This was the last time Chen Mu plotted against Liu Bei.
After Gou Jian defeated Wu, he turned around and began to purge the heroes.
Chen She became the king of Chu, and his fellow villagers came to join him. Because the villagers were ignorant and called him by his first name, Chen She was angered and killed his fellow villagers.
Throughout the history of Chinese civilization for thousands of years, there have been many founding monarchs who could only share adversity but not wealth. This is what Zhu Yuanzhang is most criticized for.
Although Chen Mu knew very well that Liu Bei was not such a person, because even if Liu Bei ascended the throne, the trust he gave to his three closest brothers was unparalleled and irreplaceable.
But the problem is that Chen Mu doesn't want to hand over too much autonomy to Liu Bei. He wants to have more power, so he must not let Liu Bei have the idea that he has ascended the throne and has already joined forces with his three brothers.
There is a feeling of estrangement.
So how can you avoid this happening?
This requires the application of psychology.
Fan Zeng and Xiang Yu had a falling out, Tian Feng angered Yuan Shao, and Xu You was beheaded by Cao Cao. In fact, it was all due to lack of emotional intelligence.
Chen Mu, on the other hand, was full of emotional intelligence. On the surface, in order to maintain Liu Bei's majesty, he said that from now on, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and himself would no longer call Liu Bei eldest brother, but his majesty, deliberately artificially creating this distinction in advance.
A sense of alienation.
Liu Bei had not yet become emperor, and his mentality and position had not been corrected. When he was suddenly hit by this sense of alienation, he immediately felt uncomfortable and unaccustomed to it, so he tried his best to resist.
This is where Chen Mu is smart.
Because if this matter is not made clear in advance, after Liu Bei ascends the throne in the future, everyone will change their names. Over time, they will slowly get used to it, and a sense of alienation will really arise.
Now Chen Mu directly expressed this sense of estrangement, like burning oil cooking oil, and strong medicine for an illness, which made Liu Bei have a rebellious mentality.
He would feel that the four of us brothers are like brothers and have shared weal and woe along the way. Even if he becomes the emperor, he is still as close as a brother. How can he hurt the relationship between brothers just because the emperor's identity is different from everyone else?
As a result, he suddenly felt sad. In his excitement, he held the hands of the three brothers and cried loudly, telling them that he would not change even if he became emperor, not now or in the future.
Then Chen Mu's goal was achieved, so that even if a villain spoke ill of Liu Bei in his ears in the future, his position in his heart would never be shaken.
The four brothers cried and hugged each other in the heavy snow. Their friendship was stronger than stone and gold!
The six days passed quickly, and the first day of the Lunar New Year was the day of his enthronement.
With the new year and new weather, the whole of Luoyang is full of joy. People decorate with lanterns and streamers. Although the snowflakes are flying and the weather is still very cold, it has not washed away the heat and joy in people's hearts.
Early in the morning, Liu Bei was once again rushed to the palace by the crowd, put on a brand new dragon robe, and came to the Chongde Hall of the Nangong. Outside the hall, almost all officials in Luoyang had arrived, as well as the Qingzhou Army under Liu Bei's command. They were bustling with nearly a thousand people.
Officials crowded into Chongde Temple Square below.
The snow on the square had long been cleared away, and the army brought by Liu Bei swept the palace inside and out. The officials all stood on the granite floor of the square, facing the Chongde Hall, and saw the tribute.
The official came out and shouted: "The emperor is going to court."
The ministers immediately began to salute, their left hand pressed their right hand to the level of their forehead, and they bowed slowly.
Surrounded by several eunuchs and maidens, Liu Bei slowly walked outside the palace and looked down. There were jade steps outside the Chongde Hall, which looked a bit like the famous movie "The Last Emperor" of later generations. Young Puyi stood on the steps to take pictures, with a group of people behind him.
The scene of the ministers prostrating themselves.
"Get up!"
Seeing Liu Bei's hands raised in vain, the saluting officer immediately shouted loudly.
Then Taichang Shi Sun Rui stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, please move to the western suburbs."
"Can!"
