Chapter 251 Send Xiao Qiao

Gao Shun was once captured by Cao's army in history. He didn't say a word and was killed.

Previously, during the Battle of Xia Pi, Gao Shun was still captured by Cao's army, but Wu Fan released him.

Now that he is captured by Cao's army for the second time, what fate will he be waiting for Gao Shun?

After Wu Fan sent Li Zhan to capture Xiangyang, he began to deal with the prisoners in his hands.

In this battle, in addition to Gao Shun, Su Fei and Liu Pan who attacked Jiangling City at night, Wu Ju, who led his troops to ambush in Wulin Valley, was also captured by Cao's army. Only Zhuge Liang and Wang Wei fled in the chaos.

Among them, Su Fei and Wu Ju expressed their willingness to surrender and become Wu Fan's subordinates. Liu Pan refused to surrender because he had some relatives with Liu Biao, so Wu Fan released him. Finally, he ordered someone to bring Gao Shun up.

According to Liu Biao's generals, only Gao Shun could make Wu Fan interested. Gao Shun himself has indeed good abilities, and he can be considered an upstream level among second-rate generals.

After Gao Shun was taken to the main hall by the guards, Gao Shun was ashamed of being captured by Wu Fan for the second time, with a blushing face and thick neck, and lowered his head and felt embarrassed to look at Wu Fan sitting on it.

Wu Fan whispered:

"The captured people below are General Gao Shun?"

Gao Shun just lowered his head and said nothing. The guard next to him answered:

"That's right, General Gao Shun, who was defeated by our army many times."

Wu Fan said oh, and after thinking about it, he suddenly said:

"General Gao Shun will not surrender, let him go."

This made the guards stunned for a moment, and Gao Shun even thought that he would die this time, and never dreamed that Wu Fan would let him go so easily.

The generals under Wu Fan, who were sitting on both sides of the main hall, were also a little surprised by Wu Fan's decision - Gao Shun's ability was also quite good, very different from the mediocre Liu Pan. Our army is now attacking Liu Biao's territory, and now putting him back is undoubtedly adding a capable assistant to Liu Biao. This seems a bit unwise, right? At least he should be locked up.

However, Wu Fan was their leader, and they didn't have much time to say anything, they just looked at each other for a moment.

Amid everyone's confusion, the guard stepped forward and loosened Gao Shun's tie rope. The latter rubbed his wrist, which was a little numb by the rope, hesitated for a while, as if he wanted to say something to Wu Fan, but in the end he didn't say it and turned around and left.

In fact, Gao Shun hesitated because he was moved by Wu Fan's personality charm at this time and wanted to surrender to Wu Fan. However, Wu Fan directly said to let him go, and did not ask him a word or a half to surrender. If he said that he wanted to surrender to Wu Fan's account at this time, he would seem a bit self-indulgent.

Gaomian is a somewhat introverted person who cares a lot about every word he says, what others will think; in other words, he is not smooth enough and not thick-skinned enough. Therefore, after hesitating for a while, Gao Shun finally chose to turn around and leave.

Wu Fan looked at Gao Shun's leaving figure and said nothing. Until Gao Shun had already walked out of the gate of the palace, this was what a civil servant who had handed over a letter that had been written long ago to the civil servant and asked him to pass it on to Gao Shun.

The civil servant took the order and left.

A moment later, as soon as Gao Shun left Jiangling City, he had not yet walked a mile away, and the civil servant rode a fast horse and chased him from behind, handed the letter to Gao Shun, and turned his horse's head back.

Left Gao Shun opened the letter signed by Zhang Liao to Wu Fan in confusion, and rode on the horse and read it while walking.

A few minutes later, Gao Shun finished reading the letter, but hurriedly stopped the war horse under his crotch. Wei Ran sighed and frowned without saying a word.

The general meaning of the letter is that Zhang Liao learned that Wu Fan would be using troops to Liu Biao's Jiangxia and Xiangyang in half a month, so he deliberately took a break from his busy schedule to write this letter while fighting with Ma Teng's army. In the name of his brother, he hoped that if his eighth brother Wu Fan caught Gao Shun, he would not kill him, and so on.

Due to his personality, Gao Shun didn't have much contact with others. Zhang Liao was one of his few friends and he was very good at making friends.

