"Have you heard that it turns out that before Wang Yun planned to kill Dong Zhuo seven years ago, he had contacted General Yuan, hoping to use Yuan Shao's troops to stabilize the court after Dong Zhuo was killed, and move the late emperor from Chang'an to Luoyang.

But before Wang Yun took action, Yuan Shao encouraged Wang Yun to make a rash move. After Wang Yun succeeded, Yuan Shao began to act deaf and dumb again. To put it bluntly, because he had proposed to establish another Xuanzu (Liu Yu), he was afraid that the late emperor would pursue him, so he wanted Wang Yun and the late emperor to take it off and die early."

"And, from this point of view, when Yuan Shu used the guise of General Zhu's death, Dong Cheng used the ruling riots in the name of turmoil. It seemed that Yuan Shao had destroyed his relatives for justice, but maybe it was their brothers who colluded with each other.

What evidence do you think? The Yuan family has always been so happy. I heard that Wang Yun told Lu Bu before he died that he had secretly visited Yuan Wei in prison before Dong Zhuo killed Yuan Wei's entire family.

Before being executed, Yuan Wei sighed and said that he thought Dong Zhuo was an old official promoted by the Yuan family, so he asked Yuan Shao to persuade He Jin to recruit Dong Zhuo to Beijing, which was also accurate that He Jin's waste would definitely not be able to suppress the situation. It would be better that He Jin's ten regular attendants and Dong Zhuo died together. Dong Zhuo really had the strength to fight out, and at least he could be controlled by the Yuan family. Who would have thought that he would be so desperate in the end.

Wang Yun didn't believe it at first, thinking that it was just Yuan Wei's cunning and Yuan Shao might have been passionate and used by his uncle. It was not until Wang Yun was counterattacked by Li Jue and Guo Si and was dying that he regretted it and regretted Lu Bu that he shouldn't believe that the Yuan family could restore the court.

After Lu Bu escaped from Guanzhong, he had to endure these words for many years because no one in Guandong princes could take them in and had to surrender to Yuan Shao. Now he couldn't help it."

"It seems to make sense to say this, and after all, after Yuan Shu killed the lord, he lived for nearly a year. In the end, it was Yuan Shu who was destroyed by Cao Cheqi. Yuan Shao just took back Luoyang and Runan, Yingchuan, and stopped and watched Yuan Shu and Cao Cheqi join together."

"Yes, there are too many doubts. We haven't thought of it over the years. But it's fine, but Lu Bu has also had a worse Yuan Shao scandal..."

"Really? Where did you hear it?"

"You don't know yet? Don't say that I said it, let's secretly tell you as a brother of life and death. Now, the investigation in Ye City is strictly prohibited. No pieces of paper are allowed to enter the city. If merchants come and go, they will be sentenced to death. If they talk about such things, they will be severely punished.

But after leaving Yecheng, the exposition was spread a lot of controversy by Lu Bu's manifesto a few days ago. It is said that Lu Bu has endured it until now and abandoned the darkness and turned to the light. The entire Bingzhou has been devoted to surrendering to the western court."

...

Obviously, the original source of all the rumors above was the manifesto that Lu Bu issued to the world in early September.

After half a month of dissemination, the news broke through the blockade of Yuan Shao's camp, which made many people in Yecheng believe it.

At the beginning, Shen Pei also suggested an anti-propaganda offensive and proclaiming that Bingzhou had not yet fallen, the news was blocked and the military information could not be spread. It was also understandable that the enemy slandered General Lu, who was besieged in a strong city.

This method was effective in blocking rumors at the beginning. Many officers and civilians felt that the enemy was slandering General Lu and was fake, and the number of people who believed the rumors was temporarily controlled.

However, this move only lasted for less than ten days.

The Liu Bei camp on the opposite side also responded quickly and immediately upgraded its communication methods. At the cost of adding 10,000 pieces of cotton to Lu Bu, he temporarily violated the agreement of "let Lu Bu's troops not have to participate in the civil war in the future", and borrowed a few generals to attack Huguan and reveal their faces.

However, the troops and supplies were still from Liu Bei. Lu Bu just sent someone to show his face, proving that they really surrendered to Liu, not being isolated from the siege of the city.