Liu Bei nodded. In fact, he was still not used to such an identity. He knew the specific process of the ceremony, but he couldn't change anything and could only follow the process.
The ministers gathered around Liu Bei and arrived in the western suburbs. As mentioned before, the emperor's succession ceremony was actually very complicated and involved a whole set of procedures.
Pray to heaven and go up to the altar to offer sacrifices. Then the ministers, princes, generals, Xiongnu chanyus, and tens of thousands of people from the four barbaric dynasties will accompany the throne. The altar will be raised to the altar, and hundreds of officials will accompany the throne. When the matter is over, the altar will be lowered and burned to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth.
The Five Mountains and Four Mountains offer sacrifices to ancestors and gods.
The Xiongnu Chanyu and the Siyi Dynasty no longer thought about it now that the Han Dynasty had fallen into decline. However, when the people in the city heard that Liu Bei had ascended the throne, they flocked to the Temple of Heaven in the western suburbs to watch, with tens of thousands of people.
Accompanied by the ministers, princes, generals and officials of the Manchu Dynasty, Liu Bei ascended the altar, prayed to God, read out the edict of enthronement, and then burned it to God as a prayer.
On the side, Lantai Ling Shi wrote quickly and recorded the contents of the edict and the events, while Tai Shi Ling presided over the sacrificial ceremony.
After the prayers, there are intense sacrificial activities, offering sacrifices to the heaven and earth, the five mountains, the four mountains, and the ancestors and gods.
After all the busy work, it was already noon.
Everyone was already hungry, so Liu Bei announced that all the ministers were attending the banquet, and opened a flowing banquet in the square outside Chongde Hall. Tables of Qingzhou stir-fry dishes were served, which shocked the Han dynasty bumpkins who had never eaten stir-fry dishes.
My mouth is full of oil.
Not only did he hold an unprecedented banquet in the palace, Liu Bei also dispatched an army and distributed copper coins to every household. The number was not large, one hundred five-baht coins per household. There were now more than 200,000 households in Luoyang, and the total amount was only more than 20 million. It was not as good as
The small fraction of military expenditure is really used to celebrate the new emperor's accession to the throne and to have fun with the people.
After all the ceremonies in the afternoon were over, Liu Bei let all the officials go back, leaving only the Three Gongs and Nine Qings, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yundian, Wei Jushu and a few others. Now all the senior officials of the Liu Bei Group gathered in Luoyang, and only Tian Feng, Xun You, Zang Ba and others were left in Jizhou.
Zhang Liao obeyed them and had arrangements on both sides.
According to the usual practice, the reign title should be changed at this time, and the officials should be granted vassal status. The reign title had been decided through several court meetings before he ascended the throne a few days ago. Liu Bei will change it to Zhangwu, but the country title has not changed and remains the same.
It's Han.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! And the original Han Dynasty worshiped Gaozu Temple and Shizu Temple side by side. Now Liu Bei has ascended the throne. As a descendant of the Western Han Dynasty royal family, he is too far apart from the Eastern Han Dynasty royal family to inherit.
Because of his qualifications, he merged the two ancestral temples into one, and gave Liu Yu the temple name "Dingzong".
Not all emperors during the Han Dynasty had temple names. So far, only Han Gaozu Liu Bang, Han Wen Emperor Liu Heng, Han Wu Emperor Liu Che, Han Xuan Emperor Liu Xun, Han Yuan Emperor Liu Xi, Han Ping Emperor Liu Kun, Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, Han Ming Emperor Liu
Zhuang, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty Liu Jin, Emperor He of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhao, Emperor An of the Han Dynasty Liu Hu, Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty Liu Bao, and Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhi had temple names.
And in history, during the period of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, someone submitted a memorial saying that Liu Zhao, Liu Hu, Liu Bao, and Liu Zhi had not made great contributions to the Han Dynasty, and their temple names should be abolished. Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty Liu Xie agreed, so from this point of view
In the Western Han Dynasty, temple names were more rigorous, while in the Eastern Han Dynasty, temple names were generally given even if there was no merit.
