Yan Xiang listened to Yuan Yao's words, and suddenly became interested.

While pouring himself wine, he began to ask Yuan Yao.

"Childe, tell me about your experience in the past two months."

Yuan Yao didn't blame Yan Xiang for being rude, he also sat down, picked up the wine glass, and began to talk to Yan Xiang.

"Before going to Lujiang, didn't I ask for some soldiers and horses from my father's hands, and use these soldiers and horses ......?"

Yuan Yao took these glasses of water and wine and began to describe to Yan Xiang his experience in Lujiang for the past two months.

When he told Yan Xiang that he had united with the water thieves and exterminated Chen Ce, a great mountain thief who had been entrenched in the Lujiang River for many years, Yan Xiang immediately showed a look of surprise.

There was even a face full of incredulity, as if Yuan Yao's matter was impossible at all.

However, from the understated tone of Yuan Yao's mouth, Yan Xiang knew that it was impossible and unnecessary for Yuan Yao to deceive himself.

This couldn't help but admire Yuan Yao even more, and even vaguely began to feel that he had chosen the right person.

After some talking, Yuan Yao told Yan Xiang about his experience, and after Yan Xiang listened, he only said that Yuan Yao now has his own foundation, as long as there is some time of development, relying on the manpower of the first-line Sky Canyon, slowly growing, attacking the city, and will definitely be able to break out of his own world in the land of Jiangdong.

After learning about Yuan Yao's experience, Yuan Yao began to ask Yan Xiang what had happened in the two months since he left Shouchun.

Shouchun is actually quite peaceful, and there are not many things that have happened, but it is not for nothing.

A few days after Yuan Yao left Shouchun, Zhang Xun persuaded Yuan Shu to re-establish the crown prince on the grounds that the country could not be without a prince for a day, and the candidate was naturally Yuan Yao's third brother Yuan Jing.

Yuan Jing also took advantage of the situation and became the crown prince.

In today's court, most of the officials are Zhang Xun's faction, and old ministers like Yan Xiang are already on the margins.

After listening to Yan Xiang's description, Yuan Yao just smiled faintly.

He never took Zhang Xun in his eyes, let alone Zhang Xun, even his cheap father Yuan Shu, Yuan Yao didn't take it seriously.

Because in his opinion, these people have less than two years left to live.

In two more years, when Cao Cao's army came over, there was only one fate for them, that is, they died on the battlefield and became the dust of history.

Why should Yuan Yao waste his energy on these people.

"Zhang Xun and Yuan Jing are just clowns jumping off the beam, it's hard to say how long Zhongguo can exist, so why covet the position of a prince."

A disdainful smile appeared on Yuan Yao's face.

"What Gongzi said is also true, by the way, this time Gongzi went to Xuzhou to marry, and Zhang Xun took the initiative to mention it, the purpose is to let Gongzi win over Lu Bu, and His Majesty seems to intend to send troops to Sun Ce in the south."

"Father wants to use troops against Sun Ce?"

When he heard the news, Yuan Yao's face showed a hint of surprise.

There is no history that Yuan Shu used troops against Sun Ce, think about it carefully, after the marriage, Lu Bu regretted sending troops to recruit Yuan Shu, and later it was Cao Cao's army that attacked, Yuan Shu had no time at all, and there was no extra manpower to recruit Sun Ce.

"Not long ago, Sun Ce wrote a letter to break with His Majesty, not only occupied Wu County himself, but also lobbied Wu Jing and Sun Ben at this time, both of whom were important ministers under His Majesty, and now they all took refuge in Sun Ce."

"Not only took away a lot of people under His Majesty's command, but also took away some territory, this matter made His Majesty angry, half a month ago he planned to use troops against Sun Ce, but Cao Cao and Liu Biao were eyeing from the side, if they used troops against Sun Ce at this moment, it would inevitably cause a chain reaction."

"We are worried that Cao Cao and Liu Biao will send troops, so we dissuaded Your Majesty and postponed sending troops to Sun Ce, and instead united with Lu Bu first."

"As long as Lu Bu can stand on our side and have him to contain Cao Cao, it is not a matter of worrying about a mere Liu Biao."

Yan Xiang's words hit Yuan Yao's heart, which was the same as what he thought.

"Elder Yan, what you said is exactly what I want, the reason why I am willing to come back from Lujiang, and today in the court, I took the initiative to stop the matter of going to Xuzhou to marry Lu Bu, it is precisely because I have such thoughts."

"Although Lu Bu is brave, he is also a double-edged sword, his father sent someone to marry him, he may not be able to succeed, you know, this person is a person who even kills his father-in-law, he is for the sake of interests, let alone a marriage, even his father, he will not take it in his eyes."

"Therefore, this time I went to Xuzhou, most of the time I couldn't successfully persuade Lu Bu to unite with my father, but I still have to go."

Yuan Yao's words made Yan Xiang, who was originally a little calm, suddenly look startled, and hurriedly asked Yuan Yao.

"Since Childe knows that he can't marry Na Lu Bu, why does he take the initiative to go?"

"It doesn't matter whether the marriage with Lu Bu is successful or not, the important thing is that I can make a good relationship with Lu Bu first, and at the same time, there has been a drought in the Huainan territory, and I need to prepare early."

"Prepare a large amount of grain in advance to raise grain and grass for the winter famine, as long as there is enough grain and grass, even if the famine is serious, you will not be too worried."

"I'm going to tell my father about this now, and my father will definitely ignore me, so I can only raise food by my own means, there is a big businessman in Xuzhou, named Mi Zhu, I plan to visit this person, from his hands, buy food."

Yuan Yao already regarded Yan Xiang as his own, so he didn't hide anything from Yan Xiang, and told Yan Xiang all his plans.

When Yan Xiang heard this, he immediately felt that Yuan Yao had said a lot.

"Childe, do you think there will be a famine this winter?"

"If Elder Yan doesn't believe it, you can go to the fields outside the city to see, it hasn't rained in Huainan for several months, and there is no water in this land, so what can the crops on the land look like?"

"I'm afraid that it won't take three months, and there will be many people fleeing the famine."

Yuan Yao naturally determined this matter, the reason why Yuan Shu in history was defeated, on the one hand, was defeated by Lu Bu and Cao Cao, and on the other hand, the reason was that it was just in time for this catastrophe, which led to a shortage of food and grass under his command, and a large number of mutinies.

The more than 200,000 soldiers and horses under his command were all lost in just two years.

Therefore, in order not to have this situation, the amount of grain, Yuan Yao must ensure that when the soldiers under Yuan Shu's command mutinied, he could take the opportunity to stand up and take over all the horses.

"Since Childe already has a plan, then the old man can only listen to Childe's orders and fully support Childe's decision."

"Well, Elder Yan, you are in Shouchun, just stock up on food as much as possible, and you don't have to worry about the rest."