Wait, please don’t call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 293 Send out troops from Luoyang to attack the four parties!

Chapter 293 Send out troops from Luoyang to attack all directions!

“I hope Lord Xuande will take the whole world into consideration and become the King of Han as soon as possible!”

Seeing that Liu Bei remained silent, Xun Yu bowed and said.

The other officials and soldiers followed closely behind, shouting: “I hope Lord Xuande will take the whole world into consideration and advance to the King of Han as soon as possible!!”

Liu Bei couldn’t help shaking his head and laughing, and then said: “Bei, how dare you be the King of Han?!”

“Even if I follow the oath of Emperor Gaozu and make meritorious contributions, the road to Hanzhong County has been cut off by the rice thief Zhang Lu, and the road is no longer accessible. How can I become the king of Hanzhong County?”

Liu Bei couldn’t help but feel a lot of emotion. Even the fiefdom that he was going to be granted was still occupied by others. How could he be called a king? It was really unjust and unreasonable.

Xun Yu understood immediately, and immediately bowed again, saying respectfully: “Hanzhong County is the place where Emperor Gaozu rose to power. Since the second year of Chuping, it has been occupied by the rice thief Zhang Lu. On June 23, the capital Chang’an was hit by an earthquake, which spread to the northeast. There was a faint sound near Changling, shaking the tiles on the roof.”

“This must be because Emperor Gaozu was furious when he saw that his descendants had no successors. At that time, the country was divided, the country had no master, and the ancestral temples were gone. The people of the world all hoped that there would be descendants of the Liu family who would inherit the country and restore Emperor Gaozu’s legacy!”

“The day before yesterday, the world was in chaos, wars broke out, and the people suffered. You, wearing armor and holding a sharp weapon, led the soldiers in plain clothes, saved the people from danger, quelled the rebellion, established laws, distributed land, stopped fighting, and brought peace to the Central Plains. Who is the one who inherited the business? It was Emperor Gaozu!”

“Why can’t he be the King of Han?! If you don’t take back the betrayal, it will be too late to regret. Although Lord Xuande has retreated modestly, what can he do to the ancestral temple and the country? You should announce it to the world as soon as possible, return to Luoyang, execute the white horse, offer sacrifices to the ancestral temple, and make him king!”

Xun Yu finished his words in one breath, then paused for a moment to give himself a break.

Then he bowed again and said, “At this time when the world is in danger, Lord Xuande can respond to changes and think far-sightedly. Hanzhong is now occupied by Zhang Lu and renamed Hanning County. The foundation of Hanzhong has been lost, and Liu Yan and Liu Zhang are powerless to take it back.

Lord Xuande can first choose to change Henei County to Hanzhong County, so that he can better serve the ancestral temple. After being promoted to the King of Hanzhong, he can lead the Han army to pacify the counties in Hebei. Then he can lead the troops to Guanzhong and Hanzhong, defeat the Liangzhou bandits, recapture Chang’an, worship Changling, and then wipe out Zhang Lu and hold Liu Zhang, a member of the royal family, accountable. “

“Your Excellency can take temporary measures first. When Hanzhong County is recovered in the future, it will not be too late to change it back to Henei County.”

“The Heluo area was originally extremely rich, but since Dong Zhuo’s rise, the people have been destitute and have fled to all directions, resulting in a sparse population. The arable land is not yet fully cultivated, the land that can produce grain has not yet been fully cultivated, and the benefits of the mountains and swamps have not yet been fully exploited. It would be better to move the people from the nearest Dongjun, Chenliu, and Yingchuan to supplement the population of Sili.

The repairs in Luoyang have not been completed yet. Lord Xuande can go to Luoyang to worship the ancestral temple first, and then announce to the world that Bai Ma will be made king. “

“After Hebei is pacified, move the Qingzhou army to Luoyang and the vicinity of Henei. In the future, we can send troops from Luoyang to suppress the rebellions in various places. This will surely scare the princes!”

Upon hearing that Lord Xuande had won a great victory over Yuan Shao, the nobles and wealthy families in Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Xuzhou cheered and cheered. How could they not be moved by such popular will?

