Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 294 It's Broken, I'm an Uncle!

This new empire finally lost its twilight, as if the whole world had come alive and gradually woke up, and the first generation of ambitious princes and kings, after gaining the trust and high hopes from the temple, also began to realize themselves of those ambitions.

In the more than 20 years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, the most obvious change is the household registration.

When Emperor Gao first founded the country, Xiao He had already started to think of ways to improve the national strength. The first way he thought of was to increase the population.

Xiao He's way of raising the population is very simple, that is, not tossing the people.

He established the Fifteen Taxes and eliminated all unnecessary expenses. Even if the capital was built, he would not build the city wall for the time being, and would not initiate corvée labor. He abolished harsh laws and allowed the people to rest and recuperate. Change the strategy, encourage fertility, and punish you if you don't marry at [-].

Up to now, Dahan's manpower has gradually recovered, many county towns are no longer as empty as they used to be, and there are gradually more pedestrians coming and going. This is the scene where Dahan seems to be alive.

A burly and strong man just came to the restaurant, and was about to ask for wine to eat, when a group of people gathered around them to see each other in prostration, "Your Majesty!!!"

Liu Chang looked at these people blankly, Luan Bu was shocked, and immediately there were soldiers around Liu Chang, Liu Chang waved his hand to let these people leave, and then asked: "How did you know?"

The shopkeeper of the restaurant said cautiously, "Your Majesty is tall and mighty, wearing fancy clothes."

Liu Chang sighed helplessly.

The second brother can go out to play from time to time, but Liu Chang can't because Liu Chang is too conspicuous. When a little giant in Chinese clothes swaggers over, the people of Chang'an know that this is the king.

Liu Chang still wanted to go out under the name of Lu Chan or Lu Zhong, but obviously it was impossible. In Chang'an, only the king had such a physique.

Since Marquis Wuyang passed away, Liu Chang sees everyone as a dwarf.

Among the ministers, only Chen Ping could barely look at Liu Chang without having to raise his head completely.

His appearance is too prominent, there is absolutely no way to hide it, and it is useless to hide it.

Liu Chang looked at the frightened eyes around him, just sighed, turned and left here.

Chang'an is very lively, but it seems to have nothing to do with Liu Chang.

When Zhaoping came to Chang'an, the captain of the city gate did not let him go easily. After repeated inspections, Zhaoping was a little angry.

"Experience, the biography is so detailed, why do you want to do this? Is it embarrassing?"

"Please don't take offense, I am also under orders."

The captain of the city gate said with a wry smile, and then ordered the soldiers to let go.

Zhaoping didn't know what to say. He resisted the dissatisfaction in his heart and walked into Chang'an. Jinyang has developed rapidly in these years, but he still can't compare to the heart of this big man. In front of Zhaoping, block the approaching person for him, so that Zhaoping's car can continue to move forward. The street is already blocked. I often hear that a car is blocked in the road, and the driver yells.

There is no free space on both sides, there are vendors selling along the street, there are various restaurants and restaurants, and it is very lively.

Young scholars, enthusiastic women, and old men with grandchildren.

For a remnant of the Qin state like Zhaoping, the rigid, depressing, and depressing scenes are vivid in their minds. In Qin state, you can't see such a prosperous city, and you can't see such talkative and laughable people. , The square market in Qin country, that is also cold, pedestrians come and go in a hurry, so many people will not dare to hang out.

A smile appeared on Zhaoping's face.

"The white horse has passed through the gap, but it is worthy of a peaceful world."

Soon, Zhaoping came to the palace, and under the leadership of the soldiers, walked into the Xuanshi Hall.

In the Xuanshi Hall, there are dozens of attendants at the moment. These attendants are placed on both sides of simple wooden boards, simple desks, and the word "Jiu" hangs crookedly above them, and Liu Chang, who is wearing plain clothes, is following suit. The valet's valet chatted, and then took the wine and laughed and drank with the crowd.

Obviously, this person was playing a game in the palace, making the valet pretend to be a wine shop and play the role of the diners himself.

The smile on Zhaoping's face suddenly solidified.

Liu Chang ate a piece of meat, looked up, and saw Zhaoping standing at the door.

