Yuan Shao's words were full of irony, and Tao Shang could tell that Alliance Leader Yuan was indeed concerned about this matter in his heart.
A leader who values high self-respect needs to be well respected and cherished by the princes, not only physically but also mentally.
The potter's behavior obviously hurt Yuan Shao's heart, and he couldn't get away with it by writing a 3,000-word review.
Tao Shang sighed and said: "Mr. Yuan is from a famous family and his reputation for bravery is well known throughout the country. Tao must tell the truth in front of the leader of the alliance."
This sentence ""The name of Yingwu is well known in the country"" is quite appealing to Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao himself is very wise, but he is a little bit vain, and he has a problem, that is, he is subconsciously biased towards people who are as handsome as him... As the saying goes, being beautiful alone is not as good as being beautiful in the crowd.
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Although Yuan Shao didn't take much notice of this handsome, gentle young man, he actually had a good impression of him... This matter was just a fresh offender, and if it were an old melon like Kong Niao, there would be no chance of explanation.
If you don't give it to him, first peel off three layers of his skin.
Seeing that the pottery merchant's tone was very sincere and apologetic from the bottom of his heart. Yuan Shao couldn't help but secretly said in his heart: Putting aside everything else, this child's nurturing temperament is amazing. Few people can compare to...my eldest son Yuan Tan.
He is about the same age as this child, but not so elegant.
Tao Shang didn't know what Yuan Shao was thinking at this moment, so he prepared his words and said: "In fact, Mr. Yuan can see a little bit of my thoughts. There is no general in Xuzhou. Xu Rong is a general who is good at using troops. Tao captured Xu Rong.
I really want to try my luck and try to get him to join Xuzhou and become the stronghold of our Xuzhou Army."
Yuan Shao nodded and said dryly: "Yes, other than that, you don't have any other purpose."
Tao Shang continued: "Xu Rong is after all a general under the Dong thief. He detained him without authorization and should be punished due to circumstances and reasons. But in the final analysis, Shang's move was to ensure the safety of Xuzhou. Moreover, the better the development of Xuzhou, it is indeed a good thing for him.
Yuan Gong is more advantageous."
Yuan Shao's eyes slowly narrowed, and his gaze from the gap was directly on the pottery merchant's face: "Whether your Xuzhou development is good or not, what does it have to do with Yuan?"
Tao Shang did not explain directly, but instead asked Yuan Shao: "What does Leader Yuan think about the relationship between Sun Fujun, the prefect of Changsha, and General Hou?"
Yuan Shao was stunned when he heard this. He didn't know why the pottery merchant asked this, so he said: "The relationship between the highway and Sun Wentai has always been good."
"Then the alliance leader was arguing with Sun Jian about the jade seal. Why didn't Yuan Shu come forward to help Sun Jian and secretly leaked the matter to the alliance leader from the side?"
Yuan Shao waved his hand and said impatiently: "Although they have a good personal relationship, Sun Jian's hiding of the jade seal was a treasonous act after all. Naturally, the highway will not help him anymore..."
At this point, Yuan Shao suddenly stopped talking, as if he had figured out something.
If Yuan Shu really couldn't stand Sun Jian's behavior, then he should have stood on the same front as him and jointly criticized Sun Jian verbally and writtenly, but his behavior just now... was silent.
Sun Jian's hiding of the jade seal happened so quickly that Yuan Shao was so angry that he didn't think about it carefully... But now he calmed down and after someone else mentioned it, he immediately came back to his senses... It seemed that he had been tricked by Yuan Shu.
played!
Yuan Shao is still a wise and intelligent person at heart. The reason why he didn't think about it just now is because people in this era pay too much attention to jade seals. When a person is particularly concerned about something, it is easy to ignore some other crux...
The pottery merchant was not from this era, and he did not take jade seals particularly seriously, so he was the first to wake up. This is the so-called beholder's perspective.
Yuan Shu couldn't stand Sun Jian hiding the jade seal, but he didn't want to lose his vassal because of it, so he deliberately leaked the news to Yuan Shao in a roundabout way. Coupled with the coincidence, Wang Yun fanned the flames, and Yuan Shao
Completely opposed to Sun Jian!
