"With the current trend of Xuzhou, the lord kills excessively, but it also has the effect of deterring people's hearts, now the Xuzhou scholars, all trembling, dare not look directly at the power of the lord, if the lord kills again, it will only make these scholars desperately fight against the lord, in the view of the minister, the lord is murderous enough at this time, but the kindness is not enough, but the kindness can be given to the scholars, and the lord is now only killing the might, just choose the right person, a little favor, you can make it grateful to Dade." Chen Deng quickly adapted to the change of his identity, and after Lu Bu arranged the Yin Mansion for the Chen family in Xiapi, he began to give advice to Lu Bu.

What is Lu Bu's biggest problem now?

It is not that there are not enough soldiers and horses, nor that there is not enough food and grass, nor is it talent, but that it lies in the hearts of the people.

Yes, Lu Bu is very good to the people, and even in the two counties of Donghai and Xiapi, an almost blind worship has been formed, but this blind worship is not a long-term solution, just like the Yellow Turban was prosperous at the beginning, how momentum it was when the incident started, but it was extinguished in less than a year, and Lu Bu's current situation is somewhat similar to the Yellow Turban at that time.

He successfully provoked the confrontation and hatred between the people at the bottom and the scholars, and now in the whole of Xuzhou, the people kill the scholars, and the government does not hold them accountable, but the scholars violate the people, and the government will punish them severely.

It seems to be good for the people, but once this deformed concept is formed, it will bring complete destruction, and now it is a scholar clan, but over time, I am afraid that it will be the officials under Lu Bu and even those generals who fought for Lu Bu.

And the cause of all this, one is Lu Bu's attitude, the other is the problem of officials, although Lu Bu now listens to Qin Li's opinion, using the law of the Legalists to govern Xuzhou, this is no problem, but the problem is that the chief officials in various places are basically a group of illiterate military men, these people are administrative, with too strong subjective assumptions, and they don't know how to be flexible, blindly go straight, it looks cool, but in fact they are indulging.

And after Chen Deng became the first ghost plot under Lu Bu, the first plan he gave to Lu Bu was to let Lu Bu slow down the blow to the family and choose some suitable ones to give some sweetness.

To put it simply, just like the Stockholm syndrome, Lu Bu has continuously sacrificed butcher knives during this time, destroying people at every turn, and killing these people, if he can properly release some goodwill at this moment, he can make Lu Bu quickly gain a group of supporters from the family, and these supporters will be very firm in supporting Lu Bu.

Maybe these families don't have any big talents, but it is still enough to help Lu Bu make up the quota for the sixty-two county orders in Xuzhou, and as for the people arranged by Lu Bu before, they can be transferred to the county guards, so that they can better maintain local law and order, and secondly, they can also form a constraint with the county order.

Lu Bu had actually noticed that something was wrong, but he didn't know how to deal with it, Chen Gong didn't say it, and Qin Li was busy with official business during this time, and he didn't have time or even a chance to notice this, and now that Chen Deng came, the first plan helped Lu Bu solve a big problem.

Although he didn't know if it would be as easy as Chen Deng said, Lu Bu still decided to give it a try.

According to what Chen Deng said, he began to stop killing the family, and rewarded some families who had secretly expressed their willingness to surrender before, which can be regarded as releasing some goodwill.

However, what happened next made Lu Bu a little stunned, it turned out that it was really as Chen Deng said, this group of scholars who were not considered top families defected to the clan, and actively made suggestions for Lu Bu's governance, and recommended talents in the clan to be used by Lu Bu, because Lang Xie had not yet recovered, in May, in addition to the thirteen counties of Lang Xie, the remaining forty-nine counties not only had county orders, but also county seats, master books and other management.

At the same time, under the advice of Chen Deng and Qin Li, Lu Bu began to punish the Ming government, during this period, it naturally attracted the dissatisfaction of many people, but Lu Bu issued a strict order, although it damaged his reputation among the people, but it also allowed Xuzhou to quickly restore calm, and by June, Xuzhou had basically returned to the right track.

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Xuchang, Caofu.

