Chapter 323: Three Emperors on the Same Day
As soon as Liu Zhang gave the order, the First Field Corps immediately began intense preparations, and three days later, Gong Du's Fourth Division left Chang'an as the advance team of the First Field Corps and headed for Nanyang.
Seven days later, Luoyang sent a decree to the emperor, ordering Liu Zhang to conquer Yuan Shu to correct the dynasty. Liu Zhang gladly obeyed, ordered Xu Huang and Wei Yan to lead the main force of the First Field Army to go straight to Nanyang, and at the same time ordered Jingzhou Assassin Shi Kuai Yue to ensure that the army's army had sufficient food, grass, equipment and medicine.
Ten days after Xu Huang and Wei Yan led their troops to leave, Liu Zhang got the news that surprised him - Yuan Shao actually plotted to establish Emperor Liu Biao!
After learning the news, Liu Zhang couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, what's wrong with these two brothers, they jumped into the fire pit one after another! Yuan Shu set himself up as the emperor at this time, and everyone knows that it is stupid, and Yuan Shao probably understands this, but since you also understand, then why do you want to set up a new emperor at this cusp? Well, although you didn't move your ass to the emperor's throne, how much better can this be than Yuan Shu?
Of course, Liu Zhang wouldn't really feel sorry for the Yuan brothers, he wished that the bigger the mistakes made by the two of them, the better, wouldn't it be easier for him to clean up?
"Liu Biao, although I hurt you and failed to become the pastor of Jingzhou, but I also made you addicted to the emperor by mistake, I think if you know the truth, you won't blame me!" Liu Zhang thought secretly.
On June 16, the fifth year of Xingping, a disappearance that shocked the world spread throughout the Han Dynasty. On this day, Yuan Shaofu Han Lugong King Liu Yu descendant Liu Biao as the emperor, changed Ye County to Ye Capital, set the capital in Ye, the country name is still Han, the year name is Jianxing, changed Xingping five years to the first year of Jianxing, and established Liu Biao's eldest son Liu Qi as the prince. After officially ascending the throne, Liu Biao immediately canonized Yuan Shao as the prime minister, concurrently led the general, and sealed the Duke of Wei (robbed Cao Cao's title, I don't know what name the new dynasty would give if the Cao family finally won the world), ordered him to take charge of the government, and at the same time rewarded Yuan Shao and his henchmen, with Xu You as Situ, trial as Sima, Guo Tu as Sikong, Chun Yuqiong as Ye Du Ling, Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan as Qingzhou Mu, Zhengdong General, Yuan Shao's second son Yuan Xi as Youzhou Mu, Zhengbei General, and Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan as the State Mu, Zhengxi General, Yuan Shao was honored as the prime minister and led the pastor of Jizhou...... It can be said that the entire Jianxing Han Kingdom is completely the private property of the Yuan Shao family, and the domestic military, political, and financial power are all firmly in the hands of Yuan Shao and his cronies, and he is the actual emperor of the Jianxing Han Kingdom!
After Yuan Shao accepted the canonization, he immediately sent a letter through the hand of Liu Biao, spread all over the world, the text declared that the emperor was a puppet emperor, when he plotted the throne, so he conspired with Dong Zhuo to kill the first emperor and then ascended to the throne, he encouraged all the people of the Han Dynasty to abandon Liu Xie, the puppet emperor, and return to orthodoxy, in order to show that what he said was true, he also claimed in the text that he had a young emperor in his hand before the collapse of the edict written in blood, the edict detailed Liu Xie's crimes, and ordered Yuan Shao after the fourth and third dukes to advocate volunteers, gather princes, and punish this madness, The one who killed his brother with his own hands...... At the end of the text, he asked Liu Zhang and Cao Cao to distinguish between right and wrong, not to be loyal to Liu Xie, and to form an alliance with him to fight against this national thief, and at the same time to make Lu Bu not obsessed, and quickly relieve Liu Xie to go to Yedu, if not, he will lead a large army to conquer Yunyun in person.
With Liu Biao succeeding to the throne, three emperors appeared in the land of the Han Dynasty at once, and the already turbulent situation became even more chaotic......
Liu Zhang received Yuan Shao's text, and after reading it, he smiled, and after circulating the Wenwu, he ordered someone to put it away, which can be one of the best evidence to prove Yuan Shao in the future. Liu Zhang then ordered Xun Yu to draft a document, indicating that all the soldiers and civilians of Shu only knew that there was only one emperor of the Han Dynasty, that is, the Emperor of Luoyang, who was the heir of Emperor Ling and the younger brother of the Young Emperor...... Ordered Yuan Shao to immediately get lost, abolish the Jianxing Han Kingdom, and go to Luoyang to ask Emperor Xian for his guilt, he will see that the Yuan family is a family of four generations and three dukes, and he has made great contributions to the Han family to ask Emperor Xian, if Yuan Shao is wrong again and again, he, as a Han minister, will definitely not sit idly by......
