Hedong Anyi, a sprawling mansion.

On the morning of this day, at the main entrance of the mansion, a group of horseback riders stopped. The group of people was haggard and looked dusty.

The leader, a scribe, jumped off his horse and walked briskly to the mansion. When a few martial artists at the gate saw it, they hurriedly saluted respectfully and said, "Childe is back?" ”

The scribe bowed slightly, pointed to Menzi and said, "You go and arrange for the people I brought!" By the way, my uncle is not here? ”

Menzi nodded again and again, and said, "The head of the family is at home, son, go quickly!" ”

The scribe nodded, and strode towards the inner courtyard. All the people who saw him along the way saluted respectfully, and this person kept smiling and nodding in return, looking polite and amazing.

After a short time, he came to the main hall and looked closely, but saw Wei Shu, the head of the Wei family, sitting at the top position, looking at him with a smile on his face.

At this time, Wei Shu's eye sockets were deep-set, his face was haggard, and he was no longer as radiant as he used to be! The blow of losing his beloved son is also unbearable for this heroic character!

Wei Kai's heart couldn't help but feel a little sour. Is this still the uncle who guided the country in the past? He didn't know the real relationship between Wei Shu and Wei Zheng, and when he saw Wei Shu's grief for losing Wei Zheng, he also felt warm in his heart. However, they are not ordinary families, they have higher pursuits, so, in his opinion, my uncle has some woman's kindness! If you want to do great things, how can you do this?

Wei Shu obviously knew what Wei Kai was thinking, he smiled and said, "Kai'er, uncle's health is very good, you don't have to worry about me!" It's you, this trip to merge states is quite smooth, right? ”

Wei Kai clasped his fists and saluted, and then said, "Uncle, it's going well!" ”

Wei Shu breathed a sigh of relief visibly and said, "Come on, Kai'er, go and sit down next to your uncle and let your uncle take a good look at you." ”

Wei Kai bowed slightly, came to Wei Shu and sat down.

Wei Shu looked him up and down for a long time, then nodded slowly, and said, "Well, although the color of wind and frost is very strong, his body is not bad, and he looks stronger than before!" Hehe, that's good. Kyle, tell your uncle about the details of this trip. ”

Wei Kai saw that Wei Shu's eyes were full of care, and his heart was also warm. Hearing this, he nodded and said, "Uncle, everything goes well on this trip!" ”

In October, the Weijia Distillery was built, producing the first batch of distilled spirits. The Wei family was very excited about this, but it wasn't long before they discovered that the quality of the wine they brewed was not constant! The Wei family has thought of many ways, but they still can't solve this problem. They had no choice but to exchange the wine they had made for horses.

Wei Kai, with Wei Shu's order, approached the Southern Huns and offered to exchange spirits for horses. The Southern Xiongnu also happened to want to get more spirits, so the two sides hit it off and agreed to exchange three jars of wine for a horse.

Wei Shu smiled and said sincerely: "Kai'er, thanks to you!" ”

Wei Kai shook his head slightly, and said, "These are all good instructions from my uncle, I'm just running errands!" ”

Looking at Wei Shu's haggard face, Wei Kai hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth, and said in a deep voice: "Uncle, Zhengdi has been outdated for many days, uncle, you must cheer up!" My Wei family is inseparable from my uncle, without my uncle's guidance, it is difficult for my Wei family to achieve great things! ”

Wei Shu smiled and patted his arm, and said gently, "Kai'er, don't say it again!" Uncle has long understood, uncle has been wrong for a few months, uncle will cheer up. As for Zheng'er's grudge, hehe, I will repay Tian Fan a hundred times in the future! ”

Thinking of Tian Fan's matter, he couldn't help but feel unhappy! Wei Zheng's death is inseparable from Tian Fan, there is no doubt about it. Just a few days ago, Huang Chengyan, Sima Hui, Pang Degong, the three elders of Jingzhou, Zheng Xuan, a doctor of the Six Classics, Kong Rong, a descendant of Confucius, Liu Hong, one of the three gentlemen of Taixue, and six world-famous scholars and scholars jointly wrote a letter to him, asking for the removal of Cai Yanwei's daughter-in-law! …,

These six people, no matter which one of them is a well-known scholar in the world, they can't be easily offended, they actually wrote such a letter for Tian Fan's commission. This surprised Wei Shu, and he couldn't help it, he immediately gave up the idea of taking revenge on Tian Fan.