Lu Bu was a bachelor, so he directly offered to increase his price to 30,000, but he could personally bring a small group of personal guards to perform. His reasons were also very good:

The image of other generals under his command is not highly recognized. Only Lu Bu, whose reputation and image are known to everyone in the Kanto puppet dynasty, can he come on stage in person to prove that he really voted.

The most important thing at this time is to piss Yuan Shao to death as soon as possible, so it is not a time to bargain. Zhuge Liang, who was responsible for the propaganda war, did not ask for instructions, and directly agreed to Lu Bu's appearance fee for an additional 20,000 pieces of cotton.

Lu Bu brought hundreds of personal guards to Huguan and wandered around for a while, pretending to attack, which left a deep impression on the Huguan defenders and their morale was bleak. Later, Lu Bu's manifesto and the scandal of Yuan Shao's family propaganda propaganda in the manifesto were completely unconcealed, and many people believed it.

After some trouble, by the end of September, the rumors in Yecheng were already unstoppable. Although the senator used severe punishments and ruthless laws, those who talked nonsense would have to behead them.

But Zhuge Liang could not resist the initiative of infiltration and spreading the works. These works were all brave workers behind enemy lines. Although more than a dozen were sacrificed, they were mixed into the people of Yecheng, and the amplification effect was obvious.

Shen Pei killed hundreds of people involved in rumors in Yecheng, but still did not block the source of infection and did not completely screen out close contacts of the rumors.

Finally, the review of the match was only second. After discussing with Guo Tu and others, he decided to adopt conservative therapy:

He gave up the treatment of rumors about ordinary people in Yecheng. As long as he guarded the General's Mansion, he could not interfere in political affairs by taking advantage of Yuan Shao's lack of mobility, and did not care about details, so he made sure that Yuan Shao himself did not hear these bad news.

If the news of the fall of Bingzhou cannot be kept, it will be delayed through the high-risk period of winter, and the weather will be warmer after spring and let Yuan Shao know. However, the words that Lu Bu insulted him and exposed the slander of the slander of the slander of the slander of Yuan Shao cannot be known at all.

At the same time, Shen Pei also tried his best to warn Yuan Shao's wives and concubines through Guo Tu, including Liu, who had been under house arrest for a long time since he suffered a stroke last time, and asked them not to talk too much and repeat the same mistakes. As long as the secret of the back home does not leak the secret, Yuan Shao would not know.

Yuan Shao's youngest son Yuan Shang personally checked this matter. Yuan Shang was also very concerned about it and knew that his father could not stand the anger.

Although Yuan Shang was not nostalgic for his father's current life without dignity, he sometimes felt that if his father had no such dignity, he would be relieved of the pain.

But Yuan Shang knew very well that if he was caught again, he would know that his father's death was because someone in the house was angry to death, then the possibility of his succession would be very slim. Cao Cao and his elder brother would seize the opportunity and not let him go.

Even if my father is angry to death, he cannot be angry to death by the people in the inner zodiac. Who made him Yuan Shang the head of public opinion supervision in the inner zodiac? There can be no accident at his hands?

...

Yuan Shang's strict defense was not in vain. Yuan Shao was unable to move and was really delayed until early October. He didn't know that Lu Bu was betrayal and humiliated him.

In contrast, it has been half a month since the people in Yecheng learned about these scandals.

Unfortunately, history will not be repeated simply, but it will always be staged.

There is no airtight wall in the world, and there is no problem with the direction of focus. After a long time, loopholes appear in other directions.

This time the loophole was exposed from the outside.

Shen Pei Guo Tu initially relied on restricting Yuan Shao's investigation of politics, but did not let him know too much bad news. Yuan Shao was also worried that Shen Pei was hiding it from him, so when he felt that when his health improved, he would occasionally host banquets at the General's Mansion to entertain other court officials to understand the current situation of the court.

Of course, there will be no longer a drink at such a banquet. Yuan Shao's body cannot drink, and others will endure it. Fortunately, these people will be tried and treated in advance when they come to the General's Mansion to attend the banquet, and they will be strictly ordered not to gossip. The ministers who can attend the banquet also know the importance of it, so they maintain it very well.

