Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 294 The Ups and Downs of the Imperial Family (3)
In front of the two of them, there are five teams of tiger and cardinal knights, with spears and spears, leading the way majestically; Holding a bronze spit pot, or an incense burner with an animal head, or a long green felt mat, they walked respectfully.Behind the eunuchs and maids is a large group of Eastern Wu officials in red robes and purple shirts.

"Your Majesty, this is the place." The green-clothed clerk who was walking in the front stopped his horse, and with his whip in his hand pointed at the choppy river below the embankment, "This is where I saw two yellow dragons intertwined. Tangled and broke through the waves, they flew into the air and turned their heads and swayed their tails to show off their majesty. At that time, the red sun in the sky was half darkened at once - they hovered for half an hour before they soared into the sky..."

As soon as Sun Quan waved his hand, the attendants immediately carried his chariot to the shade of a willow grove and put it down.He narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the surging waves on the river, and let out a long breath leisurely: "What a majestic scene! The appearance of the divine dragon here can be called 'just in time'!"

Then, he ordered solemnly to the Tsing Yi official: "Wei Xiang, since you have witnessed the manifestation of the dragon with your own eyes, you can also be regarded as a blessed person-the lonely king will give you the title of 'Fenglonghou', and you will be in Shiyi. Eight hundred households!"

As soon as he announced this order, Zhang Zhao, who had dismounted and stood by the chariot, couldn't help but frowned slightly, and was about to speak—Gu Yong, the prime minister of Wu who had approached behind him at some point, quietly pulled the hem of his robe , quietly stopped him.

Over there, Wei Xiang, a civil servant in green clothes, immediately rolled off his horse when he heard it. His face was full of joy, his brows brimming with joy, and he kowtowed repeatedly: "My humble servant thanks King Longen! My humble servant wishes your great king Hong Fu Qi God, good luck and good luck!"

Looking at his ecstatic and self-satisfied appearance, Zhang Zhao let out a low "chi" in his nostrils: These profit-seekers who fabricate facts and lie about auspiciousness can get Sun Quan with just a rhetoric. It is really against the court guidelines and detrimental to the etiquette to add officials and confer titles!From now on, everyone can report auspiciousness indiscriminately to invite pets and receive rewards, and the wind of hypocrisy will grow. How can this trend last?

When he was thinking about it, he saw a young guard chief separated from the crowd and came forward, bowed his head with a "plop", and said to Sun Quan: "Qizou Your Majesty, I am here to congratulate you—"Book of Changes" says , 'The flying dragon is in the sky, and you will see your lord.' The yellow dragon ascends to the sky, and the day is auspicious. It is eye-catching from far and near, and the supernatural is rare. It is really an auspicious omen for you, the king, to be appointed by the sky and proclaim yourself emperor!"

As soon as he played this performance, there was a slight commotion among the surrounding Wu officials.

Sun Quan turned his head on the chariot and saw that the young head of the guard was Zhuge Ke, the eldest son of Zhuge Jin, the general who conquered the North.His eyes swept across Zhuge Ke's face, but his expression was still indifferent: "Aiqing came out more and more to present this flattering speech? If the lonely king didn't think of your father Zhuge Jin For the sake of Zhengbei's loyalty and meritorious deeds, you must have been dragged down by Huben Luxun for forty years! How can the lonely king do what you say? How can He De be worthy of the destiny of 'Kaitai and proclaim the emperor'?"

Only then did Zhang Zhao realize that what Sun Quan, Wei Xiang, and Zhuge Ke were performing was a "serial play".A contemptuous smile could not help passing by the corner of his lips, and he closed his mouth and remained silent.

When Zhang Zhao's fierce eyes stared at him, Zhuge Ke felt his face was scorched by the "squeak" of a branding iron, and hurriedly lowered his head unnaturally, and hurriedly avoided it.

However, once the rotten egg is cracked, the flies will swarm by smelling it.At this time, Sun Jun, the servant of the Huangmen standing beside Sun Quan's chariot, was a descendant of Sun Quan's clan, and he was about the same age as Zhuge Ke. There is a nursery rhyme circulating, "Golden car, Banlan'er; Kaichang gate, the emperor comes out." The nursery rhyme is a sign of heaven leaking from the mouth of a child to the world! Don't listen to it carelessly! According to Weichen, This rumor should be fulfilled by the king..."

