The book is followed last time.

Five days later, Cao Mansion.

Li Zhi was chatting with Cao Cao in the hall, and suddenly, he heard the servant's voice of the report: "Report to the lord, the princes came outside the palace and asked to see Duke Mengde."

"Ha!" After hearing this, Cao Cao smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "What should be coming is coming! This group of people still don't plan to let Brother Wei go!"

After hearing Cao Cao's words, Li Zhi narrowed his eyes and a gleam of light appeared in his eyes.

Before forming an alliance with Cao Cao, he really didn't want to care about Cao Cao's affairs.

Moreover, he planned to make Cao Cao nothing at all!

Because only in this way can he successfully form an alliance with Cao Cao.

Now that the two of them have formed an alliance, Li Zhike no longer intends to let Cao Cao hand over his troops.

After all, he and Cao Cao will stand on the same front in the future. The more Cao Cao's troops, the more helpful it will be to Li Zhi!

Therefore, he planned to leave the coalition of princes to Cao Cao, and at least he would keep Cao Cao's troops in his headquarters!

After making up his mind, Li Zhi said to the servants outside: "Please come in."

"Here!" The servant responded and hurried away.

After the servant left, Cao Cao frowned and asked, "Brother Xingzhi, can't I wait to go out to greet him?

Is it appropriate to have more than a dozen princes not going out to greet him?"

"Ha!" Li Zhi laughed disdainfully and said, "Just based on his current status, just a prince, and he is not worthy of letting him go down to welcome them!

I can send someone to welcome them in, which has given them enough face. Do they dare to ask for anything else? Do you think I have no temper?!"

After saying that, Li Zhi's eyes were full of disdain.

Although he also knew that there were indeed a few outstanding men among the princes, he also knew that these outstanding men would be his opponents in the future!

So, he will never give these people any good looks!

Anyway, you are destined to be an enemy. No matter how good you are to them, you will never be lenient when they should kill you in the future!

Since that's the case, what else can I give you?! Just tear your face off!

After hearing Li Zhi's words, Cao Cao nodded thoughtfully.

He knew that he had not yet escaped the influence of being the leader of the coalition forces of the princes.

Moreover, his mentality has not changed completely. Cao Cao felt that he should now look at things from the perspective of a force that fights alone in the world.

Because Cao Cao is different from others, others do need several allies when they are fighting for dominance.

However, Cao Cao could not have allies!

Because once Li Zhi implements his plan, Cao Cao will become the enemy of the aristocratic family!

At that time, all the people from aristocratic families will be hostile to him!

Most of the people who can become princes in the country come from aristocratic families.

In other words, in the future, no princes will form an alliance with Cao Cao!

Therefore, Cao Cao didn't have to give the princes a good look at him at this time, because they were destined to become enemies in the future!

After thinking it through, Cao Cao sorted out his clothes and sat calmly beside several tables, slowly savoring the tea.

He now figured it out, I don’t care who you are. As long as my power is strong enough, you will not dare to be presumptuous in front of me, otherwise... I will kill you!

After waiting for a while, led by the two brothers of the Yuan family and Gongsun Zan, the princes came to Cao Cao's hall.

After coming in, Yuan Shu immediately bowed to Cao Cao in a crooked manner and said sarcastically: "I have met the leader of the alliance!

Tsk tsk... The leader of the alliance is indeed different from the princes of our alliance!

After a defeat, the leader of the league was able to calmly savor tea here. Some family admired it! Admiration!"

After saying that, Yuan Shu immediately stood up and looked at Cao Cao with contempt.

After hearing Yuan Shu's words, Cao Cao slowly put down the teacup in his hand and said calmly: "Brother Gaolu is right, this leader did suffer a defeat.

However, you and I know that the reason why this leader fails is not because his methods are not as good as Dong Zhuo, but because Dong Zhuo is too shameless!

He threatened the leader of the alliance with His Majesty, and the leader of the alliance had no choice but to retreat. This was not a crime of war, no wonder the leader of the alliance!

Although this leader failed, this leader has done his best!

Therefore, the reason why this leader can savor tea here is because this leader has a clear conscience!”

When he said this, Cao Cao did not raise his eyelids. After saying this, he picked up the teacup and began to savor it carefully.

