In the twenty-sixth year of Jianxing, in 254 AD, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, died of illness at the age of seventy-four.

Upon learning of Zhuge Liang's death, Liu Chan, Shen Chen and others were overwhelmed with grief.

By this time, the founding generals and meritorious officers had actually died almost dead, such as Pang Tong and Xu Shu also died of illness a few years ago.

Even in the second generation, Guan Ping, Guan Xing, and Zhang Bao died of illness, and there were basically few founding generals left of the older generation.

There was no way, Guan Xing was frail and sickly, and he died before he was thirty years old, which was an early death. Zhang Bao later had a serious illness and died a few years later than Zhang Fei.

And Guan Ping is not young, four years older than Shen Chen, after Guan Yu's death, he became a general, entered the military affairs institute, and died of illness within a few years.

After all, these people were basically born between 150 and 180 AD, and they are all in their 60s and 90s today.

Even if the level of medical care rises, there is a life expectancy after all, and how many people can live a long life?

Even Shen Chen is already sixty-eight years old, let alone others?

As a result, the older generation is dying away.

Fortunately, the second generation has basically grown up, Shen Yin, Shen Xi and others have become the pillars of the country, as well as Jiang Wei, Deng Ai, Zhao Tong, Guan Yue, Pang Hui, Gan Shu, Zhang Shao, Huang An (Huang Zhong's adopted son Huang Cheng's son), Wei Chang, Wei Rong, etc.

In addition, the former Jiangdong and Cao Wei generals and the children of the outstanding families gradually began to occupy positions in the court, and even Xiahou Ba made meritorious contributions when Liu Chan swept away Mo Nan Xianbei and became a general.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ji Han Dynasty, the most important ones were the Yuan Cong faction and the Jingzhou faction, such as Jian Yong, Sun Qian, Mi Zhu, Yuan Lin, Liu Yan, Xiahou Su, etc., who had average military and political talents, but because they were Yuan Cong factions, they were either three princes and nine kings, and entered the Taoyuan Hall after their deaths, or they occupied high positions and became the founding marquis.

Although this is a bit unfair to those generals who have made outstanding achievements, there is no way, even if the founding generals of the founding country are selected by later generations. No matter how strong your military achievements are, you can't be a general or marshal without early qualifications.

Therefore, during the period when Ji Han Jianxing first arrived in Jianxing, it was basically the stage of the Yuancong faction and the Jingzhou faction. In addition, it is the Yizhou system, and the Jiangdong department has also taken the lead from Zhuge Jin and Lu Xun.

Lu Xun was selected as a subordinate in the late period and served as a second minister for a period of time.

However, in the middle and late Jianxing period, that is, after 250 AD, slowly the Jiangdong and Cao Wei families began to exert their strength, and many of the original children of the Cao Wei family in Jiangdong began to strive for high positions in the court.

The main reason is that Ji Han took the imperial examination, although after decades of development, the children of the poor and commoners entered the court as officials greatly improved.

But the children of the family have an innate advantage.

Some can enter the office, and some have a first-mover advantage, and the threshold for reading and learning characters is much lower than that of the children of the poor and commoners, so the early court is still dominated by the children of the family.

And now that Zhuge Liang is gone, the Jingzhou faction has one less general!

Zhuge Liang served as the prime minister of the Han Dynasty for more than 30 years, governed the country in an orderly manner, and had a very high prestige, and his death was sad for the people of the world.

Liu Chan personally helped Zhuge Liang and mourned in the Zhongzu Temple.

Starting from Zhang Fei, it was a great honor for Ji Han's courtiers to be able to arrange the mourning hall in the Zhongzu Temple and enjoy the Taimiao.

However, over the decades, in addition to the founding fathers and the earliest Yuancong, the later factions, no matter how great your merits, are basically impossible to achieve, and as the heroes of the Taoyuan Palace gradually wither, this situation will become more and more rare.

During Zhuge Liang's funeral, Shen Chen cried and fainted several times, Liu Guanzhang and the three brothers were like brothers, how could Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen not be like brothers?

