Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 712 Changes in Qingzhou
"What was written in that secret letter?" Whether it was Yuan Shao's status as an aide, or just because she was a woman, Dong Bai was extremely curious about the contents of that secret letter at this moment.

This time, Yuan Shao casually handed over the secret letter to Dong Bai. He knew that although he was the ultimate behind-the-scenes person of the whole incident, Dong Bai, the executor, had a more accurate understanding of this matter.What's more, Yuan Shao, who was confused at this time, really needed another point of view.

The content on the secret letter is very simple, the beautiful handwriting looks to be Zhen Mi's own handwriting: Han Zuo Zhonglang General, Liu Yan's eldest son Liu Fan, has been angry with Liu Xie for a long time, and has the heart to win the Han.

Dong Bai's beautiful brows could not help but frown because of these contents, she hardly had much impression of this Liu Fan.But fortunately, the information about Assassin Tiancao contained a lot of content in this regard.

Dong Bai remembered that four months ago, in the cold spring season, Liu Xie sent Liu Yan's second son, Liu Dan, into the imperial court.Half a month later, Liu Zhang, Liu Yan's last son, was sent back to Yizhou, and Liu Yan was comforted. Since then, Liu Zhang stayed in Yizhou and never returned to Chang'an.However, after being deceived, Liu Xie, instead of being furious, once again pardoned Liu Dan's crime in a seemingly foolish way, and sent Liu Dan to Yizhou two months ago...

According to reports, when Liu Dan entered the border of Hanzhong, he also encountered an assassination.Fortunately, Liu Dan's guards resisted desperately, so that Liu Dan only injured one arm and fled to Yizhou.For the rest, Dong Bai didn't know anything about Liu Yan's heirs.As for Liu Fan, Dong Bai only knew that he held the position of General Zuo Zhonglang in the Han Dynasty, but in fact he didn't have half of the military power in his hands, he was just a hostage stranded in Chang'an.

Now, Zhen Mi secretly said that this Liu Fan had the intention of usurping the Han.The content of this is too worthy of deliberation.

However, Dong Bai suffered enough cracks tonight, so she couldn't look at this issue objectively from the perspective of a cold strategist, and only replied with a female intuition: "I don't think this secret letter has any meaning." A woman who deceives you once will deceive you forever. If you believe in this secret letter, you will only become a plaything in Zhen Mi's hands."

Dong Bai's words had no other meaning, but Yuan Shao heard a hint of sarcasm, raised his eyebrows and said, "You mean, I will be played by a young girl who is only a year old?"

"I, I don't mean that. I just think that this letter is too strange."

"Then you ignored the clues in this letter because you hated it?" Yuan Shao was dissatisfied again. He looked at Dong Bai with the impatience and boredom of looking at an incompetent subordinate, and finally spoke out angrily. Said: "Can't you really see that that young man has already plotted against Yizhou?!"

"This..." Yuan Shao's words, like his sharp sword just now, pierced Dong Bai's pride in an instant.

"When a rabbit walks, ten thousand people chase it. If one person catches it, the greedy ones will stop." Yuan Shao said this with an ugly face, but quickly broke away from the contemplation caused by this paragraph: "Today's Yizhou is like a fat hare, that young man first released Liu Zhang, and then Liu Dan. What he did was to make Liu Yan and other heirs and brothers chase this fat hare in Yizhou, and then kill each other!"

When he said this, Yuan Shao couldn't help but feel palpitations, and forced the fear away from him: "The young man finally chose to keep Liu Fan, which shows that Liu Fan is undoubtedly the most powerful of the three brothers. Competitors, Liu Xie must wait for the first two to have a certain strength before letting Liu Fan go back to Yizhou!"

"If this Liu Fan is really like this, then he must have seen Liu Xie's intentions. Therefore, he will be very angry. From this point of view, the content of this secret letter is true! Moreover, in that After Liu Ai rejected me, it came very timely!"

Now the wind in Guanzhong, and even the whole world, has changed.But what remains unchanged is that he still needs to cooperate internally and externally to defeat Liu Xie's overall situation.Because of this, his strategy of secretly contacting Liu's clan to replace Liu Xie needs to be continued.

"However, Liu Xie has already noticed Zhen Mi, and she is no longer our hidden chess player!" Dong Bai was suddenly angry.For some reason, when she remembered that Yuan Shao was still relying on Zhen Mi, her hatred for Zhen Mi rushed into the world, and she tried everything to stop that woman.

"But after all, she can get in touch with Liu Xie and the Han Dynasty. Moreover, with her here, we can resett Cao Tiancao in Chang'an again!" Yuan Shao also suddenly became deeply dissatisfied. And after stripping away his desire to conquer Dong Bai, he already disdained Dong Bai very much, and his attitude changed a lot.

"You have to know that men understand men best, and women, only women know best!" Dong Bai suddenly shouted. At this moment, she seemed like a drowning person, desperately trying to grab a straw.

On the other hand, Yuan Shao seemed to have seen through Dong Bai's anger, and raised his head proudly: "But I know better that those who achieve great things cannot rely on their emotions like a woman!"

"You!..." Dong Bai was furious, but helpless, he could only say like a curse: "You will regret it in the end!"

