Blackmailing Cao Cao, the current situation is indeed feasible.

With a population of 200,000 and some money, compared to the entire Yuzhou, it can only be regarded as a drizzle.

But who wants to be blackmailed like this.

And once the blackmail is successful, there will be a next one.

"Lord, although this plan is feasible, we have been at odds with Cao Cao since then, and I am afraid that he will blackmail us in the future, or die and not save us." Guo Jia said.

Ye Chen shook his head and said: "Cao Cao has no chance to blackmail us, our defense is already very strong, if I were Yuan Shao, I would not put a good place to fight and come to fight our difficult Youzhou, plus after we have a bad relationship with Cao Cao, Yuan Shao is more likely to attack Cao Cao than to attack us." ”

"Besides, if Yuan Shao really comes to beat us, we can also take the opportunity to scrape some flesh from him."

Ye Chen wants to develop, the space is limited, and he can only kill the butcher knife to Yuan Shao, so for Yuan Shao, Ye Chen will have to face it sooner or later, whether there is Cao Cao or not, he must face it.

After listening to it, Guo Jia had no objections.

It's not that Guo Jia doesn't understand, but the direction of focus is different.

With these negotiating foundations, Guo Jia will be able to handle it easily.

The next day, Guo Jia went to find Cheng Yu.

When Guo Jia said the conditions, Cheng Yu was stunned.

He didn't expect that Ye Chen would put forward such outrageous conditions.

You must know that at this time, Ye Chen and Cao Cao are still allies.

If Cheng Yu is a person who has a sense of the overall situation, after thinking about it carefully, he knows that if Cao Cao takes Yuzhou, the balance of the three parties will be broken immediately, and at this time, it is normal for Ye Chen to take the opportunity to blackmail them fiercely.

Although it is understandable, Cheng Yu is very angry.

The two began to negotiate.

The final negotiation result between Guo Jia and Cheng Yu was: Cao Cao gave Ye Chen 200,000 people, first 100,000, and 500,000 silver coins, and only agreed that some merchants in Youzhou could trade freely on Cao Cao's territory, and the other was that they could not touch salt and iron, and Cao Cao had to operate salt and iron by himself.

Ye Chen valued population and trade, and he didn't care how many silver coins there were.

But Cao Cao had a lot of restrictions on the merchants of Youzhou.

Can't deal in salt and iron, especially salt, Ye Chen's salt smuggling is very strong, and it has always been an important source of finance, Cao Cao also understands that he must control salt in his own hands, so he is directly stuck and does not let others operate salt and iron.

In addition, only a part of the merchants in designated Youzhou can do business in Yanzhou and Yuzhou.

This is easy to manage, easy to control, and there will be no major crises.

Ye Chen was very dissatisfied with this, but in the end, he could only compromise with each other.

The agreement was reached, and Cheng Yu went back.

After going back, Cheng Yu reported the situation to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao's face was gloomy, but he didn't scold.

Blackmailing him at this time is indeed Ye Chen's style.

Although Cao Cao was distressed, he was already thinking about the pattern after the balance of the three parties was broken.

Reaching an agreement with Ye Chen, Cao Cao began to prepare to attack Yuzhou.

Liu Pi in Yuzhou has no talents, and he doesn't have much ability, so he definitely can't stop Cao Cao.

Not to mention Cao Cao, after Cheng Yu left, Guo Jia found Ye Chen again.

"My lord, Cao Cao attacked Yuzhou, we were somewhat affected, whether to send troops to bluff." Guo Jia said.

"Taking money to do things, this is our consistent principle, whether it is blackmail or not, in the end, we have negotiated a business, and we must send troops to attack Yuan Shao." Ye Chen said.

Guo Jia was stunned, but he didn't expect Ye Chen to really plan to send troops.

"Lord, this time to fight Qingzhou?" Guo Jia asked tentatively.

"That's right, we must lead Yuan Shao by the nose and make him strategically wrong and create a situation favorable to us." Ye Chen said.

