Liu De led the army on the way back to Beiping, but the Qian family in Beiping received news from the far south from the Hanging Mirror Division, Yang Guogong and Yangzhou Mu Shao Qin finally failed to survive this winter, and fell asleep deeply in a cold night one day, and could not wake up again.

However, because of the dangerous road, the news has not come until now, and it is not the news that the spies of the Hanging Mirror Division have come from the south, and the Hanging Mirror Division and even the Gong Wei Division do not have the strength to penetrate into the south.

The news reached the ears of the Hanging Mirror Division through the sea merchants, and then the spies of the Hanging Mirror Division informed the Qian family of the news.

Zou Yan's prediction in addition to the flood in the river, other divination has been realized one by one, which makes the Qian family no longer doubt Zou Yan, Zou Yan with his excellent divination skills, conquered the Qian family, for these mysterious techniques, whether the Zhou is a dignitary or a common people, have a sense of awe, and even deep belief.

Although the Qian family has a noble status, it is no different from ordinary people.

Originally, the Qian family wanted to invite Zou Yanzai to the mansion, but then a piece of news made the Qian family fall into panic and even helplessness.

Chen Shuo passed away.

Qian and Chen Ying were both grieving because of Chen Shuo's death and could not be grieving, Chen Shuo was Chen Ying's grandfather, and Qian called Chen Shuo his maternal grandfather.

As the elder of the two, Chen Shuo's death is definitely no less than a thunderbolt in the clear sky for the two.

There was no one in charge of the Han Mansion, Ma Yuxuan stood up without hesitation, although Gao Taotao wanted to compete with Ma Yuxuan, but with the acquiescence of the Qian family, in the end, Ma Yuxuan was able to take charge of the entire Han Mansion, and even the entire Beiping trembled because of Ma Yuxuan's words.

Of course, Xun Yu and other important ministers of the imperial court soon learned the news of Chen Shuo's death, and Chen Qi, who stayed behind, rushed into Chen's mansion from the military camp as soon as possible, and even forgot that the streets were not allowed to ride horses.

Chen Shuo's prestige among the hundred officials is very high, and even in the army, especially in the army of the old Dongyu soldiers, Chen Shuo's death will inevitably cause a certain amount of panic, after all, Chen Shuo is the grandfather of Liu De's wife, and he is the first assistant of the court.

However, it is only a small range of panic, after all, Chen Shuo is just a courtier, Xun Yu, as the only secondary assistant, under Liu De's arrangement, and even with the help of Chen Shuo, he has long been ready to take over, and even said that Xun Yu is doing the work of the first assistant in front of the second assistant, and it will not have any impact on government affairs.

What's more, Chen Shuo is not Liu De, if it is really Liu De who has an accident, then anything can happen, Chen Shuo's death only represents the end of an era, and it will not have the slightest impact on the advancing Han.

Xun Yu ordered the officials of the government to work normally, and immediately sent fast horses to send a message to Liu De, Liu De was rushing back from Weizhou, which Xun Yu knew, but where Liu De's army was now, Xun Yu didn't know at all, and it was always those lines when he came back, so Xun Yu could only send a few more fast horses, hoping to find Liu De's location sooner.

Later, Xun Yu also went to Chen's mansion.

When Liu De received the messenger's message, it had been ten days since Chen Shuo's death, and Liu De didn't care about the army, so he directly led more than 100 guards, quickly whipped his horse, and traveled all the way, and finally arrived in Beiping City a few days later.

Nearly twenty days, and it was summer, Chen Shuo's body was already a little stinky, and finally relieved Qian knew that he couldn't drag it out, so he ordered Chen Shuo to be buried.

"Grandpa Chen!"

Liu De got off the horse and stumbled to Chen Shuo's tomb, but the tears in his eyes were involuntarily spilled out.

The boy has tears and doesn't flick, but he hasn't reached the sad place...

Liu De knelt on the ground and cried, grief-stricken.

And Chen Ying and others next to the tombstone also couldn't help but hide their faces and weep, Chen Shuo advocates frugality, the so-called cemetery is not luxurious, and even the burial utensils are mostly pottery and porcelain, with little gold and silver.

When Chen Shuo was seriously ill, he instructed Chen Qi that the Han Dynasty was established at the beginning of the Han Dynasty and there was a shortage of gold and silver, so don't put gold and silver in the funeral, and hand over all these belongings to the imperial court, whether it is to build a city or replenish weapons, it is useful.

This is an old man who thinks about Liu De until he dies.

Liu De raised his head and said to Jian Yong, who was standing aside: "Gong Chen is loyal to the country, there is a great duke in Sheji, posthumously named Taishi and Yanhou, and the hundred officials immediately assessed Chen Gong's merits, posthumously presented the name, built the Zijin Pavilion, and Chen Gong entered the Zijin Pavilion, which was incense from generation to generation, passed down through the ages, and went down in history!" ”

"Chen Shuo's eldest son, Chen Sheng, died early, and was posthumously named Doctor Jin Ziguanglu and Marquis of Anshu County."

"Chen Shuo's second son, Chen Zheng, died on the battlefield, was meritorious, and was posthumously awarded the title of Hussar General, Shanghu Army, and Marquis of Qingxu!"

"Chen Shuo's grandson Chen Qi, the lord of Duke Chen, is the Marquis of Liaocheng!"

Chen Qi and Chen Ying, as Chen Shuo's direct blood relatives, immediately kowtowed and thanked them.

Liu De struggled to stand up, walked to the tombstone, stroked the smooth but cold stele, recalled the scene with Chen Shuo in the past, but it was vivid, his arm was weak, he waved his hand gently, and said to everyone: "Go back!" I'll stay here for a while..."

"Your Highness..."

"Alright, let's all go down!"

