In mid-February, the princes of the Thirteenth Road gathered in sour dates, known as 500,000 soldiers and horses, and the momentum was much stronger than in history.

At the beginning, the princes of the Seven Roads, and the Zhang Chao brothers occupied two roads, and more importantly, the location of the alliance was in Suozao County, Chenliu County, and the Taishou was Zhang Miao, so it was reasonable for Zang Hong to temporarily serve as the leader of the alliance, and now the Yuan family has sent out the six-way army, and it is not accepted to continue to take Zang Hong as the leader of the alliance.

When the Thirteenth Route Army arrives, the first thing to do is to elect a new alliance leader.

The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, the most famous, and among the princes who participated in the alliance, the Yuan family has the largest number and the strongest military strength, and the leader of the alliance can only be selected from the people of the Yuan family, and Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao are both qualified as the leader of the alliance.

Yuan Shu is the rear general, with the highest military rank, and it seems very reasonable for Yuan Shu to serve as the leader of the alliance.

However, Yuan Shao is older than Yuan Shu, and occupies the Yuan family's hometown Runan County, so he hopes to get the position of the leader of the alliance so that he can mobilize more resources of the Yuan family, how can he let Yuan Shu get his wish? He must earn it.

The only state pastor who participated in the alliance was Han Fu, who spoke with great weight and had the effect of a hammer; He didn't want Yuan Shu to hold the position of alliance leader, he preferred to be held by Yuan Shao of Benzhou, and hoped to get more benefits from it.

Zhang Miao and Cao Cao have had a deep friendship with Yuan Shao since childhood, and are naturally more inclined to support Yuan Shao as the leader of the alliance.

Only Bao Xin, the minister of Jibei, thinks that Cao Cao is the most capable person to be the leader of the alliance, but he supports it alone, and it is difficult to speak alone, and after Cao Cao is a eunuch, he is the only prince who has no official position, and more importantly, he does not have his own territory, and his identity is very embarrassing, how can he be the leader of the alliance?

Although Gongsun Chan has left Wei County now, the imperial court has not removed him from his post as Taishou, and he still has the name of Wei Jun's Taishou, and he also has a status compared to Cao Cao, not to mention that Gongsun Zan is strong and strong, and his strength is stronger than Cao Cao.

As for the other princes of Yanzhou, seeing that Yuzhou Mu Han Fu supported Yuan Shao, they successively supported Yuan Shao, and hoped that Yuan Shao and Han Fu would assume more responsibilities and obligations in the coalition army and reduce Yanzhou's heavy responsibilities.

As for Yuan Shu, his bad deeds made everyone feel uneasy, first of all, he ordered Sun Jian to attack and kill Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou, which had a bad impact and opened a precedent for subordinates of the Eastern Han Dynasty to kill Shangguan; Secondly, he ordered Sun Jian to use the excuse to get rid of Zhang Zhi, the Taishou of Nanyang County, and the act of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge was shameful, and the appearance was too ugly; Everyone is worried that Yuan Shu, who does not follow the rules, will become the leader of the alliance, and they don't know what more ridiculous things they will do, they want to make profits, but they don't come to the house, so Liu Dai and others all support Yuan Shao to take the position of the leader of the alliance.

Yuan Shu couldn't compete, and he hated Yuan Shao to death in his heart, but he couldn't force it, so he had to acquiesce, now was not the time to have a stalemate with Yuan Shao and the princes; And his uncle was still there, and he couldn't let his uncle look down on him, so under the persuasion of Yang Hong, Yuan Shu borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and could only announce his support for Yuan Shao to become the leader of the alliance with a high profile.

Yuan Shao modestly pushed a few times, and then calmly assumed the position of the leader of the alliance; Yuan Shao called himself the general of the chariot cavalry, and everyone else was falsely awarded the official title, such as Cao Cao, who was awarded the rank of general of Fenwu.

After Yuan Shao became the leader of the alliance, he did not mention how to attack Dong Zhuo and attack Luoyang, but held a feast all day long and celebrated solemnly, and everyone naturally enjoyed it.

In fact, this is all a superficial article, Yuan Shao is waiting, waiting for the latest instructions from Taifu Yuan Kui.

Sure enough, at the end of February, Yuan Shao received a secret letter from his uncle; The letter pointed out that the big problem facing the coalition army now was not how to attack Dong Zhuo and coerce Luoyang, but how to raise enough money and grain to ensure the supply of the army, and order the prefectures and counties to stop paying taxes to the imperial court and transform them into the strength of the Yuan family; Yuan Shao thought so.