Before Xun Yu made his suggestion to become king, he also provided Liu Bei with sufficient reasons and suggestions.

This is to advise the envoy not to hesitate. Promoting him to the title of King of Han is just the right moment to make it happen.

Now that Yuan Shao has been defeated, our army is sharp and can deal a heavy blow to all the princes in the world.

Lord Xuande was far ahead of the other princes, so he had to maintain his advantage and give others the power to overwhelm the group, like a tiger with wings soaring across the seas.

As soon as Xun Yu finished speaking, thousands of people in the fields outside the plain shouted loudly. More and more common people heard the news and came like a tide, making the country roads more and more crowded.

“Lord Xuande should be promoted to King of Han!”

“Lord Xuande should be the King of Han!”

Men, women, old and young, from Qingzhou filled the streets and alleys, shouting in disarray but finally in unison, as if they were terrified that Lord Xuande would not become King of Han.

Liu Bei saw many officials, soldiers and common people, all of whom were looking at him eagerly, and many of them were so excited that they clasped their hands and had red faces and necks.

He wished he could put the crown and robes of the Han princes on him directly, and today he was promoted to the King of Han for his great achievements in the suburbs of Pingyuan.

Liu Bei could not help but smile bitterly, and then said: “If I do not become king, I am afraid that I will lose the hope of the spirits of Emperor Gaozu, Emperor Xiaowen, and Emperor Xiaojing in heaven, as well as the hopes of my comrades, the fathers, the common people, and you gentlemen.”

“I have made humble contributions with my insignificant body, entrusted the hopes of millions of people, and carried forward the legacy of our great ancestor. I am willing to accept the order, follow the oath of Emperor Gaozu, and kill the white horse with all the meritorious officials to make another promise to become king…”

Seeing that the common people and soldiers in Pingyuan were so supportive of him, Liu Bei couldn’t help but feel deeply moved. The people are the foundation of the country, and if the people are safe, the country will be safe.

When the top and bottom levels cannot communicate effectively, disaster is set in motion.

The difference between the early Han Dynasty and the later Han Dynasty was that both the empress and the relatives of the emperor’s wife were not selected from the rich and powerful, and the crown prince could also recruit guests from the lower classes. Most of the palace officials in the Eastern Han Dynasty were from the gentry and powerful families, not to mention the empress. Except for the last Emperor Xiaoling, the empresses of the remaining adult emperors must have come from the Yin and Deng families of Nanyang, the Guo family of Hebei, and the Ma, Dou, and Liang families of Liangzhou.

Since Xiu’er founded the country, as long as the emperor was young, the empress dowagers of each family would unite with their relatives and take turns to control the government, and even deliberately establish a young emperor to maintain their own power.

Once this tacit system was broken, outsiders would take advantage of the situation. The six founding nobles, Yin, Deng, Guo, Ma, Dou, and Liang, declined together after the bloody struggle for power.

The Hongnong Yang family and the Runan Yuan family, who squeezed in through the cracks, grew completely during the Huan and Ling periods to become families with three generations of officials spread all over the country.

This is also part of the origin of Kong Ming’s “The Memorial to the Emperor on Leaving the Capital”: “I have never failed to sigh and hate Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling.”

Originally, the Han Dynasty had not yet fallen to the point of national destruction. Although it had become dilapidated like a carriage that had been running for years, the six foreign relatives were still in power and could barely continue to run for a while.

However, Liu Zhi and Liu Hong, who were only from royal family, had not received any training from the Han family. They acted according to their own instincts and tore apart the system of foreign relatives that Emperors Guangwu, Ming and Zhang had painstakingly built up after learning the lesson of Wang Mang’s usurpation of the throne and suppressing the powerful.

The repeated Party and Faction Persecutions undoubtedly led the gentry and powerful families to band together and directly fight against the Liu family.

Xu You was even bolder and dared to conspire with Wang Fen, the governor of Jizhou, Zhou Jing of Pei State and others to depose the emperor.

