"Sikong is in love by mistake, but our Lord feels that his virtue is not worthy of his position. General Wei is the pillar of the imperial court. Now, as the pastor of Xuzhou, he feels that he is unable to do what he wants. For the position of governor, I ask the imperial court to choose another capable person." Lu Bu sent Cao Jun to the camp.
The envoy smiled and said to Cao Cao.
Choose another talented person?
Cao Cao looked at the envoy and narrowed his eyes. It was surprising that Lu Bu, a reckless man, could withstand such temptation. It seemed that the plan to trap and kill Lu Bu would not work.
"Do you have any good ideas?" After letting the envoys retreat first, Cao Cao looked at the ministers under the tent and sighed.
Good strategy? Lu Bu can resist temptation, what other good strategy can he come up with?
Guo Jia smiled and said: "The basis of this plan is to make Lu Bu as greedy for profit as before. Now that Lu Bu is no longer greedy for profit, this plan will naturally be difficult to achieve. Shu Jia bluntly said that this battle should have ended by now. Lord, now
It is more important to cultivate military skills in order to fight again in the future."
Yuan Shu has been defeated and the purpose of this battle has been achieved. Although there is an additional variable like Lu Bu, for Cao Cao, the harvest from this battle is enough. Now that Lu Bu can no longer be taken lightly, he should take back and digest the gains from this battle instead of starting a war blindly.
Cao Cao sighed after hearing this, and that was all he could do.
The goal of this battle has been achieved. However, although Yuan Shu fell, there was a Lu Bu who was more terrifying than Yuan Shu. The brainy Lu Bu was more than ten times stronger than the previous Lu Bu who only knew how to fight bravely.
As a hero of this battle, no matter how reluctant he was, he still wanted the reward. Naturally, he couldn't give him any actual benefits. However, Cao Cao decided to give the title of General Wei to Lu Bu. Since he couldn't be beaten to death, it was best not to be completely torn apart.
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After Haosheng entertained the Xuzhou envoys, Cao Cao began to withdraw his troops.
General Wei was already a person comparable to the three princes, and now Lu Buruo was considered to be an extremely popular minister in terms of official position.
In Shouchun, Yuan Shu's former palace, Lu Bu played with the seal of General Wei, looked at Chen Gong and Chu Nan, and asked, "How about moving the government to Shouchun?"
Compared with the General's Mansion in Xiapi, Yuan Shu's palace was far more luxurious and comfortable than Xiapi, so Lu Bu didn't want to leave.
"Marquis Wen, don't you think he was born in sorrow and died in happiness?" Chen Gong was also numb to Lu Bu, an incompetent prince. This was also after he was promoted to a great scholar and realized that Lu Bu was the most likely to help him realize his will.
, the reason why he still refuses to call himself lord is that Lu Bu can become a hope only because he can only earn a place in this troubled world by winning over the people at the bottom, not because Lu Bu himself has great talent and strategy.
"There are two rivers protecting Shouchun, and the terrain is more conducive to defense." Lu Bu frowned and said, Yuan Shu can use the Huai River to block Cao Cao's army of hundreds of battles. He is here, what can Cao Cao do to him?
"Father-in-law." Chu Nan sighed in his heart. He didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing that his father-in-law didn't want to make progress. He smiled at Lu Bu and said: "What father-in-law said makes sense, but has he ever thought about what would happen if Cao Cao comes again?
If you commit a crime, will you choose to attack Shouchun or Xuzhou?"
"It's Xuzhou." Lu Bu was quite confident about this. Xuzhou was flat and there was no danger to defend it. This was also the reason why he intended to move his seat to the Huai River.
"If Xuzhou is lost, can my father-in-law only rely on Jiujiang County to stop Cao Cao?" Chu Nan asked again.
"This..." Lu Bu frowned. He was definitely not afraid of a fight, but if Cao Cao captured Xuzhou, he could be killed by the force of just one county.
"If my father-in-law is not in charge, who can control Xuzhou and stop Cao Cao?" Chu Nan said with a smile.
Lu Bu thought about it carefully, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun should all have this ability, but if Cao Cao attacks with all his strength, facing Cao Cao's army, both civil and military, no one may be able to face Cao Cao alone.
"If my father-in-law likes the things and beauties in this palace, he can bring them back to Xuzhou. Even if Cao Cao comes to invade, my father-in-law will not be afraid of him. Even if he takes a step back and is unfortunately defeated, he still has Jianghuai as a deep buffer.
, However, if my father-in-law stays in Jianghuai and waits for Cao Cao to conquer Xuzhou, our army will no longer be able to turn around. Even if we win a hundred battles, if we lose just once, our army will be doomed!" Chu Nan said with a heavy face: "Arrived.
What will happen to mother-in-law Shi? What will happen to Lingqi? Has father-in-law ever thought about it? "
Chu Nan has been with Lu Bu for so long, and he has a good understanding of his father-in-law. If you tell him about his great ambitions, he will probably not listen. The only thing that can make Lu Bu feel a sense of crisis is the safety of his family.
What it means to be born in sorrow and die in happiness is too far for Lu Bu, but when it comes to family members, Lu Bu's alert mechanism will be automatically triggered.
"Just follow what you two say." Lu Bu sighed, with a hint of reluctance in his tone. For a person who was used to living a hard life, the luxury of Yuan Shu's living environment was like poison that eroded his will.
