Lu Su is very busy, but he is by no means the busiest among the people who aspire to the Zongheng family in this era. Compared with Lu Su, who has a big tree behind him to enjoy the shade, Xu You's struggle is much harder and more remarkable.

For almost the whole year last year, he was running around to help Liu Bei build a large army from scratch. It was not only Yuan Shao's old ministry that constituted Liu Beijun's army, but also many local forces and even the Yellow Turbans.

Xu You assisted Zhang Rao in Qingzhou back then, and on the surface, he was in-depth and simple, but in private, he secretly connected and hooked up with many heavyweight leaders. After the defeat of Zhang Rao's army, these people fled in all directions, some lingered in Yanzhou, and many fled to Yuzhou, some of them stood on their own hills, and some directly merged with the Yellow Turban of Yuzhou.

Under the mediation of Xu You's efforts, these people have joined Liu Bei's camp, and they have also led many local yellow turbans in Yuzhou to join, which has greatly strengthened Liu Bei's strength.

It is precisely because of Xu Yu's hard work that Liu Bei would rather provoke the dissatisfaction of the two righteous brothers, and still treat him with great courtesy.

But Xu You was not satisfied with this, no matter how polite Liu Bei was, he couldn't compare to his scenery in Jizhou back then, let alone take revenge on Wang Yu. He knew very well that Liu Bei's strength seemed to be a bit powerful, but he did not have the conditions to compete head-on with the Qingzhou army at all, and once Wang Yu seriously faced the enemy, it would soon disappear.

Xu Yu worked hard to escape from the pile of the dead, and had to endure the slander of Chun Yuqiong's incompetent and big-mouthed guy for many years, in order to survive?

He has bigger ideals, and Liu Bei is just his pedal!

He worked hard to achieve the ideal of defeating Wang Yu, just as he planned to abolish the establishment back then, only by doing such a big thing could he show his ambitions.

Therefore, after leaving Qian County, he went straight to Sili and found his first target in Xin'an.

"Meng De, you have to think clearly, if you want to defeat Qingzhou, now is the best time!"

Xu You persuaded each other while sneering: "Suppress the strong and strong, both rich and poor? Qingzhou's new policy will definitely not last long! However, that set of things is very demagogic to the ignorant and foolish, and the peddlers and pawns are very demagoguery, and in the short term, it will be very effective, and if he is given a stable development for three or five years, I am afraid that no one will be able to resist it. ”

In the eyes of the contemporaries, there are many similarities and even similarities between Qingzhou's new policy and Wang Mang's proposal to change the law.

Some of the biggest measures of Wang Mang's new policy include: restoring the well-field system, making all land public, and then distributing the land evenly according to the population of the people's households, similar to the tuntian order in Qingzhou; He also set up the Wujun Division City Envoy, who was in charge of assessing prices, regulating the market, handling loans, and collecting taxes, which looked similar to the Commercial Department of Qingzhou.

In addition, there are also the ban on the slave trade, the construction of schools in various places, the reform of the currency system, and even the establishment of low-rent housing in Chang'an City, etc., all of which can find the shadow of Qingzhou's new policy.

What is particularly surprising is that in terms of attitudes towards foreign races, Wang Yu and Wang Mang also showed surprising consistency, both of them hated foreign races so much.

Wang Yu slaughtered 20,000 Hu horses in Gaotang, murderous. And Wang Mang not only renamed the Xiongnu Shan Yu to surrender to slave Yu, but also did not know where the resentment came from, and even ordered Goguryeo to be renamed Xia Guli, and also demoted the king of the minority regime to the marquis, which shows his hatred for foreign races.

Some people in later generations said that Wang Mang was a failed traverser, and in the eyes of people in this era, Wang Yu was Wang Mang's successor, especially since both of them were surnamed Wang.

This naturally became the reason for the enemy to attack Wang Yu. Xu You knew that many Confucians, who were hostile to Qingzhou, had been working hard to read the classics recently, trying to get the relationship between the Taishan Wang family and Wang Mang, and then justifiably deduct the hat of a rebel minister to Wang Yu.

The reason why the situation of Wang Mang's era and the world discussing together has not yet been formed is mainly because Qingzhou's strategic deployment is appropriate, and there is no internal dissent, resulting in no gaps for foreign enemies. In addition, Wang Yu's oath not to be emperor also played a considerable role.

The people of the time hated Wang Mang, and they all denounced him from the perspective of usurpation, but they often kept a deep secret about his reform and change of law.

The fact that Wang Mang's new law is not effective is not determined by his intentions, but by the implementation of the problem. If there is a full-scale debate, the opposition will not necessarily have the upper hand.

