But a few days later, before Liu Bei could make any moves, Gongsun Zhan's envoy had already come to the door.

In fact, Gongsun Zhan's text and the messenger set off together, but in the end, it was the text that was delivered faster.

History has changed a little here, because the Qingzhou Yellow Turban was swept away by Liu Bei, and Gongsun Chan did not break the 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban.

Without this prestige, Gongsun Chan would not be able to deter the counties of Jizhou.

In the same way, the Yellow Turban Army did not capture countless armor and property, and through the collection of prisoners and troops, its strength increased greatly.

And Gongsun Chan himself did not gain enough self-confidence through this victory to fight against Yuan Shao.

So, Gongsun Zhan thought of Liu Bei, the little brother who used to study under Lu Zhimen. On the one hand, he formed an alliance with Yuan Shu, and on the other hand, he sent an envoy to unite with Liu Bei, wanting to jointly send troops to Jizhou.

In order to show his sincerity, the messenger sent by Gongsun Chan was his younger brother Gongsun Fan. Gongsun Fan begged to see Liu Bei, but Liu Bei didn't take a shelf, and met Gongsun Fan the next day.

Seeing Liu Bei, Gongsun Fan Shili was finished, Liu Bei asked Gongsun Chan about his good habits, and recalled the friendship between his classmates back then, and then asked: "What is the matter with the general?" ”

Gongsun Fan said: "Although Yuan Shao is the leader of the alliance, he is simply Dong Zhuo's second because of his right to patent and cultivating party henchmen everywhere. Therefore, Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, and Liu Xun, the captain of Huya, were all killed for minor reasons. Sun Yuzhou was supposed to ask Dong Zhuo for a big victory, but Yuan Shao cut off his food after Zhou Ang's attack, so that Sun Yuzhou had to return to Benzhou and could not ask Dong Zhuo. My brother sent his grandson Du to help Sun Yuzhou to fight for Dong, but he was killed by Zhou Ang sent by Yuan Shao. However, my brother is asking Yuan Shao today, not for the selfishness of the family, but for the country to eliminate harm and seek thieves. Junhou, Liu also. It is a clan relative of the Han family, and he once courted Dong Zhuo, and my brother and other villagers are villagers, and he is from the same door as my brother, and he studied in Lu Gong, and he has always been close. Now, why don't you discuss Yuan Shao with my brother, divide Jizhou equally, and welcome back the Son of Heaven with Yan Zhao in the future. ”

Listening to Gongsun Fan's words, Liu Bei almost couldn't help laughing, what he said earlier was good, righteous and awe-inspiring, and he was a positive character at first glance.

How did he get to the back, and suddenly the style of painting changed, and it became that he was going to share Jizhou with Liu Bei.

However, Liu Bei already had a plan, and he didn't answer Gongsun Fan's words, but said: "I traveled with Brother Bogui to study in Luoyang in the past, and I took care of Brother Bogui a lot, and I also know that Brother Bogui is impulsive and irritable, you are the younger brother of Brother Bogui, after you go back, you have to persuade you a lot in everything." Now Dong Zhuo is the enemy, everything should be related to Dong Zhuo, as for the matter of Gongsun Zidu, I think, it is still Yuan Highway's responsibility. It's not as good as this, now it's about to be the New Year, and next year, I will send troops to Jizhou to solve the fight between Brother Gongsun and Yuan Benchu, and then discuss with Yuan Benchu one or two, so that he can compensate Brother Bogui more. ”

Gongsun Fan was stunned, and before he could answer, Liu Bei waved his hand, and since someone stepped forward, Gongsun Fan had already been taken down.

"Xie Dou, hehehe......" Liu Bei suddenly laughed, and said in his heart, "I can't ask Lu Bu to learn from Lu Bu to shoot a halberd", but I don't have that ability.

Liu Bei thought again, although he didn't have the archery skills of shooting halberds, but Tai Shici's archery skills were very powerful, and he didn't know if he could do it, otherwise, call Tai Shici over to try it.

After a long time, Liu Bei suddenly got up and said to Dian Wei, "Come with me." ”

When Dian Wei heard this, he didn't speak, but he hurriedly followed. The two went to Gongsun Fan's room. Pushing open the door, Gongsun Fan was shocked at first when he saw that it was Liu Bei, but he was overjoyed.

It turned out that Gongsun Fan was brought here, but when he saw that there was no one in the room, he was already suspicious, and when he saw that Liu Bei only brought an escort, he already understood a little bit in his heart, how not to like it.

