After the banquet has dispersed.

In the side hall, only the core characters surnamed Cao and Xiahou remained.

When everyone saw Cao Ang leading a tall, sturdy, handsome-looking young man coming quickly, they couldn't help but be a little curious for a while.

It's just that he hasn't waited for Cao Cao to ask.

Cao Hong, who was mixed in the crowd, suddenly came out of the crowd, and exclaimed even more in his mouth.

"Wen Lie, is it Wen Lie?"

Hearing someone call his cousin, Cao Xiu was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened, carefully identifying the man who was walking quickly towards him.

Two or three seconds after a slight recollection.

Cao Xiu was suddenly shocked.

also greeted him with a quick step, walked to Cao Hong, and bowed down.

"Hugh to see my uncle!"

Cao Hong and Cao Xiu's father are brothers, and the relationship between the two will obviously be closer.

When the Kanto region was in turmoil and the Cao clan was scattered in all directions, the Cao Hong brothers fled together at first, so Cao Hong can still remember Cao Xiu's appearance to some extent.

And Cao Cao and the others, who were standing on the side, only after hearing the reminiscences of the uncle and nephew, did they understand that this young man was also the son and nephew of the family.

Immediately, they all gathered around.

Among them, Cao Cao, as the descendant of the Cao clan, can still memorize some of the more important men for several generations in each room.

Therefore, after looking at Cao Hong and reminiscing a little, Cao Cao showed a kind smile on his face, and asked with a somewhat elder-like smile.

"Wen Lie, if I'm not mistaken, you are a child of the Ziqian family, how is your father now?"

Cao Xiu first bowed to Cao Cao.

After respectfully calling my uncle.

Only then did he reply with a little sadness: "After parting ways with Uncle Zilian in Xiapi, my father took our family and lived in Jiangdu County for a period of time. ”

"It was only later that my father contracted an illness, and the city doctors were helpless, and it didn't take long for my father to die of illness."

"The nephew was worried that his mother would be hurt if he stayed in the old land, so he took the family across the river to Wu County, and has lived in Wu County ever since."

……

After hearing Cao Xiu say that his father had died.

A little compassion flashed on everyone's faces, and Cao Cao even reached out and patted Cao Xiu's shoulder.

Full of gentle reassurance: "Since you have come here, you will regard this place as your own home in the future, and everyone here is basically your uncle and elder, so you don't have to be restrained when you encounter things in the future." ”

Meanwhile.

As Cao Cao's voice fell.

Cao Ang also stepped forward at the right time, grabbed Cao Xiu's arm with one hand, and said with a smile to Cao Cao.

"Wen Lie is far away in Wu County, since he inquired about the news that your father raised an army to defeat Dong Zhuo, he brought his family and his family, and came all the way, which took several months before and after, and he crossed the mountains and mountains during the process, which is not not hard!"

After listening to his son's description.

Cao Cao nodded again and again with emotion.

"Wu County is far away from the boundary of Yangzhou, it is really thousands of miles away from here, Wen Lie can go all the way here, and he can be a thousand miles away for my Cao family!"

Cao Cao and Cao Ang had an amazing tacit understanding, and the father and son gave Cao Xiu the evaluation of "Thousand Miles of Horses" at the same time.

This made Cao Xiu, who had always been cheerful, a little embarrassed to show a little smile, and stood there scratching his head vigorously.

……

After a few pleasantries.

Cao Cao suddenly remembered that he had forgotten.

His right hand patted his head lightly, and then hurriedly waved to the crowd.

"Zixiao, what are you hiding there for, come and meet your nephew!"

With Cao Cao's greeting.

A tall and powerful plagiaristic man came out of the crowd, with rough eyebrows and eyes, and a beard on his chin, which looked very fierce.

It's just that he looks like he's quite young.

At a glance, it is not much bigger than Cao Ang.

When the man walked to him, Cao Cao first patted Cao Ang's arm, and introduced with a smile on his face: "This is my son, you have seen it before, I wonder if you can recognize you as an uncle now?" ”

After a smile.

Cao Cao turned his head and introduced Cao Ang again.

"Ang'er, this is your uncle Zixiao, with a single name and a benevolent character, and he is also Zihe's own brother."

"I've been living in the Huaisi area before, and I originally planned to come over earlier, but when I received the news of raising troops for my father, I still led a group of people, and many of them have not been properly resolved."

