The Zhaoyang Hall of the Marquis of Wuhou Mansion in Jiangdong is built in imitation of the Xuanshu Hall of the Weiyang Palace, the royal palace of the Western Han Dynasty.

Weiyang Palace was a royal palace in the Western Han Dynasty. The present site is located about 3 kilometers northwest of present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi. At that time, it was located in the southwest of Chang'an City, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty. Because it is in the west of Changle Palace, it was called the West Palace in the Han Dynasty. In the seventh year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (200 BC), Emperor Gao of the Great Han Dynasty ordered to collect 20,000 people to build Weiyang Palace, the new palace of the New Han Dynasty, on the basis of the palace room and Zhangtai of the Qin Dynasty. In the same year, Emperor Gao moved the capital of the Han Dynasty from the old capital Liyang to Chang'an. After Emperor Gao's eldest son, Emperor Hui of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ying, ascended the throne, the construction of Weiyang Palace was basically completed, and since then it has become the main palace of the Western Han Dynasty royal family. From the first year to the fifth year of Emperor Hui (194~190 BC), Emperor Hui recruited 10,000 people to build the palace wall on the periphery of Weiyang Palace.

Weiyang Palace, its circumference is twenty-eight miles. The front hall is fifty zhang, fifteen zhang deep, and thirty-five zhang high. In the palace, there are Xuanroom, Qilin, Jinhua, Chengming, Wutai, Hook Yi Palace, etc., in addition, there are Shoucheng, Long live, Guangming, Jiaofang, Qingliang, Yongyan, Yutang, Shou'an, Pingzuo, Xuande, Dongming, Suiyu, Phoenix, Tongguang, Qutai, White Tiger, Yilan, Wuyuan and other palaces. With a total area of about 5 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the size of nearly 7 Forbidden City in Beijing, its grandeur can be seen.

The word Weiyang comes from the Book of Songs: "How is the night? Nightfall". "Weiyang" means endless, continuous. In "Song of Long Hatred", it is said: "The return of the pond is still the same, and the liquid hibiscus is not Yangliu."

Weiyang Palace was also the place where the Han Dynasty's monarchs and ministers met. The overall layout of the period is rectangular and surrounded by walls on all sides. The east and west walls are 2150 meters long, the north and south walls are 2250 meters long, the whole palace area is about 5 square kilometers, accounting for about one-seventh of the total area of the Han capital Chang'an City at that time, the longer Le Palace is slightly smaller, but the magnificence of the building itself is excessive. The palace gate is built on all sides, only the east gate and the north gate have que. There are more than 40 rooms in the palace, there are six hills and a number of pools, nearly 100 large and small portals, and there is a pavilion road between the Changle Palace.

In the seventh year of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty (200 B.C.), the palace was built by the prime minister Xiao He, and it was built extremely luxuriously at that time, it was built on a high platform, consisting of a number of palaces and pavilions, and the surrounding area was about 8,900 meters. It is made up of a large, densely packed group of palaces. The palace is lined with pavilions, known as "thousands of households". There is also a huge phoenix threshold more than 20 zhang high.

Although Sun Quan had some bad intentions, he ordered someone to build today's Zhaoyang Hall in imitation of the Weiyang Palace Xuan Room of the Western Han Dynasty. However, due to the limited financial resources of the Jiangdong Group, the scale and style of the Zhaoyang Palace naturally cannot be compared with the imperial palace in Chang'an City, the imperial capital of Xijing of the Great Unification Han Dynasty. However, even such a copycat version of Weiyang Palace is still presentable, and there is no lack of imperial spirit.

The celebrant of the Hou Mansion stood outside the Zhaoyang Hall to roll his name and announce the beginning of the court meeting. Jiangdong Wenwu entered the Zhaoyang Hall in two columns in an orderly manner. Wenchen was headed by Changshi Zhang Zhao, and the military general was headed by Cheng Pu, the governor of the right capital. So what about our wise and martial Zhou Dudu? Why is the military general headed by Cheng Pu? I want to explain here that although our Zhou Yu Governor has a prominent position in Jiangdong, he is actually very powerful, and he is quite relied on by Wu Hou Sun Quan. However, the ranks of Jiangdong civil and military are sorted according to their respective titles and official positions. Among the Jiangdong military generals, the highest title is not our left governor Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin, but the Jiangdong veteran who has experienced three dynasties, Cheng Pucheng Demou, the right capital governor.

