In the winter of this year, Youzhou Mu Liu Yu and his family were killed by Gongsun Zhan. Speaking of Liu Yu, his ability to manage government is not bad. History books say that he was generous and benevolent, so he won the hearts of the people. However, his ability to fight is not very good, he once gathered more than 100,000 people to attack Gongsun Zhan, but Gongsun Zhan only sent a few hundred warriors to set fire to the wind, and broke through his formation, and then beat his army to the point of losing his armor and fleeing in defeat.

In fact, everyone has what they are good at and what they are not good at, and we can't expect every ancient person to be so perfect. Even a person like Lu Bu who was able to be literate and martial, and handsome, was ultimately defeated by Cao Cao. Therefore, there is no truly perfect person in this world, just because perfection itself is imperfect.

On the sixteenth day of the first month of 194 AD, the Han Dynasty offered the emperor a dollar service. That is, Liu Xie held a crown ceremony, and the word was Bohe. On the first day of the first month of February, the relevant departments asked Liu Xieli to establish the Changqiu Palace and elect the queen. At this time, Liu Xie was thinking about his biological mother's funeral and said, "My mother's tomb has not yet been decided, how can I choose the queen at this time?" So, on the fifth day of the first month, the third prince asked Liu Xie to change his mother Wang Meiren to be buried with Emperor Ling, and was posthumously named Queen Linghuai.

From the perspective of the ancients, Liu Xie's actions seem to be in line with filial piety. However, from today's point of view, some people still think that this is filial piety, and some people do not think so. In fact, filial piety is not reflected in the death of parents, but in the life of parents. We are filial to our parents because it is our responsibility to treat them well, not to show that we are a filial son. In this way, it seems too hypocritical.

At this time, Cao Cao's campaign against Tao Qian was still not over. Due to the urgency of the situation, Tao Qian asked Tian Kai for support, and Tian Kai and Liu Bei, the prime minister of the plains, led an army to the rescue. At this time, Liu Bei had an army of thousands of people, and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and other generals were all listed. After Liu Bei led the crowd to arrive, Tao Qian allocated another 4,000 Danyang soldiers for his command, so Liu Bei broke away from Tian Kai and attached himself to Tao Qian. Tao Qian also recommended Liu Bei as the assassin of Yuzhou, and led the army to be stationed in Xiaopei.

Some people commented that Liu Bei's move was "mercenary", but I don't think so. Judging from the current situation, Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zhan, Tao Qian, Tian Kai, Liu Bei, Zhang Yan and others all belong to the same position, Liu Bei helped Tao Qian resist Cao Cao's aggression, and Tao Qian allocated troops and horses to Liu Bei, which is reasonable, how can it be said to be "mercenary"?

There is another point that can be seen by those who want to be careful. Since Lu Bu defected to Yuan Shao, Lu Bu and Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Liu Biao are in the same camp. Therefore, after Lu Bu left Yuan Shao, he came to defect to Zhang Miao, or Cao Cao, which was in line with the actual situation at that time. In this way, when Cao Cao was conquering Tao Qian, Lu Bu was also among them, and this speculation is not unfounded. Come to think of it, you should always understand by now, why did the official history make a big fuss about Lu Bu's repeated actions, right? It is nothing more than justifying Cao Cao's later actions.

Subsequently, Cao Cao led his army to retreat because the army was exhausted. In my opinion, Cao Cao will lead his army to retreat, not necessarily because the food has run out. It is said that Cao Cao conquered more than ten cities in a row and grabbed a lot of baggage, how could the food be eaten so quickly? There must be other reasons for this.

At the same time, there was a big event in Chang'an. Ma Teng asked Li Dao for personal matters, but he was furious because he could not be satisfied, and wanted to deploy an army to attack Li Dao. Emperor Han Xian sent someone to mediate the conflict, but Ma Teng refused to obey. Then Han Sui also rushed to mediate, probably persuaded by Ma Teng, so he joined forces with Ma Teng again.

As a result, the palace wanted to stage another scene of seizing power. Advised the doctor Chong Shao, the servant Ma Yu, Zuo Zhonglang and Liu Fan and others wanted to make internal responses, and planned to help Ma Teng attack Chang'an, in order to kill Li Dao and others. Unexpectedly, when Ma Teng and Han Sui led their troops into Changpingguan, the plan was suddenly revealed, and everything fell short, so the three of them had to flee to Huaili in a hurry. Li Wei sent Fan Chou, Guo Yan, and his nephew Li Li to attack and defeat Ma Teng and Han Sui. Then, he captured Huaili and killed Chong Shao and others. After the two sides made peace, the imperial court issued an edict to pardon Ma Teng and Han Sui.

In April, Cao Cao left Xun Yu and Cheng Yu to guard Juancheng and led the army to conquer Tao Qian for the second time. The army plundered along the way, marching all the way to Langya County and Donghai County, and all the places they passed were destroyed. Cao Cao led his army back to attack Tan County and defeated Liu Bei's army east of Tan County. Tao Qian was frightened and planned to flee back to Danyang. At this time, Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others rebelled against Lu Bu as the pastor of Yanzhou, and the counties responded to the wind, so Cao Cao led the army to rush back to the rescue.

Originally, Lu Bu was in the same camp as Cao Cao, but at this moment, the two suddenly opposed each other, and the reason for this was probably due to some kind of conflict between the two. As for the specific reasons for the conflict, it is not known for the time being.

According to the history books, there was a man named Gao Rou, who was the cousin of Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan, and said something like this to the people around him: "Although General Cao is based in Yanzhou, he has a plan for the Quartet, but he has not been able to sit and defend it." And Zhang Fujun relied on the assets left by Chen, and he will take advantage of the change, and I want to avoid it with you. It can be seen from the words between the lines that Gao Rou knew the reason for this conflict, but he didn't say what was going on. I don't think it's that Gao Rou didn't say it, but the person who wrote the history didn't write it, so future generations can't know the reason.

In other words, Gao Shun appeared relatively late, but his position in Lu Bu's army was not low, and he still had a lot of qualifications among the generals under Lu Bu. I don't know if he has any relationship with the two brothers Gao Gan and Gao Rou. Speaking of which, the reason why Lu Bu was able to find out that Yuan Shao was going to assassinate himself may be because someone secretly revealed the news to Lu Bu. If Gao Shun and Yuan Shao were really related, then the person who could know such a confidential matter and secretly inform Lu Bu must be him, or even if he was one of those warriors. However, the historical record of Gao Shun is so brief that it is impossible to find out.