The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

In the third year of Jianyuan, the emperor of the Han Dynasty took office for four years. The 19-year-old young emperor perfected the style of the imperial family of the Han Dynasty [If one person has a problem, the whole family must help him], he would harass his brothers if there was any problem, and he would not worry about breaking his brothers at all. mind.

But what else can a brother do?After all, Liu Che didn't do anything. The old father did all the cutting of power and power. If he had to say it, his younger brother was innocent, and the family was naturally happy.

Even if everyone knows in their hearts who their father is doing this for, but now that the new emperor is on the throne, and he is a younger brother who has had a good relationship since childhood, everyone has to swallow their thoughts.

Liu Che knew these things well, but why didn't he take this opportunity to strengthen his brotherhood while stabilizing his natural allies.

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty to the present, the relationship between brothers in all dynasties has been quite strong.

As far as the emperor is concerned, most of the main forces in the struggle with imperial power come from uncles, and brothers are all arms, especially the former Jingdi and Liu Wu as an example, the truth of their plastic brotherhood is naturally unknown to outsiders, just on the surface It seems that the brotherhood is very strong.

As the saying goes, what goes above and below must work. From Liu Che's point of view, he naturally felt that his brothers would not betray him, and from the point of view of the princes, they basically had no thought of rebelling. Of course, if Liu Che died It's another matter if the crown prince is easy to bully.

But everyone knows that Liu Che is a child with a super long standby time, and he has not left his son with any political pressure from his uncles at all. Cough, this is for a later story.

Every time the princes and kings finished replying to their letters, the messengers running on the road would always be busy for a few days. The brothers complained about each other on a daily basis, and finally they all pointed the finger at their younger brother Liu Sheng.

That's right, Liu Che is already the emperor and they can't say anything, but Liu Sheng and the others can still criticize and criticize the pioneer. If he didn't make it, how could there be so many things?

To take a step back, at least don’t use wax stamps. It’s not a handwriting but a group post. The feeling can’t be worse, especially perfunctory.

So the princes and kings who made these remarks received a question written by Liu Che himself a month later.And this treatment is unique.After two or three times, the elder brother couldn't bear the only psychological pressure, and silently said that he should not bother His Majesty, let's get a photocopy.

Then he turned his head away and pulled another small family group and excluded Xia Anran, the reason was justified - this girl is a traitor, pass the microphone!Can't have fun with him!

Xia Anran didn't care about them, his older brothers became more childish as they lived, he was different, he was someone who had serious business to do.

It took nearly three years to complete the dredging of the river channel and the construction of the port. After the Hutuo River, the Fuhe River, which can lead all the way from Hebei to Tianjin, has become the second main artery of transportation in Zhongshan. Its advantages will be placed on Regarding sea-river combined transport, of course, considering that Japan is still a barren land and North Korea is now sparsely populated, this route is currently only carrying out inland river transport business, mainly transporting salt and grain.

Xia Anran is a person who knows the history. He knows very well that the salt and iron franchise will start in a few years. It is hard to say whether iron will be let go, but salt has never been let go until the end of the entire feudal dynasty.What Xia Anran valued was the channel for the state to purchase salt.

The first step of the salt and iron official operation is to purchase salt from all over the country. Whenever the central government needs to collect salt from Tianjin, then this channel will have a steady stream of cargo transportation.As a transit port from waterway to landway, Zhongshan has a steady stream of income.

And on the other hand, safety is the most important thing for private merchants, and a river channel with central cargo ships is absolutely safe for merchants, which is also a huge attraction.

But now, Xia Anran is seizing the time before the start of the salt and iron official camp to squeeze the wool hard. The warehouses he placed on the hills are full of salt and grain. Immediately stopped him.

And the reasons made Xia Anran unable to refute at all.

Xia Anran's tomb has not been completed yet, and when it is completed, there will be the queen's tomb. There is a serious shortage of labor force and we can no longer mobilize civil servants!

