The next day, Cao Cao set up a banquet in his camp and invited Ao Lie to the banquet. This was agreed upon by Cao Cao and Ao Lie yesterday, and before the class teacher, there was still a meal between the two that they had not drunk.

Cao Cao took the initiative to invite Ao Lie to the banquet, and Ao Lie had already guessed a general reason in his heart. Between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, there will be a battle sooner or later, but with Cao Cao's strength alone, he may not be able to beat Yuan Shao, so Cao Cao wants to take this opportunity to reach an agreement with Ao Lie and form a temporary alliance to deal with Yuan Shao together. On the other hand, Cao Cao also wanted to test Ao Lie to see where Ao Lie's bottom line was and whether he had the ambition to be the emperor.

The Spring and Autumn Period is an unrighteous war, this sentence is applicable in any troubled times. At present, the Han Dynasty is full of heroes, and the princes from all walks of life divide one side, unite or attack each other, to put it bluntly, they are all for their own interests, they can be allies for interests, and they can also be enemies for interests, there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. No one is really thinking about the people of the world, but now with Ao Lie, it has become a little different. His thoughts were obviously incompatible with the other princes, so that Cao Cao couldn't see Ao Lie's true thoughts, so Cao Cao planned to use this banquet to touch Ao Lie's bottom.

At noon, Ao Lie appeared in front of Cao Cao's camp on time. At this moment, Ao Lie took off his military uniform and wore a set of robes mainly white embroidered with splendid mountains and rivers, which set off Ao Lie's more and more outstanding bearing. Behind Ao Lie were Zhao Yun with a white horse and a silver spear and Sun Ce in black armor, at the same time. There were also ten elite blood killers accompanying him.

A group of thirteen people walked into Cao Cao's camp with their heads held high. Seeing that Ao Lie only came with a dozen people, Cao Cao sincerely admired Ao Lie's courage. Although there is no direct conflict of interest between Cao Cao and Ao Lie, and there is a common enemy like Yuan Shao, there is no righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period, and no one dares to guarantee that this banquet set by Cao Cao will not be a Hongmen banquet. If it were someone else, he might not have taken the risk at all, but Ao Lie didn't just come. And only a dozen people came. It not only shows Ao Lie's own courage and bearing, but also shows that Ao Lie has extreme confidence in his subordinates, and believes that these dozen subordinates will be able to protect their own safety. Meantime. This detail. It also shows Ao Lie's foresight, and he firmly believes that before the form of friend and foe has not completely changed. Cao Cao wouldn't do anything to him. On such a small issue, Cao Cao saw that Ao Lie was unusual, and strengthened his determination to unite with Ao Lie to fight against Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao was a man of great ambitions, and of course he would work with people who were also exceptional. As Ao Lie strode over, Cao Cao shook his robe, and then greeted him with a smile, and then Ao Lie, Zhao Yun, and Sun Ce entered their own camp, and the other ten elites of the Blood Killing Army, without Ao Lie's orders, automatically stopped outside the tent, and then according to the handle of the sword, ignoring the existence of the 50,000 soldiers of the Cao army, like a javelin, stood with their heads held high. Fearlessness comes from its own strong strength, and the actions of the ten Blood Killing Army once again made the careful Cao Cao see it, and also made Cao Cao look sideways at the elite level of the Blood Killing Army again. Since the formation of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and Tiger Guard Battalion, Cao Cao has understood that the formation of elite troops is far from being as simple as it seems, the weapons and equipment are far better equipped than ordinary sergeants, the training level is several levels higher, and the military salary is also three to five times that of ordinary soldiers.

Cao Cao wanted to ask Ao Lie how he trained the four elite troops under his command, but when the words came to his lips, Cao Cao forcibly swallowed them. Cao Cao knew that the method of military training had been a high military secret since ancient times, so Cao Cao believed that it was impossible for Ao Lie to tell him easily. Actually, Cao Cao was wrong, although now Cao Cao and Ao Lie's friends and enemies are unknown, but for this, Ao Lie will still tell Cao Cao, anyway, Cao Cao can't learn, what is Ao Lie afraid of? To put it bluntly, the reason why Ao Lie was able to train four elite troops, in addition to Gao Shun, Xu Rong and other military trainers under his command, the concept of military soul is the key to Ao Lie's transplantation from later generations and successful infusion into his own troops, so as to train four elite soldiers. The soul of the army is the soul of an army, and the troops with the soul of the army have faith, and they will understand what they are fighting for, unlike other sergeants who do not have the soul of the army, even if the basic loyalty is a problem, how can they become elite soldiers?

