I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 230 Chapter 231

The reason why Yuan Shao has the current power is because of the family background of the fourth generation and the third lord, and why he has such a family background, it is because of the promotion of the Han court, that is to say, the Yuan family is in the system of the Han court, if Yuan Shao betrayed A big man, he doesn't have the so-called family background of four generations and three males.

This will cause a problem, why do the soldiers in Yuan Shao's hands listen to Yuan Shao?

The soldiers in Yuan Shao's hands ate the imperial food, and they were generals of the Han Dynasty.It has nothing to do with Yuan Shao himself, everyone didn't eat the rice from the Yuan family, you Yuan Shao is an official of the Han Dynasty and everyone listens to you, but now that you, Yuan Shao, are rebellious, why do you want to do things in the hands of a rebel like you!

Moreover, the former disciples of the Yuan family will also have problems. Although the Han Dynasty is a dual monarchy, everyone is the courtiers of the Han family first, and then the former disciples of the Yuan family.

If the Yuan family betrayed the big man, and the old disciples under the Yuan family didn't want to betray the big man, they could only betray Yuan Shao.Therefore, the appearance of Liu Bian shook the foundation of Yuan Shao's power, and any army that was not good for him would disintegrate.

Because the Yuan family is the rattan attached to the giant tree of the big man.

Yuan Shao said solemnly: "King Hongnong was also brought out by Dong Zhuo. If he also appeared in front of our army, I'm afraid our entire army will collapse. How can everyone solve this problem?"

Xu You said solemnly: "I didn't expect Dong Zhuo, a reckless man, to have not killed King Hongnong, but it is not an unsolvable problem. We can tell the world that Dong Zhuo threatened King Hongnong and let King Hongnong deal with our coalition forces. What King Nong is doing now is persecuted by the traitor Dong Zhuo! Shilin is in our hands, and the people in the world will believe what we say!"

Guo Tuwei: "However, it is very troublesome for Dong Zhuo to use King Hongnong to shake our army's morale. After all, King Hongnong is alive in front of everyone. This is not something we can deny, and the morale of the soldiers will be greatly affected. The Xiliang soldiers are already more powerful than our Central Plains soldiers, if the morale is gone now, it will be difficult to fight this battle!"

Xu You thought for a while and said: "Another way is to establish another emperor. In our war with Dong Zhuo, as long as he has King Hongnong and the emperor in his hands, we will be passive and have flaws in righteousness.

But if we set up an emperor that everyone in the world admires, and use this emperor to gather the hearts of the entire Central Plains, what will Dong Zhuo, a reckless man, do to compete with us for the hearts of the people!If all the county guards in the Central Plains join our alliance against Dong Zhuo, we can easily gather an army of one million. Do we still need to worry about Dong Zhuo's Xiliang soldiers? "

Xun Chen frowned and said, "But the late Emperor only has two heirs, King Hongnong and His Majesty, and they are both in the hands of Dong Zhuo. We may not be able to convince the public if we make other clan children!"

Originally, they didn't care whether King Hongnong was dead or alive. After all, Dong Zhuo wanted to suppress the two regions of the Kwantung Sili. Yu Wan can beat Dong Zhuo with his eyes closed.

But two accidents changed the situation of the battle. First, they did not expect that Liu Bei would obey Dong Zhuo's order. They really brought 3 Xiliang troops and did not fight them. They wiped out their 3 troops in World War I. Liu Bei alone contained 10 Kwantung alliances. Wan Dajun,
The second is that they did not expect that the Guanxi Clan and the Sili Clan would join forces with Dong Zhuo, allowing Dong Zhuo to free up his hands to attack them.Although Dong Zhuo only brought out [-] Xiliang troops to attack them, Dong Zhuo defeated the [-] Kwantung Allied Forces in the first battle.

Dong Zhuo's side started to gain momentum, and no one present dared to say that they could definitely defeat Dong Zhuo.

In the situation of equal strength, even when they are still in a weak position, the name of righteousness is very important.King Hongnong became Qicun of the coalition forces.

Xu You said with a smile: "As long as we find a clan that will serve everyone and become the emperor, we will be fine. Youzhou Mu Liu Yu is the wisest of the clan. If we support him as emperor, the people of the world will definitely be convinced.

