Chapter 656: The era is over

In June of the fifth year of Tiantong, Deng's army conquered Chang'an and destroyed Qin. Deng Sheng divided the six counties in Guanzhong and the eight counties of Xiliang into Guanzhong Road and Xiliang Road. Their capitals were in Chang'an and Guzang, but among the six counties in Guanzhong, only five counties were under the jurisdiction of Guanzhong Road. Henan County was empty, which was very intriguing. However, it was not allowed for court officials to think about it carefully. Deng Sheng dropped another deep-water bomb, which was to appoint King Deng Han of Jin as the governor of Guzang, and formed the Governor General of Guzang, and governed the military affairs of the eight counties of Xiliang. His Qianniu Wei was renamed Xiliang Wei, and then guarded the eight counties of Xiliang.

The prince was in charge, which was a very sensitive topic, and it immediately caused an uproar in the court. There were constant support and opposition. In the end, Deng Sheng forced his way with his supreme prestige.

After receiving the news, Deng Hao, who was in the Eastern Palace, made suggestions, although the ministers of the Eastern Palace made suggestions, Deng Hao seemed very calm because Deng Hao knew very well that as long as Deng Sheng decided, it would not change, so why should he make himself bored? Moreover, Deng Hao knew very well that although his position is not as stable as Mount Tai, it is not easy to shake it casually. After being the crown prince for more than ten years, even if Deng Sheng wanted to depose the crown prince, it would not be so easy. Besides, Deng Hao knew that Deng Sheng did not have any idea of ​​being easy to save.

But not speaking does not mean that Deng Hao has no idea. The prince is in charge of the place. There will be no problem when Deng Sheng is here, but once he succeeds to the throne, will these younger brothers who hold heavy troops listen to them? If they don’t listen, then these people will be the biggest trouble.

In the fifth year of Tiantong, on July 18, King Deng Zun of Qi led a group of officials from Guanzhong Xuanfu Envoy's Mansion to leave Wancheng and head for Chang'an. At the same time, Xue Rengui also led a large army to return to the court.

At the Welcoming General Pavilion ten miles outside Wancheng City, the Crown Prince Deng Hao personally led all civil and military officials to welcome the victorious army.

"I'm here to pay homage to the Crown Prince! Your Highness Qianqiu!" Xue Rengui led the way, and the generals of the Qin attacked the Qin Dynasty dismounted and saluted.

Deng Hao walked forward with a smile on his face, helped Xue Rengui up, and said, "You don't have to be too polite, please get up quickly. You will fight the battle on the battlefield with bloody battles. It is of great significance to the great Deng to pacify Guanzhong and Xiliang. It is my palace to salute you."

"Your Highness is so serious. I am the minister of the Great Deng. I will devote myself to the great Deng's foundation. Today, I am fortunate to be welcomed by Your Highness in person. "Xue Rengui said.

"On the order of Your Majesty, I will come to welcome all the generals to return to the court. Tonight, Your Majesty will hold a banquet in Jingtai Hall to celebrate the merits of the generals. As for the rewards of all the generals, the court has already made plans. Your Majesty will declare the world at the court meeting!" Deng Hao said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Everyone said in unison when they heard this.

That night, Deng Sheng had a banquet for the ministers in Jingtai Hall, celebrating the achievements of the civil and military officials who returned from the war. At the banquet, the king and his ministers were having fun together.

After the banquet, Deng Sheng summoned Deng Han alone.

In Ganyang Palace, Deng Sheng looked at Deng Han who was a little restrained in front of him and said, "Han'er, there is something I have summoned you tonight. I believe you have heard that I have decided to set up the Guzang Governor's Office in Guzang to govern the military affairs of the eight counties of Xiliang. Qianniu Guzang renamed Xiliang Guzang and stationed in the eight counties of Xiliang. You are the first Guzang Governor."

"My son must live up to the high expectations of his father and guard the border for the Emperor Deng and defend the central government!" Deng Han said. Although he had just returned to Wancheng, the news that Deng Sheng set up the Guzang Governor's Office and the prince was in charge of the local area had long been spread throughout the world. People with insight from all sides praised and criticized this decision, and Deng Han also heard about it.

