looked at Chen Zhi and Le Yi with anxious faces. Xu Ji didn't sell anything, and said with a smile: "Can we instigate Wang Yun to be 'regent'?" With the power of regent, didn't Wang Yun say where to fight? ”

Regent? What is that? Chen Zhi and Le Yi looked at each other, and Chen Zhi was also puzzled. Shi Ah was even more stunned.

Xu Ji had a big headache, isn't this word there yet? A flash of inspiration flashed in Tu's mind: "The so-called regent is the status and duty of the Duke of Zhou before the Son of Heaven ascended the throne. ”

As soon as Xu Ji said this, the two immediately understood.

That means that Wang Yun will be the master in place of the emperor. But this matter does not seem to be of any benefit to Yanzhou.

Xu Ji said with a smile: "Once we find the Son of Heaven, we will secretly send it back to Yanzhou, but we must not let anyone know about it, and at the same time, we must continue to look for the Son of Heaven and me in the Chang'an area, so that Wang Yun and others mistakenly think that the Son of Heaven is still wandering, and I am missing." ”

Chen Zhi and the others still didn't understand what Xu Ji meant.

Xu Ji patiently explained: "First of all, we need to understand one thing, that is, where is the goal of our actions over the years, or what is the meaning of what we have done, in the big picture, our goal is to eliminate the war and sweep away the world. ”

Chen Zhi nodded and sighed: "My Han has many disasters and difficulties, and the people are displaced, and this is the time when the heroes of the world use force, and the big husband should take it as his responsibility to sweep Liuhe and the four seas." ”

Xu Ji said in a deep voice: "That's right, looking at my big man today, just like a seriously ill injury, you have to fight hard to completely cure all kinds of stubborn diseases." But to say a thousand things and ten thousand, in the end. It is nothing more than starting from domestic and foreign affairs. ”

After a pause, he said: "Over the past many years, we have carried out reforms in Yanzhou and even Jizhou. It is to find a feasible political system, the purpose is nothing more than to prevent and control meaningless internal friction within the imperial court, the queen woman, eunuchs, and relatives are all the scourge of splitting centralized power, but in essence, it is actually the reason why the family and the powerful landlords hold power, the family is the princes in the locality, and the relatives in the center. The so-called inseparable. Everyone has their own family interests, since being an official is a recommendation system, why recommend others? Wouldn't it be better to have your own relatives in office? In this way, everyone has not yet thought about how to be an official for the Son of Heaven, but is thinking about how to benefit the family. ”

Chen Zhi nodded and said: "What the lord said is extremely true, so the purpose of Yanzhou's restructuring is to break the family interests above the national interests. ”

Xu Ji nodded and said in a deep voice: "If the world is peaceful." On the contrary, our task is easier, we only need to reform our internal affairs. But this is unrealistic, the princes of all places support their own troops, and we are reforming in our own territory. However, we can't influence others, so we have to dominate the world while reforming the three states, so that all the states and counties in the world can be reformed according to our intentions. so that the family can not control the government. ”

Xu Ji sighed and said, "This is just internal. What about the outside world? The Huns did not die in their hearts, and the other barbarians were eyeing me. They all want to devour our big man's fat. In fact, this is also a reason for the fragmentation of my Han Dynasty, Xiliang Ma Teng, Youzhou Liu Yu, Liaodong Gongsun Zhan, and Yizhou Liu Yan have indeed contributed a lot to our Han Dynasty in defending against foreign tribes, but at the same time, their personal strength is also expanding dramatically, look at these places, their soldiers are not so much my Han army's army, but their private army is appropriate. Therefore, while we are concerned about the Han River, foreign enemies should not be taken lightly. ”

When Chen Zhi heard this, he frowned and said: "But Lord, the grassland people have always lived in a fixed place, we can only guard against it, but we can't abandon it, who knows when they will come to plunder the Central Plains?" Therefore, the border garrison cannot be missing, as long as there is a border garrison, it will still evolve into a local prince after a long time. ”

Xu Ji smiled: "Why do we only take defense? Why don't we go on the offensive aggressively? Since the grassland is their foundation, then we will take their grassland and leave them with no place to graze their sheep. Our army only attacks forward, and never retreats, we separate internal affairs from the military, and we build new residential areas for the people in the grasslands we have laid, and send officials to manage them, and the army cannot interfere, and the army's grain and grass can only be controlled by the central government. ”

Chen Zhi and the others were dumbfounded when they heard this, and they couldn't keep up with Xu Ji's train of thought for a while, so they could only look at Xu Ji blankly.

