In the fifth month of the first year of the Xinshi era, the Emperor of Shu, Liu Zhao, was holding court in the ancestral temple when the Minister of War, Jiang Xu, was beaten to death by the gathered officials. A great fire consumed the temple, and Liu Zhao went missing. The Tieshan Army and the Brave Champion Army joined forces, marking the fall of the State of Shu.
Jia Lingyun immediately issued an imperial decree to preserve the Liu family’s ancestral temple, treat the Shu royal family with kindness, ensure the people were not disturbed, and grant a three-year tax exemption to the people of Shu. The populace cheered, welcoming the Han Army with food and drink. The long-standing tripartite division of the realm and the chaos caused by the Qianghu had finally been quelled by Jia Lingyun.
At the time, Zhao Fei and Huang She had been leading their armies to resist the Han forces from Yinping in the north and Xinggu in the south. They had perfectly avoided the main forces of the Tieshan Army and the Brave Champion Army. When they heard that the State of Shu had fallen and the Emperor had vanished, they wept bitterly, subsequently gathering their troops in key cities and refusing to surrender, vowing to die first. It is said that Jia Lingyun brought a mysterious person in a cloak to meet them, and the very next day, they opened the city gates to surrender. From then on, they became generals of the Han Army. Jia Lingyun held them in high regard, and they eventually rose to the …
Chapter 865