Chapter 50: The Shikoku Era

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou ascended the throne and became emperor, except for the main ministers who had rewards, the rest of the ministers had their own rewards, so I won't repeat them here.

The queen deserves to be Zhang Xingcai, as for Guan Gong saying that he would let his daughter Guan Yinhua also be the queen, Liu Hou perfunctorily said that he would wait until she was rescued before he could be canonized.

In this way, Guan Gong has nothing to say, he can't fight for a woman between two brothers, after all, now the reputation of Guan Yinhua was named the queen by Liu Li, if Liu Hou also named her the queen, a woman with two husbands, a queen and two emperors, it would be really good-looking.

If he really made such a big joke, I believe that Wei and Wu would not have to attack, because the subjects of these two countries would definitely die of laughter.

Zhou Xue was not pulled down, and was made a concubine by Liu Hou. Of course, whether it is Zhang Xingcai or Zhou Xue, they are only the honorary wife of Liu Hou now, and the wedding has not had time to be held, so naturally there is no such thing as having sex.

According to Liu Hou's plan, he wanted to clean up the puppet regime in Chengdu first, and then officially marry them. It is undeniable that Liu Hou likes these two talented, good-looking and virtuous women, but his marriage with them is inevitably mixed with many political factors.

Needless to say, the marriage with Zhang Xingcai was appointed by Liu Bei, and it is undeniable that Liu Bei appointed this family affair because he considered Zhang Fei's status and power.

Zhang Fei had hundreds of thousands of troops, and was stationed in Hanzhong for a long time to confront the Wei State, and his status in the army was transcendent. In addition, he is Liu Bei's sworn brother, and he is also very famous among the government and the opposition, and it is of great significance to get his support.

Of course, Guan Gong's status is not bad, and Zhang Fei is in the middle of the best, and now Liu Hou has the support of Guan and Zhang, which is equivalent to the support of most of the Shu generals and subjects.

As for the canonization of Zhou Xue as a concubine, there are also great political considerations, and now Liu Hou has a large number of prisoners of Eastern Wu, both generals and soldiers, and the soldiers of Eastern Wu, whether they are soldiers or generals, have high respect for Zhou Yu. Then, if Zhou Yu's daughter is a concubine, the meaning of her politics can be imagined.

The year name is set as Jianxing, Liu Hou will definitely not be able to do such a cultural thing, so the era name is still taken by Zhuge Liang, Liu Hou doesn't care about it, the word Jianxing sounds very happy and auspicious, so he depends on him.

According to Liu Hou's idea, he wanted to use the Yellow Emperor's chronology, that is, to use the year of the Yellow Emperor's birth as the first year to calculate the year. As long as he makes this start, it is very likely that future emperors will follow this example, so that the chaos of the various emperors can be ended.

According to the current method of the emperor's year name, it is undoubtedly very troublesome to calculate a certain time in history, and it is even more troublesome to calculate the year name of an emperor and an emperor, and some emperors change several era names in their lives.

If the Yellow Emperor's chronology is unified, there will be no zài problem in the future, and future generations will look at the history books, and the chronological order of historical events will be clear at a glance. After Liu Hou proposed this concept, Zhuge Liang also praised this concept as very good, but the problem is that it is impossible to accurately deduce the birth time of the Yellow Emperor now, so it cannot be implemented for the time being.

Zhuge Liang built yì and waited for the world to be settled, and then organized personnel to carry out this activity. Liu Hou also understands that this belongs to the merit of civil governance and is beneficial to the world, but there is no condition to do it in the war period.

However, in order to commemorate Liu Bei, Liu Hou plans not to use the new year name this year, this year is still called Zhang Wu for three years, and he plans to start using Jianxing's new year name on New Year's Day next year.

This is a filial piety move, and Zhuge Liang is also very much in favor of it. From this time on, the Three Kingdoms period became the Shikoku period, but this Shikoku period was bound to be a very short period. Due to the existence of the two Great Han Dynasties at the same time, the people of Wei and Wu habitually referred to Liu Li's Han Dynasty as the Shu Han Dynasty, and Liu Hou's Han Dynasty as the Southern Han Dynasty.

