It is impossible for either side to make everyone revolve around them according to their own will. Chen Sheng wanted to stop Liu Biao's affairs first, and planned to take over Lu Bu's forces.

Liu Biao is also sitting in Xiangyang, that is, increasing his own power, but also wanting to further weaken, and even control Chen Sheng.

These things are still conspired by both sides at present, and outsiders do not know.

At least, at this stage, there is still harmony between the forces of Jingzhou and Wancheng. It can even be regarded as a honeymoon period, after all, they defeated Cao Ying together.

However, since there is a conspiracy, there will be action. It's only a matter of time before it's exposed, just wait for the other party to show their minions.

Two months have passed since Cao Ying's defeat. During this time, the walls of Wancheng were repaired, and even repaired, heightened and reinforced.

This makes Wancheng further become a frontier and the most important city in Jingzhou.

On the other hand, what Chen Sheng confessed, compensated the dead and wounded, and rewarded Cao Jun for surrendering troops, Jia Xu and the generals did a very good job.

Because of the generous pension, whether it was the wounded soldier or the family members of the dead soldiers, they all received a generous pension, which further increased Chen Sheng's prestige among the soldiers of the old department.

The army forces with Chen Sheng, Wei Yan, Zhao Yun, Hu Che'er, Liao Hua, Zhou Cang, and Fang Gu as the core have further condensed.

Everyone is maintaining the existence of Wancheng.

The generous reward for Cao Jun's surrender, even a reward beyond common sense, further enveloped Cao Jun's heart for surrendering.

In this era, the army, the soldiers, are loyal to a force, and it is better to be loyal to a general. After all, everyone is the army of the Han Dynasty in name, and for ordinary soldiers, as long as they have a bite to eat, they can eat a full meal, and their allegiance to everyone is the same.

The key to this is to depend on the degree of the generals' pension, raising the soldiers, like brothers, like fathers and sons, these are the means by which the generals entrap the soldiers.

Because of the love of the generals, the soldiers are willing to serve the generals. And the generals also won military merits because of the service of the soldiers, and further made meritorious contributions.

This creates a common interest. Therefore, the famous generals of this era are generally generals who are very capable of raising soldiers.

And Chen Shenghou rewarded him and ordered Wei Yan and others to spread kindness and win the hearts of the army. For ordinary Cao soldiers, it seems that it is better to stay in Wancheng than to stay in the Central Plains.

At the very least, they have more assets. As a result, the number of soldiers who fled was very scarce.

It can be said that in the past two months, Chen Sheng has strengthened the city wall and encircled the soldiers, which has increased the defensive power and the ability to attack.

Now, on the side of Nanyang Wancheng's forces, plus Zhao Yun's army, there are nearly 25,000 troops, and the momentum is very strong.

Therefore, during this period of time, Chen Sheng's mood was very good. planned all day long, in Cao Ying's war against Lu Bu, to seek Lu Bu's power, so as to strengthen himself even more.

Just like today, Chen Sheng specially summoned Jia Xu in the hall to discuss this matter with Jia Xu.

In the hall, Chen Shenggao sat on the top seat, with the tower-like Zhou Cang standing beside him, and Jia Xu kneeling quietly below.

"Wenhe, I want to befriend Yuan Shu. Do you have a candidate for the mission? Chen Sheng humbly asked Jia Xu for advice.

Yuan Shu.

This was another important part of Chen Sheng's reception of Lu Bu's forces, because if Chen Sheng wanted to send troops to Xuzhou, he had to start from Runan first, and then pass through Jiujiang County, which is Yuan Shu's current territory, in order to reach Xuzhou.

Without Yuan Shu's support, Chen Sheng's troops would not have been able to reach Xuzhou, let alone rescue Lu Bu.

Jia Xu didn't know Chen Sheng's specific plan yet, but when he heard the name Yuan Shu, he vaguely sniffed out. However, Jia Xu was a little worried about Chen Sheng's friendship with Yuan Shu, and couldn't help but say: "That Yuan Shu steals the name of the emperor and is scolded by the people of the world." If the general befriends Yuan Shu, I am afraid that it will affect his reputation. ”

Chen Sheng sneered when he heard this: "Today, the Han family is in ruins, resulting in countless heroes across states and counties, and Han thieves like Cao Ying have also become the masters of the Han family. Not to mention anything else. Everyone is a careerist, and it is better to not sleep than anyone. Of course I understand what kind of person Yuan Shu is, but I'm not afraid to befriend him. Besides, I inherited the power of my brother Zhang Xiu and belonged to the Xiliang lineage. In the whole world, the reputation of Xiliang people may not be better than Yuan Shu. ”

Chen Sheng's words made Jia Xu unable to refute, he is also from Xiliang, and knows that after the wanton actions of Dong Zhuo, Li, and Guo, Xiliang people have become synonymous with unruliness.

"Long Shi Fanggu can go." After Jia Xu was silent for a while, he said the name Fang Gu.

"Fang Gu." Chen Sheng frowned when he heard this, Fang Gu was the commander of his own battalion, and he was in charge of the six thousand elite soldiers directly under him, but he was responsible for sending envoys?

This made Chen Sheng a little awkward.

However, since Jia Xu said Fang Gu, I'm afraid there are no other good candidates. This made Chen Sheng a little discouraged, the power of Wancheng's generation, after his elite, there are already many fierce generals, but there are few Wenchen.