"Until a few days ago, your uncle Xiaofang led 3,000 soldiers and horses to Jinxiang County, ready to help me."

……

With the introduction of the father.

Cao Ang was stunned.

It turns out that this guy is Cao Ren!

That is, the fierce man who is called Cao Wei's iron wall, good at attacking and defending, and fighting according to the city, and the enemy who consumes energy for two or three months, can hardly make any progress.

When Cao Chun came over to defect before.

Cao Ang had asked when his brother Cao Ren would come over, but at that time, Cao Chun said that Cao Ren was gathering his soldiers in the Huaisi area, so it would take a while.

It's a coincidence.

Except for some scattered and left behind children of the Cao family, the two most important right-hand men in the Cao clan all arrived in this time period.

It can be regarded as putting together the entire clan territory.

After listening to my father's introduction.

Cao Ang, as a junior, took the lead in saluting Cao Ren and saluted quite respectfully.

"My nephew has seen my uncle, but I haven't seen him for many years, and my uncle is still heroic, as before."

Faced with Cao Ang's touting.

Cao Ren didn't dare to say anything.

While bowing his fists and saluting Cao Ang in return, he said with a smile on his face and a tone full of admiration.

"On the way back from Jinxiang County, I have already heard Zihe say that Zi Yu is a genius in the sky, with both civil and military skills, wisdom and bravery, and he can be regarded as a unicorn of my Cao family."

"When I saw it today, it really lived up to its name, what Fang Zhizi said was true!"

Cao Ren did not hesitate to praise his words.

directly came to a set of business blows with Cao Ang.

The uncle and nephew, holding each other, called a sky, and the scene was extremely harmonious for a while.

only looked at Cao Cao and the others on the side, looking straight at them, and kept stroking their beards.

……

This small gathering composed of the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan lasted for about half an hour, and then they left one after another.

In the entire side hall, only Cao Cao's father and son remained.

After seeing that everyone on the left and right had left.

Cao Ang stood up and stretched, and the whole person looked quite relaxed.

"Father, the matter is over here, the child plans to return to Dingtao County with someone in the next few days, and then go from Dingtao to Puyang, Dongjun."

Originally, because of the arrival of the children of the clan, the trustworthy available people under his hands became stronger and stronger, and Cao Cao, who was quite relieved and happy.

After hearing his son say this.

The joy on his face was instantly submerged.

Instead, a few wisps of gloom.

He was naturally reluctant to let Cao Ang leave his side and go to the local government alone, but this was what their father and son had discussed before.

Therefore, after his expression dimmed for a moment, Cao Cao still nodded and responded: "Okay, you can arrange the big and small things by yourself, be careful when you get there, if you need to help your father, don't hide it." ”

Feel the care in my father's words.

Cao Ang smiled slightly.

Then he said coldly: "Father, there is one more thing I want to tell you, Uncle Zixiao and I are also going to take it to Dongjun, so you don't need to arrange an official position for him here." ”

……

"Huh?"

Cao Cao blinked a little blankly at first.

Then he reacted.

couldn't help but nod Cao Ang with his hand, and scolded with a smile: "You stinky boy, it's been a few days since your uncle came over, and your father hasn't even warmed him up, so you begged him again?" ”

Cao Cao's words did not mean to blame, aren't the people under his hands the people under his son, and the strength of the father and son is universal.

Now it's just a few jokes.

And Cao Ang, after hearing his father's laughter and scolding, hurriedly surrendered his hand again and again and begged him for mercy.

"Father, you are not at a loss, didn't the child bring us the thousands of miles of our Cao family's horse to you?"

"It just so happens that my son and uncle are also going to be taken away, and the cavalry battalion under your command has a lack of capable officers, and now I will fill Wen Lie in it."

"With his ability to leap thousands of miles from Wu County to Shanyang County, he must be able to take charge of the cavalry alone after a few years of training."

When Cao Cao heard this, he nodded happily.

He still agrees with Cao Ang's point of view, he likes Cao Xiu's child at first glance, the only flaw at present is that he is too young, and his seniority is not high.

Therefore, it will be entrusted with the important task in a few years.

……

Perhaps considering that after the son went to Dongjun next, it was not convenient for the father and son to communicate with each other.

Therefore, Cao Cao simply came up with several things one after another, wanting to take advantage of Cao Ang's last time before leaving Changyi County to make a basic decision about these things.

It's not that under Cao Cao's hands, strategists such as Chen Gong can't come in handy.

