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Song-Ming -> Romance of the Three Kingdoms -> Shunning Advice, Yuan Shao Loses Leaders and Granaries; Using Strategy, Cao Cao Scores Victory At Guandu -> 19.1

沮授袁绍:“!”袁绍沮授:“曹操。”:“!”:“!”沮授:“!”Ju Shou, still a prisoner in Yuan Shao's camp, saw the stars were very brilliant and told his gaolers to conduct him out to the central pavilion whence he could study them. While watching he saw the planet Venus invade the quarter of the Bear and Lyra, which startled him very greatly. "Some misfortune is near!" said Ju Shou. So although it was still night, he went to see his master. But Yuan Shao was sleeping after indulgence in too much wine and was in bad humor. However, when they had roused him saying that the prisoner had a secret message to deliver, he got up. "While I happened to be studying the aspect of the heavens," said the night visitor, "I saw Venus, then between Hydra and Cancer, suddenly shoot into the neighborhood of the Bear and Lyra. There is danger of a robber raid, and special precautions must be taken at the grain depot. Lose no time in sending good soldiers and vigorous leaders thither, and keep a lookout on the byways among the hills that you may escape the wiles of Cao Cao." "You are a criminal!" said Yuan Shao. "How dare you come with such wild nonsense to upset my armies." And turning to the gaolers Yuan Shao continued, "I bade you confine him. Why did you let him come?" Then he issued orders to put the gaolers to death and appointed others to keep the prisoner in close custody. Ju Shou went away, wiping his falling tears and sighing deeply, "Our soldiers' destruction is at hand, and I know not where our poor corpses may find a resting place."


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