There was no clear holiday system and time for the Spring Festival in the Han Dynasty. If the emperor was in a good mood, he would take a few more days off. If he was in a bad mood, he would have to go to court even during the Spring Festival!
However, now, under the advice of Cao Cao (mainly from Lu Yan), the Han court has clearly stipulated that the Spring Festival will be a seven-day holiday starting from New Year's Eve, and it is a serious seven-day holiday that does not spell falsehood!
In the Han Dynasty, officials had five days off and one day off. Once the seven-day Spring Festival holiday is over, everyone can have at least eight days off.
On the night of the New Year's Eve, the palace of General Hussar was naturally very lively.
What is different from previous years is that
Although there is one missing eldest lady this year, there are more Huang Zhong and Huang Zhong, Guo Jia’s family members, and of course the most important thing is that there are one more Cao Cao and Cai Yan!
Cai Yan was now alone, so Cao Cao naturally couldn't bear to leave her alone to celebrate the New Year.
But it seemed inappropriate to bring Cai Yan home, so Cao Cao simply thought of a compromise and invited Cai Yan to stay with him at Lu Yan's house to celebrate the New Year.
Knowing that there were women in Lu Yan's house, Cai Yan hesitated and finally agreed. Moreover, Lu Yan had an excellent reputation, and there were many other colleagues in his house celebrating the New Year together, so no one would think in other directions.
With the sound of "cracking" firecrackers, the eventful first year of Jian'an finally officially became history.
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Unlike the aristocratic families under Cao Cao's rule, the common people, officials and soldiers could all live a stable and good year. Yuan Shao is now confronting Gongsun Zan in the wind and snow, and is still working hard to dig a passage.
After Cao Cao annexed Xuzhou, he was rising with an unstoppable momentum. Yuan Shao felt the urgent crisis coming from behind, so he did not plan to keep Gongsun Zan through this year.
Yuan Shao's army besieged the city. He followed the advice of his advisers and sent soldiers to scold and fight outside Yijing City to attract attention. On the other hand, he secretly dug tunnels and successfully dug them under the wall of Yijing City.
When the tunnel reached the bottom of the city wall, Yuan Shao ordered people to burn the pillars supporting the tunnel, eventually causing the ground to collapse and the city wall to collapse.
The walls of the inner and outer cities were breached by Yuan Shao in such a dramatic manner.
Gongsun Zan, who had been drunk and dreaming all day, knew that he had no way out and would be defeated, so he first killed his wife and children, and then set fire to the Yijing Tower, burning himself and his family to the ground.
Gongsun Zan, the famous white horse general of the generation, fell like this.
He is only twelve hours away from the first year of Jian'an...
Whether it was Gongsun Zan's glorious achievements in his early years, or his greed for pleasure and loss of fighting spirit before his defeat, all of them were completely reduced to ashes with the fire of Yijing Tower. As for how future generations will evaluate it, that is all for future generations.
Something happened...
After defeating Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao took advantage of the situation and marched, leaving most of Youzhou in disgrace.
Due to Gongsun Zan's later recruitment and promotion of important aristocratic families, the entire process of Yuan Shao's acceptance was extremely smooth, without the slightest resistance... What an irony!
After Yuan Shao occupied most of Youzhou, good news came from Bingzhou. The Huns were defeated by Zhang He and Gao Lan, and then captured the four southern counties.
At this point, Yuan Shao owned the entire territory of Jizhou, including most of You and the two counties of Qingzhou.
The north was almost unified by Yuan Shao! For a time, Yuan Shao was so powerful that he was arrogant!
Most of the people, officials, and soldiers under Cao Cao's influence had a good year, which was mainly due to the huge increase in wealth brought about by the increase in productivity.
If Cao Cao was given another three to five years to completely digest Xuzhou and Huainan,
So even if facing Yuan Shao, who almost unified the northern land, Cao Cao may not have the obvious disadvantage in history. Gu Bi
But is it really possible for Yuan Shao to give Cao Cao so much time? But these are all things for another day...
By the way, in addition to Gongsun Zan, who had a bad year, there were also Liu Bei and Sun Ce who were ordered to attack Yuan Shu, and there was also the pseudo-emperor Yuan Shu who was being attacked...
The three of them met at the foot of Runan City, but they watched with big eyes and small eyes all night on New Year's Eve.
The next day, when no one had slept much, Liu Bei and Sun Ce launched an attack on Yuan Shu.
As the saying goes, when a bird is about to die, its song is mournful; when a man is about to die, his words are also kind... However, Yuan Shu himself is an exception.
Yuan Shu was a ruthless man who interpreted "If you don't seek death, you won't die" to the extreme. He threw away all the good cards in his hand when he proclaimed himself emperor. After running away from Shouchun, he still didn't know how to restrain himself. He continued to plunder the people's wealth and recruit beautiful women to enrich his harem.
That's just flipping the table...
Runan has been run by Yuan Shu for many years and has a very solid foundation. However, as soon as he came back, he started messing around and made everyone angry. Everyone simply rebelled!
Just one day after the second year of Jian'an, Runan City was captured.
Fortunately, Yuan Shu ran very fast and did not become the victim of Liu Bei or Sun Ce.
Throughout the past, there were too many princes whose deaths were either heroic or tragic, such as Sun Jian who died earlier, and Gongsun Zan who died just a few days ago.
For them, the world is more or less lamenting and lamenting, talking about how if nothing happened, maybe they could still do something.
But when they arrived at Yuan Shu's place, what everyone was thinking the most was, "How come the evil is not dead yet?"
Yuan Shu was the first prince in Guandong and even the Han Dynasty, and now he can be regarded as the first person in the Han Dynasty. He truly experienced the "ups and downs of life", but it was a pity that he could never get up again.
After Yuan Shu escaped from Runan, his dream of being an emperor was finally fully awakened.
He led the last remaining defeated generals and hid all the way to Xuzhou. He even gave Yuan Shao his jade seal and imperial title, asking Yuan Shao to accept him and then find a stable place to live out the rest of his life.
The person responsible for contacting him first had already sent back the news. Yuan Shao finally agreed to accept Yuan Shu and asked him to go to Qingzhou, which is closest to Xuzhou, to join Yuan Tan.
After Yuan Shu received the answer, the sharp sword hanging in his heart was finally removed.
But some people are destined to escape this fate.
Shouchun escaped Cao Cao's siege; Runan escaped Liu Bei and Sun Ce's clutches; but Yuan Shu never imagined that he would be defeated by a thousand-man cavalry team led by a woman at the junction of Qingzhou and Xuzhou.
It was intercepted.
"This is General Lu Lingqi of Anhan, who was captured by the pseudo-emperor Yuan Shu without hesitation!"
As a heroic roar came,
Yuan Shu suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out of Lao Gao, who fell off his horse and fell to the ground.
"Lord!"
"Lord!"
Yuan Shu suddenly vomited blood and fell into coma, causing a panic among the military and civilians.
When everyone was busy trying to wake up Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu pulled Yang Hong, the chief counselor beside him, and said reluctantly in a voice as faint as a mosquito: "Lu Yan... Lu Yan... please spare me a lot..."