Instead, Cao Cao habitually discussed with his son and listened to Cao Ang's advice, so as to have a bottom in his heart about these matters.

This includes the Yanzhou Mineral Development Project.

After completely reluctantly reluctantly guarding Taishan County, the many resources in Taishan County naturally let Cao Cao intervene.

According to the information provided by Cao Ang.

Most of the minerals in Yanzhou are concentrated in Taishan County, and of course they are mainly carbon and iron.

Cao Cao then planned to take over the state-run iron ore mines and organize the manpower to mine those undiscovered mines.

After obtaining resources.

It was then transported back to the central base camp.

And this includes a large amount of minerals that need to be transported to Dongjun and distributed to his son Cao Ang.

In addition, there are a series of problems such as the production of grain in the military cantonment, as well as the continued incorporation of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, the preparation of a new corps, and so on.

It was discussed for more than an hour.

A basic charter has just been decided.

And just when the matter was almost discussed, Cao Ang was about to say goodbye to his father and leave.

Cao Cao suddenly took out a brocade book from the pile of books stacked on the table.

"Ang'er, and one last thing, this is a letter sent from Nanyang County, written by the later general Yuan Shu, you can take a look first."

……

Hear this long-lost name.

Cao Ang suddenly raised his eyebrows.

What does Skeletron want to do?

While taking the silk book from his father's hand, Cao Ang asked casually.

"Father, since the dissolution of the coalition against Dong Zhuo, has Yuan Shu been staying in Nanyang County?"

Cao Cao nodded.

"During this time, Yanzhou has been in turmoil, and my father doesn't know anything about the affairs of other states and counties, but he only knows that Yuan Shu has been entrenched in Nanyang County."

"Together with his general, Sun Jian, it seems that they are fighting against the local families of Nanyang County, as well as the rest of the counties in Jingzhou."

"But I think the situation shouldn't be good, otherwise with his temperament, it is impossible to stay in the north of Nanyang all the time without continuing to swallow the whole of Jingzhou to the south."

After knowing a general situation.

Cao Ang bowed slightly.

Then the silk book was unfolded.

There is not much text on it, only a few lines are sprinkled, and the amount of information is pitiful.

Therefore, at a glance, it has been seen through.

……

"Whew!"

As soon as he finished reading the letter, Cao Ang couldn't help but laugh, and couldn't help but sneer, and his face was full of mocking smiles.

"Father, I'm not mistaken, this Yuan Highway actually threatened our father and son with words in the letter?"

That's right, Yuan Shu only wrote one thing.

That is to threaten Cao Cao.

Warn him not to get too close to Yuan Shao after winning Yanzhou, otherwise he would most likely be regarded as an enemy and be hit hard by him.

In the letters, between the lines, they are full of lofty meanings, blunt and explicit, undisguised threats, and they are even more arrogant.

It seems that being able to warn the threat in advance, instead of directly leading troops over to destroy Cao Cao, is already regarded as Yuan Shu's great mercy.

on this.

Cao Ang really can't complain.

No, what are you pretending to be, buddy?

I don't know, I thought you were already dominant, looking at the world, and you could destroy whoever was unhappy, in the final analysis, you are still a scumbag.

……

Don't look at Yuan Shubing, who has a lot of food and a lot of strength.

But Cao Ang is still true to him.

If Yuan Shao is placed in Yuan Shu's position and the resources are equalized, then in the face of such a threat, Cao Ang may really have to pay attention to it.

But Yuan Shu really can't do it.

It's not that Cao Ang belittles him.

It's that this guy's combat effectiveness is really poor.

With the same number of troops, others may be able to exert a one-to-one combat effectiveness, or even a higher proportion.

Yuan Shu can't.

When an army of 100,000 is in his hands, the combat effectiveness will be discounted, and I don't know if it is because there are no famous generals under him, or because the strategy and tactics are not very good.

In short, when it comes to fighting, it is the shortcoming of Yuan Shu.

His father Cao Cao, although he was not a top battlefield commander in the late Han Dynasty, but if he was playing against Yuan Shu, he would be able to beat three of him.

There are examples of these in history.

Therefore, Cao Ang didn't pay attention to Yuan Shu's straightforward threat in this letter.

There is even a lot of contempt and ridicule.

It's just the opposite of the son.

Cao Cao, who didn't know much about Yuan Shu's old background, was faintly worried.

……

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