"Kang'er, what do you think of these two?" In Liaodong, Gongsun Du stood in his mansion and asked a young man who looked very similar to Gongsun Du on the side.

The history of Liaodong Thorn has long been changed to Pingzhou by Gongsun Du himself, and Gongsun Du himself led the state pastor of Pingzhou.

"Father, I think this Prime Minister Cao Cheng is still better!" Gongsun Kang is the eldest son of Gongsun Du and the future successor of Gongsun Du, so Gongsun Du will not shy away from Gongsun Kang in big and small matters.

"Cao Cao?" Gongsun Du asked with a smile. "Why?" Gongsun Du has the idea of taking the test for his own son.

"Father, no matter what, we are all Han Chen, this Prime Minister Cao Cheng represents the Han Emperor and is the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, and we should be obedient to him!" Gongsun Kang said respectfully to his father.

Gongsun Du has Pingzhou Mu behind him, as well as the Marquis of Liaodong, these titles, but these titles are all rewarded by Gongsun Du himself, not given by the imperial court, the so-called name is not right, and there are still many people in Liaodong who are not convinced by his Gongsun Du.

And now Cao Cao represents the imperial court is the Han Emperor, and it is not without benefit to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

Gongsun Kang is different from Gongsun Du, a person who started from the end of Wei, Gongsun Du came out of the end of Wei, so he is a struggler, and he is not interested in Emperor Laozi or anything, he only believes in his own strength, not the emperor's mandate.

As early as decades ago, when Gongsun Du learned that the Central Plains was in turmoil, he said to his close subordinates Liu Yi and Yangyi: "The Han royal family is about to fall, and it is time for me to discuss with you about plotting for the throne." ”[

And Gongsun Kang is different, precisely because he has no culture. So Gongsun Du is after his own career. Let my son go to school. learned the etiquette of poetry and books, since Dong Zhongshu deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism, unless some people are born with inheritance, such as Zhuge Liang's master Mr. Shuijing, or a vertical and horizontal family like Yang Hong, the others are learning Confucianism, and one of the key points of Confucianism is to respect the monarch and ministers.

Therefore, Gongsun Kang still admires Emperor Han a little, and he also likes the reward of this court.

"Orthodoxy? Hehe. Orthodoxy can be eaten as a meal! General Wuwei, Marquis of Yongning. Gongsun Du sneered: "Kang'er, but you saw the Dongzhu on my chest!" Gongsun Du pointed to the nine beads on his chest.

"I saw my father, this is Dongzhu!" Gongsun Kang nodded.

"Do you think your father still needs those Wuwei generals Yongning Xianghou?" Gongsun Du taught his son.

"This!" Gongsun Kang really can't argue with it, because this is the Nine Kings Pearl, the limit of the number represented by nine, the so-called Nine Five Honors are the numbers in it, and those who can bring the pearls of the Nine Kings are only the princes and kings, and this thing is almost the same as the so-called Nine Dings in ancient times.

If his grandson Du received this Wuwei general, the Marquis of Yongning. This Dongzhu is dazzling with it.

"Kang'er, you have to know why I chose Liu Mang in Yangzhou. First, over the years, you have also seen the transaction with Yangzhou! Gongsun Du said to his son.

Gongsun Kang nodded, it was precisely because the warship of Liu Mang, the king of Shu in Yangzhou, arrived at the edge of Liaodong, so the trade route between Liaodong and Yangzhou was completely opened, what is there in Liaodong? War horses, countless war horses, a wild horse herd can have thousands of war horses, more domestic horse farms, these war horses stay in Liaodong, it is really worthless, in addition to being used as military horses, it can be said that the people outside the Saiwai This kind of wild horses are even used as meat horses.

Eating horse meat, if this is definitely a luxury in the Central Plains, a good war horse is worth a hundred gold, even if it is some ordinary war horses, even those horses, it can be sold for more than ten gold.

You let them kill the horses and eat the meat of the horses, this is not a luxury, what is it?

