Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 389
When what happened in Huaicheng was urgently sent by Chen Gong to Lu Bu in Anyi City, several parties were arguing endlessly in the court of the emperor.

The next step of Tianzi motorcade.

Cao Cao proposed to welcome the emperor to Xu County.

Lu Bu and Ju Shou proposed to welcome the emperor to Huaicheng.

Both sides had the support of many ministers and ministers, and of course some ministers insisted on returning to Luoyang, after all, that was the old capital of the Han Dynasty.

The two sides argued for several days, but Liu Xie was still undecided. After all, in order to revive the Han Dynasty, he had to consider the opinions of all parties. Now it seems that the number of people who obviously support Cao Cao is the largest.

Although Liu Xie regained Lu Bu's allegiance, he was somewhat wary of Jushou Zhao Yun, who belonged to Yuan Xi's forces. It's hard to trust completely.

He privately summoned Lu Bu, Cao Cao's counselor Xun You, and Yuan Xi's counselor Ju Shou, and listened to their ideas.

Of course Lu Bu thought it would be best for Liu Xie to go to Huaicheng, Xun You agreed to go to Xuchang, and Ju Shou stood on Lu Bu's side, but at the same time suggested that if Liu Xie felt that Huaicheng was not safe, he could go to Jizhou to seek Yuan Shao's asylum.

In Liu Xie's heart, he was actually more inclined towards Cao Cao. After all, Cao Cao had privately sent someone to communicate with the Han court a few years ago, and he had a relationship with his ancestors and the Han Dynasty, which made Liu Xie more at ease.

More importantly, Cao Cao's power is weak, which is the most suitable for Liu Xie, so that he can have more autonomy.

And Yuan Xi's backing to Yuan Shao was a big threat to Liu Xie, especially taking refuge in Jizhou, which would even affect his governance as the emperor.

Liu Xie's real idea is to rely on Lu Bu to check and balance Cao Cao, and to use Jizhou's forces as much as possible, but keep a respectful distance. The whole world is in a panic looking for help.

Therefore, he has already been biased in his mind on how to arrange the three forces of Cao Cao, Lu Bu and Youzhou. Not surprisingly, the Youzhou Army is the one that was eliminated in advance.

But how to appease the Youzhou army who has made great contributions is also a problem. Rewards must be given, and they cannot be driven away. Otherwise, who in the world will believe in themselves?
However, Liu Xie found that even if it was a false official position, he would not be able to take it out!

The generals of the four directions have been occupied by the Baibo army, and hundreds of official positions have also been divided up by the soldiers of the Baibo army. These high-ranking positions that only children of aristocratic families could hold these ten years ago are now divided like Chinese cabbage by illiterate bandits. Occupation, for the Han Dynasty, is simply a great irony.

If Liu Xie wants to continue to buy people's hearts with false officials, he must vacate these official positions.

As a result, the Baibo army, who acted recklessly and did not leave anyone behind at all, became the thorn in the eyes of all other forces, even higher than Li Jue and Guo Si.

Under the secret promotion of several parties, a plan against the Baibo army began to brew.

At this time, Zhong Yao in the hall said impassionedly: "No matter where the emperor drives, we must eliminate the rebels who threaten the emperor in front of us!"

"After Li Jue and Guo Si were defeated, they never left. Instead, they were still spying on the emperor's chariot outside the city!"

"Now that all parties are coming to help, our strength has surpassed the Liangzhou Army, and it is a great time to wipe them out!"

In all fairness, this is not a miscalculation. Last time, Zhao Yun and Lu Bu's coalition forces alone were able to stop the Liangzhou army. If the Cao army and the Baibo army came out in full force, they might not be able to wipe them out!
The key question is, who will lead this counterattack, and who will be in charge of being the striker?

Lu Bu and Zhao Yun have sent troops before, and anyone who proposes to use the two as the main force this time will obviously be questioned. Therefore, the forwards this time will most likely come from Cao Jun and Baibo Jun.

Neither side was stupid, not to mention Cao Cao, but the Baibo army knew that Liangzhou soldiers were powerful, so they made excuses to evade it, but Zhong Yao on the field grabbed the handle of Baibo army and tried his best to encourage them.

He said: "General Sifang is still here. This position was originally established for countering the rebellion. Now that the rebel army is on the side, the one who wins the official will seek his position. He should defeat the rebel army, wipe out the bandits, and protect the emperor comprehensively!"

When he said this with a gun and a stick, he couldn't help alluding to the high-level officials of the Baibo army, and also alluding to the Baibo bandit soldiers who had occupied hundreds of official positions.

The generals of the Baibo army scolded inwardly, but now riding a tiger is hard to get off. After a few people discussed secretly, Yang Feng came out and said: "Although we are not talented, we are sincerely loyal to the Han Dynasty, but our strength is not as good as Li Jue Guo's. Si still has a gap, so he can only assist with all his strength, but he is unable to preside over the overall situation."

They think very clearly that they can go to battle on their own, but they are not good enough, so they can only be partial troops!

Everyone turned their attention to Cao Cao and Lv Bu at the same time, but found that Lv Bu was in a daze, as if he didn't notice the debate among them.

Lu Bu had just received a letter from Huaicheng, but it was from Zhang Yang, which made him confused.

Previously when Huaicheng rebelled for the first time, after Zhang Yang learned that Yang Chou was the one who caused the rebellion, he hurried back and wanted to explain clearly to Lu Bu. Did not even meet.

