Listening to Yuan Shao's resentful complaints, Tian Feng, Feng Ji and others were already drenched in cold sweat.

However, knowing that Liu Cun's intentions were not good, and his side could not be attacked on three sides, and then tear his face with the powerful Qingzhou in the east, maybe Liu Zijian and Qingzhou Wenwu would wait for the moment when they tore their faces.

In the spacious and luxurious council hall, a group of strategists lamented endlessly, and their mood was depressed, but no one spoke, and the atmosphere was so solemn that it was difficult for people to breathe.

In the end, Xu You stood up and offered advice: "My lord, the top priority is not to deal with Qingzhou, which still maintains good relations with us...... The subordinates said this not to ignore the threat of Qingzhou, but to remove the direct threat of Gongsun Chan in the north and the Yellow Turban of Montenegro in the west, and not to make strong enemies! ”

"While we are actively preparing for war, we should secretly send an envoy to contact Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, and try every means to let Liu Yu, who has long been unable to tolerate Gongsun Zhan's perverse behavior, to do something to Gongsun Zhan, even if we can't let the two families fight, we must also intensify the internal contradictions in Youzhou, only in this way can we help us defeat Gongsun Chan to the greatest extent and get the entire Jizhou!"

"If we go north to fight with Gongsun Zhan, Liu Zijian suddenly wields his army in southern Hebei and captures our Yecheng and the rear, how should we deal with it?" Yuan Tan suddenly asked.

Xu You said with a smile: "If Liu Zijian wanted to do this, he would have done it a long time ago, where would he be able to wait now?" No matter how insidious and cunning Liu Zijian and Qingzhou Gongsun Pei's gang are, there is one thing that people have to admire, that is, they abide by morality and pay attention to being famous! ”

Therefore, his subordinates speculated in vain: Before Gongsun Zhan was completely defeated, Liu Zijian would not openly send troops to Jizhou. Otherwise, it will not only completely tear up the face with the lord's family and the Central Plains gates. It will also be cheaper for Gongsun Zhan. In the end, I'm afraid that I won't get anything, and I will suffer from the double attack of our side and Gongsun Zhan! ”

"Isn't what Gongsun Chan wants most is Jizhou? If Liu Zijian brazenly sent troops, occupied Jizhou, and fought hard for several years to kill and injure tens of thousands of horses, how could he swallow this evil breath? ”

Yuan Shao was overjoyed when he heard this, and happily adopted Xu You's opinion.

Although Tian Feng, Feng Ji and others did not like Xu You's arrogance and loneliness, they still supported Xu You's strategy.

As a result, the plan that intensified the internal contradictions in Youzhou and eventually led to the discord between Youzhou Mu Liu Yu and Gongsun Zhan was soon introduced. It was handed over to the well-known Xun Chen and the thoughtful Guo Tu to implement it with full authority.

Five days later, Yuan Shao's plan of separation quietly passed into the hands of Liu Cun, and after Liu Cun and Gongsun Pei, Zhao Rong and Guoyuan and others secretly discussed, they decided to plan and add two more fires:

Taking advantage of the fact that Gongsun Fan and Tian Kai, the envoys sent by Gongsun Zhan, were still in Linzi, on the grounds that Liu Yu had sold a large amount of pig iron and processed iron to the grassland, but not to Qingzhou, they stopped selling ordnance materials and grain to Liu Yu, and resold this part of the ordnance materials and grain originally sold to Liu Yu to Gongsun Zhan, who was more in urgent need.

Secondly, the secret order Langya Chamber of Commerce and the newly formed Plains Firm. Give priority to meeting the materials needed by Gongsun Zhan's army, and stop trading with the Wuhuan and other alien races who have moved inward. secretly spread rumors, put the blame on Gongsun Zhan, and prompted Wuhuan and other aliens to resent Gongsun Zhan, and then angered Liu Yu, who had always had a compromising attitude towards foreign races with appeasement and appeasement!

In the past six months, Liu Cun's main energy has shifted to the changes in the current situation in the newly occupied Taishan County, Yanzhou, and Yuzhou, and he has attached great importance to the two armies of Lü Bu and Zhang Ji turning around and marching eastward to chase the Central Plains.

