Xu Xuan and others never expected that after talking to Tian Weng, Fan Chong changed his mind overnight, summoned them and announced that they would cancel the ceremony of the cowherds surnamed Liu to draw lots to choose the emperor, and take another way.

"Republic?"

Although Xu Xuan had worked as a prison officer, his cultural level was limited to hearing one or two classics. He didn't know that there was still such a passage in history.

The "Wen Tian" shook his head and said, "In the past, King Li of Zhou triggered a riot among the people and ran to the throne. So Duke Zhao and Duke Zhou were in charge of the administration, called "Republic". During this period, there was a total of fourteen years. There was no monarch in the world. The two prime ministers governed the Zong Zhou, cultivated politics, martial arts, martial arts, Cheng and Kang, which led to the revival of King Xuan of Zhou later."

What Wang Mang believed was of course the narrative in the book of Taishi Gong, but no one present could have imagined that Tian Weng, who advocated the republic first, was the "King Li of Zhou" who ran away.

Wang Mang said: "If there is no master today, there are many men. It is inappropriate to establish an emperor rashly, let alone draw a long and short lottery to decide? It is too much fun. Instead of arguing endlessly, it is better to imitate the ancient system and recreate the republic!"

Xu Xuan didn't understand, and the other two elders had a lower level of education. I remembered that there were several great scholars in the captive camp and sent people to find him. I realized that Huan Tan was left in Pei due to illness. Now the most knowledgeable person in the army is Liu Penzi's brother and Liu Gong.

As the descendant of King Jing of Chengyang, the son of Shihou, Liu Gong also became a famous teacher when he was young, and he studied the Book of Documents and debated the scriptures one by one. But when he was called by Xu Xuan and others to confront "Tian Weng", he realized that his knowledge was like a competition between the light of the sun and the moon compared to this old man!

Not only was Tian Weng proficient in the Five Classics, but he could pick up all kinds of rare allusions, which made Liu Gong stunned, but in the end he convinced Tian Weng.

"Wen Tian quoted the Book of Documents. The emperor was the emperor in the past. As the original son of the emperor, the emperor should adhere to the great way and be loyal to the middle, be impartial, and be the herdsmen of heaven and to all things."

"And all the ministers and officials govern the people on behalf of the emperor."

"If the emperor is absent, it is also impossible for a wise man to communicate with the emperor on behalf of the emperor."

Wang Mang was vacant in the throne and worked as a "taken emperor" for several years, so he was certainly familiar with this set of rhetoric.

And after five years of reunion, you can choose the right emperor.

Liu Gong turned to the Republic, and he also had his own selfish intentions: the members of the Liu clan were captured by the Red Eyebrow, and felt that this bandit would be defeated sooner or later. If someone was made emperor, the situation of others would not improve, and he would face the danger of being killed all day long. Once the Red Eyebrow was destroyed, those who became emperors would suffer.

It would be better to follow Tian Weng’s words and let the three elders of the Red Eyebrows do their own things.

Xu Xuan and others were not satisfied with the result, so they just stared at Wang Mang and whispered: "There is a villain around Old Fan San..."

But Fan Chong's appeal is unparalleled. Many people in the Red Eyebrow Army also opposed the support of the Liu surname as an emperor. In contrast, no one understood this "republic" anyway. It sounded like that, and it passed it hastily.

Wang Mang suggested that Fan Chongke appointed himself as "Duke Zhou", Xu Xuan as "Duke Zhao", Xie Lu as "Duke Tai", and Yang Yin as "Duke Bi", and restored the name of famous ministers during the Zhou Dynasty to create a four-public syndicate. In Wang Mang's narration, this "public" is not the duke of the duke, marquis and bozinan, but the duke of the whole world!

However, Fan Chong did not like the names of these old nobles: "It is simple and clear to call them Mr. Fan, Mr. Xu, Mr. Xie, and Mr. Yang."

In addition, another three elders who guarded the rear of Chimei in Pengcheng County, Feng'an was Fenggong, and finally the five public and the other.

Wang Mang lost his face, why is it another five? In the past, this was a lucky number in the new dynasty, but now Wang Mang hates this number deeply.

The other three elders in the Red Eyebrow Army are still engaged in the same activities, but they also announced that the three elders will manage ten thousand people and one county in the future, and the thousands and one county in the future.

However, after this, Fan Chong was very impressed by Weng Tian and even asked him to serve as a "sacrifice" and agreed to absorb a group of scholars into the Red Eyebrow. Fan Chong still hoped to maintain fairness in the army, but they could not be as good as they used to be.

As for the year name, Wang Mang proposed that it was the first year of "Re-Republic", but Fan Chong tilted his head and thought about it, and found that there must be a red eyebrows inside, so he directed Liu Gong and wrote two words.

"From today, it will be the first year of Chihe!"

...

"Congratulations to your Majesty!"

