Carefully and tremblingly raised the fetus for October, but gave birth to a daughter, the hope of the mother to the son was disappointed, and the little girl Cao Ling, who was poisoned by the patriarchal ideology, inevitably cried to death, although Tao Ying comforted again and again, saying that he preferred his daughter and said that he would give Cao Ling another chance to give birth to a son, but Cao Ling was always depressed, because the politically minded Cao Ling little girl knew very well that she missed the only opportunity to rob Mr. Xiao's eldest son, and Yuan Fang married into Tao Mansion in two or three months, Let Yuan Fang, who is the main wife, give birth to the eldest son, and this self-inflicted side room will never come out.

It's useless to be disappointed, no matter how eager Cao Ling is for his son, it is impossible to turn his daughter into a son, Tao Ying, who has been brainwashed by the idea of equality between men and women, no matter how indifferent, and he can't spare too much time to accompany and comfort Cao Ling's little girl, because in a short period of time, there are still three complex and important things waiting for Tao Ying to do, one is to prepare for the wedding and officially marry Yuan Shao's daughter Yuan Fang - although Tao Ying still doesn't know what Yuan Fang looks like and what kind of temper she has, and she doesn't know how many daughters Yuan Shao is; the second is to join forces with the long-time rival Cao Boss to catch up and earn some political points in the action of rescuing Emperor Xian; The third is to start preparing to launch the Southern Expedition, clean up Xiao Yuan Sangong and grab his best territory.

Among the three things, although marrying Yuan Shao's daughter is Tao Ying's own personal private matter, most of the civil and military officials in Xuzhou are very supportive of Tao Ying's spouse decision, thinking that as long as Xuzhou hugs the thick thighs of the big Yuan Sangong, the rich but weak five counties of Xuzhou will have a big backer, and the surrounding princes will not dare to casually hit the idea of the five counties of Xuzhou, so even if it is Tao Ying's personal affairs, there are still many Xuzhou officials vying to do the marriage for Tao Yingying, and share the most annoying red tape for Tao Ying. Tao Ying has also reduced a lot of burden.

It is easy to say that it is easy to join forces with Cao Boss to meet the driver, without Tao Ying opening his mouth to explain why he wants to join forces with his rival Cao Boss, and countless celebrities and gentlemen jumped out of the Qingliu, scrambling to ask for the first place to pick up the burden of driving, risking his life to go to Cao Boss's team, and go west with Cao Boss's army, save the Son of Heaven from embarrassment, and help the Han family to fall - by the way, he will raise his personal reputation in the world. However, to everyone's expectations, Tao Ying let Xu Fang, Zheng Xuan, Chen Qun and other famous scholars and scholars all over the world not use, but chose Yang Hong and Yang Changshi, the most notorious in the Xuzhou Thorn Mansion, as the greeting messenger to carry out this beauty that is destined to be famous all over the world.

Although it is an unavoidable beauty in their eyes, but in the eyes of the realist Yang Hong and Yang Changshi, it is a bitter drudgery, and he feels that leading the team to meet the driver is not only in danger of losing his head, but also has no oil and water to fish, far less than Tao Yingying's marriage, and he can't catch up with accompanying Tao Yingnan's expedition so majestic and convenient to make money, so Yang Changshi resolutely resigned from this errand, under the pretext that he was familiar with the geography of Huainan people, I have to do the marriage for Tao Yingying first, and then accompany Tao Ying's southern expedition to Yuan Shu - by the way, I will manage the money and food for Tao Ying to conquer Yuan Shu in the south.

Of course, Tao Ying didn't dare to hand over the money and grain to Yang Changshi - then the logistics supply of the Xuzhou Southern Expedition army would definitely be in suspense, and at the same time, considering Yang Changshi's bad reputation in Huainan, bringing Yang Changshi to Huainan was obviously not conducive to the Xuzhou army to win the hearts of the people, plus there were several tasks during the escort period, and only Yang Hong was the most suitable to do, so Tao Ying said that Yang Changshi would lead the team to meet him. In the end, Tao Ying simply promised that as long as Yang Changshi did a good job of welcoming the car, he could rush to Huainan immediately after the end of the car to take over the mission of counting the spoils of war and confiscating Yuan Shu's henchmen, and the most absolute realist Yang Changshi reluctantly picked up this heavy burden, and also took over the secret task that Tao Ying secretly explained.

