Mi Han

Chapter 324 Although Guan Yu is dead, Mi Yang is still alive
Eulogy, not everyone can have.

With Guan Yu's status and status during his lifetime, it is reasonable for Liu Bei, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, to read a eulogy for him in public after his death.

This point has long been guessed by the ministers.

What the ministers did not expect was that the content of this eulogy was very different from the common eulogy in the world.

Since it is a eulogy, the natural content should be mainly mourning.

But the content of the eulogy recited by Liu Bei today is not all words of condolence.

On the contrary, it is more like a letter of praise to Guan Yu and the Han army after the Battle of Xiangfan!
It can also be regarded as a call to arms for the Han army to declare their martial arts.

It's just that no matter what kind of guesses surfaced in the minds of the ministers, their current mood seems to be quite turbulent.

In the martial arts Han Dynasty, a passionate article can inspire people to a great extent.

The effect would undoubtedly be greater if the article was portrayed based on facts.

It is obvious that Liu Bei's eulogy to Guan Yu has had such an effect.

Standing on the altar, Liu Bei looked at the excited expressions on the faces of the officials below, and there was a bit of comfort in his eyes.

He looked at where Guan Yu's Zi Palace was, and thought to himself:

"This kind of eulogy should be just like what Zicheng said, and it is what Yun Chang likes."

And this kind of eulogy is also liked by the subjects of the Han Dynasty.

Long before leaving Xinye, because of Mi Yang's identity and his usual writing style, Liu Bei asked Mi Yang to write a mourning essay for Guan Yu in advance.

Compared with other tasks that Liu Bei entrusted to Mi Yang, the task of writing a eulogy for Guan Yu made Mi Yang feel more relaxed.

It's just that when writing the eulogy, Mi Yang considered that Guan Yu died after the Han army's victory in the Xiangfan battle, which may have a certain impact on the morale of the Han army.

Even when the news of Guan Yu's death was learned by Cao Weijun and his ministers, it would fuel their arrogance to a certain extent.

Out of this consideration, Mi Yang adopted a completely different way of writing eulogy from his predecessors.

In fact, he mixed the battle report of the Han army's victory in the Xiangfan battle into Guan Yu's eulogy.

When such a eulogy was recited from Liu Bei's mouth, it not only greatly affirmed Guan Yu's achievements during his lifetime.

It will also let the subjects of the Han Dynasty not affect the hearts of the army and the people because of the sadness in their hearts after learning the content of this eulogy.

It will even boost their spirits invisibly.

And when this "Great General Yu Wen" spread all over the world, whether it is Cao Pi or Sun Quan who has been quite silent recently.

They will all naturally feel the momentum and strength shown by the Han army in this eulogy.

When Mi Yang handed over this "Ai Da General Yuwen" to Liu Bei, Liu Bei naturally understood Mi Yang's good intentions.

Therefore, after reading the eulogy on the altar, Liu Bei handed the eulogy to Deng Zhi who had just boarded the altar. He told Deng Zhi:
"Announcement to the world, Xian envoys hear it."

Deng Zhi can be favored by Liu Bei as an important minister, so he can naturally understand the profound meaning of Liu Bei's move.

So after he took the eulogy in Liu Bei's hand, he bowed to Liu Bei to pay his respects.

After handing over the eulogy in his hand to Deng Zhi, Liu Bei looked at the burial place of Guan Yuzi Palace, and his eyes became extremely reluctant.

"Brother is leaving."

"In a few years, brother will definitely take you to Chang'an."

After silently muttering these two sentences in his heart, Liu Bei bowed slowly to the location of Guan Yu's heroic spirit.

A temporary farewell.

And when Liu Bei bowed, many sacrifices on the altar behind him were thrown into the fire.

Fueled by the fat-filled animal carcasses, the flames on the altar shot up to heights.

The rising flames appeared behind Liu Bei, the Emperor of Han, and seemed to reflect that Yan Han's current national power was booming.

After Liu Bei's worship, it also announced the end of Guan Yu's grand funeral.

Not long after Guan Yu's funeral, many messengers set off from Xiangyang and traveled quickly to all parts of the world.

These messengers were sent by Deng Zhi.

When these messengers announced the mourning text of "Grand General Yuwen" to the world, there would be another wave of waves in the world.

Xiangyang City, as the seat of the Emperor of Han and the command center of the previous Xiangfan Battle, has long been densely covered with spies from all sides inside and outside the city.

It is impossible to conceal such a major event as the funeral of General Guan Yu of the Han Dynasty from the spies inside and outside Xiangyang City.

