Chapter 253: Knowing this earlier, the widow will not oppose it
Changle Palace finally welcomed its owner.
In the ninth year after the death of Emperor Gao, the Queen Mother finally returned to the place where she should have gone back long ago.
Compared with Weiyang Palace, Changle Palace is in one word, wider. There are not as many palaces here as Weiyang Palace, and it is different from the lifeless, serious and cold atmosphere of Weiyang Palace. There are green trees and rockeries everywhere.
, there are lakes and not many palaces, but more places to enjoy happiness.
The Queen Mother was finally no longer trapped in the cold hall. She held An's hand and walked around Changle Palace.
An was very curious about all this, and walked quickly forward excitedly, jumping up, almost dragging Empress Lu along. Cao Shu followed beside her, watching Liu An walking eagerly, and cursed: "Slow down."
Click to go! Zhuzi! Can your eldest mother walk so fast?"
Queen Lu glanced at her displeasedly, "Why can't you leave?"
"Mom, you shouldn't be so doting on An!"
When Cao Shu treated Empress Lu, she would not show respect or fear as others did. Occasionally she would dare to retort like this. Empress Lu would not be angry, but instead very happy. She smiled and said: "
So what, I am the same with my elder, he is not spoiled either."
Huh??Are you serious?
Cao Shu said helplessly: "Mom, we can't let him learn from his father!"
"Don't worry, my grandson is most obedient and well-behaved. He won't be like that boy!"
Empress Lu let go of An, and An ran around and played. The Empress Dowager and Cao Shu were watching the lake not far away by the roadside. The Empress Dowager glanced at An, and said with a smile: "An is still fine. I held her back at the beginning.
When I went to play with the captain, I couldn't hold him back at all. You don't know, but that boy is very strong, like a cow. When he came out to play, he lowered his head and started charging. There were seven or eight attendants who could catch him.
Can't stop him."
Cao Shu chuckled, "It's really not easy for my mother."
"Good boy An Duo, that boy is disobedient. His father found several teachers for him, but they were all pissed off by him. Later, he was sent to Tianlu Pavilion. He started playing truant again and often bullied the other teachers.
Young Master, do you know what is most irritating?"
"What is it?"
"He hit Ruyi and then came to me crying, saying that Ruyi's body was too hard and hurt his hand."
"Hahaha~~"
Cao Shu couldn't help laughing.
"Then how did grandma treat him?"
"I just asked him to go to the Xuanshi Palace to complain to his father... This guy is so stupid, he actually went to his father to cry... and then he was beaten up by his father."
"Does Emperor Gao dislike him very much?"
"no."
"He likes it very much...Although the elder is the most disobedient and always causes trouble, he likes it very much. He often tells the elder's story at banquets and enjoys it with the officials..."
The Queen Mother carefully recalled the past, while Cao Shu stood quietly aside and listened carefully.
"It's just hard on him. This son of mine is a hard-working man... He lost his father when he was eight or nine years old... He did more than Ying... He worked hard...
Despite his arrogant look, he suffers more than anyone else... He can't understand many of the things I do... Sometimes, I just treat the things he does as inappropriate.
Know."
"In order not to let his family bear the bad reputation, he put all the bad reputation on himself..."
Listening to the Queen Mother's slow narration, Cao Shu also felt a little moved.
"But the king never talks about these things."
"Because he is very strong, both physically and mentally..."
The two of them looked at the lake in the distance quietly, silently for a long time.
"Amu!! Auntie!!"
Liu An cried and rushed to the two of them, raised his head and burst into tears.
Queen Lu was shocked and hurriedly picked him up, "What's the matter? An'er? What's the matter?"
"That Hu Die won't let me catch him! He ran away~~"
Seeing Liu An crying and complaining, Cao Shu couldn't help laughing.
Queen Lu wiped his tears and coaxed: "Don't cry, don't cry, let your father take care of the butterfly later!"
"I want it now~~"
"Okay, I'll help you catch him! Let's go catch him together!"
Looking at the Queen Mother who started to be busy with An, Cao Shu followed them helplessly. Fortunately, An soon forgot about Hu Die and ran to chase the bird. Looking at the Queen Mother who was sweating on her forehead,
Cao Shu hurriedly stepped forward to wipe it, "Mom? You didn't coax her to grow up like this, right?"
