After meeting Guo Huai and Liao Hua. Gongsun Du first asked the two secret envoys to secretly arrange to live in the mansion, and then immediately summoned his civil and military staff to gather to discuss the matter.

According to Guo Huai's suggestion to him, Gongsun Du currently needs to hurry up and do three things well.

The first is to strengthen the prevention and control of the eastern Liaodong region, especially the Xiangping area, and carefully search for and arrest the spies of the Jin State who may be lurking in, so as to ensure the internal stability of the eastern Liaoning.

The second is to immediately build a fortress in the northeast of Linyu in Liaoxi County and near the sea of the Great Wall of Qin, cut off the road from western Liaoxi to Liaodong, and withdraw the soldiers and horses from the former Lingzhi and Haiyang into the fortress.

The third is to send envoys to Goguryeo in the northeast of Liaodong and Karasuma in the northwest to reach an understanding and mutual trust with these two forces, so as to avoid direct attacks and conquests with each other and wear down their strength.

Judging from the three ideas that Guo Huai gave to Gongsun Du as soon as he came to Xiangping, this famous general of Wei in the history books is really very good. His tactics were almost-for-tat with the secret letter that Zhao Hu sent to the direction of Crouching Tiger City. Under the circumstance that he was unaware of the methods of the Shadow and Zhao Xing's skills, Guo Huai was able to make such an accurate judgment, which was really not to be underestimated.

The main people who came to Gongsun Du's mansion to discuss matters were Yangyi, Liu Yi, Wang Lie and Gongsun Kang. The other two men, Gongsun Gong and Liu Yuan, were now stationed in Xi'anping (present-day Dandong City) on the banks of the Mazishui (Yalu River), Liupu led an army to garrison Liaoxi County, Han Qi led an army to garrison Xigaima (present-day Fushun City), northeast of Xuansu County and adjacent to Goguryeo, Guo Xin led an army to garrison Gaoxian (present-day Tieling City), and Li Min served as a taishou in Lelang.

In order to avoid causing panic among his subordinates, Gongsun Du did not tell everyone about the envoys sent by the imperial court, but only used the spies to report that Zhao Xing was now using troops in Xiliang, and asked everyone what they thought.

Strategist Yang Yi then suggested that when Zhao Xing had no time to look eastward, he would take the lower reaches of Raoleshui, which was occupied by the Karasuma people, and a large area west of Da Liaoshui. Once this land with abundant water and grass is occupied, the Liaodong cavalry will have a steady stream of war horses to replenish in the future.

However, the strategist Liu Yi suggested that he could take the opportunity to expand to the northeast of Xuansu County, completely wipe out the Goguryeo Kingdom, which had been threatening Liaodong, and remove the danger from the back.

Gongsun Du couldn't help but be disappointed when he saw that none of his two strategists mentioned that Zhao Xing might attack the east in the west. Now he feels that Yang Yi and Liu Yi are not at the same level as Guo Huai and Liao Hua sent by Liu Bei. So Gongsun Du was more inclined to trust Guo Huai and Liao Hua in the future.

Wang Lie (Note 1), who was born as a scribe, was not very proficient in and concerned about military affairs and the use of soldiers, so he only advised Gongsun Du to dismiss the army, repair political affairs, and do more things to appease the people. For Wang Lie's words, Gongsun Du has always listened to and forgotten at the same time, and the reason why he invited this old scholar to come is nothing more than to make his advisers feel that he respects his teacher.

Gongsun Du's son Gongsun Kang is a person with mediocre qualifications, and the reason why he is qualified to come to participate in the deliberations is mainly because Gongsun Du sends a signal to the people around him, that is, the successor he chooses is Gongsun Kang. Gongsun Kang didn't have any opinions or suggestions, so he stood there in a proper manner and didn't say a word.

Gongsun Du was very dissatisfied with his subordinates, but there was nothing he could do. Who let him be born as a Xuansu minor official, without the title of the fourth world and the third duke? Who let him occupy Liaodong, a sparsely populated, remote and bitter cold place of exile?

Sometimes Gongsun Du often sighs, feeling that he doesn't have the good luck of Zhao Xing, he can recruit Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Lu Bu, Tai Shici and other fierce generals, and Jia Xu, Tian Feng, Guo Jia, Chen Gong and other first-class strategists to assist, otherwise he must not be as simple as separating one side now.

