The third year of Jianxing of the Shu Han Dynasty, the ninth day of March in 225 AD.
Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, personally led an army of 50,000 and left Chengdu. He was going to quell the rebellion in the South Central region.
The Nanzhong Rebellion had already occurred two years ago, but Zhuge Liang did not send troops immediately because his monarch died of illness.
Now two years have passed.
Shu Han and Soochow have been repaired, and Shu Han has also been restored internally.
Nanzhong is the rear area of the Shu Han regime.
This trouble must be solved. This has happened in history.
Liu Chan can finally relax and don't have to tense his nerves every day.
As the saying goes, there are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys are called kings, Zhuge Liang leads the army on an expedition, and there are people assigned by the prime minister to sit in the court.
Liu Chan felt very relaxed.
At the same time, he has been dormant for two years, and he has almost a complete understanding of the current situation.
Although there are some discrepancies in historical records, the differences are not particularly large.
Although the Shu region is currently stable.
But there is also a hidden danger.
For example, there are obvious factional disputes, especially the local clans, which are not completely willing to submit to the Shu Han. Now they are just subject to Zhuge Liang's repressive policy and have to pretend to be loyal.
This incident was later recorded in historical materials, but now that Liu Chan was in it, he felt it more deeply.
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Liu Chan and Queen Zhang Yuan were lying in bed, and suddenly a little eunuch trotted in from outside.
"Your Majesty!"
The eunuch didn't seem to know that the emperor hadn't gotten up yet. At this time in the past, the emperor should have been reading.
As soon as the eunuch finished speaking, he discovered that the emperor was playing with the queen on the dragon bed.
The two of them were disturbed by this ignorant eunuch. Zhang Yuan hurriedly broke away and went to get Liu Chan a coat.
Liu Chan stared at the eunuch speechlessly and said angrily: "You have no eyesight."
"This slave deserves to die!"
"This slave deserves to die!"
The little eunuch kept kowtowing and begging desperately for mercy.
Although the emperor is usually approachable, he is the emperor after all. If he disturbs his interest like this, it would be bad if he turns his back.
Seeing the little eunuch's embarrassment, Liu Chan's unhappiness dissipated a little.
"Get up!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"What happened to make you so panicked?" Liu Chan asked while changing his clothes.
Seeing the emperor's calm tone, the little eunuch breathed a sigh of relief and felt that everything was fine.
"Your Majesty!" the little eunuch said with a smile: "Zhang Shao, Master Zhang is here, saying that he has something to ask for to see Your Majesty."
"Zhang Shao?" Liu Chan asked casually.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
"Why did this kid come so early?" Liu Chan muttered after getting dressed.
Zhang Yuan on the side said: "It's not that the younger brother from Zitong's family came early, it's that you got up too late, Your Majesty."
As he spoke, Zhang Yuan ordered the young eunuch: "Go and ask him to come in."
"No!"
After the young eunuch agreed, he turned around and ran out of the palace.
Zhang Shaonai is the second son of the famous Shu Han general Zhang Fei and the younger brother of Queen Zhang Yuan. He is sixteen years old this year and is usually very close to Liu Chan.
After a while, Zhang Shao walked in from outside.
"See Your Majesty!"
Zhang Shao entered the palace and bowed, Liu Chan raised his hand and said, "No need to do that, there are no outsiders here."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
As soon as Zhang Shao stood still, Liu Chan asked expectantly: "Have you done what I asked you to do?"
"Don't worry, Your Majesty!" Zhang Shao smiled and said, "My subordinates have made arrangements."
"Okay!" Liu Chan was overjoyed: "Let's go, take me to see it."
When Liu Chan and Zhang Shaogang were about to leave, Queen Zhang Yuan asked doubtfully: "Your Majesty, what are you doing?"
Zhang Yuan suddenly felt that the emperor was a little unusual today. In the past, if there was anything interesting to do, he would call her.
I don’t seem to have any intention of calling her today.
Liu Chan turned around and smiled: "I'm going to do something, and I'll tell you when I come back later."
After saying that, they ignored Zhang Yuan and hurriedly walked out of the palace.
Although the Chengdu Imperial Palace is a royal palace, there is still a big gap between it and the Forbidden City in later generations. First of all, the scale is not of the same magnitude, it is almost one-third of the Forbidden City.
Half an hour later, the two of them appeared on the streets of Chengdu.
However, at this time, they had all changed into plain clothes and did not attract the attention of pedestrians on the street.
The two of them did not wander around on the street, but hurried towards the outskirts of Xicheng.
Chengdu was not very big at this time. It only took a stick of incense to walk from the city center to the city gate.
Coming out of the west gate, the suburbs are a busy scene, and people are busy in the fields.
Now is the season for sowing rice, and from time to time you can see fellow villagers carrying baskets, grabbing handfuls of rice, and scattering it into the paddy fields.
Seeing this, Liu Chan couldn't help but shook his head, and secretly said with joy: "Prime Minister Zhuge, I will be of great help to you this time."
Zhang Shao led the way, followed by Liu Chan. Within half an hour, a small farmhouse appeared in front of Liu Chan.
"Your Majesty, this is it!" Zhang Shao pointed to the yard in front and said, "My subordinate has bought this yard."
"Is there any forced buying or selling?"
Liu Chan asked, and Zhang Shao was so frightened that he shook his head and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I gave you an extra five hundred dollars."
"Stingy!" Liu Chan rolled his eyes and said, "It's not like your Zhang family has no money, so why did you give them five hundred more?"
Zhang Shao was speechless for a moment, thinking that it really didn't hurt his waist to stand and talk. You are the emperor, why don't you pay for it yourself?
Although he was dissatisfied in his heart, he still smiled and said: "I remember, I will give you more next time."
While talking, the two of them walked into the small courtyard. There were several servants in the courtyard who were cleaning the courtyard. When they saw Zhang Shao coming in, they all put down their work and nodded and bowed to Zhang Shao.
Liu Chan could tell that these people were not ordinary servants, they were all well-trained sergeants.
In fact, since leaving the palace, Liu Chan has noticed that there are people around him who look a little nervous from time to time, and their eyes are looking around.
Liu Chan knew that this was the person arranged by Zhang Shao. After all, it was no small matter for the emperor to leave the palace.
Once something goes wrong, even if he is Zhang Fei's son, he cannot bear the responsibility.
But the emperor had to leave the palace. Before the prime minister sent out troops, Liu Chan had already greeted him in advance and asked him to prepare a small farmhouse.
Moreover, he is not allowed to tell anyone about this matter, not even his brother Zhang Bao.
At this time, Zhang Bao had accompanied the Prime Minister on his southern expedition.
The Zhang family also has some private tribes. Thinking that they are disguised and protected by the Zhang family, this is the capital of the Shu Han Dynasty. No one dares to harm the emperor.
Moreover, in the current Shu Han Dynasty, Liu Chan is only the emperor in name, and Zhuge Kongming is actually in charge of the government.
Even Cao Wei and Sun Wu would not focus their main attention on Liu Chan.
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This chapter has been completed!