Chapter 598

"Heh!"

Jia Shisan smiled slightly: "That's because you, Yuanlong, don't know how good the relationship between the Lord and Cao Cao is, and you don't know how clear Cao Cao's understanding of the Lord's strength is!"

"I'll tell you directly! Even now, the Lord has the strength to sweep across all the warlords in the world!"

"Even if all the warlords in the world joined forces to deal with the Lord at this time, the troops under the Lord's command could easily deal with them or even destroy them!"

"And Cao Cao, not to say he knows completely, but at least he knows that even if he joined forces with Yuan Shao, he probably wouldn't be the Lord's match at this time;"

"Therefore, before he has developed his strength and forces to the point where he cannot advance further, Cao Cao cannot turn around to deal with the Lord!"

"Because he has absolutely no certainty at all!"

"On the contrary, only if he defeats Yuan Shao and annexes the three northern provinces will he have some confidence to face the Lord."

"Hiss!"

Chen Deng gasped.

He knew Jia Shisan couldn't lie to him about this matter.

In that case, what Jia Shisan said was extremely likely to be true!

"I really didn't know, has the Lord's strength already grown to such a degree?"

"I am very glad that I chose to submit to the Lord at the beginning! Otherwise..."

In the future, his Chen clan would likely be finished.

He was glad he had a good father, and glad for his own decisiveness.

At the same time, Chen Deng mourned for one second for those gentry who were hostile to Su Xuan and prepared to oppose Su Xuan in the future.

These gentry would absolutely have no good end in the future.

They would likely all suffer a purge.

How many could survive in the end, and how much power and wealth would remain, would depend on their own fortune.

"Heh!"

Jia Shisan smiled knowingly: "It's good that you can think this way! You are indeed very lucky, and also very capable!"

"When you chose to submit to the Lord at the beginning, I was actually quite surprised and astonished!"

"I never expected that your Chen clan, as the number one gentry in Xuzhou, would make such a choice."

"You must know, even now, the vast majority of gentry are very hostile and exclusionary toward the Lord because of the New Policy;"

"Let alone submitting!"

"I can only say that your own decisiveness and luck saved you, and saved the entire Chen clan;"

"Believe me, in the future, you will absolutely be glad for the choice you made at the beginning!"

"No need to wait for the future!"

Chen Deng smiled and shook his head: "Even now, I am already very glad!"

"Although, because my merit rank is not high enough, and my merit is not too much, I can't exchange for too many good things from the Merit Pavilion;"

"But just the Star Qi Refining Method and the Tendon-Tempering and Bone-Forging Technique I have exchanged for so far are enough to make me glad!"

If it weren't for these, his father would likely have died by now.

And he himself would likely not live for a few more years.

"Sashimi cannot be eaten in the future! It's too damn dangerous! I didn't know there were so many worms in it, and it almost cost me my life."

Chen Deng suddenly recalled this matter, couldn't help but turn pale, and shuddered.

In the past, he had loved eating sashimi very much.

He had never thought that this thing could almost cost him his life.

All of this was thanks to making the right choice and joining Su Xuan's command!

Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Haha!"

Jia Shisan couldn't help but smile with schadenfreude: "You rascal, you know to be afraid now? Why didn't you know to be careful before?"

"You must know, we have been taught by the Lord since we were young, and we basically don't even drink raw water!"

"You actually dared to eat sashimi, and almost ate it every meal, I am truly impressed!"

"Courage is commendable!"

When the Lord sent a letter saying that Chen Gui and Chen Deng were both nearing death, and sent elixirs for treatment, Jia Shisan was still a bit confused!

Especially regarding the reason why Chen Deng was nearing death, he almost laughed to death.

Chen Gui was old and sick and dying, which was normal.

But Chen Deng was dying at a young age because of his greed for food.

Life is impermanent!

"Heh! Stop making fun of me! I already knew I was wrong!"

Seeing Jia Shisan's schadenfreude, Chen Deng shook his head helplessly: "Who could have known about parasites and bacteria?"

"I had never heard of it before, and only learned about it from the Lord;"

"The Lord is truly a god-like man! Even his medical skills are so powerful! And he can discern the root cause of diseases. No healer in the past thousands of years has known these things."

"That's true!"

Jia Shisan nodded affirmatively: "Didn't everyone say so? The Lord is a Heaven-Man descended to the world, not a mortal, so it's not strange that he knows these things!"

"Alright! No more nonsense! The Lord wants us to arrange it, at least to let Cao Cao wait a year or a year and a half before taking Xuzhou;"

"Therefore, we must carefully plan how to ensure this time issue!"

"We really can't let Cao Cao take Xuzhou too early and too easily!"

"Of course, we also can't let Cao Cao take Xuzhou too late and too difficultly!"

"We can't let him lose too many troops, otherwise, he might be completely unable to contend with Yuan Shao!"

"How to grasp the degree of this, Yuanlong, you still need to help plan it!"

He himself was not good at this.

"That's natural!"

Chen Deng smiled confidently: "Leave it to me! I have confidence in this aspect!"

"By the way!"

Suddenly, Chen Deng remembered something and asked: "Why did the Lord say in the letter that Yuan Shao will take the three provinces of Jizhou, Youzhou, and Qingzhou in the future?"

"Isn't there also Bingzhou? With Yuan Shao's strength at that time, taking Bingzhou shouldn't be difficult, right?"

Although this matter was not important, Chen Deng saw it, and if he didn't figure it out, he felt uncomfortable in his heart.

A common problem for smart people.

"Heh! No way!"

Jia Shisan squinted and smiled: "You have already signed the mental confidentiality contract, and you are already a man under the Lord's command, so there is no need to hide this matter from you!"

"Actually, the Lord is currently carrying out a proxy plan!"

"...."

Then, Jia Shisan explained roughly what the proxy plan was.

After explaining, he said: "And Bingzhou is also in this plan. In fact, Shangdang Commandery, Taiyuan Commandery, and other places have already fallen into the hands of the proxies supported by the Lord!"

"Yuan Shao naturally cannot take Bingzhou."

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