The next day is the first regular court meeting in the second year of Yuande.∮,
The three princes and nine ministers were all sitting in the Xuanshi Hall.
According to the Han Dynasty system, only the Sangong, Jiuqing and officials with the status of courtiers can participate in the regular dynasty.
The so-called courtiers, generally speaking, are naturally those officials who, although they are not the chief officials of Jiuqing, have great power.
For example, in the past, the Captain Bei Thieves under the Neishi Yamen was in charge of arresting bandits in Guanzhong and cracking down on illegal tyrants, and had the power to mobilize the army. Therefore, in the early Han Dynasty, he often attended court meetings and was a member of the courtiers.
Another example is the rise of government affairs in the past ten years. The ministers, because they serve the emperor and are the emperor's staff, have obtained the status of courtiers.
In the Han Dynasty, courtiers met with the emperor for five days to discuss national policies, appointment and dismissal of officials, and local affairs.
At this moment, the court meeting has already begun for some time.
According to tradition, the ministers briefly reported to Liu Che the reports from the prefectures and states all over the world.
Prime Minister Zhou Yafu, together with Chao Cuo, the imperial censor, and Cen Mai, the Shaofu, gave a simple explanation of the situation of this year's plan.
In fact, Liu Che has already been briefed on these matters. The work on the above plan has actually just begun. It is just classifying the tax accounts from various counties according to different types. You can see the specific details in the distance.
The data and results are still very early!
Therefore, today is actually just a formality to let the officials know the progress of the plan.
After reporting these things, the real drama begins.
Liu Che looked at the ministers and asked, "If you have something to report, please leave the court if you have nothing to do!"
According to the agreement he reached with Chao Cuo and Zhou Yafu, Liu Che thought that the next step should be for the censors to attack Song Chang. Zhou Yafu would raise the matter of salt and iron.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Dahonglu Gongsun Kunxie couldn't hold it any longer. With a quick step, he stepped out of the queue and worshiped: "Your Majesty Dahonglu Kunxie has something to say!"
Liu Che was quite surprised, but he remained patient and said, "Please speak frankly!"
Gongsun Kunxie bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty, I received a secret letter from King Donghu of the Xiongnu the day before yesterday. He wants to return to our dynasty. I dare you to express your gratitude to your Majesty!"
This news was like a bomb dropped into the originally calm lake, causing countless ripples.
Even Liu Che, who was sitting on the royal couch, couldn't help but stand up.
Prime Minister Zhou Yafu was so surprised that he could stuff an egg into his mouth.
As for Chao Cuo, the corners of his mouth twitched, obviously not expecting this.
King Donghu of the Xiongnu is familiar to every Han Dynasty minister.
Even in the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu King Donghu was more threatening than the Lou Fan, Aries and other tribes who were brave and good at fighting and invaded the Han Dynasty many times.
The reason is that the Xiongnu King Donghu and the core of his tribe are essentially pure Han troops.
King Donghu of the Xiongnu was named Lu.
Its first-generation leader was named Lu Wan. He was Liu Bang’s general, Taiwei, and King of Yan Lu Wan!
Lu Wan had a close relationship with Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, and the two of them even grew up together!
There are even rumors that Lu Wan and Liu Bang were born at the same time in the same year, the same month and the same day.
Because of this relationship, the two have been good friends since childhood.
Liu Bang had no money to drink, so he went to Lu Wan's house to fight against the autumn wind. Lu Wan was wanted by the government for committing a crime, so Liu Bang hid him.
Even later, after Liu Bang's eldest son Liu Fei was born, he worshiped Lu Wan as his second father.
When Liu Bang rebelled, Lu Wan assisted him and never left him.
After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, rewards were based on merit. Although Xiao He, Cao Shen, Zhou Bo, Chen Ping, Zhang Liang and Han Xin, any one person's talents and achievements could surpass Lu Wan by more than ten blocks.
However, no one can match the reward Lu Wan received.
Liu Bang first appointed Lu Wan as his Taiwei, making him the first Taiwei in the history of the Han Dynasty.
Later, Lu Wan was granted the title of Marquis of Chang'an...
With Chang'an as a feudal state, you can declare to the world: This is my brother's gay friend, don't offend any of you!
In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, King Zang Tu of Yan rebelled, and Liu Bang led his troops to defeat Zang Tu. Then without warning, he made Lu Wan the king of Yan on the pretext of his meritorious service, making him one of the kings with different surnames in the Han Dynasty!
Originally, when things got to this point, it should have been a happy ending.
However, many times, things do not develop according to human will.
In the 11th century of the Han Dynasty, Wang Chenfen rebelled, and Liu Bang once again led the army to fight. At the same time, he ordered his good friend Lu Wan to join him in the suppression.
Chen Fen had a close relationship with the Xiongnu. Seeing that the situation was not good, he sent an envoy to the Xiongnu to lead the way.
Seeing this situation, Lu Wan also sent an envoy to the Xiongnu to spread the news of Chen En's defeat in the Xiongnu country out of the idea of relieving the pressure on his good friend.
As a result, things took a 180-degree turn at this time.