It has been two years since the new policy in Qingzhou was fully implemented, not only is there no chaos in Wang Mang's era, but as long as a discerning person can see that the entire Qingzhou is showing a thriving scene.

This situation surprised many people of insight and gradually changed, the wave of condemnation from the whole world could not be formed at all, and some people even began to think, if Wang Mang was also so selfless and did not do things of usurpation, would the Han Dynasty have already eliminated all kinds of shortcomings and would not have fallen into such a field today?

Some people are thinking, others are panicking, Xu Yu is one of them, and now, he is trying to use this as a breakthrough to resonate with Cao Cāo, and then achieve the purpose of this mission.

"Ziyuan, do you really think that the new policy in Qingzhou is better than the old system?" His goal was only half achieved, and although Cao Cāo did not shy away from the topic, he also did not put on a posture of righteous indignation, but put on a posture of taking a moment to discuss the issue in depth.

"Oh, Mengde!" Xu You stumbled and sighed: "Where is the question of which is better or worse?" No matter how bad the old system is, it has also passed the test of four hundred years, and this weight alone is not something that he Wang Yu can win by patting his head and thinking about it. Governance, the first thing is stability, even if it was Wang Mang back then, at the beginning of the implementation of the new policy, didn't there was a short-lived prosperity? ”

"In that case, why rush to attack it now, wouldn't it be better to wait until he reveals his shortcomings and collapses without a fight?" With a hint of playfulness, Cao Cāo asked rhetorically.

"Huh...... What do I say...... "The emperor is not in a hurry, he is in a hurry to die of a eunuch, the more leisurely Cao Cāo behaves, the more anxious Xu You becomes, but he is not an ordinary person in the end, he quickly came to his senses, suddenly raised his head, stared at Cao Cāo, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, you Cao Apu, you deliberately teasing me?" ”

"Haha, where did Ziyuan come from?"

Cao Cāo stroked his palm and smiled: "You are now the counselor under Liu Bei's account, but Cāo knows that Xuande has entered Xuzhou in danger, and there is disharmony, and now it has become a trap." Now that Wang Yu is in charge of Tancheng in person, Xuande is afraid that he can't sleep at night, right? Ziyuan came to me at this time, but don't you want me to take advantage of Xuande's anger and solve his urgent needs? ”

"Cao Mengde, sure enough, he is a hero." was provoked by Cao Cāo, Xu You's madness in his bones suddenly came out, he didn't explain, with a sneer on his face, he directly exposed Cao Cāo's intentions: "You are moving westward, and the world only says that you want to be the king of Qin, and coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes to occupy the name of righteousness, but you can hide it from the people of the world, how can you hide it from me?" ”

He looked at Cao Cāo and said word by word: "You don't want to defeat Dong Zhuo head-on, in fact, you can't do it, even if you do, if you win, you will completely withdraw from the top of the list...... Knowing this, you still insist on going west, and the one who asks for it is nothing more than waiting for Dong Zhuo to become an elbow, and then you will effortlessly surrender and rebel, I, am you wrong? ”

"Changing the elbow?" The look of surprise on Cao Cāo's face didn't seem to be false at all, but the words he said were far from what Xu You was expecting: "Could it be that Ziyuan means that after Chang'an is empty, there will be loyal people who will plot against Dong Thief?" ”

He rubbed his hands together and sighed: "If this can really be the case, it is not bad, how can it be that Dong Thief also has a wise counselor by his side, and he did not leave such a flaw, alas, alas, it's a pity." ”

"Hmph," Xu You looked at him, just sneered, his appearance was already a little dangerous, and he rushed to pose in the night, looking very shocking, and after a while, Cao Cāo, who was extremely deep in the city, was a little creepy.

Cao Cāo's face was pulled, and his voice turned cold: "Ziyuan, what do you mean?" Isn't it to entertain me? ”

"Amusement you? How dare I? You are a male lord Cao cāo! Xu You stretched out his voice and spoke with ridicule, Cao Cāo only felt that an evil fire was rushing straight up, and when he was angry, Xu You's next sentence was like ice water, extinguishing all his anger.

"The sound of the east strikes the west, the east and the west are attacked, the surprise is unexpected, and the attack is unprepared...... Hehe, good strategy, so powerful! ”

Cao Cāo finally changed, and there was a strong fierce taste in his voice: "Ziyuan, what did you say?" Be clear! ”

"Not clear enough?" This time it was Xu You's turn to pretend, and he squinted at Cao Cāo, until the latter gradually became angry, and then he spoke leisurely.

