Three Kingdoms: Gou Shen I was overheard by Cao Cao

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"You step on a horse... You have so many fairy-like wives, and you still come to compete with me, a single dog, as a trainer? Dogs are not enough to describe you, you are simply animals!"

Xia Houzhe didn't know that someone was slandering him, and he was trying to appease his mother-in-law. After all, as a good man, he had to be exposed to both rain and dew.

"Wait! Husband, why do you have a woman's scent on you? And there are two kinds?"

Suddenly, Huang Yueying's nose twitched, and she smelled something unusual.

Xia Houzhe was shocked, this woman has a dog's nose?

Feeling unreasonable, he smiled mischievously, but after noticing the gloating eyes of those colleagues behind him, he straightened his back and said forcefully.

"Cough! To be honest, I found another little sister for you when I went out this time."

You can't lose a man's face outside, this is the principle!

The women obviously understand this too, a good woman will not refute a man's face outside.

Lu Lingqi and the others all smiled and said loudly in cooperation.

"For men, three wives and four concubines are normal, concubines can understand!"

"Besides... the fact that your husband is attracted by the new sisters, doesn't it just prove that your husband is very attractive? We should be happy!"

Hearing what the girls said, Xia Houzhe straightened his back even more, turned his head and smiled proudly.

"Oh! My wife is so sensible, I can't help it! Brothers, I'm going home first, you can do whatever you want!"

"Master, come with me! Let me introduce the other sisters to you!"

Xia Houzhe beckoned and left with the step trainer and the girls.

When he reached a place where no one was paying attention, he immediately put on a pain mask on his face.

"Hiss...wives, pinch lightly..."

Seeing Xia Houzhe leave, everyone was dumbfounded.

After a long while, he gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: "Awesome! As expected of the God of Philosophy, this girl's flirting skills are perfect!"

"Fortunately, we thought we could watch the fun, but we didn't expect...they trained so well! The clown is actually us?"

Everyone made a decision in their hearts that they must find Xia Houzhe to learn art from Xia Houzhe in the future.

And as Xia Houzhe left, Cao Cao also bowed to Liu Xie.

"My lord, I greet Your Majesty and the Empress!"

Liu Xieli immediately stepped forward to help Cao Cao: "Father Ya! Please get up quickly, now that your armor is still on, you don't need to salute!"

Seeing Liu Xie like this, Cao Cao nodded in relief. This is still the sensible emperor.

"Yes! Your Majesty!"

"May I ask Your Majesty, what does this king of Wei... mean? I don't dare to be a minister!"

Cao Cao frowned, not knowing what Liu Xie meant.

Calling him the king of Wei so grandly, isn't it to put him on the fire?

With all the civil and military officials, those old clappers, why don't they criticize Cao Cao frantically?

Those who didn't know thought Cao Cao was persecuting Liu Xie!

After all, since Liu Xiu, the great Han has never been named a king with a different surname, and they are all his own kings from the Liu family.

Liu Xie laughed loudly: "Why don't you dare to be Yafu? The world is in chaos today, and the imperial power is weak. If Yafu didn't support half of the sky with his own strength, my big man would have disappeared long ago!

"Father Ya, you conquered Dong Zhuo, conquered Tao Qian, destroyed Yuan Shu, defeated Yuan Shao, defeated Wuhuan and Xianbei, and now you have put down the Jiangdong rebellion. Eighty-nine out of ten people in the world have returned to the imperial court. Who can compare with this achievement?"

"I will be rewarded for my meritorious service. If Yafu has made great contributions and I don't reward him, who will serve the great man in the future?"

Seeing Liu Xie's indisputable appearance, Cao Cao was relieved.

However, he still pretended to be embarrassed.

"However, Your Majesty, the rules that have not been broken for hundreds of years to confer foreign surnames as kings are broken today because of the ministers. I'm afraid that the scholars of the world and the great scholars in the court will make trouble!"

Although Cao Cao is not afraid of these great Confucian scholars, it is more troublesome to deal with, which will damage his reputation.

