Chapter 418: Gangneung Becomes King

Lou Yuzhen's luck is good, Guo Weier is really a gentle and polite woman.

Although this woman doesn't want her man to have three wives and four concubines, and she also has her own careful thoughts.

But this wise wife knows how to get along with her husband and how to keep her husband's heart.

Of course, the most important thing is that a woman like Lou Yuzhen can't pose any threat to her, a wife who has already given birth to a son and has the help of her mother's family.

So after seeing Lou Yuzhen, Guo Weier, who was younger than Lou Yuzhen, accepted this new "sister" with a smile.

And this is undoubtedly a scene that Zhang Shihua is happy to see.

After all, just dealing with the outside world already made him feel like he was lacking in skills. So he really didn't want to go back home and see his women fighting non-stop.

However, Zhang Shihua also knows that if he goes on like this, it will be very troublesome even if he does not fight at home. Therefore, while restraining himself on the one hand, Zhang Shihua can't help but stay with his wife from time to time these days, and establish absolute authority for his wife in the back house.

As for the outside world, when Zhang Shihua's parents, wife, children, and sisters also came, Lu Sicheng, who was nominally the first minister under Zhang Shihua, couldn't help but take some available talents that he quickly recruited to plan for Zhang Shihua to become the king.

King. In Lu Sicheng's view, this is the first thing Zhang Shihua has to do, because this can allow Zhang Shihua to govern the territory under his rule in a proper manner, and use it to conquer Jiangnan.

Therefore, after it was proposed and implemented, many civil and military generals under Zhang Shihua also agreed.

However, most of these civil officials and military generals do not agree because they can help their lords "correct their names" because they are kings. It's because if their own lord is the king, then they, the supporters, can obviously get more trust from Zhang Shihua and benefit from it.

And this, I have to say, as a serious old bureaucrat. Lu Sicheng is really good at satisfying the wishes of his boss while seeking reasonable benefits for himself.

Yes, Lu Sicheng put Zhang Shihua's claim as king in the first place, naturally not only because this can make Zhang Shihua justifiably govern the territory and expand his power. is even more because of the black-clothed army of Nuoda, the only person who knows what to do to be the king and comes up with a plan that can convince everyone is Lu Sicheng.

You must know that Lu Sicheng can be a serious Jinshi, a literary master respected by all scholars in the world. has such two titles, so in terms of article etiquette, Zhao Ziyu, as a military advisor, is not even qualified to be compared with him.

It is based on what Zhang Shihua needs to do before becoming king, how to deploy personnel, and what kind of etiquette should be used on that day, naturally Lu Sicheng has the final say.

In this way, after such a thing is done, then as the first to support and lead the incident of Zhang Shihua's claim to be king, he will naturally be able to gain a firm foothold in the black-clothed army and have his own place.

As for Lu Sicheng's careful thinking, Zhang Shihua, who single-handedly established the black-clothed army and led the black-clothed army to develop to the current situation, naturally knows and understands.

However, Zhang Shihua is not disgusted with this. After all, "when the water is clear, there are no fish, and when people are observed, there are no fugitives". Since he chose to trust and accept Lu Sicheng, it naturally means that he accepted all this.

Zhang Shihua is not an idealist, and he is not selfish enough to make his subordinates all selfless.

In this matter, he is the biggest beneficiary. And even if all his five plans are implemented under the leadership of Lu Sicheng, it will only establish Lu Sicheng's status among civil officials, making him a little worthy of the name.

Anyway, in terms of military affairs, Lu Sicheng, who has been a clear stream in the clear stream for decades, has nothing to say about the military at all.

In this way, all his power in the black-clothed army comes from Zhang Shihua's recognition, and Zhang Shihua has nothing to worry about.

On the contrary, he is happy to see it, after all, Ziyu also needs someone to help him "share" it.

Well, that's a bit of a stretch. Let's go back to Zhang Shihua's claim to be king.

In the matter of Zhang Shihua becoming king, everyone in the black-clothed army suggested that they should do it in a big way. Especially Lu Sicheng, he even said something like "if it is not magnificent, it is not powerful".

Yes, they apparently hoped that after this incident, the lord to whom they had allegiance would become a true king in the eyes of the world, and not a rebel.

Therefore, Lu Sicheng's plan to become the king is also extremely extravagant and cumbersome, and it takes more than a month to not mention, and the amount of money spent on this matter is nearly one million taels.

