In the main hall of King Yan's Mansion, Ao Lie sat on the throne, looking at the middle-aged scribe in front of him, his eyes were full of joy.

This person is Liu Ba, who has made Ao Lie search hard for nearly two years, but has not been able to find the news. In history, Liu Ba's name is not particularly outstanding, and only some veteran Three Kingdoms fans will know the true value of Liu Ba. Liu Baqi is a person who doesn't know martial arts, so naturally he can't lead troops to fight; If you are not good at governance, you can't talk about being a master of internal affairs; And his personality is extremely arrogant, his eyes are above the top, ordinary people will not be looked at by him at all, even Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, and Liu Ba will not fake their colors a little. There are even three avoidance of Liu Bei's legend spread in later generations, according to legend, Liu Ba quite looked down on Liu Bei, thinking that Liu Bei could not get rid of the essence of the small citizen, not a great achievement of the master, so in Lingling, Xiangyang and Jiaozhi three places, escaped from Liu Bei's command, deaf to Liu Bei's recruitment, turned a blind eye, unfortunately, in the end it was fate to make people, Liu Ba finally failed to escape Liu Bei's clutches, under Liu Bei's command, became a big official in charge of the economy.

With such a person, why did Ao Lie still struggle to find his whereabouts? Because Ao Lie knows that although Liu Ba is not outstanding in all other aspects, there is one thing that he has a talent that no one in this world can match, that is, governing the economy. According to historical records, before Liu Bei attacked Chengdu, he agreed with his soldiers that as long as Chengdu was captured, the money in the treasury would be taken by the soldiers. This was originally just a means for Liu Bei to motivate morale, but he didn't expect that when Chengdu was really conquered, the soldiers all dropped their weapons and ran to the treasury to take money at will, which directly led to Liu Bei's lack of military resources, which made Liu Bei very worried. As a common currency, and unified the price of goods, the implementation of the public sale system, Liu Bei after adopting Liu Ba's suggestion, in just a few months, let the treasury re-enriched, no longer have to worry about the issue of armaments, it can be seen that Liu Ba is really a genius in the indirect and management of the economic field.

Now Liu Ba is not as it was in history. had no choice but to serve Liu Bei, but as soon as Liu Bei captured Chengdu, he fled from Chengdu, came to Yanjing, and went to the palace of King Yan to meet Ao Lie, which shows that Liu Ba has the heart to become a career in the Northern Han Dynasty, how can this not make Ao Lie ecstatic?

"Mr. Zichu, I have to see Mr. today. I was really happy, but unfortunately, I will lead the troops to go out soon, and I am afraid that I will not be able to get together with my husband for a long time. However, if Mr. is willing to stay, there will be many more when we meet in the future. Ao Lie tentatively said to Liu Ba that he wanted to see if Liu Ba was here to serve him.

Liu Ba smiled. He opened his mouth and said, "Since the regent already knows the meaning of Lu Daoba's intentions, why should he try to speak again? Ba just wants to know what kind of position the regent is going to grant to Ba? ”

Sure enough, it was full of arrogance. opened his mouth and asked Ao Lie what official he wanted to seal! If it were someone else, maybe Ao Lie would have directly dragged the elite of the Blood Killing Army out of the city, but now the person who asked for the official was Liu Ba, so it would be another matter.

Ao Lie thought for a while, and replied to Liu Ba carefully: "The existing official positions are saturated, and there is no shortage of manpower for the time being, and the old official positions cannot give full play to Mr. Zichu's strengths." Therefore, a certain plan is to set up a new government, called the French and Commercial Government, to be in charge of the national economic trend, and to regulate the domestic large and small commercial banks and merchants, and guide them to conduct regular and legal business under the macroeconomic control of the French and Commercial Government. As for the chief officer of the French and Commercial Government, he is called the French and Commercial Government, and he is temporarily listed as a second-grade official, and he wants to ask Mr. Zichu to take this position, but I don't know if Mr. Zichu is still satisfied? ”

As the meaning of Ao Lie's words became clearer, Liu Ba's eyes gradually released two fine lights, and he looked at Ao Lie intently. When they first met, they were able to seal out a second-class official, and they were also in charge of the country's economic lifeline, such a monarch was either extremely mediocre or wise, obviously, Ao Lie belonged to the latter, otherwise, he would not have been able to establish the powerful regime of the Northern Han Dynasty on the basis of the broken Han Dynasty.

