Yuan Shao's life was already very difficult, several battlefields were in full swing, but there was no progress in each battlefield, but there was an emergency everywhere, and soldiers and food were asked everywhere.

Soldiers can be caught and charged, but money and food are hard goods, not to say that there are them.

In recent years, Yuan Shao governed the three states and four counties, adopting the strategy of colluding with the upper echelons, trying to protect and support the interests of his protégés and former officials and the big families, which caused a fundamental contradiction with his desire to govern the local area and develop production.

If he supported the people to develop production and revive agriculture, it would have created a fundamental contradiction with the landlord class, and if he supported the landlords to develop production, the output of the landlords and wealthy families fell into the pockets of others, and Yuan Shao could not get any harvest at all, and in the end he could only curry favor with the big families on the one hand, and on the other hand, he relied on the oppression of the people who were already small to maintain the operation of his huge army and bureaucratic system.

As a result, the more the people are squeezed, the more bitter they become, and the more bitter they become, the more they flee, and a vicious circle like this has emerged.

Now the war on the front line is urgent, and there is a lot of food and grass needed, but his treasury has been exhausted, and he is singing empty city plans. So, Yuan Shao also set his sights on the businessman who he regarded as a lowly businessman.

He also wanted to implement Lu Peng's method of purchasing from merchants, and using the method of merchants directly transporting grain and grass to the front line, so as to save more than three times the consumption of transportation.

But it really doesn't work.

One of the reasons is that Yuan Shao couldn't come up with the money to pay the merchant's payment, and Yuan Shao personally issued a warrant, that is, an IOU, and the merchants used all kinds of excuses to prevaricate.

As a result, Yuan Shao was embarrassed, and he didn't understand why the method of substituting business for transportation would work with Lu Peng, but not with himself.

In fact, in business, it is a little higher than other classes, so that the oppressed businessmen are grateful to Lu Peng in their hearts, and they are resolutely supported in action, and more fundamentally, Lu Peng knows the truth of equal interests, and thoroughly implements this truth, so that businessmen are understood and respected, and then there are interests connected, how can it not be invincible?

And Yuan Shao relied on his protégés and old officials, and started from the Hebei (north of the Yellow River) family, and has always despised businessmen, and has been ingrained in the idea of despising businessmen, treating businessmen as leeks, and from time to time when they need it, they also slaughter fat sheep and shear sheep, which has broken the hearts of businessmen.

Since the merchant is unreliable and does not give face, he still has to rely on the family that supports him, and stretch out his hand to them to ask for money and food support.

But the family is to support your rule and your actions, but there is also a bottom line to support you, not unlimited, you are so unreasonable, and you don't give money in exchange, so who is always so stupid, so everyone is also a yang and yin.

At this time, there was a good thing that was actually good for him in front of him, that is, Emperor Han Xian sent an envoy to regulate this inexplicable war between him and Lu Peng.

Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was coerced by Li Dao and Guo Yan, and the two attacked each other in Chang'an for several months, with tens of thousands of dead, and Chang'an City almost became a ruin. But soon, Liu Xie, under the escort of Niu Fu, the former general of Li's department, and his uncle Dong Cheng and Xu Huang, got rid of the control of Li and Guo, fled to Hongnong, and entered Anyi. He traveled east and returned to Luoyang.

Luoyang has been burned to the ground by Dong Zhuo, and now Emperor Han Xian's poverty has been living among the ruins, and the ministers of civil and military affairs are hungry and cold one by one, and they have become hungry and cold, and they have not even eaten wild vegetables.

However, after escaping from Li Guo's clutches, he felt the importance of military power, remembering that Yuan Shao raised troops to crusade against Dong Zhuo, which could be described as loyal to the Han family, so he wanted to recruit Yuan Shaoqin Wang to escort him, so he sent the minister Wang Kuang, the imperial historian, to personally bring the edict to adjust the war between Lu Peng and Yuan Shao, and the conditions were that Yuan Shao returned the four counties of Youzhou to Lu Peng, and let Lu Peng return Renqiu to Yuan Shao.

Seeing this, he saw a huge opportunity, so he immediately wrote a letter suggesting that Yuan Shao accept the holy decree of the emperor to end this hopeless war, and then take the emperor to Hebei and coerce the Son of Heaven to make the princes politically high.

As a result, Yuan Shao believed that this was Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty favoring Lu Peng, and this holy decree proposal was unfavorable to him. Another one, after taking Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty over, he had to feed him and all the civil and military officials under him.

Feeding the emperor, it is definitely not a small burden, according to the standard of Emperor Han Ling, the cost of the royal family is at least two billion yuan a year, and the cost of building palace pavilions at the same level for him is a bottomless pit, and his own finances are not able to afford it, not to mention that a group of civil and military forces under the emperor must also be settled.

The most important thing is that I am so free now, I can do whatever I want, and I can do whatever I want. Once the emperor comes, he has to listen to the emperor, not only to listen to the emperor, but also to endure the criticism of those ministers, and even encroach on most of his own interests. Therefore, after thinking about it, Yuan Shao refused that this time was a great thing for all warlords except Lu Peng.

It also ruined the chance of ending this hopeless war with dignity.

Wang Kuang, the imperial historian, handed over this holy decree to Youzhou, which is a big thing, this is the emperor's holy decree, but it is not the cabinet that dares to decide, so Youzhou once again sent someone to break through into Renqiu and handed over the holy decree to Lu Peng.

Lu Peng didn't even look at this holy decree, and directly threw it back to the messenger from Youzhou, muttering: "Now the emperor is no longer of any use, and the holy decree is no longer legally binding on us." What is good for me, I will use it to cover my shame. I don't even bother to look at what is not in my interest. For example, this decree is of no use to me, and I don't think it's useful to me, when have you ever seen me vomit out what I have swallowed? Even if I pull it out, I'll have to pull it in my pit. ”

So, Zhao Yun once again led 3,000 cavalry to protect the messenger, this time from the west gate.

Now that the Youzhou Iron Cavalry is attacking Yuan Shao's encirclement, it will be as easy as going to the supermarket. Once again, Yan Liangwen Chou felt that his encirclement was so weak that it couldn't even be counted as a formality.