Hearing Guo Jia say such arrogant words, Yuan Xi tried his best to hold back his laughter and said seriously: "Sir, that's a good point. Everyone wants to see it."
Seeing the shameless expression on Yuan Xi's face, Guo Jia knew that Yuan Xi had understood what he was thinking, and he immediately became furious.
Guo Jia was still thin-skinned. Although he said he had one idea a day, Yuan Xi had been running around outside these days and rarely came back. The idea came up here and there, and he didn't take it seriously.
Guo Jia's salary was not lacking, and his concubine was well supplied with fine wine. Most of the anger he felt when he was kidnapped had disappeared within this year.
But he wanted to recognize Yuan Xi as his lord, but he couldn't lose face. After finally hearing that Yuan Xi mobilized three cities to attack Yi Jing, he knew that he couldn't pretend anymore.
This battle in Yijing is very critical. Guo Jia has been advising Yuan Xi, knowing that the next few months will be extremely critical.
And Guo Jia also has selfish motives. If Yi Jing's offensive is blocked, the situation in Youzhou is likely to collapse!
If he still stays in Beixin City by then, he may not be as safe as staying with Yuan Xi.
If you don't try your best to make suggestions at this time, I'm afraid you will be killed too.
Yuan Xi arranged for three generals, Qu Yi, to mobilize troops in three cities to collect money and food. The three generals followed the orders and left. Guo Jia took the opportunity to express his worries to Yuan Xi.
"Beixin City here may be more important than Young Master thinks."
"Not to mention the Black Mountain Army, how to use the power of a state to oppose Gongsun Zan is also the key."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi bowed deeply and said, "Please give me some advice, sir."
It wasn't until this moment that Guo Jia felt like the mastermind.
Over the years, he has had a very high self-esteem. Although he does not even look down on famous people such as Yuan Shao and others, he is actually eager to show off his talents.
Although he left Yuan Shao, he still harbored the desire to find the master in his heart, secretly dormant, hoping that one day he would meet someone who appreciates him.
As a result, one day, while he was happily holding his wife and drinking wine in his hometown mansion, a group of wolf-like soldiers rushed into the house and kidnapped his family to Dongwuyang.
Later, he learned that because of what he said before leaving to vent his anger, he was taken into consideration by the Yuan family!
He just wanted to die, what else could he do if he fell into the hands of others?
Unexpectedly, Yuan Xi's real purpose was to recruit him. Guo Jia didn't understand. He had never met Yuan Xi and his reputation was not known. Why would he go to war with him in exchange for a nephew of the Cao family?
What's more, what puzzles Guo Jia is that Yuan Xi attaches great importance to him and is even afraid of him.
Why?
Guo Jia has not yet found the answer, but he found that Yuan Xi was hiding deeply, that his plans were complex, and his ideas were far beyond his imagination.
The more he understood Yuan Xi's layout, the more interested he became. He wanted to see how far Yuan Xi could go.
Guo Jia really wanted to participate. As a chess player, he could finish this chess game that included the whole world.
Yuan Xi invited Guo Jia to sit at the same table, and the two sat opposite each other.
Guo Jia wanted to open his mouth, but suddenly said in annoyance: "You don't want to have a bottle of wine at this time?"
Yuan Xi laughed and asked Cao Xian to bring the wine. Guo Jia knew that Yuan Xi did not drink easily and was not modest, so he poured himself a cup.
Cao Xian poured tea for Yuan Xi and then left.
Guo Jia shook his head, "You are really willing to let your concubine do the rough work."
"After all, I was giving in to my daughter."
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "I think this is good. I can support myself and do what I can. There is nothing wrong with it."
"She did it voluntarily. I didn't see her clearly because of it, but I respected her even more."
"Only after noble noble women like her and Wu Zhao have gone through hardships can they understand the difficulties faced by the common people in the world, and can they understand that there is no shame in doing things that are beneficial to others."
Cao Xian listened outside the door and was moved in his heart. She initially flattered Yuan Xi just so that her mother and sister could have a good place to live.
But since she came to Beixin City, she followed Yuan Xi, Wu Zhao and others to sow in the spring fields and harvest in the autumn. During the harvest, she saw people all over the sky raising their hands and cheering to Yuan Xi, and she was suddenly touched.
This was a feeling she had never thought about or experienced before.
That day, the fresh wheat rice cooked in the pot next to the wheat field was the most delicious meal in her life.
She still remembered what Yuan Xi said to her at that moment.
People work tirelessly and finally get rewards commensurate with their efforts, which is the happiest thing.
If there are bad people who want to take away all this, these working people will naturally let those bad people taste the simplest anger.
Cao Xian also heard that Yuan Xi whispered something to Tianbian, but she still didn't understand it.
In this era, only a sickle is needed to kill bad guys. What a wonderful thing.
She leaned against the door, raised her head and looked up at the sky, thinking that only when she walked out of the deep house could she see a different scenery. Only when she had fallen into darkness could she understand the value of sunshine better.
I am really grateful to Mr.
In the small room in the corner of the yard, there was a potbellied girl talking to Mr. Ma.
This is Mrs. Zheng, whom Sun Li married last year. She became pregnant after getting married. She saw that she was almost ten months pregnant and was about to give birth.
She said to Ma, "Jun aunt, this young master's concubine is very beautiful. I heard she is a girl from a noble family."
Ma lowered her head to sew her clothes and said, "You can say this in private. If you call me madam in person, don't lose etiquette."
