In the first year of Jianxing, the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Liu Chan held a large banquet in the Luoyang Imperial Palace, inviting the Manchu Dynasty to gather Wen Wu.

It has only been more than a month since the world was pacified, and the whole country is in ruins, and many things have not been dealt with well, such as the population problem of Luoyang, the migration of the capital, the extension of agriculture in various places, the national census, and so on.

But now there is always a good start, and national events also need time to precipitate.

Liu Chan plans to sacrifice in the southern suburbs tomorrow, and then start to spend the whole year next year dealing with all the problems.

Hundreds of civil and military ministers and their families participated in the banquet, as well as the Xiongnu Shan Yu, the former Han clan, the envoys of the Quartet, etc., thousands of people gathered in the North Palace, lively and lively New Year.

In the second year of Jianxing, 229 A.D. also arrived as scheduled.

In the early morning of the next day, the mighty convoy set off from Luoyang and went all the way to the southern suburbs.

The place where the Son of Heaven sacrificed in the Han Dynasty was generally in the south of the city, and there were Ming Hall and Biyong in the south of the city, and since the Western Han Dynasty, it was the place where the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty sacrificed to heaven and earth.

Therefore, the descendants of the Han people in later generations will call the main house of their house Mingtang, also known as Mingjian or Tangwu.

The main hall is facing the main gate in the middle of the standing shrine and ancestral shrines, which are used as a place to honor ancestors and gods, worship heaven and earth, celebrate weddings and funerals, and avoid evil spirits.

This tradition has been passed down since the Han Dynasty.

It's just that after Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang, the Ming Hall and Biyong were destroyed in the war, and the new Ming Hall had not yet been established, so the site could only be placed in the southern suburbs of Xiguiyuan.

The altar had already been erected in the southern suburbs at this time, and although the weather was not very good in the morning, it was somewhat gloomy, but there was no rain, and the temperature was not particularly cold, and thousands of people were heading towards the suburbs in the north wind.

Originally, the southern suburbs of Luoyang were not barren, with a large number of village pavilions and villages, as well as royal gardens. But now it is a ruined place, surrounded by no human beings, and it is all dilapidated.

There is a large vast grassland in the Xiguiyuan Garden, and the altar is placed at this moment, and thousands of Praetorian Guards are standing around, and now he is the captain of Si Li, Chen Zhi, who is in charge of the entire Luoyang Guard, seriously followed Liu Chan's side, protecting the safety of the Son of Heaven.

After arriving at the altar, Liu Chan ascended to the high platform, first sacrificed heaven and earth according to the process, placed the spiritual positions of Liu Bang, Liu Xiu and Liu Bei, and then sacrificed to the ancestors, and reported his current achievements to the ancestors.

A series of processes lasted for more than an hour, and Liu Chan, Tai Changqing, and even Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Shen Chen and others had to take turns to pray.

The officials also have a variety of etiquette, in addition to the order of standing, they also have to bow three times and bow nine times.

The Han Dynasty did not bow down, but they did not worship the emperor, but the heavens, the earth and the ancestors. Because even Liu Chan had to kowtow several times.

When it was finally over, Tai Changqing finally burned all the documents used for prayer, and with the green smoke curling into the sky, it seemed that the earthly things were already known to the ancestors and ancestors in the sky.

Zhuge Liang raised his head and looked at Yunyan, and said softly, "Xiaoqing." ”

"Huh?"

"Do you think the Emperor will know?"

"Probably not."

"Well, you said that when a man dies without a soul, death is death."

"But at least before the first emperor died, I believe that we can dominate the world and fulfill his long-cherished wish."

"Yes."

"Work hard, we have only completed half of the emperor's long-cherished wish, and even this half is still a little crippled."

Shen Chen looked in the northeast direction.

Liu Bei has two wishes, one is to dominate the world and restore the Han Dynasty.

The other is to hope that the country can be peaceful from all over the world, the country and the people will be safe, so that the people in the world can live a good life.

They have only now completed the previous one, and even this last wish has not been recovered by Liaodong.

So the road under their feet is still far away.

