Chen Deng was reserved and did not immediately agree to Liu Bei's invitation. Chen Lin did not have many choices and almost took the initiative to apply.
He wrote a proclamation for Yuan Shao to attack Yuan Shu, and even the emperor had already registered his name with the emperor. Considering that the emperor did not like scholars, he did not think he could make any progress in the court.
For him, the best result he could get when he followed Liu Bei to expedition to Liaodong and founding the country of North Korea.
Rescuing Chen Deng is not only atonement for his sins, but also finding a future ally.
He believed that Chen Deng had nowhere to go, and would not be willing to be lonely, so he could only serve Liu Bei. With Chen Deng's ability, he would be a general under Liu Bei in the future, no less than Zhang Fei.
And he would be the first civil servant under Liu Bei's command, and Jian Yong, Sun Gan and others could not be compared with him.
In order to ensure that Liu Bei could accept him, he also brought another person.
Chen Dao, a native of Runan.
Chen Dao escorted Zhang Xi and thought that Zhang Xi would recommend him to join the army after returning to the court. After following Zhang Xi, he realized that although Zhang Xi was the Sikong, he was not valued by the emperor. Even if he could join the army, he would be Zhang. The influence of Xi, the Lord, may not have a good chance in the future. Now that Zhang Xi is dead, he has even cut off his thoughts.
Chen Lin advised him to follow Liu Bei, but he almost hesitated and immediately agreed.
After getting Chen Lin and Chen Dao's support, Liu Bei was in a state of mind and was overjoyed.
He was worried about the lack of talent, so someone came to vote, and they were all first-class talents, which was a perfect dream.
As early as when He entered the General's Mansion, he knew Chen Lin. He admired Chen Lin's talent very much. But he couldn't speak at that time and never thought that Chen Lin would serve him one day.
As for Chen Dao, after a little trial of his skills, he knew that this was a rare talent, no less than Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei.
Liu Bei then appointed Chen Dao as the commander of his troops and took charge of his most elite troops.
Chen Lin was the chief secretary, responsible for clerks and military affairs.
Liu Bei held a banquet to wash away Chen Deng. He prepared generous gifts and asked Chen Deng to take them home. In front of Zhang Fei and others, he invited Chen Deng to enter the curtain and promised him to be on par with Zhang Fei.
Chen Deng was very grateful, and although he did not agree on the spot, he still expressed this meaning.
As long as his parents do not object, he will definitely rush back to Pengcheng as soon as possible to serve Liu Bei.
The next morning, Liu Bei personally left the city and saw Chen Deng away, he discussed with Chen Lin, listed his military merits and wrote to the court.
Chen Dao sent Zhang Xi's coffin back to his hometown in Runan and settled his family.
After the twelfth lunar month, the court received two unexpected news.
First, Sikong Zhang Xi became ill after overwork and unfortunately passed away.
First, Cao Cao, the governor of Yanzhou, wrote a letter asking to come to court to see the emperor.
It is true that Liu Xie did not like Zhang Xi, but he did not expect that Zhang Xi would become ill after overwork and die in Pengcheng.
This time is too coincidental, and it is easy to remind people of Zhang Xi who worked tirelessly for peace in the world. In the end, he devoted himself to his work and died after the task was completed.
When Zhang Xi died, it was almost the time when Yuan Shao withdrew his troops in full swing.
In fact, as soon as the news came out, someone wrote a letter to ask Zhang Xi for posthumous title in recognition of Zhang Xi's contribution to the court over the years.
To be fair, Zhang Xi has made no contributions and worked hard over the years, so he should indeed be commended. In addition, the deceased is the most important thing, even if Liu Xie has any opinions about Zhang Xi, it is not advisable to mention it again at this time.
But Liu Xie knew very well that this matter was not as simple as it seemed.
The letter to ask Zhang Xi for posthumous posthumous title is just a pretext, and testing the court's attitude towards Shandong scholars and officials was the real purpose. Once the court made a positive evaluation of Zhang Xi, the reputation of Shandong scholars and officials in the court will become established, and some people will inevitably be avoided in the future.
He will speak out for Shandong in the name of Zhang Xi.
Valley dig
For example, Du Tian.
After peace in the world, nothing more important than to go to the land.
This is the basis of all new policies.
If you can’t save the field, everything will be difficult to do.
As the most important resource, if the problem of land annexation is not solved, nothing can be done in the future.
Liu Xie experienced such an example in his previous life, and the two major Eastern powers made a sharp contrast for this. As for the moment, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang founded the country and Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu's revival are also two living examples.
Now, the revolution he had high hopes for became a scattered rice, and how to continue has become a problem he had to consider.
He should not take any factors that may affect Du Tian lightly.
After receiving the letter, Liu Xie did not give any advice, but ordered the ministers to discuss and summoned Cai Yan at the same time.
He asked Cai Yan to complete Zhang Xi's life as soon as possible as the basis for determining the posthumous title.
Cai Yan received the task, but was worried about it.
Although Zhang Xi has been an official for many years, he has no incidents at all, at least he has no commendable achievements.
He was a typical family of aristocratic families. He had no special talents, but because of his good background, he followed the example of filial and honest men as men, and then promoted step by step, and became a minister.
Normally, such people do not even have the qualifications to enter the history, and can only serve as other people's background, let alone write biography.
However, due to the times, he had the opportunity to write a biography by chance, and it was of great importance. He could not take it lightly and just write two strokes to fool the test.
This head-twitching task fell on Cai Yan, which made Cai Yan, who had always been indifferent to the world, very distressed.
Before she could figure out how to write it, someone sent her a message, hoping that she could make a good news for Zhang Xi and not affect Zhang Xi's reputation behind her. The writing of historical books should be done with the straight writing of Dong Hu, and it cannot be followed or in vain.
There are endless words like privateness.
As a member of the Shandong family, Cai Yan is under great pressure.
In helplessness, she took the initiative to ask for a meeting, hoping that Liu Xie would give him a little time.
The imperial court was relocated, and the palace archives were seriously lost, and one out of ten were not available. Almost all existing archives were from the war of Huayin, and the emperor's daily life was mainly based on the emperor's daily life, and there were relatively few records of people who had nothing to do with the emperor.
To find out Zhang Xi’s deeds, we must visit relevant personnel and collect information.
Zhang Xi has been traveling around in recent years, and has gone to Taiyuan and Yizhou. He finally died on the way to Shandong. The journey is nearly 10,000 miles and it is difficult to clean up without half a year.
After hearing Cai Yan's reason, Liu Xie smiled.
"Although Ling Shi does not take charge of the troops, he is proficient in delaying the troops and is very good."
Cai Yan's face was red. "Your Majesty, every word I said is true. You should write history with truth, and you cannot hear from it. When Taishi Gong wrote history, he not only referenced the palace archives, but also spread all over the world."
"You don't want to walk along Mr. Zhang's footsteps?"
Cai Yan's eyes rolled. "If so, I'm willing."
Liu Xie leaned forward, stared at Cai Yan's eyes, and said word by word: "Ling Shi, you are very beautiful."
Cai Yan was stunned, and subconsciously leaned back, as far away as possible from Liu Xie. Faced with Liu Xie's stupid words, she was surprised, and her heart beat faster and said stammeringly:
"Your Majesty, why... why did you say this?"
Liu Xie sat back and waved his hand. "Since you are very beautiful, don't think too beautiful. You go out to collect folk songs and keep me scolded? Don't even think about it."