Moreover, Liu Yu is Liu Bei's old master. If Liu Yu becomes the emperor, maybe Liu Bei will also join our alliance against Dong Zhuo. In this way, they will have 10 troops to attack Dong Zhuo, and the offensive and defensive momentum will be reversed. "

"Furthermore, Liu Yu himself has 8 Youzhou frontier troops, which are powerful. If he joins us, Dong Zhuo will face an army of more than 30. Even if the Xiliang army can fight, it is impossible for the Xiliang army to defeat the 30 coalition army!"

As soon as Xu You's strategy was mentioned, everyone became excited, because Xu You's strategy could really change their passive situation.

Moreover, Liu Yu's character is trustworthy, and he is a member of their scholarly community. If he becomes the emperor, it will be of great benefit to them and no harm!
But Yuan Shao's face was even more ugly. Originally, he also wanted to establish Liu Yu as emperor in history to change his political passivity, but in this time and space, he definitely didn't want Liu Yu to become emperor.

There are not many reasons, but Liu Yu's strength is too strong, he has 8 frontier troops, and Liu Bei has 3 Xiliang soldiers as allies. If he joins the Dongdong Alliance, the clan will have 11 troops.

How can he, the ally, go on?This is not to make Liu Yu turn against the guest!

If Liu Yu really became the emperor, he would be the first to deal with Dong Zhuo, and the second would be to deal with Yuan Shao. This conflicted with Yuan Shao's interests, so he was naturally unwilling.

But the current situation is very unfavorable to the Kwantung Allied Forces, they urgently need new forces to join, if Yuan Shao refuses to accept, I am afraid that the current allies will be alienated.

Yuan Shao thought for a while and said, "For such an important matter as establishing the Son of Heaven, we still have to listen to the wishes of other county guards, so that we can make a decision!"

Others also nodded, this kind of thing really needs to seek the opinions of other county guards!

Feng Ji saw that Yuan Shao was unwilling to let Liu Yu become the emperor, so he said: "It is not something that can be made in a short while to support the emperor. We should first find a way to rescue Cao Cao and the others!"

Yuan Shao asked: "Where can we find reinforcements now? The Xiliang army in Dong Zhuo's hands is far beyond our imagination. I'm afraid our 5 troops will not be able to defeat Dong Zhuo!"

Yuan Shao thought for a while and found that for him, the best way to improve his predicament is to defeat Dong Zhuo. As long as he can defeat Dong Zhuo, all the problems can be solved. If he really wants to support the emperor, he must support someone who is not too strong. Powerful Clan!

Guo Tu smiled wryly and said, "Duke Ming is afraid that it will be very difficult now. When we attacked Dong Zhuo, the Yellow Turban Bandits in Qingzhou became bigger again. Qingzhou Inspector Jiao He and Beihai Prefect Kong Rong are asking for help. They said that the Yellow Turban Bandits have With millions of people, the whole of Qingzhou has been caught in the flames of war. Only the big cities of Linzi and Beihai have not been breached by the Yellow Turban Army, but these big cities are also surrounded by the Yellow Turban Army.

Tao Qian, governor of Xuzhou, and Zi Shao, prefect of Taishan, also asked us for help, saying that the Taishan bandits and the Yellow Turban bandits in the Central Plains have a combined population of one million. "

Yuan Shao was surprised: "How could there be so many yellow turban thieves in the Central Plains? There are already 200 million yellow turban thieves. Could it be that these yellow turban thieves came from the sky?"

Guo Tu said helplessly: "Originally the Central Plains had troops to suppress the Yellow Turban Bandits, but we deployed 20 troops to confront Dong Zhuo. The Central Plains lacked 20 troops to suppress the Yellow Turban Bandits, and then they continued to grow bigger. Became what it is now!"

In fact, the most important reason Guo Tu dare not say is that the Central Plains suffered from constant floods and droughts in the past two years, and it was only by driving the victims to Bingzhou that this problem was suppressed.

However, the people in the Central Plains were also seriously injured because of these two disasters, and now not only is there less than 20 troops to suppress the local area, but there are also millions of civilian husbands to help them escort food and grass, and they have also taken away tens of millions of local people. Shi's food supports their so-called Dadong alliance to fight the war.

