There are many reasons for the current situation in the Han Dynasty, which cannot be explained clearly in a few words. Cao Cao and Liu Bei came to discuss this issue, but if they did not explain the matter clearly, Huo Hai could not tell them what to do.

"So, you should know now that the reason why these people brought troops to attack Dong was because they also wanted to become a prince, but I was already a prince, but they still brought troops. I believe that this is the reason why you negotiated with me." Huo Hai looked at the eyes of the two of them and said.

Huo Hai knew that neither of these two people was fool. No matter how honest they pretended to be, they would never be able to deceive him. Who said he was a time traveler?

"In your opinion, how should we fight this battle?" Cao Cao said with some depression.

"In my opinion, if you can fight, you can fight, you can't fight. Everyone gathers together to drink and eat meat, and it will disperse. Do you believe it or not, Dong Zhuo will not do anything just because we hit it, and will also give us a promotion because we disperse." Huo Hai smiled and said.

Everyone has thought about comfortable life, especially Dong Zhuo. He is clearly living like an emperor now, and it would be strange if he is willing to fight you to death.

"But..." Liu Bei wanted to speak but stopped.

"But you can't save the great man, right? Unless you can destroy the princes outside, including me and Cao Mengde, and destroy all the people who protect the current great man system, the great man will still be over." Huo Hai told Liu Bei directly how to solve the problem.

However, after he finished speaking, Cao Cao and Liu Bei showed disagreements on their faces, but they didn't say anything, because they had no better way.

In the end, Huo Hai himself was still required to break the silence and smiled, "I expect Yuan Shao will let the entire army advance to Hulao Pass tomorrow and attack the city in turn."

Cao Cao spoke, "Hulao Pass is indestructible. If you attack strongly, you will be afraid that there will be great casualties."

"This is exactly what Yuan Shao wanted. He weakened the strength of the princes so that he could cut off the princes one by one and thus become independent."

"Hiss~!" The two of them gasped, as if they understood the reason why Yuan Shu refused to give Sun Jian food and grass.

If the war is fought too smoothly and cannot have the effect it should have, it will not be very good for their Yuan family.

"We must stop the Yuan brothers from becoming." Liu Bei no longer called Yuan Shao the leader of the Yuan League at this time, and spoke.

"How to stop it?" Huo Hai asked him.

"If you do the opposite, the Yuan brothers want us to consume all our troops here, but we won't. Tomorrow, we will send people to challenge the front line and fight with Dong Zhuo." Liu Bei said his thoughts.

His second brother Guan Yu and his third brother Zhang Fei have all broken through to the level of Qi and strength this time, especially the Qinglong Qi cultivated by Guan Yu. It can be said that it is invincible with the use of the big sword. I have long wanted to distinguish it from Lu Bu.

"This method is feasible, but if Dong Zhuo loses for a few times, he will not be able to stick to it?"

"The army of all over the country has more than 200,000, and the daily consumption of food and grass is amazing. I'm afraid it will be difficult to maintain it for a long time." Cao Cao also asked the question.

"So, in the end, we have to take the path of strong attack. Moreover, Yuan Shao will find a reason to force the army to attack. The two should think about how to avoid losses when attacking strongly.

In addition, I predict that the Dingxiliang soldiers are not good at defending the city. Once the situation in Hulao Pass is critical, Dong Zhuo may flee with the emperor.

At that time, the Allies will continue to fight, and the supply line will be too long and the food and grass will be insufficient.

If we don’t fight, Dong Zhuo will still be in Chang'an and the emperor to command the princes. In this battle, at most, we will force Dong Zhuo to give up Sili." Huo Hai said with a smile.

"What are the plans of Huozhou Mu next?" Cao Cao asked, seeing that Huo Hai seemed to have seen through the matter long ago.

"You are here to challenge Dong, but I am actually here to save people. The princes are fighting each other, and the suffering is always the people. I can't bear to see the millions of people in the Sili land suffer. I want to take them to Bingzhou, cultivate more wasteland, plant some food, and support myself." Huo Hai said truthfully.

"When the Huozhou governor attacked Dong in the previous period, he had moved more than 300,000 people to Bingzhou in the Sili area. He would move this time. Can you raise so many people?" Cao Cao said in surprise.

"Bingzhou has a vast land and a sparse population, and what is short of is the population. As for food, although it is tight, it can still survive after slaughtering it." Huo Hai smiled.

"I heard that there are new grain seeds in Bingzhou, with multiples of the yield than beans and wheat. I wonder if the governor of Huozhou can give some to the subordinates to solve the food problem of the people under his rule." Liu Bei spoke first.

"There is no problem with this. If you need new grains, you can get the money to Bingzhou for purchases, and I can even deliver the goods to your door." Huo Hai nodded without thinking.

"Salt and iron, so is war horses?" Cao Cao continued to ask.

"Yes, both salt and iron and war horses are produced in Bingzhou, and they will all be given food, as long as the price you give is fair.

However, I have the conditions to sell these things to you. You cannot control the food and other materials in the country. When I want to buy them, you can also sell them to me at the market price. Only then can everyone get what they need, but it is fair." Huo Hai nodded.