And here in Liaodong, it is really a common thing, and there are already more war horses to this kind of journey.

War horses are also a kind of animal, which grows year by year, and will always die of illness or old age, and even in order to control the scale of the horse farm so that the grassland is not gnawed by horses, it is even necessary to control the growth of horses. It can be seen that there are many war horses.

This is why the northern nomads are born to ride horses, and they can not ride horses all their lives.

Originally, the sea route was impassable, and there were Yuan brothers on the land, blocked, even if there were no Yuan brothers, Cao Cao would not let the war horses of Liaodong flow to areas outside the Central Plains, especially in the south of the Yangtze River.

War horses are chariots for ancient people, and cavalry is always the king of the battlefield.

Therefore, the war horses in Liaodong can only be killed by themselves as vegetable horses, thanks to this.

And now it's different, Liu Mang, the king of Shu in Yangzhou, used war horses to cross the sea to open up sea transportation, so that these war horses that were originally eaten turned into pieces of gold, turned into a boatload of grain, and even those steel weapons and armor that were most lacking in Liaodong. (Don't say anything, those iron mines in Liaodong, those are all underground, and they can't be mined!) ）

And they only need to pay for the war horse, which is simply turning waste into treasure.

It is now Gongsun Kang who is wearing the best armor that was exchanged from Yangzhou.

"If we accept the official title and title of Cao Cao, then we will be evil to Liu Mang, the king of Shu, will these salt, iron, steel and armor and gold still come at that time?" Gongsun Du taught to his son.

"A small townsman, a Wuwei general, for such weapons and armor, he Cao Cao and Cao Mengde are stupid when I am my grandson!" Gongsun Du snorted coldly.

"But father, if we agree to the request of Liu Mang, the king of Shu, we will send troops to directly fight against Cao Cao and Cao Mengde, I heard that Cao Cao's subordinates are all experienced in a hundred battles, otherwise Yuan Shao and Yuan would not have failed in the first place." Gongsun Kang was still a little worried, Cao Cao's 300,000 army of Chen Bing was in Hebei, and it was very uncomfortable to listen to this number.

There are only less than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the entire Liaodong. Yuan Benchu was not Cao Cao's opponent, how could he fight in just a place in Liaodong.

"Huh. Rest assured. Kang'er. Even if the sky falls, there are tall people staring at it in front, then Cao Cao will not attack us after he does not destroy the Yuan family brothers, even if the Yuan family brothers are not good, we don't need to worry, although this army is what Liu Mang, the king of Shu, said, but how much and how to get out. That's what we plan, the Yuan brothers have already reached this journey, and what they need more is not soldiers and horses, but grain and grass. Gongsun Du smiled and said to his son.

Gongsun Du can't wait for this Cao Cao and the Yuan brothers to fight to the death, the longer the fight, the more beneficial it is for him Gongsun Du, if he agrees to Cao Cao's request, once Cao Cao takes down the Yuan family brothers, he will turn his face. Who is his grandson looking to cry to? The transaction with Liu Mang, the king of Shu, is different, the two sides are separated by the sea. Liu Mang can't beat him, no matter how strong he is, he has to clean up Cao Cao first, so Yangzhou Liu Mang needs time, and his Gongsun Du also needs time, but he is just making war money.

The brothers of the Yuan family want food, but they don't have much food and grass, and they only have money in their hands, what should they do! I can only buy it, where to buy it, it is naturally from the nearest Liaodong. It is impossible for Cao Cao to sell him, and the northern nomads themselves are still not full, so how can they give it to his Yuan brothers. The sale of grain in Liaodong is the end of a monopoly.

This monopoly, the price is naturally high, the grain and grass here that is originally worth a piece, I can sell you for three or five yuan, it is not expensive, and even sold for ten yuan, and your Yuan family brothers have to pinch their noses and admit it.

And Liu Mang, the king of Shu in Yangzhou, also wanted the Yuan brothers to drag Cao Cao, so they would naturally lower the price of grain and grass and sell it to Liaodong.

