In fact, as far as the current pattern of the world is concerned, most of the assassins and Taishou are still in a wait-and-see attitude towards the battle of Yuan Dong.

There were more than 100 counties in the Han Dynasty, that is to say, there were more than 100 Taishou ministers, and there were more than 10 in the history of the assassin and the state pastor combined.

And most of these people who responded to Yuan Shao were groups representing the interests of the Gaomen clan.

In other places, Taishou and Thorn Shi did not dare to act rashly and hesitated.

After all, compared to Yuan Shao's group of people, most of the other people are small reptiles, challenging Dong Zhuo, who represents the highest power of the Han Dynasty, this kind of thing they just watch Yuan Shao and these people make trouble and do it, and most of them still dare not participate.

Because the water is too muddy and too deep, I don't dare to step in and mix it directly.

But secretly and secretly supporting, this matter is not certain.

With the influence of the Runan Yuan clan among the Kwantung scholars, the ministers of the Taishou State who were born in the scholar clan group in the states and counties of the Han Dynasty, even if they did not dare to support Yuan Shao openly, they would definitely fund them secretly, and as for the ways of funding, there would be more.

Any money, food, ordnance, or some other resources, as long as they don't involve the frontal battlefield, can be obtained.

But relatively, for Dong Zhuo, it is the same.

Dong Zhuo's power in the Kanto region is definitely incomparable compared to the scholar group led by the Yuan clan in Runan, but he is not alone.

Zhang Rang, Cao Jie, Wang Fu and others also used the period of the party to install many of their own forces in various states and counties, although these eunuch forces were either defected or cut off after the eunuchs in Luoyang were collectively destroyed, but still some of them are still preserved.

And most of these people are close relatives left behind by eunuchs, and they want to join the scholars, but they don't accept it at all.

If it weren't for Dong Zhuo's ascension to the throne and Yuan Kui still in charge, I am afraid that these people would have been ruined by the scholars a long time ago.

Therefore, even if it is to save their own lives, these people will secretly support Dong Zhuo.

Therefore, from the current point of view, the essence of this war between Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo is that more than a dozen Kwantung herdsmen led by Yuan Shao fought against a group of Liangzhou warlords led by Dong Zhuo.

And behind the two forces, it may be dozens of ministers who are too conservative to deliver resources to Yuan Shao.

And Dong Zhuo is responsible for transporting resources to him behind him, which is the Taishou Xiangguo left by more than ten eunuchs back then.

On the surface, it seems that there are not many people involved, but in fact, behind this is the political power of dozens of local governors in various states of the Han Dynasty.

On April 11 of the third year of Chuping, the 22 local Taishou shepherds headed by Yuan Shao were ready to gather together in the sour jujube, make an alliance together, and jointly pay tribute to the sky and discuss Dong Zhuo.

And Yuan Shu, who was the pastor of Beiyang, also led the soldiers to set off from Shouchun and headed north.

I never thought that as soon as his soldiers and horses arrived in Xia Cai, someone reported that it was the envoy of Liu Jian, the pastor of Jizhou, who was ordered to come to see him, saying that he had something important to discuss with Yuan Shu.

Although Yuan Shu was arrogant and arrogant, he also had some friendship with Liu Jian in Luoyang back then, and in Yuan Shu's eyes, Liu Jian was okay, so he didn't have too much disgust with him.

"Let Liu Jian's messenger come and see you."

After Yuan Shu gave the order, the three armies were ordered to suspend their march and rest in place.

He himself drove the horses under the trees beside him and sat on the ground.

His attendants immediately brought Yuan Shu his favorite honey water.

Yuan Shu sat under the tree, drank slowly, and then saw Liu Jian's envoy come to him under the guidance of the Yangzhou sergeant.

"Meet Yuan Gong!"

Yuan Shu listened to the greeting of the envoy, did not raise his eyelids, and asked very arrogantly: "Are you the envoy of Jizhou?" ”

"Exactly."

"Thousands of miles away, why did Liu Deran send you here?"

