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At the pinnacle of his life, he died in the midst of hearty wine and laughter, and he died a well-deserved death.

For Huang Zhong's sudden death, Fang Shao suffered a big blow, and he later learned that Huang Zhong was seriously injured during the surprise attack on Jianye.

Fang Shao's arrival and the determination of the overall situation made Huang Zhong's wish fulfilled, so he no longer insisted and quietly left in the midst of wine and laughter.

After Huang Zhong's death, Fang Shao sighed for a while, and then he went to the table to perform his exploits for Huang Zhong, and at the same time sent someone to transport Huang Zhong's body to Chang'an.

Although Huang Zhong's sudden death caused a certain repercussion in the Han army, it did not change the fact that the state of Wu was destroyed.

After the Han army crossed the river and occupied various strategic places such as Shouchun, Hefei, and even Jianye, Fang Shao sent Ma Dai and others to lead the army to Huiji and other places to quell the rebellion of the local tyrants, give preferential treatment to those who returned to obedience, and severely crack down on those who resisted the Han Tianwei.

At the same time, Fang Shao wrote another handwritten letter and sent people to Jingzhou to persuade Lu Xun, who still had tens of thousands of elites of the Wu State, to return to Shun.

Lu Xun's troops had an absolute upper hand in Jingzhou, and the day before Sun Quan's surrender, Lu Xun's army had just conquered Gong'an and was ready to continue to besiege Jiangling, but the outstanding changes disrupted Lu Xun's overall plan.

Because the situation was developing too fast, when Lu Xun didn't even have time to react, Qingxu came with the news of Cao Zhen's death and Lü Meng's return to the Han Kingdom, and just when Lu Xun hesitated, Fang Shao had already led the main force of the Han army to cross the river and enter Jianye.

The general trend has gone, Lu Xun is very clear about this. The Lu family's family business, the children and grandchildren are all in Wuzhong, and now they have all fallen into the hands of Fang Shao, which Lu Xun also knows very well. With this soldier and horse in his hand alone, he can't reverse the destruction of Wu State, which Lu Xun knows better.

In fact, for Lu Xun, he did not have much sorrow for the destruction of Wu and the death of Sun. Although the Lu family had to bow to the Sun family for the sake of the family's interests, the blood feud of his uncle Lu Kang being killed by Sun Ce is still remembered by Lu Xun to this day.

At this moment, Lu Xun felt a faint sense of pleasure in his heart. And for him now, what he is thinking about is not how to fight against the Han army, but who to surrender to.

Is it Pang Tong, who is close at hand and has been defeated repeatedly, or Fang Shao, who is thousands of miles away.

Just when Lu Xun was hesitating, he successively received letters of persuasion from Pang Tong and Fang Shao, the former was arrogant and commanding, while the latter was gentle and polite, and had a cordial attitude.

A few days later, Lu Xun made a decision to surrender to Fang Shao of Jianye with tens of thousands of soldiers and the land in Jingzhou.

Pang Tong's arrogance was only one of the reasons why Lu Xun gave up on him, as a famous general, but in turn surrendered to his own defeated generals, Lu Xun certainly couldn't stand it. Moreover, Fang Shao is Sun Quan's brother-in-law after all, and he is related to Jiangdong, and Lu Xun's surrender also has this level of relationship considerations.

At the end of the winter, the battle of Wu that lasted more than four months came to an end, in order to celebrate the unification of the world, the emperor Liu Tai changed the first year of the Taiping Dynasty, and ordered all the soldiers and horses to be divided.

In the spring of that year, Fang Shaoliu Guan Xing, Ma Dai and Fei Yi led 50,000 Central Plains military towns to Wudi, and returned to the dynasty with the self-unified army.

Along with Fang Shao, there were also Lu Xun, Lu Meng, Gu Yong and many other former ministers of the Wu State, and the imperial court recruited these Jiangdong celebrities into the court as officials in a high position, as for Zhang Zhao, Lu Fan and others, they died in the chaos in the battle of Jianye. At the same time, Fang Shao also used the reason of buying people's hearts to express Zhuge as the assassin of Yangzhou, stay in the town to build a business, and preside over the government affairs of Wudi.

Also said that Liu Tai personally greeted him at the east gate of Chang'an, for the merits of Fang Shao, Liu Tai specially ordered Fang Shao to enter the city with him, and on this day, Chang'an City is also an empty alley, Fang Shao sat side by side with the young emperor, and enjoyed the praise and worship of the people of Chang'an.

In the past few decades, Fang Shao has gone out several times, and it is not a triumphant return once or twice, victory has been commonplace for him, and it does not arouse much ambition and pride, but this time, the long-lost joy and excitement resurfaced in his heart, looking at the crowds of people cheering at him on both sides of the avenue, Fang Shao's eyes were involuntarily filled with tears.

Since Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the entire land of China has been in a chaotic situation of fragmentation and separation, the glory of the Han Dynasty has been tainted by countless ambitions and blood, etiquette and music have collapsed, the people of Li have suffered a lot of misery, and the people of the world have died.

Finally, 30 years later, the division ended, the world was reunited, and the people no longer had to worry about the endless war, and they could finally live and work in peace and contentment, multiply, and share the peace.

