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

This day was originally the day of the five-day dynasty, and Liu Bei sent Li Su to Beijing to present the seal, which is worthy of celebration by the whole world, and the ceremony will be held today, and everyone in the palace is jubilant.

And Wang Yun's mood was better than others, because he received an unexpected joy from Lu Bu overnight last night-

Ten days ago, Wang Yun sent Lu Bu's subordinate Li Su to Anyi to attack Niu Fu for the first time, but Li Su was defeated and lost his troops, Wang Yun asked Lu Bu to execute him, and then asked Lu Bu to personally lead his troops to attack Niu Fu.

With the defeat of the first time, Wang Yun had a new understanding of the difficulty of counterinsurgency, so he thought that the second time might be fought back and forth.

Who knows, Lu Bu has not yet arrived in Anyi, and as soon as he crossed the river to Pusakajin, he got a report - after hearing the news of Lu Bu's personal expedition, Niu Fu's troops actually bombed the camp before they could fight!

The fact of this bombing of the camp was that some of the soldiers were afraid that Lu Bu would attack, so they fled directly. But the bad thing is that Niu Fu didn't know the truth, it was night, he thought that the whole army had rebelled and defected to the imperial court, and in the panic, Niu Fu only brought twenty gold cakes and a bucket of white beads, and wanted to escape from Anyi City with dozens of personal soldiers, and slowly return to the northwest by taking the road.

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

The soldier who was responsible for dropping Niu Fu down from the city was a strong man of the Yue clan in the Western Regions, named "Chi'er", he coveted Niu Fu's property, and just released Niu Fu from the city wall, he deliberately put the rope and threw Niu Fu half to death, and then Chi'er went down to the city to behead Niu Fu, and quickly went to Pu Hanjin to present to Lu Bu.

Niu Fu's twenty gold cakes and a bucket of pearls were hidden by Chi'er privately, and Lu Bu didn't bother to care.

(Note: The "Hu Chi'er" written in the romance is a combination of Yuezhi Hu and Chi'er.) Yuezhi Tong Yueshi, just means race. There is no written record in the official history that Lu Bu killed Hu Chi'er because Hu Chi'er was unjust and traitor,)

Lu Bu won a stunned face, and before the battle was fought, Niu Fu hung up. But for such a thing as picking up a credit for nothing, Lu Bu has always been as much as possible, so he immediately sent someone to take Niu Fu's head and send it back to Chang'an in an urgent hurry for hundreds of miles.

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"Hahahaha! God help me! I thought that Niu Fu was still fighting in the beast, what kind of wind and waves could be set off, but it was not that he was afraid of the prestige of Fengxian, and before the heavenly soldiers arrived, they bombed the camp and scattered, plotting against each other.

A few days ago, those greedy people asked for officials and state pastors, it must have been accidental, and the hearts of the people in the world are still towards the imperial court. It seems that the conditions for Liu Bei and Li Su are still high. That's it, the edict has been written, and the day before yesterday it took a lot of effort to get His Majesty to agree, and it will be troublesome to change it. Anyway, we can still descend after Liu Bei's resignation, so let's do it this time. ”

When Wang Yun got up to prepare for the ceremony, he saw the gift that Lu Bu gave overnight, and his mood was so comfortable. He even felt that the overall situation was more stable because of this, and when he gave Liu Bei a reward before, the price in his heart was a little inflated.

