Chapter 389

Yanzhou,

Cao Cao was very depressed. After returning, Guan Yu had already circled Chen Liu and taken away tens of thousands of common people.

Lu Bu had also snatched quite a few things to take home.

Cao Cao felt that his trip to Shouchun was for nothing!

He didn't get any money, grain, troops, or common people!

After reading the intelligence from Huainan, he had to sigh,

"Liu Bei is truly a genius. This kind of operation is possible: eating grain in Huainan and having merchants pick up goods in Chang'ancheng!"

"Obtaining 800,000 shi of grain?! And there's someone named Lu Su who gave away 30,000 shi for free?"

Cao Cao's eyes turned red. He was short of grain; he was truly short of grain!

"This Lu Zijing must be a spendthrift!"

Cao Cao was sour and extremely depressed.

Xun Yu sighed.

"My lord, Liu Bei has almost emptied Jiujiang Commandery, gaining over 400,000 people. The total population of Guanzhong has already exceeded 7 million."

Cheng Yu also sighed.

"I originally didn't think much of the land of Guanzhong, with its years of war and the invasions of the Qiang and Xiongnu people, and its small population. I never expected that in just a few short years, Liu Bei would resolve the threat of the Hu Ren, supplement the population of Guanzhong, and even open up the trade route to the Western Regions."

Seeing that everyone was a bit discouraged, Cao Cao laughed loudly.

"No matter how hard Liu Bei tries, the population is only 7 million. My Yanzhou and Yuzhou have even more people than that. As long as I take Xuzhou, the population can exceed 10 million!"

Cao Cao stood up tall.

"Yuan Shu of Huainan is already a withered bone in a grave and poses no threat. Our army's next goal is to annex Xuzhou and occupy the land of the Central Plains!"

"My lord is wise!"

After everyone went down, Xia Houyuan remained.

"My lord, there is news from Huainan."

Cao Cao's eyes lit up.

"The two Qiao sisters of Jiangbei have almost arrived?"

Xia Houyuan knelt on one knee.

"My lord, our envoy arrived in Wancheng just as Sun Ce's envoy arrived. He wanted to take the Qiao sisters to Jiangdong, one for each of them and Zhou Yu!"

Cao Cao??

"Sun Wentai's son is this shameless? Did he ask for the Qiao sisters' opinion!"

Xia Houyuan's eyelids twitched; it seemed his lord hadn't asked either.

"But I didn't expect the Qiao sisters to flee into the refugee camp, and everyone was arguing in the refugee camp..."

Cao Cao's heart skipped a beat.

"Don't tell me the Eared Thief was drawn there."

Cao Cao discovered that the more he worried about something, the more it would happen!

"My lord, the argument drew Liu Bei. He shouted Sun Ce's envoy away, slandered our envoy as a spy and killed him, and then hired the Qiao sisters as music teachers for his children."

Cao Cao almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"Is there anyone more shameless than the Eared Thief!"

"Diao Chan, the two Qiao sisters of Jiangbei, Zhen Mi of Hebei, Beauty Feng of the Central Plains?! Eared Thief, can you even handle all of this?"

Cao Cao paced back and forth.

"No matter. Once I destroy the Eared Thief, I will take these beauties back."

The guard at the door, Eagle Eye, had his eyelids twitching; this boss's hobbies are truly unusual!

At the same time,

Yuan Shu, who had returned to Shouchun, also got the scoop.

"What? The Eared Thief earned 800,000 shi of grain, over 400,000 people, and there are also the two Qiao sisters of Jiangbei, who are as famous as Beauty Feng? Just how beautiful are they!"

Yuan Shu was sour. He was now more miserable than anyone, not even comparable to that traitor Sun Ce.

"Just muddle through the days! At worst, I'll go and seek refuge with Yuan Shao!"

Liu Bei rested in Wancheng for three days and selected 3,000 new recruits from the refugees, handing them over to Zhang Fei to train while marching along the way.

He also selected 3,000 new recruits for the Jianghuai navy to be responsible for the warships plotted from Sun Ce.

This day, they were resting in the Xunyang area in the west of Lujiang, and ahead was Jiang Xiajun.

He had to receive an invitation from Liu Biao before he could bring people over.

Guo Jia cupped his hands.