Xu Ji finally waited for the result he wanted.

Xu Ji's spies scattered throughout Pingyang County sent news that he had captured Yuan Shu's secret envoy to Xihe County in Pu County.

In just one day's work, this hapless secret envoy was brought to Yong'an.

Looking at the letter written by Yuan Shu to Yu Fuluo, looking at the bloodstained and trembling secret envoy in front of him, Xu Ji sneered in his heart, as expected.

At this moment, the door of the house was pushed open with a "bang", and Le Yi rushed in. Without asking, this kid has already gotten the news.

As soon as he entered the house, Le Yi saw the unlucky guy at a glance, snorted coldly, walked over with a straight eyebrow, grabbed the neck of the secret envoy who had been frightened, and raised his feet off the ground with one hand.

"If you don't want to die, tell me everything you know!"

Xu Ji laughed at it, and said angrily to Le Yi: "Where can I use your afterthought?" This kid has already said everything, and even the fact that he spied on Yuan Shu's concubine taking a bath is explained in detail and clearly. ”

Le Yi let out an "ah", suddenly let go of his big hand, and scratched his head embarrassedly, but it was the secret envoy who was unlucky.

Xu Ji said with a smile: "It's really 'the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked', only a master like Yuan Shu will have such an unsuccessful subordinate." I really don't know what he thinks, don't you understand what a secret envoy is? ”

Le Yi couldn't help but laugh and said: "I've heard that this kid doesn't give money when he buys things, and he blows his beard and stares at each other, and he pulls out his knife to face each other, and he hypes that he is Yuan Shu's subordinate, where can we not find him?" ”

There was a pause. He added: "It's just that how did the lord guess that Yuan Shu would send someone to collude with Fuluo?" ”

Xu Ji said casually: "What's so strange about this? Yuan Shu wants to be the emperor, how can he be without support? Not many people can stand with him right now. Although Tao Qian had already cooperated with Yuan Shu, once Yuan Shu declared himself emperor. Tao Qian would immediately retreat. Because that is equivalent to standing on the opposite side of everyone in the world, others may not matter, but Wang Yun is not easy to explain. The rest of the people are left with the unruly Zhang Yan and the mercenary Yu Fuluo. These two people are bold, they have never taken the Han court to heart, they are really the ideal allies of Yuan Shu, especially the two of them, one is in Yanzhou, the other is in the state, and now Sizhou is a terra nullius. Yuan Shu is really powerful! ”

The matter of Yuan Shu's claim to be the emperor is already well-known news in the upper military of Yanzhou, and no one asks about the reliability of the news, because the source of this news is Xu Ji, this alone is enough to be convincing, and many things in the past have proved that Xu Ji is true in every word.

Therefore, Leyi did not show any abnormality after hearing the news. Of course, this news is only known to high-ranking military personnel in Yanzhou.

Le Yi couldn't help but laugh and said: "But Yuan Shu would never have imagined that Zhang Yannai was pretending to cooperate with him, and it was a pipe dream to win Yanzhou." ”

Xu Ji snorted coldly and said, "Yuan Shu has always been arrogant, and it is really not enough evidence. Yu Fuluo is a man who sees the wind and steers the rudder. When the situation is not good, this person can turn his face faster than he can turn a book. Place it in Sizhou, hum! Do you think Liu Biao is a fool? ”

Le Yi perked up and said with a smile: "That's right." Didn't Li Yanlai's letter say that Liu Biao took Zhang Yun as the governor and led 70,000 horses to march into Hongnong? ”

Xu Ji smiled: "Of course, Liu Biao sees that the world is in chaos." Of course, I want to get a piece of the pie, but I'm more interested in Li Yan is now very familiar with a person named Wei Yan. This Wei Yan is a talent, and his martial arts are probably not under Zhang Liao. Compared with Li Yan, it is not far behind. ”

When Le Yi heard Li Yan's name, his eyes lit up and said: "This kid has great marksmanship, I think he still has a lot of room for improvement." ”

He immediately sighed: "Really, when it comes to Jingzhou, I don't know what happened to General Lu Dao Shuzhi." ”

Xu Ji is also very concerned in his heart, but Chen Zhi is a victorious general, and he has been making continuous progress over the years, even if he fights with Dian Wei and Chen Zhi now, it is just an equal share, in Jingzhou, even if he meets Huang Zhong, he may not really be an opponent, as for the others, I am afraid that no one can stop Chen Zhi for a moment, and even if he meets Huang Zhong, Chen Zhi has no problem to protect himself and escape.

