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Cao Cao and Liu Bei fought in full swing around Yingchuan, while Yuan Shao watched the fire from the other side of the river. He was in a very happy mood. The only thing that was unhappy was Fang Zhiwen's small moves in Changshan and Zhongshan County. Although these two counties have taken measures to establish isolation belts based on big cities, the activities of thieves are still quite rampant. Sometimes even military fortresses are looted, and of course, it may also be collective defection.

As a last resort, Yuan Shao had to issue a strict order. All missing military personnel, their families would be confiscated, and their family property would be confiscated, and their families would be sold as slaves. This measure was too strict. It indeed effectively eliminated the situation of military troops being looted and defected. However, at the same time, Yuan Shao also gained a cruel reputation among the people. If he wanted to recruit military troops, he could not recruit any military troops now and could only force the household. The people in Changshan and Zhongshan are now full of complaints, but they dare not speak out.

Seeing that the spring plowing was about to begin, the people of Zhongshan and Changshan migrated southward one after another, and would rather sell themselves to landlords as hired farmers than stay in Changshan and Zhongshan counties. Many people took the risk of escaping to Taihang Mountain. When the spring plowing began, except for the city, the other places in Zhongshan and Changshan were deserted, with no people for dozens or hundreds of miles away, and more and more thieves and wild monsters were.

However, the troops in the city did not dare to go out of the city to clear out wild monsters, for fear of being wiped out by wild monsters and thieves. At the beginning, there were even the alien troops who went out of the city to hunt happily, but after being destroyed several times, these guys finally understood that the wild monsters in the wild may not be all wild monsters! Instead of taking risks here, it is better to go to Youzhou to hunt peacefully.

As a result, the thieves in Zhongshan and Changshan became increasingly rampant. These two counties were basically abandoned this year.

Yuan Shao looked at the information coming from Xuchang on his left, and then looked at the performance of Changshan County on his right, and his mood was quite complicated.

Shen Pei and Xin Ping looked at each other in the hall, and both of them didn't say anything tacitly. Xu You sneered, with a hint of mockery and self-pride in his eyes, and a little gloating.

"Ziyuan. Why are you laughing?" Yuan Shao looked up and happened to see Xu You's itchy expression.

"Haha, of course I am laughing at you?" Xu You replied indifferently, twisting his beard. This made Yuan Shao even more angry.

"What's so funny about me?"

"I saw that you were happy when you saw the battle report between Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and when you saw the prose of Changshan County, you looked worried when you saw it, so naturally you felt funny!"

"How amusing this? I can't be happy to see the enemy fighting together? I can't be sad when I see problems in my jurisdiction?"

"Benchu, you are a superior, and you should have a higher vision. When you see the enemy fighting together, you can gain benefits from it, or use this to make a profit for yourself? You don't even have a plan, so how can you do it? You're just watching the fun!"

"Well....."

"Let's talk about Changshan County's statement. This kind of thing should have been expected. I remember that I said it at the beginning. Changshan County can throw it to Fang Zhiwen, just evacuate the population honestly. Now, the population is completely fleeing, and I have to spend a lot of money to defend myself. No, it's not considered a defense. Just staying in the city and watching the thieves rage outside the city, isn't this just consuming money and food?"

"But, how can we give the territory to Fang Zhiwen for free? Today he got Changshan County, and tomorrow he will think about Zhongshan County. If we give in step by step, we might as well surrender!"

"Hehe, Benchu, if Fang Zhiwen really wants Jizhou, can you stop it now?"

"This...I can join forces with Cao Cao and Liu Bei!"

"Okay, let's join forces now!"

"This... you are simply distorting!"

Xu You looked at the angry Yuan Shao and smiled slightly. It was almost as exciting as this. Again, Yuan Shao really couldn't bear the face!

"At first, it was not that I was ruling, but that the situation was stronger than others, and there was no way to do it. Now the situation in Changshan County is like this. Not only did we not obtain any substantial benefits in Changshan County, but on the contrary, Changshan County is simply a big burden now. Instead of constantly bleeding in Changshan County, it is better to act like a hero breaking his arm. Of course, the premise is to reach a certain tacit understanding with Fang Zhiwen. At least, we should also ask Fang Zhiwen what he wants to do, right? Why do we have to oppose Fang Zhiwen?"

"Master..."

Yuan Shao was about to speak, but was interrupted by a shout from Zheng Ji. Zheng Ji came in through the side door and held a message tube in his hand. Look at the style, this was a letter sent by a pigeon. Yuan Shao's eyes were sharp. He saw two silver rings on the message tube at a glance, which meant that it was extremely important emergency information.

Yuan Shao's face darkened, and he reached out to take the letter tube from the panting Pang Ji's hand, opened the letter tube quickly and pulled it out. After a glance, Yuan Shao took a copy of Lu's Chunqiu from the side and quickly unpacked the secret writing of the letter.

