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Since the second half of the second year of Xingping (195 AD), Hebei had to enter a state of recuperation again because of the major floods caused by the bursting of the Yellow River in most of Jizhou, so there was no major action in the first year of Jian'an (196 AD).

However, the Great Han Kingdom in the area south of the Yellow River has not calmed down.

After Yuan Shao's Northern Xinjiang Army retreated to Hedong, he quickly provoked internal strife in Dong Zhuo's old department, and finally gradually defeated Dong Zhuo's old department such as Huangfuhong, Zhang Ji and Wang Fang, and occupied Guanzhong.

However, when Yuan Shao planned to attack Zhang Xiu's troops stationed in Tongguan, he was defeated by Zhang Xiu. And Zhang Xiu took advantage of the retreat of the Northern Xinjiang Army to the north of the Yellow River and occupied the entire Hongnong County. also entered the stage of the princes.

Despite this, Yuan Shao still occupied Youfufeng, Jingzhao Yin, Hanoi County and Henan Yin in Sili, Yingchuan County and Runan County in Yuzhou, Nanyang County in Jingzhou, plus Chen State, which he obtained because he helped Cao Cao, Yuan Shao's power expanded a lot.

In Qingzhou, the contradiction between Liu Yu and Gongsun Chan gradually intensified, and finally a war broke out, Liu Yu was defeated by Gongsun Chan and had to retreat to Hebei, and also announced his withdrawal from the ranks of the princes. Gongsun Zhan, who obtained Liu Yu's territory, now occupies all of Qingzhou except for the part north of the Yellow River in Pingyuan County, as well as the area south of the Yellow River in the east of Yanzhou, including Jibei Kingdom, Dongping Kingdom, Lu State, Taishan County and the eastern part of Dongjun County.

Cao Cao originally occupied Chenliu County, Jiyin County, Shanyang County, Renchengguo and the area south of the Yellow River in the west of Yanzhou, and Chen, Liang and Peiguo in Yuzhou, but in order to attack Xuzhou, he had to send Chen to Yuan Shao, but he got Pengcheng and Xiapi in Xuzhou.

Liu Bei's kid was almost wiped out by Cao Cao, but after the Northern Xinjiang Army went south to support by sea, this kid rebelled and refused to go north, coupled with Cao Cao's limited forces at that time, he stopped the pace of advance, but Liu Bei stabilized his position and kept Langya Kingdom and Donghai County in the north of Xuzhou.

Yuan Shu originally occupied Jiujiang County and Lujiang County in the north of Yangzhou Jiangbei, and later snatched Guangling County from Liu Bei. Just when he was about to attack Liu Xuan, the assassin of Yangzhou, he suffered a defeat, and his idea of developing his power to the south of the Yangtze River failed.

However, Liu Miao did not get any benefits, because he was entangled with Yuan Shu, but he was copied by Sun Jian, and he had to give up Danyang County and retreat to Yuzhang County.

And Sun Jian, who got Danyang County, plus Wu County, which was originally occupied, gradually rose in Jiangdong. Now, he is planning to attack Wang Lang, who intends to attack Huiji County.

On the contrary, Liu Biao, who occupies most of Jingzhou, and Liu Zhang, who occupies most of Yizhou, are relatively quiet, each sticking to his own territory and not making any moves.

In Hebei, in the past year or so, although there have been no major military operations, it is because of more than a year of recuperation and recuperation, and the strength has really been restored.

Moreover, Li Yi's influence on Hebei has been further enhanced. At the beginning, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and others secretly instructed Huangfu Song's son Huang Fuhong to unite with Dong Zhuo's old department to betray the Northern Xinjiang Army on the battlefield, in an attempt to cause heavy losses to the Northern Xinjiang Army, shake Li Yi's position in the Jicheng Imperial Court, and turn the Shi clan gate lord power overturned, but unfortunately the operation failed. Although Li Yi didn't settle accounts with them immediately afterwards, they knew that Li Yi would definitely not let them go like that, and they each resigned and went into hiding. And at the end of the year, he died of illness one after another.

After the two resigned and went into hiding, Li Yi did not chase and fight, and after the two died of illness one after another, Li Yi also generously played a chapter to the Son of Heaven, posthumously presented Huangfu Song as a hussar general, and posthumously presented Zhu Jun as a chariot general.

Not only did Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song die of illness one after another, but I don't know what happened, Zhang Wen, Wang Yun, Zhou Zhong and others, who were dismissed because of the marriage of the eldest princess Liu Jing, also died of illness one after another, and the power of the Shi clan suffered a heavy blow in Hebei.

As the power of the Shi clan gate lords suffered heavy losses, the emerging forces represented by Li Yi and his civil and military forces occupied an absolute advantage in the Jicheng Imperial Court.

Faced with such a situation, there must be people who are dissatisfied. If you are not satisfied with this, you naturally have to come up with some moths.

No, the representatives of the princes, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others, made such a come.

On the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the second year of Jian'an, Hedong Taishou Wangyi urgently reported to the imperial court, rebelling against Yuan Shao and attempting to usurp on behalf of the Han Dynasty.

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In troubled times, there must be a proverbial weft, and it will play a certain role to a greater or lesser extent.

Six years after Qin Shi Huang became emperor, Lu Sheng, who was sent to seek immortals and visit the Tao, brought back a proverb: Hu Ye, the deceased Qin.

