Xu Shu's strategy is simple and direct, just like most people who catch a cold only boil water with Daqing root. After drinking it, it will be useful, and if it is not, it will be useless.

"Present Xuzhou and Cao Liu, and then go to join General Wei together?" Chen Deng, whose body was still wet with water stains, was stunned for a moment.

"Or you can offer Xuzhou to General Wei, and then defect to Cao and Liu..." Xu Shu answered calmly. "Under the overall situation, there is not much extra action you and I can do. We can only take advantage of the neutral stance to

Xuzhou belongs to one party, and it has shown its ability. After making great achievements, it is not regrettable to choose another way. Only in this situation, if you want to dedicate Xuzhou to General Wei, the key is only Langya Zang Xuangao, and we are actually powerless. Moreover

Once General Wei goes south and gains Xuzhou, the road to the Central Plains will be smooth, and a war will be inevitable...Although a war is inevitable, how can you and I start this war for our own benefit?"

Chen Deng remained silent.

"I know what Yuan Long is thinking," Xu Shu sighed. "You are a leader of the Chen family, and your roots are in Xuzhou. If you leave suddenly, everything will be gone... But let me tell you next, brother Yuan Long, when you

If you don't leave Xuzhou for a day, you will be just a proud man who relies on your family to dominate local power, and will never become a true hero... Besides, Brother Yuanlong, no matter who Xuzhou belongs to in the future, you will actually have no use for you.

!”

"But if you leave Xuzhou and join General Wei, you will be able to use your skills and become a true hero?" After a while, Chen Yuanlong still found it difficult to accept.

"Of course not." Xu Yuanzhi suddenly softened his tone. "I don't know about you, but I really want to find a chance to ask General Wei one day... Is it bad to be the Duke of Zhou? Why?

Do we have to overthrow the Han Dynasty and stand on our own feet?"

"Such words..." Chen Deng couldn't help laughing. "I can answer for General Wei, 'I can take his place.' What's left to say? General Wei's achievements are there, and his strength is there.

Isn't it natural to have such thoughts after reaching this point? And don't look at Cao Fenwu, Liu Yuzhou and the others are shouting about reviving the Han Dynasty every day. Yuan Zhi will really wait for them to defeat General Wei one day and become the strongest in the world.

Don’t you have this intention?”

"If so." Xu Shu pursed his lips for a moment, then asked, "What are you, Mr. Chen, struggling with?"

Chen Deng was immediately speechless.

"Actually, people's hearts are always like this." Xu Shu sighed. "If you want to follow your ambitions, you will always be hindered by the reality. If you want to follow the reality, you can't help but have high aspirations. Now General Wei's intentions are obvious.

, what else can we do if we don’t place the so-called revival of the Han Dynasty on Cao and Liu? In fact, I feel the same way about General Wei. If I didn’t respect him and respect him, how could I hope that he could become a saint like Duke Zhou?”

"Can……"

"But if he really said the words 'I can take his place', I would have nothing to say. Since I have received favor from others, after I fulfilled my wish in Xuzhou, I will spend my whole life repaying him for helping me get out of trouble."

That’s right.”

Chen Deng was silent for a long time, then stood up and left.

Xu Yuanzhi didn't pay attention to this. He knew Chen Deng's difficulty - if the son of the first family in Xuzhou could not make up his mind to leave Xuzhou, this so-called strategy would be meaningless to him.

However, a moment later, Chen Deng actually left and returned.

"Brother Yuanlong, are you going to Hebei with me?" Xu Shu cheered up.

"It's still hard to decide." Chen Yuanlong, who was wet again, sat proudly opposite Xu Shu. "But I thought about it...not to mention whether I will leave or not, but only whether I will do this or not. We, the Chen family,

In fact, General Wei is destined to be regarded as a ungrateful person. And as you said, if General Wei enters Xuzhou at this time, the war will definitely start in Xuzhou. He was born and raised here, how can he sit idly by and ignore it? Besides, when is the time?

The situation is in front of us, how can a man sit back and ignore it if he only has empty ambitions?"

"That's good!" Xu Shu was silent for a moment and nodded slightly.

"Now that things have happened, what is Yuan Zhi's plan?" Chen Deng asked sincerely. "Who should Cao and Liu choose?"

"There is no need to choose, just let them do it themselves." Xu Shu replied calmly. "As for the strategy, I have said it before, it is almost non-existent... Now General Wei is far away in Yecheng, and Zhendong General Guan Yunchang is also in Qingzhou. They really

If you want to win Xuzhou, your only hope is that the matter can be settled slowly... It is best to bribe Zang Ba calmly, and then use a messenger to persuade Xuzhou himself to promise Xuzhou to return to Hebei in public. But if the bribery fails,

Tao Xuzhou doesn't allow it, so the only option is to use force, but it's usually too late at this time, because Cao and Liu won't just sit idly by. What we have to do is to make the situation tense so that General Wei can't have time.

