Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 256 Knowing this earlier, the widow will not oppose it

Changle Palace finally welcomed its owner.

In the ninth year of Emperor Gao's death, the Empress Dowager finally returned to the place she should have gone back to.

Compared with Weiyang Palace, Changle Palace is just one word. It is wide. There are not as many palaces here as Weiyang Palace. Moreover, it is different from the lifeless, serious and cold atmosphere of Weiyang Palace. It is full of green trees and rockery everywhere. , There are lakes, not many palaces, but many places to enjoy happiness.

The queen mother was finally no longer trapped in the icy hall. She took An's hand and turned around in the Changle Palace.

An was very curious about all of this, and excitedly walked forward quickly, popping out, as if pulling Empress Lv to walk, Cao Shu followed, watching Liu An eagerly walking, scolding: "Slow down. Go! Shuzi! Can your eldest mother walk so fast?"

Empress Lu gave her a displeased look, "Why can't you leave?"

"Mum~ You shouldn't spoil Ann so much!"

When Cao Shu treated Empress Lv, she didn't show her respect and fear like other people, and occasionally dared to refute a sentence or two. Empress Lv was not angry, but very happy, she said with a smile: " So what, I'm the same with Chang, and he's not spoiled."

Um? ?Are you serious?
Cao Shu said helplessly: "Mother, you can't let him learn from his father!"

"Don't worry, my grandson is the most obedient and obedient, not like that Shuzi!"

Empress Lv let go of An, and An ran around to play. The Empress Dowager and Cao Shu were looking at the lake not far from the roadside, the Empress Dowager glanced at An and said with a smile, "It's still good, when I was holding hands with you. When you go to play, you can't hold him at all. You don't know, that Shuzi is very strong, like a cow. When he comes out to play, he lowers his head and starts rushing. There are no seven or eight attendants, just grabbing him. Can't live with him."

Cao Shu chuckled lightly, "It's really not easy for my mother."

"An Duo is good, that Shuzi is disobedient. His father found a few teachers for him, but he was angry with him. Later, he asked him to go to Tianlu Pavilion. He started to play truant again, and often bullied other teachers. Young man, do you know what is the most annoying thing?"

"what is it?"

"He hit Ruyi with his hands, and then came to me crying, saying that Ruyi's body was too hard and it hurt his hand."

"Hahaha~~"

Cao Shu couldn't help laughing.

"Then how did grandma treat him?"

"I just asked him to go to the Xuanshi Hall to complain to his grandfather. This Shuzi is very stupid. He actually went to his grandfather to cry and was beaten by his grandfather."

"Does Emperor Gao dislike him very much?"

"No."

"He likes it very much. Although Chang is the least obedient and always causes trouble, he likes it very much. He often talks about Chang's things at banquets and shares the fun with the ministers."

The queen mother seriously recalled the past, and Cao Shu stood quietly and listened carefully.

"It hurts him. This son of mine is a hard worker. When he was eight or nine years old, he lost his father. What he did was more effort than Ying. Don't look at his wolf-hearted appearance, he The pain in my heart is more than anyone else's. He can't understand a lot of things I do. Sometimes, I don't know what he does."

"In order not to let his family bear the bad name, he put all the bad name on himself."

Listening to the Queen Mother's slow remarks, Cao Shu was also moved.

"But the king never said such things."

"Because he is very strong, both physically and mentally"

The two quietly looked at the lake in the distance, silent for a long time.

"Mother!! Big mother!!"

Liu An rushed to the two of them crying, raised his head and cried.

Empress Lu was shocked and hurriedly hugged him, "What's the matter? An'er? What's the matter?"

"Don't let me catch that Hu Die! Run away~~"

Seeing Liu An who was crying and complaining, Cao Shu couldn't help laughing.

Empress Lu wiped his tears and coaxed: "Don't cry, don't cry, let your grandfather clean up that Hu Die later!"

"I want it now~"

"Okay, I'll catch you! Come on, let's catch it together!"

Seeing the queen mother who started to follow An busy, Cao Shu followed them helplessly. Fortunately, An soon forgot about Hu Die, and ran to chase the bird, looking at the queen mother who was sweating on her forehead, Cao Shu hurriedly stepped forward to wipe it, "Mum? You didn't coax him like that, did you?"

