Xu Shu saw that he was surprised, and said with a slight smile: "Yes, Mrs. Wu has passed away, the lord should straighten Mrs. Zhen, the Zhen family is very rich, it is better to be cheap than others." ”

Yuan Xi nodded again and again when he heard this, he really didn't expect that the instinct of straight men in later generations to look down on men who eat soft rice made him forget the huge role of the Zhen family.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the two wealthy families in the north and south, one was the Mi family in Xuzhou and the other was the Zhen family in Jizhou, both of which could gather tens of thousands of people.

His wife is the daughter of the Zhen family, which is incomparable to others.

"The day after tomorrow, let's go to Zhen's house and have a good talk with my eldest brother."

He now understands why the Zhen family is remarried, and Cao Pi can still make her the queen, in addition to beauty, the Zhen family's financial resources are not an important reason.

There was nothing to say that night, and the next day the Yuan family's old house began to get busy, and early in the morning of the third day, Yuan Xi set off with his family guards, and did not forget to send a letter of thanks to Cao Cao.

There was no delay on the way, and when he crossed the Yellow River, the letter also reached Cao Cao.

Yuan Xi calculated the date, just to disgust Cao Cao for this letter, and said a lot of thanks, all of which were decent, and finally came with a sentence "I hope that Uncle Cao will treat his nephew well and teach his art teacher Zhang Gongjunyi." ”

Cao Cao looked at the front with a smile, and when he saw that his face was gloomy at the end, he groaned for a long time and shouted, "Go and call Zhang He to come." ”

Xu Zhu responded to the call, and when he walked to the door, he heard Cao Cao shouting: "Wait! It's called Xu You. ”

After a while, Xu You, who was flushed with a red face, came in, his mouth full of wine came to his face, Cao Cao frowned slightly, and immediately smiled and said, "Ziyuan drank it in broad daylight, how is it, how comfortable is it here?" ”

"It's so comfortable!"

Xu You laughed and immediately asked, "Mengde, I'm drinking, what's the point of calling me here?" ”

The guards in the tent saw him so big, and they all glared at him, but Cao Cao smiled and stretched out his hand to ask him to sit down.

"I have nothing to do today, I am looking for Ziyuan to chat, we met when we were young, and it is rare to talk leisurely over the years."

Cao Cao's face was like a spring breeze, but Xu Yu did not have the slightest consciousness of the difference between master and slave.

He smiled smugly: "What Meng De said is very true, back then, you and me, Yuan Benchu, and Yuan Highway were so happy, young and energetic, playing swords and singing......"

A large part of the past poured out of his mouth, Cao Cao patiently listened to him, and sighed: "Brother Benchu, it's a pity that a generation of heroes, leaving three children, I don't know if I can revive the family style." ”

"What? Meng De is worried about the three of them! ”

Xu You squinted and touched his mustache, the meaning in his eyes was unclear, and there was a taste of ridicule.

Cao Cao remained silent, and said: "The three children of a certain record have been both civil and military since they were children, and the Yuan family is easy to govern, I don't know how much they have learned." ”

Xu You sneered and said: "The Yuan family learned that those three children are not good at learning both the original and the highway, otherwise they would not have both died and fulfilled Mengde." ”

Cao Cao looked indifferent, waved his big sleeves and said with a smile: "It's just a small talk, Ziyuan is joking, a certain person also cares about old friends, don't talk about family learning, let's talk about martial arts, I don't know who they learned from, Ziyuan knows?" ”

The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family are fundamentally the Book of Changes, and later there was a master of easy learning, Yuan Tiangang, the nobles of this era have knowledge, and the Yuan family is intensively studied in the Book of Changes, so that generations of talents have emerged.

"Martial arts, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang were taught by Yan Liang and Wen Chou, Yuan Xi, he never paid attention to him at the beginning, it seems to be Zhang He, Gao Ran has also taught him a few times but not often."

Of course, Xu You knew the situation of the three brothers of the Yuan family, and as Yuan Shao's most trusted advisor, he followed Yuan Shao very early.

In the ninth year of Zhongping, Yuan Shao escaped from the capital, and Xu You took the initiative to find him, give him advice and reason, and Yuan Shao did make a lot of efforts in the early stage.

The princes of the Eighteenth Road begged Dong Zhuo, and Yuan Shao became the leader of the alliance It was Xu You's plan, and he also contributed a lot to the capture of Jizhou.

It's just that this person's character is too poor and greedy, after Yuan Shao grew stronger, his advisers were like clouds, so he naturally no longer only listened to him, and warned him several times not to cause trouble.

During the battle of Guandu, his family was corrupt again, and he was caught by the trial, and the inflexible trial stabbed this matter to the front line Yuan Shaona.

As a result, Xu You was afraid, afraid that Yuan Shao would settle accounts with him, so he simply surrendered to Cao Cao, and offered a strategy of burning the black nest, which pitted Yuan Shao in one fell swoop.

That's not all, at that time, Yuan Shao didn't know that he surrendered to Cao Cao, and he didn't do anything endlessly, pleading Guo Tu, Chun Yuqiong and others to force Zhang He and Gao Ran to rob Cao Cao's camp.

The two Hebei generals were forced to surrender to Cao Cao in this way, because the camp robbery failed, and Yuan Shao would not spare them when they returned.

Yuan Shao, who had just experienced the defeat of Wuchao, had no choice but to find a scapegoat, so Zhang He and Gao Ran's surrender was purely helpless, and people with integrity in this era were unwilling to betray the Lord.

You see why Lu Bu is struggling, it is precisely because he is disgusted by the world for betraying his master, and he actually knows it, otherwise Zhang Fei would not be angry like that if he was a slave with three surnames.

After Zhang He and Gao Ran surrendered to Cao Cao, they were not reused, Gao Ran died early, and Zhang He was under Cao Cao, and he could only be a deputy general for the rest of his life, and he never commanded alone.

It wasn't until Cao Cao died, Cao Pi and Cao Rui that Zhang He was reused, and at that time Cao Wei's generals were almost dead, and it was already the second generation of Cao Zhen's era.

The title of the five good generals is also listed by later generations, according to the achievements of their lives, Zhang He shined in his later years, and Zhuge Liang sighed that he could not defeat him.

On the other hand, Zhang Liao is more valued, or because of his different identities, Zhang Liao is not a betrayer, he is not Lu Bu's subordinate, which many people misunderstand.

Zhang Liao was only born in Bingzhou, he was Ding Yuan's subordinate, and following Lu Bu was just an expedient measure to join forces, and there was no master-slave relationship.

At that time, the Liangzhou army hated Lu Bu and was angry with all the people in Bingzhou, and Zhang Liao had no choice but to withdraw from Guanzhong with Lu Bu.

Therefore, he surrendered to Cao Cao without a little psychological burden, the old master is dead, and the good minister chooses the master, Cao Cao obviously understands this, so he reuses him.

In fact, from Guan Yu's attitude towards Zhang Liao, it can be seen that Guan Yunchang hates the person who betrays the master the most, but treats Zhang Liao as a friend, which can be seen to be recognized.

"Second son, explore the Malay report, Cao Cao's army broke through Liyang, and now he is chasing the eldest son and the third prince to Yecheng!"

Let's say that Yuan Xi and his entourage arrived in Fanyang, it was already February, and in February of the eighth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao's army attacked Liyang again.

Yuan Shang came to the rescue, but this time he was defeated by Cao Cao under Liyang City, and the two brothers could only abandon Liyang and flee all the way back to Yecheng, followed by Cao Cao all the way to pursue.