At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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In just two or three years, a land in Guanzhong with a population of one million was tossed into desolation and dilapidation. Countless people died.

They are only qualified to be Guo's tools, and they are not worthy of others.

Let's make trouble, make Guanzhong a mess, so I can rebuild hope on the ruins.

In this era, ruins are much better than manors.

However, although Jia Wenhe is smart, he can play only so many cards. He is not strong enough, and the emperor cannot play the greatest role. For Guo, there is naturally a way to deal with this kind of strategy.

As for Tao Qian.

Guo Peng didn't care if he was happy or not.

Guo Peng didn't care what Tao Qian thought, let alone whether he was happy or not. If he dared to do something petty, Guo Peng wouldn't mind chopping off his paws to make him behave.

Guo's current goal is Hebei, so don't ask for trouble, otherwise it would be easy to send 1 people to show you some color.

So no matter how annoyed and upset Tao Qian was, Guo Peng didn't care at all.

The only thing worth worrying about is Yuan Shu.

Only Yuan Shu has the energy to make Guo Peng scruples. Although Guo Peng can easily take down Yuan Shu militarily, Yuan Shu still has the upper hand politically.

Without Yuan Shu providing Guo Peng with a righteous name, it would be really difficult for Guo Peng to kill Yuan Shao.

In order to please Yuan Shu, make him happy, make him happy, and make Jia Wenhe's plan invalid, Guo had no choice but to give up.

In November of the third year of Chuping, Ma Rixun arrived in Shouchun, made Yuan Shu General Zuo with Chijie, added [-] households in Shiyi, and then there was nothing else.

On the contrary, some of his generals, such as Sun Jian's son, Sun Ce, were appointed Captain of Huaiyi, and several of Sun Jian's former troops were appointed as lieutenants. I don't know what Li Jue thinks.

Yuan Shu found out that the Chang'an court didn't grant him a regional post, and his face immediately turned bad. He also heard that Tao Qian was named Andong General Xuzhou Mu, and he was in a bad mood. General, my mood is about to collapse.

Not only the status is low, but also the rest of the official position!There are no local positions!

Am I, Yuan Gonglu, so unbearable?

"Ridiculous! I am the son of the grand family of the fourth generation and the third father, can I not compare with the yellow-mouthed child and the white-haired old man?!"

Yuan Shu was very annoyed, threw the table and the bench, didn't give Ma Rixun any face at all, and showed it to him in front of Ma Rixun, of course Ma Rixun was very upset, so he reprimanded Yuan Shu.

Ma Rixun had a high seniority, a great reputation, and was a man of integrity. Yuan Shu didn't dare to do anything to him at first.

But later, a subordinate gave him a bad idea, let him get Ma Rixun drunk, tricked him into getting Fu Jie, and then directly put Ma Rixun under house arrest.

It was not enough to put Kong Rong under house arrest, but Ma Rizun was also under house arrest. Then Yuan Shu used the talisman to seal his subordinates in order to vent his dissatisfaction.

The dignified Fufeng Ma clan has been famous for decades. How has Ma Rixun been treated like this?

As soon as you get angry, you get sick, and it's still the kind of level where you can't afford to be sick.

It didn't take long for Ma Rixun to die of anger.

However, Yuan Shu was still in a bad mood. Guo Peng and Tao Qian, whom he regarded as his subordinates, both got positions, but he did not have a corresponding position.

The strong dissatisfaction made him not calm down even after Ma Rizun's death, and decided to do something.

And just when he was deciding what to do, a subordinate came to report that when a villager was collecting wood in the forest north of Shouchun City, he saw a tall man with scales on his body, horns and sharp claws on his head. The strange animal also made a roar like a wild beast.

Because there were as many as a dozen people who witnessed it, they went to the government to report the incident together. The county magistrate was surprised and took people to investigate in person.

The county magistrate led a team and saw footprints similar to beasts in the places they witnessed, which were much larger than ordinary beasts, and there were some claw marks around them.

The county magistrate then sent someone to report the matter to Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu was greatly surprised when he heard it, and called his subordinates to discuss it.

chapter 308

Ren Beast Kirin?

Hearing this discussion among his subordinates, Yuan Shu was shocked, and sent someone to invite a warlock who is more familiar with this aspect.

