Chapter 2593 Liu Bian dies, Liu Yu succeeds to the throne
Chapter 2590: Liu Bian dies, Liu Yu succeeds to the throne
After the First Battle of Hanzhong in Qin and Shu, under Su Qin''s persuasion, Liu Yu had decided to depose Liu Bian, proclaim himself emperor, and carry the banner of the Han Dynasty.
The reason why Liu Yu did not proclaim himself emperor before was that he was afraid that he would be retaliated against by the Qin Emperor after he became emperor, and the other was that he did not have the confidence to proclaim himself emperor.
After Liu Yuyin died, he relied on political struggle to seize power, and his basic foundation was far inferior to Ying Hao.
Although Liu Yu is now in charge of the military and political power of Shu Kingdom, and the officials are all loyal to him, he is the only one who knows the actual situation. Many people are just forced to do so due to authority, but they are not convinced on the surface.
If Liu Yu only regarded his regent, these people naturally would not dare to oppose him explicitly, but if Liu Bian kicked away and proclaimed himself emperor, they would definitely face great resistance.
It is precisely because of this that Liu Yu never rushes to be emperor. After all, although he is a king, he is no different from an emperor. Liu Bian is just a puppet he supports.
But now as the Qin Dynasty becomes stronger and stronger, the momentum of unification becomes clearer under the will of people. If Shu cannot explode in silence, it will only perish in silence.
In fact, for Liu Yu at this time, even if he was promoted to the emperor, he could not change anything.
It cannot increase the national strength of Shu nor weaken the power of Qin.
The only thing that can be done is to inspire people and give hope to those who are still loyal to the Han Dynasty, which strengthens their determination to continue to fight against the Qin Dynasty.
But this is enough.
The flag that was about to fall on the big man needs a strong man to carry.
Liu Bian was too weak to bear it.
Liu Xiu could handle it, but the geographical location of Chu State was too awkward. If he became emperor, even Liu Yu would not admit it, let alone other surrounding countries.
At present, only Liu Yu can carry the banner of the Han Dynasty.
Although Liu Yu was determined to be emperor, he also knew that if he proclaimed himself, he would inevitably cause some turmoil, so he had to make sufficient preparations before he became emperor.
The first thing is to win over generals from Xing Tian and other former Liu Ji.
Because Liu Ji was seriously injured, Chen Ping was defeated in the political struggle. In order to prevent Shu Han from getting internally, the former civil and military ministers of Liu Ji and his group were forced to serve Liu Yu, but this does not mean that they would support Liu Yu to be the emperor, especially Xing Tian.
As the number one general of Shu Han, Xing Tian had a very high prestige in the army. He was loyal to the Han Dynasty, but he was loyal to Liu Hong''s bloodline, not the Han family relatives such as Liu Yu.
If Liu Yu cannot get Xing Tian''s approval and forcefully proclaims himself emperor, if Xing Tian rebells after becoming emperor, then the fun will be great. Even if he can suppress the rebellion in the end, Shu Kingdom will be in a slump, let alone compete with the Qin Dynasty.
Therefore, Liu Yu must be cautious about the matter of becoming an emperor.
In order to understand Xing Tian’s thoughts, Liu Yu specially sent Peng Yue to test his attitude.
Peng Yue and Xing Tian had a very good personal relationship and talked about everything in private. After the two drank the wine, Peng Yue asked Xing Tian with drunkenness what would Xing Tian react if Liu Yu wanted to abolish the emperor and establish himself. As a result, Xing Tian exploded the fruit on the spot.
Through this test, Liu Yu also realized that reasoning could not convince Xing Tian. Such a foolish and loyal person was just a stone in a pit, smelly and hard, and it was impossible for him to turn against him in just a few words.
Liu Yu had a tough time with Xing Tian, ??but it was very smooth to win over other Liu Ji''s old subordinates. After all, the Han Dynasty had reached this point, and there were not many people like Xing Tian who were foolish and loyal.
The support of others made Liu Yu feel relieved, but in addition to Xing Tian, ??Shen Shiqi, Zhou Bo and others also opposed it.
If only Xing Tian was the only one, it would be fine, but if so many generals in the military opposed it, even Liu Yu would not dare to force himself to be emperor, because he was seeking death.
The road to force proclaiming emperor cannot be understood, and Liu Yu can only save the country in a curve.