After Liu Hou ascended the throne as emperor, except for the title of him from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to His Majesty, nothing else has changed, and he has not had time to live a leisurely and comfortable life as an emperor for the first half of the day, and he is still busy every day.

He was not busy with political affairs, but with military affairs. Liu Hou entrusted all the political affairs to Zhuge Liang, he knew that Zhuge Liang had the ability to handle the political affairs well, and he himself continued to step up the training of the army, hoarded supplies, and intensively prepared to send troops to Chengdu.

Only 10 days after Liu Hou ascended the throne, the Hong army completed preparations for an expedition. This is due to the high efficiency that the Hong Army has been training in the campaign over the past few years.

From Jingzhou to Nanzhong, to Lingnan and finally back to Jingzhou, the Hong army fought all the way, marched all the way, and traveled more than 10,000 miles.

After marching thousands of miles and fighting for several years, the Hong army has long been honed into an efficient killing machine. As long as an order is given, all the parts of this machine will move, the gears will bite each other, and the linkage rod and belt will drive, driving the whole machine to run efficiently.

Therefore, in just ten days, the entire army completed the process from rest and recuperation to preparation of supplies to mobilization for war.

On the first day of the seventh month, it is advisable to: make a bed, set up a horse, sacrifice, plastic painting, open light, travel, haircut, logging, make beams, open pillar eyes, make toilets, hunt, break ground, enter the burial, remove clothes, become clothes, move the coffin, start saving, repair the grave, and erect a monument.

Don't: make a stove, open a door, build a bridge, open the market, and bury.

Zhuge Liang thought that this day was suitable for the army to go out, so Liu Hou swore on this day to go out, and Zhuge Liang and Guan Gong were sent ten miles away.

The strategic location of Jingzhou is very important, and it needs to be guarded by large personnel to prevent Wei and Wu from taking the opportunity to attack.

Guan Gongwei is mighty, but it is far behind in terms of strategy, Sima Yi of Wei is as cunning as a fox, Lu Xun of Eastern Wu is as sinister as a snake, and Liu Hou is not at ease when he leaves Guan Gong in Jingzhou.

Zhuge Liang is different, his wisdom will not be worse than Sima Yi, Lu Xun and others, with him, with Guan Gong's bravery, Jingzhou can be safe.

However, the main deployment to ensure that Wei and Wu did not send troops to interfere in the internal affairs of Shu was not the soldiers and horses stationed in Jingzhou and Zhang Fei's corps in Hanzhong. It was the "Kowloon Seizure" operation planned by Liu Hou and Guo Youzhi before.

Liu Hou has told Zhuge Liang in detail about this action in the past few days, and Zhuge Liang saw some shortcomings of this action with his old and spicy eyes, and put forward a lot of suggestions for improvement to make this action more perfect.

A few days before Liu Hou took the oath to go on the expedition, the "Nine Dragons to seize the heir" operation had been quietly carried out in the capitals of Wei and Wu.

Jianye, the capital of Wu State. In the sixteenth year of Jian'an (211 AD), Sun Quan moved the administrative office from Jingkou to Moling. In the seventeenth year of Jian'an (212), Sun Quan built a stone city here and changed the Moling Tomb to Jianye.

Stone city (also known as Shishou City) is located at the west foot of Qingliang Mountain, is built on the basis of Jinlingyi according to the mountain and built, its city wall is majestic, the stone cliff towers, stands across the water, the river controls Huai, it is the fortress of the river defense of the Dongwu water army and the stronghold of the city defense, Sun Quan built this city first to consider the military use: "use the storage of military rations, equipment".

The circumference of Stone Town is twenty miles, with two cities, Zi and Luocheng, and the business is prosperous, and the grand occasion is very large. Wu's famous minister Zhang Hong thought that there was a son of heaven in this place, and persuaded his lord to set the capital here.

In fact, as early as the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208 AD), Zhuge Liang sent an envoy to Sun Wu on the eve of the Battle of Chibi. In the fifteenth year of Jian'an (210 AD), Liu Bei went to visit Sun Quan, and when he passed through Moling, he once again persuaded Sun Quan to set the capital with him.

