Hearing Bao Xin's idea, not only Lu Bu was surprised, but even Zhang Liao, Cheng Lian and others on the side made a surprised sound. Only Gao Shun was still expressionless, but his eyes also glanced at Bao Xin, wanting to hear Bao Xin's explanation.

"Uncle Fang must not forget that the northern thief is powerful, and it is not my Xuzhou family that can be defeated. Blindly fighting hard, I am afraid that it will be inappropriate. Moreover, the faster our army retreats, the faster and more reinforcements from Cao Cao, Sun Yuzhou, Yuan Highway, etc., will come! ”

Just listening to these words, you can find that Bao Xin's intelligence is indeed significantly higher than that of Lu Bu and other generals. When Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and others consider problems, they will only consider tactically. However, Bao Xin considered the problem, but it rose to a strategic level.

Lu Bu blinked, pondering Bao Xin's suggestion. The surrounding generals looked at the world-famous god of war without blinking, wanting to know Lu Bu's final decision.

After a long time, but listening to Lu Bu's cough, he decided:

"No, you can't. The morale of our army is not high, and we are afraid that the northern thieves will be strong. If you retreat without a fight at this moment, won't you even have the courage to fight the Northern Thieves in the future? ”

This concern is actually not wrong. The courage to fight is also the courage of the husband, but the empty army but retreats without a fight, it will indeed greatly reduce the morale of the own side. But Lu Bu, who made this judgment, still focused on tactics, but he didn't look like a qualified prince and ruler.

Bao Xin heard Lu Bu make his own judgment and did not continue to say more. His relationship with Lu Bu is a little delicate, whether he is close or not, whether he is far or not, and it is not suitable for him to make a bitter admonition or something. Moreover, if it can defeat the forbidden department, it will not be a good thing for the Xuzhou battle situation.

Now that the decision has been made, Lu Bu's entire army began to prepare for tomorrow's decisive battle. Especially for Lu Bu, since he came to Xuzhou. He really lived a relatively comfortable life for a few years. Moreover, Lu Bu is also over forty years old, and his force value has obviously decreased a little.

However, a few days ago, Lu Bu tried his hand at the knife, and from the "Eight Eagles of Bingzhou", he regained the feeling that he was invincible in the world. This war, to a certain extent, also inspired the blood of Lu Bu's warriors. It made him feel high-spirited again.

Don't worry about the preparation of Lu Bu's headquarters. But the subordinate troops sent by the officials of the counties and countries are relatively suspicious.

Although Lu Bu was in Xuzhou, he was more beautiful than before, but to say how comfortable Lu Bu has been in Xuzhou over the years, I am afraid it is also a lie. As a foreign prince, even if Lu Bu has superior force, strong troops, and high prestige, he is against the local tycoons of Xuzhou. still responds to an old saying, called "a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake".

Cao Bao, Chen Deng, Mi Zhu and others, as well as Xiao Jian, who has died, can be called a local snake that is enough to dominate one side. After Tao Qian's death that year, the reason why everyone worked together to welcome Lu Bu into Xuzhou and serve as the state pastor was actually an expedient measure, in order to avoid the greedy Yuan Highway in the south from coveting Xuzhou.

Yuan Shu was of noble birth. As a result, he thinks very highly of himself, but he has no one in his eyes. Not only did he rejoice in his accomplishments. They are also not sympathetic to the local people, and the territory under their control has not been well governed. One of the most typical examples is that Yuan Shu ruled Nanyang for several years, and the local needs were scraped, which made the people of Nanyang miserable, even those who were originally staunch supporters of the Yuan family. is also secretly dissatisfied.

It was precisely because of Nanyang's example in the past, and later the heroes of Yuzhou, who also suffered from Yuan Shu's needs, would jointly persuade and support Sun Jiandu, the assassin of Yuzhou appointed by Yuan Shu, to stand up so as to avoid Yuan Shu's greedy hand.

Even Yuzhou, which was only indirectly ruled by Yuan Shu, couldn't stand him, and the heroes of Xuzhou who were frightened by Yuan Shu's appetite. Of course, he would not be willing for Yuan Shu to put his hand into his own territory. However, Yuan Shu relied on his background and military strength to perform extremely strongly. If there is no equally strong person, how can ordinary people resist Yuan Shu?

So, after hearing the news that Yuzhou Haoqiang jointly recommended Sun Jian, a guy who has nothing to do except fight, to serve as the assassin of Yuzhou, Chen Deng, who has the title of "Xuzhou's No. 1 Wisdom", immediately contacted other Haoqiang in the state and proposed to ask Lu Bu, who was not very proud under Yuan Shu, to serve as Xuzhou Mu.

At that time, Lu Bu, because he escaped from Guanzhong in embarrassment, could be described as a small general. Although when Yuan Shu's subordinates were mixed, Lu Bu relied on his combat strength and merits to expand some of his troops from Yuan Shu, but there were still only a few thousand people. Later, Lu Bu was proud of his achievements and fell out with Yuan Shu, who thought highly of himself, not only did the soldiers under the soldiers spontaneously disperse a lot because of lack of money and food, but even his remaining subordinates were about to fall to the point of not being able to eat.

However, Xuzhou is full of heroes, and what he likes is that Lu Bu is brave and unpopular, and he is in a depressed situation.

