Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 309 I am the king's uncle!

Liang Guo.

King Liang's lazy personality seems to have affected the whole country.

The officials at the city gate also seemed a little lazy, and they were not so diligent in checking the pedestrians. The merchants stood on both sides of the inner side of the city gate, and when they saw the people who came in, they began to sell their products loudly.

"Need accommodation?"

"Do you need anything to eat?"

"A few strong men need errands?"

There were a lot of people standing at the door. Whenever someone came in, they rushed over to ask, and the soldiers turned a blind eye to it.

Until the arrival of embroidered clothes, this leisure was broken.

When the soldiers saw the group of embroidered clothes, the spears in their hands almost dropped, and they stood up immediately and shouted loudly: "Don't block the city gate! Hurry up! Hurry up!" They hurriedly started After rectifying the situation at the gate of the city, the merchants were stopped and carefully interrogated.

The arrival of Liu Zhang and others quickly caused turmoil here. The merchants fled one after another. The merchants bowed their heads, and pedestrians did not dare to approach.

Liu Zhang looked around and said nothing.

Every country in the Han Dynasty had different situations. The King of Chu was so slender, and most of the palaces starved to death. This is really clear in the Han Dynasty.

King Wu was diligent and frugal, and the people of Wu were more thrifty. When walking on the road, you could not see a few people wearing fancy clothes. The embroidered clothes were very conspicuous there. There were even unwitting people who came forward and reprimanded them for their extravagance and waste. Wu State was ruled. One glance at the country of beggars, and when you look around, you can't see "rich people".

The Chu State is very Confucian. Looking around, all they see are Confucian scholars, and all they hear are the Analects of Confucius. People passing by can say a few words of Confucius.

Liang Guo is lazy and does not rush to do anything, and the pace of life is obviously half a beat slower than that of all the vassal kingdoms.

The Tang kingdom is full of rebels, irascible, aggressive, and arrogant.
Liu Zhang led the people into the city quickly.

Seeing that they were far away, the armored soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and returned to their original appearance.

Liu Zhang led the people and rushed towards the residence of Jin Ting, the imperial censor of Liang Guo.

The reason why he came to Liang Guo was because Liang Guo's censor Jin Ting impeached Liang Guo's ministers, saying that they did nothing, neglected their duties, and did nothing because the matter was related to Zhang Cang, so naturally Liu Zhang could only come to investigate in person situation here.

The embroidered messenger rudely knocked on the door, and after the other's retainers opened the door, they swarmed in.

When Liu Zhang found Jin Ting in the inner room, Jin Ting sat very calmly with steaming tea in front of him.

"The distinguished guest is here. Do you have any instructions?"

Liu Zhang looked at the guy in front of him. He knew this guy. How did he get so fat?

He sat down and said, "You have impeached several ministers of Liang Guo, and I am here to investigate."

Jin Ting was stunned for a moment, then he slowly ate his tea, and said calmly, "That was a long, long time ago."

Liu Zhang looked at him for a long time, didn't this fellow toss both Zhao and Chu countries lightly?Why does it seem like a different person now?

"Alas, I was ignorant in the past, and I never understood Zhang Xiang's painstaking efforts. I have already written to the king to beg you, would you like to go to Zhang Xiang for tea with me? My king will come too."

When Jin Ting spoke, he became slow. It seemed that Liang Guo was the most powerful. Neither Zhao Guo nor Chu Guo could change this fellow, but Liang Guo assimilated him instead.

Liu Zhang was going to leave, but King Liang personally sent someone to invite him.

Zhongfu invited him, and he had to go.

Immediately, Liu Zhang sat in the palace, watching the king and the third prince of Liang Guo eat tea without rushing, talking about things around Surprisingly, the country of Liang is very prosperous. These people can manage the country of Liang by sitting together and eating tea all day long. Of course, it is amazing.

When Liu Zhang asked why.

"It's Huang Lao. We used Huang Lao to govern the country."

Zhang Cang looked more nourished than when he was in Chang'an, "According to local conditions, different vassal states naturally have different governance methods."

"Oh? I heard people say that you are lazy by nature, deliberately neglectful, deliberately inaction, and that you are not subject to punishment, so that's why."

"Naturally not, I just adapt to local conditions. I have never been guilty, but a villain framed it. Although I am dissatisfied, I will not abandon the public for personal reasons."

