Those who quell the rebels, those who intend to make a comeback and those who want to make a comeback have all been prepared in secret, but no one dares to take action first. They are all waiting for the reaction of the Xuzhou army and then decide how to bet.

This is also the most glorious moment since the old Tao family entered Xuzhou. After more than ten years of accumulation, hard work and hard work, the Xuzhou army, which once faced the danger of destruction, has actually become the number one vassal force at that time. Although its strength is not enough to quickly annex the world, it is already enough to stand out in the world. Every move is enough to change the direction of the whole world, and to achieve success for those who obey me, and those who oppose me will perish. Therefore, whether it is the Yuan brothers, or Liu Biao and Cao Cao, they have to think carefully before taking action, for fear that they will stand in the wrong team and stand opposite to the Xuzhou army, suffer a chain reaction, which will bring about a huge disaster and a danger of destruction.

Considering the usual bad relationship between himself and Deputy Director Tao, Mr. Yuan Tan, who had inherited the Yuan family business, was actually ready to ask for help from Liu Biao and Boss Cao. Liu Biao and Boss Cao and other princes were also ready to make the best interests for their own army. One was to support Yuan Tan and Deputy Director Tao, and the other was to support Deputy Director Tao to beat Yuan Tan, the dog that fell into the water. Mr. Yuan Shang was hoping that his brother-in-law would take action immediately and take heavy actions. Otherwise, with the tens of thousands of second-line troops in his hands, and a Jizhou that had no time to integrate and had no people's hearts, he would not be the opponent of his elder brother-in-law. In fact, Mr. Yuan Shang had the courage to raise an army to resist his elder brother, and his biggest reliance was his brother-in-law Deputy Director Tao.

With great expectations, Deputy Director Tao finally made a statement, but Deputy Director Tao's attitude made everyone fall out of his glasses. He actually asked Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang brothers to hold a standstill and negotiate. He also said that if anyone dared not accept his advice, he would immediately beat him up and teach his father-in-law a lesson to his father-in-law a lesson! At the same time, Deputy Director Tao simply overstepped his affairs and set the negotiation location in Dingtao City, the closest to Xuchang and Yecheng, and asked Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang to send a full-power envoy to Dingtao City for negotiation. The negotiations were chaired and notarized by the Xuzhou army. Whoever dared not accept them would beat him up!

In addition, Deputy Director Tao also used the reputation of the Three Dukes of Yuan, proclaiming that Yuan Tan and the Yuan Shang brothers were fighting against Yuan family. Unfortunately, Yuan's family, he was the son-in-law of Yuan family, and he was going to stop him, asking the princes of the world to remain calm and restrained, and not to interfere in the civil war of Yuan family without authorization. Anyone who formed an alliance with Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang and attacked the other person with force was regarded as declaring war against the Xuzhou army. The Xuzhou army would definitely retaliate with all its might and would never stop until death!

After hearing this news, the world was sensational. The military and civilians of Shilin and the military and civilians spread the reputation of Deputy Director Tao's benevolence and righteousness. The confidants of Deputy Director Tao, such as Cao and Liu Huangshu, were stunned. For a moment, they almost believed that dogs could change their feces and pigs could climb trees, and Tao Ying's traitors would also find their conscience! But after careful consideration and analysis, Cao and Liu Huangshu couldn't help but curse, "Damn the little slippery guy, he has reached this point of treacherousness! Hypocrite can be regarded as a perfect person!"

After hearing this news, Mr. Yuan Shang, who was nervously waiting for his brother-in-law to send troops, was stunned at first, and then his face looked like a slut. He almost thought that his brother-in-law was about to abandon him. However, Mr. Yuan Shang's most loyal follower, Shen Pei, was ecstatic and quickly pointed out to Mr. Yuan Shang that Deputy Director Tao's move seemed to be unhelpful, but in fact he protected his third brother-in-law to the extreme. Mr. Yuan Shang turned his worries into joy and quickly agreed to accept his brother-in-law's advice to make peace, agreed to send a full-minded representative to Dingtao City to negotiate with representative Yuan Tan, and accept notarization from the Xuzhou army.

