In front of his subordinates, Yuan Shu became furious.
He held on to Yuan Shao's origins and insulted Yuan Shao severely. He called Yuan Shao his "slave" and said that he was the illegitimate son of a lowly maid. He was simply a bastard who could not stand up to the stage. Now he dared to do this Intimidating?
Seeing Yuan Shu's incompetent and furious look, his newly recruited subordinates Yan Xiang, Yang Hong and others felt helpless.
Yan Xiang spoke out and gave advice.
"Everyone in the world has their own opinions about Yuan Shao's background. Now Yuan Shao is gaining momentum and his words are quite reasonable. If he uses this to attack, there will be no civil strife in Luoyang and Liu Bei will not panic. I hope the general will put the overall situation first and put aside his personal grudges." , and focus on the general trend of the world."
Yuan Shu was still angry and could not calm down his anger.
He looked at Yan Xiang angrily.
"What do you mean, Lord Yan, to say that the world belongs to the concubine Yuan Shao, not to the legitimate son like me?"
"To the Yuan family, you are the legitimate son, but to the world, you are not that important."
Yan Xiang said bluntly: "Please calm down the anger in your heart and focus all your energy on attacking Liu Bei. At present, you and Yuan Shao should work together."
When Yuan Shu heard this, he immediately became angry.
"Working together? You want me to work together with a bastard?"
Yuan Shu pointed at Luoyang and said angrily: "What we are opposing now is a concubine and a false emperor, but I want to join forces with a concubine. How will the people in the world treat me? How will they view the Yuan family? After this is done, the affairs of the world will be based on me. Is it the master, or is that bastard Yuan Shao the master? You should tell me!"
Yan Xiang suddenly felt helpless.
This character has not yet been written, Liu Bei is still arrogant in Luoyang, and there is no sign that he will be killed. Are your thoughts too far-reaching?
The most important thing is to concentrate all your efforts on killing Liu Bei first!
Liu Bei is so powerful, how can you two brothers engage in internal strife at this time?
Yan Xiang wanted to remonstrate, but Yang Hong was worried that Yan Xiang would completely anger Yuan Shu and there would be no good results, so he spoke first.
"The general's foresight is admired by his subordinates, but at present, people in the world care more about merit. As long as the merit is achieved, even a concubine will turn against the guest. If the merit is not achieved, even a legitimate son will not be able to convince people. .
Therefore, my subordinates believe that the most important thing at the moment is to attack Liu Bei and establish meritorious deeds. Yuan Shao is just talking about being powerful, but you should show strong power to prove that you are the master. In this way, people in the world will naturally Gather around you. "
Yang Hong's words were much more tactful than Yan Xiang's. After hearing this, Yuan Shu's anger calmed down a little and he also made some considerations.
"What Mr. Yang said makes sense. Yuan Shao, the bastard, can only speak nice words and has no other skills. As long as I lead the army to teach Liu Bei a lesson, I will naturally gain the recognition of the people in the world. Yuan Shao, that bastard, is only worthy of me. Lead the horse!”
Yuan Shu made up his mind to let Yuan Shao become his servant, so he ordered everyone to focus all their energy on the military, quickly form an army, train the army, expand the size of the army, and gather 30,000 to 50,000 horses as soon as possible. Let him attack Luoyang.
In addition, Yuan Shu also sent people to contact Zhang Miao, the governor of Chenliu, and Li Min, the governor of Yingchuan, hoping that they could become his bridgehead and vanguard army and take the lead in launching an attack on Luoyang to test Liu Bei's true strength. If possible, if It would be best to break Liu Bei's powerful appearance.
Needless to say, Zhang Miao, the prefect of Chenliu, had a close relationship with Liu Bei and Cao Cao and ignored Yuan Shu's solicitation. He directly arrested Yuan Shu's envoy and sent the news to Luoyang, leaving it to Liu Bei's disposal.
Li Min, the prefect of Yingchuan, had more ideas. Facing the dispute between the Yuan family and the Liu family, he also took into account the eunuch factor. After much deliberation, he decided to be neutral.
Whoever wins will help whomever, so he prevaricates Yuan Shu and does not plan to send troops, but he does not tell Liu Bei the news, let alone recruit troops and fortify in Yingchuan County. Anyway, I will always be like this, absolutely loyal to you guys.
He thought that if Liu Bei won, he would return to the court as a matter of course and provide logistics and food for the royal master. He would also be regarded as a loyal minister and righteous man.
If the Yuan family wins, he can kill all the eunuchs and their families in Yingchuan County, plunder their wealth, and join the Yuan family group, which is not a loss.
