#drag quren

[cxtoonzzz]

Haven't rlly been able to draw digitally recently due to school so I've gotten back into trad art :'3 The non-sketchbook one's were for art class. Most of these are WIPs

(Includes: Dawn, Plasma, Bosco, Plane Jane, Nymphia, and Bianca Del Rio)

For some reason ?? Plasma watched EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY STORIES and saw what my art teacher said about my work😭 I am so embarrassed

[ronnette-my-dear-0]

REBLOG TO MAKE TRUMP BECOME A DRAG QUREN

Trump would be such a good drag queen like just such an unbelievably incredible and talented drag queen it's such a bummer that he's decided to be a fascist and a threat to democracy because that cunt would devour at the House of Yes

such a loss

[bookofjin]

Annals of Emperor Xuan, Part 3

[From JS001. Zhongda vs. Kongming...]

4th Year [230 AD], he moved to Great General, concurrently Great Commander-in-Chief, Acting with Yellow Battle-axe, to participate with Cao Zhen in attacking Shu. The Emperor from Xicheng hew through the mountains to open the road, advancing both by water and land. He went upriver the Mian and then up, arriving at Quren, uprooting their Xinfeng county. The army lodged at Dankou. He ran into rain and returned the host.

Next year [231 AD], Zhuge Liang robbed Tianshui, and besieged Generals Jia Si and Wei Ping at Mount Qi. The Son of Heaven said:

The western region has incidents. There is none but the Lord to which they can be entrusted to.”

[He] therefore sent the Emperor west to garrison Chang'an, as Commander-in-Chief of All Army Affairs of Yong and Liang Provinces, commanding the General of Chariots and Cavalry, Zhang He, the General of the Rear, Fei Yao, the Army-Protector who Conquers Shu, Dai Ling, the Inspector of Yong province, Guo Huai, and others to punish Liang.

Zhang He urged the Emperor to divide off armies to go to Yong and Mei as a rear guard. The Emperor said:

If we consider that the van armies alone are singly able to do it, the General's words are correct. Suppose they are not able to do it, and we divide into a van and rear, it will be like when Chu's Three Armies were captured by Qing Bu.

Thereupon the army advanced to Yumi. Liang heard the Great Army had moreover arrived, and therefore himself led the multitudes wanting to cut the wheat of Shanggui. The various generals were all afraid. The Emperor said:

Liang worries much, but decides little. He will surely settle down his encampments and strengthen himself, and then afterwards cut the wheat. We getting two days to double move is sufficient.

And so they rolled up their armour and morning and night hurried to him. Liang looked at the dust and escaped. The Emperor said:

We are exhausted from our labours along many roads. This dawn is being lusted after by the troops. [?] Liang does not dare to occupy the Wei river. This is to be approved of [?], that is all.

They advanced to lodge at Hanyang, and he and Liang encountered each other. The Emperor lined up the files to thereby wait for him, and sent the general Niu Jin with light cavalry to bait him. The troops had barely connected when Liang retreated. They pursued to Mount Qi. Liang garrisoned Lucheng, occupied the south and north side of the mountain, and severed the river as a tight encirclement. The Emperor attacked to uproot his encirclement. Liang escaped at night. They pursued and struck, routing him. The captives and beheaded tallied ten thousand. The Son of Heaven sent envoys to thank the army and added to [the Emperor’s?] fief estate.

At the time the Army Teacher Du Xi and the Army Controller Xue Ti, both spoke of, that next year when the wheat is ripe, Liang would surely be robbing. Longyuo was without food, so they ought to, come winter, to prepare transport. The Emperor said:

Liang has twice set out for Mount Qi, once attacked Chencang, been ground down to defeat and turned back. Even if he later sets out, he will not again attack the city, but seek battle in the countryside, it will surely be east of Long and not to the west. Liang always considers provisions being few a regret, and to return he will surely store up grain. According to my guess, without three harvest he will not be able to move.

And so he petitioned to move farmers from Ji province to farm at Shanggui, for together with Jingzhao, Tianshui and Nan'an oversee the foundries [?].

1st Year of Qinglong [“Green Dragon”, 233 AD], [he] dug out the Chengguo canal and built the Linjin dam. The irrigated fields were several thousand qing. The state was thereby fully supplied

2nd Year [234 AD], Liang again led a multitude of 100 000 to set out for Xie Valley, he built ramparts at Mei on the plains south of the Wei river. The Son of Heaven worried about it, and dispatched the Army-Protector who Conquers Shu, Qin Lang to control 20 000 foot and horse, to receive Emperor's rules and measures. The various generals wanted to stay north of the Wei to accordingly wait for him [Liang?]. The Emperor said:

The hundred families' accumulatesd stores all are south of the Wei. Thus we must surely fight for its territory.

He thereupon pulled out the army and crossed over, with back of the river as ramparts. Because of this he spoke to the various generals, saying:

Liang, if he is brave, must set out for Wugong, relying on the mountains, and go east. If [he goes] west up to the Wuzhang plain, then the various armies will be without incidents.

Liang in the end did go up to the plains, wanting to cross north of the Wei. The Emperor dispatched General Zhou Dang to garrison Yangsui as bait for him. Several days [passed], and Liang did not move. The Emperor said:

Liang desires to contend on the plains, and will not turn towards Yangsui. This intention can be perceived.

