The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Shi Huan and Ding Fei heard the words, clapped their hands together, and said, "This name is good!"

Ding Fei said: "Touch gold, touch gold, touch gold, good name, very image!"

Shi Huan said, "The name is ready, but Duke Ming, who should I leave this errand to?"

Cao Cao's gaze moved to and fro on the faces of Ding Fei and Shi Huan, whoever turned his head down embarrassedly or turned his face away. Cao Cao laughed and said, "Why, you both seem unwilling to do it!"

Shi Huan touched his head and said with a smirk, "Ming Gong, it's not that we don't want to do it, it's just that this errand is a bit, a bit..."

Cao Cao made up for him, and said, "It's a bit sinister, isn't it?"

Shi Huan hurriedly replied: "Ming Gong Mingjian! This errand is indeed a bit sinister. The Taoist school says that for the general, killing a lot of slaughter will damage the sin. , I don't care about these things that Taoists say, but the job of touching gold is really, really..." He said, looking at Ding Fei, who couldn't find the words for when.

Ding Fei said: "I really can't do it."

Shi Huan nodded again and again and said, "Exactly, exactly! Duke Ming, I really can't do it."

Cao Cao stroked his beard and smiled, and said, "The two of you are my favorite generals. I have great responsibility for you. How could I let you two do such things?"

Shi Huan's expression relaxed, and he asked, "Then dare to ask Duke Ming, who do you want to choose to take on this errand?"

Cao Cao thought to himself: "Both of you are unwilling to do it, who else can I send? Is it possible, can I still ask Yuan Rang and Miao Cai to do it?" Of course this is impossible, but Cao Cao already has After choosing the candidates, he said, "How about Li Xiang and Liang Kui?"

Li Xiang and Liang Kui were the two men who went to Cao Cao's command from the wrongful sentence.

As long as he doesn't choose himself to do this errand, Cao Cao can choose anyone he wants. Ding Fei and Shi Huan immediately agreed.

"Then settle for these two!"

Cao Cao really had no other suitable candidates, so he had to use these two new recruits to do this.

They decided to appoint Li Xiang as the commander of Mojin and Liang Kui as the governor of Mojin. In addition to the soldiers of his two headquarters, Cao Cao allocated him two thousand foot soldiers, and by the way, he selected a few from the county who knew feng shui. , give him two orders.

But he said, why pick a few people who understand Feng Shui for them? It is because this Colonel Mojin is the well-known Colonel Mojin in later generations, and Cao Cao intends to use it to dig graves to gather money and goods, so as to use it to raise troops.

Chen Gong's estimate was correct. Taking an East County as an area of ​​over 300 li in length, the widest point is only 100 li, and the narrowest point is only 30 to 20 li. In total, the territory is no more than 14 or 5 counties. He could afford to raise 30,000 soldiers; at the same time, Chen Gong expected to correct them. With these 30,000 soldiers, Cao Cao was really unwilling to lay off his troops in order to defend Dongjun and counterattack Yanzhou, which caused his food and wealth to be extremely tight.

After much deliberation, Cao Cao could not find a solution.

Seeing that the food in the warehouse is rapidly decreasing these days, and the money and silk are gradually not enough to pay for the army, it really makes him sad.

At this moment, Cheng Li gave him a strategy, that is, the method of robbing tombs and obtaining gold. - In other words, to relieve the financial tension by robbing tombs, this method was not something that Cao Cao couldn't think of, but that Cheng Li surreptitiously suggested to him.

Tomb robbery, although it is impossible to steal food and grain, but it can steal gold and silver money. With gold and silver money, on the one hand, part of the problem of military salaries has been solved, and on the other hand, with money in hand, you can also buy food from local tyrants, or from Jizhou, Chenliu and other places. All of a sudden, the two problems of food and salaries can at least be alleviated.

Cao Cao is not a pedantic person. After listening to Cheng Li's strategy, he did not hesitate at all, and agreed on the spot.

It's just that Cheng Li, despite his vicious personality, still knows a little bit of shame. Even for the sake of his descendants, he doesn't want to get a bad name for Cao Cao's tomb robbery, so he asks Cao Cao not to tell outsiders that he came up with the idea.

