Three Kingdoms: I choose Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, why are you crying, Diao Chan?

Chapter 77 Yuan Shu proclaims himself emperor! (Thanks to the monthly ticket support from me, who is nobody and doesn’t want to be anyone~)

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Yan Xiang stretched out his hand fiercely, grabbed the oldest boy by the collar, and shouted at him angrily:
"Tell me, who taught you this nursery rhyme?"

The child looked at the ferocious and evil Yan Xiang and was already crying loudly with fear:

"I, we heard other kids singing, and we learned it. No one taught us..."

Yan Xiang pushed the child to the ground, and immediately came to Yuan Shu's carriage, bowed and begged:

"My Lord! Please find out the origin of this nursery rhyme!

"It must be the enemy's spies spreading the news in the city to mislead our army!

"There must be enemy spies in Shouchun City!"

Looking at Yan Xiang's serious expression, Yuan Shu felt that this guy was extremely annoying.

He forced himself to suppress the dissatisfaction in his heart and said in a cold voice:

"Isn't it normal to have spies in the city? Aren't there spies from our army in the enemy's city?
"Besides, it's just a nursery rhyme. If we ignore it, what good can this nursery rhyme do?"

"But……"

Yan Xiang wanted to say something but was rudely interrupted by Yuan Shu.

"Alright, alright! I'm going to go back and rest. Please don't bring up these groundless things anymore!"

After saying this, he did not give Yan Xiang another chance to speak and urged the carriage to speed up.

Looking at the convoy going away quickly, Yan Xiang couldn't help but sigh:

"My lord, if you don't listen to my advice, you will be killed by your own ambition sooner or later... Alas!"

Over the following period of time, various strange phenomena occurred from time to time in Shouchun City.

For example, a fox made human voices in the middle of the night and shouted the slogan "Da Zhongxing, the king of the Yuan family".

Some people even found that square objects in their homes suddenly became "round".

There was even a strange slogan circulating among the people: "Master Yuan, start the game."

Under the influence of these events, even Yuan Shu himself dreamed at night that he was wearing a red and black dragon robe and sitting on the dragon throne.

Countless ministers knelt down to him in the court.

However, after waking up and returning to reality, the strong sense of gap finally made him unable to bear it!
He immediately ordered someone to invite Zhang Yu, a famous fortune teller in Hanoi, to tell him a fortune.

Zhang Yu looked at the hexagram in front of him, a hint of surprise flashed across his eyes, and then he bowed to Yuan Shu and said:
"Congratulations, Governor. This hexagram is the Qian hexagram, with a flying dragon in the sky. It is a very auspicious sign!"

Yuan Shu stood up suddenly, his voice trembling slightly due to excessive excitement:
“S-Seriously?!”

Zhang Yu nodded solemnly:

"It is indeed as the hexagram indicates. The governor has the fortune to be an emperor! But..."

"But what?"

Yuan Shu stared at Zhang Wei so intently that it made Zhang Wei feel a chill down his spine.

Zhang Yu considered his words carefully and said:
“But after the dragon soars into the sky, it will regret it.

“That is to say, after becoming emperor, the governor will be in trouble.

"If you can survive this disaster safely, you can soar into the sky! If you can't, you will be in great trouble..."

Hearing this, Yuan Shu actually felt relieved.

He could naturally imagine the problems he would encounter after becoming emperor.

But as long as you can solve these problems after becoming emperor, the road ahead will be extremely smooth.

In other words, there is no problem with becoming emperor!

He, Yuan Shu, can be the emperor!
A crazy smile gradually appeared on Yuan Shu's face.

He looked at the jade seal placed in the box in front of him, carefully took it out, and held it in his palm:

"With the Imperial Seal in hand, the world belongs to me!

“Convey this governor’s order to collect all the strange phenomena that have occurred in the city recently and make them public!
"I want to let the world know that the Liu family has lost their moral integrity. I, Yuan Shu, will follow the will of heaven and replace them!"

