The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

https:///>Guo Tu said: "Meng De is a soldier and is in-law with the Tu clan. Tu knew this from his letter."

The phenomenon of intermarriage between scholars is very common. The "this scholar" Guo Tu mentioned is from Yanzhou, and is adjacent to the people from Cao Cao, Yan and Yu. At the same time, this family and the Guo Tu family are the family of marriage. , is Guo Tu's distant relative.

Yuan Shao said, "What is the specific situation? Let me hear you in detail."

Guo Tu replied "yes", then answered Yuan Shao, and then said: "Tu heard that Meng De sent a letter to Zhang Feiyan first, and offered to be at peace with Zhang Feiyan; They wrote a book in which the language was extremely polite. Since then, the two of them have been in constant correspondence with each other in letters. . . I don't know."

Yuan Shao frowned, stroked his beard, and said, "Why didn't Yuan Cai report this to me?"

Guo Tu said, "Maybe Yuan Cai didn't know about this."

Cao Cao was in Bingzhou, and it was said that he was subordinate to Gaogan. Gaogan was the governor of Bingzhou appointed by Yuan Shao, but Cao Cao had his own team, his own advisers, generals, and his own soldiers and horses. Therefore, in fact, The two of them are not under the command. At most, Cao Cao gives Gao Gan enough respect on the surface, but if Gao Gan wants to force Cao to operate something, he will not order it.

Then, it is reasonable that Cao Cao is secretly doing something that the high-ranking officials have not heard of.

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Then he said what Guo Tu said about the correspondence between Cao Cao and Zhang Feiyan, is it true? Was it fabricated by Guo Tu? Not really. This thing is indeed true. Cao Cao has indeed had a lot of correspondence with Zhang Feiyan recently, and the purpose of Cao Cao's letter to Zhang Feiyan is exactly what Guo Tu said that he hopes to be at peace with Zhang Feiyan.

Then again, why did Cao Cao do this? Do you want to hook up with Zhang Feiyan in private, or to put it bluntly, do you want to join forces with Zhang Feiyan, "reverse the customer first", is it bad for Yuan Shao? But it is not.

The reason why Cao Cao went to write to Zhang Feiyan was that he wanted to be at peace with Zhang Feiyan, and there was no other reason.

The overall situation in Bingzhou is quite complicated, different from Jizhou.

The situation surrounding Jizhou, as Guo Tu said, is now Gongsun Zan in the north, Xunzhen in the east, and Zhang Feiyan in the west. It seems that they are enemies on three sides, but at least these three enemies, Zhang Feiyan, is weaker than Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao. The contrast has also changed, and Xun Zhen is currently not as strong as Yuan Shao, that is to say, the three enemies are not as good as Yuan Shao; especially, the situation in Jizhou Prefecture, through Yuan Shao's reuse of Jizhou scholars and the defeat of Gongsun Zan, the elimination of Qiantong Gongsun Zan's arrogance and power, as well as the military and political measures that severely damaged the various departments of the Montenegrin Army, have now been generally stabilized, and there are no more powerful enemies. To use one word to describe the current situation in Jizhou, it is actually "seemingly difficult." "Easy", in front of Yuan Shao, is already a smooth road, not only to secure Jizhou, but also to win Youzhou, and even Bingzhou. For Yuan Shao, it is only a matter of time.

State is very different.

First of all, Bingzhou is similar to Youzhou, and there are many Hu people in the northern part of the state.

Secondly, in Xihe County in the west of Bingzhou, there are white waves and yellow scarves.

Thirdly, in the west of the state of Bingzhou, Xihe County borders Sanfu in the south of Shangjun to the west, and there are quite a few Liangzhou soldiers under Li Jue and Guo Si in its territory.

Once again, in the east of Bingzhou, in the Taihang Mountains at the junction of Bingzhou and Jizhou, there is another Zhang Feiyan group entrenched.

As mentioned above, after Gao Gan and Cao Cao arrived in Bingzhou, the territory they could actually control was only a few two or three counties such as Taiyuan adjacent to Jizhou, which only accounted for a quarter of the entire territory of Bingzhou. Occupying little land and surrounded by powerful enemies, it is far more difficult than Jizhou to gain a foothold in Bingzhou, whether it is the comparison of the military strength of the enemy and us, or the comparison of the situation of the enemy and us outside the state and within the state.

——In contrast, it is actually too easy to be based in Jizhou.