The messenger saw Yuan Shu's attitude and tone, and was slightly dissatisfied in his heart.

It is said that the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, the leader of the scholar clan, are admired by the world, and now when I see it, it is inevitably a bit exaggerated.

Although this Yuan Highway is dignified and magnificent, his posture is so high, and his words are full of arrogance and rudeness, which is somewhat worthy of the word 'famous'.

Although he thought so in his heart, the envoy could not argue with Yuan Shu on the surface.

He is not qualified to reason with others, he just hurry up and handle his own affairs, and it is not too late to do it.

Subsequently, I saw the messenger say to Yuan Shu: "Back to Yuan Gonghua, a certain person came across the mountains and rivers on the order of Liu Jizhou, just to honor Liu Jizhou's order and hand over a thing to Yuan Jun." ”

Yuan Shu put down the water in his hand and raised his eyebrows to look at him: "You came all the way through the Central Plains, just to get something from me?" Hehe, when will Liu Deran play this set. ”

The envoy did not answer Yuan Shu's words, but just reached out and took out an object from his bosom and bowed down to make a presentation.

On the side, Zhang Xun, who was already the most trusted by Yuan Shu, came to the messenger's side, stretched out his hand to take the things sent, and turned around to present them to Yuan Shu.

It is a box sealed with fire paint.

However, when Yuan Shu saw the box, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.

He didn't know this delicate box, but he did recognize the fire paint seal on the box.

There is no doubt that the fire paint seal belongs to his brother Yuan Ji!

Yuan Ji's lacquer is printed with special marks, and the details are only known to their Yuan family, so Yuan Shu is very clear that this box is not something that others can imitate, even if Liu Jian and Yuan Ji are familiar with each other, they definitely can't.

Yuan Shu looked at the envoy suspiciously, but saw that the envoy said very indifferently: "Yuan Gong rest assured, this thing was personally delivered to Tian Beijia by my Jizhou Tian Beijia to Luoyang to congratulate the Son of Heaven on his wedding a long time ago, and let it be transferred to Yuan Gong by Liu Jizhou, Liu Jizhou has not opened it, after getting this thing, the special subordinates are not far away, and it must be sent to Yuan Gong in person!" ”

After Yuan Shu heard this, he felt a little guilty about this messenger in his heart.

People have traveled thousands of miles to give you the Yuan family as a messenger, but I just put up a shelf in front of others, Rao is such a cheeky Yuan Shu, and I don't feel sorry to go.

He said to the messenger, "Hard work, hard work! Whoever comes, prepare some water, and dry food and dried meat for the march, to feed the messengers...... If there is no good food in the army, I will wronged you! ”

The messenger hurriedly said: "Don't dare, thank you for your kindness!" ”

Subsequently, the messenger, under the leadership of Yuan Jun's soldiers, went to eat first, while Yuan Shu hurriedly opened the lacquer seal and took out Yuan Ji's letter from the box to read.

After reading two lines, Yuan Shu had some doubts in his heart, there was Yuan Ji's personal seal on the letter, and the font was also Yuan Ji's, but looking at the beginning of this letter, it was clearly written to his brother Yuan, how could it run into his own hands?

Could it be that Yuan Ji didn't make it clear to Na Tian Feng?

However, Yuan Shu quickly abandoned this idea.

With the identities of Yuan Ji and Tian Feng, how could the two of them make such a low-level mistake?

Come to think of it, this letter must have been deliberately sent to him by Liu Jian.

I don't know what Liu Deran's thief is thinking?

Putting many distracting thoughts behind him, Yuan Shu continued to read the letter.

But this time, the more he watched, the more frightened he became.

Yuan Ji's letter to Yuan Yi was to ask Yuan Yi to use his own name to prevent Yuan Shao from entangled with local herdsmen to attack Luoyang.

Yuan Ji didn't mention himself, but he bluntly said that if Yuan Shao once he raised troops in Luoyang, then Yuan Kui's life would definitely be lost!

