After hearing Tian Kai's words, Gongsun Zan's face twitched slightly and said indifferently: "If they dare to come and fight, just let them come."
"There are three million grains here. I want to see which side is short of grain first."
Tian Kai was stunned: "General, how can we turn defeat into victory when we are trapped here?"
"What if the general stays here while the Yuan army bypasses Yijing and captures Youzhou?"
"I"
Gongsun Zan suddenly roared: "No need to say it!"
"Did you come to see me just to talk about these things?"
"You know, you are the only man who can enter this tall building of mine!"
Tian Kai looked bitter: "General, how did you become like this!"
"Are you still the white-horse general who controls the North?"
Gongsun Zan was furious: "Shut up! Do you really think I dare not do anything to you?"
"Get off!"
Tian Kai gritted his teeth and kowtowed: "General!"
"If you don't explain it to me, I will jump out of here!"
"How can you be worthy of those who once followed you?"
Gongsun Zan suddenly stood up, grabbed Tian Kai's front skirt, and dragged him to the window: "Look, look at the land below!"
"It's gone, there's nothing left!"
"You said I abandoned you, why haven't I been abandoned?"
"I have done so many things for Han Ting, but after killing Liu Yu, what did they do to me?"
"I've done all kinds of dirty things, but now what?"
"They sealed a few empty positions and then sat on the mountain to watch the fight between tigers and tigers!"
"Damn Li Jue and Guo Si, damn the Han Emperor!"
Tian Kai was a little at a loss, "The emperor is being held hostage."
"What's the difference!" Gongsun Zan shouted: "There is no going back!"
"Why can't we turn back!" Tian Kai shouted: "As long as we defeat Yuan Shao, the general will be unbeatable!"
"As long as we occupy the northern territory, the general can lead his army to Chang'an to rescue the emperor!"
"When the time comes, the general will be a great general! Then he can be granted the title of Duke!"
Gongsun Zan pushed Tian Kai away fiercely, "You are wrong, I can't do it anymore!"
"Now the whole world has betrayed me!"
"Look, except for you, who else have I ever trusted?"
"Zhang Yan only cares about robbery, Liu Bei sets up his own business, Tao Qian is a madman, and Yuan Shu is a backstabbing bastard!"
"Look at Yuan Shao again!"
"No matter how hard I fight, I can't kill him!"
"Even my teacher finally sided with him!"
"Baima Yicong only has a thousand riders left now. What can these few soldiers do?"
Tian Kai stood up straight and said coldly: "General, you let me down so much."
"Although there are not many Baima Yicong left, Zhang Yan still has hundreds of thousands of people. Liu Bei occupied Xuzhou and did not break with the general."
"Although the general's teacher Lu Zhi finally defected to Yuan Shao, it does not mean that he is definitely right."
"In the battle of Qingzhou, if I, Tian Kai, are defeated, I am defeated, but if the general does not send troops, how many people's hearts will be chilled?"
"I heard that the generals fighting abroad were trapped, and the generals ordered no rescue to prevent Yi Jing from being attacked?"
"With all due respect, the general is in this state because of his own fault."
"As for being betrayed, I, Tian Kai, didn't say anything. It's not the general's turn."
Gongsun Zan's face turned purple and he was speechless.
Tian Kai stood up and walked downstairs, "That's all, since I, Tian Kai, have come to this point, it was my own choice."
"It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong, I will accompany the general until the end."
Gongsun Zan listened to Tian Kai's footsteps going downstairs and gradually went away, and stood blankly in front of the window.
He was born in an aristocratic family, but because of his mother's humble status, he suffered a lot of ridicule since he was a child. When he grew up, perhaps because of some shadows in his childhood, he disdained to associate with the children of the aristocratic family, and instead preferred to be with some
Business contacts.
"Therefore, I love you like many traders and mediocre people." One of the words he always talks about is "Everyone wears clothes and hats because he thinks he is rich and honorable, and he does not thank others for their favors."
