Chapter 468: Shaking in All Directions (Part II)
When Yuan Shu learned that the Son of Heaven was still in Luoyang, he reacted more violently, and tortured two maidservants to death in the bedroom that night, and it seemed that Liu Xie's return to Luoyang was more difficult for him to accept than digging the ancestral grave of the Yuan family.
When Yuan Shu heard that Yuan Shao had lost Yecheng and was ugly, it made him happy for several days. This arrogant and sensitive guy never seems to be able to see anything good about Yuan Shao, who is the same father and half-brother as him, but when Yuan Shao is unlucky, he is extremely happy. Yuan Shao drove away Li Dao and occupied Guanzhong, but Yuan Shu didn't get angry after hearing about it, because he felt that Yuan Shao was killing himself, and after Liu He occupied the state, he could close the door and beat the dog.
The reason why Yuan Shu was so angry with the Son of Heaven and Luoyang was because he had ulterior ambitions in his heart. He wished that Liu Xie, the son of heaven, would be killed by Li Dao, Guo Yan or anyone else when he was in Chang'an, so that the Han would have no emperor, and he would have a chance.
As far as Yuan Shu's small-bellied character and blind short-sighted political judgment are concerned, his ability to survive so far can only show that his luck is good enough, and his territory is not next to Liu He, otherwise Liu He would have destroyed this goods a long time ago.
Liu He couldn't come to Yuan Shu's trouble for the time being because of the distance, but Yuan Shu stayed in Shouchun but was restless, in order to show his dissatisfaction with Liu Yu's entry into Beijing to preside over the government, this goods were ready to attack Xuzhou again.
Last time, Yuan Shu gathered an army of 100,000 and attacked Xuzhou in two ways, but it was resolved one by one by Lu Zhi, who was old and spicy, and less than half of the 100,000 troops finally fled back. Yuan Shu has always been obsessed with this matter, feeling very shameless, and has been thinking about how to get back to the field. It just so happened that Cao Cao was also a little dissatisfied with Liu Yu's entry into Beijing, and he was also obsessed with Xuzhou, and the two sides hit it off, so they prepared to deal with Xuzhou together.
Yuan Shu had a long memory this time, and before he officially attacked Xuzhou, he first sent people to cross the Yangtze River and reach an agreement with several forces in Jiangnan and Jiangdong. He asked Sun Jian, Liu Xuan, and Yan Baihu not to make trouble behind him, otherwise he would turn his head and attack them first. Sun Jian was busy cleaning up the Shanyue in his own territory, and he didn't have the time to care about Jiangbei's affairs at all, so he agreed to Yuan Shu's request. Liu Xuan, Yan Baihu and the others knew that they could not defeat Yuan Shu, and they didn't want to get into trouble, so they agreed to Yuan Shu's request.
After finishing it, Yuan Shu sent someone to see Cao Cao again, asking Cao Cao to show his sincerity first, otherwise he would still not send troops to attack Xuzhou. Cao Cao originally wanted to provoke Yuan Shu to attack Xuzhou, so he naturally didn't want to be this bird. So he said that Liu He was stationed in Yecheng, saying that he was making every effort to guard against Liu He Nandu, and there was no extra force to attack Xuzhou. Yuan Shu immediately stopped doing it when he heard Cao Cao's words, he felt that Cao Cao had fooled him, so he canceled the plan to attack Xuzhou.
The strategist Yang Hong gave Yuan Shu a sinister and vicious idea, and he asked Yuan Shu to pretend to mobilize the troops deployed in the southern Lujiang and southern Jiujiang rivers near the Yangtze River defense line to Chaohu Lake and hide them, and then put on a posture of a large army going north to attack Xuzhou. Liu Xuan, Yan Baihu and others did not know that this was Yuan Shu's plan to lure the snake out of the hole, and they took advantage of the loosening of the defense line on the north bank of the Yangtze River to encroach on the Lujiang River and Jiujiang River. Yuan Shu caught Liu Miao and Yan Baihu in a flash. Immediately mobilized the army to cross the river from Niuzhu and Zongyang, grabbed Liu Miao and Yan Baihu for a while, and beat the two of them without the strength to resist, and fled into Yuzhang and Huiji.