The most difficult thing to do is the third thing to go south to conquer Xiao Yuan Sangong, this is not that Xuzhou's money and grain do not allow Tao Ying to launch a southern expedition, nor is it that the Xuzhou army is afraid of the morale of Xiao Yuan Sangong - on the contrary, the last Zhuyi War has given the Xuzhou army enough confidence to fight against Xiao Yuan Sangong, and none of the heavy generals of the Xuzhou army, Xu Chu, Zang Ba, Chen Dao, Gao Shun, Cao surname, Hou Cheng and Xu Sheng, etc., have the slightest fear of Xiao Yuan Sangong, and the generals surnamed Cao and Song Xian who joined the Xuzhou army are still rushing to Tao Ying to ask for battle, Asked to be the vanguard to fight the first battle for the army, the morale of the top and bottom was very high.

The main opposition to the southern expedition is the old man of Xuzhou left by Tao Qian to Tao Ying, Tao Qian has been defeated in Xuzhou several times, and the psychological shadow has been shrouded in the hearts of these old people in Xuzhou, the prestige of the third duke of Yuan Shu IV and the abundance of soldiers and food in Huainan are also the focus of these old men in Xuzhou, so Tao Qian left Cao Bao, Xu Tan, Chen Qun and Xu Fang and other Xuzhou civil and military forces are resolutely opposed to Tao Ying's rash southern expedition, and even the old fox Chen Qi of Xuzhou is worried, worried that Tao Ying rashly marched south with a weak attack and a strong chance of victory, and refused to support Tao Ying's expedition against the little Yuan Sangong.

Fortunately, in addition to a large group of army generals who were eager to fight, Tao Ying was surrounded by Lu Su and Chen Deng, two resourceful young talents, and at the discussion meeting, in the face of a wave of opposition from the old people in Xuzhou, Lu Su and Chen Deng stood up to turn the tide and resolutely support Tao Ying's southern expedition. Lu Su also pointed out the advantages and disadvantages of the Xuzhou army and Yuan Shujun's army in public, pointing out that the Xuzhou army had four victories and Yuan Shu's army had four defeats, and determined that the Xuzhou army would win this battle, and Yuan Shu's army would lose this battle!

"Yuan Shufa has no discipline, appoints only relatives, loses the heart of the army internally, extorts violently, recklessly fights the army, and loses the hearts of the people outside, this is the first defeat of Yuan Shu! My Xuzhou laws and regulations are clear, employing people only virtuous, lightly dispensing with meager endowments, and cherishing people's livelihood, this is my first victory in Xuzhou! ”

"Although Yuan Shu was born in the fourth world and the third duke, he was arrogant, arrogant, foolish, abused force, bullied the weak, and had no kindness to the people internally, and offended the world's heroes externally. Although the age of the lord Tao envoy is young, but the name of modesty and generosity and impatience and righteousness has long been famous all over the world, Cao Jun saved the people of Xuzhou with his life in front of the battle, and exchanged the land outside the city of Changyi for the old friends of Xuzhou, the people support, the princes loved, and the Tao was helped, this is my second victory in Xuzhou! ”

"Although there are many Yuan Shu soldiers, but the elite soldiers are scarce, and the indiscriminate number of people accounts for ninety percent, although there are many soldiers, they are embarrassed to be useful, this Yuan Shu is the third defeat! Although my soldiers are outnumbered, but there are countless elite soldiers, one when ten abound, although there are few soldiers but all fight to the death, this I Xuzhou third victory! ”

