What can make Cao Cao change color, it must naturally be quite weighty.

Liu Xie is quite clear about this point, or the few prince-level figures he has contacted so far who can be called "Jianghu bosses" seem to be able to "be happy and angry" most of the time, even if something big happens, most of them "Taishan collapses before it does not change color", whether it is Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, or Li Shushi or something, it seems to be the same.

Of course, Liu Xie's impression of Li Shushi is entirely because the interaction between the two is very limited, unlike Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao, even if they can't get along day and night, but the time of contact is far more than Li Shushi, a passer-by in a hurry.

In fact, there was originally another person whose identity was higher and more powerful than the above prince-level figures, that is, the late emperor Liu Hong. However, for this Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xie's impression of him was quite vague except for a sincere conversation before his death, after all, the position of the crown prince belonged to Liu Xie's brother Liu Bian for a long time, and although his mother was once favored, she died after giving birth to him, and he was completely fostered in the Empress Dowager Dong. In order to protect his bloodline, which was easy to preserve, Liu Hong didn't even dare to have any contact with him, lest he stimulate the intertwined forces in the palace.

Speaking of which, Liu Hong has not had no other children, but those children did not have the opportunity to spend even their infancy, so they died for various reasons, among which infection with epidemic disease is the most used excuse.

So it was clear that the emperor, who was actually not without wisdom, was close at hand, but for Liu Xie, it seemed like the end of the world was far away.

It's a pity that Liu Xie is the emperor after all, and he is also an emperor who has delegated power to Cao Cao in terms of military affairs, so at this time he can only stand aside and wait quietly, and cannot make rude actions such as stretching his neck.

Even because of Cao Cao's rapidly changing face, he became more curious at this time.

Finally. Cao Cao sighed, then bowed down and handed the pieces of paper to Liu Xie.

Liu Xie turned over these pieces of paper very seriously and looked at them several times, but he only felt the deep malice contained in them - the content on these pieces of paper is really simple to say, because all the content is only related to one thing, that is, Cao Cao's grain and grass problem. But it's really complicated, because there's a lot of numbers in it. Including population, land, and local power—these Liu Xie can barely understand, and then there is the relationship between these numbers, and a series of operating methods—these make Liu Xie feel like he is reading a book from heaven.

All in all, after a series of cooperation including various spies, defectors, as well as merchants and troops, Cao Cao's army, which had lost the "blood transfusion" of the state army, quickly consumed most of the grain and grass in a very short period of time and fell into a state of unsustainability.

The letter is conclusive "less than half a month" Liu Xie thinks that it is a bit exaggerated, not to mention whether the number itself is a bit exaggerated, just to say that a series of dazzling operations need to be fully realized, and to achieve that series of operations not only need an extremely good trader. And it also needs a vote of talent who is proficient in at least one area.

With Yuan Shaojun's current internal situation, if these people say that there is no internal friction to kill Liu Xie, he will not believe it, of course he will not believe it if he does not kill him, and if he wants to control the characters from all sides, I am afraid that he can only be Yuan Shao personally suppressing the formation - the "mysterious person" who proposed this series of plans, because Liu Xie really can't think of anyone who is more suitable for such a position than him.

Instinctively, Liu Xie felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this letter.

Although Liu Xie can't say what the specific problem is for a while, as a ninety-five lord who has been accustomed to seeing all kinds of political storms in the inner world for a long time. His sense of smell was definitely keen, especially after being strengthened by Cao Cao and Chen Gong.

Of course. In addition to this secretly vigilant mentality, he once again felt the inadequacy between himself and the professionals.

Speaking of which, whether it is Chen Gong or Xun Yu, as an expert who is good at managing government affairs, has taught him very patiently, but the knowledge he learned is more used to help him figure out whether those officials are cheating, or the meaning of some numbers, etc., and he has never understood the specific problems at all. In Chen Gong's words, "Your Majesty doesn't need to ask about those specific details, Your Majesty only needs to understand whether the officials under him are attentive enough, and those professional things should be handled by us professional people."