And these money and food obviously will not be paid by the powerful and noble families in the Central Plains. At most, they will send people to occupy official positions and fame!

But they don't take out any money and food, and the expenses of these hundreds of thousands of troops obviously fall on the people.

Aristocratic clans go up to them when they are good, and hide when they are bad. Exquisite egoism can be said to be the ultimate, but these people are the foundation of Yuan Shao, so Yuan Shao doesn't think they did anything wrong. The powerful clans rule the people, and the people pay taxes. It's not normal to be a soldier.

Therefore, since Yuan Shao and the others formed the Dongdong Alliance, the taxation of the people in the Central Plains has more than doubled. The people in the Central Plains, who were already struggling to survive, began to go bankrupt and became refugees in large numbers, and finally joined the camp of the Yellow Turban Army. The reason why another 200 million troops broke out within a short period of time was because Yuan Shao and the others oppressed them!In order to attack Dong Zhuo, they didn't care about the life and death of the people in the Central Plains.

It's just that Yuan Shao didn't expect the situation to be so dangerous. When he heard that there were 200 million Yellow Turban thieves in the entire Central Plains, he was very nervous. The rear of the Dong Lianjun was completely chaotic. , the coalition forces are about to disintegrate at any time.After all, even if those prefects want to fight, the soldiers in the prefect's hands cannot have the morale to continue fighting!
The yellow turban bandits in the Central Plains completely disrupted his plan to win over Dong Zhuo. Yuan Shao felt the pressure of death approaching him. If there were no coalition forces, it would be impossible for him alone to defeat Dong Zhuo!

The others were also in a daze when they heard the news. The Central Plains was in chaos, and the alliance's rear was unstable.Even if Dong Zhuo does not move, they will retreat. (This is also the reason why the coalition forces retreated in history. Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang City, and they wanted to march thousands of miles to attack Chang'an City, but their rear was unstable, and the princes had to go back to their homes to destroy the Yellow Turban Bandits in the Central Plains!)
Xu You asked anxiously: "Did they not look for Huangfusong? He has hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands. Could it be that he can't be dispatched? The Central Plains is too far away, but Qingzhou is beside Jizhou. Huangfusong should also find a way to wipe out the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army!"

Guo Tu said helplessly: "Of course I did, but Huangfu Song didn't dare to leave. Lei Gong is constantly mobilizing troops in Bingzhou. It is said that Lei Gong has assembled more than 50 troops in Bingzhou. Huangfu Song is worried that Lei Gong will rush out of Taihang Mountain and dare not mobilize troops at all! "

Xun Chen couldn't believe it and said: "How could this happen? It's not that the sky is going to kill us!"

Xu You said anxiously: "Now our only hope is Liu Yu. As long as Liu Yu brings [-] troops from Youzhou to the Central Plains, whether it is dealing with the Yellow Turbans or Dong Zhuo, we can improve our strategic situation!"

Simpi thought for a while and said: "We have another way. Lei Gong from Bingzhou sits on the mountain and watches the tigers fight. He sees that Dong Zhuo is weaker than us, so he sells 5000 sets of armor to Dong Zhuo. At the same time, we are not restricted from going to Bingzhou to buy weapons. It can be seen that he wants us to fight Dong Zhuo to lose both sides.

If we go to Bingzhou to buy 1 sets of iron armor, then our army's fighting power can be improved rapidly, even Dong Zhuo's army can fight!As long as we defeat Dong Zhuo, and then turn around and pacify the Yellow Turban Bandits in the Central Plains, with this credit, the entire five states of the Central Plains can be under the control of our Dong Zhuo Alliance, and we can form an army of hundreds of thousands to deal with Dong Zhuo! "

"1 sets of iron armor!" Yuan Shao and others exclaimed.

They bought Bingzhou's iron armor, but the price was too deceitful, a set cost 1000 shi of grain, Yuan Shao and the others bought 100 sets and spent 10 shi of grain, so expensive that even Yuan Shao, a wealthy family, only bought it Hundreds of sets were handed over to officers at the Sima level of the military army for use.

And 1000 sets of food cost [-] million shi, don't say that Yuan Shao and the others don't have so much food, even if they have it, they still have to keep the food.

