Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 933 Sending a Pillow for a Headache

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

This pattern is called mental inertia.

Simply put, such a thinking mode can help humans better apply the methods they have mastered to solve problems quickly. Of course, this 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.

Without asking the guards to inform him, 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 contented... …

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 me tell you one or two..." Although Xi Zhicai didn't understand the sentence of the later generations, what is there to be unhappy about, and said the famous saying that everyone is happy and happy, but there are no food and drink on the table now, so it might as well use Cao Cao's unhappiness. Have fun at the bar.

Naturally, Cao Cao didn't know the small thoughts that Xi Zhicai was thinking about in his head. When Xi Zhicai asked, and he was also a little confused, 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.

What an aspiration to start from Chenliu back then, but now being dependent on others, although it is not as tragic as relying on others, but 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, he is several times larger than himself...

Even if he could find a reason in his heart, saying that these two guys could get to where they are today by relying on their family background, there is something so great to comfort him, but Cao Cao couldn'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 and his 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 is definitely not as good as that guy Cao Hong; in terms of territory, let alone this, 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, swaying the whole country.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 wolves to Xuxu, 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, and decided to come up with an idea as soon as possible, drink this big thorn in his own wine Send the guy away, save yourself a while and not even have to drink...

In fact, 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 food. If there is sufficient military food, then it is not the same everywhere?
If you want soldiers, you need money and food first. 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 pawn 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: "Mr. Cao's worry, there is a way to solve it, but... there are also disadvantages..." Anyway, let me explain first, I have to take it out first, because it is too much As for the troublesome things, one or two of Xizhi is fine, 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 500,000 soldiers to recruit... I wonder if Mr. Cao is interested?"

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 the size of mung beans, were now 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 said to be a million, it is actually three to five hundred thousand. However, most of them are refugees. It is not difficult to recruit, just need to build more fields and settle them properly."

Cao Cao frowned and said, "How many soldiers can we 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 [-] to [-] soldiers, basically it can compete with the north and south!

Of course, there is still some difference between a war-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 already made 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?
"...but...he has been serving 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 about it, 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 called the guards as he walked, "Come here! Go and bring a few jars of good wine from a certain house to Zhicai..."

Xi Zhicai unhurriedly picked up the cup of wine 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 still has a pleasant demeanor.

After entering the lobby, Xun Yu sat down in front of Xi Zhicai, and said seriously, "You just spoke to Duke Cao?"

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 your 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 up 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: "... Mr. Cao is too hasty about this matter... I'm afraid it will be harmful in the future..."

Xi Zhicai smiled and said: "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 later... Cao Gongyun has some good wines, why don't Wen Ruo drink with them?"

Xun Yu suddenly got a little angry, and said: "You just want to sell a few jars of good wine, can't 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 could someone act like this? This wine..."

In the middle of talking, 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? No such experience Who would use the knife and ax without removing the heads and tails?"

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

Since Han Wu, the emperor wanted to reuse the humble family, why?

It's not 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 drinkers, but a sloppy 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 Xun family's prominent family in Yingchuan used to seek business in Yuan Shao's place, and now they are transferred here. Doesn't Mr. Cao 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 use this matter to make a handover between each other, wouldn't it be better?

The Xun family lost the branches that were sticking out, and Duke Cao got 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)