Cao Cao withdrew his troops, Lu Bu also gave up his intention of staying in Jianghuai for a long time, and Xuzhou Army also began to prepare to withdraw the main force to Xiapi. However, they could not leave as simply as Cao Cao did, and there were still a lot of things to deal with in Jianghuai.
Chu Nan used this luck to strengthen hundreds of earth dragons and integrate them into Jiujiang's ground. Even without the strengthened seeds, the food grown in the land here can be several percent higher than before.
The other one is to continue to implement the New Deal, win over the common people from poor families, return the fields to the government offices, and use the fields to collect taxes. In addition, there is the treatment of the gentry.
Chen Gong left this matter to Chu Nan to handle. Chu Nan was not afraid of trouble. He would investigate every house. As long as he found something wrong, he would clean it up. If anyone resisted, he would be killed directly.
Within a month, the blood of those who were killed flowed like a river. As the foundation of Yuan Shu, there were many more nobles here than in Xuzhou. As a person who was destined to be an enemy, Chu Nan would not be polite if he took action.
As for the small and poor families, don’t they have such people who oppress the common people?
Of course there are, and even more, but there is no way. If you offend one class, you must get the support of other classes. If it is possible for the people, Chu Nan naturally hopes to help the people get out of their bad breath. However, he knows very well that he really did this.
, then Lu Bu is really the enemy of everyone in the world.
Although he has compassion for the people in his heart, he also has his own force field. At least for now, it is not the time to take action against these small tribes.
On this day, Chu Nan did not go out, but stayed with his wife in the temporary mansion.
"Lord, there is an old man outside the door. He calls himself Yan Xiang and wants to meet the lord." Chu Nan was holding his wife's hand to read her fortune, when she saw Zhou Cang striding in and said to Chu Nan.
"What old thing? He's a famous person." Chu Nan glared at Zhou Cang. This guy has a gangster spirit and he hasn't changed it yet. It's also a headache. He's a dignified prefect of a county, an important counselor in Xuzhou, and a famous Confucian general.
, turned out to be an illiterate bandit who spoke vulgar language! Let's let Mantis teach Zhou Cang how to read, normal people can't teach this guy.
"Lord, we have killed many celebrities these days. They..." Zhou Cang was a little confused. When did his lord care so much about celebrities?
"Invite this person into the main hall. Be polite. He has not committed any crime. What kind of old thing are you?" Chu Nan interrupted Zhou Cang and asked him to pick him up.
"Here!" Zhou Cang could only agree, turned around and went to greet people outside the door.
"Ma'am, wait a moment, I'll be back as soon as I can." Chu Nan stood up and said to his wife, who was blushing a little.
"Business matters are important. I'll leave you alone, don't worry about my concubine." Lu Lingqi nodded lightly.
Chu Nan stood up, rubbed his wife's hair, and left straight away. It could be seen that Lu Lingqi was trying her best to be a qualified wife, but she still had a sense of inferiority in her heart. This inferiority originated from Lu Bu, father and daughter.
We all have a feeling of respect and hatred for celebrities, which is caused by experience.
When they came all the way to the main hall, Yan Xiang was already waiting in the main hall. When he saw Chu Nan, he didn't jump up and scold him like other celebrities. He just bowed indifferently and said: "I have seen the envoy."
"Sit!" Chu Nan gestured to Yan Xiang to sit down. He sat on the main seat and said with a smile, "I have been with you, sir, for several days."
Chu Nan had wanted to recruit Yan Xiang to work before, but Yan Xiang refused, but he believed that Yan Xiang would come.
"Sir, how could you be so cruel in order to get me to serve as an official? How many people have been killed in the past month? You are also a well-educated man, how could you be so cruel?" Yan Xiang looked at Chu Nan, with irrepressible emotion in his voice.
anger.
"Sir, how do you think Jiujiang is today compared to the past? I wonder how long it has been since you saw smiles on people's faces?" Chu Nan asked with a smile.
"I admire your ability, sir. However, there is always a solution to everything in this world. Why do you do such cruel things?" Yan Xiang couldn't refute. Although Jiujiang is only a month old now, you can feel it in the people.
With that kind of longing for the future, as Chu Nan said, the smiles on his face were much more than before, but this is not a reason to massacre the nobles on a large scale!
"This is the only solution I can think of. Just like Mr. was unwilling to serve as an official before, I am sure that most of the nobles are unwilling to be used by their father-in-law. Since it is useless and even has hatred in their hearts, if you don't kill them, why don't you wait for them to come?
Kill me!?" Chu Nan laughed.
"If I am willing to become an official, sir, can you please persuade Marquis Wen to stop this wanton slaughter of nobles?" Yan Xiang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice.
"No." Chu Nan shook his head: "Sir, you may have misunderstood. I invite you to serve as an official because I admire your character. I kill the nobles because they deserve to be killed. There is no connection between the two. If you want to use
It is impossible for you to compromise in exchange for me! Ask yourselves, although I have killed a lot this month, is there one thing that is unprovoked and indiscriminate?"
Chu Nan kills people, and naturally you kill people because of your fault. Although the nobles are full of talented people, there are also many scum who bully men and dominate women. However, the nobles still want to protect these scum and dare to resist. Chu Nan will naturally not be polite.
"That was in the past. If the law is enforced, I believe this kind of thing will never happen again." Yan Xiang said solemnly.
"Sir, do you believe this when you say this?" Chu Nan looked at Yan Xiang and sneered: "So what about the past? Is it true that if the government office lets things go by the wayside, the people who were killed can survive?"