A few days later, on an ordinary winter day, Yuan Shao was discussing daily government affairs with his staff at Yecheng's General's Mansion.

The discussion was nothing more than the issue of armament and rectification of financial resources. Ju Su Tian Feng, Guo Tushenpei and others who attended the meeting, as usual, said that the husband was right and the mother was right, and the debate was very lively.

At this time, Xu You, who did not come to attend the meeting today, suddenly offered to pay a visit. Yuan Shao was also very polite and had a very polite attitude, so he asked him to invite him immediately.

Yuan Shao asked with a smile: "Ziyuan has been busy these days. I heard that he has gone to the county and county to understand the situation. Just in time, you can also talk about Liu Bei's reform of renting and transferring mediocre money. How should we learn from it and to what extent. Everyone has their own opinions and will never stop at the moment."

It turns out that Xu You's current position as a strategist in Yuan Shao's camp has risen to a level that surpasses Tian Feng and is second only to Ju Su. The gap with Ju Su is not very obvious.

Xu You's current official position, in addition to General Sima, was appointed as the imperial guards of the Wuhuan lieutenant. The former represents his aide level under Yuan Shao, and the latter is to facilitate the promotion of his treatment to two thousand stones, which can be said to be both real power and treatment.

Yuan Shao was so kind to him, obviously because the summer of the previous year, he forced Cao Cao to completely surrender to Yuan Shao in name and accept the clauses bounded by the Honggou. Xu You's achievements in "subjugating Cao Cao" were naturally no less than Ju Su's achievements in "destroying Gongsun Zan".

However, at this moment, facing Yuan Shao's request for advice, Xu You was not in a hurry to repay the answer. He knew that if Yuan Shao was urged to reform, it would be easy to offend the local forces in Hebei, so even if he wanted to change, Xu You should not be the first to be the leader.

Let others do things that offend others.

Xu You just fought Tai Chi and said, "Lord, General Zhengdong sent Sima Lang to Yecheng as an envoy, and now he is waiting to be summoned at the Guanshi. Before he came down, he met Sima Lang. He heard from him that it seemed that Cao Cao intended to worry about the lord, so he piloted the new law in Xuzhou.

If the new law is beneficial, it can be promoted and also adds a reputation to the lord. If it fails and is scolded, it is because Cao Cao failed to implement it effectively and failed his trust in his lord."

As soon as Xu You said this, the other strategists in the hall who originally supported Yuan Shao's reforms were quite disappointed. Even Xu You, a representative of the strategist from the outside faction, could he still expect the local faction to support him?

This old slippery guy! He is so wise and self-protection!

As mentioned earlier, Liu Bei's reform of renting and mediocre renting and transferring money, and the word "loss" was to reduce the burden on remote areas, so the one who supported this reform most should be outsiders. However, locals in Jizhou were unwilling to reduce their power, collect less taxes, and reduce the chance of taking advantage of corvee and bringing personal gain. Although these benefits are not big, no matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat.

The conflict between locals in Hebei under Yuan Shao and outsiders has not been held for a day or two.

In history, Xu You's family was arrested by Shen Pei. Xu You was from Nanyang, and Shen Pei was from Yecheng. Later, when Guo Tu slandered and abused Zhang He and Gao Lan, it was not difficult to find that Zhang He and Gao Lan were a local general in Hebei, and Guo Tu was from Yingchuan.

Xun Yu saw from the beginning that Yuan Shao could not use foreigners and surrendered to Cao early in the morning. Finally, there was a fellow villager in Nanyang who was Xu You, who could still get along with the Hebei Sect. In the end, Yuan Shang sent him to Yuan Tan as a hostage to die.

The people who were willing to fight Cao Cao to the end were all locals in Hebei.

Although all this has not happened yet, the contradiction has always existed. How could Xu You’s IQ be unclear?

With Xu You's advance rise, Yuan Shao's Hebei sect, except for Tian Feng, who could not be a human, was still a lone hero. Others, including Shenpeng, Xin Ping, Xin Pi, Cui Yan, and Wang Xiu (this is from Qingzhou) all secretly gave the leader of the horse.

