The welcoming banquet held by Cao Cao for Ma Teng and Han Sui was held in the front yard of the Cao family.

After the banquet, everyone dispersed.

Cao Cao ordered Jia Xu to settle the two of them well.

When most of the people attending the banquet dispersed, Cao Cao said to Cao Shu who was about to leave: "Zirong, you stay."

Cao Shu stopped, faced Cao Cao, and waited respectfully.

When he came to Cao Shu, Cao Cao said, "Come with me to the backyard for a walk."

The father and son left the front hall and walked into the back garden.

Although the Cao family is not as big as the Yuan family in Hebei, it is also the most spacious house in Xudu City except the imperial palace.

When Cao Shu returned to Xudu, it was already midsummer.

On the trees in the back garden, cicadas are singing their lives, which makes people feel more bored in the hot climate.

Accompanying Cao Cao to the back garden, Cao Shu said nothing.

"How many Huns did you kill this time when you went to Hetao?" Cao Cao asked.

"Go back to my father." Cao Shuo said: "A total of more than 100,000 people were killed in battle and massacred."

"Is the Great Khan of the Xiongnu killed by Ma Chao?" Cao Cao asked, "Are you sure the one who died was the Great Khan of the Xiongnu?"

"I wasn't sure at first," Cao Shu said: "But not long after, Zuo Xianwang inherited the position of the Great Chanyu. It was not until then that I was sure that the Xiongnu Great Chanyu was killed by Ma Chao."

"Can you tell me why I thought of attacking the Huns?" Before Cao Shuo answered, Cao Cao said again: "I just want to hear the truth."

Of course, Cao Shu would not say that he was trying his best to avoid the Five Barbarians Invasion in China that would happen in the future.

He asked Cao Cao, "Did my father forget the sad and angry poem written by Cai Zhaoji?"

"Just because of a poem by a woman, do you attack the Huns?" Cao Cao asked in surprise.

"Father's clarity, that's not a poem." Cao Shu said: "That's the accusation of the Central Plains people who suffered from the Huns. In recent years, we have fought every day, every month, every year. After a while, we Han people are fighting each other. The more we die, the more people in the Central Plains are getting smaller and smaller. But the Xiongnu took advantage of these years of rest and recuperation, and took advantage of the space where we attacked each other to come to the Central Plains to slaughter the people, rob our wealth, and rob our women..."

"It is because of this that you asked the Huns to send you 20,000 war horses?" Cao Cao asked suddenly.

Cao Shuo smiled and scratched his head and said, "It's really impossible to hide anything from his father."

"Twenty thousand war horses, how do you plan to distribute them?" Cao Cao asked.

It was very clear that Cao Cao wanted to get a piece of the pie. Cao Shu said: "Actually, the Xiliang army has asked me for war horses. It is because of this that I asked the soldiers to bring the horses back to Shouchun first. If my father wants..."

"It may not be easy for you to spit out something that has fallen into your hands." Cao Cao said with a smile: "My tiger and leopard cavalry is indeed short of war horses. When the next time the Huns send you horses, you will choose 100,000 strong horses to send to Xudu."

"Hundreds of thousands?" Cao Shuo was stunned and asked, "There are only thousands of tigers and leopards. What does his father want so many horses to do?"

"Two tiger and leopard cavalry each, and one ordinary cavalry each." Cao Cao said: "I can use the extra ones to plow the fields, and I can also plow the fields?"

Cao Shu was covered in black lines.

We used horses to plow the fields, and it was also a good horse sent by the Huns...

If someone who doesn't know the inside story comes to Xudu, and still doesn't know how rich the Cao family is, he actually uses a good horse to do what the ox should do.

"Father..." Cao Shuo smiled and said with a shy face: "I used horses sent by the Huns to plow the fields. If outsiders saw them, I wouldn't say that my father didn't pay attention to horses? If my father really wanted to do these things with horses, I could send some people who retreated from the army to Xudu..."

Cao Cao glared at him: "Just just returned to Xudu, I want to cheat on you with your father?"

"How dare I play tricks with my father?" Cao Shu put away the smile on his face and said to Cao Cao with a bitter face: "I just think I'm using a good horse to do those things..."

"I just said that, do you think I can really do those things with horses?" Cao Cao said, "Tell me the truth, how much benefit did you want from the Huns?"

"Actually, there is not much benefit." Cao Shuo looked miserable and bitter: "Although I asked the Huns for some horses, they gave me all the women they could not support. I was still worried about how to use to support so many people when I returned to Shouchun."

"What the Huns gave to you?" Cao Cao sneered: "I remember that the Huns never gave women to others."

"They can't beat us, all the men in the tribe died, leaving only women behind." Cao Shu said: "It's not that my father didn't know me. My character has been very pure since childhood. I don't care about women the most. Children and the elderly are wronged. How could I watch those women helpless? So I could only bite the bullet and accept them all, and send them to Shouchun to make a fuss."

"It's okay if you talk nonsense in front of others." Cao Cao said, "There is no truth in front of me."

"Actually, I didn't bring anything back to my father," Cao Shu said, "I went to Bei to become the Great Khan of the Huns. I told him that if I wanted to avoid being beaten, I would have to marry our Cao family."

"Are you crazy or stupid?" Hearing the word "tributive" Cao Cao glared: "Can you send your sisters to the Huns?"

Cao Cao looked bad, and Cao Shu hurriedly said, "My father misunderstood what I mean. The so-called marriage is nothing more than becoming a family. We marry a daughter and they marry a daughter are actually the same."

Looking at Cao Shu in confusion, Cao Cao asked, "Can you even ask the Huns to agree to send Ju Ci to Cao's family as their daughter-in-law?"

"It's true." Cao Shu grinned and said to Cao Cao: "There are too few daughters around him, only two. I took over both of them. As for which brother they marry, my father has to make a decision."

The news Cao Cao received was all that Cao Shu had already done.

He had not sent his daughter out of Hetao yet, so he certainly did not know the specific details of Cao Shu's marriage with the Huns.

Looking at Cao Shu in confusion, Cao Cao still couldn't believe that the Huns would actually send Ju Ci to the Central Plains, and it was two at a time...

"How many daughters do you want to be humble?" He glared at Cao Shu fiercely, but Cao Cao felt secretly happy in his heart.

The marriage is used to the Han people marrying the princess.

It is the first time that the Huns have sent Ju Ci to the Central Plains for the first time.

Cao Shu accomplished such a big thing. As his father, Cao Cao would of course be proud of his son.

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