As a result, this time it was Yuan Shao's luck, Yuan Shaojun's eyes were sharp, and the person sent by Cao Cao to deliver the letter to Xun Yu happened to be intercepted by Xu You's subordinates, and there was no need to torture him, and the letter naturally fell directly into Xu You's hands. It's really a cycle of heavenly reason, retribution is unpleasant, and those who come out to mix it will have to pay it back sooner or later. It was Yuan Shaojun's spies who were arrested before, and now it is Cao Cao's messenger who was robbed, from this point of view alone, God should still not abandon Yuan Shao, not completely on Cao Cao's side. Although judging from the final result, this time the incident was self-defeating by Yuan Shao, but it became the key to the rout.

Speaking of Xu You, that was Cao Cao's childhood playmate, and when Cao Cao was calculating Liu Bei in his heart, all he wanted was to ask Xu You for help. Not only because Xu You was his good friend of Cao Cao as a child, but the most important reason was that Xu You was greedy for money and could intervene a little. The so-called flies don't bite seamless eggs.

Therefore, the tragedy of Yuan Shao may be tragic, and it was not anyone else who discovered this this time, but Xu You!

After Xu You got the letter, he immediately went to see Yuan Shao and suggested,

"Cao Caotun officer crossing, and our army has been holding on for a long time, Xuchang will be empty. If an army is divided into a starry night to cover Xuchang, Xuchang can be pulled, and Cao Cao will be captured soon without grain and grass support. Now that Cao Cao's grain and grass are exhausted, we can take this opportunity to attack him in two ways! ”

Xu You's strategy, I have to say, is quite good, and it makes perfect use of Yuan Shao's military advantage. The "dead money" has been revitalized, and the role of absolute troops has been fully brought into play.

It's a pity, what is Yuan Shao most famous for? That's right, the most famous is indecision. Can't make up your mind.

"Cao Cao has always been scheming, and Guo Jia is also cunning and impermanent. What if the letter is a ploy to lure the enemy? Yuan Shao said worriedly.

"Such a great opportunity, once missed. The future will inevitably suffer from it! Xu You couldn't help but say, he really looked heartbroken.

"I know it's a great opportunity, but only if it's true. Previously, Cao Cao was successful because he intercepted the spies of our army and learned about Han Meng's movements. How could it be so coincidental that we intercepted their letters so quickly?! Yuan Shao analyzed, it sounds really reasonable, and Yuan Shao himself is almost convinced. I don't know if Yuan Shao himself was too cautious, or if Cao Cao and Guo Jia's cunning nature impressed him too much.

"Oops. Lord! Xu You was waiting to be persuaded again, and while he was talking, a messenger suddenly came from Yecheng and delivered a letter for trial, temporarily interrupting the conversation here. After all, the military situation is important, and if there is a change in Yecheng on the first instance distribution letter, it can't be delayed because of such a thing as arguing here, right?

So Yuan Shao hurriedly opened the letter of the trial and took a look, and it first said that the grain was transported, in short. It's all in order, when it will be delivered, and so on. Then, the trial mentioned a "little thing", that is, the trial found him. It turned out that Xu Yu was in Jizhou, and he often accepted private property and embezzled and accepted bribes. and even though his sons and nephews were harsh on taxes and miscellaneous taxes, all the money and food went into their bags. So now the trial has arrested Xu You's son and nephew and sent him to prison. Of course, this is definitely not asking Yuan Shao. The judge thought that he was doing the right thing and enforcing the law impartially, so he was just telling Yuan Shao.

He was not purging dissidents, let alone carrying out a coup d'état, but Xu Yu was too much and caused public resentment, so he ordered the arrest of people.

When Yuan Shao saw this, he was immediately furious, in fact, he also knew that Xu Yu was greedy for money, but he didn't expect that if he didn't check it for a while, it would have become so excessive! Moreover, this is not the most critical, the most critical thing is that since Xu You is so greedy for money and has an old relationship with Cao Cao, then Xu You has the possibility of being bought by Cao Cao, although there is no evidence now, it is not certain, but in case Xu You was bought by Cao Cao this time, and then designed to lead him Yuan Shao to send troops, and then let the Yuan army ambush and defeat! Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental, but it was your Xu You's people who intercepted such a secret letter, and it was you Xu You who came to offer advice?

Don't forget, in addition to Yuan Shao's indecision, there is another shortcoming, that is, he can't trust his subordinates. Of course, this is also one of the reasons for Yuan Shaohui's indecision.

So Yuan Shao suddenly shouted at Xu You,

"Abusive puppeteers! You still have the face to offer advice in front of me?! You have an old relationship with Cao Cao, and it is hard to guarantee that you are not bribed by him today, acting as a spy for him, and trying to instigate the killing of our army! This kind of thing should have been beheaded, but now the right is in the head! Hurry up and quit for me, and I'll settle accounts with you when I get back!" ”

After all, there is no evidence of Xu You uniting with Cao Cao, and Xu You is not Liu Bei, Xu You has made great contributions to Yuan Shao before, and Yuan Shao will not directly kill Xu You for no reason.

Xu You left, and couldn't help sighing,

"Loyalty is against the ear, and the erection is not enough and scheming!"

Of course, what makes Xu You sigh even more is how it was so coincidental that this kind of thing happened at such a time. If there was no matter of Yecheng's trial, or even if the matter of those sons and nephews came relatively late, once Yuan Shao adopted his plan and completely defeated Cao Cao, at that time, Yuan Shao would probably laugh at such a trivial matter, and it would be over!

As a result, why is it so coincidental that something happened at this juncture! Could it be that God really helped Cao and not Yuan?!

Skillful? Not really. Because some things have been destined since a long time ago, just like Xu You, who didn't find the reason in himself, but ran to blame God, and didn't face the facts at all. Before, Han Meng had already raised grain once when he transported grain from Yecheng. And Han Meng's grain and grass were burned, and Yuan Shao immediately had to raise a second round of grain and grass, even if Yuan Shao's grain and grass were sufficient, should this really be made out of nothing? ! It is also for this reason that Yuan Shao asked the judge to personally go back to supervise the grain and grass, because Yuan Shao knew that it was not so easy to gather another round of grain and grass in such a short period of time, and it required talents like Xun Yu to sit in charge.

Needless to say, at this time, it is either to cut the common people, or to scrape oil from some privileges. And the trial is just a good official and an upright official. So, the problem arises, if it is simply a good official, it is naturally impossible to take the common people, so it is necessary to scrape the oil from the privilege. But the trial is an upright official, and there is not much sand in his eyes, as soon as the problem of Xu Youzi and nephew is found, the trial will not leave any affection, not only scraping oil, not only cutting meat, but also directly bringing up the pig killing knife!

In fact, under the rule of Yuan Shao, there are not a few corrupt people in various places, but Xu You's sons and nephews obviously belong to the outstanding, to the unscrupulous, relying on Xu You's power and power, usually acting as a prestige, arrogant, never put others in his eyes, unlike other low-key ones, corruption and bribery should be hidden, and make a fortune in a muffled voice. So in this way, Xu Youzi's nephew, who drove a famous car, wore a famous watch, had a second wife, and lived in a villa, was naturally arrested as a typical model by the trial. And the grain and grass that Yuan Shao needed were naturally brought up because of this. (To be continued......)