Chapter 82 Chapter 3 Who's Will

In the second year of Jianwu (the twenty-sixth year of A.D.), Yuexuan County was appointed as Gongsun Shu of Guiju County.Gongsun Shu sent General Ren Man down from Langzhong to Jiangzhou, and occupied Jiangguan in the east; he also sent General Hou Dan to attack Hanzhong when Liu Jia and Yancen were merged.From then on, the whole territory of Yizhou (Hanzhong County, Wudu County, Guanghan County, Shu County, Qianwei County, Yuejuan County, and Zangke County) was completely owned by Gongsun Shu. When Gongsun Shuxin ascended the throne, he gathered hundreds of thousands of soldiers, built a camp, practiced chariots and horsemen, taught combat shooting, accumulated food in Hanzhong, and built a palace in Nanzheng.He also built a ten-story Chilou Palalan boat and built a navy.

In the Western Han Dynasty, with the capital Chang'an as the center, the Sili Xiaowei Department was set up, and Jing Zhaoyin was set up.Although Gongsun Shu only occupied Yizhou, he never forgot the world, which made him seem to have unified China. He also changed Yizhou to Sili Xiaowei and Shu County to Chengdu Yin; The seals of the county guards are all engraved in advance, and they will only be issued when the time comes; Lu Tuan, a hero in Guanzhong, and others all have tens of thousands of supporters. They want to sell the goods to the emperor's house at a high price. Seeing that all the heroes in the world are fighting for hegemony, and Gongsun Shu is the strongest, they go to defect, and Gongsun Shu all worships him as a general.

Gongsun Shushi's generals Li Yu and Cheng Wu led an army of tens of thousands, joined forces with Lu Yu and others to try to capture Guanzhong, and fought with Feng Yi and Kaixiao's allied forces. Withdrew to Hanzhong and changed to a defensive position. On the waterway, Gongsun Shu also suffered defeat.Gongsun Shu sent Tian Rong to lead a navy down the Yangtze River in an attempt to attack the counties of Jingzhou, but was defeated by Cen Peng's tenacious resistance. After successive military defeats, Gongsun Shu also languished, and his original vigor became dull, and he began to stop making progress.

Gongsun Shu is not Liu Xiu's opponent when fighting with knives, guns, bows and crossbows.Looking around, Gongsun Shu is also no match.Liu Xiu established his capital in Luoyang, and Luoyang is the ancient capital for thousands of years, where China is orthodox.Gongsun Shu established his capital in Chengdu. Although Chengdu is rich and prosperous, it is a peaceful corner. There has never been an emperor. As the capital, it has no appeal to the Central Plains.If you compare China to a city, Luoyang is the city center, while Chengdu can only be regarded as an outer suburb at best. But on another battlefield, Gongsun Shu was sure to knock Liu Xiu to the ground, unable to get up for a long time.And this battlefield is not resorting to force, nor is it resorting to geology, but resorting to God's will.He wants to prove to the world that Liu Xiu is nothing but a complete liar, and that only he, Gongsun Shu, is the chosen one.

Gongsun Shu distributed countless leaflets to the Central Plains, fanning the flames and launching a large-scale propaganda war.The leaflet widely solicits and quotes the prophecy, and lists many evidences of his proclaiming the emperor: The prophecy book "Luyunfa" said: "Abolish Emperor Chang and establish Gongsun." The prophecy book "Kuo Dixiang" said: "Emperor Xuanyuan is ordered, and Gongsun's family holds it." They are all talking about Gongsun proclaiming emperor, and here Gongsun, Of course he was referring to Gongsun Shu. The prophecy book "Aid to the Gods" said: "The west prefect, Yi Maojin." Yi, cut off.Mao Jin, Liu (Liu) also.He, Gongsun Shu, was originally the prefect of Shu County in the west, so he was destined to cut off the Liu family and rule the world.

The prophecy also said: "Confucius wrote "Spring and Autumn", made for Chi, and broke the twelve males." ), it happened to be passed on to the Twelve Masters, which shows that the calendar of the Han Dynasty has been exhausted, and the strength of the Liu family has been exhausted.Although Liu Xiu has the "Chi Fu Talisman", it is still useless, because what Confucius said is definitely not wrong. Moreover, the three characters "Emperor Gongsun" were born on the palm prints of his Gongsunshu, which is an undoubted will of God (but the fact is: the three characters "Emperor Gongsun" were carved on his hands with a knife, which can be said to be true. down the drain).

