Chapter 856

The seat of Jizhou, which was the provincial capital city, was in Gao Yi County, Anping Kingdom.

This day, the civil and military officials of Jizhou in Gao Yi, various clerks, assistants, commandants, etc., all gathered at Han Fu's residence.

Looking at the civil and military officials below, Han Fu sighed in his heart, but still ordered people to pass around the letter that Wang Yan had forwarded, in which Yuan Shao invited Wang Yan to head south to plot for Jizhou together.

He asked: "Now Yuan Shao wants to invite the Wang thief to plot for Jizhou together. The Wang thief sent the letter here. What do you gentlemen think I should do?"

The civil and military officials below looked at each other, and a martial general spoke first. This person's surname was Zhang, his name was He, and his courtesy name was Junyi. He was a Military Sima under Han Fu.

"My Lord, Yuan Shao must not know that the Wang thief forwarded the letter to us. His ambition has been revealed, and he wants to plot for Jizhou; he cannot be kept for long. I think it's better to find an excuse, send an envoy to invite him to Gao Yi, and set up an ambush of swordsmen to kill him."

"No." As soon as Zhang He's voice fell, a scholar refuted. This person was Shen Pei, courtesy name Zheng Nan. Although he participated in discussions, he was not reused by Han Fu. He said, "The Yuan family has been three excellencies for four generations, and their students and old acquaintances are all over the world. Many people present have received favors from the Yuan family. Now that the plot has been leaked, Yuan Shao must know about it, and the plan cannot succeed."

This statement was sprayed by others. This was clearly saying that others were secretly communicating with Yuan Shao. It was strange if they didn't scold him.

It was precisely because of this reason that he was not reused by Han Fu; he was too straight. His original fate was also not to surrender to old Cao after Guandu, and he was beheaded by old Cao. This was a stubborn person with persistence and backbone.

But to say that he thought more about the people, that was thinking too much. At most, he was like Liu Yu, not bullying the people, and restraining himself from persecuting the people, which was not bad. People of this era did not think that the people were equal existences that could talk to them.

It seemed that some rulers two thousand years later were also like this, although their slogans were shouted very loudly...

Someone hummed: "Zheng Nan speaks like this, he must have a good plan, why not speak freely."

Shen Pei was scolded for a long time. Not to mention his thin, knife-like face, even his sparse eyebrows didn't move. Now that he was asked to speak a good plan, he said very calmly to Han Fu with a bow: "Pei thinks that although My Lord is the Jizhou Shepherd, your foundation is still shallow, and the hearts of the subordinates, local powerful families, and officials are difficult to unify. You have already lost the advantages of location and people.

Although Yuan Shao is the Bohai Commandery Governor, his family is noble, he was the leader of the crusade against Dong, and he has a wide reputation. The powerful families and officials of Jizhou all admire him, and he has won the hearts of the people. Although he lacks the advantage of location, the advantage of people is much greater than My Lord's. If the two families fight, My Lord has little chance of winning.

Moreover, in the north, the Wang thief is watching like a tiger. If the two families fight, the one who reaps the benefits will surely be the Wang thief. He is a rebel of the Great Han and absolutely cannot let him reap the benefits. My Lord can sit here because the Wang thief has just obtained Youzhou and the people are destitute and need to comfort the people's strength. Otherwise, the Wang thief would have already raised troops to head south. He has been deeply cultivating in Liaodong for many years, with abundant products, rich people, and well-equipped troops. The previous confrontation in Xu Shui and Baxian has already shown the army under his command, which acts with discipline and strict military discipline. If they really fight, My Lord is definitely not the Wang thief's enemy.

Therefore, Pei thinks that My Lord might as well give Jizhou to Yuan Shao. This will not hurt the harmony, and it will avoid the damage to the vitality caused by the clash of swords and soldiers, and not give the Wang thief an opportunity. If Yuan Shao masters Jizhou, My Lord can still live. If the Wang thief takes Jizhou, My Lord will surely die without a doubt. Gongsun Zan's end is a warning; My Lord should think about it carefully..."

