The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 289 Volume Honey Water~
Not only do we have to ask Yuan Shao for help.

He also had to give the throne he had "hard-earned" to Yuan Shao!

Yuan Shu, who originally thought he could do anything, frowned and asked, "Does it have to be this way?"

"That's all."

Li Ru offered a suggestion: "If Your Majesty falls into Sun Ce's hands now, given Sun Ce's brutality, it will be difficult for him to survive."

"The only way to save your majesty is to give the title of emperor to Yuan Shao before Cao Cao attacks, so that Cao Cao will be concerned about Yuan Shao's identity!"

After hearing this, Yuan Shu also felt that what Li Ru said made sense.

Blood is thicker than water!
After all, Cao Cao was still under Yuan Shao's command!
If he gave the title of emperor to Yuan Shao, how could Cao Cao dare to harm him? Wasn't he afraid of Yuan Shao's blame?
Although Yuan Shu was somewhat resentful that he could only rely on Yuan Shao to survive, he also knew that Yuan Shao was probably the only one who could save his life at the moment.

"good!"

Immediately.

Yuan Shu ordered Li Ru to make preparations, and he himself would set up an altar to offer sacrifices to the heavens!
When Cao Cao led his troops to attack Shouchun, he was full of energy and wanted to humiliate his old rival Yuan Shu.

But when Cao Cao led his troops to Yuan Shu's palace, he almost vomited blood!

At this moment, Yuan Shu set up an altar in the open space outside the palace and burned incense and danced on it!
And next to Yuan Shu was a wooden puppet.

The words "Yuan Shao" are written on the face of the doll. He is wearing the emperor's robes and a crown with twelve tassels on his head, looking like an emperor!
"Yuan Shu! You deserve to die!"

Cao Cao shouted loudly and was about to step forward with his sword, but was stopped by Guo Jia.

Guo Jia looked at the altar at this moment and frowned.

"Lord Cao, Yuan Shu wants to save his life!"

Cao Cao naturally saw through Yuan Shu's intention.

"He thinks that I won't dare to kill him?"

Guo Jia stopped Cao Cao again: "Lord Cao, this is not something you dare to do."

"Yuan Shu is, after all, a blood relative of Yuan Shao."

"Originally, it would have been better for Lord Cao not to take action against Yuan Shu himself. The most appropriate way to deal with him would have been to send Yuan Shu to Yuan Shao in Hebei."

"But now Yuan Shu has given the title of emperor to Yuan Shao... and we can't send him to Hebei!"

Yuan Shu is overstepping his authority and should be killed!
But after all, he had some blood relationship with Yuan Shao, and anyone could kill Yuan Shu except Cao Cao.

After all, Yuan Shu was Yuan Shao's younger brother and a direct descendant of the Yuan family of Runan.

If Yuan Shu was killed, would Yuan Shao be saddened? Since Cao Cao dared to kill Yuan Shu, would he plot against him in the future?

Originally, Guo Jia wanted to send Yuan Shu to Hebei, so as to prevent Cao Cao from offending Yuan Shao more, and to disgust Yuan Shao...

But now that Yuan Shu has given the throne to Yuan Shao, we absolutely cannot send Yuan Shu back to Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao is still serving the emperor of the Liu family, the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

If Cao Cao now gave Yuan Shu... that is, gave the title of emperor to Yuan Shao, what would he do? Would he encourage Yuan Shao to rebel?
If Cao Cao really dared to send Yuan Shu to Hebei, he would definitely be charged with "inciting Yuan Shao to rebel" in the future.

If Cao Cao were charged with this crime, he would have offended both the Han Dynasty and Yuan Shao!
In other words, Cao Cao only had one choice -

"Ugh."

Guo Jia released the hand that was blocking Cao Cao.

"Yuan Shu will surely die!"

If Yuan Shu had kept the throne for himself and sent him to Hebei, perhaps he could have saved his life.

But since Yuan Shu dared to give the title of emperor to Yuan Shao... he was simply courting his own death!
Guo Jia looked at Yuan Shu speechlessly.

"Who on earth came up with such a vicious plan? It's really sinister!"

With Yuan Shu giving up the title of emperor to Yuan Shao, the outcome is now a lose-lose situation for both sides.

Yuan Shu must die!
There will also be more rifts between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao because of this incident.

stupid!
How stupid!

Or... is there a smart person around Yuan Shu who is not on his side?
Guo Jia had no choice but to grab Cao Cao's arm again.

"After all, Lord Cao cannot kill Yuan Shu himself."

Guo Jia ordered all his soldiers to leave Yuan Shu's palace, block the palace gates, and ignore him.

"It is better to let Yuan Shu starve to death in his own palace than to let Cao Gong be splattered with Yuan's blood."

"Since Yuan Shu has usurped the throne, let him continue to dream in the palace!"

……

When Yuan Shu saw Cao Cao, who had already rushed in, had no choice but to retreat, he was immediately delighted!
"Wenyou's plan really worked!"

Cao Cao didn't dare to kill himself!

However, as time passed, this joy eventually turned into panic.

There were still some palace servants in the palace. Although they understood their situation, they still tried their best to serve Yuan Shu. They brought roasted mice and muddy well water, and asked Yuan Shu to use them to prolong his life.

"I come from a rich family! How can I eat such lowly food?"

Although Yuan Shu was dizzy with hunger, he still refused to eat these things.

"I don't want to eat these! I want to eat beef! I want to drink honey water! Go and get it for me!"

