Riding a horse on the galloping road near the suburbs of Xudu, Cao Pi was quite satisfied with his performance today. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 At least Dian Man succeeded in getting Liu Ye to come here to see him, and his poem also made Liu Ye ask the question that Cao Pi wanted him to ask.

In fact, recruiting talents is nothing more than two conditions, first, to be able to give enough benefits to others, and second, to have enough personality charm. The first condition Cao Pi must not be satisfied, and now he has no official position, although he is the eldest prince, it is of little use. So if he wants to recruit Liu Ye, he must choose the latter.

Personality charm is a very mysterious thing, but Cao Pi confirmed that the premise of showing personality charm is that the other party is interested in you, at least he wants to understand you, and then he can use a series of means to pull him to your side.

Cao Pi is very sure that Liu Ye is interested in himself now. His exquisite layout, extraordinary poetry, and even superb chess skills and the identity of the son of Cao Fu are enough to make Liu Ye notice him. When Liu Ye saw the "miracle" of his paddy field, Cao Pi was confident that he would become his own.

In the final analysis, Liu Ye is still a person with a humble official position, and he is a foreigner, that is, he is not surnamed Cao or Xiahou, and he is not like Le Jin and Li Dian, old generals who have followed Cao Cao for some time. There is no foundation in Yuzhou and Yanzhou, and it is still very difficult to get ahead. As long as Cao Pi continues to use unpredictable methods, so that Liu Ye feels that Cao Pi is a high-quality potential stock worth investing in, he will inevitably stand on his side. In the final analysis, now that Cao Pi is already the eldest son of Sikong, the future is still worth looking forward to, and now Cao Pi is proving to Liu Ye that he is an ambitious and resourceful Sikong son, not an ordinary second ancestor.

As long as Liu Ye thinks that Cao Pi is promising, ambitious, and capable, he will definitely be willing to be Cao Pi's earliest pawn. That is a shortcut on his career, as smart as Liu Ye, it is impossible not to know.

"When the rice flowers bloom this year, Liu Ye should have a decision." Cao Pi thought secretly in his heart. He wasn't worried at all that Liu Ye would use that poem to denounce him, there was no evidence, no one would believe it at all, not to mention that Liu Ye would not be stupid enough to sue Cao Cao's son, he was looking for death.

At this time, Juntun was already in sight, Cao Pi beat his horse and accelerated, running there, he went in and out of Xudu early, naturally he wanted to find a place to go, if someone really asked in the future, it would be easy to answer, not to mention that he still had something to explain to Chen Sanlang and others, whether Liu Ye could get on his Cao Pi's boat, it depended on whether Chen Sanlang and they planted rice or not.

After Juntun repeatedly instructed Chen Sanlang and others, Cao Pi returned to Xudu in the evening, the sacrifice had ended, and the lively people had dispersed, and when he returned to Cao's mansion, it was time to eat, and Dianman had returned to Cao Pi's courtyard at this time, and he went to work as soon as the first day of the first month passed, which was definitely a representative of model employees in later generations.

After completing the meeting with Liu Ye, Cao Pi no longer had anything important on hand, so he began to practice swords and read in cycles again, this year, he was eleven years old.

In the middle of the first month, Cao Cao came to Cao Pi and told Cao Pi that he was going to join the army in February, and this time the target was none other than Cao Pi's brother and enemy Zhang Xiu last year. At the end of last year, Cao Cao defeated the combined forces of Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao after breaking Yuan Shu, but because the cold winter was coming, he did not do his best. Because Zhang Xiu's current territory is Nanyang County in Jingzhou, bordering Yingchuan County in Yuzhou, this makes Cao Cao feel very uncomfortable, not to mention that although Yuan Shu's vitality is greatly damaged, he has not been destroyed after all, Lu Bu is also eyeing Xuzhou, and the surrounding enemies are eliminated one by one, not to mention that Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao still have the hatred of killing their sons.

For the conscription, Cao Pi has no rejection, the harsh environment of the march does not pose much challenge to him, when he used to do the subject in the experimental field, muddy water, hot sun, mosquitoes, constant temperature greenhouse, what he has not experienced, what has not endured? What's more, because he is a commonplace, he is treated much better than ordinary soldiers.

