The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

It's just that Wang Fen is not a person who has achieved great things, so Xu You has rejoined Liu Zheng's command. Now Liu Zheng is going to be called emperor. position.

So Xu You desperately hopes that Liu Zheng will become emperor, so that he, a counselor, will also rise with the tide.

Compared with Xu You's straightforwardness, Yuan Zhou is more reserved.

"My lord, it's not impossible to become emperor. After all, it will be very convenient for us to rule Jiaozhou and Yangzhou and other places. These places have been in our hands for so many years, and the sense of belonging to the imperial court has already grown. Very few, proclaiming the emperor at this time can greatly bring these places into our camp."

Jiaozhou and Yangzhou, in the early years, had no sense of belonging to the imperial court, and now they have been occupied by Liu Zheng for so many years, basically they have been deeply infiltrated by Liu Zheng's strength, and most of them are Liu Zheng. Promoted officials, so Liu Zheng proclaimed himself emperor, these two places will definitely cheer, and the imperial examinations held by Liu Zheng can also be carried out more conveniently in these places.

Liu Zheng nodded when he heard Yuan Zhou's words.

Yuan Zhou didn't care much about Yuan Zhou's physical improvement compared to proclaiming himself emperor. Yuan Zhou couldn't impress him with an official position. He is now Liu Zheng's most trusted commander of Jinyiwei. Although this official position is only An official position created by Liu Zheng himself is different from the official position of the big man.

But Yuan Zhou didn't want to be a civil servant like Sangong Jiuqing at all. Instead, he liked the position of Commander of Jinyiwei, which could show his supreme status and uniqueness.

Liu Zheng turned his gaze to Chen Deng again.

Chen Deng was among the crowd, and he joined Liu Zheng relatively late, and he didn't have much contact with Liu Zheng, not even as much as Guo Jia.

However, Chen Deng also put forward his own views.

"My lord, in fact, I also agree with proclaiming the emperor. Just like what Mr. Yuan Zhou said, proclaiming the emperor can increase the sense of belonging. Now many big families actually bow to the lord only because of the strength of the lord. They don't support the lord very much. However, once the lord proclaims himself emperor and promises to give these families some official positions and titles, it will inevitably make many families that were still in a state of vacillation fall into the lord's camp."

Compared with other people, Chen Deng valued the support of big families more, and Liu Zheng's proclaiming the emperor would be able to win over many previous big families, benefit them, and make them support Liu Zheng.

For example, Chen Deng's Chen family in Xuzhou and Mi Fang's Mi family were able to follow Liu Zheng wholeheartedly.

Chapter 752 Make a decision

After Xu You, Yuan Zhou, and Chen Deng all expressed their support for becoming emperor, Liu Zheng understood what they meant, and then looked at the last person. Little Guo Jia didn't intend to see Liu Zheng looking at him. Speaker.

After all, his qualifications are the most junior, and he has only been with Liu Zheng for a few months. In front of so many seniors, he has no place to speak at all.

But since Liu Zheng looked at him, Guo Jia still had to talk to Liu Zheng.

"My lord, in fact, Feng Xiao is definitely in favor of you becoming emperor. Everyone agrees. Naturally, I will not stand up against you. After all, there is no good in opposing you. My reason is that I accompanied you to Wuling County before. It just occurred to me that if the lord proclaims himself emperor, perhaps it would be justifiable for the small barbarian forces in the surrounding areas to be recruited."

"It's like those people from Funan, who are still in Wu County. They are all barbarians subdued by the lord. They believe in the big man. If the lord becomes the emperor of the big man, for these people, they can truly be convinced."

Before Liu Zheng incorporated Funan Kingdom and these Nanman people from Wuling County, they all used the reputation of the Han Empire, but Liu Zheng was not the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Now that Liu Zheng is proclaimed emperor, it will be much easier to incorporate these small forces in the future.

At least they have to consider whether they can fight against an empire. Even if they are incorporated, submitting to an empire is much better than submitting to a prince.

The reason Guo Jia said can convince several others.

Liu Zhengzai heard that several of his counselors agreed to be the emperor, so naturally there was nothing to discuss. The matter of being the emperor was already a certainty.