Yan Xiang was not among the people present, and they were all Yuan Shu's subordinates who supported Yuan Shu's enthronement.

Hearing this, everyone was immediately surprised and called Yuan Shu "Your Majesty" in unison!
When Yuan Shu heard this name, he laughed so hard that he couldn't close his legs.

Yan Xiang, who was waiting outside the prefect's mansion, saw his colleagues walking out in surprise, and guessed the result of the hexagram. He was shocked and angry. The moment he saw Zhang Yu, he immediately stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve, shouting angrily:

"Are you colluding with Lu Bu's army to frame us?"

Zhang Yu glanced at Yan Xiang indifferently:
"Master Yan, please don't frame me! I was just interpreting the hexagrams and didn't distort the facts at all.

"As for the rest, they were all decisions made by Governor Yuan himself. I am not his subject, so what qualifications do I have to persuade him?"

After hearing this, Yan Xiang knew that he could do nothing to Zhang Yu, so he could only push him angrily and then rushed into the prefect's mansion.

Zhang Yu looked at the other person's anxious back, a meaningful smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.

……

"Stop! The governor has ordered that Yan Zhubu is not allowed to enter!"

The guards at the entrance to the central courtyard stopped Yan Xiang.

Yan Xiang was furious:
"I have something urgent to report to my lord, you blind men, please get out of the way!"

The guard looked embarrassed:

"Master Yan, you should know why the lord doesn't want to see you.

"No matter how much you talk, he won't listen to you on this matter."

Seeing that the guards were unwilling to move aside, Yan Xiang immediately opened his voice and shouted inside:

"My lord! My lord, you must not listen to the evil words and declare yourself emperor at this time!
"If you claim to be emperor, our army will perish! Our army will perish, my lord—"

In the house in the middle courtyard.

Hearing Yan Xiang's heart-wrenching howl, a cold murderous intent flashed in Yuan Shu's eyes as he was playing with the jade seal.

However, considering that he was about to become emperor, killing his subjects before becoming emperor was not a good thing.

So he could only say to the guard at the door:
"Kick him out of the prefect's mansion! If he dares to talk nonsense again, kick him out of Shouchun City and don't let him enter!"

In this way, Yuan Shu ignored Yan Xiang's desperate obstruction and finally officially proclaimed himself emperor in May of the fourth year of Chuping.

The country was named "Zhong" and his name was "Emperor Zhong", and the capital was Shouchun!

……

Lujiang County, Wancheng.

Lu Bu sat in the central military tent, listening to the news that Lu Meng brought back from Shouchun City.

During this period, all the strange phenomena artificially created in Shouchun City were actually Lu Meng's actions in secret.

Because Lu Meng was very young, few people knew him.

Therefore, his actions in Shouchun City were extremely smooth.

Of course, this success was also attributed to Yuan Shu’s own “inaction”.

Yuan Shu even hoped that there would be more visions suggesting that he would become emperor.

Lu Bu glanced at his civil and military officials, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly:

"According to Gongjin's plan, Yuan Shu has already achieved the goal of becoming emperor, and it is time to proceed to the next step.

“I have sent someone to Chang’an to report this matter to Your Majesty.

“I believe it won’t be long before the imperial edict to summon the princes to attack Yuan Shu will be issued.

“I have established contact with Zhang Chao in Guangling.

"Both Zhang Chao and Kong Zhu, who joined him, hated Yuan Shu for stabbing them in the back.

“However, His Majesty the Emperor is now focusing all his efforts on attacking Xiliang, so he may not send troops to Nanyang.

"It will be difficult for us and Zhang Chao to completely defeat Yuan Shu.

"Cao Cao in the north is separated from Yuan Shu by Yingchuan, so he may not come here specifically to attack Yuan Shu.

“We must find a way to drag Cao Cao into this battle so that we can eliminate Yuan Shu at the lowest cost!

"Do you have any good ideas for getting Cao Cao involved?"

(End of this chapter)