Xu Chu and Xu Zhongkang, who are good at being "tiger idiots" in the army, are the first fighting generals in Cao Ying. Shi Xun didn't forget Xu Yu, he felt that Xu Yu should have appeared in the past few years, but unfortunately he was not too interested in this person in his previous life - he admired the generals rather than the generals - so he just remembered that he was from Yuzhou, but he couldn't remember which country and county he was talking to, and he didn't think about sending someone to inquire, let alone remind Cao Cao. After all, Xu Yu is not from a high background, not a famous scholar, if there is such a person, Cao Cao asked where did you hear it, but how to answer?

Fortunately, according to the normal trend of history, Xu Yu still returned to Cao - in the original history, he took the initiative to take refuge, so it is unlikely that anything will go wrong. But Shi Xun still has to ask clearly, saying that since he is the captain of the Su Guard, why has he never met? It's just a big man like you, and you've entered the dormitory, and it makes no sense that I've never seen it.

Xu Yu replied: "Yu is a man, and he used to gather people in his hometown to ward off thieves. It's just that the affairs of the township still need to be arranged, so the month before last began to enter the permit, Cao Gong summoned yesterday, and set up the post of lieutenant. "It's Xunxin who said that's the case, dare to love you just took office, no wonder I haven't seen it. So he asked: "What is the matter with Captain Xu's summons?" ”

Xu Yu replied: "Mo'an dares to summon the Shaofu, it is the order of the Duke of Cao, please return to the Sikong Mansion and discuss important matters." ”

It was Xun Xin who said that I had just gone out, alas, and called back, what is the big deal? didn't dare to slack off at the moment, and followed Xu Yu back quickly. When I entered the main hall, I saw Cao Cao taking a seat, frowning and looking at a piece of plate on a few cases, and Cao Ang was sitting at the bottom. Seeing Shixun come in, Cao Ang hurriedly got up and saluted. Cao Cao nodded at him. handed over the tablet: "I have sent someone to call Gongda, Fengxiao, etc." Hongfu can watch this first. ”

Yeshun took the plate and took a look. It turned out to be a performance, let's take a look at the signature - "General Ning Ji Duan Xuan". Looking at the content again, it is roughly said: close detection of the group of thieves in Guanzhong is in chaos, Li Dao and Guo Yan attack each other again, Li Dao makes his nephew Li Litun Weiqiao, Guo Wei envoy Wang Chengtun fine willow, Lishan and Hongmen are not fortified, and this autumn Huayin is about to ripen. Therefore, after harvesting the wheat, he will wave his army to the west to crusade against the usurpation for the imperial court. In a word, Duan Xuan planned to take the initiative to send troops to fight Li Dao and Guo Yan and recover Chang'an.

Shi Xun watched the performance several times, but he always frowned and remained silent. He pretended to be deep here, Cao Cao would not be cautious, and asked as soon as he opened his mouth: "What does Hongfu think?" "It's Xun Xin who said that when he encounters this kind of big thing, he has to be the uncle and nephew of the Xun family or Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and others to speak first, and he is just following the side to pick up the missing things. Today is more unlucky, those few people have not yet arrived. So Cao Cao asked himself first...... But this strategy is not his strong point!

But fortunately, it's okay to go to other places and other things, he has been to Huayin once, and he has carefully discussed it with Lu Su on the return trip, if you are Duan Xuan, or you are Jia Xu, what should you do next? So since Cao Cao asked, he also had the courage to help analyze it-

Duan Xuan is in Huayin, the land is narrow and the people are outnumbered, the east is afraid of Lu Bu's compulsion, and he wants to cheer up, so he can only go west to recover Chang'an for the imperial court. Li and Guo Su are not harmonious, sooner or later they will fight, if they can take advantage of the gap, then Guanzhong is not enough. ”

As he was talking, the strategists all arrived one after another, in addition to Xun You, Cheng Yu, Guo Jia, Mao Jue, Dong Zhao, plus Liu Ye, Zhong Xuan, Wei Qi, Yan Xiang, Wang Cang, and even Xun Yu, who was not usually seen, was temporarily pulled from the office - it seems that Cao Cao is planning to hold an enlarged meeting of the Cao family's central strategist group.