Introverts who are introverts do not make friends or cannot find someone who is in love with them; once they find such friends, they will have almost no reservations in their relationship. This is the case with Gao Shun and Zhang Liao.

Wu Fan and Zhang Liao are sworn brothers, and they usually talk about everything when they are together, so they are naturally very clear about the relationship between the two.

In fact, Zhang Liao is currently attacking Ma Teng's northwest throat and is not aware of the matter on Wu Fan. Wu Fan has never said in his letter to Zhang Liao that he would attack Liu Biao's Jiangxia and Xiangyang.

In other words, this letter was forged by Wu Fan in the name of Zhang Liao.

The reason why Gao Shun was released directly in advance was to create momentum for this letter and make this letter appear more realistic.

Gao Shun frowned and pondered for a long time, then looked at Jiangxia and Xiangyang in the north for a while, but turned his horse toward Jiangling City.

The letter forged by Wu Fan undoubtedly touched Gao Shun very much. I thought that if he returned to Liu Biao's place, due to the huge difference in military strength between Cao and Liu, he would inevitably be captured by Wu Fan. At that time, because of Zhang Liao's letter, Wu Fan would most likely have to release himself.

This made Wu Fan very embarrassed, but he had to do this. Gao Shun felt relieved. However, what made him even more regretful was Zhang Liao's friendship with him, which was reasonable and reasonable. Gao Shun felt that he shouldn't let Zhang Liao help behind his back again, and he shouldn't continue to be stubborn.

With this idea, Gao Shun returned to Jiangling City, came to the gate of the palace city, asked the guards to tell Wu Fan, and said that Gao Shun had something to ask for a meeting.

At this time, Wu Fan was sending military and political instructions to his generals and ministers. When the guards came to the hall, they said Gao Shun's words. Wu Fan, who was sitting on both sides of the main hall, looked very puzzled. Only Wu Fan laughed and said:

"Everyone, if I guess correctly, Gao Shun will join our army and become your colleague."

With everyone's surprised expression, Wu Fan had already asked the guards to go back and tell Gao Shun that he would allow him to come in.

After a while, Gao Shun came to the main hall twice and bowed respectfully to Wu Fan. Gao Shun hesitated and said:

"The reason why Shun came back and asked to see Governor Wu was because he wanted to ask Governor Wu for permission."

Wu Fan pretended not to know and said in confusion:

"I wonder what General Gao said?"

Gao Shun's expression was a little embarrassed. After pausing for a moment, he still said bluntly:

"Shun wants to surrender to Cao's army, but I wonder if the Governor Wu can agree."

When the generals and ministers heard Gao Shun say this, they looked at each other again and were surprised - they didn't expect that they would really guess the guess, and Gao Shun really wanted to surrender to our army.

Of course Wu Fan would not refuse. He was waiting for Gao Shun's words, so he laughed and said:

"Okay, welcome General Gao to join my Cao army. I am looking forward to General Gao's active performance on the battlefield in the future."

When Gao Shun heard Wu Fan say this, his heart fell to the ground, and he was relieved when he looked relaxed. He looked around and the generals and ministers under Wu Fan, who were sitting on both sides, smiled and nodded to Gao Shun, without any indifference and slacking off. This made Gao Shun, as a "newcomer", feel very belonging, and he secretly glad in his heart that he finally found the right organization.

Gao Shun's similarity to Cao, but it is not much different, and loyalty is shown at 89 points. Wu Fan ordered people to take 300 taels of gold and hand it over to Gao Shun as a compliment, increasing Gao Shun's loyalty to 98 points. With Gao Shun's xìng style, such a high loyalty is no longer possible to be poached by others. After being granted an official position by Cao, loyalty will easily reach 100.

As for Zhang Liao, Wu Fan later wrote a letter to Zhang Liao and explained the matter in detail. The two are now sworn brothers, so Zhang Liao would certainly not expose the matter of making scenes and making favors by the way. Moreover, Gao Shun joined Cao's camp and became a colleague at this time, so Zhang Liao was too happy about it.

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In the days that followed, Wu Fan continued to do his best to govern Jiangling City, and still mainly aimed at improving technology. Previously, Zhang Fei and others led their troops into the city, and the suspicious troops used by Zhuge Liang to attack the city, all of which caused Jiangling City's political index to slightly decline. After three days of governance, the technical index reached the full value again. Wu Fan immediately increased and upgraded Jiangling City.

