Chapter 575

"Second brother! Third brother! You... I really, cry to death..."

Liu Bei was moved to tears when he heard this, looking at Zhang Fei and Especially Guan Yu Yu, moved to the point of no return.

It still has to be his second brother and third brother!

He knew they would fully support him.

"Good! Brother listens to you! We take Xuzhou!"

Liu Bei said decisively, and then said: "However, not now! For the time being, we still need to endure and be low-key!"

"Take it step by step!"

"When the time is ripe, make a contribution in one fell swoop. At present, second brother, third brother, you still need to keep it secret, understand?"

"Got it!"

"Hmm~"

Especially Guan Yu Yu and Zhang Fei nodded together.

That day, they accepted the three thousand troops and a large batch of money, grain, and military equipment transferred by Kong Rong, and then, with Kong Rong's letter of introduction, set off in a mighty manner to Xuzhou.

"Phew!"

Kong Rong watched Liu Bei and his party go away, and finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Finally gone! I can be much more at ease!"

Wu Anguo on the side frowned when he heard this: "My Lord! The Huang Jin bandits in Qingzhou have only been defeated temporarily, but the hidden dangers are still there, and there are many bandits. Is it really good to drive Liu Bei and the others away at this time?"

He really couldn't understand Kong Rong's thoughts.

At the beginning of the crisis, he was thinking about others coming to rescue, but now that the crisis has just been lifted, he started to drive people away. His own Lord is very unkind!

"Heh! What do you know?"

Kong Rong glanced at Wu Anguo and sneered: "The current situation is that Liu Bei is strong and we are weak. If they really stay in Beihai for a long time, then is this Beihai mine or Liu Bei's?"

"By then, if the tail is too big to wag, what if he lingers in Qingzhou and doesn't leave?"

Kong Rong had long regarded Qingzhou as his territory. He even wanted to be a king!

Before, Dong Zhuo enfeoffed the warlords of the world, and even Tao Qian had the title of King of Qi, but he didn't have any king title. How could Kong Rong be reconciled?

Obviously, after the warlords of the world were enfeoffed as kings, Kong Rong's ambition was also stimulated, and he was no longer reconciled to being ordinary.

It's a pity! He didn't figure out at all that he didn't have this ability and qualification at all!

"This..."

Wu Anguo was loyal and righteous, and had been getting along well with Liu Bei and the others over the past few days, and their relationship was very good. Hearing Kong Rong slander Liu Bei at this time, he was suddenly unhappy.

Even if you are the Lord, you cannot speak ill of your life-saving benefactor behind his back!

Isn't this moral corruption?

It's a pity that his own Lord is a descendant of Confucius, a descendant of a saint, and has always labeled himself with morality, but this is it?

Of course, as a subordinate, Wu Anguo couldn't say anything unpleasant, so he just argued: "Is the Lord overthinking? Xuande and the others are not such people! I believe in their character."

"Heh!"

Kong Rong sneered: "Knowing people, knowing faces, but not their hearts! What's the use of you believing? I can't just feel at ease leaving them here because of your belief!"

"Alright! Don't talk about this! Currently, the largest Huang Jin bandit group in Beihai and even Qingzhou has been defeated by Liu Bei and the others! Next, I want you to help me pacify the banditry in Qingzhou and bring Qingzhou under my control. Do you have the confidence?"

This is actually one of the purposes of his driving Liu Bei and the others away.

Keeping Liu Bei and the others here, he is not easy to expand and occupy the entire Qingzhou.

After all, legally speaking, he is only the Chancellor of Beihai, not the Governor of Qingzhou.

If he really did this, it would inevitably damage his image in front of Liu Bei. What Liu Bei would do by then, he didn't know.

Now it's good, Liu Bei and the others are gone, and they helped him solve the biggest enemy in Qingzhou, so things should be much simpler next, right?

Wu Anguo was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile: "Reporting to the Lord! The troops under our command currently are only 20,000, most of whom are new recruits who have been recruited for less than half a year. It is not easy to hold Beihai. How difficult is it to take the entire Qingzhou?"

"Don't look at the fact that the biggest enemy in Qingzhou has been defeated by Xuande and the others, but you should know that the Huang Jin remnants and various banditry in Qingzhou add up to no less than hundreds of thousands. With just these few people in our hands, it is far from enough."

His own Lord is really naive!

But what Wu Anguo was even more shocked by was when his own Lord had such great ambition?

Also, is his change a bit too big?

It seems he is not the one I knew in the past!

"Hmm?"

Kong Rong frowned: "Not enough? Then expand the territory while expanding the army! This is no problem, right?"

Wu Anguo said speechlessly: "That's possible! But where do the money, grain, and armor come from? These all require a lot of money and grain!"

Kong Rong's brow relaxed slightly when he heard this, and he waved his hand: "You don't need to worry about this. My Kong family has accumulated for so many years, and we are not short of money and grain! Just tell me how much money and grain you need, and I will have the butler prepare it for you!"

"As for weapons and armor, you can buy them from the Si Hai Chamber of Commerce. They are in this business. Not only is the quality good, but the price is also very affordable, much lower than others!"

"I will buy 100,000 weapons, 10,000 leather armors, 3,000 iron armors, and other military equipment from them as soon as possible!"

"After these things arrive, I hope you won't let me down and build a powerful army. Is there any problem?"

His Kong family is an aristocratic clan passed down since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

The key is that his Kong family is also a descendant of the Confucian saint Confucius. Since the Great Han dismissed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone, his Kong family's status in the Great Han has risen with the tide, and the benefits obtained have naturally become more and more.

The accumulated money and grain are really not small.

Kong Rong expects that supporting his expansion of more than 100,000 troops should not be a problem!

By then, with these more than 100,000 troops, he believes he will definitely be able to take the entire Qingzhou and become a warlord king.

"What a pity! The title of King of Qi has already been given to Tao Qian by Dong Zhuo, I cannot choose this title, so I can only choose others, hmm... got it! My ancestor Confucius was from the State of Lu, I will call myself King of Lu then!"

Kong Rong thought happily in his heart.

He seemed to have seen the day when he would be a king and bring honor to his ancestors.

"If this is the case, then the end general has no problem!"

Wu Anguo heard that Kong Rong had made such a big determination and was prepared to pay so much, so naturally he had no other thoughts and immediately responded.

If he can really expand and control more than 100,000 troops, help Kong Rong take the entire Qingzhou, and become a warlord king, then his status and status will naturally rise with the tide.

By then, he will also be a great general under a warlord king!

Why worry about not being able to glorify the family?

For a time, the wavering and dissatisfaction Wu Anguo had when he thought Kong Rong exposed his true nature were instantly swept away.

He couldn't care about Liu Bei's friendship.

In the final analysis, one's own interests are the most important, and others have to stand aside for the time being.

2 days later, Liu Bei arrived outside Xiapi City in a hurry and confronted Lu Bu.

"General Lu! You and the King of Qi are both ministers of the Great Han, why do you invade Tao Gong's Xuzhou for no reason? Why not retreat, so as not to damage your reputation, General Lu!"

Liu Bei blocked Lu Bu from attacking the city and shouted to Lu Bu.

"Hahahaha!"