The fourth volume or leap into the abyss

The hexagram said: "Ninety-four: or jump in the abyss, no blame." ”

The Elephant Dictionary says: The dragon may jump into a deep pool, indicating that it can do something without disaster.

The metaphor is to take the dragon leaping into the abyss as a metaphor, the dragon leaps into the deep pool, retreats can hide under the thousands, and can rise outside the clouds.

Chapter 1: Claim the Emperor

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou returned to the Ministry of Industry and started a regular life again. But Liu Hou's life seems to be peaceful on the surface, but in fact, he has been preparing for the next war openly and secretly, and the preparations for materials and soldiers have not stopped for a moment.

The more than 20,000 captives that Liu Hou brought back from Jingzhou did not dare to directly integrate into the army, so Liu Hou sent them to various mining fields, and then recruited some young men and women into the army in these mining fields. In just a few months, he expanded the Hong army to 10,000 men.

The more than 20,000 captives are really a very good human resource, they are all strong and strong people who have been trained for a long time, as long as they are fed, they have the strength to work. After Liu Hou expanded his army, the stewards of various mines welcomed their arrival.

Liu Hou instructed the managers of the mines not to abuse them as long as they did not flee or make trouble. Liu Hou also promised them that as long as they had completed five years of hard labor, he would release them and give them acres of land for them to cultivate, so that they could regain their status as good citizens.

Of course, if anyone is willing to move their families over and settle down in Shu, he will immediately release them and give them enough fertile land and tax exemption for three years.

Time flies like a white horse, and before you know it, it's October. In the tenth lunar month of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an (220 AD), a major event occurred that shocked the world, that is, Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty and became the emperor.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao held the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes, resulting in the decline of imperial power. After decades of conquest, Cao Cao gradually unified the north, was named the king of Wei, and grasped the real power of the Han family.

Cao Cao has feelings for the Han family and his subordinates who have followed him for many years, and he established his own power under the banner of reviving the Han family, of course, he is embarrassed to usurp the Han Dynasty and claim the emperor. When the ministers persuaded him to be emperor, he once said, if the destiny of heaven is in me, I am the king of Zhou Wen.

It means that he wants to follow the example of King Wen of Zhou, who is not the emperor himself, and leaves it to his son to do this. Sure enough, he had only been dead for a few months, and Cao Pi directed a good play of "Zen Rang" and pushed himself to the throne of the emperor.

Cao Pi's power was based on his father Cao Cao, he had no feelings for the Han family, and most of his courtiers were only loyal to Cao Wei.

And Emperor Han Xian had no one to rely on, and in the case that the general trend had gone, in order to find a final miserable but at least more stable home for himself, he had to co-star in this scene with Cao Pi.

At the beginning of the play, Cao Pi's number one Ma Tsai Hua Xin led hundreds of civil and military officials to jointly write a letter to persuade Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to give up the throne to Cao Pi, the king of Wei. They told many reasons, saying how Cao Pi was heroic and extraordinary, how he was destined to be the most suitable person to be the emperor; He also said how the Han family was in decline, how the building was about to fall, and the mandate of heaven could not be violated.

Speaking of later, the ministers went to Emperor Han Xian to make noise and coerce and lure Emperor Han Xian. Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty has been imprisoned for many years, and has already become a frightened bird, looking at the extremely vicious ministers, in order to save his life, he can only issue an edict, expressing his plea for Zen and Cao Pi. He was very reluctant to hand over the jade seal of the country, Cao Pi pretended to excuse himself, and Emperor Han Xian trembled and held the jade seal, not knowing what to do.

After the "three invitations and three concessions", Cao Pi twisted and pinched to refuse and "agreed" to accept the emperor's throne. Since ancient times, the emperor has been on the throne for a long time, obviously coveting that dragon chair for a long time, obviously playing all means, and not hesitating to set off a bloody storm for that position, but when he was about to kick the door, he deliberately pretentious, and repeatedly excused.

However, the most unlucky supporting actor of Qunchen and Emperor Han Xian had to cooperate with him to play this hypocritical show. If anyone dares to act according to the script, then wait for the Nine Clans.

On October 29, the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an, Cao Pi ascended the altar to receive Zen, changed the country name to Wei, changed the Yuan Huang Chu, was for Emperor Wen of Wei, and set the capital Luoyang. At the same time, he respected Cao Cao as Emperor Wu, and the temple name was Taizu. On November 1, Cao Pi enshrined the abdicated emperor as the Duke of Shanyang. At this point, the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which lasted for more than 190 years, officially ended, and the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms era was officially established.

Except for Liu Hou alone, everyone in the world was shocked, Liu Hou knew history, and knew that Cao Pi would probably be the emperor at this time, so he was indifferent to this matter.

The reaction of Shu was very fierce, Liu Bei was adhering to the orthodoxy of the Han family, and now Cao Pi abolished Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and destroyed the temple of the Han family, how could he not be angry. He issued a sharply worded condemnation of Cao Pi, and vowed to continue the temple of the Han family, and to raise troops to eliminate this Han thief and restore the Han family.

After scolding, then, as soon as he turned around, he was also called the emperor. It seems that he has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, but he has always been loyal to the Han family before, and now, the Han Dynasty has been destroyed by Cao Pi, and he can finally be the emperor above board and in a big way.

Liu Bei has strived to stand in the perspective of righteousness in his life, and has earned the name of "benevolence". He claimed that he re-established the Han Dynasty as a clan member of the Han family, in order to continue the temple of the Han family, not for his own selfishness, but I don't know how many people believe in him, at least most of the people in Wei and Wu do not believe it.