If Zhao Xing knew Gongsun Du's feelings, he would definitely want to go up and kick his feet: "Golden horn and silver edge grass belly, such a big golden horn in Liaodong is occupied by your old boy, you are still not satisfied! I think how hard it was for Lao Tzu to start from scratch, and I have to start by selling furniture and selling wine, is it easy for me?"

Since his subordinates did not put forward better constructive suggestions, Gongsun Du said the arrangements that he had already thought of in his heart one by one.

He ordered the strategist Yang Yi to carry financial gifts and send an envoy to the inner city of the Goguryeo royal capital to make friends with Goguryeo in exchange for the trust and peace of the other party; he ordered the strategist Liu Yi to carry financial gifts and send an envoy to Karasuma to reach an armistice agreement with the Karasuma clan so that the two sides could jointly deal with the aggressive Youzhou Jin army; and ordered his eldest son, Gongsun Kang, to escort a batch of military supplies and money and grain to Linyu in western Liaoxi, and personally supervised the construction of garrison fortresses and city walls, completely blocking the communication links between western Liaoxi and eastern Liaodong.

Gongsun Du saw that except for Wang Lie, who had not received the task in the council hall now, everyone else had something to do, so he had to swallow back the last most important thing. Counting on Wang Lie to help investigate the Jin spies in Liaodong? Gongsun Du might as well do it himself.

When everyone retreated, Gongsun Du invited Guo Huai and Liao Hua out, and said with some hesitation: "Now that all the available people under my command have been dispatched, but there is still a few wise and alert people as military advisors, and a few shrewd and capable people go around searching for spies, I wonder if the two envoys can deign to drive and help Liaodong one or two?"

As soon as Guo Huai heard Gongsun Du's words, he knew that he was because he had no available people under him, and he felt that it was inconvenient to say it directly because he had no face, so he turned around and asked himself and Liao Hua, so he replied: "Since the lord has appointed us to assist General Gongsun, he naturally hopes that we can do our best to listen to General Gongsun's command. As long as General Gongsun can trust us, Huai is willing to be the vanguard of General Gongsun!"

Liao Hua then also said: "I am willing to serve General Gongsun!"

Gongsun Du saw that Guo Huai and Liao Hua were willing to contribute, so he made up his mind, and immediately asked people to get a military talisman that could mobilize a certain number of soldiers, temporarily appointed Guo Huai as the general of the military division, appointed Liao Hua as the vanguard general, and entrusted the two of them with the important task of investigating the affairs of the spies in Xiangping City.

Guo Huai and Liao Hua were worried that they would have no place to use after coming to Liaodong, but because Gongsun Du lacked generals under him, they gained a firm foothold in Liaodong without much effort. Next, these two young people with very strong "revolutionary fighting spirit" are ready to use practical actions to prove their ability and ability to Gongsun Du.

Note 1: According to historical records: Wang Lie, whose name is Yanfang, is a native of Pingyuan County (now Shandong Plain). He was born in the sixth year of Yonghe (141 AD) and died in the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219 AD). Wang Lie studied under Chen Yu when he was young and was famous. Dong Zhuo avoided chaos in Liaodong when he was in turmoil, and repeatedly refused Cao Cao's employment. At the age of seventy-eight, he died of illness in Liaodong.

When Wang Lie was young, he studied under Chen Yu, and because of his noble character, he was known as the township. A cattle thief was caught by his owner, and the thief confessed to the cattle owner, saying: "I am willing to be sentenced to death, and I just beg not to let Wang Yanfang know about it." When Wang Lie heard about it, he sent someone to visit him and gave him half a piece of cloth. Someone asked why? Wang Lie said: "The cattle thief is afraid that I will know his fault, which means that he is ashamed." Since he is ashamed, he will be able to correct his mistakes, and I have done this precisely to urge him to change his ways. ”

Later, an old man lost a sword on the road, and a passer-by saw it and waited by the sword, until in the evening, when the old man came back to look for the sword, he got the lost sword, asked his name in surprise, and told Wang Lie about it. Wang Lie sent someone to find out who the sword keeper was, and it turned out to be the one who stole the cattle.

Due to the influence of Wang Lieping's morality, some of them were halfway through and suddenly willing to give up the dispute, and the two sides reconciled and came back, and some of them felt ashamed when they saw Wang Lie's house, and they gave in to each other and came back. It can be seen that the depth of Wang Lieshengde's influence is far greater than the power of punishment.