When Yan heard what Lu Bu said, her first reaction was that Lu Bu was crazy!
She couldn't help but ask angrily: "My husband is drunk?"
"Although the fierce tiger has a false reputation, she is just a descendant of the Yuan family's side branch. You want Ling'er to suffer with her?"
Lu Bu sneered, "Am I not just a name?"
"Isn't it the same for me, the great general?"
"Are the soldiers under my command comparable to Dong Zhuo in the past, or Li Jue and Guo Si, or the fierce tigers of today?"
"I don't even have as much territory as he does!"
Yan stammered, "But, but, Yuan Gonglu has a large territory and many soldiers, and his son..."
"What a waste!" Lu Bu said disdainfully, "Tens of thousands of people can't even defeat the fierce tiger with thousands of people!"
"With his current condition, does he still want to protect Ling'er in the future?"
"No matter how big the family business is, he can't keep it!"
Yan was speechless after being refuted by Lu Bu. She was surprised at Lu Bu's change of character. Was it because of becoming the general?
When Lü Bu got hard, Yan softened instead. She hesitated and said, "But Yuan Gonglu can stand on equal footing with the emperor..."
Lu Bu sneered at this and said, "Women's opinions!"
"The emperor has already made up his mind, so don't ask any more questions!"
After hearing this, Yan Shi was still unwilling to give in, and said hesitantly, "Wouldn't it be good for Ling'er to stay with her husband for a while? Why do we have to send her away in such a hurry?"
"My husband is now a general, who dares to touch Ling'er?"
Lu Bu, however, looked solemn and sighed, "The last great general was He Jin!"
"It's not an easy position to hold. Huaicheng seems safe now, but it's actually dangerous. What if I'm betrayed like last time? What does it matter if I'm a general?"
"So I asked Ling'er to stay away from this place, and it was also to protect her."
Yan subconsciously wanted to say, let's just leave as a family!
But she changed her mind and thought, her husband is second only to the emperor and above everyone else. Wouldn't it be a pity to abandon all these things?
So she swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth, but when she thought of the gold, silver and other valuables that the fierce tiger had given her before, she felt angry. The fierce tiger had a good idea, but in the end he lost nothing and got her a daughter for nothing?
This bastard!
The next morning, Liu Xie convened a court meeting and moved the imperial carriage to Huaicheng. There were many reasons for this decision.
One is that Lu Bu is one of Liu Xie's most trustworthy people at present.
Secondly, Luoyang was not safe as Yuan Shu's troops were spying on it.
The third is that after the great battle between Li Jue and Guo Si, Liu Xie knew the importance of having his own power, so he had to rely on Huaicheng and with the help of Lu Bu to subdue the small and medium-sized forces from all sides.
Therefore, he needed a relatively balanced and stable environment, so that he could make friends with the princes and take the opportunity to strengthen himself.
After Yuan Xi was formally conferred the title in front of Liu Xie according to the Han system, he immediately received an imperial edict from Liu Xie to take the Han court's edict to see Yuan Shao and persuade him to accept the post of Grand Marshal.
Yuan Xi took the order and withdrew, standing among the officials, but he noticed several unfriendly glances coming towards him. He looked up and found that they were coming from behind Cao Cao.
Cao Cao himself looked normal and nothing seemed to be wrong. However, Zhong Yao, Ding Chong and others around him were kicking him in indignation, as if Yuan Xi had killed their entire family.
However, Yuan Xi ignored them. A few civil servants were nothing. He had already torn his relations with Cao Cao and his spy officials. There was no hope of restoring the relationship. Did they want to glare him to death?
What interested him at the moment was Cao Cao, whom he met for the first time. He was indeed not tall, about seven feet tall. According to the calculation of later generations, he was probably a little over one and a half meters tall.
His facial features are thin eyes and long beard, but his face has a somewhat heroic air. Could this be the heroic spirit he has developed from years of fighting in the battlefields?
But Yuan Xi didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that there was a hint of sinisterness in Cao Cao's eyes when he looked at him, which made Yuan Xi very alert.
Cao Cao was truly an outstanding figure of the time. Yuan Xi felt under great pressure when he thought that the other party might have been eyeing him.
Liu Xie spoke and asked his ministers for suggestions on how to appease the Black Mountain Army in the north.
Yuan Xi listened calmly, and soon realized that the voices of officials supporting Cao Cao were the mainstream, and most people agreed to exclude officials from Cao Cao's faction to recruit the Black Mountain Army.