Because of his poor background, Gongsun Zan could only serve as a minor official in the county, but he was as loyal as Tian Kai. He was appreciated by the governor of Zhuo County and married his daughter to him. Later, he became a disciple of Lu Zhi and gained status among the gentry.
, and then it emerged.
So when Gongsun Zan received the order from the Han court to attack Yuan Shao, the Fourth and Third Duke, he felt an inexplicable sense of relief in his heart.
If this top noble clan is defeated and trampled under his feet, all the noble clans in the world will surely kneel down and submit to him like dogs, right?
However, the direction of things was beyond Gongsun Zan's expectation. Although both sides won and lost in several battles, many nobles in the world began to turn to Yuan Shao instead of him!
Sure enough, they are all of the same breed!
Gradually, Gongsun Zan found that he could not defeat Yuan Shao on the battlefield. He seemed to have lost his spirit. After retreating to Yi Jing, he suddenly felt that he was tired.
People who depend on him want more from him, but he can no longer give it.
He lost his goal and deeply hated the helplessness of being coerced by his subordinates. He couldn't figure out where he would go in the end.
He stood blankly in front of the window, picked up the wine bottle, and began to anesthetize himself again.
If Yuan Xi, who was far away in Yecheng at this time, knew what Gongsun Zan was thinking, he would definitely laugh at Gongsun Zan for asking for trouble.
Yuan Xi felt that when he traveled back in time, despite the intrigues, he felt a sense of accomplishment every day and everything he did, because it was all earned in vain.
Moreover, he was cast into a good child, and was much more advantageous than Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu, Zhu Jun, Sun Jian, Lu Meng, Deng Ai and others who came from a humble background. Otherwise, as an ordinary person, he really wouldn't know how to start.
Isn't it interesting to be able to travel to different time and space thousands of years ago, inadvertently affect the course of history, and fall in love with different women thousands of years ago?
Well, thinking about it this way, it feels a bit weird?
He turned his head and saw Zhen Mi next to him with a red face, and slowly retracted his hand.
People say that a man's upper body and lower body are completely separated, and that his physiology and psychology can be completely separated. It is indeed true.
Zhen Mi whispered: "I thought the young master was a gentleman."
Yuan Xi touched his nose in embarrassment, "This is not to reassure the girl and prove that I am devoted to her."
Zhen Mi glanced sideways at Yuan Xi: "Young Master, I've asked Sister Wu Zhao, have you touched the Fourth Sister like this?"
Yuan Xi was startled and hurriedly whispered: "That's because I was drugged, and I can't count!"
Then he said bitterly: "Wu Zhao actually told you this!"
"What exactly did you promise her?"
Zhen Mi said proudly: "I won't tell the young master."
Yuan Xi shook his head helplessly. Zhen Mi had an eccentric personality. Despite her young age, he might not be able to fool her in a few years.
He smiled and said: "The purpose of my coming here today has been achieved. I'm afraid many people have seen us together."
"In this case, the Zhen family can make the next step."
"I just want to wrong you."
Zhen Mi chuckled and said, "I have a secret between the two of you. What's there to be aggrieved about?"
"But the young master's ideas are so wild and unconstrained that I am surprised."
"Master, just go ahead and do it, I will wait."
Yuan Xi stood up: "Just don't worry, remember to protect yourself."
"I have sent a confidant to work as a servant in the mansion. If something happens to the Zhen family, he can send a message to my mansion for you and inform General Zilong directly."
He told how to connect, Zhen Mi wrote it down carefully, and finally the two of them parted ways.
Yuan Xi got on the carriage back, thinking that he had taken all the precautions that he should take. Yuan Shang might have stopped here, but it was always good to have an extra layer of insurance.
If someone really wants to cause trouble again, his tricks will come in handy.
Now there is only one last step left. Whether we can attack Gongsun Zan three years earlier than later generations depends on this trip to Xuzhou.
