Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 402
Yuan Xi took the letter and walked around the room. He wanted to meet Guo Jiajushou very much now, because Liu Xie's appointment was full of extremely complicated thoughts, which was really not something he could do at his age.

Yuan Xi thought that Liu Xie had finally grown up after all these things, and began to try to jump out of the chessboard, from a chess piece to a chess player. Although there must be others who made suggestions, it has already shown that there is a lot of power in it.

Generally speaking, this appointment is good and bad for Yuan Xi, and the advantages may outweigh the disadvantages, but it puts Yuan Xi in a very awkward position.

From Yuan Xi's point of view, Lu Bu's appointment was extremely dangerous, and it could be said that a slight carelessness would cause serious problems.

For Cao Cao's appointment, Yuan Xi smelled a bad omen.

He could see that in this tripartite wrestling, Cao Cao overwhelmed himself and Lu Buhe to get the biggest piece of cake.

Although this was within Yuan Xi's expectations, he still felt a sense of frustration, knowing that the power Cao Cao planted around Liu Xie had become a climate, and he could not shake it in a short time.

However, in this matter, the only thing that satisfied Yuan Xi was the appointment of Zhao Yun, which was almost better than what he had expected.

But this result is also beyond the expectations of most people.

It is clearly written in the edict that Zhao Yunzhen beheaded Li Jue, Li Xian, and Hu Feng, and made his first contribution to this battle.

Zhao Yun was granted the title of General Conquering the North, Marquis of Guangyang, with thousands of households in Shiyi, and leader of Youzhou Shepherd!

General Zhengbei and Youzhou Mu were originally the official positions of Li Le of the Baibo Army, but he somehow left the Tianzi convoy and returned Yinshou at the same time.

Therefore, Li Le's official position was replaced by Zhao Yun. In all fairness, this appointment is still a bit low for Zhao Yun's credit, after all, Li Le was only helping him at the beginning.

Therefore, on the basis of the official appointment, Liu Xie added the title of Marquis, and the Marquis of Guangyang is the Marquis of the Township, and he has food!
This means that Zhao Yun has stepped into the ranks of the upper-ranking gentry, and he is not low. After all, the highest feudal marquis is Liehou, and they are divided into three levels of counties, townships and pavilions. Zhao Yun became a township marquis all at once!
There are very few county lords with the highest rank, except for Lu Bu's Wenhou and Gongsun Zan's Jihou, there are very few in the world.

The title Yuan Xi inherited from Yuan Ji was only Tinghou, the lowest among all the princes, and he was not formally appointed by the court.

This highlights the magnificence of this appointment. As Yuan Xi's subordinate, Zhao Yun's rank is even higher than Yuan Xi's lord!

It is difficult for ordinary princes to deal with this situation, and they will definitely be suspicious and guard against their subordinates. At this time, the best choice is to drive away the subordinates and let them stand on their own, or simply empty the subordinates.

In this way, the subordinates will have a huge psychological gap, and they will almost certainly feel dissatisfied.

Not to mention that Zhao Yun was granted the title of Youzhou Shepherd. This edict directly implied that Yuan Xi's name as Inspector of Youzhou was not justified, and that the fiefdom of Guangyang was just west of Jicheng, so the city of food was naturally also in Guangyang. Yang, this is not considered poaching in person, but blatantly sowing dissension!

This award directly forced Zhao Yun to go to the opposite side of the Yuan family in Jizhou. You must know that although Yuan Xi is in charge of Youzhou, Yuan Shao is behind him. Once this appointment is made, even if Yuan Xi doesn't care, Yuan Shao will not sit still.

Jushou said in the letter that after Zhao Yun saw the appointment, he never received the imperial edict, and Jushou couldn't make up his mind, so he sent a letter to Yuan Xi.

Although this appointment seemed a bit childish, it had to be said that Liu Xie put an extremely difficult choice in front of Yuan Xi.

Yuan Xi wanted to laugh out loud.

He thinks Liu Xie is too cute, and Yuan Xi went to all the troubles to get Zhao Yun to lead the army to save him, just for such a day!
Zhao Yun is loyal, loyal, and has high martial arts. In Liu Xie's opinion, he is actually more promising than Lu Bu, so Liu Xie did not hesitate to use this kind of trick to turn Yuan Xi and Zhao Yun against each other, hoping that Zhao Yun would be suspected and transferred to the Han court.

However, this was exactly what Yuan Xi wanted, and the current situation was exactly what he expected most.

He can use this appointment to negotiate conditions with Yuan Shao!
Yuan Xi speculated that with such an appointment, Cao Cao might have tampered with it, but he probably didn't know Yuan Xi's real purpose, so it could be said that he had done Yuan Xi a great favor.

As for Dong Zhao, he must have guessed something, and maybe he also contributed to it. As for the purpose, it is hard to say.

Yuan Xi immediately wrote an urgent letter asking Zhao Yun to accept the appointment immediately.

The second result that satisfied him was that Liu Xie personally posthumously conferred the posthumous title on Qu Yi and granted him the title of marquis.

Although if Qu Yi was alive, he would probably have sneered at these vain names, but for Yuan Xi now, there were only these things that he could do for Qu Yi.

The title of emperor is still very useful. With this title, after Yuan Xi returns to Beixin City, he will be able to give Qu Yi a grand funeral.

Qu Yi is a lively person, so he shouldn't blame himself for being meddlesome, right?

On this point, Yuan Xi is still very grateful to Liu Xie. No matter what he says, Liu Xie is still very polite to those who are kind to him. It is a pity that he encountered troubled times, otherwise he would become a good monarch. ?
But in comparison, Liu Xie's award to Yuan Xi was a malicious temptation.

Yuan Xi is very sure that this must be the result of Cao Cao and his forces operating secretly.

