Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 465 Showing Fangs
When Yuan Xi entered, Mrs. Wu was breastfeeding the baby. Lu Lingqi lay on the bedside and looked at the baby curiously. She couldn't help but want to poke the little guy's forehead with her finger, but in the end she forced herself to hold back.

When she heard the voice, she raised her head to see Yuan Xi coming in, and with an ah, she was about to cover Madam Wu's front with her clothes, and at the same time complained: "Why didn't you knock on the door before you came in!"

Yuan Xi smiled and said, "I've seen it all, besides, Madam Wu doesn't care."

After hearing this, Mrs. Wu gave Yuan Xi a blank look, and concentrated on breastfeeding the child. When Lu Lingqi saw it, she felt bored and ran away with a mutter.

Yuan Xi sat beside Mrs. Wu, talked about marrying Gongsun's fingertips, and said: "If Madam doesn't want to, I'll just push it down."

Mrs. Wu heard this, looked at the baby in her arms, and said softly: "This is the son's child, the son will just do it, the concubine has no other ideas."

Yuan Xi smiled and said, "It's also Madam's child."

Mrs. Wu shook her head helplessly. Lu Lingqi, who was watching secretly from the side, had already forced out Yuan Xi's inside information, and she thought that the husband is too courageous. This Mrs. Wu is the widow of Sun Jian, and that Sun Jian is as famous as his father!

If my father knew that my husband was having an affair with Sun Jian's widow, I'm afraid he would rush over and beat him up?
No, according to my father's temperament, maybe he would even praise my husband!
Thinking of the messy things that Lu Bu did, Lu Lingqi suddenly realized that her family style doesn't seem to have any qualifications to criticize others?

It's all my shameful father's fault!

Mrs. Wu looked at Lu Lingqi who was biting her finger beside her, and whispered: "I have someone waiting on my side, and I'm already familiar with the matter of giving birth. What's the matter with always asking Mrs. Lu to help, you let her go back and have a good rest."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi saw that Lu Lingqi had also stayed up all night, and her face was a little tired, so she said to Madam Wu: "Then you should rest first, and if there is anything, someone can come to me."

Mrs. Wu nodded, she hesitated for a while, and said: "There are some things I shouldn't have said, but I still can't vomit when I see the young master worrying about gains and losses."

"My son is in a high position now, and he is responsible for tens of millions of people under his rule. Now he hangs around in the boudoir for several days, which is really putting the cart before the horse."

"Although the sons and heirs are important, there are already enough people here, and they are all experienced. Instead of staying here, it is better to go to a place where the son is needed more, so as not to let others criticize."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi laughed dumbfoundedly and said, "Madam is right, I do care a little bit, but it's messed up."

"I'm going to the official residence to handle business."

He walked a few steps, turned his head and said with a smile: "Madam is indeed a good wife."

Madam Wu watched Yuan Xi take Lu Lingqi out, feeling a little inexplicable in her heart.

Yuan Xi went out, feeling the increasingly cold weather, knowing that the days ahead would be even more difficult.

From the end of Han Dynasty to the beginning of Tang Dynasty, it was the longest ice age in Chinese history, spanning about 400 years.

Under the destruction of the severe cold climate, during this period of later generations, the dividing line for planting grain once reached the central Shaanxi area, and it was almost impossible to grow grain in the north, let alone pasture.

So the nomads, who were on the verge of life and death, went south into the Central Plains with a strong desire to survive, and for them, they were lucky to encounter the Jin Dynasty, a regime that stretched to the extreme.

After the Rebellion of the Eight Kings of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yue became the final winner and took control of the government. In the situation of internal fighting in the Jin Dynasty and his vitality was seriously injured, although Sima Yue was domineering in politics, he was still able to resist foreigners.

However, when he led his troops against Shi Le who was going south, he was stabbed in the back by Emperor Huai of Jin and ordered all parties to crusade against him. Sima Yue died of fear because of this. Invincible soldiers.

But in the end, it was not Shi Le, but Liu Cong, the son of Liu Yuan, who led troops into the capital Luoyang. Emperor Huai of Jin was captured and poisoned.

Therefore, without eunuchs and relatives intervening in politics, and without peasant uprisings, the Jin Dynasty miraculously, as the Chinese regime, lost the hinterland of the Central Plains for the first time, abandoned the Han people in the north and traveled south, and opened the history of humiliation of the Han people in China for hundreds of years.

Yuan Xi looked up at the snowflakes that began to flutter and fall from the sky, and knew that he had nothing to do with what happened a hundred years later, and he would not live until then.

But what I can do in my lifetime is to do my best to build Youzhou into a solid line of defense.

If foreigners want to go south, they will have to pay a heavy price. Although they may not succeed in the end, if half of the ten people who go south will die in Youzhou, the hinterland of the Central Plains may not fall.

This means that in the next few decades, Youzhou will become a huge meat grinder. Whether Youzhou can't support it first, or the foreigners who go south will collapse first, depends on how Youzhou can be built.

So Yuan Xi was very anxious, very anxious, he found that time seemed to never be enough, this was the case in Youzhou, and it was also the case in the Central Plains!
Every time he feels that his strength has grown a lot, but when he looks back at Cao Cao, Sun Ce, or even the Yuan brothers, he finds that the other party has also become stronger!

Thinking about it, so many outstanding characters finally formed the three kingdoms. After decades of tossing and turning, I just saw the outcome. Where did I get the confidence to feel that I can suppress everyone?

Moreover, Yuan Xi found that there are too few allies that can be found now, after all the calculations, Liu Bei is actually the most reliable among all the people.

