Xu Ji and Chen Zhi walked out of the big tent, and they couldn't help but be refreshed by the gentle evening breeze.

Chen Zhi's tiger eyes sharply swept away the soldiers of Yuan Shao, who feared the two of them like gods, and a few people in the vicinity fled.

Xu Ji and Chen Zhi looked at each other and smiled, out of the gate of Yuan Shao's camp, Chen Zhi smiled at Xu Ji: "The lord is very powerful tonight, especially the words that reveal the true face of these princes are really wonderful, ha, I am still thinking about Cao Ren's pretended calm expression at that time." ”

Xu Ji thought of Cao Ren and Sun Ce's appearance, and couldn't help but smile: "Uncle Zhi, if you fight for the world by force alone, none of the people in front of you are my Xu Ji's opponent, if it weren't for the fact that we have too many newly conquered states and counties to take care of after pacifying the north this time, and because we have to start a foreign war against the north, I really want to clean up these people." Chen Zhi nodded in understanding.

Seeing Chen Zhi nodding, Xu Ji smiled bitterly and said: "You see, we want to suppress the family, but we need talents to govern the local area, and the hardships and dangers are only cruel than war." ”

Chen Zhi smiled: "Why should the lord worry? Our academy in Yanzhou has recruited many talents over the years, and has also cultivated some students, although these people do not have the talent to govern a county, but it is more than enough to govern a county. Now that the new 'Five Virtues are Finally Said' is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and not all the big families are stubborn, the lord also said that he will be tempted, and I believe that we will soon completely control these places. Xu Ji groaned: "According to past experience, some families are mainly engaged in business in the era, such as the Zhen family, of course we can transform this kind of person, and there are also some academic families, we can also use the new 'Five Virtues Always Said' to fight, only those who are very close to the land are very resistant to our Yanzhou, in fact, every time the people who cause trouble to us are these people." ”

Chen Zhi snorted coldly: "Hasn't the lord already set an example? That's - kill!" Xu Ji said with a smile: "Uncle Zhi is right, but wanton killing people will only make the people panic." ”

Chen Zhi laughed and said, "The lord is too worried." Our army has never committed any crimes. It's not like the Yellow Turban Army, and the people will naturally understand. “

Xu Ji glanced at Chen Zhi and said in a deep voice: "Speaking of which." We should also learn from Zhou Yu that their slogan for conquering Jingzhou was to kill Liu Biao only. It's very motivating. We should also give more propaganda to the military operations of our army in the newly occupied places. But this matter still has to be taught to Ma Jun's wife. "Since Bu Feiyan returned to Yanzhou with this Ma Jun, he has been in charge of training the girls who joined Yanzhou because they were homeless during the war with Xu Ji's wife, who had nothing to do all day. Over the years. It has already become a scale, and it is a condolence performance from the market to various regions. This move was even more popular with the soldiers in the army.

Xu Ji, who came from later generations, certainly knew the importance of political offensives, otherwise the Long March would not have been called a seeding machine.

Of course, Xu Ji still has the trump card of Mr. Storyteller in his hand. Over the years, Yanzhou's storytellers have traveled all over the country of China, and they have been promoting Yanzhou's policies, and the subtle effect is really extraordinary.

Of course, Chen Zhi would not understand this, he was worried about another thing, and said in a deep voice: "What the lord said is extremely true. I had already discovered this problem when I was in Jingzhou, in fact, Liu Biao's control over Jingzhou was only within a certain range, and Liu Biao couldn't intervene in the affairs of the six counties in the south of Jingzhou many times. If it weren't for the lack of necessary tacit understanding and cooperation between the various counties, it would not have been easy for me to get out of Jingzhou. So. After Sun Ce expressed his attitude, the resistance in Jingzhou would be greatly reduced. ”

Xu Ji nodded and smiled: "Of course, Liu Biao has not been in Jingzhou for a long time. It is not so much that he rules Jingzhou, but that he is maintaining cooperative relations with various families in Jingzhou, you see, now even the Kuai family in Jingzhou is deliberately inclined to Sun Ce. Now it seems that the people Liu Biao can really trust are just the Cai family and Huang Zu. Sun Ce's invasion of Jingzhou immediately knocked Liu Biao back to his original form. After a pause, Xu Ji continued in a deep voice: "Although Sun Ce does not have many troops, I heard that Huang Zhong has joined Sun Ce's army, which is really of great benefit to Sun Ce's subjugation of the six counties of Jingzhou. Jingzhou is difficult to attack, that is because of the Yangtze River natural danger and tens of thousands of Jingzhou naval troops. But this point is not an obstacle for Sun Ce at all. Once the southern counties are in the hands of Sun Ce, then the troops in Sun Ce's hands will be greatly increased, and then Liu Biao will be calmly cleaned up, which is why Sun Ce does not fight the northern part of Jingzhou. And one reason to attack the south of Jingzhou. ”