"Oh, how is that possible? When that guy was acting so nonsense, I just beat him up!"
"Um?"
Cao Shu expressed doubts about this.
And that Zhu Zi was currently in the Xuanshi Hall, looking at the mountains of memorials in front of him, and pulling his hair.
“My mother reviews so many memorials on weekdays??”
"Ah! If I had known this, I wouldn't have rebelled!"
Looking at the hysterical Liu Chang, Liu Ying sitting aside said with a smile: "You can't go back on this matter. I'll leave the affairs here to you. I'm going back to Ganquan Palace! Call Cao Shu in the evening.
Let’s have a meal together!”
Liu Ying stood up with a smile, feeling the unprecedented relief, turned around and was about to leave, but Liu Chang hugged him violently.
"Second brother! You can't leave!"
"Let go!"
"No! You have to stay and help me!"
"You have rebelled!"
"I'm here to review the memorials. If you go to the harem and marry beautiful women, how can there be a brother like you in the world? Help me finish reviewing the memorials!"
"You're in charge now! Let go! Let go!"
"If you dare to run away, I will tie myself up and surrender to Zhou Chang and confess my crime!"
Liu Ying had no choice but to sit aside angrily and said displeasedly: "How can there be a rebel king like you in the world? You rebelled against me, and you still force me to do things for you! It's extremely evil! The ancient Jie and Zhou were like this!"
, but Liu Chang didn't care about his brother's comments. He pulled his brother and asked him to sit down next to him, "Second brother, how do you usually do this?"
"On weekdays... I just finish reading it and then send it to Jiaofang Hall, where my mother will watch it and then give the order."
"Zhezhu, you always go through the process and just look at it casually, right?"
"You stupid king!"
Liu Chang reprimanded angrily: "As a king, you have to care about the world and work hard for the people of the world. How can you do this?"
Liu Ying felt a little ashamed. He lowered his head and said, "It is indeed my fault."
"Let's do this. I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself. Come on, you can approve these things."
"Um??"
Liu Ying looked at him and said, "But I can't do it well... I make mistakes every time... I have to take a look at it from my mother."
"You can definitely do it well."
"I...can't do it well."
"Able to do well...my brother can do anything well."
Under the shadow of Empress Lu, Liu Ying's enterprising courage seemed to have been sapped, and she was filled with a certain inferiority complex and distrust of herself. After listening to Liu Chang's words, Liu Ying still picked up the memorial in front of her with determination.
, Liu Chang also read through it at the same time. In fact, these memorials are reports sent from various places, describing the local situation, difficulties encountered, impeaching someone, and the most achieved results are to express loyalty.
You can't tell which ones are important and which ones are secondary.
These things were extremely complicated. As the territory of the Han Dynasty grew larger and larger, the emperor had to deal with more and more things, from temples to various countries, and even counties. Contrary to what everyone thought, in the early Western Han Dynasty, the emperor even
We can know the situation in the county from the chapter table. For example, if a county suddenly has a large-scale disaster and several people died, the emperor must be informed. From this, we can see how busy the emperor is at work.
At the moment, Liu Chang was looking at a memorial to impeach the county magistrate. It described in detail that Wujin County Magistrate, under the guise of reclamation, sold cultivated land to wealthy households at high prices for personal gain. Liu Chang frowned.
, put it aside and picked up another one.
"Good guy, is this to impeach me?"
Liu Chang picked up the memorial and handed it to Liu Ying to look at. Liu Ying took one look at it and immediately laughed, "This is the most common. Ever since you grew up, 80% of the memorials I reviewed here were to impeach you."
The...is from Shusun Tong?"
"no."
"Demonstrated?"
"no."
"That must belong to the Prime Minister!"
"Uh...yes, I value the royal mausoleum so much, and he actually impeached me! He said that I abused people's power. I have raised a traitor!"
Liu Ying said: "Eldest brother, what he said is right. You must cherish the people."
"I didn't ask them to build a palace for me! I mobilized them to cultivate farmland, dig channels, build roads, and post houses. Is this for my own sake? Isn't this just so that they can all have food? What's more, they
When the construction begins, I won’t let them work in vain, I will let them have a full stomach to work, what’s wrong with that?!”
