I received my adopted son in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 340 Strange Requests
Sending someone to send Cai Yan back to the mansion, Lao Dong went straight to the Xiyuan barracks.

After arriving, I found that Liu Bei and others were already waiting, looking very depressed.Seeing himself coming, Liu Bei didn't dare to show it. Liu Bei just said with a bit of resentment: "It's such a trivial matter that you need to trouble Xiangguo to come in person. Bei is really ashamed."

He is really puzzled.

After wandering abroad for several years, it can't be said that borrowing soldiers is a common practice, it can only be said that it is commonplace.Never expected that the Han army in the capital of Gyeonggi, under the foot of the emperor, would disobey orders.

Hmm... To be precise, it's not disobedience.

After all, the document issued by Bing Cao said that the principle of voluntariness was adopted.If the old Dong ordered by force, the soldiers would surely obey.

But at this time, Old Dong's answer was quite thought-provoking, he didn't get angry, but said: "I really didn't think about this matter, you wait, wait until I understand the situation."

As he said that, under Dian Wei's guard, he sneaked into the camp like a thief.Before a soldier in the barracks could react, he rushed in quickly.

The soldiers inside were all stunned and forgot to salute: "Xiang, Xiangguo..."

"Speak!...Why don't you want to go to Qingzhou and Yanerzhou?" Old Dong grabbed the corporal leader in the barracks, speaking quickly and urgently, without giving him a chance to think.

The corps leader subconsciously said: "Go, go to war, I, I don't want to die..."

"Well, the reason is very good." Unexpectedly, Old Dong nodded, and then said with a smile: "You seem to be in your twenties this year, are you going to lie down so soon?"

"Lie flat?" The soldiers and Liu Bei and others who came immediately looked at each other.

"Is it because you don't want to work hard anymore?" Old Dong began to speak earnestly and slanderingly: "You have to struggle, you have to work hard... There is a saying that a tree moves to death, and a person moves to live."

"Think about it carefully, you are just an ordinary corporal leader in Luoyang, with the annual military salary and the harvest in the field, are you satisfied and happy?"

"Xiang, Xiangguo, my surname is Hu, my surname is not Fu..." The corporal leader was dumbfounded, and said again: "Furthermore, the military salary and the harvest from the fields every year, isn't that enough?"

"Of course not enough. How can there be an end to human desires?"

Old Dong continued to be persuasive: "In this old man's place, you may have been like this all your life. But in Qingyan Erzhou, you are a grassroots officer who has been systematically taught by the most elite troops of the Han."

"When Xuande and Mengde are employing people, they will at least give you a place first. If you do well, you will become Quhou, Sima, reach the pinnacle of life, and marry Bai Fumei is not a dream!"

Old Dong was heartbroken, then looked at the other four soldiers, and said heartbrokenly: "You too, at least you will be a corporal leader when you get there!"

Such a smart person as Liu Bei, he immediately promised: "That's right, as long as he is a big Han Luoyang elite soldier, he will definitely be promoted by two ranks first!"

"Did you hear that, the old man is not painting big cakes, but a real wolf culture, which is really for you to eat." Old Dong looked at them again at this time, and said: "Give you another chance, I hope Don't want to follow Xuande to Qingzhou?"

The five people looked at each other, except for the two who had settled down in Luoyang, the remaining three gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, and agreed to Old Dong's proposal.

Seeing the curative effect, the old Dong ordered the troops to gather together, and asked Liu Bei to explain the promotion of treatment.

Sure enough, Liu Bei also had a talent for speech, holding a loudspeaker and yelling with emotion and emotion, he couldn't help but wiped his tears twice.

As for the effect, of course there are some.

There were 2000 people in total, and most of them were soldiers. There were only a small number of corporal and special commanders, and the highest military rank was a village chief.

"Xuande, think about the good, we finally got together the skeleton of five thousand soldiers and horses." Seeing Liu Bei was a little disappointed, Old Dong patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.

Who knows, Liu Bei couldn't help crying again: "Xiangguo, how do you guess it's the skeleton of five thousand soldiers and horses?..."

"These two thousand plus the five hundred under one's command, everyone will be promoted to be the corps leader, and the established system will be ten thousand?"