All the princes in the world, seeing Liu Bei's ability to buy people's hearts, are not at ease to join forces with him, and they might be turned against him one day, but now Yuan Xi has no choice, and his current situation cannot be left to him to pick and choose.

So he decided to form an alliance with Liu Bei on a deeper level, and only Liu Bei can become Yuan Xi's solid fighting force against Cao Cao.

Therefore, Yuan Xi sent a letter to Liu Xie and Liu Bei respectively, intending to express Liu Bei's appointment to an important position in the court, because at this time, Liu Bei most needed the name and status in the Liu clan.

Although Liu Bei is the descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, but the clan of the Liu surname is similar to that of Liu Beizhong, and there are eight thousand if not ten thousand in the whole world.

The real people in the core circle of the Liu clan are Liu Yu, Liu Yao, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang, Liu Yan and Liu Dai, who are appointed as members of the clan. If Liu Bei has some upper-level connections, he will not have to rely on private The army crusaded against the Yellow Turbans and made a fortune with military exploits.

Thinking of this, Yuan Xi felt quite helpless. The situation at the end of the Han Dynasty was too complicated, with internal and external troubles, but now everyone was fighting to death, unaware that the weather in the north would become worse, and in the future, foreigners might finally take advantage of it.

Now even if Yuan Xi said it, no one would believe it. Even if he did, who in the world would stop?
So the last and only solution is to see the truth on the battlefield.

Lu Lingqi pounded her with her elbow, pulled Yuan Xi back from her thoughts, and teased, "Why, do you feel uncomfortable after being taught by Mrs. Wu?"

"How does it feel to be Father?"

Yuan Xi said helplessly: "Don't watch me make jokes all day long, when you have a baby, you might behave even more unbearably."

Lu Lingqi blushed and said viciously: "Who wants to give birth, the battle has not been fought enough!"

Yuan Xi laughed and said, "I'm afraid it's Marquis Wen who is still waiting."

"It's not easy to fight a war, and there will be a war soon."

Lu Lingqi said happily: "Really?"

She wondered: "It's almost Chinese New Year, who do you want to fight?"

Yuan Xi replied: "Pirates of Qingzhou."

Yuan Xi was certain that the Qingzhou pirates were instigated or condoned by Yuan Tan behind the scenes.

Qingzhou already has a long coastline, and there has always been a fixed route between it and Liaodong, whether it is passenger transportation or cargo trade, it has a considerable scale.

Originally, most of the pirates in Qingzhou were used by the Yellow Turban Army to plunder, and most of the ships they used were robbing fishermen and merchants, and most of them were small boats. However, in the past two years, large ships have gradually appeared.

These pirates are quite ferocious, not only stealing goods, but also killing people, and they are scattered along the coast of Donglai, Shandong Peninsula, and often appear on the waterway from Youzhou to Xuzhou.

In the beginning, these people avoided seeing the flag of the Zhen family caravan belonging to Youzhou, but these days they became more courageous and began to act recklessly.

Several ships of the Zhen family caravan have disappeared, which has caused panic among the people. Those who escaped by chance, and those who identified those who boarded the ship and robbed them all spoke Qingzhou dialect.

Yuan Xi wrote a letter to Yuan Tan specifically about this matter, but Yuan Tan replied vaguely, saying that he did not know about it.

Yuan Xi thought that since this is the case, then he will not be polite, after all, business routes are his bottom line.

Although the two brothers used to be an alliance, Yuan Xi was very displeased with each other's aggressive probing behavior.

Moreover, if one's own commercial route is cut off, it is equivalent to cutting off a major artery. This is an incalculable loss for Youzhou, which urgently needs blood transfusions to build water conservancy defenses.

So Yuan Xi decided that if he wanted to fight, he would have to fight painfully. The Qingzhou pirates would be severely injured, and they would never dare to go to sea again. It would be the best if they could be wiped out in the future.

Previously, Yuan Tan probably felt that there were many hidden dangers from foreign enemies in Youzhou, and he was unable to deal with this mustard disease. However, after several months of hard work, Yuan Xi finally suppressed many foreign troubles in Youzhou for the time being.

He secretly reached an agreement with Kirbi Neng, the master of the central Xianbei outside the customs, and let him restrain Budugen, the master of the western Xianbei, and the master of the eastern Xianbei, with some benefits.

Of course, this was not a result of negotiations, but during the past few months, Yuan Xi mobilized all the elites under his command and fought several vicious battles with the Xianbei who kept committing border violations in the north before Kobe finally succumbed.

In the past few months, the three big Xianbei tribes outside the pass have not died of evil intentions, and still sent a large number of light cavalry to invade the border.

During this period, Yuan Xi ordered Zhao Yun, Tian Yu, Yan Rou and Xian Yufu brothers to all attack. The soldiers and horses were equipped with the most sophisticated weapons and armor, and a death order was given, so that no one would be left alive on the battlefield.

After several battles, the Xianbei outside the Guanwai, who did not expect the Youzhou army to be so brutal, suffered heavy casualties. Finally, after Tian Yu erected a Jingguan built with thousands of heads on the gap in the Great Wall, all the Xianbei retreated in a hurry.

It doesn't matter whether these dead people are Dongxi Xianbei or Zhong Xianbei.

Yuan Xi sneered in his heart when he received the news that Kirbineng, who had been delaying before, sincerely requested peace talks. Sure enough, in this world, the language that both parties can accept is killing and violence.

If you play carefully and lose your mind, you will naturally be willing to talk, which is really cheap.

(End of this chapter)