This fellow had a remarkable knack for staying alive, outliving several generations of the Cao family.
Didn't he want to bend his back to the task until his last breath? Then he could shine and burn while serving the Great Han with all his loyalty.
Ideally, like Zhuge Liang, he would work himself to death.
If he died ten or twenty years early that way, granting him the posthumous title Wenzhong would not be out of the question.
With official business concluded, the ministers took their leave.
Liu Xie took Ju Shou's farewell letter from inside his robes and read it over and over.
He checked whether Ju Shou had slipped anything into it to secretly inform Yuan Shao of the various arrangements on his side.
Fortunately, Ju Shou had not tried to stab him in the back. There was nothing wrong with the letter's contents.
In essence, it said that Yuan Shao was certain to lose and urged him to surrender, or else the entire Yuan Clan would be implicated.
Only after reading the letter more than ten times did Liu Xie finally feel completely reassured.
Then he personally wrote another letter and sent it to Yuan Shao along with Ju Shou's letter urging surrender.
Hejian Commandery.
Yuan Shao had barely returned to Lecheng County after his panicked flight when another piece of bad news arrived.
Tian Feng handed him a battle report and said gravely, "My lord, somehow Gongsun Zan learned that Hejian was poorly defended. After you left, he gathered all his forces and launched a fierce assault. His army has now advanced to Jieqiao."
"Furthermore, General Yan Liang fell for a lure and was wounded by Zhao Yun, losing three thousand men. Had the eldest young lord not arrived in time with the Qing Province