Chapter 466 The General is worried about suffering

Looking at the empty and vast mansion, Yuan Shao said thoughtfully: "Money and food are the key to its own development and growth!

If you don’t have money and food, what can you do if you have hundreds of thousands of soldiers? Just like Li Li of Xiliang. This son has 400,000 troops, and most of them are Xiliang cavalry. His combat power is so strong that no prince in the world can compete with him.

However, Xiliang has been a place where barbarians have been rampant and a place where long-term wars have occurred. All the prefectures and counties under their jurisdiction have been affected by wars for a long time, the people have been displaced, the money and food have been exhausted, the land is barren and poor, and the difficulties have been overwhelmed.

Because of this, even though Li Li had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, he could only stay in a corner. He watched the Central Plains' prefectures and counties have a fertile land of thousands of miles, sufficient money and food, but no food supply, and no food supply to go out. Therefore, when we sent troops to attack the cities and camps, Li Li could only sit in Xiliang and sigh, and was unable to rush his troops to advance eastward.

If Li Li of Xiliang meets a wealthy family like the Zhongshan Zhen family, I am afraid that he will take the Zhen family into his pocket no matter what, and even sends troops to rob it. It’s a pity that the Zhang Zhen family is far away from Zhongshan, Jizhou, and is too far from Xiliang. Perhaps Li Li has never heard of the name of the Zhen family. Otherwise, once Li Li can get the support of a large consortium like the Zhen family, he will have the ability to launch a large army to advance the Central Plains in the short term. With the strong financial resources of the Zhen family, the Xiliang army can be at least for three to six months. If this is true, the situation in the world will change greatly, and our Jizhou, Yanzhou, Cao Cao, Hanoi and Zhang Yang will definitely be the first to bear the brunt of the enemy. And forces such as Chenliu, Zhang Miao, Lu Bu, and Yuan Shu in Jiyin, will find it difficult to survive alone."

Just when Yuan Shao said this, in addition to Guo Tu and Yan Liang who were following him, there was another person who also heard this in the corner of the wall dozens of steps away from the three of them.

It was Yuan Shao's words that made the visitor who had reported to him a big deal suddenly stop, and then hid in the corner of the wall and hesitated and repeatedly considered whether he would tell Yuan Shao about the major discovery he had just seized.

Time went back half an hour ago.

Just as Yuan Shao, Guo Tu and Yan Liang rode their horses to inspect the backyard of Zhen Mansion, Wen Chou and Ju Yi were ordered to lead their troops to search the front yard and the intermediate court one by one, and Wen Chou was responsible for the intermediate court. Ju Yi led his confidant troops to search the front yard.

The front yard of Zhen Mansion is not just a row of houses. As mentioned in the previous article, the front yard has six courtyards and hundreds of houses.

Ju Yi ordered his subordinates to search the front yard three times in front of the front yard, one by one, and even the corners of the walls were not spared. He himself led more than 600 confidants to search the front yard three times in front of the front yard.

Since most of the valuable utensils in the houses have been moved away by the Zhen family, each room is very messy and it is time-consuming and laborious to search. Therefore, just searching the three-enterprise courtyards made Ju Yi’s three thousand soldiers in front of and behind the house, and the walls upstairs, and they were exhausted, but they found nothing.

Just when Ju Yi thought there was no need to continue searching and was about to order the troops to withdraw, his subordinates searched for the fifth person to enter the house, but suddenly ran to report to him that they found important clues in the miscellaneous room in the northwest corner of the yard.

Then Ju Yi quickly came to the miscellaneous room. Under the guidance of his personal soldiers, he saw a valuable jade pendant and a blood-soaked brocade robe on the ground under the corner of the west wall in the room.

The moment he saw the jade pendant, Ju Yi felt that the jade looked familiar and seemed to have seen it somewhere. He immediately squatted in the corner of the wall and looked at the jade pendant in his hand. But he couldn't remember when he had seen it and who he saw it on. So he picked up the blood cloth soaked in blood on the ground, hoping to find something on this rag, but unfortunately there was nothing on it, only red blood stains, and nothing else.

However, just as Ju Yi stood up in disappointment, he accidentally caught a line of blood on the ground where he had just picked up the blood cloth. This was a bloody character written by someone dipped his hand in the blood on his body. The handwriting was very clear, and every stroke was clear. Obviously, there was enough blood, and it was definitely not written by biting his finger.

When he squatted down to check again, a few blood words on the bluestone slab suddenly came into Ju Yi's eyes: "Zheng Feng is Li Li of Xiliang, and the Zhen family has already surrendered, so he will go to the next day." There are two small and vague characters under the lines. Obviously, the person who wrote the blood words was worried about being discovered, but he was afraid that his people would not know who wrote it after seeing it, so he left his name: "Feng Ji."