But it's also fast.

Gongsun Yuan on the Liaodong side was only far away, and he did not receive the news of Cao Wei's fall so quickly.

If he receives it, it probably won't be long before he makes a decision.

If he dies in battle, he can still be given a marquis if he surrenders, and at least he can enjoy it for the rest of his life, it depends on how he chooses.

In this way, the Han Dynasty was completely reunified, first restored its national strength and then took the Western Regions, and developed trade through the Silk Road, and the Han Dynasty would soon be able to stand on top of the world again.

At the end of the morning festival, at noon, the ministers turned to the Taimiao.

Liu Bei's temple number was determined to be the ancestor of the Han Dynasty after the deliberations of Zhuge Liang, Shen Chen, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and the three provinces and ministries a few days ago, and this temple number is basically not controversial.

When he just died, it was not determined because the world was undecided at that time, and it took a while to precipitate his merits.

But at this moment, the world is settled, and the Han Zhongxing has become settled, so it is imperative for the ancestors of the Han Dynasty.

Nowadays, the temple of Zhongzu has been built.

When Liu Bei established the Han Dynasty in Xiangyang, the first thing he did was to build a temple to worship the Gaozu temple system and the Shizu temple system.

The reason for this is, of course, to gain legal unity.

Now that Liu Bei has died, Liu Chan rebuilt the third temple on the basis of the original Taimiao in Luoyang.

Different from the spiritual seats of the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty in the Gaozu Temple and the Shizu Temple, the Zhongzu Temple is empty, built in the northeast direction where the original Ming Hall is located, just south of the South Palace, and outside the Kaiyang Gate.

The three temples and ancestral halls are side by side, and Liu Bei's lineage is only the second generation, but according to his will, in addition to being an ancestral hall inside, a manor was built outside.

Several peach trees were transplanted in the manor, and it is said that Liu Chan specially sent someone to dig them from the nearby mountains last month, and some peach saplings were planted.

Because it is the first day of the Lunar New Year, the peach tree does not bloom and bear fruit, only a few green leaves that have just grown in early spring, hanging alone on the branches, gently swaying with the gentle north wind.

Liu Chan and the others entered the garden, passed through these peach trees that had not yet grown or blossomed, and came to the front of the ancestral hall. In addition to some sacrificial supplies in the ancestral hall, the spiritual seat above is empty, and there is only Liu Bei's spiritual seat.

"First Emperor!"

When everyone entered the temple, they all bowed down and bowed their hands.

Liu Bei's grave is not in Luoyang.

When he died of illness in Xiangyang, he was buried in the Zhaolie Mausoleum in Xiangyang Nanshan, known as Huiling in history.

Originally, Liu Chan thought about moving the tomb back to the north, at least to return to Luoyang.

But under the persuasion of the ministers, this idea was finally dispelled.

First, Jingzhou is Liu Bei's land of Longxing, and second, the cost of migrating tombs is huge, and it cannot be consumed excessively when the country is in ruins.

However, the temple is often regarded as the place where the souls of the ancestors are sustenance, so it is like seeing the first emperor here.

After Liu Chan came in, Taichangqing and other sacrificial officials first asked him to kneel according to the etiquette, and then prayed and sacrificed, and the ministers put incense on them, a series of processes were cumbersome and lengthy, but no one was too hard.

Because the sacrifice in the Han Dynasty was solemn, whether it was to worship the ancestors or heaven and earth, it was a cultural tradition of the nation since ancient times, and no one would abandon it, and no one dared to abandon it.

After about half an hour, the ministers only ate breakfast, and after the two sacrifices, they were so hungry that some of them could not even stand steadily.

Liu Chan was sympathetic to the old ministers, and did not continue to delay the sacrifice, and soon after the sacrifice was over, he ordered the sacrifice to end, and everyone went back.

After all, it is the first day of the new year, and everyone wants to go home for a reunion, so there is no need to torture everyone anymore.

The ministers dispersed one after another, only Shen Chen, Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Xu Shu, and Pang Tong were stopped by Liu Chan, and everyone stood at the door of the ancestral hall.

