Three Kingdoms King of the North

For Yuan Shang's bad idea, the judge immediately expressed his objection: "No, you must not. Because you are young, Wu Yuan in the city is not convinced by you. If you dismiss officials at will, it will definitely cause panic in the city. Will As a result, some officials who were hesitant to decide, in order to protect themselves, they had no choice but to defect to the eldest son and the others."

Yuan Shang said with a mournful face: "As the saying goes: elder brother is like father, and now father's whereabouts are unknown, if elder brother comes to Nanpi, my status will not be guaranteed."

"My lord, don't panic." As Yuan Shang's confidant, the judge will never watch his backer fall, so after thinking for a long time, he continued: "If you want to continue to control Bohai County, it is not without Method."

"Zhengnan, do you have a good idea?" Yuan Shang seemed to grasp a life-saving straw when he heard the judge's words, and hurriedly asked: "Tell me quickly, my son is all ears."

The judge did not immediately answer Yuan Shang's question, but instead asked, "Dare to ask, how is the relationship between the eldest son and the second son?"

Hearing the strange question of trial and match, Yuan Shang was stunned for a moment, but he still answered truthfully: "The second brother is more capable than the eldest brother, but he is not the eldest son in the family. Even if the father is a hundred years later, he will not be the one who inherits the family business. Maybe It's really because of this, since I was sensible, I have seen the two of them fighting openly and secretly."

Regarding Yuan Shang's answer, a gratified smile appeared on the judge's face.He went on to say: "Since there is a conflict between the eldest son and the second son, then we have an opportunity to take advantage of it."

Yuan Shang asked strangely: "Is there any opportunity?"

"The two have been imprisoned in Jizhou for several months. Even if there are conflicts, they have to temporarily put aside their grievances in order to help each other." The judge analyzed to Yuan Shang: "But once they escaped from danger, the conflicts covered by danger will disappear. It will explode again. As long as we make good use of the conflicts between them, it is not impossible for the young master to keep Bohai County."

The smile on Yuan Shang's face disappeared for a moment, and he asked again: "But, Zhengnan, how should we take advantage of the conflict between them?"

"The young master also said that the second young master is more capable than the eldest young master, but because he is not the eldest son in the family, he is destined not to inherit the family business." Shenpei said indifferently: "We can use this as a pretext to make the second young master pull over."

"Will he agree to help us?" Yuan Shang asked a little uncertainly.

"We can send someone to see the second son and say that we are willing to support him as the Lord of Bohai Sea." Seeing Yuan Shang humbly asking for help, Shenpei expressed his intention: "As long as the eldest son is eliminated, the son will ask for help." He handed over the military power of Bohai County."

The proposal of the judge made Yuan Shang's face show a confused expression: "Zhengnan, if we join forces with the second brother, after getting rid of the eldest brother, he really wants to replace me. How should I respond?"

Seeing Yuan Shang yelling for beating and killing, the judge couldn't help laughing, and then said: "Young master, don't worry, although the second young master has some abilities, but he doesn't have any roots, and he can't find a single one of his attributes in Nanpi City." Next. Don't say that the young master is unwilling to give up the military power. Even if he is willing to give up, Wu of Bohai County will not agree. Tell me, after eradicating the eldest son, I think it is also necessary to get rid of a second son who has no foundation. Wouldn't it be difficult?"

"What Zhengnan said is very true." After listening to the trial plan, Yuan Shang couldn't help nodding his head repeatedly. He knew that with his current strength, it would be impossible for him to eradicate his eldest brother and second brother at the same time. .When facing death, no matter what kind of conflicts there are between his two elder brothers, the two will join forces to deal with him.But once, as the judge said, he pulled one of them over to help him get rid of the other, and when they both lost in the fight, he would do it himself, and everything became much simpler.So he asked a little excitedly: "How do we start now?"

"Since the two young masters will arrive in Nanpi in two days, you might as well be generous and go out of the city to meet them."

"What, let me go out of the city to meet them?" Yuan Shang and his two elder brothers had a normal relationship, so he was naturally a little reluctant about the proposal of trial and match: "Isn't that a loss of my identity?"

"My son's words are wrong. We are all the sons of the Marquis of Wei Township." Hearing Yuan Shang's outlandish reason, Shen Pei felt dumbfounded, but he still had patience and persuaded him: "Young master, go out of the city. How can you say that you have lost your dignity to welcome your elder brother?"

Hearing what the judge said, Yuan Shang did not speak, but walked back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, thinking in his heart whether he should put down his figure and go outside the city to meet his two elder brothers.

Seeing Yuan Shang's reluctance, the judge could only bite the bullet and continue to persuade: "No matter what you say, the two young masters, Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi, are the elder brothers of the young master. If they arrive in Nanpi, we will not go out of the city. If you welcome him, I'm afraid it will attract gossip and gossip, which will have an impact on your son's reputation."

