Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan were fighting fiercely, and Cao Cao was not idle either. After Jia Xu from Nanpi City took over Shadow, he followed Han Fei's advice and increased his efforts to obtain information about Cao Cao's group.

That night, I received a lot of news from various channels. Jia Xu picked up the messages and read them one by one. "It's interesting. It's worthy of being the opponent that Zicong fears. There are capable people under Cao Cao!" Jia Xu said to himself.

After reading the information, Jia Xu pondered for a moment, then picked up a pen and wrote a letter. Then he shouted to the door: "Come on! Send this letter to the lord and military advisor Han!"

The door was opened. A subordinate entered the house and saluted Jia Xu. He took the letter and turned around and left. He didn't say a word throughout the whole process. After the man left, Jia Xu picked up all the messages on the table and read them carefully.

Speaking of what happened to Cao Cao, Jia Xu paid so much attention. It must be said from the beginning. It turned out that a month ago, the four leaders of the Baibo thief, Han Xian, Yang Feng, Li Le and Hu Cai, led an army of 100,000 to attack Luoyang. Cao Cao followed the plan of his adviser Xi Zhicai, and ordered Cao Ren to deceively defeat the generals and introduce the bandits into a valley southwest of Luoyang. The brothers of Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun were ambushed in the valley to defeat the bandits, and also killed the two leaders of Baibo thieves Li Le and Hu Cai.

When the leader Yang Feng saw that it was not good, he quickly fled the battlefield under the protection of his general Xu Huang. The other leader, Han Xian, was more cunning. He did not enter the valley with the brigade, so he escaped. As soon as the battle in the valley started, he fled with his men.

Cao Cao killed Baibo thief in this battle. He captured more than 50,000 prisoners, and then he gradually gathered more than 10,000 women, children, and the elderly and weak one after another. This made him no longer have to worry about the population in Luoyang! However, with the sharp increase in population, Cao Cao's internal affairs had a big problem. Originally, Luoyang had a small population and could rely on the food and grass support of the Wei family in Hedong and the Yang family in Hongnong. Now, once the population is too large, the food and grass cannot keep up.

Cao Cao wanted to buy food, but at this time he found that he didn't have much money. Luoyang City was plundered by Dong Zhuojun, and no valuable thing was left for Cao Cao except for the house.

On this day, Cao Cao was having a headache about food and military pay, and his adviser Cheng Yu quietly gave him a suggestion. "Lord, we are actually rich. It's just that money is not easy to get!" Cheng Yu said in a vague manner.

"Where is money?" Cao Cao wondered.

Cheng Yu did not speak, but pointed at the underground where he was standing. Cao Cao was shocked and thought to himself, "This is taking money from dead people!" Seeing that Cao Cao was silent, Cheng Yu stood up and said goodbye. There was no way to do this in the end, it depends on Cao Cao's decision.

After Cheng Yu left, Cao Cao listened to it and thought for a long time and finally made up his mind. "Forget it, I would rather let the world betray people than let the world betray me! So what if I steal the grave and rob the tomb? After my death, Cao Mengde will care whether he is a flood or a stigma forever!"

Since Cao Cao had made up his mind, he found his third brother Cao Hong that night and ordered him to recruit rangers and bandits to secretly form a special army, and appointed him as the lieutenant of the gold gang, and was specifically responsible for stealing graves and robbing money from the ground. Cao Hong did not let down his entrustedness and took only three days to pull up a team of 100 people. The team rested during the day and acted at night. Moreover, the camp where they lived was in remote mountains, so that they could not let outsiders know the secrets in the camp.

Luoyang was the capital of the Han Dynasty and there were many tombs around it. The newly established lieutenant of the gold medal received 100,000 ounces of military pay for Cao Cao in just one month. This made Cao Cao overjoyed, so he increased the recruitment of the lieutenant. However, unless the people who entered the camp died, they would not be released again, just to avoid leaking news. But after a long time, this matter was always exposed, but in the face of huge interests, both Cao Hong and Cao Cao had long ignored anything else. So under Cao Hong's recruitment, the lieutenant of the gold medal quickly grew to a scale of one thousand people and became an extremely important force under Cao Cao.

Cao Cao finally got rich, and he followed the advice of his adviser Xun Yu. He posted a message and bought grain from all over the world. No matter whoever transported the grain to Luoyang, he could immediately take the money and leave, and it was 10% higher than the market price. The slogan of Cao Cao Group was: We only need food and don’t ask where it comes from!

In Nanpi City, both the Xin family and the Mi family wanted to expand their trade routes and get the opportunity to sell grain in Luoyang. As a result, Xin Ping and Mi Zhu discussed for a long time and finally decided to go together. The two families each formed a joint grain sales team and set off for Luoyang five days ago. Of course, how could Jia Xu let go of such an opportunity? He installed several shadow members in this team.

With the arrival of grain merchants from all over the world, Cao Cao completely got rid of the trouble of food. Then he attacked the Baibo thief again. Cao Cao personally led an army of 30,000 to attack Baibo Valley. Seeing the army approaching the city, Han Xian and Yang Fengyi discussed it, and finally decided to surrender Cao. Cao Cao was overjoyed and both appointed them as lieutenants. However, what Cao Cao was even more happy was that he finally got the general named Xu Huang under Yang Feng.

As early as when Baibo thieves attacked Luoyang, Cao Cao discovered the difference between Xu Huang. If he had not been for protecting Yang Feng in the riot army, it would be hard to say whether Yang Feng could retreat with his own strength. However, there were too many prisoners at that time, and Yang Feng and others retreated in one battle, which made Cao Cao lose the opportunity to recruit Xu Huang. This time, he said that he was here to fight against Baibo Gu, but in fact it was for Xu Huang alone.

Of course, there is still more than 50,000 people in the Baibo Valley at this time, and these will become the capital for Cao Cao to fight for dominance in the world. It can be said that Cao Cao, who completely annexed the Baibo thief, has already had the strength to expand outward. Dong Zhuo in the west will not mess with him for the time being, but Bingzhou in the north, Yanzhou in the east, and Yuzhou in the south may all become Cao Cao's underground targets.

Han Fei, who was still in Tai'an City, looked at the information in his hand. This information was sent by Liu Bei just sent someone to him at night. After reading it at a glance, Han Fei closed his eyes and muttered to himself: "It seems that many things have changed due to my arrival. I don't know if Dong Zhuo will die. It should develop quickly. Judging from this, Boss Cao will immediately attack Yanzhou. If he defeats Yanzhou, Xuzhou and Qingzhou will be in danger!"
Chapter completed!