Bang!
He Xin slapped the table in front of him and said angrily,""How dare he?"
"How dare he!"
He Xin's face turned red when he heard how proud Zhang Mu was of defeating the Yellow Turban Army.
"Zhang Mu killed Li Ye to fall out with us?”
Cao Bin frowned, puzzled.
Even if Zhang Mu had his own plans, he should still be on good terms with them first. He shouldn't be so merciless.
"Kill the chicken to warn the monkeys and intimidate us?" Xia Houjie guessed.
He hadn't even sent away a hungry wolf, and now he had welcomed a vicious tiger?
They had spent 100,000 dans of grain and 10,000 gold coins to send the hungry wolves away.
Then how much would they have to pay to make this evil tiger?
"I told you that Zhang Mu was a wolf with wild ambitions and shouldn't have invited him.”Heng Dian glanced at Heng Xin and sneered,"That Zhang Mu is not stable in Feng County. He recruits refugees, buys people's hearts, and trains thousands of elite soldiers and tens of thousands of so-called garrison soldiers.”
"See, it's indeed inviting a wolf into the house!”
The Heng family and the He family had long had conflicts. After the Yuan family was divided into Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, they also fought one after another. Now, their relationship was even more hostile.
"Hengdian, what do you mean by that!" He Xin's eyes narrowed into slits as he said coldly,""Previously, Cao Family Head analyzed that Zhang Mu came to Qiao County too quickly. It was clearly premeditated. Whether we invite him or not, the result is the same.”
He Xin's words made everyone's face sink.
If it was just a guess before, it had now been confirmed.
Zhang Mu indeed had a scheme.
"Do you think Zhang Mu had a scheme or was he prepared?”Liu Guang asked.
No one answered.
The four of them felt their hearts sink.
No matter what the answer was, it was bad news for them.
The former meant that Zhang Mu had his eyes on Qiao County. This time, he had borrowed the east wind from the Yellow Turban's attack on the city and would definitely not leave easily.
The latter meant that Zhang Mu had a powerful intelligence network and knew about the Yellow Turban Army long ago. Then, he targeted them, which was also a scheme against Qiao County.
"Let's wait for a while."
Cao Bin rubbed his brows and said,""Li Ye is ultimately just a merchant family, so killing him is fine. But we are different. Zhang Mu can't do anything to us. Killing him is just an oath to get benefits from us.”
"At worst, I'll make him a commandant.”
A commandant of a vassal country was only below a general. In the past, the Great Han was very valuable, and now, it was not low either, only below the prime ministers of the various kingdoms.
Cao Bin was planning to sacrifice his military control in Pei Country in exchange for cooperation.
There was nothing he could do about it. The small Yellow Turban Army had broken through Qiao County, and Zhang Mu had the right to easily deal with the Yellow Turban Army!
"I have no objections!"
Liu Guang was the first to express his stance.”
"Second!" Xia Houjie's eyes lit up as he said,""Zhang Mu's reputation is well known and he has military achievements. It's fine to give him an official position, but the food and two thousand gold have to be returned.”
"Not bad!" He Xin stroked his beard and agreed.
Heng Dian nodded.
The style of aristocratic families was destined to be lost, so it was best to reduce it in time.
Just treat it as a transaction.
They weren't afraid that Zhang Mu wouldn't agree.
Everything had to be justified.
Perhaps in the eyes of modern people, this was just taking off his pants and farting.
However, they valued the people of this era very much.
Didn't you see that the eighteen feudal vassals didn't recognize Dong Zhuo and raised an army to clear the side of the monarch? Later, they were killed by Li Ru and Jia Xu's 'enfeoffment of courtiers.'
Among them, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, and Dong Zhuo had an irreconcilable hatred for each other, not to mention Cao Cao. However, after obtaining the benefits (official position and reputation), they all left.
Didn't you see that Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao had assigned positions to their subordinates and even wanted Dong Zhuo to give them a name?
Didn't you see that Cao Cao controlled the emperor to command the vassals, easily developed, and finally defeated Yuan Shao?
Sun Jian was so powerful that Yuan Shu had reported him to the Yuzhou governor. However, he was not in Qiao County but in Yangcheng because the governor's seal was in the hands of Cao Bin and the others.
The world was still under the rule of the Great Han Dynasty. The hearts of the people still belonged to the Han Dynasty, and there were also countless loyal officials of the Han Dynasty. Moreover, their lifeline was controlled by the aristocratic families. Although Zhang Mu had saved Qiao County from the Yellow Turbans, it was not legitimate for him to lead his troops here.
If he forcefully occupied Qiao County, he could be defined as a traitor. In the future, there would be endless drawbacks to conquering the world.
Seizing Qiao County by force, others cut themselves off from the aristocratic families, cut themselves off from the loyal ministers and people of the Han Dynasty.
The transaction was inevitable.
"It's not bad to get back the food and two thousand gold. That Zhang Mu killing Li Ye is just to show his attitude, let him be.”
Cao Bin tried his best to think positively of the situation and revealed a smile.
Pei Country was too small to Yuzhou, and Yuzhou was too small to the thirteen provinces of the Great Han Dynasty. Moreover, Runan had the Yuan Family, and Yingchuan had countless aristocratic families. The Cao Family did not value them.
Otherwise, Cao Cao wouldn't have brought the majority of the Cao and Xiahou Clans to East County to plot against them.
He was just a chess piece of the Cao family in Yuzhou. As long as the position of Minister was still there and the seal of the provincial governor was hidden well, it was fine.
"Report ~"
At this moment, Cao Qing, the Cao family's butler, strode into the room with a flustered expression.
"When did you become so flustered?"
Cao Bin had a bad feeling.
"Patriarch, something big has happened."
Cao Qing did not care about the presence of the other family heads and hurriedly said,"A government notice has just been announced at the entrance of Square City.”
Official notice?
Cao Bin was stunned for a moment. He said strangely," The seal of the Qingzhou Provincial Governor, the order of the Pei State Minister, and the official seal of the Pei County Magistrate are all in my hands. Why does Zhang Mu have to issue the notice?"”
The official notice needed to be stamped with the official seal before it could be counted. If a private notice was released, it would be regarded as treason. How could Zhang Mu dare?
The other four also looked at Cao Qing strangely.
The three official seals were the source of their confidence in their transaction with Zhang Mu. The latter could not snatch them away.
"Yes... Edict!"
"There's also a notice beside the West City Gate that you stamped with the provincial governor's seal and asked Zhang Mu to come to the rescue." Cao Qing's body trembled as he said.”
Boom!
Cao Bin and the others felt their minds go blank.
As the time did not match, they did not expect Zhang Mu to receive the imperial edict and forgot about this.
Wouldn't they lose their trump card this time?
And all of this was too coincidental. Could it be Zhang Mu's scheme?
..........
"Haha!"
In the Provincial Governor's Office, Zhang Mu put down the documents that Xu Ding had sent over. He seemed to have sensed something and raised his head, the corners of his mouth curling up."This is turning the tables!"
"Fengxiao, what a series of tricks!"
You live up to your reputation!"
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