Guo Tu and Chen Lin followed Xu You because of the butterfly effect. Of course, Chen Lin was just a literary scholar and didn't have to make any suggestions, and his status was relatively transcendent. Feng Ji was also a foreigner (Xu You's fellow villager in Nanyang). He was very good at everything and often supported the opinions of the Xu You school in business, but his personal relationship was still friendly with Shen Pei.

At this moment, Yuan Shao saw that Xu You did not object to the interests of the Hebei faction, so he followed the flow and cared about Cao Cao's attitude. He only heard Yuan Shao ask in surprise:

"Oh? Ah Meng actually thinks about me so much? He went to the pilot program, made me famous after completing it, and failed to implement it himself. It's true that he is becoming more and more reassuring.

Ziyuan, you are doing well. When you just helped me subdue Ah Man two years ago, someone advised me not to give Ah Man a chance to breathe. He must be respectful but dissatisfied, and without compassion. Now it seems that those are all pedantic views of villains. As long as Ah Man respects the King of Yan with us, he will never be able to make a living."

Xu You smiled and asked: "Then... the lord should take some time to meet Sima Lang?"

Yuan Shao nodded: "If you want to see me, of course you have to see me. Everyone, let me discuss the matter of military commander's change later. I will first listen to what Ah Man said. The person who came here will give him a banquet."

Yuan Shao said, asking the eunuchs to take the counselors to the side for dinner and rest, and hold a high-end party. Yuan Benchu ​​continued to work diligently to meet Cao Cao's envoy.

Because of Xu You's introduction and help, Sima Lang's mission this time was naturally not very difficult. In less than half an hour, Yuan Shao was very satisfied with his little brother's respect.

...

Xu You took Sima Lang to talk to Yuan Shao for a long time, and Yuan Shao basically handled Cao Cao's demands. Just as the final decision was about to be made, suddenly there was another noise outside the General's Mansion, and there was a thunderous cheer on the street, which made Yuan Shao startled and stopped the work at hand.

"What's the reason for such a noisy?" Yuan Shao frowned, feeling unhappy.

Fortunately, the servants in the mansion reacted quickly, and the guards immediately came in to report, sending Yuan Shao a good news:

"Report to General of Cavalry! He was the best news from General Zhenbei and the Bingzhou defense envoy Lu Bu. Twelve days ago, General Lu took advantage of the Xianbei force for Zhang Fei, Hu Chuquan and others to escape from a distance and was exhausted, and the tribes were mixed and unknown.

General Lu led 15,000 Bingzhou elite cavalry, and several miscellaneous armies, including Zhang Liao, Wei Yue and Cheng Lian as deputy. From Taiyuan County, he pretended to be a Xianbei cavalry and sneaked. Zhang Liao used 5,000 elite cavalry to make a flat mouth and intercept Bu Dugen.

Lu Bu and Wei Yue Chenglian led 10,000 main forces. Taking advantage of Zhang Liao's killing Bu Dugen, Tuoba Li in Shengle City was slightly shocked. When he went out to seek revenge on Zhang Liao, he sneaked into Shengle and succeeded in burning the Xianbei royal court. After Tuoba Li noticed it slightly, he saw that his morale had fallen and the royal court had burned, and he was unwilling to die with Lu Bu. He led the other tribes to temporarily retreat north and stay away from the Great Wall."

Yuan Shao and Xu You were both surprised and happy. Yuan Shao quickly asked: "Zhang Liao? He seems to be just a captain under Lu Bu's tent. He can actually kill Bu Dugen with five thousand elite cavalry? How can he do it?"

This question is more detailed, and the messenger naturally could not answer verbally, so he took out Lu Bu's battle report and submitted it. Yuan Shao looked at it carefully and understood the whole story.

It turns out that although Bu Dugen claims to have nearly 30,000 people, including his brother Fu Luohan's tribe, there are more than 40,000. However, their base areas were not originally around Shengle, north of Bingzhou.

