A few days later, on the sixth day of the seventh month, the Weiyang Palace.

This day was originally the day of the grand ceremony every five days. In addition, Liu Bei sent Li Su to Beijing to present his seals and express his merits, which deserves the celebration of the whole world. Today, the ceremony will be held, and everyone in the palace is full of joy.

Wang Yun was in a better mood than others, because he received an unexpected joy from Lu Bu last night—

More than ten days ago, Wang Yun sent Lu Bu's general Li Su to Anyi to attack Niu Fu for the first time. As a result, Li Su was defeated and the generals were lost. Wang Yun asked Lu Bu to execute him, and then asked Lu Bu to lead his troops to attack Niu Fu himself.

With the first failure, Wang Yun had a new understanding of the difficulty of suppressing the rebellion, so he believed that the second time might be fought back and forth.

Unexpectedly, before Lu Bu arrived in Anyi, he had just crossed the river to Puyangjin, and he received a report - after hearing about Lu Bu's personal expedition, Niu Fu's troops actually bombed the camp before they could fight!

The fact of this bombing camp was that some soldiers were afraid of Lu Bu's attack, so they fled directly. But it was bad that Niu Fu didn't know the truth. It was night, and he thought that the whole army had rebelled and surrendered to the court. In the panic, Niu Fu only brought twenty golden cakes and a dou of white beads, and wanted to escape from Anyi City with dozens of personal soldiers, and slowly return to the northwest.

As a result, when he was about to leave Anyi City, Niu Fu did not dare to walk through the city gate, so he asked his subordinates to tie a rope around his waist and fell out of the north of the city, and then went to the stables in the north of the city to find the horse to escape.

The personal soldier who was responsible for bringing Niu Fu down the city was a strong man from the Yue clan of the Western Regions, named "Chier". He was greedy for Niu Fu's property. He just put Niu Fu out of the city wall, and deliberately put a rope and threw Niu Fu half to death. Then Chier went down to the city and killed Niu Fu's head, and quickly surrendered to the enemy to Puyangjin to present it to Lu Bu.

The twenty golden cakes and a bucket of pearls that Niu Fu had with him were hidden by Chier, and Lu Bu was too lazy to care about it.

(Note: The "Hu Chi'er" written in the Romance is to use the Moon Branch Hu and Chi'er. The Moon Branch connects to the Yuezhi, which only represents race. There is no official history that Lu Bu killed Hu Chi'er because Hu Chi'er was injustice in selling money.)

Lu Bu was confused and Niu Fu died before the battle was fought. But Lu Bu had always had more and more credits, so Xingye immediately sent someone to take Niu Fu's head and rushed back to Chang'an for hundreds of miles.

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"Hahahaha! God really helps me! I thought that the bull and beasts could still fight, and what kind of storm could cause? I was not afraid of Fengxian's reputation. Before the heavenly soldiers arrived, they exploded the camps and planned on their own.

The greedy people who wanted officials and provincial governors a few days ago must have been accidental, and the people in the world still looked to the court. It seems that the conditions for Liu Bei and Li Su were still high. Forget the edicts, the day before yesterday, I spent a lot of effort to get His Majesty to agree, and it would be difficult to change them. Anyway, we can still surrender after Liu Bei resigned, so let's do it this time."

When Wang Yun got up to prepare for the ceremony, he looked at the gifts given by Lu Bu overnight and felt so comfortable. He even felt that the overall situation was more stable. When he ordered Liu Bei to give him a reward, the price was a bit inflated.

Wang Yun was ready to go into the palace and got off at the entrance of the palace and waited for the opening of the door. He saw his accomplice Sun Rui. Shi, Sun Rui, politely saluting and discussing with him: "Situ, I heard that Lu Bu was dead in return yesterday?"

Wang Yun was proud of his gratitude: "Do you know too? It's a joyful congratulation."

