The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Chapter 55 Who is Liu Bei?

Yuan Shao, a native of Runan, was of low status. He often told others that he was an orphan without a father, and showed no gratitude towards the Runan Yuan family who raised him. Is this a manifestation of filial piety?

However, the court still granted him the position of Langguan because his great-grandfather and grandfather had served as three highest officials in the court, hoping that he would be loyal to the country and serve the monarch.

But Yuan Shao was not only not grateful to the court, but also often formed cliques for personal gain, and took in fugitives without the court's call for conscription, with ill intentions. Is this a manifestation of loyalty?
It is precisely because of disloyal and unfilial people like Yuan Shao who deceived the world and stole fame that disasters like the Yellow Turban Rebellion occurred!

Later, Yuan Shao surrendered to General He Jin, and the two colluded with each other, mobilized soldiers guarding the border to Luoyang, and burned the ferry crossing of Mengjin, hoping to use this to threaten the Queen Mother. Such a traitor is really unheard of!
After He Jin's death, Yuan Shao led his troops into the imperial palace with the intention of assassinating the emperor. This was something that even Wang Mang did not dare to do back then!
Later, the benevolent Grand Tutor restored the court, the benevolent emperor inherited the throne, and chose to grant amnesty to the people. However, Yuan Shao still did not repent, secretly fled to Guandong, gathered his followers, and chose to rebel.

When he rebelled, he didn't even think about his uncle and clan members who raised him. It can be seen that he is a completely heartless person! Why would such a monster appear in the Han Dynasty, which advocates filial piety?

After the rebellion failed, Yuan Shao fled back to Jizhou and killed Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou. Poor Han Fu was deceived by Yuan Shao in the past, helped Yuan Shao to commit atrocities, and helped Yuan Shao to provide food and grass, but he died immediately in Yuan Shao's hands. This is the fate of people who believe in Yuan Shao!
As an adopted son, he does not respect his adoptive father.

As an official, he does not respect the court.

As an ally, he seized the ally's territory.

Such a person would probably feel inferior to himself even if Xia Jie or Shang Zhou were still alive, right?

The sufferings that the people of the Han Dynasty are going through today are all caused by Yuan Shao, the Han traitor. If Yuan Shao can be killed, the people will be able to live and work in peace, and the world will be able to recuperate.

Therefore, the imperial court issued a special edict, ordering the ambitious people of the Han Dynasty to jointly attack Yuan Shao.

Among them, the court heard that Gongsun Zan, a native of Lingzhi in Liaoxi, was brave in battle and loyal to the emperor and patriotic, so he was specially appointed as the governor of Jizhou and the general of Zhenbei.

There was also Liu Bei Liu Xuande, a native of Zhuo County, Zhuojun. He was once a disciple of General Lu Zhi, and a descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan in the early Han Dynasty. He was an upright relative of the Han royal family and was specially appointed as the prefect of Dongjun.

I hope Gongsun Zan, Liu Bei, and more loyal and patriotic people will stand up and jointly fight against the Han traitor Yuan Shao. Only in this way can the world be pacified!

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This is the official document issued by the imperial court!
No, to be precise, this is actually an "Exhortation to Punish Yuan Shao".

The wording of this manifesto is strong and the language is cruel.

Even people like "Xia Jie, Shang Zhou, and Wang Mang" were brought out, which proved that the Han court really regarded Yuan Shao as an irreconcilable enemy.

You know, even Zhang Jue, the initiator of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, did not receive such a "high" evaluation from the imperial court.

Moreover, this manifesto cleverly used the concept of unfilial piety to separate Yuan Shao from the Yuan family of Runan.

The imperial court is not targeting you, the Yuan family of Runan. It's simply that Yuan Shao is really incompetent...

However, the manifesto separated Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu of Runan, but did not completely separate them.

Because the purpose of issuing the manifesto was not to target Yuan Shao, but to target Yuan Shu.

Once this manifesto was published, would that old guy Yuan Shu still dare to send troops to help Yuan Shao?

The imperial court said that Yuan Shao was unfilial and had killed Yuan Shu's elder Yuan Kui.

If Yuan Shu still chose to send troops, he would be taking the initiative to pick up the shit from Yuan Shao and smear it on his own face.

Moreover, this would give Liu Biao an excuse to take action against Yuan Shu.

If the imperial court directly denounced the Yuan family of Runan or Yuan Shu as traitors to the Han Dynasty, it would actually be forcing Liu Biao to take action against Yuan Shu, and Liu Biao would definitely not feel comfortable.

But now, it has given each other a way out.

If you, Yuan Shu, don't move, this shit won't fall on your head, and Liu Biao won't have to send troops to Yuan Shu. If you, Yuan Shu, move, then you really can't blame Liu Biao, after all, it's you who wrote the word "rebellion" on your face, you can't blame others.

Most importantly.

Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao had always been at odds with each other.

Yuan Shao thought he was the elder brother, but Yuan Shu always regarded himself as the direct descendant.

Now the imperial court has denounced Yuan Shao as a traitor to the Han Dynasty...which can be considered another way to help Yuan Shao become famous.

If Yuan Shu still followed Yuan Shao, wouldn't that mean he was admitting that he was inferior to Yuan Shao? Was he Yuan Shao's henchman?

Therefore, when Liu Xie said that Yuan Shao should be denounced as a traitor to the Han Dynasty, Jia Xu immediately reacted and realized that this was indeed a brilliant move to deal with Yuan Shu.

Not only that.

At the end of the manifesto, Han Fu was specifically mentioned.

In the past, Han Fu was not only a student and former official of the Yuan family of Runan, but also a major ally of Yuan Shao in his campaign against Dong Zhuo, and he provided food and fodder for Yuan Shao's army.

But for such a person, Yuan Shao could seize his foundation at will and kill him at will.

What would Yuan Shao’s other allies think of such behavior?
Wouldn't Zhang Yang, Cao Cao and others have any grudges against Yuan Shao?
Even at the end of the manifesto, Cao Cao's position as the governor of Dongjun was given to Liu Bei.

This would actually further deepen Cao Cao's dissatisfaction with Yuan Shao, further create rifts within the coalition, and at the same time deal a serious blow to Yuan Shao's prestige.

The only thing that made Jia Xu curious was——

"Who is Liu Bei?"

Descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan?

If Jia Xu remembered correctly, there must be more than a hundred descendants of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan, right?

Now that hundreds of years have passed, even if his descendants are fewer, I'm afraid they must be more than tens of thousands, right?
Why does Your Majesty care so much about Liu Bei?

strange!
What Jia Xu didn't know was that one month after this manifesto was circulated, Liu Bei was also dumbfounded when he learned the news.

If the letter had not clearly stated that it was Liu Bei from Zhuo County, and that he was a disciple of Lu Zhi, with the courtesy name Xuande, Liu Bei would have really thought that it was a relative with the same name and surname.

His captains Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were also shocked.

"Brother, do you have any old friends in the current court?"

Liu Bei's face trembled.

An old friend with a hammer?

Liu Bei's biggest network of contacts was his mentor Lu Zhi, but Lu Zhi had long since returned to Hebei to live in seclusion.

"Could it be that my mentor mentioned me in front of someone else, and then that person reported my name to the court?"

Liu Bei was moved and delighted at the same time, and decided to repay the nobleman who recommended him in the future.

But in any case, Liu Bei confirmed one thing——

"Now is the perfect time for me, Liu Xuande, to support the Han Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)