"Tell me straight, what do you want to do?"

Jia Xu didn't bother to go around in circles with Guo Jia, and asked bluntly.

Guo Jia looked at Jia Xu with an expression that I had already seen through you, and smiled awkwardly. Then Zhengse said: "Wenhe, I know who you are. But I want you to understand that my lord and I didn't go to great lengths to get you here to support you. ”

"With your intelligence, even a tenth of it is enough to protect yourself! We are very safe here, there is not so much intrigue and deceit, you can rest assured that you can use your talents! ”

"Although I don't understand why you have been hiding it, since my senior brother has chosen you, it proves that you are qualified to replace him."

"Now that the troubled times are coming, my lord Yuan Shu has the ambition to swallow mountains and rivers, and he needs talents like you to come to help. Please also ask Wenhe to help us and join us. ”

Jia Xu looked at Guo Jia's sincere gaze and closed his eyes: "Isn't it enough for General Anton to have you?" Not to mention dominating the world, it will definitely not be a problem to divide the south, so why do I need such a lazy person to help? ”

Guo Jia shook his head: "Not enough, far from enough." If all my lord wanted was to rule the world, he wouldn't have come to Koto in the first place! If Yuzhou had been chosen, I am afraid that it would have occupied nearly half of the world by now. ”

Indeed, there are few talents in Yuan Shu in history, and he was still the number one prince in the world at his peak, even Yuan Shao was much worse than him.

The main thing is that Yuzhou is too rich. At that time, Yuan Shu could easily raise an army of more than 100,000 people just by relying on Runan County in Yuzhou and neighboring Nanyang County.

These two counties are the two most populous counties in the world, one with a population of more than 2.4 million and the other with a population of 2.1 million.

Coupled with the strong power of the local Yuan family, Yuan Shu easily made a fortune from this place and soon developed into the largest prince in the world.

What was the concept of Yuan Shu at its peak?

The forces basically include the entire six counties of Yangzhou, plus Guangling and Xiapi in Xuzhou, and Pei, Chen, and Runan in Yuzhou. As long as Liu Biao is destroyed, it will be a strengthened version of the Wu Kingdom.

At that time, Yuan Shu was really domineering, fighting on multiple fronts, and doing all kinds of deaths, but because of his profound background, he couldn't be weakened alive.

Even Lu Bu, who had defected to Yuan Shu in the past, still needed to rely on Yuan Shu after occupying part of Xuzhou, and even some generals colluded with Yuan Shu. And the attitude of the thieves in the world towards Yuan Shu is that the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou responds to Yuan Shu; The Montenegrin Army united with Yuan Shu; Bai Bojun defected to Yuan Shu, and it seemed that with a hook of Yuan Shu's little finger, the heroes of the Quartet would bow their heads and say: Shu's father.

Basically, Yuan Shu was invincible at that time. So Yuan Shu, who was alone and seeking defeat, began to die and became the emperor!

In fact, Yuan Shu was the emperor at that time, and he could hold it with his power. But I couldn't stand two blows in a row, a natural disaster and Sun's betrayal.

At that time, the Huainan region, which was very rich, suffered a huge drought, and the local grain fields were almost unharvested, and then Yuan Shu was tragic. Of course, this is not the most tragic.

In fact, the biggest blow to Yuan Shu was the betrayal of the Sun family led by Sun Ce, which instantly shrank the human, material, and financial resources controlled by Yuan Shu by half.

Because Sun Jian's contribution is very great, after his death, Yuan Shu remembered the old feelings, and cared for the Sun family, and before the attack on Jiangdong, he had entrusted half of the country to the Sun family, Sun Xiang, Sun Ben, and Wu Jing were appointed as Runan Taishou, Yuzhou Thorn History, and Danyang Taishou respectively.

As a result, Sun Ce learned that Yuan Shu was called the emperor, and he directly reversed. He took most of Yangzhou under his control to rebel, and a group of relatives also rebelled.

By the way, at that time, Sun Ce was probably blinded by hatred, so he chose to stand on his own. After all, Yuan Shu is indeed not thin on their Sun family.