As the saying goes, merit is the ancestor, virtue is the clan. Although Liu Yu did not have much achievements, during his reign, Liu Bei, a clan member under his command, regained Jizhou, but failed to regain the world, so he could not be given the title of "ancestor" because "
The temple title "Ancestor" must have achievements like Liu Xiu's.
Now that Liu Yu is given a temple title, firstly, he is grateful to him for passing the throne to him, and secondly, it declares the legitimacy of his throne, and also proves the legitimacy and legitimacy of Liu Bei as the emperor. Although this is a bit reluctant, it in itself
Orthodoxy needs to be continuously strengthened.
At the same time, in order to continue to strengthen this legitimacy and orthodoxy, Chen Mu gave Liu Bei another idea, which was to recognize Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhi as his father, Emperor Xiaokang of the Han Dynasty Liu Hong as his brother, and Emperor Xiao Chong as his ancestor.
That is to say, Liu Yi, the filial king of Pingyuan whom Liu Zhi had previously admired, recognized him as his grandfather. In this way, Liu Bei became the great-great-grandson of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty and adopted himself into the lineage of Emperor Zhang.
With a simple operation, the opposition groups in the court were stunned. After sorting the ancestors in the ancestral temple, and then re-arranging the spiritual positions of the ancestors of the Han Dynasty, not to mention Kong Rong, even Mi Heng only
Able to fall to the ground.
Because before Liu Bei ascended the throne, he was unjust and unjust, but now he has directly made himself orthodox, and naturally there is a legal principle of inheritance.
And Liu Bei did not resist this operation.
Because this is what Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu did. Liu Xiu was born in the line of King Ding of Changsha and belonged to a small branch of the clan. Like Liu Bei, he had no inheritance rights to the Western Han Dynasty royal family. If he wanted to legally inherit the throne, he had to find someone
From the beginning.
So Liu Xiu adopted himself as his son to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, Liu Shi. Suddenly, the small clan became a large clan, and he had the legal inheritance rights to the Western Han Dynasty. In this way, he could not find any legal problems.
This kind of patriarchal system was something recognized at that time, just like how Cao Wei Zhuizun and Cao Cao were not directly related by blood to Cao Teng, the emperor of Gaozu.
So now Liu Bei has also completed the leap from small sect to large sect, and has legitimacy.
After acknowledging his new father, completing the ancestor worship ceremony, and ascending the throne as emperor, Liu Bei was in high spirits during happy events, and his whole body was prosperous. Sitting on the Chongde Hall banquet, overlooking the many ministers below, the first year of Zhangwu officially began.
A court meeting.
"Everyone, at the beginning of the new year, it is also the day when I ascend the throne. The world is now riddled with holes, just like it was during the time of Emperor Guangwu. We still need more efforts from you to regain the country of Han Dynasty as soon as possible."
Liu Bei said to many courtiers.
"Respect the imperial edict."
The courtiers expressed their understanding one after another.
Liu Bei then said again: "The world is in chaos, and everything is in ruins. I have just recovered Jizhou, and now Jizhou still needs to recuperate. What do you think I should do now?"
Yang Biao wrote: "I believe that we should immediately send envoys to all the princes in the world to ask them to come to the court to show the power of His Majesty."
Now among all the princes in the world, only Sun Jian from Yuzhou and Xian Yufu from Zhuojun have written to express their congratulations.
Not even Gongsun Zan. Although the messenger was not delivered probably because of the long journey, more than a thousand kilometers from western Liaoning to Luoyang, Liu Bei was still quite disappointed.
He thought that at least people like Cao Cao and Liu Biao should obey him. After all, they had recognized the legitimacy of Liu Yu's regime before. Since Liu Yu's regime was successfully transferred to him, they should also recognize him.
Yang Biao's letter was in line with Liu Bei's wishes, so he was ready to nod in agreement. He also wanted to know why these people didn't recognize him.
However, before he could speak, Chen Mu stood up with a smile and said, "Your Majesty, you can't."
"oh?"
Liu Bei asked: "Why?"
Chen Mu said: "The princes from all over the world are still waiting to see the situation in the court. There are still so many problems within the court that have not been resolved. How can we immediately start inquiries from the outside? I believe that the current situation should be maintained and governance should be dealt with first.
