When Yuan Shao, who appeared in front of everyone's eyes again, he had already changed his appearance.

At this time, he was wearing an apricot-yellow arrow-sleeved silk robe, a jacket of Western Regions treasure chain mail, an apricot yellow silk silk tie around his waist, a martial arts crown on his head, a white mourning belt on his forehead, and a horsewhip inlaid with gold and jade in his hand, with a solemn and serious expression.

This dress has its own speech.

Yuan inherited the soil virtue of the holy king Shun, and naturally wore apricot yellow, indicating his determination to overthrow Yan Han. At the same time, the white mourning band on the forehead shows that this time, family hatred and national hatred are at the same time.

Yuan Shao was already tall and burly, and his good diet and exercise in the first forty years made his appearance superb. At this time, he was dressed in military uniform, which was even more majestic and magnificent.

Yuan Shaolong walked in a tiger step, glanced around at the ministers and military officials under the hall, and Shi Ran sat in the hall.

As soon as he sat down, the scribe at the top of the line stood up.

The person had a lock of beard, a powdered face, a proud expression, and opened his mouth:

"At the beginning, now the manpower of each county has returned, and a total of 4,000 soldiers have been obtained, and this is the military register."

After speaking, this person had to ask someone to carry the stacks of military books to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao waved his hand to stop it and said with a smile:

"No, Ziyuan does things, I have always been at ease. The back of this military book is in charge of Ziyuan. Without your plan, how could you get this Jianghuai strong soldier? ”

This scholar, named Ziyuan, smiled to himself, and his praise for Yuan Shao was continued.

As for this person's arrogance, whether it is Yuan Shao or the same people below, they are all used to it.

Because this person's name is Xu You, Xu Ziyuan. is also the mastermind of Yuan Shao today.

If you want to summarize Yuan Shao's life, twenty years ago was the period when he married and recuperated, and the last twenty years was the period when he traveled to Kyoto.

During his years in Kyoto, the seats were always full, the bottle was not empty, and he was even better at making friends than his nominal father. His nominal father was just a relief for people back then, but he Yuan Shao was the leader of the trend, rescued the party, and was the real leader of the clear stream.

At this stage, he has made many friends, but only three of them have a significant relationship.

The first one is He Hao. This person is the leader of Qingliu in Nanyang County, and he followed the party leaders Chen Fan, Li Ying, Guo Tai, and Jia Biao at a very early age. Later, in the party, he was the backbone of it. When the eunuchs wantonly hunted and killed Qingliu celebrities, it was He Hao who kept his name incognito and helped the party members at the same time.

Yuan Shao was burdened by his family at that time, but he was actually not tolerated by the party. It was with the help of He Hao that Yuan Shao emerged in the Qingliu group.

And now, Yuan Shao has to rely on He Hao even more, because he still has a strong position in the Kwantung court. It was with He Hao's help that Yuan Shao was able to understand the specific situation of the Kwantung court.

This time, the reason why Yuan Shao was no longer dormant was because He Hao sent a letter from Kyoto to tell Yuan Shao about the weakness of the Kwantung court in the Third Battle of Kunhan.

Knowing this change in the external situation, Yuan Shaocai made up his mind to start an incident.

If He Hao was Yuan Shao's solid ally at the top, then the next person would be his most powerful ally in the local area.

This person is the great man Zhang Miao of Yanzhou Dongping Guoshou Zhang.

Zhang Miao had been living in Kyoto before, and it was also during this period that Yuan Shao was like-minded with him. They all saw that the world was uneasy, and it was time for Haojie to use force again.

Originally, Zhang Miao and his younger brother Zhang Chao also had a good division of labor, and Zhang Miao made friends with Haojun in Kyoto, and let his younger brother Zhang Chao revitalize the poor in his hometown and recruit the tribe. The two brothers went up and down one by one, waiting for the situation to change.

From this point of view, the Zhang brothers are much closer than the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

But this division of labor was interrupted after the Taishan army went west to the long spoon. As the Taishan army attacked the city and plundered the land in the southeast of Yanzhou, these people were able to fight and win the hearts of the people, and soon invaded the Dongping Kingdom.

