Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1351 True meaning
Hearing this, Jia Xu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, there is no need to test or threaten me."

"You know I don't buy that."

"I followed the king to fight the fierce tiger for my own reasons. The king thought he could threaten me with my family, which really underestimated me."

"As a counselor, one's priority is naturally to achieve one's goals. If one is troubled by external matters, it can only be said that he is not qualified."

Kobe could hear it and suddenly burst into laughter, "Good job, Jia Wenhe!"

"You said that, aren't you afraid that I will suspect you are pretending to surrender?"

Jia Xu sneered and said, "Your Majesty, you naturally have your own judgment. If you rely on others to tell you everything, how can you convince the public?"

Kirby could hear it and shouted decisively: "Okay!"

"Since you said so, I'll gamble with you once!"

"Then tell me, what do you think of Sun Quan?"

Jia Xu said: "Sun Quan must be pretending to surrender."

Kirby said with interest: "Oh?"

"Sir, how do you see that?"

Jia Xu said, "It's very simple. I have only one basis for my judgment."

"Given Sun Quan's character, if he wanted to rebel against Jin, he should have gone to Wei, not Xianbei."

"Your Majesty, don't you think about what the Xianbei can give him or what help they can give him? Can they compare to the Wei Kingdom?"

Kobe snorted coldly, "Why can't I give it to you? I have millions of Xianbei soldiers, how can I compare with Wei?"

"Besides, we Xianbei can move forward and backward freely. Even if we cannot defeat Jin, we can still go north to the desert. When there is a change in Jin in the future, we can take the opportunity to move south and rule the Central Plains!"

Jia Xu sneered and said, "Your Majesty, you said it well. You said it very well."

"If Jin remains peaceful for a hundred years, Your Majesty will have no choice but to hand over this important task to future generations."

Kobe was choking, and he said with a bit of embarrassment: "I have also read the history of the Han people. In the Central Plains, it is rare to have peace for thirty to fifty years, let alone a hundred years!"

"Besides, the Central Plains is too vast after all. Even an enlightened emperor has things he cannot do. Didn't Liu Bang still fail to defeat the Xiongnu?"

"Although the Han people later produced capable people like Wei Huo, who beat the Xiongnu into pieces, our Xianbei people were able to take advantage of the opportunity to annex the Xiongnu tribes and rise up. That's why we now control the areas outside the Great Wall and have a population of millions!"

"Famous rulers don't appear often in the Central Plains. Since the death of Emperor Wu of Han, the Central Plains has not been able to pose a major threat to the grasslands. Over the past few hundred years, the situation has changed!"

"The opportunity we Xianbei are waiting for now is when the Central Plains is in chaos and the emperor is incompetent. Once we Xianbei have a wise leader, we can march into the interior of the country in one fell swoop and overthrow the Han dynasty!"

"No matter how many generations of wise rulers the Han people have, they can only maintain the status quo. But in order to survive, the Xianbei can only continue to expand. As long as a wise ruler appears, we will find an opportunity to overthrow the Han dynasty!"

Jia Xu thought to himself that just as the King of Jin said, Kobe was a man of great talent and strategy. He not only had ambition but also had vision. The existence of such a person was a huge threat to the Central Plains.

Jia Xu did not know about the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China in later generations. If he knew, he would know that Kobineng was right. Nomadic peoples often only needed one opportunity to inflict a fatal blow to the Central Plains regime.

Jia Xu remembered what Yuan Xi said when he met him.

The Han people were too weak in aggressiveness, so weak that even the expansion of their descendants became a big problem.

If you don't think about going out, you will always have to put the initiative in the hands of foreigners, especially when facing foreigners outside the Great Wall.

Finally, Yuan Xi said to Jia Xu: "It is better not to let people live in the grassland than to give it to others. We must keep it in our own hands."

"For this, we have to thank you, sir, for doing this great deed that will benefit future generations."

"Of course, if you don't want to, you can just go to the desert. I can't control you."

Thinking of this, Jia Xu cursed in his heart. The kings on both sides had very clear minds. It was precisely because they were too clear that his plan this time was so dangerous. If he was not careful, he would die.

Jia Xu and Yuan Xi both believed that, in fact, in this game, Kobe could have the advantage, because he could completely give up the head-on confrontation, and instead flee thousands of miles north to lie dormant, and then act according to the situation.

Although many people will die in the severe cold climate in the next few decades or even hundreds of years, humans are the most tenacious animals and can survive in the coldest places, not to mention the Bayeux Lake area in the north, where humans have reproduced for thousands of years without becoming extinct.

If the Xianbei really occupied this place in the future, it is hard to say what would happen. With the current capabilities of the Jin State, it is impossible to travel thousands of miles to fight a decisive battle with the Xianbei.

So what Yuan Xi had to do was to let Jia Xu fool Kobinen and make him misjudge and choose to fight to the death with the State of Jin.

This is actually very difficult. Now that Yuan Xi has made a name for himself, no matter how arrogant Kobe is, after experiencing several defeats, he will not choose to gamble the future of Xianbei on a decisive battle with Jin.