As a junior, Yuan Shao, regardless of Yuan Kui's life and death, insisted on fighting against Dong Zhuo, what was his intention?

Could it be that the Runan Yuan clan owes him!

Although Yuan Ji did not directly state that Yuan Shao wanted to deliberately kill them, what he meant in his letter was not far from this meaning.

In fact, Yuan Shu sent troops to fight against Dong Zhuo, didn't Yuan Shu think about the deep-seated meaning?

Of course, he was somewhat thoughtful.

The problem is that Yuan Shao's speed of gathering everyone is too fast, and he has almost received a unanimous response from many prominent families in the Kanto region, which can be said to have taken the lead.

Yuan Shu really didn't have time to plan more, so he could only respond to Yuan Shao's participation in this revival.

Yuan Shao has already collected countless prestige, and he has won the support of the scholars, if Yuan Shu does not hurry up to follow the trend, I am afraid that he will not even be able to gain a little prestige when he turns back.

Although Yuan Shu didn't say it, he actually had a deep sense of vigilance and precaution against Yuan Shao in his heart.

If it was Yuan Ji, Yuan Shu would be convinced, after all, he was the head of the family and the rightful heir of the Yuan family.

What did Yuan Shao rely on? Why is it that the prestige is so great now, and it can almost be said that it has been favored and supported by the whole world's corporal clan?

But now, this letter was sent to Yuan Shu by Liu Jian "by mistake", and Yuan Shu's heart began to be flooded.

If it was Yuan Yi, after he saw the letter, he would definitely go back to stop Yuan Shao, although he would not succeed, he would definitely try to stop Yuan Shao.

But Yuan Shu was different, and he decided not to mention it for the time being.

Yuan Shu's face showed a somewhat sly smile, and then he folded the silk silk, carefully put it back into the lacquer box, and put it in his arms, obviously to keep it properly.

Then, he shouted at Zhang Xun: "Zizhu! ”

Zhang Xun, who was not far away, heard this, and hurriedly came to Yuan Shu's front and said to him: "Envoy, but you want to urge the three armies to continue to go north?" ”

Yuan Shu fluttered at his clothes, stood up and said, "Urge the soldiers to march, but it's not going north, let's go back!" ”

"Huh?"

Zhang Xun was immediately stupid when he heard this.

How far has it been since Shouchun, it seems that it has only been more than a hundred miles just now, and this is going back? What about playing?

"Envoy, are we going to raise troops to the north from time to time? Will you go to the sour jujube and make an alliance with Zhu Yingjie? Why ......? ”

Yuan Shu waved his hand and said, "There will be no alliance!" Back to Shouchun! It's none of our business! ”

Zhang Xun really didn't understand why Yuan Shu suddenly changed his hexagram......

Just because Jizhou Mu Liu Jian wrote him a letter?

But what did Liu Jian write, which was so powerful, but he could persuade his own stubborn and arrogant envoy?

This is not something that ordinary people can do!

"Envoy, then Yuan Jingzhou's side, the envoy has already promised him to go to the Sour Jujube Alliance together, if he goes back on his word at this time, I am afraid that the reputation of the envoy will be damaged......"

Yuan Shu's eyes narrowed, pondered for a while, and then said, "You come here with Yang Changshi!" ”

"Whoa!"

After a short time, he saw Yang Hong, the long history of Yuan Shu, and came to him.

"Envoy call me?"

"You are the messenger, go to the sour jujube on my behalf, meet Yuan Shao, and say that I will be difficult to be present this time to discuss Dong."

Yang Hong was stunned when he heard this: "Why did the envoy suddenly not go to the alliance?" ”

Yuan Shu said: "This matter can be discussed later, you only need to go to the sour jujube on my behalf, and you will say it...... Let's just say that before I sent out the army, I was in my body due to typhoid fever, and I didn't fall off my horse for a while, and it was difficult to get up in bed! It needs to be well recuperated. ”

Although Yang Hong didn't understand Yuan Shu's true meaning, he still took the order.