When Jingzhou was in turmoil. The happiest person was neither Cao Cao nor Liu Bei, but Yuan Shu, who was hidden in Nanyang.

There is a good saying: dogs can't change to eat corpse rice, Yuan Shu likes to intrigue with people all his life, although he was forced by Zhao Xing's coercion to return Yangzhou to the imperial court, but he did not really settle down in his heart, but never stopped paying attention to the situation in Jingzhou, just waiting for the opportunity to get a vote.

The reason why Yuan Shu was so happy when he watched the chaos in Jingzhou was because he smelled the smell of "corpse rice" from it, and waited for Liu Biao to be able to extend his territory to the south after he was unlucky.

When Liu Xie, the king of Xiangyang, traveled from Luoyang to Xiangyang through Nanyang, Yuan Shu personally greeted him east of Nanyang, and then accompanied Liu Xie through Nanyang and sent directly to the north of Xinye. People who don't know see it, and they think that Yuan Shu respects the authority of the Han royal family and how polite and polite he is. knew that Yuan Shu was a human being, but he scoffed at him, and joked that Yuan Shu was pretending to be a gesture and fooling Liu Xie, who didn't understand human feelings.

After Liu Xie was hung in Xinye by Liu Biao, Yuan Shu hurriedly sent a group of envoys and slaves, dozens of cars of luxurious daily necessities, so that Liu Xie's residence in Xinye was magnificent, not worse than a small palace.

After Huang Zu sent troops to force Liu Qi to welcome the king of Xiangyang into the city, he led an army of 20,000 troops from Deng County to Xinye, claiming to have broken away from Liu Biao and supported Liu Xie as the master. After Yuan Shu learned of this, he applauded Huang Zu's behavior of "two or five boys", and also gave Huang Zu a thousand taels of gold and 10,000 stones of grain as military funds, and wantonly encircled Huang Zu and his generals.

After Sun Quan led the army to break through Guiyang, Huang Zu waved the flag and shouted for Sun Quan in Nanyang, and did not pay attention to Liu Biao of Xiangyang, who was close at hand. Yuan Shu also caught Liu Biao's sore feet, knowing that Liu Biao was being overwhelmed by the civil strife in Xiangyang and the attack on Yiling by the Yizhou army at this time, and he had no energy to look north, so he became more and more unscrupulous.

After Sun Quan was besieged and defeated by Li Yan and Huo Jun, Yuan Shu sent another letter to Sun Jian, instigating Sun Jian to avenge his son and continue to send troops to attack Liu Biao. Yuan Shu even promised that as long as Sun Jian led his troops to attack Xiangyang, he was willing to put the remaining 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands to help Sun Jian take Xiangyang City.

Fortunately, Sun Jianzhen saw through Yuan Shu and knew what he was doing, so he was not moved by Yuan Shu's instigation and incitement, and still insisted on adopting a conservative strategy to stay in Jiangdong, and no longer seemed to plan to send troops to the west.

Yuan Shu couldn't make a plan, and he had another plan. When he learned from Luoyang that Liu Bei planned to hold a peace conference in Yangzhou, asked Liu Biao, Sun Jian, Han Rong and others to discuss important matters, and announced the results of the imperial court against Sun Jian and Liu Biao in Shouchun, Yuan Shu sent people to infiltrate Jiangdong to buy a group of Sun Jian's former enemies, and wanted to murder Sun Jian on the way, and then sabotage the peace talks, so that Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Wuzhou fell into a more hostile situation.

When Sun Jian entered Wuzhou in his early years, he once drove away Xu Gong, the former Taishou of Wu County, but because of this, everyone's character and official morality were too poor, which caused Xu Gong to be jealous and resentful. According to the course of history, Xu Gong was originally killed by Sun Ce after Sun Jian's death, and now he has been replaced by Sun Jian, and it can be regarded as a creation if he can spare his life, but Xu Gong himself does not have this awareness. He felt that Sun Jian wanted to use himself to establish authority, so he found a reason to dismiss his position too much, and he insulted himself in public, which is really not a thing.

Xu Gong had earlier served as a lieutenant under Wu County Taishou Shengxian, and later, in order to get a position as Taishou for himself, he actually wanted to take his former boss Sheng Xian. Fortunately, Gao Dai hid Sheng Xian in the house of Xu Zhao, the Yuhang clan, and Sheng Xian was able to save his life. Zhou Ang was defeated by Wu Jing and Sun Ben and fled to Wu County, but Xu Gong killed him for no apparent reason. Not only that, Xu Gong, as a taishou, has always had an unclear relationship with Yan Baihu, the leader of the bandits in the territory. In today's words, Xu Gong is the umbrella of the underworld/society/society, and his subordinates have been raising a group of ruffians and gangsters who fight and kill for a long time.

After Sun Ce deposed Xu Gong, Xu Gong hated and turned to the bandit leader Yan Baihu. Later, Yan Baihu was cleaned up by Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong, and Xu Gong and Yan Baihu defected to Xu Zhao in Yuhang together. Cheng Pu asked Sun Jian to send troops to attack Xu Zhao, but Sun Jian said: "Xu Zhao is righteous to the old king, sincere to his old friend, and the ambition of this husband." ”

Sun Jian gave up the use of troops and switched to the method of surrender, and soon Xu Zhao, together with Xu Gong, Sheng Xian, and Yan Baihu, had to surrender. Xu Gong was called a subordinate, but plotted to overthrow Sun Ce, and later he took advantage of Sun Jian's unstable foothold in Jiangdong, and quietly said to the new emperor Liu Bian, "Sun Ce is a hero, similar to Xiang Yu, he should be added to the official and knighted, become a favored noble, and summoned to the capital, don't let him be in Jiangdong, if he is in Jiangdong, he will definitely make chaos in the future!"

Emperor Liu Bian transferred this piece to Liu Bei, who was serving as a court lieutenant at the time, and Liu Bei returned the piece to Sun Jian in order to win over Sun Jian. Now Sun Jian was annoyed, he thought that he was so benevolent and righteous, he couldn't get Xu Gong's sincere support, if he didn't deal with it ruthlessly, it would be difficult to guarantee that there would be this kind of "Erwuzai" in Jiangdong in the future. So Sun Jian had Xu Gong's deeds spread out and hanged him as an example.

These things, which had been in the past for many years, have long since passed with the wind. However, in order to calculate Sun Jian, Yuan Shu learned from nowhere that although Xu Gong was dead, some of the disciples he raised back then were still wandering the rivers and lakes, bent on avenging his master. So Yuan Shu secretly sent the dead soldiers of the Yuan family to contact the swordsmen of Xu Gong's sect, and he really contacted four disciples who were strong in martial arts and loyal to Xu Gong.

As a result, a conspiracy around Sun Jian began.

also co-authored Sun Jian was unlucky, Yuan Shu was deliberately preparing to stab him in the back, and Cao Cao and Liu Bei didn't want to let Sun Jian go.

After Liu Biao's subordinate general Huang Zu rebelled, although he temporarily settled in Xinye, it was not a long-term solution. Huang Zu knew in his heart that if Liu Biao was allowed to turn over in Jingzhou this time, he would be the first unlucky person to turn back. So, Huang Zu grabbed the olive branch thrown by Yuan Shu very timely, and hurriedly sent a secret letter to Cao Cao, the general who is now in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, and clearly expressed his willingness to take refuge and serve.

Although Cao Cao himself hated "Erwuzai", he had no opinion on the 20,000 Jingzhou soldiers under Huang Zu, so he accepted Huang Zu's surrender very painfully, and very generously sealed Huang Zu with the title of General Pingnan.

After Cao Cao and Liu Bei made a divisive plan, they sent someone to meet Huang Zu secretly, asking him to lead troops into a certain place at a certain time, ready to do something to someone, Huang Zu got the benefits of Cao Cao, and naturally nodded and agreed.