We have known each other since childhood, and have been together for more than 60 years, and our relationship is extremely deep.

After the mourning, Shen Chen fell ill on the bed.

Fortunately, he is still quite healthy, but he survived, but his body is not as good as before, although he was appointed by Liu Chan to succeed Zhuge Liang as prime minister, but it seems that the mandate of heaven is not long, and the government affairs are mostly handled by the deputy prime minister, three provinces and six ministries.

He probably also understood that when he reached the limit, he concentrated on writing books in his later years, and he had already written more than ten books in his decades of life, and in his later years, he wrote several classics to pass on to the family, creating great spiritual and development wealth for the history of Han civilization.

After another eight years, in the thirty-fourth year of Jianxing, in 262 AD, Shen Chen also died of illness at the age of seventy-six, becoming the last courtier to enter the Taoyuan Palace.

Since then, Liu Bei's early Yuancong faction and Jingzhou faction, including Xu Shu, Pang Tong, Fa Zheng and others, have all gone away.

Even the Jiangdong faction and the Cao Wei faction, which joined later, were not much left.

Among the founding fathers, only Deng Ai, Jiang Wei and other young Zhuang factions who had made many meritorious contributions in the founding war still existed, and at this time Deng Ai and Jiang Wei were already generals, and became the president and vice president of the Military Affairs Academy, which shocked the world.

After Shen Chen's death, the fifty-five-year-old Liu Chan personally mourned for his brother-in-law, the descendants of the Deng family and the Shen family wept filial piety, and the Manchu Dynasty worshipped in the civil and military affairs.

At the end of June and summer in the 34th year of Jianxing, the cicadas of the Zhongzu Temple are singing, hundreds of acres of temples are hung with white cloth flags inside and outside, such as the appearance of Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, when he left, there are crowds of people outside the temple, and I don't know how many people surround the temple.

A hearse slowly drove from the direction of Luoyang City in the north, and the people were stopped with strips of cloth on both sides of the road, and the palace gate guards personally escorted them, and a large number of high-ranking officials, civil servants, and military generals such as Liu Chan, Shen Yin, Deng Ai, and Jiang Wei helped the spirit.

Where the hearse passed, I don't know how many people, Confucian scholars, officials cried, men, women, and children, ten miles long street, watched the carriage pass by, and the sound of howling was endless.

Forty years old this year, Du Pre, who has now become Shang Shuling, was appreciated and promoted by Shen Chen, and he was also sad and wrote an elegy for him.

There is a sentence in it that evaluates all the founding heroes of Taoyuan Palace.

"Before they came, the big man was full of holes, eating people and slaughtering the city."

"After they left, the Han prospered and changed the world!"

The hearse slowly drove into the Zhongzu Temple, and finally everyone lifted the coffin and sent it all the way to the main hall of Taoyuan Palace.

Here, Shen Chen will stop for seven days to accept the worship of relatives, friends, disciples and grandchildren.

Later, according to his last wishes, the coffin was burned, the ashes were picked out, and buried in the cemetery of heroes specially marked out on the mountain, next to Zhuge Liang's tomb.

According to Shen Chen's words, if there was a spirit after death, he didn't want to watch his body decompose day by day.

And buried on the mountain, you can always watch the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

Soon after the spirit stopped, Liu Chan personally hung Shen Chen's portrait on the second place on Liu Bei's left, and Zhuge Liang was in front of him.

At that time, the right was respected, the first and second on the right hand were Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and the first on the left hand was Zhuge Liang. If so, his position should be ranked fourth.

But although the portrait is only ranked fourth, the list of heroes who have been ranked over the years has long declared who is the first meritorious service.

More than 100 founding heroes are sorted one by one, Shen Chen ranks first with meritorious service, and at the same time, he is also second only to Zhuge Liang in civil governance, and his martial arts power is superior to Guan Yu, and he deserves to be the first hero!