In this way, five cents of grain and grass can be sold for ten yuan, twenty times the profit, this is completely a robbery of money, who doesn't want it? On the one hand, there are also weapons, armor, and it is also a profitable business.

The Liaodong Army has been equipped with a lot of Yangzhou armor, so those worn armor can only have two functions, the first is moldy in the warehouse, and the second is to expand the army, if the army can be expanded, Gongsun Du would have expanded the army a long time ago, and there is no need to wait until now, the key problem is that the army cannot be expanded, Liaodong is a cold place, and the original distribution will be sent here, and the people can imagine how much.

An army of 80,000 is already the limit of his grandson. So the armor can only be moldy.

Well, now that your Yuan brothers have fought against the water, if they lose, they will naturally end up together, and if they win, they will be the sea and the sky.

These shabby armors, the Liaodong Army can't look at them, but the Yuan brothers want to buy them back, and put them on for those ordinary people It is another ragtag army, not good in the field, but it is still okay to guard the city wall.

This comes and goes, Liaodong can't make money if he wants to.

"It's still the father's talent, and the child has been taught!" Gongsun Kang couldn't help but look at his father with admiration, who father doesn't like the worship of his son, Gongsun Du looked at his son's expression and couldn't help laughing.

"Report! Report to the Hou Ye, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao, is coming! A herald entered the hall and reported to Gongsun Du

"Cao Cao's messenger? Didn't he just leave? Gongsun Du was a little puzzled, but he still met with this Cao Cao's envoy.

"The envoy under the command of Prime Minister Cao Cheng of the Han Dynasty has met His Royal Highness the King of Liaodong." As soon as this Cao Cao's envoy came in, his words immediately made Gongsun Du stunned.

"King of Liaodong?"

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"Brother, some time ago, it was all the little brother who was wrong, and the little brother here apologizes to the elder brother for what you did first!" In Yuyang in Youzhou, the former capital of the Great Yan Kingdom has now become a haven for the Yuan brothers.

Cao Cao's army was divided into three routes, all the way to attack and annex the state, all the way to Jizhou, and all the way to sweep Youzhou.

The Yuan brothers not only had to resist Cao Cao but also resist the war between their brothers, so the bigger and smaller this territory was, the strength was getting smaller and smaller.

Now the two brothers are dumbfounded, originally Jizhou and Zhou were in the hands of Yuan Shang, and Yuan Tan had Youzhou and half of Qingzhou.

The territory of the two is not small. It can be a prince, thinking that Liu Biao is just a Jingzhou.

However, look at it now, Jizhou has fallen in its entirety, and the state is almost over, Qingzhou directly belongs to Cao Cao, and there is only one Youzhou left, and the two occupy half of it to resist Cao Cao's army.

The current Yuan family brothers are so similar to Sun Zhan, the assassin of Youzhou who was forced by Yuan Shao to set himself on fire at that time.

It is precisely because the two brothers found that if they continue like this, they may be finished in Youzhou, and they will not die well with that Gongsun Zhan. So with the help of their respective brother Yuan Xi. They did it together, united and prepared to fight Cao Cao together.

"Where, where. Virtuous brother, it was just deceived by the villain, it was Cao Cao who used a strategy, and the brotherhood between you and me is deeper than the water in the East China Sea. How can I, as a brother, hate you! Yuan Tan also smiled and picked it up, and was drunk with his half-brother.

"So the best, so the best! Ha ha! When this big white floats! Yuan Shang drank it all.

"Huh!" There is another person next to the two brothers, that is Yuan Xi, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang are a mother, Yuan Xi is Yuan Shang's elder brother, and the mother loves her younger son. But it's not too bad for the eldest son, and the relationship between the two brothers is still good.

And when Yuan Shao's wife Liu gave birth to Yuan Xi, Yuan Tan's mother was still alive at that time, and Liu was also better than Yuan Tan for a while, so Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi also moved around frequently, which can be regarded as brotherhood.

