Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 20 The Great Letter of Emperor Yuehuang of the Han Dynasty

After escorting the two groups of people away, Yue Fei in Daqing Hall had not yet ended the meeting. All the gates of Lin'an City were still closed, and all contacts with the outside of the city were cut off. The people in the city knew what was going on. But the people outside the city didn't know that those people outside the city who were preparing to go to the city to do business came to the city gate and found that the gate was closed. They shouted for a long time but no one responded, so they had to leave in disappointment.

In the Daqing Hall, Yin Hui, the Minister of Rites and the Superintendent of the Ministry of Rites, came out and reported: "Your Majesty, the name of the new dynasty has not been established yet, so please decide."

"The country's name is used eight hundred years ago, but it is not the Han Dynasty, but the Han Empire. The year name is recorded in dynasties, which is the first year of the Yue Dynasty."

After hearing this, the officials looked extremely confused again. Yue Fei looked at the shocked ministers and explained: "The Chinese people unified themselves as Han people, and I want to give this country China a certain country that has nothing to do with the dynasty. It is very appropriate to use the Han country as the name of the country. This is no longer the case. The previous dynasties and generations replaced them with the title of the country, and the latter can only represent one family, one surname, one generation."

When Yue Fei said this, he found that one of the officials was nodding his head incessantly to express his approval. Yue Fei knew that this person was the inspector of the censor Fang Tingshi, but his thoughts were much more independent than those of the sects and officials in the court. During the Shaoxing Peace Controversy, he heard Zhao Gou's intention and refuted from his own unique perspective: "The world is the world of China, the world of ancestors, the world of ministers, the whole family, and the world of the three armies, not the world of Your Majesty. Even if Your Majesty fails to lead the generals and conquers Shenzhou, he can still keep the Jiangzuo, so why would he bend to the enemy? Even if Your Majesty endures this, how is it like China? Is it like the rituals of the previous kings? Is it like the hearts of the people?"

Yue Fei issued an edict in court to supervise the censor Fang Ting as the Minister of Rites, and together with Yin Hui, drafted the "Great Edict of Emperor Yue of the Great Han Empire". Then he made personnel appointments and dismissals before he retired from the court.

Three days later, the "Great Edict of Emperor Yue of the Great Han Empire" was completed and the imperial edict was distributed throughout the world. This was actually a declaration that declared the legitimacy of Yue Fei's yellow robe. With the edict messenger riding his horse out of the city, Lin'an City, which had been isolated from the world for three days and three nights, finally opened.

Almost at the same time as Lin'an City opened the city, the new temple minister of Dali Temple completed the trial of Qin Hui's one-party treason and immediately launched an investigation and prosecution. The Beiwei Guards and the garrison took Qin Hui and his party to Chaotianmen. At this time, the streets around Chaotianmen were already crowded, waiting to watch and behead Qin Hui.

All officials, scholars and officials and the people had their own opinions on Yue Fei's usurpation of the throne, but their views on Qin Hui were one-sided. Everyone had reasons to hate Qin Hui from different angles.

When Qin Hui's prison car drove through the imperial road, rotten eggs and rotten vegetables came to them, and the soldiers escorted were not stopped. In the small square in front of Chaotianmen, dozens of red-clothed executioners holding ghost-headed swords were waiting. The soldiers dragged Qin Hui and others with limp faces and limp limbs to the execution ground like a dog.

After the prisoner was settled, the prison officer threw the token after reading the crime. The executioner waved his sword hard, and in an instant, dozens of heads fell to the ground, and the entire square was covered with blood. The crowd burst into cheers, but two men turned quietly after watching this scene.

These two people were falsely accusing Yue Fei, a spy sent by Zhang Jun, one of the four generals of Zhongxing. It turned out that the day after the Lin'an mutiny, Zhang Jun sent a small school to Lin'an to submit official documents to the city. He repeatedly shouted to the city but no one responded. He had no choice but to return to the military camp and report to Zhang Jun truthfully.

When Zhang Jun heard this, he felt something was wrong. No matter why in Lin'an City, he would not do this. Suddenly, he remembered the Miao and Liu mutiny many years ago. He was still stationed in Pingjiang that year, and received an inexplicable edict from the court. He told Zhao Gou of the world to abdicate the throne, surrender the throne to his three-year-old son Zhao Ying and pardoned the world. He immediately understood that something had happened in the palace and contacted the generals as soon as possible to raise an army to defend the king. Miao and Liu were afraid, and after asking for the iron certificate of alchemy to avoid death, he returned Zhao Gou to the throne, and was eventually killed. Zhang Jun was also highly valued for this and became one of the four generals who held the military power of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhang Jun, who was terrified in his heart, immediately sent spies to Lin'an to inquire about the news. When the two spies arrived in Lin'an, they were thinking about how to use to enter the city, but the city gate opened. After entering the city, they were about to execute Qin Hui's party. When they saw the Anmin notice posted at the city gate and the "Great Edict of the Emperor Yue of the Great Han Empire", they immediately understood what was going on. After two more days of investigation in Lin'an City, they immediately rushed back to Wujiang to report to Zhang Jun.

Zhang Jun was stunned when he heard this. He guessed that a mutiny occurred in Lin'an City, but he never expected that this mutiny was initiated by Yue Fei, and Yue Fei also went straight to the throne and changed the dynasty and killed Qin Hui.

Of course, he thought Qin Hui was executed for murdering Yue Fei, so now he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, and he was not in the mood to wonder where Yue Fei got his troops and horses and launched this mutiny that changed history.

Since Yue Fei killed Qin Hui, of course it is impossible for him to let him go. Now, after Zhao Gou deprived the four generals of military power, he had no more than 3,000 troops. This number of troops was regained because he framed Yue Fei and regained Zhao Gou and Qin Hui's trust.

Just when he was extremely anxious, someone came to ask for a meeting. When Zhang Jun saw the visitor, he recognized that it was Yue Fei's deputy general Wang Gui, who had previously participated in the case of frame-up of Yue Fei. What he came to discuss with Zhang Jun was naturally to deal with the Yue Fei mutiny.

"Mr. Zhang, now Yue Fei rebelled, occupied Lin'an, and informed the world. What should we do?" Wang Gui asked worriedly.

"What else can I do? Others can support Yue Fei, but I can't. Don't forget what I have done with Qin Hui. What's more, I look down on this talent. Just because he wants to rule the world? When our leader is the only one, he was still a pawn." Zhang Jun paused and said firmly: "We can only contact various departments and raise troops to support the king."

Wang Gui replied: "I came for this matter. After receiving the news, I have been contacting the soldiers of the kings in several major military camps near Lin'an for the past two days. However, the court had cut off the military power of several major military generals and dispersed the troops to the civil servants of Yousi. But now after the Linjiang Rebellion, it is not necessary to say that the civil servants who were trapped in the city were indifferent to the military officials outside the city after seeing Yue Fei's pseudo-edict, and some were willing to raise troops to support the king, but unexpectedly, some of the generals under his command did not obey the order. At this extraordinary moment, these civil servants who had no prestige in the army could no longer mobilize their troops."
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next