He dispatched General Hu Zun and the Inspector of Yong province, Guo Huai, to together to prepare at Yangsui. [The Emperor?] met with Liang at Jishi, approached the plains and fought. Liang could not advance, but turned back to the Wuzhang plains.

It happened that a long star fell within Liang's ramparts. The Emperor knew he would surely be defeated, and dispatched ambush troops to drag out Liang's rearguard. They beheaded more than 500 ranks, captured more than 1000 living mouths, those who surrendered were more than 600 people.

At the time, the imperial court, due to Liang lodging the army for distant plundering [?], and would profit from a quick battle, always instructed the Emperor for prudence, to thereby wait for him changing [?].  Liang several times challenged to battle, but the Emperor did not set out. Because of this he presented the Emperor with a woman's headscarf and the ornaments of a wife.

The Emperor was angry, and petitioned a request for decision in battle. The Son of Heaven did not allow it, and therefore dispatched an unyielding [lit. “fish-boned”] official, the Commandant of the Guards, Xin Pin, with a Tally stick, to advise the army and thereby oversee it. Afterwards Liang again came out and challenged to battle. The Emperor wanted to send out the troops soldiers to accordingly respond to it. Pi stood with his Tally stick at the army gates. The Emperor therefore desisted.

Earlier, Shu's general Jiang Wei heard of Pi's arrival, he spoke to Liang, saying:

After Qin Pi came with the Tally stick, the traitors have not again set out.

Liang said:

He had originally no heart for battle. By using strong requests, he displays his martial [vigour] to his multitudes, that is all. When a general is with his army, the ruler's instructions is not being accepted. [An old military maxim] If he was able to master us, why request from a thousand li to do battle?

The Emperor's younger brother, Fu sent a letter asking about military affairs. The Emperor returned a letter which said:

Liang's aspirations are great, but he does not see opportunities. He has many plans, but makes few decisions. He has excellent troops, but no authority. Although he controls a hundred thousand soldiers, he is already falling into my plans. Routing him is a certainty!

He and him faced their ramparts for more than a hundred days. It happened that Liang passed on from illness. The various generals burnt the encampment, escaped and left, the hundred families ran to report, and the Emperor sent out the troops to chase them. Liang's Senior Clerk, Yang Yi, turned around the banners and beat the drums, as if wanting to resist the Emperor. The Emperor, thought destitute robbers should not be pressured [as advised by Sunzi]. And so Yang Yi formed columns and left.

Through the day, they therefore moved to their encampment and ramparts, observed what they had left behind, and captured a considerable multitude of their plans and documents, food and provisions. The Emperor judged that he [Liang] must be dead, and said: “Under Heaven's singular talent!” Xin Pi thought it could still not yet be known. The Emperor said:

What is given weight by army households, army documents and secret plans, military horses, food and grain, now everything is abandoned by them. How can there be person who gives up his five viscera and yet can still be alive? We ought to quickly chase them.

In Guanzhong there were much caltrop nuts [Tribulus terrestris] The Emperor sent 2 000 army soldiers to put on soft wooden clogs with flat undersides [!?] to walk in front. The caltrop nuts were thoroughly attached to the clogs, and afterwards the horse and foot could all advance. [Seriously...]

[He] chased [them] until Chi'an, and learnt Liang was dead. [This became] thoroughly known, and at the time there was a proverb among the hundred families which said:

From a dead Zhuge flees a living Zhongda.

The Empeor heard it, but laughed, saying:

I can easily predict the living, but not easily predict the intentions of the dead!

Before this, an envoy from Liang arrived. The Emperor questioned him, saying:

Excellency Zhuge, when does he rise up and sit down? For his food, how much rice?

[The envoy] replied, saying:

Three or four sheng

Next he asked about government work. [The envoy] said:

Punishments of twenty [strikes] and above, all of them he scrutinized and inspect himself.

The Emperor then told the person, saying:

Zhuge Kongming, how long can he last?

In the end it was like he had said.

Liang's section generals Yang Yi and Wei Yan contended for authority. Yi beheaded Yan and combined their multitudes. The Emperor desired to exploit their grudge and advance, but there was a decree which did not allow it.

3rd Year [235 AD], he moved to Grand Commandant, and amassed to add to his fief estate. Shu's general Ma Dai entered to rob. The Emperor dispatched General Niu Jin to strike and run him off, the beheaded tallied more than 1000 men.

The kings of the Wudu Di, Fu Shuang and Qiang Duan, led their followers, more than 6 000 people, to come and surrender. East of the Passes there was famine, so the Emperor transported 5 000 000 hu unhusked millet from Chang'an to the imperial capital.

4th Year [236 AD], [he] captured a white deer and presented it. The Son of Heaven said:

Formerly when the Duke of Zhou, Dan, assisted King Cheng, he made a tribute of an uncoloured pheasant. Now the Lord accepts the duties of West of Shan, and makes a present of white deer. How is this not loyal and truly in accord with the token [of Heaven's favour], with a thousand loads of similar deeds [?], so as to govern the house of the nation, thereby perpetuating its rest?