sweeping the world

Chapter 1047

"Your Highness..." Cai You led the way after saluting, he had actually been waiting for Liu Shen for a while: "Your Majesty is eating."

Liu Shen's salute to Cai You naturally wanted to return the salute, not only because Cai You was a servant, but also because Cai You watched him grow up, if he ignored these, he would inevitably have a reputation of domineering.

Chang'an in winter is shrouded in white snow. Today's snow is heavier than in previous years. The good news from the outside keeps coming back, and the turmoil of the internal slaves is also suppressed. The heavy snow means that the auspicious snow will usher in a prosperous year.

In another seven days, it will be the day to appoint the crown prince. After Liu Shen met the emperor today, he should go to the ancestral temple to spend time with the famous greats and sages of the Xia Dynasty. He would stay there for seven days, waiting for the crown prince ceremony to be held.

It is not advisable to eat too greasy early in the morning. Porridge and pickles are Liu Yan's morning food this morning, and occasionally they will be replaced with steamed buns or steamed buns with soy milk.

When Liu Yan saw Liu Shen being led into the room by Cai You, he pointed to the opposite side of the dining table and motioned to sit down.

Nowadays, the Han Empire only abides by the ancient etiquette on formal occasions, which means sitting on the knees and kneeling. Otherwise, chairs and the like have long been popular in the homes of courtiers and nobles, and wealthy people among the people would also buy high-legged chairs. Tables and chairs.

What Liu Yan used as a dining table was a long table with a length of 1.2 meters and a width of [-] meters. He asked Liu Shen to sit near his right.

"Father." Liu Shen sat down after saluting. A moment later, a female officer brought clear porridge, picked up the bowl and took a few mouthfuls with a spoon, and said after swallowing, "Is Ming already out to sea?"

Liu Yan glanced at Liu Shen, and nodded after a few seconds.

Liu Shen's eating speed is much faster than before. In the past, he paid attention to whether he ate without sound, but now he would make a "sucking" sound when eating.

As long as you have been in the army for a while, no matter how slow you eat before, you will develop the habit of eating quickly.Once you eat fast, some movement is unavoidable, just don't have the habit of clicking your mouth.

"In the past seven days, write down what you have seen and heard in Xizheng." Liu Yan looked at it, took another bowl of porridge and started to eat, but when he saw himself talking, he put it down and sat upright Liu Shen: "What you have seen and heard along the way, you If you have any ideas, write them down." He ordered the table and signaled Liu Shen to continue eating.

"Before going to the ancestral temple, I went to meet my younger siblings." Liu Yan observed again and again, and found that Liu Shen had long since lost his previous white and fat, and had changed into a healthy sub-black skin. Furthermore, his temperament has also changed a lot .What made him a little funny was that Liu Shen was restraining himself deliberately, and asked, "Have you seen him since you came back?"

"Father, yes." Liu Shen said with a smile on his face, "I brought back some gadgets as gifts for my younger brothers and sisters, and I sent them all myself."

Liu Yan knew these things.He nodded with satisfaction: "Tell me, what did you bring?"

In fact, unless the west of the Han Empire is in Sasanian territory, what else can you buy?Most of the so-called gifts were selected from the distributed trophies. They didn't include any gold, silver or jewelry, just some interesting handmade arts and furs.

"Did you prepare six beauties from various races for Liu Ming?" Liu Yan saw Liu Shen start to smile awkwardly, and asked, "How many did you keep?"

Liu Shen didn't keep any of them. He would bring back six beauties from different races to Liu Ming. I still remember Liu Ming mentioned it longingly one time.

Obviously, Liu Shen couldn't remember Liu Ming's mention of such a thing, as long as he kept an embarrassed smile, it was enough.

Liu Yan waved his hand, indicating that Liu Shen could go find his younger brothers and sisters.

"I have probably heard that..." Cai You waited for Liu Shen to leave and said politely and elegantly: "It seems that two years ago, His Highness Ming became curious about various ethnic groups and wanted to collect beauties from all ethnic groups. His Highness Shen has been Remember, this time..."

"You even know this kind of thing." Liu Yan didn't look at Cai You, whose face was stiff. He stood up and walked to the window. What he saw was Zhuoxiang standing at the moon gate and receiving Liu Shen: "You shouldn't Those who pay attention, don’t pay attention.”

Cai You smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, I... it's a rumor heard among the people."

Liu Yan can guess what's going on, it's just that some people think it's absurd for Liu Shen to bring back a beauty, especially another prince, they packaged such a thing as Brothers are kind.

