The Rebirth of Lu Bu in the Legend of the Heroes of the Later Han Dynasty

After the Tongque Tower was completed, Cao Cao ordered a general amnesty for the whole country. In this way, Ma Teng and his son, Guan Yu and his son in prison got the opportunity to return to their place of origin.

A small boat sailed out from Jiangdong, changed to a carriage in Jiangxia, and headed for the Tongque Terrace in Luoyang. Sitting in the carriage were two women with stunning looks: Qiao Liang and Qiao Wan. Later generations also called the two women Big and Little Qiao.

Er Qiao was Zhou Yu's second wife. Why she was sent to Tongque Terrace begins with Sun Quan's surrender to Cao Cao.

The imperial court ordered Yangzhou to be divided into two, with Sun Quan in charge of the north and Zhou Yu in the south.

Cao Cao's purpose in doing this was to take advantage of the contradiction between the Jiangdong nobles and the Huaisi generals and make them at odds with each other. After all, Yangzhou was too far away from Luoyang and he could not stretch his hand that far.

After the defeat in the Battle of Xiakou, only three of Huaisi's old generals, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lu Meng, were left, and there were only more than 10,000 soldiers left. In addition, the southern part of Yangzhou was mostly a barbaric land and there were not many resources.

Zhou Yu asked Sun Quan several times to allocate grain, but was rejected. Zhou Yu was so angry that he sent Sun Shangxiang back to Jianye and severed all contact with Sun Quan.

But these ten thousand people always had to eat. In desperation, Zhou Yu had no choice but to form an alliance with Shi Xie of Jiaozhou. Zhou Yu's soldiers helped Shi Xie suppress the rebels in Jiaozhou, while Shi Xie provided food to Zhou Yu. The two sides used each other, and each Take what you need.

Sun Quan has been deprived of the title of Marquis of Wu. Now he is nominally the governor of Yangzhou, but he cannot handle the political affairs in southern Yangzhou and command Zhou Yu's army. The Jiangdong nobles who originally supported him began to doubt their original choice.

It was not that Sun Quan did not want to provide food to Zhou Yu, but after surrendering to the imperial court, the taxes and food that Yangzhou had to hand over to the imperial court were three times that of other states. What's even more fatal is that Lu Xun was dissatisfied with Sun Quan's previous dismissal of his position as governor and stopped providing food to Sun Quan in Jianye. Without the supply of the wealthy Lu family, Sun Quan's life was miserable. He had to continuously reduce his army and let the sons of the gentry occupy the officialdom in Yangzhou. Apart from the Bu family, Sun Quan's current situation can be said to be that he is alone.

Lu Xun is the new target of Jiangdong nobles' support. On the one hand, he has money and food in his hands. On the other hand, he is currently stationed in Danyang. The military resources here are very powerful. If there is turmoil in the future, Lu Xun can take him with him. The conquered Shanyue soldiers quickly occupied the entire Jiangdong land.

The three forces in Yangzhou competed with each other. This was the result that Cao Cao wanted to see. Governing the world was not an easy task, not to mention that the gentry had existed for hundreds of years. Solving this stubborn problem did not happen overnight.

Lu Bu of Yecheng packed the three artifacts that Beimihu paid tribute in boxes and sent them to Luoyang. Yuan Shao's wife Liu was also accompanied by him.

Lu Bu knew Cao Cao very well and knew that he liked such wives the most. He kept the Liu family because the nobles in Hebei were still loyal to the Yuan family. Lu Bu was worried that rashly dealing with Yuan Shao's wife would cause rebellion among the nobles. After Xu Shu offered advice, Lu Bu began to cultivate new nobles who were close to him, and slowly eroded the power of the old nobles by boiling frogs in warm water.

Sending off the Liu family showed Lu Bu's attitude, which was to completely eliminate the influence of the Yuan family in Hebei. Although Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi, and Yuan Shang lived a life of fine clothing and fine food in Chaoshan County, they were always around Wei Muyong. under surveillance.

Lu Bu did not go to Luoyang in person, but sent Xun Chen there because there was a happy event in Yecheng and Lu Bu was getting married again, and he was marrying two daughters of the Zhen family, a wealthy family in Hebei.

Yecheng was full of joy in August. Zhen Jiang became Lu Bu's eighth wife, and Zhen Mi became Lu Bu's ninth wife.

Finally married Luo Shen, the forty-four-year-old Lu Bu was in a wonderful moment. This was his twentieth year in this era. He had fame and fortune, a lovely wife and concubines, glory and wealth, he had all these. From now on What he has to do is to fight for a good reputation for himself. After all, in the past twenty years, he has killed too many people in order to establish a regime with martial arts as its core.

The first thing Lu Bu had to do was to take the title of king. After all, when Emperor Gaozu established the Han Dynasty, he once said: Anyone not named Liu who calls himself king will be attacked by the whole world. After all, Cao Cao has the emperor in his hands, and he is the one who can unify the country and rebuild the Xuanhuang. The most important thing is that Cao Cao is from the eunuch camp and the scholar-bureaucrat camp. He has a prominent background. If such a hero had been born in the era of Yao and Shun, the emperor would have been there long ago. Take the initiative to give in. Now that Cao Cao is just the king of Wei, how can he be compared with Cao Cao? So Lu Bu took the initiative to express his intention to go to the king's title to the court, and presented one hundred thousand shi of grain to Luoyang. After Hebei's full-scale farming, the most indispensable thing for Lu Bu was food. Wuchao camp had a million shi of military rations.

Xun Chen was indeed an outstanding diplomat. With his sharp tongue, he successfully made Cao Cao agree to Lu Bu's request. From then on, there was no longer King Lu Bu of Yan in the world, only Lu Fengxian, the general of Han Dynasty.

After the Liu family was included in Tongque Pavilion, Cao Cao already had five women. The highest status was his first wife, Mrs. Ding. The Ding sisters were married to Cao Cao and Xia Houyuan respectively, so Cao Cao and Xia Houyuan were not only brothers, but also It's a brother-in-law relationship. After Mrs. Ding came the Bian family, Cao Pi's biological mother, the Du family obtained by capturing Xuzhou, Liu Biao's wife Cai family, and now Yuan Shao's wife Liu family. Cao Cao never tired of collecting wives.

Zhou Yu, who was in a difficult situation in Yangzhou, learned about the construction of Tongque Tower and heard the rumors that Cao Cao liked wives. After a day and night of ideological struggle, he said: "There is no need for a real man to have a wife." So he changed his mind. The two ladies were sent to the Tongque Tower as gifts. The two beauties were pitiful and would become Cao Cao's forbidden wives from now on.

Sun Quan found out about Zhou Yu's dedication to his wife, so he immediately decided to send his wife Yuan, who was the former beloved wife of Yuan Shu and Sun Ce's beloved wife, to the Tongque Terrace for Cao Cao to enjoy, along with his sister Sun Shangxiang. Sun Shangxiang went to Luoyang with a mission. She wanted to revitalize the Sun family. This young woman had a determined look on her face, much better than her brother.

Liu Zhang of Yizhou and Shi Xie of Jiaozhou also sent their family girls to Tongquetai. This was a time to show their loyalty. If they failed to do so, they would be destroyed at any time. However, there was Li Dian's Li family army in Hanzhong. In Jingzhou, there are Cao Cao's son Cao Zhang and brother-in-law Cai Mao, both of whom they cannot afford to offend.