However, by mid-October, the matter could not be hidden. The reason was that after Lu Bu turned to the dark and spread various rumors that attacked Yuan Shao's camp's image and morale, even many court officials really believed it.

Yuan Shao's court had already had some old ministers in the imperial court, that is, guys with images similar to Kong Rong and Hua Xin (not these two people themselves, but just this type of person). He felt ashamed to be with Yuan Shao, and began to tentatively want to contact the Guanxi court, and some people quietly abandoned their official positions and hid in seclusion.

These officials are generally mascots, and they have no real power or real skills. They are just experienced seniority and have been working since the time of Liu Xie. They should be given higher treatment in terms of seniority, and they cannot be beaten up.

Yuan Shao is a famous scholar and holds banquets to ask about politics, so he often involves these people. One day in mid-October, the situation that Shen Pei and they least want to see happened:

On Yuan Shao's banquet list, people who had already abandoned their official positions because of Yuan Shao's reputation, but Yuan Shao didn't know that the other party had abandoned his official positions.

Guo Tu just wanted to help make up the lie and explain "why did the general ask the court officials to come to the mansion to discuss matters, but the other party dared to refuse to come." It was not clear.

This forced himself to delay for a few days. By late October, he finally became difficult to return, which made Yuan Shao discover that his staff and counselors around him had deceived him for more than a month in order to comfort him.

"Everyone in the world believes that Gu is such a person? What's wrong with not saving Wang Yunguan Gu? How could Gu have a conspiracy when he advised He Jin to recruit Dong Zhuo to Beijing? Is Gu already in a conspiracy? Isn't the world brainless?

Lu Bu pretended to be an insider around Wang Yun. After many years of searching out these old accounts and making excuses for him to surrender to the enemy, but someone actually believed him? If I had known that the eve of the destruction of Zhang Yan, I would have sent assassins to the scene. Lu Bu's three surnames slaves were killed!"

After Yuan Shao learned of the layers of bad news, he was dizzy, filled his chest with anger, and his blood pressure soared. At the last moment, he realized that he had reached his head.

To put it bluntly, the incident of "Yuan Shao sends assassin to assassinate Lu Bu who surrendered to him" has actually happened in history. However, in this life, Yuan Shao finally endured Lu Bu until Lu Bu destroyed Zhang Yan's power and replaced him in Bingzhou.

Now that Lu Bu finally broke out, Yuan Shao began to "repent when he was the first".

In a daze, Yuan Shao heard countless people around him exclaim: "General! Don't go to your heart. Lu Bu thieves are talking nonsense and slandering, and they can't believe it! People in the world will not believe it. There is nothing to worry about, General!"

Shen Pei Guo Tu was panicked, and Yuan Shang and Liu were also panicked, but the panic between the two was slightly different.

Yuan Shang felt relieved mixed in his heart: the source of the last blow that finally made his father angry to death was not from the inner house I was in charge of, but was the trouble of the external court.

Yuan Shao drooled and grabbed Shen Pei's hand tightly, not daring to fall into a coma. He knew that he would never wake up again this time. He raised his strength and ordered Shen Pei: "Let Shang'er inherit Gu's title..."

The position of general cannot be passed on, so Yuan Shao can only give up the title of duke, but everyone knows that this is what let Yuan Shang take over all power.

"I dare not do my best to assist the prince." Shen Pei agreed with tears.

Only then did Yuan Shao's convulsions and twitching arms completely collapse uncontrollably and completely lost consciousness.

...

Yuan Shao was not angry that day, and he finally spent more than a month strong.

But that day was the last time Yuan Shao could move his arm and barely talk. That month was nothing more than garbage time. He no longer had the ability to express himself, and he could not get the will when he woke up occasionally.

But Yuan Shang has always given his father a life, and he acted very purely filial. It seems that he did not hope that his father would be completely burping immediately, so as not to change his will if he had any changes.

This point fell in Shen Pei's eyes, but he was more determined to support Yuan Shang.

Unfortunately, different positions and views are different. In the eyes of Guo Tu, who represents the position of non-Jizhou scholars, Yuan Shang is all hypocritical and hypocritical.

One day in mid-December 199, Yuan Shao finally took his last breath.
Chapter completed!