Chapter 1315 New Hope
Yuan Tan knew that Guo Tu was determined to plan for him and hoped that he would cheer up again. Even if he could not take charge of the troops for the time being, he would take over the banner of the party leader, regain his reputation and accumulate strength. However, he was not prepared yet and had not given Guo Tu a clear answer.
Seeing that Guo Tu was delayed and refused to return, Yuan Tan felt uneasy. He thought for a long time and tentatively said: "Sir, what is the chance of Junyi winning the war?"
Guo Tu laughed silently, raised his tail finger and gently scratched his nose. "It's not optimistic."
“Why?”
Guo Tu moved his body and looked at Yuan Tan with a smile. Yuan Tan looked at Guo Tu in confusion. He lived in Pingyu and did not care about the world. In addition to meeting Guo Tu, Guo Tu told him about the past and after sending troops to Junyi. He knew that sending troops to Junyi was Guo Tu's suggestion. Logically speaking, Guo Tu should now do his best to help Yuan Shao take down Junyi. He didn't understand what Guo Tu was thinking, and left the camp at this time.
"Xiansi, do you know how many years the party members have been waiting for this day?" Guo Tu hooked his finger and pointed to the hidden drawer under the handrail. Yuan Tan opened the drawer, took out a glass bottle and two cups of fruit pulp, poured a cup and handed it to Guo Tu. Of course he knew how many years the party members had been waiting for, but what does this have to do with the current situation?
Guo Tu took the pulp and shook it slowly. "From your eldest father Li Yuanli to today, the party members have fought for three generations, for more than sixty years, but why hasn't they succeeded? The reason is very simple. They have no military power and no knife in their hands. The knife is in the hands of the emperor, in the hands of the relatives, in the hands of the eunuch, in the hands of the warriors, but not in the hands of our party members."
Guo Tu took a sip of fruit pulp, was silent for a moment, and sighed softly. "So from the day your father was imprisoned, we had a consensus that we must control military power. There are two ways to control military power: one is to be a relative of the outside world, and the relative of the outside world can become a general, which naturally controls the military power of the whole world. The other is to be a governor of the state and controls the military power of a state. The Yuan family's four generations and three dukes, and it is the easiest thing to be a relative of the outside world, but after Yuan was Emperor Shun, the court had long had unwritten regulations. In order to avoid the disaster of Wang Mang, the emperor Shun's foreigners were not allowed to be a relative of the outside world. So we could only retreat to the second best, assist He Jin, and indirectly grasp military power. He Jin was very obedient, but after the young emperor ascended the throne, he exposed the nature of a butcher, and made his own decisions. There was no way, so we had to get rid of him."
Guo Tu took another big sip and smacked the corner of his lips. "What a slurry! It's sweet and sour, and the lips and teeth are fragrant." He said and stretched out the cup. "Give another cup, and give the rest to Zheng Kangcheng. The old man likes sweetness and must like it."
Yuan Tan's eyes shrank slightly, and he mechanically filled Guo Tu. He knew all of what Guo Tu said. In order to force He Jin, Yuan Shao led foreign troops into the court, but he killed He Jin's treacherous pig, and attracted Dong Zhuo, the abandoned wolf. Dong Zhuo relied on the elite Xiliang in his hands to let Yuan Shao understand the importance of military power. So he refused to hesitate, hung the seal gate, took his family to stay in Luoyang, and rushed to Bohai to settle down, preparing to seize Jizhou and implement the scheduled backup plan.
It was from that time that he became cruel and ruthless? He got what he wanted, took control of military power, tasted the taste of violence, and was swallowed by violence, and ordered Wang Yun to kill the Yuan family, forced Zhang Miao to kill Han Fu, and turned against the Yuan Shu brothers. When the party members opposed his decision, he began to alienate the party members and listed himself, who was closest to the party members, as his target, and the father and son were separated.
Before he ascended the throne and became emperor, he had become a lonely man.
"There are eighteen or nineteen things that are not satisfactory in life." Guo Tu sighed lightly: "I thought that when I arrived in Hebei and took control of Jizhou, I could respond with military power and be invincible. Unfortunately, we made another mistake. Hebei people are not good people, they hold military power and are restrained from them from many ways, and even sit down and watch you fight hard in Yanzhou and refuse to reinforce. We have no military power and no money and food, and we watch you fight desperately with Sun Ce. If Shen Pei does not obstruct, even if he is afraid that ten thousand people will reinforce Yanzhou, how could this be the result now?"
Guo Tu bit his face, his expression was extremely ferocious, almost crushing the glass cup in his hand, and pinching his fingers with his left hand and gestured. "Little bit, only a little bit less, Xian Si, everything you have today is thanks to Shen Pei. When he returns to Yecheng, he will not give up. You must pay attention."
Yuan Tan raised his head. "Sir, I will be careful, but Junyi's war..."
"Sun Ce has become a big shot, and Jun Yi's temporary victory and defeat cannot solve the problem. Sun Ce is self-aware and knows that the Central Plains are beneficial to the cavalry, and he has no advantage. Therefore, Taishi Ci and Shen You have been concurrently in the two groups, putting the breakthrough point in Qingzhou, and Jun Yi is just defending. Sun Jian has been in Jun Yi for more than half a year and is well prepared. How can we let us go down in one go? Once Jun Yi's attack is blocked, Ju Su and others will definitely slander and attack my suggestions."
"Sir, are you... avoiding disaster?"
Guo Tu said with a crooked mouth. "If it is a disaster, avoiding it is impossible. I just give Ju Su a chance to play. Compared with Tian Feng, Ju Su is indeed much more docile, but he is aware of the world, neglects human feelings, and is broad-minded, but he does not understand the despicableness of people's hearts, especially his lord's thoughts." He laughed twice. "He met his lord too late, at least ten years later. When I was planning day and night with the lord, he was still studying."
Guo Tu thought about it and glanced at Yuan Tan again. "It might be better if he met you. But it doesn't matter, there will be a chance in the future."
Yuan Tan's heart was tight. He understood Guo Tu's meaning. Guo Tu did not want Yuan Shao to win quickly - of course the facts were impossible. Sun Ce's attack might not be enough, but his defense was more than enough. Besides, he seized Yangzhou and could retreat to Jiangdong even if he was defeated. The war between Sun and Yuan was destined to last for a long time. But for Guo Tu, this was not a bad thing, and this was a good opportunity for the Ruying faction to take control of military power. The Ruying faction was not satisfied with being a strategist and was unwilling to see the Jizhou faction held the military power alone. After he failed to take control of Yanzhou, the people of Ruying wanted to directly control the military power. Xun Yan's command of the army was the beginning, and his return was also an opportunity. Yuan Shao was restrained on the front line, and he accumulated strength in Yecheng, which was to decline and rise, and the situation was not impossible.
Yuan Tan looked at Guo Tu quietly, not knowing what to say for a moment. He felt that Guo Tu was crazy, more persistent than He Yong, more radical than him, and almost forced him to submit, which made him inexplicably disgusted. Guo Tu saw Yuan Tan's thoughts and said word by word: "Xian Si, you haven't lived enough of this kind of life for me to be a peddler and I am a fish meat?"
Yuan Tan's heart skipped a beat, and his white face suddenly turned red and then became pale again. People were the ones who were the ones, and I was the ones. These eight words hit the depths of his heart and made him feel heart-wrenching. He took a deep breath and slowly vomited it out, and repeated it twice before he could barely calm himself down.
"Sir, let me think carefully."
Chapter completed!