He was like a kid who was secretly doing bad things when his parents found him, and he was in a hurry, "Go back! Go back!" He quickly got up, grinned slyly, and walked in front of Zhaoping a few steps, "Master Zhao is here! Really miss the widows!"

However, Zhaoping avoided Liu Chang's enthusiasm and looked at the attendants who were packing up.

"What is the king doing?"

"This"

"It is said that the Great Kingdom is busy, so is it such a busy method?!"

"Gong Zhao, the widow has just finished fighting the Huns, and there is really nothing to do. The widow wants to go out to play, but he will be recognized as soon as he goes out. What else can we do?"

"Whose idea was this?"

"Zhang is not suspicious."

Zhao Ping was furious, "I knew it! This traitor who bewitched the king should be beheaded!"

The monarch and the minister sat facing each other, Zhao Ping kept his face and didn't speak, while Liu Chang secretly glanced at Zhao Ping from time to time, like a child who made a mistake, "Master Zhao, what's going on in Tang?"

"It's still good, the traitor left the Tang country and came to the temple to serve as the censor. The misfortune in this world is the great luck of the Tang country!"

"Master Zhao doesn't have to be so angry. This time I invite Master Zhao to come here because I have important tasks to entrust to you."

"If it's a matter of pretending to be a liquor store, then the old minister can't do it."

"Cough, don't mention this matter any more. If Sima Xi and his like hear about it, people may mistakenly think that Widow Ren is a faint-hearted monarch."

"Actually, the king doesn't have to worry at all."

Liu Changchang waved his hand and said, "The widow wants you to be the prime minister of the country! What do you think?"

Zhaoping was stunned for a moment, he knew that the king called him to entrust him with a heavy responsibility, but he did not expect that he would be the prime minister himself.Zhao Ping was a little hesitant. Although he had been with the king for a long time and was a loyal confidant of the king, Luan Bu was still there. Luan Bu did not get any official position, but he wanted to be the prime minister.

Seeing that he was a little hesitant, Liu Chang asked, "Don't you want to?"

"When Your Majesty came here, I heard that Your Majesty wanted to use Liu Hou as his prime minister."

Liu Chang sneered, facing Zhao Ping's confidant, he didn't hide it at all, he said seriously: "Zhao Gong doesn't know anything, now in the court, most of the old ministers hate widowers, only Zhang Xiang, Zhang Budo, Chai Wu, Shusun Tong and a few others are my confidants."

"Previously, that Gongsun Chen invited Zhang Xiang to the banquet and sent his wife to serve me, so I suspected that it was arranged by someone and wanted to go to my arm!"

"I've thought about it, and the person who can do such a thing must be Chen Ping!"

"Among these old officials, Chen Ping always seems to be on the side of the widow, but his mind is very deep, and I'm not sure."

"Previously, the ministers invited Liuhou to help out, and Chen Ping was in front of me again. Please use Liuhou as the image. Hehe, he seems to be retaliating, but how can the few people not know that this servant did it on purpose, and so did Zhang Liang. Old minister, replacing Zhang Cang with Zhang Liang is to weaken my control!"

Zhaoping listened very seriously, he frowned and asked, "Why is this happening?"

"They are all afraid of the widow. There are too many things that the widow wants to do. They are afraid that the widow will accomplish it, so they do their best to drag the widow down!"

Zhaoping asked again: "If that's the case, why does the king use Chen Ping so much?"

"Bullshit, Chen Ping is so easy to use, who doesn't he need to use? Isn't it doubtful to use Zhang? He serves as the commander of the Shaofu today, and the big man should perish tomorrow!"

Hearing Liu Chang's words from his heart, Zhaoping couldn't help but ponder, "Your Majesty, even if Emperor Gao is alive, there are some ministers in the court, and there are also people who are dragging Emperor Gao, you don't have to be so targeted. "

"Oh, when Father was here, they weren't as arrogant as they are now. The situation I faced was much more difficult than Father!"

"No, Your Majesty. According to your words, the ministers who dragged Emperor Gao at that time were the founding heroes headed by Prime Minister Xiao. At that time, they were not as old and weak as they are today."

"Ahem, don't care about the widow! The widow is stronger than the father!"

"Indeed, the king has indeed surpassed Emperor Gao in some respects."

"Hey, tell me in detail?"

"Let's not talk about it, so as not to hurt the peace of the monarch and minister."