What the judge said made Yuan Shang start to think: Although he and his two elder brothers were not born of the same mother, and the relationship between them is not good.But no matter what, the other party is his elder brother, once he closes the door to them, he will definitely encounter some gossip.Once it has caused a bad impact on his reputation, when he wants to recruit more talents in the future, someone will definitely use this matter to talk about it.Therefore, after repeated consideration, Yuan Shang finally nodded and said, "Okay, Zhengnan. As soon as the two of them and the Jizhou soldiers and horses arrive, I will personally lead people out of the city to meet them."

In the afternoon of the next day, Yuan Shang sent a scout to report that the Jizhou soldiers and horses escorting Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi were only [-] miles away from Nanpi, and they would arrive at the city of Nanpi at the latest by tomorrow evening.After hearing the news, Yuan Shang hurriedly ordered people to convene a discussion with Wu in Nanpi City.

Those Wu who received the notice hurried to the meeting hall of the prefect's mansion.Seeing some familiar colleagues already standing in the conference hall, he cast a questioning look at them, hoping to learn from them Yuan Shang's purpose for summoning him.Then those officials who arrived first were also at a loss. Facing the questioning eyes of their colleagues, they could only spread their hands to indicate that they didn't know anything.

Seeing that it was almost time for the people to arrive, the judge walked to the middle of the meeting hall.Said to Zhongwu: "My lords, today the young master called everyone here because there is an important matter to announce, please be quiet."

After Yuan Shang waited for the judge to finish speaking, he got up and bypassed the table in front of him, came to the side of the judge, and said to everyone: "My lords, according to their reports, my two elder brothers, Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi, are here. Escorted by a group of soldiers and horses from Jizhou, they are coming towards Nanpi, and they will arrive outside the city tomorrow afternoon at the latest. I have summoned you here to tell you that I will go out of the city ten miles to meet you. , I wonder what you guys think?"

As soon as Yuan Shang's words came out of his mouth, Guo Tu, Xin Ping, Xin Pi and others from Yuan Tan's faction were stunned first.Before receiving the notice of the meeting, the three of them were gathering in Guo Tu's mansion to discuss how to welcome Yuan Tan into the city.Now when they heard Yuan Shang say that he planned to leave the city in person and welcome Yuan Tan into the city, they thought they heard it wrong.

Yuan Shang seemed to see through the thoughts of the three of them, and continued: "My two elder brothers were defeated and captured, and they were imprisoned in Jizhou prison for several months. Although I don't know why Jizhou wants to send them back, But since they have come to Bohai, I have to ignore them, so I need to meet them outside the city."

Guo Tu and the others heard what Yuan Shang said clearly this time, and hurriedly walked out of the queue, bowed their hands to Yuan Shang and said, "If the young master wants to go out of the city to meet the eldest and second young masters, the subordinates are willing to go with them."

Seeing several officials from Yuan Tan's party, they all expressed their intention to go out of the city with the young master to meet Yuan Tan, and the rest of the officials did not dare to show weakness, and said, "My subordinates are also willing to go out of the city with the young master to meet the eldest son, The second son enters the city."

When Yuan Shang saw that so many officials volunteered to go out of the city with him to meet Yuan Tan, a murderous look flashed across his face.But he still pretended to be pleasantly surprised and said: "Since all the adults are willing to go out of the city with me, I can't wait for it. Ladies and gentlemen, it's getting late, everyone should go back and rest early. We will go out of the city together at noon tomorrow." Welcome to my brother's arrival."

After the military officials in the meeting hall left one after another, Yuan Shang said to the judge with a murderous look: "Zhengnan, I really didn't expect that there are so many Yuan Tan's accomplices in Nanpi City, it seems that my son must be big to them." Start killing, otherwise you and I will not have a foothold in Nanpi sooner or later."

"My lord, you misunderstood." Seeing Yuan Shang's murderous intent on Nanpi's martial arts, the judge hurriedly persuaded him, "Although so many officials have to go outside the city to meet the two lords, it doesn't mean that they are all In Yuan Tan's party, many of them probably saw that the young master was going out of the city to meet him in person, and they wanted to flatter you, so they said they wanted to go out of the city together."

After listening to Shen Pei's explanation, the murderous look on Yuan Shang's face turned into doubt, he looked at Shen Pei and asked, "Zhengnan, is that really the case?"

"That's right," the examiner nodded, and said with certainty: "Yuan Tan's accomplices in Nanpi City are nothing more than Guo Tu, Xin Pi, Xin Ping and others. If the officials are strong, they will naturally fall to one side, so we must find a way to pull these officials over, so that we can remain invincible."

Yuan Shang was relieved by the words of trial, he nodded his head and said: "Zhengnan, if I care about you, you will be in chaos. It seems that you are right. The military officials in Nanpi City are just a bunch of scumbags. Whichever side is stronger, they will Whichever side they fall to. There is still room for them now, so let them go for now. When there are suitable candidates in the future, it will not be too late to replace them.”

