Yecheng.

The cold winter has not yet passed, above the sky, the cold wind is whining, and the snow is fluttering, like a layer of shining silver, tightly wrapped in this magnificent city, very bright.

Palace.

This palace, which Yuan Shao spent countless manpower and material resources to build in the past, has become the exclusive property of Cao Cao, and the battle flags of the Wei State are flying against the snowflakes.

As early as a few years ago, Cao Cao had moved the Wei court to Yecheng, and before moving the capital to Luoyang, he had already regarded Yecheng as the capital.

After the early dynasty.

The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of Wei State came out of the main hall of the Imperial Palace, and then left the palace, and the head of civil and military affairs, Prime Minister Xun Yu and Taiwei Xi Zhicai, walked into a palace courtyard together.

At this time, Cao Cao had already changed out of the wide black dragon brocade robe worn by the early dynasty, dressed in a hearty ordinary brocade robe, and sat in the middle of the courtyard, while Jia Xu, the commander of the ghost pawns, was standing beside him, carefully reporting the affairs of the ghost pawns.

"Minister, meet the king!"

Xun Yu and Xi Zhicai both bowed and saluted Cao Cao.

Cao Cao raised his head, looked at the two of them, waved his hand at them, and asked them to stand beside him, and then he looked at Jia Xu and said, "Wenhe, you continue!" ”

"No!"

Jia Xu nodded, and then continued to report, saying: "King, now the latest news has come from Guanzhong, it is expected that in the spring and summer of this year, Ma Teng will gather the full strength of the Liang Kingdom to launch a final attack on Han Sui, and it is bound to take the Jin Kingdom in one fell swoop and unify Guanzhong!" ”

"What is the relationship between Ma Teng and Ma Chao now?" Cao Cao asked.

"Ma Xiu has become the crown prince, after Ma Chao returned to Chang'an City, he quarreled with Ma Teng, and in a rage, returned to the state, and cleaned up the state. The officials installed by Ma Teng were all uprooted, intending to be independent! ”

"It's not that simple!" Cao Cao shook his head.

"Indeed!" Jia Xu nodded and said, "Ma Chao has never made up his mind to break with Liangguo, although he cleaned up Ma Teng's officials in Bingzhou, but he is in his own army. The person who still maintains Ma Teng's style, and Ma Teng in Chang'an City, seems to have indulged him a little to become independent! ”

"Let Zhong Dajia make a fire, burn it, and try to make their father and son break up, only if their father and son break up, will we benefit!" Cao Cao said.

"No!" Jia Xu nodded.

"By the way, how is the construction of Luoyang City now?" Cao Cao squinted slightly and asked.

Guo Jia said. The palace has been established perfectly, the outer city has also been built, although the fire burned the city of Luoyang, but for the city wall of Luoyang, the damage is not great, in February, at most in March, Wei can move the capital to Luoyang! ”

Jia Xuyu reported.

"Good!" Cao Cao clapped his palms. Lang Lang laughed and said: "The matter of moving the capital is related to the government of the Wei State. There must be a little bit of eyeing at him, the ghost pawn must do a good job, and he doesn't want to see Jinyi Wei planting a flag in Luoyang City! ”

"Don't worry, the king will never let anyone destroy the relocation of the capital!" Jia Xu nodded, his eyes flashing with coldness: "If Jinyiwei wants to take the opportunity to plant a flag, I will let them walk around without eating!" ”

"That's right. Where is the old road of South China? ”

Cao Cao raised his head, a cold glint crossed his eyes, and asked in a deep voice.

"Back to the king, Nanhua Lao Xian failed to assassinate Sun Quan, and was chased and killed by Zuo Ci all the way." Jia Xu replied.

"Zuo Ci?"

The corners of Cao Cao's mouth outlined a sneer: "This is an old immortal with a famous town in Jiangdong." Sun Zhongmou is really fateful, and he can still ask such a person to escort him, so is Nanhua in danger now? ”

"Nanhua Lao Immortal crossed the prairie and went south, but he didn't dare to enter Yecheng, Zuo Ci is a person, the means are good, and the skills are superb, even if it is an ordinary general, it is difficult to resist, and it is impossible to prevent it, and it will inevitably be unfavorable to the king!"