Yuan Xi, the governor of Youzhou, made great achievements in sending people to rescue him. He was granted the title of General Zhengdong, attacked An Guoting Hou, and led Xuzhou Mu.

When Yuan Xi saw this appointment just now, he was shocked. This is putting himself on fire!
Originally, Xuzhou worked hard to achieve a balance of power between himself and Liu Bei, Yuan and Tan. Once this appointment came out, what did the other two think?
I'm afraid Xuzhou will fall into chaos again!

Yuan Xi hesitated, Xuzhou was a hot potato, and he couldn't control it on his own right now. This appointment was based on this point, and he was in a dilemma!

To accept or not to accept?
Yuan Xi thought about it, but after a long time, he still couldn't make a decision.

Xuzhou's fat meat is so delicious that anyone who gets the title will immediately become greedy.

He knew that this piece of fat would probably choke him to death, but the temptation was so great that Yuan Xi subconsciously urged him to accept it!
No!

He slapped his face hard and regained consciousness slightly.

If you accept the appointment directly, you will kill yourself. If you really want to get this title, you have to do some things!
Yuan Xi really wanted to transfer Guo Jia over for discussion, but at this moment he was still guarding Montenegro, so he suppressed his anxiety, copied a copy of Jushou's letter, ordered someone to send it to Guo Jia immediately, and asked him how to deal with it .

Yuan Xi thought to himself that he didn't want to meet Liu Xie at first, but now it seems that he has to have a good talk with Liu Xie.

If Guo Jia could not reply in time, Yuan Xi could only ask Jushou, but Jushou was good at military formations and political strategies, and he was not as good at dealing with people's hearts and ghosts as Guo Jia.

This edict is not handled properly, but it will cause a big mess!
Yuan Xi was in a hurry and hoped that Guo Jia would reply to the letter in time, otherwise when Liu Xie arrived in Huaicheng, he would be easily confused if he hadn't made up his mind yet.

That's right, Liu Xie is coming to Huaicheng.

He did not choose Xuchang, but chose Lu Bu's Huaicheng!
But Yuan Xi couldn't be happy at all.

Because in this edict, the reward for Cao Cao is very intriguing.

Cao Cao led Sili Xiaowei and Lu Shangshu.

Hanoi is in the territory of Sili, and Huaicheng is the administrative seat of Hanoi, which shows that Lu Bu's hometown is actually under the jurisdiction of Cao Cao!
Although Lv Bu's status is detached, Huaicheng is controlled by Lv Bu as a temporary new capital, but Cao Cao's identity allows him to blatantly station troops in any place in Sili, including any place outside Huaicheng!

What the hell is this?
Yuan Xi understands that Liu Xie wants Cao Cao and Lu Bu to check and balance each other, but isn't this tendency too obvious?
However, if I were Liu Xie, I am afraid that I would have doubts about the ability of Lu Bu, who has rebelled several times under his subordinates, especially when there may still be Yuan Shu's spies in Huaicheng, Liu Xie's appointment is also a clever move. chess.

Yuan Shu's intention to proclaim himself emperor is very obvious now, and his relationship with Liu Xie is irreparable, and he cannot be won at all.

So Liu Xie simply put down the idea of ​​reconciliation with Yuan Shu, and planned how to fight against the super powerful Yuan Shu.

Lv Bu alone may not be able to stop Yuan Shu's army, but Cao Cao can, and Cao Cao's garrison in the south of Huaicheng will undoubtedly protect the safety of Liu Xie.

Thinking of this, Yuan Xi couldn't help admiring Liu Xie. Although he didn't say that he did everything in every detail, he tried his best to take all factors into consideration.

But another piece of news revealed in Ju Shou's letter made Yuan Xi's face darken again.

Liu Xie wanted to mediate between Yuan Shao and the Black Mountain Army, and wanted to give the Black Mountain Army a new title.

From Liu Xie's point of view, this kind of thinking is very normal, even extremely correct, because the southern pass of Heishan is just a hundred miles to the north. If he can appease the Heishan army, it will be like adding an extra layer of barriers and protection to Huaicheng.

But this is unacceptable to Yuan Xi.

Because he wanted to kill Yang Feng.

What Liu Xie did was completely contrary to his own ideas.

Yuan Xi clenched his fists. Liu Xie wanted to mediate the relationship between the Black Mountain Army and the Yuan family. In fact, the Yuan family was not referring to himself, but Yuan Shao.

If the price offered by Liu Xie is high enough, Yuan Shao may not agree, but at present, Yuan Shao is afraid that he will be extremely angry because of the reward given to him by the Han court.

The Son of Heaven ordered Yuan Shao to be named Taiwei and appointed Marquis of Ye.

Although the Taiwei was respected, under Lu Bu's general, Yuan Shao was not very generous. How could he endure Lu Bu who came from a poor background and had once served as his subordinate, and turned against him?
Therefore, nine times out of ten, Yuan Shao would refuse.

In the later generations, it was Cao Cao who became the general himself, which caused Yuan Shao to be angry and unacceptable, but in this life, it was Lu Bu who bore the brunt and became the target of Yuan Shao.

Yuan Xi had a headache. Cao Cao pushed Lv Bu in front to block the arrows. Why do you feel that this form is worse than later generations?

But the top priority is to solve the problem of the Black Mountain Army. If the problem of the Black Mountain Passage is not resolved, Youzhou will always face threats.

If so, he would rather Yuan Shang wipe out the Heishan army. Heishan is better in Yuan's hands than in the hands of outsiders.

Thinking of this, Yuan Xi sighed, it seems that it is imperative to meet Liu Xie.

And I have to remind Lu Bu that this general is not so easy to be.

If virtue is not compatible, there will be a disaster of death!

(End of this chapter)