Mrs. Zheng knew that her mother-in-law, Mr. Ma, could read poems and books and was well-spoken. She was definitely not a woman from the countryside. She wondered: "If your husband doesn't call the young master your eldest brother, is it necessary for me to call my concubine my concubine?"
Ma snorted: "It's not easy to call me big brother. You have to understand your identity and don't get carried away."
"We can get the protection of the young master because Sun Li paid for it with his life. When he calls the young master like this, it means that he will die for the young master at any time."
"Otherwise, we would be just ordinary slaves."
Mrs. Zheng seemed to understand, "I heard that there is going to be a war soon. My husband's departure makes me very worried."
Ma said: "Without the young master leading them to victory, how can we live peacefully in Beixin City?"
"Without the protection of the young master, we would have been sold like livestock long ago."
Zheng's face turned a little gloomy when she thought of her previous experiences, and sighed: "I don't know when this troubled world will end."
Ma looked through the window and saw Cao Xian slacking off. The curves of his body full of youthful vitality were clearly revealed, and the young master finally understood.
Whether Sun Li can revitalize the Sun family and honor the ancestors in the future depends entirely on the future achievements of the young master.
Just like Ma, many people place their hopes on Yuan Xi, because their fate has long been tightly tied to Yuan Xi, just like Guo Jia who still has some airs.
He drank three sips in a row and felt a flood of thoughts, and then he started talking non-stop.
"To end the troubled times, we must use force in the final analysis, but we must also pay attention to the destiny of the people and their destiny."
"Although the prophecy of the young master's name is not as direct and obvious as that of Yuan Jiujiu, there are definitely more scholars who value the young master because of this than the young master imagined."
"Now, after a year of planning in Sancheng and even Zhuojun, rumors about the young master have begun to spread, even to Youzhou and Bingzhou outside Zhuojun."
"Especially the former Taiping Daoists who have been protected by the Young Master, with intentional or unintentional hints, have begun to spontaneously spread rumors that the Young Master is the Taiping Master."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi smiled bitterly and said: "I always feel that doing this is a bit too unscrupulous."
Guo Jia sneered: "Those who achieve great things don't stick to trivial matters. Do you think other princes in the world don't do this?"
"In my hometown Yingchuan, or even Yuzhou, do you know what Cao Mengde did?"
After hearing this, Yuan Xi became interested and said, "I would like to hear the details."
Guo Jia cleared his throat, "Although the Yellow Turbans failed in the world at that time, the Taoism they left behind has become a general trend."
"Within Taoism, it is divided into Taiping Dao in the east and Sanzhang in the west and Tianshi Dao in the west (called the Five Pecks of Rice Dao by outsiders)."
"The three in the east are Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang, and the three in the west are Zhang Daoling, Zhang Heng, and Zhang Lu."
"Not to mention Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, now that Zhang Jiao and others have perished with the destruction of the Yellow Turbans, the Central Plains region is leaderless, leaving many gaps that can be exploited."
"There are millions of Yellow Turbans, and it is no longer possible to completely eliminate them. They are hiding and are in urgent need of someone who can lead them."
"Now it seems that Cao Cao is the most likely."
"The Cao family has believed in Huang Lao for generations, and I heard that when Cao Cao was the magistrate of Dunqiu County and the prime minister of Jinan, he destroyed obscene sacrifices, which was highly appreciated by Taoists."
"The most important force in Taoism is the alchemists, who either travel around the Imperial Academy and intervene in local areas, or hide among the people and spread rumors."
"Nowadays, every time Cao Cao conquers a territory, he immediately recruits alchemists. On the one hand, he adopts their alchemy skills to maintain health, and on the other hand, he lets them advocate for Cao Cao's destiny. In this regard, it is more clever than the princes spreading prophecies that are beneficial to themselves. .”
"Now that the four sects of Destiny are the Son of Heaven, the Tao of Heavenly Masters, the Tao of Taiping, and the Alchemists, Cao Cao has mastered two of the Taiping Tao and the Alchemists. If he controls four, no one in the world can rival him."
"Moreover, the Central Plains region is the place where the legend of Taoism Huang Tian Huang De originated. Cao Cao spread this kind of talk in Yanzhou and Jizhou. For him, it can breed a large number of spies within the enemy. This is the most difficult thing to prevent."
"Compared with what the young master is doing now, it pales into insignificance."
It suddenly dawned on Yuan Xi that Cao Cao welcomed the emperor, and Hanzhong Zhang Lu directly voted for Cao Cao. With these four pieces of the puzzle together, plus the hard power of force, who in the world can still fight against him?
Later Cao Cao mastered the righteousness of both the upper and lower levels. If he didn't know the secrets of it and fought against it, he would step on every trap. From this point of view, Yecheng was later conquered. On the surface, it was Shen Pei's nephew Shen Rong who rebelled, but it may not be true. other reasons.
Therefore, Cao Wei firmly controlled the Han family's destiny speech, and used Huang De to replace the Han with Wei, which was similar to Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han.
In contrast, Liu Bei flaunted "yellow energy", "yellow dragon" and other auspicious signs after Cao Pi received Zen, and proclaimed himself emperor, which was also "yellow virtue". He should have reacted, but it was too late, and he even cooperated with Shu Han to revive the Han Dynasty. strategy is contradictory.
Sun Wu also had similar considerations when he founded "Huangwu" and "Huanglong" successively, but he also followed suit.
Yuan Xi listened to Guo Jia peeling off the cocoon and clearly revealing what Cao Cao had done, and extremely complicated feelings surged in his heart.
Letting Cao Cao's most powerful adviser go against Cao Cao, does it seem like he feels guilty that he has outdone Cao Cao?
(End of chapter)