However, after knowing that he was going to go on the expedition, Cao Pi made some changes to his schedule, that is, he changed the time for sword training to bow training. Because Cao Pi doesn't have a real Han sword now, he uses a wooden sword when he practices swords. After all, he can't have such a precious thing as a Han sword as a child, even if he is a prince of Sikong, he will not have it until after the crown ceremony, of course, there is another way, that is, to get the spoils of war on the battlefield.

The last time Cao Pi didn't even have a weapon from the expedition, it was also because Cao Cao ate Zhang Xiu's defeat, so he decided to give a set of bows and arrows to Cao Pi this time, this bow is not the kind of tuomu bow that Cao Pi saw last time Xiahou Yuan, but a horn bow commonly used by the Saiwaihu people, the so-called horn bow is a bow made of animal horns and bamboo, fish glue and cow tendons. The history of this kind of bow is longer than that of the tuomu bow, and it has been recorded in the Book of Songs:

"The bow of the horns is reversed." Using a horn bow doesn't require a lot of arm strength like a takogi bow, and of course the range is not as far as a takaki bow, but it's still enough for self-defense. With Cao Pi's current arm strength, it is no problem to shoot more than ten arrows in a row.

This body is no stranger to archery, and has been learning since he was six years old, so Cao Pi is now also familiar with it, and in ten days, Cao Pi has practiced within ten meters, of course, for him, it is useless, with his identity as a son, if the enemy can get close to within ten meters, then the Cao army is estimated to be unable to form an army.

This time, Cao Cao ordered 30,000 soldiers and 60,000 people. Only 2,000 people were left in Xudu. Excluding the 10,000 troops stationed in Luoyang, this is already all the military strength that Cao Cao can mobilize, and the defenders in other important places such as Yanling are less than 5,000 people, which can be ignored.

On the other hand, with the experience of the last time the old ministers of Donggui took advantage of his absence in Xudu to make small moves, Cao Cao went to the court and asked Liu Xie, the son of heaven, to send Dong Zhuo's old general, Duan Xuan, who had made great contributions in Donggui, to Guanzhong to crusade against Dong Zhuo's remnants who were still in Chang'an.

As soon as Cao Cao's suggestion was mentioned, Dong Cheng, the number one hero among the old ministers who returned to the east, and his daughter was still the concubine of the Son of Heaven, first spoke out against it, to the effect that Cao Cao had taken all the soldiers away, and Duan Xuan had no soldiers available at all, how to crusade against the traitors?

As soon as this remark came out, the old ministers of Donggui echoed it one after another, but Cao Cao said with a smile, your soldiers escorting the Son of Heaven are all in the military tun and the mintun, and within ten days, you can let the Diannong Zhonglang reorganize Ren Jun and let you take it to rebel.

In this way, the old ministers who returned to the east had nothing to say, and Liu Xie, the son of heaven, could only send an edict to send his cronies Shangshu to order Pei Mao to be the governor, and Duan Xuan was the leading general, with 10,000 soldiers and 10,000 people, to Chang'an to rebel. And it must be opened before Cao Cao leaves Xudu.

From Xudu to Chang'an, they must pass through Luoyang, and they do not send troops to Cao Cao's militia so much, they cannot carry out long-term supply, and now Luoyang still has Xiahoudun's 10,000 soldiers to guard, and the lifeblood of grain and grass supply after the sergeants who returned to the east to the old ministers left Luoyang, and the lifeblood of grain and grass supply was held in the hands of Xiahoudun. Naturally, I can't make any more small moves.

When he comes back from a battle with Li Yu and Guo Yan, no matter whether he wins or loses, I'm afraid there won't be much left of the Donggui Shi clan. It can be said that the wings of the old ministers who returned to the east were played by Cao Cao.

At the beginning of February of the third year of Jian'an, two groups of armies left Xudu respectively, one went west and the other went south, marching in two directions.

However, Chen Sanlang and his dozen or so soldiers stayed in Juntun, were not arrested and went to Chang'an to rebel, and escaped a catastrophe.