In the past few years, the overall official rhythm of the Han Dynasty has changed from the leisurely ones of the Wen and Jing dynasties. As the young emperors ascended to power, they have become more hurried. Whether it is frontier conscription, grain transportation, or facility construction, a lot of people's labor is required.

Although Zhongshan Kingdom is strictly speaking a vassal state with self-government, and the domestic people only need to serve Zhongshan Kingdom's civil service, but Zhongshan Kingdom itself is also on war alert.The frequent moves between the Han and Hungarians before this naturally affected Zhongshan, which is behind Daijun.

Grain transportation, defense on the northern front and long-term vigilance, the three-day labor quota for a young man is simply not enough, so the little king directly called the mausoleum construction manpower to fill this loophole. After that, it was still not enough, so he had to spend money to recruit and build the mausoleum. It was completely let go.

The project that had already started stopped for two years, which was very embarrassing, because the old father's rule was such a short period of time. Fortunately, he was not the only one who had the same situation. After learning about the situation, Liu Che expressed his understanding, and he After careful study, it was obvious that it was impossible to complete a tomb in the original [-] working days, unless everyone just dug a hole and buried it, so the little emperor waved his hand and refined the old father's regulations, changing it to Only three hundred servants can be requisitioned for construction at a time.

300 people is really not much compared to the whole country, and it is not enough for a large tomb, but this does not mean that only 300 people can be used for construction, but free labor is so little, and prisoners or Spending money for employment is generally very humane - although Xia Anran secretly felt that Liu Xiaoche must have heard someone's ghost idea, and planned to encourage the princes to consume national power by building tombs at their own expense.

It's a bit shady, but it works really well.

The style of the Qin and Han Dynasties is that death is like life, and building a mausoleum is the same as building a private garden, not to mention how excited and serious it is. This kind of free and easy is not used to Xia Anran in modern times, and what is even more unaccustomed to him is that he has lived in the past. At the age of 25, I was inexplicably added to the middle-aged and elderly chat group of my brothers. On weekdays, everyone talked about graves, health care, and other topics, and the news about how to build their own tombs spread all over the sky. If Liu Xiaoche is not involved in the topic, the specifications of the emperor's tomb and the prince's tomb are not the same thing.

Driven by this weird atmosphere, Xia Anran unknowingly began to pay attention to how his own tomb was built. Not only did he pay attention to his own, but he also paid attention to Dou Wan's tomb.

The mausoleum of King Zhongshan is located on a small hill outside the county seat of Beiping County, the northernmost part of Zhongshan. It is not high, and Xia Anran's visual inspection is only more than 100 meters. If you need limestone in China, you can still get local materials. The terrain is high, and it is in a geologically stable zone. There are basically no natural disasters. As for man-made disasters...well...the historical tomb of Liu Sheng was left after 2000, and now he thinks it should be no problem. big.

It is impossible for the tombs of the princes and kings to be stolen in the dynasty. No one has the courage. Only when the old and new dynasties change, warlords fight in melee, and they will do such immoral things in order to raise military expenses, and this behavior will also be condemned by the people of the time. People despise it, so even if they do it, they can do it secretly. People like Xia Anran who built their tombs on the mountain can't do it secretly.It is not easy to break the mountain quietly in the age without explosives.

Moreover, the soil of Zhongshan Country is fertile and the climate is suitable. It won't take long for this mountain to be lush with vegetation, and it will be able to hide all the tombs in it.

However, just in case, Xia Anran decided not to put expensive things in it. Things like Liu Momo who bury gold in it can't be done. Once the word spreads, even if he has ten iron walls, he can't stop him from coming. Treasure hunters.

If he robbed his tomb, he would rob it. If Dou Wan was involved, it would be absolutely impossible.

