Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 559
Yuan Shao had already guessed that Cao Cao would not agree to join hands with him so easily, so he said, "Tell me, what does Meng De want?"

Man Chong replied: "The king of Wei wants the king of Jin to give up Qingzhou! Bring Qingzhou into our territory of Wei!"

"can!"

Yuan Shao agreed without even thinking about it. Although the territory of Qingzhou is not small, the people in Qingzhou have long been out of ten. What's more, since Liu Wei attacked Yuan Shao, he has long been indifferent to Qingzhou. Although Qingzhou is in name In Yuan Shao's hands, it has already existed in name only.

"Anything else?"

Yuan Shao asked again.

"Second, although there were no natural and man-made disasters in Yanzhou last year, the harvest was not good. The food was barely enough for the army and the people, but it was not enough for us to send troops. Therefore, the king of Wei wanted the king of Jin to take out 20 shi of grain to supplement the supply of the king of Wei. Bing rations!"

As soon as Man Chong finished speaking, Yuan Shao called out, "What did you say? 20 shi? So much, what do you Cao Cao think of me as a granary?"

"Well, King Jin, you also know that this war will not stop for a while. 20 shi of grain is actually not too much! Once the war starts, there will be casualties, and if there are casualties, the families of the casualties must be compensated. This is not a small fee, plus the rewards for the soldiers who won the battle, and the rewards for the meritorious ministers, all these miscellaneous things add up, 20 grains are not enough for what to do!"

Liu Ye, who was beside Man Chong, counted with Yuan Shao with his fingers, one sum after another, one item after another, even the labor money for cleaning up the excrement was included.

Yuan Shao said to Liu Ye with a livid face, "Are you kidding me? When did Cao Cao pay for the settlement of the soldiers who died in battle? Did he think he was Liu Wei?"

"You don't know this. As far as we know, the reason why the Liaozhou Army fought bravely and fearlessly, and even the last one left did not surrender or run away. The families of the soldiers who died in battle received a lot of housing expenses and subsidies, but the soldiers who fled and surrendered did not, so our King Wei also borrowed Liu Wei’s reward method to give the soldiers who died in battle the housing expenses!”

In fact, half of what Liu Ye said was true and half was false. There was indeed a settling fee, but Cao Cao only gave it to those generals who died in battle. Even if 1 ordinary soldiers died, they would not get a copper. It is to prevent the generals from fleeing and make the soldiers unwilling to fight hard. The second is because the land in Yanzhou has not been liberated from the gentry like Liaozhou, and Cao Cao does not have much money and land in his hands. He would have to die of poverty.

"Okay, okay, even though, as you said, Cao Cao has to pay for the soldiers who died in battle, but he still needs less than 20 shi of grain, right? At most [-], I can't afford more than [-]!"

Yuan Shao didn't want to be taken advantage of by Cao Cao.

Liu Ye thought for a while, and said, "15, King Jin, really need 15, no matter how little it is, we won't have much force to attack Liu Wei!"

"12, no more talk!"

Yuan Shao said.

"13, just 13, not a single point more!"

Liu Ye replied.

"Okay, 13, I can give you 13, but I will give you the food after you fight Liu Weijun!"

Yuan Shao replied.

"This, the King of Jin doesn't know, before we sent troops, Xiahou Dun, the general of the King of Wei, almost captured Liu Wei's son Liu An alive, so, King Jin, you can rest assured that we won't run away after taking your food!"

Man Chong told about Xiahou Dun's encounter with Liu An.

"That doesn't work, you have to fight. If you don't fight, I won't give you food. When you fight, when will we give you food!"

Yuan Shao doesn't care about Liu Wei's son and grandson, if he wants to benefit from him, he has to pay a price, otherwise, there will be no discussion!
"That's fine, anyway, we'll have to fight Liu Wei sooner or later, so we'll ask for food after we fight Liu Wei!"

Man Chong stopped Liu Ye who was still talking, and then said to Yuan Shao with a smile.

"However, since we join forces, we are allies. Therefore, when Liu Wei attacks someone, we must send troops to help the other side! Whether it is Liu Wei attacking the city, or Liu Wei bypassing Yecheng and attacking us!"

Man Chong spoke again.

"this is okay!"

Yuan Shao nodded again.

"Since this is the case, I hope we can repel Liu Wei as soon as possible, and I will do it first as a respect!"

With that said, Man Chong raised the wine bottle, covered his face and drank it in one gulp.

"Okay! I hope we will repel Liu Wei as soon as possible!"

Yuan Shao also raised the wine bottle, and then dried the wine in the wine bottle. "

After everyone talked for a while, Man Chong and Liu Ye got up and asked Yuan Shao to resign, then left the south gate of Ye City and went straight to Cao Cao's camp.

... "Everyone, since Cao Cao and Yuan Shao have reached a consensus to deal with us together, then we can't fight alone, or we should find an ally too!"

In Liu Wei's army, Liu Wei sat in the tent and said to everyone.

"My lord, an ally? Is there anyone in this world who can ally with you?"

Gao Lan asked in surprise.

"What's the matter, is this king a stone in the latrine? No one wants to ally with me!"

Liu Wei didn't even want to pay attention to Gao Lan, this guy, he can't speak, he really can't stop talking.

"Hey, that's not what I meant. I meant that the prince is the tiger in the mountain, and they are the wild wolves. Wolves can gather in packs, but tigers don't come out in packs!"

Gao Lan explained.

"Even if you can talk, otherwise, I have to let you and Xu'er go out to practice!"

Liu Wei slandered in his heart.

"Come on, An'er, tell me, who can I ally with, Father!"

Liu Wei touched Liu An's head, and then asked.

"Reporting to the father, the child thinks that the father should form an alliance with Jiangdong Sun Ce!"

Liu An opened his mouth to answer.

"Tell me, why do I want to form an alliance with Sun Ce!"

Liu Wei nodded in satisfaction. Even if Liu An didn't say anything, he still wanted to form an alliance with Sun Ce. After all, Sun Ce was a man with integrity, and he would not easily commit stabbing in the back. In addition, Yangzhou is adjacent to Xuzhou. Sun Ce can send troops to attack Cao Cao's Xuzhou, distract Cao Cao, and then contain Cao Cao himself. Once Sun Ce takes Xuzhou, he does not believe that Cao Cao will not return to Yanzhou.

"Father, Sun Ce is the hero of the present age. The father and his alliance will not lower their status, and second, Sun Ce can send troops to Xuzhou, contain Cao Cao, let Cao Cao retreat, and we can take Yecheng!"

Liu An spoke out all the thoughts in his heart.

"Hahahaha, as expected of my son. It's exactly the same as I thought, so I'm in an alliance with Sun Ce!"

Liu Wei rubbed Liu An's hair and said with a big smile.

(End of this chapter)