Liu Bei's eyes gradually became fierce, even vicious, Lu Bu has become a thorn with a barb in his heart, piercing deeply into his heart, and it can't be pulled out, once he starts to remove it, it will inevitably bring out a large piece of flesh and blood. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

He is still a little self-aware of this, so he has always endured Lu Bu and has no next move, and the power in Lu Bu's hands is not vegetarian, especially his strategist Chen Gong, even all the strategists under his command combined, may not be able to withstand him.

"Why doesn't there be a top strategist under the lonely command!" Liu Bei sighed in his heart, he is also one of the most powerful princes in the world, and now he doesn't even have a top strategist under his account.

I have to say, this is really an irony.

A few days later, when Liu Bei was still sad for the strategist, Li Ru, who was in Yanzhou, finally received a reply from Cao Cao.

He had already reached an agreement with Cao Cao, he lurked in Xuzhou, waiting for an opportunity to deal with Lü Bu, and Cao Cao provided them with some support, and in return, he needed to help Cao Cao deal with Liu Bei and seize Xuzhou after Lü Bu was removed.

Now, two years have passed, and the successive establishment of various countries has completely disrupted Li Ru's plan, but fortunately, after Cao Cao founded the country, he still did not give up supporting him.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, Li Ru simply took refuge in Cao Cao directly.

Originally, with Li Ru's idea, after getting rid of Lu Bu, he would return to the mountains and forests and become a farmer.

But the countries have been established one after another, and the chaos of the Warring States has begun to appear, and it is foreseeable that in the next few days, there will be countless chaotic wars and wars, and when there is no pure land in the world, where can he hide.

Among the countries in the world, Li Ru is most optimistic about Zhang Zai, but now he is thousands of miles away from the Tang State, and he has to pass through the Wei State and the Sili region in the middle, and most importantly, Zhang Zai's attitude is not sure of him.

In the end, he simply took refuge in Cao Cao, at least he had the intelligence organization that Cao Cao needed.

Li Ru hurriedly opened Cao Cao's reply letter, which explained Cao Cao's arrangement, for Xuzhou, Cao Cao had to plan to take it, if nothing else, just Xuzhou's population and annual grain production were enough to make Cao Cao's heart move.

However, Cao Cao thought that now was not the best time, so he asked Li Ru to wait for a while, and when he started, Cao Cao would inform him.

Li Ru thought for a long time after seeing it, and suddenly sighed, he knew Cao Cao's concerns, if he wanted to send troops, he had to guard against Yuan Shu in the south, and Yuan Shao in the north, and the former Lu Bu was a lesson from the past.

Yanzhou, Xu County.

At this time, Xu County is not what it used to be, it is no longer a small county town of the year, after Cao Cao established the Wei State, the capital is here, in the past two years, Cao Cao has established a palace, and now Xu County can be called a big city.

In the Wangcheng Council Chamber, all the strategists around Cao Cao had already gathered together to discuss the next action plan.

It is imperative to send troops to war, but first of all, we must ensure the safety of our own country and not repeat the mistakes of the past.

"Great King, the minister thinks that he can propose an alliance to the Yuan brothers." Taiwei said in the ranks.

Cao Cao thought about Xi Zhicai's words, and analyzed the feasibility in his heart.

For the little Yuan Shao, Cao Cao asked himself that he still had a certain understanding of him, if he was subdued now and sent some gold and silver, Yuan Shao was very likely to be a watchman, and now Yuan Shao's great enemy was Zhang Zai of the Tang Kingdom.

"Well, what Zhicai said is reasonable, but it's okay to form an alliance with Yuan Shao, so this Yuan Shu is not necessary." Cao Cao made some changes to Xi Zhicai's suggestion.

"Why?" Xi Zhicai was puzzled, Yuan Shu's forces were alone in Jianghuai, and their strength was extremely strong, and if Yuan Shu raised troops to attack, he could also contain a large part of their troops.

"Yuan Shu is really a villain, even if he forms an alliance, it is very likely that he will put a cold arrow behind his back, besides, there are Liu Biao and Sun Jian after Yuan's operation, and they have their own control, rather than forming an alliance with Yuan Shu, it is better to form an alliance with Liu Biao and Sun Jian." Cao Cao remembered the actions behind Yuan Shu when he was begging Dong Alliance a few years ago, and sneered.

At that time, Sun Jian could also be counted as his subordinate, but in the end, it was not Yuan Shu's plot, if it weren't for Zhang Zai, I'm afraid Sun Jian might be defeated.

For Yuan Shu, who can do this kind of thing, Cao Cao really doesn't dare to form an alliance with someone like him, who knows if he will stab you directly in the back when you relax your vigilance against him.

"Out-of-range?" Xi Zhicai and the others glanced at each other and said in unison.

When Cao Cao said what happened in the alliance that day, they also had no opinion at all, after all, allies must be reliable, and allies like Xiang Yuan Shu are really unreliable.

"I don't know who the king wants to send to form an alliance with Yuan Shao and the others?" The alliance has been decided, but the selection of candidates is a difficult problem, at least a few of them are not suitable.

"Well, do you have a candidate?" Cao Cao stroked his beard lightly, he didn't have a suitable candidate in his heart for a while, and there were many strategists under his command, but Cheng Yu was one of the talents suitable for diplomacy, and the others were really not found.

"There's a suitable candidate." Xun Yu, who had not spoken on the side, said: "Du Zixu, who has recently come to take refuge, has just returned from Jingzhou, and he has some talent to take on this responsibility. ”

"Oh, where is this man now?" Cao Cao asked.

"No arrangements have been made yet, and we are currently in the post house." Xun Yu said.

"Ordered him to come and see him." Cao Cao commanded.

Du Raid didn't let Cao Cao wait for a long time, and soon appeared in the palace, entered the council hall, and saw Cao Cao and bowed: "Yingchuan Du Raid to meet the king." ”

"No courtesy." Cao Cao pointed to the cushion placed next to him and said, "Seat." ”

"King Xie." Du Xi thanked him neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Cao Cao saw that Du Xian had come down with some courtesy, advanced and retreated in a certain way, and did not lose his demeanor, his good feeling in his heart increased greatly, and he nodded with satisfaction and said, "I heard that you just returned from Jingzhou?" ”

"Exactly."

Cao Cao nodded and said to Du Xian: "There is one thing that needs you to do this time. ”

"The King's command." Du Xi arched his hand and said.

Cao Cao looked at Du Xian, who was sitting upright, and said: "Gu is ready to form an alliance with Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Sun Jian of Jiangdong, there is a lack of envoys at present, I don't know if Zixu is willing to go?" ”

"Willing to serve the king." Du Xi agreed without hesitation.

"Okay, I hereby appoint you as an envoy of Wei to Jingzhou and Jiangdong to contact Wu and Chu and strive to reach an alliance with them." Cao Cao patted the low table in front of him and said.

"No!" Du Xi stood up and bowed.

Out of the chamber, Du Xian's heart was extremely agitated, he had just voted for Cao Cao, originally thought that he could only serve as a small official, but he did not expect that he would be directly appointed by Cao Cao as an envoy, or an envoy to the two countries, which also surprised him at Cao Cao's courage.

Before leaving the royal city, Du Xi looked back at the palace behind him, and secretly swore in his heart that he must do this errand perfectly.