At that time, Zhang Chao had already been defeated, and his people only picked up a life by diving across Wenshui.

After Zhang Chao returned to Shouzhang, he wrote twelve urgent letters to his brother in Kyoto, asking him to return to Shouzhang to preside over the situation.

After Zhang Miao received the letter, he could no longer sing and drink in Kyoto, so he rushed back to Shouzhang overnight.

But fate played a joke on the Zhang brothers.

Just when the Zhang brothers were preparing to break the net with the Taishan army, the Taishan army suddenly changed course, and they crossed Jishui north and went to Dongjun.

At this point, Zhang Miao knew that the troubled times had come, so he began to annex the nearby clan thieves and thieves one after another. By now, its influence has expanded to the Chenliu area.

Later, the Kwantung court also respected Zhang Miao's strength and gave him the position of Chen Liutaishou.

At this point, Shouzhang Zhang, a powerful man entrenched in the Heji area, jumped to whitewash and became a powerful official of the Han family.

However, Zhang Miao made a bet on both ends, and after getting in touch with Yuan Shao in Ruyang, he continued to fund his armor and armament.

It can be said that most of Yuan Shao's armor soldiers are now funded by Zhang Miao.

But the above two people all have the same interests, only the third person, that is, Xu Yu in front of him, is different.

Yuan Shao's relationship with him is like the relationship between Guangwu and Deng Yu in the past.

Intersection in Kyoto, common troubles in troubled times. If you want to come, it will become a good story in the future.

To be honest, Yuan Shao's temper is not very good. In the past, he had to remember for a long time what Cao Cao and Zhang Miao offended him, let alone an arrogant person like Xu You.

But Yuan Shao was able to tolerate Xu You, just because Xu You was a really capable and strategic talent.

When he was in Kyoto, Xu You often praised him and was Yuan Shao's indispensable think tank. Not to mention, at the time of the Jiazi Incident, it was Xu You who suddenly woke up and rushed to find Yuan Shao, and he escaped from Kyoto alive.

And now, relying on Xu You's planning, he has solved a major matter for Yuan Shao.

It turned out that Yuan Shao had been worried about the army.

But in fact, he is not short of soldiers, because as far as he knows, the Li clan behind Li Dian is a powerful clan of 10,000 people.

And the powerful generals who followed him and Yuan Shao went south to Ruyang, how could they be Li Dian alone?

In terms of relatives, he has Gao Gan, Gao Rou, and Li Xuan. On Yuancong, he has Han Meng and Chun Yuqiong. On martial arts, there are Wen Chou, Zhang He, and Ju Yi. On the heroic situation, there are Li Quan, Ying Shao, Li Tong, and Chen Gong. In terms of leading troops, there are also Li Guan, Liang Sheng, Ling Hujian and other officials of the Southern Army.

On the Great Clan Alliance, there are three brothers, Zhou Xin, Zhou Ang, and Zhou Huan, Zang Hong, Chen Rong, etc.

Not to mention the celebrities from Ruying, such as Xu You, Feng Ji, Guo Jia, Director Zhang, Chen Lin, Xun Chen, Xin Ping, etc.

Which one of them can't recruit a soldier for him Yuan Shao?

But Yuan Shao didn't dare to ask for these people's soldiers. For now his lord is not strong, and the branches are stronger, then who is the lord? Who is the branch?

And these Ruying celebrities who are optimistic about Yuan Shao also saw Yuan Shao's concerns, so they did not say anything about the central part of the clan to support Yuan Shao.

But now the question is, if it doesn't depend on the family behind his subordinates, how can Yuan Shao's soldiers come?

At this time, it was Xu Yu who relieved his troubles.

He told Yuan Shao that there was a strong army in Runan, but unfortunately its master could not be used, but it was the foundation of the army given to Yuan Shao by God.

This army is none other than Deng Dang and their reinstated households.