"Heh, how is that possible, that Shuzi was so nonsense back then, I beat him straight up!"

"Ok?"

Cao Shu expressed doubts about this.

And that Shuzi, who was in the Xuanshi Hall at the moment, looked at the mountain of performances in front of him, pulling his hair.

"My mother reviews so many performances on weekdays??"

"Ah! If I had known this, I would not have rebelled!"

Looking at Liu Chang, who was hysterical, Liu Ying, who was sitting beside him, said with a smile: "I can't go back on this matter. I'll leave the matter here to you. I'm going back to Ganquan Palace! I'll call Cao Shu at night. Let's have dinner together!"

Liu Ying stood up with a smile, feeling the unprecedented ease, turned around and was about to leave, but Liu Chang suddenly hugged him.

"Second brother! You can't go!"

"You let go!"

"No! You have to stay and help me!"

"You have rebelled!"

"I'm here to review the playlist. You go to the harem to enter a beautiful woman. How can there be a brother like you in the world? Help me to complete the review of the playlist!"

"Now you are in charge! Let go! Let go!"

"If you dare to run away, I'll tie myself up now and confess my guilt to Zhou Chang!"

Liu Ying was helpless, sat down angrily, and said displeasedly: "How can there be an anti-king like you in the world? If you make a rebellion against me, you have to force me to do things for you! It is extremely vicious! The ancient Jie Zhou is like this!" , but Liu Chang didn't care about his brother's evaluation. He pulled his brother and asked him to sit down next to him, "Second brother, how do you usually make this stuff?"

"On weekdays, I'll just read it, and then send it to the Jiaofang Palace, where my mother will watch it, and then order it."

"Co-authoring, you have always followed the process, so just look at it at will, right?"

"You idiot!"

Liu Chang angrily reprimanded: "As a king, you should have the world in your heart and be conscientious and conscientious for the people of the world. How can you be so fooled?!"

Liu Ying felt a little ashamed, he lowered his head, "It's really my fault."

"Well, I'll give you a chance to redeem your deeds. Come on, you'll approve these."

"Ok??"

Liu Ying looked at him and said, "But, I can't do it well. I make mistakes every time. I have to take a look at my mother."

"You must be able to do it well."

"I can't do well."

"If I can be a good brother to me, I can do everything well."

Under the shadow of Empress Lu, Liu Ying's aggressive courage seemed to have been sapped, filled with some kind of inferiority complex and distrust of herself. Listening to Liu Chang's words, Liu Ying still picked up the playing watch in front of her. , Liu Chang also read it at the same time.In fact, these presentations are all reports sent from various places, telling about the local situation, the difficulties encountered, the impeachment of someone, the results obtained, the most is the loyalty.

You can't tell which ones are important and which ones are secondary.

These things are extremely complicated, and as the Han's territory becomes larger and larger, the emperor has to deal with more and more things, from temples to countries, and even counties.Contrary to what everyone thinks, in the early Western Han Dynasty, the emperor could even know the situation in the county from the chapter table. If a large-scale murder case suddenly occurred in the county, and several people died, this was all to inform the emperor.From this you can see how busy the emperor's work is.

At the moment, Liu Chang is watching a presentation of impeachment of the county magistrate, which tells in detail how the Wujin county magistrate sold the cultivated land to wealthy households at a high price under the guise of reclamation for personal gain.Liu Chang frowned, put it aside, and picked up another.

"My dear, this is the impeachment of the widow himself?"

Liu Chang picked up the playlist and handed it to Liu Ying to see, Liu Ying glanced at it and laughed, "This is the most common, since you grew up, [-]% of the playlists reviewed here are here to impeach you. Is it Uncle Suntong's?"

"No."

"Declarative?"

"No."

"That must be Wang Xiang's!"

"Uh, yes, the widow values ​​Wang Ling so much, and he actually impeached me! Saying that I abused the power of the people, the widow is raising a thief!"

Liu Ying said: "eldest brother, what he said is right, we must cherish the people."