Liu Xie shook his head slightly: "Father Ya can rest assured, under my hard arguments, I have successfully persuaded all the officials in the court that you, the king of Wei...no one can stop you!"

After the words fell, Cao Cao was stunned for a while.

At this time, Ju Shou and Xi Zhicai who were standing next to him cupped their hands and stood up with a smile.

"My lord, don't panic. Since we received your battle report on the pacification of Jiangdong a month ago, His Majesty has tried his best to fight for the throne of King Wei for you."

"Although my lord has been laid by Duke Wei, there is still a lot of resistance, but His Majesty has resisted! Now with the approval of these officials and His Majesty, my lord is aboveboard!"

Hearing this, Cao Cao turned his head to look at Liu Xie in astonishment.

It can be seen that the other party really worked hard to persuade all the officials to recognize the King Wei.

"Your Majesty..." Cao Cao was very moved.

Liu Xie nodded with a smile, stretched out his hand to hold Cao Cao and walked inside.

"Let's go! How can Yafu not celebrate for such a great achievement? I have already arranged a banquet, and I will not return tonight if I am not drunk!"

"Tomorrow I will announce to the world that Yafu has been promoted to king of Wei!"

Cao Cao didn't go home, turned around and explained a few words to Cao Ang who was in the distance, and then left with Liu Xie.

Cao Ang hurried back to his home with the news that his father was going to entertain.

Before entering the door, he yelled loudly.

"Mother! Dad is back, you don't have to worry about it now, but Dad won't come to the house for dinner tonight, he's gone to drink with His Majesty."

When Ding Shi, who was preparing dinner, heard this, his hands froze.

In order to clean up Cao Cao, she cooked for a whole day, just wanting him to taste the warmth of home.

Looking at the sea cucumbers, seahorses, sea dragons, velvet tiger penis soup, and wolfberry stewed lamb loin on the table, Ding smiled gently and said:

"It's okay, then let's wait! Heat up the dishes and wait for your father to come back for supper. Make sure to let him know that the house is really warm!"

"By the way, Zixiu, why are you so unhappy when your father comes back?"

Cao Ang was full of sorrow and sighed deeply.

"Mother, my son also wants to be happy, but I really can't be happy, because my father... found me a bride..."

Ding frowned, slightly surprised: "This is a good thing! Although you have Miss Yuan Ji, it is not a bad thing for the eldest son to have an extra concubine."

"Look, your third younger brother Zhang'er is young, and your father has found several for him! So your father will find you again, because he thinks highly of you, give mother a smile, don't frown!"

Hearing this, the sorrow on Cao Ang's face did not ease at all, but even more uncomfortable.

"Mother...Father found me a bride, not a bride..."

Ding's smile faltered, and the vegetable shovel in her hand was snapped off with a bang, and she roared through gritted teeth.

"What? He found you another bride? How did you promise me when you went out?"

"If this continues, the family will become a wholesale department for young women! Come back tonight, I want him to look good!"

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Cao Cao didn't know that a disaster was waiting for him at home.

When he went back that night, not only he, but also his good brother Xia Houzhe suffered a lot.

The two were in pain and joy, plowing the fields all night, tossing around many battlefields until dawn, and barely finished their homework.

And Liu Xie passed the news of Cao Cao's promotion to King Wei early in the morning to the entire Han Dynasty as agreed.

Today is also Cao Cao's first day as King of Wei, no matter how tired he is, he has to hold a meeting!

Cao Cao walked towards the meeting hall with trembling legs.

Everyone has been waiting.

"Congratulations, my lord! Congratulations, my lord!"

"Reward! Congratulations to you, ten gold per person!"

Cao Cao waved his hand with a smile on his face. It is such a beautiful day, if you don't reward me a little bit, you will be called stingy by these guys again?

Everyone had a bitter face and looked at him with a little disgust.

"My lord, it's only ten gold? This is not in line with your status as King Wei! Why do you have to start at fifty?"

"That's right! You can't be too frugal on this great day, my lord, the pattern, the pattern must be opened!"

