After Guo Jia's explanation, Zhou Yang understood.

It turned out that Cao Cao had known about his relationship with Ma Yunlu for a long time, so he refused the beauty who contributed in person.

I know more about what tricks Zhiyuanduo is using, but I just don’t point them out on the spot.

Zhou Yang secretly scolded himself for being confused. The information network within the Cao clan is not Cao Cao's intelligence network. Therefore, how could Cao Cao not know what Mrs. Bian knew?

At the same time, I also felt vaguely in my heart that when Cao Cao took back Puyang and met Diao Chan, did he think there was something unacceptable between them?

But when I think about it, I feel it is unlikely.

After all, I had never had contact with Diao Chan before. Even after Cao Cao's command, after seeing this peerless beauty farewell, he only hid his love in his heart and never revealed it.

"Does Prefect Zhou want to meet Ma Yunlu?" Guo Jia didn't know that he was thinking about Diao Chan.

"Yes, is that okay?" Zhou Yang came to his senses and beat the snake and followed the stick and said, "Thank you for your understanding of my father-in-law."

"The brat is also a romantic figure." Cao Cao didn't mean to blame him, but just grasped the point and reminded him, "It doesn't matter if a man is romantic, but he must not be careless for his long-term work. You are not doing this very well."

Zhou Yang understood what Cao Cao meant, and he accused him of giving birth to Zhou Kang with a mere maid Qirou, who was still a boy before he had a boy with Cao Hua.

The question is how old Cao Hua is. Not to mention waiting for her to have another eldest son when she grows up, Zhou Yang still feels very strange even when she really grows up.

However, looking at Cao Cao's expression, he was just a slight reminder and did not take it as a serious mistake.

Zhou Yang felt relieved and said, "My son-in-law understands that he will do a good job in contraception in the future."

Cao Cao laughed and said, "How can you do this kind of thing? It doesn't matter how many children you want to have. Xiao Hua is so young. You have to wait for so long, and no one can control this kind of thing."

Zhou Yang suddenly realized that there was no such thing as a condom in this era.

But I felt even more strange, why it doesn’t matter how many children I have to have before having the eldest son with Cao Hua.

Cao Cao saw his confusion and said in a deep voice: "The key is to be good to Lin'er, but you can't just let Bi Xiaohua get pregnant first. You don't need to ask more about the reason, do you understand?"

Zhou Yang nodded quickly. No matter what, the problem was always much simpler.

Seeing that he was quite embarrassed, Guo Jia turned to the topic and said, "The Grandpa Zhou came here this time. Regarding the next war, the Lord is planning to send someone to summon you!"

Zhou Yang guessed: "Does the troops in Luoyang need to be used?"

Guo Jia said: "We all understand the relationship between Zhou Taishou, Zhiyuanduo, Yang Feng and others, so you naturally cannot participate in the war together."

Zhou Yang said in surprise: "The lord really plans to let this group of people join the battle?"

Cao Cao said: "What's so strange about this?"

Zhou Yang didn't think it was strange, but he just thought that this battle would be the battle for Lu Bu to die.

He asked Lu Lingqi to return to Xuzhou to become an insider. Although it was for this battle, his purpose was just to take Xuzhou. He did not want Zhenli to let Lu Bu be sent to the guillotine, otherwise he would explain to her.

When Guo Jia saw him thinking, he thought that he didn't know what he should do, so he continued: "The lord came back to you, and there is something more important. Luoyang is basically stable, so I hope you can go back to Xudu to develop internal affairs."

Zhou Yangqi said: "Why is it me? The lord has a lot of talents under his tent, just like Brother Fengxiao, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Dong Zhao, Chen Qun, Liu Fu..."

Before he could speak, Cao Cao interrupted: "None of them could come up with such a brilliant idea as Handing Money House. Besides, Fengxiao hated these troublesome things the most, so he still liked to stay by my side to help out with advice. As for Xun You and Cheng Yu, they are both experts who are good at military and military tactics. Dong Zhao, Chen Qun, and Liu Fu have their own tasks. At present, there is something important, which is the most suitable for you to take over."

"What's the important thing?" Zhou Yang couldn't help asking.

"Build the imperial city." Cao Cao glanced at him at the end of his eyes and said lightly, "One of the time, you have a good relationship with the emperor, I believe it will be much more convenient to communicate in the future; secondly, we do not lack elite soldiers, and what we lack the most is resources. Xudu is full of talents. You can choose some to send to Luoyang to assist Mr. Xun and vigorously develop the Handing Money House."

"There is a lack of resources but I have to build the imperial city... the imperial city?" Although Zhou Yang knew that Cao Cao's purpose of building the imperial palace was to raise funds from the princes of the world, when he heard the word "Imperial City", he realized that it was much worse than he had imagined. He couldn't help but say, "I heard it right! What is the concept of the imperial city!"

The so-called palace is the place where the emperor lives and works.

Another area in the imperial capital is surrounded by city walls and has an independent city gate.

The city is also decorated with ancestral temples, government offices, inner courts, service agencies, warehouses and defense buildings, as well as garden gardens, which are very large in scale, almost equivalent to a county town.

At this time, wars were still everywhere, but Cao Cao wanted to build a large-scale construction of the imperial city. How could he not teach Zhou Yang to be surprised?

