寿春 / Shouchun

Hanji 969 adds Shouchun before the later Sun Ce and self-coronation branches. After 曹操 defeats and pursues 袁术, Yuan Shu moves through the Huai River field and occupies Shouchun, then uses it as the base from which he calls himself 扬州 inspector and Xuzhou lord. This makes Shouchun a pre-imperial consolidation site before Hanji 1015 turns it into the staging ground for the “仲家” claim.

Hanji 982 adds the pre-coronation strategic geography and court-mission layer. The episode describes Shouchun as a Jiang-Huai node controlling north-south water routes, then places 马日磾 and 赵岐 there under 袁术’s pressure before Yuan Shu’s later imperial staging.

Hanji 983 first places Shouchun in Yuan Shu’s Jiangdong setup. 孙策 goes there after entrusting his family to 张纮, and 袁术 decides to send him back through the 丹阳郡 network rather than hand over all of 孙坚’s old troops. The same source notes that 刘繇 cannot use Shouchun as the Yangzhou seat because Yuan Shu occupies it.

Hanji 1015 later makes 寿春 / Shouchun as the place where 袁术 declares himself emperor in 197 CE. The episode treats the location as the ritual and administrative center of Yuan Shu’s attempted “仲家” regime.

At Shouchun, Yuan Shu changes offices, sets up公卿百官, and performs imperial-style sacrifices. The source uses these moves as visible proof of a title claim that outruns recognition and capacity, linking the place to 名器合法性 and 讨逆同盟压力.

Connections

• Hanji 969, 袁术, 曹操, 扬州, and 陈瑀 - pre-coronation occupation and provincial-title branch.
• Hanji 982, 马日磾, 赵岐, and 袁术 - strategic site and court-mission pressure before self-coronation.
• Hanji 983, 孙策, 张纮, 丹阳郡, and 刘繇 - pre-coronation Yuan Shu base and unusable Yangzhou seat.
• 袁术 - claimant whose self-coronation defines the source role.
• 九江郡 and 淮南 - administrative-geographic terms in the episode’s Yuan Shu branch.
• 名器合法性, 名实相符式名号节制, and 讨逆同盟压力 - concepts linked to the self-coronation.