Seeing that the five states in the Central Plains have all been invaded by the Yellow Turban Army, don’t think about the food in these five states this year, but these places are all grain-producing areas of the Han Dynasty. The reduction in production in these 5 states is equivalent to reducing the grain of the Han Dynasty by half. Today and tomorrow In two years, the big man will be in the red, who will trade his 1000 million shi of grain for trading!
Seeing Yuan Shao, Simpi said, "My lord, we can only gamble now. If we can't defeat Dong Zhuo in a very short time, Zhang Miao and the others will definitely retreat. At that time, Duke Ming will face Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army alone." .

And if we can now equip 1 Iron Armored Army, plus 4 Zianzao Allied Army, we still have more than 2 times the advantage, and the advantage of equipment, the possibility of defeating Dong Zhuo is very high!As long as Dong Zhuo can be defeated, tens of millions of stones of grain are nothing at all! "

Yuan Shao fell into deep thought when he heard Xin Pi's words. Originally, he occupied the entire Central Plains, but he had the upper hand by fighting for consumption. When his uncle and him made a plan, they also consumed Dong Zhuo's food and grass little by little, forcing Dong Zhuo to withdraw from Luoyang City.

But when he and his uncle made the plan, they never thought that the Central Plains would once again erupt with more than 200 million Yellow Turbans. This messed up his plan, and now he could not afford to delay.

And Dong Zhuo is sitting in Guanzhong and Sili. As long as the pass is guarded, the turmoil in the Central Plains will not affect him at all.Instead, Dong Lianjun must find a way to attack the Yellow Turban Army and keep his lair!

Simpi's plan is to fight hard. If he wins, his crisis will be resolved. If he fails, he will be defeated and die, and the Yuan family will fall into a situation of eternal doom!
Yuan Shao didn't want to fight like this, the possibility of failure was too great!His Yuan family has a great career and doesn't want to gamble like this!
Xun Kan said: "Ming Gong, the best way for us to improve our predicament is to win over Liu Yu. With his [-] army, it is not a problem to deal with Dong Zhuo or the Yellow Turban Bandits, and the success rate is higher. There is no risk of failure!"

Obviously, Xun Kan, who is a son of a powerful family, understood Yuan Shao's thoughts better.

But Yuan Shao was still confused: "Although we can support Liu Yu, what excuse should we use? Although the Son of Heaven and King Hongnong are under Dong Zhuo's control now, the late emperor only had their two sons. It is not fair to say that we suddenly supported Liu Yu." Not going well!"

Xu You said with a smile: "Let's just use the excuse that the Son of Heaven is not the son of the late emperor, so that Liu Yu, as a clan member, is naturally qualified to be the Son of Heaven!"

When everyone heard Xu You's words, they all stared at him in astonishment. The two sons of the late emperor were grown up under their watch. Now they say that the son of heaven is not the son of the late emperor. Some people have to believe that!

Xu You said, "It's nothing more than necessary!"

For the princes of the world, if it is just an excuse in the future, as long as they don't want to make themselves rebellious, then they must agree that the current emperor is not the son of the first emperor, so that they can release the moral shackles.

Faced with these two choices, after thinking for a long time, Yuan Shao felt that a good old man like Liu Yu would be easier to deal with. Even if he really became the emperor, he would still have a way to make Liu Yu a puppet!
After figuring it out, Yuan Shao said to his counselor: "Please contact the princes of the Quartet, we must bring Liu Yu closer to the Dong League!"

Xun Kan and others respectfully said, "No!"

Then they took Yuan Shao's letter to contact all parties!

Han Fu is the closest prince, and he was also the first to get the news.

Then he immediately summoned his confidants and told them about Yuan Shao's plan to support Liu Yu.

Chief Shi Geng Wu and Bie Jia Min Chun excitedly said: "Yuan Shao is trying to split the great man, and he said that the Son of Heaven is not the late Emperor's heir, this is not deceiving the people of the world, my lord must expose Yuan Shao's sinister intentions!"

Han Fu also looked embarrassed. Yuan Shao's low-level lie made him a little embarrassed. This kind of lie can't deceive anyone at all, it can only comfort himself, but it is also a good way to change their current situation.

