Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

As for the entire Han Dynasty, which was in turmoil at that time, the fact that Cao Cao, the "righteous man who assassinated Dong Zhuo", was ambushed and killed by assassins during his escape was not enough to cause any waves.

On the contrary, after Cao Cao tried to assassinate Dong Zhuo with a knife, Dong Zhuo belatedly realized that even if he controlled Luoyang, the court, and the emperor, it would not be enough to win the hearts of the people.

To this end, Dong Zhuo began to lavishly reward famous people in the name of the court. Han Fu, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Kong Rong and others were all appointed as governors and county magistrates of various places. He also rehabilitated the party members or famous scholars who were persecuted during the reign of Emperor Ling Liu Hong in an attempt to gain support from all parties.

Among them, Cai Yong and Lu Zhi, who are now living in Wu County, are also among them. Imperial edicts have been sent to Wu County, inviting Cai Yong and Lu Zhi to serve as officials in the court.

If Cai Yong had been in exile in Wuhui for many years, living from hand to mouth and relying on the financial support of scholars from all sides to survive, he might have been grateful and entered the court to serve as an official.

But now that the establishment of Rende Academy has become Cai Yong's life's work, how could he possibly become an official in the court?

As for Lu Zhi, he scoffed at Dong Zhuo's appointment and even pointed at the eunuch who came to read the imperial edict and cursed him.

"Are you the dog of the emperor? Or are you the dog of the thief Dong?"

However, the fact that Cai Yong and Lu Zhi refused did not mean that the others would refuse this reward that nominally came from the Han court.

Famous scholars such as Xun Shuang, Han Rong, and Chen Ji entered the court as officials. Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Han Fu, Liu Dai, Kong Rong, Zhang Miao and others also took up vacant positions as governors and county magistrates in various places.

In this regard, Li Ji had to sigh that Dong Zhuo was extremely stupid!

This move would not only fail to gain support for Dong Zhuo from Yuan Shao and others, but would further exacerbate local separatism and allow Yuan Shao and others to legitimately establish their own regime and accumulate strength.

However, when Li Ji carefully thought about the current situation in Luoyang, he found that perhaps this was not entirely the fault of Dong Zhuo, but might be closely related to Yuan Wei, the nominal Three Dukes and Grand Tutor.

Dong Zhuo originally relied on the power created by the Yuan family. Even though Dong Zhuo led his troops into Luoyang and made it impossible for the Yuan family to completely control Dong Zhuo, Yuan Wei was still able to sit firmly on the position of the Three Dukes and the Grand Tutor.

And how did Dong Zhuo know how to govern the country?
Naturally, most of the government affairs were still handled by Yuan Wei.

Considering the past relationship and the shrewdness of Grand Tutor Yuan Wei, Dong Zhuo probably had no idea of ​​the deeper meaning of this move and thought it was a gesture of goodwill from Yuan that he was willing to obey him.

complex!

There is no doubt that the current situation in Luoyang is extremely complicated. Although it seems that Dong Zhuo is in control of the situation, in fact, various forces have begun to compete secretly.

In the ever-changing situation, letters from Wujun of Yangzhou and Bohai of Jizhou were delivered to Liu Yu.

Inside the government office, Liu Yu looked at the letters on the left and right in front of him with his eyes slightly closed.

The letter on the right was written by Liu Bei, the prefect of Wujun. The content of the letter was that he hoped Liu Yu would come forward to rebuke Dong Zhuo for his disorderly rule, deposing the emperor and killing the empress, which was intolerable to heaven and earth, and then call on relatives and princes from all sides to rise up and attack Dong Zhuo in order to help Emperor Liu Bian sit on the throne again.

The letter on the left was written by Yuan Shao, the governor of Bohai County, and the content also denounced Dong Zhuo for disrupting the government...