Wang Yun made all the preparations, prepared the car to enter the palace, and got off at the palace gate to wait for the opening of the door, and he saw his accomplice Sun Rui. Shi Sun Rui politely stepped forward and saluted and discussed matters with him: "Situ, I heard that Lu Bu reported that Niu Fu died yesterday?" ”

Wang Yun twisted his beard proudly: "You also know? Congratulations. ”

Shisun Rui continued: "Since Niu Fu is dead, shouldn't we issue an edict to pardon those captains, captains, and subordinate officials at all levels under Niu Fu?" Otherwise, I'm afraid that Wen Hou will not be able to take over the soldiers and horses left by Niu Fu. ”

Wang Yun thought for a while, and said disdainfully: "Niu Fu has too many people, and picking some people to pardon will make other people who have not been pardoned suspicious, so it is better not to mention it." Besides, if Niu Fu was specially killed and the officers under Niu Fu were pardoned, would it be that the officers under Duan Xuan and Dong Yue would also be pardoned? When the edict of the imperial court is child's play. ”

Shi Sun Rui hurriedly said: "Now is the time to treat headaches and foot pains, how can you take care of the long-term." Wen Hou did not confiscate Niu Fu's subordinates, but only got Niu Fu's own head, and these proud soldiers and fierce generals waited for the imperial edict to return to Wen Hou.

If the edict of amnesty is not granted, won't they always be in a state of self-reliance and wait-and-see? Even if Situ is afraid of falling into the majesty of the imperial edict and issuing too many edicts, then change the method:

The property of the Dong thieves seized from Hewu was generally distributed to the soldiers under the command of the three major lieutenant generals and those soldiers left after the death of Niu Fu. Everyone got the money, and even if there was no edict, those rough people believed that the court would not deal with them. ”

Wang Yun was on the rise, and directly proudly refused with his sleeves: "The court is in ruins, and the money and wealth in Yiwu are all the people's fat and ointment looted by Dong thieves." Now to appease the people, the rent in Guanzhong should be waived this year. Moreover, the Kwantung states will not necessarily receive money and grain to help the imperial court in a few years, and the taxes in Kwantung will not be collected.

Jun Rong, Jun Rong, you are the chief farmer of the imperial court, in charge of wealth, you should be the person who knows the financial shortage of the imperial court the most, how can you be so confused as to let the new dynasty continue to open the evil example of 'indulging arrogant soldiers with money'! What the imperial court needs now is to slowly get on the right track, and those arrogant soldiers and fierce generals who have been raised by Dong thieves must slowly learn to live a hard life again! ”

The historical facts that Wang Yun said are also true. When Dong Zhuo was alive, although he was brutal, he was still treated very well by the Xiliang Army, Dong Zhuo was born as a warlord, and he knew that the support of being a soldier was everything to him.

Even if you rob the people, you have to pay the Xiliang army more than the salary, and often treat the army with good wine and meat.

And Wang Yun is a purely civilian official, has no military experience, and does not know the importance of winning the hearts of the military. He only knew that the looting of the Chang'an Imperial Court over the years was to raise soldiers, so he had long thought about reducing the treatment of the army. Even if there is no amnesty, the salary will be deducted and the military salary will be reduced, and the reward will of course not be even thought about.

Shi Sun Rui, as a big Si Nong, was willing to allocate money, but Wang Yun neither gave amnesty nor money, so he asked to play Tai Chi with the mud -

Of course, I also have to say a fair word for Wang Yun, he didn't have to kill Li Dao Guo Yan directly by name as said in "Romance".

Because today's Li Dao Guo Yan is only regarded as acting on orders, although he participated in the previous killing of the people and digging the imperial tomb, they were all commanded by Niu Fu, and the first evil was Niu Fu.

In short, Wang Yun is not familiar with these two goods at all, and he will not target them, he just thinks that all the generals of the Xiliang Army are rubbish. The most that can be reused are the Bingzhou soldiers and the Northern Army of the original Beijing Division.

Before the dedication ceremony, Wang Yun's last chance to appease Niu Fu's subordinates was thrown away by him personally.

Then he waited for the court meeting with satisfaction, and entered the palace with the golden light of the morning light, consciously walking the dragon and the tiger, and 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 Xuanshu Hall that "the Xuan Room seeks talents to visit the ministers, and Jia Shengcai is even more incoherent". Three hundred years ago, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty summoned Jia Yi here. After Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty moved the capital back to Chang'an, it became the place where the official court meeting was held.