"Yuan Shu is brave and unbroken, suspicious and unscrupulous, fierce and inward-looking, chaotic in the face of change, afraid of danger, no matter how much food there is, he doesn't know how to use it, this Yuan Shu is the fourth defeat! And my lord has both courage and strategy, a good way to use soldiers, and a plan like a god, even if Cao Mengde, who is known as the world's annihilator, is still afraid of three points, not to mention Yuan Shu's fool? And my lord is soft and rigid inside, not chaotic in case of change, not afraid of danger, in the stormy waves like a tide, Mount Tai collapsed in front of the still adaptable, this is my fourth victory in Xuzhou! My lord and our army have these four victories, Yuan Shu and Yuan Jun have these four defeats, why worry that Huainan is not broken, and Yuan Shu is not destroyed? ! ”

Although Lu Su's sycophants made the thick-skinned Deputy Director Tao a little embarrassed, the old people in Xuzhou who opposed the Southern Expedition were still shaken, and felt that Lu Su's analysis was quite reasonable. Then, Chen Deng, who was finally reused under Tao Ying, also stood up, pointing out that if Xuzhou was the place of the four wars, if it was blindly defended, sooner or later it would be dragged down and consumed by the endless enemies. With the two joining forces, they finally persuaded the old people of Xuzhou to support the southern expedition, and the Xuzhou army finally began to prepare for comprehensive expansion and aggression.

In mid-May, after Tao Ying sent away the fifty people led by Yang Hong to welcome the mission, the Xuzhou envoy sent to contact Xiao Yuan Sangong also returned to Xuzhou - to be precise, the head of the envoy returned to Xuzhou, this unlucky Xuzhou official who was secretly suspected of colluding with Mi Zhu and did not take the initiative to confess his crimes to Chen Jue After arriving in Huainan, he just presented a letter asking for the jade seal of the country to the little Yuan Sangong with his head on the top of his head, and the little Yuan Sangong who wanted to be the emperor Yanjing was about to go crazy immediately burst into a rage. While scolding his brother Yuan Sangong and his niece-in-law Deputy Director Tao, he cut off the head of his niece-in-law's envoy without hesitation, and took the initiative to give his niece-in-law a well-reasoned excuse to go to war.

Immediately afterwards, Tao Ying sent to contact the Xuzhou envoy with Liu Xuan and the Great Yuan Sangong, and also returned to Tao Ying's front successively, hearing that the Xuzhou army was ready to kill the little Yuan Sangong, and the two heads were bullied and trained by the little Yuan Sangong in three days, and the only Yangzhou assassin Liu Xuan recognized by the Eastern Han Dynasty Imperial Court, not only immediately raised his hands and feet and the fifth limb in favor, expressing his understanding and support for Tao Ying's military action, but also promised to send troops to cooperate with the attack on Xiao Yuan Sangong, and sent his eldest son Liu Ji as an envoy, both to wish Deputy Director Tao a happy marriage, Also in order to strengthen the connection with the Xuzhou army, to confirm whether the Xuzhou army really intends to take military action against Xiao Yuan Sangong and the strength of military action - of course, Deputy Director Tao actually hopes that the envoy sent by Liu Miao is a nobody named Tai Shici.

As for Da Yuan Sangong's side, I heard that the son-in-law was going to send troops to clean up his half-brother and snatch back the immeasurable jade seal of immeasurable value to himself. The heavier the shot, the better! Lao Tzu supports you, Cao thief dares to copy the old son-in-law's back, Lao Tzu told him to go around without eating!

At the same time, in order to relieve his son-in-law's worries, Da Yuan Sangong also took the initiative to write a letter to Cao Boss, informing Cao Boss of Xuzhou's military operation, saying that Tao Ying had his permission to conquer Yuan Shu this time - so you Cao Apu to be honest with me, you threaten the back of my Yuan Shao's son-in-law, and I, Yuan Shao, also threaten your vest!

It's not that Yuan Sangong is self-defeating, nor is it that Tao Ying delayed the slow movement of the fighter, the key is that Cao Boss is too wary and hateful of Tao Ying, so after confirming the news that Tao Ying is about to send troops to Huainan through careful investigation and Yuan Sangong's letter, although Cao Boss, who is about to launch a westward expedition, does not have the strength to take advantage of the fire for the time being, nor does he have the courage to risk offending Yuan Sangong to provoke the Yanxu war again, but this does not mean that Cao Boss will watch Tao Ying attack the city, expand his territory, and strengthen his strength. Therefore, after careful consideration, Boss Cao quickly summoned Liu Bei, who had always been hiding in his army, and showed Uncle Liu Huang the letter of the third prince of Yuan.

