Chapter Eight
"Do you want to be a famous minister? Or a founding king?"
The Allies have been blocked under Hulao Pass for three days, and the news of Lu Bu's death has long been known to Dong Zhuo. Zuo Xiaoyou, who understands the direction of the world, knows that soon, Dong Zhuo will dig the imperial tomb and burn Luoyang to run away. ★
Faced with this situation, Zuo Xiaoyou saw that the princes who were celebrating victory every day had no idea of progress, so he met Yuan Shao alone that night and asked the above questions.
Yuan Shao was stunned by this question, his heart was ups and downs. He looked at Zuo Xiaoyou's eyes, and was silent for a moment, saying, "Who would be a famous minister if he had the opportunity to be the founding king?"
Seeing that Yuan Shao expressed his ambitions clearly, Zuo Xiaoyou nodded: "One thing that I promise me, I will help you ascend the throne within ten years."
Yuan Shao's breathing became rapid: "Xiaoyou, please speak!"
"Treat the people well." Zuo Xiaoyou said lightly: "You are the boat, and the people are the water. Water can carry the boat, but it can also overturn the boat."
Yuan Shao's face changed, he was silent for a moment, and bowed and bowed: "Please help me, Xiaoyou."
Zuo Xiaoyou smiled faintly: "I will personally conquer Hulao Pass tomorrow. Lord must lead the army to Luoyang, don't let Dong Zhuo burn Luoyang."
"What!?" Yuan Shao was shocked and then furious: "Dong Zhuo is a man! He dares!"
"It is because he is a common man that he dares." Zuo Xiaoyou said lightly: "I'm afraid Dong Zhuo has begun to prepare to leave Luoyang and escape to Chang'an. All the lord has to do is to stop him as soon as possible and seize Emperor Xian..."
After a pause, Yuan Shao said in a deep voice: "Please use the emperor to command the princes."
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The next day, Zuo Xiaoyou rushed into Hulao Pass with a arrow and stone. The magic gun was like lightning, and the Hulao Pass defender was bleeding. Even the Hulao Pass defender was stabbed to death with one shot. In the end, the Hulao Pass defender collapsed and the switch surrendered.
Yuan Shao led the coalition of princes under Hulao Pass and watched Zuo Xiaoyou's great power and captured the world's majesty with his own strength. This scene made Yuan Shao very excited, but the other princes looked pale.
If Yuan Shao has such a magical general to help him, who can stop him in the world?
If other princes were afraid, Cao Cao would be jealous. Back then, he and Yuan Shao and Xu You went to visit Zuo Xiaoyou. In theory, his friendship with Zuo Xiaoyou was similar to that of Yuan Shao and Zuo Xiaoyou. If he recruited Zuo Xiaoyou early, wouldn’t Zuo Xiaoyou become his subordinate, and how could he be better than Yuan Shao?
What made him almost have a heart attack was that Yuan Shao didn't recruit Zuo Xiaoyou with his own abilities, but Zuo Xiaoyou just happened to live in Yuan Shao's territory, which made Yuan Shao get a bargain.
It’s not about ability, but about the water tower, Cao Cao was dissatisfied!
In any case, Hulao Pass had been broken, and there was no natural danger in Luoyang next. In order to stop Dong Zhuo in time, Zuo Xiaoyou asked Yuan Shao to leave 10,000 defenders to defend Hulao Pass, and then he took three thousand cavalry to go straight to Luoyang. Yuan Shao and the allies made some adjustments and absorbed the newly surrendered army, and then he rushed straight to Luoyang.
At this time, Zuo Xiaoyou had already trapped Dong Zhuo in Luoyang City with three thousand cavalry.
Of course, Dong Zhuo was not willing to stay in the city. It was really that his soldiers could not defeat Zuo Xiaoyou!
Three days ago, Zuo Xiaoyou had already arrived outside Luoyang City, and then came to the front of the city alone to challenge. At that time, the news that Zuo Xiaoyou stabbed Lu Bu to death had already reached Luoyang. Dong Zhuo, a coward, dared not go out of the city to fight one-on-one. However, when he saw Zuo Xiaoyou only brought three thousand cavalry, he sent his subordinates and 50,000 cavalry out of the city to fight. As a result, the 50,000 cavalry was rushed by Zuo Xiaoyou's three thousand cavalry, and he was almost rushed into Luoyang City by Zuo Xiaoyou. Dong Zhuo was so scared that he hurriedly closed the city gate and was beaten to death and never left the city.
The 50,000 cavalry were killed by Zuo Xiaoyou. Although most of them escaped, they killed more than 5,000 and captured more than 8,000.
Because they had to guard the more than 8,000 prisoners, Zuo Xiaoyou did not have enough manpower to attack the city, and the situation continued to stalemate. It was not until Yuan Shao led the Allied Army that more than 8,000 prisoners were integrated into the Yuan army's troops.
At this time, the Allied troops had 200,000 troops, and had already divided into four groups to block the four gates of Luoyang, leaving Dong Zhuo no longer the chance to escape. At this time, Dong Zhuo truly felt despair, his temper became even more irritable, and he had to kill more than a dozen people every day to vent his horror. His son-in-law Li Ru was accidentally hacked to death by Dong Zhuo under this situation.
Even Li Ru could not escape death, and Dong Zhuo's subordinates were even more frightened, fearing that they would be killed by Dong Zhuo one day.
At this time, Luoyang was surrounded and could not be escaped. It was impossible for the warriors of Xiliang to escape. Those wolves were all wolf-like people who were respected by the strong. Seeing that they had only one way to die with Dong Zhuo, the gate of Luoyang was opened on the sixth day of the siege of the Allied Army. Two generals under Dong Zhuo, Li Jue and Guo Si, carried Dong Zhuo's head out of the city to surrender.
