Liu Bei led the Xuzhou pastor, and the people of Xuzhou clapped their hands and cheered, eager to celebrate with the whole world, but Cao Cao was extremely unhappy, and it could even be said that he hated Liu Bei at this moment.

His revenge was not avenged, Tao Qian actually died on the couch like that, and the damn big-eared thief sat in the position of Xuzhou Mu effortlessly just because of a letter. It's like stepping on yourself to the pinnacle of the first half of your life, which is unbearable!

At that moment, the three armies wanted to send troops to Xuzhou, but suddenly saw Cheng Yu, Liu Ye, Man Chong, Xiahou Yuan and several other people breaking into the state office: "Wait a minute, please don't send troops to Xuzhou for the time being!" ”

"Why? The big-eared thief deceived me like this, shouldn't he be hated? Seeing everyone coming together, Cao Cao's face was uneasy, and his face was quite ugly.

Man Zhong stepped forward and admonished: "My Han Dynasty governs the world with filial piety, and the lord's desire to avenge his relatives is all out of filial piety, and Weichen naturally does not dare to stop it." However, since Weichen is a subordinate of the lord, he must consider the interests and future of the lord, so as to avoid the lord's mind from being too calculating due to a momentary heat. ”

"Careful? Just a Liu Bei big-eared thief, what is there to worry about? Cao Cao was displeased and sat on the desk chair.

Cheng Yu shook his head and took a step forward: "In the past, Emperor Gaozu was in the middle of the pass, and Emperor Guangwu was based in Hanoi, and they were all deeply rooted, so as to control the world, and they could defend if they were able to defeat the enemy and retreat, so although Gaozu and Emperor Guangwu had many difficulties, they were able to achieve great things."

The foundation of the lord lies in Yanzhou, there is Yuan Shu in the south of Yanzhou, and Yuan Shao in the north of Yanzhou. If the lord attacks Liu Bei, Yanzhou will inevitably be empty, and the Yuan family will take advantage of the void, and then the lord will be attacked on several sides, how to resist? The lord is abandoning the big and the small, going to the original and seeking the end, and being safe and dangerous! ”

Cao Cao laughed and straightened up: "In the past, there were still thieves such as Emperor Weixin and Lu Bu in Yanzhou, and our army naturally couldn't move lightly, but now Yanzhou is also in my hands, and Yuan Benchu also has Wang Deyu's own clamp, are you still worried that mediocre people like Yuan Highway will come to attack my Yanzhou?" ”

Man Chong shook his head and sighed: "Lord, it's not that we are worrying about the sky, but this is about to become a fact!" ”

"The facts? What facts? Cao Cao was taken aback.

Liu Ye took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Cao Cao: "This is the spy report that the front Xizuo has just sent back, Yuan Highway instructed Sun Wentai to drive Liu Zhengli to Yangzhou, and then waved his troops south, taking the four counties of Huiji, Xindu, Wuhui and Poyang.

Under the great joy of Yuan Highway, he ascended the throne in Shouchun and became the emperor, and the vassals were feudal. The lord tried to think that Yuan Highway had already occupied the land of the two states, and he had already had bad intentions, but he was still able to suppress the ** in his heart, obviously his person was not a mediocre person, and we were all confused by the surface of Yuan Highway in the past.

The lord can think deeply, when he was young, Yuan Highway was famous for being a chivalrous man, why has he become a different person now? As the saying goes: those who plan a lot will have a strong heart, Yuan Highway will change the style of the past, and he will inevitably plan a huge plot, and please think twice! ”

Cheng Yu shook his head: "Ziyang is right, now that Yuan Highway is openly usurping his position, his ambition has been clearly revealed, if the lord goes to Xuzhou at this time, wouldn't he fall into his arms?" ”

"Then what should I do now, according to your wishes?" Cao Cao sat down on the desk chair and squeezed his hands with a clatter.

Cheng Yu, Liu Ye, and Man Pet looked at each other and smiled, and hugged their fists together

"Yuan Highway usurped the throne and became the emperor, and the court must have actions, and the will will only arrive in Dingtao in the near future." Why can't the lord take the name of righteousness, first Kou Chendi, and the troops will come to Runan and Qianjun, so that he can break the city and take its grain and grass to feed the three armies, and can also comply with the call of the imperial court? ”

"That's a great thing!" Cao Cao thought for a moment, got up, took off the clothes and armor on the wall, and strode towards the school grounds.

……

Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and even Wang Li and others are still speculating about Yuan Shu's thoughts, but Yuan Shu is dumb and eats Coptis chinensis, and he can't say anything about his suffering.

He Yuan Shu is not an incompetent person, in fact, he is extremely smart and has seven tricks, otherwise, how can he rely on his own strength to sit on the land of two states before the princes of all parties? If it weren't for the drastic change in the situation today, how could he not want to lie dormant for a while?

But he couldn't help it, he was already on top of the furnace.

At this time, he was next to a "stove".

Stove, uh no, Nanhua Zhenren looked at Yuan Shu with a particularly lonely look in his eyes: "Kunlun, why don't you wait a little longer, you are still in a hurry to take this step, you must know that once you make a mistake, I will inevitably fall into the abyss." ”

"Master, please forgive the disciple for being incompetent, the disciple is also forced to do so!" Yuan Shu also looked helpless, "Back then, when the senior brother got into trouble, he took an unprecedented avenue, even more thorough than Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the pre-Qin period.

He conspired with Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other eunuchs to raise the Yellow Turban banner to kill officials and rebel, and even the scholars in his hometown and the big family Gaodi never let go, and pulled them all down in one fell swoop, and as a result, my Taiping Dao has been nominally isolated and helpless. ”

A trace of remembrance appeared on Nanhua Zhenren's face, as well as regret: "Yes! From the beginning of your brother's uprising to your brother's death, for several months, your brother has been fighting alone, and the whole world is his enemy.