"Ah!" The moment he saw this line of blood, Ju Yi exclaimed in surprise and was stunned, but was immediately awakened by the footsteps surrounding his personal soldiers.

Seeing that the personal soldiers were walking towards him, Ju Yi almost subconsciously stood up straight, stepped on the blood words left by Feng Ji, and waved to the personal soldiers with a solemn face: "There is nothing here. Go to other rooms to see and close the door when you go out!"

After the soldiers left, Ju Yi walked to the door with great caution and listened to the footsteps outside the door. Until he was sure that no one was approaching the debris room, he turned around and walked to the corner of the wall, squatting in the corner, staring straight at the blood words on the ground, staring at the bloody words on the ground in a daze.

At this time, Ju Yi already knew who the jade pendant in his hand was. It goes without saying that this piece of jade belonged to Feng Ji. However, this is not a jade pendant, but an ornament on Feng Ji's belt, which shows his identity.

The blood stains and blood cloth on the corners of the wall were also left by Feng Ji, which shows that he was detained in a miscellaneous room and beaten with blood flowing, so that blood stains were splattered everywhere on the corners of the wall and on the ground.

In addition, Ju Yi also saw a large blood stain on the corner of the west side not far away, which was more blood than the corner of the east side of Feng Ji Liu, and it splashed the blood stains on the wall, which was shocking. Without thinking, Ju Yi knew that the blood stains on the corner of the west side were left by Yuan Xi. Previously, Yuan Xi and Feng Ji were both detained here and were whipped, causing blood to splatter on the wall, which attracted the attention of the personal soldiers and reported to him and found clues.

In fact, the moment Ju Yi saw the blood word, he immediately thought that the day before yesterday, Yuan Xi and Feng Ji wanted to kill Zheng Feng, uh, it should be Li Li! Just because Yuan, Feng and Feng wanted to kill Li Li in Xiliang were almost whimsical, and it was impossible to succeed; even if they had hundreds of soldiers and a thousand soldiers stationed in the four gates, all of them could not kill Li Li together.

Who is Li Li in Xiliang? He was the commander of the Xiliang army who had been through many battles and was invincible. In just half a year, he rose rapidly in Liangzhou's long-term war. Then he became uncontrollable and annexed the Xiliang army left by Dong Zhuo. Then he swept across the Yongliang two prefectures, ending the Xiliang two prefectures that had suffered a hundred years of war. Such a powerful overlord of Xiliang could not be killed by Yuan Xi and Feng Ji and more than a thousand soldiers. Even if Li Li sneaked into the Zhen family in Zhongshan alone, they were not able to deal with it.

What's more, Li Li, the commander of the Western Liang army, had 400,000 troops, with many powerful generals under his command, and many elite soldiers and powerful generals. How could such a high-powered person not bring his entourage and sneak into Jizhou alone when he traveled?

Therefore, seeing all this in front of Ju Yi's eyes was taken for granted. It was not difficult for him to imagine that after he took his personal soldiers away that day, Yuan Xi and Feng Ji and 1,500 soldiers were not able to kill Li Li, but were all killed by Li Li's subordinates lurking around him. Yuan and Feng were captured by Li Li and imprisoned in the miscellaneous room in the front yard of Zhen Mansion. Perhaps, at this time, the two had been killed by Li Li long ago, and their bodies were dragged to the place where they were buried.

After sorting out his thoughts, Ju Yi suddenly remembered what Li Li said to him the day before yesterday, and immediately thought of the true purpose of Li Li's words.

Li Li's words were said to Ju Yi, and every word was a gem. There was no false statement, which was a good word. However, the reason why Li Li said this to him was not aimless. On the contrary, Li Li wanted him to be suspicious of Yuan Shao, Yuan Xi and his son, which prompted him to turn around and leave Wuji City in anger.

It is obvious that Li Li knew Ju Yi very well. He saw his thoughts thoroughly, and he hit Ju Yi's thoughts in every word and sentence, and successfully forced Ju Yi away. After Ju Yi left, Yuan Xi and Feng Ji had more than a thousand elite soldiers, but no generals were in command of the battle. So, even if a group of wolves led by the head wolves was not weak in combat, what's the use? It's not much different from a group of sheep.

After fully communicating the whole story, Ju Yi couldn't help but exclaim from the heart: "Li Wenchang, Xiliang, is indeed well-known, has perfect calculations, is clever and cunning, and is also cruel and ruthless!"

Indeed, Ju Yi had experienced Li Li's ruthless measures in his body.

