Liu Qi listened to Zhang Lu's words, and immediately nodded, and said in his heart, You finally understand what I mean, this is not in vain for me to say in vain, and then he gathered everyone and announced loudly: "For the greatness of the Tao, it was originally made from heaven and made in people, and Zhang Lu Gongqi, the master of the Han Dynasty, is known in the booklet, wonderful in extricating himself, and he will not live in success." After not being virtuous, 'virtue is not virtue is virtue'? Today, the official specially to the imperial court, as the "Zhengyi Department of the Taiqing Zhaohua Guangde Zhenjun", named Yuganhou, Yuzhang County, Yugan County, Eryang Prefecture Longhu Mountain as the dojo, after the will down, with three thousand disciples to educate sentient beings, hoping to spread the way of heaven, do not slack off. ”

As soon as Liu Qi said this, Yan Pu, the strategist under Zhang Lu, and the generals Yang Bai, Yang Song, Yang Ang, Yang Ren and others were all shocked, because they couldn't help but feel deeply unhappy when they saw that Liu Qi had deprived Zhang Lu of all his powers, and only retained a marquis and a fief.

But they didn't expect their lord Zhang Lu to accept it very happily, and he was overjoyed, which made them feel strange.

Half a month later, the will of the Son of Heaven came down, and it was really according to Liu Qisuo's guarantee, he gave Zhang Lu a title, a title, and a fief, and then asked him to lead 3,000 disciples to Longhu Mountain to preach.

Before leaving, Zhang Lu also thanked Liu Qi, and there was no trace of falsification in this expression.

"What the hell is going on? The lord actually dealt with Zhang Lu's placement so lightly with a few words, and it seems that Zhang Lu not only did not have a trace of dissatisfaction, but was overjoyed, which is really amazing. Seeing this, Huang Zhong, Huo Jun, Fa Zheng, Tian Feng and others couldn't help but be puzzled, but they didn't know that Liu Qi didn't pay anything on the surface, but in fact he agreed to let Zhang Lu freely spread his Heavenly Master Dao and ensure that it could be passed on from generation to generation.

Of course, the premise of this is that Heavenly Master Dao must assist his regime in educating sentient beings and maintaining social harmony and stability, rather than gathering people to rebel, otherwise, presumably Zhang Lu should also know the ultimate consequences.

After Zhang Lu left, Liu Qi appointed Li Dian as the general of Hanzhong Taishou and Dangkou, went to support Yan Yan, who was resisting Zhang Fei in Sanguan, and ordered Huang Zhong to lead the troops behind, fully responsible for the defense of Hanzhong, and returned to Xiangyang.

As soon as Liu Qi returned to Xiangyang, Pang Tong, Gan Ning, Wang Cang, Jia Xu, Zhuge Jin and other civil and military generals wrote to him, asking him to ask the imperial court to be the Duke of Chu and establish a national temple.

I only heard Wang Cang say angrily: "The lord and son have fought for the Han world for more than ten years, and now they have pacified the Jiangdong Sun family, Yizhou Liu Zhang, Hanzhong Zhang Lu and other separatist forces, the people under his command are 15 million, the people are rich, the army and the people are happy, it can be said that the night does not close the door, the road is not forgotten, even in the ancient prosperity is just so, and Cao Cao, Liu Bei jumped the clown, Mu Monkey and crown, even dare to call the principality, if the lord does not comply with the wishes of the ministers, the promotion of the Duke of Chu, I am afraid that it will be a big disappointment, the army and the people are scattered, and the great cause of the lord is damaged. ”

Liu Qi shirked again and again, only to see that there were more and more civil and military generals who asked for their lives, and finally had to obey his fate, submit a table to the Son of Heaven, and ask to be promoted to the Duke of Chu.

Where would the Son of Heaven really refuse the princes' requests? Before Cao Cao relied on his power, forced himself to be named the Duke of Wei, and also asked to praise and worship the nameless, the palace did not tend, and the sword went to the court, Liu Bei once led the army to attack Xuchang, and almost took himself away, but he could be named the Duke of the Kingdom, not to mention that although Liu Qi is the strongest prince in the world, he has always been very respectful to himself, and he will send a tribute every time he pays tribute?

Therefore, the Son of Heaven agreed almost without any hesitation, and ordered the angel to go to Xiangyang to proclaim the decree, canonize Liu Qi as the Duke of Chu, and establish the state of Chu in the counties of Nanjun plus Jingling, Zhangling, Caiyang, Xiangxiang, Fancheng, Dengxian, Fangling, Deng County and other places, allow the establishment of Zongmiao, and set up Shangshu, Shizhong, Liuqing and other positions. After that, Liu Qi was specially allowed to praise and worship without a name, enter the court without tending, and go to the palace with a sword, such as Xiao He's story.

After that, Liu Qi began to build the Jizong Temple of the Chu State Society to worship his parents and clan. With Jia Xu as the book order, he has an overview of national politics; Wang Cang and Pang Tong are the left and right servants, Chen Qun, Fanqin, Yu Tuo, Kuai Yue, and Huang Chengyan are the Shangshu, and Chen Lin, Zhuge Jin, Bu Qi, and Zhang Zhao are the servants;

Han Song is Dali, Liu Xian is the Imperial Historian, Kan Ze is the Imperial History Zhongcheng, Liao Li is the Great Si Nong, Liu Shi is the Wei Lieutenant, Zhang Tongqian is the lieutenant, Lu Su is the Lang Zhongling, Qin Mi and Dong Yun are the Huangmen Shilang, Kuai Zheng is the Tiger Ben Zhonglang General, Peng Yi is the Shang Shulang, Sima Hui, Pang Degong, Song Zhen are the secretary Lang, and Huang Quan is the official Lang.

