On this day, the drums and trumpets in Chang'an City wailed, paper money was thrown, headed by Liu Zhang, Manzhong, Xun You, Wei Yan, Gao Shun and all the high-level officials of the Yizhou Army who were in Chang'an City or could arrive all dispatched to personally help the souls of the fallen soldiers, and 30,000 soldiers escorted 29,446 coffins to Liu Bang's tomb for burial. Tens of thousands of people who learned that they were buried for the soldiers who saved them spontaneously moved and followed the funeral procession, and many of them couldn't help but cry......

Seeing this, the people along the way also spontaneously accompanied them to see off those fallen soldiers on their last journey.

Two hours later, the solemn funeral procession arrived three miles west of the Changling Tomb, which was the mausoleum site chosen by Liu Zhang for the fallen soldiers of the Northern Expedition.

At this time, the cemetery except for more than 20,000 tombs excavated on the ground, there is no other building in sight, this is because this land was still a wasteland before, and all monumental buildings had to be built from scratch, but Liu Zhan wanted to hope that all the fallen soldiers could be buried as soon as possible, so he decided to bury the soldiers first, and then slowly build.

In front of the temporary altar, full of three animals, melons and fruits, Liu Zhang was wearing a marquis' clothes, and read the heavy sacrificial text: "The country is in danger of being tired, and the state is in danger of being in the abyss...... Fortunately, the sages of our nation sacrificed their lives and forgot about death, turned the tide and collapsed, and helped the building to collapse...... Triumph is a matter of state, and death in battle is a national martyr...... The heroic spirit is in the sky, the mighty spirit is eternal, the whining is painful, and the Fu Wei is still feasting".

Immediately, a coffin was carefully placed in the tomb, and Liu Zhang came to the grave of a fallen soldier, picked up a handful of soil with his own hands, and sprinkled it on the coffin......

An hour later, the funeral ended, leaving 1,000 soldiers to guard the Changling Mausoleum and the Martyrs' Cemetery, and Liu Zhang led the crowd back to Chang'an.

After returning to Chang'an, Liu Zhang asked people to post a list of articles, ordering the whole city to wear filial piety for three days, and within three days, no meat should be sold in the market, no banquets should be held, and no marriage should be allowed.

Three days after the burial of the fallen soldiers, Liu Zhang held a feast in the former Prime Minister's Mansion and the current Chengdu Marquis Mansion to celebrate the complete victory of the Northern Expedition.

At the banquet, everyone was first informed of the detailed battle report of the Northern Expedition. The 250,000 Northern Expeditionary Army (including 20,000 Guan Yu, 30,000 new recruits in Hanzhong and the Qiang soldiers who surrendered to Cheng) lost nearly 30,000 people, and 40,000 light and serious wounded, which can be described as heavy losses.

Although the losses were not small, the gains were also very rich, destroying more than 140,000 enemies and capturing 190,000 enemy troops (including 74,000 lightly wounded and 8,000 seriously wounded). Among the captives, 100,000 people who were not guilty of great evil were selected to return to the recruit training camp, and after completing the training and meeting the standards, they would be incorporated into the Yizhou Army, and more than 30,000 soldiers who were forcibly conscripted by Dong Zhuo and Duan Xuan after the Northern Expedition were discharged from military service and went back to reunite with their families, and another 10,000 wounded (mainly seriously wounded) who were not suitable for continuing to serve as soldiers and could not engage in high-intensity labor were also dispersed and returned to their hometowns, and the others needed to undergo three to ten years of labor reform.

In addition to the number of enemy annihilation, the capture is also a big cake, after counting, there are 180,000 horses, including nearly 70,000 war horses, 80,000 pack horses, stallions, foals 30,000, as long as there are enough riders, Liu Zhang can expand its cavalry on a large scale, and has a large number of stallions, and got the Xiliangqiang land this horse production land, from then on he can have an endless supply of war horses, Liu Zhang has imagined in his heart, one day, he commanded 100,000 cavalry equipped with horseshoes and horseshoes to kill into the Central Plains, grassland, Is there permission to block it? In addition to war horses, Liu Zhang also seized more than one million stone grain, 10,000 catties of gold and jewelry, 200,000 catties of silver, 250,000 copper coins, as well as a large number of precious treasures and more than 1 million catties of pig iron, salt, and so on.