After hearing this news again, Mr. Yuan Tan, who was already preparing to attack the hinterland of Jizhou, was immediately in a dilemma. Attacking, it would be equivalent to giving Deputy Director Tao a legitimate excuse to start a war, and would also be a stigma of being slaughtered by both brothers and sisters, and would be completely inferior in morality and strength. If you don’t attack, you missed this opportunity to quickly fight and decide Yuan Shang, which was the first to raise the banner of rebellion, and you would have to take a firm foothold in Jizhou. If you want to eradicate Yuan Shang in the future, you don’t know how much time it will take to spend with troops, money and food. At the same time, you will negotiate with Yuan Shang. Yuan Shang will definitely propose to divide the land. Once you lose the land of Jizhou, which has the most abundant money and food, it will naturally be difficult for Mr. Yuan Tan to dominate the world again.

What made Mr. Yuan Tan even more embarrassed was that Yuan Xi and Gao Gan also wrote to him directly, hoping that Yuan Tan would accept the advice of the Xuzhou army and send envoys to negotiate with Yuan Shang to peacefully resolve the dispute between the legitimate throne and avoid the tragedy of brothers and sisters as much as possible. Among them, Yuan Xi was a little better, but Gao Gan was a powerful faction with a powerful army in his hands. In Bingzhou, the largest rear of Prince Yuan Tan, he still had a huge influence. No matter how arrogant he said, Mr. Yuan Tan had to weigh the weight.

Guo Tu, Xin Ping, Su You and other advisers were as hesitant as Mr. Yuan Tan. They were determined to refuse the negotiations and then join forces with Liu Biao and Boss Cao to fight against Deputy Director Tao, but they were afraid of being accused of slandering each other. They were even more afraid of not being the opponent of the Xuzhou army and Yuan Shang alliance. Only Cui Yan agreed with the negotiations and pointed out that after the negotiations were launched, the result might not be detrimental to Yuan Tan. Perhaps there would be a possibility of peaceful recapturing Jizhou. At the same time, even if the negotiations failed, the self-armed army could regain moral superiority and disperse the people's hearts and consolidation of Yuan Shang's rule.

After hesitating for many days, Mr. Yuan Tan, who also needed some time to integrate the internal affairs, hesitated and finally decided to accept the persuasion of Deputy Director Tao, and sent Xin Ping as the plenipotentiary representative to negotiate with Yuan Shang. At the same time, Mr. Yuan Tan also wrote a passionate letter to Deputy Director Tao, explaining the various misunderstandings he had with Deputy Director Tao, and preparing a large number of valuable gifts to try to ease the bad relationship with Deputy Director Tao. In addition, Mr. Yuan Tan also secretly ordered Xin Ping to conduct secret negotiations with the Xuzhou army, preparing to cede part of the land in exchange for the Xuzhou army's feelings for eradicating Yuan Shang.

By the way, Mr. Yuan Shang did the same. In order to make his brother-in-law support him, Mr. Yuan Shang also prepared a richer and precious gift and ordered his full authority to negotiate with the Xuzhou army in secret, promising a large area of ​​land and city for the Xuzhou army to help him kill his elder brother. As a result, he naturally became cheaper for someone.

Originally, Yang Changshi was not very interested in this matter at first. Although he was fully responsible for the external affairs of the Xuzhou army, he felt that there was definitely not much money to make in the presidency of the peace talks, so Yang Changshi was ready to push the matter to others. However, when he was spending the night in his concubine Guo Yu's room, Guo Huan happened to come back to visit his sister the next day, and Guo Yu also mentioned this matter to Guo Huan inadvertently, so on the morning of the third day, Yang Changshi couldn't wait to run to Deputy Director Tao to volunteer and volunteer to preside over the negotiation.

Considering that Yang Changshi was quite good at fighting for his own army, Deputy Director Tao agreed to Yang Changshi's request, and naturally gave Yang Changshi the opportunity to eat the next house. On the night when he arrived in Dingtao, two adjacent rooms were vacated in Yang Changshi's headquarters, which were specially used to hold gifts sent by Xin Ping and Feng Ji respectively. However, what's even more annoying is that Yang Changshi deliberately asked Xin Ping and Feng Ji's entourage to send the gifts into the room at the same time, so that while they noticed the demonic energy next door, they also compared the preciousness and richness of the gifts to each other. As a result, Mr. Feng Ji, who gave less, was forced to send a cart of gifts late at night, and finally compared Mr. Xin Ping, who was generous, to the point.

