Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 308 Who is the Loyal Minister
Seeing Liu Yao's agitation, Xu Shao hurriedly persuaded him, "Your envoy, don't be impulsive. Ruo Rong is indeed a rebel, but now that your envoy is going south to quell the rebellion, what should Wu County do?"

"You know, Sun Ce is still eyeing the Danyang River!"

After hearing this, Liu Yao calmed down a little, sighed heavily, and said, "Gongwei (Zhu Jun) entrusted his son to me. If I can't avenge his son, what kind of face will I have under Wen in the future? Before Wei?"

"I regret not listening to my husband, but Wen Wenming (Zhu Hao) must be avenged for being killed."

"Please sir help me!"

When Xu Shao heard this, he shook his head and sighed, "Master, it's difficult."

"Sun Ce is a fierce tiger in Jiangdong, there are very few people in the world who can defeat him."

In fact, Xu Shao was also very uncomfortable. He naturally knew that Tai Shici and Sun Ce fought a few days ago and the result was a draw.

If they could join forces with Guangling, there might be a possibility of forcing Sun Ce to retreat, but before Xu Shao blatantly disliked Tai Shici, wouldn't it be a slap in the face for him to say it now?

Speaking of it, Xu Shao looked down on people from a poor family like Tai Shici. In fact, Zhu Jun also came from a poor family, so Xu Shao and Zhu Hao didn't know each other very well, so he only mentioned the previous matter of Ruo Rong casually, so that Liu Yao and Zhu Hao were not alerted.

On the other hand, Xu Shao doesn't like people with extreme personalities. In his opinion, Yuan Shao's former second son, Yuan Xi, who is now adopted by Yuan Ji, is too decisive in doing things, just like Cao Cao, whom he didn't want to criticize before.

Thinking of this, he said aloud: "Master, it's better to wait and see what happens, the only strategy."

"Although Guangling is friendly with us in name, once we show signs of decline, how can we know if they will join forces with Sun Ce to deal with us and carve up Yangzhou?"

Liu Yao sighed: "Although that is the case, leaving Yuzhang County alone is not an option. Now that I occupy Yangzhou, only Wu County is left. What if Ze Rong waits for another opportunity to collude with Yuan Shu and attack Wu County from Yuzhang?"

After hearing this, Xu Shao found it difficult to make a decision, and said, "Your Majesty, let me go back and think about it."

He went back and thought about it for a few nights, but he couldn't think of a way to break the situation. Instead, he worked hard, his body was weak, and he contracted a cold.

At first Xu Shao didn't pay much attention to it, but after a few days, his condition got worse and he couldn't afford it anymore. Although he called more doctors, he didn't get better. It seems that this month won't last.

After Liu Yao knew about it, he was even more flustered. Since the incident of Ruo Rong, he had acted in a ambiguous manner, so that Fan Neng and Zhang Ying, who were fighting against Sun Ce on the river, were also affected, and their morale was low. Unable to withstand Sun Ce's offensive.

The spies sent by Chen Deng and Tai Shici had already lurked in various parts of Wu County at this time, and sent back the news they had inquired about.

The two met, looked at the secret reports, and learned that Ruo Rong had killed Zhu Hao, that Xu Shao was seriously ill, and that the Jiangdong defenders had lost consecutive battles, they couldn't help but look at each other in dismay.

They thought that Liu Yao would be able to resist Sun Ce for at least a year or two, but they didn't expect that Ruo Rong's rebellion would happen. In addition, Xu Shao was seriously ill and would die. The situation is dangerous!

Tai Shici thought over and over again, then suddenly raised his head and said, "Xu Shao may not have a good life for a few days."

"If he passes away, I would like to go to Wu County to express my condolences in the name of going to the funeral."

"First, let's see if we can help Liu Yao defeat Sun Ce. Second, I'll go and see with my own eyes the people the young master cares about. If it's suitable, I'll find someone to bring them back to Guangling."

After hearing this, Chen Deng said, "I'm afraid Liu Yao is afraid of the general, so I don't necessarily agree."

Tai Shici said indifferently: "It's okay, I will go alone, Liu Yao has tens of thousands of troops, can you be afraid that I will fail?"

