Lu Mian's heart didn't go through too much struggle, so he accepted Zhuge Jin's persuasion, and finally decided to abandon Yuan Shu and leave this place of right and wrong.

If you look at it from Yuan Shu's point of view, Lu Mian's approach is undoubtedly Chi Guoguo's betrayal, but the question is why does Lu Mian have to be loyal to him? The soldiers under Lu Mian's command are not his Yuan Shu's private property, and the food eaten by these soldiers is also grown by the people of Jianghuai, what qualifications does Lu Mian have to take them to die together?

It is said that there is no righteous war in the Spring and Autumn Period, and among the Three Kingdoms in the troubled times, how many righteous wars are there? Liu He has always been committed to resisting foreign invasions, but he tried his best to avoid internal wars and put the lives of soldiers in a very important position, perhaps because he truly understood the meaning of the phrase "Spring and Autumn Unrighteous War".

Zhuge Jin tried a small knife and easily settled Lu Mian for Sun Jian, which impressed Sun Jian's father and son, and since then they have embarked on the turbulent historical stage of the late Han Dynasty.

Lu Mian streamlined 50,000 troops in Wuhu, and some soldiers who had not been trained at all were all disbanded by him, and in the end he only took 10,000 soldiers with him. Lu Mian did not accept the construction of a place to settle in Huiji given by Sun Jian, but went directly to Yizhou, which was isolated overseas, by boat.

Yizhou, which is the Taiwan of later generations, is still a barren land with no one at this time. Occasionally, fishermen near Huiji on the island go up to shelter from the wind and rain, and as for whether there are any wild people who are not in the wisp, only Lu Mian will know when he goes.

After Lu Mian left, Sun Jian's father and son occupied Wuhu, Danyang, and Shicheng one after another, and then crossed the river from Niuzhu, captured Liyang, and gradually approached Yuan Shu's old nest Shouchun.

By this time, the several armies that Yuan Shu had arranged around Shouchun had been gone, and the remaining two roads of the Zhongji Ling Department were already half-crippled, and only Qiaorui could still hold on all the way.

Xuzhou Lu Zhi has been paying close attention to the war in Yangzhou, when Qiao Rui began to shrink in the direction of Shouchun. He sent Guan Hai and Xu Shengbing to recover the land once occupied by Yuan's army from two directions, Xiapi County and Pengcheng County. In order to create an embattled scene for Yuan Shu, Xu Sheng and Guan Hai, after completely recovering the occupied territory of Xuzhou, continued to advance westward, until they drove their troops to the north bank of the Huai River, less than 100 miles from Shouchun City.

As the troops of Xiahou Yuan, Huang Zu and Sun Jian continued to approach Shouchun, the space on which Yuan Shu relied for his survival was compressed to only five cities: Shouchun, Xia Cai, Xiquyang, Chengde and Hefei.

The troops besieging Yuan Shu stopped at the same time, they occupied favorable terrain respectively, and besieged Yuan Shu without attacking, and the idea was to trap Yuan Shu alive in Shouchun City.

Yuan Shu has been broken in Shouchun City, and he has been extravagant and lascivious in Yangzhou all these years. The rampant conquest made the Jianghuai region ruined, and many people starved to death, and at this time it was even more centrifuged, and his subordinates Chen Lan and Lei Bo defected one after another, preferring to hide in Lishan as a bandit than to give Yuan Shu his life.

It was almost winter, and the Jianghuai region once again ushered in a severe drought, and along with this drought came a tragic famine. The cities that have been swept away by Yuan Shu can no longer take out food to feed the soldiers, and the tragedy of cannibalism can be seen everywhere between the Jianghuai River. Yuan Shu's troops began to have a large-scale desertion of soldiers, even if Ji Ling and Qiao Rui desperately suppressed it. It also had little effect, because if the soldiers did not flee, they were in danger of starvation.

Peijun Taishou Shu Shao saw the misery of the people, so he went to Shouchun to persuade Yuan Shu to open a warehouse to help the hungry. Yuan Shu was furious when he heard this, and wanted to behead Shu Shao in the downtown area, but was stopped by Yuan Yin. Yuan Shu went crazy. Yuan Yin didn't want to go crazy with Yuan Shu, he knew that if Shu Shao was killed at this time, a violent mutiny and civil rebellion would immediately occur in Shouchun, and then the angry soldiers and people would definitely rush into Yuan Shu's mansion and eat everyone in the mansion alive.

At this time, Yuan Shu has reached the end of his rope, like a mouse covered in filth, no one can take refuge, no one dares to take him in, and the only way waiting for him is to perish.

Yuan Shu began to vomit blood, at first it was only a few mouthfuls of phlegm a day, and then gradually increased, and the doctors in the city were arrested to diagnose him, but everyone who came was trembling, and did not dare to tell the truth that Yuan Shu's life was not long in coming.

Ji Ling, who was trapped in Chengde, was afraid of repeating Zhang Xun's mistakes, so he chose to surrender to Sun Jian, completely opening the road from Chengde to Shouchun, and allowing Sun Jian's father and son to lead the army to pass through the city. Xiahou Yuan was not far behind, he drove his troops to Xia Cai, which was only forty miles away from Shouchun, and sat across the Huai River to watch people continue to die on the road to flee on the other side of the river.

Qiao Rui, who was guarding Shouchun City, no longer controlled the troops at this time, and the soldiers could flee wherever they wanted, as long as they did not loot in the city.

One cold winter evening, Yuan Shu, who had passed out because of coughing up blood, gradually woke up, and he shouted left and right, wanting to drink a cup of hot honey water, but no one in the entire mansion answered. Yuan Shu stared at Fang Liang blankly for a long time, and then shouted loudly: "I think that after I am the fourth and third dukes of Yuan Shu, I have ended up like this!" ”

Yuan Shu shouted three times in a row, and then coughed up blood violently until he lost his breath.