Now the Zhen family has joined Li Li, and the clan has moved away. Yuan Xi, Feng Ji and more than a thousand Yuan Shao's personal soldiers who followed them are all killed by Li Li. In this way, Li Li patted his butt and left, but put him Ju Yi in. The day before yesterday, he followed Yuan Xi to Wuji City to protect Yuan Xi and Feng Ji, and also had the task of investigating the truth of the Zhen family. After he returned to the camp in anger, he told Yuan Shao that the Zhen family had no unfair intentions and everything was normal. As a result, everything was abnormal. Yuan Xi and Feng Ji were unknown in life and death, and the Zhen family was dependent on Li Li, and now they did not know where to go. The most important thing is that he met Li Li head-on with Xiliang head-on, and not only did not take action, but Li Li escaped calmly.

If Yuan Shao learned the details of these things, how could Ju Yi deal with it and how would he explain to Yuan Shao? No matter how generous Yuan Shao is, he will inevitably suspect that he secretly colluded with Li Li, deliberately concealed the truth, covered the Zhen family's evacuation from Jizhou, and also designed to frame Yuan Xi, Feng Ji and more than a thousand personal soldiers and soldiers lost their lives. This is why Yuan Shao was generous and tolerant.

In fact, Yuan Shao was not generous at all, but he was suspicious. It was difficult to have absolute trust in his generals; even Yan Liang and Wen Chou, who he trusted the most, were no exception.

Therefore, once Yuan Shao learned that Zhen's "cousin Zheng Feng" was Li Li of Xiliang, and the Zhen family still relied on Li Li and fled to Xiliang with Li Li. It would be fine if Yuan Shao captured or killed Li Li. If he could not catch Li Li and could not find the Zhen family, Ju Yi would take the blame! Yuan Shao would never let him go, and would even pile on him the pain of losing his son and all the blame and anger. In this way, his life would be difficult to protect, either leading the crowd to rebel or waiting for death.

"Li Li, Li Li, you have made me Ju Yi suffer. You are forcing me to the dead end!" After clarifying the interests, Ju Yi murmured in a bitter voice.

At this moment, Ju Yi, who knew the truth, felt bitter inside. He was really bitter and could not cry even if he wanted to cry!

The most terrible thing is that the more Ju Yi tells this matter, the more he can't explain it clearly, and the more he says he is more suspicious. Because he has already told Yuan Shao everything he shouldn't have to say; he also did what he shouldn't have to do when facing Li Li, and many people can testify. In this case, according to the truth, if Yuan Shao does not suspect that he secretly colluded with Li Li, it means that Yuan Shao has a problem with his brain.

Who would have thought that Ju Yi had a problem with such an obvious thing?

Another thing that made Ju Yi difficult to say was that Li Li said to him. He could only keep it in his heart. As long as he was still working under Yuan Shao's account, he had to keep his mouth shut and could not say to anyone, let alone to Yuan Shao. So, if Yuan Shao asked what Ju Yi and Li Li said to him, and what Li Li said to him prompted him to leave on the spot, then he was speechless. Even if he wanted to make up a convincing lie, it was not easy. Because Li Li's words only worked for him, Ju Yi, and were of no use to others.

I can't even tell the truth, this is Ju Yi's most helpless and painful thing.

If he can't tell the truth, what should he do?

Li Li of Xiliang appeared in Jizhou. You can't hide such a horrifying thing from being reported, right?

Ju Yi even felt lucky, thinking that if he took the initiative to report this to Yuan Shao, but he concealed other discoveries, such as the blood in the miscellaneous room and Feng Ji's name. In this way, would Yuan Shao not suspect that he and Li Li had secretly colluded?

After making up his mind, Ju Yi went to the backyard alone, preparing to report the matter to Yuan Shao. However, as soon as he walked to the dark corner of the wall, he heard Yuan Shao talk about the importance of money and food in troubled times, and then talked about what would happen if Li Li got the support of the Zhen family consortium. It was revealed between the lines that Yuan Shao was very afraid of Li Li and attached great importance to the Zhen family.

For a moment, Ju Yi stopped immediately, his mind was in chaos, and his idea that he had just made was shaken immediately.

"What if I can't find Li Li, I can't catch the Zhen family, and I can't find Yuan Xi, and the bodies of Feng Ji and the others? Then wouldn't I be lying about military affairs and make trouble, but I'm still flirting with it?" leaning against the dark corner of the wall, Ju Yi thought about it repeatedly and carefully considered it, but he was still unable to make up his mind.

At this moment, Ju Yi really wanted to curse himself. He was so worried that he wanted to die!

After fighting for more than ten years, he has never been as hesitant as he is today. This feeling is so painful!

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