On July 5, the seventh year of Zhang Wu, Liu Bei, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, died in the back garden of the Xiangyang Imperial Palace at the age of 67.

The news was announced to the world, and the people in the south were all sad and sad.

Even many Wei people in the north who are concerned about the Han family and have been waiting for the return of the king are all wailing in pain and grief.

Liu Bei not only has a reputation for benevolence and righteousness in the north, but also does bring benefits to the people in the north.

He loved the people like a son in the plain country, and benefited many people in Xuzhou and Yuzhou.

What's more, several Northern Expeditions have done nothing to the people, and even give money and food to the poor at the bottom, so that his fame will spread all over the world.

It can be said that Liu Bei rose on the wind because of his fame, and when he fell, he also made the world cry because of his fame.

I don't know how many people in the north learned of his death, and erected a Ming Jing for Liu Bei and served the wood master.

The custom of the wood owner from the Shang and Zhou dynasties is that the later generations commonly talked about the worship of the spiritual tablet, and every household worships Liu Bei, which shows that Liu Bei's death has made countless people mourn.

And the saddest thing is naturally the people and ministers in the south.

For this reason, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang set up a mourning hall inside and outside the palace for the southern princes, officials, generals, families, and even the people to mourn.

Since the plain country, Liu Bei's mansion has not been defended to the people, as long as there is something to find him, he can be unimpeded after the ceremony.

Therefore, the imperial court also hung up a plain white banner outside the palace, built a mourning hall venue, and placed Liu Bei's clothes in a coffin, so that the people of the city could come by themselves.

For a time, there was a long queue outside the palace, and tens of thousands of people came to the venue every day to mourn Liu Bei.

In addition, a large number of ethnic minority barbarian tribes in Nanzhongningzhou, Jingnan Xiangzhou, Lingnan Jiaozhou, Southeast Yuezhou and other places also had a large number of leaders go to Xiangyang in person to mourn for Liu Bei.

When the front-line officers and men in Guanzhong, Henan, and Huainan heard the news, all the three armies mourned. The whole country in the south is mourning, and there is an endless stream of mourners who go to Xiangyang.

A month later, Liu Bei was officially buried and buried in Huiling in Jingnan Mountain, and the crown prince Liu Chan ascended the throne as emperor at the age of twenty-one. Respect Empress Wu and her biological mother Concubine Gan as the queen mother of the two palaces, amnesty to the world, and did not change the yuan.

For example, when Liu Xie ascended the throne, he continued his father's year name Zhongping for six years, and it was not until the second year that he changed the Yuan to Chuping.

Later, when Cao Pi and Liu Chan ascended the throne, they changed the Yuan to Huang Chu and Jianxing, so it was possible to change the Yuan or not.

This time, Liu Chan continued Zhang Wu and did not immediately change the yuan.

August 11.

In the Deyang Hall of the Xiangyang Imperial Palace, after Liu Bei was buried, Liu Chan held a court meeting.

Liu Chan sat on the main seat, wearing the robes of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and dozens of ministers such as Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Shen Chen, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Jiang Wan, Ma Liang, Yang Yi, Dong He, Deng Hong, and Zhou Lin sat left and right.

In fact, there are many important matters to be discussed at this meeting, such as the discussion, the military discussion, the political discussion, the agricultural discussion, etc., according to the topic, the counselor Yin Mo took the lead in raising questions.

"The first emperor discussed."

He said.

Liu Chan looked around and said, "Prime Minister." ”

Zhuge Liang was slightly tired, he hadn't had much rest during this time, and shook his feather fan lightly and said: "The minister has discussed with the general and the hussar general, and the first emperor's nickname should be "Zhaolie". ”

This is a temple number, not a temple number, the selection of temple numbers in the Han Dynasty was very strict, and only seven emperors in the two Han Dynasty had temple numbers.

And it doesn't mean that you can select if you want to, you need to build a temple.

Building a temple is a relatively long process, such as building a temple, placing the wooden owner, offering sacrifices to heroes, etc., all of which are exquisite.

For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che was also considered a great talent among the emperors of the Han Dynasty, but his temple name was not on the occasion of his son Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, but was posthumously sealed after his great-grandson Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Ai had ascended the throne, and it took nearly 20 years.

There is also Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ai is also an outstanding emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, and his temple number was not posthumously awarded Zhongzong twice until the end of the Western Han Dynasty Emperor Ping Emperor and the early Eastern Han Dynasty Emperor Guangwu Emperor.

Therefore, in history, Liu Bei has always only been nicknamed "Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty", and the temple number has not been until Liu Yuan, the founding emperor of the Han and Zhao dynasties, during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, posthumously named him "Lie Zu".

At present, the Southern Han Dynasty continued to continue the policy of strict selection of temple numbers and nicknames during the Han Dynasty, and decided to build a temple for Liu Bei first, wait until the temple is completed, and then trace the merits and demerits of Liu Bei's life, and finally select a temple number for him.

