Now Liu Bei has a useful value in Yuan Shao's heart, if it weren't for Liu Bei's identity as an imperial uncle recognized by the emperor, Yuan Shao would not be too lazy to take in this lost dog. Now Liu Bei has not been forgotten, and after a long time, no one will remember this imperial uncle and the jade belt edict, and it will be a little disadvantageous for him to send troops to fight Cao Cao again.

So he put aside the topic, Yuan Shaobaba ran to Liu Bei to ask for countermeasures, when he said to Liu Bei: "My virtuous brother, I know your difficulties, so I am ready to send troops to seek justice for you, but my subordinate adviser Xu Yu persuaded me to stick to it, and the other advisers also echoed it, I really have no choice." ”

This Yuan Shao can also do it, and he sold his subordinates in a blink of an eye.

When Liu Bei heard this, of course, he hated this Xu Yu in his heart, and secretly said in his heart, those who hurt me will be eliminated sooner or later.

Thinking so in his heart, he said to Yuan Shao: "Big brother and gentlemen have misunderstood me, and my request to send troops this time is definitely not for myself." My wife, children and brothers have not been separated once or twice, and they are used to being scattered, which is called gathering if there is fate, and scattering if there is no fate, this is the will of God, I am a person who believes in fate very much. ”

But in the blink of an eye, he said with a righteous and awe-inspiring face: "Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, so that he could quickly expand his strength and occupy the moral high ground, if it is allowed to develop like this, will the heroes of the world still have a place?" At this time, the emperor gave you a jade belt edict, which is to transfer the righteousness into your hands again. In this name, we can once again call on the heroes of the world to crusade against Cao Cao, and the opportunity must not be lost and will not come again. ”

In terms of military and local governance ability, among the three kingdoms where the stars are shining, in front of those people, Liu Bei's ability belongs to the kind of two, but the political sense of smell is very sensitive, and absolutely no one can stand out, and it is he who has always grasped the key point of politics and made him one of the three kingdoms step by step.

analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of politics, and then immediately reported to the world: "Xu You, short-sighted and incompetent, he is cheating on you." ”

was said that his subordinates were not loyal to him, Yuan Shao's mood expressed his unhappiness,

Liu Bei, who is good at observing words and feelings, impassionedly analyzed Yuan Shao: "The eldest brother and Cao Cao have become feuds, which cannot be solved. According to what Mr. Xu You said, we are practicing respite development here, but isn't Cao Cao also respite and developing? ”

Yuan Shao was silent, and he was also weighing repeatedly in his heart.

Liu Bei continued: "Now there are two states in the hands of the eldest brother, but there are four enemies you are facing, Lu Peng's kid, I have worked with him, that is a guy with a honey belly, in order to achieve his goal, he does not hesitate to use all the dirty and despicable means he can use, I heard that Lu Peng's kid accepted the insidious and poisonous plan of attacking the south and defending the north and attacking the south, regardless of the life and death of the people, so that you have lost the harvest this autumn." From this point of view, when you and Cao Cao are about to breathe and accumulate strength, Lu Peng will definitely not let you go. ”

Since Lu Peng did not attack Cao Cao at Liu Bei's request this time, he completely blamed this failure on this shameless villain, and hated Lu Peng from the bottom of his heart, as for the 50 million money given by Lu Peng, Liu Bei completely ignored it.

Regarding Liu Bei's evaluation of Lu Peng, Yuan Shao empathized, and it was not appropriate to use this word to describe his feelings about Lu Peng now, and it should be called deeply affected.

"And Lu Peng doesn't do loyal things, but he is willing to help the abuse, and now he is fighting with the traitor Cao Cao, now Cao Cao's place is vast, Lu Peng has strong financial resources, once you listen to Xu You's suggestion to strike and breathe, let those two guys be embarrassed and collude, their recovery speed will be much faster than yours. At that time, the gap between us and Cao Cao will become bigger and bigger, and if we want to defeat him again, it will be a distant dream, so that it will not be three years, then it will not be us to attack Cao Cao, we should be prepared for how to resist him, and I hope that the eldest brother will think twice. ”

Politically, in terms of the overall situation, Liu Bei is definitely higher than Yuan Shao, and this down-to-earth and reasonable analysis immediately made Yuan Shao fall into deep thinking. In the end, it was decided that, according to what Liu Bei said, taking advantage of the fact that Cao Cao had just fought with Liu Bei and suffered a loss in strength, he would beat Cao Cao and his dog to reverse the unfavorable situation of the current comparison between the two sides.

