On the head of Guandu City, the big flag embroidered with the word "Cao" slowly fell from the flagpole, and the banner inlaid with the golden word "Yuan" slowly rose on the Tucheng of Guandu, although it had not yet marched to Xuchang, but Cao Zhi's complete surrender represented the end of an era and the beginning of another era.

The Cao army surrendered to Yuan Shang under the leadership of Cao Zhi, for Yuan Shang, of course, this is a great joy, Yuan Cao's merger will represent the complete rule of the northern land under the shroud of the Yuan clan, but the joy is only a momentary thing, and the next trivial matters will make Yuan Shang be busy and anxious for a long time.

First of all, Cao's territory in Zhongzhou, in terms of area, is actually not smaller than Hebei, in fact, its territory is far larger than the four prefectures of Hebei. In the current battle, although Cao Zhi has led the main force of Cao's army to surrender, but the local forces are fragmented, the state capitals, counties and counties, whether they are convinced or not Yuan Shang's jurisdiction is one thing, even if he is convinced, whether there are two hearts in his heart is another one, and there are hundreds of local Taishou county orders, even if there are two hearts, if they are not revealed on the surface, Yuan Shang cannot be replaced one by one, which will not only cause mutiny, but also have a huge impact on Yuan Shang's rule.

Of course, the armed forces of the local counties and counties cannot have any impact on the powerful Yuan army in essence, nor can they shake the trend of unification in the north, but Yuan Shang is now a little helpless about this situation, and he is not fighting, and he does not know how long it will take to recover his heart one by one, so Yuan Shang is very headache now.

Fighting, fighting, high flowers. Playing with ghosts, Yuan Shang may be the best today, but when it comes to the political practice. Although he has some skills, he is far inferior to the world's first-class figures.

In addition, the war in Zhongzhou has been prolonged, a lot of losses have been lost, and the people have been displaced, and it is also urgent to rebuild people's livelihood. And if you want to reorganize people's livelihood, there are many items such as grain, grass, money, and materials, none of which can be missing.

When Cao Zhi surrendered in Guandu City. Yuan Shang first arranged the soldiers and horses and generals of the Cao clan for the time being, and then immediately found Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, and others. Discuss how to appease the local state and county forces of all parties in Zhongzhou. In addition, there are also unstable factors in the main force of the Cao clan who returned to Shun, such as Xiahou Tang and Cao Ren.

For the first time, the opinions of Tian Feng and Xiao Ji were surprisingly consistent, and both of them believed that it was better to get rid of all the Cao Jun figures who were hostile to Yuan Shang to reduce troubles and variables, especially Cao Ren, who said that Cao Hong had just died. Although Cao Ren surrendered to Yuan Shang with Cao Zhi, from the way he looked at Yuan Shang. He could definitely see the deep hostility.

For Tian Feng and Xiao Ji's statement, Fu Zhu thinks it is inappropriate, anyway, the Cao family has just surrendered, even if it was an enemy before, it is now considered his own person, if he purge the generals now, I am afraid it will make the people of the world chill, who will dare to surrender in the future?

In particular, Li Dian and Le Jin are now leading the remnants to resist stubbornly in Fuxian, Cao Zhi has promised to send someone to say surrender, if he kills a disobedient general like Cao Ren at this time, let alone Li Dian and Le Jin, I am afraid that many local garrison generals will immediately rebel, and the situation will be unimaginable.

Tian Feng disagreed, this old stubborn donkey has always been rigid and hard enough, listening to the scruples of frustration, Tian Feng shook his head and said: "It is precisely because the Cao clan represented by Cao Zhi has surrendered, all the generals of the Cao clan should be Yuan's subordinates, at this time, whoever dares to have two hearts, or disrespect to the lord, is to be complicit in rebellion, undoubtedly treacherous, disloyal and unjust, according to military regulations, it is also his crime to be punished, if anyone dares to say irresponsible about this, just dig it out and get rid of it." ”

Listening to Tian Feng's words, his brows furrowed into a pimple, what Tian Feng said was right, it was reasonable, but it was too ruthless to do.

The north has just been unified, the people's livelihood in Henan has withered, and Cao Zhi is the party that took the initiative to surrender, and the people's hearts are already floating.

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Yuan Shang in frustration.

Yuan Shang touched his chin, hesitating in his heart.

Speaking from the heart, Yuan Shang is not a woman's benevolent person, when it is time to eradicate the enemy, he will definitely do it, but for the generals of the Cao family, he does not want to do this, although the prejudices between the two sides are very deep, but after all, there are many available talents, and Cao Pi has just led a part of the Cao clan relatives to leave the land, and at this moment, he suddenly kills on a large scale, which is easy to cause mutiny, so that the number of people who imitate Cao Pi increases, which is not advisable.

Just when Yuan Shang was a little hesitant, the guards outside the tent came to report, saying that Jia Xu asked to see Yuan Shang.

When the poisoner came, Yuan Shang couldn't help but be a little surprised, now that the Cao army's army had just returned to Shun, and the generals were all newly resettled, most of them were apprehensive and watched Yuan Shang's actions, but it was really only Jia Xu who took the initiative to come to see him.