Yuan Shu finally died......

In fact, since Yuan Shu became emperor, everyone in Shouchun City knew that Yuan Shu would have today, and everyone was looking forward to this day coming as soon as possible. Even Yuan Shu's two sons, they also hoped that Yuan Shu would die quickly, and not drag the family into the abyss from which they could never recover.

After learning the news of Yuan Shu's death, Qiao Rui was relaxed, and he asked the soldiers to open the south gate of Shouchun and welcomed Sun Jian into the city. Qiao Rui knew that among the troops that crusaded against Yuan Shu, only Sun Jian would treat Yuan Shu's troops and Yuan Shu's family well.

After Sun Jian entered the city, the first thing he did was to distribute the food brought by the army to the hungry people and soldiers in the city, and then sealed off Yuan Shu's mansion and sealed all kinds of rituals, accessories, chariots, etc. that Yuan Shu had purchased since he became emperor. The family left behind by Yuan Shu, Sun Jian sent soldiers to send them all to Fuchun, that is, Sun Jian's hometown. Sun Jian gave Yuan Shu's daughter to his second son Sun Quan, and Yuan Shu's son Yuan Yao was also left by Sun Jian's side.

Yuan Shu is dead, and his subordinates who once followed him were scattered, some went north to Cao Cao, some went west to Liu Biao, and some went east to Xuzhou, and the rest were wiped out by Sun Jian, who occupied Shouchun.

A carving-up feast ended here, Cao Cao occupied the north of the Lujiang River, Liu Biao occupied the south of the Lujiang River, Sun Jian occupied Yuan Shu's original territory south of the Yangtze River, and most of the Jiujiang River, even Guan Hai and Xu Sheng, who had never really attacked Yuan Shu, also took the opportunity to occupy the northeast corner of the Jiujiang River.

When the news of Yuan Shu's demise came out, the people of the world applauded, and the imperial court also commended and commended the various forces that sent troops to fight against Yuan.

The imperial court deprived Lu Bu of the title of the former general and gave it to Xuzhou Mu Lu Zhi, Yanzhou Cao Cao was crowned as the rear general, Jingzhou Liu Biao was crowned as the right general, and Liu Biao vacated the title of Zhennan general and fell on Sun Jian's head.

The rewards of the imperial court have been promulgated, and the next thing is to snatch food from Cao Cao, Liu Biao and Sun Jian, and find a place for the new Yangzhou Muwangyi, so he can't stay in Luoyang all the time and not take office, right?

The imperial court sent people to Changyi, Xiangyang, Xuzhou, and Fuchun, and expressed to Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Lu Zhi, and Sun Jian that they hoped that they would spit out the meat they had eaten.

Cao Cao said to the envoy sent by the imperial court: "Chen Lan, Lei Bo and others took their troops to hide in the Lishan Mountain, I am afraid that they will harm the people nearby, so I cannot withdraw the troops from Lujiang and Jiujiang for the time being." ”

Liu Biao said to the envoy sent by the imperial court: "Yangzhou has been ruined by Yuan Shu, I heard the soldiers who came back say that there is nothing poor over there, Jingzhou is rich, and I am willing to share some of it for the imperial court, so I plan to move some people over and rebuild there." The people are going to go and need the protection of the troops, so I can't withdraw the troops from Yangzhou for the time being. ”

Sun Jian said to the envoy sent by the imperial court: "I listen to the imperial court's greeting, as long as Cao Cao and Liu Biao withdraw their troops from Yangzhou, I will immediately give an order to the troops and let them all withdraw to the south of the Yangtze River!" ”

Yes, no one can count on it, and no one is willing to withdraw its troops.

Since they don't want to withdraw their troops, the imperial court has no choice but to maintain the status quo and wait for the situation to change, and then find an opportunity to take Yangzhou back.

Liu He quietly followed the situation in the south in the north, and a large number of secret agents from the Military Intelligence Department rushed to the Jianghuai region to constantly transmit all kinds of news back to Yecheng. Among these news, Liu He was most concerned about the whereabouts of one thing, that is, the jade seal that sent Yuan Shu directly to the grave.

Liu He remembered that a certain Luo wrote in the romance that Sun Jian found the jade seal from the abandoned palace when he entered Luoyang, and then wanted to quietly bring it back to his hometown, but he was shot to death by Huang Zu on the way, and the jade seal fell into the hands of Sun Ce. In order to make a comeback, Sun Ce avenged his father and exchanged the jade seal with Yuan Shu, so he got the soldiers and horses of the starter, and Yuan Shu then became the emperor in Shouchun.

Liu He has always been skeptical of a certain Luo's fabrication, because he feels that there are too many loopholes in it that cannot be explained. However, Liu He was not interested in verifying the origin of Yuan Shu's jade seal, he just wanted to track down who took the jade seal now. Liu He is not actually interested in a broken stone, that thing is nothing more than symbolic meaning than practical meaning, and people who don't have it can "live forever".

It's just that if this stone symbolizing orthodoxy is not mastered by Liu He, it means that there are still people who want to do a second Yuan Shu, which is not what Liu He wants to see.

The matter of finding the jade seal is unfolding in secret, Liu He is not in a hurry, he is only worried about the person who hid the jade seal now. This kind of damn thing, whoever holds it will not live long.

A year passed quickly, and after the arrival of the new year, the imperial court finally changed the name of Xingping to Jian'an.

To build peace is to build a stable and stable country.

It's just that if Yuan Shu dies, will the Han be able to settle down? (To be continued......)