Let Cao and Liu make a decision early!"

"Yuan Zhi...didn't you say you wanted to Tao Xuzhou...?"

"How can you do this?" Xu Shu disagreed. "Actually, two false letters are enough... Even false letters are not necessary, as long as you go to visit Lu Zike (Lu Qian) tonight and hint that Zang Xuangao has actually surrendered to General Wei; I will

After accompanying Duke Yuan Hua to General Andong's Mansion, he met with Mrs. Gan privately at the back of the hall. He only said that Tao Xuzhou's body might go into aphasia and shock at any time. If Cao and Liu were really heroic figures, they would naturally take action, and the specifics were

Which one is Cao or Liu? You might as well let Tao Xuzhou choose."

"That's right..." Chen Deng suddenly responded. "This call adds fuel to the fire. The thirty-six strategies can become the thirty-seven strategies."

Xu Shu hesitated to speak, but in the end he ignored the other party and continued: "And there is another advantage of doing this, that is, it can save Xiapi City from a lot of trouble!"

"I know this." Chen Deng nodded immediately. "Xu Dan and Zuo Rong are both from Tao Xuzhou. One has soldiers but is stupid, the other has weapons and food but is extremely greedy. Once Tao Xuzhou dies, there will be no one."

It can be controlled. No matter who takes over, there will definitely be chaos. Instead, it is better to do something while Tao Xuzhou is still here and still has prestige over the Danyang soldiers."

At this point, Chen Deng paused for a moment, and then continued: "In fact, all the forces in Xuzhou were reluctant to move before, just because they were afraid of trouble, but if you think about it carefully, I'm afraid it would be better to make a decision first, which would lead to less trouble...

"

"You are not afraid of causing trouble." Xu Shu suddenly sneered. "But you know very well that once Tao Xuzhou leaves, no matter who among the three outside gets Xuzhou, based on their strength, it is impossible for your family to continue

He holds the real power in Xuzhou...so he is just deceiving himself and others like a hen burying its head under its own wings. Brother Yuanlong, I will give you a heartfelt message today!"

Chen Deng suddenly looked solemn and said: "Yuan Zhi, please speak."

"If it really comes to a time when you need to make a decision, you might as well help someone who is willing to say that he will clean up Xuzhou after winning it, because this kind of person is an upright and trustworthy person...at least they won't bother to deceive you!"

Chen Deng became more and more speechless, but nodded heavily.

Immediately, the two heroic men, fearless of heaven and earth, simply acted according to their plan and directly broke the stalemate in Xuzhou.

In other words, Xuzhou's balance is already very fragile, but once Chen Deng, an important figure in Xuzhou himself, and Xu Shu, who represents the medical authority through Hua Tuo, suddenly go out in person to create chaos, the effect will be surprisingly good... In fact,

, Chen Deng and Xu Shu were still very conservative when they told others, but just a day or two later, rumors were already spreading in Xiapi City. Tao Qian went from being in shock and aphasic to dying at any time, and he also added Gan.

The drama of the lady stealing the seal of General Anton; Zang Ba's possibility of having a private meeting with General Wei turned into Langya already belonging to Hebei, and Guan Yu's tens of thousands of troops have been stationed at the border of Donghai County, and they may come at any time and massacre the city!

There was no need for the two of them to muddy the water or create a panic situation. The entire Xuzhou was completely on a state of war readiness... In this case, even Chen Gui, Zhao Yu, Cao Hong, and Cao Bao could see Tao Qian himself.

, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang could not control the situation.

Because once the balance is broken, once chaos and confrontation are provoked, the situation becomes beyond human control... These people are not from the same group.

For example, on the evening of the second day, after Xiapi Prime Minister Zuorong heard the rumors, his first reaction was to climb over the wall in the rain and escape from Xiapi City, and then went outside the city to issue orders. Tens of thousands of Buddhist believers and Buddhists immediately gathered.

Thousands of soldiers from the county were then stationed at Geyi Mountain in the east of Xiapi City across Surabaya, where he had stored grain, grass and ordnance for several years as Prime Minister of Xiapi.

There was no way, unlike in history, now Xuzhou was surrounded by powerful princes on three sides, and Zuo Rong could not go anywhere, so he could only seek some sense of security in this way.

Otherwise? We can't let him go out to sea in a floating boat, right?

So once he thought that Tao Qian was dead, he really felt like the sky was falling. He was also one of the few people in Xuzhou City who really hoped that Tao Gongzu could survive. The solemn request for Hua Tuo to treat his illness before was even more heartfelt.

