The blue light sword leaning against the edge of the bed seemed to emit layers of blood under the shaking candlelight.

When did he start to have a sword leaning against the bed to make him sleep soundly?

No, even with a sword or more swords, he still couldn't sleep well.

It's like tonight.

Cao Cao raised his head slightly and looked at the swaying candlelight.

The shaking fire seemed to be as dark red as the blood columns splattered from the neck after the head he cut down in Xuzhou back then.

In a trance, Cao Cao seemed to see a floating corpse on the Si Shui River.

Those faces that were drifting with the flow seemed to be hanging deep in his heart, and occasionally they would open their eyes and reveal their blue-white eyes.

『Boom…』

There was a thunder outside the window, and then lightning flashed by. The dark red color remained in the eyes, just like the cinnabar on the city massacre order back then.

scarlet.

Fishy smell.

The rain splashed down, inspiring the fishy smell of the land, and the drawbacks that filled Cao Cao reminded him of the rust smell that filled Pengcheng back then.

The hungry Qingzhou soldiers opened their blood-filled eyes, like hungry wolves. If they were not given flesh and blood, they would eat Cao Cao himself in the next moment.

Cao Cao would not admit that the butcher knife that had bloody Xuzhou was slashed first at the Tao Qian army, but the barn iron lock of the Wang family in Langya.

The howlings in those manors are still vibrating with tinnitus in some late nights.

Lightning and thunder roaring, candlelight shaking, Cao Cao saw his shadow twisting into two on the tent, one holding a flag of "revenge for your father" to stomp the city, and the other was drawing a red circle facing the grain book of Xuzhou County.

"I'm not greedy, violent and bloodthirsty..." Cao Cao shook his head and smiled bitterly, as if he was whispering to someone, "If there were no money and food in Xuzhou, how could the military farm in Yanzhou?"

Do you really think that the food you eat will be reappeared after the left hand and the right hand, and the food you eat will be reappeared?

The people of Xuzhou died and supported the Qingzhou army.

He gave the order.

He didn't think about defending himself.

If he had to choose again, he would still choose this way.

Even the blood-stained food bags dragged out from Xuzhou counties, granaries, and cellars were covered with corpses.

"In the past, Yuan Ben first occupied the four states, and Liu Jingsheng enjoyed the benefits of the Jianghan River and the Yuan Highway..." Cao Cao suddenly laughed, "This chaotic era, this chaotic era... It was originally a stoic pot! The bones are firewood, and the meat is cooked!"

"Now it's your turn..." Cao Cao smiled, smiled, his face trembled a little, "It's your turn, are you... going to kill?"

Three hundred thousand Qingzhou soldiers knelt on the snow like hungry people, and behind them were ten empty granaries in Yanzhou.

The corn on the Xuzhou city wall was piled up like a mountain, and Tao Qian was transporting the boxes and baskets of money to Yuan Shu, Liu Bei, and the Danyang soldiers recruited.

Cao Cao's eyes remained in a certain direction.

Shandong is rich and prosperous.

You can bear it, but what about your subordinates?

Your subordinates can bear it, but where are your soldiers?

The people they kill, the money they rob, and the blood they stain, all of them are yours!

If you don't feed them, they will chew on your flesh and blood and suck your bones!

But if you want to feed it, how can you feed it?

Shandong is more people than Guanzhong!

Much more!

Cao Cao smiled, and the smile was meaningful...

Do you think you can control it, but who is actually controlling it?

Do you think the world is obedient to you, but in fact, who are you obedient to?

After reaching this point, can you retreat?

If you don’t retreat, the people in the world will tear you, insult you, and slander you!

You retreat, your subordinates rushed forward and dismembered you with your enemies!

Ha ha ha ha……

The rain fell and crackled.

Mixed in the sound of rain, someone seemed to be whispering something outside the tent.

"What's the matter?"

Cao Cao rubbed his face, as if he had rubbed off his original fatigue and weakness, and thought that he had put on a mask of majesty and calmness again.

"Report to the Prime Minister, someone from Yecheng..."

The guards outside the tent reported in a low voice.

When Cao Cao heard the word Yecheng, he suddenly felt like a stroke in his heart, which made his breathing a little cramped. However, when he spoke, his voice was full of power, and it was short and powerful, "Transfer."

The person who came was covered in mud and water, and when he entered the tent, he fell to the ground. "The villain came to deliver the letter according to the order of the envoy Chen!"

As he said that, the man took out the bamboo tube wrapped in the oil cloth in his arms, and carefully opened it. After seeing that there was no damage to the water inlet on the bamboo tube, he breathed a sigh of relief and delivered it to Cao Cao's guards.

"Thank you for your hard work..." Cao Cao nodded and asked again, "Do you have any other messages?"

The man shook his head.

"Go down and rest." Cao Cao waved his hand and asked the man to retreat.

Since there is no verbal message, there is no need to silence it, but it does not mean that things are simple.

Cao Cao checked the sealing lacquer on the bamboo tube, and after confirming that it was correct, he took out the knife, pried open the bamboo tube, and pulled out the silk cloth. After looking at it, his eyebrows shook, and then closed his eyes, reached out to pinch his forehead...

The guard was on the side, looking worriedly, instinctively feeling that something was wrong might have happened, but he did not dare to ask. He quickly turned his attention to the door of the tent, staring at the door curtains blown by the wind and rain, just like there was something hidden in the wind and rain outside the tent that needed him to be cautious and careful at all times.

After a while, Cao Cao's voice sounded in the big tent.
Chapter completed!