Shi Sun Rui continued, "Since Niu Fu is dead, should we issue an edict to pardon those lieutenants, chief lieutenants, and officials at all levels of the ranks of Niu Fu? Otherwise, I'm afraid that the Marquis of Wen would not be able to take over the troops left by Niu Fu."

Wang Yun thought for a while and said disdainfully: "Niu Fu has too many subordinates. If you choose some people to pardon, it will make other people who have not been pardoned doubt. It would be better not to mention it. Besides, if Niu Fu is specially killed and Niu Fu's officers, will Duan Wei and Dong Yue's officers also be pardoned? The imperial edicts at the court are a joke."

Shi Sun Rui said anxiously: "Now is the time to treat the head of the head and the foot of the foot, so how can you care about the long-term? Wen Hou has not conquered Niu Fu's subordinates, but he has only obtained Niu Fu's head. These arrogant soldiers and generals waited for the imperial edict before they could surrender to Wen Hou.

Wouldn't they keep themselves in a state of self-reliance and waiting? Even if Situ is afraid of losing the majesty of the imperial edict and issuing too many edicts, then change the law:

The Dong Zhe's property seized from Meiwu was generally distributed to the soldiers under the command of the three Central Army Generals and those soldiers left behind after Niu Fu's death. Everyone got the money. Even if there was no edict, those rough people believed that the court would not deal with them."

Wang Yun was in high spirits and refused proudly: "The court is in trouble, and the money in Meiwu is all the people's wealth and money plundered by Dong's thief. Now that we want to appease the people, the rent and taxes in Guanzhong this year should be exempted. Moreover, the Kanto states may not necessarily use money and grain to assist the court within several years, and the taxes in Guandong cannot be collected. Then, like Dong's thief, they will be exhausted and fishing and scattering money to win over the soldiers. Isn't it a long-term solution?

Junrong, Junrong, you are a senior farmer in the court, and you are in charge of financial resources. You should be the one who knows the financial shortage of the court best. How can you be so confused that the new dynasty continue to make the evil example of "indulging in the arrogant soldiers and generals with money"! What the court needs now is to slowly get on the right track. Those arrogant soldiers and generals who are raised by Dong thief should slowly learn to live a hard life again!"

The historical facts that Wang Yun said were true. Although Dong Zhuo was cruel when he was alive, he was still treated very well for the Western Liang army. Dong Zhuo was born as a warlord and knew that support for the army was everything for him.

Even if the people are robbed, they will have to pay the Xiliang army an excess of their salary and often reward the army with good wine and meat.

Wang Yun was a pure civil servant, had no military experience, and did not know the importance of winning over the morale of the military. He only knew that the Chang'an court's plunder over the years was to raise soldiers, so he had long thought about reducing the treatment of the army. Even if there was no special amnesty, he would have to deduct wages and reduce military pay. Of course, he would not even think about the rewards.

As a senior farmer, Shi Sun Rui was willing to allocate money, but Wang Yun neither gave a special amnesty nor gave money, so he asked to use Tai Chi with the mud.

Of course, we also have to say justice for Wang Yun. He did not insist on killing Li Jue and Guo Si by name as stated in "Romance of the Romance".

Because now Li Jue and Guo Si are only ordered to do things. Although they have participated in the destruction of killing the people and excavating the imperial tombs, they are all commanded by Niu Fu, and the main evil is Niu Fu.

In short, Wang Yun was not familiar with these two guys at all, so he would not target them. He just felt that all the generals of the Xiliang Army were garbage. At most, the only ones that could be reused were Bingzhou soldiers and the former Northern Army of the Capital.

Before the seal offering ceremony, Wang Yun's last chance to appease Niu Fu's subordinates was thrown away by him with his own hands.

Then he waited for the court meeting with satisfaction, stepped into the palace with the golden light in the morning light, and realized that the world was in hand.

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The main room of the front hall of Weiyang Palace.

That's right, it's the Xuanshi Hall where "the Xuanshi room seeks talents and expels ministers, and Jia Sheng's talent is even more incompetent." Three hundred years ago, Emperor Wen of Han summoned Jia Yi here. After Emperor Xian of Han moved the capital back to Chang'an, it became the venue for the formal court meeting.

