The envoys from the four kingdoms returned to their respective commanders and elaborated on the rude treatment they had received, which finally completely angered the commanders of the four kingdoms.
If nothing else, even Li Min was angered.
"I thought that Yuan Gongli was the son of the fourth and third prince Yuan, so there must be something extraordinary about him, but it turned out to be so extraordinary! Good! Very good! If I continue to hesitate, I'm afraid I will be killed by Yuan Shu next time! "
Li Min shook his hand and smashed the water glass in his hand to the ground. He immediately sent someone to report the matter to the Luoyang court. At the same time, he expressed his surrender to Liu Bei, congratulated the emperor on his accession to the throne and recognized Ying. Sichuan County recognized the emperor and further requested the Luoyang court to send troops for reinforcements.
He was worried that the army he had hastily recruited would not be Yuan Shu's opponent and would be harmed by Yuan Shu sooner or later, so he asked the Luoyang court and Liu Bei to send troops to support him and help him defend Yingchuan County to prevent Yingchuan County and himself from being harmed by Yuan Shu. of persecution.
At the same time, the major Confucian families in Yingchuan County mobilized their connections in Luoyang to lobby Liu Bei. Chen Qun and Zhong Yao, who served as generals, made suggestions to Liu Bei to protect Yingchuan County.
They believed that Yingchuan County was the gateway to Luoyang and the only way for the traitor Yuan Shu to attack Luoyang. If Yingchuan County could not be saved, Luoyang would inevitably be in danger.
To put it bluntly, there was no other reason. All the sects and so on were just excuses. They were just afraid that Liu Bei would not send troops to Yingchuan, and wanted to sit back and watch Yingchuan County and Yuan Shu fight to the death and both sides would be injured.
When Liu Bei learned the news, news about the other three counties was also sent to him.
After learning about this, Liu Bei did not laugh in front of everyone, but in private he almost burst into tears from laughter.
He talked about it to Jia Xu, Xun You, Cheng Li and others who accompanied him to discuss the matter. He wiped away tears and suppressed laughter, feeling very uncomfortable and uncomfortable.
"I thought Yuan Shu could do something shocking, but he actually... actually handed over the four counties to me! Hahahahaha! Hahahahahaha! To be honest, I really love it to death Yuan Jiujiu! If all the enemies in the world were like Yuan Jiujiu, the big man would have been at peace long ago! Hahahaha!"
Liu Bei laughed a little out of control, but in the eyes of his confidants, it didn't matter, because they also wanted to laugh and laughed very loudly.
After everyone laughed together, Jia Xu wiped his tears and said to Liu Bei: "Yuan Shu is really just a disciple of Gaoliang. You can sit back and relax."
Liu Bei wiped his eyes and waved his hand.
"No, no, no, how can I sit back and relax? Although I despise them, I can't underestimate them. Otherwise, what's the difference between them and me? I will attach great importance to them. I will always attach great importance to them until they are buried safely. I will never underestimate them." We won’t give them the slightest chance to make a comeback.”
Jia Xu put away his smile.
"What the prince said is true, but Xu made a mistake."
"It doesn't matter, they are indeed not formidable opponents."
Liu Bei smiled and said: "It can only be said that they really have no experience in facing the people of the world directly. They are too self-righteous. Yuan Shu is stupid, and Yuan Shao is only a little better than him."
There is nothing wrong with what Liu Bei said.
The news he learned about Jizhou not long ago showed that Yuan Shao was really just a little better than Yuan Shu. He had not yet posed a threat to Luoyang. There were threats everywhere around him, and New enemies are constantly being created.
For example, he actually tried to attack the Zhen family.
The main purpose of Yuan Shao's eunuch purge was to gain support and obtain resources.
Unlike Yuan Shu, he has the political endorsement of the Yuan family and can mobilize a large amount of family resources to help build the army. He has few resources and only has the advantage of being named Yuan, which is incomparable with Yuan Shu.
Without the investment of real money, everyone is not a fool and will not follow him so easily. In addition, Han Fu has run away, and no one has given him a serious name. Everyone looks at him, and he looks at everyone, with big eyes and small eyes. Eyes, very embarrassed.
The situation at that time was indeed very bad.
Therefore, the strategy proposed by Tian Feng was used by Yuan Shao's divergent thinking, which promoted the purge of the eunuchs in Jizhou and attracted a group of jealous monsters to become his die-hard supporters.
Using the resources obtained from this eunuch purge not only satisfied some needs of the local people in Jizhou, but also made the local families in Jizhou who participated in the action lose the possibility of peace talks with the Luoyang court, and could only follow Yuan Shao to the dark side. .
Unless Liu Bei of Luoyang also begins to purge the eunuch forces and industries, it will never be possible for the Luoyang court to negotiate peace with the anti-eunuch forces in Jizhou.
So there is no such thing as a free lunch. If you take advantage, of course you have to pay a price.
In order to support Yuan Shao, these Jizhou families paid real money to help Yuan Shao recruit troops. They also provided a lot of human resources to support Yuan Shao and sent some tribesmen with civil and military skills to help Yuan Shao build a political power.
It was at this time that Yuan Shao discovered the trap that Han Fu had laid for him before leaving, and learned that Mengjin's 10,000 crossbowmen had been dismissed by Han Fu.
He was very angry, thinking that Han Fu was an ungrateful white-eyed wolf, and cursed Han Fu for being ungrateful and a pure bastard. If he hits Luoyang one day, he will make Han Fu pay the price.
But right now, he also needs to pay a lot of money to maintain an army.
If there is no ready-made army, then he will recruit the original soldiers from various counties to form an army.
Although the soldiers are not regular soldiers, they are still armed personnel. They have experience and do not even know how to use weapons.
A few handymen in each county were not enough. He had to continue to recruit strong men to join the army, and he was busy building connections to find people for help.
When forming the army, he found that Jizhou's treasury was not sufficient and funds were relatively scarce. The reason was that Han Fu had done a lot of civil engineering projects when he was the governor of Jizhou and spent a lot of money to restore local production, but he had not yet arrived. During harvest time, the treasury is relatively empty.
So Yuan Shao hated Han Fu even more.
But building an army requires money and a lot of food. In addition to the support of various counties, he can only reach out to the major families. Even so, he cannot get enough resources, so he starts to use his crooked ideas.
It is inappropriate to force a large family to hand over resources. Yuan Shao will not do this, but using his existing resources to exchange interests with them may be a suitable method.
What resources does he have?
He originally had three sons, Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi, and Yuan Shang, who were not married yet. This was a very good political resource. If these three sons were used to marry local families in Jizhou, they could naturally leverage their family resources. .
Unfortunately, his three sons are all dead now. They died during the Luoyang mutiny and were killed by Jian Shuo, Zhang Rang and others, which made him heartbroken and heartbroken.
But Yuan Shu's spiritual victory method still slightly affected Yuan Shao.
He is still a man, a strong man, and has great fertility.
Therefore, as long as he is alive, he can have a wife and children at any time. Using himself as a resource, he can leverage this party's interests!
so! Yuan Benchu’s great body, come and take it away!
In order to obtain better benefits, he began to select powerful families in Jizhou. He must choose those with strong strength and wealth, so that he can obtain enough wealth as support.
After some selection, he selected the Wen family of Bohai County, the Wu family of Wei County, the Zhen family of Zhongshan State, and four other large and powerful families.
Taken together, all seven of the most powerful families in Jizhou were favored by him.
He made a request for marriage to them, and wanted to hold an event similar to an auction, allowing these families to bid and use the "dowry" they could give to bid for the position of his head wife, Yuan Benchu.
Whoever gives the most will have the position of head wife; whoever gives less will have to settle for the position of concubine.
Among these families, Yuan Shao is more concerned about the Zhen family.
The Zhen family has two thousand stones from generation to generation. It is a very wealthy family. It is said that they have joined Liu Bei's line, so they have gained more benefits. The family has become more prosperous. Later, they married Liu Bei, so they became a giant in Jizhou. No one dares to mess with the family.
But he, Yuan Shaodu, and Liu Bei were openly confronting each other. They were both life-and-death enemies. Now that a huge Zhen family was in Jizhou, he absolutely couldn't pretend he didn't see it.
He was worried that the Zhen family would be against him, and he also coveted the Zhen family's wealth. He thought that if he could get hold of the Zhen family's resources, he would be able to have more money.
How to get it?
fight?
He felt that this was not good. If it caused a chain reaction, it would be very bad. Moreover, it is normal for big families to diversify their investments these days. What if the Zhen family is a family that is good at adapting?
Being able to obtain it through peaceful means saves a lot of trouble. As long as the Zhen family can see the situation clearly, he doesn't want to do too much conquest.
So he sent people to have some discussions with the Zhen family, hoping that the Zhen family could see the situation clearly, stop making unnecessary struggles, marry them honestly, and hand over the family resources, otherwise what awaits them would be the Yuan family. Iron fist.
Besides, isn't it a glorious thing to marry me, Yuan Benchu?