After entering the big tent, Ao Lie found that there were only two tables in the tent, obviously, Cao Cao meant to chat with him alone, and people who did not have enough status were simply blocked out of this tent. Even important ministers like Zhao Yun and Sun Ce or princes all the way, there is no place to sit in this big tent.

Cao Cao took the lead in walking to a table, sat down on his knees, and then stretched out his hand to Ao Lieyi and said, "Prince, please!" ”

Ao Lie slowly walked over to the other table and sat down cross-legged. In the Han Dynasty, people generally adopt the posture of kneeling and sitting on formal occasions, but Ao Lie is very uninterested in this, kneeling and sitting is not only uncomfortable, but also sitting for a long time, the legs will be numb, and it is not good for the body, so Ao Lie has abolished this sitting posture since he was in charge of the secluded and merger. There are no famous families in the territory of Youji, and there are no scholars who can affect the overall situation, so Ao Lie's rule was quickly accepted by the people. After all, no one wants to sit more uncomfortable than kneeling, and everyone naturally has no opinion on being able to change to a comfortable sitting position.

Seeing Cao Cao staring at him, Ao Lie smiled and said: "Cao Sikong, two years ago, in the territory of Youhe, the sitting posture of kneeling has been abolished, Sikong should not think that Benhou does not follow the etiquette law. ”

"Where, where, actually, I've long been tired of kneeling." Saying that, Cao Cao stood up, and then sat down again like Ao Lie, and after feeling it for a while, he praised: "It's still comfortable to sit like this." ”

Ao Lie and Cao Cao glanced at each other, and Da Lu laughed at the same time. From this detail, Ao Lie can see that Cao Cao and himself have a striking similarity in the handling of certain issues. The same informality, the same flexibility and open-mindedness. In the strict Han Dynasty, Cao Cao's character was very rare, and perhaps this was one of the factors for Cao Cao's later success.

After sitting down, Cao Cao ordered the guards to put food and wine on the table. Today's food is very simple, with only two meat dishes, two vegetarian dishes, a plate of green plums with water droplets, and a stall of Zephyr spirits in front of each person. Even entertaining Ao Lie is so simple. Thus. It is rumored that Cao Cao advocates thrift and opposes extravagance and waste, which must be true.

After the wine and food were served, Cao Cao smiled and said, "Junhou, there are no other wine and delicacies in the army. Sluggish. Ao Lie replied with a smile: "Sikong is too polite. Food and drink are just a matter of satisfying the stomach. That's already good. ”

Nodding, Cao Cao stretched out his hand and pointed to the green plums on the plate, and said with a smile: "Years ago." Cao obeyed the edict of the Son of Heaven and sent troops to attack Qingzhou, the sergeants were thirsty halfway through, and they couldn't walk. At that time, even in the mouth of the, I felt thirsty and about to come out of the green smoke, and after the last, I was worried about a plan, pointed to the road in front of me and said, twenty miles away, there is a plum forest. When the sergeants heard this, their tongues were filled with joy, and they worked hard to reach their destination on time. After a pause, Cao Cao laughed a little self-deprecatingly, and then said: "Don't hide it from the prince, in fact, at that time, Cao Cao also relied on this method to comfort himself, and he only supported himself at the end of the day." ”

Ao Lie had already heard this story of "looking at Mei to quench thirst" in later generations, but today when he heard Cao Cao, the initiator, say it himself, he felt something different. Picking up the wine glass in front of him, Ao Lie raised his glass to Cao Cao and said: "Sikong is witty and admirable, Ben Hou respects Sikong with a glass, and he does it first!" With a tilt of his head, Ao Lie drank all the wine in the cup in one gulp.

