"I can, but it's not something the current lord can eat!”
It was a pity.
If only he had followed Liu Bei a few years earlier.
Perhaps he could really eat it.
But now, the surrounding dukes had already become powerful.
They would definitely not watch Liu Bei take over Xuzhou.
Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shao.
Although Yuan Shao was currently dealing with Gongsun Zan.
However, he knew very well that Yuan Shao would not give up Xuzhou.
"This is a place of war. If you want to conquer Xu Prefecture, you must first have soldiers. My lord, you don't have to worry about this. If you take down Xu Prefecture, you will have soldiers, but the most important thing is cavalry. Without cavalry, most of Xu Prefecture is flat land.”
Most of Liu Bei's subordinates were infantry.
In this era, there were very few cavalry.
The main reason was that there were too few horses.
The Central Plains was not suitable for raising horses.
Most of the horses were bought from the grasslands and the Western Regions.
However, very few of them fell into Liu Bei's hands.
"Advisor Jun, please tell me the way out!"
After Liu Bei finished speaking, he bowed to White Night.
After listening to Bai Ye's words, he also understood very well that the only way out at this time was to listen to Bai Ye.
He regretted it!
He regretted not accepting White Night first. Otherwise, he would not have fallen into such a situation.
"My liege, you don't have to worry too much. The reason why you are lagging behind others is only because of two things.”
"Please speak, Military Advisor!"
Liu Bei said excitedly.
He had been reflecting on why there was such a huge gap between him and the other dukedoms.
In the end.
Liu Bei did not even realize what his problem was.
How could he not be excited when Bai Ye said so today!？
"First of all, my lord's background is low. Without the support of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, and the others, he is despised by the aristocratic families and is at a disadvantage in the competition for high-level talents.
Although the lord had powerful generals like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, he did not have any high-level intellectual talents to assist him.
The crux of the imbalance between civil and military subordinates had always troubled Liu Bei's group.
Under the circumstances where Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were like rain, Liu Bei's lack of his own high-level think tank became even more prominent.
Secondly, the personality of the lord's power group.
A corporation had its own personality, which was mainly determined by the personality of its chief officer.
The lord was born as a commoner and was skilled at winning over the hearts of the people and selecting generals from the grassroots.
However, the lord's power and the aristocratic families had a mutually exclusive attitude.
Among them, General Guan's performance was the best.
This caused the scholar-bureaucrats to flee from Liu Bei, seriously affecting the lord's hegemony.”
Although scholar-bureaucrats were abominable, you had no choice but to use them.
It wasn't until Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage three times and invited Zhuge Liang out that he had his own senior aides and formed his own complete team to fight for the world.
However, the consequences of underestimating the scholar-bureaucrats were left behind.
Furthermore, during the chaotic battles in the Central Plains, Liu Bei had never been able to establish a stable base of his own.
Because Liu Bei was too high-profile, he could not bow down to others, causing him to become the target of all the sects.
He did not pay much attention to the construction of the base. Under the circumstances at that time, he could not consciously and purposefully find and establish his own base.
Choosing to establish a foothold in Xuzhou, where it was impossible to establish a base, was a mistake.
When their base was easily taken away, they acted as if they didn't care at all and treated wandering as a norm.
All of this caused Liu Bei to be expelled from the Central Plains and forced to go south to rely on Liu Biao.
He had missed many opportunities.
Bai Ye felt that it was not impossible to choose Xuzhou as his base.
The main reason was that Liu Bei could not do it.
Lu Bu, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, and even Yuan Shao wanted to kick him for choosing this place.
"The art of war says that the best strategy is to use troops to attack strategy, followed by attacking allies, then attacking the army, and finally attacking the city. Now that my lord is facing Cao Cao, you can temporarily use Xu Prefecture as your base, but you don't have to use Xu Prefecture as your base!”
"Is there a difference between the two?"
"The difference is that the former will be used as a temporary base for us to leave at any time, while the former will definitely be used to cultivate our forces here. The former has a certain degree of flexibility. Once there are changes, we can stay in Xu Prefecture and not move.”
"Where are we going?"
"River East or Western Liang!"
Now, the situation in the north had already taken shape.
Unless it was the Battle of Guandu, Liu Bei would not be able to break the balance.
River East and Western Liang were obviously good choices.
How could the fertile land of Jiangdong fall into Biyan's hands?
After Dong Zhuo's death, Western Liang had fallen into a long period of chaos.
Although Ma Teng and Han Sui were controlling it, the pressure was relatively small.
Moreover, Western Liang had a strong army. If they took Guanzhong and Hanzhong, then Yizhou, they could imitate Liu Bang's rebellion!
Seeing that Liu Bei was deep in thought, Bai Ye smiled and comforted him, saying,""My lord, actually, we don't have to leave Xuzhou. My lord, I have a plan that can allow you to obtain huge benefits even if you can't take Xuzhou!”
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