Xu You didn't know that there was such a force at first. After all, when Runan was in turmoil, he and Yuan Shao were still in Kyoto. After he returned to Ruyang, he saw these people in the county's register.

Later, Xu Yu inquired in many ways and learned that Wang Yun actually had a strong army in his hands back then, but unfortunately he was later disbanded by himself.

What Xu You still can't figure out is that now that Wang Yun is back in charge of Yuzhou, why don't he reuse this group of Jianghuai soldiers?

But how does Xu Yu know about Wang Yun's pedantry?

The arrogance of the Celebrity Doctor has been infiltrated in Wang Yun's bones. He had no choice but to bow down to these Jianghuai refugees. Now that he is a state assassin, he still needs these people?

But regardless of Wang Yun, Xu You knew that this group of Jianghuai soldiers was the key to Yuan Shao's army.

So, in order to get this batch of households, Xu You and Yuan Shao planned a series of things.

The beginning of the matter was to use Wang Yun's desire to transfer military rations from Runan to do tricks. When the transfer tasks in various places are assigned to the following counties, the county officials who have communicated with Yuan Shao will distribute all this labor to the local reinstated households.

These county officials were very happy to cooperate with Yuan Shao.

On the one hand, these county officials in Runan counties are all local snakes, and they are all more or less favored by the Yuan family. And these relationships are all clear to him and Yuan Shao.

Therefore, Yuan Shao only used letters to sort out the feelings of the counties in Runan.

However, the reason why the county officials helped Yuan Shao was not only because they were really benevolent, but also because they had interests.

Just like Fupi Wang Gongcao, these county officials were more or less greedy for a large amount of military rations. In the past two years, the military supplies to Kyoto in Runan, a huge amount of money and grain like mountains and seas have passed through the hands of these county officials, do you say that these people can endure and not be greedy?

Originally, everyone was greedy, so everyone was not guilty. But now you, Wang Yun, have to do some verification, which is to destroy the local interests of Runan.

Then you can't help but blame them.

So, such as Wang Gongcao and others, they conspired with Yuan Shao. When these reinstated households brought military rations to Pingyu, Yuan Shao sent people to rob and kill them on the road.

According to the Chinese law, all losses in the process of transfer will be borne by the laborers. In other words, the loss of military rations will be borne by these reinstated households.

In this regard, the county officials in various counties will naturally dump all the military rations they have been greedy for ink in the past two years on this transfer, so as to settle the accounts. No matter who investigates in the future, they can't find a problem.

But such a large number is pressed on these reinstated households, and they can only break their homes.

At that time, these reinstated households will have to sell the ripe fields they have worked hard for two years to the county, and even sell themselves as slaves.

After that, the county officials will buy these fields, and then Yuan Shao will buy these restored households.

When the time comes, who will these reinstated households hate?

They will only hate the former general, the current Yuzhou Assassin Wang Yun.

It's not that he wants to send this military service, they will be ruined?

In this process, the county officials settled the accounts, ate a large number of farm houses, and established contact with Yuan Shao again. They will also compare with each other, and compared to Wang Yun, Yuan Shao is more optimistic about them.

And what about Yuan Shao? It not only showed the strength of Yuan's connections in Runan to the powerful subordinates below, but also made them return to their hearts. and a large number of well-trained and resentful Jianghuai soldiers.

Based on this, coupled with the accumulation of several generations of the Yuan clan and the support of his allies, Yuan Shao's forces will expand rapidly.

Now it's 5,000, and when you take Runan, it's 20,000, and then you take Yuzhou, how can it be difficult to get 100,000 soldiers?

It can be said that the current Yuan Shao finally has the foundation of his great cause.

Of course, in this process, the worst is these reinstated households. They were calculated and used back and forth, and they were deceived into working under the fierce men who had plagued their robes.

What could be more ironic than this?

But these are troubled times. Even if you pray for a piece of land to live, you can't get it, even if you want to control your destiny for a moment, you can't get it.

Of course, no one in the hall now cared about the more than 4,000 Jianghuai soldiers, they only praised Xu Yu in front of them.