The place where Sun Quan lived was called "Taichu Palace", which was rebuilt on the basis of the original general's mansion built by Sun Ce. The circumference of the Taichu Palace is 500 zhang, and there are 5 palace gates in the south, among which the main gate is called the bus gate, and the east, west and north sides each open a door, which is called Canglong Gate, White Tiger Gate and Xuanwu Gate respectively. Its main hall is called the "Divine Dragon Hall".

Early this morning, the White Tiger Gate of Taichu Palace was opened, and a guard of honor came out of it. This guard of honor is not magnificent, only to see that the cars are neatly driven, the battle is bright, the flags are fluttering, and the drums are sounding in unison.

At the beginning are twelve dragon flags, divided into two columns on the left and right, and the flags are held by twelve soldiers. Then there is one side of the Beidou Flag, one of the Xuyi is in the front, and one side of the leopard tail is in the back, and there are three armorers. Further back, there are two tiger and leopard flags and six elephant flags, divided into two columns.

Then there were two columns of armor soldiers, Sun Quan was dressed in armor, riding a tall horse sandwiched between these two teams of armor soldiers, and sixty-four flags were placed behind him:

Door flag, sun flag, moon flag, green dragon, white tiger, wind, cloud, thunder, rain, river, river, Huai, Ji flag, Tianma, Tianlu, Bai Ze, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu and other flags, wood, fire, earth, gold, water five-star flag, Wuyue flag, bear flag, Luan flag and twenty-eight flags, each six lines; Each flag uses five armor soldiers, one person holds the flag, and four people hold the bow and crossbow.

Looking at this battle, it was like Sun Quan was going to drive his own expedition, in fact, where is Sun Quan still having a place to ask for now, he just came out to hunt.

Sun Quan has been annoyed recently, hundreds of thousands of troops have been wiped out by the prince of Western Shu, and he can only lead the remnants of the army to flee back to the territory of Eastern Wu in disgrace. He knew in his heart that the fact that Dongwu had been crippled by this prince of Xishu.

In this era of respecting strength, the army in hand is the only reliance, don't look at the territory of Soochow has not been lost much, but the army has lost most of it, how can there be so many people left to defend the huge territory.

Sun Quan had a feeling that the edifice was about to collapse, so during this time, he was very troubled, and often lost his temper, using the excuse to whip the chamberlain and punish the maid to hide his inner fear.

The ministers persuaded Sun Quan bitterly, but he still had to be treated for heart disease, and now Dongwu was facing a predicament that had never been seen since the Battle of Chibi, so Sun Quan was not anxious.

The ministers made suggestions and suggestions, some said that they would join forces with Cao to fight against Shu, some said that the conscription age would be relaxed to 14 to 40 years old, and some said that they would launch another sneak attack on the Shu army......

There are a lot of strategies, but none of them really work. Until news came from Chengdu that Liu Li ascended the throne as emperor in Chengdu. This means that there will be chaos in Shu Han, and Liu Chan, the prince of Western Shu, who has always been against him, will finally be deflated this time.

After hearing the news, Sun Quan's mood suddenly improved a lot, and he finally had the appetite to eat a bowl of rice and drink two sips of wine that day. Not long after, he received news that Liu Hou, the prince of Western Shu, had ascended the throne as emperor in Jingzhou.

The enemy's ascension to the throne as the emperor was not a happy thing, but the significance of this matter lies in the fact that the division of Shu Han is confirmed, and the civil war of Shu Han is about to start, and he must have no time to take care of himself. Soochow ushered in a rare respite, and his kingdom was temporarily saved.

When Sun Quan heard the news, his worries for many days were swept away, and he clapped his hands and laughed. Immediately feast the ministers and discuss state affairs. In the end, the monarch of Eastern Wu set the next course of action:

1. Launched a war of public opinion, spread Liu Chan's improper remarks, and promoted more chaos in Shu;

2. Take advantage of this precious respite to restore the strength of the army. Do a good job in persuading farmers to do a good job of restoring agricultural production;

3. Again show goodwill to Cao Wei and consolidate the alliance between the two countries;

4. Be prepared to intervene militarily in the affairs of Shu, but in view of the fact that Eastern Wu is now the weakest military strength among the Three Kingdoms or the Four Kingdoms, it will not take the initiative to attack, wait and see, and wait for the opportunity to pick up the bargain after the Wei State launches.