After being defeated by Ma Chao, they were chased by Hu Chuquan and intercepted by Zhang Fei. They stopped and walked around and retreated for more than a month. They had to join Tuoba Liwei near Shengle in order to join the group to keep warm.

Therefore, Bu Dugen's troops had been defeated and transferred three times. When they met Zhang Liao, they were already very tired. The losses of weapons and equipment along the way were not supplemented. Many of them had no weapons.

Tuoba Liwei was also wary of Bu Dugen. Bu Dugen's men were not allowed to approach Shengle Royal Court, and asked them to stop and camp at the corner of the northeastern point of the Yellow River, two hundred miles southwest of Shengle, to help Shengle Royal Court block the possible attack on Zhang Fei from the north.

Therefore, before Lu Bu attacked the Xianbei, Bu Dugen focused all his attention on his southwest direction, for fear that Zhang Fei would come along the Yellow River. He did not expect that in his southeast direction, there would be attacks in the Bingzhou area.

After all, now on the surface, Liu Bei and Yuan Shao are the two major potential competitors in the world, and no one would have thought that Yuan Shao and Liu Bei would join forces.

Although Lu Bu is not very intelligent, it is just a conspiracy between the Han people. Lu Bu's battlefield intuition and commander dispatch ability are still very good. Zhang Liao is also quite good at this.

They were prepared to launch a sneak attack in a targeted manner when they knew the situation of the Xianbei people and internal conflicts. Zhang Liao's troops pretended to be the banner of the Xianbei people's armor, lie down on the day and leave for three days at night, and then stepped out of Pingxingkou to the east of Budugen, which was between Budugen and Shengle Royal Court, and launched a sneak attack on Budugen from this direction.

The reason why Zhang Liao was able to successfully attack during the day and night was related to a foreign trade measure by Yuan Shaojun this year. Although Liu Beijun spent most of his cotton production capacity and cotton production capacity before the beginning of autumn this year, he spent most of his cotton production capacity on supplying Ma Chao, Zhang Fei and Huchuquan to ensure that their troops had cotton jackets to wear.

But after September, the cotton jackets that Ma Chao and Zhang Fei needed were actually supplied to the front line. Liu Beijun also had to pay back the capital and profit, and could not completely block private trade. In addition, there were indeed some private businesses that could not be controlled, so Yuan Shaojun also got some cotton cloth and cotton from September.

Of course, Yuan Shao also spent a high price and sold a lot of cowhide and cow tendons to the merchants in Liu Bei's camp, and they all used strategic materials to exchange them. After all, the textile machinery invented by Zhuge Liang required a large amount of cow tendons to provide spring components for the shuttle. If cotton cloth was produced without selling it or exchanging equipment and materials for expanding production, it would not be beneficial to Liu Bei's camp.

After Yuan Shao got the cotton cloth, he was generous and gave priority to Bingzhou Lu Bu who fought in the bitter and cold areas. So even though Lu Bu's army had less than 5,000 sets of cotton jackets when Lu Bu went to battle, they all squeezed out to equip Zhang Liao's surprise attack troops.

In this way, Zhang Liao's army would not freeze to death in the winter night in northern Shanxi in November of the lunar calendar, and would also complete the lurking and rushing feat like Li Jing's attack on Yinshan at snowy night. When Bu Dugen did not expect that there would be Han cavalry in the rear, he stabbed Bu Dugen's back on the back of the waist with a knife.

In that battle, Zhang Liao attacked and killed Bu Dugen. Then, taking advantage of the chaos in Bu Dugen, he chased and beheaded Xianbei cavalry for thousands of levels, killed and dispersed prisoners, and seized more than 10,000 horses after the war.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Liao had no chance to fight against Tadun in this life. After all, Tadun had surrendered to Yuan Shao and was from Yuan Shao. However, Zhang Liao by chance killed Bu Dugen and completed the achievement of "killing a nomadic barbarian chief" in disguise. Although the value may be lower, Bu Dugen's head is definitely not as valuable as Tadun. Only Tuoba Liwei is valuable than Tadun.