Because of this, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but feel that this plan was too extravagant and time-consuming, so he couldn't help but veto it.

After all, after the news that Tokhtar was deposed and exiled and then killed, and hundreds of thousands of troops were dispersed in a hurry, the situation in the world, which had been slightly calm, could not help but become a pot of porridge again.

Careerists from all over the country took advantage of this opportunity to flock to each other, not to mention, even the offensive and defensive forms of the Tianxia Righteous Army and the Yuanmeng Official Army couldn't help but make a big change.

As soon as Tokhtar died, the central officials who only cared about fighting for power and profit had no time to take care of the locality. And after the magistrates in various places lost the command and transfer of the center, they also entered a state of leaderlessness in an instant. In order not to be hated by the center for doing wrong things at this important moment of power transfer, local generals everywhere tacitly chose not to move.

Everyone chooses to hoard in the nest, regardless of the extent of the outside world.

In this way, it also triggered a chain reaction like dominoes. The inaction of the Yuan and Mongolian courts is the rise of the anti-Yuan rebel army in the world.

Especially Liu Futong, who is entrenched in the land of the Huai River in the Central Plains. When the news came that Tokhtar was murdered by Hama, almost most of the troops who followed Tokhtar to participate in the counterinsurgency chose to break the jar and fall into the thieves.

made Liu Futong, who was closest to the place of the incident, suddenly skyrocketed in strength.

Even the trump card army under Toku's command, an ironclad army with a strength of about 6,000 people, fell into his hands.

Therefore, in this month, not only Zhang Shihua, who won the Battle of Huguang, has greatly increased his territory, but also other rebels in the world.

For example, Liu Futong, who was originally suppressed and beaten by Badulu and Chakhan Timur in the Central Plains, annexed Huai'an, Anfeng, Luzhou, Anqing Silu and most of Runing Province in one fell swoop at this time. It can be said that it occupies the entire Huaihe River basin in one fell swoop.

In addition to him, the Tianwan Army, which is Zhang Shihua's ally, also regained momentum after capturing Wuchang. Along the Yangtze River, they successfully recovered Qizhou Road, where they rose, not to mention, and then burned the war to the west of Jiang Province under the banner of revenge for Peng Yingyu.

Even Zhang Shicheng, a rising star in the rebel army, successfully occupied the rich Yangzhou Road at this time, and went south along the canal, igniting the war to other areas. Zhu Yuanzhang, who is also a rising star, was unwilling to be lonely, extended his hand to the western Zhejiang region, and took Hezhou by chance.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Shihua was naturally unwilling to engage in a ceremony of claiming the throne in such a time-consuming and cost-consuming manner.

After all, judging from the news from the south, the Miao army of the Xuanfu Division in the west of Huxi has also gone north to Chenzhou Road, which is next to Lizhou Road under Zhang Shihua's rule.

However, because Zhang Shihua ended the war too quickly, they were afraid of the black-clothed army, so they didn't dare to act rashly.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Lu Sicheng gave up the idea of doing a big job, and shortened the originally cumbersome ceremony to half a month. That is to say, after the second day of the third month of the fifteenth year of Zheng, Zhang Shihua officially became the king of Chu.

On the second day of the third month of the fifteenth year of Zheng, on this day, the highlight of the ceremony of claiming the king was in the palace that was renamed the palace of the king of Chu.

On this day, after the sacrifice to the heavens, in front of the main hall of the palace, Zhang Shihua wore a shirt painted with 5 chapters of mountains, dragons, Chinese insects, and Zongyi, and a nine-chapter dress with embroidered algae, pink rice, and 4 chapters of yellow and yellow patterns, riding in a royal chariot pulled by eight yellow horses, wearing a colorful heavy crown with jade beads hanging on his head, holding a sword, and making a majestic appearance in front of many ministers.

"Meet the King!" Before the ministers, Lu Sicheng wore a goldfish bag on the waist of the Song Dynasty government, held an elephant wat with a purple official waist, and shouted loudly, and couldn't help but bow down to Zhang Shihua, who was sitting on the throne in a robe.

Then, after the ministers knelt three times and knocked nine times, Zhang Shihua, who was sitting on the throne, looked at the nearly 100 subordinates kneeling there in two columns, and the thousands of soldiers and soldiers distributed in this square, and couldn't help but suddenly give birth to a kind of pride that the world is under control.

