At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

How could Guo Peng mobilize so many troops to go to war in such a short period of time?

Did he hide his strength?How strong is his hidden strength?

They suddenly felt as if they had underestimated the enemy occupying Qingyan Erzhou.

In fact, they were all wrong. It wasn't that they underestimated Guo, but that Guo took the initiative to jump out of their understanding.

They cannot be judged by the same standard.

Their power group itself is not a standard, not a concept.

So it is inappropriate to compare Yuan Shao's own mobilization potential with Guo Peng's.

So Xu You felt that Guo Peng must be trying to hold on, thinking that he couldn't miss this opportunity, so he had to take this opportunity to attack Yuan Shao no matter what.

When Feng Ji saw Xu You taking the lead, he immediately said the same thing, saying that Guo Peng was supporting the war. In fact, he was already very short of military strength and food, but he still insisted on going to war, so there was no need to worry.

As long as he turns around and strikes, he can defeat Guo Peng's army that lacks food and grass, and win a complete victory. Maybe he can take advantage of the trend to capture Yanzhou and break Guo Peng's arm.

Xun Chen immediately chimed in, and Jushou had no choice but to agree with them for the sake of Jizhou.

As a result, a group of counselors united like never before, abruptly describing Guo Peng's advantage as Yuan Shao's huge advantage.

Chapter 326. 320 five things without risk, I have never heard of them (repair)

320 five yuan shao unleashed his own trump card (revision)

After telling these guys, Yuan Shao was in a daze, and really felt that he seemed to have a great advantage.

In contrast, Guo Peng seems to have no advantage at all, just pretending to be a pig with green onions in his nose.

Then, just fight back?

No, Guo Peng had at least [-] soldiers and horses, and he also destroyed the [-] soldiers and horses he placed in Fanyang County, and trapped the [-] soldiers and horses in Yecheng.

He fought Gongsun Zan before and lost thousands of soldiers, but now he only has more than [-] capable soldiers on his side.

But that's not a problem.

"If we can get assistance from the Karasuma people and Youzhou, it will not be a problem to gather a large army."

Xu You immediately suggested: "We should win the support of Youzhou and Karasuma people, Mr. Ming, please go to the headquarters of the envoy Nanlou to seek Nanlou's support!"

As soon as Xu You started, other counselors came forward one after another, trying to use their three-inch tongue to persuade the Karasuma people and the Youzhou Allied Army to help Yuan Shao and defeat Guo Peng!

Yuan Shao nodded immediately, full of confidence, feeling that he had won the victory.

The counselors also think so, as long as they get support, they can defeat Guo Peng, who is short of soldiers and food.

Counselors such as Xun Chen, Feng Ji, Guo Tu, and Ju Shou asked for envoys from various forces to lobby them to help Yuan Shao.

Then he promised that Yuan Shao would give them enough glory, wealth, political rights, and something special after the victory.

The terrifying reputation of the Four Generations and Three Dukes is definitely not just these four words.

So when Xu You went to persuade Nanlou to join Yuan Shao's camp, as soon as he heard that Yuan Shao wanted to give him an official title and give him money, food and grass, Nanlou immediately agreed to ally with Yuan Shao and fight against Guo Peng.

When Xun Chen went to persuade Qiu Liju to join Yuan Shao's camp, Qiu Liju agreed when he heard that Yuan Shao, the fourth generation and third prince, had come to ask for an alliance.

Nanlou and Qiu Liju, who were foreigners, both joined Yuan Shao because of his reputation.

However, when Feng Ji, Guo Tu, Ju Shou and others went to lobby the major families in Youzhou together, the attitudes of the major families were not quite right.

Yuan Shao's advisers hoped that they would support Yuan Shao, but these families were not fools.

Although Guo Peng's appeal against Yuan was not clearly stated, everyone knew that Guo Peng was Yuan Shu's henchman, and his attack on Yuan Shao must have been ordered by Yuan Shu.

Guo Peng's own Yingchuan Guo family is no big deal, the family background is only two thousand stones, but if Guo Peng came to fight under the banner of Yuan Shu, the result would be different.

The struggle in the world is tantamount to the struggle between the two Yuans. Right now, the hegemony groups in the world are clearly divided into the Yuan Shao Group and the Yuan Shu Group, and the strengths and weaknesses are also clearly distinguished.

Yuan Shao is weak and Yuan Shu is strong.

The root of this is very deep, but there is no doubt that although Yuan Shao is also known as the family of the fourth generation and the third lord, the political resources Yuan Shao obtained are far inferior to Yuan Shu.

After the death of Yuan Feng and Yuan Ji, Yuan Shu was the orthodox heir of the Yuan family. Yuan Shu returned to his hometown, got a lot of resources from the Yuan family, got the base of Nanyang County, and made a fortune from it.