Jizhou, reorganize the troops and horses, recuperate, and wait until the troops and horses are strong before making a decision."
"Um."
Liu Bei said: "What the Young Master said is right, let's leave it as it is. I have been thinking recently that the three princes and nine ministers in the imperial court are discussing together, which is often delayed and inconvenient. If I personally lead the army to go on an expedition, the imperial court cannot be without someone in charge.
I want to restore the system of prime ministers during the reign of Emperor Gaozu, what do you think?"
"Your Majesty, no!"
It was Chen Mu who stood up and objected again: "With the establishment of the new dynasty, the top priority should be to maintain the status quo rather than drastic restructuring. I think it is good now."
Liu Bei scratched his head. His idea was actually that someone wanted to flatter Chen Mu and wrote to him to recommend the restoration of the prime minister system and let Chen Mu serve as prime minister, so he made an impromptu decision without consulting Chen Mu in advance and wanted to give him a surprise.
He did not expect that he directly refused to object. Although he did not understand why Chen Mu would do this, Liu Bei trusted his fourth brother unconditionally. Since he said so, he must have his reasons, so he said: "This is actually just an idea of mine. Since
If the young master thinks it’s not possible, then let’s give up.”
After thinking for a while, Liu Bei said again: "Then since you are not doing anything, you must do something."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Chen Mu smiled and said: "I believe that the most important thing at the moment is to maintain the development of Qingzhou and Jizhou. Today's chaos originated from the state pastoral system.
The power of the pastoralists was too great, which led to the division of the territory by various princes. The minister suggested that the military and political affairs be separated. The state pastoralists no longer have military power. The state pastoral officers should be established. The state pastoralists manage the people's livelihood, and the state pastoral officers manage the troops and horses. The two state pastoral officers are larger.
, the state will need to follow the instructions of the state pastor in peacetime, but will have greater autonomy in wartime."
In fact, the separation of military and political affairs existed in the Han Dynasty itself. In other words, except for the state pastoral system in the late Han Dynasty and the Jiedushi policy of the Tang Dynasty, from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there was basically a separation of military and political affairs. Although its existence also has certain disadvantages, at least it is indeed
It can ensure that the generals have the fiscal revenue of a place and become bigger and stronger.
Now that Liu Bei has ascended the throne and is no longer the shepherd of Qingzhou, he is managing the place far away in Luoyang. Now he has two large territories of Qingzhou and Jizhou under his command, and Guanzhong Chang'an has also been captured by the imperial court. In this way, in addition to Henan Bingzhou Youzhou and the other half
Outside of Xuzhou, the territory has basically reached the level of the Cao Wei period. If the appointed state pastor has different intentions, it will be difficult to deal with it.
Of course, Liu Bei will definitely appoint someone he trusts, such as Jushou Xunyu and Guan Yu, who are senior and trusted. However, Chen Mu actually prefers Jushou Xunyu and the others to return to Luoyang to coordinate the affairs of the world. They are at the level of great strategists.
, the role that should be played is in the central government. For example, Xun Yu served as Shangshu Ling in history, and his power was only under Cao Cao.
Therefore, in order to prevent accidents in the future, we must prepare in advance. Cao Cao also did this. After he came to power, he quickly abolished the state pastoral system. All over the country, cronies of the Cao family and the Xiahou family were sent to control, such as Jingzhou
He sent Cao Ren, and Guanzhong sent Xia Houyuan.
Although Liu Bei's power has not yet reached the level of Cao Cao, he must be prepared for any danger if he moves in advance.
"good!"
Liu Bei listened carefully to Chen Mu's opinion and nodded in agreement.
In fact, at the court meeting, we can basically only talk about policy, diplomacy and people's livelihood management. Military strategies and specific plans have to be discussed in private. After all, no one knows whether the court has the eyes and ears of other princes, so we can simply discuss it with the ministers.
After dealing with the people's livelihood issues, the government dispersed openly.
After the disbandment of the dynasty, Liu Bei left Chen Mu, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Jushou and other internal staff to hold a small meeting.