Of course, Liu Bei's claim to be the emperor inevitably staged a hypocritical show of "three invitations and three concessions". The prologue of this play is to spread rumors in Yizhou that the last (fourteenth) emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Xie, had been murdered by Cao Pi.

Doing so would allow you to completely disconnect yourself from the fate of continuing to fight to save the Han Emperor. Liu Bei was edicted by the clothes and swore that he would rescue the Han Emperor and support the Han Emperor to rejuvenate the Han Dynasty. This unfinished project has been done for so many years and has not been completed, he himself has long been tired of it, and he has long wanted to do it again, he can be the boss, why do he have to work for others?

Okay, now that it is said that Emperor Han Xian is "dead", then the previous job can naturally be done, after all, the boss is gone, no one pays salaries, what are you doing here?

Then, you can put on your own identity - Uncle Huang, he is an authentic Han family member, and with this identity, he can take on the heavy responsibility of continuing the Han family openly.

After releasing the rumors, Liu Bei mourned in Chengdu, changed his mourning clothes, and posthumously called Liu Xie "Emperor of Filial Piety". This is to create a fait accompli, in order to achieve his political goals, Liu Bei did not hesitate to say that a living person, or a person who had been an emperor, was "dead". It's really Ling Dao who said that if you die, you have to die, and if you don't die, you have to die. You say, what level has he cultivated to the thick black kung fu?

Well, the problem of fame and righteousness has been solved, and now it is time to officially enter the drama meat. At this time, a lot of dragon sets are needed, and the dragon sets are the ministers of Shu Han.

Many civil and military officials rushed to confirm the appearance of Xiangrui, believing that this was a hint from God, indicating that Liu Bei was chosen by God and could be the emperor. So, the ministers wrote to ask Liu Bei to succeed to the emperor, of course Liu Bei had to refuse first, and then the ministers asked again, and then let them, a total of three invitations and three concessions, Liu Bei also half-pushed and half-called the emperor on the spot.

Even Xiangrui came out, and his means were not much better than Cao Pi. Liu Hou secretly scolded those officials who offered auspicious rui as sycophants, and wrote down the names of these people, planning to be vigilant against these sycophants after he took charge of the government in the future.

In February of the second year of the early Huang dynasty (221 AD), perhaps due to the butterfly effect of Liu Hou's arrival, Liu Bei took the throne two months earlier than in history in the south of Wudan Mountain, northwest of Chengdu. The Three Kingdoms were formally established.

Liu Bei was sixty-one years old at the time, changed his name to Zhang Wu, and his country name was still "Han". Amnesty was granted to the world, and Zhuge Liang (then forty-one years old) was appointed as prime minister and Xu Jing was appointed as Situ. Set up hundreds of officials, establish temples, and worship Liu Bang and other emperors.

Liu Bei also appointed Mrs. Gan as the empress, Mrs. Wu as the imperial concubine, and made his son Liu Chan the crown prince, and the daughter of the chariot general Zhang Fei as the crown princess. Liu Yong was appointed as the king of Lu and Liu Li as the king of Liang. Liu Hou didn't care much about other things, but he felt very embarrassed that Liu Bei casually set himself up.

Although he had long known that Liu Bei would marry Zhang Xingcai to himself, and he had played with her since he was a child, and he was very familiar with each other, but announcing his marriage so suddenly still made him feel a little unacceptable. After all, he is only 14 years old, and Zhang Xingcai is only 15 years old, which is the age of the first and second years of junior high school.

In the future, if two men and women of this age get closer, they will be criticized for early love, and now they can get married openly, which is really unimaginable. Fortunately, it is only a marriage, and it is necessary to choose an auspicious day of the zodiac to get married, and this process is quite long, which can be as long as half a year or more.

After talking about Liu Bei's reaction, let's talk about Sun Quan's reaction. Sun Quan is different from Liu Bei, who scolded and intimidated Cao Pi. Instead, he played the role of a sycophant. He wrote to Cao Pi, congratulating Cao Pi on his proclamation as emperor and expressing his willingness to surrender to Cao Wei.

Of course, Cao Pi reciprocated the favor and generously sealed Sun Quan the title of King of Wu, so hello, hello, everyone, Eastern Wu became Cao Wei's honorary vassal state. In fact, in the current form, Wei and Wu have the momentum to unite against Shu Han. The shape shì was very unfavorable to Shu Han.

Speaking of Liu Bei's claim to be the emperor, I have to talk about Fei Yi. In the original history, Fei Yi was relegated to a poor countryside by Liu Bei because of his opposition to Liu Bei's proclamation as emperor. But now that he has been working with Liu Hou for a long time, he has no time to pay attention to Liu Bei's messy affairs, and there is no such thing as writing against Liu Bei's claim to be emperor.

As a result, Fei Yi's fate was inadvertently changed by Liu Hou and was not belittled, and he, Dong Yun and Guo Youyi were both named the prince by Liu Bei and jointly assisted the prince Liu Chan.

These political figures, bigwigs from all over the world appeared in turn, those who called the emperor called the emperor, and those who called the king called the king, which did not have much impact on Liu Hou. Although he was also named the crown prince, according to the convention, the prince could open a mansion and build a government office, and he could form the East Palace Six Rates, but he did these things a few years earlier. The Ministry of Industry and the Hong Army are variants of these things.

Therefore, after Liu Bei made a lot of noise as emperor, he returned to peace, and Liu Hou returned to the Ministry of Industry and continued his monotonous life.