At this time in the sky, it was raining lightly, Liu De raised his head, let the rain lap on his face, soaked his clothes, and tears poured out with the rain, but he couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears.

It is said that the king should be happy and angry, and he should not show his likes and dislikes to outsiders, let alone let his subordinates see the vulnerable side of the monarch, but Liu De no longer cares about these things, he wants to vent and cry bitterly.

Chen Ying's words in his ears are still haunting Liu De's heart: "Grandfather, he has been waiting for his husband to come back, even his grandfather, who is also facing the west..."

But the rain is getting heavier and heavier!

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Chen Shuo passed away, before this Shao Qin and Shao Gong also passed away, Liu De was also sad and angry, Shao Qin died, I am afraid that the situation in Yangzhou will be even more erosive.

Liu De wrote a letter to Shao Tan's son Shao Rong to express the heaviness of his heart.

In a letter to the imperial court in Chenliu, he hoped that the imperial court would posthumously crown Shao Gong for his merits, and expressed Shao Rong as the pastor of Yangzhou and inherited Shao Qin's position.

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Hundreds of officials commented on Chen Shuo's merits, and the nickname said: "Wen", and the historical records recorded: Yan Wenhou.

And Liu De said that the Ziguang Pavilion, also under the full construction of the Ministry of Industry soon broke ground, next to the Tongque Terrace, but because the Tongque Terrace is relatively tall, it has not been completed, and because the Zijin Pavilion is more important, so the Ministry of Industry first put down the construction of the Tongque Terrace, and made every effort to build the Zijin Pavilion.

In order to commemorate the 28 generals who followed Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu and had the greatest merit and the strongest ability, Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Han Ming Dynasty ordered people to paint portraits of 28 generals in Yuntai Pavilion of Luoyang Nangong, called Yuntai Twenty-eight Generals.

Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty surrendered to the Han Dynasty because of the Xiongnu, recalled the past to assist the meritorious ministers, and made people paint the portraits of eleven meritorious heroes on the Qilin Pavilion to commemorate and praise, and the history called: Eleven Meritorious Heroes of the Qilin Pavilion.

During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong "was a monarch, drove heroes, and treated people with his heart", in order to remember the many heroes who fought the world together, he ordered Yan Liben to paint the portraits of twenty-four heroes in the Lingyan Pavilion, which is the twenty-four heroes of the Lingyan Pavilion.

Therefore, in order to motivate the civil and military officials, Liu De also established the Zijin Pavilion, which was worshiped by the people of the world to show his merits, and Liu De was not ready to use portraits, but directly summoned skilled craftsmen to build bronze in accordance with the ratio of one to one.

Subsequently, there was a monarch's order, next to the Zijin Pavilion to rebuild a martyr's shrine for the people to worship, the martyr's shrine in Dongyu City remained the same, the martyr's shrine was specially set up for the soldiers who died in battle, and the Zijin Pavilion did not conflict.

Chen Shuo's tomb is buried on Jingshan in the suburbs of Beiping, Liu De in order to prevent Chen Shuo from being disturbed, directly ordered, Jingshan is a special place to bury meritorious ministers in the future, Liu De ordered it to be the tomb of loyalty.

As soon as Chen Shuo died, the Han Dynasty could not be the prime minister for a day, Xun Yu was trained by a series of positions such as the history of the general's palace, the secretary of the ministry, and the second assistant of the cabinet, and both his qualifications and ability were enough to serve as the first assistant of the cabinet.

Liu De didn't talk nonsense, and directly worshiped Xun Yu as the first assistant of the cabinet and led the ministers.

Xun Yu served as the first assistant of the cabinet, so he could not serve as the secretary of the ministry, Liu De transferred Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Labor, to the secretary of the ministry, and the position of the secretary of the ministry was very important, although the secretary of the Ministry of Industry was at the same level as him, but in fact, the difference between status and power was quite large.

Liu De's appointment of Xu Guangqi is also quite meaningful, Xu Guangqi's ability needless to say, Xu Guangqi is not a pure Confucian school, and he also has a very large research on science, let him be the secretary of the ministry, and there will be no suppression because of the difference in schools.

And in terms of family background, Xu Guangqi is not from a big family, so Liu De let him serve as the secretary of the ministry, and he also has the intention of cultivating a poor family to suppress the family.

Moreover, Xu Guangqi has repeatedly completed Liu De's tasks very well and very well since he served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, although Tongquetai and Zijin Pavilion have not been completed, this does not prevent Xu Guangqi from taking over as the secretary of the Ministry of Ministers.

Cui You, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, supervised the construction of Tongquetai and Zijin Pavilion, and transferred Yanzhou Mu Xu Shu as the left capital of the Imperial Palace, and Yanzhou did not drive Di Renjie as the Yanzhou Mu.

Zhang Zhao, the pastor of Beizhou, was transferred to Jizhou, and Gao Lin of Beizhou took over the post of pastor of Beizhou.

Beiping is too guarded by Xuanling, and moved to Jizhou. Moved Chen Qun to be the Taishou of Beiping.

It is not good for the other states to remain untouched and transfer local officials in less than a year or two, because that will not produce any political achievements, and it is easy to cause ministers to rush for quick success.

Therefore, Liu De decided to evaluate every five years, or promote or degrade, unless it is a last resort, it will be frequently transferred, such as this time, Xun Yu served as the first assistant of the cabinet, and the secretary of the ministry could not be concurrent, otherwise the power was too great, and although there were many central ministers, they performed their own duties, and it was not easy to transfer lightly, so they had to be transferred slightly to fill the central position in the locality.

By the time officials are slowly replenishing, there will be no such thing.

When the power of the central department was basically handed over, Liu De also got out of the heavy government affairs and set his sights on the confrontation between Li Yun and Xiang Rui.

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