This was exactly Yuan Xi's purpose. Most people thought that he wanted to prevent the Xianbei from entering the pass, but they didn't expect that what he really wanted was to make the Xianbei die on the Youzhou front as much as possible. Only through constant fighting can the ethnic groups accelerate integration and the Han people can turn the Xianbei into Han people. Otherwise, if the other side runs away, what is there for you to integrate?
Therefore, everything that Jin State did before was for this purpose, including the attack on the Xianbei camp. The purpose was not to scare the other side and make them flee, but to arouse their hatred and fear of genocide, so that they would choose to fight to the death with Jin State.

Now that these goals are gradually being achieved, many tribes have realized that the situation cannot be allowed to deteriorate, and the calls for a war with the State of Jin are growing louder and louder.

In this situation, Sun Quan's surrender added another weight to the situation. At this time, Kobe already had the intention of having a decisive battle with the State of Jin. Otherwise, he would have only led his tribe to escape far away. Why would he bother to recruit Sun Quan and Jia Xu?

Jia Xu sold out Sun Quan without any hesitation. To him, he could give up anyone in order to achieve his goal. After all, no matter how reliable Sun Quan was, could he be as reliable as himself?
Jia Xu smiled and said, "Your Majesty has a sharp eye, which is exactly the advantage of Xianbei."

"If we can find an opportunity for a large-scale battle between the Jin and Wei armies, Your Majesty's chances of success are still very high."

Kobe said in a deep voice: "You don't have to praise me too much. I know the current situation of Xianbei."

"The King of Jin is the most difficult Han Chinese to deal with in the past hundred years, or even hundreds of years. I will not take action unless I am absolutely sure."

Jia Xu laughed and said, "I heard that the King of Jin is in Jicheng, so why don't you try to assassinate him?"

Kirby snorted coldly: "You think I haven't tried?"

"The spies under his command are too powerful. They have a set of secret codes and identification methods. Moreover, the characteristics of the Xianbei people are too obvious. They are the targets of special attention. There is no opportunity to strike at all."

Jia Xu asked, "Does the king have no Han people under his command?"

Kirby could say: "Yes, there is, but."

He seemed to come to his senses immediately and stopped talking. Jia Xu knew that Kobe was a scheming man and there might be some important connections involved, so he tactfully did not ask any further questions.

Kirby then said, "Sir, how do you think we can use Sun Quan to cause the greatest damage to the fierce tiger?"

"I heard that Sun Quan's mother is Lady Tiger. If I use Sun Quan as a threat, will it work?"

Jia Xu shook his head and said, "Xiong Hu looks kind and righteous, but he is actually very cruel. He will never put his own safety in jeopardy for Sun Quan."

"I've been thinking about it and I think that in order to lure the fierce tiger into the trap, I need an opportunity."

Kirby could ask, "What's the opportunity?"

Jia Xu said slowly: "Bait."

"Enough bait to lure the ferocious tiger into the trap."

Kirby could hear it and nodded, "I see, let me think about it."

"Sir, if you can help me achieve great things, I will reward you with a thousand miles of land!"

Jia Xu suppressed his excitement and leaned forward and said, "Xu just wants to achieve his own goal. Everything depends on the king's will."

After letting the guards send Jia Xu away, Kobe's face darkened. What Jia Xu said was half true and half false. Did he think he could deceive him?

He hinted that he was the bait, but who could guarantee that the person acting as bait would actually become the bait?

Kobe doesn't trust anyone, he only trusts himself, but for him at the moment, Jia Xu can still be used, so he just leaves him alone for the time being.

He then said to the guards, "Go quietly to Sun Shao and call him over."

After two days of secret private contact, Kobe met with Sun Shao and Yan Jun separately besides Jia Xu, and even met with Sun Quan. After some probing, Kobe came to the conclusion that this group of people all had ulterior motives.

It would have been fine if Jia Xu had testified against Sun Quan, but the two ministers, Sun Shao and Yan Jun, actually thought that Sun Quan was unreliable. This made Kobe couldn't help but laugh out loud. It turned out that Jiangdong was just such a group of people. No wonder it was destroyed by the State of Jin in just a few years.

He didn't have the time to figure out whether what these people said was true or false. If necessary, he could use these people's heads to negotiate terms with the State of Jin and lure the other party into his trap.

Just when Kobe was thinking about how to use Sun Quan's group, the situation of the Xianbei tribe in the south worsened again. Many tribe leaders came to Kobe to cry and asked Kobe to come up with a solution.

Kobe was also filled with righteous indignation at the Jin army's inhumane act of genocide. The Han people were really too despicable and shameless. Is this still the Central Plains civilization that educates and claims to be orthodox?

So he sent envoys to protest to the State of Jin and request negotiations on the matter.

The Jin State responded quickly, saying that they would negotiate, but only if the heads of Sun Quan and others who had defected were handed over first.

Now Kobe is a little confused. Does the other party really want Sun Quan to die?
As for Yuan Xi, he was sitting in the study in Jicheng, looking at the Xianbei movements in detail in the battle report.

Because of Zhuge Liang's ability, he can currently suppress the State of Wei, allowing Yuan Xi to free up his hands to deal with Ke Bineng.

Only Yuan Xi knew that the time window for Jin State was very urgent, because according to astronomical phenomena, the temperature would drop sharply in the next two winters, which would prompt the Xianbei to change their decision. If they chose to escape, it would be a hidden danger for the next few hundred years.

Therefore, Yuan Xi only had two winters to strangle the future of the Xianbei, and the most crucial thing was how to kill Kobinen.

(End of this chapter)