I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 270 Yuan Yangzhou has a plan

In fact, as far as the current situation of the world is concerned, most of the governors and prefects are still on the sidelines towards the battle between Yuan and Dong.

There were more than 100 prefectures and states in the Han Dynasty, that is to say, there were more than 100 prefects and ministers, and there were more than ten governors and state shepherds combined.

And among these people who responded to Yuan Shao, most of them represented the interests of the noble clan.

But the prefects and governors of other places did not dare to act rashly and hesitated.

After all, compared to Yuan Shao and his group, most of the other people are small reptiles, challenging Dong Zhuo, who represents the supreme power of the Han Dynasty, they just watch Yuan Shao and the others make trouble and make trouble. Most of the people Still dare not participate.

Because this water is too muddy and too deep, I dare not step in and mix it directly.

But secretly supporting it secretly, it's not certain.

Given the influence of the Runan Yuan family in the Guandong gentry, even if the prefects and prime ministers from the gentry groups in the states and counties of the Han Dynasty did not dare to support Yuan Shao publicly, they would definitely support them secretly. As for the method of funding , that would be too much.

Any money, food, military equipment, or some other resources, as long as they don't involve the frontal battlefield, they can be obtained.

But relatively, it is the same for Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo's power in Kanto is definitely incomparable to the gentry group headed by the Yuan family in Runan, but he is not fighting alone.

Zhang Rang, Cao Jie, Wang Fu and others took advantage of the period of the party to plant many forces belonging to them in various states and counties. Although these eunuch forces either defected or were cut off after the eunuchs in Luoyang were collectively wiped out, they are still there. There is a part saved.

And most of these people are close relatives left behind by eunuchs, and they would not accept them at all if they wanted to join the gentry.

If Dong Zhuo hadn't been in power and Yuan Kai was still in charge, these people would have been ruined by the gentry long ago.

Therefore, even in order to save their own lives, these people would secretly support Dong Zhuo.

Therefore, as far as the current situation is concerned, the essence of the war between Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo is that a dozen Guandong Mushou headed by Yuan Shao are fighting against a group of Liangzhou warlords headed by Dong Zhuo.

And behind the two forces, there may be dozens of prefects and ministers who sent resources to Yuan Shao.

Behind Dong Zhuo, responsible for delivering resources to him are more than a dozen prefects and ministers who were left behind by the eunuchs.

On the surface, it seems that there are not many people involved, but in fact, behind this, the political power of dozens of local governors in the states of the Han Dynasty was involved.

On April 22th of the third year of Chuping, [-] local prefects, Mushou, headed by Yuan Shao, planned to gather together in Suanzao, to drink blood and form an alliance, to pay homage to the sky and to discuss Dong Zhuo.

And Yuan Shu, who is the shepherd of North Yangzhou, also led the soldiers from Shouchun and headed north.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his soldiers and horses arrived at Xiacai, someone reported that it was the envoy of Liu Jian, Mu of Jizhou, who was ordered to come to see him, saying that he had something important to discuss with Yuan Shu.

Although Yuan Shu was arrogant and conceited, he also had some friendship with Liu Jian in Luoyang back then, and in Yuan Shu's eyes, Liu Jian was not bad, so he didn't have too much dislike for him.

"Let Liu Jian's envoy come to see you."

After Yuan Shu gave the order, he ordered the three armies to suspend their march and rest on the spot.

He himself drove the horses to the side of the big tree and sat on the ground.

The servants under him immediately brought Yuan Shu his favorite honey water.

Yuan Shu sat under the tree, drinking slowly, and then saw Liu Jian's envoy, led by the Yangzhou sergeant, come in front of him.

"Meet Yuan Gong!"

Yuan Shu heard the envoy's greeting, without raising his eyelids, he asked arrogantly, "Are you the envoy of Jizhou?"

"Exactly."

"It's been a long way, why did Liu Deran send you here?"

Seeing Yuan Shu's attitude and tone, the emissary was slightly dissatisfied.

