Chapter 159 The Evil Tiger Out of the Gate [Subscribe]

Li Dian, also known by his courtesy name Mancheng.

He has been studious since childhood, understands the great principles, and especially respects learned people.

Man Chong, courtesy name Boning, was eight feet tall.

Like the other two, both are talented in both civil and military affairs.

But Li Dian was a refined scholar, while Man Chong was a strict person, and had a history of using excessive torture on prisoners, even torturing them to death.

Later, he was in Cao's camp, in charge of justice, and was known for his strict law enforcement.

After meeting with a group of generals, Cao Cao continued to discuss the affairs of Yanzhou with Xun Yu surrounded by everyone.

"Governor, the development of water conservancy projects requires a large amount of money. You see..." Xun Yu looked at Cao Cao eagerly.

"You ask Diao Chan for it, I'll go back and talk to her."

Cao Cao then separated from Xun Yu and others and went about their business.

When he returned to Onoze, the sky darkened and it started to rain again.

Cao Cao got off his horse.

Yin and Rui were the first to rush out from the half-man-high grass beside the lake to greet him.

"You've made yourself into a mud kid."

Cao Cao reached out and patted Yin's head.

Rui also followed and wanted to be patted on the head, but was immediately grabbed by Yin's paw and pressed aside.

You can only touch me, you are not qualified, Yin’s attitude is clear.

Cao Cao remembered that there was a hint in a previous entry, saying that he could draw the energy of heaven and earth to Yin and make it a spiritual beast.

Now Cao Cao is the lord of Caoying, with a population of tens of millions under his jurisdiction and great fortune gathered, and he has begun to gain the power of humanity.

When he concentrated his mind to draw the energy of heaven and earth, the surrounding void seemed to open up a funnel, and driven by his thoughts, the energy rushed into Yin's body.

There was a hint of surprise in Yin's tiger eyes, and even the whiskers at the corners of his mouth trembled.

But it was very smart and did not struggle. It opened its mouth and roared like a tiger, shaking the surface of the lake.

The spiritual charm of heaven and earth, as majestic as a long river, poured into Yin's body and was absorbed by it.

Yin soon tasted the sweetness and felt comfortable all over. He felt lazy and seemed to have a cool breath washing over his body. He then stretched out his big tongue to lick Cao Cao.

Cao Cao also sent out part of the energy of his spirit and soul, and merged it into Yin's body.

He and Yin seemed to have a subtle connection that could sense each other.

Cao Cao thought if he could draw energy to Yin, he could increase its spirituality and strength.

Red Hare with yellow claws is obviously also acceptable.

Isn’t this the unity of man and horse that every general dreams of? Lu Bu’s innate ability increases his combat power when he mounts a horse!

Yin's tiger roar continued, getting louder and louder.

After a while, Cao Cao boarded a small boat and headed towards the large ship docked on the lake.

Yin turned around and ran away, happily preparing to catch a rabbit. He was going to have a big meal tonight to celebrate.

Rui followed closely behind.

A tiger and a leopard disappeared along the shore in the blink of an eye.

When Cao Cao approached the big ship, he heard the sound of stringed instruments and orchestras coming from the ship.

On the small deck on the third floor, one can vaguely see an enchanting figure dancing to the music.

That's Bai Ke.

She has recently become familiar with the women on the ship.

Yu Qing admired Bai Ke's dancing posture and would go to watch her dancing every day.

Sometimes Bian Mei also participated.

The two of them together are truly a duo of singers and dancers.

Cao Cao looked at it several times and thought it was the best in the world and difficult to replicate.

Cai Yong has also been coming to the ship frequently recently.

Not only was he good at calligraphy, which made him famous throughout the ages, his attainments in music were also amazing.

In later generations, Xiao Gang, the Emperor Yuan of Liang, wrote "Zhuan Yao", which listed the famous ancient zithers, including the Qingjiao of Huangdi, the Haozhong of Qi Huangong, the Yuanqi of Sima Xiangru, the Fenghuang of Zhao Feiyan, and the Jiaowei of Cai Yong.

In the thousands of years of history of the development of Qin culture, Cai Yong has occupied the most important position.

He linked the structure and shape of the zither with heaven and earth. He believed that the length of the zither symbolized the number of days in a year, and that the zither was wide in the front and narrow in the back, and round on the top and square on the bottom, symbolizing hierarchy and the shape of heaven and earth, reaching a metaphysical height.

At this time, there was a beautiful sound of piano on the boat. It was Cai Yong and Wen Ji accompanying Bai Ke.

The female members of the family also watched with great interest.

Cao Cao also had a high level of attainment in music. He could sing while drinking and compose poems while holding a spear.

