Chapter 224

The Youzhou Army not only blackmailed Cao Ren and others, but also threatened Cao Cao with hundreds of thousands of Youzhou Army! On the surface, this is the case, but it is not! The purpose of the Youzhou Army doing this is actually to confuse Cao Cao and prevent him from easily invading the Guandu area, and to get time for Liu Bin's return and the Bingzhou War! Youzhou is so rich, he doesn't care about hundreds of thousands of loads of food and grass. The reason for this request is that Liu Bin's request, and the other is to deliberately use this method to attract Cao Cao's attention! Another reason is that the Youzhou Army has always gained a lot in every war, but this time the attack on Guandu returned without any actual gains. How can such a thing make the Youzhou Army willing?

After hearing Guo Jia's explicit hint, Cao Ren breathed a sigh of relief! After being captured, Cao Ren was actually ready to die. He was a relative of Cao Cao and was loyal to Cao Cao. After being defeated and captured, he naturally would not surrender to Cao Cao's enemies. Moreover, she did not want the enemy to threaten Cao Cao because of herself, so he was ready to commit suicide, just waiting for the Youzhou army to tempt him! But the result was such a result. Cao Ren couldn't help but get funny, and at the same time he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although he was ready to commit suicide, no one wanted to die. If he could not die, of course he would not die!

Moreover, during this period, he also secretly observed the potential power of Youzhou. He found that the real strength of Youzhou was not something that Cao Cao could compete with now! If the Youzhou army really had to go south with all its strength at this time, Cao Cao had just ended the civil strife and his strength was greatly reduced, it would be vulnerable to the Youzhou army! He was not afraid of death, but he didn't want to die so worthless! He was worried that if he died like this now, Cao Cao would not know the true strength of Youzhou at all. Cao Cao might have an irreversible hatred with Youzhou because of his death. In that case, the Cao clan would suffer the loss when the two sides fought. In that case, he died, which would have harmed Cao Cao! So after Guo Jia explained the situation, Cao Ren quickly agreed! In his opinion, it was still worth doing to exchange 500,000 dan of food and grass for the background of the Youzhou army! So, according to Guo Jia's request, he wrote a letter to Cao Cao!

After seeing this, Guo Jia was very satisfied, and then wrote a letter of apology to the court in the name of Liu Bin. Finally, someone sent these two letters to Cao Cao together! Cao Cao had never relaxed or laughed since Liu Bei's betrayal. Internal and external troubles heavily oppressed every nerve of Cao Cao. Cao Cao carefully used all the resources in his hands to let the forces around him take the invading eyes away from him. Therefore, in recent times, Cao Cao's nerves were tense at every moment to deal with every sudden incident. After reading these two letters, Cao Cao suddenly laughed. Cao Cao was both angry and laughed happily.

Cao Cao had already prepared for Liu Bin to send him a letter to him at this time, and at the same time he guessed what would happen in Liu Bin's letter. Therefore, out of concern for his brothers, Cao Cao first opened Cao Ren's letter to read. But the more Cao Cao looked at the letter written by Cao people, the more something was wrong. If it weren't for Cao Ren's envelope sealed with a fire lacquer, there was Cao Ren's private seal on it, and Cao Cao was sure that the handwriting on the letter was written by Cao Ren's handwriting. Cao Cao really doubted whether it was written by his usual smart brother Cao Ren. If it were his treasure brother Cao Hong, he would not have been able to commit such a stupid thing, but his brother Cao Ren, who is both civil and military, should not be so confused.

Cao Cao hurriedly opened Liu Bin's letter to compare. After reading it, Cao Cao finally smiled angry. At the same time, he was relieved of Liu Bin's attack and smiled happily. The letter written by Guo Jia in the name of Liu Bin said that the Youzhou army knew that the emperor was in trouble based on the clothes and belt edict published by Liu Bei, so he went south to clear the emperor's side despite the shortage of food and grass! Now that he is saved, Liu Bei was expelled, Youzhou understands the truth of the matter, so Liu Bin submitted a letter to the court and asked the court to punish him! Although Liu Bin's letter was written to the court, in Cao Cao's mind, I was the court, and the court was me. What is the difference between apologizing to the court and apologizing to himself? Therefore, Cao Cao was always afraid that Liu Bin would come forward to attack each other regardless of the consequences, so he finally relaxed. So Cao Cao smiled happily.

However, Cao Ren's letter was different. In the letter, Cao Ren tried his best to describe the Shenwu of the Youzhou army and how Yan Liang's army was vulnerable, and he was not prepared enough. He did not set up the most lethal mechanism to deal with it in the key places. The Youzhou army had great luck. They originally did not know the formation, but when they did not know how to pass through the formation, the troops they entered the formation were blocked on the key path of the formation, which led to their final failure. However, after being captured, he was steadfast and unyielding. After he stated his strength to the Youzhou army, he explained to them that it was not Cao Cao's rebellion, but Liu Bei's rebellion, and the Youzhou side happily repented and wrote a letter to apologize, ready to retreat at any time.

