Three days later, Cao's army was opened, Cao Hong was appointed as the Taishou of Nanyang, leading 20,000 recruits to garrison Wancheng, and Cao Ang's bones were buried in the land of Nanyang, because Cao Cao said: "The bones of the soldiers cannot return to their hometown, how can the commander abandon them and return to himself?" "So I just took the Mingguang armor on Cao Ang's body and set out on the way home. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

When the army returned to Wuyang, it was already early February, Guo Jia and Yu Ban were waiting in Wuyang, they had received the news of Cao Ang's death, and naturally did not dare to mention such a tragic incident in front of Cao Cao, Guo Jia first told Cao Cao that the four counties west of Rushui were now completely under the control of Cao's army, and Li Tong led the troops to defend it, and then told Cao Cao that Yuan Shu had set up Henan Yi in Jiujiang, placed the minister, and officially proclaimed himself emperor in Shouchun.

When Cao Cao heard the news, he immediately cheered up and summoned the generals to discuss in Wuyang, which relieved him from the grief of losing his son.

There were only two strategists here, one Guo Jia, one Jia Xu, and the rest were all military generals, so Cao Cao first asked Guo Jia.

Guo Jia said calmly: "Liu Bei led the wolf into the room, now the Xuzhou Zhizhi Xiapi has been occupied by Lu Bu, Liu Bei can only be stationed in the small city of Xiaopei, Xuzhou and Yuan Shu are at the junction of Shouchun, Lu Bu and Liu Bei have good fighters, just for me to use, and Yuan Shu to compete with the strengths." ”

Cao Cao asked, "Will Ji be released?" ”

Guo Jia said: "The lord can quickly return to Xudu, ask the Son of Heaven to order Lu Bu to be the general of the left, and then personally repair a book to win over, Lu Bu is a short-sighted man, see the people who forget the righteousness, and Yuan Shu is not in agreement, will be able to use the lord, and then show Liu Bei as the general of Zhendong, Fengyi City Pavilion Marquis to win him over, this person often claims to be the ancestor of the Han family, naturally can not allow Yuan Shu to be the emperor, the lord and then lead an army, even Liu Bei, Lu Bu, three ways to attack it, Yuan Shu is not worried! ”

Guo Jia's words showed that he fully grasped the subtle psychology of Lu Bu and Liu Bei, so as to lure them for his own use, and the art of psychological warfare had been used perfectly, and Jia Xu's poisonous plan had its own merits.

Cao Zhang kept looking at Jia Xu while Guo Jia was speaking, and found that Jia Xu's eyelids jumped after Guo Jia finished his plan, obviously secretly surprised by Guo Jia's intelligence.

Cao Cao said: "Good, we will return to Xudu tomorrow." Because his son had just died, he was no longer as comfortable and laughing as before, Cao Zhang guessed that his father was Mrs. Ding who didn't know how to face Xu Du, because Cao Ang was raised by Mrs. Ding, although Cao Ang was not her own child, but she regarded it as her own.

After returning to Xudu, Cao's mansion has been hung everywhere, obviously the news of Cao Ang's death has reached Xudu, Cao Cao's wives, as well as Cao Pi and Cao Zhi are all very sad, as for Cao Chong and Bian's just given birth to Cao Xiong because he is still young, so he has no feeling of sadness.

It is worth mentioning that Mrs. Ding, who raised Cao Ang single-handedly, scolded Cao Cao because of this incident, and then packed up and went back to her parents' house, which made Cao Cao even more depressed, because there was a funeral in Cao's mansion, and Emperor Xian did not recruit Cao Zhang into the palace again, which made Cao Zhang rare to be clean for a while.

In May of the same year, a person named Wang Lang came to Xudu, Cao Cao didn't say a word and showed him as a doctor, speaking of this person, in fact, he is a protégé of the family, because he is a student of Yang Ci, the son of Taiwei Yang Biao, in Cao Zhang's eyes, this person is a defeated general under Sun Ce, originally this Wang Lang was a guard of the inspector, but he was defeated by Sun Ce, I don't know why Sun Ce did not harm him, but let this person go, Cao Cao immediately invited this person to Xu Du as an official, in Cao Zhang's eyes, this should be a practice of getting close to the wealthy family.

