Yuan Shao, who was pretending to be sick, turned his eyes, thought about it, and wanted not to accept the edict, but Kong Rong saw that Yuan Shao wanted to regret it again, so he was immediately furious, and scolded Yuan Shao again in the court.

Yuan Shao was angry and helpless in his heart, if it was in the past, if it was in the past, if it was an edict that he didn't want, he could have used his identity as the lord of Guan Xiang in a righteous and awe-inspiring manner, claiming that the Xiliang army of Dong Zhuo, Li Dao, Yan Xing and others was still holding the Son of Heaven hostage, and this edict was a chaotic fate, and he would never accept it.

But now that the Son of Heaven has been welcomed by Cao Cao, who is also one of the "party members", Yuan Shao can no longer use the previous high-sounding reasons to resist the edict, if he resists the edict, he will be nailed to various crimes on the edict, and he will tear his face with Cao Cao, and at the same time face the enemies of Kanto and Kansai, which is not what Yuan Shao wants to face now.

Yuan Shaosi had no good plan, and under Kong Rong's repeated urging, he could only take the edict head-on.

Kong Rong wanted to speak again, but Tian Feng, Xun Chen, Judge and a group of Hebei Wenchen could not let him say a word more, leaving only a few people to accompany Kong Rong, and the others claimed that Yuan Shao was seriously ill, and surrounded Yuan Shao as he quickly moved away from Kong Rong, who was about to be reprimanded loudly, trotted out of the lobby of the mansion and came to the wing of the back room.

"Sooner or later, Lone will kill this rotten man!"

As soon as he entered the inner room, Yuan Shao immediately broke free from the Wenchen who was holding him, where did he look a little sick, he angrily pulled out the saber on his body, and scolded loudly, frightening his Wenchen strategists to retreat.

It's just that Yuan Shang relied on Yuan Shao's doting, and got the hint of Yuan Shao's strategist Feng Ji, and hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and hugged Yuan Shao's thigh, who was about to go berserk, and begged Yuan Shao to calm his anger.

"The adult is angry, that Kong Rong Lao'er is just because his brother captured his wife and children, he is resentful, and he wants to take the opportunity to take revenge on the adult, so he has repeatedly spoken ill of each other, the adult should not be angry for this, how can this kind of rotten Confucianism be worth caring about by adults, as long as the adult gives an order, the child will rush into the hall now and chop up the Kong Rong Lao'er!"

Most of the Wenchen strategists present were wise and far-reaching people, and when they heard Yuan Shangmian's words, the corners of their eyes moved slightly, and they immediately glanced at Feng Ji, who was silent.

Yuan Shao, who was angry, heard Yuan Shang say that he was going to rush into the hall and chop Kong Rong's words, but he gradually calmed down, and then saw his son who was kneeling on the ground and begging to hug his thigh, and suddenly became doting, he quickly reached out and pulled his son up, and patted Yuan Shang's shoulder with pity.

"Ming Gong!" He coughed, interrupted Yuan Shang's further scheme, and said to Yuan Shao.

"Cao Cao welcomes the Son of Heaven, the situation is already very unfavorable to Hebei, through Kong Wenju today, there is such a trouble in the city today, and the Ming Duke has received the edict, the crowd is surging, the words are terrifying, and you have to plan early!"

Fu Zhu, Guo Tu and others also persuaded Yuan Shao to send troops to Hanoi and play the banner of welcoming the Son of Heaven, but Yuan Shao thought about it, but he was unwilling to listen, and only played the guise of rebellion, and he was afraid that Cao Cao would be the first to welcome the Son of Heaven's reminder, and he didn't care about it, and only wanted to take the opportunity to watch Sanhe and strengthen the power of Hebei.

Yuan Shao couldn't hear the slightly complaining tone, he was about to be accused of being a traitor now, and it was Kanto and Kansai who joined forces to force him, and he was reprimanded by Kong Rong just now, and he also had a stomach full of anger, so he immediately said with a straight face:

"Now that the matter has come to this, what do you say?"

Seeing Yuan Shao's question, Guo Tu, Xianbei, Feng Ji, Xu Yu and other strategists immediately began to make suggestions, some said that they would send envoys to negotiate with Cao Cao secretly, some said that they would stop using troops first, and some said that they would send people to Qingzhou to pick up Kong Rong's wife and children, so as to plug Kong Rong's stinky mouth.

Tian Feng was even more righteous and stern, telling Yuan Shao that at this time, as a courtier, he must first abide by the edict to cease the war and release people, so as to show the loyalty of Hebei to the world, and then show himself to the court, explain to the court that Hebei is loyal to the Han family, and block the mouth of the government and the opposition to attack Yuan Shao.

Guo Tu then added, this writing performance can be drafted by Geng Bao, Chen Lin and others, and then polished by them to ensure that Yuan Shao's table is self-presented, so that it is neither humble nor arrogant, so that the government and the opposition can not find a single fault.

