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"Yuan Benchu, you said this without any reason. Do you think others don't know what you are thinking?"

Lu Bu's words made the princes tremble in their hearts. They felt that Lu Bu was really not easy to mess with. Yuan Shao just said that and made him feel like a tiger with explosive hair.

Then he was seen standing on the edge of the high platform, looking down at the princes below, with a sneer on his face, and his tone was even colder: "If this is the so-called alliance to challenge Dong, then Lu Fengxian just doesn't want to join. It's the only choice.

It's a pity that you are all working hard to restore the Han Dynasty and kill the traitors in the country, especially Cao Xuzhou, who has worked hard for this, but there are people who are causing trouble internally and want to confuse the public with their evil words. What is the purpose? It is just for their own selfish interests."

"Yuan Shao, if you don't join this alliance, unless you stop interfering with Cao Xuzhou's appointment as alliance leader, everyone will probably doubt your intentions."

Yuan Shao couldn't help feeling embarrassed. It was very disrespectful to call people by their names, but he didn't care about it now, because the multiple-choice question Lu Bu said was more important to him now.

Of course he wanted to use this to beat Cao Cao. Even if he finally took the position of leader, Yuan Shao's trouble would undoubtedly greatly weaken the respect he had created from the beginning among the princes. At that time, he

To fish in troubled waters, Yuan Shao thought clearly that he did not have to be the leader of the alliance, but he must take the initiative.

I didn't expect this Lu Bu...

"Lu Fengxian, if you can join my alliance, wouldn't it be that Tao Gongqian, Liu Gongdai and others died in vain? If we can't cut off Dong Dong's minions, what's the use? Who knows when we will again

There will be another Dong Zhuo from

Jump out? Will it be like this again, and then live forever?" He can only bite the bullet now, but everyone has to admit that what he said does make some sense, and this is what many people still don't know.

Speak out your concerns.

This time Lu Bu didn't refute, but Cao Cao spoke first.

Cao Cao also knew Yuan Shao's thoughts. Naturally, he couldn't let Yuan Shao get his wish. He had to support Lu Bu to the end today. At least for the time being, they still had interests involved. He couldn't just let go, so he didn't care about Yuan Shao's face.

He was stunned, his face darkened and he said: "Yuan Benchu. Isn't this a bit too much to say? Fengxian was introduced to our alliance by Cao Mengde. Before that, he had indeed worked for Dong Thief, and even served as his minion in Hulao.

He also fought with me during the war

We are in a difficult situation, but at that time we were enemies of each other, so is it wrong for each to serve his own master? Now that he can join this alliance, it will be of great help to the fight against Dong. As for your so-called worries, they are just unfounded worries, just like

That Dong Zhuo was also a Han Dynasty

Isn't this important minister now a scum of the Han Dynasty? If you only judge the quality of this person's life based on his temporary likes and dislikes, wouldn't it mean that he is destined to live a lifetime from the moment he falls to the ground? I don't know what the original meaning is. But for this

I’m afraid I disagree.”

Yuan Shao asked three rhetorical questions, and Cao Cao responded with three rhetorical questions. These words even caused a commotion among the princes, and everyone began to think deeply.

Yuan Shao's face turned extremely ugly. He originally thought that Cao Cao would not break up with him because of Lu Bu. Although they were both competitors for the leader of the alliance, their private friendship was not fake. But he didn't expect that now he said

By saying something like this, does this mean that he is deliberately making things difficult?

At this time, Cao Cao seemed to suddenly understand something, and sneered: "Is it true that as Fengxian said, you were originally dissatisfied with Cao as the leader of the alliance to defeat Dong, and that's why you sat down like this?

A broad discussion? It’s just now, but I don’t know who also agreed to Fengxian’s proposal.

The leader of Yiwu Jing Alliance also said that the final result will be settled as long as everyone is convinced. I don’t know if anyone among the gentlemen who is here now except Yuan Benchu ​​has any objections. It is best to speak out together so that Cao will know.

.What on earth did I do that caused everyone to be dissatisfied?"

It's one thing for everyone to know it, but it's another thing to say it personally. None of the princes, including Lu Bu, expected that Cao Cao would be so disrespectful to Yuan Shao, and it would completely expose his scars.

