Ganling.

Yuan Shao stood in the court, looking at the long knife in his hand, and his eyebrows on one side were slightly raised, as if he was smiling.

Guo Tu stood aside, holding his body with one hand and stroking his short beard under his chin with the other, smiling. He didn't look at the knife, he looked at Yuan Shao, he saw the smugness in Yuan Shao's eyes, and a big stone fell back in his heart.

Footsteps sounded outside the door, and Tian Feng and Fu Zhu walked in side by side. Tian Feng walked ahead, holding a bamboo cane. He was old, and his health was not very good, and he was unable to move with a cane, so Yuan Shao saluted him and specially gave him a cane. As soon as Cao Cao arrived in Yizhou, he sent people to collect a large number of Yizhou specialties and sent them to Jizhou thousands of miles away, and this stick was one of them.

Tian Feng likes this stick very much, and he can't leave it.

Yuan Shao's eyes swept away, Guo Tu understood, bowed down, and turned to go out. When he passed by Tian Feng and Fu Zhi, he smiled and nodded in greeting. Frustrated and bowed slightly, Tian Feng pretended not to see it, and walked straight to Yuan Shao. Guo Tu's face remained unchanged, and the moment he went out, the smile on his face disappeared instantly, cold as frost.

Tian Feng and Fu Zhu walked in front of Yuan Shao and were about to speak, Yuan Shao smiled and said: "Yuan Hao, you are well-read and well-informed, look at this knife, can you taste it for me?" ”

Tian Feng frowned, didn't take the knife handed over by Yuan Shao, just looked at it. This knife is about the same length as an ordinary ring knife, but the scabbard is simple, and it is inlaid with jade, but the color of the jade is dark, not like a new cut, but like an antiquity dug up after many years of burial in the ground, and I feel a little unhappy. He had long known that some of Yuan Shao's subordinates had robbed graves and dug graves, and he didn't know which tomb these ancient jades were stolen from. For this reason, he has admonished many times, and Fu Zhu, Cui Yan and others have also said many times, but the effect is not great.

"Where did this knife come from?"

Yuan Shao saw that Tian Feng did not take the knife, so he pulled out a piece of the blade, held the scabbard upside down, and handed it to Tian Feng. "Can Yuan Hao recognize these two words?"

Tian Feng glanced at it, and his expression was even more displeased. He saw two ancient characters on the knife: Sizhao, but he noticed that the knife was new, but it was old. The reason is very simple, the material of this knife is a hundred refining steel, bright as autumn water, light can be seen, and it will never be an ancient knife.

Tian Fengqiang endured the unhappiness in his heart, and said lightly: "Si Zhao, is it the meaning of remembering Zhao Gong?" Although Zhao Gong is also a virtuous minister, the ambition of the lord is too small. The lord is suspicious, the world is in turmoil, the lord should be the Duke of Zhou, and the group of murderers will be cut off. ”

Yuan Shao's smile was a little embarrassed, and he withdrew the knife in a daze, and faked coughing twice. Yuan Hao is right. I invite you two to come to discuss important matters. Liu Miao just sent the news that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are marching towards Yuzhang, how should we respond to prevent Yuzhang from falling into the hands of Sun Ce? ”

Tian Feng's brows furrowed even tighter. "What is there to discuss, of course it is to march into Yuzhou. Although Sun Jian is good at fighting, he only has more than 20,000 people, less than half of the lord's father and son. Yuzhou is the lord of the state, fell into the hands of the Sun father and son, bullied, people are kind-hearted, if the lord enters Yuzhou, the Yuzhou family will inevitably eat pot pulp to welcome the lord, swaddling and coming. In this way, Sun Ce will naturally relieve the siege of Yuzhang and go to Yuzhou. ”

Yuan Shao nodded again and again. "What Yuan Hao said is very true, this Sun Bin besieged Wei and saved Zhao Ye. However, Gongsun Chan is undecided, if I leave Jizhou lightly, Gongsun Chan goes south, and Jizhou is disturbed, what should I do? ”

Tian Feng blurted out without thinking. "There is Zang Hong Town in Bohai, and the trial is matched to guard Jizhou, why should the lord worry about Gongsun Zhan?"

Yuan Shao's eyes flashed, the smile on his face was a little light, and his eyes were a little impatient.