Xu Jizhi said that he was too excited, said far away, waved his hand unconsciously, and said with a smile: "But that's all for later, let's talk about what we should do now." ”

After a pause, Xu Ji said again: "The so-called external must first be settled inside, now, the internal stability of our two states is a great opportunity to use troops abroad and sweep away the princes, but we still have many difficulties, first the problem of insufficient troops, and then the problem of the name of foreign troops." In the past, we used troops against Yuan Shao because Yuan Shao provoked first, and we fought justifiably, but now it is completely different, no one will take the initiative to provoke us, everyone wants to maintain a relationship with us that the well water does not violate the river water, in this case, it is very difficult for us to use troops, and the fundamental purpose of welcoming back the emperor is to find a suitable excuse for us to send troops. But the problem is that even if we welcome back the emperor, it will only ensure that we use soldiers in the name of the Son of Heaven, but the name of the Son of Heaven is very useful to some people, but it is ineffective for others. ”

Of course, Dian Wei, Le Yi and Shi A on the side didn't understand the meaning of Xu Ji's words, in the name of the emperor, why couldn't they use troops against everyone?

Chen Zhi was thorough at all, nodded and said: "What the lord said is extremely true, it is of course enough to use the imperial order to deal with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Tao Qian, Cao Cao, Ma Teng, Gongsun Zhan, Wang Kuang, Wang Lang, Yan Baihu and others, but it is not good to deal with Liu Yu, Liu Biao and others, after all, they are relatives of the Han family." However, this Liu Yu and Liu Biao still occupy two crucial positions, which is really a headache. ”

Xu Ji sighed: "Actually, it's Yuan Shao and the others, even if we have the emperor's order, it's not easy for us to move them now." After all, they didn't provoke us, and they had a high reputation. There are many people in the world who would rather break their families and sponsor them. Employing soldiers against people for no reason will only leave a bad impression on the people of the world that our Yanzhou is very brutal. ”

Xu Ji's words caused Chen Zhi and others to ponder.

Xu Ji said thoughtfully: "In fact, the purpose of welcoming the emperor back to Yanzhou is so that the emperor's order is in our hands and not in the hands of others, so that others will not attack us in the name of the emperor in the future." After all, I have the name of a colt, but I am not a royal family. Moreover, many places in Yanzhou do not conform to the Han system after my "Chen Liu's reform", and if it is good, people will say that you are reforming, but if it is not good, it will be a chaotic minister and a thief. There are a lot of excuses against you. ”

Le Yi suddenly said: "It's sad that the lord is so nervous about whose hands the emperor is." It turned out that they were afraid that they would use the emperor to deal with me Yanzhou. ”

Xu Ji nodded, but said with a wry smile: "The problem is that once we announce that the emperor is in our hands, because Yanzhou is powerful, the other princes have to be more cautious and respectful to us on the surface, then don't we have no reason to attack others?" Yanzhou is very strong. But it is not strong enough to sweep the world by force alone. ”

Everyone nodded, and now although the Yanzhou army is all elite, the strength is very scattered. It is not difficult to say which place to attack, but it does not have the strength to occupy it for a long time.

Xu Ji said with a smile: "So the best way for us to use troops against others is to let our enemies strike first, and we will clean them up in the name of fighting back, so that we can further strengthen in the war, think about it, under what circumstances do these people dare to attack us first?" ”

Chen Zhi and the others were all stunned.

Xu Ji said with a smile: "Of course, that is the situation that my Xu Ji was unexpected. ”

Chen Zhi and the others were stunned, but Xu Ji had already stood up. smiled: "This matter is very complicated and related to the overall situation, so you just have to do what I say, and there will be a series of good shows for you to see when the time comes." ”

Xu Ji looked at Chen Zhi and said, "Uncle Zhi." You first find a way to contact Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu, and the task of finding the emperor will be handed over to them, and Wang Yun will agree. As long as you find the emperor, send me to Yanzhou immediately. This matter must be kept secret. ”

Chen Zhi hugged his fists and said, "Chen Zhi knows." ”

Xu Ji turned his head to look at Leyi, and said in a deep voice: "Leyi." You will leave me in the area between Chang'an and Luoyang, and take some men and horses to make a frame to find the emperor and me, until I write to you and ask you to stop. During this period, I must make a situation that the emperor and I can't find at all. ”

Leyi promised.