Looking at the superstitious content, Yuan Shao's face was very rich, with some suddenness and confusion, some joy and some reluctance...

After a while, Yuan Shao finally raised his head and looked at the think tanks in the hall and said, "Based on reliable information, we can roughly know Fang Zhiwen's intention in Changshan County!"

Xu You was stunned, and then asked with interest: "Oh, what is Fang Zhiwen's purpose in Changshan? But if you want to occupy Changshan, it will effectively suppress Gongsun Zan, and at the same time, it will also oppress us south!"

Yuan Shao looked at Xu You in a complicated manner, nodded hesitantly and said, "Basically this is the meaning. Fang Zhiwen wanted to take down Changshan to gain control of Taihang Mountain, thus forming a substantial deterrence against Gongsun Zan and oppress Gongsun Zan to the west. Another intention is naturally to oppress us to the south and force us to fight for the Central Plains with all our might."

"Haha... Fang Zhiwen is thinking that we are not active enough, so he is squirting the whip behind his butt!"

Yuan Shao's face was like he was constipated, and this description was really detrimental.

Yuan Shao took a breath, tried hard to show a little smile, and looked at Xu You and said, "How did Ziyuan guess the reason?"

"Isn't this simple? For Fang Zhiwen, it is naturally a good thing to block Youzhou with us, but the biggest good thing is that the heroes in the Central Plains beat each other to death, isn't the world peaceful?"

"Well......"

"Of course, this kind of thing can be done by thinking about it. So, it is second to bend. It is to hope that there will be a reliable gap to isolate Youzhou from the war, and then watch the fire from the other side of the river, watch the war in the Central Plains, and add fire to timely fire. This gap is not us, and the better choice is the Yellow River. There is the Yellow River in the north and the Yangtze River in the south. Fang Zhiwen wants to use these two waterways to completely isolate the Central Plains, just like a few tigers locked in a cage, it can't be done without fighting! It's such a big move, amazing and amazing!"

Yuan Shao pulled the corner of his mouth and glanced at everyone in the hall. It seemed that everyone's face was not very good. Facing such a strong opponent, no one would be happy.

"If this is true, wouldn't these tigers work together to break through the cage?"

"How to rush and form an anti-side alliance? Call on everyone to come up and seek advice? Benchu ​​would like to let Cao Cao go? Or would Liu Bei go? If Fang Zhiwen blocked the Yellow River and then focused on destroying us first, Benchu ​​thought Cao Cao and Liu Bei would come to rescue with all their might?"

"Gongsun Zan..."

"Gongsun Zan was driven away by Fang Zhiwen from Liaodong and didn't even dare to let go of his fart. How dare he go against Fang Zhiwen?"

Yuan Shao was speechless.

"Then, wouldn't you just be able to fall into the trap?"

"Benchu, Fang Zhiwen likes to play with open conspiracies. He puts this on the surface. Not only can I see it, but I believe that anyone with a little knowledge can see it. Liu Bei and Cao Cao can't see it. So why don't they unite to resist? Because it can't!"

Xu You's words hit a large number of people. Shen Pei and others turned red, and their faces were slapping, but there was no room for refutation. They just secretly hated Xu You for being unscrupulous.

"Why can't it?"

"Because Fang Zhiwen did not say that we should be killed, but Cao Cao had already fought with us and killed him. Do you rather believe Cao Cao than Fang Zhiwen? This is the two evils that the generals should take the least. Everyone thought that as long as they destroy their opponents first, after unifying the Central Plains, everyone was so tall and so big, Fang Zhiwen would have no choice but to deal with him. It would not be too late to deal with Fang Zhiwen slowly at that time. Therefore, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Benchu ​​of the Central Plains are the major harm in front of them, not Fang Zhiwen."

Xu You's words made everyone feel a sudden feeling. In this way, it was indeed Cao Cao and Liu Bei were more dangerous, and even Gongsun Zan's threat was greater than Fang Zhiwen. Even if Fang Zhiwen is making trouble in Changshan now, it would be just a strategy. If Fang Zhiwen wants territory, why not make trouble in Hejian and Bohai anymore? It is obviously richer and more suitable for farming. Therefore, what Fang Zhiwen wants is not land, but to rush Yuan Shao to fight, as Xu You said, it is the whip behind his butt.

"Ziyuan, as you say, we should go up and fight honestly. There is no other way?"

"So I laughed when I saw Benchu's behavior just now!"

"Uh...what does that matter?"

"Benchu ​​was happy to see the enemy fighting each other, but that was just a possibility. You haven't taken advantage of the situation yet. Is there anything to be happy about? Don't Benchu ​​want the Central Plains? If Fang Zhiwen was not rushing behind his back, Benchu ​​would have planned to wait forever until both Liu Bei and Cao Cao died together?"

"This is just that there is no best time!"

"Originally, there is no best opportunity in the world, and the opportunity will never be the best, and there may be better ones. With this idea, you will not do anything!"

"Well......"
Chapter completed!