Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 36

Since Xun Chen entered Beixin City, he began to pay attention to the scene in the city.

He only needs to look around to see how a city is managed.

Speaking of Yuan Xi, Xun Chen remembered that when he joined Yuan Shao, his reputation was not obvious, on the contrary, it is said that his character was a little cowardly.

Three years ago, it was said that Yuan Xi and Yuan Shao had a big disagreement over certain matters. Yuan Xi contradicted Yuan Shao on a rare occasion, which made Yuan Shao very unhappy.

Later, I don't know whether it was out of anger or to prove himself, Yuan Xi actually proposed to take troops to the front line of Youzhou to fight against Gongsun Zan!
This is not a joke. You must know that although Gongsun Zan was defeated in the Battle of Jieqiao, he still retained most of his strength, and he was still the overlord of the Northland.

To deal with Gongsun Zan and his subordinate Baima Yicong, even a famous general would suffer hatred if he was a little careless, let alone a family member who had never led a soldier?
However, to everyone's surprise, Yuan Shao finally agreed.

At the beginning, the officials who supported Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang were very surprised when they heard the news, and wondered whether Yuan Shao meant to support his second son Yuan Xi?
However, when the appointment was made, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

Yuan Xi gave Beixin City City Guard, a vacant position similar to that of a county captain, with a salary of only two hundred shi.

In addition, thirty cavalry troops and three hundred infantry troops were allocated to defend the city.

When Yuan Shao's subordinates heard the news, they doubted whether this Yuan Xi was his own.

Otherwise, didn't you really want to kill Yuan Xi by giving him some troops?
When Xun Chen heard about it, he just smiled. As Yuan Shao's chief adviser, he knew Yuan Shao's character quite well.

Yuan Shao's personality is different from that of ordinary people. In the critical moment of adversity, he can often act resolutely and decisively, but when it comes to ordinary trivial matters, he seems a bit indecisive.

In the case of Yuan Xi, it was like this.

Yuan Shao actually doted on his sons quite a bit, but he wanted to save face, so Xun Chen could tell at a glance that Yuan Shao didn't really want to let Yuan Xi defend the city.

After all, facing Gongsun Zan's army was too dangerous.

In the battle of Jieqiao, even Yuan Shao himself was almost killed by a scattered cavalry of Gongsun Zan's army.

According to Xun Chen's thinking, Yuan Shao wanted Yuan Xi to retreat and stay in Yecheng obediently.

Later, it turned out that Xun Chen guessed right. Yuan Shao drank too much once and had a private conversation with Xun Chen. In his words, he also revealed that he really thought so at the beginning.

But to Yuan Shao's surprise, Yuan Xi, who was a young man, agreed very straightforwardly, and set out on the road with Yinshou the next day!
Yuan Shaola didn't hesitate to stop him, and watched Yuan Xi leave Yecheng like this, and it took three years since he left.

Later, when Xun Chen and Yuan Shao faced each other several times in private, Yuan Shao also felt regretful about this matter. After all, Yuan Shao only had such a few sons, and if something went wrong, it would be Yuan's loss.

Xun Chen kept silent about this, just listened, and never expressed a single word of opinion.

Because he later learned that Yuan Shao and Yuan Xi's father and son fell out because of their attitude towards Cao Cao.

At that time, Cao Cao was Yuan Shao's partial general, and he contributed a lot, and because of his defeat in Dongjun by Du, Bai Rao, Suigu, Yu Fuluo, etc., Yuan Shaobiao was appointed as the governor of Dongjun. It can be said that Yuan and Cao were at this time The relationship is very good.

But it was also at this time that Xun Yu left Yuan Shao and defected to Cao Cao.

Xun Yu didn't have much communication with Xun Chen about this matter beforehand, which put Xun Chen in a rather embarrassing situation.

Fortunately, Yuan Shao didn't pursue Xun Chen's matter. After all, Yuan Shao was just a nominal prefect of Bohai Sea, but he didn't have his own territory, and urgently needed a place to raise troops.

