Chapter 648

"This is not good news!"

"Yuanchang, do you have any way to sow discord between them?"

Zhong Yao, who was on the side, shook his head helplessly, "At this moment, more than half of Xuzhou is already in your hands, my Lord! Since it concerns the life and death of Liu Bei and Lu Bu, it will be difficult to sow discord again!"

"However! It's not that there are no ways at all!"

"Oh?"

Cao Cao didn't have much hope, but he didn't expect Zhong Yao to really have a good idea, so he couldn't help but look at Zhong Yao and ask, "Does Yuanchang have any good ideas? Speak quickly! If it is truly effective, I will definitely reward you heavily!"

Zhong Yao replied immediately, "Returning to my Lord, there are indeed two ideas;"

"One is that my relationship with the Chen clan, a great clan of Xuzhou, is not bad, and I am also an old acquaintance of Chen Yuanlong!"

"According to my understanding, Chen Deng is a man of extraordinary intelligence and values the interests of his family the most;"

"It is absolutely impossible for him to follow Liu Bei and Lu Bu to the end!"

"Currently, many of the Chen clan's industries and fields are in the few commanderies in northern Xuzhou, which are in your hands, my Lord!"

"As long as you send suitable personnel to contact him, I believe you should be able to persuade him to seek refuge with you, my Lord;"

"And this person is already one of the most important and trusted strategists under Liu Bei's command;"

"If you can get his help and work from the inside out, it shouldn't be difficult to breach this Xiapi City!"

"Hmm!"

Cao Cao nodded in understanding, "This plan is indeed feasible! What about the other method?"

Zhong Yao immediately continued, "The other one is the method of flooding!"

"My Lord, please look, this Xiapi City is adjacent to the Si River, and the terrain is relatively low;"

"At this time, Xuzhou is about to enter the rainy season! If we build multiple dams on the upper reaches of the Si River to intercept the river water;"

"When the rainy season comes, we will inevitably be able to accumulate a large amount of river water;"

"At that time, if we destroy the dams directly, the massive amount of accumulated river water will inevitably submerge the entire Xiapi City."

"At that time, Xiapi City will fall without being attacked!"

"However, this method is harmful to heaven and will cause a huge disaster to the common people near Xiapi City, leading to countless deaths;"

"If it can be avoided, it is best not to use it!"

"Otherwise, my Lord will only be able to get a ruined Xiapi City and the low-lying land for hundreds of miles nearby;"

"At the same time, it will also cause the people of Xuzhou to be full of resentment, which is unfavorable for my Lord to win the hearts of the people of Xuzhou."

Of course, he said this with his mouth, but in reality, Zhong Yao didn't care about the lives of those common people at all.

He is a member of the Yingchuan Zhong clan, a great gentry family; mere commoners are not worth mentioning in his eyes.

No matter how many casualties there are, he has no ripples in his heart.

If he really cared, he wouldn't have offered this strategy just now.

The reason he said these things was just to show an external face of worrying about the country and the people, and to establish a good persona.

"Hmm..."

Cao Cao frowned upon hearing this, "Flooding? It is indeed harmful to heaven!"

In fact, Cao Cao himself is also a ruthless person; to achieve his goal, he can actually be unscrupulous.

But he has concerns at this moment and dare not act so recklessly.

Because he has to consider Su Xuan's thoughts.

If he really does something like flooding Xiapi and causing countless common people to die or be injured, he doesn't know if Su Xuan will intervene or take military action against him in advance.

This is very possible.

Looking at Su Xuan's new policies in Jingzhou, one can clearly see that Su Xuan truly practices benevolence and righteousness to the bone and puts them into practice.

He cares very much about the lives and lives of the common people.

It seems as if he is afraid that they won't live well.

Many policies are actually biased toward the common people, wanting to make the common people rich and their lives better.

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