Luan Yi originally wanted to rest in Qingzhou for a few days before returning to Jinan, but the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, and there was a big incident in the rear.

"What? Cao Cao ran away! How can it be? Luan Yi even thought he was having auditory hallucinations. Cao Cao, Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren and Cao Hong were locked in a sturdy prison cart with shackles, how could they escape!

But the reality is ...... Cao Cao did run away, not only Cao Cao ran away, but Xiahou Tang and them all ran away.

Xu Chu, who was tasked with escorting Cao Cao, personally rushed to Linzi to apologize, "Sect Master, Cao Cao's escape is all my fault, please punish the master!" ”

Luan Yi pressed down the anger in his heart, forced a smile, and put on an indifferent appearance, "Zhongkang, first tell me how Cao Cao escaped?" ”

Xu Chu blamed himself and told the whole story. It turned out that after Luan Yi led the army to aid Qingzhou, the task of escorting the young emperor and hundreds of civil and military officials, as well as hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an, fell on the shoulders of generals such as Xu Chu and Zhao Yun.

And Xu Chu and Zhao Yun only have a few thousand soldiers and horses in total, and they can't take care of so many people at all, and most of the troops are sent to the emperor's side, and there are only more than 100 people around Xu * Chu who can be flexible.

Xu Chu pondered that Cao Cao and his subordinates only had five people in total, and they were shackled and locked in a prisoner car, and they couldn't run away even if he had great ability. He only sent 50 guards to follow the escort, and he led most of his men to guard around the emperor.

Unbeknownst to him, the prisoner cart was moving slowly, and was soon left behind by the brigade.

The escort team chased all the way to the east, and when passing through Zhongmu County, the Zhongmu County Commander suddenly led hundreds of officers and soldiers in the county to rush out of the county seat and forcibly rob the prisoners by force.

The church guards in charge of escorting desperately guarded the prisoner car, but the incident happened suddenly, and the enemy was outnumbered, and the guards finally failed to protect the prisoner car and were robbed by the Zhongmu County order.

Xu Chu was shocked when he heard the news. Hurriedly dispatched people to Zhongmu County to rob people. But when I arrived at the Zhongmu County Ya, I saw that the building was already empty, and the Zhongmu County Order actually hung up the seal ribbon and stayed with Cao Cao.

Xu Chu wanted to chase Chen Liu, but after thinking about it, Cao Cao was quite powerful in Chen Liu. Some time ago, when passing through Chenliu, it was because the emperor opened the way in the past, the church army was in charge, and Cao Cao was the hostage, and the Cao army generals Li Dian and Le Jin stationed in Chenliu did not dare to act rashly.

Now, Xu Chu only has more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, and it must be extremely dangerous to break into Chen Liu. Then he led the troops back, and after discussing with Dian Wei, Zhao Yun, and Huang Zhong, he decided to report back to Luan Yi first, and then make plans.

After listening to Xu Chu's words, Luan Yi asked in surprise: "You mean that Cao Cao was rescued by the Zhongmu County Order?" ”

"Exactly!"

"What is the name of the Zhongmu County Order?"

Xu Chu thought for a while and responded: "The surname is Chen Minggong, and the word is Gongtai!" ”

"Is it him?" Luan Yi was shocked. He remembered that in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Chen Gong met Cao Cao on the way to escape from Luoyang after Cao Cao assassinated Dong Zhuo, and saved Cao Cao's life! Later, because he couldn't get used to Cao Cao's killing of Lu Bohao's family, he rebelled against Cao and left, and then joined Lu Bu's men. Why is he still staying in Zhongmu County at this time? And get angry with Cao Cao?

It's all messed up!

"Sect Master has heard of Chen Gongtai?"

Luan Yi nodded, "I've heard it!" This man is upright, strong, and resourceful, and he can't complain that Zhong Kang's guards will follow his way! ”

Seeing that Luan Yi didn't mean to blame himself, Xu Chu let out a sigh, "Sect Master, Chen Gong is too deceitful!" I am willing to make meritorious service for the crime, and the division of the Shuai First Brigade will kill Chen Liu, arrest this guy and Cao Heizi together, and hand them over to the sect leader. ”

There is no one in this world who knows Cao Cao's talent and superhuman personal charm better than Luan Yi. Once this guy is pouted in Chen Liu, it will definitely bring him great trouble after recruiting troops. Therefore, his desire to capture Chen Liu was more urgent than anyone else, even if he killed Cao Cao on the spot.

However, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Luan Yi had built two warehouses in the two counties of East and West Pingling respectively, of which the grain in the big warehouse in West Pingling County was used in the war against Dong that lasted for nearly a year, and the grain and grass in East Pingling County were completely wasted when Tian Kai captured the county seat.

Today, there is a serious surplus of gold and silver in the treasury of Jinan, but the supply of military rations is insufficient. As the saying goes, "The landlord's house has no more grain left!" ”

There are only two ways to raise military rations.

The first way is to spend money on food. However, it also takes time to buy large quantities of grain and grass. It took more than two months to even procure and transport. It is estimated that when the grain and grass are in place, it is also the autumn harvest season. It took such a long time, and Cao Cao had already recruited troops and waited for the battle.

With Cao Cao's military talent and the current state of the teaching army, Luan Yi really didn't have the confidence to take down Chen Liu in a short time. He is still on guard against Yuan Shao in Hebei, and he doesn't dare to fight Cao Cao at all.