However, when the Youzhou army heard Liu Bei's slander, they tried their best to clear the emperor's side. Therefore, the Youzhou army was a little too prepared for military rations. They were originally thinking about capturing Sili and Yanzhou during the autumn harvest and solving the food problem on the spot. But now, since Cao Ren explained it to them clearly, they of course could not do this. As Han officials, how could the Youzhou army rob Cao Cao of food? However, there were too many troops in Youzhou, so they could only hold on for one or two days. However, the Youzhou army still had to wait for the reply letter from the court to deal with it. Therefore, the Youzhou army wanted to borrow 500,000 dan of food from Cao Cao as return military rations.

Moreover, Cao Ren also hinted in the letter that the army that Youzhou would bring is less than 500,000, and Cao Cao's army would definitely not be able to fight. And even if it could be beaten, Cao Cao's losses would be too great. It would be better to pardon Youzhou for offending, give them some military rations and send them back. Otherwise, the Youzhou army would go crazy when there was a shortage of military rations, which would not be a joke. Moreover, Cao Ren also reminded Cao Cao that Liu Bin was a loyal Han minister who absolutely respected the emperor. As long as Cao Cao seized this point, Cao Cao could definitely mobilize Youzhou's troops at will through the emperor. At that time, Cao Cao would have an extra sword to kill, so Cao Cao would win over Liu Bin appropriately, which would definitely be a good deal. Originally, Cao Ren did not see Liu Bin with his own eyes, but in order to prove his loyalty and unyielding tongue, Cao Ren directly used Liu Bin's name to talk about it!

Not to mention, Cao Ren's last tip really made Cao Cao a little moved, but after Cao Ren got this letter, he would have a naked threat letter. The straightforward meaning was that Cao Cao would pardon Youzhou for not guilty, and at the same time he had to compensate Youzhou for 500,000 dan of military rations, otherwise the 500,000 army in Youzhou would have to fight to the end.

Therefore, after reading Cao Ren's letter, Cao Cao wondered whether it was written by Cao Ren. How could Cao Ren help the enemy? With Cao Ren's loyalty and courage, Cao Cao absolutely did not believe that Cao Ren would betray him, nor did he believe that Cao Ren would surrender to the criminal law of the Youzhou Army and wrote against his will. But in addition, Cao Ren could only be deceived and truly believed in the Youzhou Army, but Cao Ren should not be deceived so stupid! Thinking of how smart Cao Ren was in the past, now he was sold and helped him count the money, so Cao Cao was really angry with Cao Ren.

But what Cao Cao didn't know was that Cao Ren's actions were not completely stupid. In order to protect himself, Cao Ren had to find a reason for his defeat, and in order to atone for his sins, he had to find a reason for his merits. At this time, Guo Jia sent all the reasons to the door. Cao Ren was drunk a little and lost his self-control, of course, he naturally followed their flowers and good way to leave!

Although Cao Cao is easy-going and talks and laughs with his subordinates, Cao Cao has always been serious in formal occasions. However, in special circumstances, he will use laughter to divert his sight, so his subordinates are used to him and cooperate with his habits very well! Therefore, when he laughed this time, several of his advisers said in a very interesting way: "Why is the Prime Minister laughing?"

Of course, Cao Cao could not tell the real reason why he laughed! Cao Ren was also his brother of the same clan and one of the top generals under his command. If these people knew that Cao Ren was so stupid that he was sold and still helped him count money, then Cao Ren would be dissatisfied in the future and would do things under his command. Moreover, they were in a group of grass and would be implicated and ridiculed! So Cao Cao smiled and shook his head, saying, "I laughed at Liu Bin. Liu Bin is known as the number one general in the world, and he uses troops like a god! But now it seems that although Liu Bin can use troops, it is also very ordinary, not as exaggerated as the legendary one!" Cao Cao seemed very confident. He would not say that he was laughing because of Cao Ren! And now that he said this, it would not be embarrassing, but he could also belittle Liu Bin and encourage the morale of his subordinates. Why not do it?

Cao Cao also knew that since his debut, Liu Bin had been invincible in the battle and had a great reputation in the whole world! Although the princes in the world expressed that they were not afraid of Liu Bin and looked down on him, they were still a little afraid of Liu Bin. Even he and his subordinates were a little afraid of Liu Bin! So Cao Cao had to go around Liu Bin everywhere to improve the morale of his troops, so as not to face the Youzhou army in the future and collapse without fighting!

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