The twelve-year-old Liu Xie walked up to the dragon throne with the support of several eunuchs. Seeing Wang Situ, the foreman, come in one by two other court officials, he was also quite excited.

Because Wang Situ told Liu Xie privately the day before yesterday that the young emperor knew that today was the day when the imperial seal was delivered to the court.

The young Liu Xie also asked several people privately about the symbolic significance of this matter and whether Li Su, who presented the jade seal, had any other intentions. The young Liu Xie also asked several people in private, mainly the noble man Fu Shou and some eunuchs around him.

Fu Shou was still a girl, and she was ignorant of the government and could not say anything. However, the eunuchs all told the young emperor sincerely: Li Boya, a loyal and righteous man in the world, knew the destiny of heaven, and had no other intentions. He was willing to persuade the general to conquer the Western Expedition to present the jade seal to the court, and he must have seen that the Han Dynasty had already revived and that it would be a good life from now on.

Although Liu Xie has been a puppet for a long time in history, his IQ and political sensitivity are still very good. Although he is only twelve years old, he is already very clear about right and wrong.

After hearing what everyone around me said, Liu Xie was slightly surprised, but more of it was that "everyone said this must make sense. I have heard both of them, but I have never heard anyone say bad things about Li Su. It is impossible that everyone colluded with each other."

It can only be said that no matter how smart he is, he could not imagine that it was because "all the eunuchs in the palace who had entered the palace three years ago were rescued by Li Su from Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao's butcher's knife." This led to the eunuchs' reputation as Li Su.

If Li Su hadn't been the change of the Jiade Palace Palace, he would have decisively asked Queen Ling Si to decree the imperial edict in the face of danger and "only punish the chief evil, and not ask the rest", the eunuchs in the palace would have been killed long ago.

The eunuch also knew how to be grateful, so Liu Xie naturally couldn't hear bad things about Li Su.

All of this led to the fact that when Wang Yun asked Liu Xie to agree to issue an order to sign Liu Bei as King of Hanzhong, Liu Xie felt it was a little strange, but he still agreed and did not make much trouble.

Without accumulating small steps, you can't reach a thousand miles. All good rewards are the result of accumulating strength and making good relationships, and they are accumulated in a thread.

The other links of the court meeting were progressing in an orderly manner, and there was no need for Liu Xie to deal with anything. As long as you occasionally express your approval of Wang Yun and others' collective discussions, it was soon the stage of offering seals.

An attendant took Li Su's memorial to ask for merit and read it first. The content was nothing more than four great achievements Liu Bei had established for the court in the past three years.

Finally, Li Su held the imperial seal and held it on a plate, and went forward to hand it over to Fu Baolang to receive the seal:

"I sent the General of the Central Army to lead the prefect of Shu County Su, and the order of General Nanzheng, the Marquis of Nanzheng, to lead the governor of Yizhou, Liu Bei, and I sincerely submit the imperial seal to the court. With this blessing, the Han Dynasty was finally revived even though it was slandered."

In this scene, not only were the officials of the Chang'an court seen it with their own eyes, but also the envoys from four roads of the princes who were outside the town participated in the ceremony - Wang Lang, the envoy of Tao Qian, the envoy of Liu Biao, the envoy of Liu Biao, the envoy of Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou; plus Zhu Yan, the imperial court of Henan who had just entered the court, and Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, sent by Liu Ye.

There are also some envoys who are not worthy of being envoys from "princes". For example, there are two brothers, Zhang Miao, the prefect of Chenliu, and Zhang Chao, the prefect of Guangling, who are also typical of respecting the court and sent people. However, Zhang Miao is already a subordinate of Cao Cao, and can only be regarded as a semi-independent position. There are several such prefect envoys.

