The envoys of the four counties returned to their respective governors and told them about the rude treatment they had received, which finally angered the governors of the four counties completely.

Not to mention anything else, even Li Min was enraged.

"I thought that Yuan Highway was the son of the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, and there must be something extraordinary, but the result was so extraordinary! Good! That's great! If I continue to hesitate, I'm afraid that I will be the next time Yuan Shu kills me! ”

Li Min shook his hand and smashed the water cup he was holding on the ground, and immediately sent someone to report to the Luoyang court, relaying the matter to the Luoyang court, and at the same time expressing his surrender to Liu Bei, congratulating the Son of Heaven on his accession to the throne, acknowledging Yingchuan County's recognition of the Son of Heaven, and further requesting the Luoyang court to send troops to help.

He was worried that the army he hastily recruited and formed was not Yuan Shu's opponent and would be killed by Yuan Shu sooner or later, so he asked the Luoyang court and Liu Bei to send troops to support him and help him defend Yingchuan County, so that Yingchuan County and himself would not be persecuted by Yuan Shu.

At the same time, the major scholastic families in Yingchuan County mobilized their connections in Luoyang to lobby Liu Bei - Chen Qun and Zhong Xuan, who served as the generals, made suggestions to Liu Bei to protect Yingchuan County.

They believed that Yingchuan County was the gateway to Luoyang, and it was the only way for the traitor Yuan Shu to attack Luoyang, and if Yingchuan County could not be kept, Luoyang would inevitably face danger.

To put it bluntly, there is no other reason, what portals and the like are all pretexts, they are just afraid that Liu Bei will not send troops to Yingchuan, and they want to sit back and watch Yingchuan County and Yuan Shu fight you to the death.

When Liu Bei learned of this news, the news of the other three counties was actually sent to him.

After learning about this, Liu Bei didn't laugh in front of everyone, but in private, he almost laughed so much that tears came out.

He told Jia Xu, Xun You, Cheng Li and others who were accompanying him to discuss the matter, and he couldn't help laughing while wiping his tears, holding back his tears.

"I thought Yuan Shu could do something earth-shattering, but he actually ...... He actually sent the four counties to me! Hahaha! Hahaha! Seriously, I really love Yuan Highway to death! If the enemies of the world were the same as Yuan Highway, the Han would have been peaceful a long time ago! Hahahaha! ”

Liu Bei laughed a little out of shape, but in the eyes of his henchmen, it didn't matter, because they also wanted to laugh, and they laughed very loudly.

After everyone laughed together, Jia Xu wiped his tears and said to Liu Bei: "Yuan Shu is really just a disciple of the anointing sorghum, and the prince can sit back and relax." ”

Liu Bei wiped his eyes and waved his hand.

"No, no, no, how can I sit back and relax, although I despise them very much, but I can't underestimate them, otherwise what's the difference between me and them? I will attach great importance to them until they are safe and sound, and I will never give them the slightest chance to turn around. ”

Jia Xu put away his smile.

"What the prince said is very true, and he has lost his words."

"It's okay, they're not a formidable opponent."

Liu Bei smiled and said: "It can only be said that they really don't have any experience in directly facing the people of the world, they are too self-righteous, Yuan Shu is stupid, and Yuan Shao is only a little better than him." ”

There is nothing wrong with what Liu Bei said.

The news he learned about Jizhou not long before showed that Yuan Shao was really just a little better than Yuan Shu, and he had not yet posed a threat to Luoyang, he was full of threats around him, and he was constantly creating new enemies.

For example, he actually tried to attack the Zhen family.

Yuan Shao's main purpose in initiating the Great Purge of Eunuchs was to gain support and resources.

Unlike Yuan Shu, who has the political endorsement of the Yuan family, he can mobilize a lot of family resources to help form an army, he has no resources, only the advantage of his surname Yuan, which cannot be compared with Yuan Shu.

Without the investment of real money, everyone is not stupid, they will not follow him so easily, plus Han Fu has run away, no one gives him a serious name, everyone looks at him, he looks at everyone, staring at everyone, very embarrassed.

The situation was really bad.

Therefore, the strategy proposed by Tian Feng was used by Yuan Shao's divergent thinking, which contributed to the purge of eunuchs in Jizhou, and attracted a group of red-eyed monsters to become his diehard supporters.

Using the resources obtained from this eunuch purge, it not only met some of the needs of the local people in Jizhou, but also made the local families in Jizhou who participated in the action lose the possibility of peace talks with the Luoyang court, and could only follow him Yuan Shao all the way to the black.

