Fang Zhiwen was still on the way back to Miyun when he received the news that Zhang Zhao had joined Sun Jian. It was almost noon that the team was about to stop to prepare lunch. Fang Zhiwen stopped on a hillside, where the view was wide, but the wind was a bit strong.

Fang Zhiwen smiled at the news about Zhang Zhao, and at the same time he received a letter of help from Gongsun Zan. Looking at the information in his hand, Fang Zhiwen couldn't help feeling distracted. The Taishi Zhaorong beside him asked curiously: "Husband, husband, what is the news?"

Li Xueyin on the other side stroked her hair, which was blown by the wind, and laughed: "Isn't that love letter from anyone?"

Taishi Zhaorong looked at Li Xueyin curiously: "Who is who!"

"Hehe, whoever should be, then you have to ask your husband, why do you come and ask me!"

Taishi Zhaorong looked at Fang Zhiwen with a sour heart. Fang Zhiwen smiled and said, "The rumors are self-defeating, take them to take them!"

Taishi Zhaorong took it and saw that it was not the case at all. She turned over the back and did not look like a love letter at all. She frowned in confusion, so she handed the information to Li Xueyin again. Li Xueyin reached out to take it and took it, and then smiled.

"Haha, do you regret it if you regret it? I heard that Zhang Zibu was driven away by you at the beginning."

"Of course I don't regret it. I don't think of each other. Zhang Zibu is not a person who is in a world of power. Speaking of which, it seems that he is different from Ji Gui, but Ji Gui's potential is better than him. Zhang Zibu is stubborn, and he will try every means to find a basis for what he recognizes, rather than on the contrary, it is difficult for such people to achieve great things because of conservative and stubborn views."

"Not necessarily!" Li Xueyin smiled and shook her head. You should know that Zhang Zhao was one of the founders of the Wu Kingdom later. How could he say that he didn't have a great talent? Isn't this a great talent?

"I mean if he was in our Miyun, he would basically not do anything because the system was not in line."

Li Xueyin was solemn! She looked at Fang Zhiwen sideways, and her feelings were very complicated.

At this time, Fang Zhiwen turned around and said to Zhen Xiang who was standing behind him: "Go and find Fengxiao."

"promise!"

Fang Zhiwen quietly looked at Xiangxiang and Diao Chan, who were cheering and chasing the snow fox hunting under the hillside, and was waiting for Guo Jia, who was looking for excuses to drink with Wang Yun from a carriage not far away, to catch him.

After a while, Guo Jia, who was covered in alcohol, appeared with a red face, but he looked very sober, and this guy was indeed very good at drinking!

Fang Zhiwen took off his big troop, put it on Guo Jia, and said with a smile: "I feel hot when I drink, but I feel susceptible to wind and cold when I blow the wind. You won't even have this common sense, right?"

"The lord called, I forgot for a moment!" Guo Jia smiled with a slander, while tightening his big command on his body.

Taishi Zhaorong smiled and took out another spare big weapon from the package and gently put it on his husband.

"There is an emergency letter from Hanoi. Look."

Fang Zhiwen handed Gongsun Zan's letter of help to Guo Jia. Guo Jia rubbed his cheeks and took them to look at them seriously. After a while, Guo Jia raised his head with disdain and said.

"He is very good at calculating and wants us to help him block Yuan Shu. But there is no benefit at all. This matter is not possible. At least he must be sincere!"

Fang Zhiwen smiled with a smirk, and the white mist on his mouth was gently taken away by the north wind: "What sincerity? Gongsun Zan is very poor now and wishes he could spend a five-zhu coin in half. Where can I give us any benefits?"

Guo Jia frowned: "Do you want us to help if you say "Why don't you want us to help?" Besides, we have no puzzling grudges with Yuan Shu. After all, it's not just to suggest that Yuan Shu has ideas about the Yellow River waterway? Even if he really has any ideas, it's not us who jumped up, but Han Fu, right?"

"But Han Fu is adjacent to Gongsun Zan, so he is very conflicted. He hopes that Yuan Shu can cross the river and fight with Gongsun Zan to death, and is also worried that Yuan Shu will take the opportunity to make the navy bigger. Zhu Jun has a strong ability to control the army. It would be strange if Han Fu is not worried, but he will not do it if he asks him to destroy Yuan Shu's navy."

"Master, I always feel that there is something that is not very good about it, but now I can't see anything. What's going on?"

Fang Zhiwen frowned, then shook his head and smiled, "I don't know, I will know it naturally then."

Guo Jia was stunned and then laughed: "It's still the lord who is open-minded. That's right. As long as we are ready, we will know it naturally then."

In fact, Fang Zhiwen probably had a vague idea in his mind when Guo Jia wanted to say something, but things did not develop to that point, and nothing to say now is meaningless. The most important thing is that Fang Zhiwen did not actively attack **, or in other words, there is a large number of territories behind Fang Zhiwen, which are all blank, so why do you have to plan for the territories of the Central Plains!

One is within reach, and the other is to fight for blood, but there seems to be a force in the dark. If you want to pull him to the Central Plains, this is the core issue.

"So, how should Gongsun Zan respond to his request?"