So the pressure fell on Yuan Xi. After all, Liu Xie had just asked Yuan Xi to deliver an imperial edict to Yuan Shao. If Cao Cao's faction recruited the Black Mountain Army, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shao would never be able to reach an agreement.
In fact, the Han court did not want to see Yuan destroy the Black Mountain Army. After all, in doing so, the Han court would lose a great helper and even control over Bingzhou. The Southern Xiongnu, who obeyed the Han court, would also be blocked from moving south.
In fact, in today's world, it is difficult to say who is a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty and who is a rebel.
Just like Lu Bu, everyone said he was a slave of three surnames, but he was an enemy of almost all those who held the emperor hostage.
The same was true for the Southern Xiongnu, which involved the social background of the succession of their Chanyu Qiangqu, as well as the grievances between the Southern and Northern Xiongnu and the Han court.
The Xiongnu had already declined during the Eastern Han Dynasty. After Dou Xian inscribed the Yanran Inscription, the Northern Xiongnu fled and never returned, while the Southern Xiongnu completely became a vassal of the Han court.
The successive Chanyu of the Southern Xiongnu lived in Bingzhou and were under long-term close surveillance by the General Du Liao and the General Protector of the Xiongnu. They even had to send their sons as hostages. From Emperor Shun to Emperor Ling, the Han court had been interfering in the selection of the Chanyu, which led to dissatisfaction within the Southern Xiongnu.
Qiangqu was Yufuluo's father. He was hated by the powerful Xiongnu faction because of his pro-Han stance, which eventually led to his death in civil strife.
After that, the Southern Xiongnu royal court experienced several internal strife and was unable to elect a Chanyu. Yu Fuluo was completely excluded. He was left with nowhere else to go. He first plundered in Bingzhou, later joined Yuan Shao's Suanzao coalition, then rebelled and joined Dong Zhuo, and finally died inexplicably in the second year of Xingping.
In the same year, his son Liu Bao was killed by Yuan Xi on his way back to Bingzhou after plundering the people of Luoyang.
After Yu Fuluo died, his younger brother Huchuquan succeeded to the throne. Huchuquan took the right step. When the emperor's carriage was attacked by Li Jue's army, he sent troops to support and together with the Baibo army, he repelled Li Jue.
Although this Xiongnu army was later driven away due to the factional struggle between the Baibo Army and Dong Cheng, it did establish a bridge of communication with the Han court again after many years.
Of course Liu Xie would not miss this opportunity and issued an edict recognizing the official identity of Huhuxuan Chanyu. From then on, Huhuxuan's tribe became an extremely useful chess piece in the hands of Emperor Liu Xie and could be regarded as a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.
Yuan Xi knew about this twists and turns, and he had to admit that Liu Xie had some tricks.
But the direction of history in later generations gradually began to get out of control.
After Cao Cao sidelined Liu Xie, he took advantage of the Han court's control over the Southern Xiongnu and took control of the Southern Xiongnu tribe.
"Book of Wei: Biography of Liang Xi" - Shanyu (Huchuquan) was submissive, named Wang Jisang (meaning to kowtow), and his followers served him like a registered household. The border was cleared, the people were scattered in the fields, and they were diligent in encouraging agriculture and sericulture, and their orders were obeyed.
A registered household is a normal citizen's household registration, and is subject to normal labor and corvee duties. However, things gradually deteriorated afterwards. The policies of the Wei and Jin dynasties towards the Southern Xiongnu became increasingly harsh. Huochuquan obeyed the orders of the Han court, and many people in the Southern Xiongnu tribe had a very low status.
"The Biography of Chen Qun in the Book of Wei - Attached Biography" -- (Chen Tai) was the governor of Bingzhou, given additional titles such as General Zhenwei, Envoy Zhijie, and General of the Central Army to Protect the Xiongnu. He won over the Yi people and was very powerful and benevolent. Many nobles in the capital sent them valuables and goods, and bought slaves from Tai.
This refers to Chen Qun's son Chen Tai, who used the people of the Southern Xiongnu for slavery, and the Book of Wei regarded it as a normal phenomenon.
When Liu Xuan, a Xiongnu noble in the Western Jin Dynasty, was trying to persuade Liu Yuan to ascend the throne, he said, "Jin is unjust, and slaves are fighting against us." This shows that the practice of trafficking in Xiongnu people was a consistent phenomenon during the Wei and Jin dynasties.
This aroused the dissatisfaction of the Southern Xiongnu and laid the seeds for the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China later.
