Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 160 Heroes End
When Guo Jia mentioned the name Lu Bu, Yuan Xi's head grew three points.

He cheated and fooled, and used the vest to barely use Lu Bu to change the situation. Even if he wanted to use Lu Bu to occupy Hejian County, he had no intention of cooperating openly and honestly with Lu Bu.

One is that Lu Bu is capricious, he doesn't want to be stabbed in the back, and the other is Lu Bu's temper, it is probably difficult to accept being deceived.

It was hard for Yuan Xi to imagine whether Lu Bu would tear himself apart after his identity was exposed.

Guo Jia didn't know about Yuan Xiyin's tiger vest, and wondered, "What happened to Lu Bu?"

"There are more abnormal people than Lu Bu, what are you afraid of?"

Yuan Xi smiled wryly, "But Lu Bu, I can't figure it out."

Guo Jia sneered, "It's easy to figure out what Bingliang warriors think."

"They were looked down upon by the gentry, so they wanted to fight over the gentry."

"The one who can do this, of course, is to rely on the Son of Heaven."

"Bingliang warriors, even if they are as crazy as Dong Zhuo, they will not betray Emperor Han."

Yuan Xi said, "Didn't Dong Zhuo abolish the emperor?"

Guo Jia sneered and said, "Dong Zhuo was just being used by others. He looked reckless, but he was actually very scheming, but in the end he still didn't jump out of that circle."

"He is willing to be used by others, but he doesn't understand that when he is so crazy that he doesn't leave himself a way out, he is doomed to a bad end."

"In Luoyang at that time, standing on the side of the weak Han Dynasty would never end well. That's how Wang Yun died."

"Lü Bu was very smart, he took the opportunity to escape and saved his life."

Yuan Xi pondered, so Guo Jia also had this idea?

What Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu faced was the entire class of gentry, eunuchs, eunuchs, and warriors who wanted to control the emperor. The more they devoted themselves to the Han Emperor, the more isolated they became in the end, and then they were abandoned.

Guo Jia took the jug, raised his head and took a big sip of wine, just about to open his mouth to speak, he coughed, and the wine sprayed out again, spilling all over his clothes.

Guo Jia's concubine rushed up and beat her on the back. After a while, Guo Jia calmed down and waved her back.

Yuan Xi frowned and said, "What's wrong with your body?"

Guo Jia waved his hand nonchalantly, "Last night I played for most of the night and drank some cold wine. Maybe I caught cold, so it's okay."

Yuan Xi said: "How can you be so spared?"

"If you do this again, the daily wine will be gone, and I will take you, concubine Ji, with me."

"How dare you!" Guo Jia jumped three feet high: "It's fine to take concubine Ji away, and you want to keep my wine?"

"Believe it or not I slammed my head against the door?"

"All right, all right," Yuan Xi said helplessly, "I've convinced you, so take it easy."

He didn't understand Guo Jia at all, what's so good about drinking wine, he felt dizzy after drinking it, and his stomach turned upside down.

After Yuan Xi went back, he thought about it for several days, but he couldn't figure out how to use Lu Bu to fight the black bandits. He asked Guo Jia again, and found that he was vague. Instead of God, it is impossible for him to solve all problems for himself.

Moreover, Guo Jia is also a clever woman who can't cook without rice. Although Yuan Xi's starting point is not low, but he is only a county guard at present, and he is incomparable with other princes. How can he wrestle with Lu Bu?
Although Lu Bu was down and out, he was the highest rank of county marquis in terms of his status. Looking at the world now, except for a few people, he had already stood at the top, and he had beaten most of the gentry in terms of status alone.

At that time, the highest title in the Han Dynasty was Liehou, which was divided into three ranks in counties, townships and pavilions, which were successively reduced. Liu Bei and Guan Yu in later generations were all Tinghous, but when Guan Yu had been called himself for the rest of his life, he added Hanshou Tinghou to his name, which shows that it is very value.

While Yuan Xi was arguing with Guo Jia, an uninvited visitor came to Youzhou. He found Zhao Yun, left a letter and a carriage, said it was a gift from Yanzhou, and left.

Zhao Yun pulled the carriage to look around, shook his head helplessly, and came to see Yuan Xi.

Yuan Xi came to the front of the car and saw that there were actually two beautiful concubines inside. He asked aloud, and the two women said that they were born in poverty and were bought by Cao Cao and sent here.

Yuan Xi opened the letter again and saw that it was the letter that Cao Cao handed over to him.

He knew that he had done a lot of things to drag Cao Cao's back in the open and secret in Yecheng, and Cao Cao must have known the inside story, but now Cao Cao condescended to befriend him, a bastard.

Yuan Xi felt a sense of urgency in his heart. Cao Cao obviously wanted to stabilize himself. He was afraid that the whole world would not be peaceful in the next six months!
As the days passed, it was time for part of the spring wheat harvest.

Compared with winter wheat, which takes more than 200 days to mature, spring wheat takes only about [-] days from sowing to harvesting, and is generally planted north of the Great Wall.

Although the yield and taste of spring wheat are generally inferior, the time saved is very valuable during times of war.

When Yuan Xi urged the three cities to harvest wheat, news came one after another.

Because Chang'an is far away, it took some time for the news to spread, but when it reached Youzhou, it still shocked many people.

Li Jue and Guo Si attacked and killed each other, one side detained Han Emperor Liu Xie, and the other detained civil and military officials. The order of the Han court almost collapsed, let alone order the world.

Today's Hanting has almost existed in name only.

Among the detained civil and military officials, there was Taiwei Zhu Jun, who had a strong personality and died of illness.