But I saw Liu Bei say solemnly to Gongsun Fan: "In the past, Brother Gongsun studied with me in Luoyang, and I was favored by him as a brother. The elder brother's brother, both my brother and my brother, I also feel the hatred of killing my brother. It's just that there were a lot of people just now, and I didn't dare to talk about confidential things lightly, so I ask my brother to forgive me. ”

Where would Gongsun Fan have any opinions, Liu Bei told Gongsun Fan about the plan he had discussed with Xi Zhicai, and told Gongsun Fan to do a good job of confidentiality, and not to tell anyone except Gongsun Zhan. In the end, Liu Bei said to Gongsun Fan: "Yuan Benchu is the fourth and third dukes, and he is also a hero in the world. When I was in Luoyang, I heard an interesting story about Yuan Benchu, after you go back, talk to Brother Bogui in detail, maybe you can help Brother Bogui understand Yuan Benchu. ”

"What's the interesting thing," Gongsun Fan heard that Liu Bei was going to gossip, and it was also the gossip of Yuan Shao, a big celebrity, and suddenly became interested.

Liu Bei said: "At the beginning, when Cao Mengde and Yuan Benchu were young, they were good at being rangers. They went to see a man get married, and took the opportunity to sneak into his master's garden, and in the middle of the night they shouted: 'There is a thief! The people in the Qinglu all ran out to investigate, and Cao Cao went in, drew his sword, and robbed the bride. Then he and Yuan Shao quickly ran out, got lost halfway, fell into the thorn bush, and Yuan Shao couldn't move. Cao Cao shouted again: 'The thief is here! Yuan Shao was frightened and anxious, and quickly jumped out by himself, and the two were finally able to escape. ”

After listening to the story of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao robbing their daughters-in-law, Gongsun Fan first laughed, then came to his senses and asked, "What do you mean by Junhou......?"

Liu Bei said: "You go back and tell your brother that the so-called trapped beast is still fighting." Yuan Benchu, if he is forced into a desperate situation, he can still fight to the death. Why bother, now the nine counties of Jizhou are actually four points. I occupy Bohai County, and your brother occupies three counties. Although Yuan Benchu is known as Jizhou Mu, in fact, there are only two counties, Wei County and Qinghe County. In addition, the three counties of Changshan, Zhongshan, and Zhaoguo are actually the territory of Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army. Yuan Benchu with just two counties, raising this tens of thousands of troops, we only need to confront him, over time, Yuan Benchu will inevitably be poor, when the time comes, Yuan Benchu can be captured in a battle, please don't be impulsive, don't fight with him desperately. Kill a thousand enemies, lose eight hundred, if there is a case, it will open up the situation for Yuan Benchu, and at that time, it will not be beautiful. ”

Gongsun Fan went to repay Gongsun Zhan.

At this time, Gongsun Zhan did not defeat the 300,000 Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou. Therefore, whether it is strength or mentality, Gongsun Chan has not yet swelled. He listened to Gongsun Fan relay Liu Bei's words, just thought for a moment, and then decided to follow the plan.

Gongsun Fan is gone, Yuan Shao's messenger is here again, in history, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan belong to heads-up, and now, there is such a huge variable as Liu Bei, and neither of them dares to ignore Liu Bei.

Yuan Shao's envoy was an old acquaintance of Liu Bei, a native of Nanyang.

As soon as he came up, he directly offered Yuan Shao's conditions, and asked Liu Bei to help him to contend with Gongsun Zhan.

In order to ask Liu Bei to make a move, Yuan Shao was willing to hand over the seal of Bohai Taishou to Liu Bei, however, he hoped that Liu Bei could transfer Zang Hong, the governor of Dongjun, away, and Cao Cao would take over the post of governor of Dongjun.

It must be said that Yuan Shao's sincerity is still full, Jizhou County has nine or hundreds of counties, most of which have a household registration of about 100,000 and a population of about 600,000 or 700,000, only Zhao and Bohai are the two extremes.

Zhao Guo has 30,000 households and a population of 180,000.

With a household registration of 150,000 and a population of 1.1 million, Bohai is the largest county in Jizhou, and one county is one-fifth of the population of Jizhou, and it has the benefit of fishing and salt.

At the beginning, after Yuan Shao scolded Dong Zhuo, he fled to Jizhou, and Dong Zhuo appointed Yuan Shao as the Taishou of Bohai in order to appease Yuan Shao. This also takes into account the Bohai County, and the status of the Taishou is relatively high.

