In the second year of Xingping, there was drought and famine all over the country throughout the year, coupled with Wen Zhao's purge of the DPRK, which made everyone in the DPRK and China in danger.

Now the Chen Group, due to the expansion of strength, grain and grass are becoming more and more tight. Although there are waterwheels irrigating fields in Guanzhong and Bingzhou, grain production is still seriously reduced.

Not only under the rule of Chen Xu, but also under the rule of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Yuan Shu.

After Wen Zhao welcomed back the Son of Heaven and set the capital of Pusaka, Cao Cao took the lead in sending envoys to pay tribute. The Son of Heaven Dayue, named Cao Cao as the general of the chariot cavalry, and his status was only below the general and the hussar general.

And also crowned Cao Cao as the pastor of Qingzhou, and took the position of Xuzhou pastor. It can be said that Wen Zhao repaid Cao Cao with peach and reciprocated with Li.

His most important purpose in welcoming back the Son of Heaven was to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes. If the princes did not recognize the identity of the Son of Heaven, then all the previous plans of Wen Zhao would undoubtedly be useless.

Cao Cao was able to send an envoy to Pusaka to pay tribute to the Son of Heaven. not only showed everyone in the world that he was a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty; Moreover, he was canonized by the Son of Heaven, and justified Cao Cao's entrenchment in Qing and Xu.

However, Wen Zhao only used some false titles to determine his status as the orthodox Han Dynasty. Because since Cao Cao recognized Liu Xie as the Son of Heaven, Emperor Xian, who was controlled by Wen Zhao, would naturally become a very useful chess piece in his hands.

In this way, in the future, in the name of the Son of Heaven, he can issue an edict to Cao Cao and let him wait for the dispatch.

Cao Cao paid tribute to the Son of Heaven, and after receiving the benefits, Yuan Shao's advisors advised Yuan Shao to send envoys to Pusaka as well.

Yuan Shao, who was arrogant, was angry because Chen Xu received the position of general, but he was unwilling to recognize Chen Xu's status.

However, the current Yuan Shao is much worse than the forces in history.

Whether it is Chen Xu or Cao Cao, they both occupy the land of the two states; And Yuan Shao's younger brother Yuan Shu occupied Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and the land west of the Yangtze River in Yangzhou.

On the other hand, Yuan Shao, even Youzhou was not completely pacified, and only occupied Jizhou and most of Youzhou.

Now between him and Yuan Shu, without Yanzhou Cao Cao as a buffer, war may break out at any time. It can be said that Yuan Shao's current situation is not good.

Therefore, after being persuaded by his advisers in turn, Yuan Shao gritted his teeth and sent a messenger to Pusaka to meet the Son of Heaven.

After seeing Yuan Shao's envoy, Wen Zhao was naturally overjoyed, and then did not hesitate to appoint Yuan Shao as a hussar general and Jizhou pastor.

There are two major princes as examples, Xiliang Ma Teng, Han Sui, Yizhou Liu Zhang, Jingzhou Liu Biao, also sent envoys to Puban.

Wen Zhao naturally will not be stingy with his official position, and he will naturally reward the princes lavishly. It was only at this time that Wen Zhao could really be regarded as coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

Just like Li Dao and Guo Yan in the past, although they had the Son of Heaven, they were cut off from communication with the princes and did not communicate with each other, and the Son of Heaven was of no use to them at all.

But now Chen Xu, as long as he operates properly in the future, the Son of Heaven will definitely become a good signboard.

In the past two years, Sun Ce, who has just won the championship, has finally begun to emerge.

Due to the lack of food in Yuan Shu's army, he asked Lu Kang, the Taishou of Lujiang, for 30,000 hu. Lu Kang didn't agree, and Shu was furious, so he wanted to raise troops to attack Lu Kang.

Sun Ce once visited Lu Kang, but Lu Kang despised Sun Ce and was unwilling to meet him in person, so he let his master book take over. Because of this, I hated it.

Yuan Shu knew that Sun Ce had a grudge against Lu Kang, and he also knew Sun Ce's bravery, so he said to Sun Ce: "I misused Chen Ji before, and every hatred was unsuccessful. If there is a healthy place now, Lujiang will be owned by Qing. ”

Sun Ce was overjoyed, so he ordered all his troops and horses to attack Lujiang and won a complete victory.

According to Yuan Shu's promise, Jiujiang would be handed over to Sun Ce. However, Yuan Shu was capricious and once again appointed his former official Liu Xun as the Taishou, so Sun Ce resented Yuan Shu.

Liu Xuan is the imperial court canonized Yangzhou Assassin History, Yangzhou old rule Shouchun, but Shouchun was occupied by Yuan Shu. Liu Miao had no choice but to cross the river to Qu'a.

At that time, Sun Ce's uncle Wu Jingshang was in Danyang, and Sun Ce's brother Sun Ben was also the captain of Danyang. After Liu Yao arrived in Jiangdong, he would expel all of them from the country. Wu Jing and Sun Ben had no choice but to retreat to Liyang.

When Sun Ce heard that his uncle and brother were being bullied by Liu Yao, he was furious, and after he asked Yuan Shu to get back his father's old department, he asked to lead troops to Jiangdong.

Yuan Shu knew that because of the matter in Lujiang County, Sun Ce had a grudge against him. In addition to Liu Xuan's occupation of Qu'a and Wang Lang's occupation of Huiji, Sun Ce may not be able to do anything, so he agreed to his request and expressed the imperial court's appointment of Sun Ce as the lieutenant of Zhichong.

Sun Ce then led his father's old department to the east with hundreds of his own guests, and got Zhou Yu's help. Sun Ce led his troops to attack Hengjiang and Dangli, and conquered them one after another, and Fan Neng and Zhang Ying were defeated.

