Cao Cao thought for a long time in the big account alone, and finally called Cheng Yu.
"Zhongde, the situation is not good now. Zhang Yu seems to be determined to eat us, so he is so unscrupulous." Said Cao Cao.
Cao Cao and Cheng Yu know that their food and grass can only support more than ten days now, and it is obviously not so easy to break Xuzhou in more than ten days, because Zhang Yu is there.
"Lord, no matter what, we have to fight for some interests. If we can't get territory, it can be population. If we can't get population, we can also learn from Zhang Yu's looting. But we can't do what Zhang Yu did. We can't offend the aristocratic families in the world. We can't afford to offend them." Cheng Yu said.
Cao Cao agrees with Cheng Yu, but he can't show it, because if Cao Cao shakes, it will affect the whole army.
In this way, Cao Cao also thought that it was very difficult to conquer Xuzhou, and he could not take any risks.
Cao Cao motioned Cheng Yu to continue.
"There's not much to say about migrating people. What my subordinates want to say is aristocratic families. We can mobilize our relations and persuade these aristocratic families to migrate to our territory. Although Xuzhou is rich and well-off, it's doomed to fail. I believe that some aristocratic families will be willing."
Cao Cao's eyes lit up and nodded to acquiesce in Cheng Yu's statement.
Cheng Yu then said: "Lord, it's better to send someone to contact Zhang Yu secretly. You can play double reed with him and let him give up some of his interests."
Cao Cao immediately shook his head and said: "Zhang Yu is a personal essence. Once he is allowed to find out our bottom, he will not turn to us for benefits."
Cheng Yu has nothing to say. According to Zhang Yu's character, he can do it completely.
Cao Cao began to encircle but not attack Zhang Yu. In this way, Zhang Yu lived in the MI family, and there was nothing to do in the MI family.
Mi Zhu is obviously very busy.
He runs on both sides of the prefecture and his family every day.
That day, when Mi Zhu came back, one of his disciples came to him.
"Master, I have got part of the results of what you asked me to investigate." Said the porter.
Mi Zhu thought of what he was told, and looked around, but no one noticed, so he took the door guest to the study.
When he got to the study, MI Zhu sat down and said, "I asked him to investigate the situation of Kuaiji county and Liaodong county. It's only a few days. How can there be any progress?"
Mi Zhu is curious about Zhang Yu and wants to invest in him, but he has to be investigated first, so Mi Zhu arranges people to go to Kuaiji, Liaodong and other places to investigate.
Mi Zhu's investigation focused on several counties in Yangzhou to see if they were like what Zhang Yu said.
"Master, Zhang Yu asked you for a lot of people to go to Liaodong to help him manage the place. Two months ago, there was an official who worked as a county magistrate in Liaodong. Because his mother died, he came back to keep filial piety. We got a lot of information you need from him." Said the porter.
Mi Zhu was overjoyed and said, "great, it can save us a lot of time. How much does he know?"
"Master, he knows a lot, even things in Yangzhou, because there are fleets between Yangzhou and Youzhou in a few days, and a lot of information is public, so it's easy to find out." Said the porter.
Mi Zhu happily walked up and down in the study, then stopped and said: "you arrange, I want to see him in person, to understand some situation."
After the battle, MI Zhu met the man in his study.
"The head of the family didn't come back to see the ceremony because he was in mourning. Don't be surprised." Said the porter.
"Don't mention it. Our Mi family treated you badly when we let you go to Liaodong." Mi Zhu said.
He didn't feel wronged at all. On the contrary, he was glad that he was a county magistrate in Liaodong. Zhang Yu gave him a good treatment and showed his talent.
If you're in Mi's family, you can only continue to be a doorman waiting to die, and it's hard to make any progress.
After all, the MI family is not a power, but a family, which is very different.
After the polite words, he said, "I'm looking for you to learn something from you."
Mi Zhu said what she wanted to know.
"Master, these are not hard to find out. Zhang Yu's officials know about them."
"The population of Yizhou is more than one million. General Zhang didn't deal with specific things, so he received the news later. Today, there are more than two million people in Yizhou. And now there are a lot of fleets coming and going in Kuaiji every day, and a lot of islands are found in the southeast, some of which are very huge. "
"The development of Kuaiji and Liaodong has long been beyond the imagination of the world. Zhang Yu dares to be the enemy of the world's aristocratic families. His strength is not only these, but also the most important thing is talents. After several years of operation, Kuaiji can provide a large number of talents every year, and talents are developing towards senior talents."
The disciple told Mi Zhu about the development of Zhang Yu's power, and Mi Zhu was shocked.
No one knows that Zhang Yu has set up such a big stall at the two edges.
At this time, MI Zhu knew that Zhang Yu had dozens of fleets that traveled around every day.
It is also a huge population and huge investment. After a few years, it will provide hundreds of talents every day, which is very frightening.
As time goes on, there will only be more and more talents.
At this time, MI Zhu had to pay attention to Zhang Yu.
At this time, MI Zhu's concept of Zhang Yu completely changed.
Not to mention the others, Zhang Yu has long had an overall consideration of the site, and is far sighted than anyone else.
There are many prejudices against Zhang Yu in the world, but Zhang Yu has quietly developed to such an extent that he has more potential than anyone else, so Mi Zhu naturally has to consider investing in Zhang Yu.
See off the door guest, MI Zhu himself shut in the study to consider.
"Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu, you are really deep enough. I'm afraid no one can see your real potential at this time."
Mi Zhu is glad to find out that Zhang Yu's influence is different.
Apart from offending people everywhere, Zhang Yu didn't expand much, but they didn't know that Zhang Yu had been expanding to the south, that is, Fujian and Guangdong, while expanding to the East and overseas.
The expansion of other vassals requires huge investment of troops and huge consumption, while Zhang Yu's expansion can produce continuous benefits without using weapons.
Had it not been for the poor foundation of kuiji and Liaodong, Zhang Yu would have been the overlord at this time.
"We must take this opportunity to win over Zhang Yu." Mi Zhu determined to say.