At the same time, Ao Lie's wisdom and easy-going temperament deeply touched Liu Ba's heart, compared to the suspicious Cao Cao and Liu Bei who turned over the salted fish, Ao Lie is undoubtedly much better, such a monarch, so that Liu Bada has the urge to die for his confidant.

Putting away the arrogance on his face, Liu Ba said to Ao Lie convincingly: "Liu Ba sees the king, and is willing to contribute his own modest contribution to the king's domination of the world." ”

Less than fifteen days before the expedition to Yizhou, with the arrival of Liu Ba, Ao Lie devoted all his attention to the work of preparing for the establishment of the French and Commercial Mansion, and ordered Zhong Xuan and others, who remained in Yanjing, to continue to vigorously support Liu Ba and help him support the French and Commercial Mansion as soon as possible, in order to officially put the French and Commercial Mansion into work as soon as possible and bring correct guidance and direction to the economy of the Northern Han Dynasty.

After a few days of busyness, after the preliminary preparations for the Fa Shang Mansion came to an end temporarily, Ao Lie refocused his attention on the upcoming Battle of Yizhou, and began to gather the civil and military ministers who were on the list to go with the army on the expedition, but were stationed in various places, such as Zhuge Liang. In order to prevent Liu Bei and Cao Cao from smelling the wind in advance, Ao Lie has not recalled Zhuge Liang and others, they are all important ministers of the town guarding side, if they leave their station, outsiders may not find anything in a short time, but if it is a long time, it will inevitably attract the attention of Liu Bei and Cao Cao, therefore, until now, Ao Lie has summoned Zhuge Liang and others to Yanjing, making the most difficult preparations for the upcoming war.

Time was counting down day by day, and when there were still seven days before the day of the expedition, Ao Lie deliberately took half a day out of his intense preparations to write a letter to Cao Cao and Sun Ce respectively. In the edict, Ao Lie, as the regent, affirmed that Cao Cao's title of King Wei was true and valid, and then vaguely mentioned that Liu Bei shot the first emperor Liu Xie, and asked Cao Cao to fight hard and prepare to join forces to conquer Yizhou in the future and avenge Liu Xie, who died unjustly. Ao Lie did not stipulate a specific date in the edict, he did this, first, to calm Cao Cao's heart, to recognize him as the king of Wei, and at the same time to imply to Cao Cao, your title of king of Wei was canonized to you by my regent Ao Lie, since I have the right to canonize you. Then you also have the right to withdraw your canonization, provided that as long as you keep to yourself, you can be your king of Wei safely;

Second, it can also confuse Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao mistakenly thinks that Ao Lie will not move troops in the near future, and after Ao Lie leads the army and Liu Bei to exchange fire, even if Cao Cao wants to take the opportunity to invade Jizhou and other places, I am afraid that it will be difficult to raise sufficient grain, grass and soldiers and horses for a while, which will be to a large extent. Alleviate Ao Lie's worries. After all, in Cao Cao's hands, he didn't have clairvoyance and ears like Shadow, and it was not so easy to find out Ao Lie's extremely hidden military movements this time.

In the letter, Ao Lie mentioned that he was about to send troops to Yizhou to conquer Liu Bei, hoping that Sun Ce would not leak this matter, and at the same time Ao Lie hoped that Sun Ce could secretly help him. While defending Cao Cao, he sent a surprise army to invade Liu Bei's Jingzhou, leaving Liu Bei vulnerable to the enemy. Take care of one or the other. Ao Lie instructed Sun Ce in his heart that all actions should be concealed, not to be discovered by Cao Cao and Liu Bei, if there is any indecisive deployment. You can ask Zhou Yu and Sun Quan for advice, and the whole thing can only be known to the two of them at most. The scope must not be expanded.

The reason why Ao Lie used the form of a family letter to tell Sun Ce about this crucial matter was because Ao Lie believed in Sun Ce, Sun Ce was not only Ao Lie's chief disciple, but also Ao Lie's eldest brother, and a brother who was born and died on the battlefield with Ao Lie.

