Chapter 131 The Warring States Period, Chief Director: Liu Biao
Chapter 131 Warring States Period, Chief Director: Liu Biao
While the entire Chu State was busy celebrating the future heir of King Chu, Liu Biao of Jingzhou finally took action.
After several preparations, Liu Biao proclaimed himself emperor.
He named himself Emperor Guang of Han Dynasty and named his country Yijia.
But what disappointed Liu Biao was that when he presented the imperial seal, although he received strong support from the literati clan, the expected comings from all directions did not appear.
Needless to say, Xiang Ji's Chu State was naturally at odds with the old Liu family. Liu Biao didn't expect Xiang Ji to express his position at all, so he didn't even send an edict.
But what about the other princes?
Liu Yan's only reaction to Liu Biao was to speed up his claim to be emperor. At the same time, in order to appease the awkward Zhang Lu, he formally recognized his status as King of Hanzhong.
This piece of Lu can be regarded as sacrificing his mother in exchange for a throne.
But when Lu Bu of Chang'an received the edict requiring Liu Biao to ascend the throne and recognize his status, he just sneered and ordered his soldiers to push out the arrogant Huangmen and chop it down.
Are you kidding, I, Lu Bu, still want to be conferred by Liu Biao like you? I want to be the king, and I don’t need anyone to confer the title on me, so naturally I will be the king!
However, now that Xiang Ji has established the Kingdom of Chu, and Liu Biao proclaims himself emperor with a broken stone?
It seems that a certain family needs to be mentioned in terms of status. Otherwise, wouldn't it mean that they are inherently inferior to others in diplomacy?
How could Lu Bu ever suffer such a loss?
Whatever he thought of, he did it, and when he summoned his subordinates Wenwu to announce his decision, there was naturally a roar of praise.
Now that the lord has become a king, won’t he also become a better person?
What's more, most of Lu Bu's subordinates were inherited from Dong Zhuo's old army, and they never cared about the power of the Han Dynasty.
Just like that, something happened that made Liu Biao almost vomit blood.
The original plan was to win over Lu Bu's support and use the throne to deceive others, but the result was that his envoy was sacrificed, and at the same time he gave others inspiration. In the end, Lu Bu simply announced his accession to the throne of Qin without any preparation, and established the throne.
The Great Qin State had its capital in Chang'an.
As for Liu Biao's edict? Lu Bu wasted it and used it. He directly wrote on the back of it that he had ascended the throne as King of Qin and sent it back to Liu Biao.
And this also caused a chain reaction.
In order not to lose his political status, Niu Fu, who was still resisting Lu Bu's invasion in Tianshui, also ignored Liu Biao and declared the founding of the country. The country was named Xixia and he was the king of Xia.
And Wuwei Majia, which is further to the northwest?
Although his heart was towards Liu Biao, due to the geographical location, he only verbally acknowledged the fact that Liu Biao ascended the throne.
As for the Central Plains region?
When Yuan Shao received Liu Biao's edict, Lu Bu had already announced the establishment of the Qin Dynasty. What else is there to say? Qi State was also established with lightning speed, and Yuan Shao became the king of Qi.
This also made Cao Cao, who was still hesitant, completely give up on the Han Dynasty.
Okay, if you want to calm down and not ascend the throne, it's better. At least the princes still care about some face, and on the surface they still admit that they are Han ministers.
Fortunately, now, it has instantly returned to the Warring States Period hundreds of years ago, with Qin, Qi, Chu, and Xia appearing one after another.
In desperation, Cao Cao could only return Liu Biao's envoy together with the edict.
Cao, if I don't claim to be emperor or king, I can't be considered worthy of your old Liu family. You want me to just bow down to you? Humph, you're not worthy yet.
For Liu Biao's eagerness to proclaim himself emperor, Cao Cao's heart was filled with 10,000 feelings of contempt.
Don’t you even look at the current situation?
Do you really think that with the jade seal, you will be the emperor? Now that the small princes have basically been destroyed, which of the remaining big princes is good? Which one is not ambitious? You are a broken stone and you want people to kneel down and worship you? It's really a good study.
Stupid.
At the same time, Liu Bei of Qingzhou is currently on the same level as the Wuwei Ma family, and is one of the weakest princes at present. But even so, Liu Bei also scorned the edict of his cousin.
Are you kidding me, Emperor Guang of the Han Dynasty? I, Liu Bei, am the queen of Prince Jing of Zhongshan. In terms of my background and my closeness to the great ancestor, I am better than you after all, right?
Finally, there is Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong.
While the Kingdom of Chu was busy competing for hegemony with the north, and Liu Biao of Jingzhou was busy proclaiming himself emperor, this little overlord seized the best opportunity and completely swept across Jiangdong. Liu Yao, Yan Baihu, Wang Lang and others captured them all. It was considered a victory.
Completely occupied the land of Jiangdong.
At the same time, when Sun Ce received Liu Biao's edict, he decisively announced the establishment of the Wu Kingdom just like Lu Bu.
At this point, the farce of Liu Biao proclaiming himself emperor has come to an end after several months.
The Ma family, the only one who verbally acknowledged his proclaimed emperor, was still too far away, so they could only wave their flags and cheer for the great Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty.
The final result is that the land of China has completely returned to the situation of the Warring States Period hundreds of years ago.
Regarding this, Xiang Ji is naturally happy to see the success.
At the very least, this situation is far more comfortable than a unified central dynasty.
After months of cultivation, Xiang Ji finally welcomed the birth of his first child.
What made Xiang Ji overjoyed was that this was indeed a boy.
Because of He Lian's identity, Xiang Ji did not declare him as the crown prince.
But the identity of the king's eldest son is beyond doubt.
With the whole country celebrating, Xiang Ji named him Ping.
I just hope that my eldest son can be safe.
But this, in the eyes of a caring person, means something different.
All wise men have understood that the future still depends on their queen, the child in Cai Wenji's belly.
A tumultuous year has passed.
Xiang Ji was not launching any war. After all, after the continuous battles, what the Chu State needed was to recuperate.
At the same time, Liu Bei in Qingzhou and Cao Cao in Yanzhou were also licking their wounds after the last war.
However, the period of peace was short-lived after all. On the New Year's Day, a disheveled general appeared in front of Cao Cao who was in Chenliu.
"Is everything you said true? Emperor Xian! Was Emperor Xian really killed by that Ji?"
Cao Cao was stunned when he saw the general in front of him who called himself Xu Huang.
Unexpectedly, all of this is actually true.
It turned out that Xu Huang was seriously injured by Lu Bu that day, and then took advantage of the chaos to escape from the battlefield.
Xu Huang, who fled all the way and was seriously injured, thought he would die from blood loss.
But I never thought that I would be rescued by a young man named Hua.
And this young man was the son of Hua Xiong who was beheaded by Xiang Ji at Hulao Pass.
After being rescued by the young man, Xu Huang learned that the legendary Hua Tuo was actually a relative of the young man, and the young man was currently studying medicine with Hua Tuo.
After nearly two years of nursing care, Xu Huang finally recovered completely.
But after he said goodbye to Hua Tuo and the young man, he realized that the world had changed drastically.
After many twists and turns, Xu Huang came to Cao Cao.
At the same time, he also informed him of everything that happened in the suburbs of Chang'an that year.