Not to mention the issue of forcibly seizing the jade seal, Sun Jian also made his fortune by relying on Yuan Shu, and he was also nominally a subordinate of Yuan Shu. It is actually understandable that Yuan Shu took the jade seal.

As for exchanging jade seals for troops, it's pure nonsense. You don't have the strength, what qualifications do you have to negotiate with the other party? If only the other party really had the heart to snatch it directly.

Do you expect Yuan Shu to "change" for the sake of fame? You're still nominally someone else's subordinate! Who would dare to exchange something like jade on the surface? Looking for death? What's more, it's still your own boss.

Therefore, Yuan Shu was not defeated in the matter of becoming emperor, but in the natural disaster and Sun Ce's betrayal. These two blows caused Yuan Shu's strength to shrink by half in an instant, and he was powerless to fight against Cao Cao, Lu Bu and others.

What Guo Jia said makes a lot of sense. If Yuan Shu still chooses to start in Huainan, relying on foresight and such a luxurious lineup, will the other princes still have to play? It is estimated that without waiting for Yuan Shao to unify Hebei, Yuan Shu will unify Jingxiang and the Central Plains.

Yuan Shu didn't take domination of the world as the ultimate goal in the first place, it was too difficult, and it didn't make much sense. It is nothing more than another Great Han Dynasty, and in a few hundred years it will be a reincarnation.

The simple mode is too boring, so Yuan Shu wants to try the hell mode. Anyway, if you fail, you can rely on the land of Jingyang to protect yourself. As long as Yuan Shu firmly controls these two states, he can rely on the danger of the Yangtze River to sit back and relax.

Bet big, anyway, if you lose everything, you will have a way back. What's more, even if the bet is big, the winning rate is also very large.

Yuan Shu is completely fighting for dominance with a Virgo mentality, and he must completely control every place, and would rather waste a lot of time and energy than lay a solid foundation.

He completely treats the whole world as his own. After all, some things are almost impossible from top to bottom, and there is too much resistance. But building a weak corner of Yangzhou is still very easy for Yuan Shu. Then, based on this, they occupied and assimilated other places step by step.

I'd rather be slower, and I'd rather let other princes develop, and Yuan Shu should also take every step steadily.

"If it's not for the world, why? Family? Cold? ”

Guo Jia said with a solemn face: "I'm afraid it's not only that. The Lord has a big heart, and although I don't know it, I know that he may have a long-term vision than we all do. So we need your strength. ”

"I crisscross the house, and the law of defeating the strong with the weak; Horizontal is horizontal, with the law of bullying the weak. What I'm good at is scheming strategy and trying to survive weak countries. Since you have inherited the Hengmai inheritance, you should be better at conspiracy and the overall situation, strengthening the country and people, and naturally you are more suitable than me to deal with the current situation. ”

Jia Xu gritted his teeth and said, "Isn't there still Tian Feng frustrated Lu Su and others?" They see the big picture no less than mine! ”

Guo Jia shook his head: "Their overall view is okay, but after all, unlike you who are simple strategists, although they can see the overall situation clearly when they are biased towards internal affairs, their grasp and control of specific details are still far from enough." ”

"What about you? Don't tell me that you guys still have those stinking rules from the past, or you wouldn't stand with me. ”

"The war planning that Gongda and others are good at is really lacking in this aspect. So I'll leave this matter to you! ”

Guo Jia said lightly. In fact, to be honest, there is indeed a gap between him and Xun You and Jia Xu, but it is not much different.

Unlike internal affairs and strategy, which are completely two systems, although the ability of top strategists in both aspects is certainly good, they are generally biased.

Like Tian Feng, although his overall view is good, his strategy is indeed only at the first-class level, and he is much worse than the top.

And Guo Jia and Xun You are both strategists, although they are good at local strategies and military strategies, but when it comes to strategic ability and conspiracy, they are not much worse than Jia Xu. After all, when it comes to their realm, there is really not much gap between them.