Anyway, holding the position of prefect, he has a certain amount of capital to do whatever he wants. Although he will not do whatever he wants, he still has considerable capital.
So Yuan Shu's idea came to nothing, and Zhang Miao used it to show his loyalty and give Liu Bei a wake-up call.
However, Liu Bei basically knew about the various actions of Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao through the information transmitted by the Dongyuan spy team scattered in Hebei and the Central Plains, coupled with Han Fu's defection.
As Liu Bei guessed, Yuan Shao's ability was slightly stronger than Yuan Shu's, and his voice was louder.
In particular, he made a big fuss about seizing the anti-eunuch and linking the anti-eunuch with the matter of avenging his Yuan family as his plan of action. Although Liu Bei expected this move, he also believed that it was a victory for the Yuan family. The most advantageous course of action.
He originally guessed that Yuan Shao might not be able to come up with this rhetoric as a plan of action, and could only work intensively in his field, and finally dig his own grave. But it looked pretty good, at least Yuan Shao had jumped out of what he had prepared. The track took a completely new path.
This track is indeed the most dangerous and difficult track for Liu Bei.
Among the four auxiliary ministers, two were eunuchs, and they were notorious. They had deep conflicts with the scholars.
It was okay that no one mentioned it before, but now once someone brings it up, and supplements it with military threats, or even creates public opinion and makes everyone aware of it, then this matter will become a big deal.
In late June of the sixth year of Zhongping, the news that Yuan Shao launched a large-scale purge of eunuch forces in Jizhou reached Luoyang, including the public opinion attack he launched against Liu Bei. At the same time, the public opinion in Luoyang was fierce and people's hearts were floating.
At this moment, in the Central Plains of Guandong, Yuan Shao's call is indeed a surging trend.
In the Central Plains, the land of the four states of Qing, Xu, Yan and Henan, three counties had already launched a purge against the eunuchs and their industries before the Luoyang court responded.
In Luoyang, it's even less so.
During this period of time, three people except Liu Bei had been engaged in selling officials and conferring titles. The chaos in Luoyang City was a mess, and the situation of eunuchs and chaos in government had not improved.
Now someone has launched a major purge of the eunuchs' power in Jizhou, where the eunuchs have great interests. They have uprooted the eunuchs' property, clansmen, and political influence. This has been done with great fanfare. I don't know how many people secretly applauded.
Of course, there are many people who applaud loudly on the surface. For example, Huang Wan did not give any face, and applauded loudly in front of Zhang Rang and Jian Shuo in the court, saying that although Yuan Shao was a rebellious, he did a really beautiful job. !
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Huang Wan smiled very happily.
Zhang Rang's face was livid, Jian Shuo didn't look good either, Dong Chong looked around, but Liu Bei was the only one who looked calm.
After Huang Wan laughed, he also asked Liu Bei a question happily.
"General, you also know about Jizhou. What do you think about it? What happened in Jizhou can only be said to be the result of deep resentment among the people, which was exploited by the rebels. Now Jizhou is boiling, Hebei is shaken, and the capital of the Central Plains is watching. It’s going to be shocked, I wonder how the general will respond?”
Liu Bei looked at Huang Wan and was silent for a while, without any sign of anger.
He just stood up, walked slowly for a few steps, walked to Huang Wan's side, and stared at Huang Wan for a while, which made Huang Wan feel a little scared.
Then Liu Bei just smiled.
"It's nothing special. I just feel that Yuan Shao has further established his reputation as a rebellious thief. It's okay that they killed ordinary eunuchs, but the problem is that some of the eunuchs they killed were... Official officials of the imperial court.
No matter where the officials come from, who recommends them, or who appoints them, they are also official officials of the court, official officials on record. The life and death of officials should be decided by the court and the emperor. When will it be the turn of Yuan Shao, the rebellious man? The thief has decided?
Now, without the permission of the court, Yuan Shao openly killed and expelled the official officials of the court on record, deprived them of their property, and killed their families and tribesmen. This was an open provocation of the court against the emperor, not to mention that he even directly Deny the throne of the emperor today!
I know that some people are very optimistic about this matter these days, and I also know that you have a long history of resentment against eunuchs, but I ask you, can the act of killing court officials without reason be recognized?
Is it okay to kill people without any legitimate reason just because they were recommended by eunuchs? If this is a reason, then I will immediately send troops to the court today to remove your heads!
Then I will announce it to the world. The reason is that you are not recommended by the eunuchs, so you will be killed. Then will the people of the world also applaud? Will I also be considered a hero? "
(End of chapter)