Chen Deng was still a little worried, "The general is responsible for the safety of Guangling, and now he is in danger alone. If there is a mistake, how will Deng explain it to the envoy?"

Tai Shici smiled and said: "Charity is not good for internal affairs. The prefect has both military and government, so there is no need to be humble."

Chen Deng had no choice but to agree.

Ruo Rong's killing of Zhu Hao soon spread throughout the world, causing quite a stir.

Because Ruo Rong is famous in Xuzhou and Jiangdong for its worship of the Buddha, many Buddhist believers regard it as the reincarnation of the great power of Buddhism and Taoism.

Therefore, Xuzhou is also the most prosperous area for worshiping Buddha. The Taiping Road, which previously occupied the mainstream, was extinguished due to the Yellow Turban Rebellion and then turned underground. It has been oppressed by Buddhism and cannot hold its head up.

Now that Ruo Rong has killed three of his peers in a row, all of them are well-known gentry and celebrities. The Taiping Dao alchemists secretly thought that the opportunity had come, and began to spread that Ruo Rong's identity was the reincarnation of an ancient evil spirit. people.

Naturally, the monks in the Xuzhou temple couldn't accept it, and began to fight back. Buddhism is obviously better at debating scriptures than Taipingdao, and its entire theoretical system is extremely self-consistent.

Buddhism punishes the heart, Taoism punishes people, and the Taiping Dao alchemists saw that they couldn't do it, so they started to do it.

The folk customs in Xuzhou are tough, and most of these alchemists rebelled with the Yellow Turbans, and they really killed people with knives. The monks who debated scriptures were their opponents, and they were immediately embarrassed.

Then the monks realized that as long as they didn't hide their armor, they wouldn't break the Han law, so they brought out swords, guns and sticks, and the two sides started fighting, and the situation intensified.

This was beyond Chen Deng's expectation. He had no good solution to this kind of dispute. Now that the two sides are fighting more and more fiercely, he wanted to take measures to stop it.

But Chen Deng changed his mind, and while sending a letter to Yuan Xi, he only asked the officials to post a notice saying that the dispute over the law should not harm innocent people, otherwise they will be severely punished.

As soon as the notice was published, both parties understood that as long as the co-authorship does not hurt the people, the government will not care about it!

Then keep playing!

At that time, the dispute between Taoism and law was actually related to the extremely important issue of dominance. Taiping Dao relied on the Yellow Turban rebellion and was suppressed, but it was not eradicated by the Han court. The emperor, all believe in Taoism.

This is also the reason why Taiping Dao infiltrated all the eunuchs around Han Lingdi during the Yellow Turban Uprising.

Now the Emperor Liu Xie, whose capital is tentatively in Anyi, also believes so, but for the current predicament, nothing seems to work.

He raised his head and saw more than a dozen soldiers of the Baibo army lying on the courtyard wall laughing and playing, pointing at Empress Fu Dong Guiren and other female relatives beside him, clenched their fists inside their sleeves.

He concealed the anger in his heart, and said to Dong Cheng, the chariot general at the side: "They have gone too far."

After Dong Cheng heard this, he asked the palace servants to drive away the Baibo soldiers, but after the palace servants said a few words, several Baibo soldiers jumped off the courtyard wall, pushed the palace servants to the ground, and beat them hard.

The wails of the palace people came in, and Liu Xie was shaking with anger. These soldiers of the Baibo army who came from bandits didn't even pay attention to their status as the emperor!
Li Jue and Guo Si at least gave himself some face, this Baibo army has no bottom line, and his situation has not changed at all!

At this time, a general walked into the yard, grabbed several Baibo soldiers and dragged them out. He was so strong that the Baibo soldiers were about to yell while thumping on the ground.

When they saw who was coming, they found that it was Yang Feng's general, Xu Huang who had just been conferred the title of Marquis of Du Ting, and immediately swallowed back the yelling that came to his lips.

Xu Huang was born as a Baibo bandit, and his qualifications were much older. How could these soldiers dare to resist, so they had to be dragged out honestly.

