After Yuan Shao led his troops back to Wei County, he was very angry and realized that his strength was insufficient, so he issued more stringent orders to the counties.

He wants to raise an army of 100,000 in the shortest possible time as his capital to win the world.

He thought that with the wealth of Jizhou, it would be easy for him to raise 100,000 troops.

In fact, with Jizhou's population base and production level, it is not impossible to raise 100,000 troops, but it must be built on a certain foundation and require a fairly good level of political power.

And the grass platform regime that Yuan Shao just set up does not have this level.

But Yuan Shao didn't care about these, and he probably didn't realize this, so he forcibly ordered and personally sent people to the counties to supervise the recruitment of troops, and the ten counties of Jizhou were miserable, which also made some people of insight feel embarrassed, and they advised Yuan Shao not to expand the army so impatiently, otherwise once it caused local chaos, it would be troublesome.

If you can't recruit troops, you have to encircle and suppress them, what kind of thing is this?

Yuan Shao was originally a little moved and wanted to relax a little, but when the news came in early August that Gongsun Zhan was appointed as the assassin of Youzhou, the general of Fenwu, and stationed troops in Zhuo County, Yuan Shao couldn't hold back at all.

He didn't know much about Gongsun Zhan, so he sent someone to understand Gongsun Zhan's political background, and as soon as he understood, he became depressed.

Lu Zhi's protégé, Liu Bei's brother and friend, once served as the county magistrate of Zhuo County, and had a close relationship with Liu Bei.

Good guy, Liu Bei arranged for such a crony to serve as the assassin of Youzhou, and it was clear that he wanted to threaten Yuan Shao from north to south, and Yuan Shao was not attacked on his back, but on three sides.

Faced with such a situation, Yuan Shao was not panicked, but ...... Surprised.

In his opinion, it doesn't take a lot of strength to oppose the inferior and incompetent humble court of the Luoyang court, he is the fourth and third dukes of the Yuan family, and his protégés and former officials are all over the world, raising his arms and shouting, and people all over the world are gathering to respond, and what he wants to do should be very simple!

Why did he raise his arms and shout, but people responded to the Luoyang court?

It stands to reason that after so many years of disasters by Liu Hong, the reputation of the Luoyang Imperial Court is not a universal response in the local area, and it can also be regarded as a dislike of dogs, and the local government's summons to the Luoyang Imperial Court will often automatically add a layer of [eunuch filter] to consider.

When the order of the Luoyang Imperial Court reaches the locality, everyone will first think - what are these eunuchs going to do?

That's why Yuan Shao worked hard to spread rumors to gain an advantage for himself, and even did not hesitate to open the magic box and release the evil in people's hearts, so as to gain his opponents in Jizhou and tie these greedy people to his chariot.

There are indeed many people in Jizhou who have been released from the greed and evil thoughts in their hearts, and have done a lot of bad things, and they are forced to bind themselves to him, and there is no way out.

So in Jizhou, he gained the right to rule.

But now it seems that the rumors spread by myself do not seem to have a very good effect, except in Jizhou, it seems that it has not caused a great response in the whole world, but the Luoyang court has received more support and more optimism.

Why is the appeal accumulated by the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family so unbearable?

At present, Jizhou is under enemy on three sides, and his grand cause is facing the danger of encirclement and suppression before it has even begun, which makes him very worried, so he can only further recruit troops and arrest strong men everywhere, so as to increase his sense of security.

He refused the persuasion of the local officials, as well as the persuasion of the advisers around him.

He only knows one thing.

To live is to have a future, and he needs enough troops to live.

But the suggestion of Tian Feng and others is not meaningless, if he continues to use military force against Jizhou, there will definitely be problems, and he must do something to open up the situation.

Being proactive is the best way to do it.

Dong Zhuo is fierce, has a strong army, and has a resolute attitude, and he can't be tough and needs to be defended.

Liu Yu's attitude is also very resolute, the Qingzhou soldiers under his command are quite combative, and they are also very popular in Qingzhou, so they can't be tough.

So, who is left?

Or Gongsun Zhan.

He was the weakest link in the Jizhou encirclement.

