Yuan Shu did not flee in a panic, or even if he fled, there was nowhere to go.

He felt that he had lost a little inexplicably, and he was not a person who could not accept his failure. He couldn't understand why he gave food to the soldiers, and why they mutinied, just because they ate bread that was harder than a stone. "What else would you like to eat?" Yuan Shu sneered to himself.

He still feels that he is benevolent and righteous, without considering the erosion of the so-called political system under his command.

Selling officials and lords for the time being, they have been deducting money and food from grassroots soldiers for a long time, and their injuries have not been treated. And for a long time. These few points alone set the tone for its demise.

"I thought my uncle would be dormant for a while, waiting for the right time." Cao Ang arrived alone and appeared in the luxurious palace that Yuan Shu had built by almost hollowing out the "flesh and blood" of the people in the city.

"Is that you?" Yuan Shu saw Cao Ang coming here alone, and said coldly, "What are you holding in your hand?" ”

Cao Ang stepped forward and said, "The honey syrup carefully prepared by my nephew has been sent here for my uncle to taste." Yuan Shu took it with a cold smile, drank it all in one gulp, threw away the cup casually, wiped his mouth and said, "You have a heart."

There is no sense of sadness at all, "Isn't my uncle angry?" Is your own territory gone? Cao Ang asked curiously.

"Hehe, it's just a matter of becoming a king and defeating a king, how can this be done if it weren't for the soldiers' loyalty?" Yuan Shu was a little resentful.

"At this time, my uncle still didn't notice his problem." Cao Ang said with a slight mockery

"Occupy the right time, place and people, it is logical to call the emperor, and when the time is ripe to sit in the world, how can you do what the current situation is? Does Uncle really want to? ”

Yuan Shu glanced at him in surprise, never thought that Cao Ziyu would know what he was thinking in his heart.

"I'm afraid my uncle still thinks that giving bread to the soldiers is a charity, right?"

"Where can people not eat bread? Do you have to put your life on the line, just for that bite of bread that is harder than a stone? Yuan Shu listened to the words.

"My uncle and my father are old friends, and they shouldn't be like this as juniors, but my nephew really can't get used to it."

In Cao Ang's view, a monarch, whether it is a big monarch or a small monarch, not to mention the people as the sky, at least he must be regarded as a talent. But no matter whether he has real talent or learning, he will be added to the rank of official, and it is extremely unreasonable for someone like Wei Yan who has real skills to be a small goalkeeper because he has not paid filial piety money.

"In places like Jiaozhou, where the land is barren and sparsely populated, the state pastor Xie knows that every tenth day will add meat for the soldiers. How much money is this? ”

"Uncle, you are strong, you occupy the rich area of Jianghuai, it can be said that you have a vast territory, many soldiers, and you have such strength, you are not only half a little stronger than Shixie, even Shixie knows something, uncle doesn't even know?" Cao Ang asked rhetorically.

Yuan Shu was just indifferent, he seemed to be beginning to reflect, is he not even as good as Shi Weiyan?

When the inexplicable proverb of "the Han Dynasty, when Tu Gao" was popular for a long time, Yuan Shu believed that his word "highway", and "Tu" has the meaning of the road.

Therefore, Yuan Shu thinks that this "Han representative" refers to himself, and in today's words, Yuan Shu is simply "over-interpreted", and it is estimated that no one else will believe it except himself.

Then, holding the jade seal of the country, he was ordered to live in the eight characters of Tianjishou Yongchang, which gave him the confidence to be the emperor. In Yuan Shu's view, he has all the subjective and objective conditions. He thinks that he occupies the time, place, and people, so he gets carried away and tries to boast, "The fourth generation of my family is the assistant, the people return, and I want to respond to the heavens and the people", and he is not ashamed to compare himself with the Duke of Qi Huan and the Han Gaozu said that "the land is vast, the scholars are numerous, and they want to be blessed by Qi Huan, and they are imitated by Gaozu", so they ignored the efforts of the strategist Xiangguo Yan Xiang to oppose and claim the emperor in vain.

In Cao Ang's view, Yuan Shu's behavior was a typical rebellion for the Han family.

Yuan Shu's predecessor Dong Zhuo in this area is so powerful and domineering, but he is just "abolishing without permission"; Yuan Shao encouraged Liu Yu of the clan to set up another emperor and wanted to set up another emperor, which can be regarded as "another central government".

And the much-criticized father Cao Cao is "the son of heaven to order not to be a minister", compared with Yuan Shu as the emperor, it can be called "loyal", it can be seen that at this point, Yuan Shu's courage and ambition do exceed all the princes of the same period, but to Yuan Shu should be surprised and even fortunate that he did something more "reactionary" than Dong Zhuo, but the princes of the world did not appear to attack him like the joint crusade against Dong Zhuo back then.

In the eyes of the heroes, his act of claiming the emperor is more like entertaining himself in his own one-acre and three-point land, and it does not pose much threat and influence.

"Are you saying that I lost by ignoring the life and death of the soldiers?" Yuan Shu asked.

"In my opinion, this is just one of the points, I don't know much about the ability of Lei Bo and Chen Lan under my uncle's command, but who did these two uncles know who killed them?"

Yuan Shu looked at Cao Ang intently and waited for an answer, "It's also your subordinate, named Wei Yan, who was originally the captain of the gate under my uncle." Yuan Shu nodded, indicating that he knew that Cao Ang was saying that he didn't know anyone, yes, the second of the Quartet generals he had sealed was killed by a small officer in his army, which couldn't be said to be useless Lei Bo and Chen Lan, it could only be said that he Yuan Highway didn't know anyone.

