Xuande

Chapter 553 The Isolate and Helpless Yuan Shao

In the eyes of many people, Liu Bei is a person who is very organized and purposeful in doing things.

He never does meaningless things, and everything he does is very purposeful, so there must be some purpose for making such a big commotion now.

Potential enemies are very nervous, and their own people are not easy, because their own people find that they don't know what Liu Bei's purpose is.

So Cao Cao, who had the closest relationship with Liu Bei, was the first to find Liu Bei, and wanted to ask Liu Bei's purpose for doing things like this.

Who are you going to deal with?

Or is there some kind of political struggle going on?
When Cao Cao found Liu Bei, Liu Bei was watching the stonemasons working hard to carve characters in the large courtyard.

"Ah? No, I just want to make a backup of these books and engrave them on stone tablets for preservation. In this way, even if the original copy is lost, the words engraved on the stone tablet will not be easily damaged, and can be passed on to future generations. The difficulty is reduced.

You see, these stones are all high-quality stones. I have someone grind them carefully, and I plan to choose a good storage place to bury them deep in the ground, and leave them to be excavated by future generations, so that future generations can also know about our time. what people are thinking. "

"what?"

Now Cao Cao couldn't understand it.

"Xuande, why are you doing this?"

"In order to make these things that we can see, future generations can also see."

Liu Bei laughed and said: "When Yuan Gonglu died, I was thinking, no matter how prominent the family is, it is inevitable that they will not meet descendants like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and they will inevitably perish. If one descendant is stupid, the whole family is nothing more than a handful of loess.

It used to be so glorious, but it will be so miserable when it is destroyed, which is quite boring, so I gave up inheriting the family, I thought, instead of inheriting the family, it is better to pass on all the civilization and wisdom of the whole country, so I plan to pass on these All the books are engraved on stone tablets and hidden away.

In this way, even if the bamboo slips in our hands are rotten, burned, or destroyed by people, there are still hidden stone inscriptions to prove their existence. Books have been passed down, and civilization has been passed down for thousands of years. Future generations can also know the marks left by our predecessors.

Mengde, think about it, these things I have engraved now can be seen by future generations 2000 years later. No matter what kind of disaster happens during this period, even if all the books are burned, 2000 years later People can also see these things, and our civilization will be passed down.

Whether a family is prosperous or not is irrelevant. If the civilization is passed on, then no matter how the world changes, China will still be China. Isn't this much better than trying to inherit a family? "

Liu Bei patted the stele with a smile, Cao Cao couldn't handle it anymore.

"Xuande, this..."

"Can't understand?"

"It's not that I don't understand, it's just...the Liu family of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, you don't want to pass it on?"

"No matter how much thought I put in, as long as there is a generation of unworthy descendants, the family will be considered abolished."

Liu Bei laughed and said, "What's the point of passing on a group of insects that are not even as good as Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu? Wouldn't it be more fun to pass it on to everyone?"

"Civilization..."

Cao Cao scratched his head, thinking about it, and felt that he didn't quite understand Liu Bei's thoughts.

He only felt that what Liu Bei was thinking was powerful and reasonable, but if he was asked to do it, he obviously wouldn't do it that way.

The inheritance of civilization is too long, and it is not something he can consider now, and in his position, there is no need to consider such things.

It is enough for Liu Bei to think about it.

But in this way, there is no political significance for Liu Bei to do this thing, but to do this thing for the sake of doing this thing?

"It's really rare. Xuande would actually do such a thing. I thought everything Xuande did was very meaningful."

Cao Cao said with a smile: "The outside world is bustling, and everyone is guessing what important purpose you have for doing this, who is to deal with someone, or to change the situation, especially the people of the Jinwen School, who are so frightened. It's light, but I didn't expect it, it's not like this at all..."

"The outside world seems to think of me a little bit strangely."

Liu Bei caressed the stone tablet on the ground, and said with a smile: "But it doesn't matter, everything I do has a purpose, but occasionally, I also want to do something that seems meaningless now, but for these people For me, they probably won't understand me."

Cao Cao nodded approvingly.

After all, this incident did not cause any waves. Whether it was Liu Bei's allies or potential enemies, no matter how they guessed, Liu Bei did not launch any political actions they expected.

And when the time came to the end of October, Liu Bei was ready to organize his army to deal with Yuan Shao, hoping to get rid of Yuan Shao before the end of the sixth year of Zhongping, so that this farce would come to an end, and next year, a new situation would usher in.

However, Liu Bei did not expect that this battle was not started by himself.

After Liu Bei caused Yuan Shao to fall into a situation of siege on three sides by Youzhou, Bingzhou, and Qingzhou, he did not stop his diplomatic offensive.

He sent Cao Cao as a lobbyist to convey the imperial order, and persuaded Qiaomao, who was the governor of Yanzhou at the time, to station troops in Dongwuyang to deter Yuan Shao together.

