The Power of the Three Kingdoms at the End of the Han Dynasty and the Imperial Power of the Han Dyna

Yuan Shu has been having a hard time lately!

Among the princes, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan were defeated by Liu Han. Although they lost their territory, they were not ashamed. Especially Yuan Shao, he won a small battle in the local war, which was very rare.

Yuan Shu was in a worse situation. He fought with Liu Biao for two years. Not only did he get no benefits, but he also lost his troops and generals, and was basically driven out of Nanyang.

Yuan Shu, a young and strong young man, was beaten away by Liu Biao, a fifty-year-old old man!

His opponent is not Liu Han!

Moreover, when the princes returned eastward, most of them were crippled by Liu Han in the battle at Luoyang and their vitality was severely damaged. However, Yuan Shu came back intact.

Can you still lose at this?

No shame!

Liu Biao was so good at fighting that he killed Sun Jian, Dong Zhuo's pet peeve. Dong Zhuo was very happy before his death. Liu Biao became "General of Zhennan, Mu of Jingzhou, and was granted the title of Marquis of Wu." A large set of official With all the documents in hand, the governor became the governor of the state, and Liu Biao nominally became the military, political and financial leader in the Jingzhou area of ​​the Eastern Han Dynasty.

This made Liu Biao feel a little embarrassed. He had to show his loyalty to the "imperial court". How to show it? The only option was to catch Yuan Shu and fight. Yuan Shu's ability to fight hard declined sharply after losing Sun Jian. Liu Biao beat the drowned dog hard, causing Yuan Shu to be deprived of food and attacked. He suffered repeated military defeats and withdrew from Nanyang in despair.

Half of Yuan Shu's failure can be attributed to his own too much power. After Sun Jian's death, he did not have anyone as capable as him in commanding troops. The other half was due to the fact that the water in Nanyang was too deep.

Even though they were purged by Liu Han, and even though they were harmed by the Yellow Turbans, seven or eight years later, the gentry here have regained their strength. Nanyang was the largest county in the Eastern Han Dynasty, with more than two million people at its peak. The population, even now, is over one million.

Although Yuan Shu's hometown is in Yuzhou and Runan, Yuan Shu will not win people's hearts like Yuan Shao. In his view, he is the legitimate son of the Yuan family of the fourth generation and the third prince. You people who have settled down should help you for free, so Yuan Shu is in Nanyang and in Yuzhou did many things that were not conducive to the unity between himself and the gentry. In the end, people did not want to hang out with him.

In fact, this cannot be blamed on Yuan Shu. He wanted to imitate Liu Han in controlling the gentry, so many policies were unfavorable to the gentry. However, the person who benefited was not ordinary people who were broader than the gentry and powerful people, but himself. He was also afraid that like Dong Zhuo, he would do things too cruelly and push the nobles into a hurry and attract everyone to rebel, so he did not deal harshly with the powerful nobles under his rule. In the end, he became nondescript and disgraced.

Liu Han can reach this day because of his special status. He is the younger brother of Emperor Ling, a Han clan member, and a member of the royal family. With this status, ordinary Han people, no matter how ignorant they are, will not shout rebels for no reason. After all, it has been four hundred years. The foundation is here.

The second is that before Liu Han killed people, he stood on the moral high ground of these powerful nobles and pointed out, "I will kill you with evidence, I will kill you with evidence. Anyone who says otherwise is a comrade!" For example, the Huangfu family went from being a first-class nobleman to being a traitor with foreign blood that everyone now shouts and beats.

Third, Liu Han gave the benefits he gained to the broad masses of the people. With the assistance of the New Deal, the party with the most benefits will naturally be on his side, and this side has the most people. They unite together, and nobles and powerful people must avoid it. Its edge.

The fourth point is that Liu Han does not target indiscriminately, but selectively uses jujubes in one hand and a big stick in the other. Anyone who offends me will be severely punished. Those who have helped me, I will also give you benefit feedback so that you can strengthen yourself. family.

