Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 409: Autumn Wind on Wuzhang Plain

No one expected that the thing that Zhuge Liang, who was much younger than Zu Tianshi, was most worried about was that he would be outlasted by Zu Tianshi.

This is simply a joke from hell, or perhaps it is the cause and effect of "fate".

In the past, Wu Hou was also outlasted to death by Sima Yi on Wuzhangyuan, which doomed the demise of Shu Han. Today, Zhuge Liang is still fighting the final battle with Dayu on Wuzhangyuan.

Fate is always complicated and when you think it has changed, it mischievously creates a series of problems, making you feel that fate has not changed.

And when you think that fate will never change, it will give you some different surprises.

For example, the "Battle of Wuzhangyuan" in the "Battle of Fatian", this war which belongs to the "Battle of Fatian" also lasted for a long time.

It started in the late autumn of the fourth year of Pan Tong and ended in the tenth year of Pan Tong.

No one would have thought that this battle would last so long. Even powerful forces like the Han and Dayu felt a little tired and powerless.

In Chang'an, many noble families have begun to think about giving up and trying to persuade Zhuge Liang to surrender. If we all join Dayu, won't we still be the noble families at the top? Even if we can't be as usual in Dayu, can't we hide first and then show up when the wind is a little lighter?

It's not a big deal.

These people are used to doing this.

But Zhuge Liang disagreed. He said that he fought this battle to support and restore the Han Dynasty, to unify the country, to live for the people of the world, and to fulfill the last wish of the late emperor.

After Zhuge Liang rejected their "temptation", several major families headed by Lu Huai turned their attention to Lu Qin.

The Lu Qin of today is different from the Lu Qin of the past. He has many noble families standing behind him, and he has a little face in front of Liu Chan - although he cannot shake Zhuge Liang, he can still make Liu Chan slightly shaken.

So they formed a group to look for Lu Qin.

Got a negative answer.

Lu Qin also rejected their temptation and said that the Han Dynasty was still strong, and it was just one battle away. Could it be that you still couldn't hold on? Are you worthy of the training of the Han Dynasty over the years?
He scolded several family heads severely, and his scolding was really bloody.

Xie Wuya, Wang Ming and the others returned to the mansion in disgrace. They looked at Lu Huai, who was also being scolded and even beaten out because he was a "family member", and said, "Brother Zi'an, what should we do?"

Lu Huai frowned, and finally sighed: "Fight, fight, they all want to fight, what else can we do?"

"Can you kill Zhuge Liang?"

He sighed and said, "Zhuge Liang has almost gone mad in order to support the Han Dynasty and complete the reunification of the Han Dynasty. At this moment, not to mention you and me, even the emperor can't stop him from completing this war."

Lu Huai hit on Zhuge Liang's feelings. He whispered, "This is a war that is destined to end in death, no matter how long it lasts. No one can stop it unless one of the two sides dies."

He tilted his head, with a hint of emotion in his eyes.

"Let's go."

Wang Ming and Xie Wuya looked at each other, with helpless expressions on their faces. They also understood this, so they wanted to dissuade Zhuge Liang or Lu Huai instead of using other means.

War is inevitable, and people always have to pay a price for it.

Six years of hope
It is the third year of the war, with heavy casualties on both sides, and this war is still going on.

However, a very funny thing happened during this year.

When Zhuge Liang was fighting a decisive battle with Dayu at Wuzhangyuan, a descendant of a small and insignificant family stated in the court that Zhuge Liang was actually a traitor sent by Dayu, which was why he insisted on fighting.

He said that he had discovered Zhuge Liang's big secret. Zhuge Liang once studied under Chen, and although Chen now seemed neutral, he actually supported Dayu. So Zhuge Liang was sent by Chen to consume the national strength of the Han Dynasty.

The name of this very brave official was specially recorded in history with hundreds of words, and he can be said to be famous throughout the ages, at least more powerful than some of the "Thirty-Six Ministers" of the first rank who stood in the court at that time. Except for a small number of these people who did great things that benefited the country and the people, their names did not appear in history books and were gradually forgotten.

