Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 933 Headache and Pillow

  In fact, people have a kind of inertia. When they get used to certain things or people, they will adopt the previous mode in the next behavior.

   This mode is called thinking inertia.

  Simply speaking, this kind of thinking mode can help human beings better apply the methods they have mastered to solve problems quickly. Of course, this kind of mode also has some disadvantages...

  For example, now, Cao Cao is used to finding counselors to ask some troublesome questions.

But Cao Cao didn't go to Wei Kai or Xun Yu, because those two guys were too well-behaved, and I'm afraid they would still have the same argument when they went there, which was no different from the previous estimate, so Cao Cao just ran away. Arrived at Xi Zhicai's residence.

   Didn’t ask the guards to report, so Cao Cao put his hands behind his back and entered the door, but he didn’t expect that as soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Xi Zhicai drinking a small wine at the table in the lobby, looking very happy...

  Cao Cao lowered his face, then squinted his small eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Zhicai! Others are working hard, but you are drinking here, what a shame!"

Xi Zhicai was holding a wine cup, when he suddenly heard Cao Cao's voice, he couldn't help but stop in the middle of the air, turned his head and saw that it was Cao Cao who had actually arrived at his home, and couldn't help but whisper in his heart After two sentences, his eyeballs rolled around, and he immediately raised the wine bar even higher, then gestured to Cao Cao, and said in a loud voice: "You are drunk with wine, and you are full with virtue. A gentleman will last forever, Jieer Jingfu. If you are drunk with wine, you will eat food. A gentleman has lived for thousands of years, Jieer Zhaoming..."

When Cao Cao heard this, his eyebrows trembled twice, but he couldn't hold back his laughter after all. He laughed, shook his head, walked into the hall, sat down at the table, and said, "Before peace comes, An Deyan is happy to drink..."

Xi Zhicai saw that he had passed away, so of course he couldn't push his nose and face, and continued to eat and drink in front of Boss Cao, so he put down the wine bar and said: "Mr. Let's talk about one or two..." Although Xi Zhicai didn't understand the sentence of later generations, what is there to be unhappy, and he said the famous saying that everyone is happy and happy, but there is no food on the table now anyway, so it might as well use Cao Cao's unhappiness Come to the bar.

  Cao Cao naturally didn’t know the small thoughts that Xi Zhicai was pondering in his head. Seeing Xi Zhicai asked, and he was also a little confused, so he said: “Nowadays, the soldiers are few and food is scarce, and the foundation is not stable. How can we be free from worries?”

Speaking of this, Cao Cao looked down on the table and saw that there was no second wine bar, so he took the wine bar from Xi Zhicai's hand, drank it in a few sips, and went to After a meal on the table, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and his expression seemed a bit bleak.

   At the beginning, when I started from Chenliu, I was so ambitious, but now I am living under the fence. Although it is not as tragic as relying on others, it is not happy, and there are many constraints.

In a blink of an eye, he is already middle-aged, although he can't say that he has accomplished nothing, he is more or less the prefect of one place, which can be regarded as some achievements, but looking back, he once lived in Luoyang City, and one is in the north. One is in the south, entrenched in the fat and fertile land of Runan, and he is the post-general. No matter in terms of territory, population, or army size, they are several times larger than himself...

  Even if he could find a reason in his heart, saying that these two guys have come to where they are today by relying on their family background, there is no such thing as an excuse to comfort themselves, but Cao Cao can't avoid another fact.

"Where's the wine?" Cao Cao didn't need an attendant to serve him, and he didn't ask Xi Zhicai to do it. He found the wine jar and spoon on the side of the table, and he gave himself another serving, and he drank it again. .

   If Er Yuan is not worthy of respect because of his family background, he made a great success, then the guy in Bingzhou is really a guy who can't even be picked by others.

In terms of family background, the second-rate noble family still belongs to the side branch. Compared with Eryuan's family background, it is simply a world away. Even compared with himself, there is a lot of difference; The Huang family may have some dowry or something, but it’s definitely not as good as that guy Cao Hong; when it comes to land, let’s not talk about it, and in the bitter cold place of Bingzhou, there is no place to show your old face if you talk too much...

  But under such conditions, it was pulled up abruptly, and a big banner was set up, which was swaggered nationwide. At the beginning of the Battle of Yinshan, although Cao Cao hoped that Fei Qian could win, he still knew that it was not easy to fight, so he just hoped that Fei Qian would not lose his ambition when the situation was unfavorable. If you win the battle, you will really climb Wolf Mountain again!

