Three Kingdoms: Madam, I am a decent person

Chapter 360 Preparation before the war
Yuan Shao also saw Zhang Sui standing at the door of the hall.

There was a coldness in his eyes.

His son-in-law is Tian Feng's disciple.

I have been working against myself during this period.

The master and the disciple are birds of a feather!
Zhang Sui met Yuan Shao's cold gaze and did not go in again.

He just came to see what happened.

Now that it was clear what had happened, there was no point in him going in again.

As for the so-called chief clerk Geng Bao, he didn't care about him at all.

Anyway, it was not his own reputation that was destroyed by Chief Clerk Geng Bao.

Zhang Sui turned around and left.

After returning to Yuan Mi, Zhang Sui did not lie and told her everything that had happened since the morning meeting.

Yuan Mi had a complicated look on her face when she heard Zhang Sui say this. She whispered, "My grandfather thought about this when I was very young."

"The people my grandfather admired most in his life were Chen Sheng and Wu Guang."

"The Han dynasty lasted for hundreds of years, and before that, it had even reached the point where official positions were sold for money."

"What's the point of this kind of court existing?"

Zhang Sui glanced at Yuan Mi and said with a smile, "That's right."

"This great man, it is indeed time for a change of dynasty."

Yuan Mi's expression lit up, and she said with a smile, "If we are not from the same family, we will not marry. I know that I made the right choice in choosing my husband."

Zhang Sui pinched Yuan Mi's pretty face and continued, "That's right."

“But nothing happens overnight.”

"More haste less speed."

"The world needs to change, but not now."

"Before Cao Cao welcomed the emperor to Xu County, many aristocratic families in Yuzhou surrendered."

"Last year, your uncle Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, and Cao Cao fought against him under the banner of the emperor. Lu Bu in Xuzhou, Chen Yu in Guangling, Sun Ce in Jiangdong, and Liu Biao in Jingzhou all rushed to respond."

"This shows that the Han Dynasty's influence is still there."

"The big man is still breathing his last breath."

"Why couldn't your father wait even this little bit of time?"

"Do you really think that no one among the civil and military officials in Hebei knows about the situation in the Han Dynasty?"

"Actually everyone knew it, but everyone was staring at the big guy as he breathed his last."

"But your uncle and uncle want to destroy the Han while he still has a breath left."

"How should those aristocratic families, civil and military officials react?"

"Treason is the way to claim the throne while the Han Dynasty still has its last breath."

"When the great man takes his last breath, he will sweep across the world and become emperor. That will be destiny."

"Your uncle and father grew up in luxury, which has developed their impatient personalities."

"At this rate, none of them will make it to the end."

Yuan Mi was about to get up and said, "Then I'll go find my father—"

Zhang Sui pushed her down and said, "You can't persuade him now."

"Don't tell me you're just a daughter. Even if you were a son, he wouldn't listen."

"People cannot teach people."

"It's important to teach people when something happens." Yuan Mi immediately thought of the scene where Yuan Shao went back on his word and gave the mission of going south to Shouchun that was promised to Zhang Sui to Guo Yuan. Yuan Mi went to ask for an explanation and was scolded by Yuan Shao.

Yuan Mi lay down tiredly.

Zhang Sui smiled and said, "Don't worry about some things."

After a pause, Zhang Sui said, "I want to discuss something with you."

Yuan Mi finally regained some of her sanity and said, "You say."

Zhang Sui said, "Once your confinement is over, I will have someone send you and the child back to Zhongshan County. During this time, you should stay with your father for a while if you have the chance. If you go back this time, it may be difficult for you to return to Yecheng next time."

Yuan Mi frowned.

After a while, she nodded.

After Yuan Mi agreed to return to Zhongshan County, Zhang Sui immediately began to prepare.

He asked Sima Yi to bring the fifty soldiers given to him by the Sima family to his residence in Yecheng, so that they would be familiar with the road from Yecheng to Zhongshan County and be prepared for defense.

