"Lord, I'm not worried about Gongsun Zhan and I. Although his army is outstanding, his ambition is like that, and he is by no means the enemy of the lord, but Qingzhou and Yanzhou and Liaodong still have to be defended. The judge said.

With the experience of the white horse Yicong who defeated Gongsun Chan last time, today's trial is even more indifferent to Gongsun Chan. Today's Yuan Shao is not comparable when he was just based in Jizhou and relied on the strength of the family. Today's Yuan Shao has been recuperating in the rich land of Jizhou for several years, and he can be described as a strong soldier and a strong horse, with nearly 300,000 capable warriors under his command, sufficient money, food and ordnance, and he is very confident to win the next battle.

"The Central Plains has just experienced a big war now, Liu Xuande and Cao Mengde can be called a big injury, they don't dare to do this." Guo Tudao.

"Liu Xuande shouldn't be, but Cao Mengde is hard to say." Xu Yu said. Growing up since he was a child, he knows Cao Mengde's character best, this person has a heroic posture, long-term vision, and ruthlessness, and he can definitely do this kind of thing.

"If Cao Mengde easily allows us to take Youzhou, our next target will definitely be Qingzhou. He won't be unable to think of this, Yuan Highway is like a piece of the pie with me thousands of miles away, not to mention him Cao Mengde. Yuan Shao said with a gloomy face.

His former little brother now shows that his courage is not even inferior to himself, and he has become a hegemon in the Central Plains, holding the land of two states with himself, and there are hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, Yuan Shao is very afraid of this.

"Although Cao Cao's hometown Yanzhou was captured in the previous battle of the Central Plains, but his new occupation of Qingzhou, and the troops under his command did not lose much when he was trying to seize Qingzhou, Liu Xuande can only protect himself now, but he still has a certain amount of spare strength to go on the expedition, and it is not a problem to send out at least 350,000 troops."

"But now that Yuan Shu is powerful, we are natural allies with Cao Mengde, and besides, the relationship between us and us has always been good, how dare he do this?" The trial is incomprehensible. You must know that Cao Cao made his fortune under the banner of Yuan Shao, and it was Yuan Shao who instructed him to develop in the south of the Yellow River and disturb the situation in the Central Plains as a barrier to Hebei, so that Yuan Shao could fight Gongsun Chan with peace of mind without worrying about being attacked on both sides.

Yuan Shao's idea was very good, using a small chess piece like Cao Cao to turn the Central Plains into a pot of porridge, so that he could smoothly solve the matter of Hebei, but he ignored Cao Cao's own ability. Cao Cao initially occupied the eastern county of Yanzhou, but in just half a year, he gathered more than 100,000 troops through recruitment, and recruited countless good generals, and finally directly occupied Yanzhou without the help of Yuan Shao's money and food, and became a hegemon.

Although he did not have the support of the family and lacked money and food in his hands, Cao Cao stubbornly stabilized this very unfavorable situation with his strong wrists. Pretending to be a horse thief, he went to other states to rob grain, organized the captain to rob the tomb, and reduced the supply of military rations until he aroused the resentment of his corporal and soldiers, and used the head of the grain transport officer to calm the people's grievances, and then cannibalized human flesh at the suggestion of Cheng Yu when the military rations were insufficient.

Cao Cao's family history is completely a history of blood and tears, living in a lack of money and food every day, and running out of food at every turn when a war starts. And these had long been expected by Yuan Shao, so he put Cao Cao in Yanzhou at the beginning, although he had some intention of letting the tiger return to the mountain, he himself did not feel worried. In his opinion, Cao Cao's shallow background is not enough to support him to make a name for himself in the Central Plains, and it would be good to be able to keep his life and hold Yanzhou.

But he never thought that Cao Cao was so ruthless, even if he had no money and no food, he still gritted his teeth and forcibly recruited countless troops, and then attacked and grabbed food everywhere. In the end, relying on this ruthlessness, he slowly fought his way out of the sky. Of course, the price is that the originally rich Xuzhou was directly destroyed, and the people of the Central Plains were gone. Otherwise, with the heritage of the Central Plains, how could Cao Cao's troops and materials be as much as Yuan Shao in the later Battle of Guandu? You must know that before the Yellow Turban, Yuzhou was the largest state in the world, Yanzhou and Xuzhou were also extremely rich, and the Central Plains far surpassed Hebei in terms of population and money.

This is also the price that Cao Cao paid to be able to fight his way out of the encirclement in such an unfavorable situation. Cao Cao was completely a short-term combat power in exchange for sacrificing the heritage and future potential of the forces under his command. In the end, he became the overlord of the Central Plains, but the Central Plains was also dilapidated, and there was not one in ten people and materials. The price of domineering is like this, the sword is not a long-term solution, and if you lose once in the middle, it is likely to fall permanently.

"Zhengnan, today's Cao Cao is no longer the original Cao Cao." Xu Yu sighed lightly.

"It was my mistake to put Cao Cao in the Central Plains. I thought he was a vicious dog, able to watch the flock of sheep in the Central Plains for me and prevent them from making trouble. didn't expect that he was a hungry wolf, killed in the Central Plains, and grew to the point where he is now. I was too careless at the beginning! Yuan Shao said with some regret.

"This is not Your Majesty's fault, after all, Cao Mengde had no soldiers, no food, no righteousness and no family support, who would have thought that he could come to this day. Fortunately, His Majesty insisted on his own opinion at the beginning and did not give him money and food support, otherwise the Cao Mengde we are facing now may be even more terrifying, even Yuan Highway is out of reach. Xun Chen said.

In fact, Cao Mengde's ability to get to this day has also played a great role in Yuan Highway. If it weren't for the fact that he has been trading grain everywhere in the world, Cao Mengde's grain chain would have collapsed long ago. I really don't understand why Yuan Highway would do such a stupid act of being an enemy. Guo Tu said.

Xun Chen glanced at Guo Tu lightly, and said in a deep voice: "Gongzhi, you only saw Yuan Highway putting grain everywhere and helping other princes. But you don't see the development and demographic changes in Jiangdong over the years. More than 20 million people! Now the total population of the world is estimated to be less than 40 million, and my Dazhao has a population of less than 5 million. You must know that before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the population of the entire south was less than 15 million, and after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, I am afraid that it would only be good to have 10 million, where do you say the remaining population of more than 10 million came from? The population that was not valued by us at the beginning has now made Yuan Highway strong, and now the strength of the south is that our northern princes combined are probably difficult to match. ”

Xu You sighed lightly when he heard this, and then looked at the map of the thirteen states of the Great Han on the other side: "Not only that, Yuan Highway is such an enemy, it is of little significance to us, Tao Qian, Liu Yan, and other rich princes with deep roots. In itself, we don't need much money and food, and at most it can only be regarded as icing on the cake. In the end, it was poor princes such as Cao Cao, Lü Bu, and Gongsun Zan who benefited. And now what about the result? ”

"In the Central Plains, Lu Bu and Cao Cao fought with Liu Bei and Tao Qian in the Central Plains, and they had no time to take care of anything else. In Hebei, Gongsun Zhan's strength increased greatly under the lack of money and food, and he ruthlessly curbed the development of the lord. However, Yuan Shu pushed all the way in the south, easily occupying Jingzhou, Yizhou, and Jiaozhou, which were weak and small places of princes, and constantly growing his power until he was such a behemoth today. ”

"The so-called enemy of the highway, in fact, he himself benefited the most, followed by Cao Cao and Gongsun Zhan, and the most victim was me!" Yuan Shao's face turned pale and finally came to a conclusion.