It is said that the four generations and three princes of the Yuan family, the leader of the gentry, are admired by the world. Seeing him now, it is a bit exaggerated.

Although this Yuan Gonglu is handsome and dignified, but his posture is so high, his words are full of arrogance, and he is rude and virtuous, and he is somewhat ashamed of the word "famous".

Even though he thought so in his heart, the emissary couldn't argue with Yuan Shu on the surface.

He is not qualified to reason with others, he just needs to get his own affairs done quickly, and it won't be too late to worry about it.

Afterwards, the envoy said to Yuan Shu: "Returning to Mr. Yuan's words, a certain person came across the mountains and rivers under the order of Liu Jizhou, just to honor Liu Jizhou's order and hand over something to Yuan Jun."

Yuan Shu put down the water scorpion in his hand, raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "You came all the way across the Central Plains, but you just wanted to get something from me? Hehe, when will Liu Deran be able to play this way?"

The envoy didn't answer Yuan Shu's words, but just reached out and took something out of his bosom, and bowed as a gesture of presentation.

On the side, Zhang Xun, who was most trusted by Yuan Shu, came to the emissary, reached out to take the delivered things, and turned around to present them to Yuan Shu.

It was a box sealed with wax.

However, when Yuan Shu saw the box, a surprised expression appeared on his face.

He didn't know this delicate box, but he did recognize the wax seal on that box.

There is no doubt that the wax seal belonged to his elder brother Yuan Ji!

Yuan Ji's lacquer seal has a special mark, and only members of the Yuan family know the details, so Yuan Shu is very clear that this box cannot be imitated by others, even if Liu Jian and Yuan Ji are acquainted, they absolutely cannot.

Yuan Shu looked at the envoy suspiciously, but saw that the envoy said calmly: "Don't worry, Mr. Yuan, this item was delivered by Yuan Junhou personally when Tian Biejia from Jizhou went to Luoyang to congratulate the emperor on his wedding. Tian Biejia, let Liu Jizhou transfer it to Yuan Gong on behalf of Liu Jizhou, Liu Jizhou has not opened it, after obtaining this thing, the special subordinates have traveled thousands of miles, and must deliver it to Yuan Gong in person!"

After Yuan Shu heard these words, he felt somewhat guilty towards this emissary.

He has traveled thousands of miles to serve as a messenger for your Yuan family, but he put on airs in front of them just now, even if he is as thick-skinned as Yuan Shu, he feels very sorry.

He said to the envoy: "It's been hard work, hard work! Come here, quickly prepare some water, as well as dry food and dried meat for the march, to satisfy the envoy's hunger... If there is no good food in the army, I will wrong you! "

The messenger hurriedly said: "Don't dare, thank you Yuan Gong for your generosity!"

Afterwards, the messenger, led by Yuan Jun's soldiers, went to eat first, while Yuan Shu hurriedly opened the lacquer seal and took out Yuan Ji's letter from the box to read.

After reading the two lines, Yuan Shu felt a little puzzled. This letter had Yuan Ji's personal seal on it, and the font was undoubtedly Yuan Ji's too. But looking at the beginning of this letter, it was clearly written to his elder brother Yuan Yi. Yes, how could it run into your own hands?

Could it be that Yuan Ji didn't make it clear to Tian Feng?

However, Yuan Shu quickly abandoned this idea.

With the identities of Yuan Ji and Tian Feng, how could the two of them make such a low-level mistake?

Come to think of it, this letter must have been deliberately arranged by Liu Jian to be given to him.

I don't know what that little thief Liu Deran is planning?
Putting all the distracting thoughts behind him, Yuan Shu continued to read the letter.

But this time, the more he watched, the more frightened he became.

The letter Yuan Ji wrote to Yuan Yi was to ask Yuan Yi to prevent Yuan Shao from attacking Luoyang in his own name.

