messenger sent him to eat and rest, and the letter was left on Lu Ren's table. Looking at Lu Ren himself, after blasting all the attendants out of the study, he paced back and forth in the study, thinking about something with his eyebrows locked. After a long time, Lu Ren finally let out a long sigh and called to the waiter at the courtyard gate: "Go and invite your master and mother Cai to the study, and say that I have something important to discuss." ”

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In a blink of an eye, it was nightfall.

In Taicang, Xuchang, Lu Renzheng was holding his hands behind his back and frowning, walking back and forth here in Taicang, which could be regarded as supervising the ongoing work of the servants in Taicang.

Before Lu Rentui said that Taicang may have been mixed with "poisoned rice", although this matter is very fake, Liu Bei has fled from Xuchang, but the faΓ§ade work must be done, otherwise Lu Ren will not be able to explain to the public, after all, Lu Ren does not want outsiders to know that he is deliberately embarrassing Liu Bei.

However, since Liu Bei has left, Lu Ren also deliberately put the water, and pretended to calculate the storage time of grain and rice in Runan counties with the accounts, and then designated a few relevant large urns and said that as long as they are inspected here, it will be a fatal job.

Of course, it is impossible to find out the drop of this "poisoned rice", but after this uproar, it was found that several urns in Taicang were moldy and spoiled due to improper maintenance, which really made Lu Ren a little crying and laughing. However, this also gave Lu Ren such a big movement, after all, there are a lot of standing troops here in Xuchang, and you have to send it to each battalion and village to receive grain and grass, and the so-called "poisoned rice" is too suspenseful.

So when others asked, Lu Ren took the moldy grain and rice to those people and showed them basically nothing. In the eyes of others, it is said that the new official has taken office with three fires, and it has not been long since Lu Ren was reappointed as the governor of Su Du just now, and the inspection of Taicang is originally within Lu Ren's authority, so it is naturally understandable.

Seeing that it was getting late, and saying that he came to Taicang to oversee it just for a show, he was ready to go back to sleep when he saw that it was almost over. And at this time, Guo Jia's laughing voice suddenly floated over: "Lu Servant Shooting!" It's dark, you don't go back to your house to rest, but what are you still doing here in Taicang? ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ You dead old Guo!! Lu Ren turned around angrily, glared at Guo Jia viciously and scolded, "Why did you come back?" ”

Guo Jia laughed and said: "Oh, you kid has always been a heavy color and light friend, and you have never cared about me as a brother, why do you miss me a little now when you hear this?" ”

"I miss you dry hair! Let me tell you, Liu Bei has left Xudu today and led his troops to Xuzhou to defeat Yuan Shu! ”

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Guo Jia's smiling face immediately became panicked, and he no longer paid attention to Lu Ren, turned around and wanted to leave.

Seeing this, Lu Ren shook his head and called, "Old Guo, don't bother!" Liu Bei left in the middle of the afternoon today, but when is it now? Can you catch up? Even if they catch up, there is no falling out between Cao Gong and Liu Bei on the bright side after all, and all the generals are worried, believe it or not, they will be driven back by Liu Bei's sentence 'The general will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected'? ”

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Guo Jia stopped speechlessly, turned back to Lu Ren's and said, "How can the lord be so confused? I have reminded the lord several times, even if Liu Bei can't be killed for the time being, but he must not indulge, why does the lord still let Liu Bei lead the troops to the battle? ”

Lu Ren spread his hands and smiled: "Maybe this is called a wise man's thousand thoughts, and there will be a mistake in the end, as long as it is a human being, there will always be times when he is confused." ”

Guo Jia saw Lu Ren's virtue and started a fire: "Others don't know what's going on, but you know the importance of this place, why don't you go and advise the lord!?" ”

Lu Ren was still a little depressed because of today's daytime events, but now when he saw Guo Jiachong starting a fire against himself, he was immediately angry when he was teased by Guo Jia: "Persuade a fart, persuade me!" Do you think I'm not doing enough? You don't look at what Taicang looks like now, I almost lost my wife......"

Guo Jia saw that Lu Ren also started a fire, and knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he quickly covered Lu Ren's mouth and forced it to a secluded place, but Lu Ren also remembered that there were many things that could not be said in public, so after Guo Jia let go of his hand, he smiled bitterly: "As soon as I came back from my patrol today, I heard the news that Liu Bei was going to go on an expedition." At that time, I rushed to Cao Gong's mansion first, but Cao Gong went out of the city to shoot and hunt. Later, I secretly asked Xun Wenruo to inform Xun Wenruo and asked Xun Wenruo to send someone to find him, but no news came back. I really had no choice, so I had to play a little trick by myself, hoping to drag Liu Bei for a day, but ...... Alas, I am not Liu Bei's opponent! (To be continued......)