Zhang Ji was greatly annoyed by Liu Xie's resistance.

His eyes became sharper, and the hand holding the knife couldn't help but move, almost pulling the knife out of its sheath to intimidate the little emperor.

Duan Xuan coughed and motioned to Zhang Ji not to do this with his eyes.

Zhang Ji snorted and didn't speak, while Duan Xuan spoke unhurriedly.

"Your Majesty, people, there will always be times when you can't help yourself, Your Majesty is like this, and so are the ministers, and the ministers are not very willing to do this, but this credit is too great, and the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty has been maintained, if it is not rewarded, will anyone be willing to maintain the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty in the future?"

"The orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty is at ease in the hearts of the people!"

Liu Xie gritted his teeth and said.

"The orthodoxy of the Han is not in the hearts of the people, but in the hearts of the army!"

Duan Xuan's tone suddenly became stern, which surprised Liu Xie.

"You're threatening me! The emperor who threatens the Great Han! ”

"So what?"

Zhang Ji couldn't help but speak: "Your Majesty, Zhang Ji is a rough man and doesn't understand so many big truths, but he also knows what it means to reward meritorious deeds. ”

"Why don't you abolish me! Be an emperor yourself?! ”

Liu Xie angrily overturned the case in front of him and yelled at the three of them.

Zhang Ji and Duan Xuan glanced at each other, and they didn't know what kind of consensus they had reached, so they turned around and left anyway.

There was only one Jia Xu left, who looked at Liu Xie with a flat face, with some pity in his eyes.

"Your Majesty is good at doing it for yourself, minister, and you can no longer protect Your Majesty."

Jia Xu respectfully saluted Liu Xie, and then turned to leave.

Liu Xie looked at the back of the departing Jia Xu sadly, was silent for a long time, covered his face and collapsed on the ground and cried.

He did not have the power to draft the edict, nor was he in charge of the emperor's seal, Guo Peng seized the jade seal of the country and sent it to Hongnong, he didn't see it, he knew that even if it wasn't his intention, there would be an edict with complete procedures and a legal seal to Guo Peng.

The establishment of a feudal state is now, not at any time.

They had already finished discussing the discussion, and they only knew a little bit about it, and they didn't mean anything else.

In the future, I may not even know about it.

Liu Xie seemed to foresee such a future.

Such a future has really come.

A day later, the customary court meeting was held, and the main topic of discussion at this court meeting was how to reward Guo Peng, and the ministers who participated in the court meeting knew in their hearts that some things had already been decided, not that they could discuss, but that they knew.

It is impossible for the person who wants to discuss it to appear in the court.

However, to the surprise of these tame ministers, the emperor did not attend this court meeting.

Jia Xu, the Shangshu and de facto prime minister of Shangshutai, announced to everyone that the emperor was unwell and that he would preside over the court meeting on his behalf.

And this statement also made some smart people realize something.

Sure enough, Jia Xu came up and announced the explosive news.

Jin Guo Peng was the general of the chariot cavalry, and the lord was the duke, and the quasi-feudal state was established.

In addition, the former cavalry general Duan Xuan was promoted to the hussar general, and the former hussar general Zhang Ji was promoted to the general.

Compared with the reward of promoting Guo Peng's title to the duke and allowing the feudal state to establish a state, the latter two seem a little insignificant.

The officials who had been determined to keep silent raised their heads in surprise, and looked at Jia Xu with a flat face in shock, as well as Duan Xuan and Zhang Ji, who stood motionless at the front as if they hadn't heard about it, as well as the cronies around them.

Aren't they really joking?

Not to mention that the duke is not in the sequence of knighthoods in the Han Dynasty, before that, there was only Wang Mang who could be crowned a duke, but it is said that the feudal state was founded......

Is this true?

Some people even suspect that this imperial court has been mastered by Guo Peng, otherwise how could such a decision be made?

Did Guo Peng spend money?

Did he make a dirty deal with this court, with whom he had a deep vendetta?

If there is no transaction, just by virtue of such merit, can you follow the old practice of the Zhou Dynasty to establish a feudal state and become the monarch of a country?

Wang Mang likes the old system so much, and he has no intention of returning to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, what are the three giants of Liangzhou going to do?

Because it was so shocked, an official stood up and asked for clarification.

"Since the founding of this dynasty, there has never been a matter of a meritorious man with a different surname to establish a state, and now this is a precedent, can there be any evidence?"

Jia Xu said coldly: "General Guo quelled the puppet Chen Yuanshu rebellion for the imperial court, maintained the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, and exterminated the traitors, isn't this the greatest merit?" The Han Dynasty has the most important military merits, and General Guo is already the highest liege, if he is not rewarded with this, the people of the world will be cold to the imperial court. ”

"Chilling? Jia Shangshu, in this way, I am afraid that it is not chilling, but terrifying! Since the abolition of the pre-Qin Dynasty, four hundred years! There has never been anything like it! ”

Another officer stood up.

"At the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty, there were still princes with different surnames who built kingdoms, and Gaozu still adopted the sub-feudal system, what do you say?"

Jia Xu retorted.

"But then the rebellion of the princes and kings with different surnames broke out, Gaozu led the troops to quell the rebellion, and then killed the white horse and swore an oath, if the surname is not Liu, he shall not be crowned king, and if he is not a hero, he shall not be crowned a marquis, if there is a disobedience, the world will fight together!"

A third official stood up and retorted.

"Gaozu said that if you are not a Liu family, you can't be a king, and if you are not a hero, you can't be a marquis, when did you say that you are not allowed to be a hero with a different surname and build a country?"

"This ...... You are sophistry! There is no duke in the Great Han! ”

The official was angry and pointed at Jia Xu and reprimanded.

Jia Xu's face remained unchanged, but Zhang Ji turned his head and stared at the official for a while, stared at by the death gaze, the official trembled, his heart was furious, and he slowly lowered his head and stopped speaking.

Although many people had the idea of 'whether this court was bought by Guo Peng', they soon found out that they were wrong.

It's not that simple.

The imperial court sent a legally valid edict of reward to Guo Peng's place of Shouchun, and Guo Peng soon received this edict, and Guo Peng learned of the content of his reward under the entourage of the generals and ministers.

Promoted to general of the chariot cavalry, promoted to the rank of duke, and established the state of the quasi-feudal state.

The content of the edict is not much, and the rhetoric is not gorgeous, but the content of the reward is as incredible as a ten-magnitude earthquake.

Jin Jue is the duke, feudal state, this is the first time since the founding of the Han Empire.

The generals and ministers looked at the envoys who read the edict with shocked eyes, and then focused their eyes on Guo Peng.

Not everyone among them understood the significance of feudal statehood, because some read a lot, some read less, some knew something about the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period, and some did not understand that history.

After all, more than 400 years have passed, and everyone is only aware of the current reward regulations of the Han Empire, and suddenly there is an additional reward rule in the pre-Qin period, which makes a considerable number of people who are second monks confused.

For example, the generals who followed Guo Peng's march to fight.

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