Originally, both the civil and military forces of Bingzhou opposed Tian Feng's envoy to Jizhou, but this old man had a very bad temper and spoke unpleasantly, and they were worried that Yuan Shao would be provoked by him and cut him. Only Yun Yili supported Tian Feng's envoy. Facts have also proved that Tian Feng's rigidity is right to people, when he was an official, he resigned because he was not used to seeing Shangguan's corruption and bending the law, and in Bingzhou, he was upright because of Yun's connivance and leniency, and Yun scolded him regardless of the difference between monarchs and ministers when he made a slight mistake, but Tian Feng put away his temper in Yuan Shaona, calmly and indifferently, and had a famous demeanor. It's not that Tian Feng is afraid of Yuan Shao, Tian Feng's frequent confrontation with Yun is a manifestation of his loyalty to Yun, so he doesn't hide evil for the Lord, and Yuan Shao is not his lord, so what does it matter to him how many mistakes he makes.

Tian Feng has been in contact with his friend Fu Zhi when he was merging the state, although Fu Zhu has always adhered to the loyalty of the monarch and the minister, and never mentioned any Jizhou affairs in the letter, but Jin Yiwei still has a somewhat rudimentary intelligence network at this time can already provide Tian Feng with enough information. Although at this time has not yet reached the peak of his career, he is still in the entrepreneurial period, and Yuan Shao's team is also relatively united, but a very obvious factional division has appeared, mainly divided into three major factions, Yuan Shao's adviser Guo Tuxin commented that Xun Chen is all Yingchuan people, let's call it the Yingchuan faction, and the other Jizhou people such as the frustration and trial can be called the Jizhou faction, and finally the Nanyang faction such as Yuan Shao's township party Xu Yu Fengji.

With factions, there will be competition, and if there is internal competition, there will be gaps, so Tian Feng can take advantage of loopholes.

Interestingly, Tian Feng chose not the Jizhou faction with his friend frustration, but the Yingchuan faction that Tian Feng was not familiar with, hoping to achieve the goal of establishing diplomatic relations with Yuan Shao through the Yingchuan faction.

This is the result of Tian Feng's repeated thinking, and it is also related to the strategic contradictions within Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao's strategy has long been decided, as early as when he chatted with Cao Cao, he showed his great ambition: "I am based on the river in the south, Yan and Dai in the north, and the people of Rong Di, and the south to fight for the world, can you help?" I occupy the Yellow River in the south, and there is Yan in the north, and I have the danger of the Dai, and I have troops like Rong Di to fight for the world in the south, can this be successful? In the future, he made the same suggestions to Yuan Shao as Yuan Shao's early decisions. And Cao Cao's answer is that I am the intelligence of the world, and I can do everything with the Tao. The noble son Yuan Shao was rich and generous, so Cao Cao was speechless, and he could only pull people's hearts. Yuan Shao's strategy was actually a copy of Emperor Guangwu's strategy, and Guangwu's success proved the correctness of Yuan Shao's general strategic direction. This also led to the contradiction between Yuan Shao and Yun, the north blocked Yan and Dai, Yan refers to Youzhou, and Dai is Merge State, so if Yuan Shao continues his strategy, Yuan Shao will be the next to do it. Yun didn't think that Gongsun Zan and Zhang Yan would be able to stop Yuan Shao for long, and when the time came, Yuan Shao would attack himself and fight against Yuan Shao and Ji Youqing Sanzhou with the barrenness of the state, and it would not be far from death.

Yuan Shao's faction, the Jizhou faction is a staunch supporter of Yuan Shao's strategy, but the strategic needs of the Yingchuan faction and the Nanyang faction are to hope that Yuan Shao will go south to occupy the Central Plains as soon as possible after solving the worries of Youzhou, and occupy their hometowns of Henan and Nanyang.

With this understanding, Tian Feng felt a little more confident and calm when he visited Yuan Shao.

After all, it was an envoy solemnly sent by the princes of Yizhou, and Yuan Shao received Tian Feng with a grand courtesy.

Under the gaze of Jizhou Wenwu, Tian Feng presented Yuan Shao with a carefully prepared gift and Yun's handwritten letter. Yun has always been lazy and literary, and the letter was also written by Tian Feng, in which Yun expressed to Yuan Shao that he was willing to become a brother with him, and was willing to serve Yuan Shao like a brother. Yuan Shao read the letter and asked Tian Fengdao: "Your lord occupies the annexed state, and the excellent soldiers make the Kwantung princes dare not look sideways, why do you want to be so respectful to me?" ”

Tian Feng said: "Yuan Jizhou is the fourth and third duke, standing in Jizhou, the princes are honored as the lord of Guan because of your righteous act of crusading against Dong Zhuo, my lord respects your noble background and outstanding character, and is willing to serve you as a brother. "It turns out that upright people can also shoot sycophants, and sycophants are more comfortable. Tian Feng is known for his uprightness, and he is already famous for reprimanding the lord in Bingzhou, and now such a person is so calmly and simply patting Yuan Shao's ass, even if he knows that he is patting the horse, Yuan Shao is also very happy.