After several months, Huangfusong died of illness for some unknown reason.

In addition to Lu Zhi who died of illness before, the lives of the three heroes of the late Han Dynasty came to a close so quietly.

Different from their vigorous deeds during their lifetime, which were so magnificent that they could leave a rich and colorful history in the history of the end of Han Dynasty, when the three died, they were like ripples in the water, swallowed mercilessly by the turbulent waves of the world without causing any waves.

After Qu Yi learned of Huangfusong's death, he got very drunk. Yuan Xi went to check and found out that Huangfusong was Qu Yi's fellow villager and leader.

Yuan Xi knew that the deaths of Zhu Jun and Huangfusong were very strange, but it was impossible to investigate any further.

After Li Jue and Guo Si fought for more than 100 days, the people died and fled to Jingzhou and Yizhou to seek refuge. There were almost no people in Guanzhong. It is said that there were only a few thousand households left in Chang'an.

At this time, Zhang Ji returned from Hongnong to persuade peace. Finally, several parties reached an agreement. Li Jue was still stationed in Chang'an.

So in July of the second year of Xingping, Liu Xie set foot on the road back to his hometown after staying in Chang'an for six years.

When Youzhou got the news, many people including Zhao Yun felt that the situation seemed to be going in a good direction. If they could return to Luoyang, the Han court would be able to rule the world again.

Only Yuan Xi knew that Liu Xie's long and arduous journey home had just begun.

The distance from Chang'an to Luoyang is about [-] miles. If Yuan Xi rode lightly, the slowest time would be ten days and a half months.

However, Xiandi has to go for more than a year.

On the way, he will suffer six major catastrophes, and finally, relying on his judgment and mediation ability, he will break through one by one.

Yuan Xi thought to himself that if he changed himself, he might not be able to do better than Liu Xie, and at this time Liu Xie was only 14 years old.

He stood at the top of the city and looked to the west as the setting sun was about to set. Liu Xie, who was thousands of miles away, should be being chased by the pursuers under the same setting sun, desperately trying to survive.

Yuan Xi stretched himself, and he had to hurry up, this is a world of great competition, opportunities and dangers coexist, it depends on whether he can get ahead.

At present, Zhuojun is still relatively peaceful, and the killing of Liu Bao does not seem to be a big deal for the Southern Huns, and as Yuan Shao's son, the Southern Huns have to consider the pros and cons.

Since that attack, the Black Mountain Army has never sent anyone.

Yuan Xi speculated that although the Black Mountain Army had tens of thousands of people, more than half of them should be women, children, and children. They also wanted to farm while hiding in the Taihang Mountains. This period of time coincided with the autumn harvest, so they might not be able to spare their hands.

On Yuan Xi's side, the spring wheat is harvested in June and July, two months earlier than the autumn harvest. This is a window of opportunity specially set aside by Yuan Xi, so that he can prepare his army two months earlier than others.

But what puzzled Yuan Xi was why there was no news of Yecheng attacking Yi Jing so far. Could it be a side issue?

He felt a little uneasy, and after discussing with Guo Jia, he sent a letter to Yecheng.

Yuan Xi's premonition was correct. Yecheng had been arguing about attacking Yi Jing for several months, and every time they were about to reach a consensus, they were interrupted by sudden accidents.

Either when Yecheng was recruiting troops, there was news that Cao Cao coveted Xuzhou and wanted to attack Liu Bei.

Or it is rumored that Cao Cao has joined forces with Yuan Shu to fight the Yellow River at any time.

There are even rumors that Lu Bu has recruited troops from the Hejian Army and is preparing to attack Jizhou.

I don't know where these rumors came from, it seemed that they appeared from Yecheng overnight, and spread to Yecheng within a few days, causing panic among the people.

A group of counselors were also arguing about this. Is there someone who alienated them, or did Cao Cao really have the idea of ​​​​deviating from the Yuan family?

What surprised everyone even more was that the rapid rise of such rumors reminded them of the lessons learned from the Yellow Turban Army's uprising and spreading rumors.

In Ye City, how many people with different hearts are there?

In this case, what if the soldiers of Jizhou are exhausted and Yecheng is empty, and people really take advantage of it?
No one is sure whether the chaos in Yecheng will happen again!

Now seeing a group of counselors arguing endlessly, Yuan Shao stopped them and said to Yuan Shang: "Xianfu, what do you think?"

As soon as these words came out, the counselors of Yuan Tan's faction sighed one after another. Now Yuan Shao paid far more attention to Yuan Shang than Yuan Tan!
Yuan Shang respectfully said: "I think it is not suitable to attack Yi Jing now."

"After previous calculations, the attack on Yi Jing will require [-] soldiers and at least tens of thousands of cavalry."

"This requires all efforts to collect food and grass in Jizhou and Qingzhou, plus luggage and other supplies. If Yijing cannot be captured within three months, Jizhou's grain reserves for the past three years will be exhausted."

"Leaving aside the fact that Cao Cao's movements in the south are unknown, the elder brother's forced conscripts in Qingzhou have caused several civil uprisings. If there is another conscription to collect food, I'm afraid there will be chaos in Qingzhou."

Yuan Tan's counselors thought that Yuan Shang would not let go of this opportunity. The key point is that Yuan Tan is good at fighting, and internal affairs are not his specialty. It is his own fault to leave an excuse for this.

Yuan Shao was noncommittal, and held up a scroll of silk script, "This is a letter from Xianyi, and it is somewhat different from Xianfu's opinion, you can listen to it."

(End of this chapter)