"For those 2000 people, half of the points will be given to Meng De..." Although it was cruel, Old Dong had to say.

There was nothing he could do about such a result: To be honest, if he were an ordinary soldier in Luoyang City, he probably wouldn't go with Liu Bei.

After all, human beings are risk-averse animals. Unless there is no other way, most people still like to live in their own comfort zone.

The corner of his mouth was bitter, and Old Dong immediately frowned and said, "From this point of view, we can only find a way to open up more money. If Xuande is not in a hurry, wait for the old man to order someone to post a notice before recruiting more people?"

A beggar should not think the food is bad, Liu Bei still understands this truth: "It embarrasses the Prime Minister, and Bei is ashamed."

As soon as he finished speaking, the messenger came over to report: "Xiangguo, Lieutenant Cao Cao of Dianjun has come to Xiangguo's mansion to ask for a visit."

Old Dong's expression became more and more depressed at that time, and he waved his hand and said, "Bring him here directly, the old man knows what he is here for..."

Soon, Cao Cao and his party rushed over.

Seeing the frowning faces of Lao Dong, Liu Bei and others, he couldn't help but ask a question.

Knowing that he was worrying about the source of soldiers, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Xiangguo, Luoyang's elite soldiers don't want to come, why don't we let those who live in no fixed place, poor and hungry go?"

From Qingzhou assassin to Yanzhou assassin, Cao Cao also saw the old Dong's thoughts.But he was still very grateful to be re-accepted by the court.

On the way to Luoyang, I have adjusted my mentality and identity, and now I start to make suggestions.

"A person who lives in no fixed place and suffers from poverty and hunger?"

These words sounded like that at first glance, but when you think about it carefully, Old Dong's expression changed: "Are you mocking the old man for his ineffective governance, that Luoyang and even Sizhou are starving and dying?"

Cao Cao was taken aback, and didn't dare to betray him again: "No... Xiangguo still remembers that when he left Dingxiang County, he cheated Yuan Benchu ​​of a large amount of sea salt, grain, grass, gold and silk?"

"You mean Zhang Shiping, Su Shuang, and the Zhen family?" Old Dong certainly remembered this, but he didn't expect Cao Cao to know it too.

"When Xiaozhi left Yuan Benchu, he naturally left some internal support."

Cao Cao explained with a smile, "After learning that Zhang Shiping, Su Shuang, and the Zhen family of Zhongshan Kingdom received a large sum of supplies from Yuan Shao, they served as General Gai Zhonglang to accept protection. Naturally, they can be guessed by Xiangguo. for."

"Well, then what?"

"Yuan Benchu ​​used the power of one county to support five thousand soldiers and horses, which was already stretched. Now not only has the trade route been cut off by Xiangguo, but also a large amount of supplies..."

"It is said that he was so angry that he vomited blood in public and even chopped off Fengji's head."

As he spoke, Cao Cao suppressed his schadenfreude: "Fortunately, Xu You, a fellow villager, begged for help so that he was saved from death, but he was also sent to the Yin Prison."

"Yuan Shao, who had suffered such a miserable loss, refused to let it go, so he promised one hundred thousand shi of sea salt to the Heishan bandits, ordering them to harass and attack the three counties of Hanoi, Shangdang, and Taiyuan..."

"Oh?..." When Old Dong heard this, he became energetic at that time, and said excitedly and eagerly: "That is to say, the black mountain bandits are coming to beat me soon?..."

"When will they come, and how many people will there be? ... Oh, the old man can't wait."

When the three Liu Bei brothers heard the words, their expressions were very unified and shocked: they have never heard such a strange request before in such a big age!

Afterwards, I heard old Dong say again: "There is no shortage of food, grass and equipment here, and the backbones for your subordinates are almost ready to work. Now wait for the black mountain bandits to take the initiative to deliver them to your door, and you will have to be more careful when the time comes."

Cao Cao smiled slightly, and led his subordinates to cup their fists and said, "I will live up to Xiangguo's kindness."

Liu Guanzhang also suddenly realized here, and also bowed and said: "We are willing to follow Xiangguo, wipe out the bandits in Heishan, and give peace to the big man!"

(End of this chapter)