At this time, they even wanted to drag them all in, but they didn't think it was Cao Cao's fault. Instead, they felt that it was Yuan Shao who was making trouble unreasonably. Even Yuan Yi would not choose to side with Yuan Shao at this time, but he didn't say it out loud.

, but Yuan Shu originally had a relationship with Yuan Shao in his family.

Some of them were not easy to deal with. They usually had less contact with each other, let alone a good relationship. At this time, he actually added insult to injury and said: "Although Shu is not familiar with this Marquis Wen, I believe that Alliance Leader Cao is thinking about the alliance wholeheartedly.

If you would do something detrimental to the alliance, I'm afraid you are really overly concerned at first."

This is not like Yuan Shu's speaking style, but it happened to come out of his mouth. Although the tone was a little flat and the content of the words was calm, looking at him looking at Yuan Shao with burning eyes at this time, it became clear what his intentions were.

Extremely obvious.

Cao Cao smiled. He didn't expect the effect to be so good. He would take the initiative firstly to help Lu Bu, and secondly for the position of alliance leader. If he was really disturbed by Yuan Shao like this, even if he reluctantly succeeded in the end, what would happen then?

He will also lose a lot of persuasiveness, so before he officially becomes the leader of the alliance, he will first use Yuan Shao to establish his power.

If Yuan Shao wanted to confront him head-on, that would be a good thing. Anyway, he was in the wrong for this matter. An unreasonable reputation would have a great influence on the princes who wanted to compete;

His reputation can establish Cao Cao's majesty in advance.

Yuan Shao had no second choice, but the results of both paths were obviously not what he wanted. He figured this out in his mind, and then he fell into a dilemma.

He suddenly regretted that he had not been able to hold back just now and was a little too reckless. Although the series of setbacks he suffered in Hebei had made him mature a lot, the arrogance of a big family was still deep in his heart, even if

Even as a child, they looked down upon Cao Cao, but they never thought that one day they would be under the feet of these people whom they looked down upon.

So what about a big family? Having no soldiers or power is its biggest weakness. It is indeed much easier for him to recruit soldiers based on his family background, but if you think about it carefully, how many of these people are really willing to follow him?

What's more, the principle of joining the world of aristocratic families is to never put all their eggs in one basket, so he, Yuan Shu and Yuan Yi are the three parties with the Yuan surname. Since he is currently the most powerful, in fact, many resources left by the Yuan family

They are all owned by him, but if one day he loses power, the first thing Yuan Shu and the others will think of is to seize those resources, connections, prestige and even the family's secret long-term management income.

Now Yuan Shao didn't even have the courage to continue speaking. He seemed to have lost most of his strength in an instant. Looking at the faces of the princes around him, his heart felt cold.

Cao Cao frowned, "Benchu, what else can you say?"

Yuan Shao shook his head, but heard Cao Cao say: "In this case, Cao will give the first order as the leader of the alliance, which is to select a deputy leader to assist me. Although the alliance is only temporary,

It is necessary to gather the forces of all the princes in the world and unite them into a mighty army to defeat Dong Zhuo. There is no need to list the difficulties in detail. Even if you cooperate with only one person, I am afraid that it is not enough. Someone needs to share the burden. You all think that Cao Zhuo

What does this mean?"

The so-called deputy leader naturally means that one person in the alliance is lower than ten thousand people. Of course, in fact, the alliance is not a unified force and does not have such strong cohesion, so this only refers to the status and identity during this short alliance period, and

Not real power.

That is to say, during the alliance, as the deputy leader, he has the right to act as the leader when the leader is absent, and he can even replace the leader when he is questioned by the alliance princes.

When mentioning the position of deputy alliance leader, everyone couldn't help but think of Yuan Shao who was frustrated just now. When Yuan Shao heard this, he subconsciously thought of himself. He knew that this was probably Cao Cao's attempt to show his favor to him. After all, he got an advantage and acted like a good boy.

Being too arrogant will offend him to death. At present, Cao Cao has no fundamental conflict with him, so it is not worth making such an enemy.

What Yuan Shao didn't expect was that he guessed the beginning again, but not the ending. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest support.
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