Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 716 Letter from afar
Guo Jia listened to Yuan Xi's question and said with a smile: "Although it is a solution, Mr. Jia feels that the young master is urgently ill and has sought medical treatment."

"Master, first tell me, what conditions can you offer to Yuan Shu?"

Seeing that Yuan Xi was speechless for a moment, Guo Jia said proudly: "Really?"

"Young Master can't offer conditions that satisfy Yuan Shu at all."

Yuan Xi was a little reluctant, "Can Cao Cao be able to drive it?"

"I'm afraid that the conditions he issued to Yuan Shu are all empty promises." After saying this, Yuan Xi realized that Guo Jia didn't understand this word, so he changed his words, "They are all empty words and cannot be realized. Why did Yuan Shu Are you willing to work for Cao Cao?"

Guo Jia said leisurely: "Because Yuan Shu dare not face reality."

"From the time he was born to when he started, he has always had the best cards. Now that his good cards have been ruined, I'm afraid he has gone crazy a long time ago, right?"

"So now he can only place his hope on those false dreams and not want to wake up."

Yuan Xi said: "But this dream cannot last forever. When he wakes up, he will definitely see the cruel reality. How will he treat Cao Cao who deceived him?"

Guo Jia smiled, "By that time, I'm afraid Cao Cao has defeated all the powerful enemies, and the situation has been won."

"What did Yuan Shu use to fight Cao Cao at that time?"

"Even now, he can't beat Cao Cao, right?"

"Rather than saying that Yuan Shu was deceived by Cao Cao, it's not that Yuan Shu is deceiving himself. And now even if Cao Cao offers unrealistic conditions, Yuan Shu is willing to be deceived."

"As for whether Cao Cao's promise can be fulfilled or whether he wants to break it, it actually doesn't matter in this chaotic world where he is fighting for the world. The only important thing is that if he wins, no one will ask him for debt."

Yuan Xi was silent, he knew what Guo Jia said was right. From the perspective of later generations, many of Cao Cao's victories were actually based on breaking promises.

Join forces with Yuan Shao, and then attack Black Mountain to trigger the Battle of Guandu; join forces with Yuan Tan, suddenly attack and start a war, killing Yuan Tan; negotiate a truce with Wuhuan, and then take a small road to Bailang Mountain to raid Shanyu's camp; other things such as promising Guan Yu Du But the wife kept it for herself, not to mention the right to cut hair and use it on behalf of the head.

The various things mentioned above highlight one renegade, but it brought them victory after victory, just like Sun Quan's sneak attack on Jingzhou, which only proves that in this troubled world, promises are not very important.

Yuan Xi knew that Guo Jia was tactfully reminding him not to stick to some meaningless promises that would affect his success or failure on the battlefield. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Sometimes, it's really hard to make a choice.

However, since Cao Cao uses this method, Yuan Xi is not a rigid person. It does not violate his conscience to use corresponding means to counterattack enemies who do not keep their promises or violate moral principles.

He sighed: "I understand what you think, sir."

"But if you want to fool Yuan Shu, you must at least provide conditions that seem feasible."

Guo Jia shook the wine bottle in his hand, "Actually, Young Master should be able to figure it out."

"The most important thing to Yuan Shu"

"Emperor's name!" Yuan Xi blurted out.

"That's right," Guo Jia said aloud: "When Yuan Shu was frustrated in his attack on Nanyang and was desperate, he thought about giving the imperial title to Benchu ​​Gong."

"No matter what Duke Benchu ​​thought at the time, Yuan Shu was indeed ready to go north from Sili and enter Black Mountain."

"I guess that at that time he wanted to enter Jizhou and submit to Lord Benchu, but the Lord's capture of Shouchun was too fast, leaving Yuan Shu at a loss for what to do, and finally he surrendered to Cao Cao in desperation."

"There is no need for Yuan Shu to completely surrender to the young master at the moment, and the young master will not want to associate with him in the future. At the very least, we only need to temporarily deceive him from Sili's route south to Nanyang."

"Of course, what we do after he is deceived is another matter."

"Anyway, if you are loyal to your enemies, you will have trouble with yourself, right?"

Yuan Xi thought about it. Even so, what kind of conditions could deceive Yuan Shu?

Shouchun?

No, not to mention whether Yuan Shu dares to go back or not, Shouchun is very important to Yuan Xi. Only by controlling Shouchun can he control the Huaihe River and ensure the safety of Xuzhou downstream, so he cannot give up under any circumstances.

In this way, what can be promised to Yuan Shu is probably only two weeks to the west, to drive away the tiger and swallow the wolf?
No, the essence of driving away tigers and devouring wolves is that tigers can eat wolves, but in front of Ma Teng and Han Sui, Yuan Shu cannot be called a tiger. If the two sides were exchanged, it would be almost the same.

Unless, Ma Teng and Han Sui's strength is damaged?

Yuan Xi expressed his thoughts. Guo Jia listened and nodded: "Young master's idea is really beyond my expectation. It is so unique."

"I want to start with the weak link, but instead attack the strong one, and beat the strong into the weak, thus creating artificial rifts."

"But only this kind of unbelievable idea can prevent the other party from being alert."

"But there are at least two difficulties in implementing this idea."

