No matter how you say it, Xun Yu and Guo Jia are both very smart people in the world. They have been in Yecheng for more than a year. In fact, they understood the situation early and strengthened their determination after meeting Guan Yu.

Therefore, after they separated at the ferry at the confluence of sewage and Qingzhang water, the two of them did not hesitate and immediately took action. On this side, Guo Fengxiao went all the way north, catching up with Guan Yunchang, and then entered Handan together; not to mention;

On the other hand, after Xun Wenruo returned to Yecheng, he immediately called for mobilization of his tribe to return home.

There were many responders, mainly because Xun Yu's foresight was so impressive.

I remember that before the war against Dong in Guandong, Han Fu sent people to Yingchuan to pick up his family. Xun Yu immediately called on his clan members to abandon their hometown together with other relatives and clans, and took the opportunity to leave Yingchuan, which was located in the heart of the Central Plains, to avoid the disaster of war...

...Those who followed basically survived. Those who didn’t follow depended on their luck, but it is said that many died.

And how could these Yingchuan people who had taken refuge not be convinced by this wisdom that had been proven by the lives of countless relatives and friends?

As a result, three days later, not only the Xun clan members who had already made plans in private, but also many Yingchuan fellow villagers who were not surnamed Xun also packed their bags and took the initiative to return home with them.

The most noteworthy thing among them is that Han Fu and Han Jizhou, who had previously given away the seal and ribbon, also took their families out of the city and returned to their hometown in the south with Xun Yu.

There is no way, just in these three days, that is, in the past few days after Guan Yu's threat disappeared, there is actually no peace in Yecheng. It relied on Han Fu to survive in the past. Today, some old Yingchuan people who control the political power in Yecheng actually disbanded the military in Yecheng.

On the night of the control, Geng Wu and Min Chun, the two most determined anti-Yuan faction at that time, were suddenly arrested and immediately executed.

Things happened very quickly, and everyone in Yecheng was at a loss. They didn't know whether it was Yuan Shao himself who ordered it, or whether Guo Tu and others wanted to help their lord clean the house in advance, so they did it without permission... Anyway, the matter was there, and it was unclear.

Not confused, not embarrassed or awkward.

By this time, Han Fu actually had some fear.

However, what really made him make up his mind was not this incident, but whether this arrest sent a bad signal to some idiots, or whether it was Xin Ping, Guo Tu and others' follow-up plan for the next day.

, a general who had been punished by Han Fu, whom people in Hanoi called Zhu Han, actually led his troops and armed them to surround the Zhang Rang residence where Han Fu lived, trying to take revenge!

Han Wenjie inexplicably got the news from his old ministry and fled in a hurry, but his eldest son was caught by Zhu Han, and then his leg was inexplicably broken by Zhu Han in public!

After this incident, the whole city was naturally in an uproar!

It seems that they probably understood the serious nature of this matter. Therefore, without waiting for the ups and downs in the city to rebound, Xin Ping, Guo Tu, Xun Chen and others quickly captured Zhu Han, and then immediately beheaded him in public, and even led him there personally.

Taking Zhu Han's head, he went to Han Fu to apologize... However, what happened to him just a few days after losing military power, Han Fu was completely frightened, how could he still trust them? So he proposed in public on the spot that he wanted to

He returned to his hometown to farm and study with Xun Yu and others.

By the way, people like Guo Tu had discussed the departure of Xun Yu and many of his fellow villagers... After all, unlike Guo Fengxiao, who had just been crowned and had no good reputation and few people cared about it, Xun Wenruo was famous in the Central Plains at a young age.

, is known as a talented king's assistant, and although he is young, he has also served as Huangmen's minister, palace guard, etc., which is considered to be some qualifications. He also moved to avoid disasters and is quite popular among the people of Yingchuan. How can such a person leave?

Doesn’t it give people the feeling that Yuan Cheqi can’t win over people?

Moreover, the reason Xun Yu proposed was that there would be a war in Hebei, and although Ye city was strong and majestic, it was close to the front line and was not as livable as the surrounding areas of Yingchuan after the alliance between Sun, Cao, and Liu was settled. This was not to imply that Yuan Cheqi

Can't even save Yecheng?

Besides, the people from Yingchuan have traveled a lot. How will they compete with the people from Hebei and Yanzhou in the future?

But having said that, firstly, Xunyu’s brother Xunchen has officially come out to help Yuan Shao, and everyone is his own people, so it’s difficult to deal with it; secondly, everyone also understands that the war is imminent, and compared with appeasing the hearts of the locals in Hebei

Compared with the attack on Handan, this matter is nothing; thirdly, it is precisely because of Xun Yu's personal excellence and the Xun family's position as the leader of the Yingchuan clan, whether it is people like Guo Tu or Xin Ping.

No matter who he is, no one wants him to stay...