In history, when Cao Cao was in high spirits, he liked to sing and dance.

"Meng De, I have just composed a new song called 'He Jiang Yue' and I am looking for your comments."

Cai Yong saw the boat coming back from afar, looked back from the deck, plucked the strings of the zither with his hands as smoothly as flowing clouds and water, and talked to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao smiled.

He was busy planning outside just to see the sunset and the laughter.

At present, I can only protect the safety of those around me, but in the future I hope to spread this safety to the whole of China.

Cao Cao boarded the ship and joined the crowd.

As night fell, the boat became quiet.

Cao Cao came to a small cabin on the second floor.

Diao Chan tied up her beautiful hair and passed it through a wooden hairpin. She was writing accounts with a focused expression, calculating income and expenditure.

"We agreed to build a water conservancy project this afternoon. Did Wen Ruo come to ask you for money?"

The money in Cao's camp was divided into two parts. One part was the public account, which was managed by Xun Yu.

Including Yanzhou’s civil taxes, commercial taxes and other income.

The Cao Mansion, or Cao Cao's inner treasury, was managed by Diao Chan.

At present, the internal treasury has much more money than the public account.

After all, Cao Cao had been "killing the rich to help the poor" for two years and had robbed the birthday gift several times. The huge wealth he had accumulated was all with Diao Chan.

There was a message bead placed on the low mat.

Diao Chan was given one of the newly acquired communication beads to facilitate communication, manage finances and taxes, and access internally and externally.

"How much does Wen Ruo want from you?"

Cao Cao came over and took off the hairpin on Diao Chan's head, and her beautiful hair immediately fell down along her crystal clear and delicate ears.

He stretched out his hand and stroked his black hair. If a fly landed on it, it would have to split its legs and could not stand at all.

"All the money was borrowed last time to make armor and build camps. Xun Sima came to borrow money and moved twenty large boxes of treasures from the mansion."

"We borrowed a lot to build the water conservancy this time."

Diao Chan was like a little housekeeper holding her purse tightly, watching the treasury under her charge with only outflows and no incomings. She knew it was an important matter and she could not refuse, so she was extremely anxious.

"You should think of it this way. The entire Yanzhou and Yuzhou belong to our family. Wen Ruo is our foreman. He helps us build bridges and pave roads so that more people can work properly. Wouldn't it be better if we could live a good life together?"

Cao Cao sat down, took Diao Chan into his arms, and peeked from behind to watch her continue to check the accounts.

Diao Chan blinked her big eyes: "It's better, but the governor should remind Xun Sima that the borrowed money must be repaid later."

Cao Cao smiled and moved his hand upwards.

Diao Chan twisted her expression and said, "It will take a while to finish the work..."

After a while, she asked quietly, "When will the governor take me in? I want to be your concubine." "Just a concubine?"

Diao Chan nodded her head: "I can't be a wife, otherwise there will be no peace in the family."

Among all her wives and concubines at home, only Cao Cao could be her support.

If she becomes the wife, Yu Qing and others will have the support of Yu family, and everyone will be dissatisfied, and the harem will be in turmoil.

Diao Chan herself also lacks the means, character and experience to maintain a stable harem.

"You will have to wait until you marry me."

The situations of the women in the family are different. Some don’t need to wait, while others are more suitable to take it slow, such as Xiao Diao Chan.

"How long will it take?"

"The northern provinces and counties are stable, or... the world is pacified." Cao Cao said.

Diao Chan was slightly surprised.

She knew Cao Cao's ambition, but she had never thought that far ahead. She said faintly, "Then I will wait until I am an old maid."

"No, at most one or two years, the North will have results."

Cao Cao saw a cushion next to him with a pair of small mandarin ducks embroidered on it, with exquisite craftsmanship.

"Did you embroider this?"

"Ah."

Cao Cao suddenly realized that this little girl also had her own ideas.

The two fish she embroidered for Yu Qing looked completely different. It turned out that she did it to please Yu Qing. She pretended that the embroidery was not good so that she could quickly become friends with Yu Qing and get closer to her.

In fact, she is very good at embroidery.

"I'm going to meet some nobles. I'll leave tomorrow. I'll take you with me. Maybe I'll have a chance to help you put some money in your purse."

"Okay." Diao Chan replied.

In early August, Cao Cao went south from Yanzhou, preparing to resolve some obstacles in controlling Yuzhou.

He went south from the west side of Yanzhou, close to Liu Biao's Jingzhou.

"The Liangzhou army surrounded Chang'an again, and fierce fighting continued for several days. These days, all the talk in various places is about the incident in Chang'an."