It takes 50,000 gold to upgrade a city from a large city to a giant city, and a sixty-day period is a time-consuming and laborious task. Even so, the upgrade of this city is necessary, because Wu Fan has been waiting to upgrade Jiangling to a giant city, and equip all warships to his main forces.

The current time is the eighth year of Jian'an, in mid-October 197 AD; after Jiangling completes its upgrade, it will have to be January 198. During the process of urban upgrading, enemy troops cannot be allowed to attack the city, otherwise the ongoing construction work will be stopped immediately. Not only will it be golden, but it will also start over again when the construction is to be completed next time.

Therefore, Wu Fan must stay in Jiangling City to curb the attacks on Jiangling by Liu Yan, Jingnan County and Sun Jian.

In this way, Wu Fan will not be able to use troops to the outside world this year. Of course, except for Li Zhan's troops who had been sent out before.

Therefore, Wu Fan stayed in Jiangling City for the following time. During the city's construction process, he could not make internal affairs instructions, and only military and public security could be implemented. Wu Fan's many generals and ministers were enough to deal with this. There were even many generals and ministers gathered in the tavern every day because they could not assign instructions, and they passed the time by collecting tasks.

Wu Fan often has nothing to do, so he feels even more relaxed. Basically, except drinking, hunting, and watching dramas with his subordinates every day, he practices martial arts most of the time; he can not only improve his martial arts proficiency, but also improve his martial arts experience, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

However, when practicing martial arts, there was a situation that made Wu Fan very confused, that was Xiao Qiao.

As a modern person, the impression of the martial arts of strong energy and amazing destructive power is only in novels, games and films and TV dramas. I never thought that there would be such a day when I saw this martial arts that were only in false impressions appear in front of me. So, whenever Wu Fan was practicing martial arts in the back garden, if Xiao Qiao caught up, he would scream and be surprised, which made Wu Fan very distressed.

They also saw Wu Fan practicing martial arts. If it were Cui Yingying, Diao Chan, and many servants in the Wu Mansion, they would usually only praise the master's excellent martial arts skills, but would not scream at all, as if they saw aliens. Because in their consciousness, they had completely regarded martial arts as a normal thing. Unlike modern people like Xiao Qiao, they could not understand martial arts at all.

In other words, if they put a pair of thongs in front of Cui Yingying, Diao Chan and others, they would be surprised. This is a manifestation of the different perceptions of things around them in the two worlds.

Fortunately, after half a month of surprise, Xiao Qiao was surprised, because she had been out for too long and nearly a month, she missed Mr. Qiao and her sister Da Qiao a little, so she finally proposed to go home.

Wu Fan was very happy about this, and agreed with both hands, so he almost had a farewell party for Xiao Qiao. It was just because Xiao Qiao was like Wu Fan and knew Wu Fan's "foundation", so he naturally was not as respectful to Wu Fan as the people around him, and even silent as a cicada.

This made Wu Fan very distorted. The previous minute was the angrily angry at his subordinates, and he was extremely angry. The next minute, Xiao Qiao suddenly appeared and screamed at him, looking like an equal footing with him.

However, Xiao Qiao is quite clear about it. When others are there, Xiao Qiao never talks to Wu Fan to avoid destroying Wu Fan’s authority in his subordinates’ minds. Only when he is alone with Wu Fan can he speak freely.

Seeing Wu Fan looking overjoyed after he proposed to go home, Xiao Qiao felt very uncomfortable and felt lost for some reason.

On the day before leaving, Xiao Qiao wore a yellow and green brocade robe with silk forged fabric that Wu Fan bought for her. Against Xiao Qiao's beautiful appearance, she looked particularly beautiful and charming.

During the time when Xiao Qiao lived in Wu's Mansion, Wu Fan gave her 100 gold as pocket money. Xiao Qiao had already bought her own clothes and daily necessities. As for this brocade robe, it was a newly opened clothing store that was worried that no one would come to buy things. When Wu Fan walked to the door of this clothing store, Xiao Qiao also happened to be here. Wu Fan bought this brocade robe and gave it to Xiao Qiao for the idea of ​​adding some popularity to the clothing store.

