Chapter 717

On Cao Cao's side, the next day he received the good news brought back by the Office of Investigation.

"Hahaha!"

Cao Cao could not help but laugh loudly.

However, while laughing, he suddenly stopped, walked out of the tent to look around, and after confirming that no one else was nearby, he revealed a smile again, walked over, patted the commander of the Office of Investigation on the shoulder, and praised: "You did this very well! I am very satisfied!"

"Oh my! Liu Bei is finally dead! The key is that he died at Yuan Shao's hands. Now, Yunchang should be able to follow me wholeheartedly, right~?"

"After all, I still have Liu Bei's two orphans in my hands, hehe!"

The commander of the Office of Investigation on the side had a black line appear on his forehead upon hearing this, thinking: "My Lord! Please have some shame! Are those Liu Bei's orphans? Those are clearly your illegitimate children!"

To be shameless to this extent, you deserve to succeed!

If he had his master's shamelessness, perhaps his achievements would not be limited to this.

"Right!"

At this time, Cao Cao turned around again, looked at the commander of the Office of Investigation with a serious face, and exhorted: "This matter must not be revealed to a third person in the slightest, understand?"

If it weren't for the fact that this person was his loyal follower and very capable, making him hard to replace, Cao Cao would have had the thought of dealing with him directly.

He wanted to nip any factor that would affect his subduing of Guan Yu in the bud.

"Understood!"

The commander of the Office of Investigation seemed to have sensed something, his expression became stern, and he immediately expressed solemnly: "Your subordinate will absolutely not leak a single bit!"

"No! Your subordinate doesn't know at all why Yuan Shao wanted to kill Liu Bei. This matter has nothing to do with me or you, my Lord. Everything is Yuan Shao's fault."

"Yes! That's it!"

Hearing this, Cao Cao nodded with satisfaction.

The commander of the Office of Investigation reacted quickly.

That's right, this matter had nothing to do with him.

"However,"

Suddenly, the commander of the Office of Investigation remembered something, his face hesitant: "Although we have nothing to do with this matter, I cannot guarantee whether Xu You will talk nonsense!"

"For the sake of stability, your subordinate believes it is best to find an opportunity to deal with Xu You!"

"After all, this person is not someone with high moral character or a tight mouth!"

"For the sake of profit, he can sell anything."

Just like this plot against Liu Bei.

Xu You clearly knew that doing so was very disadvantageous to Yuan Shao and would cause no small loss, but for the sake of Cao Cao's bribe and to leave himself a way out, Xu You did it without hesitation.

How could one trust the integrity of such a person?

"Hmm..."

Cao Cao nodded while stroking his beard: "That is indeed a problem! However, Xu You just helped me a lot, wouldn't it be a bit bad to burn the bridge after crossing it?"

The commander of the Office of Investigation was speechless in his heart: "My Lord is being hypocritical again!"

But who let him be the master?

The commander of the Office of Investigation could only bite the bullet and say: "Your subordinate thinks otherwise! We paid a large amount of money for this matter, it was just a normal transaction!"

"We are doing this, in fact, to prevent trouble before it happens!"

"In the end, we have to blame Xu You himself for having moral problems and not being able to let you trust him completely, my Lord, otherwise we wouldn't have to take action at all!"

Saying this, the commander of the Office of Investigation felt he wasn't a good person either.

Listen, is this human talk?

Could a person with high moral character be bribed by him to do such things to harm others?

Would they choose to bribe him if they had high moral character?

It was clearly impossible!

"... Hahaha! You are really a talent!"

But Cao Cao was overjoyed upon hearing these shameless words, pointed at the commander of the Office of Investigation and said: "Very good! You are very good! That's right! Blame Xu You himself!"

"I remember you said last time that Guo Tu was collecting evidence of Xu You's crimes, preparing to deal Xu You a fatal blow at a critical moment, and let Yuan Shao kill Xu You?"

"Yes!"

The commander of the Office of Investigation nodded affirmatively, then understood: "Are you intending to borrow Guo Tu and Yuan Shao's hands to kill Xu You, my Lord?"

"You could say that!"

Cao Cao nodded affirmatively, then shook his head: "But it's not just that!"

"Xu You still has other utility value; just plotting to kill him would be too wasteful!"

"Our army is currently in a standoff with Yuan Shao, and even though I used Yunchang to kill Yan Liang and Wen Chou, we are still at a disadvantage compared to Yuan Shao in terms of numbers and grain!"

"Dragging it out for a long time is disadvantageous to us!"

"Moreover, I need to save more energy to deal with Boyuan in the future! I cannot spend too much effort on Yuan Shao!"

"Therefore, I need you to push Guo Tu to accelerate his attacks on Xu You, force Xu You into a dead end, make him desperate, and then send me the information about the location and layout of Yuan Shao's grain camp;"

"I want him to help me defeat Yuan Shao again, and then, kill him!"

"Only then can we say we have used everything to its fullest, what do you think?"

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