So Dou Wan had just had time to take off his armor and go home. Before he could hug his beloved little highness, he was stopped by a booklet that was stuffed in front of him. He took it in confusion, and saw a picture of the tomb structure.His Royal Highness was quite excited and told him what to put in the tomb and what are the uses of those structures. Dou Wan looked at the various tombs side by side in the painting and felt that his heart was sinking in the warm water , was soaked to bloom.

Xia Anran's tomb system has already been set, and it is difficult to change it. The only thing that can be changed is Dou Wan's tomb.

At that time, when he decided on the tomb, he never thought that Dou Wan could become his wife, so naturally he didn't take the tomb of Queen Zhongshan into account. Therefore, the tomb of King Zhongshan is well-regulated. From west to east, there are back room, middle room, corridor and tomb passage. Coupled with the usual arrangement of the two ear rooms, it corresponds to the bedroom, living room, and warehouse.It made it impossible for him to show affection with Dou Wan now. He had thought about opening up the two tombs before, but he was flatly rejected by Zhi, saying that the mountain road would not be able to support such an operation.

This is really cruel.

Seeing His Highness's dejected look, Dou Wan smiled slightly. He raised his hand to pick up a pen, dipped in ink and made improvements to a tomb passage pattern in his hand - he placed the back room of the queen's tomb to the south of the middle room.

With such a change, the back chambers of the two are adjacent to each other, and because the tomb of the queen is further north than the tomb of the king of Zhongshan, it appears that the tomb of Lord Dou Wan is pressing the tomb of Lord Xia Anran.

Xia Anran was sweetened by this discovery at first, and then he took a deep breath, always feeling... always thinking that Dou Wan did it on purpose? !He looked up at him suspiciously, but saw that Dou Wan was as indifferent as before, and noticed his gaze. The man tilted his head slightly to see that the bright sunlight fell on the scorching sun on the grassland where he had just gone through the mottled leaves. After being exposed to the sun for a while, his jet-black pupils became even deeper on his fair face.

At this time, when these eyes looked at him, there was an intoxicating tenderness. After being stared at by such eyes for a few moments, Xia Anran avoided the other party's sight. Well, old man, outsider, can you restrain yourself

Even though she thought so, Xia Anran didn't have the slightest intention to struggle when her hand was held by someone.

Half a month later, Liu Che in Chang'an City received a letter from his brother, and he was a little puzzled.

The brother he asked about before has already sent a letter, so why did the letter come suddenly at this time?The ignorant Liu Xiaoche opened the letter, and what he entered was two tomb cases painted side by side.He froze for a moment, then read the text again.

Ok……

After a while, Liu Che silently closed his brother's letter, not wanting to reply for the first time.

That's right, as the emperor's mausoleum, he doesn't have much room to play, everything is bound by regulations, he can control the size, but it is impossible to put the mausoleum next to it, let alone the queen...he There is no urge to meet him every day.

And compared to the harem women, he also prefers to be with his little friends. It is a bit regretful to say that he has never encountered an existence like Dou Wanzhi to his elder brother so far, but Liu Che also feels that this is not a bad idea. Not a good thing.

Even though I think so, no one will be in a good mood when someone shows their affection in front of them.Looking at the piles of bamboo scrolls again, Liu Che snorted and put his brother's letter in the box next to him. He waved his hand to Chuntuo and said, "Call Wei Qing and the others to accompany me for a run outside."

A group of princes and grandsons ran to the outskirts of Chang'an City to whip their horses, but when they arrived in the outskirts, they were surprised to find that the land reclamation work near Chang'an City was done too well. The original wasteland was now all farmland. Where could there be a road for him to run? "What's the matter..." Liu Che blinked, and he rode his horse between the fields. Although he felt a lot more relaxed when he saw the rice fields, of course he couldn't run a horse, so he had no choice but to go back with his friends. go.

