At present, Liu Bei can only follow Chen Gong's plan.
Hearing that there might be danger in Yecheng, he became cautious. However, Chen Gong could take this into consideration. Liu Bei believed that the problem would not be serious and that there was a chance to avoid the danger.
"Lord, there is one more thing."
Chen Gong thought about it and said: "General Zilong, there is no need to follow us to Yecheng."
Liu Bei asked: "What can Zilong do?"
Chen Gong said: "Help the lord recruit troops and horses."
"Although the Yellow Turbans have subsided for a long time, the remnants of the Yellow Turbans still exist. Now the world is in chaos and refugees are everywhere. These people can be our source of troops."
"The lord's soldiers are all gone in Xu."
"The soldiers who are following him now were all brought by Zilong by recruiting refugees, but the number is very small and not enough to help the lord achieve great things. We must recruit more troops."
he continued.
After hearing this, Liu Bei asked: "Where does the food and grass for the soldiers and horses come from?"
Chen Gong said: "Robbing grain merchants and bandits of grain and grass is what Zilong did before. Those grain merchants are all merchants who are not engaged in production. They can hoard grain and grass during wars. They are not kind people, and bandits are even more so. Needless to say, suppressing bandits is to eliminate harm for the people."
The status of merchants is not high. In a chaotic environment, even if they rob merchants, there will be no problem.
"Is it okay, Zilong?"
Liu Bei asked.
Liu Bei was excited that Zhao Yun could come to seek refuge with him.
Zhao Yun is a strong general who can fight Dian Wei equally, and he will not force Zhao Yun to do something he doesn't want to do.
"no problem."
Zhao Yun directly agreed: "I can do everything for your lord."
"good!"
Liu Bei agreed: "Leave the matter of recruiting troops to Zilong, Gongtai, will Zilong leave now?"
"Leave now."
Chen Gong affirmed: "It is inconvenient for Zilong to appear in front of Yuan Shao, so that Yuan Shao cannot see our strength, so that it is possible to operate."
In this case, Zhao Yun separated from Liu Bei and others before going to Yecheng.
After sending Zhao Yun away, Chen Gong has no other arrangements for the time being.
However, when they arrived in Yecheng, they were almost ready to help Yuan Shao open a second battlefield plan. They just needed to find a suitable time to propose it.
In Chen Gong's view, Yuan Shao is much easier to deceive than Cao Cao.
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Yecheng.
"Lord, we have received news about Liu Xuande. He is on his way to Yecheng."
Xu You said.
Yuan Shao said casually: "Send someone to go and pick up Liu Bei as soon as possible."
Jushou bowed and said: "My lord, Liu Bei has certain ambitions. We can accept him, but we must be careful. What he did in Xudu is enough to prove that he is restless."
After hearing this, Yuan Shao thought for a moment and thought that Ju Shou's words made sense.
"My lord is crossing the river this time to completely capture Yuzhou, Yanzhou and Xuzhou, as well as other areas controlled by Cao Cao. As long as we succeed, only Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Jiaozhou and Yizhou will be left in the world."
Guo Tu had the rare opportunity of not having any objections to Ju Shou, and said: "If the plan goes well, the lord controls half of the world, and has the strongest momentum and military strength. If he can snatch the imperial seal from Cao Cao, he can basically achieve great things." . In addition, Liu Bei has done so many things in Xudu, and he is definitely ambitious, so we must be careful not to let him destroy our great cause."
"You are all right."
Yuan Shao stood up and said confidently: "The four northern states are all in my hands. When I defeat Cao Cao, Sizhou, Yongzhou and Liangzhou will definitely surrender. The following southern states and Xichuan are not worth mentioning. "
Having said this, a flash of excitement flashed in his eyes, and he continued: "As long as I get the imperial seal, everything I do will be justified."
That idiot Yuan Shu.
The foundation has not yet been firmly established. As soon as he got the imperial seal, he couldn't wait to become emperor, and was eventually beaten.
Yuan Shao believed that he was not Yuan Shu and would not easily proclaim himself emperor unless he was fully prepared and invincible.
But invincibility will soon be achieved.
As long as Cao Cao is killed, all the princes in the world will not be his opponent.
"Congratulations, lord!"
The people around him immediately shouted flattery.
Yuan Shao laughed loudly, feeling as if the world was in my hands.
Looking at the world, it is true that not many people are his opponents.
The only threat is Cao Cao, but this threat will soon be gone. Before long, he will make Cao Cao doubt his life.
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Cao Cao has not doubted life yet, but now he has a headache.
However, after meeting Chen Zhou, the headache was temporarily forgotten, and he understood the next step of his plan. If it wasn't for being boycotted, he wouldn't care at all.
So he issued an order to convene a court meeting.
There had been an incident about the dress order, and Liu Xie was very resistant to the court meeting. He didn't want to meet Cao Cao, but now it was not up to Liu Xie to decide whether to meet or not. Cao Cao said, he must go to court.
Not only did Liu Xie come, but the remaining officials who were killed by Cao Cao also came.
When they came to the court, they first bowed to Liu Xie and then stood on both sides.
"His Majesty!"
Cao Cao said loudly: "I have recently received many resignations from ministers. I have thought about it for a while. Since you no longer want to assist His Majesty and have your own choices, I have agreed. What do you think, Your Majesty?"
As soon as these words came out, the remaining officials present were in an uproar.
Their resignation and return home were just a way to threaten Cao Cao.
Because they had just killed a group of people, if they left too, where would there be any manpower around Cao Cao to continue handling government affairs?
It will lead to the court falling into a state of chaos and stagnation.
These ministers all expected that Cao Cao would not dare to agree, and he might even beg himself to be so arrogant.
Cao Cao was still worried about why he would kill the remaining ministers and continue to seize power. Since they were struggling like this and there was a plan given to him by Chen Zhou, he thought it was a good opportunity.
"What, you regret it?"
Before those ministers could speak, Cao Cao asked back.
Hearing this, all the ministers who proposed to serve became quiet and looked at Cao Cao with dissatisfaction in their eyes, but they stopped arguing.
Let's see what Cao Cao can do without them.
Scholars have long been monopolized by their aristocratic family, and the way to become an official has also been monopolized by them. When the time comes, those scribes will not be willing to be used by Cao Cao with just one sentence.
They did not believe that Cao Cao could still manage this dilapidated court by relying on Yingchuan scribes.
Seeing that they didn't speak, Cao Cao couldn't understand their thoughts. He smiled and said: "Since you have no other opinions, the matter is settled. Whoever submitted your resignation should come over and hand over the seal and ribbon and leave by yourself. Your Majesty thinks that how?"
Liu Xie did not dare to have any objections, so he could only agree: "What Cao Sikong did is very good, just do it like this and hand over the seal and ribbon!"
Liu Xie spoke, and the others couldn't agree even if they wanted to.
They don't have the courage to confront Cao Cao openly to the end, but they are ready to see Cao Cao's jokes when the time comes.
Cao Cao added: "In addition, I have one more thing to report."
"What else does Cao Sikong have to do?"
Liu Xie was afraid that Cao Cao would report something to him at every turn. Usually, the things he wanted to report were not good, so he had to agree.
Cao Cao faced Liu Xie and said loudly: "I suggest that you rebuild the Imperial Academy. Please approve it."
