(ps: Today, there are two more, and the first one is delivered.) ）

Tao Ying suddenly became a little unhappy, and gave up the plan to return to Wuxian County immediately to train the army, and decided to stay in Xuzhou City for a few more days, and then return to Wuxian County after solving a big problem, and Tao Qian also hoped that his son could accompany him for a few more days, so he didn't blame him, and let Tao Ying stay in the toss and mess around.

Tao Ying did not return to the Wuxian army immediately, of course, for the sake of family affairs with Mi Zhen's sister, Mi Zhen's sister could let Deputy Director Tao take advantage, it was Mi Zhen's sister who thought that Mi Zhu was ready to marry herself to Deputy Director Tao, and willingly let Tao Ying, the 'fiancé', do it. But in fact, from the analysis of various signs, Mi Zhu actually planned to marry Mi Zhen's sister to Liu Bei Liu Huang's uncle, but all kinds of yin and yang were added together to make Mi Zhen's sister mistakenly think that Mi Zhu was preparing to marry her to Tao Ying......

Since it is just a misunderstanding, then the truth will naturally be revealed to the world sooner or later, in order not to make the gentle and lovely sister Mi Zhen heartbroken, and for the sake of Deputy Director Tao's great cause, Tao Ying of course has to find ways to turn this misunderstanding into a fact, but because Mi Zhu and Mi Fang have already made up their minds to go with Uncle Liu Huang, no matter how resourceful Tao Ying is, no matter how knowledgeable Tao Ying is, for a while, he really can't think of a good way.

After a delay of five or six days, Tao Ying, who was still helpless, was helpless, and was worried that Tao Ji would be lazy and delay the training of the Junzi Army, and he was even more worried that his cousin who was strong and angry saw that the Junzi Army had just made some achievements, and he couldn't wait to show off and expose the military aircraft, so he had to say goodbye to Tao Qian and the Tao merchant and return to Wuxian, but he didn't think that Tao Qian would send someone to pass Tao Yingjin to see him, Tao Ying didn't dare to slack off, and hurried to the back room where Tao Qian was.

Entering the back room, Tao Qian was the only one in the room sitting next to the copywriter to take care of official business, seeing Tao Ying saluting in front of him, Tao Qian said straight to the point: "Wu'er, there is trouble, three keys, two of which have been given to Cao Bao and Chen Qi respectively for the father, both of them accepted, but the third one is extraneous." ”

"Zang Ba refuses to accept the honor bestowed by his father?" Tao Yingyi said, "This Zang Ba shelf is too big, right? His cheap father Tao Qian is also the history of Xuzhou Thorn, and he handed over one of the three keys to keep the throne documents to Zang Ba for safekeeping, which is tantamount to sending a signal to Zang Ba that he wants to treat Zang Ba as a lonely minister in Xuzhou, and he would have been happy to change someone else, how could Zang Ba still refuse? Could it be that Zang Ba, like the Mizhu brothers, also plans to become friends with Uncle Liu Huang?

"Refused." Tao Qian sighed and said helplessly: "I sent an envoy to Kaiyang on a fast horse for my father, summoned Zang Ba to Pengcheng to see him, and explained the meaning of Tuo Gu in the letter, but Zang Ba just couldn't come because of his illness, and he also replied that he was from a humble background, and he was shallow in virtue, and he didn't dare to accept the heavy responsibility of entrusting Gu for his father, and he wanted to choose another sage for his father to take on it." ”

"Zang Xuangao has completely fallen to the big-eared thief?" Tao Ying's first reaction was that Zang Ba might have become friends with Uncle Liu Huang, but after thinking about it, Tao Ying felt that something was not right, if Zang Ba completely fell to Liu Bei, then he should take over this important task and help Liu Bei seize Xuzhou.