After a few days, Liu Che still felt uncomfortable after thinking about it. In addition, he had some disputes with the Queen Mother Dou about the affairs of the court and China on a certain day, and he was in a depressed mood. On that day, he and his friends set off at ten o'clock in the evening and rode horses all night. The next day they arrived at Zhongnan Mountain, where the mountains were high and forested, and the few of them went hunting in the deep mountains, having a great time.Once, naturally there will be twice or three times, finally one day Liu Xiaoche couldn't hold back and shared this secret with his elder brother.He also warmly invited his elder brother to go hunting together when he came to court.

As soon as Xia Anran received the letter, she went crazy. Other people's children didn't go to the house for three days, and their children didn't go to the mountains for three days to hunt!Liu Che was so proud that he wrote a letter telling him that he went to the mountains to shoot deer, hogs, foxes and rabbits, and fought back with Ge Xiong, hand, Ge, bear!

When Xia Anran saw this sentence, the hairs on his back immediately exploded, and then he began to think about what kind of bear Liu Che was fighting with his bare hands?It's not necessarily a panda, is it? "What bears are there in Chang'an?"

When Dou Wan first entered the study, he was stunned for a moment, "It must be a bear... right?"

Xia Anran gasped, bear?Isn't that the blind Northeast bear!His younger brother was actually fighting a bear with his bare hands!He endured it, and couldn't hold back, took out the paper and wrote it into a book on the spot, and then stamped the king's seal on it and sent it to Chang'an immediately.Dou Wan watched him finish everything before approaching, "What's the matter?"

Then he received a ostentatious letter from the emperor of the Han Dynasty to his elder brother. After reading it, Dou Wan raised his eyebrows, and immediately understood what hit his little highness's nerves.He reached out and patted Xia Anran on the back, "Your Highness, there must be someone protecting His Majesty..."

"Then," Xia Anran asked the professionals sincerely, "Even if you are required by you, if a bear a few meters away wants to hit someone, can you stop it?"

"..."

Seeing that Dou Wan was speechless, Xia Anran sneered twice, and he wrenched his fingers. Even Dou Wan, who is extremely powerful, couldn't stop Xiong Xiazi. How can those boys whose strength is not as good as him use to stop him?By courage?He was so angry that he walked around the room a few times, picked up a feather duster inserted in the vase, and carefully studied whether the trunk was intact.

Obviously, made in Zhongshan is the guarantee of quality. Although it has not played its true role for a long time, this feather duster is still as strong as ever.

Seeing him like this, Dou Wan could only smile indulgently and watch His Highness walk around the room with frizzy hair for several days in a row, but obviously Liu Che was not a fool, he wrote from his elder brother's torrential rain. In the memorandum to invite you to enter the court, you can see the subtle emotions belonging to your brother. Liu Che, who suddenly felt a sense of crisis, hesitated, and wrote back to say that the war has just stopped, and it is rare to be fine recently. Brother, you should stay with Brother Wan. This year, everyone doesn't have to enter the court, and it's easy to take more rest and rest.

Soft and well behaved.

But it didn't work!

He soon received the box from Zhongshan Kingdom. Brother Sheng, who was refused to enter the court, was very angry. Brother Sheng sent a letter with nothing written in it, just pasted a feather.

Chuntuo was stunned for a moment, what, what does this mean?He quietly glanced inside the box, as if there was nothing else, just a piece of feather, or...uh, is this a chicken feather?Could it be a code word?

Liu Che pursed his lips, and as if nothing had happened, he sealed the envelope containing the old chicken feathers plucked from the feather duster and put it aside, then he heard Chun Tuo tentatively say, "Your Majesty, the envoy from Zhongshan Kingdom has come to ask for a visit...Look... ..."

"Messenger?" Liu Xiaoche immediately became excited, he knew that Brother would not be so cruel as to send him a threatening chicken feather!Then he saw Dou Wan calmly bowing to him.

Liu Che: "...!!!!!!"

