Chapter 358

Dong Zhuo heard this and although he was very unwilling, he still knit his brows: "Letting Xiao Bai become Su Xuan's concubine is absolutely impossible!"

"This is my most beloved granddaughter; Su Xuan does not yet have the qualifications to make Xiao Bai bow low and act small."

"Since a marriage alliance is impossible, then forget it!"

"I believe that with his current situation with Yuan Shu, as long as we wait for him to eliminate Yuan Shu and Sun Jian, and we then promote it, he will still be unable to gain a foothold among the noble clans and warlords;"

"He will still have no choice but to ally with us."

"Even if he is unwilling to ally with me in the end and still wants to deal with me, our family is not afraid of him! Hmph hmph!"

He is no longer the Dong Zhongying of the past.

Today, he commands hundreds of thousands of troops; how many troops does Su Xuan have?

At most, thirty or forty thousand, right?

Not worth mentioning.

Xinye City,

"My Lord! The latest intelligence from Wancheng, please take a look!"

Jia San came to the City Lord's mansion, met Su Xuan, and handed over a piece of intelligence.

Su Xuan immediately took it, read it quickly, and then handed it to Guo Jia and Su Yi beside him: "Take a look, both of you!"

Guo Jia and Su Yi immediately took it and read it quickly.

"Hiss! This Yuan Shu is so ruthless! He directly borrowed 2 million shi of grain and 600,000 gold? What does he want to do?"

The two gasped in unison.

Then, Guo Jia touched his chin and pondered: "This makes no sense! Why would he borrow so much money and grain? This is double the compensation!"

"Not normal! Completely not normal!"

"This guy wouldn't be planning not to pay it back, would he?"

Su Yi heard this and was stunned: "No way! He borrowed this money and grain in the name of the Yuan clan. If he doesn't pay it back in the end, his and the Yuan clan's reputation will suffer no small impact;"

"At the same time, he can forget about gaining a foothold in Nanyang in the future!"

Would Yuan Shu be so short-sighted?

Su Yi thought seriously and found that it wasn't impossible!

After all, that is Yuan Shu.

This guy's brain circuit seems a bit different from ordinary people.

Guo Jia then looked at Su Xuan and asked: "My Lord, you should have intelligence on him making this decision, right? Just tell me, is he planning to become a deadbeat?"

"Hmm!"

Su Xuan smiled and nodded: "Fengxiao, your brain turns fast! Yuan Shu is indeed planning not to pay it back!"

Immediately, Su Xuan recounted the conversation between Yuan Shu and Yan Xiang to Guo Jia and the others, and said: "After Yan Xiang's reminder, Yuan Shu has realized that he cannot beat us for the time being, and Nanyang will be lost sooner or later;"

"Therefore, he made this decision that seems short-sighted but is actually intended to dig up the roots of the Nanyang noble clans and frustrate me."

Guo Jia heard this and smiled faintly: "Hehe! Unfortunately, he doesn't know that you, My Lord, never intended to rely on these Nanyang noble clans!"

"In our planning, the power of the noble clans themselves must be restricted and weakened;"

"Yuan Shu doing this not only fails to frustrate you, My Lord, but is instead helping you clean up and weaken these Nanyang noble clans!"

"This guy is simply a good person, haha!"

Don't look at the fact that there are quite a few noble clans under Su Xuan.

Such as the Jingzhou Huang clan, Cai clan, Kuai clan, Pang clan;

The Xun clan of his father-in-law... and so on!

But over the past few years, the Huang clan, Cai clan, and Xun clan have long been thoroughly subdued by Su Xuan, bound by greater interests.

No need for anything else, just the cultivation methods that can improve martial arts aptitude, top-tier martial arts inheritance, Human-Immortal martial arts, Confucian cultivation methods... these alone were enough to make the heads of these families unable to refuse.

0 Seeking flowers

Not to mention that there are cultivation methods like the Star Qi Refining Method that can truly lead to longevity, as well as the Star Return to Origin Array, Spirit-Locking Array, large amounts of exotic beast meat, elixirs... and so on that can be exchanged and supplied.

Each of these is an irresistible temptation for them.

Even if they give up a large part of their existing interests because of this, so what?

What they get is still worth more than the price.