"I think it's okay to throw this directly to Ziyu. The navy will do whatever they want. If Yuan Shu is really willing to cross the river, it has nothing to do with us. The one who is anxious is Gongsun Zan. If Yuan Shu's navy becomes bigger, Han Fu is anxious. No matter how we look at it, it doesn't matter. Instead, taking this opportunity, the navy may turn its business into Yuan Shu's family."

Fang Zhiwen thought for a while and grinned: "Okay, this matter will give Ziyu a headache."

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In fact, Yuan Shu didn't need a ferry at all, because the Yellow River would freeze. Taking advantage of the frozen surface of the river, Yuan Shu's troops could cross the Yellow River and attack Gongsun Zan. However, Yuan Shu was hesitating now, at least Zhu Jun meant not to start a war.

Yuan Shu can be said that since the end of his conspiracy against Dong, he has been shrinking. Seeing the surrounding princes busy expanding, he will inevitably have some idea of ​​expanding, but he is willing but unable to do so.

The fact of contraction tells Yuan Shu that his current strength really can't control so much territory. Yin and Yingchuan, Henan, plus the northern part of Runan and the eastern part of Hongnong, are all mature development areas. Although they are destroyed by war, as long as there are people, production will be resumed very quickly.

Under the guidance of Yang Hong's strategy, Yuan Shu focused on concentrating the population in Henan Yin and Luoyang. Sure enough, in two years, Yin and Luoyang in Henan were back to their pre-war state. He had a slight surplus while being self-sufficient. In addition, the war in Runan County was basically over and the expenditure was greatly reduced. Although Yuan Shu was shrinking his territory, his pockets were indeed bulging. With a few years of development, he could support his expansion outward.

However, this was too slow. Yuan Shu was not anxious when he watched the princes around him busy expanding?

"Lord, blind expansion will eventually encounter the same consequences a while ago. What's the use of not being able to hold it down? Let's see if Yuan Benchu ​​is the same. He has won so much territory and has to vomit back now, why bother? It's better to accumulate strength and make it steady, and every time he eats a little, he can turn this into our strength. This is the right thing!"

Yang Hong said it very slowly, but it was very powerful. Yuan Shu wanted to refute it, but he couldn't find any reason, but he was still unhappy: "But, we can't let the princes around us increase their strength. Look at Dong Zhuo in Guanzhong, who is now integrating his power. Huangfu Song surrendered, and Han Sui was recruited. Seeing that if Dong Zhuo settled Yongzhou, he would have the strength to leave Tongguan and annex the Central Plains. I am in a hurry!"

"It's useless to be anxious. You can only eat one bite at a time, and you can only walk step by step. Even if you are anxious, you can only choke to death if you eat too quickly. I have never heard of eating faster and getting stronger. Why should you think so much about it?"

"Can you think about it? If Dong Zhuodong leaves Tongguan tomorrow, we will be the first to be affected!"

"Then let's join forces to fight Dong again. The lord doesn't have to worry about Dong Zhuo at all. In just a few years, Dong Zhuo could not even defend the Chang'an court and the Guanzhong clan."

"Then, then Lu Bu, Gongsun Zan, and Cao Cao are getting stronger and stronger, aren't they also a confidant!"

"That's right, but they are not strong enough to destroy us in a battle. As long as they cannot do this, they must worry about the existence of other princes. Because of this, we should focus more on improving our own strength. As the saying goes, persimmons should be picked and pinched. As long as we are strong, who will pinch us?"

"this......"

"However, the lord's concerns are not completely unreasonable, so it is necessary to appropriately restrain their development."

"How to restrain?"

"There is nothing else, just a distance between friends and attack near!"

"Far and close attack?" Yuan Shu pondered.

"That's right, we can fight against each other from a distance! We will join forces with Han Fu to attack Gongsun Zan, Liu Dai to attack Lu Bu, Sun Jian, and Tao Qian to attack Cao Cao..."

"Union between Sun Jian? It's impossible. I want to kill this unfaithful and unrighteous guy. How can I unite with him?"

"Just just a strategy, lord, if Sun Jian can fight Cao Cao to the death, then we will reap profits! Isn't this equivalent to punishing Sun Jian!"

Yuan Shu frowned, thought for a while, nodded and smiled: "That's right, then let's sit according to the method of Guangqi, and fight far and near, in short, they can't let them be peaceful."

Yang Hong twisted his beard and smiled, "As for orders, but we should also make some moves. While the Yellow River is frozen, the lord can let Zhu Jun obtain some strongholds along the river and attract Gongsun Zan's troops, so that we can negotiate with Han Fu!"

"What if Gongsun Zan called?" Yuan Shu suddenly thought of another possibility and asked with some concern.

Yang Hong smiled and was helpless at Yuan Shu's swaying: "It's okay, it's better for them to fight. We should guard against them, and they will suffer. If Han Fu and Zhang Liao came to him behind the scenes, Gongsun Zan would probably not be able to stand it."

"Okay! Then Ji Ling and Zhang Xun should move too?"

"Lord, it's not wise to start a war on multiple sides. Just maintain enough pressure in these two directions, so that they can be wary of consuming troops day and night."

Yuan Shu nodded and said, "Okay, you have to pick the persimmons and pinch them. The softest one is Gongsun Zan. If we don't pinch him, who will we pinch him? Haha..."
Chapter completed!