Unfortunately, the Er Yuan did not send anyone there at all. Gongsun Zan was nominally affiliated with Liu Yu and had no independent diplomatic power, and the same was true for Sun Jian. Xun Yu, sent by Cao Cao, had already left before Li Su arrived. Therefore, no one in the Er Yuan and Cao Cao's Gongsun camp witnessed Liu Bei's hand-in-hand witness.

Li Su never thought of tampering with the issue of delivering the jade seal, and would not consider the bad behavior of "making a time difference, but after getting the imperial edict of the king, he didn't have time to return the jade seal". Because the hatred value of the king was too high, no matter how he refused, someone would always criticize him. If the jade seal was not given time, others would definitely think that you were playing Wang Yun.

And if the jade seal is really handed over in front of so many envoys of the princes, it will at least offset the hatred value of the hostile camps that will criticize Liu Bei's ambitions in the future -

Do you think Liu Bei was ambitious to be named king? When Wang Yun died later, it was Liu Bei's tacit agreement. Then he really knew that Wang Yun would not be able to do it for a long time, or expected Wang Yun to do it for a long time, so why did he still be open and honest and unreserved and really handed over the jade seal in front of the princes of the world? That means that Liu Bei could not guess that Wang Yun would be finished later!

In Liu Xie's excited eyes, Fu Baolang took the jade seal and submitted it to the imperial case for the emperor to check it out in person. Liu Xie rubbed and felt it a few times, and in front of all the court officials and envoys of the princes, he personally praised Liu Bei and Li Su.

"Your and others have made this special merit worthy. Situ, please read out the agreed reward."

At this time, Liu Xie should have pretended to ask, "Situ, has he agreed to give me a reward?" Then, after Wang Yun answered, the emperor would give the report in public.

But Liu Xie made a little decision, probably because he wanted other princes to respect the court more. Seeing the first offering to the court and making great contributions, the emperor would personally ask about the reward in advance, rather than just using it as a rubber stamp.

Wang Yun quickly took out the edict passed after the collective discussion and read it in public:

"... The general of the Western Expedition, Nanzheng Hou, was appointed as the governor of Yizhou, Liu Bei, survived and destroyed Jingluo, Ming Youyu Seal, destroyed Dong, and was scattered by the barbarians outside, had the merits of Zhou Duke and Zhu Xu... He was granted the title of King of Hanzhong and was appointed as the governor of Yizhou. The arrangements were based on the classics of the princes and kings of the early Han Dynasty. If the country benefits the country, they should be used to stop their power, and the king should not refuse..."

"... The general of the Central Army, the Marquis of Piting, led the prefect of Shu County, Li Su... was renamed the right general, the Marquis of Pixiang, with a fief of three thousand households, and was appointed as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Hanzhong..."

"The partial general Guan Yu... was renamed General Zhennan and Marquis of Jiameng Township."

"People General Zhang Fei...replaced with the title of General Zhenglu, Marquis of Langzhong Township."

"Changshui Captain Zhao Yun... has been renamed General Fubo and Zhending Marquis."

There are a lot of upgrades behind it, mainly to confirm the prefects and chiefs of the counties that Liu Bei has recommended over the years. Those who should have marquis should give them to the marquis as appropriate, and those who should have military officials should give them to the lieutenant.

The most profitable military officer is Xu Huang. Xu Huang has not made great contributions in many wars in recent years, or he has made some achievements with Guan Yu, but he has not surpassed Zhou Tai and Gan Ning. But this wave was lucky in Hanzhong, and he caught up with the great contribution of a surprise attack on Meiwu to get a bargain. As a result, relying on Dong Min and Dong Huang, two free heads, were all named Duting Hou.

Dian Wei was just a bodyguard and did not lead troops to command, but Dong Min was killed by him personally, so he also caught a Guannei Marquis.

After listening to it, Li Su divided the rewards from him and other officials, and he directly expressed his gratitude to him for his gratitude to him who did not need to give in.

As for the part of the edicts that conferred Liu Bei as king, he could only thank him in advance, but could not thank Man. Instead, he would bring the edicts as soon as possible and then report them.
Chapter completed!