Although I thought it made sense at the time, when I saw these words that were clear and understandable when viewed separately, but I couldn't understand them at all when combined, I felt that I really didn't understand enough.

The most critical thing is. If someone uses this method to fool him, he will definitely be sold and will have to count the money for the other party.

Speaking of which, in this regard, both his father and Li Shushi's merger seem to be among the best, but as mentioned earlier, for various reasons, he has not been able to have more in-depth exchanges with these people.

Even the impression they left on Liu Xie was quite profound.

"Please also ask Ziyuan to teach me." Finally digesting the content revealed in the letter, Cao Cao's attitude this time was even more sincere.

This time, Xu You didn't continue to hang people's appetites, or he didn't need those small means anymore after Cao Cao understood his importance, and now it was time for him to show his abilities.

"I believe I already know where we are now. If Yuan Shao captures Aocang and cuts off the connection between the Ming Duke and the state, under Yuan Shao's next series of blows, the Ming Duke is tantamount to resisting a strong enemy with a lone army. In such a situation, not to seek a quick victory, but to die. Therefore, there is a strategy, even if Yuan Shao can really capture Aocang, but in three days, Yuan Shao's millions of people can be destroyed without a fight. ”

"I wish to hear the best ideas." Cao Cao was waiting for this moment, how could he not be happy in his heart.

Of course, in order to show his attention to Xu You, this time Cao Cao took all the expressions off his face.

"Yuan Shao's grain and grass are heavy, and he has accumulated Wuchao, thinking that he will be safe in the north of Wuchaoze. There are also cronies Chun Yuqiong guarding, although nominally punishing him for his previous poor rescue, but recently he has frequently increased troops in Qiong. Therefore, it can be seen that the real intention is to make Joan tighten the guard. However, Chun Yu Qiong is addicted to alcohol, and he is in danger of holding a black nest, so he is light and unprepared. In this way, the Ming Duke can choose elite soldiers and falsely claim that Yuan will lead Jiang Qi to protect the grain, Jiang Qi is Qiong's party, and he will be contemptuous, so he can take advantage of the time to burn his grain and grass. Then Yuan's army will be in chaos within three days. ”

"Then if the grain and grass of Aocang are obtained by the enemy, won't the enemy army be able to hold on for a while longer?"

"If Ao Cang can keep it, if it can't be burned, it's okay. Although the grain of Ao Cang is important to our army, it cannot be compared with the black nest that shook the foundation of Yuan's army. If the Ao Cang is destroyed, the grain and grass hoarded by our army will not be damaged, and the Ming Gong Shang can hold His Majesty's handwritten letter to the grain of the Xuchang Treasury for emergency. If the black nest is destroyed, the Yuan army needs to reraise grain and grass from Hebei, and it will take a long time, and it will be difficult to maintain the military spirit. ”

Xu You knew that Liu Xie felt sorry for those grains and grasses. After all, Wuchao is on fire, and then Aocang has another fire, I am afraid that the price of food in the Central Plains and Hebei will inevitably soar, except for those families who have accumulated a large amount of food, the people are afraid that they will suffer from famine again, and this is not from natural disasters, it is completely the gods fighting mortals suffering.

However, for Xu You, it was enough for him to think about how to win the war, and he didn't need to think about the rest of the issues at all. And Cao Cao, who needs to consider these issues, will not consider this kind of problem at this time. Because if he can't win, then what does it matter to him even if the people live in peace. Those people will not consider that Cao Cao even sacrificed his hegemony for their happy life, maybe they will laugh at Cao Cao after tea and dinner with a "stupid ×", even if there may be one or two people among the current generation who say a good word about him, but a hundred years later, Yuan Shao, as the victor, will make everyone think that Cao Cao is a fool of fortune and has committed a heinous crime. An evil boss that the people hate.