After that, he asked Tian Yu for information about the aristocratic families in Xuzhou.

Before leaving Liu Bei, Tian Yu followed Liu Bei to support Tao Qian in Xuzhou and met many aristocratic families in Xuzhou.

I also met Chen Gui and Chen Deng, father and son, from the Chen family of Xia Pi.

After Zhang Sui recorded the information of those aristocratic families, he asked Tian Yu to take the remaining two sets of the five sets of armor given to him by the Sima family and secretly go to Xia Pi, Xuzhou to meet Chen Gui and Chen Deng, father and son.

Zhang Sui also wrote a letter to Chen Gui in person, in which he recalled that as a disciple of Ding Yuan, the former governor of Bingzhou, and Tian Feng, the current deputy governor of Jizhou, he had once clashed with Cao Cao at Hangu Pass while serving the king.

In the letter, Zhang Sui praised Cao Cao's strength and broad mind, so much so that Cao Cao did not say anything when Zhang Sui shot and killed Dian Wei and Cai Yang.

In the letter, Zhang Sui also highly praised the status of the Xia Pi Chen family in Xuzhou, and emphasized that Chen Deng's uncle Chen Qu had served as the Grand Marshal and had a good relationship with the Yuan family.

Half a month after Tian Yu went south to Xuzhou with a letter and two sets of armor, Guo Yuan prepared to go south.

Yuan Shao held a banquet in the government hall to cheer Guo Yuan on his march south to Shouchun.

The matter of Chief Clerk Geng Bao remained calm, as if nothing had happened.

However, the relationship between Tian Feng and Yuan Shao officially reached a stalemate.

Since Tian Feng left the governor's residence that day, he has not attended the morning meeting again.

On the second day of February in the third year of Jian'an, Guo Yuan officially took over the command of the cavalry army from Zhang He and quickly marched south to Shouchun.

Zhang Sui obtained the authority to obtain various information from the Jizhou government treasury from Ju Shou, formally checked the information of various aristocratic families in Xuzhou, and made sand tables for Xuzhou and Yangzhou.

On February 12, Yan Liang led 20,000 elite troops, including two cavalry armies, and rushed back from Yijing, Youzhou.

In order to rush back, Youzhou Mu, also the second son Yuan Xi, negotiated a temporary truce with Gongsun Zan, but was unsuccessful.

Gongsun Zan suspected that Yuan Xi's peace talks were a fraud.

Therefore, he did not meet Yuan Xi's envoy at all, but just hid in Yijing and did not come out.

Yuan Xi had no choice but to urgently dispatch 20,000 civilians from various tribes in Youzhou to replace the 20,000 elite troops taken away by Yan Liang, and continue to besiege Yijing.

Gongsun Zan never left the city during this period.

Yuan Xi and others were certain that Gongsun Zan would most likely not discover the fact that the 20,000 elite troops had already withdrawn.

After Yan Liang returned to Yecheng, Zhang Sui hosted a banquet in his honor to ease the relationship between him and Zhang He and Gao Lan.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou were as close as brothers, but he was not close to Zhang He and Gao Lan.

The reason is simple: Yan Liang and Wen Chou are veterans of Yuan Shao's wars, Zhang He and Gao Lan are both local generals in Jizhou. Yuan Shao has always believed in factional balance, so he does not allow Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He and Gao Lan to get too close.

However, this time, because they were going to fight against Lu Bu in Xuzhou together, and with Zhang Sui's mediation, the three of them temporarily put aside their prejudices.

On February 20th, Zhao Yun, Li Ru and Xu Rong arrived from Zhongshan County with a thousand cavalrymen.

On February 22, Zhang Sui asked Zhao Yu, who was given by the Sima family, to take four Changshan County warlords and lead the fifty troops given by the Sima family to escort Yuan Mi and the eldest son Zhang Yue back to Wuji County, Zhongshan County.

(End of this chapter)