Liu Bei thought to himself, “In the final analysis, it is the wealthy families of the Later Han Dynasty, which are much more numerous than those of the Early Han Dynasty. They have blocked the communication between the upper and lower classes, so that the more they develop, the bolder they become. Today they only dare to interfere with the appointment of the crown prince, but tomorrow they will dare to depose the emperor and kill the king.”

Before this, anyone could be the emperor’s cousin or a folk dancer or musician.

In the Later Han Dynasty, only the daughters of powerful nobles could become empresses. The only one who was not bound by this was He, who was established by Emperor Ling Liu Hong after the downfall of the Six Clans. Unfortunately, the actions of the He brothers and sisters are still hard to describe.

Liu Bei couldn’t help but shake his head. The mess these people left behind would ultimately depend on him to clean up the ruins, rebuild the country, reshape the Han Dynasty, and lay a solid century-old foundation for the world.

Liu Bei’s eyes unconsciously fell on the common people everywhere. Only by solving the problem of food and clothing in a practical way can he create a prosperous era again.

No matter how ambitious the Yuan family is, or how harassing the barbarians are, they cannot shake the Han Dynasty.

The Liu family does not need to hold on for too long. At most two or three hundred years, heroes will emerge and knock down the big tree he has planted, which has long since rotted, and create a new Han world.

Liu Bei was thinking in his mind, and secretly laughed: “Zhongda, not only does Meng De owe me a favor, but your Sima family owes me even more. How do you plan to repay me?”

Liu Bei stepped forward to help Xun Yu up, and then raised his hand to help many officials, civilians, and soldiers to face them, and chuckled, “Liu Xuande is what he is today because of your help. After the battle in Hebei is over, the people of Pingyuan County will be exempted from taxes for one year, and every official and soldier will be given cloth, millet, and meat. All those over sixty years old in Qing, Yan, and Xu states will be given cloth, wine, and meat by the state government. I will celebrate with you all!”

Then he continued with a smile: “Wen Ruo is good at planning and strategizing for the country, and he is no less capable than Prime Minister Xiao.”

If we follow Xun Yu’s advice and move the administrative offices of all states to Henei County after pacifying Hebei, it will be no different from being in Luoyang.

In the future, we will discuss conquests in Luoyang and send troops to attack various places. This means that the world will be unified again from being divided among the princes. The time is not far away and can be counted on!
Liu Bei suddenly remembered that Cao Cao was using the emperor to control the princes, so he just sent troops from Xudu to attack various places.

He went straight to Luoyang in the capital, and after offering sacrifices to the ancestral temple, he attacked various states in the name of King of Han, especially the princes of the Liu family, and he defeated them all without a murmur.

Moving the center of each state to Luoyang also means that the strategy will move south. Qingzhou’s attention will be withdrawn from Hebei, and its sights will be set on Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yizhou, Liangzhou, and Bingzhou, thus embarking on the journey of “six kings gone, four seas one” and truly unifying the world with justification.

The righteousness of the Han Dynasty would naturally shift from the small court in Guanzhong that was occupied by the bandits from Liangzhou to the princely palace of Liu Bei who occupied Luoyang and was promoted to the King of Han.

Combined with the story of Guangwu and his revival of the Zhongmiao Temple, any normal person can draw the conclusion about who is the real court and who is the fake one.

After pacifying Jizhou and Youzhou in Hebei, he controlled six states in the world. Any prince who dared to go to war with him would be killed.

After all states announced it to the world, he would be made king for his merit in executing a white horse in Luoyang. Even Liu Xie, the puppet emperor in Guanzhong, would probably be terrified.

Liu Bei couldn’t help but ponder.

If Chang’an was not still in the hands of the Liangzhou bandits, he would have wanted to go to Chang’an to pay homage to Changling and then be promoted to King of Han.

Compared to Luoyang, he prefers Chang’an City.

However, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Changing the name of Henei County to Hanzhong County will give him an excuse to send troops to attack the traitor Zhang Lu. In addition, the bandits from Liangzhou have occupied Chang’an. After pacifying the Yuan family in Hebei, he will deal with them one by one.

(End of this chapter)