His heart was dark, but his face was not leaking, Yuan Shao snorted coldly, "Chu Ziyang is the general of the chariot cavalry, and he is above me, Shao does not dare to be the chariot elder brother." ”

At the beginning, Dong Zhuo's backhand effect came out, and he used the name of the little emperor to seal Yun as the general of the chariot and cavalry, and the strategists of the state at that time advised Yun not to accept it. But a group of generals all hoped that Yun would agree, and Yun also thought that he would not want it in vain, so he agreed, and now retribution has come.

Tian Feng was annoyed by the lord's short-sightedness, knowing that Yuan Shao was annoyed because Dong Zhuo did not give Yuan Shao a military position in the first place, and when Yuan Shao raised an army to fight against Dong Zhuo, he called himself the general of the Che Cai, and Yun later accepted the position of the general of the Che Cai, which was equivalent to a slap in the face of Yuan Shao. With his mind turning, Tian Feng saluted like Yuan Shao and said: "Please General Mingjian, my lord accepted the position of the imperial court instead of Dong Zhuo's position, my lord of my family became the pastor of the state because of His Majesty's grace, and he is very loyal to His Majesty, and he has to greet and cry in the direction of Chang'an before eating and sleeping every day, so even if Dong Thief pretends to be His Majesty's will, my lord does not dare to shirk it, and can only accept it in fear." Unexpectedly, this caused the dissatisfaction of the general, and the lord once confessed that if General Yuan was dissatisfied with this, he was willing to resign from the post of general of the chariot cavalry and recommend General Yuan as the general of the hussars. ”

Yuan Shao naturally couldn't let Yun be like this, in that case it would be equivalent to telling the whole world that he Yuan Shao was a narrow-minded person. Yuan Shao, who had a good face, naturally couldn't do this, so he could only say: "Chu Bingzhou's loyalty to the monarch is admirable," deal with the past.

Tian Feng's timing is very good, Youzhou Gongsun Chan killed the state pastor Liu Yu and controlled the entire Youzhou, although all the strategists said to Yuan Shao that Gongsun Chan killed Liu Yu to kill himself to perish, but the current situation is that Gongsun Chan was defeated after no one restrained Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao was defeated and retreated, and Yuan Shao appointed Fu Zhi as the supervisor to lead the general and Gongsun Chan to fight. Moreover, the Montenegrin thief Zhang Yan constantly harassed Yuan Shao's rear, and matched the leading army and the guest army Lu Bu who defected to fight Lu Bu together. At this time, Yuan Shao was in an embarrassing situation, he was attacked on both sides, and there was a sinister former junior brother Cao Cao in the south, who categorically did not dare to provoke the strong Bingzhou army, and at this time, the high-level leaders of the Jizhou faction who advocated the occupation of the state were not there, and now those who gave Yuan Shao ideas were all advocating the downward occupation of the Central Plains, so Tian Feng's goal was perfectly achieved.

Yuan Shao not only showed the document to express his willingness to form a brotherly alliance with the Bingzhou army, but also boldly expressed his willingness to give a large amount of iron ore ・・・・・・ to Yunji Prefecture in exchange for horses. Although Yuan Shao was very slammed, Tian Feng still agreed on behalf of his lord, and there was no shortage of horses in the state, but there was a shortage of iron ore, and everyone would not lose money for this transaction. Yuan Shao even expressed his willingness to marry his concubine to Yun as a side room, but this Tian Feng didn't dare to agree, so he could only send the news back to Bingzhou for Yun to decide.

Just when Chu Yun and Yuan Shao were publicizing the alliance between the two families with great fanfare, a group of envoys with hidden whereabouts arrived in Yanzhou from Bingzhou, led by Xi Zhicai, the military division of Bingzhou, and Tian Yang, the commander of Jinyiwei.

Yun originally wanted to exercise Zhuge Jin, but everyone was worried that Zhuge Jin was too young, so Yun sent Xi Zhong to Yanzhou again.

Compared with the simple difficulty of Tian Feng's envoy in Jizhou, Xi Zhong's envoy to Yanzhou is directly invincible. The two families directly made an alliance to contain Yuan Shao together and finally carve up Hebei. Of course, both families know that because they are in secret, all covenants are deceitful and can be torn up at any time.

And the first target of the underground alliance between Chu and Cao was Wang Kuang of Hanoi.