Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 125 Mission to Xuzhou
Yuan Xi didn't expect it to be from this family. He was a little shocked at the moment, and couldn't help pointing to the baby girl in the swaddle and said, "Then her name is Cao Hua?"

Huan said in amazement, "Sir, you even know this?"

Yuan Xi thought to himself, no wonder later Cao Cao married all three sisters to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. They were not his own daughters, but adopted daughters.

But Cao Cao is good to his adopted sons and daughters, at least not as ruthless as Cao Pi. Of course, the price he paid was a beautiful mother.

Seeing the look of expectation in the eyes of Huan's mother and daughter, he felt a little headache.

The identities of the mother and son are sensitive, but they still know a lot of things, and how to arrange them properly is also a troublesome matter.

He simply got out of the carriage, found a horse, and walked side by side with Zhao Yun, perhaps because staying in the carriage was too comfortable, the cold wind blew, and he sneezed several times.

Seeing this, Zhao Yun said, "Master, let's go back to the carriage, the clouds outside are enough."

Yuan Xi smiled and said: "It's good to freeze it, I'm not so spoiled yet."

"Speaking of which, I'm bothering my brother again. The mother of Piansheng Ziyi (Tai Shici) followed back to Yecheng and fell ill after trekking all the way. I asked him to stay and take care of his mother, but I didn't let him come."

Zhao Yun said softly: "My lord, lenient others and practice filial piety, it is a virtuous act."

Yuan Xi said: "Brother and parents have passed away?"

Zhao Yun nodded, "Yun was brought up by his elder brother since he was a child, and a letter from his family recently said that his brother is not in good health."

Yuan Xi suddenly remembered that Zhao Yun had left for a few years because of his brother's mourning, and thought that there would be trouble now, and said: "If you defeat Gongsun Zan in the next year and Youzhou is stable, Brother Zilong can take the eldest brother to live in Beixin City, which is also convenient. Be filial."

After Zhao Yun heard this, a trace of gratitude appeared on his face, "So Yun thanked you, Young Master."

He relaxed and got acquainted with Yuan Xi again, and said: "My brother always urges me to get married, and I have kept the Huns alive several times, so why use my family as a prevarication, I am afraid that I will be reprimanded by my brother again if we meet again."

Seeing the opportunity, Yuan Xi said, "What do you think of my sister?"

When Zhao Yun heard this, he was shocked and said, "My lord, you are joking. Yun is a commoner. It is enough to find a virtuous woman from a good family. How can you dream of marrying a rich family!"

Yuan Xi smiled and said: "The Yuan family didn't belong to four generations and three generations from the beginning, and it wasn't run from generation to generation."

"Nowadays, the general situation in the world is surging, and there is an opportunity to turn into a dragon at any time, and it depends on how to seize it."

"The Chinese New Year will be in just over a month, and the coming year will be a crucial one."

"Whether we can occupy a place and open up a way forward is all in one fell swoop."

Zhao Yun half-understood what he heard, and said, "Master, are you talking about attacking Gongsun Zan in the coming year?"

Yuan Xi pondered for a while, then said, "It's still one step away."

"Everything is ready, and there is still one side that is not stable."

Zhao Yun blurted out, "Xuzhou?"

Yuan Xi nodded: "That's right, Xuzhou."

"Now Qingzhou has just been pacified, and the situation is unstable. Although Xuzhou is also the same, the background is much better."

"If Duke Xuande attacked Qingzhou again when Gongsun Zan was attacked in the north, I'm afraid the matter would fall short."

Seeing that Zhao Yun hesitated to speak, he said with a smile, "Isn't it because you faced Liu Bei in the Qingzhou battle last time, which made it difficult for you brother?"

Zhao Yun said in a deep voice: "If there is no hesitation at all, then Yun is lying."

"But Zhang Fei is really hard to beat, and Yun Na has a clear conscience in the battle."

Yuan Xi smiled and said, "I know."

"I really have no one to use, so I put my brother in a dilemma."