Yuan Xi always felt that if the Huns insisted on being enemies of the Han court, what Wei Qing and Huo Qubing did back then was very correct.
However, if any of them surrendered to the Han court, since they had been registered as ordinary citizens, they should be treated equally. They did not need to be given any special privileges, but they also did not need to be treated harshly.
Only by treating them equally can they be integrated into the big family of China. Otherwise, people who are treated unequally, whether they are Han or Hu, will inevitably be dissatisfied, and eventually it will erupt into war.
If the members of any ethnic integrated group have a lower status than other groups, this oppression will inevitably rebound over time.
Yuan Xi thought of a certain northern superpower that disintegrated in later generations. It had hundreds of different ethnic groups, and no one dared to look directly at it when it was strong.
However, it pursued a policy of suppressing the majority ethnic group, which resulted in the minority groups that were favored taking it for granted and the majority ethnic group becoming dissatisfied, and finally the entire alliance collapsed.
Yuan Xi thought of a line from a later movie.
Fair, fair, and fair.
Preferential treatment cannot win back sincerity, it will only attract profit-seeking people. Although poor treatment can suppress people temporarily, it will sooner or later provoke resistance.
Yuan Xi understood that the confrontation in the imperial court had already begun.
Liu Xie was in front and Cao Cao was behind, involving the Yuan family, the Black Mountain Army, and the Southern Xiongnu. The role he played was the fuse.
If Yuan Shao cannot be convinced, it will cause a series of negative chain reactions.
Yuan Xi really wanted to kill the Black Mountain Army, but this went against Liu Xie's intention. Was he just going to let it go?
Thinking of this, he stepped out and said, "I have something to say."
"The Black Mountain Army can certainly be used, but they have been plundering civilians over the years and have a bad reputation throughout the world. If the ringleader is not punished, I'm afraid the world will not be convinced."
An official immediately said, "Now is a great opportunity to recruit the Black Mountain Army. If we make it clear that the main culprit will be punished, how can Zhang Yan surrender?"
Yuan Xi followed up, "Let's not talk about Zhang Yan. The Black Mountain Captain is responsible for the Black Mountain inspection. He has neglected this chaos and neglected it. This is a dereliction of duty. I suggest that he be severely punished."
He avenged Qu Yi. Although Cao Cao was the instigator, Yang Feng should be the direct perpetrator, so he must kill him and break one of Cao Cao's arms.
He thought that Cao Cao's side would jump out and strongly oppose it, but to Yuan Xi's surprise, Zhong Yao, Ding Chong, and finally even Cao Cao, actually spoke out and agreed with his opinion!
Yuan Xi suddenly realized that he might be wrong!
Cao Cao agreed so readily, which means that Yang Feng might not be in the same group with Cao Cao?
Moreover, Yang Feng's existence would hinder Cao Cao's actions, so the other party would go with the flow?
But could this be a trick by Cao Cao to play hard to get?
Noticing Cao Cao's teasing gaze, Yuan Xi suddenly felt that he might have overlooked something crucial!
It is certain that the Black Mountain Army is in collusion with Cao Cao.
It is true that Yang Chou belongs to the Black Mountain Army.
It is a foregone conclusion that Yang Chou instigated the Huaicheng Rebellion and killed Qu Yi.
Yang Feng and Yang Chou have a close relationship, and I saw it with my own eyes.
These four pieces of evidence should be able to infer that Yang Feng is Cao Cao's man, right?
I don't know which link is going wrong, there must be something wrong!
Yuan Xi couldn't figure it out and felt frustrated. He thought he was still too young. To deal with someone like Cao Cao, he needed to gather all his advisers and pool their wisdom!
He witnessed what happened in Black Mountain and realized that he was just one move away from falling into the opponent's trap. He could only swallow his anger for the time being.
On the battlefield, fists are the deciding factor. The key to the Black Mountain Army still lies with Yuan Shao. Yuan Xi will definitely not give up the Black Mountain Pass easily.
The discussion among the ministers on the Black Mountain issue came to a temporary halt, and the topic returned to how to deal with Yuan Shu.
At this time, Ding Chong came out and said, "I heard that the Marquis of Anguoting has captured Yuan's general Qiao Rui. Why not execute him on the spot to warn Yuan Shu?"
After hearing this, Yuan Xi's face darkened. He had promised to release Qiao Rui so that he could befriend Sun Ce. Who got the news and wanted to sabotage him?
There was a murderous look in his eyes as he glared at Ding Chong.