At that moment, everyone watched Duan Xuan's performance, and Cao Cao put forward Shi Xun's opinion again, Xun Yu's status is precious, so he spoke first and said, "What Hongfu saw is also." Huayin rejects the Yellow River in the north, controls Taihua in the south, and Lu Bu in the east, and can only go west. Li Dao, Guo Yan, swimming fish at the bottom of the kettle, it is not difficult to destroy it - for those who are in charge today, how will the imperial court respond? ”

Zhong Xuan nodded and said: "If you can eliminate the thieves and recover Chang'an, it will be of great benefit to the country." However, Duan Xuan, who receives Chang'an, will have nothing to add to the imperial court, and those who receive Chang'an's officials and troops will increase the prestige of the imperial court. When the Son of Heaven issued an edict, he clearly attacked Li and Guo, and sent the governor Duan Xuan and others to march. "What he meant, we have to sit down is that under the premise that the imperial court issued an edict of rebellion and the central government sent people to supervise, Duan Xuan went west to fight Li and Guo, only in this way did he win the battle and recover Chang'an, which increased the prestige of the imperial court, not just his personal reputation Duan Zhongming.

Dong Zhao considered the problem from another angle, saying: "Duan Xuan knew that he could not control Lu Bu, so he wanted to abandon Huayin and take Chang'an west. Then Chang'an was gained by Li and Guo, and lost to Duan Xuan, although Duan Zhong was obedient in appearance, he was eventually divided, and he could not be allowed to occupy Guanzhong steadily, and he should send envoys to supervise and comfort Chang'an and take Chang'an into the possession of the imperial court. "That means, whether it is Li Dao, Guo Yan or Duan Xuan, to put it bluntly, they are all separating the princes, not the imperial court...... To be more precise, it's not your Cao Gong's subordinates, no matter who occupies Chang'an, in fact, there is no substantial benefit to us, we must send people over, take the opportunity to grasp the land in Guanzhong, install new officials, appease the people, and profit from it.

It was Xun Xin who said yes, this is what Cao Cao did in history. When Duan Xuan invaded Chang'an and killed Li Wei (Guo Yan had first killed Wu Xi for him), the Guanzhong region was still divided by the heroes, plundering the people, and tyrannizing one side, Cao Cao first appointed Zhong Xuan as the lieutenant of Si Li, pacified the generals, and then Wei Qian sent an envoy to Yizhou, and detained Chang'an because of the war, so he asked Cao Cao to divide and integrate the generals' departments and completely control the Guanzhong area. It's just that because the advance plan was not careful enough, basically looking at one step at a time, so later there was Ma Chao who made a mess, and the ten parts were reversed, and Cao Cao had to rely on Cao Cao's personal expedition to the west to finally solve the problem. Now that history has changed, can you push the Cao family from it and solve the problem in Guanzhong in advance?

While listening to the Cao family's strategists expressing their opinions, he calculated with his heart, thought about it, and finally raised a question: "The soldiers and horses in Guanzhong, not only Li and Guo Ye, Xi Ma Teng once entered the three auxiliaries, although they were defeated by Li and Guo, they also patrolled to the west of Chen Cang, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, etc., and Feng Yi, Yang Qiu, Li Kan, etc. also refused to settle down, and Duan Xuan Ruoxi, they must all respond to annex the land." At that time, although Chang'an was restored, it only got its name, and the imperial court still had no size, so what could it do? ”

When everyone heard this, they all groaned - Yes Xun is right, just according to what Zhong Xuan and Dong Zhao said, send an angel to supervise the battle (just like the original history of Cao Cao's envoy Pei Mao to supervise the generals of Guanzhong to beg Li Dao), the empty name is good, and the real profit is hard to find. There are all kinds of military leaders over there, can you, an angel with an empty shelf, dig an inch of land out of their teeth? Where is there such a cheap thing!

