Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 657 Family Dinner
"Straight!!!"

When Mrs. Fan returned to Chao Simuxiang's home, Lu Wei didn't give him any good looks, but directly picked up the wooden stick.

Fan Zhen was frightened, and hurriedly dodged, "Auntie, you can't imitate Auntie! I'm not as resistant to beating as Your Majesty!!"

Lu Wei was very angry, "I should have followed the example of my elder sister and disciplined her strictly. I was beaten lightly at the beginning!!"

"No, mother, why are you angry? What did I do wrong?! I'm not as disobedient as His Majesty, why is that so?"

"Let me ask you, how long have you been here? Ah? Are you going to wait for me to die before you come to worship? You are not going to be a prince over there!! I have to talk about it, so I let Chang let go and allow you to return, you Actually wrote a letter saying that the matter can’t be done, and I can’t go back. I’ll kill you, you bastard!!”

Lu Wei was very angry, and Mrs. Fan was also stubborn, so he didn't hide at all, and said loudly: "I went to Wa Island to do important things, how can I give up halfway? Isn't this the lintel of my Wuyanghou's mansion?"

"I'm not wrong!"

"A man should be the king's forerunner, who else but me?!"

Seeing him like this, Lu Mi immediately scolded him. There was nothing about the Lu family that could be seen in this Zhu Zi. He was purely his father's child, without any impurities, and he was extremely stubborn. What is avoidance, rampage! !
This is true of the beloved, and so is the son.

Lu Wei only felt a headache. After hitting her a few times, she dropped the wooden stick in her hand and sat back in her original position, her eyes flushed.

Only then did Mrs. Fan feel a little flustered, and hurriedly sat beside her.

"Mother, don't I often write to you? I just arrived there, and there are too many things to get out of it. I will definitely visit you every few months in the future."

Lu Wei knew that she would not be able to convince this stupid son.

What he is determined to do cannot be changed at all, just like his father.

Mrs. Fan kept comforting her, but Ms. Lu sighed, "With your personality, you will definitely suffer a lot when I am gone. Of course it is important to be able to do things, but you can't just know how to do things. It is not easy to let others know that you can do things. You are bored overseas, and you are buried in your work. Not many people in the temple know your situation. The title cannot be promoted, and your reputation is not known. , there are no rewards, but you have suffered more than anyone else. You want to be a king, and I will not stop you, but how many things can you do in that barbaric land?"

"Look at you, how thin are you now? You have been married for so long, you don't even have a child, and even An has a son. Are you going to lose the title of Wuyanghou's family? You can't do it in Wa Island How many more concubines?"

"Didn't you object to my taking concubines in the past? You always used the Supreme Emperor as an example."

"Just pretend I didn't say anything. Take a concubine now! I'll arrange it myself!"

"Do you remember what I just said?!"

"Didn't you let me pretend that you didn't say anything?"

Mrs. Fan resorted to the ancestral bullshit, and Lu Mi was furious again. Well, it’s not a pure Fan family. The Lu family’s bullshit attribute is still inherited, but why do you inherit this thing? !

"Big Brother!!!"

With a loud shout, the people of Fan City walked into the house excitedly, and suddenly looked at their elder brother. Mrs. Fan hurriedly stood up, and the two brothers hugged each other, and Lu Mi's expression eased a lot.Because the people of Fan City were not born by her, they were not very popular. Of course, compared with other descendants of Fan Kuai, the people raised by her were more pleasing to the eye, although she could not treat the people like their husbands and wives. , but never persecuted, the resources and protection that should be given are all missing from him.

Mrs. Fan excitedly pulled his younger brother to sit down. The two brothers looked similar as before. Mrs. Fan looked at him and couldn't help nodding.

"That's right, that's right, you look a bit like everyone in this dress, and our family has a scholar. If my father finds out, he must be very proud!"

The Fan City man shook his head hastily, "Brother, I'm just a petty official. Although I'm in charge of the affairs of the Imperial Academy, I'm not considered a scholar."

