Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 706
After hearing Sun Ce's words, Sun Quan hesitated again and then said softly: "Brother, mother."

Sun Ce was silent.

He looked up at the roof and felt a splitting headache. His eyes were getting blurry. Sun Ce even had a feeling that he was going to die in the next moment.

He thought of Mrs. Wu's nurturing grace, the two years of inexplicable disappearance, and all the unreasonable things in the fierce tiger's letter. His fingers couldn't help but curl up and dig deep marks on the wooden frame of the bed.

When Sun Quan saw it, he thought it was Sun Ce who was suffering from an illness. He panicked and wanted to call the doctor, but he saw Sun Ce raising his hand with difficulty and shaking it. Sun Quan understood and hurriedly knelt down and stood still.

Sun Ce breathed hard and said, "Second brother, remember your last name."

Sun Quan quickly responded: "Brother, I remember it!"

Sun Ce nodded, as if he had thought of something, "That Hua Tuo is quite capable. Keep him here and don't let him run away."

"Otherwise, just kill him and he won't be able to be used by others."

After saying these words, he seemed to have lost all strength in his body and murmured: "I originally thought I could live for a few more decades to fulfill my father's wish."

"Now the burden falls on you."

Sun Quan responded and kowtowed to the ground with all his strength.

Sun Ce took a long breath and said, "Okay, you can go out. Let my mother come in."

Sun Quan quickly got up and went out to find Mrs. Wu. After hearing this, Mrs. Wu hurried to Sun Ce's room.

Sun Quan stared blankly at Mrs. Wu's back and thought to himself, can he really shoulder the heavy burden that his brother has given him?

In a position like Brother's, doesn't it seem that family ties are no longer important?

When Mrs. Wu came in, she found that Sun Ce was not lying on the bed, but rolled down under the couch.

He apparently fell down while staying in bed, his forehead was bruised, and blood was oozing out.

Seeing Sun Ce struggling to stand up, Mrs. Wu quickly rushed to support him and said sadly: "Ce'er, how can you not care about your body so much?"

Sun Ce waved away Mrs. Wu's supporting hand, bowed three times on the ground, and said with the last of his strength, "Mom, please forgive me for being unfilial."

When Mrs. Wu heard this, she held Sun Ce's hand and burst into tears. Sun Ce felt that the strength in his body was disappearing rapidly. He reluctantly sat on the ground with his back on the bed, but his eyes were fixedly looking out the window.

Mrs. Wu followed his gaze and looked outside. On the branch outside the window, the last wintersweet was struggling to support itself, and an oriole was jumping around on it.

Sun Ce felt that the scenery in front of him was becoming more and more blurry, and he murmured, "Mom, I don't want to die."

The oriole chirped, fluttered its wings and flew to the clouds. The wintersweet flower under its feet trembled with the branches, left the branches, fluttered, and returned to the soil.

Mrs. Wu turned her head and burst into tears.

Sun Ce's eyes opened slightly and he lost all breath.

In the spring of the third year of Jian'an, the news of Sun Ce's death spread throughout the country. Although it caused a shock in Jiangdong, for the princes of the Central Plains who were fighting endlessly and too busy to take care of themselves, too many famous people had died before, so it did not arouse too much. Big waves.

But for Li Shu in Lujiang, he smelled something very bad.

Sun Ce was about to die, and the heir to the Sun family was a young boy who had never fought in a battle, so many scholars lost confidence in Jiangdong's future.

They all looked for a safer way out. Some people from Wu County secretly crossed the river and fled to Xuzhou, while the scholars from Yuzhang County fled to Lujiang River.

Li Shu did not refuse any of these people, because the task Yuan Xi had given him previously was to find as many available officials as possible. If they could be recommended by Li Shu, those people who became officials would be accepted by Li Shu. A kindness.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, because this is a very bright road to becoming a wealthy family.

The so-called big family not only has strong financial resources, a large population, and the formation of influence in the local area, but more importantly, has an intricate network of relationships.

Only by establishing relationships with other major families in the world and the high officials of the court, having common interests and entanglements with them, and living in the same spirit, both suffering losses and prospering, can we be called a noble family.

Therefore, all the famous families in the world have family members who have served as important ministers in the court, promoted noble officials, and were regarded as leaders by them, thus forming an extremely tight circle.

From this point of view, the Runan Yuan family and the Hongnong Yang family of the Fourth Generation and Three Dukes are undoubtedly the best among them. However, what many people ignore is the Cao family where Cao Cao is located.

The key figure among them is Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng.Cao Teng has been in charge of the province for more than [-] years, serving the four emperors, and was a key figure in establishing Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty. He also recommended and promoted many famous people. Although he was an eunuch, his disciples and former officials were all over the world.

But it was also from Emperor Huan that the eunuchs began to control the government, and the eunuchs and nobles began to antagonize each other, so that the nobles were imprisoned by the party twice. Therefore, when Chen Lin wrote a message for Yuan Shao, she scolded Cao Teng, saying, "Sikong Cao Cao's grandfather Teng , so he was always a servant, and together with Zuo Ying and Xu Huang, he became a monster, gluttonous and unruly, hurting and torturing others."

But I have to admit that in terms of livelihood of the Tianxia sect alone, the Yuan family and the Yang family combined are no more than the Cao family. Although colluding with eunuchs is unspeakable in the eyes of many nobles, but in the Huanling period when buying officials was common, this was nothing what?

The situation of eunuchs having exclusive power reached its peak when He Jin was deceived into the palace and killed. Then Yuan Shao led troops into the palace and killed thousands of eunuchs.

What Yuan Shao did really changed the world structure. Since then, the eunuch power has been completely eliminated. By the time the eunuch power once again appeared on the stage of history, it was already more than 500 years later in the middle of the Tang Dynasty.

