Yuan Shao was full of spirits and led an army of 700,000 to the south, and the vanguard troops approached 200,000 people, and the prelude to the battle of Guandu officially opened in February of this year.

Yuan Shao, the world's high-profile general, ordered Yan Liang and Chun Yuqiong to lead the vanguard troops to attack Baimajin, and the Central Plains suddenly rose up, and no one knew who killed the deer.

Cao Ying now has 150,000 troops, but the troops that can be invested in a decisive battle with Yuan Shao are only 120,000 at best, at least, he has to leave 30,000 to guard against Liu Biao.

Will Guo Jia beat Liu Biao? No matter what Cao Ying expected, he had to stay on guard.

Liu Yan, who was stationed in Baimajin by Cao Ying, was in danger, but Cao Yan, who led his army to Guandu in the east of Zhongmu, was slow to send troops to rescue him.

The war in the Central Plains ignited, and many people in Kansai could not sit still.

Guo Jia was still in Chengdu at this time, and the information of the Central Plains was delivered to him on time every day, along with the letters of invitation from the generals in Guanzhong, they were gearing up and couldn't wait to go out of the Guandong Expedition, and even Xu Shu Fazheng was a little anxious to write to Guo Jia, tactfully expressing his hope that Guo Jia would go north to lead the army as soon as possible.

If Bai Majin is lost, Yuan Shao's army can drive straight into the river after crossing the river, and there is no danger in the Central Plains to defend, and Cao Ying is afraid that he will be defeated in a short time.

Don't miss it.

But Guo Jia was calm, and at this time, he was already arranging government affairs in an orderly manner.

"Yongnian, at the beginning of next month, another 500,000 stones of grain and grass will be mobilized from the Yizhou treasury and sent to Chang'an, and the grain transportation officer will not be slack, and the grain and grass will be transported within the next month, otherwise the military law will deal with it."

Guo Jia looked down at Yizhou's account books, these are all managed by Zhang Song, money and grain accounts, Zhang Song takes care of them very well, and there are no mistakes at all.

Zhang Song opened his mouth to receive the order, and then asked Guo Jia, "Does the lord have any other orders?" ”

Guo Jia sat up and said gently: "No, in the next few months, I will bother you to work hard, but always pay attention to your body, don't work sick like Zhicai, if you are not by my side, Yizhou will have a big mess." ”

Zhang Song smiled silently, and walked away after arching his hand.

When he walked out of the door, Zhang Song was surprised to see the young Guo Jin walking towards the hall with a man.

Zhang Song said hello to Guo Jin and left without looking back, he was not a person who liked to hunt for curiosities, and he was not interested in knowing the gentle-looking man next to Guo Jin.

"The child has seen his father, father, guess who this one is? The child gives you a hint, he is the child's brother. ”

When no outsiders were present, Guo Jin always behaved very lively, and came to Guo Jia with a cheerful smile.

Guo Jin was so casual, obviously treating the man as an outsider.

"Oh? Your senior brother? Isn't that Cai Gong's disciple? Well, Gu Yuan sighed, right? ”

Guo Jia took Guo Jin's small hand with one hand, raised his head and looked at the man, with a dignified appearance and a calm bearing, no wonder Cai Gong was full of praise when he occasionally heard him mention him.

Gu Yong bowed his hand and said respectfully: "Under Gu Yong, Ziyuan sighed, I have seen the envoy." ”

Guo Jia waved his hand casually and said: "No need to be polite, I often hear your name from Cai Gong's mouth, Cai Gong said that you are extraordinary, then you will definitely not be false, I heard that you live in seclusion in Jiangdong, are you interested in coming to Yizhou Mansion to be an official?" On the first day of the next month, it happens to be the time for the Yizhou imperial examination, although the registration has been closed, but if you want to come, I will definitely give you a chance. ”

"That's right, senior brother, you can stay in Chengdu, so that you can see Cai Gong every day."

Guo Jin stared at Gu Yong expectantly.

Before that, Gu Yong came to Yizhou to naturally visit his mentor Cai Yong first, Guo Jin not only recognized a senior brother when he was present, but also saw Gu Yong's good handwriting, which made him yearn for it very much.

