Ganling.

Yuan Shao stood in the courtyard, looking at the long knife in his hand, and his eyebrows were raised slightly, as if he was smiling.

Guo Tu stood aside, holding one hand on his hands, stroking the short beard under his jaw with the other hand, smiling. He didn't look at the knife, he looked at Yuan Shao. He saw the pride in Yuan Shao's eyes, and a big stone fell back in his heart.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and Tian Feng and Ju Su walked in side by side. Tian Feng walked in front, leaning on a bamboo stick. He was old and not in good health, and he was unable to move. Yuan Shao respected him and specially gave him a Qiong stick. As soon as Cao Cao arrived in Yizhou, he sent people to collect a large number of Yizhou specialties and sent them to Jizhou from thousands of miles away. This Qiong stick was one of them.

Tian Feng liked this Qiong stick very much and never left it.

Yuan Shao's eyes swept away, Guo Tu knew what he wanted, bowed and turned around and went out. When he passed by Tian Feng and Ju Su, he smiled and nodded. Ju Su gave the first gift, but Tian Feng pretended not to see it and walked straight towards Yuan Shao. Guo Tu's face remained unchanged. The moment he left the door, the smile on his face disappeared instantly, as cold as ice.

Tian Feng and Ju Su walked up to Yuan Shao and were about to speak. Yuan Shao smiled and said, "Yuan Hao, you are well-read and knowledgeable. Look at this knife. Can you taste it for me?"

Tian Feng frowned and did not take the knife handed over by Yuan Shao. He just looked at it. The knife was about the same length as an ordinary ring knife, but the scabbard was simple and inlaid with jade. However, the color of the jade was dark, not like a newly carved one, but like an antique dug out after being buried underground for many years. He was a little displeased. He had known that someone from Yuan Shao's subordinates had robbed the grave and dug the tomb. I don't know which tomb these ancient jade was robbed from. For this reason, he made many suggestions. Ju Su, Cui Yan and others also said it many times, but the effect was not great.

"Where does this knife come from?"

Seeing that Tian Feng did not take the knife, Yuan Shao pulled out a piece of the blade, held the scabbard upside down, and handed it to Tian Feng. "Can Yuan Hao recognize these two words?"

Tian Feng looked at it and looked even more displeased. He saw two ancient characters on the blade: Sizhao, but he noticed more that the knife was a new knife, but it was just an old one. The reason was very simple. The material of this knife was made of Bailiang Qinggang, bright like Qiushui, and light can be used to capture people. It would never be an ancient knife.

Tian Feng suppressed his unhappiness and said lightly: "Sizhao, is it the meaning of memorial to Zhao Gong? Although Zhao Gong is also a wise minister, his ambition is too small. The kingdom is suspicious and the world is in chaos. The lord should be Zhou Gong and eliminate all the evildoers."

Yuan Shao's smile was a little embarrassed, and he took back the knife awkwardly and coughed twice. "Yuan Hao is right. Please come here to discuss the big thing. Liu Yao just sent the news, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are advancing towards Yu Zhang. How should we support him so as not to fall into Sun Ce's hands?"

Tian Feng frowned even more. "What's the point of negotiating? Of course, it's about advancing to Yuzhou. Although Sun Jian is good at fighting, he only has more than 20,000 people, less than half of the lord's father and son. Yuzhou is also the lord's own province, and he fell into the hands of the Sun's father and son, and was bullied. People are kind-hearted. If the lord advances to Yuzhou, the aristocratic tribes in Yuzhou will definitely eat pots of slurry to welcome the lord and come. In this way, Sun Ce will naturally resolve the siege of Yuzhang and go to Yuzhou for the urgent need."

Yuan Shao nodded repeatedly. "What Yuan Hao said is very true. Sun Bin surrounded Wei and saved Zhao. However, Gongsun Zan has not yet decided. If I leave Jizhou lightly, Gongsun Zan goes south and Jizhou is disturbed, what should I do?"

Tian Feng blurted out without thinking. "With Zang Hong, who is in charge of Bohai, and Shen Pei is guarding Jizhou, why should the lord worry about Gongsun Zan?"

Yuan Shao's eyes flashed, the smile on his face was a little light, and his eyes were a little impatient.

