Chapter 523: Business (2)
Who is Yuan Shao? He is the contemporary head of the Yuan family of the fourth and third princes (after Yuan Shu's death, Yuan Yao has never admitted that he is,) He is the overlord of Hebei, and he was also the largest prince in the world, and the official position is the general.
But now, he has to make peace with a son and nephew of his, a person who once prayed for him to be taken in by Yuan Shao, which is simply a great shame for Yuan Shao.
In addition, Yuan Yao opened his mouth here, and the conditions of the letter sent back by Guo Tu were unbearable.
30,000 war horses? He Yuan Shao may have had it before, after all, he Yuan Shao controls the largest horse farm in the world, but now? In a battle with Cao Cao over there, Yuan Shao was already seriously injured, let alone 30,000, it was already good to be able to take out 10,000.
That's not all, there is also Qingzhou, and there are craftsmen who make strong crossbows.
The most important thing is to go to the camp first, Yuan Shao now knows that Zhang He has surrendered to Yuan Yao, Yuan Yao dares to recover his Yuan Shao's generals and troops, Yuan Shao really can't bear it.
"Send troops, send troops, I want to let that Yuan Yao know that I, Yuan Shao, am not so easy to bully!" Yuan Shao shouted hysterically.
Of course, if the battle of Guandu had not been fought in Hebei, then the civil and military forces in Hebei would inevitably support what Yuan Shao did, but now Yuan Shao's army was newly defeated in the battle of Guandu.
Cao Cao over there is already eyeing him, and if he provokes another Yuan Yao, he knows that it is simply looking for death even if he thinks about it with his ass.
Yuan Shao was mad with anger and was not afraid of death, they still wanted to live for two more days.
So one by one, they are dissuading Yuan Shao from starting a war with Yuan Yao.
Yuan Tan's eldest son was because Guo Tu was afraid that Guo Tu would hang up in Yuan Yao's hands, and Yuan Tan was really afraid that Yuan Shang would really be able to clean up Yuan Yao, and at that time, Yuan Shang's exploits would be unstoppable.
What about Yuan Shang, but he knows what his strength is, attacking Huainan? Just kidding, before Yuan Shang almost couldn't come back with an army of 100,000, it was because he had a dirty deal with Yuan Yao, so he was safe, and now how many soldiers and horses can his father give him, he died fifty or sixty thousand, this is not to attack Huainan, this is to send him to death.
Xun Cen also thinks about the overall situation, and the current place of party affairs is Cao Cao.
The three parties worked together, even if Yuan Shao was unwilling, he had to calm down and discuss it with his subordinates.
"Discuss, how to discuss?" Yuan Shao was full of anger, and the case under his feet had already been kicked over by him, "Then Yuan Yao'er disobeyed me regardless of the elders and children, and now he is bullying me, how can I tolerate him!" How can I get those conditions from him? ”
"Lord!" Xun Cen was the first to speak, and he took a step forward, "Lord, this Yuan Yao Xiao'er is just a lion's big mouth, but this is not the final price, our army can bargain with that Yuan Yao Xiao'er, if Yuan Yao Xiao'er is obsessed with it at that time, it will not be too late to send troops!" ”
"Lord!" Under the signal of Yuan Tan's eldest prince, the two Xin Ping brothers also stood up, "What Mr. Xun Cen said is extremely true, our army's top priority now is to solve Cao Cao, and definitely not this Yuan Yao Xiao'er, now attacking Yuan Yao Xiao'er will only make our army suffer from the enemy on both sides, although Yuan Yao Xiao'er is not our army's opponent, but after all, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, even if our army is victorious, it will consume a lot of money, grain and grass, and the gains outweigh the losses. Wait for us to solve Cao Cao's settlement and then settle with that Yuan Yao child! "Yuan Tan is afraid that Yuan Shao and Yuan Yao will have a conflict, Yuan Yao will cut Guo Tu the sacrificial flag, so he will lose a right-hand man, not to mention that he is even more afraid that Yuan Shang can really beat Yuan Yao, which is not good.
Among the three parties, the neutral party Xun Cen agreed to Yuan Yao, and Yuan Tan's Grand Prince Party also agreed, that is, Yuan Shang over there was left.
Yuan Shao also knew rationally that he couldn't start a war with Yuan Yao now, but how unhappy he was in his heart, both parties expressed their positions, and Yuan Shang was left, and Yuan Shao wanted to get the affirmation of his most beloved son.
"Shang'er, tell me whether my father should send troops to attack that Yuan Yao'er!" In Yuan Shao's opinion, even if Yuan Shang does not support his own troops, he will not oppose it.
But Yuan Shang didn't react for a while, Yuan Shao was angry and snorted coldly.
"Three sons, three sons!" The judge on the side hurriedly reminded him, but it turned out that Yuan Shang was in a daze and didn't hear it.
"Me?" Yuan Shangke has always watched his nose and nose, because the trial has already reminded him, try not to express his position, anyway, I don't object to it, so that even if Yuan Shao is ashamed and angry in the future, it has nothing to do with him Yuan Shang, and he can return Yuan Yao's favor, but now he is named by Yuan Shao.
"Father, the child is up to the father in everything!" This is almost a panacea, and the answer will make Yuan Shao very satisfied, but I don't know why Yuan Shao is today, he seems to have eaten gunpowder.
"Listen to me? So what else do I want you to do? Yuan Shao said angrily, "Say! ”
Seeing Yuan Shao's words, Yuan Shang over there couldn't hide and could only bite the bullet, "Father, in the child's opinion, the father should not send troops, and he should negotiate peace with Yuan Yao'er!" ”
"What?" Yuan Tan and his party, who were still worried that Yuan Shang would stir up the situation, caused the war, to be dumbfounded.