"My lord," Shen Pei waited for Yuan Shang to finish speaking, and then added, "I wonder if you have told Madam about this?"

"Tell this matter to my son's mother?" Yuan Shang showed a surprised expression on his face: "Zhengnan, why is this?"

"If you want to win over the second young master, it's not enough to rely on the young master alone." The examiner said with a smile: "If the madam comes forward, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort."

Chapter 329

Yuan Shang felt that it would be difficult to convince his mother, Mrs. Liu, by himself, so he rushed to the back hall to meet Mrs. Liu with the judge.

When Mrs. Liu was bored in every possible way, she suddenly saw her son getting married with Jian, and she couldn't help asking curiously: "Shang'er, why do you have time to come to mother today?"

Yuan Shang didn't answer Mrs. Liu's question immediately, but first knelt down on the ground: "My son pays homage to his mother!"

The judge immediately knelt down: "My subordinate pays respects to Madam!"

"Hurry up and be free!" Mrs. Liu stretched out her hand to help her, and asked curiously: "You all came here together today, otherwise, something serious will happen?"

"Return to mother," Yuan Shang said respectfully, "A confidant came to report that Jizhou sent a team to escort the eldest brother and second brother to Nanpi."

"What, Xiansi and Xianyi are still alive?" Mrs. Liu couldn't help showing a surprised expression when she heard Yuan Shang's words. Yet?"

"Returning to Mrs., it may be based on rumors." Seeing Mrs. Liu asking himself, the judge quickly replied, "According to my guess, the two young masters have been detained in Jizhou since they were captured. Now it must be the son of the Han family for To eradicate the power of the Yuan family, and specially send the two of them back to fight for power."

"Struggle for power, what power are you fighting for?" Mrs. Liu was stunned for a moment about the trial and match, and then she understood: "Mr. Zhengnan said that Xiansi and Xianyi came to Nanpi for the sake of the monk. Do you want to compete for the position of prefect of Bohai?"

"exactly!"

Madam Liu became a little anxious, and said to Yuan Shang: "Shang'er, order people to close the city gate immediately, and they must be kept out of the city, and they must not be allowed to enter Nanpi."

"Ma'am," Shen Pei waited for Madam Liu to finish speaking, and said unhurriedly: "It may not help to close the door. There are big prince's confidantes in the city, even if we close the city gate, they may still enter the city. That being the case, why don't we act magnanimously and let them enter the city without any harm."

"Mr. Zhengnan's words are wrong." Hearing what Shenpei said, Madam Liu showed a displeasure expression: "If Xiansi and Xianyi came here for the position of prefect of Bohai Sea, then Shang'er It is inevitable that there will be fear for life.”

"What Madam said is very true. If one of the two young masters wins the position of the prefect of Bohai Sea, then Mr. Shang will inevitably have his life in danger." Shen Pei continued: "Therefore, we must find a way to divide them so that The two are in conflict. In this way, Mr. Shang can sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. Wait until the two sides fight to lose both sides before making a move, then Bohai County will be as stable as Mount Tai."

"Divide them?" Mrs. Liu was lost in thought about the trial and match, and she said to herself: "Xiansi and Xianyi have always had a bad relationship, and now they can come to Nanpi together. It may be because they have been in prison for a long time and have to put aside their grievances temporarily. But once they return to a safe place, given time, they will fight again."

Seeing that Mrs. Liu's analysis was almost the same as what he had expected, the judge hurriedly bowed deeply and said, "Madam, there are the old subordinates and confidantes of the eldest son Yuan Tan in the city, and there are soldiers from Jizhou to help him. The second son Yuan Xi has no power and no soldiers, even if he is allowed to sit in the prefect position, he will not be stable. Therefore, the subordinates think that we should try to win the second son over and deal with the eldest son together .As long as you get rid of the eldest son, and then turn around to deal with the second son, it will be as easy as pie."

"Mr. Zhengnan," Mrs. Liu felt that there was some truth in the argument of the trial match, so she asked curiously: "I wonder how we can win over Xianyi?"

"Madam, as far as I know, the second son has always been respectful and respectful to you." In order to win over Yuan Xi and get rid of Yuan Tan, the trial matchmaker began to advise Madam Liu: "After the two sons enter the city, Madam You might as well recruit the Second Young Master into the mansion to talk. The name is to inquire about the whereabouts of the Lord, and secretly win him over. As long as the Second Young Master is willing to fight to our side, then many people in the city will fall to us, and we will get rid of him like that. The Eldest Young Master is even more confident."

Mrs. Liu felt that the proposal of interrogation was somewhat reasonable, so she nodded in agreement: ""

Yuan Shang felt that it would be difficult to convince his mother, Mrs. Liu, by himself, so he rushed to the back hall to meet Mrs. Liu with the judge.