"Hahaha~~~"

This is a humble mansion in the west of the city.

Although the mansion is simple, it is also famous for Chang'an because of the people who live here.

The person who lives here is Zhang Liang.

At this moment, Liu An was reciting the contents of the book. Zhang Liang smiled and listened to him recite. After he finished reciting, he asked, "An, Wu State attacked South Vietnam, what do you think?"

Liu An immediately said: "The king of Nanyue deceived the king and committed the crime, let his son commit murder, and the king of Wu attacked without notice, all are guilty."

"wrong."

"Huh? Why not?"

"If you are the king of Tang now, do you want to deal with these two people in the name of guilt?"

Liu An was stunned for a moment, hurriedly adjusted his thinking, and said again: "The King of Nanyue is guilty, although the King of Wu attacked without telling him, he broke the enemy for the country, and the merits and demerits are equal?"

"wrong."

"what?"

Liu An frowned and thought hard, but Zhang Liang didn't interrupt him, he said with a smile, "Give you a day, tell me tomorrow, if it's still wrong, you will be punished."

Liu An nodded with a smile, and suddenly asked: "By the way, Master, they all said that you are going to be the prime minister, is that true?"

Zhang Liang raised his head and stroked his beard, but shook his head again.

"I can't do it."

"Why? Master's talent is obviously enough to be the prime minister of the country!"

"Because I and the minister in the court are not in this city all the way. There is a person who doesn't want me to be the prime minister. As long as he is still there, the king will definitely not let me be the prime minister."

Liu An frowned and suddenly asked, "Is this person Chen Ping?"

Zhang Liang's eyes widened, and he looked at Liu An before him with uncertainty. How could this little guy guess?

When Liu An saw Zhang Liang's face, he was certain in his heart. He smiled and said, "Father told me that any bad thing must be done by Chen Ping!"

"Hahaha~~"

Zhang Liang couldn't help but laugh, "Don't ask any more questions, just study with peace of mind, this has nothing to do with you."

Liu An got up and bowed again, and then he said seriously: "Master! My father is a foolish ruler and refuses to use you. When I become the king of Tang in the future, I will definitely worship you as the country's prime minister!"

"go Go!"

"You Shuzi, you are really your father's son!"

Zhang Liang waved his hand and drove Liu An out.

When Liu An walked to the door, Liu Xiang was waiting for him. Liu Xiang hugged someone and hooked his shoulders. He seemed to be a perfect match. Seeing Liu An coming out, Liu Xiang couldn't wait to say, "An, let me introduce you to someone. , this is the child of Sizhong's father's family, his name is Qi, and he is your elder brother!"

Liu An hurried to meet him at the prostration, and Liu Qi was taken aback and quickly helped him up.

Liu Qi looked at Liu Xiang on the side with a surprised expression.

Xiang said helplessly: "Don't be deceived by this guy, don't look at his cute face, but he's actually full of bad water!"

The three gathered together, and Xiang happily introduced the situation in Chang'an to Qi, and Liu Qi was amazed.

"By the way, Kai, what do you play on weekdays?"

"I like to play chess."

"Okay, let's come down together another day!"

"Are you feeling hungry?"

"A bit."

"It just so happens that after my uncle was demoted, he raised some chickens and ducks at home. There are not many people in his house, so we just went to borrow some from him!"

Liu An nodded, "Okay, I'm the youngest, so I'll let you out outside the door!"

He pondered for a while, and said, "However, just some chickens are not enough for our brothers to eat. Why don't we go to another uncle's house and get some more food. There are no people in their house, so we just start!"

When Zhou Yafu brought the army to Chang'an, he let the soldiers go to rest.

Several generals in the army were also able to rest at this moment, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

They should have rested a long time ago, but because of Lu Jia, they were forced to go to the grassland again. At this moment, they are already very tired.

They can rest, but Zhou Yafu can't, he has to take Lu Jia to see the king.

Zhou Yafu's prestige in the army is very high, and several sages respectfully sent him away, then took off his armor and prepared to go home to rest.

"Aren't we going to see the king together?"

"Your Majesty can't run again, let's go tomorrow, I'm almost exhausted from the rush."

"He, do you want to come to my house?"

"Forget it, I have to go back to see my father."

A few people chatted, walked out of the school grounds, agreed a time to meet tomorrow, and then each said goodbye and left.