Even though the world was already as dark as a crow at that time, even though Huang Lao's technique had already entered the mansions of the officials of the Han Dynasty, your senior brother and the Yellow Turban Army led by him still encountered unprecedented resistance, and everywhere they passed through must have been bloody and bloody, every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of blood! ”

"What the master said is very true! The past does not forget the teacher of the future, and the practice of the senior brother is the teacher of the disciple's future. Yuan Shu sighed leisurely and said with a wry smile, "That's why the disciple chose another path, a path that the senior brother hadn't taken."

The disciple should use the celebrity and prestige of my Yuan family to gather scholars for my use, and the disciple should also use the armed and civil forces left by the senior brother to the disciple. The disciple should blend these two forces together, let them complement each other, exert them to the extreme, and become the sharpest blade in the disciple's hand! ”

Nanhua Zhenren nodded and sighed: "But, obviously, the path I planned for you at the beginning seems to have gone wrong!" ”

"No, Master, there is nothing wrong with the path chosen by the disciple, it is only the disciple who is wrong!" Yuan Shu shook his head, raised his head and looked at Nanhua Zhenren with a straight face, "At the beginning, Wang Deyu recruited Han Xian, Li Le and others, and the government and the opposition had no objection.

If it weren't for Han Xian and Li Le who were confused by Cao Cao, the two would end up in a high position like Hu Cai, enjoying glory and wealth. Or they will lead troops outside and defend one side like the Yellow Turban generals Xu Shi, Gong Du, Liu Pi and others who surrendered in the early days.

Therefore, the disciple thought that the path chosen by the disciple was not wrong, but only the disciple was wrong

Already. The disciple can't do Wang Deyu's great ingenuity, and compared with him, the disciple obviously has more natural affinity and personality charm.

He didn't have to worry that the Yellow Turban soldiers under his command and the Gate Valve Gaodi would fall into disagreement, or even fall apart because of it. But the disciple had no choice, earlier He Yi and He Man took refuge in me, Bai Boshuai Yang Feng and Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army had an alliance with me, but they didn't want to provoke the opposition of Ji Ling, Yan Xiang, Lei Bo and others. ”

Nanhua Zhenren stroked his long beard under his chin: "So, in order to calm things down, you have no choice but to use high-ranking officials to seal the vassals and gather them under your command." And you yourself are only a general after the imperial court, and you can't feed their appetite at all, so you chose to raise your banner as soon as possible and ascend the throne as emperor? ”

"Exactly!" Yuan Shu nodded, shook his head again, and said, "Of course, it's not just that, there are two other reasons why the disciple has to act in a hurry!" ”

Nanhua Zhenren glanced at Yuan Shu: "Tell me about it!" ”

"Yes, Master, please allow the disciple to return!" Yuan Shu arched his hand towards Nanhua Zhenren, got up and walked to the back of the desk, pointed to the map on the wall and said, "The general trend of the world is changing, Wang Deyu first became the master of Luoyang, then pointed to Chang'an, and then later Bingke Nanyang, and now has two states and one county, and its power is not under the disciples.

Yuan Benchu's concubine also drove Han Fu like a lost dog, and he alone ruled the entire Jizhou. Ten months ago, that concubine crossed the Yellow River to the south, controlled the king of Chenliujun into his clutches, and coerced the 'Son of Heaven' to make the princes, and his prestige became more and more prosperous.

However, Cao Mengde and Sun Wentai's generations are all Liankeshu counties, and their military and financial resources should not be underestimated. Cao Mengde didn't say it for the time being, although Sun Wentai was named a disciple, he could know that his thoughts were not subordinate at a glance. If the disciples don't fight hard, I'm afraid that they will also be annihilated in the future among the princes who have risen up. ”

"Anything else?"

"And, of course, that's the most important point." Yuan Shu nodded and returned to Nanhua Zhenren's side, "Since ancient times, there have been no two days in the sky, and there are no two monarchs in the country. In the past, the king of Chenliujun was in the hands of Lu Bu and Zhang Miao and others, and the two of them had insufficient troops and a wide area, so when the king of Chenliujun was in Yanzhou, he was just a bodhisattva ornament in the temple.

However, now that King Chen Liujun has gone north and become a chess piece in the hands of that concubine, how can that concubine easily give up the role of a chess piece? At that time, as long as he dares to play the banner of the king of Chen Liujun, Wang Deyu will definitely turn against him, and the Central Plains will inevitably fall back into the flames of war.

Now in this world, except for Wang Deyu and Na Shuzi, there is no one else who can compete with the disciples, even Sun Wentai and Cao Mengde. Therefore, although the disciples are not ready, they can only take advantage of the fact that the two have not yet divided the winners and losers to strengthen themselves.

Otherwise, once they decide the winner in the future, one side will inevitably be wiped out, and there will also be one side that dominates. When the time comes, as long as the victor among them raises the banner of the imperial court again, I am afraid that the disciple will no longer have the power to fight back! ”

Nanhua Zhenren patted Yuan Shu's shoulder and sighed lightly: "But, Kunlun, do you know that the road you are taking is extremely unstable and the risks are extremely high?" ”

"The disciple knows, but the disciple does not regret it!" Yuan Shu smiled bitterly, looked at Nanhua Zhenren firmly, and the long sword in his waist was unsheathed and slashed on the ground, "This life has already been dedicated to the Great Dao, what is there to fear if you die for the Great Dao?" In this life, I will stop asking questions and rely on the dangerous city alone! ”