After Liu Bei heard Zhuge Jin describe the various benefits of completely solving the worries of the south, he was not too opposed to this plan.

But Liu Bei just had a lot of problems, and Zhuge Jin also solved a "During the period of not starting a full-scale war with Cao Cao, is there any other breakthrough direction to expand his own power".

Liu Bei still has a bunch of details behind him, which need to be sorted out by Zhuge Jin.

Zhuge Jin continued to talk eloquently: "Then, let's see if supporting Yuan Tan alone is enough to contain Cao Cao?" Can it prevent the emergence of a capital enemy caused by the rout of Yuan Tan's army?

I think the key to this is that our army should send a liaison messenger to supervise the use of aid ordnance.

If Yuan Tan uses everything according to our requirements, the accounts will be clear and the fighting spirit will be high. We will continue to provide it in small quantities and many times. Once Yuan Tan slackens off, or guards steals by himself, we can gather help.

This may be difficult to do at first, and Yuan Tan will want to maintain more autonomy. Our first and second batches of materials may be more sweet, and relatively less supervised. But as his situation deteriorates, he will have to move closer and closer to us, and then it will naturally deepen the supervision.

From this point of view, before we did not directly send troops to Hebei, it was not that we did not obtain territorial and demographic interests in the north, but in fact we were gradually advancing the puppet Yuan Tan. Yuan Tan was unwilling to become a vassal of the lord completely, just because he was not miserable enough.

As long as the pressure on him from the Cao thief increases, sooner or later Yuan Tan will take his land and become a vassal of the lord. The Yuan family is our ally to fight against thieves, we can't directly attack our allies, only when we help our allies, let them fall deeper and deeper, and finally have to take refuge, so that the righteousness of the lord will not be harmed.

So Yuan Shao can only die at the hands of Cao Cao, if Cao Cao can't do this, it will be difficult for us to deal with it in the future, with Cao Cao helping us to be evildoers, why not do it.

Moreover, when Yuan Tan is in danger, a part of our army can enter Qingzhou or even Youzhou at the invitation of Yuan Tan, and as Yuan Tan's friendly army, fight Cao Cao under the banner of the Yuan family.

And even if that day really comes, Cao Cao knows all this, he will pretend not to know, because Cao Cao doesn't want to have an all-out war with us before the Yuan family at least Yuan Shang dies, and if it can drag on for one more day, Cao Cao will turn a blind eye.

Cao Cao knew very well that a full-scale war between our army and Cao's army would not be beneficial to both Cao and us, but would give Yuan, Ma, Liu Biao and Liu Zhang time to breathe. As long as our army and Cao Cao do not go to war in an all-out way, both of us can focus less on each other, and each find some excuse to pick other soft persimmons behind the back to pinch first.

Once there are no worries behind either side and no other soft persimmons to pinch, it is time for a full-scale war. We and Cao Cao will not finish pinching the soft persimmon behind us at the same time, whoever finishes it first is not afraid of a full-scale war. ”

One thing must be made clear, that is, Zhuge Jin never said that he would not let Liu Bei directly attack Cao Cao by force, but only to control the intensity and find an excuse to let his teammates carry more harm and hatred.

If you can fight a proxy war, you should fight a proxy war first, which is good for both sides. Liu Bei's troops could participate in the battle on a "voluntary" or "mercenary" basis, depending on the situation.

In the 20th century, many of the two great powers vying for hegemony also did the same, from the Middle East to Eastern Europe to the peninsula, the bigwigs avoided personally ending up in an official capacity, and tried to find white-glove agents.

In this way, when the situation is not smooth in the future, or when there is any other sudden accident and the intensity of the confrontation has to be temporarily reduced, the big guy himself will not lose face, but will lose face with white gloves, so that he will not be able to stop directly stumbling to the point of not dying.

At the same time, it is always the white-gloved friendly in front of you who sheds the most blood and casualties, and they carry the most damage.

In this way, in the end, Qingzhou and even part of Youzhou can be controlled, and it is still decent, why not?

In history, when Yuan Tan couldn't hold it in the end, he surrendered to Cao Cao for a short time, but later it was repeated to make him temporarily surrender to Liu Bei, and the psychological obstacles and resistance are estimated to be much smaller than those of Cao Cao.

And if he is controlled by Liu Bei in this life, Liu Bei has a way to make him unable to repeat.

Or even if Yuan Tan finally finds out that he is about to be set aside and wants to repeat, then Guo Tu, Xin Ping, Xin Bi, Wang Xiu, and Guan Tong may not follow Yuan Tan repeatedly.

Zhuge Jin believes that Liu Bei's personality charm and winning wrists should be stronger than Cao Cao.

If you can slowly win the hearts of these people in the process of puppet Yuan Tan, and finally Yuan Tan will be a bare-bones commander, what else will he repeat?

Of course, among these people, Guo Tu seems to have a little bit of character...... But it has to be said that the more flattering people are, the easier it is to take advantage of them. Everyone has their own use, how Guo Tu wants to use it, you can adapt to it later, there is no need to reject people thousands of miles away from the beginning.

Zhuge Jin never persuaded Liu Bei to leave Hebei alone and let Cao Cao annex Hebei. At most, it can only be said that "let Cao Cao break through Yecheng and take the rest of Jizhou except Bohai County, as well as annex the state".

But in the whole territory of Qingzhou and most of Youzhou, Zhuge Jin tried a way to keep it for Liu Bei, and he kept it through the puppet Yuan Tan, which has never changed.

