The spring of the third year of Jian'an has arrived.

At this moment, except for Gongsun Zan, the person who was most depressed was probably Yuan Shu. Before he became emperor, everything went smoothly. His territory spanned Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Yuzhou, and Sili. At the peak, there were more than 200,000 soldiers under his command, and there were sufficient food and supplies. Although there were no more tiger generals to drive, Zhang Yan, Zhang Xun and other generals were also quite talented and had captured many counties for him.

Just after Yuan Shu became emperor, the situation reversed. Ruan, Nanyang and other places under Yuan Shu ruled, and droughts were severe year by year, locusts were plagued, and there were almost no grains in many places, and even there was a tragic situation of people eating. In addition, Yuan Shu became extremely extravagant and was extremely extravagant. He was a woman who was despised by hundreds of women, and was disgusted with flesh and blood. He was hungry and hungry, and he was not very concerned about him. Not only did he sit in the empty house, but his subordinates were also disloyal and unwilling to do their best in war.

As Zhou Yu conquered Shouchun, Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shu in Chen State. Yuan Shu's military strength dropped a lot and his strength was greatly damaged. The confidant generals Qiao Rui, Li Feng, Liang Gang, and Leju died in battle, leaving only Liu Xun to escape back to Runan. However, the commanders such as Yang Feng, Han Xian, and Hu Cai who had originally attached him also left Yuan Shu because of a severe shortage of food and were later eliminated by Liu Bei.

Chen Lan, the other two generals of Yuan Shu, had always been dissatisfied with Yuan Shu, and then took the opportunity to pull his team to the mountain. Although the life of the mountain king was relatively difficult, he could eat enough. Moreover, they no longer had to look at Yuan Shu's face and lived a life, but they felt much more free.

Just after the New Year, Yuan Shu, who was betrayed by his relatives, was hit again. Because he was dissatisfied with Yuan Shu's arrogant and extravagant practice and repeatedly withdrew military rations. After many persuasions were ineffective, Zhang Yan, the general who relied on the most, could not bear it. He directly took his subordinates back to the Changshan area, gained his own troops, carried out production, and expanded his territory.

In Pingyu City, it was the cold season, and water was frozen. Rows of crystal clear ice ridges hung under the eaves of the corridor, reflecting the sunlight from time to time, which was very beautiful. Yuan Shu walked slowly through the corridor, but did not have the mood of the past to appreciate it. His subordinates died or dispersed, and the troops could gather less and less, and the morale of the army was extremely unstable. Yesterday, hundreds of rogue soldiers ran to the palace to make noise, asking for money and food, which forced Yuan Shu to have no choice but to take a part of the accumulated food in the palace and distributed it to them, and these people had just dispersed.

If Yuan Shu had an order in the past, there would be a powerful general who would lead troops to suppress the enemy. But now Yuan Shu looked around and saw that the generals who could call were Liu Xun, except for his cousin Yuan Yin. They were also unable to command the soldiers under their command, let alone come and suppress them. If they really came, the possibility of joining together would be very high.

Spring is the season for all things to revive, but not the season for harvesting food. In April, Yuan Shu himself was about to finish his food. Since the end of last year, due to the cruelty and incompetence of Yuan Shu's rule, the Zhong Dynasty, which was broken and disintegrated during the reign of Yuan Shu, had long been unable to receive tribute from the counties and counties under his jurisdiction. The people in Pingyu City knew that the imperial army would come sooner or later, and left one after another in order to avoid disaster. In the entire Pingyu City, except for the officials of Yuan Shu's court and the soldiers guarding the city, there were very few civilians.

Fortunately, Yuan Shu's subordinate Yan Xiang and Yang Hong were quite loyal. They had been thinking about ways to maintain it. Only by collecting rice and grain from all over the place could Yuan Shu survive until April. Seeing that there was only a thin layer of grain in the warehouse, Yuan Shu finally made up his mind to burn the museum in Pingyu City, and led all civil and military officials and the only three thousand soldiers to the mountain to join his original troops Chen Lan, and Lei Chu went.

This is a very interesting thing in history. Yuan Shu, who became emperor, was considered a hero who once dominated the country. He would actually look for his subordinates who betrayed his subordinates with shamelessness. I really don’t know what Yuan Shu’s mentality was at that time.

In fact, Chen Lan and the second generals of Lei Bu had long been dissatisfied with Yuan Shu. When they saw that Yuan Shu was poor and came to join the country, they didn't even look at him. They just left some houses in the mountains for Yuan Shu and others to live in, and they didn't even provide daily food, let alone treat him with good wine and meat.

Three days later, all the food brought by Yuan Shu was eaten up, and the army was cut off. The resentful soldiers took the opportunity to scatter and scattered some valuable palace supplies preserved by Yuan Shu. Only Yuan Yin, Yang Hong, Yan Xiang and others were left by Yuan Shu. Even Liu Xun, who had been following Yuan Shu, left alone with hundreds of people whom he belonged to.

At this moment, Yuan Shu was a poor and destitute house with no money, no food, no people. The most important thing is that he was incompetent and incompetent. If he was following such a person, he would be dead. Liu Xun originally wanted to take his men to surrender to Cao Cao, but when he passed by Shouchun, he was captured by Huang Gai, who was inspecting him, so Liu Xun took advantage of the situation to surrender to him.

When Zhou Yu learned about it, he sighed at Yuan Shu's end of the journey, but he was secretly happy because he discovered an outstanding talent in Liu Xun's hands - Liu Ye.

Zhou Yu, who is familiar with history, knew that Liu Ye, whose courtesy name was Ziyang, was a native of Chengde, Huainan. He was a descendant of Liu Yan, the son of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu. He was a famous strategist in the Wei Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period. Liu Ye was a young and well-known person, known as a talented scholar of the slavery. He was an important strategist under Cao Cao. He repeatedly made brilliant plans and often hit the point of the development of the world situation. Liu Ye served for several dynasties and was a veteran of the three dynasties of Cao Wei.

In history, Liu Ye once joined Cao Cao with Liu Xun, and later gradually emerged and repeatedly made extraordinary plans, and was appreciated by Cao Cao, so he gradually grew into an important official of Cao Wei. Now, with Zhou Liang's time and space, the time and space of history are slowly changing. So much so that Liu Xun was captured by Zhou Yu's subordinates halfway through to Cao Cao.

Zhou Yu, quite happy, immediately appointed Liu Xun as the governor of Jiangxia County to assist Yan Yan, the prefect of Jiangxia. All the soldiers under Liu Xun were merged into the Yuzhou camp. Zhou Yu also transferred Liu Ye to Moling and served as the chief lord of the Right General's Mansion, giving full-time advice for himself.

Although Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Chen Gong and other Gan Cai were all prefects in various counties, they would often return to Moling to discuss the situation with Zhou Yu. At this time, Zhou Yu was surrounded by Jia Xu, Zhuge Jin, Lu Fan, etc., and Liu Ye, all of whom were the few masters of strategy in the world. They continued to contribute their wisdom to Zhou Yu, making Zhou Yu feel like a tiger and a thousand miles away.

After Liu Ye arrived in Moling, he witnessed the new policies implemented by Zhou Yu and became more and more admired. When he met civil servants such as Jia Xu, Zhuge Jin, Lu Fan, Zhang Zhao, Chen Gong, and military generals such as Gan Ning, Zang Ba, Zhang Liao, Taishici, Wang Yue, and Xu Huang, he was amazed at their literary and military strategies and sincerely surrendered.

I know what happens next, and listen to the next chapter to explain it.
Chapter completed!