"Yes! Yes! Yes! These auspicious omens are all fulfilled by you, Your Majesty..." Some of the accompanying officials also rushed to say.

Sun Quan secretly glanced at Zhang Zhao out of the corner of his eye, and seeing that he was still indifferent as a teacher of all officials, he couldn't help frowning secretly, thinking: This Zhang Zibu (Zhang Zhao's word is "" Zibu") seems to be trying to stop the "Xunyu" of the state of Wu who proclaimed himself emperor and changed his name?As soon as he changed his mind, he pretended to yell at Sun Jun and others: "You ignorant children, what do you know about 'the signs of the sky are announced in nursery rhymes'? Don't talk nonsense here!" Then he waved his sleeves and let them retreat. go aside.

After a moment of silence, Sun Quan waved his hand again, signaling to the maids beside him to bring out a long brocade box and bring it straight to Zhang Zhao.Facing Zhang Zhao's bewildered and inexplicable eyes, he said slowly, "Master Zhang, this is a strange object brought by Han Chancellor Zhuge Liang's envoy Deng Zhi from Chengdu. The lonely king asks Master Zhang to pay you a visit." at a glance."

Zhang Zhao didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Sun Quan's gourd. Hearing what he said, he looked at it carefully: but saw that the brocade box was gently opened, and inside was a large thick roll of silk rubbings. .It spread out to be six feet long and four feet wide, almost as big as half a chariot.On the top of the drawing, there are clearly images of eight steeds galloping through the sky. In the middle, there is a circle of big characters in official script, which reads: "There is a revolution in the destiny, and Cao Yan is to be punished; the golden horse is born, and its hoofs soar to the clouds; change."

"Zhuge Liang sent this silk rubbing picture to Gu Wang a few days ago, claiming that his "secret agent" rubbed it from the back of a "spiritual turtle black stone" that overflowed from the Xuanchuan River in Zhangye County, Liangzhou, Pseudo-Wei Dynasty. He believed that this was a bad omen from the heavens for the puppet Wei, and explained that the four characters of "discussing Cao Yan" clearly showed that the Cao family had been abandoned by the heavens and the people. He hoped to join forces with the lonely king Form an alliance, advance east and west, and launch a large-scale attack on the puppet Wei..."

Listening quietly to Sun Quan's words, Zhang Zhao held the silk painting in both hands, tears streaming down his face, and his shoulders twitched violently, unable to restrain himself for a long time.For more than 20 years, as a lone official of the Han Dynasty living in Jiangdong, he has never slackened his ambition to revive the Han Dynasty. Today, he was inspired by this prophecy, which made him even more moved!After a while, he finally calmed down, raised his eyes to look at Sun Quan, and said slowly: "The false Wei usurped the Han to stand on our own, God and man were angry together, and it has been a long time since I was abandoned by heaven! Yiming, the old minister is really overjoyed! If the old minister can witness the fall of the puppet Wei Dynasty with his own eyes in his lifetime, he will die without regret!"

As he said that, his face became serious, and he said to Sun Quan solemnly: "My lord, there is a saying in the "Three Strategies of Huangshi Gong", 'He who can help the world's dangers, he will take care of the world's peace; Enjoy the happiness of the world; those who can save the world's disasters will receive the blessings of the world." If the king can raise his troops to destroy the Wei thieves and avenge the Yan Han for 400 years in one night, then the sky will respond to people and open Tai proclaimed himself emperor, even though Han Gaozu and Emperor Guangwu were reborn, they did not dare to return to be above him! The old minister sincerely expresses his deepest thoughts, and I beg your majesty to understand it.”