Now, what they need to consider is what the name of the country should be called.

In fact, Liu Zheng had already thought about this before.

Normally speaking, when raising troops in a place like his, there are quite a few country titles for him to choose from, including Yue, Wu, and Chu.

It's just that none of these can make Liu Zheng's name justifiable.

He decided to directly call his country name Han.

Although other national titles can be distinguished from the big man, they are not what Liu Zheng wants.

Liu Zheng's surname is Liu, and he has always had some affection for the big man. After all, he is a modern person, and modern people claim to be Han people. Emperor, naturally still want to continue Yan Han's prestige.

Extend the life of the big man for hundreds of years.

"The name of the country should be Han. Anyway, Yuan Shao's Han is also Han, and the court's Han is also Han. If this is the case, then we are also called Han. One more of us is not too many, and one of us is not too many."

"In the end, no matter who wins the world, the world will still be called a big man!"

In fact, compared to the fact that everyone agrees that he is the emperor, Liu Zheng himself does not particularly want to be the emperor.

The reason why he didn't want to proclaim himself emperor was actually very simple.

Once he becomes emperor, he wants to command the troops again, and the possibility of going to the front to fight the enemy is very small.

After becoming the emperor, most of the time the emperor sat in the center and stayed in the palace to handle various government affairs.

Those cumbersome memorials can kill Liu Zheng's whole day, leaving him with little time to deal with war matters.

Liu Zheng didn't like to deal with these memorials alone in the study, it would be too boring.

Of course, even if he really proclaims himself emperor, he will try his best to avoid this kind of thing. At the same time, he will form a cabinet and let the cabinet ministers assist the government. After processing all these memorials, he only needs to review them.

This greatly saved him the things he spent on these memorials.

This system imitated the cabinet system of the later Ming Dynasty.With the help of a few cabinet ministers, the emperor can stay away from court for decades, while the entire court is still functioning, even during the decades when the emperor is not in court.Not only did the whole country not fall apart, but its national power became stronger and stronger, and there was a move of rejuvenation.

Liu Zheng yearned to fight on the battlefield, but after becoming emperor, he would definitely not be at the forefront of the battlefield. Even if he was a personal conscript, he would definitely be at the back of the battlefield. army general.

These things will only slowly appear in the future, and the most urgent task now is to prepare for proclaiming the emperor.

Now that he has decided to proclaim himself emperor, it is not a short-term matter, and all preparations for costumes and props need to be made in advance.Dragon robes and even jade seals, as well as the civil and military costumes of hundreds of officials, need to be prepared in advance.

The time is set in a month.

At that time, there is no need for all civil and military officials to be present.Just need to hold a decent sacrifice ceremony.

Canonization of civil and military officials is enough to attract attention.

After these matters were settled, Liu Zheng asked all the civil servants and military generals in the courtyard to retreat, and went back to prepare to proclaim himself emperor.

When everyone left, Liu Zheng left Shi Xie alone.

In the backyard, Shi Xie came to meet Liu Zheng alone, and his expression was not good.

In fact, he already knew why Liu Zheng kept him.

It was mainly because of his brother Shiwu's incident, which happened in Wuling County, which had reached his ears a few days ago.

Regarding the news that his younger brother Shiwu was in Wuling County, although he was very sad, he didn't complain about it. His younger brother Shiwu was originally a general, and he was able to die in battle, which is also his brother's destination.Especially being able to protect Liu Zheng to death.It is an honor for him.

"Wei Yanshixie's Biaozi, you must have heard about what happened in Wuling County."

Liu Zheng watched Shi Xie standing in front of him with a gloomy expression, and took the initiative to talk to Shi Xie about Wuling County.

Shi Xie nodded and understood what Liu Zheng wanted to tell him.

"My lord, about my brother's death, you don't have to take it to heart. It's probably his fate that Shiwu will die like this."

Everyone is dead, so what if Shi Xie is sad?Naturally, I can only persuade Liu Zheng not to take this matter too seriously.

Although Shi Xie said it doesn't matter on his face, Liu Zheng still knew that Shi Xie must be very sad, after all, when he attacked Jiaozhou.Shi Wu is Shi Xie's youngest brother, and also his most beloved brother.

