Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 707
When Li Shu entered, he saw Qiao Rui's coffin in the middle of the mourning hall. The young and old were kneeling in mourning clothes and mourning, and there were several sergeants standing outside the hall.

When Li Shu saw that his clothes did not look like those from Wancheng, but more like those of the Youzhou Army, he knew it. Although the Xindao Lord had left on the surface, he had actually left soldiers to protect him secretly. This was his thought. Not obvious yet?
He stepped forward to pay homage to the coffin, and Xiao Qiao knelt on the ground to return the favor. Li Shu stopped the two of them and said, "You two ladies do not need to be polite. Mr. Qiao is a heroic man. I have come to pay homage to him as he should."

He changed the subject, "I heard that Mr. Qiao's ancestral home is in Wancheng. When will he be buried? Has the cemetery been found? Is there an ancestral grave?"

Da Qiao said in a low voice: "The Qiao family has fallen. The ancestral graves were destroyed by the war, so we need to buy another cemetery. My father is newly deceased, and everything is in a panic. I and my sisters are all female, and it is not easy to show their faces, so we have not found it yet." have to."

After hearing this, Li Shu said: "If you don't give up, I will arrange this matter."

After hearing this, Xiao Qiao quickly knelt down and thanked her again, but Li Shu said, "You two don't need to be polite. I also have something to ask of you."

Da Qiao asked doubtfully: "Both concubines and sisters are weak women, what can I do to help you?"

Li Shu said: "I want to send someone to take you two to Shouchun after burying Mr. Qiao."

Xiao Qiao was stunned, what does this mean?
Li Shu spoke out: "I have a very important letter for Yuan Shijun. I need someone who is extremely trustworthy to bring it to Lu Boyan in Shouchun City."

"I've thought about it a lot, but I can rest assured that the two girls have a relationship with the envoy."

Xiao Qiao didn't know why, and whispered: "Although I and my sister can go, as a woman, how can I keep the integrity of my letters?"

Li Shu said: "I can send troops to escort."

Xiao Qiao was even more confused. You have your own soldiers. What do you want the two of us to do?

She whispered: "But I keep my filial piety."

Li Shu sighed, "Observing filial piety is the same everywhere."

"To tell you the truth, Wancheng may be going to war next."

"The city will be extremely dangerous by then. I thought I would send you two away as soon as possible so that I could be worthy of Mr. Qiao and the envoy."

"Otherwise, if you two fall, I won't be able to explain to the envoy."

Xiao Qiao hasn't realized it yet, just be worthy of your father. What does it mean to be right to Qi Shijun?
Da Qiao wanted to understand. She looked embarrassed, but she couldn't explain it to Li Shu, so she had to say: "Everything will be arranged by the master. I will wait seven days after my father is buried, and my sisters will go north to Shouchun."

After hearing this, Li Shu showed a hint of relief on his face, stood up and said, "In that case, I will go look for the cemetery first."

After Li Shu left, everyone dispersed. Xiao Qiao asked Da Qiao puzzledly: "What do you mean by Mr. Fu?"

Da Qiao hesitated for a moment and said softly: "The meaning behind Mr. Fu's words may be that we are regarded as Mr. Yuan's women."

"Ah?" Xiao Qiao was dumbfounded, "No way?"

Da Qiao sighed, "Sister, have you ever thought about what people outside will think of the young master living in Qiao Mansion for a month?"

"Who cares if Mrs. Lu really comes to recuperate?"

Xiao Qiao heard this and said angrily: "That bastard is really harmful to people!"

Xiao Qiao became even more depressed when he thought that he was still throwing himself on the other person. This was considered a skin-to-skin kiss, right?
Can you marry someone else in the future?

Da Qiao sighed: "Sending a letter may be an excuse, but the Lord just said that there will be a war in Anhui City, but it is very likely to be true."

"It's not like he's pretending to be worried. If there's nothing serious and he wants to please the envoy, he can wait until our mourning period is over instead of rushing us to leave."

"So I guess it's true that there is going to be a war in Wancheng!"

Xiao Qiao was puzzled, "A war? Who would fight here?"

Da Qiao said softly: "Of course there is only one possibility."

"Jiangdong."

After hearing Sun Quan's thoughts, Mrs. Wu, a disciple of Wu Commandery, raised her head in surprise, "Quan'er, do you want to use troops against Lujiang?"

"Is it still when your brother is newly deceased and Jiangdong is unstable?"

Sun Quan cupped his hands and said, "My good mother learned that it is precisely because Jiangdong is unstable that we want to attack Lujiang."

"Li Shu dares to take in people who have fled Jiangdong. Most of them are dissatisfied with my brother. Now that their true colors are exposed, it is a good opportunity to catch them all."

"Besides, the location of the Lujiang River is extremely important. If Ruxukou and Wankou are not taken, the enemy will come down the river at any time."

Mrs. Wu was surprised and said: "Enemies?"

"Where did the enemy come from?"

Sun Quan replied: "Of course it is the fierce tiger."

Mrs. Wu was even more sluggish, "Isn't Fierce Tiger an ally of Jiangdong?"

Sun Quan replied: "Mom, the fierce tiger has evil intentions. He has captured Shouchun and Hefei. If he plans to plot Jiangdong, will we have peace?" "Now that Li Shu is sheltering the traitor, it is very likely that the fierce tiger is testing our truth in Jiangdong." , if we don’t show a tough attitude, we will only allow him to take advantage of us!"

"So it's time to take advantage of the opportunity when the fierce tiger is busy in Youzhou to retake the Lujiang River and advance towards the Huaihe River. Only then can we, Jiangdong, survive this period in peace!"