Xu Ji said to Dian Wei again: "Tell Jia Xu about Leyi's side, and ask Jia Xu to reveal false news to Wang Yun, saying that it is you and Leyi who are the people who lead the troops to find the emperor and me." ”

Dian Wei nodded.

Xu Ji said again: "Also, after Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu found the emperor, they asked them to find a way to hand over the task of finding the emperor to others, and then returned to Chang'an, encouraging Wang Yun to use troops against Hanzhong and Yizhou, and asked Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu to take Yizhou and Hanzhong as soon as possible and become our territory, so as to cooperate with our attack on Jingzhou in the future." ”

Then he turned his head to look at Shi A, and said in a deep voice: "Shi A, you go back to Yanzhou for me, and ask Guo Jia to write a letter to Wang Yun, the wording should be strong, but the content should be weak, then it must show that Wang Yun is dissatisfied with Wang Yun's attack on my Xu Ji, and at the same time put forward a request to cooperate with Wang Yun, just say that the two states governed by Xu Ji deeply admire Wang Yun's great achievements in cutting off Dong Zhuo, so please ask Wang Yun to carry out the government of Zhou Gong, and then promise Wang Yun that Yanzhou will help him eliminate Dong Zhuo's remnants, Li Huai and Guo Yan and others. ”

Looking at the three people who were a little stunned, Xu Ji smiled and said: "As soon as this letter arrives in Wang Yun's hands, he will think about it, because the person who wrote the letter is Guo Jia, not me Xu Ji, and there is a weak implication in the letter that he wants to cooperate with Wang Yun, coupled with Zhong Kang's search for action here, Wang Yun will definitely think that my Xu Ji is missing, and there is no one in charge of major events in the two states now, otherwise the person who proposed such a major event as the regent should be me Xu Ji and not Guo Jia, and Guo Jia is only doing this now to stabilize the situation in the two states." ”

Chen Zhi and the others suddenly realized that Xu Ji was trying to confuse Wang Yun.

Xu Ji smiled: "It's fun that this matter has developed to this point, Wang Yun must hate me to the bone now, but Wang Yun doesn't have the emperor in his hands, so he can't use soldiers against me, right?" Without the emperor, Wang Yun won't even be able to keep his current position for a long time, maybe someone will take the opportunity to support the new monarch, isn't this a big mess in the world? But it's different to let Wang Yun be regent. That means that there is an emperor in the world, but the emperor has no way to manage the government. In this way, the power is still in Wang Yun's hands. That's why I said that Wang Yun must be very interested in regents, not to mention that there is Jia Xu bewitching on the side! ”

Dian Wei, who had been silent for a long time, also replied in a deep voice: "Rest assured, Lord, I will definitely convey this meaning." ”

Xu Ji said in a deep voice: "On the surface, this incident happened because the emperor and I, Xu Ji, disappeared, and both sides were leaderless, so Guo Jia proposed to cooperate with Wang Yun." Then Wang Yun should know in his heart that as long as my two states recommend him as regent, and Yan hopes that the two states are stable, then no one in the world will oppose him, even if there is no emperor in hand. He can also wield a lot of power. In this case, Wang Yun will definitely not put the responsibility of the emperor's loss on us, because it is harmful to him and not to himself, our two states have become sinners who have lost the Son of Heaven, and he, Wang Yun, will also lose the qualification to lead the court. Therefore, in terms of prestige, we will definitely not have any loss, even if Wang Yun wants to declare that we are rebellious to the outside world, it will have to wait until we find the emperor. ”

Chen also smiled at this time: "But at that time, the emperor was already in our hands." ”

Xu Ji said casually: "I am cheating." Come and don't be rude, how can there be so much politeness? ”

After a pause, Xu Ji said with a smile: "But Wang Yun is narrow-minded, although he will cooperate with Guo Jia for his own power." But he will not be able to swallow this breath, on the surface he will not do anything to us, but he will definitely find a way to secretly destabilize our two states after gaining a foothold and making the world recognize his regency. And the most direct way to destroy it is to put me Xu Ji to death. If someone really goes to the two states to make trouble. That's even better. ”

Chen Zhi frowned and said, "What does the lord think Wang Yun will do?" ”