Zhao Zilong was riding on his horse, half a body length behind.

Slightly ahead, Cao Cao is riding Red Hare, wearing dark Hanfu and with a sword hanging from his waist.

Surrounding them are the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to provide security.

"I heard that Lu Bu went to join Yuan Benchu." Xi Zhicai, who was accompanying them, said later.

Cao Cao nodded: "He has been wandering for half his life, and he has to wander for a while."

The setting sun shines in a gentle glow.

They were not walking on the official road, so there were almost no pedestrians.

In the woods beside the road, there was a tiger appearing and disappearing from time to time.

At the age of two, Yin already had the body size of an adult tiger, as strong as a calf, full of ferocity, but with a silly face.

Occasionally it would peek out from the woods and look at Cao Cao stupidly, fearing that it had gotten lost.

After nightfall, the team set up camp in the wild, and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry spread out to deploy their defenses.

Cao Cao has a lot of things to deal with when he goes south this time, and he needs to solve them one by one.

In the big tent, with lanterns lit, Cao Cao and his companions Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai were discussing something.

Outside the camp, the mountains rise and fall in the distance.

Yin was running around in the dark forest.

Cao Cao infused it with the spirit of heaven and earth and transformed its physique. It became more spiritual and its strength increased rapidly, far exceeding that of ordinary beasts.

Ow—

Yin shook his ears and heard the sound of a wolf howling in the distance!
The area of ​​Yanzhou adjacent to Jingzhou is close to the remnants of the Qinling Mountains, and there are quite a few wolf packs there.

In the darkness of night, a doe was running alone in the wild.

Three or four wild wolves were chasing after the doe, hunting it.

The leading wolf, agile and ferocious, leaped forward. The doe turned nimbly, but was pounced on by the second wolf, which bit her neck.

However, the wolf was then attacked by a more powerful figure, who bit the wolf's larynx with a snap.

Yin emerged from the darkness.

Its wildness is growing rapidly, and it is eager to show its power in dominating the mountains and forests.

Yin swung his tiger claws, striking left and right with ferocity and violence. Every time he struck, the force he unleashed was astonishing.

The remaining two wolves fled away whimpering.

Whoosh!
At this moment, a crossbow arrow was shot out, then the second, and the third.

Yin waved his claws and knocked down the two arrows.

It also dodged the rest of the arrows.

A group of people appeared on the mountains not far away.

The leader was a young man in fancy clothes, who said excitedly: "We released two deer to lure wolves, but we actually lured out a tiger."

"There is a tiger nearby. Catch it quickly so that my father can know that I have hunted a tiger this time!"

Arrows rained down like rain, mixed with the sound of vibrating bowstrings of powerful crossbows.

Yin had seen Cao Cao's troops using crossbows.

There were a lot of people on the other side, and more than a hundred of them came over one after another.

Yin turned around and ran away, ready to find someone to take revenge.

As it ran, it roared like a tiger, shocking the whole mountain.

After climbing over a low hill, he saw Diao Chan, escorted by Dian Wei and several of his followers. She heard the noise and came to pick it up.

Yin ran over happily, tilted his tiger head towards Diao Chan in grievance, raised his claws, showed his claws, and made a scratching motion in the air, meaning that someone was hitting him, and he wanted Diao Chan to beat the other person to death.

The young man at the back led his men and approached quickly with torches in hand.

The young man saw Yin and Diao Chan in the light of the fire. He felt a buzzing sensation in his head and stopped suddenly.

There are such beautiful women in the world.

The young man stared at Diao Chan in a daze: "Whose daughter are you? My God..." His eyes swept across Dian Wei and then returned to Diao Chan, looking at her carefully with amazement on his face.

The people around him had also come closer and gathered around him.

Dian Wei said to Diao Chan, "Madam, let's go back."

Diao Chan felt overwhelmed with joy.

Dian Wei also called her Madam.

The young man suddenly said, "Surround them."

Several servants approached quickly with powerful crossbows in hand.

Dian Wei moved suddenly like a ferocious tiger out of its cage and knocked down seven or eight people who were approaching with his punches.

Anyone who was hit fell to the ground and was motionless. Their sternums collapsed and they died instantly.

"Whoever dares to kill me!"

The young man was a little surprised, his eyes narrowed slightly: "Kill this reckless man, don't hurt the woman."

"Sir, this man killed seven or eight of our elite soldiers with just a wave of his hand. And judging from the aura of that woman, she must be of great background." A close follower looked at Dian Wei and Diao Chan and reminded them in a low voice.

The young man sneered, "Let's see who dares to confront our Liu family here! Whoever comes will be killed!"

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