"Zhang Xiang is a great talent. I will tell the king truthfully. Maybe the king will forgive your crimes and take you as the third prince."

Zhang Cang's eyes widened, "Actually, I did something wrong. I'm lazy by nature. Besides, I made a big mistake, and I haven't atone for it yet."

Liu Chang walked out of the palace, followed by Zhao Mei and Zhao Shi.

"I'm eating meat, you're going out, can't you wait for me to finish it first?"

Liu Chang glanced at Zhao Shi, "A man should do great things, how can he eat meat and drink all day?"

"Humph"

Liu Chang had never seen a person with such a bad personality as Zhao Shi. He was irascible, good at wine and meat, caring about everything, neither respecting the old nor loving the young. How could such a person be king?How could the King of Nanyue have such a successor as him?

A person like him, even if he becomes a king, is just a foolish king, and he will embarrass his father. Unlike himself, when he becomes a king himself, my father is afraid that he will smile Jiuquan!
"Where are we going?"

"Go to Tingwei's prison!"

"I just got out of prison, do I have to go back?"

"To see a minister."

The group walked towards Tingwei, and on the road, Zhao Shi was still complaining, "Is that the one who has been shouting injustice in the prison all day? That guy's scream is too unpleasant, and the punishment with a cannon is not excessive! "

Liu Chang's eyes lit up, "You think so too?"

"Huh? Why do you ask that?"

"How can this person be so cruel? He is simply the prince of Jie Zhou!"

"You were a prisoner of war, and you called me cruel?"

"Fart! Widows are all angry words! There are two beauties in my family, what am I doing as a prisoner of war?!"

The two quarreled loudly, and finally came to Tingwei's prison.

Zhao Yao was imprisoned here for a long time, but Tingwei officials did not beat him, but he became a lot haggard, pale and disheveled. Liu Chang looked at him across the fence, while Zhao Yao The first moment he saw Liu Chang, he hurriedly asked for mercy.

"Your Majesty!! The minister is guilty!"

"My minister is guilty!"

"What are you guilty of?"

"The minister insulted the king, and the minister was confused for a while, king!"

Zhao Yao was not a tough guy at all. In Tingwei, he repented very quickly, while Liu Chang frowned. He arrested Zhao Yao at first, not because of Zhao Yao's words, but only to reduce the pressure of implementing the New Deal. The ministers are under some pressure, they are not stupid, they will naturally understand their own thoughts.

Liu Chang didn't plan to kill this guy. This guy just objected a few words during the court meeting, and it was not a struggle at all. Besides, the big man currently lacks available people. This guy is capable. Liu Chang Also confident that he can control him.

"This time the matter of salt and iron has been very turbulent. Do you have any solution?"

"I have it! I am willing to settle this matter for the king!"

"Hahaha, okay, come here, let him out."

After Zhao Yao came out, he bowed to Liu Chang, and immediately expressed his opinion. All those who opposed the king's decrees were rebels. These rebels were not enough to dispel the anger of the common people. Liu Chang narrowed his eyes. , listening to his loyalty for a long time, "Get up, there is still a lack of capable officials in Hexi. I see, you go to Hexi to help Luanbu do things!"

"Thank you king!"

Originally Tang State was a place of exile for the Han, but now Hexi has successfully taken the title of exile from Tang State by virtue of its better geographical location.

Liu Chang ordered a few words, and then went to the court official Wang Tianqi to speak.

Zhao Shi looked at the bony head in front of him with disdain.

"You also deserve the surname Zhao?"

At this moment, Liu Chang pulled Wang Tianqi and was giving orders in a low voice, "Your Majesty, recently all parts of the country are dissatisfied with the New Deal, you must stare at these people in the court, if they take the opportunity to do something, you can execute them on the spot at any time. , you don't have to ask the widow first."

The corners of Wang Tianqi's mouth twitched, Liu Chang's remarks are very clear, if something goes wrong, you have to take the blame, and the few people can't know in advance.

But he still had to put on a grateful look, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

When Liu Chang left Tingwei with someone, Wang Tianqi just shook his head helplessly.

"Your Majesty's method. It's really becoming more and more like Emperor Gao."

"How does this big man compare to Nanyue Kingdom?"