It's a protracted process that can take more than a decade or even decades. Therefore, it is now a discussion, not a temple number. If Liu Chan can dominate the world in the future, he may be able to posthumously seal the temple number for Liu Bei.

Hearing the nickname "Zhaolie", Liu Chan looked at the people below and said, "Do you have any objections? ”

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"The minister seconded the proposal."

Everyone responded one after another, thinking that there was no problem with this nickname.

At that moment, Yin Mo said again: "Military discussion." ”

Zhuge Liang got up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister wants to withdraw the soldiers and horses in Henan. ”

The new Tiger General Lai Min said: "Prime Minister, the first emperor has been on the Northern Expedition all his life, and before he died, he shouted the great cause of the Northern Expedition, how can he retire at this time?" ”

Zhuge Liang frowned and said: "Now that the Northern Expedition has been going on for nearly two years, we have already achieved Guanzhong and Huainan, and now the first emperor has died of illness, the morale of the army is low, and the grain and grass are also a little unsustainable, and it is not a good thing to continue the stalemate." ”

"Humph!"

Lai Min snorted coldly: "Isn't it the prime minister's responsibility to keep the grain and grass on?" Your Majesty sits on the entire south, Jingzhou, Jiangdong, and Bashu are everywhere where grain is produced. This should be due to the prime minister's lack of governance. ”

As soon as his words came out, many people looked at him in surprise, never expecting Lai Min to be so bold and actually accuse his prime minister.

You must know that the prime minister is the minister of the first emperor, and all major national affairs are tied to the prime minister, where did he get the courage?

However, what everyone didn't know was that when Lai Min was the prince's family commander before, because Liu Bei was still there, he didn't dare to hold on to Zhuge Liang, but now that Liu Bei died and Liu Chan ascended the throne, he immediately became arrogant.

The main reason is that Lai Min is an old minister, sixty-three years old this year, and has always served as Liu Chan's imperial teacher, and Liu Chan also listens to him very much.

He thought that he was an old minister of the Han Dynasty and an emperor, and his status should not be under Zhuge Liang, but Liu Bei did not regard him as a minister of Tuogu, so he was very unhappy, so he wanted to challenge Zhuge Liang's authority.

Zhuge Liang raised his head and glanced at Liu Chan, and saw that Liu Chan was in a dilemma, so he took care of Liu Chan's face, and it was not good to have a seizure, so he could only explain patiently: "The grain and grass in Guanzhong are transported from Hanzhong, the road is thousands of miles away, and the road is narrow and inconvenient to transport grain, and the loss is extremely huge. ”

Lai Min said wildly: "Hasn't Guanzhong mobilized the people to grow food now? Huainan has Jiangdong to supply grain and grass, Hefei is down, the waterway is unblocked, how can it be said that there is no grain? Your Majesty, the minister impeached the prime minister for having no way to govern the country, resulting in the lack of food and grass on the front line! ”

"Bang!"

Shen Chen slapped the case and shouted, "Enough! Laimin, you are just an ignorant and corrupt Confucian, you have never been on the battlefield to fight the enemy, and you dare to talk about military affairs? ”

"Shen Chen, you!"

Lai Min was scolded by him, only felt ashamed, and said: "Dignified hussar general, in front of Your Majesty, dare to roar?" Did you still take Your Majesty into account? ”

Shen Chen sneered: "You don't talk about these things, the Shu Road is difficult, and the cost of transporting grain is ten times that of the plains?" Even if it is a temporary grain planting, the population cannot go up, and you still have to transport grain from Nanyang or Hanzhong, do you really think that the march and war are completely dependent on your imagination? ”

"Even so, should we retire?"

Lai Min said angrily: "The first emperor's hard work will be destroyed in the hands of Er and others. ”

"Ahem, ahem."

The new Situ Deng Hong, who is already sixty years old this year, coughed twice and said: "General Huben, the hussar general has fought in the south and the north for many years, and has made countless contributions to the first emperor, how can you say that? The prime minister wants to withdraw from the army, and he has his own reason for the prime minister, and he also asked General Huben not to say it. ”

"Huh."

Lai Min glanced at Deng Hong and said with a sneer: "Your Deng family is just a court that relies on relationships, what can you do?" ”

This offended a group of people.

You must know that Shen Chen and Deng Hong have been cultivating Jingzhou for a long time, and the Jingzhou family has a good relationship with them.

At present, the Jingzhou family in the court is the strongest, the three princes and nine kings, the three provinces and Taiwan, and there are countless people from Jingzhou, saying that the Deng family relies on relationships, isn't that scolding the people of Jingzhou?

For a while, the crowd attacked.

"Your Majesty, the minister impeached General Huben for speaking wildly and insulting my father."

