Chapter 836 (1/2)

Gongsun Du, on the one hand, spared no effort in reorganizing armaments in Liaodong. At the same time, he sent his confidant Yang Yi to take a sea boat from Anping port, ride the wind and waves, and sail across the sea to Xuzhou, all the way to Pengcheng.

In the conference hall, Cao Cao sat high on the throne and looked at Yang Yi from afar.

”It's hard for Mr. Yang to come all the way.”

”The Lord is not tired.”

Cao Cao and Yang Yi said polite words to each other for a while, but they still refused to lead the topic to the right track. Yang Yi couldn't help feeling a little depressed.

”According to my Lord's order, I discussed with Prime Minister Cao about important matters.”

Cao Cao's eyes flashed, and he said with a smile, ”Oh? Gongsun Taishou is far away in Liaodong. It is said that he is independent and the emperor is far away. Is there anything else that needs to be discussed with the prime minister? ”

Yang Yi said, ”Yuan Shao is a traitor of the imperial court and refuses to obey the court's jurisdiction. Now my Lord is going to send troops to attack him, so I come to see the prime minister. Yuan Shao and the prime minister were good friends in the old days. Please take the world as the most important thing. Don't listen to yuan Benchu's words and send troops to rescue yuan thieves. ”

”My Lord is willing to honor the son of Pengcheng as emperor and return several counties in Donglai to Prime Minister Cao's command. He only asks the Prime Minister not to send troops to interfere in the war between our army and Yuan Shao. My Lord is very grateful.”

”Well? Donglaishu county was originally under the command of the imperial court, and the son of Pengcheng was the eldest son of the former Emperor. Isn't all this justified? What's more, the prime minister had planned to send troops to recover Donglai several counties. Now Gongsun Du himself has given up. How can I let him give up rescuing yuan Benchu? ”

Hearing Cao Cao's words, Yang Yi's face suddenly became ugly: ”prime minister, don't underestimate Liaodong. We have 100000 troops and hundreds of navy in Liaodong. Since we can win Yingzhou across the sea, can't we capture the whole Qingzhou?”

Hearing this, Cao Cao's eyes flashed with cold light: ”are you threatening the original appearance?”

”Well?”

Xu Chu suddenly stood up and held the sword handle on his waist. His eyes almost glared out and glared at Yang Yi.

Startled by Xu Chu, Yang Yi lowered her eyebrows and said, ”I dare not. I just want to ask the prime minister to think about it. If the prime minister agrees, our army can hand over Yingzhou to the prime minister. There is no need to use military horses. After all, our army has water troops to help us in Yingzhou, and we can entangle with the Prime Minister for a few days. ”

”What's more, if our army can't help but join the Xiliang army after seizing Youzhou, our army will be able to contain the Xiliang army for the prime minister at that time. For the prime minister, he can kill two birds with one stone without paying anything. In addition to using troops to spend food and grass, Yuan Shao got nothing. I believe that with the foresight of the prime minister, can you not understand this truth? ”

Yang Yi was also clever. He used both sticks and carrots. On the one hand, he used the Liaodong army to attack Qingzhou across the sea as a threat, and on the other hand, he used the Liaodong army to contain the Xiliang army as a bait. Cao Cao thought it was good.

However...

”if gongsundu can agree to one more request of Benxiang, it would be good for me to sit and watch gongsundu and Yuan Shao fight each other.” Cao Cao said slowly.

Yang Yi said in a hurry: ”I don't know what else the prime minister wants? Come and listen. ”

”It's very simple. Gongsundu needs to give 3000 horses to our army, and he will trade with our army every year and sell more than 1000 horses to our army every year. How about that?”

There are three major horse producing areas in the Han Dynasty, of which Liangzhou and Bingzhou have already fallen into Liu Ye's hands, leaving only Youzhou out of Liu Ye's hands.

Cao Cao, who had no land for horse production, was naturally in short supply of war horses. What's more, in recent years, the number of soldiers was countless, so was the war horse.