After receiving Ao Lie's edict and letters, Cao Cao and Sun Ce reacted very differently. After reading Ao Lie's edict, Cao Cao smiled and asked the civil and military officers under his command: "Tell me, what do you think of this matter?" ”

Led by Cao Ren, all the generals congratulated Cao Cao, believing that Ao Lie was afraid of Cao Cao's strength and did not dare to start a war with Cao Cao, so he was forced to issue an official edict to admit the established fact that Cao Cao was called the king of Wei. Even some of the strategists have this kind of thinking.

Only Guo Jia and a few other people did not have any joy, but their faces were full of worry. Xi Zhicai was the first to speak: "King, there must be a demon when things go wrong, this Ao Mohan is definitely not a person who is afraid of the head and tail, therefore, Zhong concludes that this edict is fraudulent!" ”

Cheng Yu also agreed and said: "Perhaps, this is Ao Lie's delaying tactic, and he wants to take advantage of the opportunity to attack the city while we are careless, the king, we should still be fully prepared." ”

Seeing that Guo Jia, the number one thinker under him, had not spoken, Cao Cao asked Guo Jia: "Fengxiao, what do you think of this matter?" Because it is now October, about to enter the harsh winter, Guo Jia, who has always been not very well, because of a moment of unpreparedness, occasionally felt a cold, in recent days have been recuperating at home, but the condition has not improved in the slightest, today Cao Cao called, Guo Jia also got up in good spirits, so there was a little more sickly weakness in his tone: "Yu Wang, this matter ...... Ahem, it's not as simple as it seems, ahem, the so-called one mountain can't tolerate two tigers, not to mention the current Han Dynasty, there have been three princes, ahem, if you count Sun Ce in Jiangdong, it will be four parts of the world, with Ao Lie's heart, it will never allow such a situation to coexist for a long time, so, ahem, so, this edict is a harbinger of Ao Lie's army, but the king should not be his first target, Ao Lie this time, cough cough...... This time it should be to use troops against Liu Bei. ”

After saying so many words, Guo Jia's face became worse, and he sat down on the seat panting, unable to get up anymore.

Cao Cao took off the cloak on his body, stepped down from the throne and came to Guo Jia's side, put the cloak on Guo Jia's body with his own hands, and said with concern: "Fengxiao still has to pay more attention to your body, and Lone shouldn't have summoned you today." ”

Guo Jia shook his head, gasped and said, "It's okay, sharing worries for the king is a matter within Jiafen, cough cough ......"

Cao Cao patted Guo Jia lightly on the shoulder twice, signaling that Guo Jia could go back to his home to recuperate later, and there was no need to wait for his orders. After that, Cao Cao stood up and said to the civil and military officers who were around him: "Feng Xiao's analysis is very reasonable, Ao Lie must have made a big move, we can't just watch the excitement, immediately send all the probes to collect all the information, and see if we can get any benefits from it......"

Unlike Cao Caoyang's disobedient attitude, after receiving Ao Lie's letter, Sun Ce immediately called Sun Quan and Zhou Yu, and then asked the guards to retreat fifty paces, strictly defending, and not allowing anyone to come within fifty steps. After reading Ao Lie's letter, Sun Quan said in surprise: "Master, this is going to prepare to destroy Liu Bei in one fell swoop, strong!" ”

Zhou Yu nodded and said: "Although the regent's move seems reckless, Liu Bei is a lurking tiger, the more time he is given, the greater the harm he can form in the future, and now Liu Bei has not been able to fully control Yizhou, but it is also a good time to send troops to conscript." ”

Seeing that Zhou Yu and Sun Quan both agreed with Ao Lie sending troops to recruit Liu Bei, Sun Ce couldn't help but smile knowingly, and said in a low voice: "Actually, I think so in my heart, now, let's discuss how to create some trouble for Liu Bei, so that he can add some blockage to him, and he can't concentrate on dealing with the master......" (To be continued......

PS: PS: The big war is coming, do you want to know Lu Dao, how does Sun Ce plan to add some blockage to Liu Bei? Hehe, Da Kun told everyone~~ No spoilers!! By the way, I forgot to say it, this is a 3800-word chapter, and it will continue tomorrow~