"No, no," Pang Tong shook his head and said, "Liu Biao, who is old and accustomed to a life of pleasure, will indeed think so, but his staff members Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang, Yin Ji and others can see that Cao Cao has an advantage. ”

"What does Shiyuan want to say?" Zhang Quan asked.

"Jingzhou is rich, with thousands of acres of fertile land and abundant rice. Every year during the autumn harvest, Liu Biao would let Cai Mao sell grain at a low price in Xiangyang City, and through my observation, most of the convoys that bought grain were in a long line, driving straight to Xuchang in an endless stream, as for whether they took the grain to sell or what happened, it is unknown. Pang Tong said.

"Shi Yuan is saying that Liu Biao sold the grain to Cao Cao?" Zhang Quan said.

"Yes."

"Then why did he do it? It's no good for Cao Cao to make him bigger. ”

"This question is very complicated, let's take a look at what Liu Biao did first. Liu Biao came to Xiangyang alone with an edict in his hand when he was young, and took advantage of the contradictions between Jingzhou officials and big families to control Jingzhou. ”

Zhang Quan nodded in response, and Pang Tong continued, "During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liu Biao held Xiangyang. When the princes of the Eighteenth Route crusaded against Dong Zhuo, he did not participate as a relative of the Han family, and then the Central Plains was in a melee, and the Son of Heaven was displaced, but Liu Biao, who was strong and strong, had sufficient logistics, never dispatched any army of King Qin. And the reason lies in today's son. ”

"Today's son is Dong Zhuoli's." Xu Shu immediately responded.

"That's it. Liu Biao was a member of the Han family and was in charge of Jingzhou by the emperor's grace, so he was very loyal to the royal family. But the problem is that he is loyal to the orthodox royal family, and now the saint is established by the rebellious minister Dong Zhuo. How could the Han clan members tolerate that the emperor was determined by outsiders? After a pause, he said,

This is also the reason why Liu Biao and Liu Yan, the pastor of Yizhou at that time, did not participate in the crusade of the princes of the Eighteenth Route against Dong Zhuo. So up to now, Liu Biao is actually the person who doesn't want the current saint to hold real power. He can't directly send troops to Xuchang, because once Xuchang is defeated, the current saint is in his hands, what will he do? Neither is it abolished, nor is it honored. So I think what he is thinking about now is to grow Cao Cao's ambition step by step, so that Cao Cao can abolish the saint, and he just uses the name of the traitor who usurped the Han to attack Cao Cao. ”

"Well, I see." Zhang Quan nodded, only to find that Liu Biao and Liu Yan had not participated in the crusade against Dong Zhuo.

"But there is a problem with Shi Yuan's speculation, when Cao Cao or Yuan Shao, who defeated Cao Cao, is a saint, I am afraid that they will have already unified the north, and at that time, even if Liu Biao unites Jiangdong Yizhou and Liangzhou, it will be difficult to compete with Cao Cao or Yuan Shao." Xu Shu asked.

"Who knows, maybe Liu Biao still thinks that he is the one who entered Xiangyang alone and then took charge of Jingzhou." Pang Tong shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly, I laughed a few times, and Pang Tong also laughed.

Zhang Quan got up and poured two cups of tea, served them to Pang Tong and Xu Shu, and then poured a cup of tea and drank it slowly. After drinking the tea, Zhang Quan asked Pang Tong:

"So Shi Yuan thinks that Cao Cao will definitely unify the world after unifying the north?"

Pang Tong's face showed a sense of satisfaction that he agreed with Zhang Quan and said that Cao Cao would defeat Yuan Shao, and said: "If I were Cao Cao's military advisor, I would let him rest for two years after defeating Yuan Shao, and then send troops to Xiliang. then attack Hanzhong, from Hanzhong to Shuzhong; Although Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang can also be called princes, they can't stop Cao Cao's tiger and wolf army. The unification of Yizhou from Jiangzhou Yong'an, Shangyong Xinye, and Runan Shouchun at the same time to attack Jingzhou Jiangdong may be hindered by the naval army, but at that time it was a war of attrition, and it was only a matter of time before the world was unified. There was excitement on his face and in his eyes.

Xu Shu couldn't help but feel ashamed after hearing this, he was focused on how to fight a battle, but he didn't expect that unifying the world would be so simple in Pang Tong's mouth.

"That's right," Zhang Quan said in a low voice, if Cao Cao really did this in history, I'm afraid there would be no Three Kingdoms, but there is no if in history, "but I think Cao Cao will not attack Xiliang and Yizhou after defeating Yuan Shao, but will go south to attack Jingzhou and Jiangdong." ”

"Why does Brother Quan think so?"

"When people make mistakes, although Cao Cao is not a human being, he is a pure-blooded dragon king, but he has been contaminated with too many human feelings, in the final analysis, he is still a person who will continue to make mistakes, and he has made a lot of mistakes. When Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, who was three times his military strength, the king of the earth and the mountain unfolded the black dragon wings tens of meters wide, the body of the king of the sky and the wind was torn into pieces, and all the soldiers of the Cao army were bathed in the blood of the king of the sky and the wind.

After that, Cao Cao was afraid that he would feel that he was the son of destiny and invincible, and then went south to attack Jingzhou Jiangdong in one fell swoop, Ma Teng Han Sui in Xiliang, Zhang Lu and Liu Zhang in Yizhou and others would bow their heads and profess themselves, so as to achieve a surrender without a fight. Zhang Quan shook his head and said.

"Then even if Cao Cao chooses to go south with a hot head, his advisers will see that marching west is a better choice?" Pang Tong asked.

"The ministers will also consider their own interests when they make speeches, and if the monarch does not listen to them many times, it is still themselves who suffer. What's more, the world is impermanent, and the fate of heaven is unpredictable, maybe after he defeats Yuan Shao, his advisers may die. Who knows. Zhang Quan said with a sigh. Guo Jia died of illness when Cao Cao marched into the desert, and Xun Yu Xun You Jia Xu Cheng Yu probably also saw that it was better to march to Xiliang than to go south, but probably Mingzhe did not argue with Cao Cao.

Zhang Quan took a sip of tea and paused, and said to Pang Tong, who was still bowing his head and thinking hard, and Xu Shu, who was thinking from afar:

"I talked about the world's major affairs with Brother Shi Yuan just now, but I don't know which prince Brother Shi Yuan and Brother Yuan have plans to go to?"

Pang Tong replied absentmindedly:

"Go to Cao Cao, it is said that Guo Jia also looks like me, and I am not afraid that he will think I am ugly. It's just that now Cao Jun's camp is already full of talents, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to get ahead. Pang Tong suddenly remembered, "Wait, Brother Quan, you said you were Zhang Xiu's only son?" Is it Zhang Xiu, who captured the four counties in the south of the Yangtze River, killed Sun Ce, and once killed Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang's fierce general Dian Wei? ”

"Huh?" Zhang Quan looked at Pang Tongdao.

"Huh?" He looked at Zhang Quandao.

At this time, of course, Zhang Quan should have proposed to use his words, Zhang Quan said:

"Why don't you go to my Jiangnan army first."

"Okay."