Zhao Shi replied earnestly, "The decoration in Tingwei's prison is good."

"I ask you how Chang'an is, what do you say Tingwei does?"

"Nonsense, as soon as I came to Chang'an, I was put into Tingwei's prison, and you didn't allow me to leave the house at will. How can I know what's going on in Chang'an?"

"Didn't you see it now?"

Zhao Shi looked around, "There are a lot of good people here, but there are not so many people in Nanyue. This is why Wu Guo was able to defeat Nanyue!"

"Oh, are you still not convinced?"

"I was defeated because I was attacked. Naturally, I was not convinced!"

Zhao Mei helplessly watched the two quarreling. He found that the personalities of the two were actually very similar, and their views on many things were different from ordinary people, but neither of them seemed to realize this. Liu Chang gave Zhao from time to time. I complained that my grandfather's character was too bad. As for my grandfather, naturally, he often complained that the king was a stupor.

Neither of them likes reading very much, and they are half a husband. Once they start citing scriptures during a quarrel, Zhao Mei can't understand what they are talking about.

But both of them thought that their academic level was very high, and they were even complacent.

"On weekdays, I was the one who taught ignorance at home, and my father insisted that he should be sent to Taixue. My talent is not inferior to those famous people in Taixue!"

Zhao Shi said proudly.

Liu Chang was disdainful, "So what, my talent is enough to teach those celebrities in Taixue!"

The two walked around in Chang'an for a long time. Zhao Shi touched his stomach and asked, "Is there a restaurant nearby?"

"Oh, I know how to eat."

"Today the widow is in a good mood, so I will take you to a place to eat sheep. The mutton there is really sweet and delicious!"

Soon, Liu Chang took Zhao Shi to Jiancheng Hou's mansion.

Liu Chang subconsciously looked at the high wall, and then smiled bitterly.

"why are you laughing?"

"When I was young, I liked to climb the wall here. It's a pity that I lived carefree at that time. I will never come back to such a time."

"Oh, who said that if you want to experience it, you can turn it over now!"

"Then the wall has to be able to support me, right? I can't fall if I go up to this wall now?"

The two were talking and knocked on the door.

Walking into the mansion, Zhao Shi looked at the luxurious mansion around him, and his eyes were full of surprise. This mansion was extremely luxurious, even the Nanyue King's Mansion was not comparable to this place. There were rockeries and lakes in the distance, and the land occupation was unknown. How many, Zhao Shi was looking around, Lu Shizhi leaned on crutches and walked towards here excitedly.

Lu Shizhi was already very old, and his whole person had become stooped and white-haired, and he no longer had the same high-spirited spirit that he had in the past, and no longer had the aura of daring to put a long sword on Liuhou's neck.

"Long! You bastard!"

Lu Shizhi walked over with a smile, and Liu Chang hurriedly saluted, "Uncle!"

Zhao Shi was stunned for a moment, then looked at Lu Shizhi again, but there was already a little hostility in his eyes.

"Lord, is this Marquis Jiancheng? I thought it was a burly husband, but I never thought that he looked like this."

Lu Shizhi looked at him suspiciously and asked, "You dare to call him by his first name, who are you?"

"I am the elder uncle Zhao Shi, why can't I call him by his first name?"

"Oh, it turned out to be the Nanyue prince who led 4 people and was defeated by Fu Kuan with 1000 people."

Lu Shizhi's gaze towards Zhao Shi was also full of hostility.

Liu Chang looked at the two helplessly, Lu Shizhi hurriedly and enthusiastically took Liu Chang's hand and walked into the inner room.

In the inner room, after Liu Chang sat down, Lu Shizhi said: "Chang, you like to eat the mutton from your uncle's house the most, I specially kept it for you, I hope you come over to eat, come here, serve the meat. , I'm going to let my son-in-law eat all-you-can-eat today!"

Zhao Shi was a little anxious, he said: "Long, I know you have good armor, and I specially prepared a good item for you, and it will be delivered to you the next day. A little meat is nothing at all, a man should be a heavy war horse. armor."

"Chief, you have to go out to fight often, like some tattered armor, don't wear it. I have a set of armor here, which was left by my brother. You probably won't be able to wear it. I can use it. Good iron transformation, and then give it to you."

Soon, the food was brought over.

