Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 521
In the original history, Cao Cao had actually been delaying taking the initiative to fight Yuan Shu. He must have been a little worried about Yuan Shu's strength. He wanted to see the fight between Yuan Shu and Xuzhou Lu Bu first, so that he could sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers.

Unexpectedly, after Yuan Shu suffered a loss in Xuzhou, he changed direction and sent troops to invade Chen State, trapping and killing Chen Wang Liu Chong, and annexing the land of Chen State, posing a threat to Xudu from the east, which forced Cao Cao to send troops to fight Yuan Shu.

In fact, Cao Cao was probably also depressed at the time. Considering the threats from Lu Bu in Xuzhou, Yuan Shao in the north, and Liu Biao in Jingzhou, he had already ignored Yuan Shu's conspiracy to proclaim himself emperor. Xiandi officially exterminated the Han court, wouldn't that make Cao Cao coerce the emperor to make the purpose of the world meaningless?

This is really "the child is bitter, but he can't bear it" (well, "the baby is bitter in his heart, but the baby doesn't say it" in the classical Chinese version).

Listening to Zhuge Jin's words, Zhu Wei naturally understood the meaning of his words, so he nodded his head slightly. In fact, Zhu Wei had already discussed the strategy with Wang Yuyan and Jia Xu before. As mentioned above, Zhu Weicai originally set the strategic policy of taking Yizhou and Hanzhong from the west first, and then seeking the land in Guanzhong, without involving the Central Plains for the time being.

Now Zhugejin's discussion is similar to Wang Yuyan's and Jia Xu's views, but it is enough to show that Zhugejin's vision has also reached this level.

"Well, Mr. Zhuge's intention is roughly the same as what Wei originally thought, but how can we make Cao Cao believe in the good intentions of Wei Zhizhi, and how can we relax Cao Cao's heart and let him take the initiative to send troops to attack Yuan Shu?"

Zhu Wei first nodded in agreement with Zhuge Jin's words, but soon asked him again. After all, it is easy to analyze such a big picture, but if it involves how to do it in detail, it is another aspect that tests the real ability to handle affairs. .

Zhuge Jin frowned again when he heard the words. After all, Cao Cao is not an idiot here, and Zhu Wei clearly has the strength to threaten Cao Cao, so why did Cao Cao fight Yuan Shu to the death and lose his own strength for nothing, but let Zhu Wei Where does Wei sit to reap the benefits of the fisherman?

After all, the situation in the world today has entered a situation where the princes are fighting each other. Who is willing to consume their own strength for no reason, but not guard against the evil wolf watching from the sidelines?
Perhaps this is also the reason why Cao Cao did not immediately send troops to fight for rebellion after Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor in the original history.

Cao Cao was in Gunzhou, the place where the Fourth Battle was, and he really didn't dare to find powerful targets around him to fight head-on. Therefore, after Cao Cao repelled Yuan Shu who wanted to attack Xudu in history, he decided to choose someone like Lu Bu first. Ruan Persimmon took action and successfully defeated Lu Bu and captured Xuzhou.

It was only later that Cao Cao was deceived by Liu Bei for a while. When he prevented Yuan Shu from going north to join Yuan Shao, he asked Liu Bei to lead troops to Xuzhou to stop Yuan Shu. As a result, Liu Bei killed the Xuzhou governor Che Zhou sent by Cao Cao, and occupied Xuzhou again.

After that, Cao Cao conquered Liu Bei again and captured Guan Yu and Liu Bei's two wives. Liu Bei ran to Yuan Shao's side, and Zhang Fei ran to Runan's side to occupy a small county. Anyway, the three brothers went their separate ways.

And Cao Cao officially started a war with Yuan Shao in the north, and only then did he have such romantic stories as killing Yanliang, punishing Wenchou, the battle of Guandu, sneak attack on Wuchao, and passing five passes and beheading six generals.