The history books describe the fate of this brave man in extremely simple terms.

"In the sixth year of Pan Tong's reign, he was slandered in the court, and the emperor was furious and exterminated him."

"The next year, the emperor was still furious and dug up his corpse and whipped it."

These two short lines describe the fate of this warrior.

Liu Meng slandered Zhuge Liang in the court, and the emperor was very angry, so he directly exterminated Liu Meng's entire clan.

What are the Yisan tribes?
Father, mother, and wife, that is, all the people in your father’s family, all the people in your mother’s family, and all the people in your wife’s family.

Of course, there is another theory about the three Yi tribes, which says that the three Yi tribes are "parents, brothers, and wives."

But no matter which statement it is, as long as it involves the punishment of the three Yi tribes, there will definitely be a lot of heads rolling, and thousands of people cannot stop it.

The following sentence is even more interesting.

"The next year," that is, the second year, "the emperor's anger had not yet subsided," the emperor's anger had not yet subsided, meaning that the emperor had not yet calmed down, "dug up his corpse and whipped it." The emperor dug up his grave, dug out the corpse, and whipped it.

Even after a whole year had passed, the emperor was still not relieved. The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. Finally, he simply dug up the man's body and whipped it.

What a great hatred this is that the emperor hasn’t calmed down even after a whole year?

Even going so far as to whip the corpse?
You have to know that in the original Chinese history, emperors all had to save face. The only person who was not satisfied after the death of his subject and directly dug out the corpse and whipped it was Emperor Taizong Wen, also known as Li Shimin and Li Erfeng.

The person he whipped was Wei Zheng.

Although Wei Zheng really deserved it.

But this also gave Li Erfeng a reputation of being incompetent in his later years. Most people who slandered Li Erfeng said that he imprisoned his father and killed his brother in his early years, and whipped the corpses of loyal ministers and generals in his later years.

This loyal minister and capable general refers to Wei Zheng.

Autumn of the sixth year of Pan Tong.

After Liu Meng's death, which was a very tragic death, many noble families put away their little thoughts of "testing".

Yes.

Liu Meng was a "chess piece" sent out by them to test the extent of the emperor's trust in Zhuge Liang - they did not expect that Zhuge Liang had not yet reacted, but the emperor's reaction was so strong.

Wangfu
Wang Ming sighed, raised his cup, and had a look of helpless sorrow on his face: "Those fools, now they think that the emperor dealt with Liu Meng so harshly and so quickly because of Zhuge Liang."

He laughed sarcastically: "What a bunch of idiots."

"Isn't it probably that the most painful thing for a person is to work with these people?"

Xie Wuya curled his lips: "Who said it wasn't?"

"Although some people in the court remained silent, it is hard to understand how these people could completely ignore such a large force."

He pointed out the "key point": "Who can slander Chen?" "They thought the emperor was showing them no mercy, but in fact, the emperor showed them a huge mercy!"

Yes, the reason why this matter was handled so quickly and so unexpectedly was because it involved the Guandu Chen family.

When it comes to matters involving the Chen family, it wouldn't be too much for the emperor to react quickly.

Didn’t these idiots see those disciples of the Chen family in the court who were “ready to make a move” to teach Liu Meng and these testing “aristocratic families” a lesson?
Chen's disciples are spread all over the world. Am I bragging to you?
Do these people really think that the Chen family is the Yuan family?

Do you really think that the level of "disciples and former officials spread all over the world" advocated by Yuan is the same as that of Chen?
It's just a joke.

Wang Ming and Xie Wuya looked at each other and saw the determination in each other's eyes. They both made a decision quickly.

There will be no good end if we continue to stay in Chang'an City with this group of idiots. It is better to migrate most of the children to Dayu at this time, and then take root in Dayu!

There is no good ending if you hang out with idiots.

Their actions quickly attracted the attention of other families. However, except for "Lu Qin" of the Lu family, the other big families did not care. Instead, they laughed at the Wang family, saying that although the Wang family was also a big family, they were frightened by the little emperor and ran away.

He also laughed at Xie, saying that Xie was so short-sighted that he ran away with Wang.