Yuan Shang thought for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "Let him come in." ”

When he was young, he saw Jia Xu walking into the camp slowly with a crutch, although he was old, his complexion was really good, at least he looked much more energetic than Cao Zhi.

"Subordinate Jia Xu, I have seen General Sima."

When Yuan Shang saw Jia Xu, his heart suddenly trembled.

What an exciting thing it is that the famous poisoner, one of the best wise men in the world, should be under his command from this day onwards!

However, Yuan Shang is still not sure whether Jia Xu can really be used for himself, although nominally he has surrendered with Cao Zhi......

Thinking of this, Yuan Shang looked at Tian Feng, frustrated, and said, "The three gentlemen will go out first, and I will talk to Dr. Jia alone." ”

The three of them didn't dare to have an opinion, and then withdrew from the tent.

After the three of them left, Yuan Shang immediately smiled and said, "Doctor Jia and I are also old acquaintances, although we are not familiar with each other, we have met a few times, and from now on, you and I will work together!" At that time, Dr. Dolaojia will have to worry about it. ”

For Yuan Shang's naked recruitment, Jia Xu's face was not happy or disgusted, but it was so faint, cute, unwavering, half-asleep, so that people couldn't see that it was a living person's face.

"Thank you for the general's attention, let's do your best."

Yuan Shang smiled slightly and said, "Doctor Jia is here today, why are you doing it?" ”

Jia Xu said straight to the point: "The old man is here today to help the general share his worries. ”

"Oh?"

Yuan Shang looked at Jia Xu playfully for a while, then chuckled leisurely and said: "As far as I know, since I defeated me in the first battle of my Guandong campaign, Dr. Jia has not made a plan for Cao Zhi for many years, and he has made a plan, I don't know, I still think that Dr. Jia is demented and your IQ has deteriorated, why is it that after many years, as soon as you put in the service, you are willing to share my worries?" ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Shang paused and said with a smile: "Is it because Dr. Jia has cured your Alzheimer's disease?" ”

When Jia Xu heard this, his face was not red and his heart did not beat: "During this time, the old man has indeed never designed for the prime minister to deal with the general, the reason is nothing more than that the old man does not want to offend the general too much. The old man didn't want to do that. ”

"Oh!" Yuan Shangda nodded, and suddenly realized: "Doctor Jia thinks that Cao Zhi will definitely not be able to defeat me in the end, you will follow him to serve me sooner or later, and you don't want to offend me, so you haven't designed for Cao Zhi in recent years, right?" ”

"Yes."

Speaking of this, he saw Yuan Shang's face darkened, and said: "As a minister, I don't do my loyalty to the Lord, I don't do my duty for the Lord, like a selfish old fox like you, what's the use of asking you?" ”

Yuan Shang's words suddenly turned cold, but Jia Xu was not afraid, just stood there in place, looking at him with a calm face, his eyes were deep, and he could barely see the bottom.

"If the general is not willing to use the old decay, please ask the old man to return to his hometown."

Yuan Shang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "You can see it." Say go, say stay. ”

Hearing this, Jia Xu said lightly: "Because old decay is not greedy." The old man lives in the world, not seeking fame and wealth, not seeking to soar, but only to live, food and clothing, and that's it. ”

Speaking of this, Jia Xu paused and said: "The general said that as a minister, the old man is not loyal to the Lord, not righteous for the Lord, and selfish...... The words selfishness and selfishness are admitted by the old man, but the name of disloyalty and injustice is a bit big, please forgive the old man for refuting a few words...... The old decay is alive, although he has changed the lord repeatedly, but he has never harmed a master, at least they are not defeated because of the decay, the decay is at most unable to make a plan, which the decay feels that it should be, because every lord of the decay, the decay has never asked them to give me much official, multiple rewards, just for a seat of food and clothing, and the plan set up by the decay for each lord, the benefits to them are far more than this meal can be compared. ”

Yuan Shang smiled when he heard this, and said, "You mean that you are planning for others, and your strategy is directly proportional to your income?" ”

Jia Xu said indifferently: "I haven't heard of the general's words, but I can understand the general meaning, and that's pretty much it." ”

Yuan Shang was silent for a while when he heard this, and said, "Then I will give you food and clothing, and give you safety, can you give me advice?" ”

Jia Xu nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Then I'll give you fame and fortune, can you give me more advice?"

"If you force it, you don't need it, but you can be disrespectful."

Yuan Shang smiled helplessly when he heard this, and secretly said that he was a cunning old fox. To be his lord for a long time, he must always be invincible.

However, it is worth reassuring that it is indeed as the old fox said, although he changes his master frequently, he has never harmed his master, which is really rare.

Perhaps, this is his way of survival, the way of being a man.

After being silent for a while, Yuan Shang suddenly said, "Doctor Jia, I came here today to share some worries for me. ”

"The old man is here to help the general solve how to stabilize the local county forces in Zhongzhou and the generals of the Cao family, and the old man knows that the way to kill is not what the general wants."

"............" (To be continued......)