Chapter 436: Marriage or Refusal

You boy! Liu Ming cursed secretly in his heart. Guo Jia was indeed very clear about the analysis. But the key point, what should I do now, didn't say a single sentence. How can I not make you angry?

However, this is not a big deal for Guo Jia. At the core meeting, he made a fuss, exaggerated the color and activated the atmosphere. This was originally a tradition set by Liu Ming and established by the precedent and tradition. This was evolved by Liu Ming based on Grandpa Mao’s guidance: “Share the enemy strategically and attach importance to the enemy tactically.”

Liu Ming knew in his heart that since Guo Jia could analyze so clearly, he must have already responded to it. Therefore, he wanted everyone to relax so that they could think better about the problems and improve the details. Liu Ming secretly planned: Since this kid was tricky, it would be fine to cooperate with him. However, if this kid dared to take Qiao again, should he have someone write a piece of materials to Mie after the meeting and give it to Mie as a small gift?

However, before Liu Ming could speak up to cooperate with Guo Jia, Cai Yong on the side could not help but speak, "What Fengxiao said is very much. Cao Cao, I have seen it. It is very wild. If a virtuous son-in-law gets there, there is a risk of being robbed as a hostage. Now, the soldiers and horses in our Youzhou are strong and unifying the world is a matter of time. A virtuous son-in-law must not take the risk of being taken. Moreover, a virtuous son-in-law already has a family, and even if the emperor issued an order to marry, it cannot go against the norm. The daughter of the Cao family can only be a wife at most. How can such a identity be married? A virtuous son-in-law does not have to pay attention to this."

Faced with Cai Yong's righteous and stern good intentions, Liu Ming said helplessly: "I have remembered the good words of my father-in-law. However, Fengxiao should give me some more information. We can wait until Fengxiao finishes his words and make plans." After Liu Ming finished speaking, he glared at Guo Jia fiercely.

Yang Jun, Jia Xu and others laughed secretly when they saw this scene. Although the lively atmosphere was developed by Liu Ming, the one who dared to fight against Liu Ming was usually Guo Jia. Although the others had a few times, they were far behind when compared with Guo Jia. Now Guo Jia hit the knife. Naturally, several people were happy to watch the fun. Anyway, Guo Jia said so. This proves that his plan has been almost done, and all that is left is just some details. There is nothing to worry about.

However, Guo Jia was complaining secretly. In fact, since Cai Yong opened his mouth, Guo Jia had already discovered that he had made a mistake. There was one more person in this core meeting today. And it was because of the lord and his wife got his father-in-law. It was indeed a bit inappropriate for him to speak like this. Therefore, Guo Jiayi waited for Liu Ming to finish his speech and immediately spoke: "What the lord said is very true, Jia did report the following."

"Talk." Liu Ming nodded secretly, Guo Jia cooperated pretty well.

"Report to the lord. As Jiaxian said before, Cao Cao's move. If we deal with it, we will lose something if we go or not. The key to this matter is not the marriage between Cao Cao and his lord. If the marriage is not mentioned, it is not the motive for Cao Cao. From the fact that this matter itself is the sincerity of Cao Cao's desire to join us. After all, Cao Cao wants to marry his own sister to his lord. He wants to strengthen the solidity of the alliance with his in-laws.

This is enough to show Cao Cao's sincerity in wanting to join forces with the lord. Our temporary alliance with Cao Cao destroys the relationship between Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo, and allows us to successfully break the deadlock in the shortest time. This is also a plan we have formulated long ago. Therefore, the marriage between Cao Cao and the lord is only beneficial but not harmful to our plan. The lord should accept it. In order to minimize the losses we will go or not," Guo Jia explained carefully.

"Hmph!" Cai Yong couldn't help but snorted. No matter what, the emperor's marriage was extraordinary. It seriously threatened his daughter's status as a real wife. Cai Yong was naturally dissatisfied. However, Cai Yong paid great attention to his identity and did not interrupt at this time. He just had a secret luck waiting for Guo Jia to obtain the following and Liu Ming's final conclusion.