It's just that his last wish said that Zhuge Liang is his brother, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are uncles, and he can't be listed before them, so he put the portrait in second place on the left-hand side, second to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei on the right-hand side, and Zhuge Liang on the left hand side of Liu Bei.

After the portrait was hung up, Shen Yin, Shen Xi, Deng Ai, Jiang Wei and other descendants, disciples and grandchildren, immediately cried and cried on the coffin.

"Father, father!"

"Shijun, why did you go like this!"

"Master, let's talk again!"

"Woooooooooooo

"Prime Minister!"

The sound of wailing was all over the hall, all kinds of music, howling, and many civil and military ministers had incense, and the sound of whispered conversation made the Zhongzu Temple riot for a while.

At night, Liu Chan was also in his fifties, and his body couldn't hold on, so he couldn't help Shen Chen keep his spirit, so he finally went back to the palace early.

Only dozens of people, including heirs and disciples, still stayed in the main hall, wearing linen and filial piety for Shen Chen, crying day and night.

At this moment, a white figure slowly floated on the coffin.

"It's noisy."

Shen Chen's consciousness was also out of his body.

After a while, he saw the situation around him clearly, the phantom floated, and whispered: "I didn't expect that there is really a dead and spirit in the world, have I become a ghost?" ”

"No, you're a god."

A voice rang out.

Shen Chen turned his head and saw a person sitting cross-legged on the offering table on his left.

Liu Bei's Zhongzu Temple is facing the north, and the north is facing the south.

Because the ancients said that the yang house is sitting in the north and facing south, and the Taimiao is worshiped as the yin house, it should be reversed, sitting in the south and facing the north.

What's more, facing north, you can always look at Luoyang City.

Therefore, Shen Chen's spiritual position is on the right hand side of the door, and the second pillar on the left hand side of the door. Directly opposite his spiritual position is Zhang Fei, and the spiritual position on the left hand side is naturally Zhuge Liang.

But the person sitting cross-legged at the offering table was completely different from Zhuge Liang in Shen Chen's memory.

He had a face like a crown of jade, a lupine scarf, a handful of goatee on his chin, and a handsome face, like a young man in his twenties and thirties, wearing a white robe, shaking a feather fan in his hand, and looking at him with a smile.

Countless memories of the picture suddenly came to mind, and at that moment, Shen Chen began to fantasize more and more about the old Zhuge Liang in his original memory, and the flower face was frozen when the other party was twenty-five years old.

"Brother!"

Shen Chen exclaimed, "You have become younger. ”

"Hahahaha."

"Xiaoqing, look at who we are."

"We're getting younger, too."

Three more voices rang out.

Shen Chen glanced around, and saw Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei's three offering tables, and three figures also appeared.

The appearance of that figure turned out to be the appearance of Liu Guanzhang when he was in Xuzhou.

They.

They're getting younger.

Shen Chen looked at them blankly, and suddenly felt a sour nose, and arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, Uncle Yun, Uncle Yide!" ”

The three of them all stood up from the offering table and bowed to Shen Chen: "Thank you Xiaoqing!" ”

Zhuge Liang also got up slowly, and also thanked Shen Chen.

This thank-you is many years overdue.

If it weren't for the emperor's God's sense that Liu Guan and Zhang Yi lived and died together, and Liu Bei acted benevolently and righteously throughout his life, the three of them would not have become gods after death.

And after their deaths, the Han Dynasty was unified and the Han people were restored, unlike in history, they only occupied the land of Xichuan, and finally the tragic fall of the Ji Han monarchs and ministers was also due to Shen Chen.

Therefore, after God was a god and knew his original fate, everyone was full of gratitude to Shen Chen.

Shen Chen was stunned for a moment, and then calmly replied: "It's all because of justice!" ”

"Hahahaha!"

Liu Bei laughed, looked down at the world, and said softly, "Let's go." ”

Five rays of light dissipated between heaven and earth.

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For more than 400 years of the Ji Han Dynasty, Renhuan Zhongxing lasted for 100 years.