Sun Jian had long been unpleasant to see Liu Miao and Yan Baihu. This time, he just beat the water dog, and helped Yuan Shu solve Liu Miao and Yan Baihu who fled into his territory.
After Yuan Shu and Sun Jian got rid of Liu Miao and Yan Baihu very tacitly, only Zhu Hao of Wu County was left in the entire Yangzhou, but Zhu Hao's identity was very sensitive. Sun Jian would never touch him, so the wicked could only let Yuan Shu do it.
Why didn't Sun Jian touch Zhu Hao? That's because Zhu Hao's father Zhu Jun has a kindness to Sun Jian, although Zhu Jun is now riddled with illness. But in the Luoyang court, he is still a big man who can speak, although Sun Jian wants to take the rich Wu County, but in Zhu Jun's lifetime, it is impossible for him to do such a thing that violates his conscience.
The strategist Zhang Zhao suggested to Sun Jian that it was not appropriate to develop north for the time being, so as not to conflict with Yuan Shu. The strategist Zhang Hong analyzed that Yuan Shu was greedy and domineering in Shouchun, and he was not far from destruction, and Sun Jian only needed to wait and see across the river.
Before the words of the two strategists were finished, Yuan Shu, who had just solved Liu Miao and Yan Baihu, couldn't wait to attack Zhu Hao of Wujun.
After the news reached Luoyang, Taifu Liu Yu, Taiwei Ma Riyan, Situ Zhao Wen, Sikong Zheng Tai, Sima Hanfu, and Sili Captain Zhu Jun and others collectively denounced Yuan Shu. The imperial court then issued a decree announcing the world, removing Yuan Shuzuo from the post of general, and granting this position to Henan Yin Duan Xuan, as for Yuan Shu's self-appointed Yangzhou pastor, the imperial court did not mention it at all, but appointed the original Hedong Taishou Wang Yi to replace Liu Xuan, who had been killed, as the Yangzhou pastor.
After Liu Yu entered Beijing, there were great changes in the official positions in the court. The original Sikong Zhao Wen took over the position of Situ vacated after Wang Yun's death, and he could be regarded as having a certain amount of real power. Zheng Tai, who has been accumulating popularity in Luoyang, finally broke out and replaced Zhao Wen as the secretary, although he did not have much real power, but he was also ranked as the third prince. Liu Yu refused to accept the imperial court to crown him as the Great Sima, but removed the "big" character from the front of this position, and then gave it to Han Fu who went to Luoyang with him with him. According to the official system at this time, only Taifu is the prince above the three dukes, and the positions of the two are actually the same thing, considering that Lao Ma has worked hard in Chang'an for many years, so Liu Yu also listed him as the duke, and after Lao Ma retires honorably, the post of Taiwei will be cancelled and will not be appointed to anyone.
Lieutenant Si Li's award to General Wei Zhu Jun is a matter that has been decided a long time ago, and this time it is just a formal implementation. The position of Henan Yin, which Zhu Jun vacated, failed to fall into Sima Fang's head in the end, and was still given to Duan Xuan. However, in order to commend the Sima family for their great contribution in escorting the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang, the imperial court dismissed Yuan Shao from his position as the governor and put this official hat on Sima Fang's head. Since Yuan Shao occupied Guanzhong, in order to appease him, the imperial court granted him Jing Zhaoyin, which was equivalent to a transfer with Sima Fang. Regardless of whether Yuan Shaoken is willing or not, anyway, it is Liu Yu who has the final say in the court, whether Jing Zhaoyin's hat Yuan Shaoai wants it or not, when the time comes, the hussar general Liu He will have to be responsible for recovering it on time!
