Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

"If Cao Cao is a fool, it's fine. However, the Lord has praised him a lot. If this is the case, Cao Cao's actions are really in vain?"

Li Yi frowned, and murmured in a low voice: "It makes sense."

The rest of the people also thought about it independently, and none of them refuted it.

Kuai Yue finally said: "So I think that before Cao Cao sent troops to Xuzhou, it would be fine if he didn't respond to the lord at all, but since Cao Cao is prepared, then the means must be more than that, but what is the specific arrangement? It is difficult to have a clue at the moment, but I hope the lord is not to blame."

After Kuai Yue finished speaking, he bowed to Li Yi with an apologetic face. Li Yi hurriedly grabbed him and said, "This is a golden word. If it weren't for the sharp eyes of Mr. Cao Cao, this time I would almost be taken over by Cao Cao. If I return Mr. Weird, aren't you confused?"

Helping Kuai Yue to sit down, Li Yi sighed in his heart. He has always wanted to settle accounts with Kuai Yueqiu, but Kuai Yue has been conscientious since he was with him. He sleeps later than a dog and wakes up like a chicken. Early, don't fight for merit, don't seek power, mostly offend people or check for omissions, how can Li Yi take revenge on him?

After returning to his seat, Li Yi asked: "What do you think Cao Cao's successor will be?"

The eyes of Guo Jia and the others met in the air, and almost instantly, a person's name flashed in their hearts.

After a while, Guo Jia said softly: "The only one who can restrain the lord is Lu Bu, and the rest are nothing to worry about."

Li Yi didn't express his opinion, but asked others: "Do you think so too?"

All of them nodded silently, agreeing with Guo Jia's meaning.

Li Yi sighed and said nothing. Although in terms of fighting for world supremacy, he is likely to face Lu Bu in the future, but it shouldn't be now, and Li Yi doesn't want to have conflicts with Lu Bu so early, but if Lu Bu made a mistake, Cao Cao Li Yi had no choice but to take advantage of it.

Seeing that Li Yi did not speak, Guo Jia continued: "Although this subordinate cannot fully guess the context of this matter, if it is not bad, Lu Bu should approach Yuzhou in the future. Only in this way can he become the Lord's hindrance."

Li Yi frowned even deeper. There was no way. If Lu Bu was only in Dongjun, no matter what Lu Bu did, he would not pose a substantial threat to Li Yi. Anyway, Li Yi did not plan to send troops to Yanzhou for the time being, but if he develops in Yuzhou , that is, close to Jingzhou, God knows whether Lu Bu will have the idea of ​​competing with him for Jingzhou, if that is the case, it will definitely cause headaches.

Everyone's faces were a bit ugly, but Xun You smiled and said, "My lord, are you worried that Lu Bu intends to get involved in Jingzhou?"

Li Yidao: "That's right, that's exactly the case. What can Mr. Fei do?"

Xun You said: "Kong Rong has a grudge against the lord. Although Cao Cao probably provoked this matter, you think that Kong Rong himself should not like the lord. It is because of this premise that Cao Cao used it."

Li Yi nodded, he thought it made sense, because even though Li Yi has a good reputation among the common people and has made great achievements in the great man, none of the methods he used were upright and upright, far from the way of a gentleman. , On the contrary, it seems that most of the villains act. In this case, it will naturally be criticized by many old bones who think they are loyal.

Xun You continued: "Although Kong Rong is not on good terms with the lord, what about Lu Bu? Don't say that Dong Zhuo's murder of Ding Yuan is enough to make Lu Bu and Kong Rong incompatible. Therefore, if Cao Cao wants to borrow Lu Bu Containing the lord with Kong Rong, hehe, I'm afraid these two people will start a civil strife first."

Li Yi blinked his eyes and thought, yes, although Kong Rong doesn't like him, he is a great hero anyway, but Lu Bu, this guy has more black spots than him, and the little credit on his body is still coming from him However, if Kong Rong's favorability towards him was zero, it would definitely be a negative number towards Lu Bu!

Li Yi wanted to understand this, and said with a laugh: "Mister's witty words, relieve my worries!"

Xun You smiled and said it was nothing.

Suddenly, Li Yi didn't know what to think of, and asked: "If Cao Cao attacks Xuzhou, do you think Kong Rong can stand it?"

Kuai Yue shook his head and replied: "Tao Qian was indeed at fault for this matter, but Cao Cao sent troops in the name of filial piety. Kong Rong certainly sighed, but he would not be hostile to Cao Cao because of this."

"Well"

Li Yi pondered for a while, then closed his eyes, raised his right hand, and pinched his fingers a few times indiscriminately, making everyone's eyebrows twitch wildly, wondering what he did.

After a while, Li Yi raised his eyelids slightly, narrowed his eyes and said, "Then let me ask you again, if Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou and massacred the city, would Kong Rong still be able to sit idly by?"

"Tucheng, how could this happen!"

Liu Xian exclaimed, no matter what era it is, massacring a city is a great evil, unless it is a war of annihilating the country, using the massacre to damage the opponent's morale can barely explain one or two, but Cao Cao is avenging his parents, if this massacre , the stain is too big.

Regarding Liu Xian's surprise, Li Yi nodded lightly, and then under the surprised and suspicious eyes of everyone, he said lightly: "Just now I counted and saw the direction of Xuzhou was full of blood, so it is expected that Cao Cao will conquer Xuzhou this time. There will definitely be a massacre of the city!"