Xun Yu gritted his teeth: "We will send troops to recruit." "We also have to transfer troops to the past, and we will take as much land as we can take, thinking that we will completely pacify Guanzhong in the future. But Liu Ye said, how many people should we send? If you send less, it may not work, but if you send more thousands of miles to go on an expedition, where will the food come from? Although the autumn harvest is imminent, but we are too far away from Guanzhong here, and we will send troops after the grain is also harvested, we haven't gone to Henan yet, it is estimated that Duan Xuan has already taken Chang'an, where is there room for us to intervene? I'm afraid it won't be in a hurry.

When Guo Jia heard this, he suddenly smiled slightly: "There are also soldiers and horses nearby, so I don't know if I can use them." Cao Cao hurriedly asked where the soldiers were. Guo Jia stretched out his hand and pointed at the map—it was the map that Xun had dedicated to Cao Cao—"There are tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Hedong, and they are close at hand." ”

Wang Cang didn't understand: "This is not Lu Bu's army?" ”

Guo Jia nodded: "Lu Bu sits in the east of the river, wants to get Huayin as the way, and takes Chang'an in the west for a long time, if he can drive it as a guide, so that he can merge with Duan Xuan and the generals of Guanzhong, the court can profit from it." ”

Shi Xun was startled when he heard this, and blurted out: "How to make a profit?" This is tantamount to taking chestnuts in the fire! When everyone heard this, they all looked at him, their eyes full of doubts, and Cao Cao also said in his heart, it was Hongfu who often spewed out a little weird words, this time this-what does it mean to take chestnuts from the fire? Does it mean difficult?

Seeing the big guy's eyes, Shixun couldn't help but be stunned, and then said that his heart was broken. The idiom of taking chestnuts from the fire sounds very quaint, but in fact it is completely foreign, exemplified by the seventeenth-century French poet La? Feng Dan's fable "The Monkey and the Cat", how could the Chinese at the end of the second century understand it! I had no choice but to explain: "Xun tasted this in an anecdote, which seems to be the language of the Warring States people, quite similar to "Zhuangzi". It is said that an ape wants to get chestnuts in the fire and eats them, but asks for a cat, and the cat explores chestnuts with its claws, and the hair falls off and the flesh is burnt, and the chestnuts taken are all eaten by the ape. ”

When Guo Jia heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Hongfu's words are the key to the truth." Now Chang'an is its chestnut, I am an ape, I want to take it but can't get it, Lu Bu is a cat, and he will be able to use his claws to explore chestnuts, but it can be eaten by me. ”

It was Xun Xin who said the idiom "take chestnuts from the fire", which was originally intended to make wedding clothes for others, but gradually the meaning was deflected, and it has evolved into a synonym for taking risks and suffering losses, I just blurted out, that is, this thing is too risky, it is difficult to do, but I didn't expect it to inexplicably fit its original meaning, how do you say this...... Okay, thank you Guo Fengxiao for your relief.

He didn't expect that Guo Jia would spew out an idiom that was in line with his own plan when he heard Shixun's mouth, and thought that Shixun was already confident, so he immediately suggested: "The imperial court can send a troop, and it doesn't need more, two or three thousand are enough, so that the west will go to Hongnong, with Lu Bu, and supervise the generals, and cut down Guanzhong together." However, this matter of taking the chestnut in the fire, non-resourceful and good debaters can't do it, as far as Jia can see, only Hongfu can achieve this plan. ”

It was Xun who was shocked when he heard this: "Xun is afraid that he can't do this!" Cao Cao stroked his beard, groaned for a while, and suddenly laughed: "Hongfu doesn't have to be too humble, Qing Qian made Huayin, retreated Lu Bu and Duan and Jia, Guanzhong affairs, only Qing is the most familiar - Jiangdong doesn't have to go, Qing and go to Guanzhong." (To be continued......)

PS: Today's two watches are over, in fact, this is the beginning of the highlight of this volume.