Chapter Eighty-Eight: Returning in Vain
Although the Xiongnu were shattered, the situation of the annexed states could not be recovered in a short time.
Lin Mu asked the soldiers to begin to purge the remnants of the Huns, but at this moment a news came.
"Your Majesty, this is a military report from the imperial court."
Lin Mu stretched out his hand to take the general newspaper from Yang Chou's hand, and after taking a look, his face began to become a little ugly.
After Liu Bei and Zhu Jun sent troops, they passed through Cao Cao's Yanzhou and were stopped by Cao Cao's general Xiahoudun.
It wasn't until three days later that Cao Cao's letter came, asking Xiahou to let Liu Bei pass.
This is the case with several passes, and Liu Bei has not even reached the boundary of Xuzhou now.
wanted to start a war with Cao Cao, but Cao Cao also shouted to support the crusade against the traitor Cao Ren, and he was a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.
looks like he is sincere for the country, but everyone knows what the actual situation is.
The army spent money and food but could only return in vain, and Cao Cao's Yang and Yin violations completely angered Liu Bei.
But Liu Bei had no choice, and now there was a legitimate reason for the imperial court to kill Cao Ren, and there was indeed no reason to kill Cao Cao.
Although Lin Mu once said before leaving, anyone who dares to stop is a traitor, but where does Liu Bei dare to cause trouble.
The most important thing is that the imperial court does not have the strength to start a war with Cao Cao now.
Cao Cao now pocketed Yanzhou and Xuzhou, which were also known as Yanzhou, which had suffered some disasters, and Xuzhou alone was about the same size as the population of the imperial court.
In addition, if the division is unknown, there are many warlord forces in this world, and it is easy to rebel against the remaining warlords if they are not careful.
These separatist warlords usually seem to be quite obedient to the imperial court, but once you don't have the name to go and suppress Cao Cao.
If they do, the remaining warlords will be cold-tongued, and some may admit it, but this is only a very few.
If he is so easy to admit, he will not become a warlord.
In other words, if you are not careful, you will be the enemy of the world, and Liu Bei has even thought about what these people will say.
The Son of Heaven is benevolent and virtuous to the world, but the powerful minister Liu Bei pretends to be the Son of Heaven is benevolent and righteous, disobedient to the lord and usurped, and vain and loyal ministers, in fact, he is a traitor and a minister.
At that time, the prestige of the imperial court dropped a lot in an instant, and the army began to march into Beijing.
Want to quell a rebellion?
Of course, you can, but you have to send the heads of Liu Bei's three brothers over.
The imperial court could not even protect its own people, and it was impossible to quell the rebellion without sending it.
Just like the Rebellion of the Seven Kings back then, unless a strong general defeats these warlords, the world will be completely divided.
If it can't be defeated, it will be even more humiliating, Cao Cao will definitely lead his troops to attack Luoyang.
After all, there are only so many armies in the imperial court, and you have been defeated by Cao Cao, so why don't Cao Cao beat you and make trouble with you?
And it was the court that made the first move, and Cao Cao's counterattack couldn't be more legitimate.
What is the reputation of the imperial court now, Liu Bei couldn't be clearer, the reputation of the Son of Heaven can be said to be more excessive than that of the scholar clan.
If there is another disaster, of course the Han will still be the Han, but it is not certain whether the emperor is the current emperor.
To put it bluntly, the emperor is the speaker of the group, and the princes of the family are the middle and high-level of the group.
It's not like these people haven't done this kind of thing.
Therefore, Liu Bei did not dare to act rashly at all, and he had quite a lot of concerns between his actions, which led to the return of the army in vain.
This letter is about a burst of fire in the woods, and they all say that all the people who dare to stop all the way are traitors, and Liu Bei is still too benevolent.
If Jia Xu is allowed to come, Jia Xu will definitely order the soldiers to set fire to the pass.
When Yang Chou saw a forest tree like this, he was so frightened that his legs began to tremble a little.
Lin Mu slapped the letter in his hand on the table, and Yang Chou fell to his knees violently.
"Get up, I have some things to deal with, and now the matter of purging and merging the state will be handed over to you, remember not to let the people suffer, otherwise I will kill you!"
Yang Chou lay directly on the ground.
"Your Majesty, rest assured, even if Yang Chou starves to death on the streets, he will not dare to harm the people under his rule in the slightest."
Lin Mu nodded, and then strode out of the county office.
Yang Chou's personal guarantee Lin Mu naturally would not believe it, and when he returned to Luoyang, he would inevitably send officials from the imperial court to manage it.
At this time, in Luoyang City, Liu Bei looked depressed, and in the two months since he sent troops, he had made no achievements, which could almost be said to be a stain on Liu Bei.
"Big brother, if you want me to say that this emperor is too unreasonable, this Cao Cao and Cao Ren are brothers, where will Cao Cao make way for you."
Liu Bei turned his head and said angrily.
"Third brother!"
Seeing this, Zhang Fei could only shut up.
Zhang Fei was originally a butcher who killed pigs and sold meat, and he had no reverence for anything other than respect for Liu Bei.
is the so-called No. 1 Lu Bu in the world, Zhang Fei doesn't dare to scold.
But Zhang Fei's lack of awe does not mean that Liu Bei dares to be disrespectful, in Liu Bei's view, today's Son of Heaven is brave, and this time he is even more alone in the annexation of the state to solve the disaster of the Huns.
Alone and traveling thousands of miles to help, this almost only exists in the script, whether the Son of Heaven succeeds or fails this time, it shows that the Son of Heaven is definitely ambitious.
Guan Yu also stood up at this time.
"Big brother, although the Son of Heaven has given us 50,000 troops this time, he is going deep into Xuzhou, and it is expected that Yanzhou, where Cao Cao is located, will not give us the way along the way, and the Son of Heaven is to blame, and the eldest brother is not at fault."
Liu Bei sighed and said.
"Alas, it is a sin for a great army to work in vain."
Of course, Liu Bei knew the difficulty of this battle, but with Lin Mu alone entering the annexed state, he led an army of 50,000 to no avail, but he couldn't say anything.
Just as the three of them sighed, they suddenly rode a fast horse from outside the door and ran towards the palace.
As he galloped, he shouted.
"Your Majesty captured and killed Hu Chuquan in Jiuyuan, and won a big victory!"
Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei hurriedly ran out of the mansion, watching the fast horse go away, and they didn't know what to say for a while.
Even Zhang Fei was stunned, and muttered to himself the next moment.
"This day looks like he is not very old, but I didn't expect it to be so powerful."
The Son of Heaven rode into the state alone to kill the Huns, and Shan Yu Huchuquan soon spread out.
When the world heard the earthquake, Yanzhou Cao Cao looked at the paperwork in his hand and fell into deep thought.
"The Son of Heaven is so capable......
Cao Cao couldn't help but start thinking that if he was a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, he would probably be very happy to meet such a son of heaven.
But now there is no way back, and now Cao Cao has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, how can he go back to be a loyal minister of the Han family.
How could the Han family tolerate such a loyal servant as him.