Time quickly verified what Zhao Xing said to Qin Yilu: It is financial resources to fight for war, and it must be the Jin Kingdom that can hold on to the end.

Yuan Shao couldn't hold back at first, his territory was already seriously shrinking, and he had to bear the expenses of more than 100,000 troops in Jizhou, and he could deal with it in a month or two, and he began to catch blind after three months. At the beginning, the seizure of the Jin State Commercial Bank and the confiscated goods did make Yuan Shao make a small fortune, but then the Jin State beat him up without saying hello, which completely pushed Yuan Shao to the brink of bankruptcy. With only the taxes provided by Wei County, Qinghe State, and a small part of Julu County and Zhao State, it is already difficult to support the people of hundreds of thousands of troops, and if you don't think of an idea, Yuan Shaoli's fall is just around the corner.

Zhao Xing's "coquettish" remarks before Jinshan have spread all over the Han Dynasty, which makes Yuan Shao so angry that he can't go crazy. Although the combined forces of Zhu Jun and Cao Cao came to support Jizhou, in order to preserve their strength, they only confronted each other across a ceasefire line with the army of Jin, and there has been no large-scale battle until now. As for the 80,000 southern coalition troops temporarily transferred from Yangzhou, Yuzhou and Jingzhou, they hid on the edge of the Yellow River, and they didn't even have the courage to face the Jin army.

Regarding the deteriorating financial situation, several strategists under Yuan Shao saw it in their eyes and were anxious. The strategist Xu You suggested that Yuan Shao have a showdown with the coalition army, put on a barefoot scoundrel posture, and let the coalition army prepare grain and grass by themselves, otherwise sooner or later they will be eaten poor by hundreds of thousands of troops. The strategist Guo Tu proposed a plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and he suggested that Yuan Shao persuade the idle southern coalition army to enter Qingzhou and Xuzhou to "self-reliance" and grab supplies from Kong Rong and Tao Qian!

Yuan Shaozhen, who was in a hurry to go to the doctor, took the advice of Xu You and Guo Tu, and was about to send someone to have a showdown with the coalition generals, but was stopped by the first strategist Fu Zhi.

Fu Zhu said: "Since you want to do something to Qing Xu, has Yuan Gong forgotten the original alliance with Cao Cao?"

Yuan Shao's face was puzzled, and for a while, he couldn't remember what agreement he had made with Cao Cao.

Frustrated then reminded Yuan Shao: "At the beginning, Yuan Cao formed an alliance and agreed to conspire in the land of Qingxu, of which Jizhou took the land of Pingyuan, Le'an, Qi and Jinan, and the rest belonged to Yanzhou. Now that there is not much land left in Jizhou, if Yuan Gong does not move forward again and loses the opportunity to annex Qingxu, where can the world be so big?"

After Yuan Shao heard these words, his anxious and smoking heart seemed to be poured with a burst of timely rain, and he suddenly thought of his own way out.

Yuan Shao looked at the frustrated and asked in a deep voice: "Now that we have only 30,000 available soldiers left, and the army of the Jin State is pressing forward step by step, Jizhou will fall into the hands of Zhao Xing sooner or later, how can Mr. Gonghe teach me?"

Seeing that Yuan Shao was pretending to be confused, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "Since Jizhou has no danger to defend, then simply throw this mess to the imperial court! Wei County is adjacent to Sili Hanoi County in the east, and after crossing the Yellow River, it is the Tiger Prison Pass, if Jizhou is completely occupied by Zhao Xing, the next step will be to worry about the imperial court and Cao Cao!"

Yuan Shao asked with a sad face: "If there is no Jizhou, where will we live?"

Frustrated in his heart, he replied to Yuan Shao without any expression on his face: "Qingzhou Kong Rong is mediocre and incompetent, and he has been stealing rich land for a long time, why don't you take it?"

Yuan Shao asked with some hesitation: "The teacher is unknown, rashly using force against Qingzhou, if the imperial court obstructs it, how should we deal with it?"

He replied: "What excuse did the Jin State use to make a move against Jizhou? Although we killed some salt merchants, it was also in accordance with the will of the imperial court, and Zhao Xing said that he would do something against Jizhou, so the three armies came out together, and the imperial court really cared if we lived or died?"

Without waiting for Yuan Shao to answer, he said again: "Now Qingzhou and Xuzhou are secretly trading with the Jin State, and they have achieved bumper harvests year after year, and the people of the two states are even more crazy to grab the Jin State Treasury bonds, and they are tens of millions of taels when they buy it.

When Yuan Shao heard this, he finally stopped playing sloppy with Fu Zhu, and he asked Fu Zhu very solemnly: "Even if we win Qingzhou, Zhao Xing's army can still fight from Bohai County to Pingyuan County of Qingzhou in the future, and we hide in Tibet like this, but in exchange for a temporary respite, and still do not fundamentally solve the problem!"