Faced with such a complex and difficult situation, how can we open the situation? To make the whole state truly for itself? Since arriving in Bingzhou, Cao Cao has been thinking about this issue constantly, and has repeatedly discussed with Cheng Li and other advisers.

Finally, a plan was reached.

In Cheng Li's words, it is: "Feiyan, Tu Ge, and Bai Bo must be in Feiyan. If I can touch Feiyan, I will be able to secure the eastern border of Taiyuan, and I will ensure that the passage between Taiyuan and Jizhou will not be blocked. Interrupted, things are urgent, the aid of Duke Yuan can be reached quickly, this is the first; the hus in the north of the state are all close to Feiyan, and the hus in the north of the state can also be comforted, the second; the state; The east and north of the prefecture have been settled, and Duke Ming can go all out to fight against the white wave, and this is the third one. When the white wave is defeated, take it from the ground and take it from the broad, and take the strong and self-contained one. Then gradually recruit the slaughter, with the weak Feiyan, and over time, the state will be obtained!"

Taking the theory of the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction to analyze, Zhang Feiyan is the main contradiction of Cao Cao's strategy of Bingzhou, in other words, it is where the problem lies.

Cao Cao agreed, so he followed Cheng Li's suggestion, put down his posture, and began to actively ease relations with Zhang Feiyan.

From Zhang Feiyan's side, he is politically wise, knowing that he is now under the attack of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao (high cadres), of course he does not want to be enemies on both sides, because he is showing goodwill to Cao Cao's initiative, and soon gave a good response.

The two hit it off.

To sum it up in one sentence, Cao Cao's current approach to Bingzhou is to first stabilize Zhang Feiyan, wait until the white waves and yellow turbans are broken, then turn around to clean up Zhang Feiyan, and finally deal with the sphere of influence of the Liangzhou warlord group, so as to achieve the goal of bringing the entire territory of Bingzhou into the palm of his hand. the ultimate purpose below.

Dear, this chapter is not over, there is another page ^0^ This plan has to be said to be the only plan that Cao Cao can take under the current situation in Bingzhou.

"The only plan" refers not only to what Cheng Li said in his words, but also to a layer of meaning.

That is: between Zhang Feiyan, Tu Ge, and Baibo Huangjin, in fact, Cao Cao can only choose to appease Zhang Feiyan first.

Why do you say that? First, let’s talk about Tu Ge. Tu Ge is a Hu people. Cao Cao used to be in the Central Plains, and he couldn’t fight against the Hu people. He had no prestige among the Hu people. Besides Baibo Huangjin, Baibo Huangjin is a "thief", and Cao Cao, as a Han minister, could not join forces with Baibo Huangjin.

Only Zhang Feiyan.

Although Zhang Feiyan was the leader of the Montenegrin Army, he had long since been honored by the imperial court. In name, he was also a Han minister now.

In this way, since they are both Han Chen and Zhang Feiyan to reach a relationship of peaceful coexistence, it is appropriate for both feelings and reasons.

Without further ado.

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However, after Yuan Shao listened to Guo Tu's words, he pondered for a while, and said, "Zhang Feiyan is a cunning thief, Meng De hopes to recruit him. I'm afraid this is not easy to do."

Guo Tu said: "Ming Gong, Tu also thinks so. It's just that Tu is not very familiar with Meng De, although he has the heart to persuade him, it is not good to go to the book. If Ming Gong also thinks that Meng De is not doing it properly, why not do it? Duke Ming sent him a letter, is Xiaoyi right or wrong?"

Yuan Shao listened to Guo Tu's suggestion and wrote a letter to Cao Cao.

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Letter to Taiyuan.

After Cao Cao received it, he said to Cheng Li and the others who were sitting in the hall: "But it's strange."

Cheng Li asked, "Dare to ask Duke Ming, what's so strange?"

Cao Cao pointed to Yuan Shao's letter on the case and said, "Your Excellency, do you know what the original letter said?"

Cheng Li asked, "What?"

Cao Cao said: "Ben Chu advised me not to communicate with Zhang Feiyan privately in the letter. How did I know about this matter, I've been doing it so secretly?"

Cheng Li and the others felt strange when they heard it.

Cheng Li said, "Perhaps Zhang Feiyan got wind of it? I heard that Yuan Gong sent him a lot of detailed work."

Cao Cao thought about it, shook his head, and said, "Maybe it is."