Feng Ji said that after the above table is self-presented and the mouth of the people in the world is blocked, Cao Cao, Kong Rong and others must be looked good, and they can use the strategy of borrowing a knife to kill people to deal with Kong Rong.

Fu Zhu emphasized that since Yuan Shao let Cao Cao welcome the Son of Heaven, he should also suppress Cao Cao's momentum, and he could not use the name of the Son of Heaven to point fingers at Hebei.

Yuan Shao frowned, he had been listening to the various opinions of many Wenchen strategists, although he was unwilling, but he had to bow his head in the face of the facts, he was a little helpless, patted Yuan Shangjian's back, and said unwillingly:

"Let Zhong Jian lead the generals to retreat, and let Xiansi personally send people over, as for the above self-presentation, there is the rule of Lao Gong!"

After saying these few things, Yuan Shao, who was pretending to be sick, waved his hand tastelessly, and no longer listened to other people's opinions, let Yuan Shang support himself, and walked to the bed indoors.

Seeing Yuan Shao's behavior like this, he knew that Yuan Shao was really annoyed, and after looking at each other, he was ordered to retire one after another, although Tian Feng still wanted to speak out, but when he saw that everyone had retreated, he had no choice but to flick his sleeves, retreat and turn around, and go out of the inner room.

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In the next ten days, around the crimes of "building a party by oneself and conquering without authorization" that were reprimanded by the imperial court and caused unease among the people of Hebei, Hebei responded urgently and made corresponding rescue measures:

Externally, the army was sent to order the cavalry, and the order was ordered to Chun Yuqiong's army to collect troops, and no longer seek gaps to attack Hanoi County, and the recruited generals and craftsmen returned to the county, and Chun Yuqiong led the troops back to Yecheng.

sent Xin Ping to Qingzhou, and ordered Yuan Shao's eldest son, Yuan Tan, to drive quickly and personally send Kong Rong's wife and children back to Yecheng to plug Kong Rong's sharp mouth.

As for Gongsun Zhan's place, Yuan Shao still let Lu Yi and other troops encircle and confront him, as long as he did not add money, food, soldiers and horses to Lu Yi's command, it would be difficult for Lu Yi to attack, and Gongsun Zhan, who was in a slump, also made a desperate defense of Yi Jing, and the elite soldiers retreated in the narrow area between Zhuo County and Hejian State, avoiding the battle.

Temporarily stop the war, and show the people of the world that he has no contempt for the Son of Heaven and attack without authorization.

Internally, the exploits of the county officials and generals appointed by Yuan Shao privately over the years are pieced together, and it is bound to make a resume for Hebei to be promoted and knighted.

At the same time, the well-to-do scribes in Yuan Shao's mansion also worked hard to draw on the classics to jointly draft a self-presentation table for their lord's letter to the imperial court, trying to write a self-presentation form that was righteous and strict, neither humble nor arrogant, to protect Yuan Shao's great reputation and loyal image among the court and the opposition.

After being busy with these important internal and external matters and making himself invincible in front of public opinion, Yuan Shao personally copied from Chen Biao, and sent Xun Chen, Xu You and others to the Xu Capital Imperial Court on the same day to write to the imperial court and the Son of Heaven to defend himself.

The imperial court, which had just set the new capital, was excited after getting Yuan Shao's self-presentation, thinking that this was a big step in reshaping the authority of the Han family, and Cao Cao, as a general, was also happy to see it.

However, after reading Yuan Shao's self-presentation table, Cao Cao couldn't help frowning a little, since the content of the table, Yuan Shao cited three facts as arguments to prove that he was loyal to the Han family, and recently stopped fighting externally, and pieced together merits internally, refuting the government and the opposition to his unauthorized attack and self-cultivation of the party.

Although Cao Cao wanted to force Yuan Shao to admit that he assisted the court, he didn't want to be aggressive to Yuan Shao like Yan Xing did when he took advantage of the situation, and it was no good for Yuan Shao to tear his face and face him, and it was still what he had to do now to win over Yuan Shao.

Xu You is an old man, and when he saw Cao Cao in private, he naturally came with Yuan Shao's important mission.

As soon as Xu You opened his mouth, he reprimanded Cao Cao for betraying the alliance and colluding with the Guanxi rebels, and asked Cao Cao if he thought that with the Son of Heaven, he could be disrespectful to Yuan Shao, the master of Guanzhou, but he had forgotten that there was a crisis in Yanzhou three or four times, and who stood behind Cao Cao to help Cao Cao through the crisis.

Cao Cao slandered in his heart, Yuan Shao helped him make a comeback, borrowed troops and food to defend himself against strong enemies, but he also helped Yuan Shao resist Tian Kai and Liu Bei under Gongsun Zan on the flank battlefield, and defeated Yuan Shu and Tao Qian of Yuan Shu's camp, Montenegrin Army and other forces.