Yuan Ji didn't mention himself, but he said bluntly that if Yuan Shao raises an army in Luoyang, Yuan Wei's life will definitely be lost!

As a junior, Yuan Shao, disregarding Yuan Kai's life and death, insisted on confronting Dong Zhuo, what was his intention?

Could it be that the Runan Yuan family owed him something!
Although Yuan Ji did not directly state that Yuan Shao intended to kill them intentionally, what he meant in his letter was not far from this intention.

In fact, Yuan Shu sent troops to attack Dong Zhuo. Didn't Yuan Shu think about the deep meaning?
Of course he was somewhat thoughtful.

The problem is that Yuan Shao's speed of gathering people together was really too fast, and he almost got the unanimous response of many prominent families in Kanto, so it can be said that he took the lead.

Yuan Shu really didn't have time to do more planning, so he could only respond to Yuan Shao's participation in this time.

Yuan Shao has gained countless prestige and all the scholars support him, if Yuan Shu doesn't hurry up to follow suit, he might lose even a little prestige in the future.

Although Yuan Shu didn't say anything, in fact, he already had a deep sense of vigilance and guard against Yuan Shao in his heart.

It would be fine if it was Yuan Ji, Yuan Shu was convinced, after all, he was the head of the family and the legitimate heir of the Yuan family.

What did Yuan Shao rely on?Why is the reputation so high now that it can almost be said to have won the favor and support of the nobles all over the world?
But now, this letter was sent to Yuan Shu by Liu Jian "by mistake", and Yuan Shu began to feel bad.

If it was Yuan Yi, after he saw the letter, he would definitely go back to stop Yuan Shao. Although he would not succeed, he would definitely try to stop Yuan Shao.

But Yuan Shu was different, he decided not to mention this matter for the time being.

A sly smile appeared on Yuan Shu's face, and then he folded up the silk, carefully put it back into the lacquer box, and put it in his arms, apparently for safekeeping.

Then, he shouted at Zhang Xun: "Zi Zhu!"

Zhang Xun, who was not far away, hurriedly came to Yuan Shu when he heard the words, and said to him, "Master, do you want to mobilize the three armies to continue going north?"

Yuan Shu threw himself on his clothes, stood up and said, "Move the soldiers to march, but it's not going north, let's go back!"

"what?"

Zhang Xunwen was dumbfounded when he heard this.

How far is it from Shouchun? It seems that it was only more than 100 miles just now. Is it time to go back?play?

"My lord, are we going to send troops to the north from time to time? Go to Suanzao to form an alliance with Zhu Yingjie? Why...?"

Yuan Shu waved his hand and said, "I won't make an alliance anymore! Huishouchun! This matter has nothing to do with us!"

Zhang Xun really didn't want to understand why Yuan Shu suddenly changed his mind...

Just because Jizhou Mu Liu Jian wrote him a letter?

But what did Liu Jian write that was so powerful that he could persuade this stubborn and arrogant envoy?
This is not what ordinary people can do!
"Emissary, on Yuan Jingzhou's side, the envoy has already promised him to go to the Suanzao League together. If he contradicts his promise at this time, I'm afraid that the envoy's reputation will be damaged..."

Yuan Shu narrowed his eyes, pondered for a while, and then said, "Ask Yang Changshi to come here!"

"Here!"

Not long after, Yang Hong, Yuan Shu's chief clerk, came in front of him.

"The envoy called me?"

"As an envoy, you will go to Suanzao on my behalf, meet Yuan Shao, and say that I may not be able to attend this meeting to discuss Dong."

Yang Hong was taken aback when he heard the words: "Why didn't Shijun suddenly go to the alliance?"

Yuan Shu said: "We will discuss this matter later. You only need to go to Suanzao on my behalf, and say... that before I sent troops, I was suffering from typhoid fever. I didn't fall off the horse for a while, and I couldn't get up in bed! I need to take care of myself."

Although Yang Hong didn't understand Yuan Shu's true meaning, he still accepted the order.

(End of this chapter)