Liu Yu originally did not want to get rid of Liu Bian. After all, if there is a mistake, it will not only make people lose their verbalism and damage his reputation, but also intensify the Hu conflicts in Shu. But now it has to be resolved.
Liu Bian has no son. As long as he dies of illness, Liu Yu can succeed the throne with justification, so even Xing Tian and others cannot find a reason to object.
But Liu Bian is still so young. Although his health is not very good, he does not have the same appearance as premature death, so he can only use chronic poison.
But Liu Bian has Wang Yue’s guards around him. It is naturally not easy to poison Liu Bian by his side.
In order to transfer Wang Yue away from Liu Bian, Liu Yu did not hesitate to re-activate Wang Yue and granted him some of the power.
After Wang Yue was transferred from Chengdu, the guards behind Liu Bian were much weaker, but when Liu Yu was about to take action, Su Qin was persuaded to stop him.
Su Qin''s reason is also very simple. Even if he is chronic poison, it is a bad idea, which can easily remind people of Liu Yu.
Liu Yu understood Su Qin''s meaning, after all, this hint was obvious enough.
Since poisoning is easily suspected, he adopts an accidental method so that people will not think of him as much as possible.
Not long ago, someone suddenly became infected with a plague in Chengdu.
After Liu Yu learned about it, he immediately ordered the city to be blocked and an isolation area was set up to prevent the epidemic. Although the risk of infection was minimized, the eunuchs who went out to purchase brought the plague into the palace and caused most of the people in the palace to get sick, including Emperor Liu Bian.
Although the imperial doctor immediately treated him, Liu Bian''s health was not good, and he took a sharp turn for the worse after the infection and eventually died in the palace. Poor Liu Bian, who was a puppet for Dong Zhuo, Liu Ji and Liu Yu for the rest of his life, never escaped the fate of being plotted to death.
As soon as the news of Liu Bian''s death came out, the whole country of Shu was shocked, but it was not because of Liu Bian''s death, but because of the fear that the plague would spread from Chengdu.
Under Liu Yu''s vigorous fight against the epidemic, the damage of this plague was also minimized.
Because there were too many people who died of this plague, there were more than 2,000 palace maids and eunuchs in the palace and tens of thousands of people outside the palace, so few people thought of Liu Bian''s death on Liu Yu.
After all, Liu Yu is a Buddhist who is an envelope, and his past performance has always been very upright. No one thinks he will be crazy. He can only kill one Liu Bian but let tens of thousands of people be buried with him.
In addition, after controlling the plague, Liu Yu''s performance was also remarkable. He did not rush to pave the way for himself to take office, but instead made every effort to investigate how the sudden plague came about.
In the end, under the investigation of Dashuhe, it was found that it was a disciple of Lu Yue who was secretly practicing martial arts in Chengdu, but was killed by the backlash of martial arts. After death, plague poison was produced on the body and passed to the people, which was why this problem occurred.
Most people in Shu Kingdom can also accept this explanation. After all, in addition to the disciples of the Taoist Shangqing Sect, Lu Yue was also the former leader of the Five Poison Sect.
The reputation of the Five Poisons Cult in Nanzhong has long been stinking in Yizhou. It has used living people to make drugs, poison a village, and even a town, so it is not uncommon to do anything.
Most people in Shu, including those who opposed Liu Yu''s claim to be emperor, also accepted that Liu Bian''s death was an accident, but a small number of people could not accept it, such as: Xing Tian.
Xing Tian naturally couldn''t accept Liu Bian''s death. He always felt that it was not that simple, but there was no evidence. Moreover, Liu Bian was already dead, so what if he just didn''t accept it?
One morning at the court, Zhang Song took the initiative to propose that the country should not be ruled by one day, and proposed that Liu Yu be the one who inherited the throne.
As soon as this proposal was made, 70% of the officials in the court expressed their support, and although the remaining 30% did not express their support, they did not object, including Xing Tian.
Seeing that Xing Tian did not object, Liu Yu also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then righteously rejected the ministers'' request to be emperor, and stated that the bones of the late emperor were not cold. Although the culprit died, the five poisons of the cancer were still there, and the plague has not been completely resolved, so he will not consider becoming emperor for the time being.
Although Liu Yu''s statement still could not impress Xing Tian, ??it also reversed his image in Xing Tian''s heart a lot.
