Three Kingdoms: Salted Fish's son-in-law was overheard by Cao Cao

Sun Gan waved his hand: "I didn't sponsor anything, it's the lord's benevolence that convinced the people."

Guan Yu followed suit and nodded: "The third brother is right. The husband has spent all his family resources, and we will definitely keep it in mind, and we will definitely not let him down."

"It's just that there are only tens of thousands of people in Xinye City. Although more than ten thousand soldiers have been recruited, their strength is still very weak. In today's troubled times, they can only barely gain a foothold."

Liu Bei sighed: "Yeah, how prestige we occupied Xuzhou at the beginning, but... forget it."

Zhang Fei lowered his head to eat, not daring to make a sound.

Zhao Yun was a little curious: "Just what? Was it broken by Cao Cao?"

Zhang Fei faltered: "It's not Cao Cao, it's Lu Bu."

"Oh, Lu Bu is a bit brave. I heard that Chen Gong is also conspiring. It is really difficult to deal with."

Speaking of what Zhao Yun thought of, he asked the four of them: "I heard that my lord and Cao Cao once defeated Yuan Shu together. So what kind of person is Cao Cao? Now he is beating Yuan Shao to pieces. I believe that the north will be unified soon."

Zhang Fei didn't know how to describe it, so he said something in a loud voice and started drinking.

Liu Bei thought for a while before saying: "Cao Cao, a capable minister in governing the world, and a traitor in troubled times. Now that he has won the north, I believe that after he has cultivated and thrived, he will definitely send troops again. But I don't know where he will attack."

"Maybe it's my land in Jingzhou." Sun Qian was a little unwilling, and a little lonely.

"Oh? Why did Gongyou make such a guess?"

"My lord, Yangzhou in the south has been stabilized by Sun Ce. Now there is a natural danger along the Yangtze River, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you want to use troops, you must train sailors, but Cao Cao's men are all northern generals. Horse battles are better than water battles."

"Our Jingzhou is different. Of the 40 troops, [-] are sailors. Defeating Jingzhou will not only attack Yangzhou from two directions, but also use the sailors here. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

"Hey~ My Xinye is on the side of Wancheng. If you want to send troops to Jingzhou, this is the first place to bear the brunt."

After Sun Qian finished speaking, the few people were no longer interested in eating and drinking, and they all put down their bowls and chopsticks and frowned and thought about it.

Although this route is a bit detoured, it is still a solution. If Cao Cao cannot break through the danger of the Yangtze River, I am afraid that the only way is to use troops to Jingzhou.

Seeing that his question made the atmosphere oppressive, Zhao Yun wanted to liven up the atmosphere.

"My lord, don't worry, now Yuan Shao can hold on for at least a year, and then Cao Cao needs to renovate Jizhou and cultivate himself, at least another year."

"These two years are the time for us to develop, and even if we use troops, Jingzhou and I have a close relationship, how can we sit idly by."

Sun Qian also found that he had dampened the enthusiasm of several people, and comforted him: "That's right, Brother Zilong is right."

"Besides, the prefectures under Cao Cao's rule now need to be stable, and more manpower is definitely needed to manage them, so they will not attack Jingzhou so early."

After hearing this, Zhao Yun suddenly thought of the caravan he saw today.

"Mr. Gongyou, today I saw a caravan from Xudu in the city. The things they bought seemed to be special products from the north. The few things I bought seemed to be good. Is this also Cao Cao's move?"

"Yes, now the caravans under the Xudu Merchant Office have spread all over Shenzhou, and every state has their bases. This is convenient for north-south trade. Where there is no war with Cao Cao, their caravans are allowed to pass."

Jingzhou has already opened a commercial road as early as last year. The road here is far away, so the commercial office has equipped guards. However, most of the guards are not allowed to enter the city. Only caravans enter the city when they arrive at the city. When they leave, they will talk to the guards outside the city. .

"What did Zilong buy? The caravan has been traveling for more than a month."

Zhao Yun took out some gadgets and some snacks from his pocket.

"Hehe, that's it. I bought it when I saw it was strange. The caravan mainly recommends some books, which seem to be some story books, but they are very cheap, only fifty dollars."

Sun Gan was amazed, how could a book only sell for fifty dollars.The travel expenses trafficked from Xudu are not enough, and there is also a bookstore in Jingzhou, even the thinnest book costs [-] yuan.

"Have Zilong read what is written in the script?"

Zhao Yun thought for a while: "It seems to be the rise and fall of a big family, and there are chivalrous stories, and some other things. I don't care about it all."

Sun Qian has been in business for generations, and his family fortune is huge.He has seen countless businesses, and Liu Bei also pays attention to things that make him curious.

"Why is Gongyou interested in that book?"

"It's too cheap. There must be some key point in it. I didn't think of it. Otherwise, I will lose money if I sell it like this."

What Sun Qian said made Liu Bei really curious: "Then I will buy some tomorrow."

Liu Bei didn't think it was any kind of business. Selling books can't do any big business now, but he was just worried that it might be some kind of conspiracy by Cao Cao.

Drinking and chatting like this for a while, they went away late at night.

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At this time in Xudu, the people were looking in one direction. If you followed the people's eyes from a height, you could see that those eyes were all focused on a manor outside Xudu city.

Surrounded by mountains and rivers, the manor formed a unique scene outside of the hustle and bustle, which was already eye-catching, but what everyone looked at today was not the garden, but the people who entered the garden.

Today is the time when Cao Xian plans to establish the Xudu Poetry Club, which is located in that manor.

In that garden, not only famous scholars from Xudu gathered, but also literati from all over the world were invited to come.

It can be said that the people who can enter this garden today are either high-ranking officials or famous talents. Besides them, there are also outstanding descendants from various aristocratic families.

There is a pond in the garden, and a high platform is set up in the north of the pond as the main seat, where people who are at the peak of knowledge or power sit. There are long corridors on the left and right sides of the pond, and white gauze is hung in front of the corridor to cover them.

Walk and talk in the corridors separately, but the corridors on both sides are divided into male and female guests, so talented men and beautiful women cannot gather together, but can only look at each other across the pool.

At first, the poetry meeting was only made by Cao Xian to help his girlfriends see Han Ze, but as the scale became larger and larger, it attracted the attention of all parties.

Before the poetry meeting started, everyone had already regarded it as a symbol of status and status, so the rich families sent their children to participate, and it became the scale it is today.

Cao Cao didn't expect it to turn out like this, he just thought it was the youngest daughter's nonsense, but seeing Cao Zhi and Cao Pi surrounded by many princes, he also had a different thought about this poem.

Xun Yu seemed to see what Cao Cao was thinking: "My lord, this poem will have the scale it is today, and the meaning is quite different, so it should continue in the future."

"Yeah, I thought that Xian'er would only invite some talented people, and then let them write some poems praising virtue. I didn't expect that it would attract great families and scholars to flock."

"Haha, this shows that the lord's call has extended to the heirs. Most of these people are here for the lord."