"Xiang'er, what's the matter?" Liu Zhang looked at Sun Shangxiang, who walked in with a gloomy heart, and said.

Sun Shangxiang stepped forward and took Liu Zhang's hand, "Husband, Xiang'er heard that the situation in Jiangdong has stabilized, and my brother is now trapped in Wucheng, Xiang'er wants to go back and have a look, is it okay?" ”

Sun Shangxiang did not tell Liu Zhang that the Jiangdong clan and the Sun family had a blood feud, and Sun Shangxiang felt that Sun Quan did not know, and if he knew, he would definitely not confront the clan army like this.

Sun Shangxiang wanted to go back and tell the second brother, otherwise the second brother would still be kept in the dark.

"Do you have to go back?" Liu Zhang didn't want Sun Shangxiang to go back, but if Sun Shangxiang had to go back, he didn't want to stop him.

"Husband, since Xiang'er is married to you, she is your person, and she will definitely come back."

Liu Zhang nodded, hugged Sun Shangxiang and said softly, "Be careful on the road." ”

Sending Sun Shangxiang out of the mansion, Liu Zhang let out a sigh of relief, and Huang Yueying said quietly beside him: "I can't see it, in a short period of time, the lord and Sun Xiaomei have such a good relationship." ”

"Feelings can be cultivated, who is born with them, but I'm not sighing for this, I'm thinking, some things are really evil."

……

In recent years, the king of Shu led the Sichuan army to quell the chaotic party, eliminate Zhang Lu, Liu Biao, Han Sui, Ma Teng, Liu Bei, defeat Cao Cao, deter Jiangdong, and move the world.

For the Han Dynasty to recover Hanzhong, Jingzhou, Liangzhou, Guanzhong, more horses to step on Xiqiang, pacify Wuxi Nanban, sweep the Western Regions, and become famous.

Over the years, under the rule of the King of Shu, the five grains have been abundant, the people live and work in peace and contentment, everyone praises the great achievements of the King of Shu, and now it is a successful trial of high-yield crops in the land of Guanzhong. Grace to all people.

It's so mighty. It is comparable to the sages and saints of the ancients.

It has been nearly two years since the Han Dynasty had no son of heaven. The first emperor had no children, the king of Shu was the descendant of the queen of the Han Dynasty, with merit and virtue, both ability and political integrity, and Weichen proposed that the queen mother make a decree to establish the king of Shu as the emperor, ascend to the great treasure, and support the Han Dynasty. ”

Above the early dynasty. Xu Jing made a generous statement and bowed to the Empress Dowager Fushou, Zhang Song, Jiang Wan and other civil officials came out one after another: "Please make an order for the Empress Dowager to establish the King of Shu as the emperor, ascend to the Great Treasure, and support the Great Han." ”

Fu Shou obviously didn't know that there was this, looked at Liu Zhang on the side, and found that Liu Zhang was also frowning, not knowing what to think. Fu Shou faced the ministers, his face indifferent. He said to the ministers: "Do you mean that by waiting?" ”

"I'll wait for all." Zhang Song, Jiang Wan and others shouted together.

Xu Jing said: "The Queen Mother's mother is the world, but after all, it is a phoenix body, and the Han Dynasty cannot last without a king, please ask the Queen Mother to play it to comfort the hope of the people." ”

Xu Jing's tone was threatening, obviously if Fu Shou disagreed, he would say more fierce words to force the palace, and the ministers with their heads down all raised their eyelids and looked at Fu Shou.

"Zhongqing is flat." Fu Shou's face did not fluctuate, and he stood up from his seat: "In the past few years, the King of Shu has eliminated thieves for the Han Dynasty and worked for the benefit of all the people.

The first emperor has no children, and the king of Shu is a royal family, with the heart of all the people, enough to be orthodox, all the ministers ask for help, the palace is allowed to play, and the king of Shu is invited to ascend to the treasure on an auspicious day. ”

A group of ministers in the hall almost didn't have time to react, they didn't expect Fu Shou to agree so easily, and they were about to kneel on the ground to thank him, when suddenly Liu Zhang shouted: "Wait a minute." ”

Liu Zhang walked out from the left front and saluted Fu Shou: "Queen Mother, this matter still needs to be discussed." ”

The ministers thought that Liu Zhang was a courtesy resignation, and was about to persuade them, but Liu Zhang stopped them coldly, bowed to Fu Shou, and said to Huang Yueying and Zhang Ren: "You come out with me." ”

When he arrived outside the palace, Liu Zhang said to Huang Yueying and Zhang Ren: "They asked me to be the emperor, I don't know, do you know?" ”

Zhang Renyu said: "The last general has heard some rumors. ”

"Then why don't you tell this king?" Liu Zhang said coldly.

Zhang Renzheng was speechless, and Huang Yueying said: "My lord, you can't blame General Zhang, nor can you blame other ministers, since ancient times, ministers have shared worries for the monarch."

The lord is not a rigid person, there are no outsiders here, Yueying will say it directly, this is equivalent to usurpation, how can this kind of thing be discussed with the king, isn't this trapping the king in disloyalty and injustice?

Yueying also heard some rumors before, but she didn't stop it, Yueying felt that it was better not to let the lord know about these things. ”

"Okay, even if I don't know, Yueying, Zhang Ren." Liu Zhang said to Huang Yueying and Zhang Ren: "Do you approve of me being the emperor?" ”

Zhang Ren said: "Regardless of whether the lord is the emperor or not, Zhang Ren will follow the lord." ”

Huang Yueying had already heard some clues from Liu Zhang's tone, and frowned: "Lord, don't you have the intention of becoming the emperor?" ”

"Huh~~~" Liu Zhang glanced at the sky, let out a sigh of relief, and said to Huang Yueying: "Yueying, you know me, I do so much, not for the Han royal family, but to let the new deal take root in the Han Dynasty and remove the rotten smell left by the clan."

