On May 15 of the third year of Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, Pei Qing suddenly ordered a court meeting, and for a while, the civil and military affairs were completed, and even the little emperor was "invited" to the front hall.

At this moment, Wei Wei, that is, Pei Qian's second brother Pei Jun, read out the policy book in public, only to see that the policy book said: "Emperor Xiaoling, abandon your subjects early; The young emperor inherits the heir, and the sea is looking forward to it. And Dong Zhuo is a national thief, and he abolishes the establishment without permission, and King Chen Liuwang takes Wang Deli as the emperor, and does not think about the prosperity of the Han Dynasty for me, but is tyrannical and impermanent, absurd and lazy. The way of the three outlines, the era of heaven and earth, is there no que? Today, there are the people of the young emperor, although they are young, but they are holy and virtuous, and the rules are solemn; self-cultivation and mother-in-waiting, not evil; It is advisable to inherit the Hongye industry for all generations. The emperor is hereby abolished as the king of Chen Liu, the people are respected as the emperor, and the emperor's biological mother is the queen mother. ”

Then Pei Qing found witnesses and made all the words and deeds of the little emperor public, and for a while, the crowd was indignant, and the officials were in an uproar, some of them had heard of these things, and some had not heard of them, but now that even the eldest princess is here, they believe that Pei Qing will not arrange the little emperor, and the eldest princess has no reason to frame her own brother.

So Henan Yin Pei Yuanshao ordered someone to pull the little emperor off the throne, and the little emperor was still shouting at this time: "What are you doing here?" I'm a great man, are you going to rebel? ”

But seeing Pei Yuanshao said coldly: "You are no longer the Son of Heaven, but still King Chen Liu, please pay attention to your words and deeds in the future, if you commit such a taboo again, I'm afraid even the Duke of Jin will not be able to save you." ”

Then Pei Yuanshao ordered someone to take away the deposed little emperor, that is, the current King Chen Liu, although he has been changed to King Chen Liu, but now he can't let him immediately go to the country, in fact, Pei Qing is not afraid of people with ulterior motives using him to do things, but he is not willing to let him kill his life anymore, let him stay in Luoyang honestly, and in the future, a man and a woman can inherit his title, Pei Qing even gave Liu Ning an explanation.

After abolishing the little emperor, the year name naturally had to be changed, and after Pei Qing discussed with everyone, he decided to change the Yuan Xianxi in the second year.

At this time, the new little emperor Liu Min was already waiting, but at this time Liu Min was only about eight years old, and he naturally couldn't deal with government affairs, and although Tang Ji was respected as the queen mother, she also knew how to advance and retreat, she knew that their mother and son were now just a puppet, or just a transition, which was equivalent to the late Western Han Dynasty's widow and baby, sooner or later, one day its end would just be a Zen position, but Tang Ji didn't care, her son was originally just an unidentified posthumous son, and now he was made the Son of Heaven, This is far beyond expectations, in fact, Tang Ji is quite satisfied, as long as her son is crowned a prince after his abdication in the future, she feels that she will be able to confess to her husband under the Nine Springs in the future.

Therefore, when Tang Ji got her son to be made the Son of Heaven, she solemnly warned her mother's family that she must not have any wrong thoughts, otherwise He Jin's brothers and sisters, Dong Cheng's father and daughter will all be lessons from the past.

Tang Bohu still had some thoughts at the beginning, but after listening to Tang Ji, he suddenly sobered up, in today's era, if you want to gain a firm foothold, it is not how close you are to today, but how close you are to Pei Qing, specifically, how loyal to Pei Qing?

Including Tang Ji's father and brothers also have the same idea, they are all feudal marquis now, but this is not because of the relationship between the new son of heaven Liu Min, but before Liu Min was established as the son of heaven, Pei Qing had already arranged it for them, although it was announced after Liu Min became the son of heaven, but they all knew the inside story, and they all understood the strength and weakness, coupled with Tang Ji's admonition, so the first thing these Tang family members of the marquis did after being crowned was not to worship the Son of Heaven, but to thank Pei Qing.

At the same time, the Tang family led by Tang Bohu collectively petitioned the Queen Mother, because today's son is the nephew of Liu Ning, who should be named the eldest princess of Shanyang, so the identity of the eldest princess is no longer suitable, so it is recommended that she should be named the eldest princess of Shanyang, and the Duke of Jin led the army to pacify the states of the world, which is almost equivalent to creating a great Han again, and such a great achievement should be crowned king.

For such a suggestion, Pei Qing categorically refused, he originally had no such idea, if he accepted it, people who didn't know the truth would think that this was Pei Qing's plan.

However, the Tang clan was unrelenting, and launched a petition from hundreds of civil and military officials, hoping to persuade Pei Qing to agree.

Everyone sincerely hopes that Pei Qing can accept it, most of those civil and military officials are Pei Qing's people, and the loyalty to Pei Qing is more than 90, and the loyalty of 200 accounts for a large part, even the Tang clan has several people whose loyalty has reached more than 90, and even Tang Bohu's loyalty has now risen to 200, because he now finally fully understands obedience and disobedience, and knows that instead of having an ethereal dream of the emperor, it is better to follow Pei Qing.

Pei Qing refused at first, but after seven petitions, Pei Qing could only agree in the end, because he knew that if he didn't agree, it was likely that a large number of people with less than 100 loyalty would lose their loyalty to him, and everyone would gather firewood and the flame would be high, of course, he would rely on those who were loyal at 100 or 200 to be his hardcore loyal servants, but he also needed those with a loyalty of more than 90, because these people would be potential hardcore loyal servants in the future, and they would also be the most ideal objects for Pei Qing to grant the gene of famous generals.

When Pei Qing finally agreed, everyone couldn't help but cheer. The next day, the edict came down, Pei Qing had to be crowned the king of Jin, allowing him to set up Liuqing, so Pei Qing appointed Hu Zhao as the Shangshu order of the Jin State, Zhang Chao, Xie An, Lu Su, as the servant, Deng Zhi, Wang Cang, Ma Ai as the Huangmen Shilang, Xun You as the Zhongshu Order, and then appointed Shangshu and other officials, opened the government and established his team, although the positions of these people are much lower than the corresponding official rank of the imperial court, but they represent Pei Qing's favor.

When the news of Pei Qing's abolition of the Son of Heaven and the king's claim came out, Liu Bei and Sun Ce were furious, they scolded Pei Qing for not fulfilling the courtesy of the ministers, and after abolishing the Son of Heaven without authorization, so Yao respected Chen Liuwang Xie as Zhengshuo, and after three petitions from the military generals under his command, he had to agree to their request, and set himself up as the king, Liu Bei was the king of Changsha, and Sun Ce was the king of Wu.

At the same time, Gongsun Kang of Liaodong openly established himself as the king of Yan, and formed an alliance with the surrounding Wuhuan and Sanhan tribes in order to protect himself, and then Sun Ce took the initiative to lead people to contact Gongsun Kang from the sea, forming an alliance with each other, hoping to fight against Pei Qing together.

Pei Qing didn't care about these people's actions at all, but fell into a kind of surprise, because he had cracked another big secret, which was enough to make his strength take another big step.