[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-three-kingdoms-the-coalition-insulted-me-so-i-de":3,"chapter-three-kingdoms-the-coalition-insulted-me-so-i-de-three-kingdoms-humiliated-by-the-coalition-i-def-chapter-176":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Three Kingdoms: The Coalition Humiliated Me, So I Defected to Dong Zhuo and Married Dong Bai",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2117612,3441,"Chapter 176: Honey-Water Brother: The Imperial Seal","three-kingdoms-humiliated-by-the-coalition-i-def-chapter-176",176,"\u003Cp>\"Could it be that in the eyes of Dong Zhongying, I, Yuan Gonglu, am just some casual person?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Shu glared at Fa Zheng with wide eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he did not know what kind of \"great gift\" Fa Zheng would bring him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very least, Yuan Shu felt he could not lose the momentum on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Pfft.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fa Zheng could not help but laugh out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Yuan Shu could not help but be annoyed and ashamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face flushed red like a drake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to open his mouth to reprimand Fa Zheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw Fa Zheng step forward and open the box in his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Radiance burst forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reflecting in Yuan Shu’s vision were the eight large characters: \"Having received the mandate from Heaven, may one live forever and prosper.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, what Fa Zheng held in his hands was indeed the Heirloom Imperial Seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this Heirloom Imperial Seal was not the genuine article, but a high-quality imitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a transmigrator, Gu Yi clearly knew the location of the Heirloom Imperial Seal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, not long ago, Gu Yi had retrieved it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How should one put it? The seal certainly looked very beautiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this thing could not be brought into the world just like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Historically, this item was first found by Sun Jian, and later fell into the hands of Sun Ce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In order to trade for soldiers to attack Jiangdong, Sun Ce gave the seal to Yuan Shu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our Honey-Water Brother, unable to resist the temptation of the seal, chose to take the step of declaring himself Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the late Han and Three Kingdoms period, the first person to truly declare himself Emperor was our Honey-Water Brother!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the old Dong of history also intended to declare himself Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was mostly due to the trickery of Wang Yun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Dong realized that he could never defeat the Guandong clans, and wanted to experience the thrill of being an emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, before he could successfully declare himself Emperor, he was stabbed to death by Lu Bu’s halberd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Honey-Water Brother was, in the strict sense, the \"first person to declare himself Emperor\" in the late Han period.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked at the very forefront of the era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was Yuan Shao or Cao Cao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or Liu Bei and Sun Quan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of our Honey-Water Brother, they were all little brothers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Honey-Water Brother declared himself Emperor, he soon faced a retaliatory strike, being attacked by almost all the warlords of the Han world!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(PS: Although Yuan Shao and Liu Biao did not directly participate in the war, they also issued declarations similar to declaring war on Yuan Shu.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, before Yuan Shu died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was forced to the point where he couldn't even drink a bowl of his favorite honey water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus earning the beautiful nickname \"Honey-Water Brother.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To get to the root of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Why did Honey-Water Brother not receive a chorus of support when he declared himself Emperor, but instead suffered a collective attack?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firstly, in the second year of Jian'an (197 AD), the year he historically declared himself Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although his territory looked vast, it contained a great deal of \"water.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As everyone knows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Sun Ce attacked Jiangdong, the banner he flew was actually that he was expanding territory for Honey-Water Brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the eyes of Honey-Water Brother, the vast territory conquered by Sun Ce all counted as his own!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the perception of Honey-Water Brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His territory included not only Yizhou, Nanyang, and Huainan, but even the six commanderies of Jiangdong were to be counted among them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Ce’s pacification of Jiangdong gave Honey-Water Brother great confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Look! Even my little brother can independently lead troops to pacify Jiangdong!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I were to go out myself, wouldn't the whole world be settled?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Honey-Water Brother was filled with \"mysterious confidence\" in himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the legitimate son of the Yuan family, Honey-Water Brother’s task from beginning to end was to overthrow the Liu Han imperial house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And establish a brand-new dynasty belonging to the clans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, he firmly believed that as long as he raised his arms and shouted, the clans of the world would definitely respond to him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the north at that time, the hard power of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao was actually already stronger than that of Honey-Water Brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially after holding the Emperor to command the warlords, Cao Cao received even more full-hearted support from the clan groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And between him and Yuan Shao, a trend of standing on equal footing had gradually emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is to say, in the eyes of the northern clans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final master of the world would likely be produced between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Consequently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The northern clans either supported Yuan Shao or supported Cao Cao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a very small number of hot-headed people staked their fortunes on Honey-Water Brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what about the southern clans?