  When the news came, Cao Cao huddled in the room alone, drank a jar of wine, laughed for a while, cried for a while, and got drunk for a day before he returned to normal.

  Sealing the wolf to live in Xu, this is Cao Cao's own wish for many years!

Cao Cao seems to have a feeling that the dream of the Great Han General who conquers the West seems to be getting farther and farther away from him, as if he feels that he is one step away, but this short step distance is infinitely enlarged and continuously enlarged until he becomes natural moat.

Xi Zhicai smashed, smashed his mouth, wanted to get back his wine jue, somewhat afraid, looked at the wine in the wine jar again, and decided to come up with an idea as soon as possible, drink this big thorn in his own wine The guy sent him away, so he might stay for a while without even having to drink...

  Actually, Xi Zhicai knew something about Cao Cao's distress, so when Cao Cao said that he was "short of soldiers and poor food", Xi Zhicai had a little idea in mind.

  As for the foundation and so on, in the final analysis, there is still insufficient military rations. If there is sufficient military rations, then it is not the same everywhere?

   To recruit soldiers, first of all, you need money and food. If you don’t have money and food, where can you recruit soldiers?

Secondly, there needs to be a place to recruit personnel. Now the homeless people around Dongjun County have been wiped out. If you want to have more personnel, you must start with those tenants in the countryside. , but these tenants belong to various rural tyrants. If they want to detain the population from these people, it will undoubtedly damage the interests of these people. It is strange not to jump up and make noise.

  And there is not only one prefect of Dongjun, right, if it is not done well...

So for the **** matter, we can only find another way, but this way, there are some problems, but this problem is also Cao Cao's problem, anyway, Xi Zhicai came up with an idea himself, to shoot It is naturally Cao Cao's decision not to make a decision.

Thinking of this, Xi Zhicai said slowly: "Cao Gong's worry, there is a way to solve it, but... there are also disadvantages..." Anyway, let me explain first, I have to pick it out first, it is too troublesome It's okay to only have one or two things, but absolutely not if there are too many, otherwise there will be no time to drink.

   "Oh?" Cao Cao finally put Jiu Jue down, and said cheerfully to Xi Zhicai, "But it's okay to say!"

  Xi Zhicai pointed to the east, and said, "Mr. Cao, although there is no one here to recruit... but go east... there are three to five million soldiers to recruit... I wonder if Mr. Cao has any intentions?"

  Cao Cao couldn't help being taken aback.

  East?

Yanzhou?

   No, could it be...

  Cao Cao suddenly turned his head and stared at Xi Zhicai. His eyes, which were originally the size of mung beans, turned into the size of soybeans. After a long time, he said, "... I would like to hear more about it!"

  Xi Zhicai shook his head and said: "Although it is claimed to be a million, it is actually three to five million dollars. However, most of them are refugees. It is not difficult to recruit. It only needs to build more fields and settle them properly."

  Cao Cao frowned and said, "How many soldiers can fight?"

   "Twenty to thirty thousand..." Xi Zhicai made a rough estimate, and it was about the same anyway, "...If he returns to his heart, it should be more..."

  Cao Cao's eyeballs suddenly lit up and sparkled. To know what it means to have an extra 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers, basically it can compete with the north and south!

  Of course, there is still some gap between a battle-ready soldier and an elite soldier. The so-called battle-ready refers to the total number of people who can be mobilized as a source of soldiers. In fact, they are militiamen.

   But being able to obtain such pawns can already make Cao Cao very happy. Even if it is the Northern and Southern Second Yuan, don't most of the soldiers in their hands belong to this type?

   "...however...he has been in peace for a long time..." Xi Zhicai looked at Cao Cao, and continued, "...if it is an ordinary person...I might not be able to..."

   "What Zhicai said..." Cao Cao looked at Xi Zhicai, not knowing why, and after thinking for a while, he said, "...I don't know who can do this?"

  Xi Zhicai pointed to the east again, smiled and said nothing.

  Cao Cao thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized, he immediately left Xi Zhicai and walked out, and then called the guards as he walked: "Come here! Go and bring some jars of good wine from a certain house to Zhicai..."

  Xi Zhicai unhurriedly picked up the wine bar that Cao Cao had left behind, and while sipping the drink slowly, replied: "Thank you, Mr. Cao..."