It was no wonder Shen Pei was not reused. What he said had three meanings: Han Fu was not good, not as popular as Yuan Shao, and his hard power was not as good as Wang Yan's, and he would be killed by Wang Yan and made into a skeleton for people to play with.

Han Fu's face turned green. Indeed, he was clear that he was indeed not good, and his control over Jizhou was not enough.

Before, he resisted the Wang thief, which was all due to the Wang thief being too fierce, and the powerful families and officials of Jizhou were also afraid that Wang Yan would kill them, so they could pull out an army of fifty thousand. But if he fought Yuan Shao, he only had twenty thousand troops under his command, and it was possible that someone would lead the team to surrender.

On the other hand, he was the Jizhou Shepherd arranged by Dong Zhuo. If he hadn't led troops to fight Dong Zhuo together before, his position as Jizhou Shepherd would not be stable. Now, even if he went, if he faced Yuan Shao, it would be useless, and it would still not be stable. If they really fought, it was possible that someone would take his head to surrender.

So letting him kill Yuan Shao, he didn't dare, letting him fight Yuan Shao, he didn't have confidence, but letting him give Jizhou to Yuan Shao, he was not reconciled.

The situation was such a situation, but Shen Pei said it, which was not right. He was also a dignified Jizhou Shepherd, didn't he want face?

However, compared to watching the show before, the green-faced Han Fu, the Guo Tu, Feng Ji, and others who had just sprayed Shen Pei were silent. After looking at each other, a group of people bowed to the green-faced Han Fu and said: "Zheng Nan's words are very right, I hope My Lord thinks about it carefully."

In such a situation, one could tell at a glance who was leaning toward Yuan Shao. Han Fu's face turned even greener.

"Discuss it later!"

He couldn't help but hum, flicked his sleeves and left...

Shen Pei's words were correct. The matter they discussed this day didn't take a few days to reach Yuan Shao's desk.

*Slap*...

After reading the situation written in the letter, Yuan Shao snorted coldly and slapped the table in front of him forcefully: "The Wang thief is a humble person, truly not keeping his word. In the previous letter, he talked about stopping the troops, saying that he could feign an attack on Han Fu to help me enter and take over Jizhou. Now I wrote to this thief, and he actually forwarded the letter to Han Fu. He really deserves to die."

After scolding, he passed the letter to his subordinates to read, and asked, "Han Fu originally had precautions, and now my plot has been revealed, he will surely be more cautious. What should I do?"

After a moment of silence, someone said: "The Wang thief did not respond. We had expected this before sending the letter. His land tax is ten percent, and there are no other taxes, so grain and fodder are already insufficient. I also heard that he is building warships and sending elite troops to sea to find good seeds, which consumes a lot. Therefore, within three or four years, he will certainly stay put, otherwise he will collapse on his own, so he is not worth worrying about now.

My plot has been revealed, and it is also not worth worrying about. Not to mention the powerful families of Jizhou, even the powerful families of the world all look toward the Yuan family. My Lord can raise a majestic righteous army and head straight to Gao Yi. Since Han Fu is hesitant, My Lord can help him make a decision. Now the hearts of the people are toward me, the general trend is with me, and wherever I pass, people will surely come to surrender, and Han Fu will surely offer Jizhou. Even if he doesn't, with Generals Yan and Wen, it will be invincible, and Jizhou can be set."

As soon as this statement came out, it won the unanimous approval of everyone in the tent, especially Yan Liang and Wen Chou, who were shouting to ask for battle. They were proud of their invincible martial arts. To show the value of martial generals, only by fighting, fighting big battles.

After a lot of noise, Yuan Shao hesitated for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and made a decision: "Pass my military order, immediately reorganize the army, Yan Liang leads the vanguard... Cook the meal at the third watch tomorrow, and advance to Gao Yi."

Yuan Shao was good at planning but poor at deciding. It was not difficult to make this decision. Poor at deciding was when making major choices. Although it was very important now, relatively speaking, he had no other choices.