Whether it is horse food, or gold and silver treasures, pig iron, and salt, they are all insignificant compared to another trophy, that is, territory...... The whole territory of Liangzhou, the land of Sanfu, eight million people (the land of Sanfu is already densely populated, and when Dong Zhuo moved westward, millions of people moved into Tongguan, although many people died in famine and war in the past few years of Dong Zhuo's rule, but still retained a large population)!

At this time, the population of Liu Zhang's jurisdiction reached 19 million, even if he wanted to recruit a million troops, it was not considered a reckless army (you must know that before Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, the population of Qin was only 5 million, but there was an army of millions), and it would not have a huge impact on the production of the people in the territory, there is no doubt that Liu Zhang has become the overlord of the world! One can imagine how shocked the princes of the world would be when they learned about Liu Zhang's situation!

As for rewarding meritorious deeds, Liu Zhang was not in a hurry, because twenty days ago, the bodies of 493 culprits such as Dong Zhuo and Li Ru and 241 culprits such as Li Dao, who had been hollowed out of oil and water, were sent to Luoyang by him. And Man Chong, Xun You, Xi Zhicai and others all think that Liu Zhang's elimination of Dong Zhuo and the revival of the prestige of the Han Dynasty this time have contributed to the country, and it can even be said that they have contributed to it, especially Dong Zhuo, Li Ru and others were also captured alive and handed over to Emperor Xian to dispose of in person, which was a great surprise to Emperor Xian. It can be imagined how happy Emperor Xian would be when he saw Dong Zhuo kneeling in front of him, and then he would be able to treat Liu Zhang, a great hero, and a team of Yizhou civil and military and three army soldiers? Since this is the case, Liu Zhang thinks that there is no need to rush to reward meritorious deeds, and it is not too late to wait for the news of Luoyang to come back.

Liu Zhang announced to everyone at the banquet that everyone's merits had been registered in detail, and the banquet suddenly entered after the emperor's will*, smelling the strong aroma of Yizhou wine that had been placed early, and the people who had not touched the wine in the past six months had been drinking for a long time, and many people couldn't wait to dig up five catties of wine and pour it into their mouths, ignoring the people next to them. Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai, who had quit drinking, were also infected, and their addiction to alcohol took the initiative again, and the two looked at each other and smiled, raising their glasses......

On the same day that Liu Zhang held a celebration banquet, Emperor Xian, who was in Luoyang, received a special gift from Liu Zhang.

The North Palace, the Deyang Palace, is silent.

Dressed in a dragon robe, Emperor Xian knelt on the dragon chair with a childish look on his face, although he was calm on the surface, but if he looked closely, he could find that the crown on his head trembled slightly. Although it was the middle of winter, the young Emperor Xian felt that there was a fire burning in his heart, and irritability, fear, and joy came to his head at the same time. At this time, if the palace maid holding the obstacle fan behind him can fan him, he will definitely promote the two of them to be female officials.

His Royal Highness, headed by Lu Bu and Wang Yun, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military sat on the left and right of the hall, no one spoke, only the expression on his face silently expressed something.

In the center of the main hall, eight sturdy guards vigilantly guarded two people covered in dirt, one of whom was unusually obese.

Needless to say, these two people are naturally Dong Zhuo and Li Ru, although Liu Zhang sent more than 400 people and more than 200 corpses, but it is obviously impossible to send them all to the main hall, especially the corpses of some people who have been dead for a long time have begun to decompose, even if those who are alive, one by one is to make people "stay away", why? It turned out that the soldiers who escorted these people hated Dong Zhuo and the others to the core, although they did not beat, scold and abuse, but these people were escorted to the prisoner car outside the North Palace, their feet never left the prisoner car, and they all ate and drank Lazar in the car, it is conceivable that if hundreds of such people were escorted to the temple at the same time, the taste would ......