So, at the suggestion of Tian Feng, Xianbei and others, Yuan Shao decided to recruit troops and defend while preparing for a surprise attack.

Sitting back and waiting for death is not his original character, the more critical the situation, the more he has the desire to fight.

Gongsun Zhan, before he served as the state assassin, was just a subject state lieutenant, with a shallow foundation and no widespread prestige, and the people of Youzhou had not yet fully recognized him, so he was the one who fought him!

If Gongsun Chan is abolished, Youzhou will be exposed to Yuan Shao's soldiers, and besides, Youzhou is still Liu Bei's hometown, if it can cause disaster to Liu Bei's hometown, wouldn't it be regarded as revenge for his Yuan family?

That's not bad.

Only a few people know about this matter at present, and Yuan Shao's side has not been infiltrated, so Liu Bei can't know what Yuan Shao's plans are.

But Liu Bei is happy now.

He was now extremely convinced that he insisted on not destroying the Luoyang court as a right thing to do.

A court that still has a certain ruling power and appeal has a great influence on the people of the world.

The huge political inertia brought by the 400 years of Han rule to the people of the world makes this court as long as it does not die, the people who hold the power in the world will basically not abandon this court, and even if this court still exists, it still has the ruling power and appeal to the world.

What's more, after Liu Bei served as a general, he injected a powerful factor into this court that far exceeded that of Liu Hong's reign, and if the people of the world wanted to contradict the Luoyang court, they must always weigh whether they were the opponents of the army that Liu Bei had.

And after the first batch of enemies surfaced, Liu Bei was also very pleasantly surprised to find that he controlled this imperial court to issue instructions to the outside world, which was unexpectedly useful, and things that could not be done in the past could be done through this imperial court.

He could easily reach the entire Han Empire through this imperial channel, and he could easily convey his will - although he was not sure whether the other party would do what he wanted.

But his voice is loud enough for people to hear, and then judge whether he needs to comply according to his interests.

After a period of experience, Liu Bei realized that some of the ways and institutions that this court built to exist in order to rule the world were not as chicken as he imagined, and it was right to let this court survive in some way in his hands and retain a certain appeal.

Therefore, after Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu messed around and died one after another, the guys who were originally suspicious of the Luoyang Imperial Court because of the rumors that circulated finally saw clearly that the Luoyang Imperial Court was more reliable.

In the face of the real threat brought by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, they still chose the Luoyang Imperial Court, they didn't want to help each other, but chose to take sides.

So Liu Bei easily used the orders of the imperial court to build an encirclement of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

When the military forces under his direct control still needed time to form combat effectiveness, he directly locked the possibility of further development of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu through the channels of the imperial court.

Although this kind of blockade is not as awesome as the blockade of the Trisolarans, it is also a physical blockade.

Yuan Shao wanted to break through and directly faced Gongsun Zhan, Dong Zhuo and Liu Yu.

Yuan Shu wanted to break through and directly faced the surrounding four counties, all of whom were full of hostility towards Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and were willing to obey the orders of the Luoyang court.

And Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu need to play a game with the encirclement built up by the people who are willing to follow them, which is bound to be a process of mutual consumption, and the power directly belonging to the Luoyang Imperial Court can be developed at this stage.

But in the final analysis, the enemy is not so terrible, Liu Bei can rest assured that he can develop, if the enemy is more terrible, he will have to end up himself.

Dong Zhuo, Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu are more at ease, these three people have more resources, and they can definitely make Yuan Shao cool.

It's hard to say about the combat effectiveness of the four counties, the Central Plains region has been peaceful for a long time, and the military equipment of the counties is sluggish, and it is estimated that the fight will be a situation where rookies peck each other, but people who have no bottom line will have more advantages.

Yuan Shu is the one who has no bottom line.

Therefore, Liu Bei also planned to take this opportunity to observe the combat effectiveness of the heads of the four counties.

Soon, the opportunity came.

In the middle of August of the sixth year of Zhongping, when Liu Bei commanded the recruits to launch a large-scale military exercise on Shouyang Mountain next to Luoyang City to observe the training results of the recruits, Yuan Shu couldn't help but take action.