Chapter 294

After leaving Luoyang city, Su Xuan parted ways with them.

"Brother Wentai! Brother Mengde! Take care! Farewell!"

Saying this, Su Xuan took his troops and set off to the south.

As for Sun Sun Jian being stubborn and refusing to admit it?

Su Xuan didn't care anymore.

Anyway, it wasn't him who was going to die.

On the way,

Guo Jia couldn't help but ask: "My Lord, did you take a fancy to Sun Sun Jian's generals?"

"Oh?"

Su Xuan looked at Guo Jia in surprise: "Guo Fengxiao, why do you say that?"

"Hehe!"

Guo Jia smiled mysteriously: "My Lord, you are not a meddlesome person on weekdays, and you basically won't risk offending people to give advice to others;"

"But today you did exactly that, knowing that saying this would make Sun Sun Jian hold a grudge and be dissatisfied, you still talked about the Jade Seal;"

"Although what you said was the truth, and it was even more of a concern for Sun Sun Jian, Sun Sun Jian might not appreciate it right now;"

"I guess only when he is killed by this Imperial Jade Seal, on his deathbed, will he remember your advice to him today and remember this favor!"

"Perhaps, he will tell his descendants to remember your kindness, my Lord, and surrender to you, who knows!"

Xu Chu on the side was speechless.

Smart people think too much!

You can think so far ahead from just a few words from the Lord?

He was also convinced.

"As expected, I must never offend people like Guo Fengxiao in the future, otherwise, I wouldn't even know how I was plotted to death!"

Xu Chu thought vigilantly in his heart.

"Haha! You kid!"

Su Xuan laughed, pointed at Guo Jia, and nodded affirmatively: "Correct! I did have this idea, which is why I said that!"

"However, whether it succeeds or not is yet to be known!"

"Perhaps, Sun Ce and the others will surrender to Lord Yuan Shu in the end, and rely on him to plan and then act, who knows!"

"Future things are not certain!"

"I have calculated that Sun Sun Jian's two sons are not easy to deal with, and their ambitions are no less than Sun Sun Jian's;"

"Therefore, the chance of this succeeding is not high."

"Giving a hint can be considered my compensation for swapping and transferring the hidden dangers!"

"As for him not accepting it, that's none of my business."

However, Su Xuan was actually thinking in his heart that with this favor, would it be easier to take Sun Sun Jian's daughter in the future?

Of course, he wouldn't say this out loud.

Otherwise, not only would Guo Jia despise him, but if Sun Sun Jian knew, he would probably want to fight him to the death.

"Then I guess if Sun Sun Jian knew the truth, he would be grateful to you to death, my Lord? Hehe!"

Guo Jia also laughed cunningly.

Taking the real Imperial Jade Seal, transferring all the hidden dangers to the fake one, and letting someone else get it.

He lacked virtue, but wanted to use a hint to brush it off.

It's a good thing Sun Sun Jian doesn't know, otherwise he would really have to fight Su Xuan to the death.

Guo Jia could only sigh in his heart: "Don't offend anyone, don't offend a god-like person like the Lord!"

Because you don't know when you will fall into someone else's plot.

"Let him be!"

Su Xuan saw some of Guo Jia's thoughts, but shook his head indifferently: "I've given all the hints I should! He is greedy himself, who can he blame?"

"This person's ability is indeed not small, but his ambition is even greater;"

"When your ability cannot match your ambition, that is when you will suffer!"

"So! It is precious for a person to have self-knowledge, to be clear about where their own ability's limit is, and then, to match their ambition according to their own limit, that is the smartest way."

Anything that exceeds the scope of control will become a disaster.

"Indeed!"

Guo Jia nodded in agreement: "But people are often conceited, and there are not many people who can truly examine themselves like this, and restrain their desires and ambitions like this."

Such people often have high achievements in the end, and their endings are basically relatively good.

For example, Wang Sun Jian of the Great Qin, Zhang Liang of the Great Han... etc.

Su Xuan spent several hours before he arrived at Yique Pass and caught up with Huang Zhong and the others.

Afterward, he escorted a large number of people to Nanyang together with Huang Zhong and the others.

In Luoyang,

Seeing that his lord had been frowning, Yang Hong became anxious and hurriedly found Lord Yuan Shu to persuade him: "My Lord! We cannot continue to delay here!"

"We must rush back to Nanyang to preside over the overall situation and guard against Su Xuan!"

"You must know that the campaign against Dong has ended. Next, Su Xuan will probably not have any scruples and will definitely go to war with us to seize Nanyang."

"If we go back late, Nanyang will probably have already changed hands!"

Had his lord not considered these things at all?

"What?"

Lord Yuan Shu's face changed drastically, he slapped his thigh, and said in panic: "Bad! I forgot about this! Quick! Immediately pass my military order, order the army to prepare to break camp immediately, we will set off today;"

"I heard that Su Xuan took the Yique Pass trail, we will take the Hulao Pass side, and return to Nanyang through Yingchuan;"

"Although the distance is a bit further, they are all main roads, and the speed will definitely be faster than Su Xuan's. We should be able to arrive back in Nanyang before him."

Nanyang must absolutely not be lost just like that.

Although he knew that Nanyang would be lost sooner or later.

But how it is lost must be according to his own rhythm.

He was still preparing to relocate the population of Nanyang, and then negotiate with Su Xuan to sell the territory of Nanyang to Su Xuan in a package!

If it were directly occupied by Su Xuan, he would suffer a huge loss.

No matter what, he must at least earn back the costs he had invested in Nanyang over the years several times over, right?

Nanyang can be lost, but he can only leave a blank Nanyang for Su Xuan.

Only in this way can he weaken Su Xuan, otherwise his strength will continue to expand rapidly in a short period of time.

Otherwise, how can he close the gap with him and surpass him in a short period of time?

"Yes!"

Yang Hong saw that his lord had finally reacted, was overjoyed, hurriedly agreed, and after taking the seal from Lord Yuan Shu, hurried away.

Lord Yuan Shu found Lord Yuan Shao and explained his intention.

"I must return to Nanyang as soon as possible to preside over the overall situation, leave the rest to you! Especially the matter of dealing with Sun Sun Jian!"

"Done!"

Lord Yuan Shao nodded without thinking: "Then go quickly! Don't let Su Xuan get ahead of you."

He was very happy to use Lord Yuan Shu to check and weaken Su Xuan.

In this way, Su Xuan's strength would not be allowed to increase too much before he had grown his own strength to a sufficient level.

Otherwise, it would be a headache to deal with Su Xuan by then.

Uniting vertically and horizontally, that's all it is.

"Hmm! I'm leaving!"

Lord Yuan Shu didn't say anything more and left directly.

If it weren't for the need to use Lord Yuan Shao to deal with Sun Sun Jian, he wouldn't have bothered to come and say goodbye to Lord Yuan Shao!

Disgusting!

And the conversation between Lord Yuan Shao and Lord Yuan Shu was received by the secret guards hidden near Luoyang city for the first time.

— Author's Notes —

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