So, even if you say usurpation, I, Liu Zhang, have never hesitated to do it, and I never thought of returning the throne to the current royal orthodoxy, I can tell you two now, this emperor, I, Liu Zhang, have made it, but. ”

Liu Zhang breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not at this time to be the emperor, and now being the emperor is not good for me or the Sichuan army." ”

"Why?" Even Huang Yueying was a little incomprehensible, and said to Liu Zhang: "Lord, you should know that in our current ruling area, the proportion of the clan is very small, but there are many commercial classes that purely support the lord.

The people support the lord even more, who the Son of Heaven is is not so important to them, the important thing is who makes them live well, if someone else is the Son of Heaven, it will make them uneasy.

What's more, the lord's exploits in Xiqiang, Nanhuang, Wuxi, and the Western Regions, this is something that every Han person should be proud of, and those simple people will also be proud.

And those families outside the territory, they are already at odds with us, do we still need to curry favor with them?

There is no harm in being called emperor, but it is good.

Now that the Han Dynasty has no son of heaven, why doesn't Cao Cao and Sun Quan dare to be the emperor? Because the lord is more qualified than them, if they are all emperors, the lords will definitely be emperors.

But the descendants of the royal family of the lord and the queen mother, who are supported by the queen mother, must be much more orthodox than them, and they are afraid of this.

What the enemy is afraid of, we will do anything, since Cao Sun is afraid that we will be called emperor, then we will be called emperor, Yueying believes that as long as the lord is called the emperor, even if Cao Cao Sun Quan follows the emperor, the people of the world will feel that the lord is more legitimate and has more influence.

In other words, Cao Cao's Sun Quan at that time became a real illegal regime, and the so-called famous teacher is not very beneficial to us?

We are about to use troops in the Xiahetao area, Yueying thinks that this is conducive to our troops, what is the lord worried about? ”

After Huang Yueying finished speaking, she looked at Liu Zhang, Liu Zhang stroked her forehead with her palm, and said to Huang Yueying: "Yueying, I know all of this, but you didn't think of the real harm of being the emperor." ”

"The real bad?"

"After becoming emperor, what should I do first?" Liu Zhang asked.

Huang Yueying said: "Reward the ministers and give amnesty to the world." ”

Liu Zhang looked at Zhang Ren: "General Zhang, what official position do you think I will canonize you after I call the emperor?" ”

"The last general will not dare to ......"

"Don't talk nonsense, tell the truth."

Zhang Ren only felt that his scalp was numb, and he hesitated and replied, "Maybe I will be a general." ”

"Then what official position can I give you in the future?"

"This ......"

"If I don't seal you in the future, are you still willing to fight Liu Zhang for me? Do you still have the heart to go in? ”

Zhang Ren hurriedly said: "My lord, no matter what position Zhang Ren holds, he is willing to go to the soup for the lord." ”

"That's you, that's you, Zhang Ren, what about someone else? Do you think everyone is the same as you? ”

Liu Zhang turned his head and said to Huang Yueying: "Yueying, you should understand, right?" After I become the emperor, the great vassals, maybe even the king will be sealed out, can I afford it?

When the official position is decided, most of the ministers and generals have no enterprising spirit, how can we still fight? Don't forget that there are a lot of low-ranking officials below us.

To put it mildly, although the clan is very corrupt, most of the clan vision is definitely a little longer than the Hanmen, and the ideals are a little bigger, if I Liu Zhang does not have an official position to give them, their fighting spirit will be at least half weaker.

They are now looking forward to this king being the emperor in the future, and they can get a bigger official position, so they work hard, okay, this king is going to be the emperor now, and then the official positions are all set, and there is not much room for growth, what are they pursuing?

If there are any more generals and literati to serve, what official position will I give them? Now that half of the world has not been reunified, there must be a lot of officials who need to be absorbed, what should we do when the time comes? Have you taken these people off the official positions now? ”

Huang Yueying lived in the late Han Dynasty, the only three times before the world turmoil, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Six Kingdoms were unified by Qin Shi Huang.

Chu and Han competed, and Liu Bang dominated the world.

At the end of the third Western Han Dynasty, Guangwu Zhongxing.

The three of them were all called emperors when the world was basically unified, so Huang Yueying didn't learn from it, but Liu Zhang knew that many emperors in later generations were because they were called emperors first, which caused the entire regime to lose its fighting spirit, and finally fell in a corner of peace until it collapsed.

There are too many such examples, and Liu Zhang doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, so Liu Zhang would rather let the Empress Dowager Fushou be the regent, and he never thought of being the emperor, but he didn't expect the ministers to give him such a play.

Liu Zhang eased his tone and said to Huang Yueying: "I said so much, that is, if I am the emperor now, the fighting spirit of our entire Sichuan army will decline, including civil officials and military generals.

And if you don't become the emperor, everyone has a thought, what will be the prime minister and general in the future, everyone will have a hope, and they will have more fighting spirit.

I don't want the blood of the Sichuan army to cool down because of the emperor, do you understand? ”

Huang Yueying and Zhang Ren no longer spoke, but considered Liu Zhang's words, and after a while, Huang Yueying said, "Lord, I understand what you mean." ”

Liu Zhang nodded.

The three of them walked into the main hall again, and the main hall, which was originally full of discussions, immediately quieted down, and they all wanted to know the results of the discussion between Liu Zhang and the head of the Sichuan army. (To be continued......)