Cheng Li and Chen Gong were the two most useful advisors to Cao Cao. Now Chen Gong has abandoned him, leaving only Cheng Li. It was the difficult time when he relied on Cheng Li to advise him. , of course he would not refuse, so he did not say that it was Cheng Li's idea, and even when discussing how to implement Cheng Li's strategy, he did not call Cheng Li to participate, but only called Shi Huan and Ding Fei. The two cronies conspired.

Cao Cao instructed Ding Fei, saying, "Go and fetch me Li Xiang and Liang Kui."

Ding Fei complied with his promise and went out. After a while, he brought Li Xiang and Liang Kui back.

Li Xiang and Liang Kui entered the hall and bowed down.

Cao Cao asked them both to get up and looked up and down. Gu Yu, Ding Fei and Shi Huan said, "Li and Liang Jun are really talented!"

Li Xiang is strong and burly, with a big beard, saying that he is a good talent; Liang Kui has a bad nose and a wretched appearance, saying that he is a talent is a conscience. Shi Huan and Ding Feilian claimed that they were.

Cao Cao said: "Second monarchs have been under my account for some time. Although Li Jun was appointed Sima of other ministries before, this position is low, and it is not worthy of Li Jun's talents. , so Lord Lei has been in this position to this day. Now, I have a big matter that I want to entrust to Erjun. I will confer the two positions of Colonel Commander and Commander Commander to you two for the time being. I wonder if Erjun would accept it?"

Liang Kui was overjoyed when he heard the words, knowing that the position of the commander was destined to be given to him, thinking that he was just a fighting officer before. "Be a captain for a while, save some money, and then you can marry another wife. This time, you must find a beautiful one." This thought flashed through his mind, he hurriedly bowed down again, and Shane said: "May I die for Duke Ming!"

Li Xiang was suspicious. He didn't know why Cao Cao suddenly gave him a school captain. You must know that they were Xiahou Dun, Cao Chun and other Cao Cao's clans and cronies, and many of them were only school captains, and there were even fake school captains. He is a new recruit, he has no merit, how can he be promoted to captain at once? He murmured in his heart, followed Li Xiang in his mouth, and said, "What's the big deal, but please order Ming Gong!"

Cao Cao said slowly: "Now our army has insufficient food and salaries, and we only rely on Dongjun to support as many soldiers. However, in order to counterattack Yanzhou, the soldiers cannot be disbanded. After thinking about it, I have come up with a strategy to solve this dilemma. This is what I want to entrust to the two monarchs."

Li Xiang asked, "Dare to ask Duke Ming, what is the policy?"

"I want to give it to Jun's captain, and I plan to call it Touch Gold."

"Touching gold? Duke Ming, what does this mean?"

"Touch gold, touch gold, as the name suggests, touch gold underground."

Li Xiang was stunned for a while before thinking, "Go underground to find gold? Where is the gold underground? I have never heard of a gold mine in Dong County. Go underground? ... Ah, isn't it?" He was smart, guessing what Cao Cao meant, Stunned, he said, "Ming Gong, don't you want to dig a grave?"

Cao Cao stood up from the seat, went down to the hall, held his head high, pressed his sword and waved his sleeves, and said sternly: "In an extraordinary time, do extraordinary things! There is chaos at home and the Han Dynasty is late, this is an extraordinary time! When I think that the Son of Heaven is in Chang'an, being coerced and humiliated by traitors such as Li Jue and Guo Si, I can't sleep at night, my heart is like a knife, and I always long to lead the troops to Chang'an. Ying Tianzi returns to the old capital! But Xun Zhendong took advantage of the Yellow Turbans to disturb our Yanzhou and invaded me on a large scale, causing my Shanyang, Jiyin and other counties to fall. At this moment, in order to restore Yanzhou and then attack Chang'an in the north, it is necessary to take extraordinary measures. It's just the thing!

"Jun Shi guessed right, this extraordinary thing is to dig graves and collect gold to fill the army! Li Jun, Liang Jun! You have extraordinary merit, you must treat extraordinary people, and the two of you are willing to be such extraordinary people. , did you make extraordinary achievements for the Han family and the emperor?"