"Yes, yes, that's the only way to be fair." Liu Bei, thinking that he was poor and had nothing to sell, agreed quickly.

"In this way, why not make an appointment with the three of us, and we will bargain each other and do not restrict each other?" Cao Cao suggested.

"It should be like this." Huo Hai nodded in agreement.

Liu Bei also said, "It should be like this."

The three of them had a great time talking to each other and the topic returned to the future strategy of the three parties. It was not until late at night that Liu Bei and Cao Cao reluctantly returned to the base camp.

"The second and third brothers, I have reached an agreement with Huozhou Mu. Before the spring plowing ends, he will send people to send two ships of new grain, one ship of salt to Yong'an County, and there will be five hundred war horses, five hundred sets of leather armor, and thousands of swords, swords, guns and spears. We need to prepare 50,000 kilograms of copper and iron, and 1,000 ingots of gold, silver and 1,000 ingots of gold, silver and 1,000 ingots of gold, silver and 1,000 ingots of gold, silver and 1,000 ingots of gold, silver and 1,000 ingots of wine." When Liu Bei returned to the camp, he saw that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were not sleeping and waiting for him, and he immediately grabbed their hands excitedly.

"50,000 kilograms of copper and iron? Thousands of gold and silver are each? Where can we have so many wealth in Yong'an?" Zhang Fei, who is proficient in business, said first.

"Not in Yong'an, there is in Jingzhou! There is in Yizhou!" Liu Bei smiled and said.

"Brother means, let's go to Jingzhou and rob in Yizhou?" Zhang Fei said recklessly.

"Of course not. This time, the amount of money was very expensive in my Yong'an County. The two state governors must give me some funding to Yong'an County. As clan relatives, Liu Yan and Liu Biao ignored the safety of the Han Dynasty and were in a corner. No wonder they gave them the means for their brothers. Whoever is willing to give money will be blocked. Whoever is unwilling to give money, don't blame us for not helping them when they are in trouble, haha..."

Speaking of this, Liu Bei unconsciously showed a smirk.

He had never known the importance of Yong'an County before. Through conversations with Huo Hai, he realized that he had stuck Liu Yan and Liu Biao's necks.

Because Yong'an is the Chongqing area of ​​later generations and is the southeastern gateway of Shu. If someone marched into Shu from Hanzhong, Liu Bei could go through water to the hinterland of Shu at any time and capture Liu Yan's retreat.

At the same time, he was upstream of Jingxiang and could take the water along the river to capture Jingxiang. If Liu Biao wanted to live a stable life, he also needed to make friends with Liu Bei, otherwise he would be at risk of being taken to the back.

The most important thing is that Yong'an County is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and even the city is built on the mountain, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Both of them have no choice but to Liu Bei.

The result of asking for money from both sides is that both sides will give it.

After all, the things that Liu Bei wanted were nothing to Liu Yan and Liu Biao who were living in Yizhou and Jingzhou.

Once the military is strengthened, the greater the voice of Liu Bei will be.

In addition to this time, Liu Bei also wanted to learn from Huo Hai and bring some people back from the Sili area, because the entire Yong'an army was only tens of thousands of households, and the potential for war was too small.

You should know that the population size not only determines the number of troops, but also the output.

Yong'an County is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It has a developed water system and fertile land. There is no drought and flood disaster. The more people, the more grain it produces. The more grain it produces, the more military supplies it can be exchanged for Huo Hai. If you don't take advantage of this, you won't take it in vain.

After returning to the camp, Cao Cao also quickly summoned his advisers Xi Zhicai, Xun You, Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others to discuss the major event.

When he talked with Huo Hai today, he was suddenly enlightened.

When everyone is thinking about it themselves, he, the person who considers the great man, is a fool. He can no longer be stupid and can no longer pin his hopes on the little emperor in the palace who does not know how to govern the world.

He needs to consider the territory he wants to guide next.

Yanzhou is undoubtedly something he must take, that is to say, the four people of Jibei Prime Minister Bao Xin, Shanyang Prefect Yuan Yi, Chenliu Prefect Zhang Miao, and Yanzhou Governor Liu Dai will be his opponents.

Fortunately, these four people are not strong and if they move fast, they can be defeated in a few months. After taking Yanzhou, Cao Cao's territory will border Han Fu from Hebei and Yuan Shao from Qingzhou.

Yuan Shao's target is now mainly Jizhou, so Cao Cao had the opportunity to attack his retreat or occupy a piece of territory in Qingzhou.

Of course, at the least, he can develop in the direction of Xuzhou, and Tao Qian seems to be easy to grasp.

At that time, you just need to find a reason to send troops.

As for Yuzhou, it is not his consideration for the time being, because Yuan Shujia has a strong foundation and cannot meet him for the time being.

After saying this, Cao Cao realized that his barracks were a little quiet.

Xun You and Xun Yu, who have always had a good experience in politics and strategy, had bad looks.

Cao Cao knew that they were a staunch royalist party. The reason why he was able to recruit them before was because he stabbed Dong with a knife and fired the first shot of the royalist.

But now, he wants to take these people to fight for hegemony with the princes and no longer keep the emperor. These people are inevitably a little unacceptable.
Chapter completed!