Later, Yuan Tan's mother died, and the Liu family changed his face, and with the birth of Yuan Shang, the two broke off contact, but Yuan Xi never competed with his eldest brother Yuan Tan for anything. Because he knew that his mother's favorite brother would not get to that position even if he fought for it. fights, but it's just turning against his mother and brother.

There is no entanglement of interests, and the relationship between Yuan Xi and Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang is good.

It is precisely because of this that under Yuan Xi's steps, the two brothers did it together, and this scene appeared in front of them.

Who would have thought that just this month ago, the two would be eager to kill each other and take off each other's heads to use as wine jugs.

Sighing and sighing, being able to let the three brothers together can be regarded as Cao Cao's creation.

"Okay, brother, third brother! You and I were born from the same father, and we should support each other, and now that the enemy is present, we should unite as one to reflect the demeanor of my Yuan family. Yuan Xi said to his third brother and eldest brother. The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family are not joking, it can be said that most of the officials and scholars in the world are related to the Yuan family. or a protégé of the Yuan family, or a protégé of the Yuan family. That's a call.

"This is natural, no matter what the grievances of you and my brother are, it is a battle between brothers, that Cao Cao is definitely not a son of man, and he actually used the dispute between you and my brother to complete his ambitions, this time my Yuan family will inevitably break its army and rob its foundation, Brother Shang, after breaking that Cao Cao, this big man's Sikong is Brother Shang!" Yuan Tan is very bold, if you win Cao Cao, you are the master of the Han.

"Haha, eldest brother, I'm afraid this father's general will be the eldest brother's thing at that time!" Yuan Shang was also patting Yuan Tan's horse.

"When the time comes, you and I Brother Liang, you are in charge of the government, I am in the world, this big man should also change his surname to Yuan!" Yuan Tan is so comfortable that the whole horse shoots each other. The Han Dynasty changed Yuan, it is difficult to say whether you Yuan Tan will be the emperor or Yuan Shang will be the emperor.

Yuan Xi looked at these two daydreaming brothers and didn't know what to say, if they talked too much, it would hit them, and if they talked less, it would make them arrogant.

This Cao Cao has not been broken, he is sitting on the emperor's dream, and now it is Cao Cao's army that is going to destroy their Yuan brothers, and their Yuan brothers are the struggling party, not Cao Cao.

But now it seems that the two of them are thinking about how to divide Cao Cao's place after defeating Cao Cao, here, you take Jizhou, I want Yanzhou, and over there they say that the eldest brother and the state are for you, I want to be directly subordinate.

Yuan Xi smiled bitterly and shook his head, Father, father, what kind of son did you give birth to, but the only thing that made Yuan Xi happy was that the two of them finally stopped internal friction.

"Brother, third brother, we are already running out of food and grass, and if we are besieged by Cao Cao's army, it will only be enough for three months." Yuan Xi said to the two, this is a little cold water, in order to make the two sober and fresh.

Sure enough, as soon as the problem of grain and grass came out, both of them frowned, no longer that kind of pride and ambition, a penny is hard to kill a good man, and the grain and grass that has also done their way may be entangled to death.

"Grain and grass? The army is insufficient, we can go to the civilian to get it! Those ordinary people, it's time to dedicate themselves, you and I shelter them from the wind and rain, if it weren't for us, they would have received Cao Cao's poison a long time ago, and each family would have sent a stone of rations, which was enough for my army for half a year! Yuan Tan opened his mouth to make a plan. Yuan Xidu's face turned pale with fright.

Nima went to the food on the spot? One stone, people can have so much food at home. Even if there is. You took all this grain. Then the people's will is basically finished. And you still expect the people to help you build the wall? If you take the people's rations and persecute the people to death, you just wait for the people to open the city gate for you to welcome Cao Cao.

"My lord, no!" Fortunately, what Yuan Xi was worried about did not happen, and a strategist who sat down on the side of Yuan Tan stood up and hurriedly stopped Yuan Tan, "Lord, it is now the winter season, and the people's food reserves are running out. The hearts of the people of Youzhou may be towards that Cao Cao! "This middle-aged strategist is called Guo Tu.