Not only suspected that Zhang Feiyan had gone to the wind, Cao Cao also suspected that someone under his command had informed Yuan Shao. However, there is no way to investigate this kind of thing with great fanfare. He can only write it down and find an opportunity in the future to slowly check who told Yuan Shao the secret.

Cheng Li asked, "What did Yuan Gongxin say?"

Cao Cao said: "The original letter said that Zhang Feiyan is a cunning person, which is not credible." He sighed and said, "How could I not know whether Zhang Feiyan is cunning? However, Bingzhou is not Jizhou, and the situation in Bingzhou is like this, I can't wait. Let’s start with Zhang Feiyan first, and if I don’t pretend to be a snake with Zhang Feiyan, how can I take Jizhou, … how can I take Jizhou into my pocket at the beginning?”

Cheng Li brushed his hair and said, "I recently heard that Xun Zhendong also sent an envoy to see Zhang Feiyan some time ago, and the envoy was Cheng Jia, who has always been trusted by Zhendong. Zhang Feiyan's repeated cunning plans are indeed good."

Yuan Shao knew that Zhang Feiyan would be placed in the place of meticulous work, and Cao Cao knew the soldiers of the army, but how could he not know "know yourself and know the enemy"? He also sent many detailed works to Zhang Feiyan. Xun Zhen sent Cheng Jia to meet Zhang Feiyan in secret, which Cao Cao had just learned about not long ago.

"Zhenzhiyuan is in Xuzhou, and he has reached out to Jizhou and Bingzhou! Duke Cheng, he is everywhere!" Only from Cao Cao's words and tone, he couldn't tell whether he liked it or disliked it. Cao Cao immediately changed the subject and stroked his beard. He smiled and said, "Speaking of which, it's not surprising that Zhang Feiyan is repeatedly cunning. He is also trying to survive. I can understand that. Isn't he trying to fight against Ben Chu when he hooked up with Zhenzhi?"

"Yes."

Cao Cao smiled and said, "Speaking of which, cunning is not cunning, repeating or not repeating, what does it matter? As long as he can be used by me, it doesn't matter." After reading Yuan Shao's letter on the case, he pondered for a while, thinking about what to do. Replying to Yuan Shao, I heard someone speak.

The person who speaks is full of pets.

Man Chong said: "Empress Ming, as Duke Ming said, it is best to be used by Duke Ming, but I am afraid that this Feiyan will also betray Duke Ming in the future! Duke Ming should be more careful."

Cao Cao smiled and said, "How many people in the world can be as loyal and righteous as you? It's common practice to pursue profit. I'm not afraid of his betrayal."

"Not afraid of betrayal" subtext, Cao Cao did not say.

As long as his strength is enough, he believes that Zhang Feiyan will never betray him.

Cao Cao's attitude is quite grand, where does he look like a person who "fell to Xun Zhen and had to come to Bingzhou in a panic"? Man Chong and others are all admired. Man Chong said, "The hero of this world is Duke Ming!"

"Hero, ... Berning, who doesn't want to be a hero? But there must be benefits first. In the current situation, I have to wait until I can stand on the sidelines before I can continue to talk about being a hero! The emperor is still the capital, and the Han Dynasty is revived!"

Cheng Li asked, "How dare you ask Duke Ming, how do you plan to reply to Duke Yuan?"

Cao Cao had already thought about it~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and said, "I will tell him one by one about our difficulties and the reasons why I have to do this. I hope he can understand me." He paused and said. , "I'm going to see Yuan Cai tomorrow."

Cheng Li immediately understood what Cao Cao meant and said, "Ming Gong wants to write this letter jointly with Gao Yuancai."

Cao Cao Fuxu smiled and said, "Yuancai, the nephew of the beginning, speaks better than me!"

Will the cadre agree to speak for Cao Cao? As mentioned earlier, first appease Zhang

Dear, this chapter is not over, there is another page ^0^ Feiyan is the only feasible solution to attack Bingzhou, and it is beneficial to Gao Gan, the governor of Bingzhou appointed by Yuan Shao, so Cao Cao is sure to persuade him to help Own.

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Early the next morning, Cao Cao went to see high officials.

At about the same time, in the southeast of Taiyuan County, Bingzhou, more than 600 miles away from Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, a visitor asked to see Liu Bei.

This guest is from Youzhou.

Dear, this chapter is over, I wish you a happy reading! ^0^