"So do you need to notify the state army? Destroying Aocang is also a big loss for them. ”

"There's no way we're going to let this news leak more (or there would be more chance of my betrayal), and we all know that the people of Bingzhou are being held back by a monster from nowhere, and even if they do, they won't have the energy to take care of it. We don't know what they've done to keep suffering the damnation, but as far as we're concerned, it's best not to take their power into account from the start. ”

Just like Xu Yu himself said. He didn't take the variable of the merger state army into account from the beginning, not that he despised the influence of the merge state army, but that all the strategists on Yuan Shao's side believed that the core group of the merge state army obviously wanted to see a lose-lose situation between Cao Cao's army and Yuan Shao's army than directly and forcefully intervened, and then the merge state army could calmly stand up and clean up the situation - but because Yuan Shaojun's strength was stronger, the merge state army was naturally more inclined to support Cao Cao's army.

In other words, without the emperor factor, Cao Cao, who was forced to a desperate situation, would definitely ask for help from the Bingzhou army as an alternative bargaining chip, or if the situation was worrying, Cao Cao would definitely manipulate the emperor to drag the Bingzhou army into this troubled water.

Therefore, in Xu You's view, it is not so much that the state army was dragged down by the "dead" they promoted, but that they just found a more bizarre excuse, which really can't stand scrutiny.

In fact, it was precisely because Xu You had such considerations that he proposed such a proposal to Yuan Shao, and in fact, when the light cavalry was inserted between Guandu and Xuchang and obtained enough support, and Yuan Shaojun also made a posture of coercing Cao Cao's army, Yuan Shao's army did not immediately have a decisive battle with Cao Cao's army, but turned around and attacked Ao Cang as Yuan Shao did now, cutting off the connection between Cao Cao's army and the Bingzhou army, and of course by the way to solve Xiahou Tang and Yu Ban Division, one of the main forces of Cao Cao's army stationed in the area of Aocang.

Xu You thinks that this is the best choice for Yuan Shaojun - if Cao Cao focuses on dealing with the "trouble" behind him, then Yuan Shaojun can calmly attack Ao Cang, and at the same time cooperate with those who secretly surrender to Yuan Shao to create a general trend that is extremely unfavorable to Cao Cao's army, as long as the light army can drag Cao Cao's army, then Yuan Shaojun, who took Ao Cang, can turn around and come back to play a "turtle in the urn".

If Cao Cao chooses to hit the stone of Yuan Shaojun with his own eggs, it will naturally be a happy result, even if he does not take Ao Cang, a decisive battle with Cao Cao's army is in line with the appetite of Yuan Shao and his generals.

And if Cao Cao chooses to break through or continue to hold on, then the strategic initiative will completely fall into the hands of Yuan Shaojun, and Cao Cao will wait to become a stray dog and slowly wait for death in despair.

It's just that Yuan Shao probably has lingering fears about the combat effectiveness of the Bingzhou army, and he has always been worried about attracting this huge variable into this battlefield. With one against two looks majestic. Even Yuan Shaojun once thought that they could do this, and succeeded in doing so in the early stages of the war, but when the Bingzhou army and Cao Cao's army gradually recovered from the initial series of blows, Yuan Shaojun's upper and lower ranks found that the result of fighting snakes and not dying was that they were stuck in a huge quagmire - while the Bingzhou army was still outside the battlefield, Cao Cao's army had already firmly dragged Yuan Shao's army with the support of the Bingzhou people.

As a result, the original left-leaning adventurism turned into right-leaning capitulationism, which made Yuan Shao seem to demonize the Bingzhou army a little bit - at least Xu Yu thinks so. Otherwise, how could it be explained why Yuan Shao would veto his perfect Tiyì.

It's better to kick off such an unreliable leader, and the job-hopping competition is high~!