So at the next day's conference, Yuan Shao resolutely decided to follow the emperor's will and send troops to fight against Cao Cao, a thief.

As a result, Xu You stood up against it again, and the argument he came up with was still the original suggestion of stubbornly rebreathing and gathering strength.

At that time, Yuan Shao was furious: "You short-sighted guys, talking about state affairs here all day long, almost made me lose my righteous name, and almost made me lose the golden opportunity to defeat Cao Cao, if it wasn't for Xuande Gong to remind me, I would have been miserable by you." ”

At that time, Xu Yu was in a hurry: "Liu Bei, big-eared thief, boss nemesis, you are so provoking my lord to do things that will fail, and keep my lord away from Zhongliang, you are the eternal sinner of my Yizhou, I will kill you now." As he spoke, he pulled out the sword at his waist on the spot and pounced on Liu Bei, wanting to eliminate a scourge for the world.

If Xu You's sword really killed Liu Bei, then there would be no Three Kingdoms, and Cao Cao would be able to quickly unify the Central Plains, so that tens of millions of Han people would not be killed in the end, leaving only a few million, so that the Han nation completely lost its vitality, and there was only five chaos in China.

If you want to say that the biggest sinner for the Han people, Uncle Ben thinks that Liu Bei can definitely rank in the top three.

It's a pity that Xu You is a literati, and it's still okay to play with words and swords, if you really want to use real guns and real swords, where is he Liu Bei's opponent who has been on the battlefield for a long time? pounced viciously, but slashed several swords in a row, Liu Bei was calm and relaxed, and Xu You was out of breath.

Yuan Shao, who was sitting on it, was furious, his family beat his friends and killed his guests in front of him, this was definitely a real slap in the face, so he hit the table with both fists: "It's the other way around, Xu You, you don't give me this face too much, come here, come on, put Xu You, the bastard, out of the gate and kill him immediately." ”

With Yuan Shao's order, a group of tiger and wolf soldiers immediately rushed outside, tied up Xu You, and dragged Xu You out.

Yuan Shao's subordinate generals were shocked at the time, and they knelt down to plead for mercy, and at the same time, everyone was not angry in their hearts, and they easily killed their loyal people for the sake of an outsider, which was indeed chilling.

Liu Bei, who was standing on the side, didn't expect Yuan Shao to push Xu You out to kill, and he was secretly proud in his heart at that time, this is the end of offending me and hurting me.

I think that when he was on the White Gate Tower, Lu Bu was cut off with a fluttering sentence, because he wanted to borrow Cao Cao's hand to get rid of one of his enemies.

And Xu You also offended himself, he wanted to be in the wind and rain under Yuan Shao, and it was imperative to eradicate those who opposed him, but at this time, he couldn't be too eager. Really Xu Yu died because of himself, he was equivalent to offending the civil and military officials of Quanyi Prefecture, and now he sent people under the fence, a single person, it is not good to offend too many people, although Yuan Shao protects himself, but it is inevitable that when he walks in the dark of the alley, let people beat a dull stick, shoot a brick or something, or put some rat medicine in his own meal, then he died too unjustly.

He was evaluated by the world as benevolent, of course, regardless of his previous suspicions, of course, he had to be magnanimous, so he hurriedly stepped forward and begged Yuan Shao to keep people.

But now Yuan Shao is ready to resolutely kill Xu You, the reason is not really to save face for Liu Bei, but this Xu You has contradicted himself several times, so that the majesty of his superiors cannot be guaranteed, he is not as good as Lu Peng was slapped by Tian Feng in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and he can forgive Tian Feng's bearing. In Yuan Shao's opinion, his dignity and status must not be offended, and it is necessary to kill Xu You to stand up for himself.

Seeing that the pleading could not be accepted, Liu Bei took out his skills, hid his face and cried: "Because I disagreed with Mr. in politics, I killed Mr. After saying that, after giving Yuan Shao a deep thought, he turned around and walked out in a panic, crying and crying.

