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When Cao Cao heard this and looked at the expressions of the three people, he immediately understood what was going on.
The martial arts competition held by Liu Zhe is open to the whole world, calling on all heroes from all over the world to participate. The winner can receive generous rewards and win the title of No. 1 in the world.
Cao Cao knew that his men were greedy for money, maybe Cao Hong was a little greedy, but Xiahou Dun and Xia Houyuan were the kind of people who were greedy for money.
The three of them came hand in hand and expressed their desire to participate in this martial arts competition. Cao Cao knew that they were not setting a reward for Liu Zhe, although the reward would definitely be a lot. Cao Cao knew that they were going for the title of No. 1 in the world.
Xia Houyuan continued: "Mengde, if we don't participate, wouldn't it mean to express to the world that we are not as good as Liu Zhe?"
Xia Houyuan's words made Cao Cao understand immediately. He didn't have to consider whether to send people to participate. This was useless, because he had to send people to participate.
"Otherwise, when the time comes, everyone in the world will look at it and say, hey, no one from Cao Cao's side is going to participate. Does it mean that no one under him dares to go?" Still don¡¯t have any men to go to? No matter which statement is made, it will have a great impact on Cao Cao.
Therefore, Cao Cao must send people to participate. Even if someone is not as good as Liu Zhe and cannot win the first place in the world, he can still show Cao Cao's attitude to the world.
Liu Zhe has already called for battle in the newspaper. If Cao Cao can't retreat and doesn't send people, it will have a huge impact on the morale of his men.
It can even make the subordinates who don't understand have a feeling that Cao Cao is inferior to Liu Zhe. In the future, they will be dwarfed before fighting.
Therefore, Cao Cao knew that he had no way out, and there was no need to think about it, nor did he need to discuss with his advisers and staff whether to send people or not. If he still wanted to defeat Liu Zhe in the future, then he would have to send people.
When he thought of this, Cao Cao felt depressed. He didn't know that his recent busyness had reduced his energy, so he didn't consider this aspect at the beginning.
Facing Xiahou Dun and the others, Cao Cao pondered for a moment, and finally said: "In that case, Yuan Rang, Miaocai, Zi Lian, you three, bring Gao Lan and Wen Ze with you."
"Here!"
"But be sure to be careful."
Cao Cao warned worriedly. He looked at Xia Houyuan and said, "If necessary, you can go to Zhang Fei."
Although he knew that Liu Zhe was unlikely to attack his men, Cao Cao still warned Xia Houyuan to find his brother-in-law, Zhang Fei, just in case.
Zhang Fei has a high status in Youzhou and is Liu Zhe's confidant. He married Xia Houyuan's sister and is related to Xia Houyuan, so he can help.
When Xia Houyuan heard Zhang Fei's name, he curled his lips, but he still agreed.
But just two days later, when Xiahou Dun and others were about to leave for Youzhou, Cao Cao brought them an imperial edict, which stated that they were going to Youzhou with the emperor's order to participate in the martial arts competition held by Liu Zhe. In order to support Liu Zhe, who was the emperor's uncle, the emperor eliminated five Xiahouduns.
In order to protect his men, Cao Cao worked hard and even obtained a copy of the imperial edict.
Furthermore, in order to prevent Cao Cao from being alone in the competition, he also issued an imperial edict to other princes, asking them to send people to participate.
Liu Bei, Sun Ce, Gongsun Zan, and even Liu Bei of Jingzhou all received the imperial edict.
"What does Cao Cao want to do?"
Liu Bei, who received the imperial edict in Xinye, sounded very unhappy. He hated Cao Cao deeply. If it weren't for Cao Cao's despicable sneak attack, he would still be the boss of Yuzhou at this time, and there would be no need to rely on others like he does now.
In these days, Cao Cao sent people to express his goodwill, but Liu Bei had seen through Cao Cao's despicable face, and he did not believe Cao Cao at all.
Liu Bei did not believe a single word of this imperial edict.
"If you dare to bully the emperor like this, I will defeat Cao Cao one day and rescue the emperor." Liu Bei grabbed the imperial edict and said bitterly.
"Have mercy on my nephew, the emperor." After Liu Bei finished speaking bitterly, he immediately burst into tears again.
"My lord, there is no need to be sad."
Seeing Liu Bei crying again, Shen Pei felt helpless and could only console him: "Cao Cao lost Yongzhou and his strength is not as good as before. As long as my lord cultivates his health and rests, he will be able to defeat Cao Cao one day."
"Zhengnan is right!"
Liu Bei made a whoosh, his tears disappeared, and he straightened his body and said: "But what does Cao Cao's imperial edict mean? You want me to send people to participate in the martial arts competition in Youzhou? He is a fool."??? Or mentally retarded? "
Liu Bei learned these two new words for "this stupid idiot" from Youzhou No. 1 Newspaper. Now Liu Bei likes these new words for cursing people.
"Does he want to attack me again?"
Liu Bei guessed with fear that he had been frightened by Cao Cao's sneak attack. If he hadn't been lucky, he would have died long ago.
Liu Bei said to himself: "No, my order goes down and the soldiers under his command should be careful."
"My lord, I don't think so."
Shen Pei had a different opinion. He said: "If Cao Cao wants to make a sneak attack, he will not issue an imperial edict, otherwise it will be true."
When Liu Bei heard it, he thought it was right. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com