Even the governor bought things in this clothing store, and the clothes inside were definitely not bad. The unique herd mentality of the Chinese people played a very good role at this time. As soon as Wu Fan and Xiao Qiao left, the clothing store behind was already crowded with crowds of people. As a result, Wu Fan's commercial orders were very good, reaching 280 points. Normally, with Wu Fan's political power, executing a commercial order can increase by about 100 points, almost three times that of usual!

Let’s talk about Xiao Qiao. When he first saw Wu Fan give him this brocade robe, his face turned red with dissatisfaction, and he was shy and didn’t know whether to accept it or not. Wu Fan saw Xiao Qiao’s conflict and said carelessly, telling her that it was just for the execution of commercial instructions. Don’t think too much. Haven’t you seen that the whole store looks sad? Even if you help this family, please accept it quickly and don’t be so squeamish.

When Xiao Qiao heard Wu Fan say this, she was swollen and swept away. She turned her head and looked at her shopkeeper's family in a straight face. Then she looked at Wu Fan with anger, then snatched the brocade robe and left angrily.

After returning to the prefect's house in one breath, Xiao Qiao threw the brocade robe into the closet of the guest room where he lived, and would not look at it again.

But today, Xiao Qiao stared at the brocade robe in front of the closet for a long time, and finally put it on her body by magic.

The weather was a little cold, especially in the early morning, it felt really good to wear this brocade robe on your body. The golden tassels around the brocade robe swayed gently in the breeze, which looked particularly beautiful.

When he left the prefect's mansion, he saw Wu Fan calling out the carriage he had hired long ago to come over quickly and don't be slow. Seeing that the governor was so anxious, the coachman naturally did not dare to neglect it. He drove the carriage to the gate of the prefect's mansion like flying and stopped.

Since Xiao Qiao said he was going home, Wu Fan was stunned for a moment, and then immediately called his servants to hire a carriage for Xiao Qiao and pack up his luggage. That urgent force was like Xiao Qiao was a plague god.

Stinky man, do I hate it? Or am I ugly?

Xiao Qiao looked at Wu Fan busy doing things outside and thought angrily.

The carriage stopped in front of me. Xiao Qiao thought about it, but she didn't get on the bus, but wanted to walk on foot and get on the bus after leaving the city.

When Xiao Qiao wants to walk out of the city, Wu Fan naturally has to accompany her. No matter what, Xiao Qiao's identity is different from others. She is a person in the same world as Wu Fan. Even for this reason, Wu Fan has to accompany her for a long time.

The two of them walked dullly, and Wu Fan was absent-minded, looking left and right all the way. Xiao Qiao was confused and didn't know what to say.

When he was about to reach the city gate, Xiao Qiao stroked the brocade robe that was draped on her body with her hands, and suddenly said:

"This brocade robe looks very good, I like it very much, thank you."

After hearing Xiao Qiao say this, Wu Fan turned his head and looked carefully at Xiao Qiao's appearance in this brocade robe. It was really beautiful, and the red flowers and green leaves set off just right.

Feeling that Wu Fan was looking at him, Xiao Qiao was a little nervous for no reason, and at the same time she was secretly happy.

During this period, Xiao Qiao lived in the Wu Mansion. When he was chatting with the servants of the Wu Mansion, he often asked about some of Wu Fan’s actions. Perhaps because of the reason why both modern people traveled to this different world, Xiao Qiao was very curious about what Wu Fan had done in this world.

From the servants, Xiao Qiao not only learned some of Wu Fan's heroic deeds in the battle that he had never heard of from rumors, but also learned that Wu Fan's character is actually very particular. In terms of treating women, he is not as eccentric as Wu Fan once joked before. Instead, he treats his three wives very devotedly and rarely gets into other women around him.

With Wu Fan's current status and power, it is very difficult to do this. This makes Xiao Qiao, who is a modern person and deeply rooted in the idea of ​​equality between men and women, and can't help but admire her very much. On this point, Xiao Qiao's impression of Wu Fan has greatly improved. Although she still shouts at Wu Fan, her impression in her heart is actually very different.

Therefore, when Wu Fan looked at Xiao Qiao again, Xiao Qiao's feelings were already with the first time they met, and Wu Fan's feelings when he looked at her were different - not only did he not feel disgusted at all, but he was also a little nervous and nervous.

After looking at Xiao Qiao for a while, Wu Fan's eyes stopped on the brocade robe, nodded and said:
Chapter completed!