These henchmen under He Jin are obviously the most respected by Yuan Shao, after all, the family background of the fourth and third princes is there.

He Jin, as a "Tugu generation", even if he became a "nouveau riche officialdom" because of his relatives, he still had to give face to the wealthy.

Every time he asked about military and political affairs, without exception, he listened to Yuan Shao's opinions first.

Yuan Shao was also accustomed to this rhythm, and talked eloquently without the slightest humility: "General, I thought that this Zhang Chun's rebellion could have been completely suppressed - Zhang Chun only has soldiers from just one county, how much can he stand up to making waves?"

The reason why the thieves are corrupt is that Xianbei, Wuhuan and Zhang Chun conspired. Therefore, the key at the moment is that those local officials in Youzhou who have been derelict in their duties and have not appeased Wuhuan before, as well as their maladministration, should be openly and strictly investigated, and the imperial court should send a large army to suppress it.

On the other hand, it is necessary to show favor to Wuhuan and distinguish Wuhuan from Xianbei. The Wuhuan people have always been used by the imperial court, but in recent years, the imperial court has repeatedly defaulted on the salary of the Wuhuan cavalry due to lack of money and food, and has also levied excessively, so that this elite army was forced to Zhang Chun's side.

Anyway, we have to severely punish a few Youzhou filthy officials, so it is better to borrow the heads of those people, which is widely legendary, saying that the imperial court owed Wuhuan military salaries a few years ago, and these people were greedy for ink.

It is best to appoint Liu Yu, the great Zongzheng who has always been famous in the north, to re-serve as the assassin of Youzhou, and let him come forward to spend money to appease Wu Huan, as long as Wu Huan is anyway, and the court will work together to kill Zhang Chun and Xianbei, then why worry about Zhang Chun's injustice? ”

Yuan Shao's words are typical "killing and apologizing, putting the responsibility for the previous arrears on the head of the dead, and giving both sides a step down, so as to save the face of both the court and the Wuhuan people, and then talk about re-persuasion."

This kind of trick has been played very slippery by later generations. For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong mutinied, and the rebellious soldiers arrested Bi Zisu, the governor of Guanning, and finally the operation of the Ming court was similar to that of Yuan Shao.

It is no wonder that in later history, Yuan Shaoneng and his relatives used Fu Dun for him.

"Well, the original words are exactly what I want......" He Jin is an unassertive person, listening to Yuan Shao's one-two-three ocean spilling macro theory, he instantly felt very organized.

"General, no!"

Unfortunately, he didn't speak for two seconds, and the objections came immediately.

He Jin was a little disappointed, followed the sound, and patiently asked: "What is Meng De's opinion?" ”

Cao Cao humbly arched his hand and said sincerely: "Zhang Chun's rebellion, in the final analysis, is because after Wang Fen's violent death, the court was suspicious and sent Jia Cong to purge Wang Fen's remaining party, which made everyone in Jizhou officialdom endanger.

If Hu Bing is a thief today because the Youzhou officials are unfavorable to Wuhuan and Xianbei Huairou, and they do not report the arrears, they will be held accountable, aren't you afraid that more Zhang Chun will be forced out in the Youzhou officialdom? This is not possible! Not only can he not persuade His Majesty to pursue the officials of Youzhou, but he must also be appeased and let them suppress the thieves with peace of mind. ”

When He Jin heard this, it seemed to make sense, and he hurriedly looked at Yuan Shao again: "This ...... Meng De said bluntly, what did you think at first? ”

Yuan Shao glanced at Cao Cao, calculated for a few seconds in his heart, and then suddenly laughed: "Hehe, Meng De's words, I'm afraid it's not selfish!" General, I have a word, please hold your back! ”

He Jin was a little embarrassed, there were no servants and maidservants next to him, there were only five people in the house, wouldn't he be specifically guarding against Bao Hong and Chen Lin?

He Jin said in a big way: "It doesn't hurt to say it at the beginning, the four of them are all confidential people, and they will naturally keep their mouths shut about things that shouldn't be talked about." ”

Seeing He Jin's insistence, Yuan Shao also said with a grin: "Meng De, you keep attributing Zhang Chun's rebellion to the investigation of Wang Fenyu's rebellion, and you also prevent the punishment of several typical examples in Youzhou officialdom according to Wang Fen's case, I'm afraid it's not because you were also persuaded by Wang Fen back then, and you didn't report it!" ”

"You...... How do you know? As soon as these words came out, Cao Cao's face changed greatly, and he instantly lost the courage to refute. Even if Cao Cao felt that his opinion was right, he could only shut up.