Hearing Cai Yong's humming, Guo Jia felt even more distressed. It seemed that this time it was definitely not a person inside or outside. However, for Liu Ming's great cause, Guo Jia still bit the bullet and said, "In addition to marriage, Cao Cao's key move is to let us go to Xudu. This is not only Cao Cao's test of his lord, but also a means of Cao Cao. Whether we go or not, Cao Cao can achieve a certain goal and cause certain losses to us. However, although we go or not, there will be some losses or risks. However, the difficulty of dealing with these losses and risks will be different, and the benefits and losses will be different."

Guo Jia took a breath and continued, "Just Jia said before, if we don't go, our lord's reputation for loyalty and righteousness will be hindered. However, in the turbulent times, everyone knows it. And the current lord is hostage by Cao Cao, which is an indisputable fact. With the orthodox status of the lord's Han Dynasty and the current reputation of the lord, we support the lord to be emperor at this time. No one will say anything about gossip. Instead, it will give everyone a clear goal. Moreover, whether the lord goes or not, since Cao Cao asks for an order to marry, his sister must marry. In order to miss the opportunity to expand south, Cao Cao will also carry out a short-term alliance with us. Our plan can still be implemented. In this way, it seems that it doesn't matter if we don't go to Cao Cao."

Yang Jun, Jia Xu, Xun Yu and others did not speak out, but secretly considered the gains and losses of Guo Jia's words. Cai Yong couldn't help but speak again: "The thing that Fengxiao said is reasonable, and this is the thing. Now all the people in our Youzhou support the son-in-law. The son-in-law who has entered the new places outside the border is the leader who only knows the son-in-law. There is really no need for the son-in-law to go to Xudu to take risks."

Liu Ming had no choice but to nod his kindness to Cai Yong. After all, Cai Yong's talent was in academics, not in politics and military. However, Liu Ming heard that Guo Jia must have some information.

Sure enough, Guo Jia smiled bitterly and said, "Lord. If this is the case, even if our plan can be temporarily implemented first, the alliance between Cao Cao and us will be a temporary alliance. With Cao Cao's cleverness, the evolution of this matter will definitely become a competition between us and Cao Cao for time. Whether we will eliminate Dong Zhuo first or Cao Cao will pacify the south first. There are too many variables in this. Dong Zhuo's Xiliang is not a small place, and Dong Zhuo's construction over the past few years has not been a year or two, it will definitely not be able to be taken down. Cao Cao went to the south and according to the news that Xu Shu brought to us, as long as Cao Cao did not intend to destroy the Sun family, but Sun Cao joined forces, Cao Cao could easily join forces with Sun Quan to unify the south. At that time, they would rebel.

Come to support Dong Zhuo or sneak attack us, so that our first leader cannot take into account both. Then our troubles will be too great. Moreover, even if Cao Cao does not come to harass us when we attack Dong Zhuo, we still have to worry about the scope of losses and cannot leave Cao Cao and the others with the opportunity to take advantage of it, so that it will make it difficult for us to attack Dong Zhuo again. If we change our plan and eliminate Cao Cao first, it is impossible. Not to mention that Dong Zhuo's reputation is too bad, the people under our ruler have complained about him. Instead of his alliance, it will destroy the lord's reputation in our local area. Even if we eliminated Dong Zhuo's hundreds of thousands of troops twice, then Dong Zhuo will be wary of us, and that will be far above Cao Cao. Dong Zhuo has long been incompatible with us, so this plan is absolutely impossible to change."

After Guo Jia said that, Yang Jun, Jia Xu, Xun Yu and others nodded secretly.

Guo Jia said it is true. Although the combat strength of Youzhou's soldiers is the most powerful in the world. However, this siege battle is definitely not the same as the field battles of encounters, battles between the two armies, etc. In field battles, even if the elite cavalry of the Xianbei tribe are against 100,000 to 300,000, it can be easily won. However, during the siege battle, even the garbage troops from Dong Zhuo. If they are well prepared and do not surrender, hundreds of thousands of troops will besiege a strong city defended by tens of thousands of people. It is entirely possible that there will be no progress.