"To tell you the truth, I also admire Mr. Xuande as a man, and I don't want to fight him to the end like this. In the end, both sides will suffer."

"So when I return to Yecheng this time, I want to talk to my father about going to Xuzhou to see if the two sides can turn their fights into friendship."

Zhao Yun's eyes froze, "It's unwise to go to the enemy's camp to take risks in person, not to mention the bloody battles with Liu Yuzhou several times, my son, this step is a little risky."

Yuan Xi smiled and said, "It's okay, Mr. Xuande is not that kind of person."

Seeing Yuan Xi's confident appearance, Zhao Yun felt as if a stone fell from his heart for some reason.

For him, this is the best way. If Yuan Xi and Liu Bei are killed and only one survives, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to accept it.

Yuan Xi changed the subject, "Brother Zilong, I have a question."

"Do you think the current Han Dynasty is dominated by Li Jue and Guo Si, if this continues, what will happen to the world?"

Zhao Yun was startled, thought for a while, and said, "Yun can't think of it for a while."

Yuan Xi nodded. The world today is indeed in chaos, and it is difficult to see the way forward.

The reason why he took so much effort to plan for the Yuan family was, after all, for himself.

If you don't defeat Gongsun Zan, you can't occupy Youzhou, no matter how much money you have, it's useless.

Only by obtaining the governance power of Youzhou can we tap its potential.

It doesn't matter if most of the gentry are unreliable, there are always poor families who are willing to take refuge.

The common people are self-cultivating, so it doesn't matter if they can't have more recruits. There is still a group with great potential, whose potential has not been fully tapped.

Good family.

The so-called good family, also known as a good family, refers to those who are not in the seven disciplines or are not the children of doctors, witches, merchants, and all kinds of craftsmen.

Most of these people came from wealthy farming and studying families who owned land. They were a little less educated than the gentry, but they were definitely not poor.

When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established the Habayashi Army, it specifically recruited Liangjiazi to join the army. After becoming a member of the Habayashi Army, those with "talent" could be selected as officials.

The so-called "material strength" mostly refers to military ability, or being good at force, or making good use of the art of war, etc. Literacy is the basic of the basics.

Once he has made great achievements, he can be promoted easily, and eventually spread all over the Han army and become the backbone of generals.

Because of a wealthy family background, clean family background, and the goal of making meritorious deeds and becoming a marquis immediately, the biggest advantage of the Han army with good families and backbones is that they have a bottom line in life.

However, the threshold is also unusually high.

expensive.

Liang Jiazi of the Royal Forest Army needs to prepare two war horses, one halberd or spear, one long sword handle, one bow, two pots of arrows, half iron armor or a set of leather armor, and the army rations needed for marching for one month.

With such equipment, Yuan Xi could only support dozens of people when he was in Beixincheng.

Therefore, if Yuan Xi wanted to expand his power, he had to obtain military power in one place, so that he could give Liangjiazi enough military positions.

But there are no soldiers, but they can't expand quickly, and the two restrict each other, so Yuan Xi only fights for the day and night in Yecheng, and spends all his time in order to really take Youzhou into his hands as soon as possible.

In the eyes of others in the Yuan family, Youzhou is a hot potato. Although it has salt and iron resources, a strong source of soldiers, and a rich horse farm, there are many problems.

There are too many forces.

In addition to Gongsun Zan, there are also Wuhuan Xianbei and Liaodong Gongsun Clan, each of which is not easy to deal with, so no one is robbing Youzhou with Yuan Xi because no one has the confidence to do better than Gongsun Zan.

Yuan Xi secretly thought that it was a pity, Gongsun Zan was also a hero in the present, but now he and the Yuan family were inseparable, and there was no room for change.

Xuzhou Zhisuo Xiapi.

Liu Bei was holding a letter in his hand, looking at it over and over again.

Zhang Fei was curious and said, "Brother, whose letter is this?"

Liu Bei sighed, "It's the expert who sent me the letter last time, Mr. Yinhu."