Now the most powerful in the north is undoubtedly Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao's development must be slowed down.

"That's right, just fight Qingzhou, but it's not a big fight, it's a guerrilla war, you run if you fight, and you won't love war." Ye Chen said.

It is impossible to fight big, and it depends on strategy to fight small.

Ye Chen actually looked at the problem from a strategic point of view.

At present, Yuan Shao's focus is still on Jizhou, and he attacked Qingzhou, and Yuan Shao could not ignore it.

If a large army is sent over, the focus will slowly shift to the Qingzhou side, and if a fight starts in the future, it will be more advantageous to fight in Qingzhou than in Jizhou.

Ye Chen has a water army, he can sneak attack Qingzhou from the waterway, and fight in Qingzhou, Ye Chen has too many benefits.

Therefore, Ye Chen's purpose was to shift Yuan Shao's development focus from Jizhou to Qingzhou, and force Yuan Shao to transfer the army from other places to Qingzhou.

Ye Chen attacked Qingzhou, Yuan Shao had to deal with it, and the easiest way was to send troops over to defend.

But Yuan Shao must not dare to send less, if he sends less, it will not be useful, and if he sends too much, he will have to transfer troops from other places.

"Lord, who are you going to send to fight this time?" Guo Jia asked.

"Take turns."

"Haha, this is to train Yuan Shao, I don't know what he will think if he knows it." Guo Jia said with a smile.

Ye Chen really wants to train with Yuan Shao, and he also has to achieve his strategic goals.

Ten days later, Cao Cao began to attack Yuzhou, and Ye Chen also sent troops to Qingzhou.

This time he sent troops to Qingzhou, Xu Huang's heavy infantry defended the city as a backing, and then Ye Chen sent several cavalry and began to attack Qingzhou.

It was not so much an attack as a plunder.

The number of soldiers and horses sent is one or two thousand, and the few are hundreds.

They all plundered and left immediately.

Or grab a few hundred to thousands of people and leave, or kill some Qingzhou soldiers and retreat.

Anyway, Ye Chen didn't let them face the enemy head-on.

Qingzhou was harassed for a few days, and Yuan Shao immediately reacted and directly dispatched 50,000 troops to garrison the Qingzhou border.

More than ten days have passed, and no major battle broke out between the two sides, and Yuan Shaofang began to judge that Ye Chen wanted to sneak attack them, so he gathered the soldiers and horses together, and as a result, the soldiers and horses in Youzhou attacked everywhere.

After that, Yuan Shaofang took the initiative to attack and sent two roads of 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack the Youzhou army.

But the army of Youzhou immediately retreated, and disappeared without a trace.

Yuan Shao sent troops to attack the cities of Youzhou, but these cities were all reinforced by Ye Chen, and they couldn't hold out, making it very difficult for Yuan Shaofang to bite.

After several days of confrontation, Yuan Shaofang was exhausted, and the Youzhou army avoided but did not fight.

After tossing for a few days, Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses could only retreat and then defend.

"What the hell is this Ye Chen going to do, fight or not." Yuan Shao, who received the news, said very angrily.

"Lord, Ye Chen's move must have a deep meaning, he fights Qingzhou, we can attack Jizhou from Jizhou, so that he can't take care of each other." Frustrated suggested.

"Lord, attacking from Jizhou, you can only attack Daijun, and Daijun is already impregnable, thankless, my subordinates heard that Ye Chen's attack on Qingzhou is just a deal with Cao Cao, it is not a problem, we just need to guard against the harassment of a small part of his troops." Guo Tu stood up and said.

Guo Tu told everyone about Ye Chen's deal with Cao Cao.

Everyone, including Yuan Shao, believed that Ye Chen's move was just to contain Yuan Shao.

However, he was deeply worried, he had always felt that Ye Chen had another purpose, but he didn't know what the purpose was, and there was no evidence or reasoning to convince Yuan Shao.

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