Yuan Shao is a big trouble. After all, he is also one of the three giants of the Han alliance and the core of the Yuan clan. Letting him go will indeed cause huge trouble to Daqian! If nothing else, let’s just say that they attacked Luoyang City. Yuan Shao's presence will definitely cause huge trouble.
Guan Hai said: "This is not easy to solve. Yuan Shao has a lot of blood debts. We can just put him on trial. Our exchange has nothing to do with Yuan Shao."
The soldiers in Yanzhou have been released by us. Most of the other captured soldiers are soldiers from Jingzhou and Yangzhou, with a small number of soldiers from Qingzhou and Xuzhou. We only need to trade with Liu Bei and Cao Cao. What does this have to do with Yuan Shao, and now Yuzhou is Yuan Tan Master, I'm afraid that if we try Yuan Shao, Yuan Tan will be happy secretly!"
Guan Hai hated Yuan Shao and Cao Cao for those who dealt with the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, and naturally he did not want Xu Wei to let Yuan Shao off so easily.
Xu Wei smiled and said: "That's right. We don't need to trade with the Yuan family at all. We won't be able to capture the entire Han Dynasty in three or four years, but it is still possible to eliminate Yuan Shao's remaining forces. The main subjects of this transaction are Liu Bei and Cao Cao. personal.
One of Cao Cao’s brothers, Xiahou Dun, was captured by us, and his beloved Yu Jin is also in our hands. It’s not too much to use the two of them as generals of the Qingzhou Army in exchange for 20,000 family members of the Qingzhou Army!”
"We also have Liu Bei's second brother Guan Yu in our hands. Most of the generals in Jiangdong, Jingzhou and Yangzhou have been captured by us. These are Liu Bei's core strengths. Liu Bei will definitely want to redeem them! As the saying goes Thousands of armies are easy to come by, but one general is hard to find. It should be enough to replace the generals and generals of the coalition forces in our hands with a thousand or hundreds of thousands."
Jia Xu worriedly said: "We have captured hundreds of thousands of soldiers from Jingzhou and Yangzhou, and their family members add up to hundreds of thousands. Even if Liu Bei is benevolent and righteous, he cannot exchange hundreds of thousands of soldiers' families with Guan Yu alone. This is severing one’s arms!”
Now that the troubled times have come to an end, the incompetent princes have been knocked into the dust of history. Now there are only three princes left in the entire Han camp.
At this stage of the struggle for world hegemony, the importance of population has become apparent. If Liu Bei handed over the families of these hundreds of thousands of surrendered soldiers to Dagan, it would be equivalent to Dagan having hundreds of thousands more soldiers, while Liu Bei would have fewer soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
This is almost a crisis for the survival of Liu Bei's forces. Even if Liu Bei wants to rescue Guan Yu, he can't really hand over hundreds of thousands of people to Dagan!
Xu Wei thought about it and felt that it would be difficult for him to agree to exchange these thousands of people for Liu Bei's hundreds of thousands, so he said: "If Guan Yu and the others are not enough, then we will exchange the noble families and their families in Yanzhou with Liu Bei.
These people from the noble family are garbage and harmful to our cadres, but for Liu Bei, they are all treasures. Liu Bei exchanged hundreds of thousands of ordinary people for hundreds of thousands of people from the noble family, and not only could he save His loss can also enhance his prestige among the officials. He will definitely not lose money on this transaction. The civil and military officials of Luoyang's small court will definitely agree, and we will also make a lot of money. This is the legendary win-win situation!"
Jia Xu thought about it for a long time and found out that it was just as Xu Wei said! This transaction was a win-win situation. It was impossible for Daqian to accept Yanzhou's noble families. They were originally high and mighty, but now they were knocked down by Xu Wei, and even ordinary people were knocked down. The common people are not as good as.
With such a huge gap, it is not necessary to harbor resentment. Not only will these people not help Da Gan, but they will also try their best to cause trouble everywhere. Da Gan will spend a huge price to uproot the local nobles and then They immigrated to deserts, islands, and the Western Regions.
And if it were exchanged with Liu Bei and some ordinary people as it is now, it would be a big profit for them no matter what.
Xu Wei said to Jia Xu: "Send an envoy to contact Liu Bei and Cao Cao to see if they are willing to exchange!"
Jia Xu nodded and said: "We can make a deal with Cao Cao first. The number of Qingzhou troops we captured is small, and there is a high probability that Cao Cao will exchange for his generals. In this way, we can also use Cao Cao to oppress Liu Bei! Then even if Liu Bei For the sake of my own reputation, I have to complete this transaction!"
Xu Weidao: "It's up to you!"
In the late September, Liang Guo.
The Daqian army finally withdrew from Yuzhou, which made both Yuan Tan and Zhang Fei relieved. After Zhang Fei escaped from Dingtao, he was quickly discovered by Yuan Tan. At that time, Yuan Tan was short of young men, so naturally he could not let Zhang Fei go. He wrote to Liu Bei, asking Liu Bei to leave Zhang Fei and his soldiers to defend Yuzhou.
Zhang Fei also knew that Yuzhou was the gateway to Jingzhou. If Yuzhou fell, the front of the Daqian Army would be directed at Jingzhou. So Zhang Fei thought about it and agreed to stay to help Yuan Tan defend against the attack of the Daqian Army!
After more than a month of fierce fighting, they finally defeated Duan Peng, and the Yuan family's foundation was barely saved.
But just when they were about to breathe a sigh of relief, Cao Cao's letter arrived.
After reading the letter, Yuan Tan was pleasantly surprised at first, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, and handed the letter to Zhang Fei and said: "Brother Yide, Cao Cao sent his brother Cao Ren to lead an army of 30,000 to support Xuzhou, and he has repelled Duan Yun's invasion. But it seems that he is not planning to hand Xuzhou back, he is talking about the importance of Xuzhou to the current Qingzhou, saying that he is willing to help us resist the big army in Xuzhou!"
When Xu You heard this, he jumped up and cursed: "This Cao Manzi, how long has it been since he started thinking about expanding the territory and fighting within the territory? He wants us to die. Does he want us to kill ourselves so that Lei Gong can do it?" You're taking advantage! It's already here, and you still forget that I forgot to take advantage. What a shameless villain!"
Zhang Fei could only smile awkwardly and politely. This was a dispute between the two feudal lords of the Han Dynasty, and it was not good for him to get involved.
And he also agreed with Cao Cao's actions. If Xuzhou was captured by the Daqian Army, it would only be a matter of time before Qingzhou fell. Now that Cao Cao has stabilized the front line, to a certain extent, it is a good thing for Yuan Tan and the others. At least it has been reduced by one-third. Under pressure, Cao Cao helped them resist the Daqian army on the Qingxu front line.
If we say that this is a war in the Central Plains, the losses of the Yuan family must be the worst. Daqian Shengsheng poached Yanzhou. Now the three lines of defense of the Yuan family have to resist Lei Gong. It can be said that the three princes of the Han alliance suffered the most. Such a strategic situation For the Yuan family, it was extremely bad. It was equivalent to his family standing on the front line to resist the attack of the Daqian army.
But now that Cao Cao has occupied Xuzhou, it has relieved a lot of pressure on Yuan Tan.
Yuan Tan obviously knew this, and he didn't say much about the lost counties in Xuzhou.