The most uncomfortable is Cao Cao, who has just recovered the six counties and one country of Yanzhou, the east of Yanzhou is the powerful Qingzhou, the north is separated by a river is the unpredictable Yuan Shao, and the unruly Yuan family Shao Yuan Shu came to the south, and the originally stable west was suddenly occupied by the more unruly Lu Bu's 40,000 army, so anxious that Cao Cao couldn't sleep day and night, even if during this time he was successively assisted by wizards such as Xun Yu, "ghost talent" Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai, he was also powerless to do anything about the critical situation like being embattled.

After Cao Cao and Xun Yu and others occupied the six counties and one country of Yanzhou, they immediately set out to plot against the rich and weak Xuzhou, but it didn't take long to find that the seemingly mediocre Xuzhou Mu Taoqian was not confused, not only timely transferred the 20,000 troops of Mi Fang, the general under his command and Liu Cun's brother-in-law, to the county seat of Changxi (now Tucheng Village, Yangzhuang Town, Tengzhou City) at the junction of Yan, Qing and Xu Prefectures, but also decisively transferred the 40,000 soldiers led by the Tibetan tyrant to Pengcheng and Xiaopei, the wealthy areas bordering Yuzhou, which completely made Cao Cao and Yuan Shu, who were secretly plotting to seize Xuzhou, dumbfounded.

Yuan Shu is consolidating the newly laid counties in Runan, and there are still many aftermath things to do, and the desire to occupy Xuzhou is not so urgent, seeing the series of military movements in Xuzhou, he immediately avoided it, and sent envoys to express his good wishes to Xuzhou Mu Taoqian to live in harmony and communicate with each other.

Cao Cao was bitter. The existing total population of the six counties and one country occupied by Cao Cao has been sharply reduced from more than 5 million at the beginning to more than 700,000 today, all the county towns have been full of holes, miserable, the roads on both sides of the white bones are completely populated, tens of millions of acres of land are overgrown with weeds and thorns, and more than seventy percent of the farmland and water conservancy facilities have collapsed and damaged, forcing Cao Cao to appoint Man Chong as the captain of Tuntian, leading 40,000 officers and soldiers to be self-sufficient.

Faced with such an embarrassing situation, Cao Cao and his advisers were at a loss, believing that Liu Cun had intervened in the defense of Xuzhou, or Tao Qian had realized the danger and urgently adjusted the defense arrangements in the border area between Yanzhou and Xuzhou, otherwise it would be impossible to transfer Mi Fang, the general stationed in Donghai County, and 20,000 elites to Changxi to station, and connect with the Qingzhou military defense area in the north.

Cao Cao had to stop the military plot against Xuzhou, adopt the suggestions of Xun Yu and Xi Zhicai, continue to stabilize the existing territory, concentrate on opening up wasteland and tuntian, and make good alliances with Qingzhou to seek greater assistance, and at the same time send envoys to make friends with Yuan Shao in the north and Yuan Shu in the south, and continue to establish contacts with the major families in Xuzhou by purchasing food and materials, and then infiltrate and disintegrate the various factions in Xuzhou.

In the late autumn season, Yanzhou's millions of acres of fertile land were harvested, which greatly relieved the food pressure of Cao Cao's army, but Cao Cao's good mood could not be maintained for a few days, and two seemingly inconspicuous news came one after another, making Cao Cao uneasy and helpless.

The first news is that two artisan battalions in Qingzhou have discovered a large open-pit coal mine in the valley west of Lu County, and have built a transportation road from Zhu'a to the coal mine, which can transport hundreds of truckloads of high-quality coal every day to Jinan New Town and Dongpingling in the west, where it is used for smelting, firing bricks and tiles, and making briquettes for cooking.

The second news is that Liu Xi, the monarch of Langya, announced that he had obtained the approval of the imperial court to build a new city called "Quancheng" in the upper reaches of Surabaya between Nanwuyang and Yanzhou Bian County.

Cao Cao and his advisers were shocked after reading the map.

Once this city is repaired, Lu County in Yanzhou will be within the overlook of this city, and the iron cavalry of the Langya Army will only need one day to rush under any city in Lu County!

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