Jia Xu bowed and said: "He led Zuo Ci south to Shudi, and now, it should be in Hanzhong!" ”

"Hanzhong?" Cao Cao frowned, looked a little puzzled, and asked: "Hanzhong is Zhang Lu's territory, Zhang Lu is still a little hostile to our Wei State, why did he go to Hanzhong?" ”

"Nanhua should have some friendship with the Heavenly Master Alliance, otherwise he wouldn't have led Zuo Ci, the great enemy, to the territory of the Heavenly Master Alliance!" Jia Xu guessed: "King, Zhang Lu is a person, it is rumored that there are also some magic and ghost skills!" ”

"These old immortals really make Gu a little uneasy!"

Cao Cao's face had a hint of murder.

No person in power likes to have a character who is beyond his control.

"King, this kind of person, alone, is not an ordinary means and is right!" Jia Xu said in a low voice: "Don't act rashly!" ”

"Lone knows!"

Cao Cao took a deep breath, he had seen Nanhua's means, under the precautions of Dian Wei and Xu Chu, he could still enter his range of three zhang silently, which could be a ghost and god method.

"King, fortunately, Nanhua is on our side, with him in front of Zuo Ci, we are not worried, besides, if they are really our enemies, they are not unkillable!"

Jia Xu said gloomily: "Although they have some unpredictable skills, they are also flesh and blood after all, as long as we are willing to pay the price and want to kill them, we can still do it!" ”

"Put this in advance!"

Cao Cao thought about it, and quickly shook his head, he looked at Xi Zhicai and Xun Yu who were standing next to him, his face narrowed, and then he looked at Jia Xu and asked, "Do you have anything else to report?" ”

"There's one more thing that needs to be reported to the king!" Jia Xu hurriedly said.

"Say!"

"Zhongshan Dashang, Su family and Zhang family, within a few days, the whole family moved to Youzhou, Weichen feels that there are some problems!"

Jia Xu said in a low voice.

"What's the problem?" Cao Cao was puzzled, there was a trace of contempt in his expression, and said: "Isn't it just a few merchants, just leave, and they can't be left alone!" ”

"The king, the Zhang family and the Su family are the richest businessmen in the whole Jizhou, they have thousands of family wealth, monopolize a lot of goods in Jizhou, they are now the whole family migrated, in this process, we found that it is still the people of the Youzhou army to respond, this matter must not be simple!"

Jia Xu said.

"Youzhou Army responds?"

Cao Cao's eyes were cold: "Presumably they are the Wu court who took refuge!" ”

"Not only that, Mr. Chen thinks that there are some things we don't know about!" Jia Xu said.

"Then you will go and investigate!"

Cao Cao didn't really care, like all the princes of his time, he was born with great contempt for Shangjia. doesn't value them as much as Wu Guo.

"No!"

After Jia Xu saluted Cao Cao, he walked down.

"Wen Ruo, Zhicai, sit!"

Cao Cao sat on the chair and personally poured two cups of hot tea for Xi Zhicai and Xun Yu, who were standing next to him who were a little stiff!

"Thank you, King!" The two sat left and right, and drank a sip of hot tea one after another to warm their stomachs.

"Zhicai. How is the military's affairs handled? After half a ring, Cao Cao looked at Xi Zhicai and asked directly.

"Back to the king, it's almost rectified!" Xi Zhicai nodded and said: "Although we suffered a lot of casualties in the battle to destroy the Jin, but now we have gathered hundreds of thousands of troops from the Jin Kingdom, and we have a buffer time of these months. The army has basically regained a certain combat effectiveness! ”

"What is the mentality of the Jin army to surrender troops?"

Cao Cao took a sip of hot tea before asking.

In the first battle of Guandu, there were already a lot of captured soldiers and horses, and later Jizhou was captured, and the captured Jin soldiers added up to hundreds of thousands.

Although a lot of ordinary county soldiers have been laid off, they are only elite, and there are 200,000 soldiers and horses, and this group of soldiers and horses should be well trained. Returning to the Wei State, the Wei State's military strength can directly go to a higher level.

"These surrenders. In the past, he was more resistant to our Wei State, but since Tian Feng's surrender, the people's hearts have calmed down, and Tian Feng is a person in the Jin army, and his prestige is very heavy, so he came forward. With the addition of Gao Ran and open jaw, it is quite controllable! ”

Xi Zhicai smiled and said: "But if you want them to completely return to the Wei Kingdom, it will take at least a year or two!" ”

Tian Feng and Fu Zhu were both captured by the Wei State, and Tian Feng was captured after the Battle of White Horse was broken for Yuan Shao. In the end, because Yuan Shao offended his whole family, he returned to Wei.