Perhaps the spies in Xinye City or Xiangyang City had found out that Guan Yu had passed away.

But because this news was too sudden, and the Han army has always been good at using tactics.

Therefore, before there was any definite news, when many spies reported the news, they made a special note that the news was suspicious.

Using feigned death to trick the enemy into attacking, this kind of tactic has not been used in the past.

But when Guan Yu's funeral was grandly held outside Xiangyang City, this incident undoubtedly proved the authenticity of Guan Yu's death.

So after confirming that the news of Guan Yu's death was true, the spies from all parties reported the news back from various channels at an extremely fast speed.

Among them, the spies sent by Wancheng reported the fastest.

At the end of February in the second year of Zhangwu in the Han Dynasty, just when Cao Pi had arranged everything and was ready to drive back to Luoyang, this information happened to be sent to Cao Pi who was about to set foot on the imperial drive through the hands of Liu Fang, the supervisor of Zhongshu.

Liu Fang is a descendant of Liu Jian, the king of Guangyangqing in the early Han Dynasty, and he is also a Han family clan like Liu Ye.

The only difference from Liu Ye is that Liu Fang has more trust from Cao Cao and Cao Pi than Liu Ye.

After Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, he appointed Sun Zi as Zhongshu Ling and Liu Fang as Zhongshu Supervisor to jointly take charge of Zhongshutai, an important institution.

Liu Fang can gain the trust of Cao Cao and Cao Pi, except for his previous contribution to Cao Cao's pacification of Hebei.

It is also because he himself is a person with a very good literary talent, and he has a strong ability to analyze all documents.

As a result, recently, Cao Pi gradually handed over the power of summarizing intelligence from all parties to Liu Fang, the supervisor of Zhongshu.

Liu Fang held a piece of information that was urgently sent back to Wancheng, and stopped Cao Pi who was about to sit in the imperial car with one sentence.

"Guan Yu is dead, the news is correct!"

When Liu Fang's words reached Cao Pi's ears, Cao Pi's raised foot stopped suddenly.

He was taken aback for a moment, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face.

Surprised, Cao Pi no longer cared about boarding the imperial driver.

He immediately twitched his feet and went back under the driver, and then quickly beckoned Liu Fang forward with his hands.

Attracted by Cao Pi, Liu Fang hurried forward to Cao Pi, and presented the information in his hands to Cao Pi.

Looking at the information in Liu Fang's hand covered with red feathers, the joy on Cao Pi's face became more and more intense.

As early as before, there were many news about Guan Yu's death in Wancheng.

It's just that the kind of news has not been confirmed at that time.

In addition, Cao Pi had a psychological shadow of being deceived by the Han army, so Cao Pi did not believe the news.

Not only Cao Pi didn't believe it, but many ministers of Cao Wei didn't believe it.

But just when Cao Pi thought that Guan Yu's death was a fake news, on the day he was about to leave Wancheng, he actually got the confirmation of Guan Yu's death.

How could such news not surprise Cao Pi.

Cao Pi knew Liu Fang's personality. If such news was not supported by accurate and unmistakable evidence, Liu Fang would not dare to announce it in public.

What surprised Cao Pi even more was still to come. After Liu Fang handed over the information in his hand, he immediately said:

"Liu Bei abandoned Mi Yang instead of using it, and instead appointed Zhang Fei as the governor of Jingzhou."

After hearing the news, Cao Pi and the ministers around him showed even more joy on their faces, and they breathed a long sigh of relief in their hearts.

Before the Battle of Xiangfan, the evaluation of Liu Bei's forces by the ruling and opposition parties in Wei State was usually like this.

"Liu Zei is also the lord of the small country, and the famous general Wei Yu Ji Yang is not the opponent of Wei."

Such an evaluation is based on the confidence of Cao Wei's ruling and opposition parties in their own national strength, and it is also based on a judgment of objective facts.

It is true that Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and other generals are still there at this time, and Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun have also made a lot of military exploits in the past.

But they did not have the glorious record of Guan Yu flooding the Seventh Army and forcing them to surrender, and Mi Yang burning Hanshui to besiege and kill Cao Ren.

Therefore, their deterrent power among the Cao Wei government and the opposition is naturally not high.

Even after the Battle of Xiangfan, the judgments of the king and ministers of Wei on Liu Bei's famous generals did not actually change substantially.

Especially compared to Mi Yang, Guan Yu, who won two Xiangfan battles in a row, is more like a towering mountain, overwhelming all Cao Wei monarchs and ministers, almost suffocating.