"Ma Teng sent an envoy to Luoyang to ask for relatives, and he hid the eyes and ears of the whole world, who would have thought that this was your Cao Mengde's plan to hide from the sky and the sea? Marriage? Maybe there is? Although you don't have a daughter, I heard that Ma Teng does, although a few years older...... Hehe, for the thousands of miles of fertile soil in Guanzhong, for the 100,000 strong soldiers in Xiliang, a little bit, there's nothing to care about, right? ”

The biggest secret in his heart, which can even be said to be a major event related to his future and life, was revealed by Xu You, and the shock in Cao Cāo's heart can be imagined.

He took a deep breath, his face was shocked, and he looked at Xu Yu quietly, as if he was speculating about the other party's intentions, whether he was lying or having some real evidence.

"You don't have to look at me like this, I don't have any evidence, but based on this guess, whether it is taken to Gaotang or Chang'an, or Xiangyang, it must be courteous, right? I don't have to lie to you, I just want to make sure. ”

"What if it's confirmed?" Cao Cāo had countless thoughts turning through his heart, among which murder was undoubtedly the most frequent one. However, he was too familiar with Xu You, he didn't believe that the other party didn't have any backhand, so Shi Shiran came to the door to break the news, and he did it rashly, maybe it would not be beautiful.

"Meng De, whether you believe it or not, you have no malice this time, and you will not slander you or coerce you for Liu Xuande."

Xu Yu sat down and said in a solemn voice: "Although your plan is secret, Wang Yu has long regarded you as the biggest obstacle to the fight for the world, and the rest of the sons are not in his eyes. At present, Hongnong's battle situation is stalemate, but you don't have any tricks to break the game, with his resourcefulness, more than two months, less than half a month, you will soon notice the problem, and then ......"

Cao cāo silently, the Hongnong battle situation is very confusing, but that is for ordinary people, and it is impossible to hide it from Wang Yu. Contacting Ma Teng was a clever plan proposed by Guo Jia, but the inconvenience of communication was an insurmountable difficulty, Cao Cāo now had no idea about the movements of his allies, he didn't know how many soldiers and horses Ma Teng had gathered, how many allied troops he had pulled, and whether Dong Zhuo had noticed it......

Therefore, although Guo Jiading timed and emphasized that a quick victory must be made, this war is still likely to drag on for several months.

If the opponent is only Dong Zhuo, it is enough to do this, but the opponent is that Wang Yu...... Xu You could guess that even if Wang Yu was distracted by other things, he was afraid that he would soon notice it.

Qingzhou can't reach Guanzhong, that's in the past. With the opening of the Yellow River trade route, the merchant ships of Qingzhou shuttled back and forth like crucian carp crossing the river, and if all the merchant ships were connected together, maybe a bridge could be built between Mengjin and Gaotang!

Before Wang Yu, few people thought that after being supported, business could show such a terrible momentum.

That's right, it's scary!

Cao Cāo had no doubt that once the two sides went to war, Wang Yu would be able to launch a large-scale offensive against Luoyang, even if he did not pass through Hanoi. At the same time, it can also cross Luoyang with jīng sharp troops and attack Hedong and Hongnong, even if it is driven straight into Guanzhong, it is not impossible!

As we all know, the merchants and the army in Qingzhou are tied together, and if someone bullies the merchants of Qingzhou, the army of Qingzhou will come out to support them; In turn, the army is in need, and the businessmen are obliged.

The tens of millions of Qingzhou fleets are a blessing and a nightmare, at least Cao Cāo can't think of a particularly effective way to restrain the other party now. Blocking the waterway of the Yellow River can be considered, but in that case, its own losses will also be huge, and it is likely to provoke Wang Yu and Dong Zhuo to join forces.

In the middle of the night, Cao Cāo spoke abruptly, and his voice was hoarse and low: "So, Ziyuan, what do you mean ......?"

"I'm here to help you!"

Xu You gently spit out four words: "I will mobilize all my forces to help you contain Qingzhou, and you take the opportunity to seize Guanzhong and lay the overall situation of fighting against it!" If you have time, you can also take Guanzhong and join the siege of Qingzhou......"

Speaking of this, he suddenly laughed confidently: "Originally, if you joined, the odds would be greater, but it is not a good idea for you to clean up Dong Zhuo first, and then take advantage of Qingzhou's unpreparedness." Anyway, this time, Wang Yu'er is destined to be anxious and embarrassed. ”

He looked directly at Cao Cāo, trying to judge the other party's thoughts from the most subtle expressions: "I don't ask too much, I just hope that after the great work is done, when the meritorious deeds are rewarded, Ming Gong will not forget Xu Youcai...... The status can't be under the one who offers this plan, right? ”

He was undoubtedly referring to Guo Jia.

Cao Cāo did not hesitate, raised his right hand, and said with a smile: "Gentleman Yinuo......"

"Whip the horse!" Xu You waved his hand and struck his palm, laughing away, and the thin and rugged figure quickly disappeared into the vast night, merging with the darkness again.