Guo Jia and Cao Chun said meanly.

Cao Cao glared at them angrily, and snorted coldly: "Do you want to love it! Don't mistake dried shrimps for seafood!"

"There are so many of you, if I give ten gold to each of you, that's hundreds of gold, plus officials, big and small, how many thousand gold?"

"If you have something to talk about, if you have nothing to do, the meeting will end!"

Seeing that Cao Cao was tired and a little impatient, everyone stopped thinking about it.

Ten gold is better than nothing...

Xi Zhicai cupped his hands: "My lord! I have this performance, about... Liu Bei of Western Shu!"

Chapter 984 Changes Between Liangzhou and Yizhou

"Liu Bei? It's been a long time since I paid attention to Da Baobei, what's wrong with him?"

Cao Cao was slightly distracted, he had been tired of beating Sun Quan and Zhou Yu for the past few months, and he had no time to control Liu Bei in that corner of the mountain.

Now when Xi Zhi mentioned this stuff, Cao Cao became interested.

Xi Zhicai put away the smile on his face and became a lot more serious.

"My lord, Liu Zhang... has completely stepped down. I don't know why he voluntarily gave up Xishu to Liu Bei, and... all the civil and military officials in Yizhou."

"At the same time, under the advice and advice of Chen Gong and Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei managed to take over all the Yizhou families! Now he has also won the support of all the families, and he has flourished in Western Shu, and his strength is much stronger than that of Liu Yan!"

"And... he is recruiting troops recently, and his strength is approaching [-]! He also stationed troops at Yangping Pass in the south of Hanzhong. He seems to intend to take the initiative to attack Hanzhong. He wants to occupy Hanzhong and attack Chang'an from Qishan. We... have to guard against it."

Xi Zhicai had a bit of worry on his face, Hanzhong was a battleground for military strategists.

If Hanzhong is lost, Chencang, Jieting, Ziwu Valley, Wuzhangyuan and many other important military sites in the rear will face great threats.

If Liu Bei occupies all of them, the difficulty of fighting in the future will undoubtedly increase many times.

Hanzhong is equivalent to the gate of Cao Ying's entry into Western Shu, and there is absolutely no room for loss.

Moreover, Mount Qi is located at the throat of Shulong, controlling the offensive and defensive key points, and it is the place where the Shu army must pass through if they want to make a northern expedition.

Once Qishan is taken down, and then Jieting and Chencang are taken down, the Shu army will be able to cut off the connection between the Longxi region of Wei State and the Central Plains region. These places are very important.

After listening to Xi Zhicai's report, with the insight of Cao Ying, a group of think tanks, how could he not understand what Liu Bei was up to.

Cao Cao frowned even more: "Come on! Go to the map!"

With an order, the guard immediately spread out a map of Hanzhong's surroundings.

Hanzhong is located at the intersection of Sizhou, Yongzhou, Jingzhou and Yizhou. Although the terrain of Hanzhong belongs to the basin floor, the surrounding area is extremely steep and full of mountains.

It can be described as a typical city that is easy to defend but difficult to attack!

Cao Cao scanned the map, thinking about defensive strategies.

Suddenly, he was attracted by a place on the map.

"Why is this praise ramp marked with a cross?"

"My lord! When Zhang Lu occupied Hanzhong, the first thing he did was cut off the Xiegu, so the official way of Baoxie Road...is no longer available."

Jushou reported the truth.

Cao Cao nodded: "Then according to this, the only places that can come from Yizhou are Qishan and Hanzhong?"

Thinking of this, Cao Cao suddenly had a decision in his mind.

"Come here! Send an order to Cai Mao, Zhang Xiu and others in Jingzhou to lead troops to guard the Yangtze River waters around Badong and Zigui."

"In addition, control the Qianjiang River outside Fuling City! Don't let Liu Bei smuggle to Jingzhou!"

The corners of Cao Cao's mouth curled up slightly, and murderous intent and contempt appeared in his eyes as he looked at the land of Western Shu.