You should know that even if Gongsun Dude's garbage town was not surrendered, it could cause serious losses to Liu Mingde's strong attack troops. And Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Fortress was far stronger than Gongsun Dude's border town. In the end, it was entirely possible that he could only rely on besieging the city to achieve the final victory. This was definitely not a joke after a year or two. Moreover, just this was estimated because of the insufficient reserves of military rations that bullied Dong Zhuo.

At the same time, even if Youzhou only dispatched 400,000 troops, the food and grass consumption in that year would be more than 7 million stones, and Youzhou's grain storage in a few years would be exhausted. If there is a strong attack regardless of losses, the loss of soldiers would be even more problematic. The pension compensation of 200,000 people would make Youzhou's financial operation difficult. The pension compensation of 300,000 people would make Youzhou's financial deficit and the treasury would be empty.

In addition, he is willing to lose money and recruit troops again will also slow down the development of Youzhou.

And if these losses can be unified by one after giving, it is worth it. However, this is impossible. Cao Cao, Sun Ce, and other princes will have many more. They will not give Youzhou a chance to lick the wound after knowing the strength of Youzhou. If the alliance of Cao Cao and others initiated an encirclement and suppression of Youzhou at that critical moment, it would definitely make Youzhou unable to recover.

Therefore, the plans formulated previously must not be changed easily.

Otherwise, it would rather not implement it than let Youzhou, which has a bright future, fall into such a dilemma. However, if Youzhou remained silent and allowed Cao Cao to grow and grow, it would not only add more obstacles to the future unification of Youzhou. It would also make Cao Cao and the others surpass it. After all, no one would have dared to guarantee the changes that would happen in decades.

Seeing the atmosphere at the venue begin to become solemn, Guo Jia suddenly smiled and said, "Our plan cannot be changed, so that it's not changed. At worst, our lord will go to Cao Cao for a trip. This matter will be completely resolved. Anyway, the lord has never seen the emperor today, and the uncle and nephew will reunite and have family affection. That's also good."

Liu Ming and others had long expected Guo Jia to say this, but they were not surprised. However, Cai Yong did not have such a quick mind. He immediately couldn't react and said, "Nonsense! Didn't you say it before? When Grandmaster arrived at Cao Cao, he would be taken hostage. In this way, our Youzhou was given hostage. Wouldn't that harm even more?"

Guo Jia said calmly: "Mr. Cai. Jia did say this before. Moreover, not only Jia said this before. Even now, Jia still said this. As long as the lord arrives at Cao Cao, he is stranded and taken as a hostage, it is expected that there will be no change. However, when the lord arrives at Cao Cao, his life will be safe. After all, Cao Cao's purpose of doing this is nothing more than to unite our Youzhou, manipulate our Youzhou power, so as to increase his power, and make it develop faster and safer. Cao Cao will never hurt his lord's life and suffer crazy revenge from our Youzhou. That is Cao Cao's bottom line and our bottom line. Judging from Cao Cao's usual performance, Cao Cao will never make such a mentally retarded mistake. Therefore,

The life and safety of the lord are absolutely guaranteed. The means that Cao Cao can use on the lord are nothing more than fine wine, beauty, and gentleness to destroy the lord's ambition. How can those things be difficult to protect the lord? Moreover, as long as the lord's life is not a problem, Cao Cao will eventually set off to go south. As long as Cao Cao goes south, his Yanzhou troops are empty. With the inside lines we arrange for Cao Cao and the strength of our Yanzhou intelligence organization, the lord escapes from Cao Cao, which is not a casual problem. Moreover, we can also send a large army to pressure, and Cao Cao goes south and cannot return, and he is even more unwilling to turn against him, so he can only let the lord come back fairly. In this way, will there be no risk in all our plans?"

Cai Yong was already fainted by Guo Jia's statement. He couldn't understand the interests. Although others thought Guo Jia's statement was reasonable, they still felt a little uncomfortable when they put their lord in danger. They could only look at Liu Ming.
Chapter completed!