Of course, it was obviously impossible for Xu You, who was self-satisfied, to notice that when he said "Heavenly Punishment", the face of a certain black-skinned dwarf was very dark, but because he quickly returned to normal, even Liu Xie did not notice this change in Cao Cao.

After that, Cao Cao discussed some more specific details with Xu You, and Liu Xie was also very attentive to the side, maybe the letter just now stimulated him a little, so this time Liu Xie didn't care whether his identity was suitable. Incarnated as a "curious baby", but if there is something that is not clear, he will take the initiative to ask questions. Although it makes people feel a little bored, after all, there are many things that belong to common-sense questions, and only an emperor like Liu Xie, who always stays in the deep palace, knows very little about such common-sense questions, and asks such cute questions that are even stupid and cute in the eyes of the two veterans.

Of course, there is a lot of protection outside, and there is no need to be afraid of news leakage, and Liu Xie is the Ninth Five-Year Honor. The two of them are the nominal bosses, so even if they keep muttering in their hearts, "Ask so much, do it." It's good to wait on the sidelines to dedicate victory to you", but he also had to obediently obey orders, and carefully answered every question raised by Liu Xie.

Because they can occasionally get through Liu Xie's naïve questions and fill in the gaps in their plans, the two of them can't answer at will, at least Liu Xie is not a stupid person. The occasional inference not only surprised the two of them, but also made them feel pressured.

After a while, Cao Cao ordered Cao Hong to take Xu You away and entertain him, except for some restrictions on Xu You's personal freedom, the rest of the qi qi specifications were slightly higher than when he was in Yuan Shaojun.

This made Xu You, who had just experienced a heavy change, quite satisfied.

Of course. If it weren't for the changes that he had experienced, it might not be as easy as it is now to make Xu You satisfied.

So under the escort of Cao Hong, Xu You left Cao Cao's tent, and for the next period of time, the two should stay at a fairly close distance, but Cao Hong read a lot of books in addition to being greedy for money and stingy, so it should not make Xu You feel that he is living in a bunch of muscles.

“…… How could Yuan Shao's grain storage place be light and unprepared? Is this really not a ploy? ”

Yuan Shao has a lot of choices, whether it is according to Xu Yu's ideas, his own ideas, or other people's ideas. But we are different, regardless of whether the Bingzhou army is really trapped in Guanzhong and unable to support here, it is obviously impossible for us to put the possibility of victory on that illusory thing, so Xu Ziyuan at least said one thing correctly, that is, if we don't follow his strategy, then we can really only sit and wait. ”

"But Xu You is a very greedy person, and although she did not directly participate in the competition for Yuan Shao's heir, she also played a very bad role in this, which we also know. I find it hard to make him a gift from heaven. ”

"You're right, but have you forgotten what I just said? Xu You may have such and such problems, but for us now, he is exactly the person we need to help us. The benefits he can bring to us are obviously more important than the problems he has. ”

"The lesser of two powers......

"It's great that His Majesty understands this."

“…… But what if one day he can do us far less good than he does us? ”

"As an old friend of Ziyuan, I naturally don't want that day to happen, but ...... I'm just saying that if there really is such an unfortunate day, I can still assure you that at least your majesty does not need to dirty your hands, as your courtier, I, Cao Mengde, will definitely share your worries and solve your problems. ”

"Then, as soon as I go, I'll continue to ask Lord Taiwei. At least not more than those that are only personal integrity issues. Yuan Shao's rebellious man covets my Han family's Jiangshan Sheji, and he is our biggest enemy. ”

"Minister Cao Mengde, he will definitely live up to His Majesty's will."

“…… Ah, yes! Liu Xie, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped, and asked Cao Cao, who was originally bowing to his back, "I wonder if Aiqing has any impression of Yuan Fang?" ”

Then Liu Xie saw the uncommon tangled expression on Cao Cao's face again.

Pan Sen: I recommend a history book "My Soviet Union", the protagonist is very funny, but there are a lot of things worth thinking about underneath the funny. (To be continued......)