I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 777: Borrowing something to settle the matter
Yuan Shao never expected that Yuan Tan would die in front of him.

Although this unfilial son dared to seek his own position, Yuan Shao never thought of killing his son.

He just wanted to punish this son so that the wealthy families and nobles in Jingzhou would be more honest.

The fall of Nanyang and the surrender of Yuan Yi in Yizhou made people in Jingzhou fluctuate.

Even with his power, he could not calm down the people of Jingzhou.

Under such circumstances, once Liu Jian's troops move south in a large scale, many people will inevitably become surrenderers, secretly contact Liu Jian, form a collusion with the other party, and become a factor of instability.

Once the situation develops like that, I'm afraid that even if Yuan Shao has great power, there will be no way to save the situation.

Under the current situation, if he wanted to make these noble families in his territory more honest, there was only one way Yuan Shao could think of, and that was to re-establish his prestige through a major event, and at the same time let these noble families see him. The methods make them dare not take any action against them easily.

Just when Yuan Shao was worried about how to make these local noble families dare not turn against him, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shu actually sang like this.

To be honest, although Yuan Shao wanted to establish his authority in Jing, he never thought of using his son's life to establish his authority.

But the current situation dictates that we have to do this.

This unfilial son of his own family has already taken advantage of him. If Yuan Shao doesn't take action, he may have to deal with it by his son.

The other one is Yuan Shu...

To be honest, Yuan Shao seemed to be respectful to Yuan Shu these years, but in fact he was always on guard against him.

But he really didn't expect that when things came to pass, his eldest son would actually get involved with Yuan Shu, which really made him feel sad and disappointed.

But if we think about this matter carefully, how can we blame Yuan Tan alone?
If Yuan Shao was not too partial and never gave his eldest son the treatment he deserved, how could Yuan Tan betray him?

In the final analysis, Yuan Shao did not uphold fairness when dealing with his son, and only blindly judged the child's future based on his own preferences.

The final outcome was that Yuan Tan couldn't get over this hurdle and died in front of Yuan Shao.

At this moment, Yuan Jiazi's blood stained the hall.

The son he had raised for more than 20 years died in front of him. You can imagine the pain in Yuan Shao's heart.

But now that he is surrounded by his own generals and soldiers, Yuan Shao cannot let himself act so weak.

At least, he can't cry...

He stumbled down the hall from the main seat and came to Yuan Tan's body.

Yuan Tan's eyes were widened and he stared at Yuan Shao in front of him.

That expression seemed to tell his father that he would never die in peace.

There was no emotion or anger on Yuan Shao's face. He stretched out his hand and gently closed Yuan Tan's eyes.

But his hand was shaking uncontrollably.

When he was young, he saw Yuan Shao turning around and telling Zhou Tai: "Carry my son's body down... and then arrange it after the rebellion is suppressed."

Zhou Tai immediately said: "No!"

At this moment, Gan Ning came over.

"Mr. Yuan, Huang Zu has been ordered to lead his troops over to Jiangling. I think Yuan Gongli will be captured soon."

"General Huang sent someone over before to ask what should be done if Yuan Gongluo is captured..."

Yuan Shao's voice was surprisingly cold.

"What else is there to ask about this kind of thing? Since Yuan Gongli has rebelled to seize Jiangling, it means that this person is a traitor to the Yuan family and a traitor to Jingzhou."

"Don't you all know how to deal with a traitor? Are you still asking me?"

As soon as he said this, what didn't Gan Ning understand?

He immediately raised his hands and said, "General, I understand!"

……

On the night when Yuan Tan was about to take action, Yuan Shu also held a banquet at his house in Jiangling City and invited Cai Hao to the banquet.

According to Yuan Shu's vision, Cai Hao was now respectful to him. He would not dare not come to the banquet he had set. He would just put down his knife and axe, arrange the Hongmen Banquet, kill Cai Hao... and finally use the banquet given to him by Yuan Shao. As a military supervisor, seizing Jiangling's military power in one fell swoop would definitely be easy and enjoyable.

Yuan Shu's thoughts were quite beautiful, but he never expected that things would be somewhat different from what he thought.

Cai Mao came to attend his own banquet, but the person who came with him was actually Huang Zu.

And they came with soldiers and horses.

The moment Yuan Shu saw Huang Zu, he knew that things were going to be bad.

Because as far as he knew, Huang Zu should have led his troops to support the harvesting and transportation of grain in local counties for the autumn harvest in Jingzhou.

Why would a person who went to support food collection appear here? This is simply unimaginable.

Yuan Shu walked towards Huang Zu, and just as he was about to ask him, Huang Zu suddenly said to the people behind him: "Here comes someone, take this person down."

When Yuan Shu saw that Huang Zu had brought people to his place and arrested him without saying a word, he became furious.

"How dare you, a common man, do this..."

Before Yuan Shu could finish his words, he saw the Jingzhou guards, who looked like wolves and tigers, rushing towards him one after another.

Without saying a word, they directly tied up Yuan Shu with five-flowered buns and pressed him in front of Huang Zu. At the same time, Huang Zu's guards entered Yuan Shu's banquet hall and kicked away the banquet and tables.

The swordsmen and axemen arranged by Yuan Shu in the mansion naturally thought that this was a signal from Yuan Shu to them.