As mentioned earlier, before the former Jizhou assassin Wang Fen plotted against and died violently, he tried to collude with three accomplices, namely Cao Cao, Hua Xin, Xu You, Cao Cao and Hua Xin all refused, and only Xu You and Wang Fen made a plan.

However, although Cao Cao refused and dissuaded, he didn't take the lead in denying Wang Fen! So this matter is really big and investigated, Cao Cao's crime of "knowing and not reporting" is still inevitable.

You know that someone has rebelled and still doesn't report it, and the crime is not light.

Cao Cao has always felt that this matter is very secretive, but it was broken by Yuan Shao at this time, and he was instantly confused.

I only heard Yuan Shao's proud expression of "everything is under control", and said calmly: "Of course I know, it was told to me by Ziyuan before he abandoned the official and fled." ”

Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Xu You, these three people are all small to each other, no wonder Xu You told Yuan Shao about the cause and effect before fleeing. Maybe Xu You also thinks that Yuan Cao's relationship is so good, and it doesn't hurt to say it.

Who let Xu Yu be a big troll who can't hide his words and loves to show off, and if he doesn't come before he dies, he won't hide it without knowing how to restrain it.

At this moment, Yuan Shao was also arrogant, and he couldn't see that the little brother Cao Cao refuted his opinion, so he directly made a big move to shut up the other party.

This situation and this scene is simply a copy of the eunuch two years later - Cao Cao's sentence "When the Yuan is evil, one jailer is enough, why bother to bring foreign soldiers into Beijing" Before he finished speaking, he was blocked back by "After Meng De is also a eunuch, he wants to harbor selfishness".

It can only be said that Cao Cao had a good strategy twice, but unfortunately his butt was not clean, and he was drawn from the bottom of the kettle and directly questioned his position and motives.

Cao Cao was speechless and didn't dare to offer any more ideas.

He Jin saw that the scene was already one-sided, so he pushed the boat down the river and made a decision: "Then according to the original plan, I will play Your Majesty tomorrow, for the Youzhou officialdom, let's suppress and use it, cut off a few typical examples, and then send prestige people and famous generals to take charge of the situation in Youzhou and take care of Wuhuan." ”

After chatting about the grand strategy, it was almost halfway through the hour, and He Jin discussed with Yuan Shao: "At the beginning, a messenger from Jizhou who urgently reported the military situation came the day before yesterday, and it was Jia Cong's other driver. Now that you and I have agreed on a strategy, I would like to summon them and learn more about the current situation at the front. ”

Yuan Shao arched his hand: "General Meng trusts, Shao should do his best." ”

He Jin: "Someone! Summoned the messenger of Jizhou to meet him. ”

……

Fu Zhu, Liu Bei and Li Su were waiting at the gate of the General's Mansion early this morning.

There is no way, the time to notify them is three o'clock, even if he knows that He Jin's movements are relatively slow, and he will only be summoned after discussing with his henchmen, the Jizhou envoy can only wait in vain.

Who made everyone speak lightly now, they can only wait, and they can't let He Jin wait.

Now there is no stool, and when I kneel on the mat in the gatehouse, it is not easy to stumble, and my legs are numb after sitting for a long time.

When Li Su got up, he almost staggered, but fortunately, Liu Bei quickly helped him.

The three of them cherished this opportunity to show their faces, and cautiously walked into the inner hall in turn.

He Jin sat proudly in the middle of the main hall, erected one leg, rested his elbow on his upturned knee, and when he saw the envoy, he just waved his hand casually: "Don't be frustrated, tell me the details of the front-line military situation, whatever is not written on the seal, and describe it in detail." Ben Chu and Meng De, if you have anything you want to ask, you can ask casually, and you don't have to be restrained. ”

"General Xie!" Yuan Shao and Cao Cao bowed their hands together.

When Li Su heard the words "Ben Chu, Meng De", his heart sank slightly, and he didn't dare to raise his head, but just glanced up obliquely, and saw that there was one person sitting on the left and right of He Jin.

The man on the left is tall and mighty, with good appearance and temperament, and he is really handsome and middle-aged.

The person on the right sits at least a head shorter than the left, and he doesn't know how much shorter he has to stand up. The appearance is slightly chubby, the skin is rough, and it is slightly dark. However, a beard is very delicately groomed, obviously carefully cared for, covering up most of the facial defects, so the face does not look ugly.