Of course, because the chaotic times had not truly arrived before, Su Xuan was only the Administrator of Nanjun and General of the Front;

Therefore, up to now, even for the Xun clan, Huang clan, and Cai clan, those who know this, participated, and signed a spiritual contract to thoroughly defect to Su Xuan are only a small part of these families.

And it is mainly concentrated at the high level.

When Su Xuan thoroughly seizes the entire Jingzhou this time and begins to fully implement his new policies in Jingzhou, he will also thoroughly lay it out with these families and give them a choice.

Those willing to join, although they will lose no small amount of power and interests in the short term, have a promising future.

Now they can also immediately obtain generous returns and benefits.

Those unwilling to join, sign a confidential spiritual contract, must not leak the discussed matters, and then just wait to accept Su Xuan's suppression!

In the end, their fate will either be to perish in suppression or be forced to leave Jingzhou.

At this time, Su Yi said unhappily: "But in Yuan Shu's view, this is calculating against Big Brother, so I think we can't let him off so easily. At the very least, we must find a way to get the remaining 1 million shi of grain and 300,000 gold; we can't really let him get away with it!"

"After all, strictly speaking, these all belong to Nanyang;"

"And Nanyang is already Big Brother's;"

"Therefore, this money and grain is approximately Big Brother's too. How can we let him steal this money and grain away?"

"Uh..."

Guo Jia and Su Xuan heard this and were both stunned, then looked at each other and smiled.

Su Xuan reached out and touched Su Yi's head and smiled: "Your thinking is very clear! Very good!"

"That's right! This money and grain is mine, can't let Yuan Shu take advantage of it, must find a way to get it!"

Saying this, he looked at Guo Jia and said: "Fengxiao, do you have any ideas?"

"My Lord, you brothers are really... worthy of being brothers!"

Guo Jia didn't know how to evaluate it for a while, and finally gave Su Xuan and Su Yi a thumbs up.

This bandit mode of thinking is really cut from the same cloth.

Even if Su Xuan seized Nanyang, strictly speaking, this money and grain actually belonged to those Nanyang noble clans and powerful families, and didn't have much to do with Su Xuan.

But since the Lord said so, Guo Jia naturally wouldn't refute it.

He actually quite liked the Lord's shameless appearance.

Those who want to achieve great things must have a thick enough skin!

Otherwise, being hesitant and overly indecisive, how can one achieve things?

Only those who are thick-skinned can win the world!

Facing Su Xuan's inquiry and examination, Guo Jia pondered and replied: "It's not that there's no way!"

"My Lord! I remember you had the soldiers confiscate the weapons, armor, military supplies, warhorses, and so on of the captured Yuan Shu army and Sun Jian army, right?"

"Haha! Correct!"

Su Xuan heard this and couldn't help but look up and laugh: "Worthy of being you, Guo Fengxiao! You thought of the same thing as me!"

"I originally confiscated these things at the time, also with the intention of cheating Yuan Shu again when he negotiated peace, depending on the situation!"

"After all, the Yuan clan is so rich; if there is an opportunity not to cheat them, I would be sorry for myself!"

"I didn't expect Yuan Shu to come up with a conspiracy to cheat the Nanyang noble clans, so I naturally prepared to take advantage of the situation and use these spoils to cheat him out of the extra money and grain he got!"

"Zizhong (Su Yi's courtesy name) is right, since this money and grain comes from Nanyang, it must be mine!"

"Absolutely not allowed for Yuan Shu to get away with it!"

"Yuan Shu has to take the blame for cheating the Nanyang noble clans, but the money and grain must be mine!"

In addition, this can also be considered a disguised punishment for these Nanyang noble clans.

Since you knew I had become the Governor of Jingzhou, and you still chose to support Yuan Shu.

Then don't blame me for cheating you together and weakening you.

Moreover, Su Xuan's revenge will absolutely not be just this little bit.

Where is this even going?

Strictly speaking, this can't even be considered cheating.

In the future, he will properly deal with these Nanyang noble clans and powerful families.

"However,"

At this time, Guo Jia touched his chin and replied: "Just this alone is likely not enough to make Yuan Shu take out the remaining 1 million shi of grain and 300,000 gold; the value is not equivalent;" ===== CHAPTER 360 =====