There were two reasons. One was that his subordinates' thoughts were unified, and now there was no other way to choose except to send troops. The second was that he didn't look down on Han Fu, and this decision had no difficulty.

Another point was that he didn't have so many strategists under him now, unlike later, when he received Jizhou, recruited some, and some came to defect, and there were many capable people under him, and all kinds of messy things came, and everyone had their own reasons. Only then would the flaws in his character be displayed...

Following Yuan Shao's order, except for the five thousand troops defending Quanzhou, the troops in other places were all assembled. Twenty thousand people couldn't be stationed in Fuyang all the time. At most, there were a few thousand standing troops. Yan Liang led these troops to set off first, and then he had to recruit troops, slowly follow up, and become the middle and rear armies.

Of course, this was the situation of fighting Han Fu. Originally, he occupied the advantage of people, so Yuan Shao was still confident in his heart. Otherwise, he would definitely assemble a large army first and then send troops to fight.

The progress of the matter was not unexpected. Wherever Yuan Shao's army passed, they didn't encounter any decent resistance, almost flat-pushing all the way. Later, Yan Liang encountered Zhang He leading troops to block, and the two fought for dozens of rounds without beating Yan Liang, leading the army to retreat and defend.

Zhang He was still very interesting. His combat effectiveness was not weak, and he could be considered a member of the first-class team, but he couldn't be considered the peak, belonging to the position of goalkeeper. In the battle with the Liu Bei group, he was repeatedly hammered. And he had the same problem as old Cao, which was that he was suspicious, and if there was any disturbance, he would run.

He would press and fight the ones he could beat to death, fight hard with those of similar level, and not retreat easily. If he encountered those he couldn't beat, he would turn around and run without hesitation. It was precisely because of his clear situation and decisive running that he was called a wise general, and he lived quite long.

At first, he surrendered to old Cao, and for a long time, he belonged to a partial general, the second or third in command of a unit. Little by little, the ones who could fight under old Cao were almost gone, and he moved up to become a main general who could lead the army alone. This was the benefit of being able to live.

At the same time, Gao Yi knew that Zhang He didn't beat Yan Liang and could only defend. The troops stationed in Xu Shui and Baxian could not move. For a time, everyone was persuading Han Fu to offer Jizhou and surrender.

At this time, Han Fu also understood that the general trend was gone. A dignified Jizhou Shepherd, in front of Yuan Shao, didn't even have the ability to resist. However, he didn't surrender and wait for Yuan Shao's disposal. It was already very shameful, and he didn't want to be more shameful. So he took his family and dozens of family soldiers he raised, just like the original, and went south to take refuge with Zhang Miao.

This was actually not a good choice. A better choice was, since he was afraid of death and had already lost face, he might as well lose more face and directly offer Jizhou to surrender to Yuan Shao. For the sake of reputation, Yuan Shao would absolutely not make things difficult for Han Fu and would give him an idle official position. This was much better than surrendering to Zhang Miao.

Han Fu's failure was certainly not due to his incompetence. To get to where he was, there was no such thing as a fool. Of course, his ability was certainly insufficient, and he could not integrate power. And this power was the ruling class of Jizhou, the powerful families, officials, rich households, and landlords. He had no effective means to check and balance them and control them.

His failure was also precisely due to the abandonment of the powerful families of Jizhou. In this regard, Yuan Shao, the concubine-born of the Yuan family, was more popular with the powerful families than Han Fu. After all, the Yuan family had been three excellencies for four generations, which was almost the head of the powerful families of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This influence was very terrible.

Of course, it was also mainly because his opponent was Yuan Shao. If it were changed to Wang Yan, it would be two different things. It would definitely be civil and military working together, up and down in one heart, having people and grain, and working hard to fight the Wang thief.