However, what Yuan Shao proposed was that Liu Xie, the current emperor, was a fake emperor established by Dong Zhuo. He instead proposed that Liu Yu was a man of great virtue and was the most virtuous member of the royal family. He had already joined forces with Han Fu, Kong Rong and other loyal Han men, and was willing to support Liu Yu to become emperor facing north, and then lead his troops west to kill the traitor Dong.

(PS: It is a historical fact that Yuan Shao, Han Fu and others proposed to support Liu Yu as emperor.

This shows that Liu Yu's prestige in the Han Dynasty and among his clan members was high enough for Yuan Shao and others to believe that he was qualified to directly replace Liu Xie, who was supported by Dong Zhuo, as emperor, and that he could convince the people of the world.
The next moment, Liu Yu picked up Yuan Shao's letter on his left, smashed it heavily to the ground, and shouted angrily.

"Today, the world is in chaos and the emperor has fallen into disgrace. We are honored by the Han Dynasty and it is a shame that we have not been able to eliminate the thieves for the country. How dare we say that the country will have two emperors?"

"If I do this, won't it cause the Han Dynasty to be divided into the East and the West? He is definitely a person who deserves death! He is definitely a person who deserves death!!!"

After saying this, Liu Yu, whose white beard was shaking with anger for a long time, finally sat down breathlessly, picked up the letter written by Liu Bei, and fell into deep thought for a long time.

During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Liu Yu was already the head of the imperial clan, and he often advised Liu Hong to work hard to govern the country.

However, Emperor Ling of Tang, Liu Hong, totally ignored what Liu Yu said, which undoubtedly made Liu Yu disheartened. It can even be said that with Liu Yu's reputation and status, going to Youzhou to serve as a governor was not a promotion, but an exile in a sense.

Emperor Ling Liu Hong was already tired of Liu Yu, and Liu Yu also felt powerless to persuade the emperor. It would be better for him to go to another place to protect the country and the people, so as not to betray the kindness of the Han Dynasty.

If Liu Bei followed his words, Liu Yu would undoubtedly need to use all the fame and prestige he had accumulated throughout his life...

"I was unable to persuade the late emperor to work hard to govern the country, so I retreated to Youzhou. Now the late emperor's descendants are controlled by the thief Dong. If I retreat again, where can I retreat to?"

After a long time, Liu Yu sighed softly.

The words written in Liu Bei's letter were like the last straw that broke the camel's back. Liu Yu made up his mind and took out a scroll of bamboo slips to start writing.

Its name is: "Exhortation to Punish Traitors".

Afterwards, Liu Yu asked the clerks in the government office to quickly copy the "Exhortation to Punish Traitors", and then sent people to deliver it to various states and counties of the Han Dynasty in his own name.

Wherever Liu Yu's edict passed, it undoubtedly caused a huge storm. It even made Cao Cao, who had fled back to Qiao County to study how to forge the edict, come back to his senses after a long time.

Unlike the false edict that Cao Cao was preparing to call on the princes to join forces to fight against Dong Zhuo, the false edict was essentially a fig leaf and an excuse.

Everyone knew that Cao Cao could not possibly obtain the secret edict from the emperor, but the ambitious princes pretended to be stupid and took the forged edict as a secret edict to start a joint attack on Dong Zhuo. The proclamation written by Liu Yu was not false at all, and it represented the rebuke of Dong Zhuo by the Han clan.

From a moral perspective, Dong Zhuo's fig leaf was completely torn off, and Liu Xie, whom Dong Zhuo supported, was defined as a false emperor. The emperor called on relatives and princes from all sides to go to the capital to support the king and re-establish Liu Bian as emperor.

When this manifesto reached Yizhou and Jingzhou, the expressions of Liu Yan and Liu Biao, who had received Liu Bei's letter long ago but remained indifferent, changed drastically.

Liu Yu denounced Liu Xie, who was supported by Dong Zhuo, as a false emperor, which in a sense meant that there was no real emperor in the Han Dynasty at that time.

Many of the Eastern Han emperors had no descendants, so clan members like Liu Yu held great power and were often able to decide which clan member should be chosen as emperor.