"Your Majesty," after putting down His Royal Highness Liu Che's little companions one by one to read, Dou Wan came to Liu Che who was also panting for breath. Liu Che raised his head slightly and saw this "sister-in-law" standing against the wind. Novelty, but it used to be the angle he was most used to. "Ah Wan, if you have anything to say, just say it." Liu Che was a little uncomfortable with this angle now, he stood up, and in a blink of an eye, the tall and tall young man was already about the same height as Dou Wan, he looked at the martial arts field from a distance, There, several of his friends were supporting each other to stand up.

Liu Che knew in his heart that Dou Wan did not come all this way just to send a letter, but definitely to help his elder brother spread the word.

Unexpectedly, the moment Dou Wan opened his mouth, Liu Che's eyes widened in astonishment, "I hope Your Highness will regard Your Majesty as a king, but Your Highness said that Your Majesty wants him to be an elder brother." Dou Wan looked into the field from a distance like him, and in the strange atmosphere between the two of them, In the middle, the few teenagers in the martial arts arena dared not come over. After they got up, they bit the bullet and started wrestling with each other to delay the time.

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt Liu Che's dark gaze moved over. Dou Wan was not afraid at all, and saw him smile lightly, and said calmly: "Since your highness regards your majesty as your younger brother, you won't think about it." There are so many things, but there are some things that as a subject, he should not and cannot say."

"Nowadays, His Majesty has a deep relationship with him, so he won't mind. One day, if His Majesty's relationship fades, what he says and does now will be evidence of a crime."

"I am not afraid that His Highness will be punished, but I am worried that His Highness will be sad."

Liu Che was dumbfounded, and sighed after a long time. When he wrote that letter, he really wanted to share happiness with his elder brother, but his elder brother's reaction was the same, but there was a "sister-in-law" who came to fight the injustice.

However, he asked himself, did he really have no intention of probing?I don't know, Liu Che himself can't answer this answer.

"I know what you mean."

The young emperor smiled suddenly, "I want an elder brother, and if my elder brother's heart remains unchanged, I will not change either."

"It's you..." He said meaningfully, "Dou Wan, so what about you?"

"The stone in my heart cannot be changed." He smiled slightly. "Hasn't Your Majesty seen... the deep friendship between me and His Highness?"

hiss--

Liu Che gritted his teeth, and then gritted again, and finally couldn't help but burst out, "Dou Wan, you and I have another game?"

After being put down on the ground again, Liu Che didn't get up at all. He lay down for a while and suddenly said, "Dou Wan, Dongou Kingdom sent a message a few days ago that it was attacked by Minyue and came to ask for help, but uncle It is not worth saving the kingdoms of Yuedi, who often go back and forth. But I feel that Dongou Kingdom is a subordinate country of my great Han..."

"Your Majesty wants to send troops south?"

"It's not possible," Liu Che thought for a while, and said, "The battle has just ended, and the frontier army needs to recuperate, and the tiger charms are all at the empress dowager's place, so it's not easy to move...so I want to use the county soldiers."

"Your Majesty, would you like me to go?"

"Yes," Liu Che raised his eyes. Although he was located a little lower, his eyes were as sharp as electrodes. .” He paused, and said, “I want to break out of Yue’s hold.”

Dou Wan understood what he meant, so he clasped his fists and bowed, "Here." Liu Che was a little surprised when he agreed so readily, you don't need to tell brother? "

This question made Dou Wan smile slightly, "I trust Your Highness, and His Highness naturally believes in my judgment."

Liu Che's teeth are going to be sore! !

In the third year of Jianyuan, Liu Che dispatched troops from Kuaiji County, led by Dou Wan, to enter the Eastern Ou Kingdom. The Minyue Kingdom, which had originally attacked from the north, retreated in a hurry when the Han army sent troops to rescue them. Killed by the Han army.

