Guan Yu was puzzled when he heard this: "How can you say that there are only these two major external troubles?" Han Sui in Bingzhou, Zhang Yang in Hanoi, Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and Zhang Miao in Chen Liu, these people are all eyeing Luoyang! ”

"Yun Chang doesn't know, these people are insignificant, anyone who picks them out dare not take Luoyang lightly, now only Li Dao and Yuan Shu are ambitious people, Yun Chang These people mentioned above: and Zhou Han Sui is unable to attack Luoyang, Hanoi Zhang Yang was a loyal minister of Sheji in the previous crusade against Dong Zhuo, if he is here today, how can he lead his troops to attack Luoyang? Besides, Liu Biao has never been keen on martial arts, and he has not participated in the previous eighteen princes, and Liu Biao is a member of the Han family, how can he sit out of injustice? Zhang Miao has now attached himself to Cao Cao, so there is nothing to worry about! Now Yuan Shu, who is entrenched in Nanyang, is a jackal in the south of Luoyang, and he may attack Luoyang at any time! Zhu Jun analyzed.

Guan Yu nodded after hearing this, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said, "That's right!" I've got a good idea! Surrender without a fight! ”

"Oh? Tell me about it? Zhu Jun said curiously.

Guan Yu continued: "The Son of Heaven lives in Luoyang and orders the world, if there is anyone who is not satisfied, although it is far away, it will be punished, so that as long as it is a loyal person of the imperial court, it will definitely come to vote, if it does not come, I should personally lead the army to ask for it, not only the division is famous, but also the enemy can fall into passivity!" Take the surroundings of Luoyang as an example, as long as the Son of Heaven issues an edict, as the Lord said, if Hanoi Zhang Yang is a loyal person, he will be happy to vote and attach to Sheji, Jingzhou Liu Biao will also echo Luoyang and open the door of convenience, and although Nanyang Yuan Shu has intentions, he will definitely not dare to act rashly, so that the situation around Luoyang will be much safer, and only Li Dao will be left with this force. Li Dao is a stubborn man, and he will definitely not nod to this side, I just need to send troops to ask for it. After taking Li Dao, he unified the west and considered advancing east to defeat Cao Cao. I think although Cao Cao occupies Yanzhou, there is still a lot of separatism around him, and he will not become bigger and stronger immediately. If we go to clean up Cao Cao first, Li Dao will definitely invade Luoyang and put pressure on my rear, and we will be in a dilemma. Fighting on two fronts, the East and the West, at the same time, will certainly disperse our forces and be detrimental to us. If I take Li Dao first, Cao Cao at this time does not dare to rashly come to Luoyang, first, it is contrary to heavenly principles, and second, the situation does not allow him to do this, if Cao Cao raises troops to attack, his rear will definitely become a piece of fat on other people's mouths, and it is easy to lose. Based on this, we don't have to think about Cao Cao first! ”

Zhu Jun, who Guan Yu said this, nodded again and again, and waited until Guan Yu finished speaking, Zhu Jun said: "Yun Chang's analysis is reasonable, the front coincides with the old man's consideration, and the judgment of the situation in the back is incisive. It's very in place, it seems that the old man is really old, and this brain is not good. Yun Chang is really a rare general, and he is comprehensive and thoughtful. Let's do what we say, and the day after tomorrow we can explain the situation to the Son of Heaven. Ask Your Majesty to descend the edict, Yun Chang is ready to prepare for battle! ”

After the two discussed, Guan Yu then found Zhao Yan to inspect the information of the states and counties, the household book, etc., Guan Yu carefully inspected the situation of several counties around Luoyang, the most important thing is the population situation, he carefully flipped through it, and after some inspection, he quickly grasped the situation of the surrounding counties, and the household book showed: The Sili School Captain Department is also Luoyang, Luoyang has a population of 1 million, Hanoi has a population of 800,000, Hedong has a population of 570,000, Hongnong has a population of 190,000, and a total population of 2.56 million; Jingzhao (Chang'an) has a population of 280,000, Feng Yi has a population of 140,000, and Fufeng (Chen Cang is in Fufeng) has a population of 90,000, with a total population of 510,000; Yuzhou: Yingchuan (Xuchang was originally a county of Yingchuan) has a population of 430,000, Runan has a population of 2.1 million, Liang has a population of 430,000, Peiguo (Qian is the seat of Peiguo, Xiaopei is a county of Peiguo) has a population of 250,000, Chen has a population of 1.54 million, Lu has a population of 410,000, and a total population of 5.16 million; Yanzhou: Chenliu has a population of about 870,000, Dongjun (Puyang) has a population of 600,000, Dongping has a population of 450,000, Rencheng has a population of 200,000, Taishan has a population of 440,000, Jibei has a population of 230,000, Shanyang has a population of 600,000, Jiyin (has a population of Dingtao) and 650,000, with a total population of 4.04 million; Qingzhou: Jinan has a population of 450,000, Pingyuan has a population of 1 million, Le'an has a population of 420,000, Beihai has a population of 150,000, Donglai has a population of 480,000, Qi (Zhilinjiang) has a population of 490,000, and a total population of 2.99 million; Jingzhou: Nanyang (Wan, Xinye, and Bowang are all in Nanyang) has a population of 2.43 million, Nanjun has a population of 740,000, Jiangxia has a population of 260,000, Lingling has a population of 1 million, Guiyang has a population of 550,000, Wuling has a population of 250,000, Changsha has a population of 1.05 million, and a total population of 6.28 million; Bingzhou: Shangdang (Huguan in Shangdang) 120,000, Taiyuan 200,000, Shangjun 28,000, Xihe 20,000, Wuyuan (Jiuyuan also belongs to Wuyuan) 23,000, Yunzhong 26,000, Dingxiang 13,000, Yanmen 250,000, Shuofang 07,000, total population 687,000.