What Sun Quan was waiting for was Zhang Zhao's statement.Over the past 20 years, Sun Quan has been working hard in Jiangdong from a young and strong young man to the half-hundred old man with frost-stained temples. He finally occupied the [-]-mile territory in the south of the Yangtze River and became the "Emperor of the Earth" safely and securely.Seeing Cao Pi abolishing the Han Dynasty and proclaiming himself emperor, and Liu Bei standing upright on his own, his heart was itchy, and he really thought about the "emperor addiction" that was called long live!But he knew that if he wanted to be promoted by Emperor Wang Jin and Daji, he had to get the support of elders of the gentry like Zhang Zhao!That's why he painstakingly took advantage of the contradictions between Han and Wei to draw them to support him - and he can also make an alliance with the Shu Han to fight against the false Wei!After all, if he proclaims himself emperor and the false Wei claims to be orthodox in the Central Plains, he will definitely attack him!At this time, I can only use the power of the Shu Han to resolve the pressure of the false Wei.Hearing Zhang Zhao's words at this moment, he couldn't help showing a deep smile on his face, and said kindly: "Master Zhang's words, how high is the hope in the lonely king! The lonely king has made up his mind and decided to form an alliance with Xishu , to fight against the false Wei and avenge the Han!"

"If your majesty has this intention, the old minister is willing to send his dog Zhang Cheng as the vanguard general to fight against Wei, and swear to destroy Cao's bandits!" Zhang Zhao said resolutely with his beard and beard stretched out.

On the training ground of the Northern Expedition barracks in the eastern outskirts of Chengdu, people and horses are everywhere, and the sound of killing is loud!
"I swear to wipe out the Wei thieves, clear the Central Plains, and reclaim the Han Dynasty together. The merits are immortal!"

The shouts of slogans to suppress Xingyun came and went one after another, shaking the ears of the Shu people who were crowded outside the gate and watching!Groups of soldiers of the Shu army lined up in a square formation stacked like a mountain, all holding spears and stabbing forward, the movements are as neat as "a thousand people become one"!
Standing on a high podium, Zhuge Liang, Prime Minister of Shu, is facing the scorching sun, holding a goose feather fan in his left hand and draping his eye canopy in his right hand, watching quietly into the field.

Liu Nuo, the commander of his guards and Yueqi school lieutenant, saw that Zhuge Liang was slightly sweating on the temples, and could not help reminding softly: "Prime Minister, you have been watching the training here for more than half an hour. Go to the back tent and take a rest!"

Zhuge Liang gently shook the goose feather fan, looked back at Liu Nuo, and said leisurely: "Mr. Liu! "The Three Strategies of Huangshi Gong" once said, 'A man who is a general must feel the same as the soldiers and share the safety and security. It can be added. Therefore, the soldiers have complete victories, and the enemy has complete causes. In the past, good generals used their troops, and there were those who fed the mash, so that they threw them into various rivers and drank with the soldiers. The mash of a man cannot taste the water of a river. , and the soldiers of the three armies think of the dead, and take the taste as their own. The ancients said that before the military wells are reached, they will not talk about thirst; Don't wear fur in winter, don't play fan in summer, and don't open the cover in rain, which is called general etiquette. Be safe with it, and be in danger with it, so they can be united but not separated, usable but not tired; use their kindness to accumulate and seek resources Together. Therefore, be kind and tireless, and take ten thousand with one." In contrast to this proverb, it is a great violation of the teachings that the soldiers are facing the scorching sun while the truth is holding the feather fan! I am afraid that the truth cannot go down to rest without authorization It's..."

"Master Prime Minister! You...you really don't care about your body..." Liu Nuo's throat choked up, and the man of eight feet almost burst into tears on the spot, "You approved the paper last night until the second watch, and this morning After Maoshi got up, he came here to watch the training again... Even his iron body can't stand it!"

A faint wry smile flashed across Zhuge Liang's face, he looked at the hot training ground from a distance, and did not speak.He glanced at Liu Nuo out of the corner of his eye, and thought to himself: Truth is so nagging about citing scriptures, and so tirelessly teaching by precepts and deeds, that I hope you can step up your studies, grow up quickly, and always be ready to be on the battlefield of the Northern Expedition Stand alone and make contributions!After all, the important task of recovering the Central Plains and revitalizing the Han Dynasty in the future must be up to you to go forward and develop!Do you understand the painstaking efforts of the truth?

(End of this chapter)