And when he was summoned by the pottery merchant and protected by his fellow villager Xu Danji's Danyang soldiers, he entered the city and met Tao Qian again. After discovering that the latter had not gone that far, he knew it was a rumor, but still refused to dismiss his subordinates.

He even refused to go back to live in the official temple in the city... There is no way, this time it is fake, what should I do if it is real next time? Are you going to let the mermaid be eaten?

Since Zuo Rong refused, Cao Hong, Cao Bao's uncle and nephew had sufficient reason to continue to maintain martial law in Xiapi City itself, and then Xu Dan also had reason to move thousands of Danyang troops from his headquarters to the south bank of Surabaya to echo Zuo Rong, and

Since the swordsman confrontation between the left and right sides of Xiapi City has become like this, there is no reason for Zhao Yu, Mi Fang, and Chen Gui not to send out their cronies and let the soldiers from their respective counties gather at key points to prepare to defend or respond.

When things got to this point, Tao Gongzu, who was already short of hero, was even more heartbroken now. He didn't even think of questioning Zang Ba's eldest son Zang Ai, but simply sent his eldest son Tao Shang as an envoy to Chang'an to meet the emperor and return General Anton.

, Xuzhou Mu Yinshou; and his second son Tao Ying packed up his utensils and prepared to return to his hometown in Danyang to wait for death.

But at this time, both public and private, Chen Gui, Mi Zhu, Cao Hong, Zhao Yu, and even Yu Zuo Rong and others would not agree with Tao Qian's willfulness. Everyone knelt down to observe the courtesy of the ministers, saying good or bad things, and finally let Tao Ying

I went home to tidy up my old house, but I left the pottery seal here... I really have no choice. If the pottery leaves, there won't even be a reliable messenger between the various forces, and I'm afraid there will be a fire soon.

Merger matter.

The situation remained at a stalemate for another four or five days, and the situation was deteriorating day by day. However, for some reason, there was no movement at the border where the message was supposed to be received. Both Cao Liu and Langya in the north turned a deaf ear. But on this day

In the morning, it was only the sixth day since Zuo Rong fled out of the city. The pottery merchant suddenly went out of the city in person to invite Xu Dan and Zuo Rong, and summoned the Chen family, the Mi family, and the Cao family in the city, plus Zhao Yu, Zang Ai, and Hui.

At General Anton's Mansion.

After all, Tao Qian is still alive, and the eldest son of the Tao family has specially come to invite us, so there is no reason for everyone not to go...but I am afraid that some extra preparations are unavoidable.

"What's going on?" Chen Deng, as a powerful man in charge of Xuzhou's field troops, went to the hall with his father. However, he met Xu Shu standing on the corridor outside the hall and couldn't help but step forward to ask.

"I don't know." Xu Shu also shook his head solemnly. "Only Tao Xuzhou hurriedly invited Yuanhua Gong here early this morning. First he gave him acupuncture, and then he took some refreshing medicine, as if he wanted to strengthen his body.

What you are told...you must be extremely careful."

Chen Deng could only nod... After all, if Tao Qian made a decision, whatever ideas he and Xu Shu had would be in vain.

In this way, Chen Yuanlong hurried to the hall with his father, while Xu Shu also took the opportunity to stand outside the hall with his sword in a grand manner.

However, shortly after Chen Gui, Chen Deng, Mi Zhu, Mi Fang, Cao Hong, Cao Bao, Zhao Yu, Zang Ai, Zuo Rong, and Xu Danju all entered, Tao Qian had not yet shown up.

Officials from above and below, soldiers from Danyang outside the city, local field soldiers from all walks of life, military princes, and even famous families in Xiapi City came in droves... In the end, there was no room in the hall, and many people had to wait in the corridor outside.

It happened that it was still the end of the rainy season, and the weather started to become gloomy again.

This situation made the previous giants even more uneasy.

This was not over yet. When it started to rain outside at noon, in the sultry and humid weather, Cao Cao's envoy Lu Qian and Lu Zike, who worked under General Fenwu, actually came here alone. What was even more shocking was that the Chen Gui tribe

Brother, the former governor of Yangzhou, the prefect of Wu County, and the eldest son of the late captain Chen Qiu, Chen Yu, actually came to the lobby of General Anton's Mansion... Following him was a recognized talent and celebrity in Xuzhou in the past, named by Tao Qian.

Xuzhou Maocai, Wang Lang and Wang Jingxing were engaged in the administration of the state in the past!

Of course, there was a young swordsman in his mid-twenties accompanying Wang Jingxing, and only Xu Shu and Chen Deng cared about it.
To be continued...