After understanding this matter, Yuan Shao couldn't help but start to expand the matter...
Thinking back carefully, I remember that when I first entered Luoyang a few days ago, I was afraid that the emperor would be in the hands of Dong Zhuo and would become a constraint for the princes in the long run, so I proposed to Yuan Shu to make Liu Yu the emperor of the Han clan.
Yuan Shu refused on the spot!
Now that I think about it, this guy must be afraid that he will have the merit of supporting the emperor and surpass himself to become the leader of the Yuan clan, so he strongly opposes it! Now he is using Sun Jian's hiding of the jade seal to plot against him, which shows that he has different ambitions. This is already
It's not a matter of brothers and disharmony... I and Yuan Shu are no longer on the same journey.
Brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had a grudge in their early years because of the struggle for supremacy within the family. As the years went by, more things happened and the grudge deepened. It was only a matter of time before they fell out!
"Hehe..." Yuan Shao hit his right palm heavily with his left fist and said slowly: "What a man, how dare you play with me like this!"
I don't know if this insult was directed at Sun Jian, Yuan Shu, or both.
Seeing that the situation was ripe, Tao Shang said: "Leader, to be honest, although you and General Hou are brothers, they are actually opposites. Yuan Shu occupies Nanyang, and sooner or later he will attack Xuzhou, so my idea is to form an alliance with Yuan Gong.
The alliance, standing on a united front, also allows me, Xuzhou, to rely on in these troubled times. If the alliance leader agrees, the Xuzhou Tao family will be a vassal of the alliance leader... So I say that the more stable and secure Xuzhou is, the more beneficial it is to the alliance leader.
Isn’t that wrong?”
"Oh? Mr. Tao actually has such intentions?" Yuan Shao looked at the pottery merchant with amusement, the meaning in his eyes was very complicated... After thinking about it just now and considering Yuan Shu's recent behavior, Yuan Shao basically concluded that the two brothers were two years apart.
It's not long before people fall out and have a falling out.
Yuan Shao knew in his heart that Tao Shang knew better than him.
It is recorded in later generations that after the alliance between the princes and the alliance against Dong was disbanded, the Yuan brothers engaged in a short-term battle for hegemony due to many reasons such as the establishment of the emperor, family, ambition, region, etc. Most of the heroes supported Yuan Shao... Of course, it was only
There was only verbal support; only a few people were really involved.
Among them, Yuan Shu united with Sun Jian, Tao Qian, and Gongsun Zan; Yuan Shao united with Cao Cao, Liu Biao and others.
In the short-term struggle between the two Yuan Dynasties, Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou in history, sided with Yuan Shu and clung to Yuan Shu's thighs to oppose Yuan Shao;
But the facts proved that Tao Qian's vision of taking sides was no different than being blind...
First, Sun Jian, the fierce tiger from Jiangdong, died in the hands of Liu Biao's general Huang Zu.
Then Gongsun Zan's younger brother Gongsun Yue died in battle again. Yuan Shao's general Qu Yi defeated Baima Yicong and beheaded general Yan Gang. Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan three times at Jieqiao, Jumashui, and Longcuo, and defeated this tycoon who was crossing the northern wall.
He lost all his temper and ran back to Youzhou in a hurry.
As for Tao Qian, he raised troops to support Yuan Shu and threatened Yuan Shao, but was beaten to death by the coalition forces of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao! The following year, when Cao Cao used this as an excuse to attack Tao Qian, he massacred the civilians of Xuzhou and killed countless men and women.
One hundred thousand people live in Surabaya.
Yuan Shu himself also suffered successive defeats.
In this short-term confrontation between Yuan and Yuan, Yuan Shu basically failed to win a single battle except for defeating Yuan Yi and Zhou Ang.
And Tao Qian also completely offended Cao Cao and Yuan Shao because of this stupid partisanship, so that Cao Cao later sent troops to Xuzhou to massacre civilians many times...
Tao Shang didn't want his father and Xuzhou to be tortured into dogs, so at this moment, he could only carefully choose his camp again.