Chapter seven hundred and ninety seventh persuading marriage (four) (final chapter)
No matter how the few bloody scholars in the government and the public rebuked them, in the following days, not only Gu Zhilong, Zhang Han, Zhou Bingwu, Zheng Xingxuan and most of the ministers of the ministries, ministers of the temples, deputy ministers, guards and pro-army governors, but also the governor, The civil and military officials of the Privy Council, including Zhang Chao who lived far away in Langzhou, Zheng Yu and Zheng Chang in Huangzhou, and even Yang Zhitang and his son who retreated to Hongzhou, Yang Fan who was demoted to Raozhou as governor after the disastrous defeat at Fanchuan River, and Youwu Xiangjun all commanded The envoys from Zhao Zhen, Jiangxi, Jiangdong, Hunan, Jingxiang and other places, as well as most of the governors of the Forbidden Army, as well as the military and political officials of the Marquis of Yu, all came forward one after another to express their views on the marriage of the Queen Mother and the unification of Liang and Chu.
Of course, not everyone in the Chu court, among the middle and senior generals, was willing to succumb to Liang Jun's power and do such a shameless act of proposing marriage.
Shen Yang's health was getting worse day by day, and he reluctantly participated in the court meeting on the 26th. However, after hearing Huang Huixiang and Zhou Qinian's suggestions, as soon as the court meeting was dismissed and he just stepped out of Chongwen Hall, he vomited another mouthful of black blood. Fortunately, The imperial doctor rescued him in time and he did not die on the spot, but after that he became completely ill and bedridden. It was difficult for him to even get up, let alone participate in state affairs.
In addition to Xue Ruogu, Li Tang and Zhang Qian were also at the Prime Minister's Mansion day and night, waiting on Shen Yang's bed, but they did not dare to tell the outside news for fear of irritating Shen Yang.
Du Chongtao, Guo Liang and others did not succumb to their wishes, but they still wrote to complain of illness and resigned from their positions as the military governor and deputy governor of the bodyguard, making way for Heqin to surrender.
After Yang En wrote a letter initiating the marriage proposal, he fell ill and did not appear in court again.
Now that the tone of peace and annexation of the country has been set, the tense atmosphere in Jinling City has also eased. In the streets and alleys, people are more interested in the romantic affair between Lord Liang and the Queen Mother Changxin.
Things that could only be told secretly in private before were now discussed openly in tea shops and wine shops. The rumors became more and more outrageous and mysterious, so much so that the rumor that the young emperor was an illegitimate son also became popular; of course, including Emperor Tianyou and Emperor Yanyou, who were jealous and framed Many rumors about Zhongliang also spread in the streets and alleys.
At this time, no one stood up and waved the "disrespectful" stick to strictly prohibit it, and the foundation of Dachu collapsed quietly...
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Hanchan Alley is quite dilapidated. A heavy rain made the alley muddy and sewage flowed across the street. On weekdays, only peddlers and footmen came in to the Shen Family Tea Shop to rest. In addition to tea, they also sold some snacks.
The two skinny old men, who seemed to have been drained of their last energy by the years, could no longer listen to the dirty words circulated in the market, so they staggered out.
Shen Yang, who was wearing a gray cloth robe, couldn't help but question Yang En at this moment:
"You are so proud of Da Chu's complete collapse. You can stand up to the ancestors of the Yang family. Do you still remember that you are a minister of Da Chu?"
Yang En put his skinny hands in his sleeves and glanced at the clear sky with his cloudy old eyes.
Although the sun was as hot as fire, he felt a bit of chill in his bones, and his pale and withered lips trembled a few times, but finally turned into an inaudible sigh, and left with the help of the old servant, without looking back at Shen Yang. …
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A new court meeting held in the Chongwen Palace on June 2 clearly stated that Cai Chen would temporarily act as the Minister of Internal Affairs, Gu Zhilong would temporarily act as the Governor of the Imperial Guard, and Huang Huixiang would temporarily act as the Minister of Internal Affairs. The three of them, together with Zhou Bingwu and the governor of Raozhou, were appointed Yang Fan, the eldest son of Prince Shou, who was urgently transferred to the Privy Council with Tongzhi, jointly served as minister of peace and marriage. He rushed to Liyang by boat to discuss the peace and marriage, the abdication of the young emperor and the merger of Liang and Chu.
At this point, the overall situation of the peaceful annexation of Jiangnan and the Lingnan lands has been determined.
