Three hundred and seventieth IX embarrassed combination
What Zang Ba couldn't understand, Tao Shang thought about very clearly.
Langya Kingdom, Taishan County, and Qingzhou further north, he still really needs someone to act as a frontline to help him withstand the pressure.
Since the time of Emperor Da Ling, a three-nothing zone has been formed around Langya Kingdom and Taishan County. Local soldiers and civilians entered the mountains with their families as units, refused to obey local control, and gathered into powerful forces similar to Zang Ba.
Fight against the government, and as time goes by, it happens again and again.
It really takes a lot of effort to clean up this Langya country.
The problem now is that the potters don't have the energy to tidy up this barbarous land.
There is Cao Cao in the west, Yuan Shao in the north, Yuan Shu in the southwest, and there is also Sun Ce who escaped from Wu County. There are still Yuzhang County and Kuaiji County in Yangzhou that have not been taken over by the Tao family, and the areas of these two counties are
It is so vast that it is almost equivalent to the entire Jingzhou, and there are countless mountain barbarians in it.
In this situation where everything in the east, west and north was a headache, the pottery merchant was faced with the dilemma of whether to kill Zang Ba or join forces with him.
Of course, he himself was more inclined to kill Zang Ba.
But in the end reason defeated human nature, and the pottery merchant decided to focus on alliance.
But now Chang Xi intends to overthrow Zang Ba's position in Langya Kingdom, which just gives the pottery merchants an opportunity.
After Zang Ba calmed down, he thought carefully about what the potter said, and his heart began to beat up.
He is neither a good man nor a loyal person.
Now that he was betrayed by Chang Xi, Zang Ba could not get rid of the bad breath in his heart. Every time he thought about it while lying in bed, he almost suffocated himself to death.
But now that he has been seriously injured, even if he reappears, he will no longer have any strength or prestige among the thieves in Mount Tai...
If you want to take revenge against Chang Xi, you may really have to rely on the power of the pottery merchant.
In particular, this kid also gave himself a sweet date to separatize the Langya Kingdom.
Zang Ba sighed in his heart, this boy is a bit smarter than his father.
This matter was indeed easy for him to handle. With the current status of the pottery merchant, if he asked the emperor to report to the emperor, Liu Xie would definitely give him this face.
But of course, if this happens, Tao Shang and Zang Ba are actually just using each other. They are still wary of each other, and they can never completely trust each other.
If Zang Ba successfully takes back control of the natural area of Langya Kingdom, which is most beneficial to him, and is assisted by the brave Taishan Army, he can accept the appointment of the pottery merchants in name, but in fact he can still be in a semi-independent state.
The pottery merchants' connivance and preferential treatment of him was to use him to resist or restrain Yuan Shao's development in Qingzhou, so as to reduce Xuzhou's pressure on Qingzhou's front line.
Seeing that Zang Ba was moved, but had not yet made up his mind, Tao Shang suddenly took out a scroll of slips from his sleeve and read to him: "This is the new information about Qingzhou that the school affairs office has submitted to me. You want to hear it?"
?"
Zang Ba turned his head and stared at him, gritted his teeth and said, "I don't want to."
The potter was very unreasonable: "You have to listen even if you don't want to."
Then, the pottery merchant slowly unfolded the slips and said: "According to the reports from our schoolmasters in Qingzhou, Yuan Shao has appointed his eldest son Yuan Tan as the governor of Qingzhou and led his troops to the plains with the intention of annexing the land of Qingzhou! And Yuan Tan was stationed in Qingzhou.
Do you know what the first thing you did after you came to the plains was?"
"If you fart, let it go!" Zang Ba retorted subconsciously.
The pottery merchant shook the slip in his hand and said slowly: "Yuan Tan asked Yuan Shao to name Guo Zu, Gongsun Du and others of Taishan County as Zhonglang Generals in the name of general, and he wanted to win over dozens of people from all over Taishan County.
Strong and powerful, Baoshan is a bandit... On the surface, this is targeting Taishan County in Yanzhou, but Taishan County and Langya Kingdom cannot be separated. Once Yuan Shao supports these people's uprising, do you think your Langya Kingdom can be preserved?
?"
Zang Ba's face suddenly turned pale.
Of course Zang Ba knew Guo Zu, Gongsun Du and Zang Ba. They were from the Taishan County side and were doing the same business as him, Sun Guan, Chang Xi and others.
The power of these people is naturally inferior to that of the Five Thieves of Mount Tai, but if they get the support of Yuan Shao...