Fu Zhu replied: "Now that the situation is changing rapidly, after occupying Qingzhou, we can continue to attack Xuzhou in the south, so that Cao Cao can directly fight against Zhao Xing across the Yellow River, but we can unite with Yangzhou to keep warm." Zhao Xing of the Jin Kingdom is becoming more and more powerful now, if he can't form a firm alliance, I'm afraid that everyone will be gradually annexed by it in the future......"

Yuan Shao and Fu Zhu secretly discussed all night, and the next day they sent an envoy to Chenliu. The last time the alliance was formed, Yuan Shao sent Xu You to Cao Ying, and this time he still sent Xu You as a lobbyist.

After Xu You saw Cao Cao, he first vented his bitterness to his old friend, saying that his life in Yecheng was really difficult now, Yuan Shao was about to be unable to stand it, and Yecheng was attacked by the Jin State in the future, and he had to flee to Yanzhou to join Cao Cao.

After Cao Cao listened to Xu You's nonsense, he smiled and comforted Xu You and said, "If he comes far away, I will treat him as a guest!"

After some casual chat, Xu You finally stated the purpose of the trip. Xu You said to Cao Cao: "Cao Gong has ever heard that there is a gold mountain in Qingzhou?"

Cao Cao shook his head to show that he didn't know, and asked Xu Youdao: "Could it be that Yuan Benchu is now struggling with money, and he wants to be dizzy when he wants gold?"

Xu You told Cao Cao with a straight face: "Can Duke Cao know where the gold mountain at the gate of the Jin Kingdom Peasants, Soldiers, and Merchants is forged with the gold produced? It is the gold mine in Qingzhou!"

Cao Cao was also taken aback when he heard Xu Yu speak so surely. He had indeed heard from his subordinates that the merchants of the Jin Kingdom had recruited people to mine in Qingzhou, and had been digging for seven or eight years in a row, and now it seemed that it was actually a large gold mine.

Although Cao Cao was surprised in his heart, he asked Xu You without changing his face: "There is gold in Qingzhou, what does it have to do with Yanzhou?"

Xu You knew that Cao Cao's city was deep, so he didn't go around in circles, and directly told Cao Cao: "Yuan Gongyi and Meng De will take it together!"

Cao Cao pretended to show a look of surprise, and then said: "This matter is very important, how can it be a child's play! If you don't have the name of a teacher, won't you be criticized by the people of the world?"

Xu You nodded, expressing his complete agreement with Cao Cao's statement, and then continued: "The Qingxu merchants did not follow the Han law, but only for personal gain, and secretly sold the forbidden salt produced by the Jin State to Jizhou and Yanzhou. Qingzhou Mu Kongrong and Xuzhou Mu Tao Qianyang violated the law, knew the law and broke the law, connived at their subordinates to participate in it, and secretly colluded with the national thief Zhao Xing in private.

Xu You's words said the reason why Jizhou and Yanzhou sent troops to Qingxu, although it was not high-sounding enough, but it also made people unable to find any flaws.

Cao Cao finally asked a key question, he asked Xu You: "Now that Yuan Ben has only tens of thousands of troops available, he not only wants to protect himself, but also wants to send troops to Qingzhou, do you really think that there is no one in Qingzhou?"

Xu You replied to Cao Cao with a strange expression: "The land of Jizhou, Duke Yuan intends to return it to the imperial court." If Meng De wants to, he might as well take it!"

Cao Cao listened to Xu You's words, and greeted all the eighteen generations of Yuan Shao's ancestors in his heart. Don't blame Cao Cao for being angry, Yuan Shao's kid was obviously because he couldn't defeat Zhao Xing, so he simply withdrew to Qingzhou with the last capital, directly exposing Yanzhou to the iron hooves of the Jin State, and let him directly fight against Zhao Xing across the Yellow River in the future.

Despite the fire in his heart, Cao Cao still did not attack on the spot. He understood Yuan Shao's situation, and now that it was him, he had to find a way to find a place to live again, stay in Jizhou and confront the army of the Jin State, and the astonishing cost alone would drag people to death.

Since Yuan Shao was ready to grab the territory from Kong Rong, Cao Cao could not be left behind, so he urgently summoned his advisers and discussed how to let Yuan Shao rush ahead, and then Yanzhou followed behind to pick up the wallet.

According to Cao Cao's calculations, Qingzhou and Xuzhou are ultimately his territory, and Yuan Shao is at best a wronged leader. As long as he annexed the land of Qingzhou and Xuzhou, Cao Cao would have the capital to fight against the Jin State, and even if he confronted the Jin army across the Yellow River, he would not necessarily lose to Zhao Xing.

PS: This is the end of the eleventh volume, because there are too many forces involved, the context of the article may not be clear enough, so everyone takes a little more effort to ponder. The twelve volumes followed by the eleven volumes, Zhao Xing wants to occupy all the vast land north of the Yellow River, easily destroy the Gongsun Du of Liaodong and Ma Teng of Xiliang, and extend his power to the east and west infinitely, and the Jin State Sailor, who has been secretly accumulating strength, will also be on the big stage of the expansion of the Xinghe Empire, everyone wait and see!