"It's all about Taixue, why don't you learn from everyone? If you don't have enough knowledge, can you deal with Taixue's lip service?"

The Fan City people smiled wryly and did not explain further.

Mrs. Fan still has a lot of people to meet, but today, he is going to stay at home and not go anywhere.

But Lu Lu stayed in Houde Hall all the time.

Liu Chang didn't let him go at all. The two haven't seen each other for too long, and they have too much to say to each other.

"The next time you go out, take me with you. Once you are gone in the temple, there will be more things, intrigues, and I am upset to see them. They even want to involve me, want to Using me to deal with Wai Wang, hehe, I don’t know what to think. There are still people who dare to bribe me. I hope I can speak for them by An’s side. It’s lawless, but An is also a little radical. The front is fine, but the future , he didn’t listen to my persuasion, I wanted to stop it, but Luan Bu found me and he said that you had explained to him before you left, just look at the ministers, don’t obstruct Your Highness.”

Liu Chang nodded, "I did tell him that I mainly want to see how far An Neng can go, so that he can accumulate more experience, and protect him too much on weekdays. Unexpectedly, this scorpion is also lawless , bold and reckless, and caused me a lot of trouble, Zhang Xiang is complaining."

"These things are very tricky and have to be solved one by one."

"However, I am very satisfied with you, especially you. I heard that you have done a lot of things, and there are still people in the court who call you the hidden phase!"

Lu Lu looked disdainful, "They just think that the prince listened to me and wanted to win me over."

"In fact, they despise me a lot in their hearts. They think that I am greedy for money, extravagant, and smell of copper all over my body. They just dare not say it to my face. They even tried to win over Luan Bu, but they kicked the iron board. Luan Bu didn't like this at all. set."

"Don't bother with these people, the problem now is how to solve the troubles left by An."

"Your Majesty hasn't thought about it yet?"

"If you're not here, I'm not in a hurry to think about it."

Lu Lu suddenly laughed, and sure enough, His Majesty still cannot be without himself.

Liu Chang pondered and said: "The first thing to solve is the issue of native place. This Zhuzi thinks that native place restricts the development of the people, so he abolished different registers, saying that they should be treated equally, but he doesn't know that equal treatment is equal, but not fair. Ah. Farmers need support and help. If they rely on themselves alone, wouldn’t they be eaten alive by those powerful merchants? This man only thought that his hometown would restrict people from engaging in different industries, but he didn’t think that it would also help protect the bottom class common people"

Lu Lu nodded, "Then shall we recover again?"

"No, the decree is not a joke. There is no reason to set a decree in the morning and then abolish it in the evening. Besides, what An thinks is not unreasonable. Membership can only work for others, agricultural registration cannot do business, and commercial registration cannot own farmland. , the division is too clear, and it is indeed not conducive to the future development of Dahan. What should be done now is to eliminate the bad influence of these new policies, add positive meaning, and help him improve."

"What is His Majesty going to do?"

"The only solution is the second land restriction order"

Liu Chang squinted his eyes, "Without the restriction of registration, a large number of merchants and dignitaries will unscrupulously annex farmland, forcing the people to become their tenants, and the biggest beneficiaries will become them instead. Therefore, it is still necessary to restrict the land. The land restrictions are all for officials, and there are different restrictions for officials of different levels. Owning more than one's own arable land will be considered as trespassing. Now, it's time to target the land restrictions to the whole world. Local wealthy families merchants, must limit the amount of arable land they own.”

"There will definitely be a lot of opponents."

"Hahaha, that's not necessarily the case. The big man is different from the past. Even if the rich and powerful don't have a lot of cultivated land, they can still follow your path. With the development of the big man, if they start to accumulate land and go to the road of landlords, that's a threat. It’s too big. If they follow your path, start doing business and build factories, and develop Dahan’s business industry, it may bring unexpected development to Dahan. You may not know that commercial exchanges can bring great changes”

Lu Lu seemed to understand a little bit.

"Are you going to make all the powerful families in the country give up their farmland to follow my example?"

