Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 496 Trash Yuan Xi, Beihai Withered

At this time, Yuan Tan had left Xuzhou for several days.

He didn't mobilize a large group of people, but he brought Yuan Lang and four Futu iron guards with him, all six of them were wearing light armor and riding fast horses, traveling night and day.

Yuan Tan has the strength of nine oxen and two tigers, and his endurance is astonishing. Although he has not rested for a long time in the past few days, he still looks full of energy.

On the contrary, Yuan Lang behind him and the other Futu iron guards couldn't hold on anymore.

It's just that even if they couldn't hold on any longer, the five of them didn't dare to cry out, they just rode tightly on the horses under their crotches, and fixed their eyes on Yuan Tan in front of them.

As long as Yuan Tan doesn't say rest, he will resolutely stop playing for half a minute.

Because at this moment Yuan Tan's face was as cold as a millennium's ice, and even his neighbor Yuan Lang didn't dare to breathe, let alone ask rashly.

As for the reason, it is simpler.

They went to Beihai before, and although they didn't see Yuan Xi as expected, they met Lu Weikuang, who was sent by Yuan Shao to Beihai to supervise his second son and was appointed Prime Minister of Beihai.

According to Lu Weikuang's description, the people of Beihai are almost being harmed by this Beihai general to the point where the people are in dire straits.

Robbing women, being domineering and arrogant, bullying the market, and squeezing the people are all trivial matters. Yuan Xi even wanted to steal and sell the rice in the treasury to support his so-called "big plan".

As for what to say?
The original city defense army of Beihai City had a total of [-] troops. After Yuan Xi took office, he directly abolished all the [-] city defense troops. He said that these city defense troops were not active in training and were not strong enough to fight.

Use this as a reason to recruit soldiers and retrain an army.

It would be fine if Yuan Xi really trained the army honestly, but after spending a lot of military expenses, he didn't even recruit a single reliable soldier.

Beihai is different from other places. Although the severe drought in the Central Plains has also affected Beihai, which is located in the north of Qingzhou, once Beihai comes to the sea, it can be compensated by fish catches. Beihai was in the Yuan family's hands from beginning to end.

It is a nail inserted by the Yuan family in Qingzhou. Its status is analogous to that of Runan where Cao Cao stayed in Yuzhou, and its importance is self-evident.

As early as the first moment of the severe drought in the Central Plains, Hebei allocated a large amount of food and fodder to Beihai for relief, so there were not many people fleeing famine in Beihai, and secondly, more than half of the refugees in the Central Plains fled to Hebei.

Under Yuan Tan's strategy, this part of the refugees who fled were diverted to various states in Hebei, but none of them were left in Beihai.

The rest were all attracted by the refugee recruitment policy introduced by Yuan Tan after he took over Xuzhou.

Without refugees, Yuan Xi would not be able to recruit troops even if he wanted to. After all, he had just experienced a severe drought, and even if Yuan Shao was short of food, he would not be able to increase taxes in Beihai.

On the contrary, Yuan Shao directly exempted Beihai from taxes for the next three years.

Anyway, the population of Beihai has not been too large, and the collected taxes have been transshipped and consumed, and there are not many taxes that can actually be sent to Yecheng.

It is directly transferred from the direction of Yecheng.

Under such a premise, naturally not many people in Beihai were willing to join the army. The reason why Yuan Tan was able to recruit so many soldiers was mostly due to the Taishan bandits who came down to join Yuan Tan.

The rest is attributable to those refugees who took refuge in Yuan Tan.

Yuan Xi was acting entirely on his own imagination, so when Yuan Xi found out that he could not recruit soldiers at all, he was completely dumbfounded.

But the city defense army had already been abolished, and if Yuan Xi didn't quickly fill the vacancy, no matter how ignorant and stupid Yuan Xi was, he knew that he would never be able to please him.

So after thinking about it for a while, Yuan Xi actually came up with an idea that Yuan Xi thought was very sensible, but without Yuan Tan, even Lu Weikuang thought it was pure nonsense.

That is to recruit a large number of unemployed idlers in Beihai City.

These things flooded the city defense army in Beihai, and it would be hell if they could make Beihai stable.

In fact, when Yuan Tan came to Beihai, he saw the desolation of the people and the depression of all industries, except for Yuan Xi's misbehavior when he was the general of Beihai.

The newly established city defense army is also "indispensable".

And the city defense army composed of rascals and idlers even had the guts to come to Yuan Tan to ask for military pay when they saw Yuan Tan, the superior.

As for the reason?
Yuan Xi, that trash, in order to recruit soldiers, promised twice the salary of the ordinary local army, and that's why he attracted a large number of rogues who didn't do anything about production and were idle.

It would be fine if Yuan Xi could really rely on these scoundrels to train a strong army.

At worst, he wrote a letter to Yuan Shao to explain the matter. Given Yuan Shao's love for his sons, it would definitely not be difficult to allocate more food and grass.

But after Yuan Xi trained for so long, he produced such a bunch of bastards.

No matter how daring Yuan Xi was, he would not dare to write the letter just like that, and Lu Weikuang, as Prime Minister of Beihai, also firmly refused to write the letter jointly with Yuan Xi.

He was suppressed by Yuan Xi in Beihai, and he could only watch Yuan Xi act mischievously. If he persuaded him, Lu Weikuang worried that he would be beaten to death by the barbarian guard who always followed Yuan Xi.

But if Yuan Xi and Yuan Xi were to join the list, if Yuan Shaozhen sent someone down to inspect it, then Lu Weikuang could have been exempted from part of the crime by his persuasion and disobedience.

But he didn't think that he could be easily let off by Yuan Shao.

That is, Lu Weikuang's operation made Yuan Xi and Lu Weikuang completely torn apart. He went to Pingyuan to seek Yuan Shang's discussion. In order to plot a "great cause" in Beihai.

As for the great cause?
Lu Weikuang didn't dare to say, and he didn't dare to ask, even if Yuan Tan asked, Lu Weikuang just reminded Yuan Tan vaguely that there was a barbarian guard beside Yuan Xi, who was extremely powerful, please be careful.

Yuan Lang looked at Yuan Tan who was leading the horse and walking at the front of the team, his face was sinking like water, and his body was full of blood. It was swallowed back.

Although Lu Weikuang didn't say much, but Xun Yu, as Yuan Tan's intelligence leader, hadn't paid attention to Beihai before, just because Yuan Tan didn't order it.

After seeing the withered situation in Beihai, Yuan Tan directly sent a letter to Xun Yu, asking him to send someone to investigate what happened in Beihai, from beginning to end, including what that trash Yuan Xi was planning.

And Xun Yu's work efficiency is indeed not slow. After only a few days of work, he sorted out the information and sent it to Yuan Tan.

(End of this chapter)