It was precisely because Wang Yan was really doing the work of eliminating them, which was an absolute struggle for survival. It was also because Wang Yan chose the opportunity well, coming out during the Huang Jin Uprising, running to Liaodong to avoid the blow, and paying money to eliminate disasters in time. Plus, during these years, peasant uprisings in various places were endless, and rebellions occurred, which preserved the fruits of the early stage of entrepreneurship and seized the opportunity of the warlords in the Central Plains to fight each other, sending troops south to take all of Youzhou.

But if it were ten or eight years earlier, when he raised the banner of eliminating powerful families, he would have encountered a powerful blow from the Great Han and must have killed him. Of course, if it were at that time, he would not do this and would definitely take the official career as the priority.

Regardless, Yuan Shao took all the land of Jizhou and began to realize what he said to Cao Cao: annex Hebei Jizhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou, then south to hold the Yellow River, north to swallow the elite cavalry of Wuhuan and Xianbei, and then south to fight for the world.

Of course, that was before, he hadn't come into contact with the Wang thief. Now that he saw the appearance of the elite soldiers under the Wang thief, although he also had this idea, he definitely couldn't do it in a short time, but the strategy was definitely still this strategy.

In the original time, what he said was realized by Cao Cao, precisely after Guandu, pacifying Liaodong. Although Ma Teng and Han Sui were not settled, the land of the Central Plains was all under his control. The Battle of Red Cliffs was the war to fight for the world in the south, but he didn't win. If he won, it would basically be a battle to decide the world.

Yuan Shao taking Jizhou was naturally shocking to the world. Because this was not the original, Gongsun Zan fighting Han Fu, and Han Fu actively looking for Yuan Shao, but Yuan Shao raising troops to fight over. The difference here was one hundred and eight thousand *li*, which could also be regarded as the beginning of the warlords attacking each other.

Although Yuan Shu had sent Sun Jian to fight Liu Biao, or because of the Imperial Seal, Yuan Shu communicated with Liu Biao to let him fight Sun Jian, but the impact was local and could not reach the level of Yuan Shao.

The news spread, and Cao Cao, who was fighting the Yellow Turbans, immediately contacted his former boss to renew their friendship. And Liu Bei, who was studying how to achieve great things in Xuzhou and working for Tao Qian for the time being, couldn't help but feel a sense of urgency, but had no way to deal with it. He could only suppress the anxiety in his heart and continue to make friends with the powerful families of Xuzhou...

The news reached Wang Yan, and he was not surprised at all. Because Han Fu was not strong, not to the level of old Cao, and didn't have Yuan Shao's reputation. It was normal for the powerful families not to support him.

"This must be the powerful families of Jizhou making trouble. Yuan Shao entering and taking over Jizhou is all done by them." Guo Jia said very firmly. He was not stupid, and he understood this kind of thing at a glance.

"Yuan Shao was heroic and connected to the four seas when he was young, had the spirit of a knight-errant, saved the endangered and helped the difficult, and had a reputation. This is not strange." Wang Yan shook his head with a smile, "This is also good. Without seeing a big war, a lot of people's strength is preserved. Now that the advantage is with me, he will definitely concentrate on development, plot for my You and Liao lands, stabilize the rear, and slowly plot to head south. We also need time to develop, which is very good."

"Now it is the time of autumn harvest. There are agricultural doctors promoting farming methods and improving good seeds. Liaodong is a big harvest, and the grain production in Youzhou is also a little more abundant than in previous years. After the autumn harvest, is the General going to use troops in Bingzhou?"

Wang Yan looked at him with a smile: "What does Fengxiao mean?"

"Jia requests to go to Pingcheng and take all of Bingzhou." Guo Jia bowed, actively requesting to fight.

The value of a martial general lies in fighting, and the value of a strategist lies in fighting, or a higher-level saying is struggle. Guo Jia still liked to make plans, plot cities and seize land, unlike now, which was rigid. Many times he felt tied up.

Because Grand General Wang established a sound system and had perfect work procedures, there was too little room for free play. His nature was still inclined to romance, yearning for free display, and exerting the dragon-slaying technique in his chest...