Three hundred and twentieth eight chapters together
It's night, and Yangzhou, or Liyang, has returned to peace after being reshuffled during the day. But the original state capital and now the county government study room are still brightly lit, and the furnishings and scenery inside are still the same.
The same people were sitting inside. Cao Zhi, Deng Ai, and Zao Zhuan gathered around Chen Wen's favorite small round table, sipping fragrant tea and discussing the complicated situation in Yangzhou. Zhou Cang had not returned from seeing Chen Yu.
Otherwise, he would definitely be there.
The voice of the new Liyang County Magistrate Zaozhuan sounded first, "Brother Zhi, will Liu Biao really fall out with Yuan Shu?"
Cao Zhi said "hmm" and said in a deep voice: "It's absolutely true, but no one outside knows about it yet."
Deng Ai still maintained a bookish look on his face. Seeing that what Cao Zhi said was true, although it was inconvenient to inquire about the source of Cao Zhi's information, he could not help but be moved and said: "This is not made up to scare those idiots."
Is that so? I’ve never heard you mention this before, and your letter didn’t mention it either?”
Cao Zhi thought to himself: "Can you know? This is history, and I know it." He only remembered this matter in a hurry in the meeting hall. It was not all to intimidate Chen Yu and others, but just to use the topic to bring Yangzhou to the forefront.
This mixes the water a little more.
Now in this study, in the small group that belongs to Cao Zhi, there is no need for Cao Zhi to be pretentious. He said with a cold expression: "Not only that, Yuan Shu will definitely send Sun Jian to conquer Liu Biao. It is a pity that such a heroic figure fell like this!"
"What? What?" Zao Zhuan asked Cao Zhidao repeatedly: "Brother Zhi, who do you think has fallen? Sun Jian, the governor of Yuzhou? The battle hasn't been fought yet? How do you know that he has fallen? Can you predict it?"
"Ah, okay, cough!" Cao Zhi himself was shocked. He accidentally showed off his historical knowledge. He coughed to cover it up, and then explained: "I got distracted on a whim, and got distracted."
Deng Ai and Zao Zhuan Zhuan looked at each other and laughed a few times, but did not pursue the matter. Deng Ai pondered for a long time and politely asked Cao Zhi: "If it is true, as my lord said, Liu Biao betrayed and Sun Jian attacked, then Yuan Shu really can't make it."
Now that we are helping Chen Yu, we don’t have to worry about him. I heard that the lord is going to Yanzhou to quell the chaos?"
Cao Zhi nodded to Deng Ai and said, "Yes, but this matter in Yanzhou will have to be delayed for a while until Liu Dai and the yellow scarf thieves in Qingzhou fight again! We should pay attention to this Yuan Qian first!"
After Deng Ai and Zao Zhuan looked at each other again, Zao Zhuan couldn't help but asked in confusion: "Didn't Brother Zhi say before that he wouldn't help anyone and let them fight? Why are you helping him now?"
Already?"
"Alas!" Cao Zhi sighed and said: "Although my eldest brother and I have made up our minds not to follow Yuan Shao anymore, for now we still have to fight with him. He has sent me a letter asking me to help his cousin.
After ascending to the position of governor of Yangzhou, I have to do something! But you don't know this Yuan Qian. I met this man several times when I was in Luoyang. Yuan Shao is really good at picking people, and he chose such a idiot to compete with Yuan Shu.
"
Deng Ai took the opportunity to say: "Is this person really useless? If Chen Yu can't get help from Yuan Shu, he won't be able to get there. Can Yuan Qian still be unable to defeat Chen Yu?"
After listening to Deng Ai's words, Cao Zhi kept shaking his head and said: "When it comes to picking up girls and showing off his style, he is probably better than Chen Yu. In a battle, he will definitely lose to Chen Yu. I don't know if this fool will really go.
Call Shouchun, anyway, I have already sent him the letter that Chen Yu has gone to Shouchun in the afternoon."
Cao Zhi talked to himself, not caring whether Deng Ai or Zao Zhuan understood the buzzwords such as "picking up girls, style". But they had to get used to it, because Cao Zhi was famous for adding new words.
Deng Ai quickly recovered, and after pondering for a moment, he asked Cao Zhi about the issue he was concerned about: "Then how are you going to help, my lord?"
Cao Zhi glanced at Deng Ai, smiled mischievously, and said: "Of course I will send troops to help him, but I won't help fight Chen Yu."
"Oh!" Deng Ai, Zao Zhuan and Zhuan were obviously interested, and they shouted "Oh" in unison. Zao Zhuan's eyes were filled with excitement and she said: "Then why are you sending troops?"
Cao Zhi looked at Zao Zhuan and Deng Ai with expectant eyes, stood up, walked to the wall hanging the cotton brocade map, pointed to the southeastern part of Yangzhou and said: "If Yuan Qian wants to compete with Chen Yu, we
So we sent troops from Liyang to Shouchun. If Lu Kang can relax about Chaohu, we can use the waterway of Chaohu to connect this area together, so that the road to Shouchun will be close."
At this time, Zao Zhuan had followed Cao Zhi to the map. As Cao Zhi spoke, he also searched and looked at the map. When Cao Zhi finished speaking, he nodded thoughtfully like Cao Zhi.
Head, repeating Cao Zhi's words, "Oh! This way we can be connected into one piece, hey! So what if we are connected into one piece?"
"Haha..." Cao Zhi and Deng Ai laughed at the same time. Cao Zhi jokingly patted Zaozhuan's shoulder, without explaining to him the meaning of being connected, he turned around and sat back in his seat with a smile.
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After Deng Ai shook his head and smiled, he took out a few crumpled papers from his clothes and unfolded them carefully one by one.
Cao Zhi glanced curiously, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Is this Jilong Mountain? Is that Dajiang?"
While Cao Zhi watched Deng Ai flip through it, he pointed at the lines and drawings on the paper and asked Deng Ai one by one.
Deng Ai nodded appreciatively to Cao Zhi and said, "My lord is also very familiar with the geography of Yangzhou!"
Cao Zhi laughed and said: "I can only understand some familiar places. Brother Deng, you have experienced it. You have such a detailed map of the counties in Yangzhou. When did Brother Deng prepare these?"
Deng Ai said a little shyly: "Since I was sixteen years old, every time I see mountains and rivers, I have to survey the terrain there, and I also like to draw and draw these things. When my mother was still alive, she always said that it was useless for me to do this.
These things will starve to death sooner or later, and I didn’t expect these things to be useful one day. My lord, do you think the locations of these military camps are suitable?”
"Yes, yes!" Cao Zhi nodded continuously, took a few of them without asking and looked at them with relish: "Useful, useful, so useful. This is much more detailed than those of Chen Wen and Governor Chen.
You even painted some small rivers and hills, which are of great military value for marching and fighting."
Cao Zhi did not expect that Deng Ai still had such a military hobby. When he became an adult, he used his years as an official in Yangzhou to conduct a detailed geographical survey of various counties in Yangzhou and drew military maps. There was even Deng Ai's military map.
Maps of Nanyang, where Ai was born, and Runan, where he moved with his mother when he was young. Although the drawings at that time were relatively rough, they allowed Cao Zhi to understand some of the details of places beyond the boundaries of Yangzhou.
For example, Yuan Shu's hometown is Nanyang. Cao Zhi has never been to Nanyang. No matter whether Cao Zhi has the opportunity to go to Nanyang in the future, it is always good to increase his knowledge.