Thinking of this, Xu Ji forced himself to let go of his concern for Chen Dao, and smiled at Le Yi: "You go and call Xu Huanglai for me, there is a letter from Yuan Shu here, we deceived Yu Fuluo and didn't get it by hand?" ”

Leyi's spirits perked up, and he said to Xu Ji: "What is the lord going to do?" ”

Xu Jihao said in a hurry: "Yuan Shu's letter is nothing more than to ask Yu Fuluo to rebel against Yanzhou at the same time in Bingzhou, so that it can echo Zhang Yan's distance, and also said that this can completely resist once the war starts, the Gaoshun army from Jizhou galloped to the aid, what to say, 'Jun and Zhang Yan are going north, waiting for the Yuzhou soldiers, the three rounds, then the fertile field is thousands of miles, and half a day can be made'." ”

Le Yi's eyes flashed, and he snorted coldly: "Yuan Shu is really impatient, hmph, what kind of material is he Yuan Shu, we don't know yet?" ”

Xu Ji said calmly: "Fenwu, Yuan Shu's stupidity is beyond our imagination, we don't need to be angry with him, even if this letter is in the hands of Yu Fuluo, Yu Fuluo will not agree, only when the situation of Yuan Shu is good, Yu Fuluo will cooperate with Yuan Shu, and now this letter is in Yu Fuluo's hands, at most it is an empty promise." But it's okay that I can forge a letter right now, and let Yu Fu Rome raise an army. ”

Le Yi was about to speak, when there was a knock on the door, and a ghost elite hurriedly walked in, holding a letter in his hand.

Xu Ji took it casually, looked at the cover, and smiled at Le Yi: "It's really a coincidence, Zhang Yan's letter has arrived." He opened the letter and read it.

After a while, Xu Ji's eyes flashed, and he sneered.

Le Yi said anxiously: "Lord, is there any problem?" ”

Xu Ji sneered: "Zhang Yan's letter said that Yuan Shu informed Zhang Yan that he wanted to kill Liang Xi immediately after he raised his army, and then set up troops to the north to approach Yangping County. In this way, it will attract my Jizhou Gaoshun army to the south. The most critical point is that Yuan Shu said that there should be an internal in the Zhen family in Jizhou. In a short period of time, I can rebel against a few families who are dissatisfied with my Yanzhou. ”

Le Yi said angrily: "The lord is not thin on the Zhen family, and now one-fifth of the trade volume of Yanzhou, Jizhou, and Yanzhou is in the hands of the Zhen family. The Zhen family is so ignorant. ”

Xu Ji shook his head and said, "You can't kill a group of people with a stick, the Zhen family has been in the hands of Mrs. Zhang for a long time. Moreover, Mrs. Zhang and Zhen Mi are both people who know the current affairs, and between my Xu Ji and Yuan Shu, Mrs. Zhang naturally knows where to go. ”

Le Yi doubted: "The problem is that now the news about the disappearance of the lord is no longer a secret, and it is also possible for the Zhen family to betray the lord in this situation." What's more, the lord also said that Mrs. Zhang was by no means idle, and it is hard to say whether she will stand on the side of the lord as always. ”

Xu Jiha said with a smile: "If Mrs. Zhang was so eyeless, she would not have thrown herself to Yanzhou back then, but should have relied on Yuan Shao, and if that is the case, maybe we are still fighting with Yuan Shao for Jizhou!" ”

Leyi nodded.

Xu Ji snorted coldly: "In my opinion, this matter can only be related to some people within the Zhen family who do not obey Mrs. Zhang. Of course, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, it seems that I will also write a letter to Xun You, asking him to monitor the Zhen family. ”

After a pause, he said: "I want to see how much storm Yuan Shu can set off in Jizhou, now the clan soldiers of the big families in my two states have been completely incorporated and become the army of the state and county, even if there is a traitor, it is just to make trouble in Yecheng." ”

Then he smiled dumbly and said: "There is another more interesting thing, this Yuan Shu said in the letter that he Yuan Shu is destined to return, in order to prove it." Yuan Shu actually invited a lot of great Confucians, coupled with the Yuan family's own scholars such as Yuan Yin, they have begun to write the so-called Zhao Zhi to the world, saying that Yuan Shu can be matched with the five virtues of the gentleman. He also said that Yuan Shu was deserved, and he said that the dynasty he established could just replace the Han Dynasty. ”

Hearing this, Le Yi couldn't help but scold: "This Yuan Shu doesn't learn anything, and I haven't heard of any achievements in academics." I have never even seen a poem, and I can't even compare with the lord on a toe. Now even the five virtues of the lord have been plagiarized, which is really shameless! ”