Hearing this, Zhang Fei shook his head and said in disdain: "What hidden tiger, we were almost caught between Yuan Shaojun and Cao Cao's army and couldn't come back. I think we are liars."

Guan Yu said, "Didn't everything he said in the letter come true?"

Zhang Fei snorted a few times: "Anyway, I think there is something wrong with this person, I can't believe it!"

Liu Bei sighed: "This man must have a great talent. It was he who foresaw the locust plague in Yanzhou. Lu Bu and Zhang Miao took the opportunity to attack Cao Cao from the rear. Only by waiting for us can we save Xuzhou."

"What's even more powerful is that he also predicted that Taozhou Mu would die within three months."

"What!" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were taken aback, their expressions flickering.

Liu Bei sighed: "It's a pity, if I have the help of this expert, I will be able to develop a foundation."

Seeing that Liu Bei was still reading the letter, Guan Yu said, "Since that's the case, what did Yinhu say in the letter?"

Liu Bei handed the letter to Guan Yu, and said: "He said that Xuzhou seems to be calm now, but in fact it is in danger of overthrow. If we confront the Yuan family again, Xuzhou will not be safe."

"He watched the stars at night and said that the Yuan family might send someone to have a secret talk in the near future. We must seize this opportunity."

After hearing this, Guan Yu asked in confusion, "Why do I feel that this Yinhu was created by the Yuan family to deceive people?"

The three looked at each other, Liu Bei finally hesitated and said, "Isn't it?"

"He has absolutely no reason to support Lu Bu to deal with his ally Cao Cao."

Guan Yu listened, thought for a while before nodding his head and said, "That's true, brother is right."

"Unless that Yuan Shi is crazy."

Liu Bei said: "Second brother and third brother, if the Yuan family comes, what should we do?"

Zhang Fei hummed: "Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover, anyway, they are the ones who come to Xuzhou, when the time comes, we will wait and see what happens."

Now Guan Yu also nodded slightly: "That's right, the third brother said something reasonable."

Zhang Fei: .
Yecheng, Yuan Shao's official residence.

There are two rows of people sitting at the bottom, one row is counselors, and the other row has only three people.

Yuan Shang, Yuan Tan, and Yuan Xi sat down in turn.

Judging from the sequence, it can already be seen that the status of the three of them, and now Yuan Shang's momentum has completely overwhelmed Yuan Tan.

However, most of the counselors' eyes were focused on Yuan Xi, and the meaning contained in it was completely different from when Yuan Xi first arrived in Yecheng a few months ago.

Yuan Xi's victory in the limelight in Ye City in the past few months is unmatched by anyone, especially this time, when he exchanged hostages with Cao Cao, he even brought back Cao Cao's father!

Although everyone knew what was going on, after all, in the eyes of the people in Yecheng, it meant that Cao Cao had completely surrendered to the Yuan family for the time being.

Yuan Shao said: "Xianyi did a good job this time."

Yuan Xi sneaked a glance at Yuan Shang out of the corner of his eye, and found that the other party was expressionless, thinking that this kid must have some bad idea.

Yuan Shao said again: "And as Xianyi expected, Liu Bei who stole Xuzhou also agreed to a temporary strike on both sides."

"Since Xian Yi wants to go there, then he will leave in the next few days. Feel free to talk about whatever you want. Forgive me, Liu Bei won't dare to do anything to my Yuan family."

After Yuan Xi heard this, he bowed down and said, "I would like to obey my lord's order."

When he got up to leave, he found that Yuan Shang dragged Yuan Tan away first, and the third brother Xindao was very capable.

He left the official mansion, took a carriage and left, now he has asked for a small courtyard alone, and moved out of the Yuan family's mansion, so that Yuan Shang would not have bad ideas all day long.

He returned to the mansion and entered the house, but saw that Wu Zhao was not inside, and Cao Xian and Cao Jie knelt at the door to welcome him back.

(End of this chapter)