However, once he thought about it, he still hated it so much! It's a pity that this revenge can only be avenged after the Wei family succeeds.

Wei Kai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Uncle is wise! ”

Wei Shu smiled slightly and said, "Stinky boy, have you also learned to flamboy?" By the way, King Zuo Xian didn't see a flaw on his side, right? ”

Cai Yan fled with Tian Fan, so the conditions on King Zuoxian's side could not be met, so Wei Shu found a woman who was six points similar to Cai Yan to fool him according to the plan.

Wei Kai smiled and said, "Uncle, don't worry, when King Zuo Xian saw that woman, he was immediately shocked, and he couldn't care about anything!" ”

Wei Shu bowed his head slightly and said, "That's good." How many horses did they promise to give? ”

Wei Kai said: "Uncle, don't worry, they promised to sell us 50,000 war horses!" It's just that...... It's just that they don't want to trade in spirits entirely, and only allow 20,000 horses to be traded in spirits, and the remaining 30,000 horses are traded in grain. Well, fortunately, the price is not expensive, twenty stone for a horse, which is quite affordable! ”

Wei Shu nodded and said, "Hehe, 600,000 stone grains are nothing to us." Besides, we can sell spirits at a cheaper price, so that we can accumulate some of the grain. Well, you reply to them immediately and say I agreed. ”

Wei Kai bowed slightly and asked, "Uncle, how are we preparing here?" ”

Wei Shu smiled and said, "Hehe, the preparation here is very good." 50,000 foot soldiers have already begun training, and weapons and equipment are not a problem. Well, on your father's side, more than 3,000 Huns have been included one after another, and they can become swords in our hands with a little training! Hehe, next fall, we'll be able to do something. ”

Cao Cao has been in a bad mood lately!

A few days ago, in the battle of Wancheng, although his losses were not large, it was very demoralizing. Before he could retreat to the camp outside Suiyang City, he received a message from Xiahoudun that Liu Bei found that he was not in the camp and launched a large-scale sneak attack on the camp. Fortunately, Xiahoudun, Guo Jia and others were alert and successfully resolved, and only half of the two large battalions were burned, and the losses were bearable.

In the past two days, he has been thinking about whether to continue to hold out or withdraw his troops now.

The attack on Xuzhou by the princes of the four routes, judging from the current situation, has collapsed. 80,000 people of Yuan Tan on the north road were wiped out, and 40,000 people of Sun Ce were wiped out on the south road, and now only Yuan Shu and Cao Cao are still holding on. According to the information obtained from Guangling, Sun Ce did not contribute to the work at all, and there were only 6,000 regular troops of 40,000 people, and the rest were people. However, he doesn't want to complain about others, isn't he himself also a plank road secretly crossing Chen Cang? In this way, it is okay, the grudge between Sun Ce and Liu Bei is over!

On Yuan Shao's side, the 80,000-strong army was almost wiped out, and this feud was also very big! It is said that Yuan Shao has withdrawn his troops from Youzhou and is preparing to strengthen the town defense force in Qingzhou.

So far, only the remaining Yuan Shu and him are not having a good time. Yuan Shu attacked Long Kang, and the army suffered a lot of losses, coupled with the defeat of Qiao Rui, which made his Lao Wo Shouchun army empty, and it would not take long for him to retreat.

On his side, after several sieges, the loss of troops has exceeded 10,000. Coupled with the failure of the sneak attack on Wancheng, the morale of the entire army is low, and it is really not suitable to fight again!

Just yesterday, Xun Yu sent a letter, saying that there was a shortage of food and asked him to withdraw immediately.