Gu Yong was neither humble nor arrogant, but he was already surprised in his heart.

Guo Jia just saw him, and he only spoke out to solicit talents based on his talent, Gu Yong believes that a monarch like Guo Jia will not just listen to Cai Yong's one-sided praise and put down the shelf to recruit talents.

Maybe there is an unknown secret in Guo Jia's heart, Gu Yong doesn't want to guess, because he visited Guo Jia this time, not to see Guo Jia's heroics.

"Thanks to the love of the king, I am grateful, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to enter Shu rashly in Jiangdong for a long time, and I am not secret, I am here to be entrusted by Wu Hou."

Gu Yong lightly rejected Guo Jia, and at the same time clarified his intentions.

At this time, Guo Jia also put away his casual posture, let go of the hand holding Guo Jin, stretched out his hand, and invited Gu Yong to take a seat.

Guo Jin reluctantly glanced at Guo Jia, then looked at Gu Yong with some disappointment, and retreated after saluting the two of them.

Wu Hou, the current Wu Hou, must be Sun Ce.

Gu Yong lived in seclusion in Jiangdong and did not come out, and he came to visit Guo Jia as an envoy because of the credit of another person in the Sun family: Sun Quan.

As early as a few years ago, the fifteen-year-old Sun Quan was arranged by Sun Ce to raise filial piety, and the following year he raised Maocai, Sun Ce single-handedly arranged Sun Quan's career, in addition to Sun Ce to strengthen the Sun family's ruling power in Jiangdong This starting point, Sun Quan himself must also be a young talent, if it is useless, how can a puddle of mud be supported on the wall? A minor person being a county magistrate and being able to govern the county well is enough to show Sun Quan's ability.

Sun Ce is strong outside, Sun Quan is strong inside, Sun Quan became famous at a young age in Jiangdong, and like his brother Sun Ce, Sun Quan also likes to make friends with heroes, Gu Yong is one Sun Quan has known for a long time.

In the eyes of Jiangdong people, in fact, the Sun family is an outsider, although their roots are in Wu County, but in the early years, Sun Jian not only had an inseparable grudge with the wealthy clan of Huiji County, but also left Wu County when he was young, it can be said that Sun Ce killed back to Jiangdong, before that, the Sun family did not have any power in Jiangdong at all, so Sun Ce was based on Jiangdong in the early stage and no one was available, and the civil and military forces under him were not as good as Liu Biao's huge talent base of the Jingxiang clan, nor could they be compared with Guo Jia's opening of the imperial examination. Not to mention Cao Ying, who coerced the princes of the Son of Heaven, and Yuan Shao, who was like a cloud and a fierce general.

The battle of Guandu is imminent, Sun Ce wants to send someone to Yizhou, who to choose is a headache for him, he has capable people under him, but it can't be described as full of talents, really talented people, Sun Ce can't send any of them, because the official affairs under his rule are inseparable from them.

At this time, Sun Quan recommended Gu Yong to Sun Ce.

"Marquis Wu sent you here, what is the matter?"

Guo Jia is very curious, he has some friendship with Sun Ce, putting aside the previous grievances in Changsha, at least Guo Jia avenged Sun Ce's murder of his father two years ago, Guo Jia doesn't think that he gave Sun Ce a slap back then to represent the two families are not dying, if Sun Ce's heart is haunted by that slap, then Sun Ce will never be able to take down the territory of the six counties of Jiangdong today.

Gu Yong was silent for a moment before he spoke: "The Cao thief is holding the Son of Heaven hostage, there is no Han family, and the Son of Heaven is trapped in the tiger's mouth, how can I wait for the Han people to sit idly by?" General Yuan waved a million troops to cross the river to the south, which is really the hope of the people and the blessing of the country. The fall of the Cao thief is imminent, Wu Hou intends to respond to General Yuan to fight against the rebels, Wu Hou entrusted me to come, hoping to make Jun can raise troops together to eliminate the violence, Wu Hou raised troops from Jiangdong, and Jingzhou Liu Biao is a descendant of the Han family, but he disregarded the Son of Heaven in distress, he blocked the way, so that Jun from Yizhou sent troops to the danger, however, so that Jun can send troops from Hangu Pass, General Yuan from the north to the south, so that Jun from the west to the east, Wu Hou from the southeast to the north, these three ways of the army will be able to put the Cao thief to death, I implore you to make the common people first, crusade against the thief is where the righteousness is, the people's will to go. ”

Silence, dead silence.