"Brother, you are just being delayed by those Huang Lao, you know! They said that recuperation is not necessary for large-scale construction of imperial tombs, the Great Wall, and Chidao. I can understand... But they don't allow canals and reclamation.
When asked, he said that the people had experienced the tyranny of Qin and were extremely exhausted...it was not the people who built the Great Wall and the imperial mausoleums at the time, so they were exhausted?"
"The purpose of doing these things is to provide food for them. I have been practicing Huang Lao's theory for decades. Huang Lao's inaction does not mean doing nothing. If the temple does nothing, then why does the temple need to be done?
What do you want the officials to do? What do you want the emperor to do?!"
Liu Ying has indeed read a lot of books, but in terms of eloquence, she is still not as good as her younger brother.
Liu Chang said angrily: "These great sages have never been hungry, and they talk all day long. The royal tomb was destroyed by these people. There is a group of so-called sages at home, and they clamor about the tyranny of the few all day long. But they are
There is no need to work in the fields, and if I don’t mobilize the people to dig canals, the harvest will not be good, and they will not be the ones starving!”
When Liu Ying heard this, she suddenly realized, "Some people impeached you some time ago, saying that because a few scribes wrote to you, you were thrown into the farmland to work, and sent soldiers to whip you without stopping... It turned out to be because of this incident
ah."
"I am very generous, and I am not intolerant of other people's opinions."
"Someone advised me, saying that Shangfang's expansion cost a lot of money, and making tools was not as important as recruiting talents. So I asked this man to work in the fields with his bare hands to see if the tools were heavy."
"Someone advised me that I shouldn't mobilize the people to cultivate land, so I gave him half an acre of land and let him support himself through this half acre of land!"
"Hahaha~~~"
Liu Ying laughed so hard that she couldn't stand up straight, "Eldest brother, you are too cruel."
"This is to let them experience life and to hone them!"
Liu Chang opened another memorial, glanced at it for a few times, and then frowned.
"Eldest brother?"
"What's wrong?"
Liu Chang did not answer, but shouted loudly: "Here comes someone!! Bring Zhi Su Neishi here!!"
The attendants left in a hurry, probably because of Liu Chang's notoriety. Zhisu Neishi soon appeared in front of Liu Chang. This man was also a heavyweight. He who followed Emperor Gao through the border was called Xue Ou, because
He was the Marquis of Guangping for his military exploits. He was previously a Dianke, and now he is the governor of Su Neishi.
He is Liu Bang's great confidant. How should I put it? He once followed Liu Bang as a sacrificer, just like Luan Bu used Liu Chang so highly. Therefore, although his contribution is not very great, it can be said that he has made great contributions since Liu Bang's period.
He began to serve as Jiuqing, a high and powerful position.
Xue Ou, who was now old and living on crutches, paid a serious visit to Liu Chang and Liu Ying.
Liu Ying hurriedly returned the gift, but Liu Chang looked at him indifferently and said proudly, "You followed Emperor Gao to fight, and Emperor Gao trusted you and regarded you as the ninth prince... Now it seems that my father is indeed blind!"
"
Xue Ou frowned fiercely and said angrily: "If the king wants to insult the old minister, the old minister has no complaints! But the king must not talk about Emperor Gao!"
"Okay, I won't talk about Emperor Gao!"
“Just talk about this melodies!!”
Liu Chang angrily threw the memorial at Xue Ou's feet, and cursed: "Who are you trying to get in the lake with this memorial?! You have reduced the grain production in various places by several percent. Where is that grain?"
!Did you eat them all?!"
"Old man! If I didn't know how much grain the Tang Kingdom produced last year, I would have almost been deceived by you! So much of the grain I paid for last year has disappeared. Where did it go?!"
Liu Chang stepped forward quickly and grabbed Xue Ou's neck, "Only a few people eat others' share, but no one has ever dared to eat a few people's share!"
"No wonder King Yan keeps delaying the reclamation matter. Are you afraid that the temple will send people to Yan State to verify the situation?! You old thief!"
Liu Chang raised his fist angrily, and Liu Ying hurried forward and hugged his arm tightly.