Cui Fa was stunned by the operation of Old Wang Mang. He thought the emperor wanted to revive. When the night was late, he came to congratulate him: "With these 300,000 tigers, we will restore the new room and let His Majesty return to the throne just around the corner!"

Cui Fa said nothing wrong, Wang Mang really had high hopes for Red Eyebrow.

Why did he take a fancy to Red Eyebrow? Wang Mang remembered that when the Red Eyebrow Army first started, there were hundreds of thousands of people in Qing and Xu thieves, but they did not have any literary names and flags to express their knowledge. Wang Mang felt strange at the time, and he said: "Is this like the soldiers of the Three Emperors in ancient times, without the official name and posthumous title of "Xie?"

Yan You laughed at his words and said, "Your Majesty, you are wrong. This is because the Red Eyebrow Army is too grassroots and doesn't understand these things."

But now Wang Mang felt that Yan You was wrong, he was right! Compared to the king's army, Green Forest and Red Eyebrows are the purest, and they are indeed the soldiers of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors!

But Cui Fa still underestimated Wang Mang's ideal. He did this not to rebuild the new dynasty, nor to become an emperor again.

Wang Mang sighed and said, "When I was in Hanzhong, I have thought about it all day long. Looking back at the beginning, my original intention was to restore the rule of Yao, Shun and Yu, but why did the world become more and more corrupt?"

Cui Fa paused: "It was the ministers who misled Your Majesty, but the ministers and others were incompetent."

"No, not only the ministers have made mistakes, but I have also made a big mistake!"

Wang Mang learned from his mistakes and said, "The first mistake I made was that when Dai Ruziying was in administration, he was confused by everyone. He became selfish and accepted the title of taking the emperor, and wanted to turn the Liu family into the Wang family's ownership. So from a fake emperor to a real emperor, he was out of control."

Now Wang Mang just feels that it is a path!

"The ancients said that the Three Emperors were in the world, and the Five Emperors were in the world. Qin Shihuang was called emperor. If he wanted to spread Qin for generations, he would have been in the world with his own selfish intentions."

Wang Mang said disgustedly: "I abandoned Qin Zheng and did not call me. But I was fascinated by my will and retained the title of emperor, and wanted to make the new room pass for 36,000 years. This is a story that is like the tyrannical Qin Dynasty, which is a big mistake!"

This restructuring master is ambitious again.

"I have completely realized it after going into exile!"

Wang Mang understood that the reason why the Xin Dynasty failed was that it was not long enough for retro revision and not thorough enough for reform!

Cui Fa looked at Wang Mang in shock. After so many years, His Majesty still has not changed, but he has become more extreme and crazier.

Xu Xuan and others believed that the reason why Red Eyebrows could not get rid of the bandit mode was because there was no emperor.

Wang Mang, on the other hand, in the eyes of this formalist, the title of "emperor" was covered with black blood of the tyrannical Qin, and every drop was dirty. He was blinded by lard, so he put this filth on his head! It was all its fault!

The administration of the Republic was just the first step in Wang Mang's great plan. He would help Chimei reorganize and implement the things that were blocked by the powerful Liu surname in the past and failed to do. Then he used Chimei's powerful combat power to eliminate all the regimes that were king and emperor, whether it was the fifth reunion, Gengshi, or Yuantong!

"Since there are no emperors in the three generations, only emperors, and no complicated officials, they can rule..."

"From now on, from the beginning of the Red Eyebrow, we will go to the imperial yellow house to the left, and finally return to the essence and create three generations again!"

Wang Mang, who had been hit by reality, finally found his new goal in life.

Since then, it doesn't matter who becomes the emperor.

Without an emperor, it is very important!

...

At the same time, when the news of the failure of the three armies reached Wancheng, the Green Forest Emperor Liu Xuan sat on the imperial bed and murmured:

"Things are over, Red Eyebrow is coming to take my throne."

According to reports, after a short stay in Shangcai, Chimei changed its reign to "Chihe" because the Green Forest spy did not understand what the republic meant by the Red Eyebrow Army - the Red Eyebrow Army himself did not understand, so he mistakenly thought that Chimei had established a man named "Liu Gonghe" as the emperor and was going to seize the position of Liu Xuan!

Faced with the Red Eyebrows' advance westward, the Gengshi court quarreled and argued endlessly about the future of the Green Forest regime.

The powerful Nanyang, led by Li Tong and Li Diyuan, advocated persistence!

Li Tong originally hoped that Green Forest and Red Eyebrows would be both defeated and win the chance of returning the king for his wife and brother Liu Xiu. Unexpectedly, Green Forests are so unstoppable now that Red Eyebrows march quickly and can reach Nanyang in July and fight to Wancheng.

The land and wealth of the powerful people in Nanyang cannot be escaped, so they still hope to keep the rules.