But Yuan Shao fled to Hebei. At the beginning, he had no territory. Later, Dong Zhuo gave it to him. He relied on his reputation from a small business to attract a group of talents to join him. His status surpassed Yuan Shu in terms of fame.

Later, it was not until he conspired to capture Jizhou that he gained some political capital. Before that, the Yuan family did not give Yuan Shao any help.

After the capture of Jizhou, the Yuan clan saw that Yuan Shao was not a weak chicken, but was also valuable, so if everyone counted, of course they had to diversify their investments.

Two investment points are better than one, no matter which one wins, Yuan will be the ultimate winner.

So a small group of people within the Yuan family took refuge in Yuan Shao and gave Yuan Shao resources, so Yuan Shao was able to gain a firm foothold in Jizhou.

But soon, the conflict between Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu intensified.

Yuan Shao thought that he would be the leader of the Yuan family, so that he could be the leader of the world, so he actively promoted the plan to establish a new emperor to fight against the Chang'an court, trying to control the emperor.

Yuan Shu respected Emperor Xiandi Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, and Yuan Shu also had a "credit" for respecting Emperor Xianxian of the Han Dynasty. How could Yuan Shu change his political position at this time and become a second minister?

Moreover, you, Yuan Benchu, are just a bastard, why should you bargain with me?

Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu fought a scolding war that shocked the world. Under the impetus of someone Guo at that time, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu broke up completely, and started the first proxy war with someone Guo and Liu Dai as their respective agents.

In the end, someone Guo made a profit, occupied Yanzhou, and won.

After Sun Jian's death, Yuan Shu Group's power was once again considered to have surpassed Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao fell into decline.

Afterwards, Yuan Shao targeted Guo Peng several times. Guo Peng defeated Yuan Shao's agent several times as Yuan Shu's agent.

Later, another agent of Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zan, went online to fight against Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao couldn't even take care of Guo Peng, so he had to go off to fight Gongsun Zan in person. The situation was precarious.

Originally, after Liu Dai and Lu Bu were destroyed one after another, the nobles in Jizhou were very optimistic about Yuan Shu and Guo Peng, thinking that Yuan Shao was about to be abolished, and thought that they would not support Yuan Shao anymore.

But immediately afterwards, Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan, and Gongsun Zan's decline rekindled the confidence of the nobles in Jizhou.

Gongsun Zan's coquettish maneuvers completely offended the nobles in Youzhou to death, and the powerful landlords in Youzhou decided to support Yuan Shaoqian in overthrowing Gongsun Zan.

So Yuan Shao once again turned the danger into a bargain, and got the support of Jizhou and Youzhou, and his power temporarily stabilized.

At the time when Gongsun Zan fell, and when Guo Peng sent troops, Yuan Shao's reputation in Hebei reached its peak, and he gradually possessed the strength to attract powerful landlords in Hebei to decide to invest in him.

But judging from the current situation, Yuan Shu Group occupies the entire Central Plains, while Yuan Shao has only one Jizhou, even if Youzhou is added, it is not as good as Yuan Shu Group.

Therefore, Guo Peng, Yuan Shu's loyal henchman, came to attack Yuan Shao, which made the powerful landlords in Jizhou hesitate.

Whether to support Yuan Shao or support Yuan Shu, this choice seems a bit difficult.

However, Guo Peng's march was very fast, and he took down almost the entire Wei County in an instant, and wiped out Yuan Shao's army of more than 1. Many powerful families were wiped out by the chaos before they had time to express their views.

Shenpei firmly supported Yuan Shao, and cleverly persuaded the powerful families in the city to support Yuan Shao, so Yecheng firmly supported Yuan Shao.

However, as far as the overall situation is concerned, as Yuan Shu's agent, Guo Peng not only has the foundation of the two states, but also Yuan Shu's support.

Guo Peng had what Yuan Shao had, and Guo Peng had what Yuan Shao didn't have. Therefore, after the city of Ye was besieged, the entire Wei County and even the State of Zhao were easily captured by Guo Peng.

Now Yuan Shao needs the support of powerful landlords in Youzhou, and needs their support to win this battle.

But everyone is not a fool, it's not that they can't see the current situation clearly, Yuan Shu Group has a great advantage, Yuan Shao Group is in danger, who should help, isn't this a clear thing?

So the tyrannical landlords all made vague statements. They had joined forces with Yuan Shao to overthrow Gongsun Zan, but now they didn't want to continue to help Yuan Shao.

Seeing that something was wrong, Xun Chen and the others immediately understood the root cause of the incident, so they resorted to their trump card.

Yuan Shao is willing to use his own resources to open up the learning qualifications of "Meng Shi Yi" to the family that supports him against Guo Peng, allowing their family's children to follow Yuan's education team and learn "Meng Shi Yi" together with his children. ".