Under such circumstances, how could Cao Pi and the ministers of the State of Wei not be pleasantly surprised when they heard the news of Guan Yu's death.

Just like when the news of Cao Cao's death spread throughout the world, the whole world breathed a sigh of relief.

After Guan Yu's death, Mi Yang did not become the next governor of Jingzhou, which made Cao Pi and other Wei officials feel relieved.

This is especially true for Sima Yi, who is in charge of the military in Jingzhou.

When seeing Cao Pi off today, almost all the ministers inside and outside Wancheng came, only the left general Zhang He led tens of thousands of horsemen outside.

Isn't Zhang He guarding against Mi Yang who is now in Xinye?
After hearing these two great news, Cao Pi excitedly said to the ministers beside him:
"The thief doesn't live in Jingzhou, Wanluo has no worries from now on."

In Cao Pi's view, although Guan Yu's death cannot be reversed by people's will.

But after Guan Yu's death, Liu Bei refused to let Mi Yang inherit Guan Yu's power, which was beyond his expectation and made him optimistic about the situation in Jingzhou.

Cao Pi's words made all the ministers around him nod their heads, and expressions of approval appeared on their faces.

It's just that Cao Pi didn't notice that when all the officials were happy with him, Liu Fang's face was always tense.

However, although Cao Pi didn't notice this, his movements were not slow at all.

He reached out to take the information from Liu Fang's hand. For the first time since he became emperor, he wanted to read an information with joy.

Cao Pi has already thought about it, and after he reads the contents of this intelligence, he will immediately announce the contents of the intelligence to the world, so as to boost the morale of his own army.

When Cao Pi's slender fingers slid across the edge of the cloth and fully displayed the contents of the cloth in his hand, Cao Pi's face was still very happy at the beginning.

It's just that when Cao Pi's eyes moved all the way on the cloth in his hand, and after seeing the "Ai Da General Yu Wen", his eyes suddenly became tight.

The title of this eulogy made Cao Pi very curious, and he would of course like the enemy's mourning.

But it was obvious that the contents of this eulogy were completely beyond his expectations.

As Cao Pi kept looking at the content of the eulogy, the joy on Cao Pi's face gradually dissipated.

What replaced the happy look on his face was a gloomy look.

And under that gloomy face, Cao Pi's eyes gradually became colder.

He felt that there was a kind of grief and anger that he had deliberately suppressed in the past, and under the guidance of the content of this eulogy, it began to revive in his heart.

As a well-known great talent in the world, Cao Pi's rich knowledge reserve allowed him to read the content of this eulogy very quickly.

He can also know from the first reaction what the metaphor in this eulogy refers to.

But because of this, the gloomy look on Cao Pi's face became more and more intense.

After reading the content of this eulogy, Cao Pi angrily closed the cloth in his hand.

His actions seemed to be covering up the fact that he had read this eulogy.

But the fact is the fact, not self-deception can be changed.

The memory and imagination of the great talent make the contents of the eulogy, like the real scenes of the two great battles, constantly emerge before his eyes.

Seeing Wei Jun's aggrieved and tragic scene, Cao Pi's grief and indignation became more and more intense.

Is this mourning Guan Yu, or is it mourning my [-] army of Great Wei?

Cao Pi gritted his teeth angrily, pointed at Liu Fang with his whitish fingers, and asked Liu Fang in a cold tone:
"Do you know who wrote this eulogy?"

The intelligence did not specify who wrote the eulogy.

However, Liu Fang, as a literary master who was relied on by the two generations of Cao's monarchs, is also the current aggregator of Cao Wei's information.

It is possible for him to guess who the author of this eulogy is from the comparison of writing styles.

Sure enough, after Cao Pi asked Liu Fang, even though Liu Fang had discovered that Cao Pi was in a bad mood at the moment, he could only bite the bullet and answer Cao Pi:
"According to my speculation, this eulogy may have been written by Mi Yang."

Liu Fang did not speculate without reason. As Cao Wei's life and death enemy, Mi Yang had already carefully studied the battle reports written by him in the past.

Because of this, Liu Fang felt Mi Yang's similar style of writing from this eulogy.

Based on facts, supplemented by heroic writing.

When Cao Pi heard that the eulogy was written by Mi Yang, a self-deprecating smile appeared on his face.

Although Guan Yu is dead, Mi Yang is still alive, so why should he be happy?
You must know that Xia Houshang, Man Chong and other generals of Wei State are still being imprisoned in Mi Yang's Xicheng.

And Cao Ren's death was only a year ago.

This has always been a great shame to Cao Wei.

(End of this chapter)