What we want to talk about next is the placement of the Chu court monarchs and ministers, as well as the bodyguards and imperial troops with a total of more than 250,000 horses, the implementation of the New Deal, the division of new administrative regions, etc.; of course, it also includes the abdication of the young emperor, welcoming Han Qian into Jinling and
Details of the wedding ceremony of Queen Mother Changxin.
Even if Gu Zhilong, Huang Huixiang, Zhou Bingwu, Yang Fan and others were willing to put their faces on the line and look even more humble in front of the emperor and ministers of the Liang Dynasty, when it came time to compete for interests, they still had to fight for every inch of profit.
Of course, they would not blatantly seek any benefits for themselves. First, they proposed that Han Qianchan would succeed the emperor of Chu, and that the new dynasty would use Chu as the country's name and set its capital in Jinling.
Their reasons are also very appropriate. Sichuan and Shu are small places, and it has always been "before the world is in chaos, Shu will be in chaos, and the world has been settled before Shu is settled." They rarely have the ability to truly interfere with the overall situation of the world, but how to rule Jiangnan in the later period will be a new issue.
The top priority of the DPRK.
Moving the new capital to Jinling will undoubtedly greatly strengthen the new dynasty's rule over Jiangnan and integrate the people of Jiangnan into the new dynasty better and faster.
In addition, Han Qian was originally a minister of Chu, and he made his fortune along the Yangtze River. Quite a few of the important ministers and generals in Daliang were born in Jianghuai, and their roots were in Jianghuai.
In the future, the economic construction and development of the new dynasty will have greater potential along the Yangtze River.
Han Qianchan succeeded the emperor of Chu, and the new dynasty took Chu as its national name and established its capital in Jinling. The reasons are quite good no matter how you look at it.
However, whether the new imperial capital chose the south or the north would have a fundamental impact on the local interests of the north and the south.
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Gu Qian and Zhu Juezhong didn't care too much about the dispute over the country's title, but they were firmly opposed to the move of the capital to Jinling from Luoyang.
"In the past hundred years, the Northland has been severely devastated by war. The climate is bitter and cold, the land is barren, and the people's livelihood is poor. It is far less prosperous than the south of the Yangtze River." Han Qian saw that the two sides were still arguing about this matter in the first two rounds of secret talks.
When Feng Liao and others were shaken, they stood up and made the final decision to avoid getting entangled in this issue any longer, saying, "Everything needs to consider the balanced development of the people's livelihood in the north and the south. There is no need to discuss the matter of moving the capital again, but we can
Jinling was set aside separately as a government directly under the central government to ensure that Jinling’s economic and political status would not be weakened to a certain extent..."
"A government directly under the Central Government?" Gu Zhilong and Huang Huixiang were a little confused.
Han Qian, Feng Liao, Gu Qian and others discussed for a long time how to rule Jiangnan in the future.
If Chu Jingzhao Prefecture and Jiangdong are merged to form Jiangdong Province, it is not particularly large based on the vastness of the land area alone. However, the population under the jurisdiction of this Jiangdong Province will exceed more than seven million, accounting for
One-fifth of the new dynasty, this is too scary.
Jiangdong has always been prosperous and occupies the core water network system of the Yangtze River and Taihu Lake.
If the economic, political and cultural center of Jiangdong continues to fall in Jinling, the Southeast political and economic group formed with Jinling as the core in the future will inevitably become unique in the new dynasty, and may even be suspected of being too big to be eliminated, which will be extremely detrimental to the new dynasty.
The rule of Jiangnan.
The plan Han Qian had in mind was to split Jiangdong.
Jinling City and the original Chu Jingzhao Prefecture area are directly under the central government, administratively equivalent to provinces, so as to continue to be separated from other places in Jiangdong; except for Jinling, Surunchang north of Taihu Lake, Yangtaichu in Jiangbei and on the north bank of the Huaihe River
Xu Sihai and other prefectures formed the Huaihai Province separately, and established Chongzhou Prefecture on the north bank of the Yangtze River estuary as the capital of the Huaihai Province.
The prefectures and counties south of Taihu Lake were newly formed into the southern province of Zhejiang, with Mingzhou Prefecture as its capital.
In other words, the local forces in Jiangdong were divided into three major areas and divided and conquered.
In addition, Jiangxi Province, Jingxiang Province, Hunan Province, Lingnan Province, and East Fujian Province were divided according to regions. With Xuzhou as the capital, Chenxusiye and various Jixizhou in central Guizhou were formed into a new Central Guizhou Bank.
