There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

He wished Cao Cao and Merchant Tao could hit a dog's head with their heads, but unfortunately things backfired, and the two of them stopped when the matter came to an end.

A person came out from behind Yuan Shao, lowered his head to check his table and food, and pricked them with silver needles, then ordered someone to replace them with Yuan Shao's own hot wine to cook.

While cooking the wine, Yuan Shao turned his head to look at the potter, and said, "Young Master Tao, if there is anything you need to bring us here, you might as well just talk about it."

The potter looked at the two of them back and forth, and said: "Since the beginning of the Battle of Guandu, the three of us have been fighting for years. During these years, because of us, how many people have suffered, how many fertile fields have been destroyed, and social productivity has regressed even more. Based on this, Tao felt that maybe we could sit down and chat during the New Year's Eve, if we can negotiate peace and calm down the fighting, it might be a good thing for the imperial court, the Han Dynasty, and the world."

Yuan Shao raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, took a sip of wine and did not speak.

Cao Cao said directly: "This matter is easy to handle, as long as you two can surrender to Cao at the same time, the world will naturally be peaceful and peaceful, so why bother talking."

After saying a word, Yuan Shao flew into a rage.

He got up straight away and said: "Cao Ah, don't lie! You just managed to win a match against Yuan in Guandu by chance. Why are you crazy? You want me to submit to you, it's just ridiculous!"

Cao Cao stood up and said with a sneer, "In the beginning, if you were in the capital ten years ago, Cao was still afraid of you, but in the battle of Guandu, your old background has almost been wiped out, and now you are nothing more than a tomb. It's just a dry bone, it's a matter of time for Cao to pacify Hebei, so why do you insist on it?"

"Bastard! Cao Cao! Don't brag, let's go back now and lead the army to a showdown!"

The pottery merchant looked at Cao Cao with a smirk on his face, and understood why he provoked Yuan Shao so deliberately.

Yuan Shao wanted to talk about peace, but Cao Cao didn't.

He came here to stir up trouble today, if Yuan Shao is now angry and walks away, it will be in Cao Cao's arms.

Of course, the potter didn't want to argue with the two of them here.

But in order to successfully attract the attention of the two of them, and cover Guo Jia and Xiao Yinger to persuade Yu Du and Yang Feng of Montenegro to surrender, the potter had to do this.

"Snapped!"

Suddenly, the pottery merchant threw Jiujue to the ground.

His actions, not to mention Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, even the generals who came with them, couldn't help being shocked.

This is so obvious that he is taking the lead!

Could it be that the potters ambushed the knife and axe here beforehand?

But Yuan and Cao had sent people to investigate beforehand, and there was no ambush here?

Seeing the flustered and vigilant expressions of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, the potter stood up, reached out and picked up the wine cup on the ground, smiled at them both embarrassedly, and said, "Sorry, I was just curious and wanted to see How can you two react? You two reacted so fast! I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Chapter 694 Heroes of Cooking Wine

After being so intimidated by the pottery merchant, Yuan Shao was in no mood to continue to be angry with Cao Cao. He sat on the spot angrily, looked at Cao and Tao back and forth, picked up the wine jue that had just been filled, and drank it with his head raised. Take a big gulp.

Seeing that he was about to upset Yuan Shao, Cao Cao was on the verge of failure after being disrupted by the pottery merchant, so he gave him a dissatisfied look and sat down.

The pottery merchant looked back and forth between the two with a smile, and said, "I know that if you want the peace talks to be successful, you must have additional conditions. You might as well tell me what conditions you all have. The three of us are sitting here this time. , then you might as well discuss carefully what if this matter is indeed negotiable?"

Just as Cao Cao was about to speak, the potter suddenly said to him: "As for what brother Meng De said just now, about the unreasonable demands of making people surrender, I don't think I need to repeat it! If brother Meng De is not sincere about the peace talks , then you might as well go first, Tao will never force you to stay, and it is enough for me and Yuan Gong to discuss here."

Cao Cao's teeth itched with hatred when the pottery said it out of his mind, but it is absolutely impossible for him to withdraw now.

If he left, Yuan Shao and the pottery merchant would secretly join forces to plot against him, wouldn't it be extremely dangerous for our own side!