Seven or eight warlocks gathered together, and after hearing the descriptions from the villagers, they immediately asserted that this was the birth of a unicorn.

"A unicorn is a benevolent beast. The male is called a unicorn, and the female is called a lin. The ancients said that wherever a unicorn haunts, there must be auspicious signs. The general can send people to look for them, and there may be auspicious signs."

A warlock with a gray beard suggested this to Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu had doubts in his heart and was a little inexplicably excited, so he sent his general Qiao Rui to lead the army into the mountains and forests infested by unicorns to search for auspicious signs. They searched for three days without any results, and Yuan Shu was greatly disappointed.

Then on the fourth day, Qiao Rui suddenly came to visit Yuan Shu in Yuan Shu's study mysteriously, and offered him something mysteriously.

"What is so mysterious? You have to meet me alone to get it out?"

After stepping away from the left and right, Yuan Shu looked at Qiao Rui a little strangely.

Qiao Rui chuckled, took out a small cloth ball from his bosom, held it carefully, and then carefully peeled off layer by layer, until Yuan Shu almost got impatient, and finally finished peeling off.

Then Yuan Shu was stunned.

A small jade seal with a radius of four inches appeared in front of my eyes, with five dragon buttons on it and a corner missing.

"This……"

Yuan Shu's eyes widened: "Chuan Guo Yuxi?"

Yuan Shu took the Chuan Guo Yuxi and put it in his hand, stroked it, looked left and right, with an expression of disbelief.

"Where did it come from?"

Qiao Rui's face turned red from excitement.

"Early this morning, just after dawn, a village chief under his command came to report that he found a strange light somewhere in the mountains. The soldiers thought it was strange and dared not go forward, so they came to report to his subordinates.

The subordinates led people to search there, and when they got there, they found a strange brilliance. At first, the subordinates did not dare to approach it. "

Qiao Rui looked at Yuan Shu excitedly: "General, this... Could it be the auspiciousness brought by the benevolent beast?"

"This……"

Yuan Shu was very excited, holding the Chuanguo jade seal and looked left and right, and saw eight characters of flowers and birds from the bottom, and immediately connected Qilin's birth to the world with auspiciousness and this jade seal.

His heart was pounding, beating faster and faster.

Could it be that……

This auspicious...

Yuan Shu didn't dare to continue thinking about it, so he immediately invited the gray-bearded old magician from that day, and asked him about the meaning of the unicorn's birth.

"As long as the benevolent beast unicorn comes into the world, good things will definitely happen. If there is auspiciousness, it is the best thing. Did the general find auspiciousness in the place where the benevolent beast haunts?"

The old warlock asked.

Yuan Shu suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, and said, "What if we found it?"

"what?"

The old sorcerer was full of astonishment: "If you find it, the luck brought by the appearance of the benevolent beast will belong to the general alone. The future of the general is limitless!"

Yuan Shu took a deep breath.

"really?"

"That's natural. It is said that before Confucius was born, a unicorn spit out a jade book in the yard of his house. The book said that the son of Shui Jing was the king of Su in the decline of Zhou Dynasty. Man, the future is unpredictable."

The old warlock stroked his gray beard and sighed repeatedly.

Yuan Shu didn't say whether he got the auspiciousness or not, he rewarded the old magician with some money and sent him away.

Then he closed the door and hugged the Chuanguo Yuxi and carefully looked at it all by himself, looking left and right, feeling infinite joy in his heart and endless reverie.

The benevolent beast came to the world and gave me the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, does it mean that...

Will I become the supreme under heaven?

Yuan Shu passed in a daze for several days, and a few days later, an ancient prophecy suddenly became popular in Shouchun City.

Those who replaced the Han Dynasty should be Tu Gao.

This is a prophecy from the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty when the prophecy was popular, it has always been greatly valued. No one knows who this "Dang Tu Gao" is, but everyone has been looking for this person and wants to know Who is he.

Various explanations have been given, but no unanimous agreement has been obtained.

Until the chaos of Dong Li and the chaos of the court, the decline of the great Han Dynasty, the ghosts and snake gods saw the signs of the great chaos in the world, and various prophecies about the generation of the Han became popular again and gained a wide market.