Besides, Cao Cao himself said, "There is no shortage of elite soldiers, the most lack of resources."

Guo Jia was confused when he saw him and said with a smile: "Why should the prefect Zhou prefect pretend to be stupid? How could the lord spend money randomly at this time? Someone will explain the reason to you."

In fact, Zhou Yang naturally understood the truth, but he didn't expect Cao Cao to set such a huge scale.

This shows how great the ambition is.

However, what tempted Zhou Yang the most was that the talents in Xu Du could be called at will.

This means there will be a good opportunity to have a good relationship with these talents in the world, which will undoubtedly become his future political capital and also means Cao Cao's trust in him.

Suddenly, all the concerns hidden in my heart disappeared.

As long as Cao Cao trusts him, Zhou Yang, he is willing to do anything even if he wants him to do. Maybe this is the so-called charm of the king.

As for using troops to Xuzhou, Cao Cao had already planned everything.

In addition to the Qin Hu cavalry brought by Zhi Yuanduo from the north, as well as more than a thousand Black Mountain disciples under Yang Feng and Cao Zhen, an army commanded by Liu Bei was also added.

According to Guo Jia's war policy, it is of more profound significance to hand over 10,000 troops to Liu Bei in name.

The army that Cao Cao has always trusted was the army that Chen Liu resigned and replaced the rebel army recruited by Zhang Miao after he rose up, and later the army of the princes, Liu Dai, Qiao Mao and Bao Xin.

Together, there were only 60,000 to 70,000 people. Although the number was large, after several wars, especially in Puyang's resistance to the Yellow Turban Remnants and the battle with Wancheng, almost one-third of them were lost.

The recapture of Puyang and later continued to recruit soldiers and added many teams, but they were distributed to various generals to guard the county towns, and there were not many soldiers and horses available.

However, the 10,000 troops led by Liu Bei were not these soldiers who followed Cao Cao's life and death.

Instead, the princes who came to join, the truly subordinates to the royal family.

Using other people's army to expand Cao Cao's own market, no matter whether the result is successful or not, it will not be a loss for Cao Cao.

Moreover, since Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo, he became a capricious villain.

First he abandoned Hanoi in the midst of the treacherous chaos, then secretly occupied Cao Cao's Puyang City, then he had no way to join Yuan Shao, and then ran to Liu Bei in Xuzhou. As a result, he took advantage of the time when Yuan Shu became emperor, and then occupied Liu Bei's territory as used.

Therefore, it is imperative to attack Lu Bu, and Liu Bei must participate in it.

It is most suitable for Liu Huangshu, who always claims to be a relative of the Han Dynasty, to command the royal army.

Not only can we take this opportunity to completely control the situation of "holding the emperor", but we can also find opportunities to get rid of the different parties who are interested in the Han Dynasty and oppose Cao Cao's control bureau.

It is a trick that can be achieved in one fell swoop, and only Guo Jia, a ghost plan, can think of it.

Since all this was planned so perfectly, the Cao clan headed by the Bian clan did not need to worry too much, let alone dispatch troops and generals because of this battle. He only needed Zhou Yang to develop the "Imperial City Plan" and the Handing Money House with peace of mind, and beware of the peeping of Zhang Xiu, Wancheng and other princes.

What made Zhou Yang most pleased was that Cao Cao did not accept Ma Yunlu, who was pretending to offer by Zhi Yuanduo.

This undoubtedly makes him feel much more comfortable when he meets Ma Teng.

"Get along with the emperor!" Cao Cao emphasized, "This is the key."

After returning, Zhou Yang also understood what this said.

Just like Ma Teng, Kong Rong, Liu Bei and other princes who came to Xudu were undoubtedly coming for Emperor Xian, not for Cao Cao.

Among them, Liu Bei personally regarded him as the Han clan, and even the young emperor wanted to call him "Uncle".

In this way, with other princes who were sincere and loyal to the Han Dynasty and some madmen who were angry and jealous of the world, they naturally supported Liu Bei more than Cao Cao. Emperor Xian would have a closer relationship with these princes and alienated Cao Cao.

Zhou Yang naturally understood the powerful relationship. Although Cao Cao held great power, he was the ruler behind the Han Dynasty who is now a name-based person.

In this attack on Lu Bu, in addition to supporting Liu Bei and those pro-Han troops, we also had to work together to allow Zhou Yang to establish good relations with Emperor Xian on behalf of Cao Cao.

As for Zhiyuanduo and Yang Feng, at most, they were just icing on the cake and strengthened their strength to attack Xuzhou.

After leaving Sikong Mansion, Zhou Yang's thoughts became more complicated.

The next day he received an edict, and he was appointed as the leader of the Central Army and the commander of the imperial army.

It was equivalent to holding two thousand royal imprisonments in his hand, but half of them were mixed with the soldiers in the headquarters, and there was also the support of the tiger and leopard cavalry behind him, but the commander was replaced by Cao Ren and Cao Hong.

Since Xiahou Dun was injured in one eye in the battle, he has been changed to a civil servant and has developed military farming affairs with Ren Jun, and has become Cao Cao's most worry-free logistics supply.

For a moment, Zhou Yang completely influenced the development and politics of the entire Xudu, but it is unknown what the future will be.
Chapter completed!