Cheng Pu, the word Demou, is a native of Tuyin (now Fengrundong, Hebei). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was a military general of Eastern Wu, and there were three monarchs of Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and Sun Quan. He once followed Sun Jian to defeat the Yellow Turban and Dong Zhuo, and helped Sun Ce pacify Jiangdong. After Sun Ce's death, he assisted Sun Quan with Zhang Zhao and others, and crusaded against the bandits in Jiangdong, with outstanding achievements. Cheng Pu was the oldest among the generals of Eastern Wu and was respectfully called "Cheng Gong".

In the ancient Chinese society, which has a fine tradition of ranking seniors according to seniority, Cheng Pu, as the first veteran of the Jiangdong Group to follow Sun Jian's father and son to fight the world, can imagine his lofty status. Even if Wuhou Sun Quan saw Cheng Pu in private, he had to call Uncle Cheng obediently, not to mention Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu, who were pink and tender rookies who only joined the Jiangdong Group in the Sun Ce era. Therefore, at the beginning of the Battle of Chibi, Cheng Pu was dissatisfied with Zhou Yu's young age and overshadowed himself and was entrusted with important tasks, so he always disobeyed Zhou Yu when he was working. But even so, our Metropolitan Governor Zhou Yu still can't do anything with him! Based on this alone, you can see how much Cheng Pu's gang is dragged within the Jiangdong Group. Even a strong man like Zhou Yu can't hold his tail and not retreat when he encounters this old guy.

As a veteran minister of Jiangdong, he has a special affection for Jiangdong Group. The Koto Group is like his child, and he has watched it grow up little by little. Jiangdong Group can have such a scale today is inseparable from the bloody struggle of these veterans. It is precisely because of this special feeling that Cheng Pu is very resolute on the issue of whether to surrender to Cao Cao, and swears not to surrender! This guy is the leader of the Jiangdong main battle faction who is fighting with the surrender faction led by Zhang Zhao as much as water and fire. And he supported Huang Gai, Han Dang, Zhou Tai and other old Jiangdong military generals Xungui Group who started with martial arts in the Sun Jian era.

Our Governor of Zhou is actually a representative of the third political force that is free from the main battle faction and the surrender faction. Standing behind him were tens of thousands of elite sailors in Jiangdong and Jiangdong martial arts upstarts who rose in the Sun Ce era such as Lu Meng, Gan Ning, and Ling Tong. However, the status of this group of people within the Jiangdong Group was not high at this time, and most of them were in the middle and lower levels. They still lack the right to speak and influence the political situation of the Jiangdong group, let alone influence the development of the DPRK situation. Therefore, it is natural for Zhou Dudu to become the spokesman of these middle and lower-level generals, and become the leader of the third political force in addition to the two major political forces in Jiangdong.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Yu, the third political force that is free from the war and the two major political forces, has unexpectedly become the key to breaking the political balance in Jiangdong and influencing the political trend of Jiangdong. This is also the reason why on the day Zhou Yu returned to Chaisang, the civil and military ministers of Jiangdong visited one after another.

"The auspicious time has come, and the ministers will come to court early!" The celebrant finished singing. The guards of the Hou Mansion slowly closed the door of the Zhaoyang Palace.

In the hall, all the civil and military officers sat in two columns on the left and right. Sun Quan was dressed in the court clothes of the Marquis of Wu of the Han Dynasty, and slowly walked up to the main hall with the support of his attendants. The reason why the attendants need to support him is not to say that there is anything wrong with Sun Quan's body, but it is a kind of etiquette. When Shusun Tong made the court ceremony for Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, he formulated the court ceremony of the Han Dynasty according to the Zhou rites. Although the world was in turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty, the royal family declined. However, after most of the princes came to power, they had bad intentions and acted arrogantly, and most of them were still imitating the court etiquette of the Han family. Sun Quan is no exception. This man imitated the Weiyang Palace to establish the Wuhou Mansion, and imitated the words and deeds of the Han Dynasty to regulate the civil and military affairs in Jiangdong, and his disobedience was clearly revealed. But none of the Jiangdong civil and military dared to say so. These guys may be more than Sun Quan to support Sun Quan to ascend the throne and become emperor, after all, it is a huge temptation that no one can resist from the dragon's merits. But at the moment, they are no longer in this mood, and how long the stormy Jiangdong Group can exist lies in today's court meeting.

At this moment, all the civil and military forces in the Zhaoyang Hall have already gathered enough energy, waiting to make the most difficult fight with the other party later. Only Chang Shi Lusu, who was sitting under Zhang Zhao's head, was calm and content. Because this guy knows the way, in fact, the ending has already been finalized when Zhou Yu opened the Nanmu box last night.

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