Chen Zhi sighed, "Zhou Yu attacked Changsha first and caught Huang Zhong with a trick, this hand is really beautiful." Xu Ji smiled bitterly when he heard this: "But we don't have a water army." The things that Sun Ce avoided were the things we had no choice but to do. Even if Li Yan joins our army now, even if we have enough troops to occupy Jingzhou. But we had no way to break through Jingzhou's waterway defenses. ”

Chen Zhi also frowned when he heard this.

And Xu Ji was envious of Cao Cao's good luck in history. Because he caught up with Liu Biao and died, and because Liu Qi, who was supported by Liu Bei, and Liu Cong, who was supported by the Cai family, were fighting within Jingzhou. The Cai family chose to surrender to Cao Cao, and all the naval forces in Jingzhou surrendered to Cao Cao, and it really took some things for Cao Cao to occupy Jingzhou.

Forget it, history has changed, it's useless to think about it yourself, you can't just care about the length of a day, Xu Ji put aside his heart, and was about to speak, but saw a shadow come to his side.

At this time, Xu Ji and Chen Zhi had already come to the outside of their camp. Xu Ji turned his head and saw that it was himself who had excluded the manpower to perform special tasks.

Xu Ji waved his hand to stop him from saluting, and said with a smile: How is the matter going?

The phantom said in a deep voice: "Lord, we have sneaked into Zhang Song's tent during the banquet tonight, but unfortunately we haven't found anything like a map.

Chen Zhi was stunned, he didn't expect Xu Ji to secretly investigate Zhang Song,

Xu Ji pondered for a while and said, "You go down and rest, it's hard work." With a wave of his hand, the shadow went down.

Chen Zhi saw that Xu Ji was thoughtful and didn't dare to disturb. Stand still.

Xu Ji didn't realize it, and pondered alone: Could it be that his guess was wrong? This Zhang Song doesn't have any pictures of entering Shu?

The cemetery has a flash of inspiration. Xu Ji remembered something. This Zhang Song has the ability to never forget. Could it be that the map is in Zhang Song's mind? Thinking of this, Xu Ji already had a plan in his heart.

Looks like he's going to have to outwit this map.

Xu Ji knew very well that even if he arrested this Zhang Song, it would be useless. I thought that this Zhang Song knew at a glance that he was an unyielding character who would rather die, and he didn't want to get any information from his mouth.

Thinking of this, Xu Ji called someone and commanded a few words in his ear, and when he heard the man's eyes shining, he nodded and left. When Xu Ji turned his head to look at Chen Zhidi, he saw that Chen Zhi didn't speak, but there was an inquiring look in his eyes, and he smiled dumbly: "Uncle Zhi, don't be surprised, it won't take long for you to understand." ”

Chen Zhi also nodded when he heard this, and did not ask any more, Xu Ji looked at the bright moon, and said in a deep voice: "At dawn, we will set off to Youzhou, Uncle Zhi, there." It will be your world. ”

Chen Zhi nodded slightly, and his eyes showed expression.

The next day, Xu Ji really did what he said and left the camp without even saying hello, but no one would blame him. On the contrary, Xu Ji's big trouble with the alliance became known to the world under Xu Ji's deliberate dissemination.

Xu Ji's eyes were lifted to an unprecedented height in the blink of an eye.

Xu Ji didn't have time to pay attention to these things, he and Chen Zhi led the army to speed up the march, and soon came to Yecheng in Jizhou. Before he arrived in Yecheng, Xu Ji had already seen the gate of Yecheng open, and there was a group of people waiting there in the distance.

This group of people saw the banner of Xu Ji's army from a distance, and immediately let out cheers, which resounded in the sky.

Xu Ji and Chen arrived in front of the gate of Yecheng, which was really crowded at this time, and the characters who had a little head and face in Jizhou had arrived. From high-ranking officials to military and political dignitaries, there are hundreds of people. Coupled with the army that maintains order, there are more than 1,000 people in this city, plus the people, it is really magnificent.

Xu Ji and Chen Zhi jumped off the horse. laughed and greeted the people represented by Jizhou Thorn Shi Xunyou.

Xun You hadn't seen Xu Ji for a long time, and said excitedly: "My lord, ......" Xu Ji smiled and pulled Xun You, who knelt on the ground, and nodded: "Xun You, you have worked hard for this time, and I have managed Yizhou in an orderly manner." ”

Xin Ping, who was on the side, also stepped forward at this time and said excitedly to Xu Ji: "Lord, you are back, but you want to worry about Xin Ping!"