Deng Sheng nodded, then led Deng Han to the map, pointed to the eight counties of Xiliang, and said, "The eight counties of Xiliang were opened by the Qin people. The Qin people are deeply rooted here. Although Qin destroyed the Han Dynasty and moved most of the Qin people to Guanzhong, the Qin people took root in Xiliang for hundreds of years and had long regarded Xiliang as their own roots. Now that I, the Great Deng, destroyed Qin, the Qin people may also have hatred for me, the Great Deng. In the future, the chaos in Xiliang will definitely not be missing. Your task is very heavy. In addition, Xiliang has been a habitat for the Qiang people since ancient times. After Qin took root in Xiliang, he fought with them for hundreds of years. But they could not completely accept them. You must be very cautious in dealing with the Qiang people in the future."

The Qiang people have been entrenched in Xiliang for generations, and their history in Xiliang is much longer than that of the Qin people. After the Qin people moved west, they launched a long-term struggle with the Qiang people. The Qiang people sometimes surrendered and sometimes rebelled, which became the biggest factor restricting the development of the Qin State. For hundreds of years, the Qin people have been constantly suppressing the Qiang people, but they cannot kill them all. They can only comfort and suppress them at times.

"My son understand, please rest assured, my father, I know what to do." Deng Han said with a serious expression.

Deng Sheng looked at Deng Han's serious expression, smiled and said, "You don't have to be nervous. Since I asked you to guard Xiliang, I will naturally give you some bargaining chips. The Ma clan of Xiliang, the Sima family in Lintao was once an important minister of Qin, and now I have surrendered to my Da Deng. The two families have lived in Xiliang for a long time and have a good relationship with the Qiang people. In the future, they will obey orders under your command. You can use them to win over the Qiang people. In addition, I will also let Chen Zhi join your army to win over the Qin people who are loyal to me, and to achieve the goal of dividing the Qin people."

Of course, Deng Sheng could not let Deng Han go to Xiliang alone. In addition to renamed the 50,000 Niuwei Wei Wei Wei and settled in Xiliang, he also included the Ma family and the Sima family in Lintao under Deng Han's command, and also arranged the surrendered general of Qin State to Deng Han's army to listen to his orders.

"Thank you, Father!" Deng Han was overjoyed when he heard this. He knew that he had seen this. He was a good general with great ability. With his help, his trip to Xiliang would definitely be like a tiger. As for the Ma clan and the Sima family in Lintao, Deng Han did not know much about it, but he had also met one or two children of the Ma family and Sima family. However, I heard that these two families were rooted in Xiliang for generations. The Sima family in Lintao was also the southern commander established by Qin. They were in charge of the Qiang tribes of Jincheng County, Longxi County and Wudu County. After Qin took over Guanzhong, the Ma clan was appointed as the Qin State to guard Xiliang. It must have a great prestige in the eight counties of Xiliang.

Deng Sheng pointed west again and said, "My map of Deng can only reach Dunhuang County. However, I have heard that there are many small countries west of Dunhuang County. The Qin people called the places where these small countries are located the Western Regions. It is said that Qin has always been in contact with small countries in the Western Regions. This time, if you guard Xiliang this time, in addition to stabilizing the eight counties of Xiliang, you also have to help me find out about the situation in the Western Regions."

The Western Regions are a land that the people of the Central Plains have never set foot in. When the Qin people opened up Western Liang, they also contacted the countries of the Western Regions. However, the Qin State was only focused on regaining Guanzhong, so they did not pay much attention to the Western Regions. However, Deng Sheng was different. From later generations, Deng Sheng knew more about the precious land of the Western Regions. However, in this era, transportation was quite backward. If you want to permanently control the Western Regions, it was difficult to do it alone with the power of the central government. Therefore, Deng Sheng asked Deng Han to go to Western Liang. In addition to stabilizing Western Liang, the most important thing was to let Deng Han manage the Western Regions.

Deng Han looked at the map west of Dunhuang County and found that it was blank. In other words, Deng State knew nothing about the Western Regions. If he could successfully manage the Western Regions, his contribution would be no less than to expand his territory. This is a famous honor. Thinking of this, Deng Han felt very passionate.

"Don't worry, my father, I will be the Great Deng to surrender to the Western Regions countries and make them surrender to our Great Deng forever!" Deng Han said solemnly.

"I am very happy that you have such ambitions!" Deng Sheng said: "But you also have to know how to behave. Do you know that many ministers in the court are opposing the prince's position?"

Deng Han nodded. Since Deng Sheng proposed the system of Prince taking charge of the local area, the discussion on this topic has never stopped inside and outside the court. Deng Han also knew very well what these ministers were worried about. It was nothing more than worrying that he would be in charge of Xiliang. After the troops were strong in the future, he would raise an army to compete with his elder brother Deng Hao for the throne. However, Deng Han ignored this. He had a clear conscience. If he really wanted to fight for the throne, he would not have waited until today.