Xu Jixin said: Let's talk about plagiarism. I'm afraid I've plagiarized more than Yuan Shu. It's just that Xu Ji also knew that it was useless to argue with such a thing, so he smiled and said: "Fenwu, it seems that you really don't have a good impression of this Yuan Shu, and you have scolded him many times after such a while." Hmph, since Yuan Shu wants to fight a pen and ink lawsuit so much, then I'll play with him. ”

Le Yi nodded and said, "What the lord said is very true, I will call someone here." ”

Xu Ji glanced at the secret envoy of Yuan Shu who was huddled in the corner, and said indifferently: "Send him on the road, it can be regarded as exploring the path for Yuan Shu in the underworld." ”

Le Yi nodded, walked over and bundled his fingers into a knife, and gently struck the back of the head of the Yuan Shu secret envoy who was about to scream, and the secret envoy's eyes rolled and he immediately fainted.

Le Yi grabbed this person, opened the door and went out.

Only Xu Ji was left alone in deep thought.

Xu Ji sent a total of four letters.

The first letter was sent to Xun Yu, asking him to prepare and mobilize all the strong and sharp people in Yanzhou to start a war of words among the literati under Yuan Shu after he became emperor. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, you just need to know your own attitude.

The second letter was sent to Zhang Yan, asking him to continue to cooperate with Yuan Shu and continue to talk with Yuan Shu about the conditions, so as to understand more details about Yuan Shu. He also reminded Zhang Yan that once he fought against Yuan Shu in Yanzhou, the strategy should be "no matter how many ways he comes, you will only go all the way", and asked Zhang Yan to maintain the operational characteristics of the Montenegrin Army and consume Yuan Shu's scattered forces with movement warfare in the complex terrain of Yanzhou.

The third letter was sent to Xun You, and the order was that Yiming was loose and tight, and when Yuan Shu was called emperor and Zhang Yan rebelled, he should panic, and he should take the initiative to order the Gaoshun army in Jizhou to move south.

The last letter was written to Yu Fuluo in the tone of Yuan Shu.

Xu Ji wrote in the letter: "Jun Xiong is strategic, but forced by the situation, the commission is to seek perfection in the small county of Pingyang, just like the sage and live in the humble room, it is really not worthy of the name, the party is in chaos today, the heroes of the world all want to make a difference, Guanjun moved the troops to the West River, it can be described as a good strategy, it is the policy of the outside must first be settled inside, if the Southern Xiongnu can be unified, then the state can be determined, but my brother was originally the beginning." Minto Xianda, in fact, does not match. It's just barely okay with Jun Xiangan, and now Jun is going north. It is the move of merging states in chaos, Yuan Shaoxin is defeated, and the rest are only merging with the state, Jun attacked Taiyuan County, how can my brother swallow his anger? Therefore, Wang Kuang went north, named to attack Liu Yu in Youzhou, in fact, he went and returned, and wanted to besiege Jun Yu Xihe with the Zhang Yang of the Shangdang, Jun is a hero in the world. How can you sit idly by? For today's plan, it is better to enter the party from the West River and fight with the Yanzhou army to flank the party. If the Yanzhou army can be defeated again in the party, then the big thing can be accomplished. ”

Later, he wrote a discourse hoping that the two would be united.

This letter is naturally a hundred times more clever than Yuan Shu's letter. At least Yu Fuluo will act immediately after reading it, and it will never be as difficult to put into action as Yuan Shu's letter said.

Four letters were sent, and Xu Ji waited for news.

During this period, the situation in Chang'an changed again.

Niu Fu's military advisor "Wang Mei" saw that Chang'an City could not be captured, just like Niu Fu and others said that instead of attacking Chang'an, it was better to lead the Western Liang soldiers to Liangzhou. In order to make a comeback. Stage a comeback.

Niu Fu obeyed "Wang Mei" at this time, so tens of thousands of Western Liang soldiers marched to Liangzhou. When he entered Tianshui County, he encountered the troops of Ma Teng and Han Sui, who rescued Chang'an, and the two sides are now facing each other in Tianshui. With a tense appearance, the war is about to break out.

Subsequently, Yu Fuluo, who was in Xihe County, received a letter from "Yuan Shu" to him. Originally, Yu Fuluo had a big headache because of the rumors of his cooperation with Yanzhou, and he was overjoyed after seeing this letter. Don't say whether he really submits to Yuan Shu, but Yuan Shu is definitely a good backer. And Yu Fuluo also found that Yuan Shu gave him a very good idea: send troops to the party and attack Zhang Yang.

So Yu Fuluo gave up the recovery of the Southern Xiongnu. Instead, he attacked the party.