Don't underestimate Guo Tu, when it comes to Guo Tu, everyone thinks that this person is a villain, but in fact, it is not, Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, in addition to Xi Zhicai and others, there was another person who also thought of it, this person is Guo Tu.

Later, Guo Tu even established Yuan Shao to kill Liu Bei, united with Sun Ce, and then set Cao Cao. Yuan Shao was able to have the capital to come out, and it was Guo Tu who gave advice.

It's just that Guo Tu's strategy was completely rejected. It's not that Guo Tu is useless, but it's that they really check and balance each other too much.

If you Guo Tu don't know how to play tricks. Playing with means, then it will be the same as Nada Feng and others, and in the end it will not die well.

Therefore, Guo Tu can only follow the crowd, not to mention that Guo Tu was mainly based on Yuan Tan at the beginning. It is also appropriate to contribute to the master's efforts, which is why Zhongliang was framed, such as Gao Ran, Zhang He and others.

Guo Tu saw at a glance that if his master Yuan Tan's plan was implemented, it would be bad, and everyone would be finished together. Originally, Guo Tu planned to say nothing afterwards, but when was it now, he couldn't delay it any longer, so he had to stand up without giving face.

"What is the people's heart!" was refuted by his own subordinate strategists, and without face, Yuan Tan was a little ashamed and angry, and he was about to make a faint move.

Over there, in Yuan Shang's lower position, a middle-aged strategist was also making a secret signal to Yuan Shang, and this person was the chief strategist who matched Yuan Shang.

The meaning of the interrogation eye is to let Yuan Shang give Yuan Tan a step down.

Although Yuan Shang wanted to embarrass Yuan Tan, he also knew what time it was, "Brother, why be angry!" Yuan Shang raised his glass and said, "Those untouchables are rotten lives, but brother, we still need these rotten people to help us fight the world, they are ants, why should my brother be angry with them!" Yuan Shang's words finally made Yuan Tan feel a little better.

Although it was not good to hear, several strategists on the side, Wen Chen, also nodded, thinking that this third prince seemed to be a little more reliable than the eldest prince, but this idea had not been in his heart for three minutes, and immediately the image of the whole person changed again.

"Those untouchables can't get as much food as they can get, so I'll let my gang of soldiers eat less, and they won't starve to death anyway, so that three buckets of rice can become two buckets a day, so that I can hold on for a few more months."

"Poof!" Yuan Xi almost choked to death without a sip of wine.

You are paralyzed, Yuan Tan's strategy over there is to destroy the people's hearts, and you will come here to engage in the morale of the army, are you two rescuers invited by the monkeys, or is there something about Cao Cao on the other side.

Where is this strategy, this is completely self-destruction of the city wall.

The hearts of the people and the army are indispensable, these two brothers play one by one, if you listen to them, don't fight, everyone can raise their hands and surrender.

"Ahem!" The judge on the side also blushed, "Lord, the grain and grass of this army still can't be reduced, these days, the soldiers consume a lot, and they should eat enough." "The idea of the trial is not only not to reduce the amount of grain and grass, but also to increase the use of grain and grass.

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, how should we deal with it?" Yuan Shang was also annoyed.

Both the trial and Guo Tu looked at the second son, Yuan Xi, who was over there, and they only now realized how unreliable their lord was, they knew that they were looking for the second son at the beginning, but now they don't regret taking the medicine.

"Big brother, third brother! Don't worry, I already have a little bit of an eyebrow about this problem of grain and grass! Yuan Xi waved his hand and said to the two brothers.

"Big brother, third brother, how much money do you have in your hands!?" Yuan Xi looked at the two and asked.

Yuan Xi also has no way to do it, although these two brothers are matched together, but Yuan Xi's strength is indeed the smallest, because Yuan Xi resolutely fought with Cao Cao to the end from the beginning, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands had already been defeated by Cao Cao, and what he could bring was two thousand cavalry, and the money, food, and grass were even more supplied by these two brothers. So I can only ask two people. (To be continued......)