So...... He had no choice but to tell Xu Chu, "Jinan is short of grain and grass, and it is impossible to move troops for the time being." Let's wait until after the autumn harvest to make plans about attacking Chen Liu! ”

"......"

Xu Chu's voice just fell, but he saw Mao Jue and Xu Shu breaking into the door, when he entered, Mao Jue was in too much hurry, almost tripped over the door frame, staggered a few steps, and finally held Dian Wei's burly body so that he would not fall to the ground, "Brother Yi'er, it's not good!" ”

"What's wrong again?"

Mao Jue gasped and said, "Xun Wenruo, Xun Gongda and Cheng Zhongde have gone to Cao Cao!" ”

"What?" Luan Yiluo stood up suddenly, "Is this true?" ”

Mao Jue wiped his sweat and said, "It's true." Yingchuan has spread all over there, and today I happened to meet a fellow of ours, and this is still from his mouth! ”

"How so?" Luan Yi's face was full of shock, and he spread out on his seat. He has been studying at Yingchuan College with Xun Yu, Xun You and Cheng Yu since he was a child, and his relationship is not deep. After coming to Jinan, he repeatedly wrote to three friends, inviting them to help him, but he never received a reply. But they never thought that when they needed to hire people the most, they chose to take refuge in Cao Cao. "How so! Why would Wen Ruo rather than come to Jinan through Cao Cao? He was puzzled. He asked Mao Jue again, "When did it happen?" ”

"It must have been half a month ago!" Mao Jue said.

"Half a month? That is to say, Cao Cao was still in his hands at that time...... At that time, Xun Yu was already in Chenliu? Luan Yi faintly saw Xun Yu's shadow in the matter of Zhongmu County's Chen Gong rescuing Cao Cao. Don't...... Yes, definitely. It must have been the plan agreed upon by Xun Yu and Chen Gong in advance, and he took the opportunity to rob Cao Cao when his men and horses were passing through Zhongmu. Xun Wenruo, Xun Wenruo, why did you turn your back on the brotherhood of the eight officials and go to serve Cao Cao? What does he Cao Cao have? There is only one place left. And me? Jinan and Qingzhou are all in my hands, as long as I want to, Yanzhou is also at my fingertips. What's more, the young emperor is in my hands, and I can coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes. The situation is very good. In such a good situation, you don't come to vote for me, but go to Cao Cao? What do you and Gongda and Zhongde think?

Xu Shu was sweating profusely, and said anxiously: "Brother Yi, I know the talents of Xun Wenruo, Xun Gongda, and Cheng Zhongde best. Cao Mengde's help with them is tantamount to adding wings to a tiger, how can this be good? ”

"How is it good? What else could be better! You can't send an assassin to kill them, can you? Luan Yi was also in a hurry. To be honest, he didn't think about using the power of the Sword Saint Wang Yue to assassinate these three friends. However, Chen Liu's situation is complicated, and if he makes a rash move, the probability of success is infinitely close to zero, and it is very likely that he will not be able to kill those three people, but will put Wang Yue and the organization he just formed into it. Stealing chickens does not make rice, and he will never do such a high-risk business.

"No! I need to hurry back to Licheng. Luan Yi walked around the hall and said to Xu Shu and Mao Jue: "The missionary chief order, let the archbishop of the diocese of Chen Liu immediately carry out the hidden plan." By the way, all non-Church-controlled areas must be lurked as soon as possible, and there must be no mistakes! With the lesson of Tiankai's massacre of believers in Qingzhou, Luan Yi could no longer let the churches in other states suffer such losses.

"Huh? Even Jizhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Xuzhou have to die down? "Jizhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Xuzhou in Xu Shu's mouth are called non-church-controlled areas by the people in the church because of their cheap terrain and no church army, that is, areas that are not actually in Luan Yi's hands.

And the so-called latent plan is to turn the local church from the light to the dark.

In fact, after Luan Yi was framed and imprisoned by Zhang Rang six years ago, in order to prevent the Church of Our Lady from being implicated and ushering in a catastrophe, Luan Yi had let the Church of Our Lady enter a latent state for a long time, until Emperor Ling corrected the name of the Church of Our Lady before his death, and gave Luan Yi the title of the Great Sect Leader of the Protector of the Country, Luan Yi let the Church of Our Lady lift the latent and return to the foreground.

During the implementation of the latent plan, all the churches in Jinan were closed, and after many real estate sales, they were transformed into legitimate shops. From an outsider's point of view, the ownership of the church building has also been transferred from Luan Yi's hands to local businessmen, and it no longer has anything to do with the church.

Only the core of the church knew that these land sales were actually carried out within the church. The merchants who bought the church were actually local clergy or faithful believers, who changed the façade, took off the cross of the church, and ran the business of groceries, food, and catering. In fact, all the income goes into the purse of the church and is used for local missionary work.

The church has changed its entrance, and believers are temporarily forbidden to wear crosses on weekdays, and at the same time, religious activities have also shifted from the open to the dark, and the clergy in non-church-controlled areas have changed to one-line contact. Mass worship services were not allowed in all dioceses, and Bible study classes were held in small groups on Sundays, etc...... Counting them up, there are thousands of specific details for the entire set of latent plans.

Speaking of which, when Luan Yi formulated the whole set of hidden plans of the Church of Our Lady, the knowledge of later generations played a crucial role, especially when watching TV or reading novels, and the methods he saw about the underground work in the early stage of the development of a certain party inspired him greatly and provided a vital basis.