Liu Yu then ordered to recall Danuohe to command Wang Yue, and ordered him to lead Danuohe to hundreds of masters to go south to central South to encircle and suppress the five poison sects of the cancer, and avenge the late emperor.
Seeing this, Xing Tian took the initiative to ask for his order to go with him.
Liu Yu was worried that he could not find the opportunity to win over Xing Tian, ??so he naturally could not refuse Xing Tian''s request and decisively agreed to Xing Tian go with him.
The Five Poisons Sect, also known as the Five Immortals Sect, was founded by the Five Poisons God. It has a history of nearly a hundred years. It has inherited the thirteen generations of leaders and has been carried forward by the former leader Lu Yue.
He Tiexin, the leader of the contemporary Five Poisons Sect, is also Lu Yue''s apprentice. Because his master Lu Yue was invited to become an official in the State of Song, he took over the position of leader. However, he did not expect that before he could even hold his position, he received news that his master and his junior brothers died in Guanzhong in battle.
The master died at the hands of the Qin Dynasty. He Tiexin naturally did not dare to take revenge. He was worried that the Qin Dynasty would take revenge, so he could only block the mountain and hide the sect and act as low-key as possible.
But I didn’t expect that when people were sitting at home, the pot came from the sky.
The missing junior brother suddenly died in Chengdu, and the Five Poison Sect inexplicably took the charge of regicide.
Who is the intelligence organization second only to the Black Ice Platform? How can the only Five Poisons Cult can compete with it?
What''s more, among the people who came this time, there were Grandmasters and the most powerful general in Shu Han.
In less than an hour, four or five hundred people from all over the Five Poison Sect, including the leader He Tiexin, died under the encirclement of Da Ho He, nearly half of them were killed by Xing Tian and Wang Yue.
After the Five Poison Sects were wiped out, the epidemic in Chengdu was basically controlled, and Liu Bian was buried. So the ministers of Shu Han also proposed to be emperor again, but Liu Yu still refused.
But the ministers of Shu Han were not disappointed. After all, it was like proclaiming emperors. It was a convention for three requests and three remarks. Didn’t Ying Hao do this too?
After Liu Yu refused for the second time, he took the initiative to find Xing Tian, ??Zhou Bo and others, and acted as if he was eager to seek talent and humbly asked about their opinions, which was actually to win over them.
Liu Ji died, Chen Ping ran away, Liu Ying became Liu Yu''s adopted son, and now even Liu Bian is dead. The former Liu Ji sect had no other choice except to be loyal to Liu Yu.
Zhou Bo, Shen Shiqi and others directly expressed their support for Liu Yu.
Xing Tian did not express his opinion on the spot. Obviously he still had grudges, but he would not leave Shu Kingdom. Liu Yu had time to let this powerful general return.
After the complete acceptance of Xingtian, Shu Han had three top generals: Xingtian, Kong Peng and Liu Er, and Liu Yu had more confidence in facing the Qin Dynasty.
In the morning court a few days later, Zhang Song re-recorded the old story, and Liu Yu inherited the throne and received unanimous support from within Shu Han.
This time, Liu did not refuse, agreed to succeed to the throne and become the new emperor, and followed Ying Hao''s actions when he became emperor, inviting all countries, including the Qin Dynasty, to come and watch the ceremony, and the date of ascending the throne was one month later.
After the news that Liu Bian died of a plague and Liu Yu was about to succeed the throne came out, all countries were naturally shocked. Obviously, they did not expect that Liu Yu would be so tough and dared to be emperor during such a sensitive period of expansion of the Qin army.
Many people admire Liu Yu''s courage, but many people think that Liu Yu''s move is irrational.
You, Liu Yu, want to be emperor, just secretly become emperor? Why do you have to be well known to everyone? And openly invite countries to watch the ceremony and deliberately provoke the majesty of the Qin Dynasty.
Since Shu Han has already made moves, it depends on the reactions of various countries and the Qin Dynasty.
Although neither Chu King Liu Xiu nor Sui King Yang Guang were willing to be suppressed by Liu Yu, they also knew that they had no conditions to be emperor. Liu Yu was indeed the only one who could carry the banner of the Han Dynasty, so they all clearly stated that they would send envoys to watch the ceremony.
(This chapter ends)