"Zhongqing, no courtesy, flat body!" Zhang Shihua raised his hand, and his voice could be described as majestic.

Of course, because of the distance, even if Zhang Shihua shouted at the top of his voice, it was impossible for all the people below to hear it.

So at this time, a eunuch standing at the bottom of the steps, three zhang away from Zhang Shihua, couldn't help but speak for Zhang Shihua with a sharp voice.

Yes, there were eunuchs. As Yuan Wenzong, who has been an emperor for two terms, how could his hidden mansion not be guarded by eunuchs.

But to be honest, after so many years of turmoil, there are not many eunuchs in this big palace.

Earlier, it was said that there were hundreds of people, but when Zhang Shihua occupied Jiangling, there were only about 50 people left.

At that time, because these people were proficient in palace etiquette, Zhang Shihua still kept these people in the palace. And now when Zhang Shihua becomes king, they will also come in handy.

There is no need to worry about whether these people are reliable or not.

After all, if Zhang Shihua hadn't saved their lives, this group of people who had been left behind would have died a long time ago. Besides, this group of people said that the Great Heaven was just a group of eunuchs, who had no relatives and no descendants, and some of them were even Goryeo (Note 1) people.

If they want to survive in such a troubled world, apart from relying on Zhang Shihua, do they have any other way to go!?

Well, without further ado. Speaking of now, when a eunuch and a guard conveyed Zhang Shihua's words, many subordinates kneeling on the ground thanked them in unison, and they couldn't help but slowly stand up from the ground.

In the end, the ceremony was carried out here, and it was only left to feast with Queen Guo Weier.

And this time, to be honest, Zhang Shihua was rarely drunk again. Five years ago, from a small Jiupin inspection that no one knew about at all, to today he has become a powerful prince who controls more than a dozen state capitals, such a huge difference, now I can't help but think back like a dream.

Such a dreamlike difference, and after coming to this world, he moved forward cautiously step by step, and finally had the sense of ease of all this today, which couldn't help but make Zhang Shihua let go of his restraints and wanted to get drunk.

The feast lasted until nightfall, and after nightfall, Zhang Shihua, who was drunk, couldn't help but be waited for and sent to the current queen of Chu's bedroom.

"Phase...... Oh, are you alright? Quick, get some decanting soup. Seeing that Zhang Shihua was drunk, it seemed that he couldn't even walk straight, and Guo Weier, the queen who was also wearing a luxurious dress, couldn't help but give an order to the below.

"King, come and rest. After a while, the decanting soup came. Zhang Shihua, who was still wearing a crown and wearing a nine-chapter royal suit, was supported on the stepping bed, and Guo Weier couldn't help but gently massage her man's forehead to soothe it.

But at this time, Zhang Shihua suddenly reached out and grabbed his wife's slender hand, and muttered something that Guo Weier couldn't understand, "What is the broken crown, and the is brass." It's so heavy to death, a few rounds of nonsense in the TV series! So saying, he took the crown and threw it aside without looking at it.

......Seeing this, Guo Weier couldn't help but be a little worried, a pair of beautiful eyes looked out of the house, and wanted to urge the people to get the sobering soup as soon as possible, but before the words could be spoken, they were interrupted by the drunk man in his arms, "Wei'er, don't call me the king, don't call me Xianggong, call me Shihua, just like we did at the beginning." ”

"......" Suddenly hearing the words of the man in her arms, the queen couldn't help but be silent. After a long time, she gently kneaded the forehead of the man in her arms, looking at the man in her arms who was already very different from before, "Shihua" After a long time, she snorted softly. In the voice, there seems to be a lot of reminiscence.

"Heh, hehe. Vile, Vile, you know what. Seven years ago, yes, it was seven years ago, we met for the first time. At that time, you secretly ran out of the house, and you wore a man's clothes as written in the play. At that time, hehe, the first time I saw you, I liked you.

At that time, you were really beautiful. At that time, when I saw you, the two of us made eye contact, and my heart beat so hard. It's even better than the first time I killed someone, the first time I went to war. ”

"Shihua ......" suddenly heard the man in her arms say this, gently stroking the face of the man in her arms, the queen's nose was sore, and her eyes couldn't help but get wet.