The first to stand up was Deng Hong's eldest son Deng Yan, he is Shen Chen's uncle, nicknamed Ah Chou, he is thirty-two years old this year, and now he is working as a Shangshulang in Shangshu Province.

"Your Majesty, if the prime minister wants to withdraw from the army, it is not because the prime minister thinks about it himself, but after discussing it with the hussar general and the general. Could it be that Lai Min knows more troops than the hussar generals and generals? If His Majesty had listened to Lai Min's words, wouldn't he have buried all the major affairs of the country? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that Lai Min's intentions are sinister and poisonous, and the major affairs of the country should be entrusted to those who have the ability to bear them, how can they sit there and talk about it? Please your majesty to cure his sins. ”

"Your Majesty, please come to Min!"

Everyone got up one after another to ask Liu Chan to play.

"Your Majesty, I."

Seeing that he was attacked by everyone, the crowd was furious, and Lai Min was dumbfounded.

He has an arrogant personality and low emotional intelligence, he has no friends in the court at all, and he has offended a large number of Jingzhou families by relying on relationships, so he is naturally disliked by everyone.

Liu Chan was in a dilemma for a while.

Laimin's emotional intelligence is not high, and when he usually teaches him to read, he looks like he has no heroes in the world.

But after all, he is his own teacher, and Liu Chan still respects his teacher.

In history, he was good to the teachers who taught him, like Laimin, even if he was so arrogant, he was immediately revived after Zhuge Liang's death, which shows that he is more nostalgic.

"Your Majesty."

In the end, Zhuge Liang saw that he was embarrassed, so he said: "Although Lai Min said wildly, after all, it is the opinion of the scholar's temperament, please degrade to the third level." ”

Liu Chan said: "Then according to the prime minister's words, let's demote it to three levels." ”

"Your Majesty."

Lai Min wanted to say something, but looking at the angry ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, he could only keep his mouth shut in the end.

"Prime Minister, when will the Northern Expedition be able to come back?"

It was only at this time that Zhang Fei asked.

He and Guan Yu have not spoken.

Although when they had a meeting before, Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang had already persuaded them.

But Guan Yu and Zhang Fei actually didn't want to quit the army.

The main reason is that they are also old, and they don't know how many years they can live, plus the Northern Expedition has always been Liu Bei's long-cherished wish, so they want to keep fighting.

It's just that now that Liu Bei is dead, it is true that the morale of the army is low, and there are some difficulties in food and grass, so he is reluctant to agree.

And it is only the soldiers and horses who retreated to Henan.

Guanzhong and Huainan will definitely not retreat, and continue to confront Cao's army in Chang'an and Hefei.

Their biggest concern was when the next Northern Expedition would be.

Zhuge Liang said in a deep voice: "The soldiers and horses of the main force of Henan will first retreat to Nanyang to rest, and the general and the hussar general will stick to Huainan in Guanzhong, Cao Wei will not transfer the main force to other places, once Henan is empty, the main force of Nanyang will be able to kill all the way to Luoyang." Please also rest assured that the generals and the general of the Che Cavalry will come back after retreating, and it will be Cao Wei who will be damaged, and we will be able to take a little rest for a year or two, and then we will be able to go on another Northern Expedition. ”

"A year or two?"

Zhang Fei pulled his hair in pain and said, "Is it going to take that long?" ”

"It won't take too long, it won't take too long."

Guan Yu closed his eyes and muttered to himself: "If I can defeat the Cao army in Huainan, the Cao army will mobilize the main force if it is not good." ”

"It won't take long to win."

Shen Chen also looked around at everyone and said, "It's just that now the soldiers and horses in Henan are tired, and they still focus on resting." I have been resting in Guanzhong for a year, and I can fight a local war with Cao Wei first, and if I can seize Hedong and threaten to annex the state, I can make Cao Wei frightened, and maybe after half a year or a year, the main force of the army will be able to go north again. ”

"It would be great if that were the case."

Liu Chan nodded again and again and said: "Then according to the prime minister's words, first withdraw the soldiers and horses from Henan to Nanyang, and then hand over the matter to the prime minister." ”

"Yui!"

Zhuge Liang bowed his head and bowed his hand.

After that, the people held a political and agricultural discussion, and discussed this year's government affairs and agricultural situation.

Economically, the South is doing very well.

Because of the relatively rich mineral resources, the Han Dynasty itself minted five baht coins to circulate in the south, and the output of hard currencies such as Shu brocade, cloth, spirits, grain, and ironware was not bad, so the economy was relatively developed.

In particular, the handicraft manufacturing industry is booming, with Nanyang, Changsha, Jiangxia, Shu County, Ba County, Wu County, Danyang and other places as the core base point, and the Yangtze River as the shipping, and the flow of east and west is smooth.

