Since Yuan Shu has built up enough momentum, he naturally will not stop. On this day, he summoned all his subordinates to come to Shouchun for a meeting and said: "Today, the Liu family is weak, and the sea is boiling. The fourth generation of my family, the people are returned, and if you want to obey the people, what do you want to do? ”

The hall was suddenly silent. The ministers did not dare to disobey Yuan Shu, but the generals were eager to do so, if their lord Yuan Shu replaced the Han Dynasty, wouldn't he be a hero from the dragon, and he could be crowned a wife and a son, and an official would be added to the knighthood? However, neither the shogunate nor the chief secretary spoke, so they naturally did not speak first.

After a while, Yan Xiang, the chief bookkeeper, said: "In the past, from Houji to King Wen, he accumulated virtue and merit, and there were two out of three parts of the world, and he still served Yin." Although the Ming Dynasty is prosperous, there is no Zhou Zhisheng, although the Han family is small, it is not as violent as Yin. ”

Yuan Shu listened, and he was hesitant on the surface, but he was really displeased. At that time, Hanoi celebrity Zhang Fan took refuge in Yangzhou with his family. Yuan Shu sent an envoy to ask him. Zhang Fan, the word Gongyi, stayed after Zhang Liang. The grandson of Situ Zhang Xin and the son of Taiwei Zhang Yan. Sexually quiet, not drafted. Due to Dong Zhuo's rebellion, he lived in seclusion in Yangzhou with his family. Yuan Shu sent someone to see Zhang Fan, and Zhang Fan knew what Yuan Shu wanted to do as soon as he heard it, so he avoided it. Yuan Shu still refused to give up, and sent a messenger again, so several times, Zhang Fan couldn't bear to be disturbed, so he sent his brother Zhang Cheng to see Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu was very happy to see Zhang Chenglai, so he set up a banquet to treat the guests. During the banquet, he asked Zhang Cheng: "In the past, the Zhou Dynasty was late, and there was the hegemony of Huanwen; Qin lost his power, and Han took it. Today, with the breadth of the land and the number of scholars, they want to be blessed by Qi Huan, and they are destined to be traced by Gaozu. ”

Zhang Cheng wiped his mouth after eating and drinking, but his speech was not polite at all: "In virtue is not in the public, Gou can use virtue to the same desire of the world, although the cloud is a husband, the overlord can also." If the mausoleum is unscrupulous, it will move from time to time, and everyone will abandon it, who can prosper it? ”

Yuan Shu was displeased, but he was helpless to take Zhang Cheng, and the Zhang family was also a famous family, so he couldn't move lightly. After hitting a wall here with the scholar one after another, Yuan Shu still did not give up. He also asked Hanoi Zhang Kunshanbu, and Yuan Shu sent someone to ask. Zhang Yu knew the meaning of Yuan Shu, and he was a hexagram. Then he said that the Yuan family should have a mandate of heaven. Yuan Shu heard it, Da Yue. rewarded its gold and silver silk brocade, and made it an official. So, Yuan Shu prepared to be the emperor in Shouchun on the grounds of diviners and folk visions.

On this day, Yuan Shu summoned the ministers again and said: "The Han family has been in decline for a long time, and my Yuan family is also after Chen Weishun." The five elements of fire give birth to earth, and yellow replaces red, and the second time of virtue and luck. When he received the mandate of heaven, he ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne of the emperor and represented the herdsmen of heaven. ”

Therefore, Jiujiang Taishou Chen Ji was Huainan Yin, and he built an altar outside Shouchun City to sacrifice heaven and earth in the suburbs. and each of them placed the lords of the ministers and hundreds of officials, and rewarded the ministers who supported them.

Sun Ce was in Yangzhou, and when he heard about Yuan Shu's move, he sent an envoy to Yuzhou to see his father Sun Jian and ask him what to do. Sun Jian replied with eight words: "Wait and see what happens, and take the opportunity to act." ”

Sun Ce received his father's order and sent someone to tell his uncle Wu Jing. Let him be ready to go with him when the time comes.

After Cao Cao was defeated by Sun Jian in Yuzhou, he garrisoned Yu County. I also heard that Yuan Shao also broke Gongsun Zan in the north. I was depressed. On this day, a messenger came to report, saying that Xuzhou Lu Zhu and others had reported, saying that they would take Tao Qian's family north to Qingzhou Liu Bei. This was originally one of the conditions for Lu Zhu and others to surrender to Cao Cao.