Mrs. Wu was confused, "Isn't this too risky?" Brother Qi said before his death, "If you don't decide on domestic affairs, ask Zhang Zhao, if you don't decide on foreign affairs, ask Zhou Yu. If this matter of sending troops involves domestic and foreign affairs, should they be allowed to do so?" Are you two convening your subordinates to discuss the matter in a long term? "

Sun Quan smiled proudly, "I have already asked Zhou Yu and Zhang Zhao about attacking Wancheng, and they both agreed!"

Mrs. Wu was even more sluggish. When did Sun Quan do it?
She suddenly realized that she didn't know her son very well. He was growing up very fast, as if he had grown up overnight!

But this is not possible. Kong Quan became the county magistrate at the age of 14, which only shows that he had hidden his clumsiness before!

She knew that Sun Quan would kill first and then report later. She had obviously communicated with the officials and she had no room to intervene.

Thinking of this, she could only sigh: "Quan'er has already decided, so I won't say anything."

"The former Mr. Riyenhua came to me and said that since Ce'er has passed away, there is no need for him to stay in Jiangdong. But when he wanted to leave, it seemed that he was stopped by Quan'er's soldiers?"

After hearing this, Sun Quan smiled slightly and said, "Of course we can't let him go."

"He is a member of the Fierce Tigers. What if he returns to the north and leaks our plans to attack Wancheng?"

"Let him stay in Jiangdong for the time being."

Mrs. Wu was stunned. She had really thought about it just now and wanted Hua Tuo to go back and report the news, but judging from Sun Quan's reaction, it seemed that she had already thought of it!
With this level of sophistication, Sun Quan alone would definitely not be able to do it, and Zhou Yu must have had a lot of ideas!

But she still has no reason to object. Mrs. Wu now regrets that she is caught on both sides. She is not a human being inside and outside. If it were not for the purpose of meeting Sun Ce, it would be better not to return to Jiangdong. Now Sun Quan obviously wants to ignore him, right?

How old is he, how can he be more skillful than Ce'er?

Guo Jia asked him to return to Jiangdong to reconcile the relationship between Yuan Xi and the Sun family. Did he think too highly of himself?

But now that the matter has come to this, Mrs. Wu has no choice but to say: "Since Quan'er knows what's going on, let's do it."

After hearing this, Sun Quan bowed deeply and said, "Please rest assured that I can take care of your health, so that you don't have to worry about Jiangdong. Please leave the affairs of Jiangdong to me."

After hearing this almost explicit statement, Mrs. Wu nodded blankly.

Sun Quan turned around and walked out. As he walked along the wide trail, his hesitant eyes gradually became firm.

Grandma, don’t blame me, I just want to do better than my brother.

Yuan Xi, who was in Jicheng, Youzhou, didn't know how to watch stars, so he didn't know that Sun Quan was planning to stab him in the back when Sun Ce just died.

Even if he knew, he would not be able to take action to deal with Jiangdong. After all, Lu Xun and Taishi Ci in Shouchun wanted to guard the Huaihe River and prevent Cao's army from crossing the Huaihe River line.

In other words, Yuan Xi almost gave up on the Yangtze River within this year and a half at least.

After all, he only has one goal in mind now.

How to destroy Cao Cao's plan to occupy Nanyang and plot Jingzhou.

Although he did not receive news of Cao Cao's attack on Jingzhou, judging from various trends, it was an excellent time now.

Because Cao Cao is now in a period of weak military strength, he urgently needs Zhang Xiu's troops to supplement his strength.

The reason why the Three Kingdoms in later generations only fought a war every three to five years, or even every seven or eight years, was not because the princes did not want to fight, but because they could not.

Planning a war involving more than 10 people requires a huge astronomical amount of food and supplies, and requires all the manpower and material resources in the territory. Even a wealthy place like Jizhou will take several years to recover.

Just like Yuan Shao mobilized 10 people, including agricultural labor, to participate in the Battle of Yijing, and finally completely defeated Gongsun Zan as he wished, but the consequences that followed were also extremely serious. There was a famine in Jizhou that year.

To maintain a standing force of tens of thousands of people in a state, the cost of food and salary for the soldiers and horses for a month is hundreds of thousands of Dan. This cost is really huge, so after the war, the soldiers must be turned into farming for the common people for several years. Only then can we once again accumulate the food and grass needed for the next war.

This was also the case in later history. Yuan Shao was attacked by Cao Cao in the Battle of Yijing. However, after defeating Gongsun Zan, he did not fall out with Cao Cao immediately. Instead, he wanted to recover for a year and a half before attacking Cao Cao.

This move was not decided by him alone, but was the consensus of Jizhou's counselors, because only those who participated in it knew how difficult it was to mobilize troops and collect food again just after the war ended.

The Battle of Guandu began when Cao Cao occupied Sili and directly opened a passage to bypass the Yellow River and march eastward to Wei County. Yuan Shao was forced to start the war because he could not delay.

So if you look carefully at this period of history, you will find that it is Cao Cao who wants to start the war immediately and achieve a quick victory, but it is Yuan Shao's side who wants to delay time and recover his strength.

Therefore, at the beginning of the war, later generations of talents such as Ju Shou proposed the strategy of sending cavalry to harass the rear of Cao's army, slowly draining the opponent's vitality, and engaging in defensive warfare.

Of course Jushou and others were not stupid. They had truly seen the fatal weakness of Yuan Shaojun's logistical unsustainability.

Some people would say that Cao Cao was also short of food and grass during the Battle of Guandu, but they ignored another problem, that is, Yuan Shao was actually trying to make a fool of himself.

Store all the food in the black nest. Once the black nest is destroyed and the food and grass are burned, the entire army will collapse immediately. It doesn't look like there is enough food and grass, right?
(End of this chapter)