When Tian Feng saw it, he couldn't help but regret it a little, but the words had already been spoken, and it was difficult to collect the water, and he didn't want to accept it. Some of Yuan Shao's recent actions made him very incomprehensible. Originally, the strategy he planned for Yuan Shao was to first collect Youzhou, merge the state, stabilize the north and then go south, and now he has just defeated Gongsun Zhan, and he has not completely defeated him, and even Jizhou has not been completely conquered, Yuan Shao is in a hurry to go south to fight for Yuzhou, he always suspects that there are Ru Ying people behind this to promote.

Since it has been decided to attack Yuzhou, it is necessary to make a decision immediately, and the soldiers are fast, but Yuan Shao hesitated, and he was still thinking about whether to attack Yuzhou, which made him unable to understand.

When the interruption continues, it is chaotic. He came today to make Yuan Shao make up his mind. Either they will fight a quick battle, quickly enter Yuzhou, and end the war before the spring ploughing, or they will give up, and the army will be stationed here, and it will not be wise to consume a lot of money and grain every day in vain.

Yuan Shao was silent, and in order to break the embarrassment, he turned around and invited Tian Feng and Fu Zhu to the hall and invited them to tea. Tea is a special product in Shuzhong, which is rare in Hebei and is a new thing. The three of them sat down, and Yuan Shao ordered people to serve tea, while praising the benefits of this tea, which can not only refresh the mind and think, but also moisten the intestines and smooth the intestines, and has the effect of health preservation. Drink a glass after a meal, it can also remove the fishy greasy and help digestion.

The more lively Yuan Shao said, the more silent Tian Feng became, he knew that Yuan Shao was denying his opinion in disguise, but he didn't refute him on the surface. He looked at Frustration and put his last hope on Frustration.

Yuan Shao was drinking tea, seemingly in high spirits and enjoying himself, but in fact, he was also waiting for the frustrated professor to speak. He was somewhat disappointed in Tian Feng. Tian Feng is wise, but his personality is too upright, and he is good at planning things and clumsy at making people. Yuan Tan and Cao Ang exchanged battlefields and transferred Cao Ang to Lu County, and he himself was stationed in Licheng, which was very worth seeing, but Tian Feng turned a blind eye and strongly persuaded him to attack Yuzhou in person.

After tasting two sips of tea and moistening his throat, he spoke. "Lord, what Yuan Hao said is very true, Sun Jian's father and son messed up the old system, bullied the family, the people of Yuzhou were boiling, the lord hung the people to cut down the crime, and relieved the people from hanging upside down, the Yuzhou family will inevitably respond, Sun Ce returned to the army, and the siege of Yuzhang was relieved. However, the minister thought that the lord did not have to go out in person, and the teachers moved the crowd, and the Yanzhou horses led by Xiansi could go out. ”

Yuan Shao's face softened slightly, and he muttered, "Can Xiansi defeat Sun Jian?" ”

"Lord, Sun Jian is just the courage of a horseman, not to be afraid. Xiansi defeated Sun Ce last year, and he can also beat Sun Jian today. The battle in Qingzhou went well, Tao Qian had already deployed heavy troops in the Langxi area, and Cao Ang would soon be able to occupy the state of Lu and move south, and Pengcheng and Xiao County were all in danger. If the lord sends someone to contact Zhang Miao again and ask him to send troops to Yingchuan, then the west will reach Luoyang, the east to the sea, thousands of miles of battlefields, and smoke everywhere. ”

Yuan Shao was silent. This plan is good, but in this way, Yuan Tan will undertake all the wars, and in the future, Yuzhou will become Yuan Tan's sphere of influence, which is by no means a result that he is willing to accept.

Fu Zhi knew this, and then said: "Although Sun Jian's father and son are not Xiansi opponents, Sun Ce dispatched troops last year and carefully managed the Suishui defense line. This year, there was a lot of rain in Yanzhou, a large area of poor harvests, and a shortage of money and food, so it was not easy for Xiansi to break through the Suishui defense line. Therefore, the minister suggested that the lord send thousands of elite horsemen, and Liang Pei took turns to attack, long-distance attack, Yao soldiers in Runan, because of the food in the family, echoing inside and outside, you can get twice the result with half the effort. ”

Yuan Shao was very satisfied, and just as he was about to speak, Geng Bao, the chief bookkeeper, walked in and presented a letter. Yuan Shao opened the letter and couldn't help laughing.

"Gong and, the hero sees the same thing."