"Your Majesty, although there are all the destruction, there are still remaining soldiers in the other two routes. The army from all over the country will be summoned back to Nanyang, and with the assistance of the surnames in Nanyang, they will be able to obtain 100,000 people, enough to resist the Red Eyebrow!"

What's more, there is another Liu Xiu who can expect. I heard that the territory of the King of Wu is in Linhuai and Jiangdong, and you can reach Pei County by going north. With Liu Xiu's talent, if you stab the Red Eyebrows and attack Nanyang on both sides, the outcome is still unknown!

But the rest were frightened by the fierce arrival of Red Eyebrows. Zheng Xing, a native of Kaifeng in Henan County, was a disciple of Liu Xin. However, when the world was in chaos, he was in his hometown and surrendered to the Green Forest, came to the Wancheng court, and became the chief minister of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Zheng Xing then advised Liu Xuan: "Your Majesty, who started his business in Nanyang, Jingchu, has the title of emperor, but he has not had time to show kindness to the people of the world. Especially in Henan, Your Majesty has not gone north to appease the people. I am worried that Yuzhou and Your Majesty have become disconnected from you. Now all the ministers say that it is to put the cart before the horse to pacify the horse!"

"I wish Your Majesty will move the capital of Chengzhou, occupy Chenggao on the left, block Mianchi on the right, head forward to Songgao, step up Dahe, build Xingyang and set up Henan. Thousands of miles north and south are considered as passes, and then enter Aocang. Eight of the place with a hundred miles is enough to entertain themselves. They are bothered by the power of the princes in the east and the difficulty of the red eyebrows in the south."

Liu Xuan really had the intention of going north to Luoyang. Wang Kuang's losses were not huge along the way, and he was guarding Wuyang and Kunyang's road to the Central Plains. He would temporarily move the capital to avoid the sharp edge of the Red Eyebrow, which is not impossible...

"Damn it!" Li Tong was anxious and scolded: "Your Majesty, please kill Zheng Xing, and the world will be safe!"

"Although Nanyang's attack is insufficient now, it still has the power to defend the enemy. How could the subjects still want to fight to the death, but the emperor abandoned the capital first?"

Liu Xuan also knew very well that if he showed his intention to escape at this time, people's hearts would probably be dissipated. He only comforted Li Tong and expressed his sternness that he would live and die with Nanyang!

However, in private, Liu Xuan asked someone to prepare a number of mule, donkey, and to take his hundreds of concubines to move the capital when things were not good.

The Green Forest generals were also discussing another path in private.

The King of Ping's clan Shen Tu Jian and King of Rang Liao Zhan secretly discussed: "The Red Eyebrow is near Runan, and it is coming sooner or later. Now that the northern aid is not coming, Nanyang is the only one in Gengshi, and it is probably destroyed sooner or later. In my opinion, it is better to take the initiative. It is better to plunder the great surname of Nanyang to be rich by himself, and then take his children and silk to Pinglin, Sui County and other places. If you really can't make it, at worst, we will go south and go back to Green Forest Mountain!"

For a time, he moved the capital north and went south, and adhered to the three opinions in the Wancheng court and fought openly and secretly, and the people's hearts were dispersed. However, the next door was to stabilize the people's hearts with a "five public harmony" operation, and he was determined to destroy the Red Eyebrow, which had to unite much more.

But no matter what Liu Xuan and the Lulin Qu coach made, Li Tong was unwilling to go anywhere. He decided to join forces with the powerful people in Nanyang to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, and use the docking fort that is higher and higher than the higher the construction, to block the attack of Chimei. At the same time, he hopes that the King of Wu in Jiangdong will come back soon - the nursery rhyme of "whether you can, you are in Jiangdong" is what he tells you!

But a few days later, Liu Xiu's reply was sent by Li Tong to Jiangdong's home prison, reporting that Yuzhang County was seized by Li Xian, the King of Huainan, and the road was completely cut off. After opening the letter, Li Tong felt even more heartbroken.

"Although Xiu has taken Danyang, the soldiers are exhausted and the grains are not ripe. In the north, there is King Liang, who is blocked by the Red Eyebrow of Pengcheng, and the road is cut off. In the west, Li Xian, King of Huainan, crossed Yuzhang, claiming to be 100,000."

"Xiangxin wants to be the king, but he only wants to return immediately, but he really cannot. I bow my head again and look forward to the dimension to forgive my sins!"

When Li Tong understood Liu Xiu, he immediately understood that they had ruthlessly abandoned Liu Bosheng, and now, Liu Xiu will also abandon Gengshi!

Then he explained the letter and cried: "Uncle Wen, Uncle Wen, you are a smart person and don't want to come to this muddy water to take over the mess in Gengshi."

"You just want to drive the army from the southeast to north after the Red Eyebrow Army burned out Nanyang Yuzhou!"
Chapter completed!