Shengle's Tuoba Liwei received the news one day and a half after Budugen collapsed. Then he took most of the troops in Shengle City to avenge and establish his authority and kill Zhang Liao to maintain the prestige of the Xianbei royal court.

As a result, after Tuoba Liwei chased him out, Zhang Liao, who decisively retreated, flew the kite and was getting farther and farther away from Shengle's thief's nest. Lu Bu seized the opportunity and went north from Yanmen Pass to break the Shengle Royal Court. He killed a huge number of Xianbei elderly, weak women and children, and the non-combatants who stayed in the royal court robbed them wildly and burned Shengle.

The reason why Lu Bu was easy was also related to Shengle's poor city defense. Because the Xianbei people set up a stable royal court more than 20 years ago, after the Xianbei people officially unified the Xianbei. The Xianbei people had no habit of building cities at all.

Shengle's royal court used the simple earth enclosures from the Western Han Dynasty, and its defense was very weak. Usually, it was based on the Xianbei army stationed by tens of thousands of troops to ensure safety, not on city defense facilities.

(Note: Yunzhong County was found in the Qin and Han Dynasties, but Datong City was not. The Yunzhong County County of Qin and the Western Han Dynasties was in Tokto County, Inner Mongolia. Datong became the Yunzhong District and was in the late Northern and Southern Dynasties. Of course, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, it had already changed from Shengle Royal Court to the capital of the Northern Wei Kingdom)

In this battle, Lu Bu slaughtered more than 40,000 Xianbei non-combat population, robbed more than 20,000 horses, more than 100,000 other animals, and a lot of money accumulated by the Xianbei people in the royal court. Of course, the animals were not driven into the pass because he did not have enough time.

When Lu Bu's ten thousand men broke through Sheng Le, thousands of people were killed and injured. Tuoba Liwei received urgent reports from the rear. After learning that his nest had been stolen, he immediately gave up chasing Zhang Liao and turned over to chase Lu Bu. Lu Bu was short of troops and retreated to the pass day and night, losing tens of thousands of livestock that he had no time to drive away. After entering Yanmen, he defended the mountain to death.

Tuoba Liwei sighed when he saw the Great Wall. After a fury attack, he calmed down and felt that the Shengle King's Court had burned. Since he had lived a family life in the world, he would not be afraid of fighting with Lu Bu in the cold winter.

...

After reading the whole story, Yuan Shao also sighed: "Fengxian has such a talent as a general, but he still underestimated him. Well, if he does not express his merits to Your Majesty, it will be easy for people all over the world to discuss and be unfair.

The visitor called Kong Zhang and asked him to bring a letter to His Majesty to express Lu Bu as the General of the Northern Expedition and the Marquis of Jiuyuan County. He then submitted Zhang Liao as the General of the Central Guard of the Huns and the Marquis of Yanmen Ting."

Xu You praised Yuan Shao for his proper rewards and punishments, and the envoy Sima Lang also praised him for his virtue and praised him endlessly.

Chen Lin, who had just arrived, received the mission, took Lu Bu's victory documents, re-embellished and decorated them, and boasted about Lu Bu's merits and hardships in the battle.

Chen Lin wrote a statement aside without mentioning it. Yuan Shao was idle and said to Xu You: "Ziyuan, I think we really don't need to reform with Liu Bei. Ah Man helped us pilot the project, so let him pilot it.

We have not used the new method, so the expedition is still very smooth? There are no difficulties as advocated by the reformists. Lu Bu and Zhang Liao did not need the new method at all. They could still pursue Tuoba Liwei and go deep into Yinshan. This matter is settled."

Xu You always felt that this logic was a little wrong, but he didn't want to destroy Yuan Shao's good mood.

"Forget it, even if the world is in chaos in the future, I am afraid that the lord will not be able to attack Liu Bei for a while. Let him slowly rectify his internal affairs. Anyway, in defensive battles, they will raise food on the spot, so there is no need for renting and transferring methods."
Chapter completed!