Zang Ba had originally considered that in order to conquer Qingzhou and expand the strength of the Eastern Front, Yuan Shao would probably take action against Taishan County and Langya Kingdom, but what he did not expect was that Yuan Shao would act so quickly.
Tao Shang saw Zang Ba's doubts and discomfort, smiled and said: "Cooperate with me, what you want is independence in Langya Kingdom, it doesn't matter to me, there is no real conflict between us, and right now
There are frequent changes in the princes in the north. It is impossible for you to stay out of it... Zang Xuangao, only I can protect you now. You have no other choice but to unite with me... At least, we have lived together in Xuzhou these years.
Everyone is familiar with it."
After saying that, the pottery merchant stood up and came to Zang Ba's bed. Like the Virgin in heaven, he kindly extended his white shining palm to the suffering people.
"Be my son."
Zang Ba's eyes suddenly widened: "What did you say?!"
"Oh!" The pottery merchant reacted immediately: "It's a cross-talk, I mean, be my ally."
"Hmph!" Zang Ba came back to his senses and snorted softly: "It's not impossible for you and me to unite. Compared with other tiger and wolf princes, you, Prince Taiping, are indeed quite a gentleman. I must be a man of his word...
However, a certain family has a condition!"
The pottery merchant raised his eyebrows and said doubtfully: "I have already agreed to present you as the prime minister of Langya. What other conditions do you want to ask for? I don't have any money."
Zang Ba gritted his teeth and said, "You just slapped a certain family on the ear, and that family wants you to pay it back!"
The pottery merchant suddenly realized what he said and said with a smile: "This is simple."
After saying that, he raised his hand and slapped Zang Ba's left cheek, which had not been hit just now, with a big slap.
The sound is very crisp and bright.
There are two Wuzhishan red marks on Zang Ba's cheeks, one on the left and one on the right, which looks particularly dazzling.
Zang Ba stared blankly at the pottery merchant, with tears beginning to flash in his eyes as big as copper bells.
This man was actually slapped twice by the potter and made him cry.
"Why do you hit me again?"
The pottery merchant looked at Zang Ba doubtfully and said curiously: "Didn't you ask me to return the ear scraper to you? I don't know why you made such a masochistic request... But when you look back in the mirror, you will see that
The one on the left and the one on the right are also quite symmetrical! It’s quite pleasing to the eye...it’s great!”
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Huainan, Shouchun City.
Yuan Shu looked depressingly at the report sent back by the informant below, feeling really depressed in his heart.
Some time ago, he sent people to Langya Kingdom to contact Zang Ba and Sun Guan among the five thieves of Mount Tai, hoping to join forces with them to deal with the Tao family in Xuzhou. However, before the two parties could successfully communicate, news came from the front line.
Zang Ba actually let the Xuzhou army take advantage of the pottery merchant's wedding, and killed Kaiyang when his defense was slack.
Chang Xi, one of the five thieves in Mount Tai, called on the heroes of Mount Tai to avenge Zang Ba, and he vaguely appeared to be the new leader of the thieves in Mount Tai.
Yuan Shu changed his strategy and wanted to contact Chang Xi, but found that his bastard brother Yuan Shao had actually contacted him first.
Yuan Shu was very unhappy when his plan for Xuzhou fell short.
Compared with Yuan Shao, he seemed to be a step slower every time.
It's really hateful.
How am I inferior to that concubine's son?
Just when Yuan Shu was so angry that he almost broke his teeth, Yan Xiang hurried over to see him and said that he had something important to report.
When Yan Xiang told Yuan Shu this important matter, Yuan Shu was so shocked that he couldn't even close his mouth.
"You, you said Lu arranged the book to join Yuan?"
Yan Xiang nodded excitedly and said: "Exactly! General, we in Huainan lack war horses and mostly have infantry. Although the army is heavy, it is difficult to defeat the Jinling Army with this formation. Now Lu Bu wants to lead his troops to surrender.
He has many war horses under his command, and the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry is a famous cavalry in the world. If the general can command Lu Bu, Tao Shang and Liu Biao will not be worried!"
When Yuan Shu heard this, he stood up suddenly and said, "Where is Lu Bu now?"
Yan Xiang raised his hand to Yuan Shu and said, "We have troops stationed thirty miles away. We don't dare to move lightly. We are just waiting for the general to summon us. I have already sent Zhou Yu to express my condolences."
Yuan Shu was very unhappy when he heard that Yan Xiang had sent Zhou Yu there.
"Why did you send him? You don't know that the person Zhou Yu is close to now is Sun Lang!". Website: