Mixed in the Three Kingdoms as a strategist

In addition, since the fourth year of Chuping, Lu Bu followed Yan Qing's plan and "kindly" sent Yuan Shu, who had been robbed of all his belongings, to Yuan's house in Hebei, and Yuan Shao, who was forced to take over the hot potato, had not had such a leisurely and easy life. up.

Although Yuan Shu is a legitimate son, to his brother-in-law who was passed away a long time ago, there is no closeness at all, and there is no slightest brotherhood to speak of.Not to mention that in recent years, Yuan Shu boasted that his direct lineage was noble, and he didn't appreciate his caring at all. Not only did he belittle his actions secretly, but he also joined forces with Gongsun Zan and Sun Jian to cause a lot of trouble for him, which added a lot of trouble to him. Less traffic.

Yuan Shao hated him for his lack of ability, self-willedness, and disregarding relatives and friends; he also rejoiced that he had little knowledge, short-sightedness, and betrayed relatives.

Now, although I feel gloating about his fate of being taken over by Lu Bu, kidnapped by all kinds of people, and sent to Yecheng, but after all, he is a close relative, Yuan Shu is dejected and slaughtered, and he has a bit of a bad name in this world However, if you take advantage of the danger of blood relatives to do this act of extermination, it will inevitably cause fear in people near and far, and criticize them for being unkind.

Then there is an embarrassing situation where it is not suitable to kill, it is not suitable to release, it is not safe to use, and it is not reconciled to sacrifice.

Guo Tu saw that he was embarrassed, so he suggested that it is better to feed Yuan Shu with good food and drink, and treat him as an idler, so as to show Yuan Shao's broad-mindedness to the world.

If outsiders know that Yuan Shaolian, who has always been diametrically opposed to Yuan Shu, can endure adversity when he comes to ask for protection, wouldn't it be able to relieve the general's worries?

Yuan Shao shook his head unwillingly.

His family has a big business, even if there is a slight shortage of food and grass due to constant wars in recent years, it is not enough to support Yuan Shu alone.But in this way, his heart is always difficult to calm down.

This is too cheap Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu's eyesight is extremely poor, and he doesn't know people clearly, but when it comes to his understanding of his elder brother's indecisive temperament, he is quite profound.After waiting in a state of anxiety and fidgeting for a while, before a cup of terrible poisoned wine came, he knew in his heart: his life would be saved.

At first he cursed in prison because he was terrified of being locked up in a cold dungeon without seeing the light of day, so he simply cursed to his heart's content and begged for an honorable and quick death.

Unexpectedly, Lu Bu didn't know why, but he didn't hurt him, but he was also uneasy, forcing him to show his most desolate side to Yuan Shao, who was used to being looked down upon by him.

Now he is a knife and he is a fish. No matter how arrogant he is, he has honestly restrained his domineering and arrogance at this critical moment.However, if he wanted to beg for mercy from Yuan Shao in order to survive, he might as well die.

Yuan Shao seriously discussed with his staff for a while before summoning him.

He was wearing a simple cloth gown, and he rarely showed a humble and dull side, which really moved Yuan Shao, who was used to the arrogant and domineering appearance, a little bit of compassion.

Yuan Shao said a few words of comfort first, and then said that he would make him a high-ranking official for nothing.But Yuan Shu knew that this was just a few words of politeness, and if he really did it, his suspicion of having the ambition to rise up would be confirmed, and his life would be lost sooner or later, so while secretly hating in his heart, he wisely thought that he was the defeated general. Virtue is incompetent and unworthy of this heavy duty.

Yuan Shao pushed the boat along the way, expressing his appreciation for Yuan Shule hypocritically, without any explanation, gave him a idle job as a drummer, and secretly ordered people to keep an eye on him, even if he was completely dismissed.

From accepting Yuan Shu to deciding to let him be the history of the drum, everything was settled. Although it looked like a toss for a long time, the only ones who could be called entangled were the two noble brothers of the Yuan family.

In fact, in the eyes of ordinary people, being a Gushi is naturally a leisurely and respectable position, and the food salary can also be called a good job-especially since there are frequent wars recently, how can there be leisure time for banquets and guests?

But for the pampered Yuan Shu, the days of rough clothes and shabby robes, frugal food and little food were only slightly better than the days of being in prison and precarious.

Whether it's this humiliating and humble job, or the people who are in charge of monitoring who come in and out follow suit, or the eyes of outsiders who know his identity mixed with pity and ridicule...

For the sake of his family and his life, he had no choice but to swallow his anger. He went to the place where he worked a few times, but he couldn't stand the insult and refused to take a step out of the room.

Lying on the bed all day long, sighing, full of sorrow, hating the injustice of this world, saying that Lu Bu is despicable and shameless, and Chen Li is an incompetent waste, who missed his important affairs.

After Yuan Shao heard the letter, he was still very nervous at first, suspecting that Yuan Shu was going to make some trouble, so he ordered people to strengthen their eyes and closely watch his every move.

As a result, after listening to the report for a long time, Yuan Shu only heard Yuan Shu holding a jar full of bad wine every day, drunk and dreaming, mourning and complaining about himself, and Yuan Shao came back to it: others don't know, he still doesn't know about this pretentious younger brother What kind of person are you?

If Yuan Shu had really had the ability to try hard, pretend to be crazy, and endure humiliation for several months, he would not have ended up like this.

It would be a good thing if Yuan Shu could commit suicide because he couldn't bear the gap, without him having to do it himself.

At the critical moment when Yuan Shao listened to Cao Cao's advice and finally decided to send troops south to attack the domineering Lv thief, he almost wiped out his family fortune, and naturally withdrew most of the elite soldiers guarding Yuan Shu. , leaving only one person intentionally.

Yuan Shao's guess was actually not wrong.

Yuan Shu really didn't have that strong will. When he was completely lost, his future was bleak, and he was only living on his dying brother's hypocritical charity, he could still paralyze the opponent's vigilance and wait for an opportunity to recover.

Full of ambition, Yuan Shao took away one hundred thousand troops in a vigorous manner, leaving only Shenpei to guard Yecheng and sit in the rear.

After the army was launched, the judges, who had heavy responsibilities, were not idle.While taking care of internal affairs and supervising the transportation of grain and grass, he did not forget to take advantage of this great opportunity to wipe out dissidents.

And his painstaking efforts were indeed not in vain: isn't this the big trick to catch Xu You's family members who have always been at odds with him for corruption and bribery, and are so bold that they don't even let the army rations go?

After repeated checks, after knowing that this was indeed the case, he asked the judge to be overjoyed, arrested them all, and sent them all to jail, and then quickly wrote to the front line to inform Yuan Shao of this matter, so as to express him He is impartial and selfless, and has no intention of covering up the serious crimes committed by his colleagues and family members.

The front remained motionless, and the rear was in full swing, but the movements on Yuan Shu's side remained motionless like a pool of stagnant water.

If it wasn't for him still eating, drinking, and messing around, just looking at the door that was tightly closed every day and now covered with dust, one would suspect that he has become a dead person.

Seeing that he was always looking like this, waiting to die, the soldiers who were left to monitor him also started to sabotage, and only locked the courtyard door, and then slipped away to have fun by themselves.

This trivial detail was ignored by everyone, but it did not escape the eyes of the meticulous Zhou Yu.

Because he was serving as a deputy under Tian Kai and was highly valued, he took advantage of his position to find out what was going on among the allied forces, including Yuan Shao's handling of Yuan Shu.

He is so perceptive, after easily guessing the follow-up development, he quickly came up with an idea, immediately repaired a book, and secretly sent it to his close friend Sun Ce who was on standby in Xucheng through a carrier pigeon.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu have always had a tacit understanding, and it is no different this time.Just based on a few words, I guessed his meaning very closely.

Sun Ce had no intention of questioning Zhou Yu's strategy at all. After scratching his head for a moment, he decided to let Yuan Shu's most familiar father's old team and his trusted veteran Huang Gai go.

After Huang Gai got the order, he immediately went to Yecheng.Around the house where Yuan Shu was imprisoned, with the help of the tavern owner who had assisted Ma Zhong in kidnapping Jushou, he easily became a breakfast vendor.

After finding out the surrounding situation, Huang Gai took advantage of the moment when the guards were completely relaxed, climbed over the back wall and sneaked into Yuan Shu's room without making a sound.

Huang Gai had an honest face that Yuan Shu was quite familiar with, and he was at the most stable and reliable age, and he appeared at the moment when Yuan Shu was in despair but hadn't completely lost his fighting spirit, and Yuan Shu immediately believed what he said.

It's just that after this sincere and long talk, after the initial ecstasy, he still hesitated about Huang Gai's suggestion.

Huang Gai said that the reason why Sun Cexian still succumbed to the thug Lu Bu was to find ways to rescue him.They only hated Yuan Shao for guarding him tightly, and Xian Yao deliberately forced him to death, even though they were so anxious, they were helpless.

Now that Yuan Shao came out in full force, just to attack Lu Bu, he had no time to care about the movement behind, and the city was empty, it was a great opportunity for Yuan Shu to make a comeback.

We must know that the reason why Yuan Shao was able to respond to all kinds of calls and bring scholars under his command was not because he was the head of a powerful family of officials and officials in Runan, the Yuan family in Runan.As far as the name is concerned, who else can compare to Yuan Shu, who is a true direct descendant?

This is also the reason why Yuan Shao clearly couldn't tolerate him and couldn't kill him openly.

As long as Yuan Shu doesn't want to be pressed to death by you, he should seize this good opportunity to turn around: first borrow a few thousand soldiers from Gongsun Zan, and then let him go outside the city to kill the fox pretending to be the tiger's prestige, the domineering judge, the remaining soldiers in the city are leaderless , content to obey his orders.

Yuan Shu could then go to Qingzhou to replace his nephew Yuan Tan and share Qingzhou with Gongsun Zan.

After more than a year of torment, Yuan Shu no longer had the vigorous and romantic appearance of the day, and his appearance was very haggard. He knew this well, and he couldn't bear his own appearance becoming ugly, and he hadn't taken a picture of himself in the mirror for a long time.

Hearing what Huang Gai said, it inevitably aroused the depression that had been accumulated in his heart for a long time.

But the matter was so important that Yuan Shu didn't immediately agree: Although he was stupid, he wasn't hopeless.After being defeated and fled, he knew very well that he and Yuan Shao were in a close relationship (although Yuan Shao no longer regarded him as a tiger in Pingyang), and the real enemy who was right in front of him was the The unstoppable Lu Bu who dominates the three states is right.

According to Huang Gai, Tian Kai, the governor of Qingzhou appointed by Gongsun Zan, had long been dissatisfied with Yuan Tan's arrogant and rude behavior, and was willing to send troops to support his younger brother, who was more noble than Yuan Shao, to take that position.

But in this way, Yuan Shao, who was busy fighting on the front line, felt as if he had been stabbed firmly in the back. What's more, if Gongsun Zan, who came to Hebei under the banner of rescuing him, got malicious halfway and gave the granary burned...

Yuan Shao, who had been pulled from the bottom of the pot, was really doomed under the enemy's back and forth.

If Yuan Shao were to die, Gongsun Zan would turn his face ruthlessly and withdraw his promise to share Qingzhou with him.

After hearing Yuan Shu's concerns, Huang Gai thought for a while and continued to persuade him.

He said that when the judge dies, you only need to go up and call out to reveal your identity. After the soldiers guarding the city have lost their backbone, how can they still disobey your orders and listen to those foreign ministers who are not even as good as judges? of?When you have [-] troops originally belonging to Yecheng, why should you be afraid of the thousands of Gongsun Zan's troops who came here just to escort you?

With Lü Bu's troops approaching, even if Gongsun Zan wanted to go back on his word and not keep the covenant, he would act cautiously because of Lu Bu's threat...

Yuan Shu still hesitated, Huang Gai was not in a hurry, he climbed over the wall calmly and went back the same way.

As for whether Yuan Shu would agree to this point, even Huang Gai, who was only a slick writer, was sure: as long as he didn't want to stay in this hellish place for a day, he had to bite the bait of both risks and benefits.

Yuan Shu tossed and turned on the bed thinking about it until it was dark, but he didn't make up his mind.

It was only at this time that he finally realized that he was hungry and his throat was burning hot, as if he was on fire from doing it. It was because he was so busy thinking about things that he forgot to eat water.

The simple dinner had already been brought in through the window by the chef. Because of his rude actions, he even spilled half of the porridge, which was already not full, and there was a small glass of cold well water next to it.

Yuan Shu frowned and took a sip. It was the cold brown rice porridge again.Usually, he has the intention of dying early, so he doesn't care what he eats in his stomach at all.

Now I want to swallow this rough and rough rice grain, and my delicate throat hurts for a while.

But with hope in his heart, his energy recovered greatly, and eating cold porridge was not so unbearable anymore.

After Yuan Shu walked around in place for a while, he couldn't hold back the anxiety and excitement in his heart, and habitually shouted at the top of his voice, "Come here, bring honey water!"

He has been fond of sweets since he was a child, and he doesn't like to drink clear water. Especially when his thoughts are agitated, he needs to drink some honey water. While enjoying the moist sweetness, he sorts out the pros and cons of things.

He forgot for a moment that his status had plummeted, and suddenly yelled, how could the servant who didn't take him seriously at all pay attention to him?

It is crazy to laugh at him because he has been imprisoned for a long time. It is good to drink well water, so what honey water is he delusional about? !

Compared with the depression of not being able to drink honey water, the tragic situation that even servants dare to look down on him, and ridicule him is even more intolerable for the arrogant Yuan Shu.

If it wasn't for Yuan Shao's instruction, how would they dare to do this!

He yelled a few words in anger, so he no longer hesitated, and made up his mind to get rid of the judge, go to Qingzhou with Gongsun Zan's support, and then find out the determination to start a new path.