Xu Huang yelled and cursed a few more times, and the soldiers on the wall reluctantly dispersed.

When Liu Xie saw her, she turned pale and said to Dong Cheng, "Ai Qing thinks, is it okay to go on like this?"

Dong Cheng was also very helpless, he originally thought that Yang Feng was following his orders, but as soon as the Baibo army Li Lehu arrived, Yang Feng's power became stronger, and there was a faint tendency to push himself above him!
He secretly felt ruthless in his heart, because you, Yang Feng, who was born as a Baibo thief, dare to ride on my head!

Dong Cheng saw that there were no outsiders around, stepped forward two steps, and said in a low voice: "It's not impossible."

"Cao Mengde, the shepherd of Yanzhou, is loyal to the Han family, and he is a true Taoist monarch who descended to earth, so he will definitely be able to help the Han family and become the emperor's powerful help!"

"If the emperor issues an edict ordering him to pick him up and lead his army to Luoyang, those who disrespect the emperor will be like chickens and dog ears!"

Liu Xie listened with great interest: "I remember him, he still wanted to assassinate Dong Zhuo back then."

Dong Cheng's heart skipped a beat, "That's because he didn't know the inside story, but it's obvious that he has the heart of the Son of Heaven."

Liu Xie listened, noncommittal, and said: "Cao Shen, the ancestor of the Cao family, believed in Huang Lao. When he was Emperor Huan, Cao Teng was ordered to participate in the compilation of Laozi's inscription, and he put Huang Lao in the North Palace Zhuolong. , the Huang family is in charge."

"Now if Cao Cao is a true Taoist monarch, what would he worship?"

"I have heard that Qiao Xuan once said to Cao Cao that today the world will be chaotic, and the people will live in peace, does it depend on the king?"

"He can reassure the people, but what about me?"

Dong Cheng's heart skipped a beat, and he broke out in cold sweat, he hurriedly said: "I really don't know."

Liu Xie chuckled: "I just said it casually, Qing, don't think too much."

"I also heard that Yuan Xianyi, governor of Youzhou, is also a Daoist real person?"

Dong Cheng listened, forced a smile and said: "Yuan's reverence for Meng's Yi is a Confucian one, so Yuan Xi is obviously fabricating rumors, it can't be true."

Liu Xie listened, nodded and said: "It doesn't matter whether you respect Confucianism or Huang Lao. Whoever can save the world and me from danger is a loyal minister."

"Since that's the case, I will issue a secret edict to Cao Cao."

Dong Cheng was relieved after hearing this, and hurriedly bowed to accept the order.

But Liu Xie looked over Dong Cheng's shoulder and looked at the sky outside the yard, thinking that this is because there are too many lice and don't bite people. The big man is so dilapidated, how can there be a real loyal minister?

Seeing that the house is about to collapse, is there anyone willing to live in it?

In the west city of Yuzhang County, Zhuge Xuan sighed: "I didn't expect Zhu Hao to die before me. It's a trick of luck."

When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, Zhuge Xuan led his family and escaped from Langya County, took Yuan Shubiao and took office in Yuzhang County.

Although there were many twists and turns on the way and was almost discovered by Cao Jun, he escaped in the end, went south to Yangzhou, and successfully arrived in Yuzhang.

After Zhuge Xuan took office, the Eastern Han court appointed Zhu Hao to replace Zhuge Xuan as the prefect of Yuzhang. After Zhu Hao took office, he discovered that Yuan Shu had appointed Zhuge Xuan privately, so he asked Liu Yao, governor of Yangzhou, to send troops to attack Zhuge Xuan together.

Zhuge Xuan lost to Zhu Hao and retreated into the west city at the junction of Yuzhang and Changsha County in Jingzhou, but now he thought that Zhu Hao was actually killed by Ruo Rong, who was also under Liu Yao!
While Zhuge Xuan sighed, he was also thankful that he was beaten by Zhu Hao to the point where he was about to run away!
Seeing that Zhuge Xuan was lucky, Zhuge Liang on the side poured cold water on him and said, "Uncle, Ruo Rong is more vicious than Zhu Hao, it's better to leave Yuzhang early in the morning."

(End of this chapter)