Chen Gong did have a big doubt in his heart, Cao Cao was regarded as the master by him at the beginning, and he did not hesitate to abandon everything and sacrifice his life to accompany him, but in the end, when Cao Cao gradually revealed his overlordship, he began to show his assertiveness, which gradually contradicted Chen Gong's philosophy.

Lu Bu......

Chen Gong originally invited Lu Bu into Yanzhou, it was indeed to take revenge on Cao Cao, but at that time, Lu Bu was obviously not willing to be used as a gunman by him and Zhang Miao and others, and later Yanzhou was defeated, Lu Bu fled to Xuzhou, and Chen Gong was also homeless and could only continue to follow Lu Bu.

Although some of them have soft ears, lack of political assertiveness, and have a bad reputation, there is a good thing, Lu Bu seems to be repeatedly cunning, brutal and unkind, but in his bones, he has benevolence that belongs to him, such as not harming his wife and children, such as the Gu family, and being able to share weal and woe with the soldiers, these are the shining points that belong to him that can only be discovered after approaching Lu Bu, but unfortunately these shining points are not suitable for a prince, and the previous Chen Gong has been trying to change some of his shortcomings as a prince.

Perhaps during the period of being trapped in the lonely city, the desperate situation made Lu Bu have an epiphany, and Chen Gong was somewhat surprised to find that Lu Bu began to transform into a qualified prince, but as those flashes that he thought were unnecessary gradually disappeared, Lu Bu also began to follow Cao Cao's old path, even more than Cao Cao in the past.

If it is understandable to say that the slaughter of the Chen family is to vent hatred, then next, the slaughter of five Xuzhou gentry in a row is really brutal, but for some reason, Xiapi and Donghai have been strangely calming down with Lu Bu's cruel massacre of the warrior clan these days, and the price has also dropped, and as Lu Bu began to use those fields to recruit displaced people, a large number of displaced people began to pour here.

When did the infamous Lu Bu have such appeal?

Cao Cao also seems to have repelled Lu Bu and regained control of Yanzhou, and began to grow stronger and stronger, and now it seems that there are many similarities between the two.

In the past few days, Chen Gong has also seen some ways, although Lu Bu is extremely ruthless to the scholars, but he is quite generous to the people, not only exempted the taxes of Xiapi and Donghai counties for this year, even if Lu Bu has taken the land from the Chen family and those wealthy families these days, and rents it to tenant farmers, he only collects one percent of the tax.

Of course, even if it is one percent, with the land produced by Lu Bu during this time, the harvest of one year is still a considerable data, enough for Lu Bu to raise 30,000 soldiers and horses.

Now those fields have not been completely rented out, not even a small half, but with Lu Bu's meager tax, according to the current situation, I am afraid that more displaced people will be recruited, which also invisibly suppresses the family's tax collection strategy for its own tenant farmers, which is too much higher than Lu Bu, and the tenant farmers will go directly to Lu Bu's side.

Invisibly, it has solved the problem of overburdening the people, of course, this is also inseparable from the slaughter of Cao Cao in Xuzhou, as well as the years of war in recent years, the displacement of the people, making a large number of fields barren, invisibly, Cao Cao actually helped Lu Bu, so that Lu Bu can now boldly recruit displaced people in Xuzhou without worrying about the problem of not enough fields.

If this continues, Xuzhou is a place where the Han Dynasty has a large number of grain productions, and I am afraid that it will not take a few years for Lu Bu to rely on Xuzhou to compete with princes like Yuan Shao, who are dominating the four states.

The most perplexing point for Chen Gong is that although the gentry of Xuzhou hate Lu Bu to the point of itching, but now Chen Gong walks on the street, he doesn't feel too much hatred, and the people of Xuzhou are nothing, especially those who have been recruited recently, and they are grateful to Lu Bu.

He knew that Lu Bu was so light on taxes in order to win over the people, but if he could achieve results so quickly, he probably had to thank Cao Cao for harming Xuzhou too hard.