In addition to these, the trial went to Hanoi to serve as the Taishou, and Li Yan replaced the trial as the Luoyang Commander. For Sima Fang's second son Sima Yi, the imperial court also deliberately issued an order to let him go to the Hussar General's Mansion to serve as Dong Cao Peng, but Sima Yi, who had a ghost in his heart, said that he was sick and could not go.
After the imperial court took off General Yuan Shuzuo's hat, Yuan Shu felt humiliated, and as a result, four more maidservants were tortured to death by him that night. Yuan Shu, who was already a little crazy, didn't care about sending troops to attack Zhu Hao again, but clamored to lead troops to Luoyang to "clear the king's side and get rid of traitors".
Cao Cao was taken aback by Yuan Shu's crazy moves, if Yuan Shu wanted to lead the army to Luoyang, he had to pass through Yuzhou and Yanzhou, if Cao Cao did not stop it, and sat back and watched Yuan Shu cross the border, it is estimated that the imperial court would immediately issue an announcement exempting Cao Cao from the general of the expedition to the east, and even his Yanzhou Mu hat would be taken off together.
In the central court in Luoyang, although there is not much to do with the warlords who hold real power in various places, but they occupy the name of orthodoxy and righteousness, as long as the bigwigs in the court look at who is not pleasing to the eye, it is a word, masturbation! And a warlord like Yuan Shu, who was unfortunately stripped of his official hat, although he could continue to be powerful on his own territory, but he had lost his orthodox status, and if other forces dealt with him, he really didn't even need to find an excuse, because the imperial court had already prepared it for everyone! This is also the method that Liu Yu came up with after presiding over the government, I can't cure you, and I want to kill you!
The imperial court can have this confidence, because there is no need to worry about someone coming to Luoyang with a large army of soldiers and horses to kill people. And the reason why the bigwigs in the court are not afraid of warlords from all over the world coming to Luoyang to make trouble, but because there is a hussar general who is squatting in Yecheng not far from Luoyang......
Yuan Shu was ultimately unable to send troops to Luoyang because the wise Cao Cao stopped him. But Yuan Shu's madness did not end here, I don't know where he got a jade seal engraved with "Ordered by Heaven" on the front and "Longevity Yongchang" on the back, and then openly declared that this jade seal was the heirloom jade seal of the Han Dynasty, and he, as the holder of this jade seal, was the real Son of Heaven.
To use a very popular saying in later generations to describe Yuan Shu at this time, that is, "If you want to make it perish, first make it crazy". After Yuan Shu became emperor in Shouchun, the characters who originally had some relationship with Yuan Shu fled one after another, Cao Cao, Sun Jian and others hurriedly denounced, and even Lu Zhi, who had always been silent, also issued a rare notice, indicating that he would organize an army to conquer the traitor Yuan Shu.
Yuan Shao, who was far away in Chang'an, lamented after learning about Yuan Shu's crazy moves, he was not sad that Yuan Shu had killed himself, he felt ashamed of why the Yuan family had such an idiot.
After Liu Zhang, who was far away in Yizhou, learned that everyone in the world was condemning Yuan Shu, he had a cold war in his heart, and he no longer dared to think in the direction of separating himself from the country.
The ministers of the Luoyang court remained silent about Yuan Shu's crazy actions, and this silence made the various forces feel even more depressed. Everyone knows that the imperial court is silent at this time, it is to observe the reaction of the states, if anyone dares to take an unstable position on such a major issue of right and wrong, there will definitely be someone in charge of settling accounts after the autumn.
Liu He, who stayed in Yecheng and was busy picking up girls, under the urging of his father one letter after another, chose a beautiful weather with a sunny wind and sunshine, and then issued his voice to the outside world: Anyone who is next to Yuan Shu's territory, regardless of the size of his official position, will encircle and suppress Yuan Shu together. If anyone doesn't help, then the hussar general will lead a large army to someone's territory to help! (To be continued......)