The generals arrived in Jianye one by one, and Sun Ce summoned them one by one, together with Zhu Jun, the military advisor Ju Su, and the military intelligence preacher Guo Jia, and others, they repeatedly discussed and adjusted the defense after the Bingzhou pacification.

The central army is composed of Huben Camp, Yulin Camp and Sandu Protector:

The Huben Camp was divided into two battalions: Xu Yuan, the Wuwei General of the Left Camp, Dian Wei, the Wuming General of the Right Camp, and each led a thousand infantry Huben.

The Yulin Camp is divided into two battalions: Pang De, the left supervisor of Yulin, Qin Mu, the right supervisor of Yulin, and each leads a thousand knights.

Zhu Zhi, the Central Commander, commanded the tenth battalions of infantry and cavalry in the Central Army, with a total strength of more than 50,000 troops stationed in Jianye. The ten generals were under his command, Huang Zhong, the former general Zhu Huan, Lu Fan, the left general Ji Ling, and the rear general Zhang Yan, each led 5,000 infantry. General Zhang Liao of Tiger Cavalry, Zhang Fei of Leopard Cavalry, Cheng Pu of General Cheng of the Caval Cavalry, Wen Chou of the Caval Cavalry, and Han Dang of the Yue Cavalry, each led 5,000 cavalry.

The left-level guardian Sun Shangxiang set up four battalions, with a direct force of 20,000 troops stationed in Guanzhong, and controlled Gao Shun, Lu Meng, Bai Bo, and the generals of Heishan.

The right governor Sun Yi set up four battalions, with a direct force of 20,000 troops stationed in Lingling, and controlled Li Tong, Jiang Qin and the former Yellow Turban generals of Runan.

The border army has five major governors: Taishi Ci, the Grand Governor of Annan, Shen You, the Grand Governor of Anbei, Gan Ning, the Grand Governor of Andong, Lu Su, the Grand Governor of Anxi, and Zhou Yu, the Grand Governor of the Western Regions. They each lead infantry and cavalry or navy troops, and have tens of thousands of troops under their jurisdiction. During the war, they will cooperate and increase or decrease as appropriate.

The inner county has twelve battalions, each with one war zone, and each of them is 5,000 generals. They are the governor of Niuzhu, the governor of Huang Gai in the South China Sea, the governor of Lou Gui in the Jiangling, the governor of Xu Huang in the Xiangyang, the governor of Xu Shu in the Hanzhong, the governor of Zhu Ling in the Liyang, the governor of Liu Chong in the Yumen, the governor of Niufu in the Wuwei, the governor of Gongsun Du in the Shuofang, the governor of Ma Chao in the Yunzhong, the governor of Gongsun Xu in the Bailang, and the governor of Yan Xing in the Duliao.

Four overseas governors were also set up: Yizhou governor Mi Fang, Bohai governor Bu Zhi, Zhuya governor Wang Ling, and North Korea governor Dong Xi.

In addition to the adjustment of the defense areas of the generals, Sun Ce also made drastic adjustments to the political district, dividing the prefectures and counties that were too large to effectively govern. Eight prefectures and 21 counties were added, Jiaozhou was divided into three, Guangzhou, Annan, and Jingzhou were divided into north and south, and Chuzhou was called Lingling, Wuling, and Guiyang to the south of the Yangtze River, and Fujian and Luling counties were added. Liangzhou and Youzhou were no exception. They were divided according to local conditions.

Yizhou, which has not yet been recovered, was divided into Guizhou south of the Yangtze River, and the largest counties of Jingke, Hanchang and Ba County were divided into three or four counties.

The defense zone needs to be adjusted, the military talismans are replaced, and the political district needs to be adjusted to add officials and the seals are replaced. A series of things are so busy that the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council are in a mess. Everyone is running in a hurry. Countless official documents are circulating among the departments, and countless news is spreading between the people, causing bursts of cheers or sighs.

The most regrettable thing among them is Huang Zhong. As the first important general to follow Sun Ce, he should have been one of the five generals, but the attack on Hanzhong was not good enough and he was unable to attack Hanzhong. He was surpassed by Lu Su and Shen You and was not able to win the five generals. Sun Ce transferred him into the central army, ranking first in the ten generals, second only to the central leader, and it is still inevitable to discuss.