  Cao Cao waved his hand, saying that he didn't need to care, and hurried out.

Not long after, Xi Zhicai had just drank almost all the wine in the jar. He was holding up the jar to look at the last dregs of the wine, wondering if he should mix it with some water and drink it alive, or wait for Cao Cao to say When the jars of good wine were ready, Xun Yu came.

   Xun Yu has elegant sleeves, even with a straight face, he is still very pleasant.

   Entering the lobby, Xun Yu sat down in front of Xi Zhicai, and said with a stern smile, "You just spoke to Cao Gong?"

  Xi Zhicai knew that he couldn't hide it from him, so he simply nodded.

   "...Why?" Xun Yu frowned and said, "...According to your wisdom, don't you know that this is drinking poison to quench thirst, and there will be disasters in the end..."

  Xi Zhicai glanced at Xun Yu, twisted his mouth, then imitated Xun Yu's words, and said in a more emphatic tone: "...According to your wisdom, you should also know that there will be disasters in the end..."

  The atmosphere suddenly became a little stiff.

  After the two were silent for a long time, Xun Yu sighed, as if he had let go of a piece of his mind, and said with a relieved expression: "... Well, from now on, it's a pleasure to break the relationship..."

  Xi Zhicai nodded and said: "Wen Ruo's words are justified, but you must know the crime of Huai Bi. Since Mr. Cao is eager...wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

  Xun Yu nodded, then shook his head and said: "... this matter, Mr. Cao is too hasty... I'm afraid it will be harmful in the future..."

  Xi Zhicai said with a smile: "It's okay, there is no unchanging reason for this matter at this time, and that matter at that time... Let's talk about it in the future... Cao Gongyun has a few jars of good wine, why don't Wen Ruo drink together?"

   Xun Yu suddenly got a little angry, and said, "Just because of a few jars of good wine, can you sell something?"

  Xi Zhicai was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head suddenly, and said with a serious face: "This statement is wrong! How can someone act like this? This wine..."

   Halfway through the speech, Xi Zhicai burst out laughing suddenly, "...this wine is a reward for someone's suggestion! There are first and last, and the order is different!"

  Xun Yu rolled his eyes, then flicked his sleeves, ignored Xi Zhicai, and left.

Xi Zhicai looked at Xun Yu's back for a long time, then suddenly sighed, fell back a little dispirited, and spread it on the mat, looking up at the dusty, cobweb-covered pillars of the lobby, murmured He said: "I want to be a pillar... Do you know that this pillar must first be cut with a knife and axe, peeled off the skin and branches, then left to dry in the shade, painted and repainted, before it can be hung on the house? I have never encountered these knives. Ax Fengshuang, without removing the heads and tails, who would use them?"

   Xun Yu Xun Wenruo, you are different from me after all.

  Since the Han Dynasty, the emperor wanted to reuse poor families, why?

   It’s not just because it’s simple, it’s easy to pick up, and even easier to throw away.

I'm just an unknown person with a talent for acting. Even if I regain my original name, I'm still from a poor family. Mr. Cao will respect you if you want to be respected, and you will be demoted if you want to be demoted. No matter how good the wine is, for Cao Gong, it is even more joyful. It's not that Mr. Cao likes his sloppy and good wine, but that a sloppy and good drinker like me, who is not liked by others, will naturally not form cliques, which will lead to too many entanglements with each other...

Cao Gong is here with me, scold me if I make mistakes, reward me for meritorious deeds, drink my wine when I am unhappy, and give me a few jars of wine when I am happy, it is easy and simple, and I don’t feel that there is anything wrong or pressure, because Cao Gong knows that I am just a person, just a person, no matter how high I praise, I am still just a person, but what about you?

   The prominent family of the Xun family in Yingchuan used to seek business at Yuan Shao's place, and now they have moved here. Don't Cao Gong have any suspicions at all? Don't worry, Mr. Cao, don't you worry? Cao Gong is relieved, are you relieved? Even if you and Mr. Cao are inseparable, can your family rest assured?

  What should I do if I am worried?

  So it would be better to take advantage of this matter to make a handover between each other, wouldn't it be better?

  The Xun family lost the branches sticking out, and Cao Gong got more firewood that can burn more vigorously. Although there may be some problems in the future, it is undoubtedly the best choice now...

  (end of this chapter)