"The widowers didn't ask them to build the palace for themselves! They were mobilized to reclaim the land, dig channels, build roads, and post houses. Is this for the widowers themselves? It's not for them to have food, not to mention, they When the construction starts, I don't let them work in vain, I can make them eat and work, what's wrong with that?!"

"Brother, you have been delayed by those old Huangs! They said that they should not be used for large-scale construction of imperial mausoleums, Great Walls, and galloping roads. I can understand things that can be opened for canals, and they are not allowed. Just ask them. It is said that the common people have experienced Qin’s tyranny, and they are extremely tired. The people who built the Great Wall and the emperor’s mausoleum were not the common people today, are they tired?”

"I do these things so that they can eat. I have been cultivating Huang Lao for decades. Huang Lao's inaction does not mean that he does nothing. If the temple does nothing, then what does the temple do? What do you want the officials to do? What do you want the emperor to do?!”

Liu Ying has indeed read a lot of books, but in terms of eloquence, she is still somewhat inferior to her younger brother.

Liu Chang said angrily: "These great sages have never been hungry, and they talk all day long. Wang Ling was fooled by these people. The family keeps a bunch of so-called great sages, and they clamor for the tyranny of widows all day long. They don't have to. I don't mobilize the people to dig canals, the harvest is not good, and they are not the ones who are starving!"

Hearing this, Liu Ying suddenly realized, "Sometimes ago, someone impeached you, saying that because a few scribes wrote to you, you were thrown into the farmland to do things, dispatched soldiers to whip you, and you couldn't stop. So it was because of this. "

"The widow is very generous, and it's not that they can't tolerate other people's opinions."

"Someone persuaded the widow, saying that the expansion of Shangfang cost a lot of money, and the production of tools is not as good as recruiting talents, so the widow let this man go to the fields with his bare hands, and let him see if the tools are important."

"Someone persuaded the widow that he should not mobilize the common people to reclaim the land, and the widow would give him half an acre of land, and let him use the half acre of land to support himself!"

"Hahaha~~~"

Liu Ying couldn't stand upright with a smile, "eldest brother, you are too cruel."

"It's to let them experience life, it's to sharpen them!"

Liu Chang opened another playlist, and frowned after just glanced at it.

"Eldest brother?"

"what happened?"

Liu Chang didn't answer, and suddenly shouted: "Someone!! Bring the internal history of Zhisu over here!!"

The attendants left in a hurry, probably because of Liu Chang's notoriety, Zhi Su Nei Shi soon appeared in front of Liu Chang. His military exploits were the Marquis of Guangping.

He is Liu Bang's big confidant. How should I put it? He used to follow Liu Bang as a benefactor, just like Luan Bu's reuse of Liu Chang. Therefore, although the credit is not great, it can be from Liu Bang's time. Began to serve as Jiuqing, a high authority.

Xue Ou was already old at the moment, living on crutches, and earnestly met Liu Chang and Liu Ying.

Liu Ying hurriedly returned the salute, but Liu Chang didn't care, and looked at him proudly, "You fought with Emperor Gao, Emperor Gao trusted you, and taking you as Jiuqing now looks like my grandfather really has no eyes!"

Xue Ou frowned sharply and said angrily: "If the king wants to insult the old minister, the old minister has no complaints! But the king must never say Emperor Gao!"

"Okay, I'm not talking about Emperor Gao!"

"Just say this playlist!!"

Liu Chang angrily threw the playing table at Xue Ou's feet and scolded: "Who are you fooling yourself by putting on the playing table?! You have reduced the grain production in various places by a few percent, what about that grain?! Did you eat them all?!"

"Old man! If it wasn't for the widow who knew how much grain Tang Guo produced last year, I would have been deceived by you! The widow's food payment last year disappeared so much, where did it go?!"

Liu Chang stepped forward quickly and grabbed Xue Ou by the neck, "Only the widow eats other people's shares, and no one has ever dared to eat the widow!"

"No wonder King Yan's reclamation has been delayed again and again. Are you afraid that the temple will send someone to Yan Kingdom to verify the situation?! You old thief!"

Liu Chang raised his fist angrily, Liu Ying hurried forward and hugged his arm tightly.

"Long! Long! He can't stand it! He can't stand it!"