Walking on the familiar road, Mr. Fan couldn't help humming a tune. Soon, he came to the front of his house and was about to open the door when a figure suddenly jumped off the wall of his house, and soon , and a few more figures climbed down the wall. The person who climbed over the wall first was still holding a lot of meat in his arms and looked around nervously. When he saw Fan Yan standing in front of him, the whole Everyone was stunned and said nothing.

Fan Yan looked at the little guys in front of him and was stunned.

Liu An was a little annoyed, knowing that someone was coming back, he shouldn't have turned in.

He could only walk forward obediently, grinning, "Uncle!"

At that moment, Fan Yan was shocked.

It's bad, I've become an uncle!

Mrs. Fan, who has been professionally cheating his uncle for 20 years, finally ushered in his retribution.

When Zhou Yafu accompanied Lu Jia and other envoys into the hall of oath, Chang Liu was very happy.

"Hahaha, the first hero who destroyed the Huns is back!"

Liu Chang pulled Lu Jia's hand, "Father Zhong, how disrespectful the widow was to you during the crusade against Nanyue, please forgive Father Zhong!"

"Your Majesty was still young, how dare you to blame me!"

Lu Jia paid his respects.

This time, Liu Chang's father, Zhong's father, is sincere. He has always looked down on these lobbyists, thinking that they are just deceiving people through eloquence, but Lu Jia changed Liu Chang's wrong view. , When Liu Chang learned that Lu Jia and the others had set out resolutely despite knowing that they had gone and never returned, his heart was very moved.

The envoys of the great Han have always been known for their toughness, trouble-making, and integrity.

When later generations commented on the war between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, they often focused on those famous generals, but rarely saw these envoys. Most of them would rather die than surrender, and are willing to complete their own affairs at the cost of their lives. Mission, there are too many of them, including the son of Feng Jing in Tang, who is a typical example. After being humiliated by the Xiongnu, he scolded him until he died.

Liu Chang admires such people very much.

He pulled Lu Jia to sit down, and asked the rest of the envoys to sit on both sides, and his words were full of admiration and praise for them.

Lu Jia said: "The success of this battle is because many soldiers did not dare to claim the first credit!"

"If it wasn't for you who alienated the Huns and made Hu Tu and Ji Conge dare not come to help, I really don't know how much it would cost. You don't count the first credit, who can?!"

Liu Chang immediately hosted a banquet, entertained the envoys, and rewarded them one by one.

Everyone was happy, but Lu Jia felt a little guilty, "How can I dare to be rewarded if I failed to separate Hu Tu and Ji porridge."

Liu Chang didn't care, "The previous work is enough!"

Looking at the crowd, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Hey? What about that witch who can only be considered a great murderer?"

Lu Jia said: "Ji Porridge does not want to let this person go, Ji Porridge wants to create a non-Han Hu, he doesn't want the Huns to do things in the Han Dynasty, but the king doesn't need to worry, I look at Ji Porridge, and I really want to get it from his mouth. Knowing some of the situation in Tang, he can recognize Chinese characters again, Ji Conge is absolutely reluctant to kill him. It's a pity, when we meet next time, I don't know if it will be our enemy."

After entertaining these people, Liu Chang saw that they were tired and let them go back to rest first, but Zhou Yafu remained.

In the face of Zhou Yafu, Liu Chang was not so polite. He directly hammered Zhou Yafu's chest.

"Yes! You Shuzi, it seems that you really want to be the captain of my big man!"

Zhou Yafu said calmly: "The merit of a soldier is also."

"You, you are becoming more and more like your grandfather, you can't even laugh anymore? Come, give the widow a smile, or else I will remove your title now!"

Zhou Yafu had no choice but to force a smile.

The two were chatting, when a close attendant suddenly reported that the Marquis of Wuyang asked to see him.

Liu Chang was taken aback, and after thinking for a while, he remembered that the Marquis of Wuyang was referring to Mr. Fan.

Fan Kuai dragged the three boys into the Xuanshi Hall, and he shoved these people in front of Chang Liu.

"Your Majesty! These Shuzi blatantly stole meat from my house! I was caught!"

ps: Wow, my fingers hurt so bad, I finally finished writing, I have to go to rest.
(End of this chapter)