As a result, Yuan Shao was lucky this time. Yuan Shao's army had a sharp eye. The person sent by Cao Cāo to deliver the letter to Xun Yu happened to be intercepted by Xu You's subordinates. Without severe torture, the letter naturally fell into Xu You's hands. It was really a cycle of nature. The retribution was unhappy. If you came out to make trouble, you will have to pay it back sooner or later. Before, Yuan Shao's spy was arrested, but now it is Cao Cāo's army's sender to the letter. From this point of view alone, God should have not abandoned Yuan Shao, not on Cao Cāo's side. Although from the final result, this time the matter was backfired by Yuan Shao, which became the key to defeat.

Speaking of Xu You, he was Cao cāo's childhood playmate. When Cao cāo was calculating Liu Bei in his heart, he thought about asking Xu You for help. Not only because Xu You was his childhood friend, but the most important reason was that Xu You was greedy for money and could intervene. The so-called flies do not bite seamless eggs.

Therefore, Yuan Shao's tragedy may be tragic. This time, it was not someone else who discovered this incident, but Xu You!

After Xu You received the letter, he immediately went to see Yuan Shao and suggested,

"Cao cāo stationed the officers' ferry and had been with our army for a long time. Xuchang will be empty. If one army blocked Xuchang at night, Xuchang could be eliminated. If Cao cāo did not have food and grass support, he would be captured soon. Now Cao cāo has finished his food and grass, and we can take this opportunity to attack him in two ways!"

Xu You's plan is quite good, and it perfectly utilized Yuan Shao's military strength advantages. He revitalized all the "dead money" and fully played the role of absolute military strength.

Unfortunately, what is the most famous person Yuan Shao? Yes, the most famous person is indecisiveness and undecision.

"Cao cāo has always been tricky, and Guo Jia is also cunning and impermanent. What if this letter is a trick to lure the enemy?" Yuan Shao said worriedly.

"If you miss such a good opportunity, you will inevitably suffer in the future!" Xu You couldn't help but say, looking heartbroken.

"I also know that this is a good opportunity, but the premise is that this matter is true. Before, Cao cāo intercepted our army's spies and learned Han Meng's movements, so he successfully attacked. How could it be so coincidental that we easily intercepted their letters so quickly?!" Yuan Shao analyzed. It sounded quite reasonable, and he almost convinced Yuan Shao himself. I don't know if Yuan Shao himself was too cautious, or if Cao cāo and Guo Jia's cunning nature impressed him too deeply.

"Oh, lord!" Xu You was about to persuade him again, and while he was speaking, an envoy suddenly came from Yecheng and sent Shen Pei a letter, temporarily interrupting the conversation here. After all, military information is important. If the Shen Pei's letter says that there is a change in Yecheng, you can't delay it because of a quarrel here, right?

So Yuan Shao quickly opened Shen Pei's letter and saw that it first mentioned the matter of transporting grain. In short, everything was right, when and when could it be transported. Then, Shen Pei mentioned a "small thing", which was that Shen Pei found that Xu You often accepted civil property in Jizhou, embezzled and bribed, and even if his sons and nephews donated many miscellaneous taxes, all the money and grain were entered into his bags. So Shen Pei has now arrested Xu You's son and nephew and imprisoned. Of course, this is definitely not asking Yuan Shao for instructions. Shen Pei thought he was doing right and enforced the law impartially, so he was just telling Yuan Shao.

His concubine was not eliminating dissidents, nor was he engaged in a coup. Xu You was too overdoing, causing public grievances, so he ordered the arrest of people.

Yuan Shao was furious when he saw this. In fact, he knew that Xu You was greedy for money, but he didn't expect that if he didn't investigate for a while, it would have become so excessive! Moreover, this is not the most critical. The most critical is that since Xu You is so greedy for money and has a relationship with Cao Cāo, then Xu You is completely likely to be bribed by Cao Cāo. Although there is no evidence now and it is not certain, what if Xu You was bribed by Cao Cāo this time, and then he designed to lead him Yuan Shao to send troops and then let Yuan's army be ambushed and defeated! Otherwise, why was it so coincidental that it was your Xu You who intercepted such a secret letter, and it was you, Xu You who came to offer your plan?

Don’t forget that Yuan Shao has another disadvantage in addition to being indecisive, that is, he cannot trust his subordinates. Of course, this is also one of the reasons why Yuan Shao will be indecisive.

So Yuan Shao shouted at Xu You,

"You are abusing man! You have the face to offer advice in front of me?! You have an old age with Cao Cāo, and it is hard to guarantee that you have not been bribed by him today, and you have been a spy for him, trying to instigate and kill our army! You should be beheaded in this kind of thing, but now you are entrusted with me! Get out quickly and settle the score with you when you go back!"

After all, there is no evidence of Xu You and Cao cāo joining forces, and Xu You is not Liu Bei. Xu You has made great contributions to Yuan Shao before, so Yuan Shao would not have killed Xu You directly for no reason.

Xu You left, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Faithful words are unpleasant, and the unscrupulous ones are not enough to make plans!"

Of course, what made Xu You even more sigh was that it happened so coincidental. If there was no such thing as Yecheng Shen Pei, or even if the affairs of those nephews came later, once Yuan Shao adopted his Xu You's plan and completely defeated Cao cāo, then, Yuan Shao would probably have smiled and left nothing like this!

As a result, why is it so coincidental that something happened at this critical moment? Did God really help Cao instead of Yuan?!

Coincidentally? Actually, it is not. Some things have been destined for a long time. Just like Xu You, who did not look for reasons in himself, but went to blame God and did not face the facts at all. Before, Han Meng had already raised food once when he came to transport grain from Yecheng. Han Meng's food and grass were burned, and Yuan Shao immediately wanted to raise the second round of food and grass. Even if Yuan Shao had enough food and grass, he really thought it was made out of nothing?! It was also this reason that Yuan Shao asked Shen Pei to go back to supervise the food and grass in person, because Yuan Shao knew that it was not so easy to collect another round of food and grass in such a short time, and it was necessary to take charge of talents like Xun Yu.

Needless to say, at this time, either the people are attacking or the people are scratching oil from certain privileges. Shen Pei is a good official and an upright official. So, the problem arises. If you are a good official, it is naturally impossible to attack the people. So, just scratching oil from the privileges is to scratch oil. But Shen Pei is an upright official, and he can't tolerate too much sand in his eyes. Once the problem of Xu You's nephew is found, Shen Pei is not at all affectionate, not only scraping oil, but also cutting flesh, but also directly bringing up the pig-killing knife!
Chapter completed!