However, Yu Fuluo was very smart, he did not march immediately, but first wrote a letter to Zhang Yang, saying that he was going to send troops to the party to help Zhang Yang repel the Yanzhou army in order to show that he did not cooperate with Yanzhou.

Zhang Yang dared to believe him, asked Yu Fuluo not to enter the party, and claimed that he had his own way to deal with the Yanzhou army.

This is exactly what Xu Ji feels strange, Zhang Yang must have been approved by Yuan Shao for doing this, if it was someone else, he should give up joining the party in this situation.

It seems that Yuan Shao still has other plans. The only thing Xu Ji can do now is to wait and see.

At this time, the battle on the Yangzhou battlefield finally began.

Sun Ce, as the commander of Zhichong and the general of Yan Kou appointed by Yuan Shu, led Zhu Zhi, Lü Fan, old generals Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, etc., to attack Qu A.

And among them, of course, there are Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin, who are not yet famous in the world.

Liu Miao had already prepared, he listened to the idea of the general Zhang Ying, and stationed his soldiers in Niuzhu, and even accumulated 100,000 grains in the pavilion, and they were stalemate with each other.

Cao Cao, the Taishou of Guangling, took the initiative to rush to Yangzhou at this time to assist Liu Xuan in defending Yangzhou.

This is also the biggest side of this war, because with Cao Cao, everything becomes unpredictable.

However, Xu Ji knew that this battle would determine who would rule Jiangnan, and this person was the last enemy in the process of unifying the world.

At this time, Sun Ce was a general under Yuan Shu, so people agreed that it was Yuan Shu's idea to attack Yangzhou.

Liu Miao is a relative of the Han family, and he is the assassin of Yangzhou, and he is a famous celebrity, and Liu Miao and Xu Ji have always been good friends, and Sun Ce's behavior is considered to be a challenge to Xu Ji by Yuan Shu.

It is believed that the Yanzhou military will not leave it alone.

Unbeknownst to him, although the battle between Sun Ce and Liu Miao aroused strong condemnation from the Yanzhou side, the Yanzhou military did not take substantive action.

The Bocai army and the Lejin army stationed in Xiapi did not move south to aid Yangzhou.

At this moment, everyone could see that there was something wrong with Yanzhou.

Immediately, Yuan Shu finally threw out that bombshell: the emperor.

As soon as Yuan Shu's move came out, it immediately caused an uproar

At the same time, the literati of the Yuan family, represented by Yuan Yin and others, began to make announcements, showing the world, one by one, the words were like a tide, singing praises of virtue, which was nothing more than some kind of "four worlds and three dukes" and the like.

One of the striking features is that this group of literati quoted Yanzhou's new "Five Virtues and the Beginning of the Beginning", which bluntly proves that Yuan Shu is a gentleman worthy of the five virtues.

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused a series of war of words.

The first to attack was not Yanzhou, but Wang Yun and Yang Biao of Chang'an, although the two secretly had some collusion with Yuan Shu, but the power of the two came from the imperial power, without the name of the emperor, where are the two of them qualified to preside over the government?

Therefore, the two of them issued a letter very firmly, resolutely opposing Yuan Shu's behavior, and believed that Yuan Shu's behavior was a national thief, a rebellious minister and thief who everyone was punished.

The fierceness and resoluteness of that attitude was unimaginable to Yuan Shu.

Subsequently, Yanzhou began to counterattack Yuan Shu under the leadership of Xun Yu.

However, Xun Yu is worthy of being a master of creating a favorable situation, he did not simply attack Yuan Shu as the fundamental purpose, but took the opportunity to put forward a fundamental purpose: what kind of talent can be called a gentleman, is a kind of talent is a real character with five virtues.

When this news reached Xu Ji, Xu Ji's heart couldn't help but be shocked, he knew that Xun Yu, a humble gentleman, had seen through his intentions, and although he didn't say it explicitly, he obviously showed an attitude of supporting himself.

Now, Xun Yu's scolding of Yuan Shu was placed in front of Xu Ji.

It was also this article that opened the precursor for Xu Ji's future emperor!

But Xu Ji was curious, although Xun Yu had already been quite dissatisfied with the Han Dynasty, but he always believed that there would eventually be a Ming monarch in the Han family, and this Ming Jun could calm the troubled times, which is why Xu Ji did not visit Xun Yu after returning to Chen Liu to ask him to help him.

Later, Xun Yu took the initiative to leave Yingyin to help him, although Xu Ji was worried, but because this matter was far away, he didn't care, but at this time, seeing this biased text, Xu Ji's heart was a little uneasy.

Xun Yu, what are you going to do? (To be continued......)