Cao Cao smiled and drank a glass of wine, and then asked, "It's rare for a prince to be so open-minded. But isn't the prince afraid of poisoning the wine? ”

Ao Lieha laughed and said with a smile: "It is not Sikong's nature to kill people by poisoning, if Sikong really does this, he will be a hero in vain." Besides, Ben Hou's father and wife were heavily poisoned, but they were rescued by the ten thousand diamond Zhu Lanpei that Ben Hou was wearing, these things, presumably Sikong must have heard of it, since he knew that the poison was useless to Ben Hou, would Sikong still poison it? ”

After Ao Lie's words were finished, it was Cao Cao's turn to laugh, he stretched out a thumbs up to Ao Lie, and praised him sincerely: "The bearing of the prince is admirable!" When the prince said the word 'hero', he dared to ask the prince, who could be worthy of the title of hero at that time? ”

This is, boiled wine on the hero? Ao Lie thought in surprise. In history, Cao Cao once deliberately boiled wine with green plums in order to test Liu Bei's mind, and turned the heroes all over the world, but he didn't expect that because of Ao Lie's arrival, one of the protagonists of this matter was replaced by Ao Lie! Ao Lie has already learned about what happened through the historical knowledge of later generations, but he didn't want to be led by Cao Cao, so he asked anti-guest: "Sikong thinks, who can be a hero?" ”

Cao Cao took a sip of wine and said slowly: "Today, the princes are divided, and there are hundreds of thousands of people under their command, and there are not a few. The prince thought that Yuan Shu, who died a few days ago, had once seized Huainan men, and the soldiers were full of food, could he be a hero? "Cao Cao was the first to propose Yuan Shu, there was a purpose, Yuan Shu usurped the emperor, it was a contempt for the imperial power of the Han Dynasty, and no one who was loyal to the Han Dynasty could forgive Yuan Shu's actions. Therefore, Cao Cao hoped to be able to judge from Ao Lie's answer how loyal Ao Lie was to the Han Dynasty.

Ao Lie shook his head, and his answer disappointed Cao Cao: "The deceased is gone, and there is no need to say anything more." Obviously, Ao Lie refused to comment on Yuan Shu on the grounds that the deceased was safe, and at the same time cut off Cao Cao's intention to test himself.

After getting Ao Lie's answer, Cao Cao was obviously not very satisfied, so Cao Cao said the second person: "Yuan Shao of Hebei, the third prince of the fourth world, his protégés and former officials are all over the world, and now he is in half of Jizhou and Qingzhou, and there are many famous generals and ministers under him, can he be a hero?" Even if he couldn't find out Ao Lie's loyalty to the Han, Cao Cao changed his strategy, he wanted to know Ao Lie's opinion of Yuan Shao from Ao Lie's mouth, and test whether Ao Lie could join forces against Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao knew that the hatred between Ao Lie and Yuan Shao had almost reached the point of incompatibility, and Yuan Shao secretly picked up He Jin's fake edict from the beginning and recruited Dong Zhuo into Beijing, and the contradiction between Ao Lie and Yuan Shao had already been concluded; Later, in the battle against Dong, Ao Lie and Yuan Shao competed for the position of the leader of the alliance of various princes. further intensified the contradictions, and even before the Tiger Prison Pass, Yuan Shao made the contradictions between the two public because he did not obey Ao Lie's orders; Later, Yuan Shao didn't know which tendon was wrong, and he was easily fooled by Wang Yun, united with several other princes in Shaxian County, and ambushed an army of 200,000 to try to kill Ao Lie in one fell swoop. Almost died. In addition, the elite of the two armies of Blood Kill and Tiger Ben were completely damaged in this battle, causing Ao Lie to return to Youzhou safely, and he could only endure this breath for the time being. Implement a policy of rest and recuperation. This account. Until today, a few years later, Ao Lie still hasn't been able to get it back; After that, Ao Lie tried to win over the Zhen family. Infiltrated Yecheng and persuaded the Zhen family to surrender at the same time, he also set fire to Yuan Shao's granary, so that Yuan Shao had to tighten his belt, and after more than a year of thrift and food, in short, the hatred between Ao Lie and Yuan Shao is not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences, based on the hatred between the two, Cao Cao believes that Ao Lie should hate Yuan Shao very much, so Cao Cao said Yuan Shao for the second time.