Xu Jiha said with a smile: "Then you still need to say? Yuan Shao and Wang Yun have always had an agreement, and Wang Yun will definitely tell Yuan Shao the news of my Xu Ji's disappearance. After this trip to Chang'an, I found that Yuan Shao, the old boy, seems to have a lot of means that have not been used. It's really annoying to look at him, so I think it's best to take the opportunity to eliminate him. ”

Chen Zhi suddenly said: "It turns out that the lord pretended to disappear deliberately to let Yuan Shao do it first!" ”

Xu Ji said in a deep voice: "That's right, I want to make Yuan Shao think that I am not in the two states, creating a look of no one in the two states, and then ask him to show all his means, let his helpers pay the water, and we will catch them all." ”

looked at Chen Zhi again and said: "Actually, it's not just Yuan Shao who we want to deceive, we have to do a little bit about this matter, Uncle Zhi, this trip is going to work hard for you again, you run to Jingzhou for me, and then pretend that I am going to kill from Jingzhou to Yuzhou, as if it is a frame to break through." Although I'm just a literati, I've been in the army for many years, so it's good that you have to act like a little bit. Chen Zhi nodded solemnly, of course he knew that this matter was actually very dangerous. After all, it was a single person.

After a pause, Xu Ji said again: "Judging from the direction of my escape, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao will also be the targets of Wang Yun's notification. Yuan Shu is an ambitious person, although he has always been at odds with his brother Yuan Shao, but he is like-minded in this matter against me. ”

Chen Zhi said with a smile: "Yuan Shu has always been eyeing Yangzhou, but he has never dared to really do it, the reason is that Liu Xuan's attitude is difficult to understand, now the lord you can't rule Yanzhou all of a sudden, people's minds have changed and appeared on his ground, of course he has to deal with my fake 'Xu Ji' with all his might." ”

Xu Ji said with a smile: "Liu Biao is the same, he should understand that as long as I Xu Ji is here, he Liu Biao will not have a chance to be the emperor, and Guangwu's will is a dead letter." If Uncle Zhi you pretend to be me in Jingzhou, Liu Biao will definitely hunt you down with all his might. ”

Chen Zhi said proudly: "It's one thing to think about it, it's another thing to be able to do it, if you want my Chen Zhi's life, then you have to have Lu Bu's level skills!" ”

Xu Jiha said with a smile: "Uncle is a hero, and he is full of courage." Then he worried: "It's just your injury, but it really makes me a little relieved." Before Chen Zhi could answer, he heard Le Yi hurriedly speak: "But Uncle Zhi is unfamiliar with life there, and it is very dangerous." ”

Xu Ji said in a deep voice: "Leyi, have you forgotten Li Yan outside?" As long as there is Li Yan's help, Uncle Zhi can let go of his actions, and Jingzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and Yuzhou is chaotic, so Uncle Zhi can be unimpeded. ”

Leyi was relieved.

Chen Zhi thought for a while, and then said: "My injury has long been fine, thank you for your concern, but the lord, won't Cao Cao make any moves?" ”

When Xu Ji heard Chen say this, he smiled and said: "Cao Mengde is very wary of me now, he doesn't dare to interfere in my Xu Ji's affairs, even if I say that my Xu Ji's whereabouts are unknown, Cao Cao will not make any moves, ha, sometimes I feel that he has more confidence in me than I have in myself." ”

Everyone was smiling.

Xu Ji said in a high-spirited manner: "That's how the plan is, hum!" Don't they all want to get rid of me, Xu Ji? Then I'll give them this opportunity to chase and kill, don't they all look at my rich eyes in Yanji Erzhou but don't dare to do it? I'm going to give them the opportunity to take over my two states. ”

Everyone nodded, their eyes lit up, as long as these people made a move, Xu Ji would have enough excuses to attack them in the future.

Xu Ji smiled and said: "In this way, Chang'an, Hanzhong, Yizhou, and Jingzhou are all in my calculations, and then Guo Jia and Xun You will plan Xuzhou and Youzhou for me, and see who can resist in the world!" ”

Xu Ji stretched his waist and said with a smile: "Wang Yun is not easy, for the sake of my Xu Ji's great cause to be deceived so hard, I will give him a peach and repay him, let me Xu Ji personally eliminate Li Huai and Guo Yan, so that Chang'an will be safe for a long time, it can be regarded as a reward!" ”

Everyone laughed.

From today onwards, Xu Ji's action to dominate the world is in full swing. (To be continued......)