Sometimes Yuan Shu looked down on his predecessor Dong Zhuo, who entered the imperial capital Luoyang as a warlord in the northwest under the name of crusading against the eunuch forces.

gradually usurped power, abolished it without authorization, and caused chaos in the harem, which can be said to have seriously trampled on the dignity and authority of the Han Emperor's family; Controlling the government, abusing cronies, and indiscriminately killing dissidents.

Whether it is a scholar family like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, or a so-called "Han family" like Cao Cao, their political and economic interests have been seriously damaged by it;

As for the plundering and abuse of people's power, it made the people of the world complain, and sang nursery rhymes such as "Qianli Cao, He Qingqing, Ten Days Bu, No Birth" to curse him. It can be seen that Dong Zhuo was on the opposite side of all strata in the world at that time, so the crusade against Dong Zhuo was extremely "politically correct" at that time, so there was a joint army of people from all walks of life to crusade against Dong Zhuo's common hatred.

Correspondingly, Yuan Shu said that the emperor only made power on his own territory, and his territory was far from the political center at that time, so it can be said that his political influence was not great.

It simply does not pose much of a threat and negative impact, so there is no need to jointly solicit it. This is also a major factor why Cao Cao recruited Yuan Shu. It's not because he's trespassing or anything, it's just because he's found an opportunity now.

At that time, the world's heroes basically had their own territory and power, and they didn't want to worry about the issue of "nothing to do with themselves".

At this time, in addition to Cao Cao and Lu Bu who bordered Yuan Shu, which of the heroes in other regions was willing to go to the emperor for "nothing to do with himself" What to do to send troops to rebel?

Compared with the concerted efforts when dealing with Dong Zhuo, the performance of the heroes on the issue of Yuan Shu's claim to be emperor was quite complicated. Yuan Shao, who is also the old Yuan family, has an extremely ambiguous attitude, when Yuan Shu was about to be defeated, he wanted to give the jade seal to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao even readily agreed to send someone to pick it up, which shows that this Yuan brother's ambition does not seem to be much smaller than that of Yuan brother;

Lu Bu, as a brave and unscrupulous person who has opposed the water many times, once wanted to form a family with Yuan Shu, who was the emperor, so that he could climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, and he would also be a "relative".

The treacherous and cunning Cao Cao even pretended to be Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and issued an edict to Liu Bei to crusade against Yuan Shu, so that he could reap the benefits of the fisherman; Sun Ce was even more busy taking the opportunity to break away from the Yuan Shu Group and form his own family, taking the opportunity to become bigger and stronger in Jiangdong, not to mention paying attention to Yuan Shu.

Although under the interweaving of various factors, Yuan Shu was indeed much luckier than Dong Zhuo and escaped the situation of being crusaded by the world, but he was far from worthy of the ability and strength of ambition.

In the end, it was also decided that its "imperial industry" would not last long, and it had been supported for less than two years, and now there was no guard around him, and the huge palace, Cao Ang went in and out as if there was nothing, which is very revealing, and Yuan Shu's Zhong clan has reached the momentum of overturning.

"I am also a person who has been an emperor, and I never thought that if I wanted to drink a bowl of honey milk in the end, I would have to rely on the son of my old enemy."

Yuan Shu stepped forward and grabbed Cao Ang's hand and said, "Tuo Da, call you Shengxian." Cao Ang nodded and said, "Uncle, it's okay to talk about it." ”

"I'll give myself an explanation, give Meng De an explanation, but give me another bowl of honey syrup before that, right?" Yuan Shu said.

Cao Ang frowned and said: "It's all at this time, my uncle is not thinking about himself or the country himself, so he should think about his children, right?" Want a bowl of honey syrup?

Cao Ang didn't know what to answer, "Jiangshan? What else? What can I do but die, as for the children, even if Meng De doesn't care about it, he will send them to Hebei. Yuan Shu pouted and said.

Cao Ang wanted to speak again and again, and wanted to say that Liu Bei was afraid that he was going to become Yuan Shu's new son-in-law, but he didn't say it after all. However, Yuan Shu is right, Yuan Yao will be sent to Hebei eighty percent, but to be honest, Cao Ang still feels a little pity.

The purpose of capturing Yuan Yao was to use him as a hostage to coerce Yuan Shu, who knew that before this hostage could be used, Runan would be broken, which made Cao Ang annoyed.

"Why is my uncle obsessed with a bowl of honey?"

"Because it's sweet." Hearing Yuan Shu's answer, Cao Ang was silent, sweet sweet, bitter sweet, yes, who doesn't like sweet?

Cao Ang didn't say anything more, walked straight out, and after a while, walked back with a jar full of honey syrup.

Yuan Shu's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he took it from Cao Ang's hand. Tilt your head. He put it in his mouth and coughed lightly: "It's so sweet."

At this moment, my uncle was not like a prince, but like a child with a sweet tooth. Cao Ang opened his mouth abruptly.

"All the princes in the world are good, but no one knows, your father's favorite wife, isn't that the reason?" Cao Ang was stunned, somehow, when he heard Yuan Shu say this, he remembered a scene in the Water Pavilion that day, lingering in his heart, Fu Shou is not someone else's wife, what's wrong with me, could it be genetic?

A jar of honey syrup was quickly drunk by Yuan Shu, and he smacked his lips a little unsatisfied, "If it's not enough, my nephew will go and get it for you." ”

"That's enough." Yuan Shu shook his head and said.

"Do you need to show them a trip?"

Yuan Shu shook his head and said, "Tell him to live well in the future, especially when he is under the fence."

Cao Ang took a few steps back, saluted Yuan Shu, and then turned away.

When he heard the sound of the jar shattering, Cao Ang turned his head, looked at the scene in front of him and sighed, unable to let go for a long time.