The most critical point is that Liu Han has a huge army in his hands, and this army was originally ownerless, or in other words, it did not belong to the nobility or the powerful. With the knife in his hand, who would dare to jump out and cause trouble?

This is confidence!

Yuan Shu can't do it. As the direct son of the Yuan family in Runan and a descendant of the fourth generation and the third prince, he does not represent the fundamental interests of the vast gentry and wealthy families. He always attacks local tycoons. How can he not be despised, disgusted, and resisted by others? In the end, the Nanyang people stopped hanging out with him, and now the powerful nobles in Runan and Yingchuan are also ready to make a move.

Now that the nobles have a better choice, Yuan Shao goes south and proposes to develop in Yuzhou. Now that he has a better choice, a fool will follow Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shao will definitely come to Yuan Shu to cause trouble. He is marching south to Yuzhou with great momentum. How can Yuan Shu sit still and wait for death? After all, he has been developing in Yuzhou for so long and has more people than Yuan Shao. How can he lose?

Originally, Yuan Shu's plan was to wait for Yuan Shao to go south and let his younger brother in Kuangting cut off Yuan Shao's retreat. This is how Liu Biao beat him over the years. If you can't beat him, join him. There is no shame! As a result, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao joined forces and first defeated Yuan Shu's general Liu Xiang in Kuangting.

Yuan Shu took a look, how could this happen? So he impulsively went up and killed someone.

Yuan Shu was beaten violently on the way to rescue him.

Yuan Shu retreated to Fengqiu, and Cao and Yuan's coalition forces pursued him fiercely. They prepared to completely surround Yuan Shu in Fengqiu. Cao Cao attacked, but Yuan Shu fled to Xiangyi before the city was besieged. Cao Cao pursued Taishou, and Yuan Shao decided to kill him and cut off the canal. Flood the city.

Yuan Shu found that no one could beat him. The two of them obviously ignored their past friendship, especially Yuan Shao. No matter how Yuan Shao couldn't write the second word, this man was crazy. If he couldn't beat Liu Han, he would kill himself. The eastern part of Yuzhou has been given to him, what else does he want? !

He continued to be chased in Ningling. Along the way, Cao Cao helped his brothers to stabilize their foundation and never abandoned or gave up. The chasing Yuan Shu ran six hundred miles to Jiujiang in one breath.

Yuan Shu fled to Jiujiang to join his younger brother Chen Yu, the governor of Yangzhou.

(Chen Yu (date of birth and death unknown), courtesy name Gongwei, was born in Huaipu, Xiapi. The son of minister Chen Qiu, he served successively as Yilang, Yangzhou Mu, and Prefect of Wu County. He is the Chen family in Xiapi.)

At the beginning of this year, Chen Wen, the former governor of Yangzhou and a native of Runan, passed away, and Yuan Shu appointed Chen Yu, a native of Xiapi, as the governor of Yangzhou.

As a result, seeing himself being chased and beaten, this white-eyed wolf refused to let him enter the city!

Yuan Shu had no choice but to go to Yinling, and then went to Huaibei to move his last reinforcements.

After Yuan Shu went to Yinling, the reinforcements moved to Huaibei was Sun Bi.

(Sun Bi, courtesy name Boyang, was a native of Fuchun County, Wu County. A general in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The son of Sun Jian's half-brother Sun Qiang, and the cousin of Sun Ce and Sun Quan.)

With the help of the Sun family, Yuan Shu gained confidence again.

Chen Yu was timid and did not dare to attack Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu gathered troops in Huaibei to attack Shouchun. Chen Yu was shocked and asked his brother Chen Gongyan to ask Yuan Shu for peace. Yuan Shu refused and captured Chen Gongyan and continued to advance. Chen Yu fled back to Xiapi.

Yuan Shu was beaten like a lost dog by Cao Cao all the way, but he finally made a temporary comeback thanks to the Sun family.

Just when Yuan Shao and Cao Cao wanted to continue chasing Yuan Shu, a message from Chang'an stopped them.

"The emperor...died!" (End of chapter)