In the past few days in Shouchun City, it was rumored that the benevolent beast came to the world to bring auspiciousness, so some people began to discuss these seemingly disrespectful prophecies. kind of omen.

Some kind of revelation from God to oneself.

Should Yuan Shu, Yuan Gonglu, the heirs of the famous family of the fourth generation and the third father, go further?

Yuan Shu has always believed that Yuan's surname came from Chen, and Chen was the descendant of Shun, who inherited fire with earth, and he was the next to meet his fate. He also felt that "the one who replaced the Han Dynasty, Dang Tu Gaoye" was talking about himself, and now that he has obtained the jade seal, that kind of Ideas just flow out of hand.

Do you want to be emperor?

It must be wonderful, right?

Yuan Shu fell into such a reverie.

Although I don't think it's good to do it now, but I feel itchy in my heart, that kind of itching that I can't scratch it to death, it's really unbearable feeling.

But the emperor is still there, and the court is still there. Although the various warlords secretly do their own things, they still obey the edict of the Chang'an court on the surface.

Will there be a lot of opposition to doing so?

Although Yuan Shu felt itchy in his heart, at least he knew that even if he couldn't win the approval of the people in the world, the people in his camp would always agree, otherwise wouldn't it be rebellion?

Under such repeated torture, Yuan Shu decided to test the people here a little bit.

So Yuan Shu called Yan Xiang, a well-known master under his command, and showed him the Jade Seal of Chuanguo, asking him to verify the authenticity a little bit.

"This is... the Jade Seal of Chuanguo? Where did the general get it?"

Yan Xiang took the Chuanguo jade seal and looked it over carefully. Looking left and right, he felt that it was true, so he was even more surprised, and hurriedly asked Yuan Shu where this jade seal came from.

Yuan Shu then talked about the Qilin's birth to the world.

He said that he hid the fact that he finally found this Jade Seal of Chuanguo, and felt that this was the meaning of God. God thought that he had great luck, so he sent the benevolent beast Qilin to bring this Jade Seal to him.

Yan Xiang felt a little strange, but he didn't know how to refute it.

The birth of a unicorn is a great auspicious omen. The ancient emperors all thought so, and Yan Xiang, who had received an orthodox education, naturally thought so too. Although he had never seen a unicorn with his own eyes, he believed that a unicorn existed.

But now Yuan Shu actually said that the great luck was on him, and he wanted to do something, which made Yan Xiang feel a little bad.

Could it be that Yuan Shu has the heart of disobedience and wants to do things that are presumptuous?

Chapter 309 Three hundred and eight Yuan Shu can't be so stupid, can he?

Yan Xiang's mind was shaken, and he felt that there were some things that he had to stop no matter what.

My God, although the Han Dynasty is in decline, the Emperor Han is still there. People in the world still respect the Emperor Han in name, and he is a courtier of the Emperor Han. If you do it so openly, isn't it a rebellion?

After following Yuan Shu for so long, Yan Xiang probably knows Yuan Shu's character.

After thinking for a moment, Yan Xiang put the Chuan Guo Yuxi on the table and spoke slowly.

"In the old days, the people of Zhou accumulated virtues and meritorious deeds since their ancestor Houji, conquered the world, and owned a lot of land. By the time of King Wen, three parts of the world could be said to have two points for them, but even so, they still cautiously became Shang Zhou. Courtiers, precisely because they know the time has not come.

Although Minggong's family has four generations and three princes, and its disciples and old officials are all over the world, it may not be as good as Zhou people, who have two thirds of the world. Moreover, although the Han Dynasty is declining, the emperor of Han is still there, and he has not lost his virtue. Compare it with the cruel and inhuman King Zhou? "

When Yuan Shu heard this, his face collapsed.

"Yan Gong means that I feel that Yuan Gonglu's virtue is not enough? Everyone in the world thinks that my virtue is not worthy?"

Yan Xiang stopped talking.

How about your virtue, you should have 13 numbers in your heart.

Looting everywhere, destroying the manor everywhere, acting like grassroots bandits, a large number of scholars choose to follow Yuan Shao instead of you, isn't it vigilant enough?

Yan Xiang felt that Yuan Shu should have some understanding of himself.

Seeing Yan Xiang's attitude, Yuan Shu's heart suddenly turned cold.

It's over, even Yan Xiang doesn't support me, who else can support me?