"No, what about Kong Niao from Yuzhou? That old guy is a man who likes to take advantage. He has no interest in Yanzhou?"

Suddenly, Yuan Shu remembered Kong Min, the old fox, and asked curiously.

Seeing Yuan Shu's confused look, Guo Jia sighed and said, "Kong Ni is seriously ill and may die soon."

"Then who will be the next governor of Yuzhou?"

Thinking that this old man seemed to have died shortly after the princes challenged Dong, Yuan Shu felt relieved and continued to ask.

"Liu Xuande."

Guo Jia said a little weirdly.

"What?"

Yuan Shu was confused now. Why did Liu Da'er go to Yuzhou all of a sudden and become the governor of Yuzhou? He just flapped his wings as a butterfly, why did Liu Bei take off so quickly?

Guo Jia was a little curious about Yuan Shu's surprise, but continued: "Yuan Shao appointed Liu Bei as the new governor of Yuzhou, and Dong Zhuo also agreed."

Yuan Shu was surprised by the name Liu Bei at first, but when he came back to his senses and thought about it for a while, he understood why this happened.

"It seems that Yuan Benchu ​​is still on guard against Cao Mengde!" Yuan Shu had to lament that his brother was really scheming and far-sighted.

Yuan Shao recommended Liu Bei as the governor of Yuzhou, and his targets were only Yuan Shu and Cao Cao. However, Yuan Shu estimated that Yuan Shao was probably on guard against both of them.

Needless to say, Liu Bei's abilities are as good as the strength of his two brothers at Hulao Pass. We can tell that this guy has at least two skills. With him in Yuzhou, both Yuan Shu and Cao Cao have to be afraid of him.

Yuzhou has always been the base camp of the Yuan family in the past, and local officials all looked up to the Yuan family. But now the backbone talents of the Yuan family are basically under the control of Yuan Shao. Isn't it easy to overthrow Kong Min and support Liu Bei?

"Although Yuan Shao's move is aimed at us, it has little impact on us. After all, we had no intention of taking Yuzhou in the first place. Yizhou is our next attack direction." Tian Feng analyzed rationally.

Guo Jia nodded: "Yes, what Yuan Shao did is generally beneficial and harmless to us. With Liu Bei's restraint, I'm afraid it will be difficult for Cao Cao to do it. We only need to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. The Central Plains

Disunity would do more good than harm to us."

Yuan Shu smiled slightly: "We don't care, but Cao Mengde is probably going to curse now!"

Indeed, Cao Cao's face turned dark as soon as he got the news, and he was so angry that he scolded Yuan Shao severely in front of Xun Yu, Xi Zhicai and others.

The other party didn't care about his petty feelings at all, and put a tight spell on himself. Cao Cao felt so hateful! He was already in a miserable situation, and Yuan Shao still bullied him like this.

Calculating it this way, Cao Cao is not as good as Liu Bei. Can Yanzhou and Yuzhou compare? Yuzhou is stronger than Yanzhou even if it is cut in half.

Cao Cao also thought about making a fortune in Yuzhou at first, but without Yuan Shao's support, he really couldn't stand in Yuzhou. Yuan Shao was afraid of Cao Cao, so naturally he couldn't hand over Yuzhou to him, so he reluctantly agreed to Yanzhou

One thing.

In the end, Cao Cao didn't expect that he had worked so hard to get Yuan Shao to agree to make his fortune in Yanzhou. Before he could be happy, he learned that Yuan Shao had casually given Yuzhou to Liu Bei, a stranger. How could you not make Cao Cao feel happy?

gas?

Am I your friend or your enemy? Why do you feel that Liu Bei is closer to you?

No matter how angry Cao Cao was, the matter was a foregone conclusion. Yuan Shu found this quite interesting.

Guo Jiadao: "Yuan Shao must have seen the weakness of Liu Bei's grassroots background, and just wanted him to be a puppet to guard Yuzhou and threaten us and Cao Cao."

Yuan Shu nodded, then smiled and said: "But I'm afraid Liu Bei will exceed his imagination! Maybe he can soar to the sky with the help of Yuzhou."

Guo Jia nodded, his view was similar to Yuan Shu's.

Liu Bei was a very scheming person, quite like the great ancestor. He treated the people with kindness, treated talents sincerely, and was able to let go of his arrogance. Whether it was true kindness or false benevolence and righteousness, if he could pretend to be like this, he could be considered benevolent and righteous.

That's so benevolent.

He has two brothers who are enemies of thousands of people, and they have the title of governor of Yuzhou. If they can control Yuzhou, they will be Cao Cao again.

After all, Yuzhou doesn't have much else, it just has a lot of counselors. It can just make up for Liu Bei's weakness. In this way, he will have no shortcomings and flaws. Maybe he can really achieve hegemony.

Tian Feng asked curiously: "I understand Yuan Shao's thoughts, but why did Dong Zhuo agree to this?"

Yuan Shu and Guo Jia looked at each other and smiled: "I think someone from Chang'an must be very optimistic about me, Yuan Shu!"

Yuan Shu would never believe that this thing could have gone so smoothly without Li Ru's intervention. It seems that this great talent has taken the bait, Yuan Shu thought happily.

Yuan Shu said: "Then this will change our strategic policy towards Yuzhou."

Guo Jia nodded: "My lord is right. I'm afraid we have to fight Liu Bei head-on to limit his opponent's strength. Otherwise, it will be difficult for Cao Mengde to grow up."

Tian Feng added: "Now we have to contact Cao Mengde and form an alliance with him."

Yuan Shu nodded and said with some self-deprecation: "I didn't expect that I, Yuan Gongli, would one day join forces with Cao Mengde again."

Guo Jia smiled and said: "It's just the same interests, making friends from far away and attacking close by. What else do you care about, my lord?"

Yuan Shu shook his head: "It's okay, I'm just a little depressed."

Yuan Shao's move immediately complicated the situation in the Central Plains. Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Tao Qian each occupied one state.

On the surface, Tao Qian who occupies Xuzhou is the strongest, Liu Bei in Yuzhou is second, and Cao Cao in Yanzhou is the weakest. But in fact, the combat power of the three parties is exactly the opposite.

Tao Qian was just a short-sighted, incompetent and rotten scholar. Although his soldiers were excellent, his generals were too rubbish to compete with Cao Cao and Liu Bei.

Although Cao Cao had a small territory and little money and food, he could not withstand the vast number of elite soldiers and generals. In addition, he had many good plans, and his strength ranked first.

Although Liu Bei currently occupies Yuzhou, he is just a puppet. When he truly controls Yuzhou, he should be the strongest among the three.

However, several princes in the Central Plains are still weak, so Cao Cao can still fight. On the surface, it seems that Yuan Shu can easily win the Central Plains. Unfortunately, this is impossible.

She Tunxiang will probably be strangled to death. Yuan Shu has just captured Jingzhou, and if he wants to reach out to the Central Plains now, Cao Cao and others will definitely join forces to fight Yuan Shu. Yuan Shao will definitely not sit back and do nothing, and even drag Liu Yan to deal with Yuan Shu.

possible.

The most Yuan Shu can do now is to think about Yizhou, which has no allies and is weak. If he wants to take over the Central Plains, it will take another seven or eight years to completely digest the southern states. I'm afraid it will be possible.

Of course, like Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao did not dare to get involved in the problem of the Central Plains. Letting Liu Bei out to bite others was the best choice Yuan Shao could make.

Similar to Yuan Shao's idea, Yuan Shu chose to support Cao Cao because he wanted to keep the Central Plains divided and not unify. After all, Liu Bei is at an advantage overall!
Chapter completed!