After a moment of silence in the room, Cai Mao asked softly, "Master, is this true?"

Li Yi smiled and said: "Of course it is true, you can wait and see. Of course, my inference cannot be leaked, otherwise it will not work."

Cai Mao nodded blankly. He didn't believe it at first, because the folk alchemists ordered to read the words, and what they said was mostly vague and ambiguous, but Li Yi was so straightforward, bluntly saying that Cao Cao would slaughter the city in Xuzhou, let him I couldn't help but believe it more.

As for Guo Jia and the others, although they were a little surprised at first, they immediately remembered that this was not the first time Li Yi had pinched his fingers. Everyone is not surprised.

Liu Xian didn't dare to say that Li Yi's words were unreliable, so he could only say helplessly: "If so, Cao Cao and Kong Rong must be difficult to tolerate."

Li Yi looked at Guo Jia and the others again, and they said in unison: "I have no objection."

Li Yi laughed, feeling a little pity for Cao Cao. Although his plan was good, unfortunately, he still had to lose money in the end, and even his reputation was involved. I just don’t know if Lu Bu will fight back at this time. Occupied Cao Cao's lair.

Li Yi was about to ask everyone if he could drive a wedge between Cao Cao and Lu Bu, but he saw Dian Wei rushing in and shouting, "My lord, Mr. Jia from Nanyang is urgent!"

"Oh, quickly bring it to me!"

When he heard that it was an urgent letter from Jia Xu, Li Yi didn't have time to think about whether Dian Wei was lazy in delivering the letter, so he took the wooden box, opened it, and scanned it quickly, and found that it was not an accident in Nanyang, so he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Immediately, his expression became a little weird again, he handed the letter to Guo Jia and the others, shook his head and said, "You guys should take a look too, I really didn't expect that this person would come to Nanyang to join me, hehe, I really didn't expect it."

Guo Jia and the others were puzzled. Li Yi loves talents very much. He is very happy when someone joins him. I don't know who came this time, but Li Yi showed such an expression.

But when Guo Jia and the others took the letter and read it, they were speechless.

It turned out that Jia Xu said in the letter that a few days ago, a group of more than a hundred people crossed Yuzhou from the east and entered the boundary of Nanyang. It was found that this pedestrian was very "not simple".

The leader of this team, called Zhang, is an unknown person, but he has recently done a major event that affects the world!

It was this Zhang who violated Tao Qian's military order before, killed Cao Cao's parents and brothers in Xuzhou, and robbed his property.

Zhang fled immediately after killing people and stealing money. Mi Zhu paid attention to him for a while at first, but stopped paying attention to Zhang after he left in the direction of Yangzhou. Li Yi didn't care either. Well, what is there to worry about?

However, Zhang appeared in Nanyang, and this matter was not simple.

Jia Xu immediately ordered Zhou Cang to lead more than 2000 people to surround Zhang and his group of more than a hundred people.

Zhang was shocked at the time, and hurriedly revealed his identity, saying that he admired the prestige of Li Xianghou and came to join Li Yi on purpose, and the accompanying belongings were also specially prepared to pay homage to Li Yi.

However, Zhou Cang got Jia Xu's strict order, waved his hand, and directly led people to kill him.

After a fight, except for more than a dozen people including Zhang who were captured alive, the others were all beheaded on the spot, and no one escaped.

Then Zhou Cang brought Zhang and others back to Wancheng. Jia Xu personally interrogated him. After some torture, he learned that after Zhang and others killed Cao Cao's parents, he knew that Cao Cao must kill them soon, so he wanted to go to Yuan Shu to save his life. However, just as Zhang walked halfway, he got the news of Yuan Shu's fiasco in Jingzhou.

At that time, Zhang thought that the four generations and three princes of the Yuan family were nothing more than that, and with such a big defeat, Yuan Shu might not dare to protect him after he passed. After discussing with everyone, he decided to change his route to Nanyang and join Li Yi.

Zhang and the others heard about Ni Heng being killed in Nanyang, and knew that Li Yi had conflicts with Cao Cao, and that Liu Pi and Gongdu of Yuzhou also defected to Li Yi, and they were not underestimated by Li Yi. allow them.

On the way, Zhang and the others kept their minds in mind and hid part of their belongings as a backup. If things went wrong with Li Yi, they could leave and use those belongings to seek wealth again.

It's just that Zhang and the others thought too well. They had just entered Nanyang and hadn't seen Li Yi before. They were taken over by Jia Xu, a poisonous man, and their property was also taken away. It can be described as quite sad.

After Jia Xu's interrogation, he did not kill Zhang and others, but hung him half dead in the downtown area, and then asked Zhou Cang to discover Zhang's hidden property, while Kuai Ma reported to Li Yi. , let Li Yi make the final decision.

Everyone looked at the letter and discussed in low voices, but Li Yi discovered that there was a wooden slip in the wooden box containing the letter. Li Yi took it out and saw that it was Jia Xu's pleading document.

Jia Xu said that he acted without Li Yi's order and humiliated the people who defected, so he deliberately pleaded guilty and asked Li Yi to punish him.

Li Yi was speechless, this Jia Xu was really careful, but it also matched Jia Xu's personality.