Sure enough, Tao Qian immediately shook his head and denied: "Unlikely, judging from the news that Cao Hong spied on, although Liu Xuande has enveloped Zang Xuangao many times, and has given small favors several times, and the Mi Zhu brothers have also tried their best to thread the needle between Zang Xuangao and Liu Xuande, but Zang Xuangao is not very appreciative, and has always kept a certain distance from Liu Xuande, and has repeatedly refused Liu Xuande's invitation to let him meet in Xiaopei. ”

Speaking of this, Tao Qian paused for a moment, and added: "However, Cao Hong found out again that Zang Ba's deputy Sun Guan Sun Zhongtai was very close to Liu Xuande, and he also persuaded Zang Xuangao twice to meet Liu Xuande. Therefore, his father believes that there are two possibilities for Zang Xuangao to refuse to entrust him with his father, one is that Zang Xuangao is waiting and watching the situation, and wants to wait until the curtain of Xuzhou is settled, and then decide where to go. The second is that Zang Xuangao is unwilling to get involved in the struggle for power and profit, and just wants to divide one side and become his own mountain and become his Kaiyang Emperor. ”

"The child thinks the first one is probably not very big." Tao Ying groaned: "If Zang Xuangao wants to wait and see, see the outcome and then place a heavy bet, then he should not refuse the important task entrusted by his father, because as long as there is a key to the important task of entrusting Gu in hand, it is equivalent to determining the important position of one of the three important ministers in Xuzhou, whether he is falling to our Tao family or to Xuande Gong in the future, he can benefit immensely, and it is a pity to miss this opportunity." Therefore, the child thinks that Zang Xuangao is unwilling to get involved in the dirty whirlpool of political struggle in Xuzhou, and only wants to be the emperor of Kaiyangtu. ”

Tao Qian glanced at his son approvingly, and said: "What my son has seen is very true, after listening to my son's high theory, my father also feels that there is some misunderstanding of Zang Xuangao, yes, if Zang Xuangao is determined to wait and see, then he should not refuse his father's kindness, and it should be his original intention not to be involved in the power struggle and secession of Xuzhou." In this case, do I have a solution? ”

Tao Ying closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then hugged his fist to Tao Qian, and said, "Father, please ask my father to allow the child to go to Kaiyang, and personally persuade Zang Ba to accept his father's trust." ”

"Are you sure you can convince Zang Xuangao?" Tao Qian replied suspiciously.

"Nope." Tao Ying replied very frankly, and then arched his hand and said: "But as long as there is a glimmer of hope, the child should work very hard." Moreover, the child also wanted to go to Kaiyang and meet Zang Ba to understand his basic situation, know himself and his opponent, and not be defeated in a hundred battles. ”

Tao Qian didn't agree immediately, but after thinking about it for a while, Tao Qian still nodded and said, "Wu'er go, but be careful, although Zang Xuangao has no reason to hurt you, but you can't take it lightly, you must not be rash, it doesn't matter if you can convince Zang Xuangao or not, people must come back safely." ”

"The child understands." Tao Ying respectfully agreed, and asked Tao Qian to hand over the key to himself, and let him take it to Kaiyang to hand it over to Zang Ba for safekeeping, in order to show his sincerity, Tao Qian did not doubt his son, took out the third key with a smile, and put it in Tao Ying's hand with great importance, and repeatedly told Tao Ying to be careful.

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Okay, now let's get a basic understanding of Tao Ying going to see this general Zang Ba, Zang Ba, the word is Xuangao, a native of Huaxian County, Taishan County, now twenty-eight years old, born in a prison official's family. Ten years ago, when Zang Ba was eighteen years old, in order to rescue his father, who had been arrested for his crimes, he angered the Taishan County Taishou and was wanted, and was forced to go into exile in Donghai County, Xuzhou. After the Yellow Turban Uprising, Zang Ba accepted Tao Qian's recruitment, followed Tao Qian to suppress the Yellow Turban, and made a lot of military achievements, and was promoted to the captain of the Xuzhou Cavalry, and once became Tao Qian's military right and left hand.

