Xu You's words were recognized by the soldiers of the Cao clan! Cao Ren's younger brother, Cao Hong couldn't help but step forward again and said, "Lord, my elder brother is loyal to you. If my elder brother sacrifices something for the sake of the world, my elder brother will definitely have no complaints. My brother and I have been prepared to die before following my lord. But now, just as Mr. Xu said, this is Liu Bin's plan to ruin your reputation. You must not fall into the trap. That way, the elder brother will die too much. Even if he dies, he will never be willing to do so." Cao Hong said in tears, and later, Cao Hong's words were choked up.

However, Xu You's words aroused Cao Cao's anger! Cao Cao said with a sad expression: "Zi Lian does not need to be sad. I and you and your brothers are brothers of the same clan. How can I ignore the lives of you and others? I will definitely consider a complete solution."

Although Cao Cao said this with a sad expression, Cao Cao was extremely displeased with Xu You. When Cheng Yu made the suggestion just now, Cao Cao had already thought of Cao Ren's safety. No matter how beautiful the letter Cao Ren wrote to Cao Cao was, it still could not change the fact that Cao Ren was a prisoner. If the ransom was not paid and it would harm Liu Bin's interests, Cao Ren, who was a prisoner and a hostage, would definitely not escape the fate of death. However, Cao Cao considered that he ignored Cao Ren's life and death, the losses avoided by delaying time, and the huge benefits brought by Cao Cao

I still want to vaguely over Cao Ren's life and death and do it according to Cheng Yu's suggestion. At most, after Cao Ren's death, he would keep this hatred in Liu Bin's account, which would inspire his subordinates to revenge. As for his negligent responsibility, it could be completely overwhelmed by Cheng Yu, so that Cao Hong and others would hate Cheng Yu. At most, he would punish Cheng Yu on the surface, and the matter would be over. Anyway, for Cao Cao, as long as he could achieve his great cause and sacrifice one or two people, it would be okay. A straw man can, and Cheng Yu can do it too!

Moreover, Cheng Yu has taken a lot of blame for him and doesn't care about this more. As long as he protects Cheng Yu, Cheng Yu will be fine. This is also a common method used by him and Cheng Yu. But now Xu You made this matter clear, and this matter will be difficult to deal with. If it is handled improperly, it will be really what Xu You said, and the morale of the army is dispersed. The reputation of respecting the wise and the nobles who he had finally established, and the reputation of seeking talents and loving talents as his life, will be destroyed.

At this time, even Cheng Yu had to apologize to Cao Cao, "Yu was not thinking well, and he had such omissions, so he asked the Prime Minister to punish him." This was not because Cheng Yu recognized Xu You's remarks, but Xu You's hat was too big. He sowed the relationship between Cao Cao's clan and scattered the morale of Cao Cao's troops. There were also previous examples as evidence. Although Cheng Yu had been following Cao Cao on the day he had done his mind to play a villain under Cao Cao's men and had always undertaken the dark side of Cao Cao's glorious image, Cheng Yu still could not bear the infamy in such a public eye. This would arouse the largest group under Cao Cao's men. The Cao clan and the Xiahou clan were completely hated. Especially when it was clear that even if Cheng Yu wanted to bear it, Cao Cao would still be affected, so Cheng Yu would not have to bear this responsibility.

Cao Cao was not at the same time as Cheng Yu and Cao Hong. He comforted them casually and looked at Xu You and said, "Ziyuan, since we cannot be hostile to Liu Bin, so as to avoid sieging Liu Bin here, we can only follow Liu Bin's letter, appease Liu Bin and delay time. But if we appease Liu Bin, it will inevitably arouse Yuan Shu's hostility. At that time, we still fell into Liu Bin's plan, allowing Liu Ming to make profits without any effort. Now even the way to delay time is hit by Liu Bin's plan. Could it be that Liu Bin is so powerful? He can actually make a trap. Do we have no complete plan? Please teach me."

Cao Cao asked Xu You very sincerely on the surface, but Cao Cao thought viciously: You kid blocked everything. If you don’t have any good ideas, I will give you a good look. Facing Cao Cao’s advice, Xu You was not only proud, but also proud. Xu You certainly had Liu Bin’s plan. Although Xu You didn’t expect it at first, after Xu You listened to Cheng Yu’s plan, Xu You certainly thought of ways to improve and improve.

You must say proudly: "Actually, the solution is very simple. As I have said just now, that is to delay! Delaying time may not be possible for Liu Bin, but it can play a role in Yuan Shu and others! They just want an explanation. We just need to send a spoken man to tell them clearly: We were coerced by Liu Bin and threatened by Liu Bin with the life safety of Meng De's relative, General Cao Ren. In order to take into account the righteousness of the same clan and brotherly relationship, Meng De cannot give up Liu Bin a way out and pardon Liu Bin's sins. Moreover, we were blackmailed by Liu Bin for 500,000 shi of military rations. In this way, they cannot blame us for this. Meng De's reputation of benevolence and righteousness and love of talent will be spread throughout the world. This will be of great benefit to Meng De's future development."