What's the situation? When did the third prince of Yuan Shang and the eldest prince of Yuan Tan agree on it? This is simply a strange story for the ages, these two sons have been fighting for a few years, no matter what it is, one is in favor of the other and the other is bound to be opposed.
But today, not only did he not object, but he even agreed, this sun came out in the west?
"Shang'er, do you have to think about it?" Yuan Shao deliberately reminded him in an aggravated tone, he thought that Yuan Shang was just angry because he misheard Yuan Tan's words.
"Father, the child has already thought about it!" How does Yuan Shang want to unite with Yuan Tan, but there is no way, Yuan Shang is afraid that Yuan Yao will leak out the bullshit things about himself and Yuan Yao, so Yuan Shang's third son should help Yuan Yao unremittingly, so that Yuan Yao can get what he wants from the Hebei army, so as to block Yuan Yao's mouth.
"We not only have to talk to Yuan Yaoxiaoer, but also have peace talks as soon as possible, only by stabilizing Yuan Yao'er can we concentrate on cleaning up Cao Cao! What's more, with these conditions, it is not difficult for us to form a new alliance with Yuan Yao, and we will march in two ways, then Cao Cao will be defeated! ”
At this moment, the people in Yuan Shao's general's mansion were really dumbfounded, if it weren't for the fact that there were no stand-ins in this era, he really thought that this Yuan Shang's third son had been given the bag.
"30,000 war horses, how can I get them in Hebei? And the craftsman who made the strong crossbow, didn't Yuan Yao raise tigers for trouble? Yuan Shao said to Yuan Shang.
"Father, there are many horse merchants in Hebei, and my father will not be able to take it out for a while, we can borrow a little from these horse merchants, and wait until the foal is born next year after defeating Cao Cao, and it will not be too late to return it!" Yuan Shang gave Yuan Shao an idea, what he said was good, he borrowed it, and if he said it was not good, he robbed it.
"Horse merchants?" Yuan Shao groaned, borrowing war horses from horse merchants, but to offend many people, offending businessmen Yuan Shao is not afraid, but behind these businessmen are those Hebei scholars.
"Father, you don't need so much, 30,000 war horses, one family is enough!" Yuan Shang continued to say to Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao turned his mind and thought of who it was, that was the Zhen family!
"The lord can't, if there is no Zhen family, then my taxes in Hebei will be less than half!?" Xun Cen over there was shocked and immediately stepped forward to dissuade him.
"Mr. Xun Cen, if you don't borrow a war horse from the Zhen family, how can our army negotiate peace with Yuan Yao'er?" Yuan Shang asked rhetorically.
"But you can't just borrow it from the Zhen family!" Xun Cen said anxiously, although he didn't have much to do with the Zhen family, he also knew that if the Zhen family was borrowed, the 30,000 war horses would inevitably be unaffordable, which was tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs.
"Huh!" Yuan Shang smiled and didn't speak, the other scholars over there spoke, joking, this is a matter of their own interests, which of the scholars present does not have a horse farm behind them? As the saying goes, dead friends don't die poor, what does the Zhen family have to do with them? So they jumped out one by one and said to Yuan Shao that they agreed with what the third prince said.
"Your brother Yuan Xi knows?" Yuan Shao asked Yuan Shang over there, Yuan Shao knew that the Zhen family was in contact with Yuan Xi in order to protect himself, wouldn't moving the Zhen family be moving Yuan Xi?
"It's okay, just let the child and the second brother talk about it afterwards!" Although the eldest lady of the Zhen family and Yuan Xi have a marriage contract, they did not really marry Yuan Xi, and now they even appear on the land of Huainan, for the sake of a Zhen family who is not married, Yuan Xi will not tear his face with Yuan Shang.
"Good!" Yuan Shao also nodded, the Zhen family is rich and rivals the country, and has always been one of Yuan Shao's supporters, Yuan Shao doesn't want to kill chickens and take eggs, but compared with offending so many families, the Zhen family of a mere merchant family is not enough to talk about.
The Zhen family didn't know that just such a sentence had set the end of their Zhen family.
"What about the crossbow craftsman?"
"Father, the craftsman of this strong crossbow, we are just temporarily lending it to Yuan Yao'er, waiting to clean up Cao Cao, the next one is to clean up Yuan Yao, and then those craftsmen will also be ours, not to mention that the value of this strong crossbow is the most knowledgeable father knows, even if the craftsman is given to Yuan Yao, how much can Yuan Yao copy?" Yuan Shang continued.
As the saying goes, three people become tigers, and now in Yuan Shao's army, the three parties are all in favor of peace talks with Yuan Yao, no matter how uncomfortable Yuan Shao is, he has to compromise.
"I can also give this war horse and craftsman, if this Qingzhou is ceded to Yuan Yao Xiao'er like this, wouldn't it be a joke?" Yuan Shao still didn't want to save face.
Our eldest prince Yuan Tan stood up, "Father, this matter is easy to do, isn't that Zhang He still in Yuan Yaojun's army?" Although Zhang He and our army are separated, but they are not known to the outside world, my father can add that Zhang He as the Qingzhou Assassin History, so that the Qingzhou matter can also be solved! Although Zhang He betrayed Yuan Shao and joined the Huainan Army, he had not yet fallen out at the public level, unlike Gao Ran, who directly went to war with Yuan Shaojun.
So it can be said that Zhang He is still under his command of Yuan Shao, rewarding his subordinates, and the face problem is really solved.