Well, this is not too much talk, anyway, now that Zhu Wei has risen out of thin air, there is another huge force like Zhu Wei next to Xudu where Cao Cao placed the emperor, which naturally poses an additional threat to Cao Cao.

No one is an idiot, and they are not willing to easily waste their strength to gnaw hard bones, and act as a weasel for others.

So how could it be possible for Cao Cao to easily believe the truce and friendship just by talking about it, so that he could drive Cao Cao to attack Yuan Shu?

"Maybe we can let Cao Cao know what my lord is going to do next. My lord, the lands of Yizhou and Hanzhong are not bad. If Cao Cao knows that my lord wants to take them, maybe we can let Cao Cao rest assured about my lord!"

Zhugejin thought for a while, but then said the strategy that Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan had already decided. Zhugejin's words can be regarded as passing Zhu Wei's examination. The way to really reassure Cao Cao is to let Zhuge Wei was caught up in other affairs and had no time to send troops northward.

Of course, it is not easy to conquer Yizhou and Hanzhong.

After all, there are many mountains in Yizhou and Shu. Although Liu Zhang in Yizhou is cowardly, he has many civil and military officials under his command. The state will inevitably need to spend a lot of energy and manpower.

Therefore, only when Zhu Wei is caught in the war here can Cao Cao feel at ease and make friends with Zhu Wei, and then carry out his conquest in the Central Plains.

Compared with Zhu Wei, if he can obtain the lands of Yizhou and Hanzhong, he can also increase the territory and population, and also increase Zhu Wei's background, making Zhu Wei more powerful in the south.

"Haha, it's a way! Well, then, brother Kong Ming, what do you think about this!"

Zhu Wei has affirmed Zhuge Jin's ability in his heart. Of course, Zhuge Jin's character attributes are still biased towards internal affairs talents, and he may consider where to carry out internal affairs governance in the future.

However, Zhu Wei deliberately looked at Zhuge Liang who was listening to Zhu Wei and Zhuge Jin, wanting to see what new insights the current Zhuge Liang could have.

Zhuge Liang's eyes flickered slightly when he heard the words, and with Zhuge Liang's intelligence, he naturally noticed Zhu Wei's strangeness. He could feel that Zhu Wei seemed to have a special attitude towards him, as if he cared about him.

However, Zhuge Liang was not cowardly at the moment, he just smiled and said, "Elder brother actually said something good, but if Liang Zhi thought about it, what elder brother said, in fact, Qian Tanghou had already made up his mind! It’s just that Liang thinks that the Central Plains is the foundation of the world. With Qian Tanghou’s current military strength and manpower, why bother to sit and watch the Central Plains struggle? Qian Tanghou can send out tens of thousands of troops in two directions, and take Xu from Nanyang all the way. Capital, all the way from Jiangdong to Xuzhou, at that time, the two routes will be combined, first defeat Cao Cao, and then defeat Yuan Shu. As for Xuzhou Lu Bu and Liu Bei, they are not in the eyes of Qian Tanghou. A decisive battle of life and death, in this way the world can be settled! With Qian Tanghou's military front, it is already enough to annex the world, so why do you need to dodge and hide behind others? Such a battle can determine the world, and the people of the world can live as soon as possible On a safe day."

Zhuge Liang spoke half-truths and half-false words, but it seemed that he was advocating Zhu Wei's strength, so that Zhu Wei could go on the Northern Expedition regardless of everything, and even split two armies into the Northern Expedition at the same time.

"Although Wei claims to be blessed by the destiny, he dare not underestimate the heroes of the world. Although there are some soldiers and horses in Wei's hands, he still can't conquer the world after all!"

Zhu Wei stared at Zhuge Liang for a while when he heard the words, but soon laughed again. Of course Zhu Wei would not be fooled by Zhuge Liang's words, so he really thought that with his current strength, he could swallow mountains and rivers...

(End of this chapter)