The honeymoon period between the old Tao family and Zang Ba was very short, after the Yellow Turban Uprising was pacified, Zang Ba led the army out of Langya County because of discord with most of the civil and military officials under Tao Qian's account, and stationed in the Kaiyang area of Langya County, and successively recruited and subdued Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Yin Li and Chang Feng and other bandits, and the strength grew rapidly, faintly forming a trend of resistance with the Xuzhou official army. After Boss Cao waved his army into Xuzhou, although Zang Ba was not as ungrateful as Xuzhou's number one traitor, Zhen Rong, and took advantage of the fire to rob Tao Qian, but he did not obey Tao Qian's orders, joined forces with the Xuzhou army to resist Cao, and chose to fight against Cao Jun alone, and kept Kaiyang City for Tao Qian, and also kept the people of Kaiyang, which can be said to have been meritorious and meritorious.

So whether it is Tao Qian or Tao Ying, the feelings for Zang Ba are actually very complicated, on the one hand, they secretly hate Zang Ba for not listening to the dispatch and vainly trying to separate one party, but on the other hand, they secretly appreciate and appreciate Zang Ba's neutral position, and did not go along with Boss Cao or Uncle Liu Huang - if Zang Ba fell to Boss Cao at that time, and now if Zang Ba falls to Uncle Liu Huang, the old Tao family, who is greatly injured, will really not be able to hurt it completely. Because of this, not only did Tao Qian never give up his plan to encircle and subdue Zang Ba, Tao Ying also decided to go to Kaiyang in person, striving to persuade Zang Ba with his three-inch tongue, and strive to bring back his father's accomplice and old lackey, and be a thug for himself who was in short supply of talents.

Of course, as an excellent civil servant in the 21st century, Deputy Director Tao will certainly not risk his own life casually, so although Tao Ying felt that Zang Ba had no reason to poison himself, for the sake of prudence, Tao Ying still did not rush to Kaiyang to meet Zang Ba directly, but first went back to the Junzi Army camp in Wuxian County, made various arrangements and preparations, and then led more than ten horsemen to the north and rushed to Kaiyang to meet Zang Ba.

By the way, after hearing that Tao Ying was going north to Kaiyang to meet Zang Ba, Tao Ying's young and vigorous cousin Tao Ji not only did not object, but was also happy to jump three feet high, saying that he would pull the 800 gentlemen's army that had just produced results to accompany Tao Ying to the north, so that Zang Ba could see the horrors of the gentlemen's army, Tao Ying resolutely objected, and told Tao Ji that first, the current gentlemen's army should not be too exposed, and second, if the gentlemen's army went north, it would inevitably make Zang Ba and others vigilant, but it would be rampant. It was only after saying that he persuaded this cousin of the bloody Fang Gang to let him stay in Wuxian County to continue military training.

Wuxian County is almost 500 miles away from Kaiyang, the distance is quite far, but fortunately, there are official roads to pass, plus the terrain is flat, there are no mountains and rivers to block, Tao Ying and his party are all cavalry, so even if Tao Ying is not in a hurry, it only took four days to arrive in Langya County, and very politely sent a personal soldier to Kaiyang City first, to Zang Ba to inform his itinerary and intentions, so as not to cause misunderstanding.

Tao Ying's sudden visit was very unexpected by Zang Ba, Sun Guan and others, especially Sun Guan, who was very close to Uncle Liu Huang, and shouted unscrupulously in front of the personal soldiers sent by Tao Ying to deliver the letter: "What is Tao Ying doing here?" Do you want to fight? How many soldiers and horses did he bring? ”

"Zhongtai, don't talk nonsense." Zang Ba scolded, picked up the letter sent by Tao Ying's personal soldiers, shook it and said: "The second son made it very clear in the letter that he came to visit this time on the order of his father, and he had something important to negotiate with us. And our army also probed the horse very clearly, except for ten personal soldiers, the second son did not bring any army, and there was no army lurking behind him, so it can be seen that the second son did visit the door for official business this time. ”

