Hibiscus Flower West Moon Splendid: Bodhi Casts a Mirror Heart

Chapter 266 Afterword (12)
General Xie Suhui of Songwei captured Dou Yinghua alive at Xuandemen; Feibai ordered Yu Feiyan to seize the palace treasures and receive the servants and property.

Taizu ordered Feibai to issue an edict on the spot to reward the three armies first.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the sage led a group of ministers to Qinling to pay homage to Emperor Xuanyuan. The cabinet decided that on the Shangyuan Festival, King Jin would lead his army into the city, hold a grand parade ceremony, and order Dou Yinghua to be executed in front of the people of the whole country.

On the Lantern Festival, Fei Bai wears golden armor and enters the city triumphantly with all the heroes of the Northern Expedition and many trophies.

He was promoted to the first-class Zhongyong Duke of Feiyan, with tens of thousands of households; Xie Suhui, the first-class Songwei General, was awarded the honorary title of Shangzhu Guorong, and was bestowed with the first-class Qin Zhonghou, with thousands of households; Qiao Wan was promoted to the first-class Yongding Duke, with thousands of households. Huyi; Yuande Army, Linde Army, and Wude Army all received rewards from top to bottom.

Dou Yinghua took death medicine, so Taizu had to change the sentence to five horses to quarter his body.

At the celebration banquet, Qiao Qianchan wanted to get married but was declined.

Taizu personally bestowed a marriage: Yongdinggong’s younger sister, Qiao’s, married Dongxian Wang as the successor concubine; first-class Suiyuangong, Taipu Siqing Changzaidao’s daughter, Chang’s Guilin married Yongdinggong, Qiao Wan; first-class Yongfuhou, Yuan Danzhu, the daughter of Yuan Hede, the deputy inspector of the right, is married to Xie Suhui, Qinzhonghou; Qingshi, the master of Dongying Mansion, who guards with a knife, and Bushi, the maidservant of the princess of Jin Dynasty.

On February [-]nd, the day when the dragon raised its head, thousands of people in Chang'an City once again flocked to Zhuque Avenue.

The emperor's eldest son, King Dongxian, married Qiao Qianchan, the younger sister of Duke Yongding.

Qiao Wan, the Duke of Yongding, married Chang Guilin, the first-class Duke Suiyuan and Chang Zaidao's daughter, a famous beauty in Kyoto.

Xie Suhui, the marquis of Qinzhong, married Yuan Danzhu, the first-class marquis of Yongfu and the daughter of Yuan Hede, the right deputy inspector.

Ziweisheren bought Qi Zhongshu and married Bu and Qing on the same day.

On the third day of February, Bu Xiangning returned to Dali in a fit of anger under the pretext of taking away goods.

On March [-]th, the original Fengding led an eastward expedition army to capture Guazhou in the Xiaoting Dynasty, and went straight to the outside of Jiankang City.

Jun Mowen offered advice, printed tens of thousands of copies of paintings persuading surrender, and scattered tens of thousands of kites in Jiankang City, shaking the morale of the army.

In May, the city of Jiankang was closed, and water and food were cut off. Jun Mowen wrote a letter of persuasion to King Zhang Zhiyan of Wu.

On the seventh day of the sixth lunar month, Zhang Zhiyan's army was shaken, and the stalemate lasted for several months. Finally, he surrendered and King Ningkang entered the city.

From June onwards, the general trend of the world has been determined, and many heroes in troubled times led their troops to Chang'an to surrender.

In July, Zhang Shixi, Minister of the Ministry of War, Dou Ting, Minister of Rites, and Gao Ji, Minister of the Ministry of Household, descended from Dou Zhou's former ministers who had fled.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, Zhang Zhiyan led the false emperor Xuanyuanyi to descend into Chang'an.

In Zichen Palace, Taizu angrily killed Gao Jinian, because of Zhang Zhiyan's witty persuasion, he treated his surrender leniently.

He pardoned Zhang Shixi, and made him an official to the Minister of the Ministry of War; he showed his favor to Dou Ting, and gave the daughter of the clan as his wife, the second-class uncle Mingyi, and the official to a scholar of Hanlin.

Zhang Zhiyan granted the title of king of Wuxiang County to help him. He held a three-day banquet and bestowed countless beauties. He still sent the king of Wuxiang County back to guard the land of Soochow.

Jun Mowen, Ziweisheren, welcomes back the old disciples Yuliuyun and Luzhu; the traces of Emperor Jing (Xuanyuan Yi) are no longer known.

Zhang Zhiyan found out the internal problems of the Yuan clan, bid farewell to Hua Mujin, and presented the rare Dadongzhu as an ally.

In the middle of the Gengshen year, the world was settled and amnesty was granted.

For one year, the people of Shaanxi, Ding, Han, Guo, Yu, and Rui six prefectures transferred their labor expenses to Youzhou, which was separated from Kou Rong for a long time, and they were given two years.

Laws, decrees, grids, and styles all follow the old system of Xuanyuan.

After the amnesty was issued, the remnants of the Dou family or other opposition forces who led their troops to Chang'an to surrender will no longer pursue the past.

Every few days, post stations across the country spread the decree of peace, proclaiming to the world that the civil war is over, and calling on the people in exile or hiding in the mountains and forests to go home to live and work in peace and contentment, and try to sow the last grain seeds when they are planted.

On the first day of July, the imperial examination resumed.

(End of this chapter)