In any case, what happened to Shiwu was caused by Liu Zheng. If he hadn't assigned Shi Xie to temporarily manage some affairs in Wuling County, Shiwu wouldn't have gone to Wuling County, and Shiwu wouldn't have died if he didn't go to Wuling County. If Liu Zheng hadn't stayed in Yiling to fight those Nanmans, those Nanmans wouldn't have spent all their energy to attack Yiling County.

Chapter 753 Hall of Valor

"Shiwu's death is for our entire empire. His death is meaningful. You can rest assured that I will not treat your family badly, whether it was when your family supported me to control the entire Jiaozhou, or now Shiwu For the sake of loyalty, the Shi family will be one of the most powerful families in the Han Empire."

Compared with the scholar family represented by Shi Xie, it is the first family to turn to Liu Zheng in the true sense, and it is also the person who helped Liu Zheng truly control the first echelon of Jiaozhou. I forget, always remember.

"Thank you, my lord, the scholar family will definitely support and support my lord!"

After Liu Zheng expressed his affirmation to the Shi family, Shi Xie immediately expressed gratitude.

"Not only that, since the last time Mi Zhu, Chu Yan and others died in battle, I have always had an idea in my mind, planning to promulgate a national law when I become emperor."

"National law? What do you think, my lord?"

"I plan to build a Hall of Martyrs! All generals who died for the country will be enshrined in the Hall of Martyrs in terms of their merits. Once they enter the Hall of Martyrs, they will enjoy the title, hereditary and irreplaceable!"

In fact, Liu Zheng had such an idea a long time ago. At the beginning, he built a martyr's tomb for the dead soldiers for future generations to look up to.

But those martyrs are mostly soldiers.

Most of the commemorations are soldiers, which can make the soldiers brave and fearless, and leave their names forever.

But not against the general.The Hall of Martyrs that Liu Zheng needs to build is aimed at generals.

After these generals died on the battlefield, they could enter the Hall of Martyrs and enjoy the enshrinement of all ages, so that future generations could inherit the title and protect their descendants.

In this way, those generals are more willing to die calmly on the battlefield, rather than choose to surrender and drag out their lives.

Such a person is more likely to be respected and become a hero.

When Liu Zheng told Shi Xie about this idea, Shi Xie was naturally surprised, and immediately agreed with him, and did not refuse at all. After all, Shi Xie could also get some benefits because of Shi Wu's relationship. Shi Wu's death can be included in the Hall of Martyrs , the son of Shiwu, can also get the title of title immediately, and he will have no worries about food and clothing from then on.

Of course, Liu Zheng's idea is just that. For the specific implementation, how to implement the method, Liu Zheng still needs to hand it over to his advisers to make specific plans, and let Shi Xie, Yuan Zhou, Zhang Wen, Gu Yong and others do it. discuss.

Liu Zheng didn't spend too much time on himself, he just decided that they would discuss it, and Liu Zheng would make the decision himself.

After finishing talking with Shi Xie, Liu Zheng expressed his apology to Shi Xie again, and then let him go back.

In this regard, the matter of proclaiming himself emperor has been smoothly transitioned for the time being, and Liu Zheng has also returned to the courtyard of his mansion.

It will be very difficult for him to live in this yard in the future.

One month later, the proclaiming of the emperor will be held, and Liu Zheng will move to the palace that was built a year ago.

At that time, the courtyard where he lives now will become a residence of Liu Zheng, and it will be preserved, but he will not come and live often, and it is very likely that Liu Zheng will reward him to the generals under Liu Zheng.

After returning to his own yard, he hesitated for a while before going to Zhang Ning's room.

It's very late now, Cai Yao and Zhang Muyu should both be asleep, especially since both of them have children, and they usually have to coax the children to sleep.

The children are still young, and now they are more attached to their mothers, so they usually sleep with the children at night, unless Liu Zheng deliberately told them in advance that he wanted to be with them.Otherwise they would not let the child leave their side.

Because of this, Liu Zheng decided to go to Zhang Ning's room.

He also hasn't talked to Zhang Ning for several days.

