I decided to do it, and a few days later, Yuan Shao was a little confused again.

After thinking about it, Cao Cao poses greater threat to him.

If we join forces with Lu Bu to attack Cao Cao, and then defeat the Cao family and then attack Lu Bu with backhand, we will not only destroy Cao Cao, who will be his obstacle to his future journey, but also take advantage of the situation to hold Xuzhou, Yangzhou and other places in our hands.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao felt that his decision was a bit hasty.

Although Cao Cao did not send anyone to urge him, Yuan Shao knew very well that the stability of the present was only temporary.

Whether it is for the interests of the Yuan family or the Cao family, the current stability must be broken.

What was placed in front of him was nothing more than when stability would be broken and who would break it.

After the break, whoever is in ally with whom, whoever is enemies.

Judging from the current situation, Yuan Shao is still optimistic. After all, Cao Cao sent Guo Jia to Xuzhou to win him over, and he has made his position clear. The main enemy will be Lu Bu, not him!

Sitting in the study, Yuan Shao was posing a stack of letters in front of him.

These letters sent messages about Cao Cao and Lu Bu from all over the country.

Discussing with everyone under his command to attack whom he is just a final decision. As for Yuan Shao, he still has to analyze who should be sent to attack through the information obtained from various channels.

While looking through the letter, a guard came outside the door.

The guard reported to Yuan Shao: "Qi reported to the lord, Liu Xuande asked for a meeting."

When Liu Bei fled to Hebei due to the edict, he first went to Qingzhou to ask for Yuan Tan, and was introduced to Yecheng by Yuan Tan.

Although Liu Bei's background was low, he had been under the banner of royal relatives for so many years. At first, there were few soldiers who believed in it. As his strength and fame grew, some people, for their own interests, still recognized his royal relatives' status in public even if they had doubts about his identity.

It has been many years since Liu Bei came out of the mountain.

Whether he is a true royal relative is no longer important. What matters is that many people, even many people in high positions, recognize his royal relative status.

For these reasons, when Liu Bei defected to Hebei, Yuan Shao even went out to welcome him for three hundred miles himself.

But after arriving in Yecheng, Yuan Shao never arranged any practice for him.

Yuan Shao is not unclear about what kind of person Liu Bei is.

When Tao Qian killed Cao Cao's father because his generals killed him, Cao Cao raised troops to attack him. Liu Beihai prefect Kong Rong led his troops to help.

When Cao Cao retreated, he should have returned to Beihai to report to Kong Rong.

But he didn't do that, but stayed in Xuzhou.

Later, for some reason, Tao Qian actually made Xuzhou three times, insisting on letting Liu Bei take over everything from the Tao family.

Tao Qian's actions were rumored to be a wise man, but Yuan Shao didn't believe that.

He is also in charge of Hebei and has several sons under his knees.

As a father, he did not pass everything he was in charge to his son, but he was begging for nothing to be given to an irrelevant outsider?

Anyway, Yuan Shao doesn't believe it...

If Yuan Tan hadn't sent someone to send a letter to Yecheng, saying that he had received Liu Bei and was planning to introduce him to Yuan Shao, he would not have been able to turn away from his appearance as a polite and magnanimous man, ran three hundred miles and brought such a hot thing back to Hebei.

The guard reported that it was Liu Bei's request for a meeting, and Yuan Shao frowned.

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I was determined not to see Liu Bei, but I had already arrived at the door, so it was not good to directly refuse.

Although he didn't like it, Liu Bei came to join him after all, so he still had to be able to get along with his etiquette.

Yuan Shao ordered the guards: "Why don't you invite Xuande in?"

The guard took the order and led Liu Bei into the study after a moment.

After entering the study, Liu Bei bowed and gave a big gift to Yuan Shao: "I have met Mr. Yuan."

"Xuande is coming just right." He didn't want to see Liu Bei at all. When he came to him, Yuan Shao's face was filled with smiles: "I happen to have something to ask you."

"Mr. Yuan has any questions, please make it clear." Liu Bei bowed and replied.

"I heard that Lu Bu was young all night and sent someone to inquire. They all said that this was true, but no matter how I thought it, I felt something was wrong. The common sense of birth, old age, sickness and death, how could he be young all night?"

Liu Bei has been struggling in the world for many years, and is often driven away by others to flee in a panic. He has long developed a skill that penetrates people's hearts.

Yuan Shao asked about Lu Bu’s young overnight, and Liu Bei replied: “I have seen him a few times after he returned to youth. The rumors are not false at all. He really looks like a teenager now.”

When Liu Bei mentioned Lu Bu, his face suddenly looked very ugly. He said to Yuan Shao: "If Mr. Yuan wants to know what method he used, it is best to capture him and question him. Outsiders can only see that he has become young, but they don't know why."

After staring at Liu Bei for a long time, Yuan Shao asked, "Do you also think I should attack Lu Bu?"

"Lu Bu robbed my wife and took them to the back house." Liu Bei gritted his teeth and said, "He and I have long been irreconcilable, but Mr. Yuan treats me well, and I cannot just talk about the benefits of attacking him for my own selfishness."

Everyone knows the festival between Liu Bei and Lu Bu.

He had long expected that he would suggest an attack on Lu Bu, but Yuan Shao did not expect that Liu Bei would say such words.

"Xuande might as well talk about the benefits and disadvantages of attacking Lu Bu." Yuan Shao signaled him to continue.

"I will talk about the disadvantages of attacking him first." Liu Bei said: "Lu Bu was in Xuzhou and won Yangzhou a few days ago. Sun Bofu led the entire Jiangdong to serve under his tent. His power can be said to have reached its peak. However, although he grew rapidly, his foundation was not very stable. He had not yet established a foothold in Xuzhou or Yangzhou. It would be much easier to defeat him than to be an enemy of Cao Cao."