But he never let go.

"What about the Navy?" Cao Cao thought for a moment and continued to ask.

"The king, Cai Mao does have a wealth of experience in water warfare, although he lost to Wu in the first battle of Chibi in the past, but only because the strength of Chu and Wu is too different, he is more familiar with water warfare than all of us!"

After Xi Zhicai reported, he said with some pity: "The naval base in Qingzhou has been established, and in terms of shipbuilding, the blueprints of the fighting ships stolen by the ghost pawns from Wu Guo have played a lot of roles, but we have never gotten the manufacturing drawings of the building ship!" ”

"The building ship is the greatest combat strength of the Wu Navy, of course they will be deeply guarded!"

Cao Cao didn't feel surprised, he said lightly: "This matter can't be rushed, Gu built a navy, and didn't want to compete with Wu Guo at sea, Gu is not stupid enough to take his own shortcomings and forcibly collide with Wu Guo's strengths." ”

"King!" Xun Yu suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Since we don't want to compete with Wu for the dominance of the East China Sea, then why do we spend so much manpower and material resources to build a navy?" ”

"Wen Ruo, you asked a good question!" Cao Cao smiled, and then analyzed: "The reason why Lone established the navy is just to defend the coastline, in the past, Wei was inland, and he could not care about the seaside, but now Jizhou is an important territory of Wei, Qingzhou in the Bohai Sea, it is all coastline, Wu fleet, can land at any time, Lone can not be defenseless at all!" ”

"The king thinks a lot!"

Xi Zhicai and Xun Yu glanced at each other and nodded hurriedly.

Now Jizhou and Qingzhou are connected to the East China Sea, and above the East China Sea, the fleet of Wu is rampant, and they can come if they want to, and they can leave if they want to, and they can't be prevented, as long as they develop the navy, they can stop them.

"Wen Ruo, can Wei have the ability to start a war against Guanzhong this year?" Cao Cao suddenly looked at Prime Minister Xun Yu and asked.

"No!"

Xun Yu hurriedly shook his head and said: "King, we only experienced a big war last year, and the army is just a breath of relief, and in terms of the treasury, it is also empty, if this year's harvest is good, at least until the end of the year, we will have enough ability to support a big war!" ”

"What about the local little battles?"

Cao Cao sighed.

"King, as long as more than 100,000 soldiers go to war, even for a month, I am afraid that it will drag down our treasury!" Xun Yu said.

"Looks like we're going to have to wait!"

Cao Cao sighed, although he owns Jizhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou, but these places are all years of war, and they must recuperate for a while.

"King, everything must be done step by step, as long as the move to move the capital is good, we will be stationed in Guanzhong, there is no need to start a big war!" Xi Zhicai said comfortingly.

"Huh!"

Cao Cao smiled and said: "You are comforting Lone, although Lone is confident, but he is not conceited, Ma Teng and Ma Chao are not easy people to deal with, even if Guanzhong's plan is successful, at most it can only suppress the war to the smallest scale, but to fight, it must still be fought!" ”

"Wang, in the past few days, there has been a strange situation in Jizhou!" Xun Yu said suddenly.

"What's the situation?" Cao Cao turned his head and asked.

"Someone is buying food from the market!"

"Buying grain?" When Cao Cao heard this, he had some doubts in his heart and asked, "Isn't it normal to buy and sell grain?" ”

"It's normal to have a small range of transactions, but if it's large, it's a little abnormal!" Xun Yu said: "Before, Weichen thought that only in Yecheng would have this situation, so he didn't care very much, but in the past few days, Weichen found that in Hejian, Julu, Zhongshan, and Changshan, there have been people who buy grain on the market with large hands, and this kind of large-scale purchase, unless the court raises military rations, this situation should not occur among the people!" ”

"What do you mean, someone secretly bought grain from Jizhou and provided it to the princes we didn't know about, Wu State? Or Liangguo? Cao Cao's face turned cold.

"I don't know!" Xun Yu nodded: "But Liang Guo is unlikely, the only possibility is Wu Guo!" ”

"Check!"

Cao Cao slapped the table hard, and said: "Wen Ruo, the Prime Minister's Mansion will personally investigate this matter, Lone allows you to mobilize the spies of the ghost pawns to find out, Lone wants to see, who has such courage!" ”

"No!"

Xun Yu hurriedly stood up and bowed in response. (To be continued......)