Qiao Mao, Inspector of Yanzhou, was a member of the late Taiwei Qiao Xuan. Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Cao Cao was still young. Among the senior officials in Luoyang, only Qiao Xuan was friendly to Cao Cao and took care of Cao Cao. Therefore, Cao Cao never forgot about Qiao Xuan. .

Qiao Mao is a member of Qiao Xuan's family, so Liu Bei asked Cao Cao to act as a messenger, and went to Yanzhou with the imperial edict to persuade Qiao Mao to send troops to threaten Yuan Shao and act with the court.

Qiao Mao didn't have much hesitation.

Before Yuan Shu fell, he had some thoughts, but after Yuan Shu attacked and killed the clan, he had no such thoughts at all. Later, when Chen Liujun and Liang Guo were ordered by the court to send troops to encircle and suppress Yuan Shu, Qiao Mao did nothing to hinder him.

This time, in order to deal with Yuan Shao, the imperial court needed to use the power of Yanzhou. This made Qiao Mao, who wanted to establish a relationship with the new imperial court but had no connections, very happy, so he treated Cao Cao warmly, chatted and laughed happily with him, and finalized the decision to use troops against Yuan Shao matter.

At the same time, Cao Cao also went to Taishan County to meet Bao Xin, who had retired from seclusion, under Liu Bei's order, and persuaded Bao Xin to return to his official position.

Regarding the killing of He Jin, Bao Xin felt a little terrified, and when he met Cao Cao, he expressed worry.

Cao Cao just laughed at this.

"You left He Jin before He Jin's rebellion. You did not continue to hold a position. You retired to the mountains and rivers. Even if He Jin rebelled, what does it have to do with you? Your clansman Bao Hong came to pacify He Jin and Yuan Kai. Made great contributions to the chaos.

He recommended you to the general, and hoped that the general would not pursue your responsibility. The general has already approved it, so he sent me as an envoy to invite you to serve as an official. Can't you feel the sincerity of the general? "

Bao Xin was very pleased with Cao Cao's exhortation, and he accepted the appointment directly without being hypocritical.

"The general is so magnanimous that he can tolerate and appoint a sinner like me, so what can I refuse? I am willing to serve the general!"

Cao Cao was overjoyed, so he announced the appointment of Bao Xin as the prefect of Dongjun on the spot, and asked Bao Xin to prepare troops in Dongjun to prepare for war, and together with Yanzhou Inspector Qiao Mao, he was always ready to deal with Yuan Shao.

In mid-to-late October, Qiao Mao, the governor of Yanzhou, and Bao Xin, the prefect of Dongjun, stationed troops in Dongwuyang County of Dongjun to prepare for the battle, and made a posture to deter Yuan Shao from the north.

At this point, the encirclement of Jizhou was formed. Because of Yuan's rebellion and perverse actions, coupled with Liu Bei's successful record of destroying Yuan Shu, no one in the world believes that Yuan Shao has a future.

The so-called wall falls and everyone pushes it, Yuan's demise is already a certainty, those who followed Yuan before will be purged, and those who did not follow Yuan before are secretly glad that they were not dazzled by Yuan's words mind.

Listening to the Luoyang court's words is no longer a bet or a bet, but a normal behavior. After the crusade against Yuan Shu, the authority of the Luoyang court has basically been established, and now dealing with Yuan Shao is a reinforcement.

Under the premise of such a siege, Yuan Shao's anxiety can be imagined, and those guys who have gained huge benefits from cleaning up the eunuch's property with him are also quite anxious.

They can feel the feeling of making money and liquidating the crematorium now, but it is impossible to change the situation.

It is impossible for the Luoyang court to forgive them. Although anti-eunuchs are politically correct, political correctness is no more than the [-] elite Central Han Army.

What's more terrible is that the news of Yuan Shu's defeat and Runan's liquidation also spread to Jizhou. Now the situation where the Yuan brothers echo each other from the south to the north is gone forever.

Yuan's lair was wiped out, the roots were dug out, Yuan Shu was divided into five horses in Luoyang, and the whole family was beheaded by the Luoyang emperor to comfort the spirit of the former emperor and the second king, Yuan Shao was completely alone.

Enemy on all sides, no help, fighting alone.

Under such circumstances, Yuan Shao seems to have fallen into a dead end, but when the time comes for life and death, people can always burst out the last strength to survive. Of course, Yuan Shao will not wait for Liu Bei to put him on the noose of five horses , so he has to struggle.

Not only those of his fellow eunuchs who followed him to make eunuch money were also struggling hard, all kinds of ideas and various fights were made in order to gain allies and stir up the situation in the world.

Tian Feng, an important counselor, designed for him to let him give up looking for allies inside and look for allies outside.

Internally, you need to care a little bit about the people's opinions, they are more mindful, while externally, you are more inclined to actual interests. As long as you give enough money, they will be your allies.

For example, the Xianbei people, such as the Huns, they can all be the helpers of Yuan Shao's comeback, and only they can be the helpers of Yuan Shao's comeback.

(End of this chapter)