Yuan Shu called the emperor, touched the nerves of the scholars, whether it was a wealthy family, or a poor scholar, they all specialized in Confucianism, and the most important ethics were the most important, Guo Jia mentioned that Yuan Shao wanted to praise Liu Yu, a relative of the Han family, as the emperor, and with Yuan Shao's power, he did not dare to call himself the emperor.

So Cao Cao also co-opted those clans who looked down on him at this time, balancing the contradictions between the wealthy clan and the Hanmen, politics is like this, there are no eternal enemies, and there are no eternal friends, and now the enemy of Cao Cao and the Hao clan is Yuan Shu.

On this day, when Guo Jialai gave a lecture to Cao Zhang, he mentioned that Lu Bu was very happy after receiving General Zuo and receiving Cao Cao's letter, and sent a messenger named Chen Deng to thank him, and specially wrote a letter to Cao Cao, and at the same time sent Yuan Shu to Lu Bu to ask for a marriage envoy to tie Xu Du, saying that Yuan Shu had proposed to him, but he had refused, and the letter also said that he wanted to be a Xuzhou pastor, and asked Cao Cao to let Emperor Han Xian issue an edict to express him as Xuzhou pastor.

Cao Zhang asked, "Did your father agree?" ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Not only did he agree, but he also made Chen Dengbiao, who came here, the Taishou of Guangling, and his father Chen Qilu as the second envoy of the middle school, and even said to him, 'Bu, the ambition of the wolf, it is difficult to raise it for a long time, and it is impossible for Fei Qing to investigate his feelings. Then he took his hand and said, 'The affairs of the East will be dealt with,' and they agreed with their father and son to join the people. ”

Cao Zhang listened to it and said, "So how can they go back and explain to Lu Bu?" ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Don't underestimate Chen Deng, I think he is quite confusing, and he is not lacking in courage, and it is easy to deal with Lu Bu, not to mention that the Chen family is also a big family in Xuzhou, the people of Xuzhou are fierce, brave and ruthless, there are often thieves haunting, and the local wealthy families have a lot of private soldiers, Lu Bu is also quite jealous, and he needs to rely on the Chen family." ”

Cao Zhang asked: "I understand, now that Yuan Shu is the emperor and has offended the world's great families, my father is trusted by the Son of Heaven and is justified, which is the best choice to crusade against Yuan Shu, and Lu Bu is capricious, and Liu Bei is not a climate, so Chen Deng will come here to show that he wants to help my father." ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "That's right, the two armies are fighting, attacking the heart first, as long as you can see through the other party's intentions, you can be invincible, the lord Feng Wang Lang is to show that not only will use the Han Shi, but also the Hao family, this move is to win over the children of the Hao family like Chen Deng." ”

Cao Zhang suddenly remembered a poem written by Cao Cao recently, called, one of which is 'the title of Emperor Huainan, engraved in the north' The first half of the sentence is to say that Yuan Shu is called the emperor, and the second half of the sentence is to imply that Yuan Shu's cousin Yuan Shao in the north also has the heart of the emperor, and even has a cousin called the emperor, and the cousin helps carve the jade seal in the north.

After Cao Zhang told Guo Jia his opinion, Guo Jia smiled and said: "The lord is indeed wise, this writing, Yuan Shao will inevitably draw a line with Yuan Shu in order to show that he has nothing to do with the matter of being the emperor, and when the lord raises troops to fight against Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao will not dare to sneak attack the rear of our army, otherwise everyone in the world will think that Yuan Shao is also involved, but a poem can prevent Yuan Shao from thousands of troops, why not?" ”

Cao Zhang himself didn't expect this connection, and said to Guo Jia convincingly: "The student has been taught... ”