As the eldest son of the royal family, Liu Shen bears the hopes of too many people. They will spontaneously and consciously set up a protective film for Liu Shen, and if there is any trouble, they can tackle it at the fastest speed.

Liu Yan was one of the people who established a protective layer for Liu Shen. He came to a conclusion from many dynasties that the newly founded dynasty should choose Lichang instead of Lixian.

What the new country wants is to survive smoothly, and there must be no turbulence. The most serious thing is the malicious competition between the princes, which leads to the death of the second generation.

In fact, a new dynasty was very fragile in the first three generations, and the dominance of the royal family needed enough time to make the world take it for granted that such a family should be the ruling family.

In this case, it is very important whether there is internal strife in the royal family. While they are in internal strife, they have to rely on the power of their ministers. If they want help from anyone, they will inevitably have to pay something, so it is very easy for powerful ministers to appear.

Once a powerful minister appeared at the beginning of the founding of the country, that powerful minister would generally be a minister of the dragon who followed the first emperor, or the second generation of the minister of the dragon. His family already had enough reputation and would With impressive strength, once he is allowed to seize the opportunity, it will be another dynasty change.

Liu Yan probably knew that his life span would not be short, and he should be able to live longer than the group of people who followed him when he was young. Things like strong ministers and weak masters would not happen to his old Liu family.

As the founding emperor of the country, Liu Yan believed that as long as he was alive, even if he could only lie on the bed panting, even if he could not speak, as long as he was not dead, others would not dare to do disobedient things.

"The second generation king of the Han Dynasty still needs to be someone with a pioneering spirit." Liu Yan once again came to the highest position in the palace city, overlooking the entire Chang'an City: "Liu Shen is not only the eldest son, but also shows a desire for expansion. Not weak at all, will be a qualified heir."

"His Royal Highness Shen is naturally a qualified crown prince, but..." Xie Ai is a minister and is considered a close minister of the emperor. It is within the scope of his responsibilities to say something: "The queen's natal family is a little more powerful."

"Yeah..." Liu Yan was very relieved that Xie Ai dared to tell the truth, he said: "The Sang family has fully shrunk and no longer competes with the Cui family. I don't want to see this."

Xie Ai asked softly: "Do you want to hint at the Shang Shuling?"

"Shang Shuling was so frightened that he almost lost his courage." Liu Yan was somewhat disappointed, but knew that if there was a hint, Sang Yu would have new hope and it would become a very troublesome matter.He smiled and said, "Didn't the Guo family and the Wang family always want to grow stronger?"

"Your Majesty, Mrs. Guo has served Shijie a lot. Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, she has been acting in a low-key manner. There is a tendency to allow bullying and not resist." Xie Ai doesn't think Mrs. Guo has the guts to have any trouble with Mrs. Cui : "The Wang family has always been attached to the Sang family, and recently it has almost no bottom line to give in to the Cui family."

"I heard that the Guo family has beauties who are all over the country?" Liu Yan has really heard this rumor: "The Wang family also has a beautiful lady?"

Xie Ai opened his mouth, saluted and stepped back.

The Guo family really turned out to be a beautiful woman, but Liu Yan needs to see whether she has a beautiful face or not.

It is conceivable that Guo's reputation as a charming city and country was created by him.They hope that Liu Yan will hear something and accept the beauty into the palace, even if it does not pose a threat to Cui Wan, it can also improve the current bad situation of the Guo family.

After Xie Ai left, he would send people to the Guo family, but if the beauty in the rumors was passable, the beauty would appear in Miyagi soon.

Similarly, Wang's beautiful lady will also be taken into the palace.

In the near future, there will be two more beauties around Liu Yan, they will be extremely favored by Liu Yan, and her natal family will also receive a round of rewards.

December 22 is a long time coming.On this day, the Han Empire finally had a crown prince, and the Han people had an object of loyalty for the next generation.

The ceremony was naturally grand and enthusiastic. According to tradition, one of Liu Shen's brothers-in-law got the title of Marquis not long after the ceremony.

In fact, Liu Yan should have chosen someone from the Cui family to be the marquis when Cui Wan was registered as queen.It's just that in order to make the title more rare, he has not given the Cui family at least one marquis according to the tradition.

Liu Shen, who became the prince, moved out of the harem and into the Hanbing Palace.

In the world of the Han Dynasty, the prince did not live in the East Palace. The East Palace was actually the living palace of the Empress Dowager.

