He finally made up his mind and reorganized his last family fortune, spied on Chenliu County, and planned to use this as a breakthrough to invade and seize Yanzhou, which Cao Cao had just occupied.
However, Yuan Shu's spying did not go smoothly.
Chenliu County implemented the new Lijia system and the household registration system formulated by Lu Yan, making it almost impossible for the outside population to hide in Chenliu County.
Therefore, the spies sent by Yuan Shu to inquire about Chenliu County,
They suddenly discovered that no matter where they were in Chenliu County, they would feel like they were standing naked among the crowd...
It seemed that no matter where they went in Chenliu County, people would look at them with a strange look.
In the government meeting hall,
Lu Yan is sitting on the main seat. Under his left hand are Mao Jie, Guo Jia and Ren Jun.
On the right hand side are Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Li Dian, Yue Jin and Dian Wei.
Today, it is a rare occasion for all the important civil and military officials of Chenliu County to gather together.
Because of some abnormal situations that have occurred in Chenliu County recently, they attracted the attention of Lu Yan and others.
Mao Jie took the information compiled in his hand and asked Lu Yan, who was sitting in the main seat:
"Chang Sheng, there have been more and more spies from Nanyang recently. Do you think the people in Nanyang have any inappropriate thoughts about us?"
Lu Yan has also been thinking about this matter recently,
He only roughly remembered that soon after Boss Cao took control of Yanzhou, he would attack Xuzhou because Mr. Cao was killed.
Then Zhang Miao and Chen Gong led Lu Bu to attack Yanzhou secretly. His memory of what happened during this period was very vague.
However, in Lu Yan's vague memories, he vaguely felt that Yuan Shu had indeed had a fight with Boss Cao.
I can’t remember when I did it, where I did it, or how intense it was.
After Lu Yan pondered for a moment,
But the more I thought about it, the more I felt it was possible,
But when I thought about how I had been sitting and preparing for Lu Bu's arrival, I suddenly felt that there was no need to panic.
Lu Yan calmly replied to Mao Jie: "Xiao Xian, you are right.
I think Yuan Shu is very likely to be greedy for Chenliu County, no, he should be greedy for Yanzhou."
Guo Jia was half-kneeling on his seat, his eyes flashing from time to time.
Lu Yan happened to see this scene. He thought Guo Jia might have thought of something, so he asked:
"Fengxiao, what do you think?"
After Guo Jia was called by Lu Yan, he stood up, bowed his hands to everyone present and replied: "Jia does have a guess."
"tell me the story!"
"Everyone, do you still remember that not long ago, Gongsun Zan joined forces with Xuzhou Tao Qian, Liu Bei, Shan Jing and others to provoke Yuan Shao and Cao Gong?"
"Of course I remember, but they are just asking for trouble!" Cao Ren replied with a little pride, as if it was not Cao Cao but Cao Ren who won the battle.
Guo Jia nodded, and then continued: "Actually, Jia has always been a little confused.
That is Gongsun Zan's new defeat, plus Tao Qian who only has the qualifications to defend the city.
Where did they get the courage to provoke Yuan Shao and Duke Cao at the same time?"
When Lu Yan heard this, he immediately felt that something was indeed strange.
"It is indeed a bit strange, because whether it is in terms of military strength or overall strength,
Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian, Liu Bei, Shan Jing and others have no obvious advantage over Yuan Shao and Cao Gong."
Guo Jia continued: "But what if there is another Yuan Shu?"
Mao Jie suddenly turned around, stared at Guo Jiadao: "You mean..."
Others' are,
"Could it be..."
"impossible......!"
Guo Jia's words were like dropping a bomb into the calm lake water, which immediately triggered a heated discussion among everyone present.
Lu Yan, however, felt suddenly enlightened.
Some of the fragmented memories deep in his memory were slowly pieced together, "I think Fengxiao's speculation is very likely to be true!"
Hearing that Lu Yan actually agreed with Guo Jia's "unbelievable" idea,
The discussion among others finally calmed down and they were ready to listen to what Lu Yan had to say.
After Lu Yan looked around for a week, he began to explain his memory and understanding to them:
"Gongsun Zan was defeated by Yuan Shao at Jieqiao. If Liu Bei hadn't arrived in time, Gongsun Zan might not have been able to return to his hometown."
After Lu Yan's memory and thoughts were opened, he quickly thought of the key,
"As Yuan Shao's current staunch ally, Cao Gong, he took over Yanzhou and defeated the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. It is impossible that Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian and others did not receive the news.
Under such circumstances, Gongsun Zan and Tao Qian still dare to launch an offensive against Yuan Shao, which shows that their deployment is actually far from being as simple as it seems on the surface."
Guo Jia felt faintly excited after listening to Lu Yan's analysis. He followed Lu Yan's words and said:
"So, Jia believes that Gongsun Zan may not only have united with Tao Qian, but he has also secretly united with Yuan Shu of Nanyang who is behind Cao Gong.
As long as Yuan Shu launches the offensive with them,
Tao Qian was in the front to attract and restrain Duke Cao, and Yuan Shu was in the rear to make a surprise attack.
Duke Cao is bound to be unable to take care of both ends, and may even lose most of Yanzhou soon.
Duke Cao was beaten and disabled,
Then Gongsun Zan can join forces with Tao Qian's remaining troops to join forces with Liu Bei, Shan Jing and others to besiege Yuan Shao and finally capture Jizhou!"
Lu Yan looked at Guo Jia who was talking eloquently and thought in shock: "Is this the genius Guo Fengxiao?
I can only think of Gongsun Zan's intention based on some memories of history.
And with only some limited information, he was able to figure out Gongsun Zan's plan to a very close degree!
Seriously,
If God had not given birth to me, Guo Fengxiao, my path would be like a long night!"
This sentence suddenly appeared in Lu Yan's mind, and he read it out naturally.
"Huh?" Guo Jia was stunned at first, and then said humbly: "Lu Zhonglang, your praise is a bit too much! (But I like it!)"
Although Guo Jia kept trying to be modest, judging from his face that almost broke out from laughter, he actually didn't know how happy he was!
"Uh...why did I just read it out?" Lu Yan was a little annoyed,
Then he glared at Guo Jia, who was smugly ogling him, and asked:
"Then tell me why Yuan Shu didn't cooperate with Gongsun Zan and others' actions?"
Guo Jia was not stumped. After thinking for a moment, he replied: "If my guess is correct, Yuan Shu should have been held back by Liu Biao before."
After hearing Guo Jia's guess again, Lu Yan was completely convinced this time.
He admitted that there was a big gap between himself and the top wise men of this era, so in the future, in addition to Charming Pills, he decided to take as many wisdom pills as possible!
"Fengxiao's speculation is very likely to be correct."
After Mao Jie praised Guo Jia's speculation, he frowned and asked:
"Changsheng, our Chenliu County only has more than 10,000 infantry, how should we deal with Yuan Shu's army of hundreds of thousands?
I think we should ask the lord for help as soon as possible..."
The weird thing is,
After Mao Jie finished saying this request for help, he didn't wait for anyone to agree. Instead, everyone looked at him with a strange look.
Mao Jie, who was stared at inexplicably, couldn't bear it anymore and finally got angry: