Yuan Ang was punched in the face and fell to the ground immediately.
Liu De stared at all this with his mouth agape.
One is a dignified internal historian, who will soon be promoted to the imperial censor and become an important minister of the three princes.
The other one is not bad either. He comes from an official family, and his father, son, and brothers are both servants of two thousand stone officials.
In front of him, the would-be prince, they started fighting over a disagreement...
Liu De rubbed his temples and felt a headache.
He is not his father. He can intimidate these important officials by slamming the table and roaring.
To be honest, in the eyes of most courtiers, Liu De was just a child who was slightly more mature than other princes.
It has only been three or four months since Liu De's rise. It is too little time to accumulate prestige and popularity!
What's more, even Liu De's father, the current emperor who had been the prince for almost twenty years, was not looked down upon by the then Tingwei and the prime minister, who tried to increase his reputation in various ways?
Just watching these two people perform a full martial arts show in front of him and spreading the news, Liu De would be disgraced.
"Chao Neishi..." Liu De had to stand up, standing between Chao Cuo and Yuan Ang who fell to the ground, and said with a straight face: "Have you forgotten the etiquette of court meetings? Do you want me to ask Zong Zheng to come out and give it to you?
Please explain the court council system established by Emperor Gao?"
When Chao Cuo heard this, he glanced viciously at Yuan An, who was lying on the ground. Angrily, he reluctantly lowered his head and said, "I am aware of my sin..."
At this time, Yuan Ang, who was lying on the ground, quietly let go of the fingers covering his face, and secretly glanced at the deflated Chao Cuo through the gaps. A happy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He had been fighting with Chao Cuo for nearly ten years. If he could be beaten by Chao Cuo so easily, he would have been beaten to the ground by Chao Cuo and would have been beaten into a human shape.
The actual situation is...
He deliberately let Chao mistakenly hit him.
The purpose was to make Chao Cuo lose his image in front of Liu De.
This is very important!
Both he and Chao Cuo were still young. If nothing unexpected happened, each other's political lives would last more than ten or twenty years. In this long war, if they didn't know how to use strategies, they would obviously not be able to win.
And Yuan An also believed that Chao Cuo must know that he was faking it.
"This is interesting..." Yuan An looked at Chao Cuo who looked angry: "I will drive you crazy bit by bit..."
"Your Majesty..." How could Liu De know this? He squatted down, helped Yuan Ang up, and asked, "Are you okay?"
"It's okay..." Yuan An's acting skills were quite good. He got up, rubbed his cheek that was almost swollen by Chao Cuo's punch just now, and said to Liu De: "Although I am old, this small injury does not bother me...
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"That's good..." Liu De turned around and walked towards his seat. For Liu De, maintaining the order of the court meeting is his most important job, and everything else can be put aside.
Taking advantage of the gap when Liu De turned around, Yuan Ang suddenly made a face at Chao Cuo in front of a room full of ministers, and grinned silently with pride.
Chao Cuo felt like his lungs were going to explode. He tried his best to resist the urge to punch Yuan Ang again.
When the other ministers saw this scene, they covered their mouths one after another. They almost couldn't help laughing.
"Sure enough, as soon as Yuan Si comes back, she will definitely start a fight with Chao Cuo..." Countless neutral ministers thought in their hearts that the matter has nothing to do with them anyway, and they who are just watching the excitement will naturally enjoy their leisure time.
But Yuan An's group of relatives and friends and Chao Cuo's close confidants had a different look.
The two sides glared at each other and were at war with each other.
This is not a personal grudge, let alone a dispute of temper.
It's a matter of ideas and a battle of ideals.
It advocates a struggle between centralization of power and decentralization of power at the local level, and rule by inaction.
The two are like fire and water and cannot coexist.
Liu De happened to turn around at this time, and he felt that the atmosphere in the tent suddenly became a little weird.
But that has nothing to do with him.
Liu De only needs to preside over the court meeting, and then report the opinions of the ministers to his father, and he is done.
For Liu De, the most important thing about this court meeting is not that the topic is not in the limelight, but that he is presiding over this court meeting.
In the Han Dynasty, in addition to the emperor, the prime minister and the queen mother who were qualified to preside over court discussions, only the prince could preside over ministerial meetings for his father!
"Please continue the discussion..." Liu De opened his hands and said, "I will submit all your opinions to my father!"
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At the same time, in the Kingdom of Wu, in the palace of King Wu in Guangling City, a similar meeting before the king was being held.
The core of the issue is: Where will Wu go from here?
The past month has dealt a huge blow to King Wu Liu Bi!
First, the emperor of Chang'an bribed the princes of Qi and Zhao heavily, but as a result, the weaklings defected at any time, and all of them abandoned their agreement with him and only wanted to be loyal ministers.
Forget it, anyway, the princes of Qi and Zhao are separated from his country of Wu by two or three thousand miles.
However, the Emperor of Chang'an first consecrated the prince Liu Fa as the King of Changsha. Liu Fa was only twelve or thirteen years old, so he was not a big threat. However, Changsha's national economy was managed by Wu Bing for more than fifty years, and it was said to be impregnable. The country's 30,000 county soldiers were also a strong backbone.
, I really can’t chew it easily.
That's it. In Liu Bi's plan, if something happens, he will contact Wu Bin's descendants and ask them to raise troops. He will also contact the generals loyal to the Wu family. Even if Changsha cannot be captured, he can still contain the county soldiers in Changsha.
The crux of the problem lies in Chu State.
The State of Chu was in the upper reaches of the State of Wu, and it had been managed by two generations of kings of Yuan and Yi. Although its national strength was not as strong as that of Wu, its cities were strong and its troops numbered 70,000 to 80,000.
Although the current Chu King Liu Wu is mediocre in talent, his brain is not very flexible.
But if he sides with Chang'an, then if he wants to rebel against Chang'an, the success rate is almost zero.
Apart from anything else, if the King of Chu stood on the side of Chang'an, or even just remained neutral, the Wu army would immediately be trapped by Chu and Changsha in the Jingchu area, unable to defeat these two vassal states, and the Wu army would not be able to defeat them at all.
Dare to take a step out of Yuzhang.
The reason is very simple. If you send troops on the front foot, others will raid your base.
Originally, Chu kings Liu Wu and Liu Bi had agreed to clear the throne together.
But who would have thought that the world is changing too fast.
As soon as the Jiuding of Fenxiang in Hedong appeared, Chu King Liu Wu immediately tore up the alliance with him, and actually went to pay homage to the Emperor Chang'an in the first month of next year...
Now King Wu Liu Bi has summoned his advisors, diners, and generals to discuss how to get Liu Wu to return to the family of the Wu-Chu alliance.
It's a pity that none of the ideas proposed by these advisers and patrons are feasible.
There was even an idiot who suggested bribing Liu Wu with gold...
Although Liu Wu's intelligence is incomparable to that of his father and grandfather, he is not a miser who is obsessed with money. Moreover, even then, if he wants to bribe a prince with three counties and fifty-three cities in the feudal country, how much money will he have to spend?
Money coming?
I almost made Liu Bi angry to death!
"Everyone, can it be that I can only sit back and wait for death?" Liu Bi looked at his ministers and said disappointedly: "In this case, I might as well drink poisonous wine to avoid being humiliated by the emperor..."
At this time, a young general came out and said: "Your Majesty, the general has a plan, but there are some..."
"Say..." Liu Bi looked over and found that it was his favorite general Heng Ba. Regarding Heng Ba, Liu Bi knew very well that this young man had a very smart mind! It was him who offered a sideways strategy to Qing Jun last time, so he immediately had expectations.
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"Your Majesty, I think that the Emperor of Chang'an is currently in the limelight. If he confronts him head-on, the hearts of the world and the princes will not be on your side. In this case..." Hengba stood up and said: "Otherwise, let the soup stop boiling, and then we can stop the boiling.
Add some fire..."
Liu Bi's eyes lit up when he heard this and asked: "What's the plan?"
"Your Majesty, Dehou Guang is in Chang'an right now. Why don't you send people to give Guang tens of thousands of gold to make friends with the courtiers and make friends with Chao Cuo..." Heng Ba's eyes were full of murderous intent: "Let him encourage Chao Cuo and exploit him vigorously.
Fan, no matter who you want to kill, be it Liu Wu, Liu Xian, Liu Sui, Liu An, Liu Ci, as long as you kill them, even the king might as well kill them together..."
"Wonderful! Wonderful!" Liu Bi was overjoyed when he heard this: "When a man gains a general, it is like a high emperor gaining a ovary. In the future, when a man owns the world, the general will be the first to succeed!"
Liu Bi immediately said to his son Liu Yuandao: "My son, you immediately disguise yourself and take people to Chang'an, find Dehou, and ask him to handle this matter for me!"
Dehou Liu Guang is the son of Liu Bi's brother. He has many business contacts with Liu Bi. The coins minted by Liu Bi that circulate in Guanzhong are basically made by Liu Guang. Liu Bi can still trust this man! (
