Yuan Shu is the second son of the Yuan family's generation, and his age is below Yuan Ji and Yuan Shao.

But because of the background of the second son, his identity is still better than Yuan Shao, and in the future, the family business will be divided, and the big head will definitely belong to Yuan Ji, but Yuan Shu will not have nothing.

Therefore, although Yuan Shu still calls Yuan Shao his brother in public, in private, the relationship between the two is more delicate, and Yuan Shu basically despises Yuan Shao.

Because they tried not to let outsiders see the discord between the two sides, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu still cared about each other to some extent.

Earlier, Yuan Shao began to manage his reputation, and Yuan Shu was still doing [defending ghosts in the road] in Luoyang, fighting cocks and lackeys with a group of rich and noble children, not cultivating virtue, and having a bad reputation.

In the past few years, I don't know if I have opened my mind, and I began to break the corporal and manage my reputation and power, so some scholars were moved and threw themselves into Yuan Shu's sect, wanting to hug their thighs.

Yuan Shu began to break the reputation of the corporal, and he would inevitably have some disputes with Yuan Shao on the scope of business, although the two tried to avoid direct conflict, but seeing that Liu Bei was building more and more momentum for Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu couldn't care so much.

Yuan Shu's closest cronies are named Yang Hong.

Yang Hong suggested to Yuan Shu that Liu Bei was the first to be recommended by Luoyang scholars, Liu Bei had a great reputation, strong ability, and excellent skills, and behind him was Lu Zhi's ancient scripture master and practical officials, who had little political power, but strong political ability.

Therefore, it is necessary to find ways to win over Liu Bei and the forces behind him, so as to achieve overtaking of Yuan Shao in the corner.

Otherwise, seeing Liu Bei manage his reputation for Yuan Shao, more and more scholars who wandered outside the circle, especially those from the ancient literature school, continued to follow Liu Bei into Yuan Shao's sphere of influence, which was very unfavorable to Yuan Shu.

Originally, Yuan Shu was not as attractive as Yuan Shao because of his late start and bad reputation, and if he couldn't get reliable talents to operate his reputation for him, he would have to completely become Yuan Shao's foil.

At that time, the new generation of the Yuan family will first recommend the eldest son Yuan Ji, and the second will actually be Yuan Shao instead of him Yuan Shu, which doesn't sound very good.

He is the son-in-law after all.

Yuan Shao is a concubine in the end - even if he has the name of a concubine, he is still a concubine.

Yuan Shu thought that this was indeed the case, he really couldn't tolerate Yuan Shao's concubine stepping on his head, so he felt that it was indeed right to do so.

But as for how to entrap Liu Bei, Yuan Shu couldn't think of a good way for a while.

"Since Liu Bei has taken refuge in my brother...... Brother, what can I do to win him over and get him to take refuge in me? Although my brother-in-law is not a son-in-law, it is not a simple thing to be able to give Liu Bei a thought. ”

Yang Hong smiled slightly.

"Liu Bei was born in a slightly cold background, but he was a dilapidated clan in the border land, and he came to Luoyang with great difficulty, and the person he asked for must be famous in the world, and he was a high-ranking official, and he knew what he wanted, and gave him what he wanted, then his people would inevitably defect to the highway."

Yuan Shu thought about it and frowned slightly.

"Will my brother not give him this?"

"Brother Ling is living in seclusion and has never held an official position in the imperial court, and you have some official contacts in the imperial court, which is an advantage, and even if Brother Ling has a promise, you just need to give more, isn't it?"

"Then how do I know what my brother gave him?"

"Isn't that easy? An invitation to invite him to come to the house to attend the banquet, and hand it over to the next during the banquet, and he will definitely ask you why he comes. ”

Yang Hong's heart was full of certainty.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed and patted Yang Hong's shoulder: "With you by my side, I don't have to worry about anything." ”

Yang Hong was overjoyed, and then personally wrote down the invitation, entrusted someone to give it to Liu Bei, and invited Liu Bei to come to Yuan Shu's mansion for a banquet.

Yuan Shu and Yang Hong thought that they could grasp Liu Bei's needs, but they didn't expect that since Liu Bei had his eye on Yuan Shao, he had no idea of changing the court.

This is not only a realistic consideration, but also a lot of plans for the future.