Even if there are only two people, many of the civil and military generals in the main hall who grew up reading the articles of the sages are secretly disgusted, but they are afraid of the emperor on the dragon chair, or Lu Bu, who is the head of the hundred officials in the hall, and they are patient.

Li Ru's injured leg was not carefully treated, but tightly tied with a white cloth belt, now the white cloth belt has been stained with blood stains and mud stained dark brown, the color and the smell of rotten flesh under the cloth belt, it is even more deeply stimulating everyone in the hall, it is obvious that Li Ru's wound has already festered, and he has only half a life left, he has always been in a daze, unaware of the surrounding situation, and paralyzed on the main hall.

Dong Zhuo wanted to show a mighty and unyielding appearance, but after being tortured in the prisoner car for more than half a month, he was also weak at this time, so he could only sit on the main hall with his butt and stare at the dragon chair with big eyes like copper bells.

"Be bold ......" Wang Yun saw Dong Zhuo so "rude", and couldn't help scolding: "Dong Zhuo is a traitor, today you have become a prisoner under the ranks, and you still don't want to repent, openly deceive the king, come on, give me a palm!" ”

Dong Zhuo looked at Wang Yun disdainfully, took a deep breath, and said in a domineering tone as much as possible: "If you don't have the help of your own family, how can you have a chance to win the Ninth Five-Year Plan?" You don't know how to repay your kindness, and you even join forces with villains to assassinate your true appearance, and you ......are extremely shameless," Dong Zhuo glanced at everyone in the hall, and took a disdainful "bah" mouthful, and said: "And you, if you don't have your true appearance, how can you have today?" Have you forgotten the way you knelt in front of your own image? Especially you, the slave of the three surnames...... If it weren't for the fact that you had some brute strength, you would have already buried Ding Yuan, and you didn't want to be fascinated by your own ghost for a while, not only let you go, but also recognized you as a righteous son, and favored you, so that you enjoyed all the glory and wealth, but how did you repay your true appearance? You actually relied on the favor of your true appearance to secretly cultivate power, and even openly betrayed your true appearance, plotting to kill your father, and being disloyal and unfilial, what do you think of...... Knowing this, it was better to feed a dog back then, at least, the dog would not bite the original appearance after eating the meat thrown by the original appearance! ”

Lu Bu snorted coldly, but did not refute anything.

However, Wang Yun said loudly: "Hmph, back then, you had a self-respecting army and a fierce flame, and we were difficult to be the enemy for a while, and I was afraid that your dog would jump off the wall in a hurry and endanger the saint, so I had to make a false deal with you, and accumulate strength in secret, and give you a fatal blow when the time is ripe...... After dormant for several years, I finally found an opportunity, although I failed to kill you, a national thief, but I also saved the saint from the sea of suffering and returned to Beijing. ”

Hundreds of officials said yes, and when they showed their loyalty, they did not forget to scold Dong Zhuo.

And since Emperor Xian saw Dong Zhuo again, he thought of his former obscenity; thought of the days when he was in the shadow of Dong Zhuo and was frightened day and night; thought of the brother who was killed by the dove, the young emperor; Thinking of the countless concubines of the first emperor under Dong Zhuo's dirty body, as well as the stolen and excavated mausoleums and white bones of the emperors and queens of the past dynasties, I thought of too many nightmarish experiences in the past......

It can be said that the fear of Dong Zhuo has been deeply implanted in the bone marrow of Emperor Xian, if it were not for the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces and the fierce Imperial Forest Army, and thinking that Dong Zhuo was already a prisoner and a toothless tiger, he would have already wet his crotch.

On the main hall, Dong Zhuo still quarreled with nearly 100 mouths of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces with his own strength, at this time he no longer wanted to live, he only hoped that Emperor Xian could give him a good time, so he scolded Emperor Xian and the previous emperors of the past dynasties, in order to die quickly, he even slandered Emperor Xian for adultering Emperor Ling's concubines......

Seeing Dong Zhuo showing his teeth and claws, looking like he was choosing someone to devour, Emperor Xian cringed again, and he even wanted to stand up and run back to the harem to seek the comfort of his queen's gentle embrace, but unfortunately his legs couldn't exert any strength.