But Xun Chen only opened his mouth, and persuaded Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, to hand over Jizhou, so that Yuan Shao came to Jizhou, a wealthy place, without a single soldier, and thus made great contributions and became Yuan Shao's leader.

After Jizhou was acquired, its gentry and counselors joined in one after another, and four courts and eight schemes gathered under Yuan Shao's command. For a while, Yuan Shao was in the limelight.

But these advisers and generals under Yuan Shao were not monolithic, and they began to stand in line and form cliques with various thoughts.

Different from ordinary gentry, these counselors from rich clans have high self-esteem and big appetites, and the big clans they originally belonged to were big landlords in various states, and their power was quite huge.

Their goal will not be limited to one city, one county and one place at all, but the governor, the governor, the three princes and nine ministers!
Therefore, Yuan Shao had to offer a very high price in order to make them loyal. Fortunately, at that time, many advisers were optimistic about Yuan Shao, thinking that he had the appearance of the world's hegemony, so there were no major problems for the time being.

However, with Yuan Shao's current territory, these rich scholars cannot be satisfied.

Xun Chen guessed that Xun Yu had also defected to Cao Cao when he saw that Yuan Shao had too many capable men and it was difficult for him to have a bright future.

At that time, Cao Cao was relatively miserable, because most of the nobles had defected to Yuan Shao, so he could only vigorously appoint Han scholars and civilians.

But this also has an advantage. These people come from humble backgrounds and have little appetite. A small official position of a hundred stones can make them loyal to death. In terms of cost performance, Yuan Shao's group of people is much higher.

After Xun Yu fled to the past, he was immediately treated as a guest of honor by Cao Cao. It can be said that he would rather be a chicken mouth than a cow queen.

Xun Chen knew Yuan Shao's character very well, he hated those who betrayed him extremely, and he would kill them quickly.

Therefore, after Xun Yu defected to Cao Cao, Xun Chen began to be cautious in his words and deeds, deliberately keeping a low profile, so as not to be angered by Yuan Shao.

So in the past few years, Xun Chen's original limelight has been overwhelmed by Tian Feng Jushou and others.

Xun Chen spent three years in a low-key way.

Until the news came from Beixin City again, Yuan Xi actually made several major events!

One is to kill Liu Bao, the son of Nandan Yu Yufuluo, and the other is to defeat hundreds of Baima Yicong.

Yuan Shao asked a few counselors to analyze this, and after talking about it in the end, everyone found it extremely inconceivable.

If it's fake, it's in trouble.

If true, that's more trouble.

At that time, due to the chaos in Yecheng last year, Yuan Shao purged the interior and attacked Zhang Yan, the Black Mountain Army, and finally stabilized the situation in Bingzhou. The next step was to attack Gongsun Zan's ally Tian Kai from Qingzhou.

But there is a problem in the nearby Youzhou, and it is difficult to send troops if we don't investigate it clearly.

Regardless of whether Yuan Xi lied about the military situation or was suspected of colluding with Gongsun Zan, there must always be an explanation. Yuan Shao finally decided to send Yuan Tan and Xun Chen Gaolan to lead troops to Beixincheng to investigate the matter on the grounds of guarding against the Southern Huns and Gongsun Zan's army. thing.

This appointment is very intriguing. Xun Chen belongs to the middle school and has not indicated who he supports so far, but Gao Lan is privately partial to Yuan Shang!
When the three of them got together, no one could guess what Yuan Shao's plan was.

So right now Xun Chen can only focus on Beixin City, trying to find out the authenticity of the matter first, so that he can have an explanation when he goes back.

He didn't expect at this moment that while he was observing the streets of Beixincheng, Yuan Xi was also secretly observing him.

Yuan Xi was talking to Yuan Tan casually, while thinking about Xun Chen.

Xun Chen, who persuaded Han Fu to teach out of Jizhou in 191 AD, until he served as the mastermind in the Battle of Guandu in 200 AD, has not done anything.

After the Battle of Guandu, Xun Chen disappeared directly, and there is no record in the history books.

What happened to this person?
(End of this chapter)