Uncle Liu's acting skills in this era may only be inferior to Deputy Director Tao, after reading the letter of the Great Yuan Sangong, although Uncle Liu Huang had some judgments in his heart, he still deliberately said in surprise: "Tao Ying thief wants to ask Yuan Highway?" This thief is stupid, Yuan Highway has many generals, sufficient grain and grass, and his strength is far better than the five counties of Xuzhou, and Tao Ying's thief dares to send him to death? ”

Uncle Liu's acting skills once again deceived poor Boss Cao, and after nodding secretly and feeling that Uncle Liu Huang was not afraid, Boss Cao said slowly: "The soldiers are fine but not wide, and the generals are not brave in planning, Tao Ying is a thief with many tricks and uses soldiers in a good way, and he has collected a large number of elite soldiers and strong generals under Lu Bu, and the overall strength has increased greatly. I estimate that even if Yuan Highway doesn't die this time, he will have to be hit hard in front of Tao Ying's thief! ”

"It's about the same as I estimated, even if Yuan Shupifu can escape for his life, at least the most elite territory will be robbed by Tao Ying's thieves." Uncle Liu Huang muttered in his heart, and said respectfully on his face: "Ming Gong is extremely generous, Yuan Highway is humble, far less than Tao Ying's thief to destroy fraud and viciousness, if you are not careful with the soldiers this time, I am afraid that you will suffer a lot of losses." ”

"Although it is still inconclusive who will win this battle, it is ......." Boss Cao dragged out his voice, and suddenly said viciously: "However, we must not let Tao Ying thief win, and we must not let Tao Ying thief snatch away the most essence of Yuan Shu's Huainan land!" At the very least, the Tao Ying thief must be made to pay a heavy price! Otherwise, this thief will be even more difficult to deal with in the future! ”

"But, Duke Ming, Yuan Benchu was bewitched by Tao Ying's thief and didn't allow you to send troops to Xuzhou ......, how can this be good?" Uncle Liu Huang asked in embarrassment.

"Of course I can't send troops, I'm about to march west, the rear is empty, and I don't have the strength to send troops to Xuzhou." Boss Cao replied unabashedly, and then Boss Cao smiled and said: "However, although I can't send troops, Xuande Gong, you can justifiably send troops to attack Tao, help Yuan Shu, and make Tao Ying's thief's annexation ambitions come to naught!" ”

Ming Gong laughed. Uncle Liu Huang was excited, and said with a fake wry smile on his face: "The Taoyuan brothers are three people, there are no soldiers, no generals, and no horses, weapons, grain and grass, how can they help Yuan Highway, and how can they stop Tao Ying's annexation ambitions?" ”

"I will have 1,500 soldiers, 100 horses, 100 chariots, and 10,000 military rations." Boss Cao said lightly: "Xuande can take these soldiers and horses to Runan, Runan County has a vast land, the yellow scarf is rising, and it always threatens Tao Ying's thief's southern grain road, with Xuande's ability, after arriving in Runan, he will definitely be able to show his strength, so that Tao Ying's thief's back will not be at peace!" ”

"It's finally the day." Uncle Liu Huang quietly clenched his fists, did not shirk, and immediately left the table to bow to Boss Cao, and said in a deep voice: "Ming Gong's kindness, be prepared to be unforgettable!" Please rest assured that after arriving in Runan, he will do his best to prevent Tao Ying's thieves from harming innocent people and poisoning living beings, and he will live up to Ming Gong's hopes! ”

"I believe that Xuan Degong will be able to do it." Boss Cao nodded, and then ordered: "Xuande Gong, please get up, go down and prepare, I will order to divide the soldiers and horses, allocate grain, grass, soldiers and horses, and after everything is ready, Xuande Gong can immediately send troops to Runan." ”

