The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 123 Find a Wild Dad
In the end, Cao Cao did not give Xun Yu a clear answer.

Xun Yu walked out of Cao Cao's residence disappointedly and saw a man in the yard.

"Is Gongtai here to persuade the Lord as well?"

The person who came was Chen Gong.

Chen Gong nodded, but when he saw Xun Yu's expression, he realized something -

"My lord, you did not refuse Yuan Shao's reward, did you?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Gong turned and left.

"Gongtai! Wait! Gongtai!"

Xun Yu quickly caught up with Chen Gong and said, "My lord listens to you most these days. If you go and persuade him, he will surely repent and stop being involved with Yuan Shao!"

"Don't go."

Chen Gong has always been a man of upright character, and he never regrets what he has decided.

"Gongtai~"

Xun Yu held Chen Gong's hand and said, "My lord, you are only worried about Yuan Shao's military power. In his heart, he is still loyal to the Han Dynasty. You must believe in me!"

Worried about Yuan Shao’s military power?

Chen Gong sneered: "If this is said by someone else, I would believe it. But if it is said by my lord, I don't believe it!"

"When the lord was the Northern Commander of Luoyang, he made five-colored clubs and threatened that "anyone who breaks the law will be beaten to death"! Even the uncle of Jian Shuo, the favorite of Emperor Ling, broke the law and was beaten to death by the lord! Did the lord have half a soldier at that time? Did he have half an inch of land? But who in the world does not praise Cao Mengde as an upright and brave man?"

"How come now that you are so powerful, commanding tens of thousands of troops and ruling the affairs of an entire state, you are actually afraid of Yuan Shao's army?"

Xun Yu was stunned.

"What does Gongtai mean?"

"What else can it mean?"

Chen Gong took a deep look at Cao Cao's residence, and there was no trace of the enthusiasm in his eyes that he had when he first met Cao Cao.

"A traitor in troubled times!"

"Do you think Cao Gong is really like you, Xun Wenruo, and can always remain steadfast in his ambition to support the Han Dynasty?"

After saying this, Chen Gong turned away, leaving Xun Yu alone hesitating there.

……

While Zhong Yao was waiting in Puzhou, he continued to collect the latest news from Guandong and report it to the court.

What Zhong Yao is most worried about now is that the court will terminate its original policy and abolish trade with Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao deserves to die for establishing another emperor!
But the people of Guanzhong should not be buried with Yuan Shao!

Anxiety, worry, and fear.

After waiting for another three days, Zhong Yao finally received a handwritten letter from Liu Xie:

"Everything remains the same."

Seeing these four words, Zhong Yao felt inexplicably at peace.

He bowed three times in the direction of Chang'an.

"The emperor can endure such humiliation and still care about the people of the Han Dynasty. What a broad mind he has!"

Zhong Yao put Liu Xie's letter in his arms and set off again.

But, if the king humiliates his subjects, they will die!

Zhong Yao has secretly decided that he will make Yuan Shao pay the price!

The emperor who is now in the Weiyang Palace must be feeling uncomfortable at this moment...

In fact, it was just as Zhong Yao expected.

Liu Xie was indeed not feeling well.

Not anger,
But annoying.

When the news came that Yuan Shao had established another emperor, it instantly overwhelmed Dong Zhuo's call for him to be enfeoffed as a duke.

Generals such as Lu Bu, Niu Fu, Li Jue, and Guo Si all wrote letters to the court, requesting that they send troops to fight against the traitors!

Even Dong Min, who was sent to Longyou to guard the ancestral temple for the Dong family, wrote a letter requesting to lead troops to attack Yuan Shao!

Too bad!

Too embarrassing!

One big man actually has two emperors!

How could such an act be worthy of Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Shizu? Wasn't this a betrayal of the Liu family's ancestors?
The military generals were so excited, and the civil officials were not willing to be outdone.

Regardless of whether they were dissatisfied with Dong Zhuo before, these great scholars all submitted petitions to the court, requesting them to attack Yuan Shao.

Even Yang Biao, one of the Three Dukes, who came from the Hongnong Yang family and never attracted attention in the court, wrote an official document to denounce Yuan Shao!
Moreover, the words were so sharp that when Liu Xie first heard it, he thought it was an article written by some young boy.

It can be seen that the court officials represented by Yang Biao were really angry.

In the past, no matter how Dong Zhuo fought with Yuan Shao, or how Wang Yun fought with Dong Zhuo, they were all court officials! They were all high-ranking officials of the Han Dynasty!
But now, the Han Dynasty was actually divided? The current emperor was actually denounced as a false emperor?

Damn it!

Does that mean that these court officials are also fake officials?
My father, grandfather, and great-grandfather have all served this court for generations, but now you, Yuan Shao, are calling us fake ministers?

Yuan Shao, it turns out you are your mother’s maid!
Liu Xie found it somewhat funny to see these court officials who had been half-dead all day suddenly come back to life.

"Yuan Shao, this is really stepping on their tails."

Originally, you were all high-ranking officials in the court, enjoying a salary for generations, but suddenly you were dismissed from office. How could they not fight with you to the death?

At this time, sitting in front of Liu Xie was Jia Xu, who came to report on government affairs. Jia Xu admired the emperor's mentality: "Your Majesty still has the mind to laugh... Is Your Majesty really unwilling to seriously consider such a major matter that undermines the majesty of the court?"

In fact, Liu Xie was a little surprised that Yuan Shao suddenly established an emperor.