Twelve-year-old Liu Xie, with the support of several eunuchs, walked steadily onto the dragon seat. Watching Wang Situ, the foreman, enter in turn with the other two groups of courtiers, he was also a little excited in his own heart.

Because Wang Situ had told Liu Xie privately the day before yesterday, the young emperor knew that today was the big day for the jade seal of the country to be rededicated to the imperial court.

Regarding the symbolic meaning of this matter, and whether Li Su, who sacrificed the jade seal, had any other intentions, the young Liu Xie also asked a few people in private, mainly the noble Fu Shou and some eunuchs around him.

Fu Shou is still a girl, ignorant of the government and politics, and can't say anything, but those eunuchs all sincerely told the little emperor: Li Boya is a loyal and righteous person in the world, knows the mandate of heaven, and has no two hearts. He was willing to persuade General Zhengxi to return the jade seal to the imperial court, and he must have seen that the Han Dynasty was already prosperous, and it would be a good day from now on.

Although Liu Xie has been a puppet for a long time in history, this person's IQ and political sensitivity are still very good, don't look at him as only twelve years old, he is already very clear about right and wrong.

Hearing what everyone around him said, Liu Xie was slightly surprised, but he felt more that "everyone said this, there must be a reason." I've listened to it and heard it clear, but I haven't heard anyone say anything bad about Li Su, it can't be that everyone is colluding."

It can only be said that no matter how smart he is, at the age of twelve, he would never have imagined that it was because of the reason that "all the eunuchs in the palace who had entered the palace three years ago were rescued by Li Su from the butcher's knife of Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao", which caused the eunuchs to praise Li Su in a unified manner.

If it weren't for Li Su's change in the Jiade Palace, he decisively asked Empress Lingsi to give a decree to the ten permanent servants to "only punish the first evil, and don't ask the rest", the eunuchs in the palace would have been killed a long time ago.

The eunuch also knows how to be grateful, and Liu Xie naturally can't hear bad things about Li Su.

All this led to the fact that when Wang Yun asked Liu Xie to make Liu Bei the king of Hanzhong, although Liu Xie felt a little strange, he still agreed and did not toss much.

No accumulation of steps, no thousands of miles. All good retribution is the result of accumulation and good karma, and it is accumulated little by little.

The other links of the court meeting were advancing in an orderly manner, and there was no need for Liu Xie to deal with anything, as long as he occasionally expressed his approval for the assembly of Wang Yun and others. Soon, it was time to dedicate the seal.

A permanent attendant took Li Su's request for merit and read it out first, the content of which was nothing more than the four great achievements that Liu Bei had established for the imperial court in the past three years.

In the end, Li Su held the heirloom jade seal, held it on a plate, and stepped forward to hand it to Fu Baolang to receive the seal:

"To make the Zhonglang general, the leader of Shu County too shou ministers, in accordance with the order of Liu Bei, the commander of the Western General Nanzheng Marquis to lead the Yizhou Assassin History, and I would like to present the jade seal of the country to the imperial court. With this heavenly blessing, although the Zhaohan room has been swayed, it will eventually be prosperous. ”

This scene was not only witnessed by the hundred officials of the Chang'an court, but also the envoys of the princes of the four towns outside the road participated in the ceremony-Wang Lang, the envoy of Mu Taoqian of Xuzhou, and the envoy of Mu Liu Biao of Jingzhou, Yi; In addition, Yin Zhujun himself of Henan, who had just entered the dynasty, and Liu Yu, who was sent by Youzhou Mu Liu Yu, was not to engage in Liu Ye.

There are also some envoys, but none of them are worthy of being "princes". For example, there are two brothers, Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao and Guangling Taishou Zhang Chao, who are also typical respecters of the imperial court, and they also sent people. But Zhang Miao is already Cao Cao's subordinate, and he can only be regarded as a semi-independent posture. There are several such places where there are too many messengers.

