The Three Kingdoms: If you don't have money to buy an official position, you can only be the em

Chapter 57: Successive rebellions, Yuan Shu is confused
On the other side, on the official road outside the city, ten thousand soldiers were pulling hundreds of thousands of ox carts, which were loaded with either treasures or food. On average, each person was driving dozens of oxen, and the speed was so slow and shaky that even Zhao Yun couldn't help but feel worried.

"My Lord, is this really okay?"

If there were only an army of 10,000 soldiers going into battle lightly, with him and Dian Wei there, they would not be afraid at all even if there were an army of hundreds of thousands chasing them. If they were not afraid of being beaten, at least they could run away.

But it would be too cumbersome to carry away all the wealth and food supplies in Luoyang.

It was even slower than when Liu Bei led the people away.

If Yuan Shu personally led the army to pursue, the army would not be able to organize itself in a short time even if it wanted to retreat.

"Don't worry, all of Yuan Shu's actions are under my control." Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "For the sake of the coronation ceremony, he will not personally pursue. As for Sun Jian, if he knows what's best for him, we can live in peace. If he doesn't, I will not let him return to Changsha!"

Zhao Yun was puzzled about this.

It’s unclear where Jiang Cheng gets the confidence from.

But he didn’t say much.

After all, Jiang Cheng was the leader of the Yellow Turbans, a powerful figure who had fought against the imperial court in its heyday and won. Perhaps he had made some secret arrangements and ambushed the army to support him?

"Wenhe, what do you think?" Jiang Cheng looked at Jia Xu and said.

Hearing this, Jia Xu smiled and said, "My lord, you have already made a plan, what else is there to say?"

Obviously, he saw through Jiang Cheng's thoughts.

The two looked at each other and smiled.

A vicious plot against Sun Jian emerged!
At this time, Sun Jian had already led his troops to chase after them - after taking Luoyang, as a member of the right team, his power also expanded rapidly, from the original 10,000 or 20,000 troops to 80,000.

Although they were all the Xiliang army members who were left over by Jiang Cheng, they were still elite troops.

Well trained.

Ten thousand cavalry led the charge, followed closely by seventy thousand infantry. They arrived first and stopped Jiang Cheng when he was crossing the Yellow River. They laughed and said, "Master, where are you going in such a hurry?"

Jiang Cheng was not flustered about this.

Xiaoxiao said, "Of course I'm running for my life. If I can legally designate one Yuan Shu, I can designate a second one. In order to avoid being deposed, Yuan Shu will definitely kill me after he ascends the throne. How can I not run?"

Sun Jian sneered at this.

"You are not running away. The whole capital is scolding you!" Sun Jian said this, patted his son Sun Quan, who was only a few years old, and said, "Tell the national teacher how the people in the capital are scolding you!"

Immediately, Sun Quan, who was still a child, spoke.

"If you die one day earlier, the sky will be clear. If you live three days later, the earth will be skinless!"

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng laughed out loud.

"Common people? You mean the nobles in the city? I didn't extort a single penny from the poor people. There aren't many real 'common people' in the capital, where the emperor lives!"

Sun Jian agreed with this.

No more nonsense.

Just say: "That piece of meat is too big for you to eat by yourself, I want half of it!"

It turned out that he was not chasing for Yuan Shu at all, but for the treasures and food that Jiang Cheng had taken away. As the saying goes, if we meet and share half, as long as he took half of the wealth, plus the 80,000 soldiers he had gathered, and went directly to Changsha to take office, who could do anything to him?

"What if I don't give it to you?" Jiang Chengdao said.

Hearing this, Sun Jian sneered and said, "Then you can't cross the Yellow River!"

After saying this, he waved his hand and his subordinates took out sheepskin rafts.

Together with archers and the Jiangdong navy who were good at swimming, they stood by the river in groups of four, watching eagerly - in this era, there was no Yellow River Bridge, so the only way to cross the river was to use a boat.

Sun Jian's men are mostly naval forces, so if they intend to stop him, Jiang Cheng will really have trouble getting through.

This is also the reason why he dared to snatch food from the tiger's mouth and wanted to "divide it in half". He was not afraid of Jiang Cheng's revenge afterwards because the Yellow Turbans were all land soldiers and could not attack his Jiangdong!

"Okay, as long as you let me cross the river, I can agree to give you half!" Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "But, there is a good thing, and you can only choose between it and half of the treasure and food. Do you want it?"

Following the voice, Dian Wei cooperated and took out the "Imperial Seal" that Jiang Cheng had taken away from the capital.

Sun Jian's expression changed immediately.

"Why do you have this thing here?"

If there is any difference between ordinary princes and the future overlords of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, the biggest difference is that when the princes face the imperial seal, they will be lost in the power it represents and make wrong decisions.

But Sun Quan, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei, they wouldn't.

"Father, we can't take the jade seal!" Sun Quan, who was only a few years old, persuaded.

This made Sun Jian tend to calm down.

But Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "I'm not interested in this thing anyway. It's impossible for the descendants of Shennong to ascend the throne and become the emperor. This is the ancestral precept. The imperial seal of Qin Shihuang is not a sacred thing to the Shennong lineage!"

After saying that, Dian Wei called out and walked towards the river.

"What are you going to do?" Sun Jian asked.

"Throw it!" Dian Wei said, "My lord told me to throw it into the middle of the Yellow River with all my strength. Then from now on, no one will be able to find the jade seal. We can only wait for it to be washed away by the Yellow River and picked up by the destined person. Alas, I don't know how many hundreds or thousands of years it will take before it can see the light of day again."

Of course he doesn't have the eloquence.

Everything he said was taught by Jiang Cheng in advance, and it was full of loopholes.

If Cao Cao and Liu Bei were here, they would not believe it at all.

But when Sun Jian heard this, he panicked.

He said quickly, "No, don't throw it away. Give me the seal and I'll exchange it for half of the money and grain. But you have to give it to me first and then cross the river. As long as I get the seal, I will turn around and leave immediately without delay!"

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "No problem!"

……

On the other hand, the coronation ceremony was held on time, with sacrifices to heaven at noon and three refusal.

All the processes are completed.

Cao Cao took Liu Xie away, and Yuan Shu returned to the palace and began his first court meeting after becoming the emperor: "My dear ministers, may I make a report?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"Your Majesty, where is the seal?" someone finally asked.

But Yuan Shu didn't care about this, and said with a smile: "He was taken away by the evil thief Jiang Cheng! But it doesn't matter, I have the fierce tiger Sun Wentai, who has led 80,000 troops to chase him, and will soon get my jade seal back!"

After saying that, he touched the armrest of the dragon throne.

With an expression of fascination, he said, "Pray first, worship first!"

Everyone knelt down immediately.

But at this moment, a guard rushed in and said from a distance: "Report!"

"Haha, but my jade seal is here?" Yuan Shu asked.

Hearing this, the guard was panicked, but he gritted his teeth and told the bad news: "Jiang Cheng did give the jade seal to Sun Jian, but Sun Jian did not bring it back. Instead, he set off directly and returned to Changsha!"

Yuan Shu: “???”

(End of this chapter)