Province.
It is relatively easy to place the bodyguards and imperial troops.
All 250,000 generals were sent back to the garrison military offices in various places. The garrison military offices widely distributed in Jingzhao Prefecture and various prefectures were also directly converted into counties and townships, and the military households were converted into civilian households.
The military land planted in the households will be directly allocated to the households. They will be exempted from previous military service, rent and taxes, and will only need to pay grain and taxes according to the new policy.
This will benefit the ordinary generals of the Chu army and there will be no resistance.
The mid-level and high-level generals who presented marriage proposals will be pardoned for their past bad deeds and will no longer be prosecuted, and their original salaries will be retained. After the family division, the land and house occupied by each family exceeds the limit of land equalization laws.
Certain standards can even be relaxed, and the excess will be redeemed with funds raised by local government agencies, rather than forcibly confiscated.
Mid-level and high-level generals who did not submit marriage proposals were first demoted to civilians, and their properties exceeding the limit of land equalization laws were directly confiscated. Then a special agency was set up in the Supervisory Office to conduct a special review of their past misdeeds.
Middle and low-level officials, as well as guards, pro-army and imperial military generals, military attachés, and those with no bad deeds will be demoted one or two levels for selection; those who are not selected will also be resettled according to Daliang's current appointment and retirement.
Specific to individuals, Zheng Yu, Zheng Chang, and Zhang Chao have already taken up their official positions. Zhou Bingwu, Zhang Wei, Gu Zhilong, Huang Hua, Huang Huixiang, Zhou Qinian, etc. will all take up their posts after the transition period. However, Zheng Hui will be the leader of Lingnan Province.
The Deputy Envoy of Economic Strategy will remain in office. Zhang Feng, son of Zhang Wei, and Zhou Nan, son of Zhou Bingwu, both have talented generals. Huang Hua's son, Huang Lu, is in the prime of life and can serve in the Staff Office first. Gu Zhilong's son, Gu Xiongchang, can serve in the Council of Government; Jiangnan
The main military and political officials of the provinces will be directly appointed from Luoyang.
After the young emperor Yang Bin abdicates, he will be named the Duke of Chu, and Zhang Ping and others will accompany him and move to Luoyang to continue to serve him; the imperial mausoleums of Emperor Tianyou and Emperor Yanyou will be retained, and they will also continue to be occupied by Jiang Huo, Li Yao, Empress Dowager Mingcheng and others.
The concubine of the Chu Palace is responsible for the care and repairs.
The secret talks on annexation lasted for eighteen days before ending. On this day, Jing Qiongwen, Cao Gan and the Prince of Shu arrived in Liyang by boat and presented the letter of surrender.
In any case, Liang and Shu have always been allies, and their relationship has always been extremely close, and has not been broken due to various accidents.
Although the framework for merging Sichuan and Shu is similar to that of the Chu State, for example, Chengdu Prefecture will be set aside as a direct government government directly under Luoyang, and other places will establish Sichuan and Shu provinces, such as the direction of the dismantling of the Forbidden Army, etc., except for Shu
King Yong was granted the title of Duke of Shu and moved out of Luoyang. Shu officials were treated much more favorably. Cao Gan and Jing Qiongwen were old and they all wanted to retire. Han Qian arranged residences for them in Chengdu and Luoyang.
, Cao Zhe and others will still be reused.
On the 21st, the young emperor Yang Bin issued an edict to abdicate. He himself moved from the Chu Palace to the Linjiang County Palace where Emperor Yanyou lived before he ascended the throne. He was still served by Zhang Ping, an old member of the Chu Palace.
This day also officially marked the end of the Chu Dynasty and became history.
Han Qian directly proclaimed himself emperor in Liyang, and the country was named Daliang. However, Han Qian did not change the reign name. Instead, he directly issued an edict to clearly define the first year of Taihe as the basis and determine it as the new first year of the Han calendar. This will continue.
With the priority of simplifying complexity and facilitating people's livelihood, the reign name will not be changed in the future.
Next, the first and second central battalion armies crossed the river one after another and took over Jinling and both sides of the Yangtze River, including Yang, Tai, Chi, Run, Su, Chang, Xuan, She, Shu, Huang, Jing, Xiang, Fu, and Sui.
Defense of other states.
By July 18th, the first batch of more than 200,000 Chu troops collected their soldiers and carried out preliminary reorganization before being sent back to their hometowns to reunite with their families.