Although he and Liu Bei fought several battles, there were no irresolvable conflicts between the two sides, and Liu Bei played a very important role in Yuan Xi's plans for the next few years.
Whether he can successfully defeat Gongsun Zan and occupy Youzhou depends on how his trip to Xuzhou goes and how he talks with Liu Bei.
Xuzhou went to Tancheng, the capital of Xiapi, and Liu Bei was sitting in the palace of the city lord. Behind him was Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Chen Deng Mi Zhu and even Kong Rong were present.
There are only a few officials remaining in the seats.
Those officials, including Sun Qian, Jian Yong, Chen Qun, Yuan Huan and others, were all recruited by Liu Bei using his status as the governor of Yuzhou, and they are Liu Bei's current circle of confidants.
The officials left behind by Tao Qian, except Chen Deng and Mi Zhu, were all excluded because most of them were Yellow Turban generals and had no bottom line in their work.
What everyone is discussing right now is a former Tao Qian's confidant general who is now causing chaos in Xuzhou and causing Liu Bei a lot of trouble.
Some people said bitterly: "This Bi Rong has made us miserable!"
Chen Deng said: "Chang Wen, now that Quan Rong has fled to Yangzhou, we can only make up for it."
Chen Qun, also known as Changwen, followed Liu Bei after he was conquered by Liu Bei and appointed as a surname in Yuzhou.
But Chen Qun has been in a bad mood recently, because he has always opposed Liu Bei's leadership of Xuzhou. As a result, Liu Bei started an uprising with Chen Deng and Mi Zhu without telling him a while ago, and took Xuzhou from Tao Qian without bloodshed, which made Chen Qun very uncomfortable.
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In Chen Qun's view, Liu Bei has no ability to keep Xuzhou now!
Everyone wants to take a bite of this place in Xuzhou, because this place is so important!
Cao Cao has already attacked twice, and Yuan Shu is also ready to make a move. In a short period of time, Liu Bei cannot digest the Danyang soldier faction left by Tao Qian.
Especially when Liu Bei went to Qingzhou to rescue Tian Kai, he was defeated by Yuan Jun. More than half of his soldiers were killed or injured. As a result, his control over Xuzhou became even weaker!
The house leaked and it rained all night. Quan Rong, who was left behind by Tao Qian, began to act like a monster and caused a lot of trouble in Xuzhou.
Quan Rong, who once served as the state minister of Xiapi State, was responsible for the collection of money and grain from the three counties of Guangling, Xiapi and Pengcheng. This was equivalent to controlling half of Xuzhou's fiscal revenue.
Originally, these revenues were to be sent to Tancheng, the seat of the Xuzhou government, for the use of the people of Xuzhou, but Quan Rong kept it privately and used the money to build temples and hold Buddha bathing ceremonies, just to hold wine and banquets on the roadside.
The cost should be calculated in hundreds of millions.
In the past, Taoism flourished in Xuzhou because of the Yellow Turbans, but Buddhism flourished from the time of Zuo Rong. It can be said that Zuo Ronghe played an extremely important role in promoting the prosperity of Buddhism in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
As a result, the custom of worshiping Buddha in Xuzhou became increasingly popular, and Zuo Rong gained an excellent reputation among the gentry and common people.
Wool comes from sheep, so Bi Rong's money came quickly and he spent it quickly, so he made crooked ideas.
When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, Zuo Rong led more than 10,000 men and women under his command to escape and went south to Guangling County. Zhao Yu, the governor of Guangling County, heard about Zuo Rong's reputation and treated him as a distinguished guest.
But Zuo Rong saw that Guangling County was prosperous and prosperous, so at a banquet, he killed Zhao Yu in the name of toasting, led his soldiers to kill, burn, and plunder, and then went south to Moling to join Xue Li.
Xue Li was originally the prime minister of Pengcheng State under Tao Qian. Knowing that Zuo Rong had a good reputation, he also treated Zuo Rong as a distinguished guest.
But now the news came that Zhe Rong used the same method to kill Xue Li too!