"Please believe in the lord, I will definitely not let you down this time!" Just as Pei Qing made a promise to Xu Qing in his heart, Xu Qing also made a promise to Pei Qing at the same time.

After that, Xu Yan went through many hardships before finally arrived in Xuzhou. He not only had to guard against Cao Cao's army, but also Pei Qing's army. After all, Xu Yan left Pei Qing's army and even his own people had to hide it.

At this time, Xuzhou was already on high alert. Although Cao Cao had left Xuzhou and went to Yanzhou to fight against Yuan Shao, only in this way, the current Xuzhou guard Cao Ren was now trembling as if he was walking on thin ice. He already knew that Pei Qing defeated Yuan Shu and occupied Jiujiang and Lujiang. He knew that it would not take long before Pei Qing would definitely lead his army to attack Xuzhou again. Cao Ren asked himself that it was Pei Qing's opponent, so he ordered someone to report to Cao Cao as soon as he learned the news and asked Cao Cao to lead his army to rescue him.

However, what is helpless is that Yan Liang and Wen Chou in Yuan Shao's army are now at a high point, especially Yan Liang, who knows how to listen to the advice of the military advisor Semen. With the cooperation of Li Yang Order Zang Hong, he adopted the strategy of fighting east and west to kill Liu Yan, the prefect of Cao Cao's East County, and seized the white horse in one fell swoop. Then the army advanced rapidly and occupied Puyang City in a short time.

At the same time, Wen Chou on the East Road was also unstoppable and quickly occupied Gaotang, and then occupied Jinan Kingdom, Le'an Kingdom and Qi Kingdom. In addition, Yuan Tan occupied Donglai County through the water, which led to only one Beihai Kingdom left in the entire Qingzhou and still resisting stubbornly, and the rest were all occupied by Yuan Shao's army.

Such a huge defeat frightened Cao Cao. He quickly sent a large army to Yanzhou to resist Yuan Shao's invasion, and at the same time sent General Cao Xiu to Taishan County to resist Wen Chou's offensive.

After Cao Cao arrived at the battlefield, he adopted a strategy of combining arrogance and luring the enemy into depth at the suggestion of Guo Jia and Sima Yi. After pretending to be defeated, he induced Yan Liang to lead his army to chase him, and then surrounded Yan Liang's army with ambush troops, which caused considerable losses to Yan Liang. However, because the ambush generals lacked top masters, Yan Liang broke out of the siege and escaped.

After that, Yan Liang led his people to guard Puyang City, and Yuan Shao also sent reinforcements, and the confrontation began between the two sides.

It was in this situation that Xu Yu came to Cao Cao's camp and presented the imperial seal to Cao Cao.

"Prime Minister Cao, the officials of the lower officials who have seen all the talents in the world, but they were unable to find a wise ruler. Poor Yuan Shu overestimated his power, and even claimed to be respectful. As a result, he betrayed his relatives and divorced. Even he himself died of illness on the lonely boat. The lower officials knew that the jade seal was like the nine tripods of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. Although it was a symbol of royal power, it was also a person with virtue. Although the Han Dynasty is in decline and the emperor is still there, it is also like the situation in the Spring and Autumn Period. If you want to achieve something, you will respect the king. If you are lucky enough to get the jade seal, you will naturally present it to the emperor. Now the lower officials are busy with everything. Finally, they meet Prime Minister Cao, and entrust the seal to the prime minister. He also asked the prime minister not to be troublesome and to submit it to the emperor."

"Oh? Although the emperor refused to abandon me and regarded me as prime minister, there were more people in the world who were more valuable than me. Not to mention anything else, the remaining Duke Pei of Xijing who had attacked Yuan Shu was a general, holding heavy troops, and was even more royal relatives. Why didn't Meng Yu directly offer the jade seal to Mr. Pei, but came here instead?" Cao Cao was originally a suspicious person. Now, seeing Xu Yu bypassing Pei Qing's sphere of influence and traveling thousands of miles to send the jade seal here, Cao Cao doubted his motives. So although the other party was offering the imperial seal, he still had some doubts and asked.

Xu Xu sighed and said, "I'm not hiding this jade seal in Cao, the lower officials of the state did think about offering it to Mr. Pei, but in the end it was not. After thinking about it, the jade seal in the state should be in the hands of the emperor. Although Mr. Pei is a royal relative, he is different from the emperor. If the son is in Luoyang today, he is protected by Mr. Cao, so the lower officials will naturally send the jade seal to Mr. Cao. This is justified."

After hearing Xu Yu's words, Cao Cao was so sad that he felt sad for a long time, and then sighed: "If everyone in the world could still be loyal and respectful to the court like Meng Yu, could there be wars in the world? I started to fight against the king and fight against the thieves. Now I welcomed the emperor to Luoyang to build a palace for the emperor and contribute food and food. The emperor's current living standards are much better than those in Pei Qing. However, the wood is so beautiful that the forest wind will destroy it. When I served the emperor, I made a small contribution and received some rewards.

I was envied by villains, so these people bewitched the emperor and wanted to kill me. Although I did not hesitate for the sake of the emperor and the great man, I could not see the emperor in trouble, so I fought back and dealt with the traitors according to the laws of the country. However, I was attacked by people with ulterior motives and regarded me as a traitor and attacked me. I really don’t know how those who say they want to attack me respected the emperor? Have you ever contributed a portion of your property to the emperor? Have you ever decomposed a worry for the emperor?"

Xu Yan was secretly amused when he heard Cao Cao's words. He really didn't expect that there were such shameless people in this world who said that he was so innocent. Not to mention anything else, Cao Cao only said that the living standards of the young emperor in Pei Qing were not as good as those in the present. Xu Yan had something to say, because of his deep guidance. The poor living conditions of the emperor in Pei Qing were mainly because the rebellion in Chang'an had just been quelled, and no one's living standards were good. Even so, the living standards of the young emperor at that time were much better than Pei Qing, but he was from Zhang Chao.

I have heard there that at that time, there was no piece of meat in the bowls on Pei Qing's mansion, even Pei Qing included them, and the emperor's bowl did not have meat in it. As for the living standards of the young emperor now, the living standards of Cao Cao are indeed much better than before, but what is Cao Cao's living standards now? Not to mention anything else, the only thing that the wives and concubines married in Cao Cao's mansion was no less than double ten, and it is said that many favored women wear gold and silver, and live a luxurious life. Many ordinary wives and concubines have higher living standards than the imperial concubines, which is enough to illustrate the problem.

Pei Qing's life is still simple now. He only eats one meal at most for three meals a day. His wives and concubines wear very simple. Even the princess Liu Ning wears simple and simple, not even as well as an ordinary concubine Cao Cao.

So compared with the two, which one is not for oneself, a discerning person can tell at a glance.

But despite this, Xu Xuan could only follow Cao Cao's words and praise Cao Cao's spirit of serving the country and the people, and "speaking" for Cao Cao: "The real heroes in this world are always lonely, and some people who don't know the truth will always have misunderstandings about these heroes. Thinking about the same feeling when Duke Zhou was afraid of rumors, the Prime Minister did not have to worry about this, and time will prove everything after all."
Chapter completed!