Ao Lie chuckled and said: "I heard that Sikong and Yuan Shao have known each other since childhood, and they have done a lot of things together, presumably Sikong's understanding of Yuan Shao is much clearer than that of Benhou, so why should Sikong ask?" In Ao Lie's words, there was a needle hidden in the cotton, which once again made Cao Cao confused, and at the same time, he also turned out the lack of virtue that Cao Cao had done in his childhood. Cao Cao repeatedly tested Ao Lie, how could Ao Lie not know? Ao Lie was unwilling to be at the mercy of Cao Cao, so he also wanted to try Cao Cao's bottom line to see if Cao Cao would be unhappy because of his words, if Cao Cao was so easy to get angry, it would be too disappointing for Ao Lie. Since coming to this world, Ao Lie has been clear about the three great enemies he will face in the future: Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan. Now, Liu Bei is like a lost dog, and Zhuge Liang was snatched away by Ao Lie first, if Liu Bei wants to achieve a great cause, it will definitely be doubly difficult, and in the short term, it is no longer within the scope of Ao Lie's consideration; And Sun Quan, because of Sun Ce's relationship, now Ao Lie and Jiangdong civil and military get along very well, as long as Sun Ce is in one day, Sun Quan will not become the leader of Jiangdong, so Sun Quan is no longer in Ao Lie's consideration; Then, there is only one Cao Cao left, in Ao Lie's subconscious, he hopes that Cao Cao can be strong enough to defeat such an opponent to have a sense of achievement, if the opponent is too weak, even if he can defeat him, Ao Lie will not have any sense of joy.

Cao Cao did not disappoint Ao Lie, and did not care about Ao Lie's ridicule at all, and said with a smile: "It was just a stupid thing that I did when I was young. I didn't expect that the old things of the prince and the marquis had heard of it. ”

The smile on Ao Lie's face was very bright, but his words became even more aggressive: "Sikong is the third duke, Ben Hou doesn't know how to do it, I'm afraid it's also difficult." Ben Hou not only knew these things, but also knew that Cao Ang, the eldest son of Lu Dao Sikong, was not born to Mrs. Ding, but to Mrs. Ding's maid, Mrs. Liu. ”

Ao Lie's words suddenly made Cao Cao's face change. Mrs. Ding, is Cao Cao's original wife, and also the first wife, but Mrs. Ding can not have children, Cao Cao repeated efforts to no avail, once drunk and Mrs. Ding's maid Mrs. Liu had a relationship, who expected that Mrs. Liu was pregnant with Cao Cao's child, and after giving birth to a boy, Cao Cao was overjoyed and named the boy Cao Ang. But after all, Mrs. Liu was a maid and couldn't be Cao Cao's main room, so Mrs. Ding took Cao Ang over and treated her as her own. In order to conceal Cao Ang's identity, Cao Cao killed most of the people in the know, and issued a strict order to Mrs. Liu, forbidding her to tell Cao Ang what she really wanted. Until Cao Ang's death two years ago, he didn't know that his biological mother turned out to be Mrs. Liu. Cao Cao has kept this matter a secret, and the secrecy work has been done very well, but he didn't expect it to be broken by Ao Lie now.

Now that Cao Ang is dead, there is no need to hide the true thoughts of this matter, Cao Cao naturally will not change color for this reason. The real reason for Cao Cao's change of color was because Cao Cao suddenly felt that Ao Lie was very terrible, and he didn't know how Lu Dao Ao Lie knew about it, but Cao Cao knew that Ao Lie must have formed a very good intelligence force, otherwise, Ao Lie would not be able to know what happened more than ten years ago.

With a far-fetched smile, Cao Cao said insincerely: "I didn't expect that the prince still has a tailwind ear in his hand, people say that there are four elite troops under the command of the prince and marquis, and today it seems that it is a big fallacy, it should be five!" ”

Seeing that Cao Cao guessed the existence of the shadow, Ao Lie did not deny it. The reason why he said this was to warn Cao Cao that nothing you do, any thoughts, can't hide from my Ao Lie's ears and eyes! Now, the goal has been achieved, Ao Lie will no longer continue to persecute Cao Cao, some things, just click on it, let Cao Cao understand it himself, far better than Ao Lie said. Much more effective. Ao Lie turned the topic back to Yuan Shao: "Yuan Shao is very timid. Rigid for self-use, wide on the outside and taboo on the inside, resourceful and indecisive. Do big things and cherish yourself, and forget your righteousness when you see small profits. Don't talk about heroes. In hindsight. He doesn't deserve to lift shoes for real heroes. ”