The country established by Liu Yan continued the name "Han". Many of the palace complexes in the palace city also took the names of the old Western Han Dynasty, and their functions did not change much.

Hanbing Hall appeared during the reign of Emperor Xiaowu Liu Che of the Han Dynasty. Since then, it has been the living place for the prince of the Han Dynasty. There is also a painting hall for the prince to study essays, and Jiaguan for the prince to practice martial arts.

At the same time, the prince will have his own force, such as the Northern Army in the Western Han Dynasty.

The current Han Empire does not have such an army as the Northern Army. When Liu Yan decided to appoint the crown prince, he gave the prince a six-rate establishment.

"This is the list drawn up by my son." Liu Shen handed over the memorial form respectfully, and said, "I ask Father to review it."

Liu Yan took the list from Cai You, and after a few glances, there was no unnecessary change in the expression on his face.

The list was composed of officers of the Sixth Rank. At a glance, Liu Yan could see many names that were familiar to him. They were not only the descendants of some nobles, but also the names of nobles from one generation.

"Sure." Liu Yan would not hit the high-spirited Liu Shen on this kind of matter. He asked Cai You to go through the necessary procedures on the memorandum, that is, stamp the seal that needs to be stamped, and asked Liu Shen: " Official of the library, have you not considered the list yet?"

Liu Shen showed a hesitant expression, and said hesitantly: "I have some preliminary considerations, but I just can't make up my mind."

The prince of the Han Empire would not only have his own military force, but also his own team of civil servants.This is not a system that Liu Yan set up by himself. In fact, it is not a system that only exists in contemporary times. It is still a continuation of the ancient system.

"There shouldn't be too many people in the south." Out of the corner of Liu Yan's eye, he saw the stunned expression on Lu Yi's face, ignored it, and said to Liu Shen very bluntly, "This is the general trend, understand?"

To put it simply, the punishment for some people is not over yet, they should pay the price for some of the things they did, and even bear the consequences for the things done by their parents and even their grandparents.

Liu Yan himself was punishing those people, but Chu Jun accepted it widely. There are two interpretations of the matter.

People in the world may think that Liu Yan has stopped punishing those people, and the south will naturally rejoice, and the northerners dare not express their objections clearly, but it should become a reality that they will not be punished for doing wrong things.

Once Liu Shen really accepts a large number of southern nobles, it can also be interpreted that he is gathering the southerners. Did he get some indication, or simply took steps of his own will?
Whichever it is, it shouldn't appear in the current Han Empire, that's a disregard for the millions of victims.

"My son knows." Liu Shen swallowed hard, and his forehead was sweating: "My son will draw up a list as soon as possible and show it to my father."

"Stand back." Liu Yan waited for Liu Shen to leave before looking at Lu Yi, and asked, "Have those people started jumping around again?"

Lu Yi is the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Liu Shen needed the cooperation of the Ministry of Rites for some procedures of opening the mansion and establishing teeth, so he would appear here.

"Your Majesty, how dare they jump around?" Lu Yi smiled wryly, and decided to tell what he knew: "I heard that Cui Xuan has been going to Hanbing Hall more often recently."

"Cui Xuan?" Liu Yan still thought for a while before he remembered who this person was. He said, "Lu Song needs manpower, let him go."

Cui Xuan is of course a member of the Cui clan. Yuan Shuo was active for a while around ten years ago, disappeared for seven years and reappeared after Liu Shen became the heir apparent.

Liu Yan didn't look at anyone, and asked, "What is the queen doing recently?"

Cai You and Lu Yi looked at each other, and then both looked away.They know that is not asking themselves at all.

"Return to Your Majesty, the Empress is checking the list of concubines of various families recently." The voice came from behind the screen: "I heard that she wants to choose a princess concubine for the prince."

Liu Yan didn't know about this matter, so he was taken aback when he heard it.

"Crown Princess?" Liu Yan wasn't angry at all, knowing that Cui Wan would tell himself when there was a candidate, and asked, "Is there anyone to choose?"

The person behind the screen replied: "No one."

In the Han Dynasty, the queen was in charge of a lot of places, including the harem and all the women in the world. In theory, the queen could take care of it.

Then, under normal circumstances, the emperor will not intervene in the prince's mate selection, the queen chooses on her own, and waits for a candidate for the emperor to make the final decision.

In this way, in fact, there is no overreach of authority, but I don't know what Liu Yan is thinking.

(End of this chapter)