"Long! Long! He can't stand it! He can't stand it!"
Xue Ou was stunned at this moment. He looked at Liu Chang with grief and anger, "How could I do such a thing?!"
"Someone is coming!!"
The soldiers immediately rushed into the palace, "Go and escort this guy to Tingwei! Let Wang Tianqi come and investigate this thoroughly! Catch each one and kill each one!"
Liu Ying looked at Xue Ou seriously, "Is this really what you did?"
"I have never done such an evil thing...I have never done anything to disgrace Emperor Gao..."
Xue Ou murmured and was taken out by the soldiers. Liu Ying frowned, "This is probably the work of his officials... Mr. Xue is not such a villain... What's more, he is old.
Everything is helped by others, and he may not be able to do such a thing."
"Even if it was done by an official, this old man is guilty of negligence!"
"Sigh...why are you so harsh? After all, they are all just passable ministers who follow my father..."
"This is the reason why they dare to do whatever they want! It's because no one dares to punish them severely! Merits are merits, faults are faults. If the current crimes are pardoned because of the original merits, then we should simply ban the Tingwei and send some more
Let the musicians go over and follow them all day long and brag about their achievements!"
Liu Ying wanted to say something else, but Liu Chang glared and he was speechless.
Liu Chang was busy from morning until dusk before he finished reading the memorial. When he walked out of Xuanshi Hall, he felt sore all over. He would rather go to the Xiongnu to kill for ten more rounds.
After enduring such suffering, he rubbed his forehead and returned to Houde Hall.
Cao Shu was not here, so Liu Chang asked his attendant to bring him some food and drink.
While Liu Chang was drinking wine, Feng Jing rushed into the hall in a hurry.
"King!!!"
Feng Jing shouted loudly, and Liu Chang choked on his drink. He coughed a few times, wiped the corners of his mouth, and stared at Feng Jing angrily, "Why are you so panicked? Do you want to kill the king?!"
Feng Jing was a little embarrassed, so he met with Liu Chang and said hurriedly: "People everywhere say that the king has rebelled!"
"This must be someone who wants to harm the king. Please, the king, immediately..."
"Um... I have indeed conspired to rebel."
"ah???"
Because Feng Jing was a foreign minister, he did not participate in the court proceedings, and the ministers did not dare to say anything. When Feng Jing heard for the first time that someone said that the king of Tang was going to take power, he was shocked and thought that someone was trying to kill him.
My king rushed into the palace in panic. As a result, is this rumor true?
"Why?"
"It's a long story. By the way, how have you been doing these past few days?"
"I... Your Majesty..."
Feng Jing cannot be as calm as Liu Chang. This is treason! Why is the king so calm!!
He calmed down for a long time, and then said: "We have already discussed everything, but...there is something that needs your help from the king."
"Oh? Tell me!"
"We are now on a mission to the countries in the Western Regions, but we have no one who can understand their languages, customs, and are familiar with the local people. Your Majesty is close to the Yueshi. Can you find someone for us who is familiar with the Western Regions and speaks their languages?"
"Where can I find you a guide from the Western Regions?"
Liu Chang shook his head, "You have to figure it out yourself. Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Well... let's talk about this year's sacrifice... Shusun Tong found me and said that this year's festival is different from the past, and it has to be done by the king..."
"You want a guide from the Western Regions? OK, I will write to King Yuezhi now and see if he has one... There are also many barbarians in the country, maybe some came from there..."
Liu Chang and Feng Jing started talking.
Just as he was talking, Cao Shu came in, and Feng Jing said goodbye.
When Liu Chang saw Cao Shu, he started to complain, "I really regret it... There are too many things. Why is there no Xiao He by my side?"
Cao Shu listened to Liu Chang's complaints with a smile, and the two of them talked about An.
"My mother is really doting on An... Today he went to catch Hu Die..."
Liu Chang listened calmly, remembering something, and a smile appeared on his face.
........
"Mom~~~"
"Ruyi hurt my hand! I hit him, but his arm dared to be hard!"
"Don't cry, don't cry, your father will take care of him. Come, come back with me to eat meat!"
"No! I won't eat. I'm going to let my father beat him now!!"