After a series of intense preparations and private negotiations, on the eighth day of the third month of the sixth year of Jian'an, the peaceful negotiations between Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang brothers finally officially started in the lobby of the prefect of Jiyin. Yang Changshi sat in the middle and south, Xin Ping and Feng Ji sat down, and the negotiations were full of gunpowder at the beginning. Xin Ping said straight to the point: "Mr. Zhongming, Envoy Tao came forward to mediate and persuade him to make peace, and our army was very happy to accept it, but the old lord's will was to pass the throne to my lord Yuan Tan, so in this negotiation, I asked your army to first recognize my lord Yuan Tan as the lord of Jizhou."

"No." Feng Ji immediately spoke, saying, "The will in Yuan Tan's hand is fake. In order to prevent the war in Cangting, the old lord had already made a will in advance and passed it on to my lord Yuan Shang. Therefore, Mr. Zhongming, your army must first admit that my lord Yuan Shang is the lord of Jizhou!"

As he said tit-for-tat, Feng Ji and Xin Ping glanced at Yang Changshi with the corners of their eyes, and thought to himself: "Mr. Zhongming, when I gave you gold, silver, jewelry and beauty, you promised to admit that my lord was the lord of Jizhou for the sake of Tao. You must count what you said!"

"Acknowledge it, admit it." Yang Changshi nodded quickly and said with a serene remark: "Mr. Yuan Tan has a will to pass the throne by Duke Benchu, and Mr. Yuan Shang also has a will to pass the throne by Duke Benchu. Now I don't know if the will is true or not, and I don't know if Duke Benchu ​​made two wills one after another. So on behalf of the Xuzhou Governor's Office, I will announce that I will recognize Mr. Yuan Tan as the lord of Jizhou and Mr. Yuan Shang as the lord of Jizhou!"

With two bangs, Feng Ji and Xin Ping, who were in tension, fell to the ground one after another, and then roared angrily: "Mr. Zhongming, how can you recognize my lord as the lord of Jizhou? How can you still recognize Yuan Tan (Yuan Shao) as the lord of Jizhou? There are no two days, and there are no two kings in the country. How can there be two lords in Jiyou and Qingyan?!"

"Please calm down, Mr. Li Lang and Wang Wu, you two should help Mr. Feng and Mr. Xin." Yang Changshi ordered Li Lang and Wang Wu to help Xin Ping and Feng Ji, and said with a kind look: "Two gentlemen, don't be impatient. Our army admits that your lords are all the lords of Jizhou. It is just to persuade you to sit down and discuss who will give way to the throne. Mr. Wang, please think about it. If our army only recognizes one lord of Jizhou first, will the other representative still sit down to negotiate? So we should not care about such irrelevant small issues now, so let's negotiate first."

After much persuasion, Yang Changshi finally persuaded Feng Ji and Xin Ping to sit down, and then said, "Let's do this, let's listen to each other's conditions first. Mr. Xin Ping, please say first, Mr. Feng Ji, please don't interrupt. Please rest assured, two gentlemen, I, Yang Zhongming, have made justice and integrity, and have been trusted by the lord, and have the lord's full authority to host this negotiation on behalf of the lord. I will definitely preside over you and will definitely be impartial."

"I hope Mr. Zhongming can do what he said." Xin Ping snorted coldly, and then said: "The conditions for our army are very simple. As long as Yuan Shang is the main force of my lord Yuan Tan, hand over the military power in Jizhou, and work with Shen Pei in Xuchang court, our army will guarantee that it will not hurt Yuan Shang, Shen Pei and all his followers will not pursue the forgery of wills and rebellion by Yuan Shang, Shen Pei and others. It can also guarantee that Yuan Tan, Shen Pei and others will be given high-ranking officials and generous salaries."

"The eldest son is indeed kind and has a strong ambition, and admires him!" Yang Changshi applauded, then turned to Feng Ji and said, "Mr. Yuantu, it's your turn, but I want to remind you, I think the eldest son's conditions are already quite good, and your army might as well consider agreeing."

"Thank you Mr. Zhongming for your reminder, but it is impossible!" Feng Ji also said coldly, and then said: "The conditions of our army are also very simple. Yuan Tan admitted that his will was forged, and he was the main force of my lord Yuan Shang. If we hand over the military power of Xuchang, our army can guarantee that it will not hurt Yuan Tan and his followers, and guarantee that Yuan Tan and his followers will be given high salaries!"

"Are the conditions similar?" Yang Changshi exclaimed: "After a long time, you gathered more than 100,000 troops to fight for whom to be your lord!"