"Since you know, I still need to tell you some things. This time you are in charge of Xiliang as the governor of Guzang. In other words, Xiliang is not your fiefdom. Guzang is an official position in the court. You need to go to Beijing to report on your duties every Mid-Autumn Festival. You can only bring your subordinates to Beijing. The troops under your command have no imperial edicts, so you cannot go over Longguan. In addition, Guzang Governor's Office only has military power. Regarding local government affairs, there is a Xiliang Road Governor's Office to deal with it. You cannot interfere!" Deng Sheng said.

Longguan is the western gate of Guanzhong. The Han Dynasty lost Longguan and was eventually destroyed by Qin. To the west of Longguan is Tianshui County, which means that the place where Deng Han guarded was west of Longguan.

"My son understand!" Deng Han knew that this was a constraint that Deng Sheng gave him, but Deng Han didn't care too much. It was nothing if the troops could not enter Longguan. He was guarding Xiliang, but not Guanzhong. Why did he go to Longguan? As for not being able to interfere in Xiliang Road's government affairs, Deng Han said that it was not a matter, and he was not interested in government affairs.

"It's good to understand. It's very late. I'll have an early court tomorrow. You can go back and rest early. Stay in Wancheng for a few days. After saying goodbye to your mother, you can set off early to Guzang." Deng Sheng said.

"Here! I'm going to leave!" After that, Deng Han left Ganyang Palace.

The next day, at the Jingyang Palace Court meeting, Deng Sheng rewarded the generals who attacked Qin, but most of them were to improve their military rank and grade. For the title, Deng Sheng only gave Murong Ke. When Deng Sheng was emperor, Murong Ke was appointed as Duke of Jiujiang County and entered Lingxiao Pavilion. However, Murong Ke is now the General of the General General's General's Office, and one of Deng Guoxin's three military giants. Xue Rengui, who is also one of the three giants, is the British Duke, Li Siye is Duke of Tang, and Murong Ke is just a Duke of County, which is not suitable no matter how you look at it. In addition, this time, Murong Ke made great contributions to attacking Qin, so Deng Sheng gave Murong Ke the Duke of Liang.

As for the others, they only upgraded their military ranks and grades, at most they increased the rewards of gold, silver and wealth. As for the titles, there was no one. Firstly, it was because the ministers had only been five years since the last great seal, and they were rewarding them, which was too fast. Secondly, if they were really rewarded by merit, a large number of people in Deng State were qualified to be promoted to the duke, and there was still another Zhao State that had not been destroyed. If they were promoted to the duke now, what should they be rewarded after the Zhao Dynasty was destroyed in the future? Could it be that everyone was a king of honor? Of course, this is impossible. Although Deng Sheng had the title of the king of honor to serve as a minister with outstanding merits and achievements in Deng Sheng, Deng Sheng did not want to be a bad title for his descendants and gave him a bad title. Therefore, even if someone was qualified to be promoted to the king of honor, Deng Sheng would limit the number and would never be too many.

After the court meeting, two complaints appeared on Deng Sheng’s imperial case, which gave Deng Sheng a headache. This was the resignation of Cui Hao and Zhang Bin.

Cui Hao and Zhang Bin are both the earliest characters summoned by Deng Sheng, and they were all summoned by Deng Wangsheng in the first year. It has been thirty-five years. When they were summoned, Cui Hao and Zhang Bin were both young people in their twenties, but now they are over 60 years old in the blink of an eye. It’s really time to forgive others.

Cui Hao, Zhang Bin, Jiang Wan, Su Hong, Cheng Yu, these five are the ministers that Deng Sheng relied on and trusted the most. Now decades have passed, Cheng Yu and Su Hong have passed away long ago. Jiang Wan retired a few years ago. Later, because Hu Weiyong was too arrogant, Deng Sheng invited Jiang Wan again. Jiang Wan is now in his seventies.

With the resignation of the two, Deng Sheng could not speak for a long time. To be honest, he couldn't bear to leave. Since Deng Sheng ascended the throne, among the civil servants in the court, the civil servants were headed by Cui Hao, Zhang Bin, Jiang Wan, Su Hong, Cheng Yu, and the military generals were headed by Yue Fei, Chang Yuchun and Yang Yanzhao. Now the old days of these people, the retirement of retirement seemed to symbolize the past of an era. Thinking of this, Deng Sheng couldn't help but sigh that he was only sixteen years old when Deng Sheng ascended the throne. Now thirty-five years have passed, and Deng Sheng is now over fifty-year-old.