The last time it was because Chu Yan died in battle, Liu Zheng went to talk to Zhang Ning for a while. Taking advantage of this time he was about to become emperor, Liu Zheng planned to talk to Zhang Ning about what he had promised her earlier.

Liu Zheng has forgotten exactly when it was a long time ago. It may be when Zhang Ning came to Jiaozhou to join him, or it may be during a certain conversation with Zhang Ning that Liu Zheng had promised Zhang Ning.

Once he wins the world in the future, the Yellow Turban Sect will definitely not be extinguished.The legacy of General Tiangong Zhang Jiao will definitely be inherited by Liu Zheng and carried forward.

Although Liu Zheng couldn't let the Yellow Turban Army unify the world, and he didn't want to control the world in the name of the Yellow Turban Army, Liu Zheng decided to promote traditional religions, make the Yellow Turban religion the state religion of the great Han, and expel foreign religions such as Buddhism.

Yellow Turbanism, also known as Taiping Taoism, is a type of Taoism.

Now many people call the Taiping Taoism founded by Zhang Jiao a cult, but Liu Zheng has learned about some of Zhang Jue’s Taiping Taoism and knows his teachings. In fact, Taiping Taoism cannot be called a cult.

The philosophy of Taipingdao is to make the world peaceful, to make people kind, and to save the world with kindness.

Based on this concept, Liu Zheng still feels that Taiping Taoism can become a national religion.Just like the Ming Dynasty in history, it also advocated the Taoism of Longhu Mountain.

Compared with other religions, Liu Zheng still has the best impression of Taoism, and he doesn't want the land of China to be touched by other religions.

Especially after Liu Zheng went to Guangling to kill Ruo Rong last time, he saw the Buddhist believers recruited by Ruo Rong in Guangling. If you continue to let it go, it will definitely become what is written in the poems in the future, 480 temples in the Southern Dynasty, how many buildings are in the mist and rain.

There were even several temples built by Ruo Rong in Guangling County at this time.Although Liu Zheng does not reject these Buddhists, how can a local religion be squeezed by these foreign religions? Therefore, once Liu Zheng proclaims himself emperor, in order to cultivate local religious forces, he will definitely make the Yellow Turban religion the state religion of the great Han.

And Zhang Ning is the current saint of the Yellow Turban Sect, and one of the few orthodox Yellow Turban Remnants who is still a regular member of the Yellow Turban Remnant Party.At that time, Liu Zheng wants Zhang Ning to be in charge of promoting the entire Yellow Turban Sect across the country.

Seeing Liu Zheng's return, Zhang Ning, who was just about to fall asleep, was immediately delighted.

"Husband, why are you here?"

Liu Zheng walked over, came to the bed, sat down directly, hugged Zhang Ning by the waist, and then whispered to Zhang Ning softly in Zhang Ning's ear.

"Of course I miss Ning'er, why can't I come and see you?"

A shy look appeared on Zhang Ning's face, and he immediately responded to Liu Zheng's intimacy.

"Where is it, my husband can come whenever he wants, and Ning'er can't wait for you to come to my place every day."

"I also want to come to you every day, but it's a pity that I don't have the skills to separate myself. I've been too busy recently, and I'm about to start preparing for the emperor, so I'm even busier. It's not easy to spare time to accompany Ning'er gone."

Chapter 754 Reviving the Yellow Turban

Liu Zheng sighed and found a reason for himself.It's not that he doesn't want to come here to accompany Zhang Ning, but that he is really powerless now.

After all, there are quite a few harems. If you count Mi Zhen, who is about to pass through the door, there are five, even if you accompany one every day.You also have to go for several days without rest.

Even a man of iron will not be able to take it anymore. From Monday to Friday, he will go to the houses of these concubines separately, and give him a breath of relief for two days on the weekend.

Besides, the number of his harem is not too large now. If he really proclaims himself emperor in the future, then he must have more than this few concubines. The pressure will be a bit heavy for Liu Zheng by then, and he may not even have a weekend to take a breather. up.

Zhang Ning didn't pay attention to these things, but his eyes lit up when he heard what Liu Zheng said about his plans to become emperor.

"Is my husband finally going to be called emperor? It's good to be called emperor, at least you can compete head-on with those people in the court."