"What can Tao Ying'er do?" Sun Guan sneered loudly unconvinced, "Could it be that you want to trick us back to Xuzhou and suffer the shame of those Xuzhou celebrities?" And let's go back, and be bullied by those Danyang soldiers again, right? ”

In the face of Sun Guan's arrogant shouting, Tao Ying's personal soldiers trained by Tao Ying were silent, and their faces were also impassive, truly achieving joy and anger without being colorful, with a gentleman's demeanor, but they were extremely dissatisfied in their hearts. Fortunately, Wu Dun, the other left and right hand of Zang Ba next to him, stood up and said to Zang Ba: "Brother Xuan, no matter what Tao Yinggongzi's intentions are, since he is in charge of sending envoys and informing his whereabouts in advance, then we should treat each other with courtesy." Moreover, when the Cao thief soldiers besieged Xuzhou, it was Tao Yinggongzi who went deep into the Cao camp alone to ask for peace with the Cao thief, and went to the soup for the people of Xuzhou, jumping into the oil pot in exchange for the Cao thief's retreat. ”

"Cao Thief retreated because Lu Wenhou sent troops to attack Yanzhou, and Cao Thief had to withdraw troops to save Yanzhou, what does it have to do with Tao Ying Xiaoer?" Sun Guan retorted loudly.

"Even if Cao Thief retreated because of Lu Bu, Tao Gongzi's feat is worthy of admiration." Wu Dun also retorted: "I waited for Kaiyang to be stationed because I couldn't get used to the faces of those wealthy families in Xuzhou, and I was dissatisfied with Tao Qian's favoritism towards the wealthy families in Xuzhou and Danyang soldiers, but there was no enmity with Tao Yinggongzi. And Tao Yinggongzi's righteous act of sacrificing his life to save Xuzhou has become famous all over the world, if we treat him slowly, or close the door and spread it, wouldn't it make the world despise? ”

"Brother Wu Dun is right, even if we don't respect Tao Ying's identity as a son, we have to respect his righteous deeds." Zang Ba also agreed with Wu Dun's point of view, stood up and said to Tao Ying's personal soldiers: "Annoying and noble pawns return to Gongzi, Gongzi is coming, and the whole army of Zang Ba, the commander of the cavalry, is very honored. ”

Tao Ying's personal soldiers were overjoyed, and hurriedly surrendered their hands and went to report to Tao Ying, but Tao Ying's personal soldiers had just left, and Zang Ba ordered the generals: "Brothers, come with me tomorrow and lead a thousand armor soldiers out of the city to meet Tao Ying's son." Remember, you have to put the flag well, bring your weapons, and go to meet Tao Ergongzi in full gear! ”

"No!" A large group of Zang Bajun Qiu Ba all happily hugged their fists and agreed, but Wu Dun objected again, hugged his fists and said: "Brother Xuangao, lead a thousand armor soldiers to meet Tao Yinggongzi, is it too murderous?" Let Tao Yinggongzi misunderstand that we are using force to intimidate him? ”

"I'm going to intimidate him with force." Zang Ba sneered and said: "I know very well the intention of Tao Ying Xiao'er, it was the last time, I want to use the name of a lonely minister to deceive back to Xuzhou, and continue to be angry with Tao Qian'er!" Although I respect him Tao Ying Xiao'er is a man, it doesn't mean that I have to go with him, I want him to see the might of our Langya team, and by the way, let him go back and tell Tao Qian Lao'er that I'm not so easy to bully, offended me, and he Tao Qian's Xuzhou Thorn History Throne is also unstable! ”

Wu Dun thought about it, and immediately nodded in agreement, no longer objecting, and Sun Guan next to him shouted cheeringly: "Brother Zang is right, we must scare that Tao Ying child and let him know how powerful our Langya army is!" Tell the brothers who went out of the city that all the swords should be unsheathed for me, and the bows and crossbows should be wound, so it is best to scare out Tao Ying'er's urine! ”