"It's better to let them open factories than let them annex farmland. Besides, there are more and more Yu Ding in the world. This is also to give those Yu Ding a livelihood so that they don't become rangers or something."

"Instead of letting those nobles rot in the big man, it's better to let them all go overseas to do business"

Liu Chang stroked his chin, and Lu Lu asked suspiciously: "Your Majesty asked me to do business at the beginning, was it to point out a new path for them?"

"Not all of them, you are very useful."

"You just came back, don't be in a hurry, go back and rest for two days, and the matter will be officially started two days later. Zhang Buyi and the others are not in the temple. At that time, Luan Bu, Jia Yi, and you will complete this matter." thing."

Lu Lu quickly agreed.

In the next few days, Liu Chang will start to make up for the many policies formulated by Liu An. It is actually an opportunity for him to deal with the aftermath. It's okay to improve, just restore the original decree, and then say that these are all done by Chen Ping. Chen Ping asked His Highness to do this in a dream!That's right, just do it!
Another day I have to call Chen Mai's son back. He is not in Chang'an, and he can't find any good blame. It is best for his son to inherit his father's business. I have to take it.

Two days later, Liu Chang held a family banquet in the Hall of Houde, mainly for Mrs. Fan.

Fan Qing talked about her brother all day long, and it happened that the whole family got together.

The family banquet this time was very lively, and Liu Chang called almost all his relatives, Liu Ying, sister-in-law, Liu Le, Liu Zhang, Jia Yi, Jia Fan, Zhang Yan, Fan Fu, Fan Shiren, Lu Lu, Lu Lu Produce.
Naturally, the empress dowager took the upper seat, and Empress Lu sat in the upper seat. Looking at such a lively scene, a smile appeared on her face.

The family is becoming more and more prosperous, and even Liu Chang's lineage has more and more people.

The children were running around and playing, not restrained at all.

Several big men were sitting together and chatting about major issues, talking about the many policies formulated by Liu An, and talking about the poisoning incident.

Mrs. Fan saw his younger sister first, and then met several other sons. Looking at Liu Bo, who was taller than himself, Mrs. Fan was stunned for a long time. Unexpectedly, this son had grown so tall.

"It's hard to say about the poisoning thing. It's not over yet. We still have to wait for the captain to come back to know that the war over there is easy to fight, but it's very troublesome to deal with it. But this time they were scared of being beaten. They said that they want to pay tribute, and then they can find a way to control their taxes. After the next tribute starts, the big man will have enough money. I thought about it, and then I can subsidize the medical center and enlightenment school This Enlightenment, if we can push the literacy rate of Dahan to 30.00%, how terrible it will be? Officials are inexhaustible, talents will emerge in large numbers, and Dahan will usher in incredible development."

Liu Chang was bragging as always, he was a little conservative at first, but after drinking some wine, he immediately started to let himself go.

"Shendu's annual tax, think about it for yourself, how much food is there, and it's a steady stream, or they send people to deliver it themselves. There are still many ministers who say that I am militaristic. Why don't I fight if there are such benefits? When I was poisoned, these people directly regarded me as a god and respected me very much. When I left, they still shed tears. Why should I leave the matter over there to the Taiwei and come back in a hurry ? This is not because I am afraid of trouble in the follow-up, but because I don’t value credit.”

"Master has done a lot of things for me. I have already done all the things that should be done. So what if I give him the credit?"

"Of course the master was also very touched. When he learned that I wanted to give him all the credit, he was not willing to accept it at all. He said that he had no credit at all. How could he rob me of it? On the day I left in private, He knew that I was going to leave, so he personally brought people to see me off, and when he got to the shore, I was already on the boat, and he was still yelling at me on the shore, with a look of reluctance on his face, He also told me to be careful on the road, don’t fall into the water and drown.”

"And my dragon chair, haven't you two seen it yet? When I was about to leave, the Peacock King insisted on giving it to me. When I said no, he knelt on the ground and begged me to let me After accepting it, I think he is too old to refuse, so I will bring him back to the big man, and my prestige is poisoned like this."