Uncle Liu Huang, who dreamed of getting rid of Boss Cao's control, was overjoyed, and quickly thanked Boss Cao again and again, and left happily. As soon as Uncle Liu Huang left, Xun Yu, who had always been silent next to him, immediately said to Boss Cao: "Ming Gong, you are returning to the mountain, Liu Bei Xiaoxiong, if you go now, if you want to accept it in the future, I am afraid it will be even more difficult." ”

"Let the tiger go back to the mountain?" Boss Cao laughed, and suddenly shouted: "Isn't my move just to let the tiger return to the mountain? It's like letting the dragon go into the sea! Liu Bei is the dragon among people, let him leave, let him take off the golden lock, swallow clouds and spit fog! ”

"In that case, why is Ming Gong ......?" Xun Yu asked tentatively.

"Liu Bei is a dragon, if you can't do water, you are trapped in the shallows, fish and shrimp can play, and it is still possible to capture it." Boss Cao replied in a calm tone, then suddenly raised his voice, gritted his teeth and roared: "Liu Bei Xiaoxiong is just a dragon, but Tao Ying is a thief, and he is still the most poisonous five-step snake!" The mountains, rivers, trees, and forests can't trap this vicious snake! If you are accidentally bitten by him, the gods can't save it! This poisonous snake is still young, and there is still hope to interrupt him by seven inches, but if this poisonous snake is allowed to grow up and grow thick, grow horns and grow golden scales, soar through the clouds and mist, and turn into a flying poisonous dragon, then the gods will not be able to subdue him! ”

After roaring with remorseful excitement, Boss Cao took a breath, shook his black head again, and sighed: "The lesser of two evils, in order to contain the more dangerous Tao Ying thief, I can only release the slightly less dangerous Liu Bei, hoping that he can live up to my expectations and drag the Tao Ying thief for me." ”

…………………… The day when Boss Cao made this exclamation also happened to be our Deputy Director Tao's banquet and officially married Yuan Shao's beloved daughter Yuan Fang's son - after more than two years, he finally officially married his first wife. Moreover, our Deputy Director Tao, who has forgotten his selfishness, has also made a decision, and is ready to lead the army to the south on the third day after marriage, to find trouble with his wife and uncle - the distinction between public and private is clear, and the public is selfless, and our Deputy Director Tao can be regarded as an official model in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the middle of the night, Tao Ying, who still doesn't know what his wife looks like, entered the cave room full of red candles with a full body of wine, and under the lights, the petite Yuan Fang had a red cover on his head, and sat timidly on the new bed. How many points can you score? If it's only sixty points, it's good, if it looks like Ling'er's zero-point cook....... ”

Thinking of the female version of the bell tower monster, Tao Ying couldn't help but shiver, and most of the wine on his body was dispersed at once, but the matter has come to this, even if the girl Yuan Fang under the red cover is only twenty points, Tao Ying can only eat the twenty points hard, so there is no way, Tao Ying can only quietly pray for God's blessing, while trembling and slowly lifting the red cover on Yuan Fang's head, and constantly muttering in his heart, "If it is less than thirty points, I will be drunk and sleep in bed!" If it's between 30 and 50, I'll blow all the lights! If it's fifty to sixty, I'll keep only one candle ....... ”

The red cover was gradually lifted, and a friendly smile gradually appeared at the corner of Deputy Director Tao's mouth, which was more realistic than Yang Hong's long history, although the girl under the red cover was not a peerless beauty, but the facial features on the white and tender face were very exquisite, and the big eyes were black and bright, very attractive.

Under the ecstasy, a word that absolutely did not exist in the Three Kingdoms era also blurted out from the mouth of Deputy Director Tao, "More than eighty points!" ”

"Eighty points or more?" Yuan Fang, who was shy, raised her head in surprise and asked with doubts: "Husband, what is more than eighty points?!" ”

The voice was crisp, gentle and beautiful, but the gentle and beautiful voice immediately turned into a shy exclamation, "Husband, why did you take off your clothes immediately?" The door is not closed, the door is not closed yet! ”

(To be continued)