At the same time, there is also sad news that Emperor Xian of Han, Liu Xie, did not escape Dong Zhuo's murderous actions two days ago and was killed.
Simply put, the Han Dynasty now has no orthodox emperor, and the plan to use the emperor to command the princes by Zuo Xiaoyou for Yuan Shao was greatly affected.
Fortunately, relying on the credit for killing Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao and the Allies got the fame they wanted. But other princes were side dishes, and only Yuan Shao's main dish had a huge reputation. As long as Yuan Shao called out, he would definitely follow him.
Although Emperor Xian of Han was killed, Zuo Xiaoyou's plan was affected, it doesn't matter. Some Han clans can just find a controllable person to be appointed as the new emperor. For example, Emperor Ling of Han was actually a nine-five master who was established like this. If the previous emperor had no descendants, it would not be the turn of Emperor Ling to ascend the throne.
Why did Xu You think about the deposed emperor and establish another? Because the Ling Emperor himself was not well-known, Xu You wanted to get the master of following the dragon and make himself reach the top. Unfortunately, his plan failed and ran away for several years. Not long ago, he ran to Yuan Shao to surrender. However, Yuan Shao did not bring him to attack Dong Zhuo, and was temporarily staying in Bohai to wait for the opportunity.
"A country cannot be without a monarch for a day. As a minister, we must establish a new monarch as soon as possible." After solving Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao and the princes began to discuss the issue of who to establish an emperor. To establish a new monarch, of course, we must find a young, obedient and easy to control, and some such Han clan relatives are.
As for those Han clans who were in charge, they would definitely not have a chance. The princes would never support them.
Luoyang was defeated by them, Dong Zhuo was destroyed by them, and they had no relationship with the Han family members who were in charge. Now that the matter is done, I want to come and pick fruits, but there is no door.
Not to mention Liu Bei, a poor Han clan member who could not even find a family tree, had no 10,000 or 8,000 Han clan member of his identity. Only Zhang, the two idiots, would be fooled by him, and no one would consider him.
After discussing the matter, Yuan Shao and the princes finally reached a consensus and found a six-year-old Han clan relative to support him ascending the throne. Then Yuan Shao became the general of the dynasty because of his contribution to killing Dong. Yuan Shao was particularly ruthless and forced himself to seek the title of Marquis of Nanpi for Zuo Xiaoyou and was awarded the title of General Zhengbei and the Governor of Jizhou.
Simply put, it was to get Han Fu off. However, Han Fu also got the opportunity to work in the central government. For a person who has no ability and no ambition, this is the best result.
However, Zuo Xiaoyou, the title of General of the North, directly placed Gongsun Zan under Zuo Xiaoyou, which made Gongsun Zan very dissatisfied. However, considering Zuo Xiaoyou's scary martial arts, he could only endure this tone.
Afterwards, Zuo Xiaoyou recommended many of his own students to enter the court to assist Yuan Shao.
The Yuan family has four generations and three masters, and their disciples and former officials are spread all over the world. As the most famous person in the Yuan family, Yuan Shao naturally received the support of the Yuan family's disciples and former officials in the world. For a moment, Yuan Shao's popularity reached, which was even better than Dong Zhuo.
However, Yuan Shao received guidance from Zuo Xiaoyou and knew that now was not a good opportunity to be an enemy of the world, so he began to centralize power, just like Zuo, using the emperor to command the princes.
Because there is no food crisis now, the Yellow Turban Remnant Party almost no longer exists, so Yuan Shao decided to abolish the state and governor system and restore his position as a governor in the name of the emperor. Simply put, it is not to give the princes the opportunity to become independent in the local area.
Then Yuan Shao sent his own people again, intending to take over the position of the local prefectures. After finally becoming a local emperor for several years, how could he give up the power? But they did not dare to openly challenge the central government, so they used a delaying plan to serve the newly arrived governor with delicious food and drinks, and then found an opportunity to report him to the central government, saying that the newly arrived governor was not adapted to the local government and could not cure his long-term illness. He hoped that the central government would send a new governor to come.
"I'll send your sister!" Yuan Shao received the information and was so angry that he threw the Minggui inkstone: "These bastards! They just don't want to hand over their power."
Zuo Xiaoyou put down his brush and said lightly: "It's just something that I expected, why bother the general?"
"Although it was expected, it was also annoying!" Yuan Shao looked at the inkstone scattered on the ground, frowned, and told his servants to clean up. Then he looked at the words that Zuo Xiaoyou had just written, and exclaimed: "Good words! When it comes to calligraphy, Xiaoyou should be the world."
Zuo Xiaoyou smiled faintly: "The next step can be implemented, and those provincial governors can come to Beijing to report their duties."
"I'm afraid they won't come!" Yuan Shao frowned and said, "Just 'just be 'in sick and can't travel far', you can't do anything to them."
Zuo Xiaoyou shook his head: "The military and political affairs of Jizhou are already in the hands of the general. Next, the general appointed the lower official as the governor of Jingzhou, and the lower official went to Jingzhou to take office."
Yuan Shao was silent for a moment: "Although Xiaoyou is unparalleled in magical martial arts, I am afraid that hidden arrows will be difficult to defend against."
"Sir, don't worry." Zuo Xiaoyou shook his head: "The lower official is absolutely sure."
He paused: "Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou should also be controlled by the general as soon as possible, but do not appoint Cao Cao."
"Meng De?" Yuan Shao was stunned: "Why?"
"When Xu Shao Yuedan commented, Cao Cao was a 'a capable minister in governing the world and a traitor in troubled times'." Zuo Xiaoyou looked at him and said in a deep voice: "I have not entered the world at this time, so Cao Cao must not be trusted!" (To be continued.)8
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Chapter completed!