The previous emperor, Liu Hong, was chosen as the emperor by his relative Dou Wu and clan relative Liu Xun from among the Han royal relatives in Hejian State after the death of Emperor Heng Liu Zhi. Liu Hong, the hereditary Marquis of Jie Du Ting, was chosen as the emperor from among the Han royal relatives in Hejian State.

Therefore, in a sense, this undoubtedly means that Han royal family members such as Liu Yan and Liu Biao may not be without opportunities.

As for the other local princes, even if they were not relatives of the Han royal family, they understood the great benefits of it.

At one time, almost all the heroes rose up and followed the manifesto one after another. A large number of princes led their troops to Suanzao, the place of alliance set out in the "Manifesto to Punish Traitors".

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The distances between the various princes and Sour Jujube are different, so the arrival times are naturally different as well.

After Cao Cao fled back to Qiao County, he recruited soldiers in Chenliu County and trained them for future plans. In addition, Cao Cao's reputation as the assassin of Dong Zhuo also greatly boosted his reputation.

Naturally, Cao Cao would not miss such an opportunity to make friends with the princes and spread his reputation.

Therefore, after receiving the "Exhortation to Punish Traitors", Cao Cao took the initiative to build a camp in Suanzao to welcome the princes from all sides to form an alliance.

Whenever a group of vassal states arrived, Cao Cao would personally welcome them and help them set up camp and store food.

As more and more princes arrived in Suanzao, the place became visibly lively, with many of them testing each other and making friends with each other.

However, Liu Yu's appeal is obviously not comparable to that of Cao Cao in the original trajectory.

Princes continued to arrive along the way, and the number of troops they led varied.

The number of their numbers may be as many as tens of thousands, but there are also many with only one or two thousand.

This caused the camp that Cao Cao had originally set up in advance to become extremely crowded. Even with Cao Cao's ability to reconcile the four parties, there were constant frictions of varying sizes among the various forces in the camp.

However, Cao Cao only had fame but no prestige, which was not enough to convince the people, and Cao Cao was not willing to be such a bad guy at all.

It was not until Yuan Shao led his army to Suanzao and was welcomed into Cao Cao's camp that Cao Cao immediately complained to Yuan Shao with a bitter look on his face.

When Yuan Shao heard this, he said loudly.

"Ah Man, this is just a small matter, why are you so distressed?"

"Please teach me, Benchu." Cao Cao replied.

Yuan Shao, who was full of dignity, had a certain sense of being the leader of the alliance and spoke loudly.

"This is easy. We are responding to the Grand Commandant's call to fight against Dong the thief because we are here for the greater good. Moreover, Dong the thief has elite troops from Bingzhou, Liangzhou, and Sili under his command. He is very powerful."

"If it were just a mob, I'm afraid that instead of being able to help, they would be defeated in one blow and ruin the alliance."

"Therefore, for the sake of the overall plan and to preserve those loyal and brave men, it is advisable to select those who can enter the camp and form an alliance as the main force."

A hint of joy flashed in Cao Cao's eyes, and then he deliberately asked for advice.

"How do you think Benchu ​​can select them?"

"Um……"

Yuan Shao pondered for a moment and said.

"Those with more than 10,000 troops can enter the camp; those with less than 10,000 can set up camp elsewhere in Suanzao, and then follow the allied forces as they march west to fight the bandits, to serve as a reminder of their support."

As soon as these words were spoken, Cao Cao's face suddenly darkened. He never expected that the standards set by Yuan Shao would be so harsh.

After all, Cao Cao does not have 10,000 soldiers under his command.

In this case, the first person to be kicked out of the camp and completely away from the center of the Allied Forces is Cao Mengde.

This made Cao Cao wonder whether Yuan Shao's condition was intentional or accidental.
PS: The transition chapter is very difficult to write, as it requires describing the movements and reactions of all parties. (End of this chapter)