Since the two are allies and work together, the big ones should make a big effort, and the small ones can only make a small effort, which is unfair, this is an obvious truth, how can it be used as a reason for Yuan Shao to be a great favor to himself?

However, in the face of absolute strength, Cao Cao didn't want to argue with Xu You in private, but accepted the scolding with a smile, clarifying that the Yuan and Cao families are still allies, and it will not change whether they welcome the Son of Heaven or not.

Xu Yu didn't come to tear his face with Cao Cao, but to secretly spread Yuan Shao's order, and accepted it when he saw it, telling Cao Cao that Yuan Shao had an order, and since the two families were allies, Cao Cao hoped to find an opportunity to help him kill Yang Biao, Kong Rong, Liang Shao and other courtiers in order to express his sincerity.

Yang Biao is Yuan Shu's in-laws, Kong Rong has just scolded Yuan Shao, and Liang Shao heard that he also had a holiday with Yuan Shao before.

After hearing this, Cao Cao frowned, Yuan Shao seemed to want to take revenge, but in essence, he had a bad intention. The imperial court has just moved to Xudu, and it is the time when internal and external stability is needed, if he kills Yang Biao, Kong Rong, and Liang Shao immediately, won't he become a first-class person of Dong Zhuo and Li Dao, and the civil strife in Luoyang is not long in the past, how can he do such a thing.

However, in order to appease Yuan Shao, Cao Cao still promised that he would definitely give Yuan Shao an explanation for this matter.

After this incident, Cao Cao and Xun Yu, who was promoted to Shangshu Ling, Dong Zhao of Fu Jieling, and others discussed, and decided to make a compromise treatment, playing the Son of Heaven for the sake of natural disasters, deposing the three dukes, implicating Yang Biao, and quickly summoning Kong Rong back from Hebei, not allowing him to restrain Yuan Shao with the courtesy of the monarch and ministers in Hebei.

Cao Cao, who thought he was doing a relatively moderate job, after doing these things, in order to further make up for the rift between him and Yuan Shao because of the Son of Heaven, he hurriedly sent Hebei to the imperial court again, but this time he did not reprimand Yuan Shao, but to add an official to Yuan Shao.

However, Yuan Shao did not accept Cao Cao's Taiwei, Ye Marquis and other officials in Yecheng, and after stopping the release of people and passing the public opinion crisis, he wanted to take this opportunity to severely suppress Cao Cao's momentum of welcoming the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, he did not accept the goodwill of reconciliation released by Cao Cao, but stated in the book that his merits were humble and he was not enough to assume the position of Taiwei and Marquis Ye, and between the lines, he did not forget to point the spearhead at Cao Cao, who was in high prestige.

The head of the Yuan family, the third prince of the fourth world, the family is prominent, sitting in Hebei, and he still dare not accept the position of Taiwei and Ye Hou, your little Cao Apu, welcomed the Son of Heaven, is he worthy of the name of the general, the Marquis of Wuping and other extremely popular ministers?

I have to say that Yuan Shao's trick is to retreat into advance, and it is really powerful, after learning the content of Yuan Shao's book, Cao Cao's expression changed greatly, and Yuan Shao refused to be an official, this is not aimed at the imperial court, but at himself who has just ascended to a high position and lacks popularity.

So, after discussing with the ministers overnight, although Cao Cao was unwilling, he could only resign as a general on the table, retreat to Sikong, and then ask the imperial court to send an envoy to Yecheng for the third time, crowned Yuan Shao as a general, awarded him the bow and arrow of the Son of Heaven, gave him a hundred tigers, and let him supervise Ji, You, Qing, and four states.

This time, Yuan Shao finally respectfully accepted the imperial court's edict.

The general is the first minister of the court, and his status is higher than that of the third prince who is the prime minister.

At this point, Yuan Shao, who had obtained the title and power that all the ministers could get, finally suppressed Cao Cao's momentum.

It announced to the people of the world that although Cao Cao welcomed the Son of Heaven, he Yuan Shao was the first minister of the auxiliary government who deserved his name.

Note: 1. Pei Songzhi's quotation of "Wei Luo" records that Yuan Shaosu had a gap with the late Taiwei Yang Biao, Dachangqiu Liang Shao, and Shaofu Kong Rong, and wanted to make the public punish him.

2. "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Yuan Shao" records that (the imperial court) then took Shao as the lieutenant and made him the marquis. When Cao Cao was a general, he was ashamed, and he did not accept false expressions. the fear, but give way to Shao. In the second year, he made the general master craftsman Kong Rong to hold the festival of the general of Bai Shao, the tin bow and arrow, the tiger Ben 100 people, and the governor of Hebei, Qing, You, and the four states, and then received it.

3. The work is related to the follow-up plot, so it will not be released for the time being, and the chapter on the 24th will be released first. In addition, I will recommend Yuan Shao's self-presentation table recorded in the book review area in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Yuan Shao", and I personally believe that this self-presentation table is organized and written in the same way, and can be included in the ranks of the three kingdoms in the late Han Dynasty.