"The first is to prevent Ma Teng and Han Sui's troops from causing chaos, and the second is to prevent Zhong Yao and Ding Chong from Huaicheng from intervening."

"If these two conditions can be met, we can finally expect Yuan Shu to rebel." Yuan Xi also has a headache, but now he wants to enter Nanyang without revealing his intentions, so he can only let his main force not intervene. , causing chaos among Sili and other parties, so he could only take a gamble.

He said aloud: "I am going to write a letter to Yang Feng and ask him to take action."

Guo Jia said leisurely and contentedly: "Since the young master has already made up his mind, I will just watch the fun this time."

Yuan Xi laughed when he heard this and said: "That won't work. This plan is a chain plan. There is a very important letter in the middle. You still need to write it down."

Guo Jia didn't know why. When Yuan Xi finished speaking, he couldn't help but be a little stunned, "How did Mr. Nan come up with such a bad idea?"

"I originally thought that I had some merits in scheming people's minds, but I didn't expect that Young Master would see this way so thoroughly!"

Yuan Xi thought to himself that this is not me, I am just picking on others' wisdom.

A few days later, Yuan Xi sent spies from the South Pass of Heishan Mountain and rushed from Hedong to Hongnong. After two horses died from exhaustion, they finally sneaked into Hongnong County and entered Hongnong City, where it was governed.

This is also the place where the Yang family of Hongnong lives. The Yang family is the largest wealthy family in Hongnong. The spy made some inquiries and based on what Yang Feng said before leaving, he found the mansion of the branch of the Yang family where he was staying and tried to find a way. Found Yang Feng.

Yang Feng took the letter handed over by the spy, waited for him to leave, and returned to the house to open it. After she understood the content of the letter and what Yuan Xi wanted her to do, she almost cursed.

He had a good plan for letting himself do such a troublesome thing!
However, the insidiousness of the scheme made Yang Feng wonder, Yuan Xi was indeed a bad person.

But it is quite difficult to meet Yuan Xi's requirements. Thinking of this, Yang Feng scolded Yuan Xi's ancestors for eight generations.

She walked to the brazier, threw Yuan Xi's letter into it, and watched as the silk burst into flames and then turned into a pile of broken black ashes.

She held another tightly sealed letter and stuffed it into her arms. Just as she was about to turn around and leave the house to summon her men on Taiping Road, there was the sound of footsteps at the door.

Yang Feng turned around and saw Mrs. Yang walking in with her nose covered and said, "What is sister burning? It smells so strong."

Yang's waist is extremely slender, but the curvature of the waist is extremely swollen upwards. Yang Feng saw it and felt a little jealous for no reason. She smiled and said: "It's nothing, I'm going out."

"What's urgent for you?"

After hearing this, Ms. Yang sighed: "What a coincidence. I still want to talk to my sister."

"In half a month or so, it will be my wedding day."

"I heard that in a few days, the Ma family master will come to marry me and take me to Liangzhou."

Having said this, Yang's face showed a hint of disappointment, "I'm afraid it will be difficult to see my sister in the future."

"If sister is free, can she come to Liangzhou to visit me in the future?"

Yang Feng smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to have the opportunity to go to Liangzhou in the future."

After hearing this, Yang's face became even more disappointed, and she forced a smile and said, "Really?"

"Then sister, please stay with me more these days."

Yang Feng's heart suddenly moved, "Do you believe me, sister?"

Seeing Yang Feng's serious expression, Mrs. Yang covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Sister, what's wrong? You're so serious about this."

"Sister has always been the best to me. Of course I trust her."

Yang Feng remembered an incredible sentence in Yuan Xi's letter.

In the letter, Yuan Xi said that he had consulted an expert in stargazing about the marriage between the Ma family and the Yang family. If the Yang family married Ma Chao, she would definitely die within a few years.

Yang Feng actually didn't believe it, but she had to admit that in the past few years, rumors about Yuan Xi having an expert in stargazing around him had been circulating widely, and they were also widely circulated in Taiping Dao.

This originated from the rumors secretly spread by spies placed in the Black Mountain Army when Yuan Xi was in Youzhou.

The so-called rumors are rumors that seem more absurd and outrageous, but are easier for people to accept.

However, the transmission of this kind of information among the crowd is inherently distorted and adaptive. As the rumor spreads widely, the people who spread it, from those with purpose to those who are unaware, will spontaneously polish and process it and give it to others. Cast a layer of convincing color.

So when Yang Feng heard this rumor, it had already been processed and deformed dozens or hundreds of times. It was a mixture of Yuan Xi's life experience, words and prophecies, and what he had been doing for several years, it became a story that had many links in every aspect. A self-consistent system.

Even Yang Feng, faced with such mixed and confusing information, it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false. What's more, Taiping Road originally pays attention to the so-called destiny, and its responsibility is to find the person chosen by God, so Yang Feng would not reject such rumors.

What Yang Feng has to do is to watch until the end to see who is the one chosen by God.

She previously thought it was Cao Cao, and she had no doubts about it, but after walking around Yanzhou, her outlook was greatly shocked, so in a collapsed state of mind, she turned to Yuan Xi.

She retracted her thoughts and said seriously to Yang: "I want to save you."

(End of this chapter)