Lu Shizhi ignored the hot meat, picked it up and handed it to Liu Chang, "Come on, eat! Today is all you can eat!"

Zhao Shi also hurriedly picked up more meat and put it in front of Liu Chang, "Yes, eat more! You son! You have to be as strong as your uncle, don't make yourself sick, you are not taller than your chest, and you are arrogant. What blood relatives."

I don't know why, Liu Chang's meat was very uncomfortable this time. The two sat around Liu Chang, fighting openly and secretly. The meat and vegetables kept stuffing into Liu Chang's mouth, making Liu Chang unable to eat it. After he left, the banquet atmosphere suddenly became very serious.

Lu Shizhi stared at Zhao Shi fiercely.

"This is Chang'an Chang, who was raised by my eldest sister. Your words today are enough to punish your entire clan!"

"Zhang is my blood relative. The queen mother raised him. I am very grateful, but what are you? You are an outsider at all!"

"Oh, I watched him grow up. I don't know how much mutton he ate. How about you? How many times have you seen him?"

"You just gave him a few pieces of mutton to eat. He is in Chang'an. If he was in Nanyue, I would have revolted against my father and pushed him to be the king of Nanyue. Can you?"

Liu Chang stood in the distance, watching the two quarrel, scratching his head.

Looking at Zhao Mei, who was on the side, "What's your father's situation?"

"Your Majesty doesn't know that your eldest father is in the country, and he always mentions you. He said that your appearance is exactly like your biological mother. The eldest father has nine sons. Only my grandfather has seen the biological mother of the majesty."

"How could he have seen"

"At the time, the clansmen took the eldest father's children to escape and they were separated. Only my grandfather returned to the eldest father's side."

Liu Chang was silent for a moment.

"My eldest father is very fond of you. In fact, he chose to submit after learning that you were in power, not entirely because he was afraid of your crusade. In fact, he did not intend to oppose you. My grandfather attacked the Han envoy because someone told him that King Wu Invading Fujian and Yue, annexing Nanyue, with the intention of killing the king and saving the emperor. My grandfather has no brains, so I took people to attack and kill the king of Wu.”

Liu Chang pouted, "Do you think the widow is a three-year-old child?"

"I don't dare to lie, I don't know why the king is so malicious to us. Why don't you recognize your biological mother?"

"If I admit it, my grandmother will be very sad."

"Perhaps she never gave birth to me, but she is closer to me than her own son. In any case, I will not make her sad. As for my biological mother, she has long since passed away, even if I shout ten times a hundred times, she Can I come back to life? I might as well wait until I die, and then go and ask her for guilt."

Zhao Mei was silent for a while.

"It doesn't seem unreasonable that the queen mother loves the king so much."

Looking at the two people in the distance arguing with red faces, Zhao Shi almost started to roll up his sleeves, Liu Changcai stepped forward helplessly, and was immediately surrounded by two people and began to feed, Zhao Mei looked at a strong man like an iron tower With a straight face, sitting next to each other, he kept stuffing food into the strong man's mouth, and he couldn't help but want to laugh.

When Liu Chang left, Lu Shizhi smiled and invited him to come back next time.

"Jianjian Hou's character is not good, you can have less contact in the future!"

Zhao Shi said seriously.

"yes??"

Liu Chang looked at him in astonishment. This fellow has the face to say that other people's characters are not good. How can there be such a shameless person in the world?

"Zhao Shi, you really dare to say it. Are you not afraid that my grandmother will take you to drink?"

"You have to call my uncle. You can't call me by his first name!"

"Why call you uncle!"

The two walked in the direction of the palace while arguing.

"I can tell you, don't go out and say these things. Don't think that my grandma stays in Changle Palace and doesn't know what's going on outside. If my uncle goes to Changle Palace to talk about today's affairs, we can have dinner tomorrow. Yes, you know?"

"By the way, there is one more thing, uncle...you have to come early tomorrow, the widow has to go out."

"What did you say?"

"I told you to come early!"

"The previous sentence?"

Liu Chang returned to the palace with a dark face.

On the way back, Zhao Shi was still grinning and laughing from time to time, his face full of smiles.

Zhao Mei looked at his father in horror, did he fall ill?
ps: I finally finished writing this code, the speed is getting slower and slower, and I don't know when this hand will be better.

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