And it was Fang Shao himself who ended this troubled world with his own hands.

When Longzhong followed Kong Ming out of the mountain, Fang Shao was just buying Kong Ming's potential stock, and following him to live a worry-free and dignified life, he never thought of building a career in the past. However, history is so weird, as if there is indeed a pair of invisible hands in the dark, pushing him to the forefront of history little by little.

Finally, at this moment, the deeds he had established made all the outstanding figures of this era under his light, and now he can proudly say that all the people in the world, including the current emperor, will face themselves with an upward gaze.

Throughout the ages, there are only a handful of people who can achieve such feats.

Fang Shao did it.

In the year after the end of the war to destroy Wu, the flames of war were extinguished, and the country's policy began to officially shift to restore the once prosperous economy of the Han Dynasty.

In the spring of that year, the imperial court ordered that after the war and locust plague invaded the Sanwu region, the tax would be waived for two years, and the two prefectures of Qingxu, which had been the least damaged by the war, as well as the southern part of Yuzhou, and the counties in the central and eastern part of Jingzhou, would be halved.

At the same time as reducing taxes and exempting them, the imperial court also issued several policies to encourage farming, ordering all counties to appease the displaced people, reclaim the borderless land, and exempt all newly opened wasteland from taxation for three years.

The year after the fighting subsided, the resistance forces of Wei and Wu had disappeared, and the wounds of the war were slowly healing over time.

In the summer of that year, Fang Shao formally proposed to the imperial court that after continuing to promote the government military system in the Central Plains, the government military system and the Juntian system should be implemented to the south of the Yangtze River.

The government military system is the key to a strong army, and the Juntian system is the foundation of the government military system, these two systems work together to cultivate poor talents for the imperial examination system, Fang Shao can't wait to implement this system, of course, he wants to take advantage of the Central Plains and Wu Di when the scholars have not recovered, they will be strangled in the fall.

Then, unexpectedly, Fang Shao's proposal was resolutely opposed by Pang Tong, and along with Pang Tong's opposition, there were also Sima Yi and other Wei ministers.

For this reason, the two sides also launched a heated debate at the DPRK meeting.

Fang Shao's reason is very clear, Emperor Zhaowu set Juntian, created a government army, and promoted the imperial examination, so as to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and finally defeated the two kingdoms of Wu and Wei, so these three sets of systems should be promoted throughout the world.

Pang Tong is unified by three points, the world is one, and the wartime expedient system of the imperial examination of the government and soldiers is no longer suitable for today's national conditions, not only should not continue to be promoted, but should be gradually changed back to the old system of the two Han Dynasty, Pang Tong even suggested that we can learn from the "Nine Products Zhongzheng System" of the Wei State.

Pang Tong is right, for example, the situation today has indeed changed, but it is not the kind of change that Pang Tong thinks.

In the ruling center of the Han State, like Fang Shao, Jiang Wan and other important ministers of the Jingxiang lineage, although they were also born in the scholar clan, but most of them came from their own declining last scholar clan, and the situation was very different from that of the Cao Wei period.

After more than 20 years of the imperial examination system, many talented scholars from the Han family have risen one after another, from the central court to the locality, everywhere is full of officials from the Han people, among which the outstanding generation has been in the high hall, the implementation of the nine-grade Zhengzhong system, will naturally hurt their interests.

Therefore, Fang Shao did not fight alone, when Pang Tong was in trouble, without Fang Shao's mobilization, many officials from the government and the opposition came to the table one after another, and fought back against the conspiracy of Pang Tong, Sima Yi and others.

As a result, in this year's Great Han Dynasty, a very delicate situation was formed, in the center of the imperial court, because Fang Shao's camp was mostly occupied, public opinion had the upper hand, but at the local level, Pang Tong had the upper hand.

The reason is very simple, most of the local prefectures and counties that support Fang Shao are Qinyi, Liangjing and other places, these places have been practicing the imperial examination system for more than 20 years, and the wealthy families have been hit hard, and a situation has been formed in which the Han people and the last scholars are in power, but these areas are biased after all, and with the eastward shift of the ruling center of the Han State, the influence has gradually declined.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, most of the local officials in these places were continued to serve by the Wei officials who were originally born in the big clans, and these people naturally spared no effort to advocate the restoration of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system in order to restore the privileges of Cao Wei.

As for Wu Di and other officials, because these people are located in remote areas, although they are famous people in Jiangdong, they are not very famous in the whole country, and because of the new fall, they have not become a climate, so they have not participated in this big controversy.

Forming this situation, although Fang Shao was a little unhappy, but it was not completely unexpected by him, he just didn't expect that the energy of the Central Plains Shi clan was so strong, although he designed to kill many representatives of the Shi clan at the beginning, but only relying on the local forces, he was able to form a rivalry with himself, if this force is not suppressed and destroyed, it will be troubled in the future.

What really surprised Fang Shao was that in this national debate over whether to continue to implement the imperial examination system or adopt the Jiupin Zhongzheng system left over from Cao Wei, a crucial figure remained silent.

That person is Prime Minister Zhuge Liang.

(To be continued)