Looking at the information from Xuzhou, Cao Cao frowned slightly, and handed the information to Guo Jiadao, who was in charge: "I never thought that after this battle, the tiger was like an epiphany, not only quickly destroyed the Chen family, but also restored stability in Xuzhou." ”

Thinking of Lu Bu, who was invincible on the battlefield, and now he suddenly opened his mind, and he also had such means in politics, Cao Cao felt that his head hurt a little again.

"If these words are correct...... Guo Jia looked at the bamboo slip in his hand, suddenly raised his head, looked at Cao Cao and said, "Jia is wondering, was Lu Bu's death that day Zhongkang's death?" ”

"This ...... Zhong Kang's march route was very secretive, even Chen Qi didn't know, how could Lu Bu rob Zhong Kang so coincidentally? Cao Cao frowned and said, Xu Chu's death did make Cao Cao feel extremely heartbroken, otherwise he would not have given up on the Chen family because of this.

"Then Chen Deng turned into pieces and infiltrated Quyang, it was a confidential matter, but how did Lu Bu just rob Chen Deng?" Guo Jia looked at Cao Cao and said: "That Lu Bu, it seems that he is specially going to rob Chen Deng, although it is a little unbelievable, but Jia never believes in coincidence, Jia prefers to believe that Lu Bu is around him, there is an unknown force to investigate intelligence." ”

"Alas~" Cao Cao sighed helplessly, he was also carried away at that time, so he would ignore Chen Qi, otherwise, Lu Bu's raid on Tan County would seem to be powerful, in fact, if Chen Qi had taken precautions, he would never have been easily taken by Lu Bu to take Tan County, and he would not have had a headache for Xuzhou today.

"Lu Bu has achieved his momentum, judging from what Zang Ba did before, I'm afraid he won't easily offend Lu Bu." Guo Jia pondered: "I wonder if the Guangling Taishou seal is still in the hands of the lord?" ”

Cao Cao was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded with a wry smile, at that time he did have a heart with Lu Bu, the five counties of Xuzhou were too guarded by the official seal, he gave Lu Bulang the evil seal too much, but the Guangling Taishou seal was detained, in order to make trouble for Lu Bu, let Lu Bu fight with Zang Ba, and fight with Chen Deng.

It's just that I didn't expect Lu Bu to be able to destroy Chen Deng so quickly, and swallow the land of Pi, Guangling, Donghai, and Pengcheng counties.

"You can send this Indian to Jiangdong secretly." Guo Jia smiled.

"Bong-hyo is to say...... By the power of the lion! A flash of light flashed in Cao Cao's eyes, and he looked at Guo Jia and smiled.

"Yes, Lu Bu is brave and invincible, Sun Lang is brave and good at fighting, now Yuan Shao is pressing step by step, and there is no time for the lord to clear the rear, it is better to let these two fight each other, the lord can take this opportunity to fight with Yuan Shao with all his might." Guo Jia nodded affirmatively, although this is not the best way, but now Lu Bu, if you want to defeat it, it is not possible to do it in a short time, it is better to provoke a dispute between the two families, not to mention the death fight between the two families, but at least let the two sides be jealous of each other, and dare not go north with all their might, so as to buy time for Cao Cao to defeat Yuan Shao.

"That's a good plan!" Cao Cao stroked his palms and smiled: "Immediately order someone to ......"

"Lord!" As he was talking, he saw Cao Ren walking in quickly, and saluted Cao Cao and said, "Just now, there was news that Yuan Shu and the jade seal wanted to go to Jizhou to join Yuan Shao." ”

"Oh?" Hearing this, Cao Cao stood up and asked with a smile, "Where are you now?" ”

"Looking at its route, it should be to go to Qingzhou through the road."

"Xiapi ......" Cao Cao thought for a while and said: "I will write a letter immediately, and you will send someone to send it to Lu Bu, so that he can kidnap Yuan Shu and recover the jade seal of the country for the imperial court." ”

Guo Jia smiled and nodded when he heard this, this is a plan to kill two birds with one stone, if Lu Bu really destroys Yuan Shu, he will definitely evil Yuan Shao, if Lu Bu secretly swallows the jade seal of the country, it will be even better!