I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 358, the narrow emperor ordered the princes
Yuan Shao worried: "But Yangzhou will fall into Liu Bei's hands. Jingzhou alone will make Liu Bei second only to me in strength. If Liu Bei gets Yangzhou again, Liu Bei may be too powerful to stop!"

Now Yuan Shao regrets letting Liu Bei easily control the court. Although the prestige of the court is already very low, it is still very useful when it is really needed!

Just look at the few imperial decrees issued by the imperial court, which made Cao Cao and other princes send hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege Yuan Shu. It can be seen that the imperial court still has a high weight in the eyes of the world. If Liu Bei used this trick to deal with him, Yuan Shao would not I can guarantee that I can't resist it, after all, many of his disciples and old officials miss the court!

Moreover, Yuan Shao remembered now that his elder brother Yuan Ji was still Liu Bei's long history, if he came to Yuzhou as the head of Yuan's family, Yuzhou might be destabilized!Even Yuan Shao's subordinates may be wooed away by his elder brother.

If Liu Bei really acts according to his idea, Yuan Shao's power may collapse, because now Yanzhou is the front line, and after being plundered by the Xiliang army, Sili has already been seriously injured, and now the other two states are relying on Yuzhou Support, Yuzhou is the most important base for Yuan Shao now.

However, this basic board was threatened by Liu Bei. It can be said that Yuan Ji in Liu Bei's hands is Yuan Shao's biggest weakness. Yuan Ji is the veritable head of the Yuan family.

Besides, Liu Bei is now attacking Yuan Shu in the name of the imperial court, Yangzhou is also within easy reach, because Yuan Shao knows that Liu Yao is a person without ambitions. As long as Liu Bei arranges Liu Yao in the name of the imperial court, Liu Yao will give up immediately The position of governor of Yangzhou!

However, Yizhou Mu Liu Yan died of illness. Although the current Zhou Mu is Liu Zhang, Liu Zhang has a bad name and has not been appointed by the imperial court. , After obtaining Yangzhou, Liu Bei's attack on Yizhou was justifiable. Yuan Shao didn't think Liu Zhang could resist Liu Bei's army.

With the righteousness of the court, half of the great man's country will be in Liu Bei's hands. If this happens, even he will have to rely on Liu Bei. Yuan Shao cannot tolerate this situation!Yuan Shao knew the role of the court was so great, even if he wiped out all the troops, he wanted to keep the court in Luoyang City, it was too late to say anything now.

Everyone noticed Yuan Shao's hostility towards Liu Bei, obviously their lord couldn't accept his status, under Liu Bei's shabby household!

Jushou immediately said: "My lord, now Lei Gong is the number one enemy, we should find a way to make friends with Liu Bei, if the lord and Liu Bei turn against each other, I am afraid that the lord's army will collapse immediately, and the powerful clans in the Central Plains joined the lord to deal with Lei Gong , instead of wanting the lord to deal with the court!"

Now more than half of Yuan Shao's army is raised by powerful clans. They want to unite to fight against Lei Gong and protect their own land, not to help Yuan Shao conquer the world. If Yuan Shao really commanded the army to attack Liu Bei, his subordinates might return They will really turn against each other!After all, compared with Yuan Shao, who has been defeated repeatedly, Liu Bei's winning rate is much higher, and he can be called a generation of famous generals.

Feng Ji said, "It is precisely because the strength of the states and counties in various places is not the opponent of Lei Gong. If they want to survive, they must get the help of the lord. Now they are begging us, not us begging them! With Lei Gong's current power , It is impossible to resist with the strength of our three states alone, the Lord needs to unite the strength of the whole big man to be able to fight Lei Gong, and the big man who is divided like this is impossible to be Lei Gong's opponent!"

Feng Ji obviously wanted to solve the division within the Han Dynasty first, so that the power of the entire Han Dynasty would be unified in Yuan Shao's hands, and then deal with Lei Gong!

Tian Feng said sincerely: "My lord, in this year's battle of Jizhou, Lei Gong took advantage of the turmoil in Sili and the reduction of the imperial court's strength to attack Jizhou, so that I have hundreds of thousands of elite central troops in the Hankong, but I can't give Jizhou any help." Support, isn’t this lesson deep enough? If we fight with Liu Bei, Lei Gong will take the opportunity to occupy the Central Plains even if he lacks food and grass. If the Central Plains fall, we will surely die without a place to die!”

Xu You said with a smile: "Although we have conflicts with Liu Bei, we don't necessarily have to fight with each other. With Lei Gong, everyone doesn't want the big man to split, because splitting us will definitely kill us. The imperial court is the banner that gathers us. Compared with Liu Bei's military strength, he was as weak politically as Dong Zhuo when dealing with Liu Bei in the classroom. His teacher Lu Zhi was dead, most of his classmates and friends died in the battle with Lei Gong, and he himself He was born in a poor family, and his family had no old disciples to help him.

What he did in Jizhou back then has already made the world's elites want to kill him quickly. If he could not fight, and the world needs generals who can fight, Liu Bei would have died long ago! "

"Our advantage is that in the imperial court, how many of the three princes and nine ministers of the imperial court are our relatives and friends, and how many civil and military officials are our protégés and old officials. Even if Yang Biao is not your brother-in-law at the beginning, everyone can do it. Together, why let Liu Bei, a warrior, take advantage of us? Originally, you should not have stayed in Luoyang City, but should have gone to Xiangyang to control the court. With our family status, Liu Bei must be kicked out of the court by us. He It’s not that he can fight, he has generals who are enemies of thousands of people, we can make Liu Bei our sharp knife against Lei Gong!”

Xun Kan, Jushou, Tian Feng, Guo Tu, Chunyu Qiong, Chen Lin and others all made suggestions to Xu You. Under the circumstances, engaging in military confrontation would be a dead end. In the court, the general trend is with them.

Naturally, Yuan Shao's thoughts could not be hidden from the counselors around him, but these people did not agree with Yuan Shao's replacement of the Han Dynasty. For one thing, Yuan Shao had not established enough achievements, and they did not support Yuan Shao's replacement of the Han Dynasty, either in terms of prestige or force.

The second is that everyone does not want to deal with Lei Gong at the critical moment. There will be turmoil in the Han Dynasty. If Yuan Shao proclaims the emperor at this time, the three southern states are all in the hands of the Han family clan. They will definitely attack Yuan Shao. Work together to deal with Lei Gong.

If this pushes Yuan Shao to the court, even if he becomes a prime minister and becomes a powerful minister, it will be better than Yuan Shao establishing a new dynasty. When did my Han Dynasty fear powerful ministers?

Xun Kan said sincerely: "Now that the court's prestige has not been lost, the Duke of Ming controls the court, so he can narrow down the emperor to order the princes, assemble the entire Han army, attack Hebei, and punish the rebels. The battlefield we want to deal with Lei Gong is not in Luoyang City, but It is in Xiangyang City, and I invite Minggong to join the Xiangyang court for the sake of the world!
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