"Come here, I will send you the Secretary of the Central Committee Cui Hao, and the disciple ordered Zhang Bin to meet him!" Deng Sheng said.

Soon, someone went to summon Cui Hao and Zhang Bin. After a while, the two came to Ganyang Palace and saluted Deng Sheng in shock and said, "I pay homage to Your Majesty!"

Looking at the old faces of the two, Deng Sheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart that they were really old. In this era, being able to live to fifty is considered a long life. Like Cui Hao and Zhang Bin, they have lived a life of luxury and food for a long time, and their lives are longer than ordinary people, but years of overwork have also overwhelmed their bodies.

"Cui Qing, Zhang Qing, please get up!" Deng Sheng said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" the two responded.

After the two stood up, Deng Sheng picked up their resignation and said, "I can't wait for your resignation when I see it? Now that Qin has been destroyed and Guanzhong is pacified, it takes less than a few years to reach the top of Mount Tai with the two Qing families."

When the two heard this, they smiled. The older Zhang Bin said, "Your Majesty, I am already in my 60s. Logically speaking, we should have retreated a few years ago, but we still have obsessions in our hearts and can't let go, so it has been delayed for several years. It's only a matter of time before the Great Deng unify the world. Now the Great Deng is full of talents and no longer needs us. If we don't retreat, it will be annoying. I hope Your Majesty will fulfill it."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Cui Hao also said: "In recent years, my health has been worse than before. To put it bluntly, I don't know how much time I have. If I still stay in the court and face the heavy government affairs every day, I am afraid I really won't see the day when Da Deng unified the world. Instead of forcing himself to be greedy for power, it is better to retreat bravely. In the future, my family will enjoy grandchildren."

Cui Hao and Zhang Bin have already said this, and Deng Sheng knew that they had made up their minds, but Deng Sheng still wanted to keep them and said, "Since the two Qing families do not want to stay in the Secretariat and Menxia Province, why not go to the Eastern Palace and teach the prince together with Jiang Qing?"

After Jiang Wan retired, he was invited by Deng Sheng to serve as the Eastern Palace and serve as the Prince's Grand Tutor. So Deng Sheng thought that since Cui Hao and Zhang Bin were unwilling to stay in the Secretariat and Menxia Province, it would be better to go to the Eastern Palace like Jiang Wan. In addition to the Prince's Grand Tutor, there are also the Prince's Grand Tutor and the Prince's Grand Guard. With the abilities of Cui Hao and Zhang Bin, they are more than enough to hold these two positions.

However, Cui Hao and Zhang Bin didn't think so. Cui Hao smiled and said, "Your Majesty, why did Brother Jiang return to the East Palace? I know too. Now that the East Palace is full of talents, the prince has already become a talent. Even if I go to the East Palace, I can't teach the prince or something. Since that's the case, why bother to do this?"

"Oh..." Hearing this, Deng Sheng knew that the two of them had decided to leave and could no longer try to keep them. So he sighed and said, "Since the two Qing families are unwilling to continue to stay in the court, I dare not force it. It's just that the Secretariat and the Menxia Provincial Department are too important. The two Qing families suddenly left, and I don't know who can be competent."

"Your Majesty, the court has a lot of talents and many competent people, so why bother? If Your Majesty really has no candidates, I can recommend one or two. Fan Zhongyan, Minister of Justice and Kou Zhun, Minister of Personnel, are old ministers in the court. They are the best choices in terms of qualifications and abilities. With the two of them taking over the Secretariat and Menxia Province, Hu Weiyong's arrogance can be further curbed." Zhang Bin said.

Zhang Bin and Cui Hao knew very well that in recent years, Deng Sheng's biggest heart disease was Hu Weiyong. In order to suppress Hu Weiyong's arrogance, Deng Sheng even invited Jiang Wan, who had retired at home. Kou Zhun and Fan Zhongyan were among the few people in the court who could compete with Hu Weiyong. In fact, a long time ago, all the civil and military officials in the court knew very well that once Cui Hao and Zhang Bin retreated, the ones who would succeed them were Fan Zhongyan and Kou Zhun.

Deng Sheng nodded and said, "I still need to consider the candidates for the Secretariat and Menxia Province. The two families will stay in the palace today and talk to me well. There may not be many opportunities like this in the future."

"Here!" Cui Hao and Zhang Bin responded.

On that day, Deng Sheng, Cui Hao and Zhang Bin had a banquet in the Imperial Garden. The three of them talked about the past and reviewed the progress of Deng's decades one by one. In the end, the three of them were drunk.
Chapter completed!