Xin Ping and Feng Ji both rolled their eyes, and they didn't understand whether Yang Changshi's words were really stupid or pretending to be stupid? Yang Changshi scratched his head again and said with a difficult face: "But this is also difficult. The eldest son wants to be the lord, and the third son wants to be the lord, but there are no days and no two kings in the country. You can't both of them be the lords, right?"

Xin Ping and Feng Ji nodded together, feeling that Yang Changshi finally said something human. Unexpectedly, Yang Changshi suddenly said: "However, if both the eldest and the third prince want to be lords, there is no way. My lord Tao Jun has come up with a solution for you to make both the eldest and the third princes can be lords."

"Everyone is a lord?" Feng Ji and Xin Ping were stunned at first, and then Feng Ji's face quickly showed joy. Xin Ping had a bad premonition and asked in a deep voice: "Listen to Mr. Zhongming's opinion, did the envoy Tao want to persuade us to divide the foundation left by the old lord into two? Our army would never agree to this."

"No, no." Yang Changshi quickly shook his head and said with a smile: "It is not divided into two, it is local autonomy, one country and two systems. My lord Tao Envoy suggested that the eldest son of Yuan Tan might as well submit to the governor of the third son of Yuan Shang, Ji Youzhou, and allow the third son to govern the two prefectures on their own. He calls himself the lord on the land of Ji Youzhou, and to the outside world, he has appointed the eldest son as the lord and recognized the eldest son as the new head of the Yuan family."

"What does it mean?" Xin Ping and Feng Ji were both confused by Yang Changshi's new terms.

"Simply put, Mr. Yuan Shang recognized Mr. Yuan Tan as his lord, but Mr. Yuan Shang claimed to be his lord in the Jiyou prefectures and governed the Jiyou prefectures by himself. Mr. Yuan Tan was not allowed to interfere in the political affairs of the Jiyou army. This is one country, two systems, and local autonomy." Yang Changshi explained again.

"Okay, our army can agree to this." Feng Ji, who urgently needed time to stabilize the internal military preparations, agreed immediately, and said: "One country, two systems, local autonomy, our army can accept this condition."

"No!" Xin Ping jumped up and said furiously: "What is one country, two systems, and where is the autonomy of the local government? Isn't this a different way to divide the foundation left by the old lord into two? Our army will never agree to this!"

"Mr. Xin Ping, don't be impatient, I haven't finished speaking yet." Yang Changshi said with a smile: "My lord also suggested that in order to express his sincerity to recognize his brother, the third son of Yuan Shang must pay 200,000 hu of rice to the eldest son after the rice is ripe every year to express his surrender. Is this a good condition?"

"Impossible!" Xin Ping was even more furious and said, "I just want to get Jizhou and Youzhou, dream!"

"Mr. Xin Ping can disagree." Yang Changshi put away his hippie smile, replaced it with a vicious face that he usually had in front of his subordinates, and sneered: "But I want to remind sir two points. First, my lord is indeed kind-hearted and cannot bear to see the two young men traitors and their flesh and blood separate. He does not want the foundation that Benchu ​​Gong has worked hard to destroy in the hands of Prince Yuan Tan. If the army insists on fighting with Prince Yuan Shang to the end, what will Benchu ​​Gong's mortal enemy Cao Thief do? What will people like Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Liu Bei in Xinye and Ma Teng in Xiliang do?"

"Second," Yang Changshi said slowly again: "My lord has already sent a letter to the world, and there is a saying that comes first. If the two young men refuse to accept his mediation and persuade each other and insist on slaughtering each other, then our army will immediately send troops to teach the unfilial son a lesson for Benchugong! So now if Mr. Xin Ping refuses to persuade him to reconcile on behalf of the eldest son, then the 30,000 troops stationed in Dingtao will immediately launch an attack on Puyang or Guandu! Our 300,000 troops in Xuzhou will also continue to set sail towards Xuchang!"

Mr. Feng Ji smiled happily and said hurriedly: "Mr. Zhongming, although my lord has never said that he would pay tribute to the eldest son, in order to show our army's sincerity to accept the reconciliation of the Tao envoy, I can now dare to make the decision for the lord, agree to the conditions proposed by the Tao envoy, to govern Jizhou and Youzhou, to surrender to the eldest son, and to pay 200,000 hu of rice to the eldest son every year."

Mr. Xin Ping's face turned ashen. He pulled his feet away several times, but he did not dare to take the responsibility of refusing Deputy Director Tao to reconcile. So after hesitating for a long time, Xin Ping could only say with a stern face: "This is a big deal, and I must ask my lord for instructions."