"Hmph!" After hearing Cao Cao's words, Yuan Shu snorted coldly, but he could not refute what Cao Cao said.

Because Cao Cao was right, Cao Cao had indeed tried his best in the confrontation with Dong Zhuo.

As for the failure this time...

Everyone also understood that this was definitely not Cao Cao’s fault!

However, they came today to seize Cao Cao's military power and could not weaken their momentum.

Therefore, after seeing that Yuan Shu was blocked by Cao Cao, Gongsun Zan immediately responded and said, "The leader's words are too unreasonable!

As the leader of our alliance of princes, you should have guessed that Dong Zhuo would use His Majesty to threaten us before going to attack Chang'an.

But now, we have failed because you didn't expect this matter!

Moreover, after you failed, you didn’t reflect on yourself. It can be seen that your virtue is not worthy of the position of leader!”

"Oh?" After hearing Gongsun Zan's words, Cao Cao raised his eyelids, looked at him, and asked calmly: "General Gongsun means...

Want to remove the leader of a certain family?!"

After hearing Cao Cao's words, Gongsun Zan did not beat around the bush, and nodded directly and said, "That's right! This general thinks that you are no longer suitable as the leader of the alliance, so...

Cao Cao! Hand over the position of leader!"

After saying that, Gongsun Zan stared at Cao Cao with bright eyes.

After hearing this, Cao Cao was not angry. Instead, he turned his eyes to the other princes present and asked calmly: "Why are you waiting for this?"

When asked this, he focused on Zhang Miao and others.

Because Zhang Miao and others were the five princes that Lu Bu captured when he attacked the camp of the princes.

And Cao Cao can be said to be the savior of these five people!

So, he wanted to see if these five people were ungrateful people.

Zhang Miao and others, after seeing Cao Cao looking at them, their eyes were a little dodged and did not dare to look at Cao Cao.

Then, they felt that they were so guilty of hiding so much!

So, they forced themselves to turn their heads and stare at Cao Cao, defending themselves: "Leader, you really have life-saving grace to us."

However, public is public and private is private. We dare not use private to abolish public. I hope the leader will forgive me."

Wu, who was a little guilty, immediately looked at Cao Cao with a high chest, looking righteous.

Their posture made Li Zhi on the side disgusted!

"Ha!" After hearing this, Cao Cao sneered, shook his head, and said nothing.

He had no expectations for these five people. Under the temptation of power, what kind of kindness is!

So, after he glanced at the five people, he turned his eyes to Yuan Shao, who had never spoken.

He could see that everyone present was mainly Yuan Shao.

So, he asked Yuan Shao: "Brother Benchu, do you think so too?"

After hearing Cao Cao's words, Yuan Shao's face looked very complicated.

To be honest, with his pride, he was unwilling to compete for Cao Cao's military power!

After all, there are only tens of thousands of people left in the coalition of princes. Although they have outstanding combat power, it is no big deal!

As long as Yuan Shao returns to his territory, he can gather tens of thousands of troops in an instant!

However, Yuan Shao could see that Cao Cao had the will to compete for dominance in the world, and coincidentally, Yuan Shao had this intention too!

Therefore, the reason why Yuan Shao fought for Cao Cao's military power was not because he was fond of these soldiers, but because he wanted to weaken Cao Cao!

That’s right! Yuan Shao has now regarded Cao Cao as his opponent!

Because Yuan Shao met Cao Cao several years ago, everyone looked down on Cao Cao because of his background, but Yuan Shao never underestimated him!

Because Yuan Shao knew that Cao Cao had outstanding character and talent. Once he got the chance, he would immediately become a dragon!

Therefore, Yuan Shao, who had already looked at the world, tried every means to weaken Cao Cao.

Yuan Shu, who was beside Yuan Shao, was stunned after hearing Cao Cao's words, and then quietly poked his back and whispered: "What are you stunned? Reply quickly!"

"Hmm? Well!" Yuan Shao, who came to his senses, nodded slightly, looked at Cao Cao and said, "Forgive me, I really feel that Meng De is no longer suitable to be the leader of ours.

Of course, I don’t deny Brother Meng De’s achievements.
To be continued...