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had an irreconcilable hatred with Honey-Water Brother!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Honey-Water Brother occupied Huainan, because he did not know how to manage his territory, he often let his soldiers plunder. (There are many historical records that can corroborate this.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Letting soldiers plunder is actually a technical skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Robbing ordinary commoners, while effective, has limited results in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you want to rob, you must rob the rich!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who are the rich?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wealthy gentry and the great clans!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is to say, Honey-Water Brother had the generals under his command—who were adapted from mountain bandits and wandering outlaws—lead troops to rob the great clans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does it sound very magical?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But our Honey-Water Brother really did just that!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he was tireless in doing so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a member of the Yuan family, the head of the world’s clans, Honey-Water Brother indulged his subordinates in robbing other clans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was equivalent to betraying his own class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could the southern clans give Honey-Water Brother a good look?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After our Honey-Water Brother declared himself Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was the northern clans or the southern clans, they all lost their sense of identification with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They considered Honey-Water Brother to have betrayed the clan class, belonging to the public enemy of the clan class!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the real reason why Honey-Water Brother was attacked by the whole world!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And not some \"betrayal of the Han house, declaring himself Emperor in private.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, everyone was a clear-headed person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who didn't have a scale in their heart regarding what kind of state the Han house was in?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honey-Water Brother betrayed the original clan class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he could not get the recognition of the commoner class.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Destruction was naturally only a matter of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the saying goes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A turncoat will never have a good end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Honey-Water Brother was not a turncoat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his actions truly illustrated what it meant to \"play a good hand of cards into a mess.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, he was a rising star in whom the clan class placed high hopes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after several years of development.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starting with one Yizhou, he should have grown in a \"snowballing\" manner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he was gradually crushed by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clan groups that supported him behind the scenes were also gradually snatched away by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Consequently, Honey-Water Brother eventually headed toward destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in other words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if he didn't court death by declaring himself Emperor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps he would eventually be finished off by Cao Cao or Yuan Shao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he would definitely not have headed toward decline so quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the things that tempted Honey-Water Brother to declare himself Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the matter of \"Sun Ce pacifying Jiangdong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heirloom Imperial Seal was also an indispensable temptation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before his eyes, the high-quality imitation Heirloom Imperial Seal held in Fa Zheng’s hands instantly caused Honey-Water Brother’s breathing to stall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In order to make it look realistic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Yi specifically had this high-quality imitation Heirloom Imperial Seal made with the same chipped corner as the original.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is rumored that when Wang Mang usurped the Han.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Heirloom Imperial Seal was thrown to the ground in anger by Wang Mang’s own sister, the last Empress Dowager of the Western Han, Wang Zhengjun, and thus lost a corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This allusion is no longer known to be true or false, because it is not recorded in official history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what cannot be denied is that the Heirloom Imperial Seal really is missing a corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the legitimate son of the Yuan family, how could Yuan Shu not have heard of the Heirloom Imperial Seal?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knowing his goods, all his attention was instantly attracted by the seal, and he could not look away for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our Honey-Water Brother still had a tiny bit of brains; although it might not be much, there was still some rationality left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Fa Zheng with suspicion and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fa Xiaozhi, this seal is fake, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Otherwise, why wouldn't Dong Zhongying use it to declare himself Emperor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Instead, he let you bring it to me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fa Zheng had long anticipated Yuan Shu’s reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Instead, you let him bring it to me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fa Zheng had long anticipated Yuan Shu's reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>",1557,"2026-06-16T10:17:20.643Z","2026-06-16T10:29:10.858Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","6b69d26bd5d3b1a343963e4c1ce2c345251789dbf56f4bd64d82226af3fd30fd","three-kingdoms-humiliated-by-the-coalition-i-def-chapter-177","three-kingdoms-humiliated-by-the-coalition-i-def-chapter-175",1103,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthree-kingdoms-humiliated-by-the-coalition-i-def-cover.jpg"]