Chapter 103 Omen
As time passed by bit by bit, the lobby of the governor's mansion fell into silence strangely. Cao Cao did not speak. He was in a state of confusion. Returning to the Han court or continuing to operate the established forces, which made this hero in troubled times fall into a state of swaying for the first time.
If he had defected to the Han court, Cao Cao would have made this choice without hesitation before he had fought against Dong. But now, once a person's ambition appears, it will be difficult to suppress it. Cao Cao is also a human being, and has entered middle age. From the day he was desperate for the Han court, he no longer placed his hopes on others and was used to relying on himself to solve problems.
In other words, he no longer trusts anyone. At this moment, it is a key to Cao Cao's transformation. He has enough strength to challenge Er Yuan Yuan, and his strength and potential are strong. Cao Cao is not weak in self-confidence. Yuan Shao is even more aware of Yuan Shao's shortcomings. If one day, he really faces this former friend, Cao Cao is 60% sure that he will win. If he can give himself ten years, Cao Cao believes that no one in the world will be his opponent.
However, Liu Xie's strong rise was at a time of rapid development, adding a bottleneck to the thriving Cao family's forces out of thin air.
Xun Yu did not speak. As one of Cao Cao's main counselors, Xun Yu's ideas were actually different from Cao Cao. However, if Xun Yu really wanted to go to the Hanting Court immediately at this time, Xun Yu could not do it. The current situation would not make Xun Yu so willful. After all, the Xun family's roots are in Yingchuan.
Cheng Yu didn't say anything. He took advantage of the situation to join Cao Cao after Liu Dai's death. He was a newcomer in this group and did not understand Cao Cao's thoughts. It was hard to say anything at this time. As for the loyal Han, in Cheng Yu's opinion, as long as he can show his abilities, there is no difference between loyalty to whom. Not everyone wants to embrace the thighs of the Han Dynasty. The higher the wisdom, the less this thought will be.
Cao Cao glanced at the drunk unconscious Xi Zhicai, and was a little worried about his physical condition. Recently, Xi Zhicai seemed to be more sleepy than before. He shook his head and smiled, "Since the emperor is willing to revive the Han Dynasty, we should congratulate him. Later, I will write a congratulatory form to send it to Chang'an, and pick some exquisite jades to send it together."
As for food and grass, Cao Cao now wants to find someone to borrow it, so where can he give the excess food and grass to the court?
A strange look flashed in Xun Yu's eyes, he glanced at Cao Cao, opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Cao Cao glanced at Xun Yu and smiled and said, "I am a little tired, so I say goodbye first. Come and send Zhicai into the wing room."
"Here." The guards came forward and left with the groggy Xi Zhicai, and Cao Cao turned around and left.
"It's better Zhicai. When it's time to sleep, no one can wake him up." Looking at Xi Zhicai's figure being helped out, Xun Yu suddenly smiled, shook his head and stood up, bowed to Cheng Yu, and left each other.
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"Brother, there is news coming in Chang'an!" Jizhou, Wei Xu waved a banner with excitement and rushed into Lu Bu's camp. Before the people arrived, the voice had already arrived.
"Oh?" Lu Bu, who was discussing with Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian and others how to deal with the Black Mountain Army, raised his head when he heard this.
"But what did Li Jue and Guo Si do?" Zhang Liao frowned. For the Bingzhou Army, being driven out of Chang'an by the Xiliang Army was definitely a great humiliation.
"Hey~" Wei Xu smiled: "This news is outdated, and I have only heard of it. Li Jue and Guo Si have been killed by the emperor in Chengming's Palace, and now I have regained power."
"But I don't know who is taking charge of this time." Lu Bu took the list article a little decadently, his eyes swept over the list article, and his face gradually showed a look of surprise.
"Did Your Majesty do these?" After a long time, Lu Bu looked at Wei Xu, but still couldn't believe it. When did the child in his memory who did not even have the courage to look at him, he had such ability and did not rely on anyone's help to kill Li Jue and Guo Si.
"It should be, but this list of articles..." Wei Xu was not sure. After all, a list of articles, plus some news that were heard, may not be really accurate. Maybe it might have been underestimated by someone else. After all, Wang Yun's face as a successful villain still makes the generals dissatisfied when he thinks about it now.
"Wenyuan, what do you think?" Lu Bu handed the list of words in his hand to Zhang Liao and asked with a frown.
Recently, Yuan Shao seemed to be becoming more and more dissatisfied with him. Lu Bu didn't even know where he offended the northern overlord. His men and horses have made a lot of contributions to Yuan Shao. Even if they don't reward him, they should give him some food and grass, right? Could it be that his soldiers would let their soldiers fight on hungry?
Seeing that the Bingzhou tiger cavalry he brought out did not die on the battlefield, but because of insufficient food and supplies, there were quite a lot of non-combat personnel reductions. In order to reduce consumption recently, Lu Bu had to wait for a few generals to run to rush to the battlefield, shocking the black mountain bandits and not daring to do anything. If this continues, it will not take long for half of the 30,000 Bingzhou tiger cavalry he brought out from Chang'an to lose.
After experiencing the intrigues between Ding Yuan, Dong Zhuo and Wang Yun, Lu Bu is not the first young man who was just a novice and thought that all problems could be solved by just the unreasonable courage of thousands of men. He vaguely felt that Yuan Shao was actually afraid of him and deliberately weakening his strength in this way.
Even so, now that Lu Bu is dependent on others, he really can't imagine it, but he has the idea of finding another way out. At this moment, the quotation from the court has already made Lu Bu think. If the emperor really regained power and now he calls on the world to gather in Chang'an, why didn't he join the court? After all, he also made contributions to protecting the emperor, and even killed Dong Zhuo and rescued His Majesty in prison. Besides, with his own ability, if he attacked the Huns, why should he worry about not being able to show his ambitions?
Zhang Liao passed the list text to Gao Shun, looked up at Lu Bu and said, "I forgave Liao, now Mr. Yuan has become afraid of his lord. If he stays here for a long time, even if he is not harmed by Mr. Yuan, he will definitely weaken his lord's military power."
"In your opinion..." Zhang Liao's words hit Lu Bu's pain. Hearing him, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and a pair of tiger eyes gradually became fierce.
"After all, the emperor is the orthodox Han Dynasty. Now it's time to hire people. The lord has the merit of killing Dong Zhuo, so it's better to return west than to go west, not to mention that the lord's family is still in Chang'an. If he can return to Chang'an again, the lord can also reunite with his family." Zhang Liao said with a smile.
Chapter completed!