When Tian Feng saw it, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful, but he had already said that it was difficult to stop the water, and he didn't want to stop it. Yuan Shao's recent actions made him very confused. Originally, the strategy he had formulated for Yuan Shao was to first seize Youzhou and Bingzhou, stabilize the north and then go south. Now he has just defeated Gongsun Zan, and has not completely defeated him, and even Jizhou has not completely conquered, Yuan Shao was eager to go south to fight to suppress Yuzhou. He always suspected that the Ruying people were pushing behind it.

Since he decided to attack Yuzhou, he should make a quick decision. Soldiers are the most powerful, but Yuan Shao hesitated and is still considering whether to attack Yuzhou, which makes him unable to understand.

When the cessation is constantly broken, he is in trouble. He came today just to make Yuan Shao make up his mind. Either he would fight quickly and enter Yuzhou quickly, end the war before spring plowing, or give up. The army was stationed here, consuming a lot of money and food every day but was futile, which was really not a wise move.

Yuan Shao remained silent. In order to break the embarrassment, he turned around and invited Tian Feng. Ju Su went to the hall to invite them to drink tea. Tea is a specialty in Shu, which is rare in Hebei, and is considered a new thing. When the three of them took their seats, Yuan Shao ordered people to serve tea and praised the benefits of this tea. It not only refreshes the mind, but also moistens the intestines and has a health effect. Drinking a cup after a meal can also remove the fishy and greasy and aid digestion.

The more lively Yuan Shao spoke, the more silent Tian Feng was. He knew that Yuan Shao had denied his opinion in disguise, but he just did not refute him openly. He looked at Ju Su and put his last hope on Ju Su.

Yuan Shao was drinking tea, and seemed to be very excited and enjoyed it, but in fact he was waiting for Ju Su to speak. He was somewhat disappointed with Tian Feng. Tian Feng was wise, but his personality was too straightforward, good at planning things but clumsy. Yuan Tan and Cao Ang exchanged battlefields and transferred Cao Ang to Lu County. He was stationed in Licheng himself. The meaning of this was very interesting, but Tian Feng ignored it and kept urging him to attack Yuzhou himself.

Ju Su tasted two sips of tea, moistened his throat, and then spoke. "Lord, what Yuan Hao said was very much. Sun Jian and his son changed the old system and bullied the aristocratic races. The people in Yuzhou were resentful. The lord chanted the people and punished the people and relieved the people from the upside down. The aristocratic races in Yuzhou must respond. Sun Ce returned to the army and Yuzhang's siege was relieved. However, I thought that the lord did not have to go out in person. The troops were mobilized, and Xiansi could lead the Yanzhou soldiers and horses to fight."

Yuan Shao's expression was a little slow, and he pondered: "Can Xiansi defeat Sun Jian?"

"Lord, Sun Jian is just the courage of an ordinary man, and it is not worth fearing. Xian Si defeated Sun Ce last year, and today he can defeat Sun Jian. The war in Qingzhou went smoothly, and Tao Qian had already deployed heavy troops in the Langya area. Cao Ang will soon be able to occupy Lu State and lead his troops south, Pengcheng and Xiaoxian under its danger. If the lord sends people to contact Zhang Miao and asks him to send troops to Yingchuan, then it will go west to Luoyang, east to the sea, and thousands of miles of battlefields, and there will be war everywhere. Sun Jian will lose one thing and lose one's head and end, so he will definitely send Sun Ce to reinforce."

Yuan Shao pondered without saying a word. Ju Su's plan was good, but in this way, Yuan Tan took on all the wars and conquered Yuzhou in the future, and Yuzhou became Yuan Tan's sphere of influence. This was by no means the result he was willing to accept.

Ju Su knew it well and continued: "Although Sun Jian and his son were not opponents of Xiansi, Sun Ce dispatched troops and managed the Sui River defense line last year. This year, Yanzhou has a lot of rain, large-scale harvests were bad, and there was insufficient money and food. Xiansi was not easy to break through the Sui River defense line. Therefore, I suggest that the lord send thousands of elite cavalry, and Liang Pei took turns to attack, and attacked for a long distance, and shone troops in Runan. Because of the food from the aristocratic families, the internal and external responses can be achieved twice the result."

Yuan Shao was very satisfied. Just as he was about to speak, the chief clerk Geng Bao walked in and presented a letter. Yuan Shao opened the letter and couldn't help laughing loudly.
Chapter completed!