In the end, Liu Bei owned the entire south and east, against Cao Cao in the northwest - don't understand that Liu Bei only has the south, no, he still has the east, until the place so north of Youzhou, as long as it is enough to the east, as long as it is coastal, Liu Bei will resist and give full play to the shipping advantages of his camp.

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In this case, it is necessary to completely let Cao Cao hold the part of Jizhou except for the Bohai Sea, and the annexation of Jizhou will also be held by Cao Cao in the next few years.

Because if Cao Cao didn't even break through Yecheng and didn't even take most of Jizhou, then his pressure on Yuan Tan would not be big enough at all, and Yuan Tan would not have to take refuge in Liu Bei.

Yuan Tan can live well by relying on his own strength, why did he vote for Liu? Isn't it just that you can't survive on your own, so you will vote?

If you want to subdue an ally, you must go through this process, otherwise you will have a bad reputation and become an active backstabbing ally, which Liu Bei can't do in this time and space.

Even, if Liu Bei didn't listen to Zhuge Jin, but chose to directly attack Cao Cao in his own name at this time, it would also lead to the failure of the puppet forced landing on Yuan Tan-

When Liu Bei went on a full-scale Northern Expedition, Cao Cao would definitely send heavy troops back to fight Liu Bei. If Yuan Tan's situation was not so critical at that time, how could he be willing to be a puppet? It is because Yuan Tan has to bear the damage himself, so that he can't bear it, and in the end, "I'd rather be with Uncle Liu than with Cao Thief".

In addition, Zhuge Jin knew that in history, Gongsun Du was going to die in 204. Liu Bei now killed Sun Ce in 201, and in 202, he can make a move on Shixie, and in the process of reinforcing Yuan Tan after he finishes his move, he will have to maintain a certain number of troops on the Qing and You battlefields, even if it is under the banner of "Yuan family reinforcements", and Yuan Tan will supply grain and grass.

With Cao Cao's current situation, if he can't take Yuan Tan, it is very likely that he will persuade Gongsun Du to join forces, Cao Cao has the name of the imperial court in hand, as long as he makes a wish to Gongsun Du as an official, Gongsun Du may not dare to accept Cao Cao's official position by relying on the four hundred miles of wasteland in the western Liaoning corridor.

As long as he accepts it, then when Liu Beijun is assisting Yuan Tan, he will hug the grass and beat the rabbit nearby, and take advantage of the unstable opportunity when Gongsun Kang takes over when Gongsun Du dies, and then it is okay to fight it easily.

This does not affect the progress of the Northern Expedition, because there is no special situation of thousands of miles away, and they are all close enemies at hand-

For ordinary princes, even if they occupied Qingzhou or Liaoxi, they could not say that Liaodong was close at hand, because they had to take the land route, and they had to face the 400-mile barren Liaoxi Corridor, as well as Liaoze in the Liao River Valley.

But for Liu Bei, who took the sea route, Liaodong could indeed be said to be close at hand at that time, and he had a sea ship that could directly sail into the Liaohe River to land.

These are all later words, and the follow-up variables are even greater, so there is no need to repeat them for the time being, and Zhuge Jin has no intention of saying them all.

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Zhuge Jin comprehensively explained to Liu Bei the two points of "sending a tough mission to supervise the use of military aid" and "when the time is right, let our army enter under the banner of Yuan's reinforcements, and at the same time maintain our army's autonomous command system to ensure that Yuan Tan cannot interfere in the command of this army".

Liu Bei's problem was finally fully solved, and it suddenly became clear.

And Zhuge Liang finally realized that when answering the next few questions, what was the difference between himself and his eldest brother before.

Zhuge Liang's original opinion was a little more radical than Zhuge Jin, and he also suggested using a little army against Qingzhou and Youzhou, but he didn't expect Zhuge Jin's idea of "proxy war".

This can't be blamed on him, after all, the Han Dynasty and people before it were all justified, and there was no concept of so-called "proxy war" before. Zhuge Liang's IQ is high, and he can't imagine something that doesn't exist before.

And Zhuge Liang is also worthy of excellent intelligence, and he can understand it at all. After Zhuge Jin pointed it out, he understood it instantly, and then he would draw inferences.

In contrast, Pang Tong also understood these truths, but Pang Tong's previous advice to Liu Bei was more "pragmatic" and shameless, for example, Pang Tong had advised Liu Bei in the previous few months, "If Yuan Tan can't do it in the future, you can take the opportunity to backstab and seize Yuan Tan's territory."

This move is obviously the same as the historical Pang Tongjiao Liu Bei, who backstabbed Liu Zhang in spite of the alliance, and directly seized Chengdu.

And in history, Liu Bei also knew that this was too unjust, so he would rather choose one of the three strategies. He would rather lose the opportunity to wait for Liu Zhang to turn his face first, Liu Zhang later did kill Zhang Song, seal the pass and expel Liu Bei, Liu Bei did it again at that time, and the process of recovering Sichuan was really a lot harder, but the degree of injustice was far less than Pang Tong's strategy.

Now in this life, Pang Tong persuaded Liu Bei to backstab Yuan Tan to capture Qingzhou at the right time, but of course Liu Bei vetoed it.

He felt that Yuan Tan had taken him as an uncle, and it was too shameful to backstab his eldest nephew like this, so it was better to wait for Yuan Tan to be unable to hold it and be forced to be embarrassed, so he took the initiative to invite him and offer it with both hands.

Even if the cost is a little higher.

Comparing and confirming all these problems, Liu Bei finally felt at ease.

Anyway, the northern front needs to let Yuan Tan resist pressure to force him into a puppet, and everything will not be delayed.

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