The people of Li have no knowledge, and now they have received the benefits of Lu Bu, and they don't care about the gentry's criticism of Lu Bu, and even the support of those people for Lu Bu is unimaginable, which is also an important reason for Chen Gong to stay, the day before yesterday he heard that Cao Xing slaughtered another household, he was ready to leave, but in Liangcheng he saw a local nobleman who was beaten to death by the villagers because he wantonly said that Lu Bu was not in the people.

The local county magistrate sent by Lu Bu only inquired about it in the past, said that he deserved it, and then symbolically scolded the villagers a few words, and the matter was closed.

Chen Gong suddenly realized that Lu Bu gave up trying to win over the scholars, but he began to vigorously win over the people, and the officials he sent were obviously pulling the strings, and even stood on the side of the villagers at the cost of their lives, maybe they could do it quickly, but this matter is absolutely wrong, if it can't be solved properly, I'm afraid that these two counties will set off a crazy revenge on the scholars by the people.

This revenge is not because of how much hatred there is, but because of Lu Bu's connivance, just imagine, as long as he insults Lu Bu, he can kill the gentry in a grand manner, and the gentry in Xuzhou may experience a bloodbath!

He didn't know if this was intentional or not, but he knew that if it continued like this, it would ruin the Xuzhou scholars, and it would also ruin Lu Bu, and now there are not many such phenomena, but if it continues like this, I am afraid it will not be able to stop it!

Therefore, Chen Gong is back, he wants to see how Lu Bu will solve this matter, and at the same time, he also wants to seek an answer.

Cao Cao and Lu Bu treat scholars like scholars treat the people, and the scene of Liangcheng is not a copy of the Yanzhou scholars who fought back against Cao Cao in the past, and the hatred for Cao Cao in his heart suddenly dissipated a lot, and he just wants to wait for a result now.

Lu Bu didn't know the complicated emotions in Chen Gong's heart at this moment, but his expression was serious, and where others couldn't see, a yin wind blew, but it was Song Xian who came back.

"Lord, Chen Deng reached an agreement with the scholars in Haixi, Quyang and other places three days ago, and led 5,000 elite soldiers to Haixi secretly, Quyang County Commander has conspired with Chen Deng, and then took Chen Deng's army into Quyang, and then feinted with 2,000 people to capture Pi, lured the lord to go to the rescue, personally led the soldiers and horses to attack Tanxian, cut off the lord's way back!"

Lu Bu's eyes narrowed slightly, if there were no ghosts to monitor Chen Deng's every move, it would be really easy to be given by Chen Deng!

Lu Bu thought about it carefully, Xia Pi had his wife and children, if he didn't know in advance, he would definitely go to the rescue, so that the soldiers and horses in Tan County were all assigned by him to the counties to suppress the Shi clan, and now Tan County only has his five hundred cavalry and three hundred defenders, not to mention the sudden attack, even if he has been prepared, I am afraid he will not be able to hold it.

"Where is Chen Deng now?" Lu Bu glanced at Chen Gong, turned sideways slightly, avoided Chen Gong's gaze, and asked in a low voice, in Chen Gong's opinion, Lu Bu seemed to see some dossier reading silently.

"He is still in Haixi, and in order to avoid the lord's detection, he is very cautious in deploying troops." Song Xian bowed and said.

"Tell me the list of those scholars you know who secretly communicated with the Chen family!" Lu Bu spread out a bamboo slip and asked Song Xian to say that he wrote, and soon wrote down a list of names, and almost all the Xuzhou clans participated.

Looking at these lists, Lu Bu was silent, even if he wiped out several clans during this time, so many big clans were wiped out at once, not to mention whether the troops were enough, even if the troops were enough, he didn't want to.

"Keep watching, report at any time!" Lu Bu sent Song Xian away, looking at the list, he was a little distracted, he glanced up at Chen Gong, opened his mouth, but didn't say anything, just shouted outside the door: "Let Zhang Liao and Cao Xing come to the study to see me!" ”

With that, Lu Bu got up and walked straight out.