Qin Shi Huang thought that this "Hu" was a Hun, so he asked the general Meng Tian to lead the army to attack the Huns in the north and build the Great Wall, but he forgot that he also had an unlucky child named Hu Hai.

At the end of Qin, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled in Daze Township, and the two first stuffed a strip of cloth in the carp's belly, with the words "Chen Shengwang", and then Wu Guang pretended to be a fox demon in the middle of the night and shouted in the grass, "Da Chuxing, Chen Shengwang", and as a result, this sentence overthrew Daqin.

Han Gaozu Liu Bang was born in a slight cold, and it was really difficult to bluff people, so he concocted a shocking feat of Mangdang Mountain to kill the "White Snake", and since then Gaozu has been powerful in the world and laid a piece of thousands of miles.

Whether Han Gaozu himself killed the "White Snake", no one knows, but Han Gaozu himself believes that these mysterious things are true.

Soon after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, a proverb announcing its demise appeared, "Those who represent the Han Dynasty should be Tu Gaoye." ”

This sentence comes from the "Spring and Autumn Sayings", who wrote this book and when it was circulated in the world is no longer known, and this word has been spread in the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The meaning of this proverb is that the vitality of this dynasty is exhausted, and a new dynasty will be put in its place. However, this substitute "when Tu Gao" is very puzzling.

Is this a personal name or a hidden word? Who is "when Tu Gao"? So some people struggled to guess.

In his later years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took a boat to the north, drank and feasted with the ministers on the Fen River, made the speech of "Autumn Wind", and said to the ministers after getting drunk: "The Han Dynasty has six or seven misfortunes, the country is about to die, and the descendants of the clan do not know who should be robbed." ”

The misfortune of six or seven, according to the interpretation at the time, was that after forty-two generations of the imperial lineage, Tu Gao was the contemporary Han.

The ministers comforted Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and said: "This dynasty should be ordered by the heavens, and the ancestors will be endless. Your Majesty, don't listen to such words of ruin. ”

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was very emotional, saying that since ancient times, I have never heard of the continuation of Guozuo for thousands of generations, and I just hope that the Han Sheji will not be lost in the hands of my father and son.

This proverbial remark frightened Emperor Xiaowu, and since then it has disappeared. Later, whether it was Wang Mang's usurpation, Gongsun Shu's proclamation of the emperor in Bashu, or the Guangwu Emperor Zhongxing, although they all repeatedly used the words of Wei Wei to prove that they were the "true son of heaven", but no one used this proverb "Those who represent the Han should be Tu Gaoye".

However, after more than 300 years, this proverb finally spread again in Guanzhong, Central Plains and other places. Many of the great Confucians and scholars of the modern scriptures and the art of the Wei Wei began to quote the scriptures and explain and speculate again.

One of the most widely said is that this "Tu Gao" refers to a surname, and this surname is "Yuan".

The ancestors of the Yuan family can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period, Chen Guo's doctor Yuan Tao Tu, and Yuan Tao Tu has the word "Tu" in his name. "Tu Gao" refers to the Gaomen family of the descendants of the Yuan family, that is, the Yuan family of Runan of the fourth and third dukes.

This explanation seems a bit far-fetched, so someone moved out of the "Five Virtues Always Say".

"Five virtues always say" was pioneered by Zou Yan, a native of Qi in the late Warring States period.

Zou Yan is a well-known yin-yang artist, who synthesized the research results of his predecessors on the five elements of yin and yang, and compiled this set of doctrines based on the "Shangshu Hongfan". He believes that the basic elements of the world are metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and that these five elements are mutually reinforcing, and that everything in the world is born from their complex relationship. The same is true of the rise and fall of each dynasty, which is a kind of celestial and human induction.

There is a law to follow, and this law is the "Five Virtues and Five Elements".

Every dynasty has its own virtue, just as everyone has a genus. One Dirk and one De, so one dynasty replaces another. The mutual restraint between the five virtues is reflected in the rise and fall of the dynasty, which is called "the victory of the five elements".

But how is the virtue of each dynasty determined? It depends on what auspicious signs are sent from heaven. For example, the earliest Yellow Emperor met a large earthworm more than ten zhang long and several meters thick, and the earthworm belonged to the soil, so the Yellow Emperor was a soil virtue. During the Zhou Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou once saw a large fire meteor hovering over the palace for a week, turning into countless fire crows, so Zhou was naturally Huode.

Zou Yan's five virtues have always said that it was originally to persuade the emperor to be thrifty, but after being played by this group of unlearned and unskilled people, it gradually deteriorated, and all kinds of strange things came out.

King Qin Yingzheng believes in the five elements of yin and yang and the five virtues always say. When Qin Wengong was hunting, he hit a black dragon, black belongs to water, so Ying Zheng thought that Daqin was a water virtue, and the color of the five colors with water virtue was black, so the king of Qin ordered everyone to dye their clothes black, and the whole country was black and pressed.

In addition, Ying Zheng also deliberately renamed the Yellow River "Deshui" to show off that he was ordered by heaven. Zhou is the virtue of fire, water can extinguish fire, and water overcomes fire, so the natural thing that replaced the Zhou Dynasty was the Great Qin State with water virtue.

Han Gaozu was born in a poor family, probably fighting all year round, and it is not clear that the impact of this "five virtues always say" on Guozuo. After he overthrew the Great Qin Empire, he did something ridiculous and generous. That is to announce that the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system in everything, and even the "virtue" of this dynasty also inherited the "water virtue" of the Great Qin State, and the court was still black and oppressive. (To be continued.) )