Han is the virtue of fire, Wang Mang is the virtue of earth, and fire gives birth to earth, so Wang Mang succeeded Han.And his Gongsun Shu said that he is a man of gold, born of gold, so he should inherit Wang Mang and rule the world.And Jinde advocates whiteness, so he is the undisputed White Emperor (the famous White Emperor City was built by Gongsun Shu, and its name comes from this). People at that time were generally superstitious about prophecies. After reading Gongsunshu's leaflets, they would rather believe in what they had than in nothing, so their hearts were shaken. At best, it is a warlord with bigger fists.

Liu Xiu was in a cold sweat when he saw Gongsunshu's flyer.This is not a leaflet, it is clearly a letter of war sent to him by Gongsun Shu. Back then, all the generals under Liu Xiu tried to persuade him to proclaim himself emperor several times, but he refused all of them, until Qianghua presented him with the prophecy "Chi Fu Talisman", saying, "Liu Xiu sent troops to arrest the Dao, and the barbarians gathered in Longdouye. At the time of April 7th, fire is the main thing, and the gold and virtue are the son of heaven." Only then did he readily agree to be called emperor.It can be said that the prophecy in the prophecy is the foundation of the legitimacy of his throne.

But now, Gongsun Shu quoted the prophecy and launched the strongest accusation against him, pointing out that the "Chifu Talisman" he relied on was completely wrong, thus completely denying the legitimacy of his proclaiming emperor.On a real battlefield, Liu Xiu can back down again and again, and even suffer repeated defeats. It was proved that he was just a fake emperor, which led to the suspicion and abandonment of the people of the world. The soldiers and horses have not yet formally confronted each other, but there must be a debate between him and Gongsun Shu. Now, this matter is very simple. The two of them will directly go on TV and have a public debate in front of the people of the whole country.But at that time, Liu Xiu could only pass on the letter and refute Gongsun Shu one by one:

"Emperor Changyi was abolished and Gongsun was established." It was said that Huo Guang abolished King Changyi and established Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.The so-called Gongsun refers to Liu Bingji, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and has nothing to do with you (in the third year of Emperor Zhaoyuan of the Han Dynasty, a large willow tree that died and fell to the ground in Shanglin Garden suddenly stood up one day, revived, and grew new leaves. The insects ate the leaves, and ate five hollow characters on the leaves - "Gongsun Bingji Li". Xuandi named Bingji, called Huangsun, and then he was called emperor after Zhaodi).

"Emperor Xuanyuan is ordered, and the Gongsun family holds it." It is the Yellow Emperor, whose name is Xuanyuan, and whose surname is Gongsun, and it has nothing to do with you. "Xitaishou, Yimaojin." It is about Gaozu Liu Bang, who ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in the year of Yiwei. The prophecy said: "The Han family was nine hundred and twenty years old. It died as Mengsun, and he was named as Tu Gao by the prime minister." Are you Tu Gao?If not, why do you represent Han?Moreover, the Han Dynasty had a fortune of 920 years, and now it has only been more than 200 years, and there will be another 700 years, just wait and see! You talk about palm prints again, who doesn't know that you carved them yourself?Wang Mang forged the talisman, and you also faked it with him. What is wrong with learning, you want to learn from Wang Mang. Didn't you see Wang Mang's fate? You are not my traitor, it is just the people around you who want to be rich and honor, so they trick you into proclaiming yourself emperor, so I don't blame you.You are already old, your days are numbered, and your wife is weak. You must make a decision early and know your way back, so as not to regret it in the future.An artifact in the world cannot be fought for, you have to think carefully about it. At the end of the book, Liu Xiu signed it "Emperor Gongsun" with a stroke of his pen.He also copied hundreds of thousands of copies of this book and spread it among the middle schools in order to dispel rumors and set the record straight. The debate between Liu Xiu and Gongsunshu may seem ridiculous today. The so-called prophecy is probably a feudal superstition and is not enough to teach, but these two people regard it as the truth in a serious way, and they are each in the prophecy. The book skilfully finds chapters and excerpts, strives to refute the opponent, and occupies the commanding heights of morality and public opinion, so as to prove that he is more rooted and popular than the opponent, and more qualified to represent God's will. Under the social environment where the whole people fanatically believed in prophecy at that time, this debate was undoubtedly extremely serious.It is precisely because of this that when we feel it is ridiculous, we can't help feeling desolate.We often cannot really learn from history, and similar scenes will still be repeated. The reason may be that the objects of superstition have changed, but the superstition itself has not changed in essence. When Gongsun Shu received Liu Xiuzhi's book, he had no intention of answering it, but was saddened. He knew that he had lost another battle.