"Since it is easy to defeat Lu Bu, why do you still say it is a bad thing?" Yuan Shao had heard of what Liu Bei wanted to say, but he still asked in disguise.

"I dare to ask Mr. Yuan, who is the biggest threat to Hebei now?" Liu Bei did not explain directly, but asked Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao thought for a while and said to him: "I think it is not Lu Bu who threatens Hebei, but Cao Mengde."

"That's right." Liu Bei said: "If the coalition forces of Yuan Gong and Cao Mengde defeated Lu Bu, the Yuan and Cao families would turn against each other. Cao Cao should have been prepared long ago. Do you dare to ask if Yuan Gong is prepared?"

When he promised Guo Jia to attack Lu Bu together, Yuan Shao was preparing for both of his actions.

When Lu Bu is defeated, Cao Cao will not take action first, and he will send troops to attack Xudu.

Of course, Yuan Shao would not tell Liu Bei about these plans. After all, he never really regarded Liu Bei as a subordinate of Hebei, and at most he only regarded him as a guest here.

When he came to Hebei, Liu Bei originally planned to ask Yuan Shao for some things, but he mentioned them twice, but he always found reasons to shirk them away.

Liu Bei was not a person without eyesight. Knowing that Yuan Shao had some concerns about him, he simply stopped mentioning it later.

On the surface, Liu Bei was at ease to be a guest in Yecheng, but deep down he was very anxious.

In Xudu, although Cao Cao controlled him tightly, he would have done something for him. If Cao Cao hadn't had a great prestige in front of everyone under his command, he might have really been able to occupy the nest like he had in Tao Qian and take Cao Cao's territory into his hands.

When Liu Bei came to Hebei, he didn't expect to be very big. After all, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were both heroes of the times.

If you treat them as Tao Qian and others, you can only say that he is extremely stupid.

But Liu Bei was thinking about how to get the most benefits from Hebei so that he could leave here in the future and the strength he held in his hand was stronger than he is now.

Although Liu Bei's plan was good, Yuan Shao did not give him a chance.

It has been a long time since he came to Hebei and could not do anything at all. Hebei's generals and staff didn't like him very much. Even if he wanted to secretly win over some people close to him, it would be impossible. Why wouldn't he feel bored?

When I asked Yuan Shao, Liu Bei wanted to come and find out what he said and see if he could get some benefits from it by taking advantage of the attack on Cao Cao or Lu Bu.

When Yuan Shao mentioned that when Lu Bu was young overnight, Liu Bei knew that his chance had really come.

But he was not in a hurry to instigate Yuan Shao to attack Lu Bu.

The more you are not trusted, the more you are in a hurry to ask Yuan Shao for something, the more suspicious Yuan Shao will become, and in the end it will mess up the matter.

When asked if Yuan Shao was prepared, Liu Bei lowered his head and looked respectful and didn't say anything more.

"I'm really not ready." Yuan Shao nodded pretending, then asked Liu Bei: "Xuande thinks I should attack Cao Cao first?"

"I can't say who to attack first, and I dare not make a decision for Gong Yuan." Liu Bei replied: "There are disadvantages of defeating Lu Bu first, of course there are also benefits."

"Xuande believes that it is beneficial to attack Lu Bu first, let's listen to the defense." Yuan Shao signaled him to continue.

"First attack Cao Cao. Once the matter is accomplished, Lu Bu will certainly not be a match for Duke Yuan." Liu Bei said: "But Duke Yuan's family will attack him. If he retreats south of the Yangtze River to guard the natural danger, it will not be so easy to capture him. If Lu Bu cannot be captured, who did Duke Yuan ask the key to immortality?"

When Liu Bei mentioned immortality, Yuan Shao was stunned for a moment.

After all, he was a hero of the world. His face was unnatural and then he returned to normal: "Xuande, please continue."

"If Duke Yuan wants to take Lu Bu, he has to join forces with Cao Cao to attack Xuzhou." Liu Bei said: "Lu Bu has no deep hatred with Duke Yuan. He had served Cao Cao earlier and is now attacked by Cao Cao. Once defeated, there is absolutely no reason to survive. If I were him, in a situation where he could not compete, he would definitely choose to approach Hebei. After all, being captured by Duke Yuan is much better than being captured by Cao Cao."

"Where is it that I am captured, I am better than being taken by Cao Cao?" Yuan Shao did not ask this question clearly. He really didn't understand where Liu Bei got this statement.

"Mr. Yuan may not necessarily kill him, but Cao Cao will definitely kill him." Liu Bei said: "If you take it down by Yuan, you may die, or you may not die. If it falls into Cao Cao's hands, can Lu Bu be better?"

After Liu Bei's explanation, Yuan Shao immediately understood.

He nodded and said, "I probably know what to do after Xuande said this."

"By the way." Yuan Shao changed his tone and asked Liu Bei: "You come to see me, are you saying anything?"

"I have nothing to say, I just feel that Mr. Yuan has too much trouble recently, so I am a little worried that Mr. Yuan is too tired, so I come and take a look." Liu Bei replied: "I will feel at ease if I can say a few words to Mr. Yuan to relieve my boredom."

"Xuande has trouble." Yuan Shao said: "If nothing happens, you can go back first. I still have some important things here, so I have to discuss with Zhengnan, Yuantu and others."

"I'll take my leave first." Liu Bei came here to find out. From Yuan Shao's expression, he could roughly judge that once the Hebei army heads south, it is likely to attack Xuzhou.

Having already made a rough judgment in his heart, Liu Bei no longer delayed and sued and left Yuan Shao's study.

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When he came to see Yuan Shao, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were waiting in the front yard of the house.
To be continued...