This was the first thing Cao Cao wanted to hear in Ao Lie's mouth since the banquet. Hide the shock in your heart for a moment. Cao Cao seemed to have forgotten about Ao Lie's elusive intelligence force, and asked with interest: "The prince's evaluation of Yuan Shao can be described as extremely incisive, and Cao Cao also sees it this way. So, even Yuan Shao is not worthy of being called a hero, does the prince think that Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao can be a hero? This person is named Bajun, who is powerful in Kyushu. ”

As soon as Cao Cao's words came out, Sun Ce, who was standing behind Ao Lie, said angrily: "Liu Biao's name is the clan of the Han Dynasty, but he does things that hurt people with secret arrows behind his back, how can such a despicable villain be called a hero!" ”

Ao Lie turned around and signaled Sun Ce with his eyes not to say much, Sun Ce understood, snorted coldly and stopped talking. At the beginning, Sun Jian was killed by Yuan Shu and Liu Biao, and now Yuan Shu has been ambushed, or died under Ao Lie's Chixiao Divine Sword, which can be regarded as avenging Sun Ce for half of his father's murder, as for the other half, Sun Ce decided to get it back from Liu Biao with his own hands!

Ao Lie turned his head and said to Cao Cao: "Sikong smiled, Bo Fu has a straightforward temperament, and he really has no intentions. But then again, Liu Biao is in name only, trapped in Jingzhou, and really can't be called a hero. ”

Cao Cao smiled disappreciatively, and asked again: "So, can Yizhou Liu Zhang and Hanzhong Zhang Lu be heroes?" Ao Lie replied bluntly this time: "There are still deficiencies in Shoucheng, what a hero!" ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "All the people listed by Cao have been denied by the prince one by one, dare to ask the prince, who is the hero in your heart?" ”

Ao Lie did not directly answer Cao Cao's words, and said leisurely: "The dragon can be big and small, and it can be promoted and hidden; The big one is the clouds and the fog, and the small one is hidden and hidden; The rising is soaring between the universe, and the hidden is lurking in the waves. The dragon's ride changes from time to time, like a person's ambition and crisscrossing the seas. Dragons are things, comparable to the heroes of the world. This is the only criterion for judging heroes. In these words, Ao Lie clearly drew out the criteria for judging heroes: can bend and stretch, advance can be invincible, retreat can be a thousand miles away, see the right time, and achieve great things, only then is a hero. After saying a word, everyone in the big tent was immersed in Ao Lie's words, figuring out the meaning of these words, among them, Sun Ce was even more thoughtful, and a kind of enlightenment rose to his heart. All along, Ao Lie has persuaded Sun Ce that he is easy to bend, so that Sun Ce should not be too strong, and now, Sun Ce vaguely feels that he can bend and stretch out the truth of being a true hero.

Cao Cao savored the meaning of every word in Ao Lie's words, and after a long time, Cao Cao raised his glass in admiration and said to Ao Lie: "Hearing the words of the prince is better than reading for ten years." To this day, the Cao Fang knows the Tao and the standard for judging heroes is not a temporary gain or loss, a high theory! Please fill this cup to your heart's content. ”

Ao Lie raised his glass and drank with Cao Cao. After putting down the wine glass, Ao Lie threw the topic back to Cao Cao: "According to the standard of this Hou Shicai, Sikong thinks that today, how many people can be called heroes?" ”

Cao Cao stretched out his hand and pointed at Ao Lie, then retracted his hand and pointed at himself, and replied: "The heroes of the world, only the prince and Cao Er!" ”

Ao Lie laughed noncommittally, pointed to Sun Ce behind him, and said: "Sikong is underestimating the heroes of the world, Jiangdong Tiger Sun Bofu, although he is young, he is powerful in Jiangdong, if he can restrain his temper and become calmer in the future, it will be Sikong's very tricky opponent!" ”

Cao Cao laughed, poured a glass of wine himself, handed it to Sun Ce, and said loudly: "A glass to Cao's future rival!" ”

Sun Ce took the wine glass and said to Cao Cao firmly: "I won't let Sikong down." With that, Sun Ce raised his glass and drank it all. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: This is a 6200-word chapter, which is considered to be a chapter made up for yesterday. Da Kun still owes everyone a chapter, and it will be coded out as soon as possible, as for today's two chapters, Da Kun will try his best to complete it, or a change.