It doesn't matter if Guan Yu checks it like this, through this check, he finds that the population he now rules is only 2.56 million, which also includes Hanoi Zhang Yang, and Zhang Yang has not been attached to it until now, if you remove his population is only 1.76 million, it is considered a relatively small population in Zhongzhou County, Guan Yu checked it and found that the population under Liu Biao in Jingzhou reached more than 6 million at most, and the population under Li Dao was only 510,000, the population under Cao Cao was 4 million, and the population of Qingzhou also reached nearly 3 million

Guan Yu looked at it and felt a lot of pressure when he saw it, what was he doing? In this era, the population is the source of soldiers, and in areas with large populations, natural conscription has an absolute advantage, and where the population is relatively scarce, the natural source of soldiers is less, which means that Guan Yu does not have an advantage in the future hegemony, at least compared with Cao Cao, he has no advantage, once the war starts, Cao Cao will have a great advantage in numbers, Cao Cao has a large number of talents this time, and has greatly enhanced his strength, so that Cao Cao's strength is actually above himself, just imagine that Cao Cao has the advantage of the population under his rule, In terms of talents, after Cao Cao occupied Yanzhou this time, he recruited a lot of capable generals, and Cao Cao also had the upper hand in this regard, but he didn't expect that his hard work was still under the people, but Guan Yu still has a big advantage over Cao Cao, what advantage? That is, sitting in Luoyang, as the imperial capital, he is by the side of the Son of Heaven, and he has the unanimous support of the ministers of the court, Cao Cao cannot compare with himself in terms of connections, and he is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, he can take the Son of Heaven at any time to order the princes, Guan Yu thought of this wonderful method suddenly appeared in his mind.

What's the solution? He suddenly thought of the Son of Heaven, since the Son of Heaven is here, he can make full use of his power to order the princes, if he has to eradicate each prince one by one, it will not only be time-consuming and laborious, but also let other princes take advantage of the situation, now he can focus on attacking a prince, that is Li Dao, but Cao Cao will not sit back and watch him become bigger and stronger, he can make full use of the power of the Son of Heaven to order other princes to destroy him, and the first person he thought of at this time was Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao since the previous battle of the Tiger Pass, along with the dissolution of the entire Kwantung coalition army, his alliance leader is also useless, Yuan Shao had no choice but to return to his former nest - Bohai County, before he served as the Bohai Taishou, so this is his base, this Bohai County is the largest county in Jizhou, with a population of 1.1 million people, larger than Luoyang, Yuan Shao sits on the Bohai Sea, in order to get respite, after the war Yuan Shao is not good at food and grass, had to turn to Jizhou Mu - Han Fu, as a big county under his rule, It is necessary for Han Fu to provide him with corresponding grain and grass, after all, this is also the former leader of the alliance, Yuan Shao is dependent on Han Fu to survive, once Han Fu pinched him grain and grass, he will not even have a chance to live. As the saying goes, people are harmless to the tiger's heart, and the tiger is harmful.

Yuan Shao and his subordinates planned how to seize Jizhou, but their strength was too poor and they had no capital: grain and grass were supplied by others, and there were not as many soldiers and horses. had to use conspiracy, on the one hand, he bought Lao Han's cronies Xin Ping, Xun Chen, Guo Tu and others to lobby Han Fu to make Xian; On the other hand, he wrote a letter to Gongsun Zhan, asking him to send troops to attack Jizhou, and divide the territory with him equally when the time comes. Fighting against Gongsun Zhan, Lao Han is not an opponent, and when he is in a psychological panic, he can't resist the agitation of the cronies who were bought by Yuan Shao. Since he is not as good as Yuan Benchu, it is better to let Xian and hand over Jizhou to Yuan Shao.

Han Fu's reign in Jizhou was not stable, the general at that time rebelled against him, and Yuan Shao was not only a member of the Yuan family of the fourth and third dukes, but also the leader of the coalition army, and everyone expected it, Lu Yi defected to Yuan Shao, whether this was Yuan Shao's strategy or other reasons, Han Fu was passive for Yuan Shao at that time, and Gongsun Zhan's invasion made it more difficult internally and externally, under the circumstances, the decision to hand over Jizhou was not surprising, even if he did not hand it over, with his talent, Jizhou would be someone else's thing sooner or later.

The villain is always there, it turned out that after Zhu Han, who was under Han Fu, took refuge in Yuan Shao, he led troops to surround Han Fu's house without Yuan Shao's consent in order to invite merit, forcing Han Fu's old chicken to jump. As a result, Lao Han's eldest son had his legs discounted. Yuan Shao later learned that he had killed Zhu Han, but Han Fu was frightened and begged Yuan Shao, please let me go away and leave this place of right and wrong! Yuan Shao agreed, so Han Fu took refuge with Chen Liutai to guard Zhang Miao. Later, Yuan Shao sent an envoy to meet Zhang Miao, and when he discussed the secret, the envoy whispered in Zhang Miao's ear. Han Fu was present at the time, thinking that he was calculating himself. After a while, he got up and went into the toilet and committed suicide with a paper cutter. (To be continued......)