It's a pity that Er Yuan didn't send anyone at all, and Gongsun Zan didn't have independent diplomatic power in name because he was subordinate to Liu Yu, and Sun Jian's situation was the same. And Xun Yu, who was sent by Cao Cao, had already left before Li Su arrived because he came early. Therefore, no one in the camp of Eryuan and Cao Cao's Gongsun testified with their own eyes that they saw Liu Bei handing over the seal.

Li Su never thought about making a fuss about handing over the jade seal, let alone considering the bad behavior of "taking advantage of the time difference, but not having time to return the jade seal after getting the holy decree of the king". Because the hatred value of the king is too high, no matter how you resign, someone will always spray it, if the jade seal is not handed over in time, others will definitely think that you are playing Wang Yun.

And the jade seal was really handed over in front of so many princes' envoys, at least it could offset more than ninety percent of the hatred value of the hostile camp spraying Liu Bei's ambitions in the future-

You said that Liu Bei was ambitious to be crowned king? Wang Yun died later, was it Liu Bei's acquiescence? Then if he really knew that Wang Yun would not be doing it soon, or expecting Wang Yun to do it soon, why did he really hand over the jade seal in front of the princes of the world openly and unreservedly? That means that Liu Bei couldn't guess that Wang Yun would be finished later!

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

"This honor is worthy of a heavy reward. Situ, read out the agreed reward. ”

Liu Xie should have pretended to ask at this time, "Situ, have you ever agreed on a reward?" Then after Wang Yun answered, the emperor would give permission to play in public.

But Liu Xie made a little self-determination, probably because he wanted other princes to respect the court more, and to see that the first one to make offerings to the court and make great contributions, how much benefit there were, the emperor would personally ask for the reward in advance, not just as a rubber stamp.

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

“…… The general of the expedition to the west, the Marquis of Nanzheng, led the Yizhou assassin Liu Bei, survived the Jingluo, the Ming Youyu jade seal, killed Zhu Dong inside, and the barbarians outside, and had the merits of Zhou Gong and Zhu Xu...... He was crowned as the king of Hanzhong and led the state pastor. It is signed according to the ancient classics of the princes and kings of the early Han Dynasty. Profiteering, expedient, don't quit ......"

“…… Make Zhonglang General, Pi Tinghou, and Ling Shu County Taishou Li Su...... Changed the title of the right general, the marquis of Pixiang, 3,000 households, and the kingdom of Hanzhong ......"

"Partial general Guan Yu...... Changed the title of General Zhennan and Jiameng Township. ”

"General Zhang Fei...... Changed the title of general and marquis of Langzhong. ”

Captain Zhao Yun of Changshui...... Changed the title of General Fubo and Zhending Pavilion Marquis. ”

There are also a bunch of upgrades in the back, mainly to recognize all the county guards and long histories that Liu Bei has watched over the years. The marquis should have given the marquis at his discretion, and the military attache should have given the lieutenant.

Even if Xu Huang is the most profitable among the military attachés, Xu Huang has not actually made much achievements in the past few years, or he has made a little achievements when he followed 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 achievement of the surprise attack on Yiwu to pick up cheap, and as a result, relying on Dong Min and Dong Huang's two white heads, they were all sealed as a Dutinghou.

Dian Wei was just a bodyguard, and he didn't lead the troops to command, but Dong Min was personally stabbed by him, and he also fished out a Guan Neihou.

After Li Su listened, he divided into categories, and he directly expressed his gratitude for the rewards of himself and other officials, the kind that did not need to be resigned.

As for the part of the edict that made Liu Bei the king, he could only thank him first, but he could not thank him for it, but said that he would bring the edict as soon as possible, and then return to his life.

There is no need to repeat the words in this, anyway, it can't be rude, and it can't seem that Liu Bei is arrogant enough to accept it directly. It is necessary to use an almost explicit but not explicit posture to let all the courtiers and princes' envoys know that Liu Bei will not directly become the king of Hanzhong.