But now, Han Fu has requested to go under this situation, which saves them the trouble, and the matter with Xun Yu happens to be smooth sailing!

In this way, Xun Yu and his party not only traveled smoothly, but also received an official grant. They successfully left Yecheng, where they had lived for more than a year, before Yuan Shao settled in, and then headed south together.

Although this journey passed through prefectures, counties, and rivers, as Xun Wenruo said when he persuaded his fellow villagers before, not to mention the directors, the early mergers and alliances among the princes were generally completed, and the dangerous battle situation mainly concentrated on the big princes.

On the edge of power, the northern part of the Central Plains seems to be a place where powerful forces are intertwined, but in fact it is already a relatively stable place.

Therefore, not only did this group of people have a smooth journey, but also because of the carriages and horses, they returned home quickly and successfully at the end of June and the beginning of July.

Of course, after returning home, I felt a moment of joy at first, and then endless sadness... After all, as one of the main battlefields in the past to challenge Dong, this place suffered great military disasters and many people fled. Generations of ancestors

The place where we have lived for hundreds of years has suddenly become so desolate and empty. The words "things have changed and people have changed" are the words that make people feel sad most easily.

After a period of sadness, everyone said goodbye to each other and returned home. Not only did they repair their houses and tidy up the fields, they also had to pick wild vegetables to save food, and they also had to pay homage to their dead clan members. Anyway, there were always things to do... As for staying here.

It is even more sad to see some of the remaining old friends in the local area returning home on a large scale and giving away a lot of precious food to support them.

"Zixu, Brother Yu, let me ask you something else." In the Xun family's old house in Gaoyang, at the junction of the west of Yingyin County and Xu County, Xun Yu, as the responsible head of the Xun family at this time, was talking to a young man

"Since you ended up staying here by accident and your home is in Dingling in the south, can you sincerely tell Brother Yu how the situation is in the Central Plains?"

By the way, the person in question is called Du Xi, whose courtesy name is Zixu. He is from Dingling, Yingchuan, and was crowned just this year. Before the war, he and Chen Qun, Chen Changwen, Xinbixin Zuozhi, Zhao Yan and Zhao Boran were close in age.

The family is outstanding, so they have always been called together... In total, he should be the next generation of Yingchuan heroes in the generation after Xun Yu.

Of course, this kind of pre-war atmosphere was based on considering both family background and personal moral character. Therefore, even though they are of the same age, there is no Guo Fengxiao who has a chivalrous style and no one to control him, nor Xu Yuanzhi, a boy from a poor family who has been a thief.

, there was even Fan Qin, who was outstanding in literature, and his family was rich in everything, but because he only had four but not five celebrities, he was not selected, which is even worse.

Back to the present, this generation of Yingchuan intellectuals, because it was not they but their parents who made the decision before, they generally did not choose to respond to Xun Yu’s call, so they suffered the disaster of war, and most of their parents also withered in the war.

Therefore, after asking the directors, they saw that Yuan Shu was becoming more and more outrageous. They could only choose Jingzhou or Xu Yang to avoid trouble... But they didn't know whether it was bad luck or luck. Du Xi, Zhao Yan, Fan

The three Qin people contacted each other, planned to join forces and join forces, and when they were detouring from Runan to Jingzhou, Sun Jian suddenly turned against Yuan. Runan and Nanyang became the most chaotic place in the world, so he stayed again.

Now, seeing old friends returning home one after another, these young people naturally went out to help as many as possible.

"How can the newly crowned boy understand the situation in the Central Plains?" Du Xi, who was sitting cross-legged on a shabby mat under a tree, smiled bitterly upon hearing this. "I can only tell Brother Wen Ruo what I probably know...

"

"Tell me."

"Nowadays, there are six princes involved in the chaos in the Central Plains, the so-called three major ones and three minor ones. The three major ones are Yuan Shu, Liu Jingzhou, and Tao Xuzhou; the three minor ones are Sun Jian, Liu Yuzhou, and Cao Fenwu."

Du Xi opened his mouth to respond and talked eloquently. "And Yi is coming down to watch..."

Xun Yu, who was sitting opposite the shabby mat, couldn't help but laugh: "Zixu is here, how about Liu Jingzhou, and besides Tao Xuzhou, there is Yuan Shu? Liu Yuzhou, and Cao Fenwu besides, there is Sun Jian?"

"What else can we do?" Du Xi curled his lips and shook his head. "Of course these two people are unpopular. Especially Yuan Shu, who is clearly the fourth generation and the third Duke, and is popular among people in the Central Plains. There are several officials in the Central Plains who are not from their Yuan family.

Among the disciples and former officials, how many aristocratic families are not inextricably linked to their Yuan family?"

Xun Yu smiled slightly and did not comment.