Xu Ji looked at the head of the Xin family in Yizhou in front of him, and only felt that it was not a long time, and the person who was strong and strong in his prime had aged a lot, and he was a little moved in his heart, Xu Ji naturally knew that Xin Ping was living like a year during this time.

As the periphery of Yanzhou Xu Ji Group's power, it is impossible for Xin Ping to know about Xu Ji's fake disappearance.

Xu Ji's disappearance made Xin Ping's position in the family difficult, after all, at this time, the Xin family had their own family interests, and had already bet on Xu Ji, but now Xu Ji was missing, which of course made the Xin family, who had just thrown themselves into Yanzhou, panic, and some people even took the opportunity to question Xin Ping's ability to manage the family. And now that Xu Ji is back, this is undoubtedly a strong support for Xin Ping.

The reason why Xu Ji was moved was because according to intelligence, Xin Ping's attitude was very firm during this period of time, that is, he insisted that he should not cooperate with Yanzhou, and suppressed the opposition in the family.

Only this one, Xu Ji knew that this Xin Ping was already a sincere surrender to him.

Xu Ji pulled Xin Ping with both hands and said indifferently: "Mr. Xin Ping is really a rare talent in my Yizhou. Tomorrow I have something I would like to talk to Mr. Xin Ping. Xin Ping is also an old fox, so he was stunned at first. Immediately knew what Xu Ji meant, his eyes welled up with ecstasy, and he nodded vigorously.

There are a lot of people here, of course, it is inconvenient to say more, so Xin Ping let go of his body.

Then representatives of the Xun family and other families stepped forward one by one to salute, and Xu Ji made a perfunctory look. "My lord." A nice male voice came, Xu Ji turned his head, and it turned out to be the representative of the Zhen family. Zhen Mi's second brother - Zhen Yan.

Xu Ji looked at Zhen Yan. I couldn't help but think of Mrs. Zhang, who was charming, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Zhen Yan's son, how is Mrs. Ling Ci Zhang?" ”

Xun You had already reported to himself in the letter that Mrs. Zhang was abducted because of Zhen Mi, and she was even angry and frightened, and she had a serious illness. Zhen Yan said respectfully: "There is a husband who asks, my mother has greatly improved her appetite since my sister came back, and she has improved a lot. ”

Xu Ji nodded. But I saw Zhen Yan whispering: "Lord, my mother wants to see my lord, but I don't know ...... lord."

Xu Ji had a headache, this Mrs. Zhang was really difficult to deal with, and frankly speaking, if it was possible, he really didn't want to see her. But now that I have come to Yecheng, I have received another invitation. And people obviously appreciate themselves, and it's a bit unreasonable to say that they don't give face. In desperation, he could only nod. made an appointment to see Mrs. Zhang in the evening, and Zhen Yan retreated.

Gao Shun and the others were fighting on the front line at this time, so Xu Ji didn't see them.

Under the guidance of Xun You, Xu Ji and his party slowly walked into Yecheng.

Xun You and Xu Ji walked side by side, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one left and right, and then said in a low voice: "Lord, you'd better go back to the house now and take a look." There are important people waiting for you. Xu Ji looked at Xun You with a mysterious look, a little inexplicable,

Someone important? Who?

When Xu Ji returned to his residence in Yizhou, he entered the backyard, but saw Cai Yan's personal maid.

After the maid saw Xu Ji, she was stunned for a while, and then screamed, left the basin in her hand on the ground, and ran over with joy. Quickly followed behind the little girl, only to see that the little girl entered the back garden without even knocking on the door, so he pushed the door in.

Xu Ji really had a complicated mind in his heart at this time, and secretly thought that his wife was really a bit nonsense, even if he knew that Cai Yan didn't dislike him, but there was no need to match the two, right? But it was useless to think about it at this time, so he strode to the door of the house,

When he came to his room, the door was opened.

"Lord Xu." The voice came out with a gust of fragrant wind, and it was Cai Yan, Xu Ji ignored the stunned expression of the little maid standing on the side, frowned and asked, "Why did Miss Cai come here?" The maid wanted to stay, but Cai Yan had already waved him down, and she had to exit the room. I closed the door.

After the maid went out, Cai Yan also waved his hand to signal Xu Ji to sit down, and then explained: "Sister Ning said that it is dangerous and inconvenient for me to stay in Yanzhou, so she asked me to come to Jizhou to live temporarily. ”

Cai Yan's words were quite ridiculous, but Xu Ji was really in no mood to flirt here, so he said coldly: "It's not inconvenient. It's just that some people say that there are important people waiting in the house, but I didn't expect it to be Miss Cai. Speaking of which, how is Miss Cai's father doing now? ”

Of course, Cai Yan could also see that Xu Ji wanted to change the topic. She was originally a knowledgeable person, so she naturally followed Xu Ji's words and said: "My father's stay in Yu County is quite close to the craftsmen under the command of the adults. In the past, my father was in charge of teaching the students, and I was quite interested in my father, and this time was good. The body is also better under Mr. Zhang's care. Of course, Xu Ji knew who this Mr. Zhang was, it was Zhang Ji he invited from Jingzhou.

Xu Ji really didn't want to stay longer, so he hurriedly said some polite words and left.

And after he left, Cai Yan fell into contemplation, she looked at Xu Ji's back and couldn't help but feel a little confused, this is a person she hasn't understood for several years, he seems to be a gentleman but has a lot of calculations, if he is a villain but he has a magnificent bearing, otherwise he would not have so many talents under his command. What makes this beauty even more curious is that Xu Ji is obviously ordinary, and there are not a few people who are better than him in literature and martial arts, why did his sister wait for ten years for this poor boy who was just a down-and-out boy at the beginning.

She couldn't help but think of what Yin Ning said to her: "Wen Lie, this person is actually a piece of wood, but it is reassuring, he has an ordinary appearance but high ambitions, he is from a humble background but he started from scratch to his current status, how many people in the world can reach this ability?" To have this merit at this age, I am afraid that it can only be found in history books. ”

I don't believe it, you are really as powerful as my sister said, wait for me to expose you personally! Cai Yan thought so, but she ignored one thing, Yining's words had actually aroused her interest in Xu Ji, and Xu Ji has always been an incomprehensible person, and the more she looks at it, the deeper she falls.

Night, Zhen Mansion.

Xu Ji followed behind Zhen Yan in good spirits.

Xu Ji, who had rested for an afternoon, had recovered his spirit at this time, and he was quite a little wandering at this time.

At this time, Zhen Yan had already brought Xu Ji to the front of a palatial house, "Mother, Lord Xu has come." Zhen Yan said respectfully.

"Stand down." Mrs. Zhang's sexy voice sounded in the room,

Zhen Yan silently retreated,

Xu Ji didn't think it was angry at all, and without waiting for Mrs. Zhang to come in by herself, he pushed the door and walked into Mrs. Zhang's room.

A vague but soul-warming fragrance came to her face, and Mrs. Zhang, who was dressed in white, stood in front of the window with her eyebrows swept away, looking at the window, leaving the infinitely beautiful side to Xu Ji.

Xu Ji's rash entry into the house did not cause Mrs. Zhang's dissatisfaction, but she just turned her head to look at Xu Ji, and said with an indifferent smile: "General Xu, the slave family has been waiting so hard. ”

Xu Ji looked at Mrs. Zhang's phoenix eyes that seemed to be dripping with juice, and felt uncomfortable, and he was even more vigilant, not knowing what this beautiful woman was thinking. However, Xu Ji also thought that this Mrs. Zhang seemed to have some changes.

She lost weight, and she actually lost the plumpness of a mature woman, as if she had returned to her girlhood, a little less temptation to reverie, but a little more heartbreaking beauty,

Maybe what happened during this time made her exhausted, let alone the beginning of a serious illness?

I don't know why, Xu Ji couldn't help but worry about this woman, and couldn't help but smile: "Madame doesn't seem to care about my rash ingress." Mrs. Zhang glanced at Xu Ji, and her pretty eyes conveyed a clear message, "Didn't you also slighten me without consent last time".

Xu Ji was so keen, he immediately grasped the message conveyed by Mrs. Zhang, and he was embarrassed and coughed vigorously, but he didn't know what to say.

Last time, for Guo Jia, he used all kinds of means against this Mrs. Zhang at such an age, it was a last resort, although he also felt very excited at the time, but after all, he did not sympathize with Mrs. Zhang at all. But now it is different, this Mrs. Zhang has lost the perfect posture of a strong woman in the past, but she has become in need of protection, which of course makes Xu Ji feel a sense of guilt for the events of that day.

Mrs. Zhang looked at Xu Ji's appearance, smiled, and immediately covered her mouth, and whispered to Xu Ji, who was a little depressed because she saw her smile: "The whole Jizhou is a general's, let alone a concubine's room?" As he spoke, his jade face turned red. Xu Ji was stunned when he heard this: What does this mean?

Why do you think that this lady has the smell of dedication?

Even if she saves her daughter, she can't make a promise, right? (To be continued......)