The king of the Eastern Ou Kingdom believed that although Minyue lost a lot in this campaign, they would surely retaliate. He asked the Emperor of the Han Dynasty to allow them to move to the mainland, and the Emperor agreed, and moved the citizens of the Eastern Ou Kingdom to Lujiang County. The former Eastern Ou Kingdom was included in the Han Kuaiji County Since then, the territory has been facing each other with Minyue and Nanyue.

In the same year, Emperor Han expanded the scope of Shanglin Garden, moved the elite of the Northern and Southern Army into Shanglin Garden for exercises, recruited Zhongshan National Master Craftsmen to Chang'an to build and design warships, and built a water army in Kunming Lake. During this period... Dou Wan never returned home.

After half a year, Liu Che finally realized that yes, his elder brother did believe in Dou Wan wholeheartedly, and he would not have any opinion on Dou Wan's choice, but this did not conflict with his elder brother's anger at himself.

In the fourth year of Jianyuan, Han Ying, the official censor of the Zhongshan Kingdom, resigned from the Zhongshan Kingdom and entered Chang'an City. Then he and Dong Zhongshu, a spring and autumn doctor whom Liu Che admired, started a debate on Confucianism for three full years.

Dong Zhongshu wrote "Gongyang Chunqiu", while Han Yingzhi "Poetry" and "Yi", Han Ying insisted that Confucianism is Confucianism, while Dong Zhongshu integrated Taoism, Legalism, Yin-Yang School and other schools of thought into Confucianism, neither of them could persuade The other party fought almost every ten days and the streets were empty. In the end, Liu Che was helpless, and under pressure, he pushed Dong Zhongshu to his brother Liu Fei, the capital of the Yangtze River, to be his photojournalist.

The violent Liu Fei felt that there was such a great Confucian who wanted to be a prime minister, so he immediately wrote a letter to scold Xia Anran. That's right, in Liu Fei's view, all of this was because this younger brother agreed to Han Ying's resignation. reason.

Xia Anran is also innocent. When Han Ying saw Dong Zhongshu in Chang'an and was fooling Liu Che with Confucianism, wouldn't he explode? Wouldn't he be able to hold back someone who wanted to resign?

He is not narrow-minded enough to plot against Liu Che, don't treat a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart!

Too bad no one believed it.

In the fourth year of Jianyuan, the Minyue Kingdom took advantage of the collapse of the Nanyue King Zhao Tuo, and when the new king's regime was unstable, he attacked the Nanyue Kingdom. Unexpectedly, the new Nanyue King Zhao Xuan had no shame and asked the Han Kingdom for help. Emperor Wu immediately sent troops to attack Minyue. In Yue, Yu Shan, the younger brother of the lord of Minyue, was afraid that the Han army would take the opportunity to destroy the country, launched a coup, killed his brother, begged for mercy, and compensated a large amount of gold and silver.

The Han army withdrew, and made the son of the original lord the new king. Yu Shan was dissatisfied and declared himself king. Unexpectedly, the Han army did not go far, but quietly stationed nearby. When he heard the news, he immediately turned his head.

Yu Shan was too late to react and had no choice but to beg for mercy. However, the new King of Minyue saw the current situation clearly and knew that he would not be able to protect himself once the Han army left.

Emperor Wu readily agreed, and he moved the nobles of the Minyue Kingdom inward, and the lord of the Minyue Kingdom was able to own a homestead in Chang'an and enjoy the treatment of a vassal king. Naturally, he was resisted by Yu Shan and others during this period. The Han army stared at them fiercely, except for some Yue people who fled south to South Vietnam, Minyue was all taken back.

In two years, the two vassal states of Yuedi returned to the Han territory and were directly under the jurisdiction of the central government. Liu Che's thunderous action made the whole country's opposition force silent.

In the same year, Zhao Xuan, the new head of the Nanyue Kingdom, wrote to the Han court, demanding that he also be treated normally as a vassal state, so he asked to come to Beijing for an audience, and the emperor allowed it.