Subsequently, Yuan Shao changed his style and became vigorous and resolute, issuing several orders in succession, and selecting personnel to implement them immediately.

First of all, Yuan Shao announced that the princes who participated in the alliance would stop paying taxes to the imperial court, and then all of them would be used for the needs of the allies, claiming that they were afraid of being used by Dong Zhuo, which strengthened Dong Zhuo's strength and used it to deal with the Kwantung Alliance.

This was in the interest of the princes, and if they did, they would be able to benefit greatly from it, and they would not have to bear the infamy of betraying the court.

Secondly, send people to inform the officials of Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou and other prefectures and counties to deliver the imperial court taxes to the jujube for military purposes, otherwise, Dong Zhuo will be threatened with the same party.

The other princes of the alliance will naturally be happy to do so, and in this way, they will gain more benefits as the princes of the alliance; So they all strongly supported Yuan Shao's decision, anyway, the things that offended people were carried by Yuan Shao, and they had nothing to do with them, they just needed to reap the benefits.

Now that the alliance is strong and strong, its surface strength far exceeds that of Dong Zhuo, and the soldiers and horses are in the eastern part of the country, close at hand, how can the prefectures and counties of the eastern part of the country compete?

In the end, he ordered Yuan Shu to be in charge of the allied army's money and food, which was regarded as a pacification of Yuan Shu, and the fertilizer and water did not flow into the fields of outsiders, no matter how bad the relationship was, he was also a member of the Yuan family, for the sake of the current plan, he had to do the superficial article, and this move was also done for his uncle to see, and hoped to get more attention and support from his uncle.

Taifu Yuan Kui's specific plan is to use the alliance to call on the king of the world to come to the capital to "clear the king's side", and the whole behavior of discussing Dong cannot be serious, because the Yuan family and the emperor are in the capital, which is to "throw a mouse bogey".

At the same time, because the real goal of the Yuan family is to strengthen their own strength with the help of the Hui Alliance, take Jingzhou and Yuzhou, and serve as the foundation of the Yuan family, so the princes involved in the discussion of Dong cannot have local powerful factions, but almost all of them are officials who have been parachuted into the capital or his Yuan family's descendants and people who can be absolutely controlled by the Yuan family, and these people can obey the call of the Yuan family.

As for the remaining states and counties such as Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and Yuzhou, they only need to provide money and food for the allies and contribute to the cause of the Yuan family.

This move can not only strengthen the Yuan family's own strength, but also weaken the strength of other states and counties with the help of the alliance, so that the Yuan family can occupy these states and counties in the future.

Sure enough, if things were planned by Taifu Yuan Kui, they went particularly smoothly, first of all, the Taishou of Jiyin County in Yanzhou immediately sent people to send a large amount of money and grain to the allies, and Dongping Kingdom in Yanzhou also sent generous gifts; Secondly, the counties of Yuzhou, which are close at hand, also sent people to send gift orders in advance, and the money, food, soldiers and other materials were then delivered to Suozao County; In the counties of Yangzhou and Jingzhou, some counties promised to deliver money and grain later, and some remote counties were still waiting; However, the results achieved so far have made Yuan Shao overjoyed.

This move allowed Yuan Shao to gain a higher approval rating among the allied officers and soldiers.

The princes of all walks of life have received a great benefit, which is to enjoy the shade with their backs to the big tree, and they only have to sit back and enjoy the results.

And Yuan Shao was even more complacent, and began to plan how to use the power of the allies to realize the Yuan family's plan.

Of course, the military strength of the champion Hou, Guangnian Hou and Guangping Hou was too strong, and the relationship with the Shi clan had always been not harmonious, and Yuan Shao was even more reluctant to provoke, so he did not send anyone to contact.

At present, in addition to Dong Zhuo, the person who feels the most uncomfortable is Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian.

Tao Qian was very conflicted, he was unwilling to disobey the orders of the imperial court, and he was unwilling to offend the allied forces of the Kwantung Dynasty, mainly because the distance from Yanzhou to Xuzhou was too close, and if the allies sent cavalry, they could arrive overnight.

If he provided money and food to the allies, first, he was afraid of offending the imperial court, and second, he Tao Qian was not willing to give it, if he did not provide money and food to the allies, the consequences were unpredictable, where should he go?