Chapter 295

They passed the news to Su Xuan for the first time.

Su Xuan, who was dozens of miles away, received the news soon.

"Heh!"

Su Xuan just smiled slightly after hearing the report from Jia San: "There are still some capable people under Lord Yuan Shu! This Yang Hong is not completely trash;"

"At least he knows he should go back early to prepare! That's quite good!"

"It just happens to suit my wishes!"

Xu Chu blinked in confusion, indicating that he didn't understand at all.

Zhao Yun, on the other hand, pondered while stroking his chin: "My Lord, could it be that you deliberately wanted Lord Yuan Shu to return to Nanyang as soon as possible?"

"But this doesn't benefit us in taking Nanyang, right?"

"No, no!"

Before Su Xuan could speak, Guo Jia on the side raised a finger and shook it: "What the Lord is aiming for is not just Nanyang, he has taken a fancy to Lord Yuan Shu... cough cough! To be precise, he has taken a fancy to Lord Yuan Shu's family wealth!"

"Preparing to take the opportunity to capture Lord Yuan Shu's troops and generals again, and this time, even Lord Yuan Shu, the Lord is prepared to capture him, and let him spend money and grain to redeem himself, am I right?"

After finishing, Guo Jia looked at Su Xuan.

Others also looked over one after another.

"Haha! He who knows me is Guo Guo Fengxiao!"

Su Xuan laughed loudly: "Correct! It is because of this!"

"What's the point of just taking Nanyang and repelling Lord Yuan Shu?"

"The Lord Yuan family has been in power for four generations and three dukes, how much wealth have they accumulated?"

"If I don't extort some more from Lord Yuan Shu, how can I be at ease?"

"Uh..."

Xu Chu was confused: "Wouldn't it be better to just kill Lord Yuan Shu and then occupy his old nest in Runan?"

"That way, everything he has would be yours, my Lord!"

"No!"

Su Xuan shook his head: "Now is not the time to completely eliminate Lord Yuan Shu, he still has considerable utility value;"

"Eliminating him directly at this time will only attract the attention and hostility of other warlords, making them all see us as the greatest threat;"

"It might even cause them to unite against me;"

"This is not what I want!"

"Low-key development and expansion is what I want!"

"Moreover, we have only just taken Jingzhou not long ago, and most of the talents we have cultivated have already been used. After taking Nanyang, the accumulated officials and talents will basically be exhausted!"

"It won't be so easy to continue to expand the territory rapidly!"

Yeah! It's not that it's completely impossible to expand, if we squeeze a bit, expanding a few more commanderies is not a problem.

It's just that there will be a shortage of manpower, which is easy to cause omissions in the reform.

It can be completely slower.

As long as he waits for a year or a year and a half, he will have another large batch of talents available.

Now, his academy and schools at all levels have taken shape, and he is still expanding schools in various commanderies of Jingzhou recently.

In the future, the speed at which he cultivates talents will only get faster and faster.

No need to rush for this moment.

It just so happens that he can use this time to further develop and build Jingzhou, cash in on many of the technologies accumulated before, and complete the industrial upgrading of Jingzhou.

Of course, not killing Lord Yuan Shu is more importantly because he needs Lord Yuan Shu to be the first to declare himself emperor in the future, and take on the final curse and backlash of the Great Han's destiny!

After that, he can expand crazily without any scruples.

"Hmm! By then, I can also start to build my fortune dynasty system."

Su Xuan thought to himself.

With the blessing of the fortune dynasty system, he will be able to control everything in his territory without leaving his house, and eliminate any hidden dangers.

"So that's it!"

Xu Chu realized: "Then it's better to be slower."

"Haha!"

At this time, Guo Jia said happily: "Zhongkang, you still don't understand the Lord!"

"It's not just because of this;"

"The Lord Yuan family's wealth alone is indeed not small, but the Lord has already pitted them once before. Plus the Lord Yuan family's investment over the years, if we really capture Lord Yuan Shu and his troops in Nanyang again, he might not have enough money and grain on his own for a while."

"By then, I guess he will have to ask the gentry and powerful clans of Yuzhou to donate!"

"That is the big head!"

"If we directly take Yuzhou, we don't have a suitable reason to move the money and grain of many gentry and powerful clans;"

"It's better to do as planned now, let Lord Yuan Shu borrow it, and levy it;"

"By then, the one who owes the debt is Lord Yuan Shu, the one who benefits is us, and we can also weaken the gentry and powerful clans of Yuzhou by the way. It's simply killing many birds with one stone!"

It can only be said that the Lord's heart is black!

Guo Jia mourned for Lord Yuan Shu for a second in his heart.

Encountering a black-hearted person like the Lord, he can only blame his own bad luck.

If Lord Yuan Shu were smart enough, he should have withdrawn from Nanyang long ago.

Unfortunately, he didn't.

Then he can only blame his own bad luck.

Who told him not to see the situation clearly?

"Hiss!"

Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun also realized.

So that's how it is!

The Lord is really black-hearted!

But they like it!

"Uh... isn't this the same as last time?"

"I remember last time when we captured Ji Ling and Sun Sun Jian, it was also Lord Yuan Shu who ran to borrow money and grain from the gentry and powerful clans of Nanyang."

Xu Chu widened his eyes.

Can this strategy be used twice in a row?

Is this Lord Yuan Shu a bit too stupid?

Knowing that he can't beat the Lord, he still dares to occupy Nanyang and not return it, and not run.

Xu Chu respects Lord Yuan Shu as a man.

However, doesn't this opportunity to make a contribution come again?

He likes it!

He secretly swore in his heart that he would work hard later, strive to capture Lord Yuan Shu, make a great contribution, and earn more merit points.

"It is the same! This is a good idea that kills many birds with one stone! I think it can be used more in the future!"

Guo Jia nodded affirmatively.

"Just this time!"

Su Xuan shook his head: "Other warlords are not like Lord Yuan Shu."

"Uh... that's true! What a pity!"

Guo Jia was stunned for a moment, then nodded helplessly.

Indeed, there is only one Lord Yuan Shu who is so stupid and so easy to fool.

Because of the burden of hundreds of thousands of people, Su Xuan's side was indeed not moving fast.

It took more than a day to arrive at Yangrenju from Yique Pass.

Then, Su Xuan temporarily settled these hundreds of thousands of people here.

He didn't plan to let them enter Nanyang or various commanderies of Jingzhou for the time being.

Instead, he left Huang Zhong and Guo Jia here.

He took Old Dian Wei, Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, as well as the Xuanwu Camp, part of the Xuanjia Army, and 3, 00 Qinglong Camp soldiers to leave Yangrenju first, and accelerated to Nanyang.

Getting ahead of Lord Yuan Shu, passing Ye County, entering the Nanyang territory, it took several hours to finally arrive at Xinye.