Although Liu Zhang fought with Yuan Shaoda, he did not strengthen the troops of the state, which made everyone in the world understand that he had no intention of fighting with Yuan Shaoda for the time being.
Cao Cao hesitated a little after receiving Yuan Shao's inscription, the preparations for the crusade against Yuan Shu were ready, and the holy decree to send troops to the emperor had also been obtained in his hands, and he could send troops at any time, but at this time, Liu Biao was proclaimed emperor. Don't think that Liu Biao's emperor has nothing to do with his crusade against Yuan Shu, in fact, it is very wrong, the reason why Cao Cao dared to send troops to crusade against Yuan Shu is that he thinks that he occupies the name of righteousness, even if the empty rear is exposed to Yuan Shao's soldiers, Yuan Shao, who is also a Han Chen, is unlikely to be his enemy at this time, but now that Yuan Shao has helped Liu Biao to ascend the throne, he will naturally no longer put the young emperor of Luoyang in his eyes, Yuan Shao can slander him and Lu Bu as the "puppet emperor" of the same party, and take advantage of the situation when Cao Cao crusaded against Yuan Shu...... With Liu Biao, the Jianxing Emperor, as a fig leaf, it is easy to confuse the ignorant people, and Yuan Shao's reputation will not be hit hard.
Cao Cao was almost certain that Yuan Shao would do this, very simply, after Yuan Shao supported Liu Biao to ascend to the throne, there was actually no way out. If Yuan Shao did not support Liu Biao, even if he failed in the struggle for hegemony, he might be able to give up his rights, not ask about the world, and live the rest of his life in prosperity and peace. But after Yuan Shao helped Liu Biao ascend the throne, it was completely different, in this case, once Yuan Shao failed and was captured, it was a thief of the Han Dynasty, no one dared or had any reason to let him continue to live in the world, so Yuan Shao must always remain strong, continue to win victories, and let Emperor Jianxing, or the Yuan family always become a hegemon, in this case, how could Yuan Shao miss this excellent opportunity to eliminate him?
However, if he does not send troops at this time, once Yuan Shu is defeated by Liu Zhang, Cao Cao will face Yuan Shao and Liu Zhang, and he will completely lose his living space......
Cao Cao, who didn't know that Xun Yu and the other five strategists were all absorbed by Liu Zhang, couldn't help but feel a little headache, and it seemed like a luxury to find someone to help with advice. Now the only people he can rely on are Han Hao and others, but Han Hao is good at governance, and he is not proficient in military strategy, so he can't help much.
"Alas...... Liu Jiyu is so lucky, all the heroes in the world are in his hands......" Thinking of Liu Zhang's advisers like rain, he couldn't help but sigh with seven points of envy and three points of jealousy, and after sighing, he still had to rely on himself to solve the trouble in front of him.
After thinking about it for a long time, Cao Cao finally found a way, or he could temporarily stabilize Yuan Shao, that is, to send his son as a hostage!
Cao Cao was an unusually resolute man, and since he had made up his mind, he did not delay it, and immediately put it into practice, and soon a delegation set out to cross the river to meet Yuan Shao, and at the same time ordered the army to assemble and stand by, and it must be able to set off as soon as the military order arrived.
Speaking of Shouchun Yuan Shu, a few months of emperor life has greatly satisfied his vanity, whenever others kneel in front of him and shout long live, he always feels that the first half of his life has really been in vain, he knew that the feeling of being an emperor is so wonderful, he swore that he would not wait until now. However, in the midst of the flattery, there was bad news - Liu Zhang, the king of Shu, was gathering an army and plotting to attack Dacheng.
Yuan Shu scolded Liu Zhang in his magnificent palace, scolding him for having nothing to do, you are your king of Shu, I am my emperor of the Zhong family, isn't it good for everyone to have well water and river water? scolded him for not knowing practice, and he was so bold that he was guilty of chaos......
On this day, in Shouchun's palace, the roar sounded for half an hour, but unfortunately Yuan Shu couldn't scold the hundreds of thousands of troops of Shu even if he scolded his throat, since you Liu Zhang didn't let me be the emperor comfortably, I will destroy you! Yuan Shu then summoned Prime Minister Yang Hong, General Zhang Xun, and General Lei Bo into the palace, and ordered Zhang Xun to lead 120,000 troops to Runan to resist Xu Huang, and ordered Lei Bo to lead 85,000 troops to Hefei to resist Lusu, and ordered Yang Hong to recruit new soldiers and forcibly levy food in Huainan to meet the needs of the battlefield.
All of a sudden, the people in the entire Yuan Shu Territory who had already bent down under the weight of heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes suddenly felt miserable......