On the eleventh day of the eighth month, the renwu day, at Si Hour, Jin's Grand Marshal Huan Wen entered the Ye Capital with three thousand Tiger Guards and a Golden Grand Carriage, his procession magnificent in its majesty. Yan's Chancellor of the Department of State Affairs, Yang Wu, had died of illness a month earlier, so Yan's ministers, led by Kezuhun Yi, Pushe of the Department of State Affairs, together with Shen Shao, Right Assistant Director of the Department of State Affairs, Palace Attendant Huangfu Zhen, Gentleman Attendant of the Regular Mounted Attendants Yu Wei, and departmental secretary Feng Heng, knelt to welcome Huan Wen and invite him to reside in the Nine Taiwu Halls of the Ye Palace-
Huan Wen held the title of Duke of Nan Commandery, so using a Golden Grand Carriage already violated the regulations. The Golden Grand Carriage was one of the Nine Bestowments. Although he was certain to receive the Nine Bestowments upon returning to court in triumph, appropriating the carriage already was rather impatient of him. His excuse was that nothing less would suffice to overawe the ruler and ministers of False Yan. But taking up residence in the Nine Taiwu Halls meant assuming the position of a sovereign. Though eager to replace Jin and establish his own rule, Huan Wen dared not display such ambitions yet. Otherwise, the gentry clans of Jiangzuo would raise a storm of criticism, and even his great achievements in the Northern Expedition would not shield him from impeachment. Now that he was far away in Hebei, he feared some fresh turn of events in Jiangzuo, and so firmly declined to enter the palace.
Kezuhun Yi and the others then invited Huan Wen to reside in the residence of the Prince of Taiyuan. After the death of