Although Huang Zhong himself was very calm, he did not complain.

When adjusting official positions, there are always people who are satisfied and some are not satisfied. Sun Ce needs to understand, appease, resolve conflicts as much as possible, avoid conflicts, make people laugh, and even lay hidden dangers. These require a lot of mental and physical strength. After several days of continuous progress, he spoke dry mouth and his throat was hoarse.

In the twelfth lunar month, everything was finally settled, everything was ready, just waiting for the throne ceremony.

On the 18th day of the 12th lunar month, famous scholars and officials from all over the world led by Hua Xin signed a joint letter and persuaded them to write a letter.

On the 20th day of the 12th lunar month, officials led by Taiwei Wu Jing, Prime Minister Zhang Hong, Prime Minister Yu Fan, and Censor Zhong Yao wrote a letter to persuade him to advance.

On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, Sun Ce issued an edict to accept the persuasion of his subjects and officially kicked off the throne ceremony.

The seventh year of Wu, the first day of the first lunar month.

Sunny, no wind.

Purple Gold Mountain, Observatory, a unique ceremony to worship the sky is about to begin.

In addition to studying astronomical phenomena, the observatory also has an academic preaching and discussion function. It originally had a circular forum, which is not small in scale and can sit down by hundreds of people. However, today's ceremony is special, and there are more people coming. More than one hundred seats are not enough to sit, and more than half of them can only stand behind.

Although the seats were very tight, several resident scholars and Imperial College tribute wine, such as Xu Yue, Yan Yan, Kan Ze, Zhao Shuang, and Ren An, all had seats. In addition, the county tribute wine and wooden school tribute wine from all over the country, they occupied more than one-third of the seats, almost filled the seats on the left.

Seeing those important civil and military officials standing behind, they took the lead in taking the seat safely. These scholars were in a very good mood, stroking their beards and smiling reservedly, and talking softly with the people around them. Most of them have published articles in journals and may even have fought each other, but today they are in harmony and chatting and laughing.

After the scholars took their seats, the old ministers of the Guoshi Academy entered one after another. Under the guidance of Taichangqing, they sat in the seats on the right one after another. When each person entered the venue, someone shouted out his name. Almost every name could attract a look and a low voice.

"The State Council sacrifices wine, Jiangxia Huang Gongwan."

"The State Council, Yang Biao, the Hongnong Gong."

"The State is the Academy, Sun Gongrui, a Fengshu."

"The State is the Courtyard, Lujiang Zhou Gongzhong."

"The State is the Court, Donglai is the Minister of Gong."

"The State is the Academy..."

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After the entrance of the Guoshi Academy, several scholars from the Hanlin Academy also took the seat under the leadership of the priest Cai Yong. Compared with the old ministers of the Guoshi Academy, their reputation is relatively smaller. Scholars are familiar with them, but those who do not care much about articles may not be familiar with them. But there are exceptions, such as Cai Yan, who is not only the wife of Zhou Yu, the governor of the Western Regions, but also the courage of the King of Wu, which also attracted a lot of attention.

After the Hanlin Academy entered the venue, the Privy Council followed one after another, with Zhu Jun leading the way, five upcoming governors, and twelve war zone governors or representatives following. Unlike previous scholars or old ministers, most of these people were just young and strong, with agile steps, clean and neat movements, and had the heroic spirit of warriors. As soon as they entered the venue, the seat on the right side of the lecture hall immediately seemed to be full of weight.

King Sun Ce of Wu finally appeared in front of everyone. He was not wearing gorgeous clothes, but dressed in a scholarly manner. Apart from the unique purple gold crown on his head, he could hardly see his identity as a king. When he entered the venue, he was followed by a group of young girls, full of youthful vitality, including Sun Quan, Sun Yi and other Sun Ce's younger generation, Sun Sheng and Sun Jie and other younger generations, as well as many important officials, such as Zhou Yu's son Zhou Xun, Lu Su's son Lu Shu, and Huang Zhong's son Huang Xu, which attracted a lot of attention.