According to the records of the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", Li Su judged that it was Yuan Shao who was handsome.

And Fu Zhu and Liu Bei, when they heard He Jin mention Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, they didn't react at all. Obviously, they didn't think there was anything special about the two military attachés.

Then, Fu Zhu routinely recounted the details of the situation on the battlefield in Jizhou.

Dictating is right, and there must be much more to say than it is on the table. Because the table is fixed in the form of words, and it will be kept on file after the court takes it away, those speculations and conjectures that are not very sure will never dare to be written in the table.

But when you ask the right questions in person, especially in private, you can say that.

Therefore, after He Jin and Yuan Shao listened for a while, they felt that they had gained a lot, and they had a better understanding of the thieves in Jizhou and Youzhou.

Yuan Shao was eager to show his talent and strategy in front of He Jin at the moment because he had just put forward the suggestion of "finding a few negative examples of Youzhou officials to shirk responsibility", so he couldn't help but ask a question:

"Don't be frustrated, do you know which counties in Youzhou Zhang Chun has fallen to now? Which of the court's most important officials were ineffective in dealing with thieves, or who may have died in the line of duty? ”

This question is typical of Chongzhen's question, "Who of the responsible officials in the mutiny area died?" Oh, Bi Zisu is dead? The mutiny pot let him carry it."

Frustrated, he was speechless for a while.

He didn't know what He Jin and Yuan Shao had talked about just now, how could he talk nonsense about such a tricky question?

Why did Yuan Benchu always want to find scapegoats to appease the warring parties?

Fortunately, at this time, Li Su was beside him, he secretly gave Liu Bei a look, and then took the initiative to report: "General Yu, I didn't come to the battle in person, so I don't know." He used to be Zhang Chun's post secretary, and he participated in the arrest of Zhang Chun together with Liu County Lieutenant, and I can answer this question with Liu County Lieutenant. ”

When He Jin heard that Li Su's status was humble, his face instantly became a little ugly, but Yuan Shao just needed to talk, so he patiently asked: "Please try to say it!" ”

After all, Yuan Shao still has self-cultivation, even if he pretends to be a corporal of Lixian, he is better than He Jin is willing to pretend.

Li Su replied: "When we captured Zhang Chun, we captured some of Zhang Chun's henchmen, and it is said that when they escaped from the border of Jizhou, they had Zhang Chun's order, saying that they wanted to break through Zhuo County, go to Yuyang, and join forces with the Wuhuan Nanqiao King in Yuyang.

Just because there is no ironclad evidence for this matter, for the fear of slander and innocence, Jia Tingshi did not write it into the recital. But from the humble point of view, since Zhang Chun dared to break through Zhuo County and break through to Yuyang County, he must be sure that he would not be sent to death.

Therefore, Yuyang Wuhuan is the most likely to be the first thief among the Wuhuan tribes, so if Yuyang Wuhuan and Zhang Chunli should be combined, at this moment, Yuyang County Guard, and the guard Wuhuan Captain Gong Qi Chou stationed in Yuyang, I am afraid that they have all encountered accidents. ”

Fu Zhu and Liu Bei were beside him, and when Li Su dared to say so, he was also slightly discolored.

Liu Bei was slightly better, because the thief he saw on the front line was indeed similar to what Li Su said, but Liu Bei didn't dare to analyze it without authorization.

This kind of remark is based on the clues of the front-line situation, and further deductions are made, and without real evidence, I will definitely not dare to write it into the recital, so I dare to mention it inspiringly.

As for why Li Su dared to say it, it was not because of how rigorous his deduction was, but because it was written in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty-

At the beginning of Zhang Chun's rebellion, the Yuyang County Guard and the Captain of Wuhuan Gong Qichou were both killed. In addition, Liu Zheng, the Taishou of Youbeiping, and the Yang Zhong of Liaodong, were killed by Zhang Ju and Qiu Liju.

It's not that Li Su was so good at learning in his previous life that he could familiarize himself with the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. It's that in his previous life, he also liked to watch some historical and geographical sand table explanation videos at station B, and I happened to watch a commentary video of the Three Kingdoms of the UP master of station B called "pheromone", and remembered these allusions in an entertaining way, and now I will take the opportunity to use them.

After Yuan Shao listened to this deduction, his eyes lit up instantly.