In a hurry, Yuan Shu simply drew out his sword and waved it around, causing the palace servants to flee in all directions.

After a few more days, Yuan Shu no longer had the strength to stand.

He lay on the ground dying, looking at the rat meat and well water not far away, but turned his head away stubbornly.

"Honey water, give me honey water~"...

After all, Yuan Shu was starved to death in the palace just one year after he proclaimed himself emperor.

But now no one cares about Yuan Shu.

Cao Cao searched the entire Shouchun City but couldn't find the legendary imperial seal, and he was so angry that he cursed.

Sun Ce arrived at the city of Shouchun with great enthusiasm, only to find that although he had defeated Yuan Shu's main force, Cao Cao had taken the advantage of him. He was so angry that he cursed!
"So what about Cao Cao? Reorganize your troops and attack Shouchun immediately!"

Seeing that Sun Ce was getting a little too angry, Zhou Yu quickly pulled away this lord who was causing him trouble.

"Bofu! How can we have the energy to attack Cao Cao now?"

After much persuasion by Zhou Yu, Sun Ce finally gave up the idea of ​​attacking Cao Cao.

Just at this time, Li Ru also came to Sun Ce's camp.

When Sun Ce saw Yuan Shu's Shang Shu Ling coming, he was about to kill him as a sacrifice, but was interrupted by Li Ru's words: "General Sun, is this how you treat the person who saved your mother?"

"You are actually from the imperial court?"

Sun Ce was surprised and a little sad.

"What do you want to do now?"

Li Ru smiled slightly: "Of course I will continue to serve under General Sun."

Sun Ce was furious when he heard this: "How dare you be a spy beside me? You are courting death!"

"What? Is General Sun going to betray the court?"

Although Sun Ce was already an independent prince, as long as he did not explicitly declare himself emperor, or served the Hebei court like Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, he would still be a subject of the court!
Killing Li Ru would mean a complete break with the imperial court!
This is also the reason why Li Ru is so confident now.

As long as Sun Ce did not decide to break completely with the court, Li Ru himself would be safe.

When the imperial court was weak, Li Ru had to hide his identity.

But as the imperial court gradually grew stronger, what could Sun Ce do even if Li Ru told him that he was a spy?

Therefore, even though Sun Ce knew that Li Ru was a spy around him, he could do nothing about it!
Sun Ce just felt extremely depressed at this moment!
It was he who defeated Yuan Shu's main force, but in the end the richest Xuzhou and Huaibei were occupied by Cao Cao.

He had already become a super lord with 100,000 soldiers and soldiers, but he couldn't even kill Li Ru...

Wrong!

So frustrating!

But Sun Ce had no choice but to endure it!

When Li Ru saw that Sun Ce did not take action, he also began to "return the favor".

"Now that General Sun and Cao Cao are neighbors, they should actually get along peacefully."

"How about I go and negotiate with Cao Cao and ask him to withdraw his troops as soon as possible?"

Sun Ce didn't want to pay any attention to Li Ru.

But Zhou Yu agreed with Li Ru's proposal.

No matter what Li Ru's purpose was, it was always right to ask Cao Cao to withdraw his troops.

Sun Ce had just pacified these territories, and his own prestige was insufficient and his army was not large. In addition, he lost too many experienced generals in the Battle of Yiling. This meant that Sun Ce had to recuperate from now on.

and……

Zhou Yu reminded Sun Ce: "The emperor only promised to support us in the battle against Yuan Shu, but not in the battle against Cao Cao."

"Once we go to war with Cao Cao, even if the imperial court attacks Jingzhou, it won't be considered a breach of contract!"

At the moment, Sun Ce has no capital to provoke either the imperial court or Cao Cao.

To swallow one's anger, recuperate and grow stronger is the hard truth for Jiangdong's development!

Sun Ce hesitated for a moment, and finally asked Li Ru to go and show goodwill to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao had no intention of using military force against Jiangdong, so he agreed to Li Ru's request that the two sides use the Fei River as the boundary and not invade each other.

Cao Cao was standing on the city wall, watching the neat formation of Sun Ce's army. He also thought that the enemy could defeat Yuan Shu's main force with only half of Jingzhou. He sighed, "It's hard to compete with a lion!"

"If Sun Ce is allowed to run Jiangdong for a few years, I'm afraid he will really become a serious threat, right?"

On the other side, Guo Jia shook his head to comfort Cao Cao.

"Sun Ce is nothing to be afraid of! He is reckless and unprepared, impatient and lacks strategy. He is just a brave man. He will surely die at the hands of a villain someday!"

From a certain perspective, Sun Ce is actually very similar to the current imperial court.

They all relied on their absolute military advantage to suppress the local aristocratic families.

But does Sun Ce really have the iron-blooded strategy of Dong Zhuo and the advanced wisdom of the emperor?

Moreover, even if he was the Son of Heaven, he could only accomplish some things by relying on the majestic imperial power accumulated by the Han Dynasty for more than four hundred years.

Sun Ce wants to learn from the emperor...but it's really too difficult for him!
Not to mention……

When Guo Jia thought of Li Ru who had been sent as an envoy to Cao's camp before, he instantly understood a lot of things.

"Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Sun Ce..."

Guo Jia took out the Wu Shi San and took another sip——

"This mad dog released by the emperor is truly lawless!"

"Could it be that Li Ru even wants to achieve something that surpasses Su Qin and Zhang Yi?"

(End of this chapter)