On the way Zhang Yang rushed back, he heard Yuan Shu's army attacking the city. He was in shock and waited near Huaicheng for two days before the news came that Yuan Shu's army had been defeated!
Zhang Yang heard this, and quickly sneaked into the city from another way to avoid Yuan Shujun. After Yuan Xi learned about it, he asked Zhang Yang to take charge of the overall situation of Huaicheng. After all, Zhang Yang was still the prefect of Hanoi.

Zhang Yang carefully checked what happened in the city, and he was even more shocked. He didn't expect that after Yang Chou, Lu Bu's subordinates also rebelled!
He didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately wrote an urgent letter and handed it to Lu Bu. After receiving the letter, Lu Bu almost smashed the table. Even Wei Xu and Song Xianhou Chengdu rebelled?
Are there any good people under him?
Is it true that Yuan Xi colluded with Chen Gong Gaoshun to clean up his power?
But Lu Bu thought about it again, Chen Gong Gaoshun would not benefit from doing such a thing, and after Zhang Yang returned, Yuan Xi asked Zhang Yang to take over the military power in the city again.

Moreover, Zhang Yang swore in the letter that he had interrogated Wei Xu, and the other party confessed, saying that Yuan Shu had promised a high-ranking official and generous salary, so he was confused for a while, and hoped that Lu Bu would spare his life for the sake of his family.

This family is very quintessential, and Lu Bu naturally understood that what Wei Xu was referring to was not the mother clan of Lu Bu he said he was in, but Wei Xu's wife.

Lu Bu had a guilty conscience about the affair with his subordinates' wives and concubines, so he subconsciously wanted to reply to the letter and agree, but then he thought about it, if Wei Xu's wicked affair with Yuan Shu, if Huaicheng was really breached, would his wife and daughter have a good end?
So Lu Bu is upset now, he just wants to rush back to Huaicheng with the Tianzi convoy, and he really can't rest assured that the base camp has become like this.

But now, in order to deal with Li Jue and Guo Si, arguing started in the hall, and everyone saw Lu Bu's lack of interest, so they looked at Cao Cao again.

Seeing this, Cao Cao knew the time had come.

Whether it is to please the emperor or to clean up the court, an excuse is needed to carry out a power reshuffle.

Eliminating Li Jue and Guo Si now is this opportunity. Only by making great contributions can the emperor reward him, redistribute official positions, and he can insert the direct line forces into it.

He stood up and said, "The Liangzhou army intends to hold the emperor hostage and poison the world, and it has reached the point where it has to be eliminated!"

"Although Cao is not talented, he is willing to be a pioneer and listen to the master's orders!"

As soon as he said this, several officials immediately came out to praise him, and at the same time secretly poked and ridiculed Baibo's army for not showing up.

Except for Yang Feng, Bai Bojun, Han Siam and Hucai were all year-round thieves, and they were immediately fooled, jumping out and yelling to suppress the thieves together.

Yang Feng couldn't stop him, and watched Han Siam Hucai make a guarantee, but at this time Li Le stood up and said: "The general got the news that the Southern Huns sent troops to plot wrongdoing, and I would like to lead an army to block the north. Resist the enemy army and prevent the Southern Huns from colluding with the Liangzhou army."

All the officials present didn't believe it, so you can come up with an excuse like Xindao?

Unexpectedly, Cao Cao glanced at Zhong Yao and said to Liu Xie, "The general's concerns are very reasonable. The Southern Huns have ulterior motives, so we must guard against them."

After hearing this, Liu Xie said to Li Le: "In this case, the general can lead an army horse to do things cheaply."

Li Le quickly took the order.

Cao Cao turned to Lu Bu again, and said, "Cao is going to battle this time, and I want to invite Marquis Wen to sit in the central army, how about it?"

After hearing this, Lu Bu subconsciously felt that Cao Cao was treating himself as an equal leader, so he nodded and said, "Yes."

After hearing this, Ju Shou was about to say something to stop him, but Lu Bu had already agreed, and his face froze immediately.

Naturally, he could guess that the next big battle would be the key battle to share the fruits. Lu Bu's position in the central army meant that he had lost the opportunity to make meritorious service!

At that time, meritorious deeds will be rewarded. If Cao Jun occupies too many key official positions, his right to speak will become very low!

Right now Lv Bu is restrained and can only rely on Zhao Yun, but if Zhao Yun fails to achieve an inch of merit, I am afraid that the rumors of going to Xu County to please the emperor will overwhelm the voices of going to Huaicheng.

And Jushou can be sure that when Cao Cao attacked the Liangzhou army, he would most likely take the opportunity to attack the Baibo army.

At this time, Lu Bu was sitting in the central army, which was tantamount to being emptied. How could he know what happened in the periphery?

Looking at the bewildered Lu Bu, Ju Shou suddenly realized that he was very tired. Following a master like Lu Bu, no wonder his subordinates have all kinds of ideas!

Jushou is now anxious. Although he and Liu Xie have expressed their relationship with Jujun, and Liu Xie has also expressed his condolences for Jujun's death, he obviously does not trust Jushou as much as Cao Cao.

Jushou guessed that Yuan Shao supported Liu Yu as emperor, which cast a shadow in Liu Xie's heart, so he couldn't fully trust Yuan. Before Jushou came, Yuan Xi foresaw this, and only said that Jushou should not have any worries and do it with confidence. That's it.

But now Jushou was a little helpless. He didn't expect Cao Cao to be so powerful around the emperor. Apart from Dong Chengzhongyou and others, there were a large number of supporters of Cao Cao!
He surrounded all the officials, wondering if there was anyone Yuan Xi placed in his heart?
(End of this chapter)