It will surely decline in the future.

And all these taunts turned to ashes hundreds of years later.

Because hundreds of years later, after the Chen family, there were only two top families left - Wang and Xie.

Although they are not as glorious as in the original history, they also have their own glory in this era and in this version of history.

They are still "Wang Xie".

Hundreds of years after this era, the famous poet still wrote with emotion that "the swallows that once flew in front of the halls of the Wang and Xie families now fly into the homes of ordinary people."

Although the "Wang and Xie" at that time were still great and powerful families.

Don’t ask why “Wang Xie” is used as the allusion instead of “Chen”.

Because the poet hasn't felt he's lived enough.

Writing poems and using allusions to mock Wang and Xie is just a "literary hobby", but if you mock Chen.
This was the fate of "Liu Meng" a thousand years ago.

Nine years later, the war is still going on.

During this year, the outcome of who would win and who would lose between Dayu and Dahan had become clear.

Dayu was reborn in the war, and many schools of thought emerged within the country. All things seemed to have developed as if spring had arrived. Within Dayu, agriculture, industry, handicrafts, etc. have all made tremendous progress.

This is an era that can almost be called a heyday.

Some barbarians from the Western Regions gradually migrated to the Central Plains. Of course, unlike the "great national integration" in history, this integration was clearly based on the Chinese nation.

It was an honor for male barbarians to marry a Han woman - and the woman had to be a great noble among the barbarians. And such nobles generally would not take concubines after marrying a Han woman.

Female barbarians were proud to marry Han men, and many noble barbarian women even married poor Han scholars with high dowries.

National integration continues in this peaceful environment.

The Han people in Dayu did not react much to this change. For them, the new lifestyle, new farming methods, new tools and food brought by the barbarians were more likely to attract their attention.

It was also during this period that the Han people, the main ethnic group of China, completed their "integration" with the barbarians.

This is the "inclusiveness" of Han culture and Han blood.

This integration obviously caused dissatisfaction among some countries in the Western Regions - after all, some people ran away with money and people, so what should their countries do?
But they did not dare to get angry with the Han Dynasty and Dayu because of this, so the kings of these Western Regions, on the one hand, kowtowed and expressed "submission" and "request" to the emperors of the two countries, and on the other hand, they increased control over the people in their own countries.

Why beg for mercy?

The reason is very simple. They dare not stop these people from entering Dahan and Dayu when Dahan and Dayu disagree.

Because this is an offense to the Han and Yu
When the Han and Dayu were at war, the countries in the Western Regions were not without their own little thoughts. They tried to test it once, in the eighth year of Pan Tong.

On that occasion, both the Han and Dayu sides stopped their attacks instantly, and then Chen Zexi, the ancestor of the Chen family who was not yet dead, led his troops to attack the Western Regions again. This time, only three countries were left in the Western Regions.

These three countries were really scared.

Looking forward to the same ten years, summer and autumn.

On Wuzhangyuan
The old Zhuge Liang sat in the big tent, with despair in his eyes.

He never thought that he would be so desperate.

He was more than ten years younger than Chen Zhulou, but in the end he could not survive Chen Zhulou.
He whispered with some grief, anger, despair and resignation: "Chen Zhulou, Chen Zhulou, how can you survive like this?"

"Why aren't you dead yet?"

In the original history, this familiar sigh should have been uttered by Cao Rui during his sixth attack on Wei.

But now, it was he who said this.

Zhuge Liang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

He made a decision. He would use the Seven Star Lamp to pray to the heaven for his fate. He wanted to live another ten years!

On Wuzhangyuan, the autumn wind was blowing softly.

In the big tent, Zhuge Liang, wearing a Yin-Yang Bagua robe, sat in the center with a solemn look on his face.

Candles were burning in the big tent.

Outside the big tent.

The autumn wind on Wuzhangyuan is bleak.

Time and life.

In the ninth year of Pan Tong, autumn, October.

The seven-star lamp in the military tent was not extinguished, but the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang, died of illness at Wuzhangyuan.

In the end, he couldn't survive Chen Zhulou.

(End of this chapter)