It's just that Cao Cao and Dongjun are really so fateful.

You must know that in order to prevent Cao Cao from occupying Dongjun, Liu Bei also sent troops to fight a battle, and he tried his best to offend Liu Dai, and he also wanted to appoint Zang Hong as the governor of Dongjun, isn't it just to prevent Cao Cao from having a piece of territory where he can start.

In the end, after going around in a circle, Dongjun still came to Cao Cao's hands.

However, Liu Bei also understands that Dongjun is next to Yecheng, and Yecheng is Yuan Shao's base camp, so he naturally has to put it in his own hands to rest assured.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei said: "Leaving Zang Ziyuan alone in Dongjun is for the people, and there is no need to ......" Speaking of this, Liu Bei paused for a moment, and said in his heart that this was a good opportunity to deceive Yuan Shao.

So, Liu Bei said: "Since Yuan Cheqi wants to use Cao Mengde as the lieutenant of Dongjun, Gu will order Zang Ziyuan to withdraw from Dongjun." As for the Bohai Taishou, he is not alone and covets the land of other countries, but it is just for the sake of dividing the power of Gongsun Bogui, so he will temporarily act as one or two. ”

After that, Liu Bei signaled and asked people to take over the seal of the Bohai Taishou in the hands of Xiao Ji.

When the seal ribbon of the Bohai Taishou was in his hand, Liu Bei played with it for a while, and remembered that Gongsun Fan had just come, and suddenly there was a ridiculous feeling in his heart.

Historically, Yuan Shao used this position of Bohai Taishou to win over Gongsun Fan, not to show favor to Gongsun Zhan. Yuan Shao was to let Gongsun Fan "send the county and want to help".

Many people don't understand why Yuan Shao gave the Empress Dowager Bohai to Gongsun Zhan's younger brother Gongsun Fan, thinking that Yuan Shao was stupid and naïve.

In fact, Gongsun Zhan's background is similar to Yuan Shao. The Gongsun clan is also a big clan in western Liaoning, and its family is also a generation of 2,000 stones, which is a famous family in Youzhou, but Gongsun Zhan's own status in his clan was originally not high, because his mother was not his father's wife, just a maid and the like, which is quite similar to Yuan Shao.

However, Gongsun Zhan is different from Yuan Shao, although Yuan Shao is also a concubine, but since he was a child, he passed on to his uncle Yuan Cheng, who died early and had no children, not only inherited Yuan Cheng's connections, prestige and other political legacies, and won the love of his biological father Yuan Feng and his father Yuan Kui, but also gained the right to act freely to a certain extent. With these, Yuan Shaoyu was immediately worshipped, and he became the magistrate of Puyang County at the age of 20, and his career was smooth sailing.

And Gongsun Zhan's early experience was quite difficult, when he first came out, he only made a county government official, because he was handsome and had a big voice, he was appreciated by Hou Taishou at that time, and he got a wife and his daughter, and he studied from Lu Zhi in the Wushi Mountain, and then when Liu Taishou violated the law and was sent by the court captain, he was loyal and righteous, and then his reputation became louder, and he made a fortune. First of all, he had to raise filial piety, and then the court worshiped Lang, moved to the long history of Liaodong Shu, and then moved to Zhuo County, Guanghezhong, and moved to the commander of the cavalry with military exploits, and then moved to the Lang general, and sealed the capital Pavilion Marquis, after Dong Zhuo entered Luo, he was promoted to the general of Fenwu and the marquis of Ji.

It can be said that Gongsun Chan can have today, and he has not used too much strength in the Gongsun clan. Of course, it's not that there is no help at all, not to mention anything else, if Gongsun Chan is not a member of the Gongsun clan, he may not be able to be a small official in the county.

Gongsun Fan is different, he is the son-in-law of the Gongsun family, similar to Yuan Shu's status in the Yuan family. Even, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are half-brothers after all, while Gongsun Zan and Gongsun Fan are just brothers in the clan.

Therefore, Yuan Shao probably pushed people by himself, thinking that Gongsun Fan would not obey Gongsun Zhan, a "little maid". And Gongsun Fan obeyed Gongsun Chan before, probably because Gongsun Fan's official position was not as good as Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao awarded Gongsun Fan the seal of his Bohai County Taishou, which was to let Gongsun Fan surpass Gongsun Chan in the official position, so that Gongsun Fan had the idea of competing with Gongsun Zhan.