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On July 28th, Han Qian officially entered Jinling City surrounded by generals and held a marriage ceremony.
On this day, the hottest period of summer and autumn has passed. Even though it is still hot during the day, the cool breeze blows after nightfall, which is very pleasant.
After a day of grand ceremonies, Han Qian felt quite tired after entertaining the officials.
Walking into Changxin Palace, I saw that the main hall was filled with red wedding candles. Qingyang was wearing a wedding dress embroidered with gold silk and a red phoenix pattern, sitting on a brocade couch.
After the ceremony, her phoenix crown covered her head again, her vision fell into darkness, like a young girl, completely unaware of what kind of life she was about to face.
When she heard Han Qian walking in and the footsteps of many palace maids retreating, she felt inexplicably uneasy, her breathing became tighter, and she straightened up to make herself look more calm.
Even though we haven't seen each other for more than ten years, Qingyang still has the slender figure of a girl, but her breasts and arms are more plump, and they rise and fall with her increasingly rapid breathing; the half-arm robe exposes the pink skin of her arms.
The white jade complements the ravine exposed on the top of the jacket.
Han Qian did not take the golden pestle placed on the lacquer plate, but reached out and took off his head cover. Seeing that there was still a trace of panic in Qingyang's eyes, he smiled and asked: "We had a grand ceremony during the day, and I chatted and laughed with the ministers as usual. Why is this so?
Are you afraid of me now?"
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After the rebellion in Jinling, Han Qian set out from Fanchang City to return to Xuzhou. In fact, Qingyang has not seen him again since then. It has been fifteen years, and she was only nineteen when she was in Fanchang.
age.
She was worried that her memory would be biased, and she would inevitably be disappointed when she found that the person standing in front of her was not the person who sometimes slipped into her dreams, making her body weak, hot, and wet.
However, at this moment, she found that the man in front of her was more heroic than she had thought and thought in the past few years, and it made her heart feel tighter and hotter. When his hand touched her gently, she felt the urge to cling to him, as if there was someone there.
The surging river surges deep in the body, flowing secretly.
She suddenly became shy again.
"What's wrong?" In Han Qian's impression, Qingyang always had a little bit of aloofness. This moment of shyness suddenly made her amorous feelings come out completely, and her beautiful eyes were like spring springs, sucking people's hearts and souls.
Go in.
"Turn off the lights and take a rest..." Qingyang said softly.
Although I talked a lot during the ceremony during the day, they were not as soft and tender as this moment...
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In the early morning of the next day, Han Qian finally managed to get out of Rouwen Township. After having a meal, he went to Chongwen Hall to handle state affairs. He was planning to call Li Zhigao, Feng Liao, and Gu Qian to summon Cao Qian and Jing Qiongwen into the palace to finalize the confirmation.
Zhao Qi and Zhu Zhen set out from Liangzhou and Yiling respectively to lead their troops to take over the defense of Sichuan and Shu, and the details of Wang Yong's move to Luoyang, the leader of Shu, were informed by Gu Zhilong, Zhou Bingwu, Yang Fan, Huang Huixiang and others, and left in a hurry.
Come into the main hall.
"What's wrong?" Seeing the complicated expressions on these people's faces, Han Qian asked.
"What? How did he die? Was it due to illness or an accident?" Han Qian stood up in shock and asked.
"He probably died of illness." Huang Huixiang said hesitantly.
"What do you mean you should, and what's going on, you haven't figured out yet?" Han Qian asked angrily.
"Yang Hou committed suicide by hanging from a beam last night. When the old servant opened the door and found out in the morning, his body was completely cold." Yang Fan gritted his teeth and went up to say.
After Han Qian sat down at the imperial examination table slumped, he planned to finish this busy period and go see Yang En again, but in the end he didn't meet Yang En and it was still a step too late.
"Yang Hou died of illness and entered history?" Feng Liao asked hesitantly.
"..." Han Qian shook his head and said, "According to the facts, I asked Feng Yi to put aside other things temporarily and focus on handling Yang Hou's funeral. I will write the memorial myself..."
At this point, Han Qian picked up his pen, with the past events vividly in his mind, and wrote about Yang En's life word by word. At the end of the memorial text, he wrote an old poem from the previous dynasty: "Your body and name will be destroyed, and the eternal flow of rivers will not be wasted."
, saw Gu Zhilong, Huang Huixiang, Zhou Bingwu and others looking over and said: "You and others are 'Er Cao', and Marquis Yang is 'Jiang He'!"