There is a lot to do in the future to transform the gentry.

Chapter 327. 320 Six Trembling Guo Someone (Revised)

320 The Six Powerful Landlords Are Very Tangled (Revision)

Study "Mengshi Yi".

Once this condition was promised, the whole atmosphere changed immediately.

This promise is not simple.

This promise means that their children will have the opportunity to systematically study the book "Mengshi Yi" and the political ideas behind it, enter Yuan's ethnology study, join this political sect, and formally enter the room, so as to have the opportunity to complete the class. Leaping over, transforming from a powerful landlord to a noble family.

This is the condition Yuan Shaoxu gave them.

This is the most attractive core interest of Yuan Shao.

The family biography "Meng Shi Yi" has the right to interpret the classics, the right to teach disciples, and the official qualification of the Eastern Han government. This is Yuan's biggest trump card and core competitiveness.

In this era, powerful landlords and gentry are two distinct existences.

They have not merged into one terrible family of aristocrats, the powerful landlords are the powerful landlords, and the gentry are the gentry.

The Cao family is a powerful landlord who controls land, population, and means of production.

The Yuan family is a gentry, mastering ruling knowledge and power.

Landlords are wealthy, have means of production, can read and read, but they can’t find teachers to teach them, they can’t learn the essence, they can’t learn the orthodox ruling knowledge represented by the Five Classics and Fourteen Family Laws, and they can’t be a real high-ranking official. , can't be the leader in the world, and the upward channels are extremely limited.

The gentry did not have as much land and money as the tyrants, and there were often branches of the family that did not mix well and did not have much money. It is not surprising that the family was poor since childhood.

But their core competitiveness lies in their natural qualifications to receive education. The big gentry have the right to grant apprentices, and the small gentry also have the qualification to learn, and they are officially recognized, so they can learn the knowledge of governance that is beyond the reach of powerful landlords.

Therefore, the powerful landlords in the Han Dynasty worked hard to become nobles, and the nobles in the Han Dynasty worked hard to attack the powerful landlords.

Gentlemen generally do not have as much land and private soldiers as powerful landlords, but they have knowledge and can be officials.

Powerful landlords own land, population, and private soldiers, but have no knowledge of rule, and face pressure from the central power of the gentry at any time.

This can also be regarded as a way to contain each other.

Originally, it was like this in peacetime, but now, Yuan Shao gave them the chance to become rulers.

As long as the powerful landlords support Yuan Shao with their own savings, Yuan Shao will give their children the opportunity to learn "Meng Shi Yi" and give them the opportunity to transform into a noble family.

Is this opportunity rare?

Rare like a rooster laying eggs.

If it was normal, they would immediately kneel on the ground, crying and begging Yuan Shao to take away their family savings, and then comfortably send their children to the Yuan clan to study "Meng Shi Yi"

But it's different now.

It was Guo Peng who attacked Yuan Shao, and behind Guo Peng was Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu, the son of the Yuan family in Runan, the orthodox heir, who was much more legitimate than Yuan Shao.

What Yuan Shao can give, Yuan Shu can also give, but Yuan Shu has not given it yet, and Yuan Shao has already given it clearly.

This is a dilemma, and the powerful landlords are very entangled in this.

If you choose Yuan Shao, you can immediately obtain the study qualification of Meng Shiyi, enter the court, become a high-ranking official in the future, and transform into a noble family.

But there is a premise, that is, Yuan Shao can win this war and occupy Hebei, becoming the real and strongest prince in the world.

Once Yuan Shao loses, they will definitely be liquidated, so becoming a high-ranking official and transforming into a noble family is all lies and does not exist.

And choosing Yuan Shu, the chance of winning is greater, at least from the moment it seems, the chance of winning is greater, the possibility of survival is greater, and it is safer, but Yuan Shu does not give them the qualification to learn "Meng Shi Yi".

Yuan Shao gave them the qualifications to study, but there was no security.

Yuan Shu did not give them the qualifications to study, but the security was greater.

How to choose?

This is a problem, a very serious problem, and a problem that needs to be solved quite urgently.

The tyrannical landlords gathered for a meeting, exchanged opinions, and had heated discussions with each other. For them, this was a life-and-death choice.

Within the Youzhou United Army, Nanlou's position is the most firm.

He must stand by Yuan Shao's side.

"The fourth and third generations of Duke Yuan's family have such a great reputation that even I, a person outside the Great Wall, have heard of it, let alone other people. Duke Yuan will definitely win!"

Nanlou's expression was determined.

As Zuo Shanyu of Karasuma, Nanlou expressed his support for Yuan Shao on behalf of the 20 Karasuma people under his jurisdiction.