First, there were famous ministers Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen to assist, and then Jiang Wei, Deng Ai, Du Pre, and Yanghu.

By the time of the fifth emperor Liu Xi, the national strength had declined slightly, but Liu Xi reused Shen Lin, Wang Dun, Tao Kan, Zu Ti, etc., and rejuvenated the Han Dynasty.

After another few decades, the Han Dynasty entered the second industrial revolution, the era of electrification, and the army spread all over the world and occupied the Americas.

When the Ji Han Dynasty was more than 200 years old and entered the fifth century AD, due to the large size of the country, the difficulty of governance and the gradual corruption of the government, which led to rebellions.

At this time, the ninth Han Emperor was already in power, and he was shrewd and capable before ascending the throne, so he stood out and was elected as the crown prince. As a result, after coming to power, he loved pleasures, was obsessed with state affairs, and the cabinet ministers did nothing, so that the Han lost a lot of land.

Originally, with the technology and national strength of the Han Dynasty, a little rebellion should not pose much of a threat.

But the rebels who can't stand it are the Han Chinese.

Many overseas Han people wanted to establish a country and become independent, thinking that the emperor was far away, and established bases in the Americas, Australia, Africa and other places, and used guns and cannons to deal with the Han army.

For a while, chaos was frequent.

Fortunately, the emperor of the Han Dynasty has always been faint and mediocre, and when the ninth Han Emperor discovered the chaos in the world, he hurriedly selected talents and talents, wanting to turn the tide.

In the midst of the crisis, the descendants of the Shen family brought the two books "General Theory" and "Class Theory" to dedicate.

The Han Emperor was overjoyed and hurriedly reused the descendants of the Shen family.

After the descendants of the Shen family ascended the throne, they carried out drastic reforms, and continued the life of the Han Dynasty for more than 100 years, until the seventh century, that is, more than 600 AD, when the Han Dynasty entered the constitutional monarchy era for some reasons.

But also because of the books left by Shen Chen, many people say that he is a saint from heaven and laid a foundation for the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years.

Therefore, every time the descendants of the Shen family came out of the mountain to rescue him, Shen Chen's status was raised by a cut.

In the 4th century AD, when Liu Xi was in power, he built the Temple of Literature and the Temple of Wu, Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang were both people who entered the Temple of Literature and the Temple of Wu at the same time, and Shen Chen was a saint in the Temple of Wenwu.

By the 6th century AD, Shen Chen's position in the Temple of Literature had replaced Confucius, because at that time Confucianism was no longer the sole respect. The status in the martial temple also replaced Jiang Ziya and became the most holy in civil and military affairs.

Some people in the local area will put Shen Chen in the holy position, and some will sacrifice Confucius, Shen Chen, and Jiang Ziya at the same time. The same was true of the Han country, so there was a peculiar scene at that time.

That is when the state worships the Temple of Literature and the Temple of Wu, and the top of the Temple of Literature is no longer Confucius alone, but Confucius and Shenzi are juxtaposed. Wumiao is not Jiang Ziya alone, it is also tied.

For a time, the Shen family's reputation was the crown of the world, and there were several prime ministers, generals and marquises, and they were admired by the world.

Even in the seventh century AD, more than 400 years have passed from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to that time, and the world has entered the information age, and Shen Chen's reputation is noisy, and there are countless voices saying that he is a time-traveler.

It's not that he was excellent in both civil and military affairs in his early years, but that the books he wrote in his later years were too rebellious. A man who died of illness in the third century C.E. was able to be so far-sighted. Not only predicting the development of the country's society in a few hundred years, but also leaving a solution to the evils, he is simply a god.

Therefore, the deification and worship of Shen Chen are naturally more respectful with the passage of time.

However, none of this has anything to do with Shen Chen.

Hundreds of years later, the Han Dynasty dominated the entire world, and the Han people stood on top of the world. There are no more countries to come to court, because most of the surrounding small countries have become Han territory. The whole earth has turned into an orange-red ocean!

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