Looking at the lonely and lonely figure of Liu Bei, crying like a little daughter-in-law, Yuan Shao immediately took a few steps down the hall, caught up with Liu Bei and held his hand tightly: "How can Xuande Gong abandon me like this?" Respect the Han family, discuss Cao Cao, and ask you and my brothers to work together. Then he said hatefully: "Xu Yu, if you and my brother are separated, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime is unforgivable, so I will put him in prison now, and I will never use him again." ”

Liu Bei turned around gratefully and gave Yuan Shao a salute: "I am very grateful to be able to get the forgiveness of the eldest brother, after all, Mr. Xu You is dedicated to the eldest brother, not to mention that he is going to fight with Cao Cao now, it is the time to use people, and it is good to ask the eldest brother to let him make meritorious contributions in front of the army." ”

Yuan Shao was also a little angry at this time, so he ordered Xu Yu to be beaten with thirty military sticks, and served as a soldier in front of the horse, thinking that the latecomer would be a ring.

So Liu Bei gained the admiration of an unknown person, that is, Xu You treated Liu Bei like this, in terms of identity and status, he should be killed, but in the end, Liu Bei opened his broad mind and saved Xu You's life, which is really a benevolent person recognized by the world.

However, this world is not full of fools, there are not many people who can be bought by a few tears, and the fundamental reason for seeing Liu Bei behaving so coyly is that not only was he not vigilant by his own lord, but because of this, he beat Xu You, who was in the center, and couldn't help but feel disheartened.

After returning home, he gathered representatives of the whole clan to disperse his wealth and say goodbye to his brothers.

At that time, his brothers didn't understand what the situation was, so they asked one after another.

Frustrated, he said: "The lord listened to Liu Bei's slanderous words of the big-eared thief, and demoted the upright Xu Yu to a small soldier in front of the horse, and resolutely decided to send troops to fight against Cao Cao, I was appointed as a marching strategist, this is a war that must be lost, even if it is won, I have no credit, and once I fail, I will be unable to protect myself, and I will be pushed out by many people to carry this black pot of defeat." ”

Then with a long sigh, facing a group of crying brothers, he arranged his own funeral: "Divide the young and promising children of our family into two parts, one part, and send them to Lu Peng Academy in Youzhou, and warn them to forget that we were born in Yizhou, and everything is with Lu Peng, to be a truly loyal minister, to assist Lu Peng, this is the foundation of our family's life, and it is also the hope of our family's prosperity in the future." ”

Then he said to another part of the disciples: "The remaining part, at the expense of money, defected to Cao Cao, and also served the lord and was loyal, leaving another hope for our frustrated family." ”

So, the people of the Fu family discarded the immovable property overnight, took the gold and silver that they could bring, divided it into two parts, and said goodbye one by one in the dark night, and went to the two groups.

It was not only frustration that made such a decision, almost every knowledgeable person in Yizhou was making such arrangements, but in a few days and nights, most of the talents in Yizhou were quietly lost.

Yuan Shao did not feel such a crisis, and after he disposed of Xu You, the original gossip lobby was completely voiced with his own language at this time, in his opinion, this time he made an example of the chickens and monkeys, and once again established himself because after the defeat in the war with Lu Peng, his prestige had to be re-established.

As a result, the entire Yuan Shao Group has once again become Yuan Shao's hall.

After unifying the right to speak, Yuan Shao immediately decided to worship the general Yan Liang as the vanguard, attack Baima, and launch a new round of attack on Cao Cao.

His heart is that when you are tired, I must consume with you, and everyone will hurt each other.

For this vanguard, he was frustrated: "General Yan Liang has a narrow temperament, has no overall view, has more than enough bravery, lacks strategy, and cannot take on the big task alone, so he also asks the lord to send a scribe to assist the general." ”

This suggestion was made when Yan Liang was standing beside Fu Zhi, and the people who said it were open-minded, and those who listened to it were extremely convinced. However, the four famous generals of Hebei left too deep an impression on Yuan Shao, especially with Xu You's previous experience, Yuan Shao had already begun to express his dissatisfaction and unease with his ministers, so he said to the ministers: "General Yan Liang is the most powerful general under me, and he has followed me to fight in the south and north for more than ten years. Then he added a sentence in a nutshell: "You literati who talk about state affairs, marching and fighting, you don't understand at all, don't rely on the benefits of your tongue to suppress my beloved generals." ”

After this sentence is spoken, the consequences are quite serious.

Wenchen was discouraged by this, and the generals were not only not rejoicing, but were uneasy.

So the Central Plains was in flames again, and the battle of Guandu officially kicked off, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were inseparable.

(End of chapter)