The most eye-catching one is the left governor Sun Shangxiang and the right governor Sun Yi. They stood on the left and right governor Sun Ce, with no squint, straight back, and serious smile, which makes people intimidate. Seeing that these two people were not sitting with the five generals and the 12th War Zone Supervisor, but sitting with Sun Ce, everyone knew in their hearts that they were not affiliated with the Privy Council, and only followed Sun Ce's orders.

Everyone took the seat, Kan Ze presided over the ceremony, first delivered a welcome speech, and then asked Xu Yue to come to the hall to start the speech.

Xu Yue stood up, saluted everyone, walked slowly to the altar, looked around, and spoke slowly.

"Your lords, heaven and earth are born, and perform the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven on the first day to show the way of respecting heaven. However, today, when offering sacrifices to heaven today, do not ring bells and drums, do not burn jade, and do not offer three animals. Why? Although the sky has a way, it is ruthless. When mountains and rivers collapse, and the people are wailing, what does the sky say? The thief ministers are chaotic and killing, and when Luoyang is burning, what does the sky say? Therefore, the heaven can respect it, but not rely on it. Those who can rely on it are people. How can they rely on people? Rely on people's minds, observe the way of heaven and earth, follow the way, the king governs the country with the way, the ministers use the way to calm the people, and the scholars use the way to cultivate themselves."

Xu Yue talked jokingly. Although the audience knew that this sacrifice to heaven was different from the past, not everyone understood the truth. After listening to Xu Yue's explanation, most people were a little surprised, especially the members of the Hanlin Academy.

After Xu Yue finished speaking his point of view, he immediately began to explain the orbit of the sun and the moon. He used precise calculations to prove that the way of heaven and earth can be calculated, which may be difficult, but it is absolutely impossible to understand. Instead of burning jade to sacrifice to the heaven and believing in the words of witches, it is better to study it carefully and understand the way of heaven and earth with the mind of man.

After Xu Yue finished speaking, he bowed and bowed again. "If you don't know the truth, you will not understand it. After Yue finished teaching, please ask the king and you all to ask questions."

Sun Ce said a few humble words, saying that he was rough in his knowledge and wanted to listen to other people's opinions first. These are all arranged procedures, and asking questions is a necessary process for discussing knowledge, but today I just went to a ceremony, asked two questions symbolically, and the ceremony ended.

But everything is unexpected. When the two established candidates asked questions according to the prior arrangement, Xu Yue finished answering. Before he finished speaking, a voice sounded among the group of people standing behind him.

"Dare you ask Master Xu, can I ask?"

Without answering, Sun Ce knew who it was just listening to the sound, and Ni Heng couldn't help it. Just as he was about to speak, Xu Yue nodded quietly and said aloud: "You guys present, no matter men, women, young and old, can ask questions."

Ni Heng stood up and bowed his hand, looked around, and raised his lips slightly. "According to what the master said just now, everything can be reasoned and counted by counting it. Then I have a question and want to ask the master to answer." Without waiting for Xu Yue to speak, he added: "Please rest assured, Master, I just heard what the master said just now and felt the sun and menstruation, and did not deliberately make things difficult."

Xu Yue smiled slightly and reached out to signal.

Ni Heng said loudly: "Since the master just said that it is not that the sun and the moon circumference the earth and the sky, but that the land that I can wait for is around the sun and the moon circumference the earth, can I infer that the sun is larger, the earth is second, and the moon is second?"

"It should be true, but the weight is not yet calculated accurately."

"I will talk about weight later. Since the sun that is bigger than the earth and the moon that is smaller than the earth are round, then is the earth also round?"

Xu Yue smiled. "Yes, this matter is no longer a novelty. At least half of the people here know that there are still several who have followed the king to the East China Sea to witness the incident with their own eyes."

Ni Heng raised his hand and interrupted Xu Yue. "I have heard about the East China Sea. But the earth is not flat, which does not mean that the earth must be like the sun and the moon, or maybe it is just like a cover? Why did the master say so confidently and determine that the earth is the ball? Is this contrary to the rigor of what the master said? How do you know that what you said today will not go wrong?"
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