Cao Cao is a decisive person, he also thinks that there is no need to fight this battle, the two military divisions of Chen Gong and Xu Shu in Suiyang, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Zang Ba and other generals, are very good, and Suiyang is very firmly guarded, and there is no weakness at all. If we continue to fight, it will only be a waste of troops. Therefore, he has decided to withdraw his troops, but he has not told his subordinates. …,

He really didn't understand, how could the Xuzhou Legion have such a strong combat power?! Long Kang Guan Yu's 30,000 troops resisted the crazy attack of the 100,000 army. Tian Fan's army of more than 20,000 was even more evil, and he directly wiped out Yuan Tan's 80,000 people!

Shaking his head, Cao Cao thought to himself, let's retreat! Don't make yourself hurt for an unrealistic goal.

The curtain was lifted, and several scribes entered.

Cao Cao looked up, but it was Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, and Xun You. He hurriedly smiled and said, "Oh, it turns out that a few gentlemen are here, sit down, hehe, sit down and roast the fire, and then talk later." ”

The three of them were not polite to him, and each found a place near the brazier to sit down, rubbed their hands together, and started a fire.

For a long time, the three of them did not speak, but they had an expression on their faces that they had something to say. Cao Cao couldn't help but ask curiously, "Three, do you have something to say?" ”

The three of them looked at each other a few times, and Cheng Yu said, "Let's talk about Fengxiao!" ”

Xun You also bowed his head and said: "Well, what Feng Xiao discovered, it should be said by Feng Xiao!" ”

Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia, Guo Jia smiled slightly, and said, "Since the two of you don't want to say it, then I'll say it!" After a slight pause, he hugged his fist at Cao Cao and said, "Lord, I think we should retreat!" ”

Cao Cao nodded quietly and said, "Feng Xiao has something to say!" ”

Guo Jia bowed slightly, and said: "Lord, this battle is an undefeated result for us and others, and it is acceptable......" He paused again, and said with some difficulty: "Lord, we have tried all kinds of methods these days, but there is no possibility of quickly capturing Suiyang." This morning, I suddenly remembered a trick, water attack! ”

Cao Cao's eyes lit up, but in the blink of an eye, his gaze returned to clear again. Because, he didn't see a trace of joy in Guo Jia's eyes, but saw endless worry.

Guo Jia continued: "Therefore, I brought a few people to the edge of Suishui to investigate the water situation...... This makes my heart cold! The flow of Suishui is very shallow, and there is no hope of flooding Suiyang. And I suddenly remembered that this winter, Yanzhou and Yuzhou have not even had a decent snowfall! It was cold, but it was a dry and cold breath, but there was no feeling of clammour or cold. I asked a few people in the vicinity, and they also said that this year's water is shallower than usual. Moreover...... The sky is cloudless these days, so I assume that there will be a drought next spring and summer......"

Cao Cao's eyes widened instantly, and he looked at Guo Jia intently. Guo Jia nodded in confirmation, and suddenly, Cao Cao's heart sank!

In the autumn of this year, Cao Cao expanded the scale of autumn ploughing according to the agricultural technology given by Tian Fan, and he thought that he would no longer worry about food for a year, but he did not want to hear the news that there would be a drought. This is a blow to Cao Cao, who is ambitious and ready to expand his territory!

Cheng Yu looked at Cao Cao and said, "Lord, so, now we have to withdraw immediately." We are out on the march, and we have consumed so much food that we can't continue. In the next period of time, our only task is to fight the drought and ensure that next year's summer harvest will not be greatly affected! ”

Cao Cao put away the frustration in his heart, nodded slowly, and said, "The three of you are right, this crisis is a test for us, but it is not a great opportunity!" As long as we survive next year's drought, we may be able to usher in even greater victories! ”

The three of them couldn't help but clench their fists and said in unison: "The lord is wise!" ”

ps: Chinese New Year, I didn't even have time to stop writing books, I was going to send three chapters today, to give everyone a New Year's greeting, but a lot of relatives and friends, and I went to the grave again in the afternoon. I'm trying to write a little more tonight, so I'll give you a New Year's greeting tomorrow! I wish you all a happy new year, a happy family, good health and all the best!