The news of Guan Yu's death cannot be concealed, and Liu Bei has no intention of concealing the news of Guan Yu's death.

So after Liu Bei cried for a long time, he asked the minister next to him to announce the news.

When the news of Guan Yu's death spread throughout Xinye City, the soldiers and civilians of the Han Dynasty inside and outside Xinye City instantly fell into great sadness.

The sergeants of the Han Dynasty were suppressed by military regulations, so they could not express the sadness in their hearts too warmly.

But after the people in Xinye City learned the news of Guan Yu's death, many people immediately began to cry bitterly, just like Liu Bei and Zhang Fei.

The emotions of the people are simple, they are not literati.

When faced with uncontrollable sadness, they are unable to express their sadness in gorgeous words.

The only way they can express their sadness is by crying.

Among the people in Xinye who cried bitterly, the majority were elderly people over forty years old.

Only the Xinye people of this age are the ones who best remember Guan Yu's kindness in leading his troops to protect them.

Perhaps in Xinye City, Uncle Liu Huang's reputation is the most deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

However, the great reputation of Uncle Liu Huang was not created by him alone, but by the joint efforts of many talents under his command.

Among those talents, Guan Yu is undoubtedly the brightest star besides Zhuge Liang.

But when this bright star fell, it brought endless sadness to many people in Xinye.

So as bursts of heart-wrenching cries came from the General's Mansion, there were also bursts of painful cries outside the General's Mansion in Xinye City.

On this day, everyone in Xinye City felt sad together.

And when the news of Guan Yu's death spread to other counties in the Han Dynasty, the whole Han Dynasty would soon fall into an atmosphere of national sorrow.

Especially in Jingzhou, where Guan Yu's kindness and power are the most profound.

It's just that although Liu Bei couldn't control his sadness, as the emperor of Han Dynasty, he would not let his sadness completely cover up his reason.

Because if this is the case, it will make his second brother feel uneasy when he leaves.

Therefore, for the sake of his country and his younger brother, Liu Bei must make early decisions on two major matters.

The first of the two major events is what kind of posthumous title Guan Yu should receive after his death.

Posthumous titles began in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

In ancient history, for important figures such as emperors, empresses, princes and ministers, after their death, the court would give them a title with evaluative meaning based on their deeds during their lifetime. This is a posthumous title.

In the ancient people's strong traditional concept of paying attention to posthumous names, the unique finalizing nature of posthumous titles made them a title that even the emperor cared about.

It's just that not every big shot is eligible for a posthumous title.

In the tradition of the Han Dynasty, for ministers, those who are not princes are not given posthumous titles, but not all princes are eligible to receive posthumous titles after their death.

And even if a person is honored to be given a posthumous title by the court, the posthumous title can be divided into three types: good posthumous title, middle posthumous title and bad posthumous title.

The person who received the posthumous title represented the society at that time and highly recognized the contribution he made during his lifetime.

Moreover, a beautiful posthumous title can become synonymous with the recipient of the posthumous title in later generations, thus being famous for thousands of years.

For example, Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty, Wu Mu of the Song Dynasty, etc.

And if a person is given a bad posthumous title after his death, not only his living descendants are likely to lose their current power and status, but also his family will decline.

In future generations, this person's reputation will most likely be infamy for eternity.

This shows the importance of posthumous titles to a person in ancient times.

Based on Guan Yu's powerful position and the meritorious services he performed for the Han Dynasty during his lifetime, he must be the kind of honorable minister who is qualified to receive a posthumous title.

Just because a posthumous title has such a great influence on a person or even a family, all the officials of the Han Dynasty in Xinye City have been arguing endlessly over what to use for Guan Yu's posthumous title.

However, the main focus of the debate among the ministers is what kind of posthumous title should be given to Guan Yu.

After all, the ministers who can be taken by Liu Bei are all human beings. Considering Liu Bei's feelings for Guan Yu and Guan Yu's great contributions to the Han Dynasty during his lifetime.

If anyone dares to raise objections to Guan Yu's deserved posthumous title, he will definitely be sent down by Liu Bei to apologize to Guan Yu personally.

But what is a bit strange is that Liu Bei, who according to common sense should be most concerned about Guan Yu's posthumous title, after seeing the various beautiful posthumous titles presented by many ministers, he adopted the approach of keeping it in and not giving it to Guan Yu.

Make a decision after your posthumous title.

However, although many ministers had doubts, they felt that this was probably because Liu Bei was too sad during this period, and because he wanted to choose an excellent posthumous title for Guan Yu.

Therefore, the turmoil over the discussion of Guan Yu's posthumous title passed quickly. However, after the turmoil passed, a dispute over one matter was put on the table again.

This matter is about the issue of who should guard Jingzhou after Guan Yu passes away.