Unless Liu Bei of Luoyang also began to purge the eunuch forces and industry, it would never be possible for the Luoyang court and the anti-eunuch forces in Jizhou to negotiate peace.

Therefore, there is no free lunch in the world, and if you take advantage of it, of course, you have to pay a price.

In order to support Yuan Shao, these Jizhou families paid real money to help Yuan Shao recruit troops, and also contributed a lot of human resources to support Yuan Shao, and sent some clansmen with civil and military strategies to help Yuan Shao build a regime.

It was at this time that Yuan Shao discovered the pit that Han Fu had buried for him before leaving, and learned that Meng Jin's 10,000 crossbowmen were dismissed by Han Fu.

He was very angry, thinking that Han Fu was a white-eyed wolf who did not know kindness, and scolded Han Fu for not being grateful, he was a pure bastard, and one day he would make Han Fu pay the price.

But right now, he also has to pay a lot of money to maintain an army.

If there was no ready-made army, he had to recruit the original miscellaneous soldiers from the counties to form an army.

Although the miscellaneous soldiers are not regular soldiers, they are also armed personnel, and they have experience, so they don't even know how to use weapons.

There are not enough miscellaneous soldiers in each county, and he has to continue to recruit strong men to join the army, and find people to help him in various connections, and he is busy in the dark.

When the army was formed, he found that the treasury of Jizhou was not abundant, and the funds were relatively scarce, because Han Fu had done a lot of civil engineering projects during his tenure as the assassin of Jizhou, and spent a lot of money to restore production to the local government, but it was not yet time to harvest, so the treasury was relatively empty.

So Yuan Shao hated Han Fu even more.

But it takes money to form an army, it takes a lot of food, and in addition to the support of the counties, he can only reach out to the major families, and even then he can't get enough resources, so he begins to use his crooked brain.

It is inappropriate to force everyone to hand over their resources, and Yuan Shao will not do this, but it may be appropriate to use his existing resources to exchange interests with them.

What resources does he have?

He originally had three sons, Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi, and Yuan Shang, all of whom had not yet married a wife, this is a very good political resource, if these three sons are used to marry the local family in Jizhou, it is logical to leverage their family resources.

It's a pity that now, his three sons are all dead, and they died during the Ruyang Mutiny, under the butcher's knives of Jian Shuo, Zhang Rang and others, which made him heartbroken and heartbroken.

However, Yuan Shu's Spiritual Victory Method still affected Yuan Shao slightly.

He was still a man, a man in the prime of life, and he was very fertile.

Therefore, as long as he is alive, his wife, children, can have it at any time, and with himself as a resource, he can leverage the interests of this side!

So! Yuan Benchu's good body, come and take it away!

In order to better obtain benefits, he began to select the powerful families in Jizhou, and he must choose the powerful ones with a lot of wealth, so that he can obtain enough wealth as support.

After some selection, he chose the Wen family in Bohai County, the Wu family in Wei County, the Zhen family in Zhongshan Kingdom, and four other powerful large families.

Together, the seven most powerful families in Jizhou were all favored by him.

He asked them to marry, and wanted to hold an event similar to an auction, so that these families could bid for the position of his original wife with the "dowry" they could give.

Whoever gives the most will be the wife of whomever belongs, and whoever gives less can only be condescended to the position of the concubine.

Among these families, Yuan Shao is more concerned about the Zhen family.

The Zhen family has two thousand stones for generations, and it is said that it has taken Liu Bei's line, so it has gained more benefits, and the family has become more and more prosperous, and then married Liu Bei, so it has become a giant family in Jizhou, and no one dares to mess with it.

But he Yuan Shaodu and Liu Bei openly fought against each other, they were both enemies of life and death, and now a huge Zhen family was in Jizhou, and he definitely couldn't treat it as if he didn't see it.

He was worried that the Zhen family would work against him, and he also coveted the Zhen family's huge wealth, thinking that if he could get the Zhen family's resources, he would be able to have more money on hand.

How do I get it?

Fight?

He thinks this is not good, in case it causes any chain reaction, it will be very bad, and it is normal for the big family to diversify their investments or something these days, what if the Zhen family is a flexible family?

Being able to obtain it through peaceful means also saves a lot of trouble, as long as the Zhen family can see the situation clearly, he doesn't want to do too much conquest.

So he sent someone to negotiate with the Zhen family, hoping that the Zhen family could see the situation clearly, not make senseless struggles, and honestly marry them and hand over the family resources, otherwise what awaits them is the iron fist from the Yuan family.

Besides, isn't it a glorious thing to marry me Yuan Benchu?