The Zheng family lives in Chao County, to Zheng Bao's generation, has gone through four generations, hundreds of years, the Zheng family is constantly stealing and plundering to strengthen themselves, and even now, has developed into the strongest landlord in Chaohu Lake, especially in his hometown Chao County, where the ownership of most of the land is firmly in the hands of the Zheng family.

Over the years, the world has been full of wars, natural disasters have continued, a large number of people have been displaced, and they are hungry.

The poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting richer, and Zheng Bao's power has become more and more inflated, but even if the money and grain piled up in the warehouse have long been rich enough to rival the country, Zheng Bao is still not satisfied.

The population of Jiangdong is sparse, and in recent years, it has declined sharply because of Sun Ce's crusade to the west, Zheng Bao saw a business opportunity, and knew that Sun Ce urgently needed to replenish the population, so he thought of selling the people of Lujiang to Jiangdong, so as to make a fortune from the other party.

It's a pity that most of the people in Lujiang love their homes and are unwilling to leave their homeland, Zheng Bao knows very well that his oppression over the years has already caused the dissatisfaction of the people of Lujiang, in order to prevent provoking the people's uprising, he does not dare to persecute too much, so he thought of letting Liu Ye, a famous man in Huainan, come forward to appease the people and persuade them to move to Jiangdong.

However, Liu Ye, who learned of this, was unwilling to obey, and began to hide from Zheng Bao's search everywhere, Zheng Bao was angry and itched, and vowed to make Liu Ye look good after finding him, but who would have thought that it was only a few days later, Liu Ye turned into a long history of Huainan Taishou Mansion.

Zheng Bao is not afraid of Liu Ye, nor is he afraid of the so-called Huainan Taishou, what he is afraid of is that he will offend Cao Cao behind the two because of this.

People's ** is endless, when there is no money, you want to be rich, when you have money, you want to have power, and Cao Cao is now coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, if Zheng Bao wants power, he naturally needs to be recognized by Cao Cao first, after all, although he has tens of thousands of troops now, he has long been the emperor of the Chaohu region, but if there is no official position officially awarded by the imperial court, then in the eyes of the world, he will always be just a little tyrant who cannot be on the stage.

Therefore, even if Zheng Bao was reluctant in his heart, after learning the news that Huainan Taishou was going south to Chao County today, he had to take his civil and military subordinates out of the city to welcome the arrival of the envoys, which was the most basic etiquette.

There is no doubt that before Wang Chong's exchange of the jade seal of the country for an official position from Cao Cao was completely exposed, everyone in Huainan took it for granted that he was the envoy sent by Cao Cao to take over Huainan.

Zheng Bao is nearly forty years old, burly and has a good figure, but the long one is a sharp-beaked monkey gills, which is extremely obscene and does not dare to compliment.

At this moment, Zheng Bao's side, followed by two young people around the age of 30, one of these two is called Zhang Duo, the other is called Xu Gan, and Zheng Bao are the same as the Chaohu area, each has thousands of soldiers, usually Zheng Baobao is the first to see, yesterday the two came to Chao County to find Zheng Bao to drink, just happened to meet the messenger sent by Liu Ye, learned that the imperial court envoy is about to visit Chao County today, so he decided to stay with Zheng Bao to greet him.

"Brother, it's almost time to Shen, why haven't the court envoys come yet?" Xu Gan has a rebellious temperament, except for Zheng Bao and Zhang Duo in Chaohu, but they don't buy anyone's account, and now they have been waiting outside Chaoxian for nearly two hours, plus they are scorched by the hot sun, this mood can't help but be a little irritable.

Zheng Bao wiped the sweat on his forehead, squinted his eyes and said: "I heard that the messenger said that they will set off in the hour, from Hefei to Chao County, if they ride a fast horse, I am afraid that they should arrive an hour and a half ago, and if they are walking, it is estimated that they will have to wait for another half an hour!" ”

"Wait another half an hour!?" Xu Gan opened his mouth wide and said unhappily, "I knew that I shouldn't have come to join in this fun with my brother, this is simply a crime!" ”

"Did someone force you? Do you have to come along? Zhang Duo glanced at Xu Gan and said, "If you can't wait, you can go back now, and my brother won't object!" ”

"I'm ......" Xu Gan was a little speechless for a while, and then said stupidly, "I've been waiting for this for so long, and seeing that the envoys of the court are about to arrive, I can't give up halfway, right?" ”

Zhang Duo smiled and reminded: "If you want to leave a good impression on the court envoys, it's best to restrain your temper, if you accidentally displease the other party, I'm afraid you won't have good fruit to eat!" ”

"Cut!" Xu Gan pursed his lips and said disdainfully, "Don't forget where this is, if that guy really dares to show me a face, believe it or not, I slapped him to death!" ”

Zhang Duo frowned and said, "Can you save some snacks?" Don't spoil your brother's plan! ”

At this time, Zheng Bao suddenly interjected and asked, "The big plan?" What's the big plan? ”

"Forehead......" Zhang Duo's expression stiffened when he heard this, and he said embarrassedly, "Didn't my brother always want to be recognized by Duke Cao?" If we can serve this court envoy this time, and let him personally write a letter of recommendation to Cao Gong when the time comes, wouldn't it be much easier for my brother to realize his long-cherished wish? ”

"Who said that if you want to get the approval of Duke Cao, you have to curry favor with the visiting envoys?" Zheng Bao sneered, "Don't forget that Liu Ye's guy is in the mission, think about it, with his inherent impression of us, can you expect him to say good things about us in front of the envoys?" ”

Hearing Zheng Bao's words, Zhang Duo and Xu Ganju's faces changed: "Then what should I do?" ”

Zheng Bao snorted coldly: "Xu Gan is right, don't forget whose territory is here?" If they don't come, since they are here, then don't think about leaving Chaoxian easily! ”

Zhang Duo was taken aback by Zheng Bao's indifference, and asked in surprise, "What does my brother want to do?" Now the whole Huainan knows that the other party has come to Chao County, if they encounter an accident here, we are afraid that we will not be able to get out of it anyway! ”

"Don't worry, I'm not so stupid, killing Liu Ye is equivalent to offending the people of Huainan, and killing the envoy is offending Cao Gong, neither of which is advisable." Zheng Bao paused and said, "So what I mean is to secretly control them first, and then they will still govern Huainan on the surface, but in fact, it will be secretly controlled by the three of our brothers, and when the time is ripe, then let the envoy write a letter to Cao Gong, saying that he is willing to take the initiative to give up the position of Huainan Taishou to me, and when the time comes, I can take over Huainan justifiably!" ”

"Brother, good strategy!" Xu Gan stroked his palms and exclaimed, "The other party is here in Chao County, and there are not many soldiers and horses in hand, if we have the heart to imprison them, it will be easy!" ”

The corners of Zheng Bao's mouth hooked up a smug smile, and he seemed to be deeply impressed by his genius plan: "We need to do this in secret, so you two need to pay special attention later, don't show any horses, and wait until they are successfully introduced into my mansion, let's not be too late to start!" ”

"No!"