After hearing Xu You's words, Cao Cao and others could only nod their heads helplessly. Now the plan is to follow what Xu You said! But just by relying on it, it seems that the problem has not been completely solved! Seeing their expressions, Xu You also understood this, so Xu You continued to say: "As for Liu Bin's siege against Liu Bin after he retreated to Youzhou, we only need to meet a scene. It just so happened that our governor of Qingzhou and the governor of Zhong Yao were gathering troops and preparing to attack Liu Bin's Beihai. We can use this as an excuse to say that in order to prevent Liu Bin from looking after each other, we will extend Liu Bin's defensive front and prepare to

As a breakthrough, Beihai attacked Liu Bin's Jizhou. Beihai was just a group of yellow-turban horse thieves and surrendered to Liu Bin's city after stealing the stolen capital. It was irrelevant to Liu Bin. Moreover, Liu Bin had already occupied Youzhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou, and Beihai belonged to Qingzhou. Liu Bin got this Beihai, which was also incorrect and dissatisfied. Liu Bin had to use the former prefect of Beihai Kingdom Kong Rong to manage the place. Kong Beihai, who defected to Liu Bin, was a corrupt scholar, but he knew how to dance, craftsmanship, developed farming, and did not know how to repair the military, and had very limited troops. We do not need to bet too much on this to achieve our feint attack."

Speaking of this, Xu You smiled and said, "If it weren't for us to need a small war to cover up the truth that we avoid attacking Liu Bin's main force and develop secretly, we only need an emperor's edict, and Kong Rong must surrender according to the edict. If we have the war in the Beihai, we have already explained to Yuan Shu and the others. In addition to the Beihai, other important places that can attack Liu Bin are left, but only Guandu we occupied and Tongguan occupied by the Xiliang army. According to reports from Yan Liang and others, Liu Bin has a large number of naval troops at the Yellow River Ferry, which occupies a large number of naval troops, occupies the Yellow River.

No one can defeat us. We can use this as an excuse to say that we are training a large number of naval forces and preparing to attack Guandu. In this way, we are fighting on the surface on two fronts, whether it is Yuan Shu or Xiliang Army, they have no excuse to blame us. But in fact, we have no main force to engage in the battle with Liu Bin. According to our alliance, the Xiliang Army had no responsibility to send troops from Tongguan to attack Liu Bin's Bingzhou. Even if the Xiliang Army had any idea of ​​maintaining its strength, he could only gather troops in Tongguan and fight against Liu Bin."

After saying that, Xu You curled his lips and said in a somewhat disdainful tone: "As for Yuan Shu, he came from afar, and it was impossible for him to attack Guandu and cross the Yellow River without military ships. Therefore, Yuan Shu could only use the Tongguan of the Xiliang Army to assist the Xiliang Army in attacking Liu Bin. Yuan Shu and the Xiliang Army had a grudge against the extermination of the family. They must not be able to live in harmony and will monitor each other, which would not allow them to attack Liu Bin without hard work. Moreover, maybe there would be an old hatred between Yuan Shu and the Xiliang Army.

There is a dispute over new revenge. Of course, we can't control these. Whether Yuan Shu is fighting with Liu Bin or being attacked by the Western Liang army, as long as Yuan Shu's troops are damaged, we can swallow Yuan Shu in one bite and further strengthen us. As long as we grow stronger and can deal with Liu Bin, we will instigate the Western Liang army to fight against Liu Bin. At that time, if Liu Bin is destroyed, we can destroy the Western Liang army. At that time, it will be the time when Meng De unifies the world!"

Although what Xu You said is just some ideals and theories, it does make sense. Now that Liu Bin's family is dominant, the princes of all walks of life can only join forces to fight against Liu Bin. Even if they want to have some secrets, they must avoid Liu Bin's profits from it, and avoid excessive losses and being swallowed by other forces around them. In this way, what they need is only a reason. Cao Cao can give them a reason to avoid the loss of his own strength, and

Devour those allies who were too much in the war at any time. So although Cao Cao was extremely disgusted with Xu You, for the sake of the overall situation of equity and the principle of maximizing interests, Cao Cao had to pinch his nose, praise Xu You's clever plan, and began to implement it according to his plan! Xu You was even more proud after receiving Cao Cao's praise. But what he didn't know, although his plan was done, his own life in Cao's army had already begun to count down! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!