"Your Majesty!"

Several people bowed to Liu Chan, just now Liu Chan asked Xiao Huangmen to come over to greet them, and now they are all waiting for Liu Chan to come out.

The little fat man's face was relatively heavy, and in such a solemn place, he couldn't smile at it, and went up seriously to salute everyone: "I, acting father, thank you." ”

"Your Majesty's words are serious, the ministers and others followed the first emperor to start an incident, and they only hated the country for going too early, and the world was undecided at that time, and my third brother and I could not fulfill our promise to live and die together."

Guan Yu sighed for a while.

At that time, there was a pot of wine in Taoyuan, and the three of them were brothers and brothers, and since then, they have been righteous and angry, never abandoned, and finally achieved a great cause.

It's just that now that the Si people have passed away, even if the world is unified, it also makes Guan Zhang full of sadness.

Liu Chan said: "If we are unified today, my father's last wish will finally be fulfilled." Before he returned to heaven, he had left a few letters asking me to give them to you after I had ruled the world. ”

As he spoke, he took out a few letters from his sleeve and handed them to everyone, these letters were obviously written by Liu Bei in anticipation of his imminent death, and handed them over to Liu Chan for safekeeping.

Everyone took the letter, and when Shen Chen saw the words "Mr. Xiao personally opened" written on the envelope, he immediately felt a sour nose and remembered the past.

At that time, he was still in Xuzhou, and Cao Cao raised a butcher's knife to hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou, and the migration of clans was imminent. Only Liu Bei borrowed more than 1,000 black pills from Gongsun Zhan, and thousands of old and weak soldiers came to help Tao Qian.

Shen Chen helped the clan escape Cao Cao's slaughter and was summoned by Tao Qian, and it was at that time that he met Liu Bei. When Cao Ren was slaughtering Zhangyang, he was rescued by Liu Bei.

Because of this kindness, Shen Chen has always remembered it. Later, he also persuaded Liu Bei to give up Xuzhou, after all, Cao Cao was too powerful to do.

But even though he knew that the enemy was strong, Liu Bei still struggled to draw his sword and pounce on the strong in order to protect the weak, the feat of knowing that there was a tiger in the mountain and leaning towards the tiger mountain, even after many years, still echoed in Shen Chen's mind.

Shen Chen opened the letter in his hand, and the first sentence that caught his eye was, "Mr. Xiao sits in front, if Mr. Xiao can see this letter, it probably means that the Han Dynasty has been unified, and I can die with peace of mind." ”

"When I thought about Xuzhou, I didn't listen to Mr. Xiao's words, but I decided to fight Cao Cao in Xuzhou. At that time, I didn't covet Xuzhou, but the people of Xuzhou were really miserable, Cao Cao's massacre, Xuzhou's lives were miserable, and the people were not happy. ”

"I never thought of taking the initiative to attack Cao Cao, I just wanted to protect the people of Xuzhou. It's a pity that I can't do it, just like Mr. Xiao said, the general trend cannot be changed, and I can only helplessly join the court, hoping to help the Son of Heaven regain the Han Dynasty, and not in vain the foundation established by the ancestors. ”

"When will Nai die, I can only live in Jingzhou after the edict, and I will meet Mr. Xiao again, I am both happy and lonely. I'm glad to meet you here, but I'm lonely because I can't recover my decline after all, all because of my lack of ability. ”

"I hate that I can't break the general trend because I'm short-minded, and I hate that I can't protect the Son of Heaven. But fortunately, with the help of Mr. Xiao, I was able to gather my troops and horses again, and take advantage of the battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shaoguandu to attack Xudu in the north. ”

"Even if I fell short, even if I failed to save the Son of Heaven, I was already satisfied at that time. Later, when I returned to Wancheng, I met Xu Yuanzhi while hunting in Xishan, and it was from that time that I realized that Mr. Xiao had been secretly helping me all along. ”

On the way back, Yuan Zhi once told me about the poem written by Mr. Xiao, "Looking at the end of the world, you can't see your home at the end of the world." The autumn breeze is bleak and seer, only full of maple flowers. "I was thinking at that time, maybe Mr. Xiao is homesick, and I am homesick too."

