Chapter 165: Yuan Shu's Pride

Yuan Shu felt that the whole world had become brighter since Lu Bu took refuge in him. His courage, which was not too big, swelled up as if he had hot air after Lu Bu arrived. He even planned to avenge Sun Jian's death all at once.

With the jade seal in hand, the fierce generals by the side, and the prosperous land of the Central Plains, with hundreds of thousands of elite veterans, Yuan Shu thought: is this not God wanting him to rise? If he does not take it, he will be punished by God!

However, Yuan Shu is still a very loyal person. If he agreed not to rob you of Sun Ce's jade seal, then he would not rob him. But Yuan Shu doesn't know why he always thinks this kid is too handsome when he sees Sun Ce. He felt that his own son was too cowardly.

"Sun Ce, be my son." Yuan Shu passed by Sun's residence, saw Sun Ce who was practicing martial arts in front of the hall, and began to persuade him, "My son does not really live up to expectations, you can be my son."

Sun Ce was speechless. He doesn't understand why Yuan Shu wanted to recognize him as his son every time he sees him...

[Ignore it.] Sun Ce pretended that he doesn't hear it at all, and he could see that Yuan Shu doesn't have any bad thoughts about the Sun family. Huang Gai and others have already confirmed this.

Yuan Shu had seen the jade seal in the hands of the Sun family. Although he was intoxicated and had greed in his eyes, he resisted and left without saying a word. Even Huang Gai and others were amazed by this. People sometimes do shitty things, but it is undeniable that one who does what they say can be regarded as a hero.

"Alas, when will my son be like you. I'll die without any regrets at that time. You continue to practice martial arts, Sun Ce. In two days, uncle will take you to clean up that Liu guy!" Yuan Shu said. He was fond of Sun Ce, and Liu Biao is no longer known called by his full name but is called by his first name to show contempt.

"What!" Sun Ce was startled, he turned around and asked.

"Avenge your father, I said it!" Yuan Shu laughed loudly, "Train well, then I will give you three thousand soldiers and horses as a vanguard. By the way, you can use my name to find Lu Bu. He is now in Runan, you can ask him to give you some pointers. He is worthy of being the number one general in the world. After Hulao Pass, he made another breakthrough, and he became stronger after his defeat, tsk tsk tsk!"

After saying that, Yuan Shu left with a smile . . Then Zhou Yu stood up from behind the main hall door, "Sun Ce, your chance has come!"

"After waiting for so long, I must kill Liu Biao!" Sun Ce slashed across the rockery on the courtyard and divided it into two parts, "I have finally reached the point of refining qi into liquid. Once at the peak, I will have touched the level of internal qi air separation from the body. I want to avenge my father!"

"I will be your advisor at that time." Zhou Yu said with a smile, "I am already seventeen years old, and there should be a seat for me in this world."

"I will definitely have you as my advisor. But Zhou Yu, why do you hide when you see Uncle Yuan Shu recently?" Sun Ce asked curiously, Zhou Yu had been hiding from Yuan Shu recently. Zhou Yu always appeared in a big way before.

"He wants me to be his adopted son..." Zhou Yu said in a very helpless tone, "He seems to be very interested in me."

Zhou Yu and Sun Ce looked at each other and sighed. Then they both saw the other party's expression and suddenly burst into laughter.

"Although I don't want to admit it, Yuan Shu is really a loyal person, but sometimes it's easy to be bewitched by others and do things without thinking. If it is always suppressed, he may show heroic color. If it can not be suppressed, he is very likely to explode and become a big problem." Zhou Yu thought about what Yuan Shu had done and said with some emotion.

"Yeah, before I came, I thought about using Jade Seal for shelter, but I didn't expect my uncle to say nothing." Sun Ce also smiled bitterly and said. He was also a loyal person.

When Sun Ce came to Runan, Yuan Shu had never cheated the Sun family, and he even protected the Sun family and expressed his willingness to avenge Sun Jian. He also never treated the Sun family badly. Sun Ce can be said to be grateful to Yuan Shu, and a loyal man can't do things like treason for kindness.

Sun Ce has already thought about it. After his father's revenge is done, as long as Yuan Shu treats him and his family as before, he doesn't mind working for Yuan Shu. As for the matter of being a foster father, it is not unbearable. It's better to be close, and with him there, he can better protect the Sun family. As for the great cause of the world, Sun Ce has not thought about it.

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"Reporting, lord. Jingzhou has news. All the senior officials in Jingzhou are drunk because they accompany Liu Yan, a celebrity from Yuzhou, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to handle government affairs for five days!" Yan Xiang bowed and said loudly.

"Huh?" This news directly scare Yuan Shu, "Yan Xiang, are you sure there is no problem with this information?"

"Lord, you should hurriedly send troops. There is not such a good opportunity if you miss it this time!" Although Yan Xiang is not a top advisor, he also knows that if the soldiers are very fast, especially in this situation, the war will be won, especially now that Lu Bu is joining, the ability to break the formation is invincible!

"Okay!" Yuan Shu said with great joy.

Speaking of which, Yuan Shu is not arrogant yet, nor does he think that destiny is on his body. Although he occasionally does some mindless things, his own reputation and the glory of his family make him disdain to exploit his people.

To be precise, Yuan Shu didn't care about the people at all. So although Yuan Shu was ridiculed and inactive in Yuzhou, the entire Yuzhou was wealthy and the people still loved Yuan Shu. After all, he was an official who did not exploit the people for decades, which was rare.

Originally with Yuan Shu's situation, if nothing was done in the disaster year, people would be dying, but the disaster year could not overcome Yuzhou's good harvest every year, so Yuan Shu's inaction resulted in nothing happening. The lower-level people did not care about Yuan Shu and they were very satisfied.

After all, as long as Yuan Shu does not raise taxes, then the whole Yuzhou will not have the possibility of tax increase. As long as Yuan Shu increases taxes, the official below will be able to do many extortionate taxes and miscellaneous taxes. So the current situation is very strange, many officials in Yuzhou secretly scolded Yuan Shu for doing nothing, but the people of Yuzhou were well-fed.

Yuan Shu disdains to communicate with the people at the lowest level, let alone exploit them. Yuan Shu's pride is most vividly shown in the governance of Yuzhou. In Yuan Shu's opinion, officials in Yuzhou are all disciples and former members of his Yuan family. Who dares to mess around? He is the Yuan family's direct son and has many ways to clean them up!

Because of this, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Zhang Zhao, and other famous officials all felt that Yuan Shu would become arrogant if he ever had a victory, but they also recognized that Yuan Shu, who had just entered Yuzhou, was indeed a hero. And with the power of the Yuan family in Yuzhou and the solid foundation of Yuzhou, as long as the weather in Yuzhou is good and every year is a good harvest, then even if Yuan Shu becomes arrogant, it will be very difficult to defeat Yuan Shu.

In other words, Yuan Shu's current situation of being defeated or not depends on the weather. If the weather is good, Cao Cao and others will only have a dead-end no matter how hard they struggle. Yuan Shu no longer needs to plan and strategize. It's a pity that the weather is unreliable.