After Gu Yong finished speaking, Guo Jia looked at him in four eyes, and neither of them took the lead in looking away.

Guo Jia stared at Gu Yong and asked in a deep voice, "Wu Hou really wants to send troops to respond to Yuan Shao?" ”

Gu Yong nodded with a solemn expression and affirmatively.

Guo Jia's head was running rapidly.

Is Sun Ce going to fight Cao Ying a hoe to annihilate a thief?

By no means.

Who gave him his status and status as Marquis of Wu? Cao Ying.

But Cao Ce has a posture that the building is about to collapse, Sun Ce has no need to maintain friendship with Cao Ying, the trees are falling and scattered, and the walls are falling and everyone is pushing, at this time, in Sun Ce's eyes, what he sees should not be Cao Ying, but the Son of Heaven!

Yuan Shao's slogan to fight Cao Ying was to rescue the Son of Heaven and welcome the Son of Heaven to Yecheng.

Who doesn't know the true purpose of the princes of the world?

Didn't you see Cao Ying coercing the Son of Heaven to make the princes red?

Whoever wins the Son of Heaven will rule the ears of the bull in the world.

Back then, Guo Jia gave this opportunity to Cao Ying, although his original intention was to give it to Yuan Shao.

At that time, Guo Jia had just obtained Guanzhong, and the top priority was to keep the expanded territory, and he had no name to blackmail the princes of the Son of Heaven, because his official was sealed by Li Dao Guo Yan, and what he exterminated was Li Dao Guo Yan, and secondly, if he held the Son of Heaven hostage, he could only take it to Chengdu to be safer, can he command the world in Chengdu?

Now, Guo Jia already has the strength to surpass Cao Ying, he has been a Hanchen for so many years, and he also has the political status of coercing the princes of the Son of Heaven.

It's just that now, it seems that everyone in the world thinks that Cao Ying will definitely be defeated, and after Cao Ying's defeat, the ownership of the Son of Heaven will be a problem that cannot be ignored.

Sun Ce's purpose in attacking Xuchang was nothing more than to hold the Son of Heaven hostage, so that he could stand on the political commanding heights and become the second Cao Ying.

But Sun Ce may not have the ability to stop Yuan Shao, Gu Yong said at length that Yuan Shao is a righteous army, which is nothing more than wanting Guo Jia to send troops from Hangu Pass to join Yuan Cao's battle, so Yuan Shao will definitely not give up when he sees Guo Jia stepping in, Yuan Shao and Guo Jia will also set off an earth-shattering war whether Cao Ying is defeated or not.

At that time, Sun Ce could sit back and reap the profits of fishing, kidnap the Son of Heaven, embezzle Cao Ying's territory, and expand north to Xuzhou or the Central Plains, Sun Ce could wait for the opportunity.

In this game of chess in the world, several princes are playing with each other, and the princes who have not been affected by the war are not willing to be lonely and want to be the protagonists.

Guo Jia looked at Gu Yong lightly, and said softly: "Yuan Shao's millions of people can't exterminate Cao Ying, who has only 200,000 soldiers and horses?" Cao Ying will definitely die, why should I go on an expedition from Hangu Pass into the Central Plains? But Yuan sigh you have a sentence that is very right, although Liu Biao is a member of the Han family, but he has long disrespected the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven was kidnapped by Cao Ying, humiliated, Liu Biao is indifferent, I will, Wu Hou responded to Yuan Shao, I am applauding in favor, however, I will clear the worries for Wu Hou, two months later, I sent troops from Badong and Hanzhong to crusade against Liu Biao, so that Wu Hou does not have to beware of Liu Biao when he goes north. ”

(To be continued)