"If one day, I can live to dominate the world, I want to take the second and third brothers back to the peach orchard to see, and I want to take the little gentleman to see the peach blossoms in the garden. The scenery of our Lousang Township is very beautiful, I really want to go back and see it again. ”

"It's a pity that there is probably no day, Cao Wei has not been eliminated yet, and I am also sick, and I am so old that I am dying. But even so, I am already very happy, because it is already very rare to have the foundation of the south now, and it is all the help of the little gentleman. ”

"I will remember the kindness of Mr. Little to me for the rest of my life. But maybe I can't pay it back, I vomited some blood yesterday, and it seems that God should have taken me away. I have no other regrets, but I can't rest assured. ”

"If Mr. Xiao can see this letter one day, I hope that Mr. Xiao can teach him well with Kong Ming, so that he can become a good son of heaven, and let him learn the lessons of Huan and Ling."

"If the world has been unified at that time and Cao Wei has been eliminated, then I hope that Mr. Xiao can go to see Taoyuan on my behalf with the second and third brothers. I will be satisfied when I go to Lousang Township to see if the clan is still there, and then write me a letter to burn it and let me know the situation there. ”

"In the end, Dahan and Adou will be entrusted to you."

"I believe that Mr. Xiao, like me, will build a beautiful Han country, so that everyone can afford to eat, live in, and wear clothes, so that the strength of the Han Dynasty will never be extinguished."

"At that time, I will also be able to be under the Nine Shadows, and I will no longer have any regrets."

"I don't know, thank you! Mr. Wang's cherished, cherished! ”

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"Woo woo

Shen Chen finished reading the letter in his hand, and couldn't calm his mood for a long time, and his sincere feelings were expressed in the letter, which was moving.

There was a howling cry in his ears, and when he turned his head to look, it was Zhang Fei who was already in tears and crying.

"Big brother!"

Although Zhang Fei is over 60 years old and slightly emaciated, his foundation is still there, and he is still as strong as an ox.

But this sturdy man cried the most fiercely at this time.

Guan Yu turned his head and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his robe, wiped the tears from his beard with the sleeve of his arm, and then went over and patted Zhang Fei's back and comforted: "Third brother, don't cry, the eldest brother is watching us, we must remember my brother's entrustment." ”

"Yes, yes."

Zhang Fei hugged Guan Yu, snot and tears came out, trying to stop but couldn't stop, Liu Bei's words in the letter sounded like they were ringing in his ears, making him sad.

In addition to Zhang Fei, Xu Shu, Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang and others also quietly wiped away their tears and stood quietly on the side.

Shen Chen carefully put the letter away, put it in his pocket, and raised his head to look at the quiet temple.

The temple stands solemnly, the transplanted peach branches are exposed outside the wall, gently fluttering in the wind, approaching early spring, February of the solar calendar, as if there are butterflies flying during the period of looming.

"Let's go."

Shen Chen bowed to the temple again and turned his head to leave.

Zhuge Liang asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Instead of grieving here, it is better to follow the last wishes of the first emperor."

Shen Chen left a sentence and said: "I want to go to Xiangyang to see the first emperor, and then go to Taoyuan and Lousang to see the place where the first emperor will never forget." ”

"Taoyuan is my home."

Zhang Fei wiped his tears and snot and shouted, "Boy, do you want to enter my house?" ”

"Uncle Yide, Taoyuan is no longer your home, you sold Taoyuan."

Shen Chen's words were still in the wind, and he laughed and said, "Go back and buy Taoyuan back, and then you must guard this country for the first emperor!" ”

"Let's go!"

Guan Yu pulled Zhang Fei and walked towards the Luoyang City Gate in the afternoon sun.

They are going to Huiling to see the first emperor and Youzhou to see the peach blossoms.

It's the finale here.,But for full attendance.,There's a postscript and extra.,Don't panic.,Let me have a few more chapters.。 After all, Liaodong has not yet been recovered, and there is still some governance content after the unification of the Han Dynasty.

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