In the original history of the Three Kingdoms, he was an official to Shangshu Zuopushe during the reign of Emperor Wei Ming.
Among them, the recommendation of Huan Fan, the leader of the Central Committee, was crucial.
When meeting Chen Caorui, Huan Fan did not focus on praising Xu Xuan's abilities and talents, but instead focused on describing his character and virtue.
Honest and upright character.
Just these eight words moved the young Emperor of Wei.
As a supreme person on the throne, except for his short life, Cao Rui is very qualified in all aspects.
It even deserves a wise evaluation.
Cao Rui deeply agreed with Huan Fan's evaluation of Xu Xuan.
At this time, the general trend of the Wei state has been established, and those in high positions naturally put virtue before ability, and character before strategy.
When an emperor employs people, he must not only follow a certain pattern, but also be in line with the times.
In troubled times, strategic ability is the key to determining whether one is talented, but when it comes to bringing peace to the world, more emphasis should be placed on human character and morality.
Therefore, Liu Bang relied on the resourceful Chen Ping when Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, but he chose Zhou Bo to deal with the aftermath at the end of his life.
Including Cao Shuang's choice of Cao Shuang in Tuogu, the same principle is actually the same.
The king who died young had a very thorough understanding of his clan.
Although he has the talent to govern, he does not have the tools of a king, so he is indeed a suitable candidate to entrust a lonely and important minister.
"Wei's Spring and Autumn Annals": Shuang stopped his troops and said, "I will become a rich man."
What a foresight.
As a minister with strong bones who is famous for his toughness in history.
Although Xu Xuan lost his composure because of the sudden change, it only took a moment for him to regain his usual composure.
"Let me ask you"
Taking a deep breath, he walked closer and asked in a deep voice: "How many people are there in this group of yellow scarf bandits?"
This question seemed to stop the soldier.
The soldier was stunned for a moment, then turned around and looked at each other with the others around him. Seeing that no one said anything clearly, he had to think hard for a while and looked at Xu Xuan.
"Governor Bing, I was in a hurry to break out of the encirclement and didn't have time to count the details." He said with some uncertainty:
"But...there must be more than ten thousand people!"
"Most of the Yellow Turban thieves are wandering ants, and they all drag their families with them, and they are all mixed together." Xu Xuan was helpless and had to make it clear:
"Is it the total number that exceeds 10,000, or the number of young and strong people that exceeds 10,000?"
"This..." The soldier was speechless for a while, and he really didn't know how to answer.
Seeing the other party's appearance, Xu Xuan frowned, suppressing his displeasure, and asked gently: "When did the thieves conquer Zhao County?"
"Chief, we don't know when the thieves broke through Zhao County." The soldier shook his head: "It's just that I saw some Zhao County citizens among the thieves, so the meritorious officer made this guess.
"When did the thief arrive at Guangrao City?"
"How to attack the city? Do you have any equipment available?"
"How much time did it take in total?"
A series of questions popped up like firecrackers, leaving the soldiers overwhelmed and had no choice but to ask for help from their colleagues around them.
Everyone looked at Xu Xuan and when they saw him nodding in agreement, they started to answer in all directions.
"The thieves arrived a few miles outside Guangrao County four days ago. When the hero realized something was wrong, he quickly closed the city gate and immediately organized the soldiers in the city and the nobles in the county to prepare a defense with all their strength."
"The thieves don't have any siege equipment, they all attack from the front."
"It's just..." When the last question came up, several soldiers looked at each other with shame, not wanting to speak out about this embarrassing matter.
"Why are you hesitating?" Seeing this, Xu Xuan changed his color in anger and snorted heavily: "That's it."
Once the top officer of Qi County changed his color, he immediately became so powerful that the few soldiers were so frightened that they no longer dared to prevaricate. The soldier who answered first still answered:
"Master Taishou, at that time, our soldiers and civilians in Guangrao County worked together as one and worked hard, and..."
"It only lasted less than half a day!"
"What?" Xu Xuan was once again shocked when he heard this: "If I remember correctly, there are more than 1,500 soldiers in Guangrao County who are responsible for city defense and anti-theft, right?"
"It only lasted half a day?"
....
Beihai County is located at the junction of Qingxu and Xuzhou.
"Commander Qu, Cao's army has been gone for many days, so you can rest assured."
A young man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, dressed as a scribe, was earnestly advising a middle-aged man on the throne: "The current shortage of rations is the top priority of our army."
The person to whom this young man gave his advice was none other than Zhang Rao, the former leader of the 300,000 Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou.
In other words, the original Wang Zheng was once a soldier under his command.
A year ago, in the third year of Chuping, Zhang Rao was at the peak of his life, with 300,000 men under his command.
Although he was defeated by Ying Shao, the prefect of Taishan, and Gongsun Zan, the white horse general, after Zhang Rao led his troops back from Jizhou, he also killed Kong Rong, the prefect of Beihai, and fled, saving face and greatly increasing the morale of the whole army.
But not long after he was high-spirited, he met Cao Cao again.
After several fights, they were defeated one after another.
Three hundred thousand Qingzhou Yellow Turbans became the Qingzhou Army under Wei Wu, and Zhang Rao...
They could only flee with the remnants of less than ten thousand people.
The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were defeated by Cao Cao.
Zhang Rao was also frightened by Cao Cao.
For more than a year, I didn't even dare to set foot in my hometown of Qingzhou. I just shrank in Beihai County and wandered around like a ghost.
Not long ago, when Zhang Rao was leading his army to station in Ju County, he suddenly received news.
A team of four to five thousand people appeared near it.
Seeing the familiar black military uniform, Zhang Rao, who had already become frightened, almost ran away again, fearing that Cao Mengde wanted to kill them all.
When Zhang Rao, who was in panic all day long, discovered that Cao Cao's army had been rushing forward and was obviously just passing by, he still worried and arranged a few sentries to hang behind and observe.
It seems that he is deeply afraid that the other party will try to play hard to get, so he will try to counterattack.
At this time, Zhang Rao finally raised his head, revealing a gloomy face.
He looked at the young man and asked, "What can you do?"
"Why don't we go play Kong Rong's Autumn Wind again?"
The young man also understood his current timid mentality and had already thought of a partner.
You don’t dare to offend Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, but are you not afraid of Kong Rong?
"No." Zhang Rao shook his head: "Today is different from the past. Kong Rong is no longer a soft persimmon."
Zhang Rao knew very well in his heart that in the battle that day, he won because of his superior numbers, while Kong Rong lost because of his unsteady footing.
Nowadays, our own troops only have less than 10,000 troops, and our strength has been greatly reduced. However, the other party has gathered people and recruited celebrities in the past year. Now it has a strong political voice in Beihai, and it is called "Kong Beihai" by people at the time, but its foundation is solid.
"this......"
This makes sense and even young people can understand it.
It's just that they have already plundered all the oil and water in nearby villages and counties. Qingzhou is Cao Cao's sphere of influence, and Xuzhou is under attack.
Zhang Rao did not dare to go to these two places, and there was Gongsun Zan, the white-horse general, at the top.
With nowhere to go, people like me can only be trapped in Beihai.
If we don't find Kong Rong, where can we get food?