Among the three, the one who is most interested in peace talks is Yuan Shao. After all, he is the one who most needs to relieve his vitality.

He took a deep breath and said, "It's actually quite simple to want Yuan to stop fighting. This campaign is for the two of you to lead troops to invade Hebei. As long as you two withdraw from Hebei, Yuan's land will be swallowed up." After the city was handed over, Yuan agreed to reconcile, and he didn't feel that the matter should be pursued, how about it?"

The pottery merchant laughed when he heard the words, Yuan Shao's words were nothing but a dream, how could there be any reason in the world to spit out the food after eating it?

Besides, I didn't really negotiate peace with him. Half of Qingzhou was won by the potters with great difficulty. The next step is to completely occupy the territory of Qingzhou and conquer Jizhou.

The potter thought he had no reason to return the captured city.

But right now he just wants to stall for time, he needs to take advantage of the opportunity of this meeting to bargain hard with Yuan Shao for a few days.

At that moment, the pottery merchant shook his head and said, "Mr. Yuan, this is not right. Back then, you raised your troops without authorization and went south to attack our Xuzhou and Cao Mengde's Central Plains. Now that you are defeated and counterattacked, you want us to return all the money you have given us." How can there be such a reason in the world? Although you lost the battle of Guandu, we also suffered a lot of losses because of your arbitrarily raising troops. These cities today are actually the compensation you paid us for doing wrong things. Consequences, things that children know, how can Yuan Gong not know?"

From the meeting to the present, it was only these words of the pottery merchant that resonated with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao nodded and said, "That's right, the land of Three Rivers should belong to Cao."

Cao Cao joined forces with the princes of Guanzhong and the Heishan Army to attack Hanoi County, and gathered the nearby Hedong and Hexi lands. The Sanhe land is now under his control.

Yuan Shao stood up angrily, and said, "Since this is the case, then there is no need to talk about it."

Facing Yuan Shao's anger, neither Cao Cao nor the potter had any reaction.

Cao Cao naturally hoped that Yuan Shao would flip the table and leave, and it would be best to mess up this so-called farce in his eyes.

The reason why the potter didn't respond is also very simple.

Yuan Shao is bluffing, the person who needs peace talks most right now is actually himself.

Sure enough, after a while

Seeing Yuan Shao sitting down by himself, he muttered, "Even so, we can't give you the land of Three Rivers and the land to the east of Qi State, and we need to redefine the land boundaries."

The pottery merchant smiled and said, "Mr. Yuan can say that, it means that this matter can be discussed!"

Yuan Shao raised his eyebrows upon hearing this.

From what the pottery said, it seems that there is something to this matter.

"Then according to Mr. Tao's intention, how should you and I divide the boundary east of Qi?"

The pottery merchant smiled and said, "Mr. Yuan, I want to state two things. Firstly, I am already the Prime Minister of the court. It is inappropriate for you to call me Mr. Tao. Secondly, the matter of dividing the territory cannot be settled today. You and I need to go back and discuss it carefully with our subordinates, and make sufficient preparations before we can study it, after all, this division of the territory is not a big pie, you just cut me off at will, right?"

Yuan Shao nodded suddenly, thinking in his heart that what the potter said was reasonable.

Cao Cao sneered, and said, "Then according to Mr. Taiping, we won't be able to go back for a while, so we have to live by the Zhang River for a while?"

The pottery merchant smiled and said, "If brother Meng De is homesick, it's okay to go back first, I won't stop you."

Cao Cao was at a loss for words when he heard the words.

When I was young, I saw the potter filling up the wine and said: "Today's matter has been negotiated. Tomorrow's matter will be discussed tomorrow. The three of us will meet here to cook wine through the snow scene. The next day will be passed on to future generations. What do you two think of such a beautiful thing?"

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were not in the mood at first, but it made sense after hearing what he said.

As a host, face project is still more important. After all, everyone wants to be famous forever, so that when people in future generations criticize themselves, they can give a thumbs up and praise instead of spitting hard. a mouthful.

When the two were young, they were also unrestrained and unrestrained people. It's just that they have been fighting for hegemony for a long time, and they have forgotten the pride they had back then.

Drinking hot wine right now, looking at the snow scene, they suddenly thought of the days back then, and there was an indescribable emotion in their hearts.