At the critical moment, there was not even a single envoy.

"Forget it, it's him." Deflated for a moment, Chen Sheng waved his hand weakly, and finally determined the candidate.

"Yuanfu, send someone to invite Changshi Fanggu to come in." After making a decision, Chen Sheng ordered Zhou Cangdao.

"No."

Zhou Cang promised and went down to do something.

Soon after, Changshi Fanggu walked in. Regarding Chen Sheng's request for him to send Yuan Shu's mission, Fang Gu was not as worried as Jia Xu, but readily agreed.

And went to the treasury to take the baggage as a gift, and went to Jiujiang Shouchun.

"Whew." Finally got one thing done, Chen Sheng let out a long breath, and his heart relaxed a little. However, Chen Sheng quickly remembered something else.

"A large number of spies were arranged to investigate the situation in the Central Plains, especially the situation that Cao Ying might move troops to crusade against Lu Bu. Then send someone to Xuzhou to inquire about the relationship between Lu Bu and Liu Bei. ”

Chen Shengming Jia Xu said.

Now that you have thought of taking the line of Yuan Shu, the next thing is to wait for the situation. And the news is not something that can be waited for, but also has to take the initiative.

"No."

Speaking of which, Jia Xu had completely understood Chen Sheng's intentions. This time, do you want to unite with Lu Bu and Yuan Shu to fight against Cao Ying?

Jia Xu thought in his heart, even if he was as intelligent as Jia Xu, he couldn't imagine for a while that Chen Sheng whimsically didn't want Xuzhou, but just wanted to accept Lu Bu and the forces under his command.

Not to mention uniting with Lu Bu and Yuan Shu to fight against Cao Ying.

For Chen Sheng, this is all big and small fat. Lu Bu and Yuan Shu are all the same.

After the discussion reached this point, the things that Chen Sheng wanted to explain were almost the same. Next, wait for Cao Ying to wave his troops in Xuzhou.

However, at this moment, something changed.

"General, Xiangyang has arranged for carriages and horses to transport grain, and the baggage has come over, and the detailed roster of the first step has arrived." A guard walked in, holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand.

"Oh." Chen Sheng was a little surprised when he heard this, but then calmed down again. Because Chen Sheng knew that Liu Biao's forces had always provided assistance to Wancheng, and every aid was during the spring ploughing season, and before the autumn harvest, twice a year, in order to control Wancheng.

And this time, it should be the first time after he succeeded to the throne.

Because it was the first time, Chen Sheng didn't know about the situation, so he had to find someone familiar with him and see if there were any changes. Therefore, Chen Sheng thought for a while and said to the guard, "Hand the roster to Mr. Jia." ”

"No."

The guard promised and handed the bamboo slip in his hand to Jia Xu.

Jia Xu also understood, and stretched out his hand to bear the bamboo slips. Immediately, he quickly unfolded the bamboo slips and looked at them one by one. Suddenly, Jia Xu's brows raised slightly.

"But what happened?" Jia Xu rarely had a facial expression, so a slight frown was captured by Chen Sheng, and Chen Sheng couldn't help asking.

"The weight of blades, bows, arrows, leather armor, and even armor has increased." Jia Xu said that it was obviously a good thing, but Jia Xu's look told Chen Sheng that it was not a good thing.

"Grain?" Chen Sheng narrowed his eyes.

"Halving." Jia Xu exhaled a little and said.

"Halving?"

Zhou Cang, as well as the guard who sent the bamboo slips in, couldn't help but gasp. How can the grain be halved, under Zhang Xiu's command, Wancheng's forces are only 15,000 elite soldiers, and the food given by Liu Biao is no longer enough to eat.

Now there are as many as 25,000 elite soldiers in Wancheng, which has been halved, isn't it going to kill you?

"This matter can only be known to the four of us, and no one is allowed to say it. If you let me know who leaked the news, chop. Chen Sheng's face suddenly sank, and he said with a murderous awe.

"No."

Everyone hurriedly agreed.

After giving this order, Chen Sheng smiled again and said, "This reduction of the food to reinforce me, Liu Biao's implication is to let me be disarmed. As the saying goes, unload the mill and kill the donkey, that's it. Although I am not a good person, I may not be willing to work for Liu Biao. But after all, I was a little unhappy. ”

Now in Chen Sheng's heart, there are only four words, a little unhappy.

As Chen Sheng said, it is not Liu Biao's unloading and killing of donkeys that is unhappy, after all, he is not a good person, and there is no reason to accuse others.

Chen Sheng was unhappy that the grain was contained, and now Liu Biao's attitude has become obvious, let him disarm, otherwise he will bear the consequences.

This situation is tantamount to putting a shackle on Chen Sheng's neck, and it is strange that Chen Sheng can be refreshed.

Moreover, Chen Sheng is aggressive, and now Liu Biao's situation is to drink the stick.

And now there are only two ways in front of Chen Sheng, the first is to find a way to solve it. The second is to cut the army according to Liu Biao's intentions.

Of course, Chen Sheng will not go.

Then there is only one way left, find a way to solve it.

How to solve it?

There are two ways, where to find ready-made food, to solve the urgent problem, which is the symptom. Occupy more cities, more land, this is the root cause.

How to get there?

Chen Sheng pondered.

(To be continued)