Liu Chang came as soon as he opened his mouth, but everyone was dubious.

"The other side of the body poison is the Anxi Kingdom. I led more than 100 people at that time, and I rushed to kill more than 30 soldiers and [-] generals. They fled in fright. I even specially wrote a book. The letter is full of the principles of the sage, and it contains supreme knowledge. At that time, some poisonous people read it, and they all clapped their hands and said that it was well written. The beginning alone was enough for them to learn for [-] years. This letter should be written in It is in the hands of King Anxi, after reading this letter, he will definitely feel my extraordinary talent and learning, and dare not go east and herd horses."

"Between Anxi and Shendu, there is a place that must be passed through, called Bate Country. When he learned that I was coming to Shendu, he led tens of thousands of people to meet him. When he saw him, he got off his horse and knelt down and asked to be my governor."

"If you don't believe me, you can ask Zhou Yafu and the others when the Northern Army returns. They are all witnesses!"

Everyone laughed and drank some wine.

The banquet became more and more lively, and at some point, Liu Ci appeared in front of Mrs. Fan.

"uncle!"

Liu Ci smirked, and Mrs. Fan sized him up, then rubbed his head with a light smile, "The twins are already so old, are you the King of Xia or the King of Beidi?"

"I am King Xia!"

"You two look exactly alike, so it's hard to recognize."

"Actually, you can recognize it just by looking at the clothes. You can see how luxurious the king of the Northland is wearing. The Northland is rich, and he is not short of money. He is living a good life. Unlike me, my Xia Kingdom is poor."

At that moment, Mrs. Fan's complexion changed drastically, and she hastily stretched out her hand to cover Liu Ci's mouth.

"Are you going to say that you have no clothes and no food?"

Liu Ci was gagged, sobbing and nodding.

Mrs. Fan sighed, "I'm poorer than you. All the savages in my place, except for savages, are wild monkeys. It's useless to tell me these things. You have to go to Lu Lu, you know?"

Fan Kang let go of his hand, but Liu Ci said aggrievedly: "I don't even have savages there, you can just give me a monkey."

"Then I'll send you some savages."

"Thank you uncle!!!"

Liu An was sitting next to Jia Yi at the moment, seeming to be talking about learning, the two were a little excited, and Liu Bo pricked up his ears to listen, his eyes full of envy.

Lu Lu was sitting beside Queen Lu, with his head down, answering something.

And Liu Ying actually sat beside Lu Chan, and the two were chatting in low voices.

Lu Chan's face was a little unnatural, and after the Supreme Emperor sat beside him, his face was a little dark.

In these years, he has borne too much notoriety for the Supreme Emperor.

Liu Ying was explaining this matter, "Missing brother, I have a special status, and it's not easy to use my real name when I go out, for fear of causing turmoil. You and I are similar in appearance and body shape, so using your name will cause you a lot of trouble."

Use my name for bad things? ?Why didn't you think about hiding your identity when you did something good? ?
Although he was unhappy, Lu Chan nodded to express his understanding.

But Liu Ying said again: "However, you don't have to worry about my body anymore. I can no longer go out, and they don't allow me to go out. I can't enjoy the good wine and meat in front of my eyes."

As Liu Ying spoke, she smiled wryly again.

"In this situation, I don't know how long I can last."

Lu Chan's face changed, "Your Majesty, don't say such words, you are blessed and blessed, you won't"

"It's okay, it's okay, everyone has such a day. At this age, I actually don't have any regrets. I just feel that I am sorry for you on weekdays. I want to apologize to you in time, and I am afraid that there will be no chance in the future."

Liu Ying took something out of her sleeve and handed it to Lu Chan.

"I know you like beautiful cars. I can't drive now. I'm going to give you all the cars under my name as compensation. This is the certificate. You can take it and drive it someday." Let's go back."

"Brother...me."

Liu Ying smiled softly, "It's okay, don't let the boss know, he has been looking at those cars for a long time."

(End of this chapter)