It is said that Lu Bu is the "Wen Hou" and General Fenwu of the imperial court, and in this capacity, it is justifiable to take over as the pastor of Xuzhou. And Lu Bu is a martial artist, and he doesn't even have a decent strategist around him, so when he arrives in Xuzhou, he still has to rely on the powerful to govern the place. This undoubtedly means that since Tao Qian, the situation in which Xuzhou Haoqiang controls the local area will be further stabilized.

As soon as Chen Deng's idea came out, it was immediately approved by all the major powers. Liu Bei, another candidate for state pastoralism proposed earlier, was immediately decisively abandoned by the powerful people in Xuzhou, and later simply "sponsored" him to Yangzhou, Jiangdong. In this way, Lu Bu was like a dream, from a guest general under a hermitage to a state pastor with a large piece of rich territory.

However, Lu Bu, who was high-spirited because he became a state pastor, soon discovered that he, the state pastor, actually did not have much authority. Local political affairs are mostly determined by the powerful and powerful, and it is not Lu Bu's turn to take charge. Except for the empty shell of a state division that can intervene, Lu Bu is almost a puppet in Xuzhou.

Lu Bu, who was depressed, found his old brothers to discuss, whether to learn from Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and also come to a "Hongmen banquet" or something, and cut down those heroes who were yang and yin. This bad idea was immediately vetoed by Lu Bu's colleague and half apprentice Zhang Liao.

The situation in Xuzhou is completely different from that of Jingzhou back then. The chaos in Jingzhou originated from Dong Zhuo's rebellion, when Sun Jian boldly and wantonly killed the assassin at that time. When Liu Biao went south, those local thieves had only risen recently, and their foundation was weak, so there was not much trouble in killing them.

Moreover, Liu Biao was also assisted by famous families in Jingzhou such as the Kuai family, the Cai family, and the Huang family at that time, so he had the ability to kill more than 50 thieves. But according to Lu Bu's meaning, it is to directly deal with those famous families who are entrenched in the county!

Those famous families have deep roots in Xuzhou, and under the unintentional connivance of the previous state pastor Tao Qian, their strength has swelled to an extremely terrifying point. If Lu Bu really had the intention of killing them, I am afraid that before he could put it into practice, he would have been driven out of Xuzhou by Xuzhou Haoqiang.

Since it was not possible to come to the hard one, Lu Bu decided to come to the soft one.

In the process of escaping from Si Li, because Li Dao, Guo Yan, Han Sui, Ma Teng and others came too quickly, Lu Bu's family failed to escape from Chang'an City, and it is said that they were confiscated as official maids and were rewarded to the generals of Liangzhou. As a result, Lu Bu, who had no family, became a diamond king again. Just when Lu Bu hadn't decided how to deal with Xuzhou Haoqiang, someone actually came to the door to be a matchmaker for him.

Moreover, such good things come from two at first.

The Mi clan of the East China Sea, as well as the Cao clan of Pengcheng.

Faced with the birth date sent by Mi Zhu and Cao Bao almost at the same time, Lu Bu was a little worried:

- Is it better to marry Mi Zhu's sister, or to have Cao Bao's daughter?

After his brother Cao Hong died of illness a few years ago, Cao Bao became the current head of the Cao family in Pengcheng. In addition to dominating Pengcheng alone, Cao's strength is mainly in the army. The 3,000 parts of the Cao family are all veterans who were formed in the first year of Zhongping. If you are given enough time to mobilize with all your strength, even if it is an army of 10,000, Cao Bao can handle it with his own clan alone.

As for Mi Zhu in the East China Sea, this one is rich in wealth and crowns the whole state. For example, the number of Mi's servants and guests is calculated in terms of "10,000". Therefore, on the marriage book handed over in secret, Mi Zhu's dowry to her sister is extremely exaggerated, and the gold is ten thousand catties of children, and the number of servants who marry alone is as high as eight thousand. As long as he marries Mi Zhu's sister, Lu Bu will be able to join the ranks of the newly rich in Xuzhou in an instant.

Faced with this dilemma, Lu Bu hesitated in his heart, and suddenly thought of consulting Yu Ji, a Langya person, to determine the pros and cons. Fortunately, he still managed to control his impulses, afraid that this would expose his hesitation and make it known to passers-by.

So, who is Langya Yuji?

This is located in Ji Nai is the world's master of magic, good at looking at people, and his reputation is even above that of the master Xiangkai and others, enough to be as famous as Zhang Jiao. It is said that the core doctrine of Taiping Taoism, the Taoist classic "Taiping Sutra", was compiled and revised by him and Zhang Jiao.

However, this Taoist monk has never liked to get involved in politics, and he only talks about Taoist anecdotes when he is handed over to people, and will not be involved in government affairs. Back then, Zhang Jiao also tried to pull him into the gang and conspire with the world, but Yu Ji refused without hesitation. Therefore, after the defeat of Zhang Jiao, Yu Ji was not implicated, and still haunted Yangzhou and Xuzhou freely, and was his "living immortal" in a leisurely manner.

Without consulting Yu Ji, Lu Bu finally came to a conclusion after thinking about it for two days:

- Whether it's the Mi family or the Cao family, marry them together and go home!

Thinking that he Lu Bu is dignified and gentle, and has read countless women in his life, can't he settle the two yellow flower girls at the same time?

Thinking of this, Lu Bu immediately went to visit the Pengcheng Cao clan and the Donghai Mi clan in person, expressing his idea of wanting a king and two queens. According to Lu Bu, the two ladies live in separate courtyards, and they are average in size, regardless of their differences. And he Lu Bu will treat him fairly, and take turns to live in the courtyard of the two ladies. (To be continued......)