"Pay attention to your words!" Yuan Shao seemed to enjoy this moment very much, and even waved his hands impatiently: "Also, remind you again, remember your identity!" After finishing speaking, Yuan Shao turned his back to Dong Bai, He even made a gesture of waving his hand, as if he was driving an ant away.

Dong Bai's pretty face was very ferocious and angry at this moment, and her fat-like neck, because of the violent fluctuation of emotions, once again showed a line of blood, which was bright red and beautiful.But she was still holding the dagger she swung at Yuan Shao just now, but after shaking violently a few times, she still had no choice but to let it go: She knew that if she didn't know what to do and shot at Yuan Shao this time, she would definitely not be lucky again. .

Even at this moment, she didn't dare to ask herself if she could still be in charge of Assassin Cao in the future.Because once this question is asked, Yuan Shao will undoubtedly be ridiculed, and may even lose the only reason for staying here.

At this time, she had no choice but to leave: the woman in Yuan Shao's heart had been replaced by Zhen Mi, and if she stayed for a moment longer, it would be a humiliation to herself.

But at this moment, Dong Bai suddenly heard a rush of footsteps outside the door: this was not a letter from the guard Cao, but the footsteps of those in the army delivering orders.

Dong Bai had no choice but to immediately hide in the back hall. At this moment, she was only glad that Yuan Shao hadn't smashed this hiding place.But afterward, after hearing the voice of the order, Dong Bai's expression suddenly changed: Qingzhou has changed!

Immediately afterwards, she heard Yuan Shao's heavy and angry voice: "What's going on! Why did Tan Er lose half of Qingzhou to Cao Aman?!"

"Report to my lord..." There was great fear in the voice of the messenger, but his good qualities still allowed him to narrate the whole story clearly.

Dong Bai heard that the incident was due to bandits from Mount Tai suddenly appearing in Qingzhou last month, and Yuan Tan would naturally not be soft on such bandits in troubled times.But in a great battle, Yuan Tan was lured into an ambush by those mobs, and he was defeated and lost.Yuan Tan, who escaped from the dead, re-emphasized the Mount Tai bandits, but the strange thing is that he suddenly killed the Mount Tai bandits with Cao Mengde behind them!

The explanation given by Yuan Tan: If Cao Mengde hadn't been planning secretly, how could he be defeated by a mob of ten thousand people?

What's more, such a method is not without precedent.

Back then, when Tao Qian was Xuzhou Mu, didn't he use this trick to deal with Cao Cao?On the surface, Tao Qian conquered Que Xuan, who caused chaos in Xuzhou, but secretly drove Que Xuan's thieves into Yanzhou as pawns to test Cao Cao.And Cao Mengde now controls Xuzhou, and he repeats his old tricks again!

Yuan Tan, who recognized this conspiracy, immediately mobilized his troops and regrouped in anger.This time, he not only killed the Taishan bandits back to Taishan, but also drove straight to conquer Cao Cao.Cao Hong retreated several times, but Yuan Tan invaded like fire, spreading the flames of war all over Xuzhou, and finally angered Cao Cao, ordering Cao Hong to fight back brazenly, so only when Cao Cao waved his hand, Yuan Tan once again tasted the taste of failure .

Since then, the situation of the two armies has been completely reversed.Cao Jun invaded Qingzhou and wiped out half of Qingzhou with lightning speed. After hearing the news, many people surrendered.At this point, Yuan Tan knew that he had caused a catastrophe, and Pegasus sent a letter to inform Yecheng of the news.

Afterwards, before Dong Bai could figure out this strange matter, he heard Yuan Shao's angry voice in his ears: "Cao Cao is almost dead, and I will save him! Now that his wings are growing, how dare he deceive me like this? ! Send an order to summon the civil and military forces to discuss the matter of conquering Cao Cao!"

As soon as she spoke, Dong Bai suddenly felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She waited for the order to leave in a hurry, and immediately turned around and said, "Don't do this, the Han Dynasty is lying on the side, but you lose the big because of a small one. If the two sides are attacked by the enemy , wouldn't it make things worse?"

But Yuan Shao, at this moment, seemed to be at the dividing point between rationality and impulsiveness. He looked at Dong Bai with a hint of disappointment, "After all, you are just a woman. Yuan's success today is all due to the reputation of Wuwei. Although I know this The matter is strange, but Cao Aman deceives each other so much, if I don't strike back with thunder, where will the world put me, Yuan Shi?"

"What about the Han Dynasty?... You know that the Han Dynasty will never stand on the sidelines!" Dong Bai's face paled instantly. As a strategist, she could still understand Yuan Shao's words: no matter what the reason is, or what the process is , Cao Cao invaded Qingzhou and put Yuan Shao on the brazier.Even though Yuan Shao didn't want to go to war, he could only fight back brazenly for the sake of his own reputation and the prestige of the power.

Just like the eyes of the whole world were on the Han Dynasty at the beginning, Liu Xie could only attack brazenly even if he didn't want to fight any actions that dared to challenge the authority of the Han Dynasty. You can't just start from your own point of view, but also consider the impact of this matter.

"Han Dynasty?" Yuan Shao shook the secret letter in his hand at this moment, and couldn't help but smiled slightly: "Isn't there still a coup to be resolved? What's more, since you are fighting for fame, why don't you do your best?"

(End of this chapter)