"It's okay, go and report to the eldest son, we can wait." Yang Changshi said with a smile: "Sir, you can report back to Xuchang by yourself, or you can send someone back to Xuchang by reporting, stay in Dingtao City to avoid traveling. Don't worry, Hong will definitely let the inn entertain the teacher."

"Thank you, Lord Changshi." Xin Ping bowed, then walked out of the negotiation venue with a dark face, leaving Yang Changshi and Fengji to look at each other in the lobby.

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When Xin Ping brought the negotiations back to Xuchang, Mr. Yuan Tan, who was not much better than Mr. Yuan San, of course, turned over the table and ordered the army to gather, and personally led the army to fight to the death with Deputy Director Tao, first defeating the Tao thief and then defeating Shang thief! Fortunately, even Mr. Yuan Tan's best friend Guo Tu dared not listen to such a life-threatening situation, so he quickly took Yuan Tan with Cui Yan and others, even saying that the lord should be angry, and the lord should be angry.

"Stop the anger? The Tao thief and Yuan Shang's son are going to divide my land into two. How can I calm my anger?!" Mr. Yuan Tan roared angrily: "You can't agree! You can't agree! Since you want to fight, instead of waiting for the Tao thief to come to the door, we might as well hit the Tao thief's door first!"

"Don't calm down." Guo Tu advised: "I don't want to ask my lord to agree to the harsh conditions proposed by the Taoist thief, but I just want to ask my lord to think carefully and then decide whether to start a war."

"Yes, lord can't fight now." Cui Yan also advised: "Now our army is truly surrounded by enemies. Yuan Shang, the east is Tao Ying, and Cao thief in the south is Liu Biao. Everyone is full of enemies. If you start a war on impulse, you can only kill yourself. Please think carefully. If our army starts war against Tao Ying, Yuan Shang, Cao thief and Liu Biao will fight at the same time? What should we do?!"

Yuan Tan was stunned for a moment, then yelled, threw Cui Yan and Guo Tu away together, kicked the overturned case several feet away, and roared wildly: "Tao Thief, I won't kill you! I'm not a human being!"

"Lord, it is really hateful to the Taoist thief secretly assist Yuan Shang, but now it is not the time to start a war." Cui Yan said quickly: "The most important thing for our army at present is to first eradicate the remnants of Cao thief, form an alliance with Liu Biao to fight against Tao, and first stabilize the rear of the southern line, and then consider eliminating Yuan Shang's rebellion and going to war with Tao Ying. Otherwise, if we rashly start a war against the Taoist thief at this time, our army will only destroy itself."

Mr. Yuan Tan gritted his teeth and quickly shouted: "Immediately send an envoy to Jingzhou to ask for alliance from Liu Biao, immediately gather troops and attack the Cao bandits in Runan!"

"Yes, let's not say that we will refuse the Taoist thieves to persuade them to reconcile. We just fight for allies first, clear away the remaining enemies, and then consider attacking Yuan Shang and Taoist thieves." Guo Tu nodded quickly and said hesitantly: "But lord, asking Liu Biao for alliances and attacking Cao's thieves is not a overnight achievement. Although we can delay time at the negotiating table, instead of delaying and wasting time so much and wasting troops to guard against Taoist thieves and Yuan Shang, it is better to make some compromises with Taoist thieves and Yuan Shang first, freeing up troops to destroy Cao, and also getting some food and grass for military use."

Mr. Yuan Tan was stunned again. After sitting back on the mat and trying to calm himself down, Yuan Tan thought for a long time before he said weakly: "In your opinion, how should we compromise?"

"If I say something wrong, lord, don't blame me." Guo Tu said frightenedly: "My dear, since Jizhou has actually been controlled by Yuan Shang, it is better to agree to the Taoist thieves' persuasion and allow Yuan Shang to govern Jizhou by himself, and ask Yuan Shang to pay 500,000 hu of grain to our army. Although Xuchang produces grain, wars have continued in the past six months, and winter wheat will definitely be seriously underpaid, and Bingzhou's grain production is not abundant. If we don't get a batch of grain and grass quickly, by this winter, our army's grain and grass will be in danger."

"But the Tao thief still wants to give Youzhou to Yuan Shang, what should I do?" Yuan Tan asked gritted his teeth.

"It can only be bargaining." Guo Tu lowered his head and said, "The situation is not as good as others. I can only bargain at the negotiating table as much as possible. If you can save more places, try to save more places."
Chapter completed!