After taking 500 million shi of grain from Jizhou to support Yuan Shao, Huangfusong took charge of the entire Jizhou as a chariot general. It can be said that he is a famous Jizhou herdsman, and Huangfusong is not from a poor family like Dong Zhuo. Xijiangmen, his uncle Huangfugui was close to the Kanto scholar Guanxi, and he himself was a Jizhou shepherd, so the officials in Jizhou also recognized Huangfusong as the backbone. The mission can only stabilize Jizhou if Huangfusong is there.

Especially in Qingzhou, the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army broke out again, and Yanzhou's Dong Lianmen and Dong Zhuo's Xiliang soldiers fought again and again. It can be said that the entire Central Plains is fighting in full swing. On the contrary, Jizhou, which has been restless a few years ago, is in such a war-torn season. Stability has been maintained, peace has been maintained.For the Jizhou aristocrats who have become frightened, the best leader at this stage is Huangfusong.

So Han Fu became a state shepherd who did not live up to his name, and no one in Jizhou obeyed his orders at all!

And if Liu Yu is supported by them to become the emperor, they will have an overwhelming advantage over Dong Zhuo, and he will become a supporter at that time. Now in the Dong League, except for Yuan Shao, the self-proclaimed hussar general, It is he who has the highest position as Jizhou shepherd, maybe he will become a Sangong, and then he will be able to leave Jizhou, a dangerous place!
The judge said solemnly: "Minggong, making Liu Yu the emperor is the best way to improve our situation. We can even contact Huangfusong. As long as he agrees, the power of the entire Han clan will be united. Not only will we You can defeat Dong Zhuo, and you can also defeat Lei Gong in Bingzhou, this is the best way to improve the situation of the big man, if the big man continues to split, the world will really be taken by Lei Gong!"

From the point of view of the judge, it is difficult to defeat Lei Gong even if the strength of the whole big man is assembled, and now the big man is divided into three major forces, and each force cannot win against Lei Gong alone. If they do not unite again, the world of the big man will be destroyed It will be captured by Lei Gong, a traitor!

From the point of view of the judge, compared with Lei Gong, even a treacherous official like Dong Zhuo looks handsome. If Dong Zhuo can integrate all the forces of the big man and lead the big man to destroy Lei Gong, he will agree to continue to be the prime minister of the country. He thinks that now The most important thing in the world is to exterminate Lei Gong, and other things are trivial!

Han Fu also felt that it made sense after hearing the trial and match, so he started to communicate with other princes in order to facilitate this matter.

But Yuan Shao's plan failed in other places.

Cao Cao and the others did not wait for Yuan Shao's reinforcements in Suanzao, but they waited for Yuan Shao's letter from another emperor!

Cao Cao objected on the spot and said: "The reason why we raised troops and people from far and near responded is precisely because our actions are just. Now the emperor is young and weak. Although he is controlled by traitors, he is not as capable as Liu He, the king of Changyi." The fault that led to the subjugation of the country, once you change and install someone else, who in the world will accept it? What is the difference between our behavior and Dong Zhuo, a rebellious official? You welcome Liu Yu to the north, and I respect myself as the emperor to the west."

When Cao Cao said this, even Zhang Miao and others who wanted to move did not dare to speak out.

Moreover, Liu Dai pulled out his long sword and said to them: "Whoever dares to set up another emperor, I will kill you rebellious officials and thieves right here!"

Liu Dai is a clan member of the Han Dynasty. In his opinion, the Emperor of Heaven is still alive, but someone dares to set up another emperor. Isn’t this a rebellion (he thinks his current behavior is a rebellion, not a rebellion!) Find a clan relative to support and become the emperor, and the world will not be messed up.

Liu Dai even pulled out his sword, so the others naturally dare not say things they agree with!

But Han Fu and Yuan Shao wrote to Yuan Shu, saying: "The emperor is not the son of Emperor Ling. We are going to follow Zhou Bo and Guan Ying to dethrone the young master, follow the precedent of the acting king, and honor the great Sima Liu Yu as emperor."

But Yuan Shu secretly had the ambition to be emperor, and thought that having an older emperor in the country would be bad for him, so he pretended to be righteous and rejected Han and Yuan Shao's proposal.

(End of this chapter)