Lu Zhu and the others thought that if they gave Xuzhou to Cao Cao, Tao Qian's enemy, they would have to keep the Tao family. Don't go when Cao Cao was in an uncomfortable mood and cut down the Tao family. Then he really didn't have the face to see Tao Qian under Jiuquan. So when he was in Tan County, he said to Cao Cao: "Although Tao Gong is dead, his family is still there." I want to go to Qingzhou, and I ask Cao Gong to allow it. ”

At that time, Cao Cao was in a good mood, so he agreed. First, I don't want to see the Tao family in Xuzhou again. The second is that the Tao family is still in Xuzhou, and they will give some lucky people a reason to make trouble. The third is to let go of the Tao family and let the people of Xuzhou see that they are still very broad-minded. As long as you come to me, everything is the past.

Later, after everything was settled, Lu Zhu and others were about to travel north, and they heard that Cao Cao and Liu Bei were negotiating to give Langya and Guangling to Liu Bei. Lu Zhu is a big family in Xuzhou, and has countless land slaves in Xuzhou. If it weren't for the helplessness, he wouldn't want to leave Xuzhou. Since Liu Bei has the hope of coming to Xuzhou, let's wait. So he sat at home again and waited for news. After waiting for so long, I still haven't waited for a result.

Lu Zhu was also a little unable to hold back his temperament, so he sent someone to Cao Cao to inquire about the situation.

Cao Cao originally wanted to let the two counties because he wanted to have the fat of Yuzhou, so he wanted to throw out the two counties of Xuzhou and let Liu Bei not drag himself back. Now Yuzhou didn't eat it, but a few teeth were broken. Liu Bei was there, and he kept dragging it out. Seeing that Lu Zhu came to ask, Cao Cao was unhappy, so he said: "Xuzhou is not finished yet, please wait for Lu Zizhong." After sending the people who came, he asked Xuzhou Town to strictly guard Xiahou Yuan and others, and they were not allowed to go north without his order.

Liu Bei was in Qingzhou, and received a report from the secret agent, saying that Yuan Shu would be honored in the near future. Liu Bei sighed: "Crazy fools, no one can match Yuan Shu!" ”

So he summoned his ministers to take matters into account. Said: "I heard that Yuan Shu of Yangzhou reported that the strong clouds were promising, and he wanted to take advantage of the fate. Although the Han Dynasty is declining, its prestige is not standing. However, I am a relative of the Han family, and all the Qing generations are subject to Hanlu. How can you listen to the treachery of this fang and sit back and watch? I want to raise troops to the south to beg the Han thieves! ”

When the ministers heard this, they were filled with righteous indignation. In history, Liu Bei, in a few decades, can still become the hope of the pro-Han faction, and even under the rule of Cao Wei, there are still many people who hope that Liu Bei can reinvigorate the Han Dynasty. Not to mention Liu Bei, who has a big family business at this time.

The decision to send troops was soon passed. Liu Bei asked the ministers in the palace to prepare ordnance, grain and grass, and then transferred Zhang Fei and Yan Yan to lead their troops to the south of Beihai. Always on call. He sent someone to see Cao Cao again, and Liu Bei was ready for Cao Cao to refuse the second county of Xuzhou to him again, and he was going to force his move. This time I sent someone to read the love between the two families, and I notified them first. lest he say that he Liu Bei did not declare war when he got it.

In the fifth year of Xingping, on the first day of August in the autumn of the eighth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shu was the emperor in Shouchun and built the Zhongjia. Li Feng was the queen, and his son Yuan Yao was the crown prince. Great vassals. On the sixth day of the first month, he led his ministers to ascend the altar in the south of Shouchun and sacrificed to the gods of heaven and earth. On the eighth day of the first month, amnesty for the world. When the world heard it, the four seas shook.

Yuan Shu also sent an envoy to worship Yuan Shao as the king of Yan, and Yuan Shao's three sons were each crowned kings; worship Gongsun Zan as Youzhou Mu, Jihou, former general, Sima; Bai Sun Jian is the pastor of Yuzhou, the general of Zhenxi, the marquis of Wucheng, and the ......

Needless to say, Yuan Shao's attitude naturally went without saying, and after a random scolding, he blasted out the messenger sent by Yuan Shu. Then Yuan Shao was furious at home. Although Gongsun Chan formed an alliance with Yuan Shu, he did not expect Yuan Shu to dare to be the emperor. Although he is rebellious, he doesn't want to be scolded by the world. So he really refused to accept Yuan Shu's false position. As for Sun Jian, it goes without saying. wrote a letter to Yuan Shu with righteous words and strict words, asking him not to do this, and quickly went to the emperor, and everyone is still good friends.

Yuan Shu, the son of heaven, should be on the rise, where is he willing to listen. He was hurrying up to ask Zhang Yu to find a concubine for him to fill the harem. Life is short, you have to hurry up and have fun in time.

On August 16, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the princes of the world were still in shock to digest the shock brought by Yuan Shu's proclamation as emperor, Liu Bei raised troops.