"However, in the past two years, he has been in Nanyang, controlling our Yingchuan and Runan at the same time, and controlling Huainan. He clearly has a large number of soldiers, a large number of people and goods, but he cannot stabilize the place, help the danger and calm the chaos, and instead insists on asking for more!

"Du Zixu, who was encouraged by the other party, became more and more angrily as he spoke. "Many of the people below were starving to death, but he only drank honey water. The scholars persuaded him to stabilize the place and win people's hearts, but he trusted those places instead.

He even allowed these people to plunder places; not to mention, he actually sent people to assassinate Chen Guoxiang Luo Jun and Luo Xiaoyuan before... In short, this man has been in the Central Plains for two years, and his true colors have been revealed. He is definitely not a capable person.

The person who relied on to stabilize the world turned out to be a source of trouble! Now that Sun Jian has turned against him, he is surrounded by enemies on all sides and has been defeated in consecutive battles. I guess it is a natural cycle and it is natural!"

"What about Tao Xuzhou and Liu Jingzhou?" Xun Yu continued to ask without comment, but temporarily left Sun Jian behind.

"Tao Xuzhou and Liu Jingzhou, one is famous for his strictness and toughness, the other is famous for his generosity and softness..." Du Zixu calmed down a little and continued to answer. "But they can always stabilize the place. But Tao Xuzhou is far to the east,

Just joining the chaos by supporting Liu Yuzhou has no intention of directly intervening; and Liu Jingzhou is in Xiangyang after all. If Yuan Shu is destroyed in the future, he may be able to rely on him...but he must be careful about Sun Jian."

"What's Sun Wentai's posture now?" Seeing that the other party never left Sun Wentai, Xun Yu could only follow the other party and ask this person first. "Yuan Gongli asked too much, and he counterattacked. Isn't he just in line with people's hearts? Why are you?

Bored all the time?”

"Sun Wentai's military strategy is in the Central Plains." Du Xi also became serious. "When he helped Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu was unstoppable in the Central Plains. Now that he has turned against Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu has also been completely defeated... And as of last month, he has already

He has conquered most of Runan and is marching into Nanyang. His momentum is really like that of a tiger eating. He is truly the most popular person in the Central Plains. However, his martial style is unpopular... The things he did to help Yuan Shu in the past are not what he once did.

What can be erased by repeated repetition? Today's administration is rough and only uses troops and force. It cannot be changed in a moment, so everyone in the county dislikes him and thinks he is second only to Yuan Shu."

"I see." Xun Yu nodded thoughtfully.

"Oh, there's one more thing." Du Xi suddenly said again. "He doesn't understand production, accumulation, and lacks food and grass. He basically relies on Cao Fenwu for support. Therefore, he will dislike him after taking down most of Runan."

Chen Guo was extremely moved and gave Cao Fenwu as a reward... Anyway, he couldn't stay at Chen Guo's place for a moment."

Xun Yu's heart moved: "How can Cao Fenwu have food?"

"Cao Fenwu is a native of northern Henan. The local clans are willing to provide food to help him. Moreover, he has gathered the refugee army in the village very early. The people's village has soldiers, food and family background, and he can treat the virtuous corporal. Everyone says that he is a good man.

Anyone who can accomplish something is willing to obey him." Du Xi continued. "However, the problem with Cao Fenwu is that although he has a higher background, he is not strong enough to annex prefectures and annex counties with his family like the Yuan family; although he has the strength, he is not strong enough.

In order to influence the overall situation; he also has military strategies, but he is not as aggressive and enterprising as Sun Wentai; even when it comes to winning people's hearts, he only takes advantage of his hometown, and Liu Yuzhou may not be weaker than him."

"What's Liu Yuzhou's situation now?"

Have you opened up the situation?"

"That's right." Du Xi responded calmly. "Liu Yuzhou was based on the six counties in the southern part of Pei State and raised three thousand soldiers. It's only March or May, but it's already about to conquer Huainan... I heard people say that Jiujiang,

In the Lujiang area, many scholars and heroes are willing to follow him, even here, because he is a serious Yuzhou magistrate. In Xuzhou, because Zhang Zibu is the person in charge of the affairs, there are also people who come to join him.

I feel that Huainan is relatively safe and can avoid disaster. Secondly, I also want to see the future of Liu Yuzhou... By the way, Chen Changwen and his father went to Runan very early to avoid disaster, and this time they took advantage of the opportunity and joined Liu Yuzhou.

I heard that Mr. Chen is very important there, and his long articles are particularly valued by Liu Yuzhou."

"Huainan?"

"And Liu Jingzhou..."

“I have many contacts with Liu Jingsheng in Luozhong.”

Yu, it is inevitable that he will grow old and decay, while the fourth and third princes of Yuan Gongdao are just bones in the grave!"

Du Xi, who was young, suddenly heard these words and couldn't help but fell into a trance, but he bent down and worshiped at the table, saying that he had been taught.
To be continued...