Compared with the issue of choosing Guan Yu's posthumous title, the issue of who should guard Jingzhou in the future is the number one priority in the minds of many ministers.

Because Jingzhou is too important to the current Han Dynasty, its importance is even no less than Yizhou, where the capital of the Han Dynasty is located today.

For such an important state, his choice to guard it is undoubtedly related to the national destiny of the Han Dynasty.

Originally this matter would not have caused controversy.

Because according to the convention of succession in politics, after the death of General Guan Yu, the post of Governor of Jingzhou should be inherited by Ma Chao, the hussar general who was only under him.

But Ma Chao was completely distrusted, so no one suggested this option to Liu Bei at all.

After ignoring Ma Chao as an invisible man, the general guarding Jingzhou should naturally be the chariot general Zhang Fei.

In real history, Zhang Fei was not a general like Guan Yu.

But he is not a short-witted person like those depicted in later novels.

On the contrary, Zhang Fei was good at using tricks during actual combat.

If not for this, the generals would not have publicly recommended Zhang Fei as the governor of Hanzhong.

Moreover, Zhang Fei's loyalty to Liu Bei is well known throughout the world.

In terms of status, ability, and loyalty, Zhang Fei was the first choice to replace Guan Yu as the governor of Jingzhou after his death.

But among the current big men, there is another candidate who has been recommended by many ministers.

This candidate is Mi Yang.

Mi Yang's current official position is General Zuo.

Although General Zuo is two levels lower than Zhang Fei's Chariot General, it is because this is the military position Liu Bei held for a long time.

Therefore, this military position has a special status in the current Han official system.

In terms of ability and past achievements, in the eyes of some ministers, Mi Yang was more suitable to guard Jingzhou than Zhang Fei.

This does not mean that in the eyes of those ministers, Mi Yang is more capable than Zhang Fei.

It's just that Jingzhou has a special geographical location that borders Cao Wei and Jiangdong. Under this situation, Mi Yang is more suitable than Zhang Fei to guard Jingzhou.

Because both Cao Wei and Jiangdong were defeated by Mi Yang in a certain battle and suffered heavy losses.

This gave Mi Yang a huge reputation in Cao Wei and Jiangdong at the same time, which Zhang Fei did not have.

Moreover, because of the public security battle that year, Mi Yang had a prestige in Jingzhou that was only lower than that of Guan Yu.

With his strong prestige both externally and internally, it would be a very suitable arrangement for Mi Yang to become the general guarding Jingzhou, a place with four battles.

As for Mi Yang's loyalty, let alone his various identities and his past performance, no one would doubt his loyalty to the big man.

And in addition to the above reasons, there is another reason that is a big bonus for Mi Yang.

That is, in the eyes of many ministers, Mi Yang was Guan Yu's preferred successor during his lifetime.

This can be easily seen from how Guan Yu taught Mi Yang many times before his death.

Although Jingzhou was not Guan Yu's private property, Guan Yu's prestige and status among the Han Dynasty during his lifetime coupled with the huge influence he left behind in Jingzhou.

If the next governor of Jingzhou is Mi Yang, whom he had chosen during his lifetime, it will undoubtedly be a great thing for Jingzhou and the Han Dynasty.

It is precisely because Zhang Fei and Mi Yang are both suitable to succeed Guan Yu and become the next governor of Jingzhou.

Therefore, the ministers in Shinno began to gradually divide into two groups and continue to argue based on their different views.

Of course, the actions of those ministers were not to form cliques for personal gain. Their starting point was for the good of the country, and it was a normal dispute arising from different political opinions.

For this reason, Liu Bei did not stop the dispute, but at the same time, he also did not arbitrate the dispute.

So under Liu Bei's attitude, the debate in Xinye City became more and more intense.

However, although Liu Bei did not clearly express his attitude towards the dispute between the two factions of ministers, it does not mean that he did nothing.

On the second day after Guan Yu passed away, he ordered his messenger to quickly go to Fancheng and summon Mi Yang who was leading troops to garrison in Fancheng.

When San Ying led his army all the way north, in order to ensure the safety of the army's retreat, Liu Bei asked Mi Yang to lead the army to garrison Fancheng and deal with post-war matters.

Xinye and Fancheng were not far apart, and there was a connection with Yushui. Therefore, Mi Yang in Fancheng received Liu Bei's summons not long after.

Along with Liu Bei's summons and edict, there was also news of Guan Yu's death.

After learning that Guan Yu had passed away in Xinye City the day before yesterday, Mi Yang could not hide the sadness in her heart and couldn't help crying in public in front of all the generals.

Although he had been prepared before, when Guan Yu, who was like his master and father, really left him, Mi Yang felt no less sad than Liu Bei and Zhang Fei.

Moreover, once Mi Yang recalled the words Guan Yu immediately entrusted to him that day, the sadness in his heart became even more uncontrollable.
To be continued...