Xue Ou was stunned at the moment, he looked at Liu Chang angrily, "How could this old man do such a thing?!"

"Come on someone!!"

The armored soldier immediately rushed into the hall, "Go and escort this fellow to Tingwei! Let Wang Tianqi come to investigate the case thoroughly! Catch one and kill the other!"

Liu Ying looked at Xue Ou seriously, "Is this really what you did?"

"This old man has never done such a bad thing, this old man has never done a thing that is sorry for Emperor Gao"

Xue Ou murmured, and was taken out by the soldiers, Liu Ying frowned, "This is probably what his officials did. Xue Gong is not such a villain, not to mention he is old, everything is done by If others come to help, he may not be able to do such a thing."

"Even if it was done by an official, this old man is guilty of oversight!"

"Why is it so harsh, after all, they are all ministers who have followed my father's past."

"That's why they dared to act indiscriminately! It's because no one dares to punish severely! Merit is merit, and demerits are demerits. If the current crimes are forgiven because of their original merits, then they would simply ban the Tingwei and send some The musicians go over and brag about their merits with them all day long!"

Liu Ying wanted to say something, but when Liu Chang stared, he was speechless.

Liu Chang was busy from the morning until it was dark before he finished reading the playlist. When he walked out of the Xuanshi Hall, he only felt aches and pains all over his body. He would rather go to the Xiongnu to fight for ten more rounds than Enduring such torment, he rubbed his forehead and returned to the Hall of Honor.

Cao Shu was not here, so Liu Chang asked his valet to bring him something to eat and drink.

Just as Liu Chang was drinking fine wine, Feng Jing rushed into the hall in a hurry.

"King!!!"

Feng Jing shouted, Liu Chang was directly choked by the drink, coughed a few times, wiped the corner of his mouth, and stared at Feng Jing angrily, "What are you doing in such a panic? You want to kill the king?!"

Feng Jing was a little embarrassed. After seeing Chang Liu, he hurriedly said, "Everywhere people say that the king has rebelled!"

"This must be someone who wants to harm the king, please the king immediately."

"The widow is indeed a rebel."

"what???"

Because Feng Jing was a foreign minister, he did not participate in the court proceedings, and the ministers did not dare to say anything more. When Feng Jing first heard that the king of Tang was going to be in power, he was shocked and believed that someone wanted to murder him. My own great king, then rushed into the hall in fear. As a result, is this rumor true?
"Why?"

"It's a long story, by the way, how have you been doing these days?"

"My subject. Your Majesty"

Feng Jing can't be as calm as Liu Chang, this is a treason! !How can the king be so calm! !

He calmed down for a long time before he said, "We've already negotiated, but... something needs the help of the king."

"Oh? Say it!"

"We are currently on an envoy to various countries in the Western Regions, but unfortunately, we have not been able to understand their language and customs, and are familiar with the local people. Your Majesty is close to Yuezhi, can we find someone who is familiar with the Western Regions and speaks the language there?"

"Where are the widows going to find you a guide in the Western Regions!"

Liu Chang shook his head, "You find a way to do this yourself, is there anything the widow can help?"

"Well, then this year's sacrificial ceremony. Shusuntong found the minister and said that this year's sacrificial ceremony is different from the past, and it has to be the king."

"Do you want a guide from the Western Regions? Okay, the widow will write a letter to King Yuezhi to see if he has any. There are also many Hu people in the country, maybe some come from there."

Liu Chang talked with Feng Jing.

Just as he was talking, Cao Shu came in, and Feng Jing said goodbye.

When Liu Chang saw Cao Shu, he began to complain, "The widow really regrets it. There are too many things. Why is there no Xiao He around the widow?"

Cao Shu laughed and listened to Liu Chang's complaint, and the two talked about An again.

"My mother is really doting on An. Today he went to catch Hu Die."

Liu Chang listened calmly, remembering something, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Mother~~~"

"Ruyi hurt my hand! I hit him, but his arm was so hard!"

"Don't cry, don't cry, your father will take care of him, come, come back and eat meat with me!"

"No! I won't eat it, I'm going to let my father beat him now!!"

"Hey! Hey! Don't go!"

"Oh, that stupid boy."

(End of this chapter)