"Are you Huo Yi?"
Zhuge Dan regarded the tall general before him, whose hands were bound by his own order, with a somewhat appraising look.
After entering Chengdu, Zhuge Dan had devoted himself to accepting surrendered officials from every region. This had proceeded quite efficiently, with places surrendering one after another. Zhuge Dan had neither humiliated nor killed these men, leaving all the specific arrangements to Zhong Hui.
Zhong Hui had done a good job of making arrangements for these surrendered officials.
Zhuge Dan himself, meanwhile, had begun a series of public displays in the Shu Kingdom.
First, he brought out his nephew's head, ordered men to retrieve his body, and had him reburied.
He summoned Zhuge Xu and the newly surrendered local ministers to bid him farewell together.
During the burial, he even shed tears.
Well, unlike Deng Ai's actions, these were things he had informed Cao Mao about and received permission to do.
Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Zhan enjoyed immense prestige in the Shu lands, yet that hotheaded youngster Deng Ai had simply beheaded Zhuge Zhan. Of course, beheading someone during a war was reasonable enough, but the need to pacify the region as quickly as possible was what had prompted Zhuge Dan's decision.
Of course, it was not as though Zhuge Dan felt nothing at all for this clansman.
The Zhuge Family of Langya had done well in all Three Kingdoms.
Zhuge Dan also had Zhuge Zhan's sons brought over. Unlike in history, because the War of Shu's Destruction had broken out early, Zhuge Zhan's eldest son, Zhuge Shang, was still young and had not followed his father onto the battlefield, so he had not died alongside him.
Although he had not died in battle, the boy still had considerable backbone and refused Zhuge Dan's overtures.
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