Yuan Shao is not Cao Cao. With his fame and strength, he doesn't need to play the trick of "using the emperor to command the princes". He can directly advance all the way from Hebei, and maybe he can really accomplish the achievements of the former Emperor Taizu.

For Yuan Shao, supporting the emperor was actually a hindrance rather than a help.

After much thought, it is probably the manifesto proposed by Liu Xie that led the court to issue that made Yuan Shao make such a stupid move.

The manifesto took back all the legal rights that the Han Dynasty had granted to Yuan Shao, making Yuan Shao's rule lose its foundation.

With no other options left, he could only appoint another emperor and barely use the banner of the Han Dynasty to cover up his ambitions.

This is exactly the prestige of the Han Dynasty today.

You can look down on it, you can trample on it, you can ignore it, but you absolutely cannot live without it.

Not only did Yuan Shao need to continue holding up the banner of the Han Dynasty, but the aristocratic families under his command also needed the banner of the Han Dynasty to prevent their own pillars from collapsing.

The essence of the Later Han Dynasty's aristocratic families lies not in military achievements or land, but in the study of classics.

Confucian classics originated from Confucianism, and Confucianism emphasizes the relationship between ruler and subject, father and son.

Now that Liu Xie, their father, doesn’t want them anymore, don’t they have to find themselves another father?

How could Liu Xie not laugh secretly when he thought about the Guandong aristocratic family that had been arrogant for two hundred years and had to hold their noses to find a strange father for themselves?

"Besides, there are always two sides to a matter."

Liu Xie patted the pile of bamboo slips in front of him.

"How could Yang Biao's group have such passion in the past? Usually they are just like dead, not saying a word, as if the court's affairs have nothing to do with them."

"But now, they have become the group of people who support the court the most. Isn't this a good thing?"

Everything in the world has both yin and yang sides.

Yuan Shao established another emperor in Jizhou and indeed maintained his rule under the banner of the Han Dynasty, so that the Guandong families who supported him would not lose their legal basis for survival.

But at the same time, he also angered the Guanxi noble families lying dead on Liu Xie's side...

The Yang family of Hongnong, the Wei family of Jingzhao, the Ma family of Fufeng...

The roots of these families are in Guanzhong.

The imperial court is now based in Guanzhong. They can neither escape nor avoid it and are destined to support it.

As a result, Yuan Shao now directly expelled them...

Maybe Yuan Shao didn’t care about these Guanxi families who still stood on the side of the court, but Liu Xie did!
"Since I want to revive the Han Dynasty, I must unite every force around me."

"Those guys look half dead every time they attend court, but in private they are all fat and strong."

"Just like Wei Kang before. He just relied on the reputation of the Wei family to make the nobles of Huaili City open the city gates and force Han Sui, a hero who had been dominating the border for more than ten years, to death."

"Now that Yuan Shao has forced this force that clearly refuses to cooperate with the Grand Master and the court back into my arms, doesn't Wenhe think I should be happy?"

Jia Xu is hard to savor for a long time...

Like everyone else, he thought that Liu Hui was furious, hysterical, and would do whatever it took to oppose the traitor Yuan Shao. Even if it meant stopping the established trade policy, Jia Xu would understand and support it.

After all, Liu Xie was the emperor and the legitimate heir of the Han Dynasty.

Now Yuan Shao had directly stabbed Liu Xie in the heart with a knife, and also slandered Liu Xie as not being of the bloodline of Emperor Ling... Jia Xu put himself in his shoes and thought about it. Even with his own character, he was afraid that he would not be able to tolerate such a bad thing, and wanted to get rid of Yuan Shao as soon as possible!

But the emperor was not that angry. Instead, he thought that Yuan Shao had forced Guanzhong to become more united.

"Your Majesty is truly an illustrious ruler!"

……

"In fact, I was also very angry when I first heard the news."

Now there are only Liu Xie and Jia Xu, and Liu Xie has no reason to hide himself.

"But on second thought, Yuan Shao supported Liu He as the emperor. Has the situation really become worse?"

"Even if Yuan Shao does not establish another emperor, will he be willing to listen to me?"

"Or does it mean that as long as Yuan Shao establishes an emperor, he can make Gongsun Zan and others stop fighting against him?"

The only area the imperial court can control is Guanzhong.

The only area Liu Xie can influence now is just a small piece of land in Guanzhong.

In that case, why feel sad or angry about things you can't control?
"Besides, Yuan Shao actually did a good thing for me."

good thing?

Jia Xu was confused.

"Because Yuan Shao established a new court, he has already made it clear to the world who are friends and who are enemies."

"Emperor Shizu rebuilt the Han Dynasty because he received too much favor from the Guandong aristocratic families, which led to the Guandong aristocratic families becoming too powerful to be eliminated, causing the Han Dynasty to become weak and strong, and it is difficult to return to the former prosperity of the Han Dynasty."

"But this time, they can't escape anymore."

At this moment, Liu Xie showed his edge for the first time and made his ambition public.

"This time, I have enough reason to kill them!"

"Aren't they afraid of the Grand Tutor's Xiliang Iron Cavalry?"

"This time, I will let the Grand Tutor's Xiliang Iron Cavalry trample them hard! Crush their bones and bury their flesh and blood in the ground, so that they can become the nourishment for the Han Dynasty's rebirth from the ashes!"

"All gifts have already been secretly marked with their due price."

"Two hundred years of prosperity, two hundred years of debt, it's time for me to collect the debt from them!"

(End of this chapter)