Soon, the swordsmen arranged by Yuan Shu rushed in one after another.

However, what was waiting for them in the banquet hall were not the guests who were waiting for death, but the elite soldiers that Huang Zu had brought long ago.

The people brought by Huang Zu were all wearing armor and fully armed. When they saw the swordsmen and axemen rushing out, they went up to fight. In a short time, they killed all the swordsmen and axemen on the spot.

Huang Zu came to Yuan Shu: "Gao Dao, what else do you have to say this time?"

"You want to arrange for swordsmen to kill General Cai here and seize Jiangling. Now it is irrefutable. My lord has already calculated that you will have this move. I have been specially ordered to capture you today... Yuan Gongli, Are you convinced now? You have been dormant under the lord's hand for several years, just for this day. But unfortunately, you failed in the end."

After hearing Huang Zu's sarcastic words, Yuan Shu's face instantly showed a furious look, and his expression became extremely distorted.

This is his true state.

He shouted angrily at Huang Zu:

"Yuan Benchu ​​ordered the Sun family to kill my family and eliminate my heirs!"

"Yuan Shao and I are at odds with each other. I wish that his wife and children would be separated, his family would be destroyed, and he would not have a good death."

"If I don't get what I wanted today and let him escape the disaster, and let me fall into his hands, that's fine! If you want to kill or behead me, please do as you please."

Huang Zu sighed, shook his head and said: "Yuan Jiujiu, Yuan Jiujiu, I don't know what happened between you and my lord, what grudges are there between you, but what I know is that, in fact, from you After coming to Jingzhou, the Lord still attaches great importance to you. He also said that if he takes the first step in the future, he will entrust his son to you..."

"Bah! My own son was killed by him, but he asked me to assist his son."

"You really don't have any shame!"

Seeing Yuan Shu shouting so hoarsely, Huang Zu knew in his heart that the grudge between him and Yuan Shao could not be reconciled at all.

And it's not just Yuan Shu. Judging from the order he received from Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao didn't want to resolve this grudge at all.

Then Huang Zu sighed and said to Yuan Shu: "It seems that the grievances between you brothers can no longer be eliminated... So what will be the consequences of you being captured by me today? You must be prepared in your heart, right?"

Yuan Shu said coldly to Huang Zu: "I just said that I would kill or behead him, please do as you wish!"

"I fell into your hands today and will die!"

Huang Zuyan said: "You don't want to beg for mercy?"

Yuan Shu smiled coldly: "Why should I surrender?!"

"I said, it's just death! Besides, if I beg for mercy, can you let me go?"

Huang Zu nodded: "At this last moment, what you did is worthy of being a member of the Yuan family!"

Soon, Yuan Shu's head was sent to Xiangyang by Huang Zu.

Logically speaking, there is absolutely no problem in hanging Yuan Shu's head at the city gate for such a serious crime of treason.

But he is Yuan Shao's biological brother after all, and if he goes too far, the world will criticize him.

Therefore, Yuan Shao announced to the public that Yuan Shu was killed by soldiers in the rebellion after the Jiangling rebellion, and his original intention was to capture Yuan Shu alive, so Yuan Shu's death was an accident.

Since it was an accident, strictly speaking, it did not involve Yuan Shao murdering his biological brother.

It was his brother's fault and no one else's fault.

Later, Yuan Shao ordered people to bury Yuan Shu in a grand ceremony!

The lavish burial of Yuan Shu showed his attitude towards his younger brother, which not only demonstrated his prestige, but also proved that he did not kill his younger brother.

Subsequently, Yuan Shao organized officials from Xiangyang Office to gather at his residence and express their opinions on this matter.

First of all, he was very sad about the rebellion of his son and brother. Although he didn't want to kill Yuan Shu, it turned out to be the opposite. Yuan Shu was killed in this chaos. Although he was heartbroken, he could only give Compensation for his brother's generous burial.

As for his eldest son, it is really Yuan Shao’s eternal pain...

As for the generals who followed Yuan Tan and Yuan Shu in rebellion, Yuan Shao ordered them all to be beheaded, leaving no one alive.

The people who were implicated were all the members of the three tribes who rebelled against the generals.

For a time, a bloody storm broke out throughout Jingzhou.

Yuan Shao also took this opportunity to carry out a series of reforms in his Chinese army and adjust personnel appointments.

Yuan Shao also took this opportunity to temporarily stabilize the situation in Jingzhou.

After the news was known to Liu Jian, Cao Cao, Sun Ce and others, everyone could not help but be amazed.

Yuan Benchu ​​is still a hero after all!

At this time, he can still use the incident of his brother and son to stabilize the overall situation, which is quite a means!
Such a big thing happened in Jingzhou. The rebellion of Yuan Shu and Yuan Tan was put down in a snap. Most of Yuan Tan's generals were implicated and killed three tribes. Under such thunderous methods, who would have the desire to rebel? ?

Especially Liu Jian, he knew in his heart that if he wanted to wait for civil unrest in Jingzhou before attacking, he might not have a chance.

At this moment, take advantage of this juncture to have a showdown with Yuan Shao!
As for Sun Ce, his original intention was to flee to Jingzhou, but he was now trapped in the mountains and rivers of Shu. He originally wanted to contact Yuan Tan to see if there was any way to rescue him.

But now, Yuan Tan is dead and everything is over.

(End of this chapter)