Shi Huan and Ding Fei praised in secret, and they all said in their hearts: "Ming Gong's words are righteous and awe-inspiring!"

Liang Kui was taken aback, his eyes widened, and he stammered: "Dig, dig a tomb? Isn't that robbing a tomb?"

Li Xiang was silent for a while, and then said, "Before I saw Duke Ming, I heard that Duke Ming was informal and open-minded, but now I know that Duke Ming is really unscrupulous! Since Duke Ming entrusted this great responsibility to Xiang, how could he dare to resign!"

Cao Cao was overjoyed, took a few steps forward, took Li Xiang's hand, looked at Li Xiang's face, and said sincerely: "Li Jun, I knew that this matter has no one else to do except entrust it to you! Don't worry, I won't let you do this for too long, at most one year, I will replace you with someone else, and then I will be of great use to you!" He motioned for Liang Kui to come forward, patted his shoulder, and said, "Liang Jun , please!"

Cao Cao wrote the letter of appointment on the spot and gave it to the two of them. As for the seal and ribbon, he went back and made it up, and told them that he would send thousands of troops to the two of them in two or three days, and a warlock who knew Feng Shui. A few people, tell him two to go back and wait, and when the manpower for them is all ready, they can start to select the site and bury their heads in work.

Li Xiang and Liang Kui resigned and left the hall and went outside the mansion.

Liang Kui complained and said: "Li Jun, why did you agree to Duke Ming? How can you do this job? Once you do it, won't you be scolded in the spine? There are so many generals and officers under Duke Ming's account, why did he do it? I don't choose either, but you and me? Isn't it because we are new to vote and have no background. Once the public anger is provoked, it is impossible to say, Ming Gong will kill us both, as a slander!"

Li Xiang sighed and said, "You also said that we are new recruits, and since Duke Ming told you and me about such secret matters, is there any chance of us rejecting it? Take us as scapegoats, don't you worry, if we refuse, will Duke Ming kill you in court?"

Liang Kui took a breath and said, "It's true!" He asked, "What should we do? Are we really doing this errand?"

With a thoughtful look, Li Xiang said, "I'm not going to lie to you. Originally, I came to vote for Duke Ming, and I was just a matter of expediency, but after I voted under Duke Ming's account, I saw that Duke Ming treats people with heart and acts like a hero. Zizi, doing this grave digging again today is definitely not something ordinary people can do! Liang Jun, don’t look at Duke Ming’s embarrassment at the moment, I think what Duke Ming lacks is an opportunity, as long as the opportunity comes, Duke Ming will definitely be Those who can do great things! Duke Ming is willing to use this strategy of digging graves because of his status. What can't you and I do? Not only do we do it, but we both have to do it well! In this way, wait until Ming Dynasty When the man is flying into the sky, you and I will have to be rich!"

Li Xiang's basis for looking at people is a bit peculiar, but it seems to make sense.

Liang Kui was still quite convinced of Li Xiang, but reluctantly replied, "That's fine."

The two went back to their residence and passed a person.

This man hurried to the prefecture and asked to see Cao Cao.

Cao Cao heard that it was Zhang Miao's messenger, so he called him to see him.

This person arrived in the hall and presented Zhang Miao's letter.

This letter is exactly the one written by Chen Gong.

Cao Cao opened it to watch, and after reading it, Wen Yan said to the messenger, "You have worked **** the road, so go to the guest house to rest first. After I write my reply, I will ask you to come, and you can take it with Zhang Fujun."

The messenger complied.

Cao Cao instructed Ding Fei and Shi Huan, saying, "Invite Duke Cheng, Zili, Boning and others to come."

Boning is the character of Man Chong; Zili is the character of Bi Chen.

Bi Chen was originally a meritorious Cao of Dongping Kingdom. With Chen Gong, Bao Xin, Wan Qian and others welcoming Cao Cao's master of Yanzhou, he was made a state official by Cao Cao. Bi Chen respected Cao Cao's character and ability, and was very loyal to him. Even after Cao Cao's successive failures and Chen Gong's betrayal, he still followed Cao Cao's account and did his best to serve Cao Cao faithfully.

Ding Fei and Shi Huan went to invite them separately. About half an hour later, Cheng Li, Bi Chen, Man Chong and others came.

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