Even the Cao Wei people in the north used the five-baht coin of the Han Dynasty in the south as currency, which was much better than the north, which was still in the barter.

In addition, due to the pacification of Nanzhong and Jiaozhou, Shen Chen built a port in Panyu, Jiaozhou, and actively explored the offshore. He also sent a team from Yongchang County along the Ancient Tea Horse Road to explore the Shan Kingdom in the southwest, Hanyue, Faqiang, Cheli and Luzon Island in Southeast Asia.

The Han people traded with the locals, exchanging porcelain and iron from the Han Dynasty with the natives of Southeast Asia for gold, silver, copper, iron, and spices, and made a lot of money.

In fact, according to historical records, ancient China's trade with Southeast Asia began in the Han Dynasty.

The Philippines and Myanmar have unearthed cultural relics such as five-baht coins and mushroom-shaped copper Yue of the Han Dynasty, and even the entire territory of Vietnam in later generations is Jiaozhi County, Jiuzhen County, and Ninan County of Jiaozhou in the Han Dynasty.

The reason why they did not continue to expand and absorb the whole of Southeast Asia was because the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia saved them.

If it weren't for the miasma in ancient Southeast Asia, plague epidemics, lofty mountains, and tropical jungles, which were not conducive to the march and combat of ancient armies, the Han Dynasty would have fought to India.

However, although Southeast Asia is not conducive to marching, merchants can.

It is rich in products and resources, and relying on the ancient tea horse road and offshore trade, it can carry out certain commercial activities.

The only pity is that the Lingnan and Nanzhong regions are still underdeveloped, the population is too small, the road conditions are not good, and the current trade route is only opened, the actual foreign trade volume is very small, and the economy mainly relies on the internal circulation between Jingzhou Yizhou and Yangzhou.

Agriculturally, the south liberated a large amount of land and labor, and through the technology of Champa rice and manure, the productivity was greatly improved, and the relations of production were also greatly changed.

The original structure of production relations was very unfavorable to the development of the country, and both the population and the land were controlled by the big landlords.

However, with the suppression of the family and the liberation of the population in the south by the Liu Bei group, the proportion of yeoman farmers now accounts for more than eighty percent of the national population, which is much higher than the proportion of yeoman farmers who were only half or even less than half in the past.

The landlord class cannot be said to have none, but it has already decreased by a lot. The proportion of land owned by the big families to the number of hidden households is pitifully small, and even if there is a population, most of them are employed population.

So in agriculture the South is no worse than the North.

It's all about speed of supply.

The roads are too poor and the slow transportation is the fundamental factor.

It's like in history, Ji Han has never been short of food, and every time Zhuge Liang went on a northern expedition, he was always trapped in a lack of food and grass when he fought on the front line, and repeatedly retreated.

There was certainly no shortage of grain on the Henan battlefield, and the main ones that were plagued by grain were the Guanzhong and Huainan battlefields.

It took three years to prepare to support Shen Chen to fight all the way from Hanzhong to Chang'an, and the loss along the way can be said to be too much higher than Cao Wei, and the Han army's daily food was enough for Chang'an Cao's army for several days.

Otherwise, Cao Wei would not have been able to adopt a sticking strategy at the beginning.

It can only be said that if it weren't for Shen Chen's brave performance, it only took half a year to break Chang'an and capture Cao's army's materials, Cao Wei would have held on for a while, and he would probably have to withdraw his troops due to the lack of food.

Therefore, Guanzhong and Huainan still have to face this problem.

Fortunately, Shen Chen is solving it.

He used government policies to attract the people to Guanzhong for reclamation, and allowed the army to carry out military cantonments in their leisure time to increase grain production.

Guan Yu's side can also recruit people to go to Huainan to plant grain, and cultivate on the spot to supplement military rations, so as to alleviate the shortage of grain and grass.

In addition, by taking advantage of this time to withdraw the main forces from Henan, Chang'an and Huainan can be consolidated.

Transporting grain and grass to Chang'an through Nanyang, and then transporting grain to Huainan through the Yangtze River waterway, first storing a batch of grain and grass, after a year and a half, the savings are about the same, and naturally the road to the Northern Expedition can be opened again.

So to sum it up.

The withdrawal of troops from Henan was not to stop the Northern Expedition, but to slow things down for a period of time, and to reorganize the army and the grain and grass problems before sending troops.

It's like when you fight, you throw a punch, and when you're done, you have to retract it, tighten your fist, build up your strength, and then swing the next punch.

Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang planned to beat Cao Wei to death in this punch after punch!

In this weather, there is no energy during the day, and it is only a little energy from 5 o'clock in the afternoon. I originally wanted to send it again tomorrow.,But think about it, I've promised to change it tomorrow with two watches.,Tomorrow to the weekend or a single change.,And then continue to double on Monday.。

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