Once the unimagined path fails, then Liu Bei must accept the reality, seamlessly switch his life goal to the route of competing for hegemony, and start the mode of heroes in troubled times.

In the future, Yuan Shao will gain a foothold in Hebei, while Yuan Shu will gain a foothold in Runan and Huainan.

Therefore, Yuan Shao and Liu Bei's interests are more in line.

Liu Bei is a native of Youzhou.

The real Eastern Han Dynasty is not a game, pay attention to a golden horn and silver edge grass belly, although Youzhou does belong to the corner of the Han Dynasty, but the north of Youzhou is not an insurmountable fog of war, not a state of relying on the fog and only need to fight against the enemy from Hebei.

That's a real number of alien peoples.

Xianbei, Karasuma, and Southern Xiongnu, some lived outside the territory of the Han Dynasty, and some lived together with the Han people in the border areas, all of whom were not easy to get along with.

Fierce, martial, undisciplined, the patriarch has been fighting for many years, and every year people will die because of these frictions and fights, the situation is big or small, and the dead people are more or less, and they can do it without moving their mouths.

Because of these conditions, Youzhou's economic development and population growth are far inferior to those of Central Plains, and its war potential is far inferior to that of Hebei and Central Plains.

Therefore, the theory of golden horn and silver edge grass belly cannot be applied to the actual historical situation.

But despite this, because Liu Bei is from Youzhou, if the troubled times are really inevitable, then starting in Youzhou is still his best choice.

In this era of county-based countries, people almost treat people from other counties with the same eyes as foreigners, let alone foreigners, which is almost completely untrustworthy.

Every outsider who wants to gain a foothold in the local area needs to compromise with the locals, marry, strengthen ties, and become a family, so that they can be accepted by the locals.

Just like Cao Cao, who started in Yuzhou in the Central Plains, can be called the place of the four wars, but he still chose here, because Yuzhou Qiaoxian is his hometown, and he has the deepest family roots and network here, which is the best choice.

Yuan Shu also chose to raise troops in Runan's hometown, where the deepest family roots of the Runan Yuan family were available for him to use, allowing him to easily pull up a powerful military force and become a hegemon.

And the reason why Uncle Liu Huang raised troops in Jingzhou in another time and space was mainly because he was from a humble background, failed to gain a foothold in Youzhou, and spent most of his life wandering, unable to stand anywhere, and was over half a hundred years old, before finally gaining a firm foothold in Jingzhou with the help of Zhuge Liang.

To put it bluntly, it's not that Uncle Liu Huang is unwilling to gain a foothold in Youzhou, Uncle Liu Huang was Gongsun Chan who went to join him at the beginning, and he wanted to gain a foothold in Youzhou, but he and Gongsun Chan's luck was not very good.

And this Liu Bei obviously won't follow the old path of that Uncle Liu.

If he can't take the road he wants to take in the past nine years, then Liu Bei has no choice, he can only choose the route of competing for hegemony, and after Liu Hong's death and the chaos in Luoyang, he returned to Youzhou to organize soldiers and horses, and as a relative of the Han family and Youzhou, he didn't believe that he couldn't occupy a place in Youzhou.

And as a border area, there are few scholars in Youzhou, and Lu Zhi is considered to be the top player in Youzhou, not even a big man like the Gongsun family, but a small and medium-sized strong man runs everywhere, and he Liu Bei himself is also a strong man in Zhuo County.

In this case, Liu Bei can integrate the local resources of Youzhou at the lowest cost, and establish a separatist regime with overall combat capability operating with himself as the core.

And he followed Yuan Shao, just wanting to use Yuan Shao's power to develop in Youzhou in the early stage, and build his own powerful army by conquering the Xiongnu, Karasuma, and Xianbei.

After that......

Then it depends on the process and development of history, and Liu Bei himself does not know what will happen in the future.

Individual efforts are important, but so is the course of history.

Where to start an army is sometimes not something that can be decided by an individual with a pat on the head, and birth actually limits the choice of most people, or everyone has no choice at all.

With Liu Bei's background, no matter how you look at it, choosing Yuan Shao is the most suitable.

So he will definitely not pay attention to Yuan Shu, he has nothing to say to this dry bone in the grave, and if he talks to him more, there is a risk that he will lower his IQ.

He actually wanted to usurp the Han and become the emperor before the world was pacified!

Can't bear to roar in such a hurry?

What else is there to say?