He also took Han Ji as the general as the supervisor, responsible for civil engineering, production and research and development of ordnance weapons.

After that, Liu Qi ordered to reward the three armies and reward the county guards of the assassins in various places, and the whole country was jubilant for a while, and the five states celebrated together.

The news of Liu Qi's title to the Duke reached Chang'an, Liu Bei couldn't help but be silent after hearing the news, and felt quite uncomfortable in his heart, in fact, he never thought that Cao Cao would show him as the Duke of Qin in order to win him over. Although such a high status should be well-deserved for him as a member of the Han family, he clearly knows that among the three princes of the Han Dynasty, it seems that only his prince is the most cowardly.

Because whether it is Cao Cao or Liu Qi, their public positions are all because they are loyally supported by the generals under their command and take office calmly, but his public position does not seem to be so popular.

First of all, Zhang Fei, the military general he has always trusted and relied on the most, doesn't seem to be very happy.

He naturally also knew that the rift between him and Zhang Fei mainly started from Guan Yu's death, when he was also full of anger and was ready to immediately send troops to attack Xuchang and Cao Cao for a decisive battle, but in the end he listened to Zhuge Liang's construction and did not send troops, mainly because he had just captured the Guanzhong region, and the situation was still unstable, plus Cao Cao had just won the battle of Guandu, and the morale of the army was booming, and he had no confidence in winning at all.

In addition, he has been defeated by Cao Cao many times over the years, and he is indeed a little jealous in his heart, so he did not send troops, but just hoped that he would recuperate as much as possible, and it would not be too late to deal with Cao Cao after his strength was restored.

As a generation of heroes who grew up from the grass, he naturally knows the truth of sharpening knives and cutting wood.

He waited like this for more than two years, during which although Zhang Fei was still loyal as always, he could clearly feel the slightest estrangement between Zhang Fei and himself.

But he could do nothing but prove with his own actions that he had not forgotten to avenge the generals he regarded as his siblings, so he united with Yuan Shao to fight against Cao Cao.

But no one thought that a great opportunity appeared at this time, Ma Teng was killed, as long as he used a little trick, he could immediately get the right Fufeng area that he had coveted for a long time, and he could also get Ma Chao and several other generals, which was indeed an irresistible attraction for himself who continued to expand his territory and recruit talents, so Liu Bei did not hesitate to choose to give up revenge for the time being, seize the once-in-a-lifetime favorable opportunity, and take the opportunity to expand his power, otherwise he would not be able to find a place even if he regretted it in the future.

Therefore, he actually dealt a blow to Zhang Fei once again when he was full of hope.

Originally, Zhang Fei always shouted and screamed in front of him, straight to the point, but since then he has never seen such a scene, Zhang Fei always behaves and treats Liu Bei with the courtesy of a monarch and a minister, they occasionally say something together, but it is just some official and family trivialities, as for Guan Yu, the two of them seem to have discussed it, and no one wants to talk about it.

It wasn't until two years later that Liu Bei once again raised troops to compete with Cao Cao for the annexation of the state, and Zhang Fei became a little active again, taking the initiative to ask to be the vanguard, still so brave and arrogant, the two of them talked the most together during this period of time, that is, to avenge Guan Yu.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and at this moment Liu Bei got the news that Liu Qi had pacified Yizhou, and he was really shocked after hearing the news, so much so that in the end, a mouthful of blood was highlighted. and that he planned to lead the army to seize Hanzhong and Yizhou in the name of helping Liu Zhang after he seized the state, but he didn't expect the other party's actions to be so fast, so fast that he was not so mentally prepared at all.

After some discussion with Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei could only decide to form an alliance with Cao Cao to counter the powerful Liu Qi, because he knew that after Liu Qi got Yizhou, he would definitely attack Hanzhong and the Guanzhong region he occupied, and the alliance between him and Liu Qi had already been completely broken because of the Nanyang incident, and the other party could not care about anything at all.

He knew that this time he would definitely hurt Zhang Fei more painfully, but he couldn't help but do it, he also tried to persuade Zhang Fei, in fact, Liu Qi was the culprit who killed Guan Yu, but he knew that Zhang Fei didn't believe it, he would definitely say that even if it was, Liu Qi actually gave Guan Yu more than him, the lord.

In fact, Liu Bei has always blamed himself for Guan Yu's death, but is there any way for him to tell others about his self-blame now, it's not that he doesn't want to avenge Guan Yu, but he knows that he really can't figure out who is the culprit in Guan Yu's death? Who should I seek revenge? Cao Cao? Or Liu Qi? Or even himself or Zhuge Liang?

"I hope that this time Yide can vent well on the battlefield, so that he may be able to calm down a little, I know that I have gone too far, but I dare not ignore my foundation, I am now over forty years old, and I have gone through a lot of hardships to get this foundation, I really can't afford to fail, so, in order to keep this foundation, I can only give up my principles, temporarily form an alliance with Cao Cao, only after defeating Liu Qi, or even as long as Xichuan is obtained, I will fight against Cao Cao regardless of a single qiē, crusade against the Han thieves, be loyal to the Han family, Yide, I don't know if you can understand me? ”

Liu Bei sighed deeply, looked at the south, and said silently.