Then, Sun Ce attacked continuously, conquered the city, and was invincible.

Subsequently, Sun Ce, with the support of Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and others, sent troops to attack Liu Yao. As a result, Liu Yao was defeated, and then accepted Xu Shao's suggestion and fled to Yuzhang to join Liu Biao.

After Sun Ce captured Tai Shici with a trick, he added another general to his command. and once again led his troops to attack the rest of the counties in Jiangdong, defeated Yan Baihu, and captured Wang Lang alive.

Since then, Sun Cewei, who has just won the crown, has shaken Jiangdong.

It has to be said that history has a very strong inertia. The two-year drought has left Dahan devastated.

In the first month of the spring of the third year of Xingping, the Son of Heaven consulted with hundreds of officials, sacrificed heaven and earth, granted amnesty to the world, and changed the Yuan to Jian'an. Since then, 196 A.D. has become the first year of Jian'an.

In the first year of Jian'an, it was the third consecutive year of drought in Dahan.

This year, the shortage of grain in Wenzhao became more and more serious, and both the common people and the officials of the DPRK and China were strictly controlled in grain.

Fortunately, Wen Zhao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, although Yuan Shao and Cao Cao did not pay tribute. However, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, Liu Zhang of Yizhou, and Sun Ce, who had just pacified Jiangdong, paid a lot of tribute to the imperial court.

Wen Zhao also named Sun Ce as the captain of Danyang Taishou and Zhichong because of Sun Ce's tribute.

Sun Ce carried Yuan Shu behind his back to pay tribute to the imperial court, and after Yuan Shu knew about it, the relationship between the two became worse and worse. However, nominally, Sun Ce was still Yuan Shu's subordinate.

It was precisely because of the tribute of the princes, as well as Wen Zhao's administration in the annexed states and Guanzhong, that no one starved to death under his rule.

But he said that Yuan Shu was often resentful. At the beginning, Yuan Shao wanted to make Liu Yu the Son of Heaven, but Yuan Shu thought that the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty was a yellow-mouthed son, so he could control it, and replaced it with Liu Yu, and it was difficult to guarantee that the Han Dynasty would not be revived again.

Therefore, Yuan Shu began to disagree with Yuan Shao on the matter of establishing Liu Yu as emperor.

Now Yuan Shu sits on Yanzhou, Yuzhou, as well as the two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang west of the Yangtze River in Yangzhou, and even the four counties of Jiangdong, which are nominally owned by Yuan Shu.

These three states are not remote and desolate places in the north, but rich, prosperous, densely populated, and rich in money and food.

As a result, Yuan Shu had other thoughts in his heart.

Yuan Shu has always believed that the surname Yuan came from Chen, and Chen was Shun, and he used soil to bear the fire, and he had to be lucky. I also thought that Yu Wenyun: 'Those who represent the Han Dynasty should be Tu Gaoye.' It's about himself, so after Yuan Shu obtained the jade seal, he often had the ambition to be the emperor.

On this day, Yuan Shu summoned his confidants and officials and said to them: "Now the Liu family has declined in the world, and the sea is boiling. Four generations of our Yuan family have been important ministers in the court, and the people are willing to belong to me. I want to uphold the will of heaven, conform to the will of the people, and ascend the throne as emperor now, I don't know what the kings will do? ”

Everyone listened to Yuan Shu's rebellious words, and their thoughts were different.

Although some people don't speak, they also hope that Yuan Shu can be called emperor. After all, after Yuan Shu became emperor, their status also rose.

And those far-sighted people know that if Yuan Shu becomes the emperor in this matter, he will definitely become the target of public criticism. But because of Yuan Shu's irritability and self-righteousness, no one dared to say anything.

Yuan Shu saw that everyone was silent, thinking that their move was a tacit acquiescence, and he was immediately overjoyed, and wanted to discuss the specific matter of becoming emperor.

But he didn't want to, the chief bookkeeper Yan Xiang said sharply: "Back then, the Zhou people accumulated merit from their ancestor Houji to King Wen, and they could be said to have two points in the world, but they were still cautious as courtiers of the Yin Shang Dynasty. ”

"Duke Ming, although you have been a high-ranking official for many generations, I am afraid that you are not as prosperous as the Ji family; At present, although the Han family is in decline, it seems that it cannot be compared with the brutal and unscrupulous King Yin! ”

"If Duke Ming wants to be the emperor at this time, I'm afraid it's not a wise move!"

Yuan Shu was speechless by Yan Xiang's words, but he was very angry in his heart. He snorted and turned away.

However, it was said that Xuzhou was broken by Cao Cao, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei escorted Liu Bei into the territory of Yuan Shu. Because Yuan Shu and Gongsun Zhan are allies, Yuan Shu accepted the three very generously.

However, Yuan Shu was quite suspicious, although he accepted Liu Bei, he was not at ease with Liu Bei, and just gave him an idle.

In the past few years, Liu Bei has been wasting time every day, and he wants to leave Yuan Shu several times, but he doesn't know which one to go to.

Now Liu Bei's old boss Gongsun Zan has been defeated, and Tao Qian has also died. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were the enemies of Gongsun Zhan, and naturally they couldn't accommodate Liu Bei.

He had the heart to go to Liu Biao, but now Liu Bei's reputation is much lower than that of the same period in history. In addition to the identity of his Han clan relatives, it has not yet been confirmed.

Therefore, the current Liu Bei can be said to be penniless. If you rashly defect to Liu Biao, you may not be accepted. In desperation, Liu Bei had to stay in Shouchun every day and waste his time.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were not qualified to enter the main hall because of their low status. But Liu Bei stayed in the palace, and when he heard that Yuan Shu wanted to be the emperor, he was immediately shocked.

That night, he took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and secretly left Shouchun and went to Sili to join Chen Xu.