Xu You's series of operations and plans are not very profound in understanding the governance of the grassroots officials of the Han Dynasty, and he can't do such a situation.

And today, Xu You's plan has succeeded. After becoming Yuan's apprentices, the more than 4,000 Jianghuai reinstated households once again took up arms and resumed their battle formation.

Now these 4,000 people and 1,000 Yuan's own family are arranged in Ruyang City. As long as Yuan Shao gives orders, he can raise troops and erect flags.

Therefore, Yuan Shao this time is a mobilization meeting, and it is the last feast for him to raise troops for revenge.

looked at the civil and military forces below, and then thought about the five thousand sharp soldiers in his hands.

Yuan Shao glanced approvingly at Xu Yu on the side, and said secretly:

"What if you can do such a big thing, even if you are a little proud?"

Seeing that the time was almost up, Yuan Shao shouted to the side city:

"Axe and scepter, please."

With Yuan Shao's order, two teams of armor soldiers came in from the side corridor.

Han Meng, the leader of them, was holding an axe in his hand, and Li Dian behind him was holding an eight-foot scepter.

Seeing these two things, everyone present exclaimed in surprise.

Because these two things shouldn't be here.

Among them, the gold-decorated axe was specially given by the state to the generals who went out to conquer the Quartet, on behalf of the emperor, and had the authority to kill the generals who violated the order without playing. And the eight-foot yak-tailed scepter is the authoritative Han Festival of the captain of Sili.

How could these two things be in Yuan Shao's hands.

Those present such as Guo Jia had actually guessed Yuan Shao's plan. The recognition of Yuan Shao in their hearts has deepened.

Sure enough, when these two things appeared in front of everyone, Yuan Shao wept in pain, but he didn't speak.

At this time, Xu You asked:

"Lord, why are you crying?"

Yuan Shao said sadly:

"I'm crying this day the sky is shaking, and my clothes are in disarray."

"I cry that this traitorous minister is the country, and the loyal minister will destroy the door."

Yuan Shao said to everyone with red eyes:

"The sun rises and sets, and the moon waxes and wanes. Now the Han family is in the midst of a great chaos unseen in a century, with moths and thieves flowing poison in the east, Qiangdi chaos in the west, and thieves swarming in the Quartet. The former has been a king and a teacher, and he has fallen one after another, but now he is father and son, and he is fighting in the same room. My family has been blessed for generations, and they have been together with each other, and they have done their best for the Han family, and they have died. ”

"But the plague comes from within the next life, and the ruin is carried out in the hall. He Jin is a disciple who sells pigs and slaughters dogs, takes advantage of the power of his relatives, and is above the court, and does not want to repay the favor and chaos, but he coerces the young master and orders the world, and blesses himself, rewards and punishments are disorderly, and he is not subordinate to the traces, and he is violent on the road. Pity my Yuan family, helping the young master, all died in the Golden Palace. My family is still like this, why ask all the gentlemen present? ”

After saying this, Yuan Shao got up and came down, holding an axe in his left and a scepter in his right, and said sadly:

"I want to face the Son of Heaven in private before I run away. The Son of Heaven knew my loyalty to the Yuan family and denounced He Jin as a member of Liang Ji. He gave me an axe and a scepter, and let me go back to my hometown and raise an army. Shao is embarrassed, weak and weak, and cannot save the Son of Heaven from fire and water. Every time he thought of this, Shao faced the north and cried, hating that he couldn't rebel early. ”

"Fortunately, all the kings used their lives, and now the tigers and the tigers are together, I want to rebel today, go to the Beijing Division, except for the king's side, and the outside is rebellious. Dare to ask you, will you go west with me? ”

All the civil and military forces present stood up and shouted:

"I am willing to follow the lord, raise the righteous soldiers, cut down the ministers, support the Han family, and return to peace."

Republic 3, February. Yuan Shao raised troops in Ruyang, and for a while Runan was shaken, and the powerful and powerful counties killed their commanders in response. In October, Yuan Shao won the land of Runan, and the world looked sideways.

(End of chapter)