And Cao Cao must have been feeling extremely complicated when he saw many relationships with the Cao family being severed, right?
This may not have made Cao Cao feel grudge, and planted the seeds for him to betray Yuan Shao in the future. The consequences of Yuan Shao's doing this did not stop there, and Yuan Shao himself may not have expected it.

Imperial power, eunuchs, and relatives were originally an unstable three-dimensional structure. The three used and restricted each other. However, when the eunuchs killed the relatives and Yuan Shao killed the eunuchs, the emperor no longer had any power to use.

So when the heavily-armed border princes represented by Dong Zhuo used force to control the emperor, the bureaucrats and officials headed by Yuan Shao were completely paralyzed and could only watch Dong Zhuo flip the table.

To be fair, Yuan Shao's original suggestion to He Jin to introduce Dong Zhuo to the capital was not very absurd and foolish, because what Yuan Shao suggested at that time was to introduce four border armies, and Dong Zhuo was only the weakest of them.

Yuan Shao had a good idea. He took advantage of the contradictions and balances among the four parties, and then used the title of a high-ranking official of his family to lure and intimidate them into his own use. As a result, Dong Zhuo was not the kind of warrior who only thought about killing. He directly broke the situation violently, with three thousand soldiers and horses. He took control of Luoyang and eliminated Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others completely.

Only magic can defeat magic. If you want to fight against warlords, you have to turn yourself into a warlord. So Yuan Shao, Sun Jian, Cao Cao and others immediately realized it, and immediately began to look for territory and separatist forces.

Yuan Shao's killing of the eunuchs completely broke the imperfect multi-game political structure of the Han Dynasty, so there was only one element left in all political competitions, and that was force.

This is also one of the important reasons why every mass killing of eunuchs in the past dynasties has led to chaos in the world and the end of the dynasty.

This influence was extremely far-reaching. It not only led to the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms period, but also led to the decline of imperial power. After the imperial power lost its prestige, it was not fully established in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. China then entered a unified imperial dynasty. It was more than 400 years later.

Therefore, later generations said that Yuan Shaonai was the initiator of the turmoil in the world, which is not groundless. Today's scholars no longer care much about being loyal to the emperor, but try to find as large a separatist force as possible to seek shelter.

Previously, the two Yuan Dynasties in the world were fighting, and seven out of ten scholars in the world had taken refuge with the two Yuans. However, after Yuan Shu was defeated, Yuan Xi was in the limelight for a while. Therefore, it was not enough for the Jiangdong nobles to turn to Yuan Xi after Sun Ce's death. Strange.

While Li Shu was happy, he was also worried because Sun Quan, the newly appointed lord of Jiangdong, was very dissatisfied with his move to take in people who had fled to Jiangdong. He wrote a letter to reprimand Li Shu and asked him to hand over all those who had escaped.

This letter was actually beyond Li Shu's expectation. After all, Sun Ce's relationship with Li Shu was not bad during his lifetime. Moreover, Li Shu's current boss is still Yuan Xi. Logically speaking, Sun Quan should not be so rude.

Moreover, his request was even more difficult to fulfill. If Li Shu handed over the escaped people, without mentioning himself, would Yuan Xi's reputation be lost?
So Li Shu finally wrote a letter to reject Sun Quan, although he was very firm in his reply, saying that virtue would lead to others coming back, and lack of virtue would lead others to defect, and he would not return the scholars.

However, Li Shu's worries continued unabated. Sun Quan had such a tough attitude as soon as he came to power. It cannot be ruled out that he received the full support of the Sun family. It is more likely that he wanted to use this to establish his prestige.

If it is the latter, it will be a big trouble. Sun Quan will never give up. Moreover, because Wancheng is in an important position, he may take the opportunity to start a war and win the battle to consolidate his position!
Li Shu hesitated in his heart. Jiangdong's strength was beyond what a county guard could resist, so what should he do?
escape?

Guard the city?

Or surrender to Sun Quan?

He had already sent his youngest son to Youzhou before. If he surrendered now, he might not have a good end for his youngest son, right?
It is impossible to stand firm. Now Yuan Xi is far away in Youzhou and cannot help him. Although Shouchun still has Lu Xun and Tai Shici's navy, they have to defend Cao's army north of Huai River, and they cannot escape.

I would like to ask Liu Ye for help, it is still possible.

Previously, he took the command talisman to recruit Liu Ye for Yuan Xi. Liu Ye is now the governor of Jiujiang County and is in charge of Shouchun. At the same time, he sent people to build the city in Hefei. He should be able to help him, right?

He thought about it over and over, and it was really difficult to decide. Finally, he suddenly thought of Qiao Rui.

This person has a very good relationship with Yuan Xi, and his two daughters are also ambiguous with Yuan Xi. If he can help him achieve good things, maybe he, the prefect of Lujiang, can change his position?

As a result, as soon as he made this plan, news of Qiao Rui's death came.

Li Shu almost spit out blood with every mouthful. How could it be such a coincidence?
He didn't care about anything else, so he went to Qiao's house to express his condolences in person. When he arrived at Qiao's house, white flags were hung at the door. There were only a few servants guarding the door, and almost no one came in or out. It looked extremely deserted.

Thinking about it, there are only a few people in the Qiao family. Once Qiao Rui dies, it will be useless to the big family. Who will care about maintaining a relationship with her?

Li Shu sneered in his heart. They are a bunch of idiots who have never seen Mr. Qiao's two daughters. Just based on the appearance of these two girls, you will never forget them. I'm afraid it would be difficult to mention them in person if my wife was present.

The future of my family rests entirely on these two girls!

(End of this chapter)