The envoy sent by Lu Wan was persuaded by the envoy sent by Chen Fen by saying that the lips should be dead and the teeth should be cold and the soldiers should respect themselves.
Then, Lu Wan himself made another fatal mistake. When he heard that one of his subordinates had taken it upon himself to have an affair with Chen En, he was furious and directly wrote to Liu Bang, requesting that the entire clan of the envoy be killed.
Then, after the envoy came back, Lu Wan was persuaded by his subordinates and wrote to Liu Bang again about the previous matter. My brother heard it through hearsay, so don't take it to heart...
Are there any people who seek death like this?
If only that was it!
Liu Bang believed deeply in Lu Wan and never doubted that Lu Wan, a good friend, would be harmful to him.
But the key to the problem is that after Lu Wan was persuaded by his subordinates, he suddenly discovered that he and Liu Bang seemed to be born in the same year, month and day, and he knew all about Liu Bang's virtues.
That throne in Chang'an is where Liu Bang sits, can't I sit on it?
Once ambition grew, it immediately infected Lu Wan's entire thinking like a plague.
Driven by ambition, Lu Wan sent someone to tell Chen Fen, who was already defeated, and told him to rush to the border of Yan State and attract the Huns, causing a melee between Yan, Dai and the Huns, forcing Liu Bang to stop attacking Chen Fen.
En attack.
Unfortunately, Lu Wan underestimated her good friend's tolerance for traitors.
Even though the Huns intervened, Liu Bang still marched resolutely.
And finally eliminated Chen Ben's rebels.
During the war, Liu Bang obtained more than one confession from Chen En about surrendering a general. These confessions all pointed to the fact that Lu Wan, a good friend, had ulterior motives...
What Liu Bang was thinking at that time. No one knows now, but what Liu Che knows is that Liu Bang immediately ordered to send Piyanghou Shenshiqi and Yushi doctor Zhao Yao to Yan State to summon Lu Wan to Liu Bang's military tent to talk.
Where does Lu Wan dare to go?
So he just pretended to be sick. The key was that none of Lu Wan's subordinates were strict with their mouths.
He was thoroughly investigated by Shen Shiqi...
Shen Shi reported it to Liu Bang, and the envoys sent by Liu Bang to the Huns also found out the collusion between Lu Wan and the Huns.
Is this good enough?
In May of the twelfth year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang ordered Fan Kuai, Marquis of Wuyang, as his general and commanded 200,000 troops to go to Yan State to attack Lu Wan. Later, he replaced Zhou Bo as his general.
How could Lu Wan beat Fan Kuai, let alone Zhou Bo?
Within three months, Lu Wan was beaten by the counter-rebellion army and was forced to abandon Yan State and escape from the Great Wall.
After Liu Bang's death, Lu Wan completely surrendered to the Huns, and was named King of Donghu by the Huns' Maodun Chanyu. He was allowed to still have the troops and officials he brought with him, and he was given tens of thousands of slaves and a large number of livestock.
Lu Wan's general Wei Man took the defeated soldiers who were scattered during the war, crossed Liaodong, attacked Qi Zi Korea, and established the Wei Man Korean regime there.
From then on, the Xiongnu got King Donghu. The Han Dynasty got King Yan in the past, and became the most threatening enemy of the Han Dynasty regime.
Throughout the ages, almost every time the Xiongnu invaded, the guides were basically from the tribe of King Donghu.
but……
As emperor, after Liu Che came to the throne, he discovered that the relationship between the Han Dynasty and Lu Wan and his descendants could no longer be described only by the word "ambiguous".
In September of the twelfth year of the Han Dynasty, after Lu Wan was defeated by Zhou Bo, he led his army at the foot of the Great Wall and sent envoys to Liu Bang's military tent to greet him. Lu Wan actually told his sons that they would wait until Liu Bang recovered from his illness.
After that, he went to Chang'an in person to apologize...
Is Lu Wan naive, or is this guy too naive?
or……
Unfortunately, Liu Bang failed to survive the winter of the thirteenth year of the Han Dynasty.
So Liu Che's guess can only be a guess!
After Lu Wan surrendered to the Huns, logically, the Han Dynasty regime should not only behead all his family members, but also demote him to a commoner, a prisoner, and exile him to a barbaric land, right?
As a result, Empress Lu did nothing, and even Lu Wan still retained the residence of Prince Yan in Chang'an.
Liu Che even discovered from the royal family's secret files: During the period of Empress Lu, Lu Wan's wife returned to Chang'an with several of his sons and daughters, lived in the still preserved Prince Yan's mansion, and received the hospitality and kindness of Empress Lu.
Unfortunately, Empress Lu was already seriously ill at that time, so no more written records were left.
The secret documents of the royal family only said that after the death of Empress Lu, the princes and ministers destroyed all the Lus, welcomed and installed a new king, who ascended the throne as the emperor, and sent Lu Wan's son and heir back to the country as gifts.
As for Lu Wan’s residence of Prince Yan, “Nai Ling remains the same as before.”
Next, the royal secret files become very interesting.
Lu Wan's son, Lu Ta's father, who is now the king of Donghu, flirted with the Han Dynasty and exchanged information. In fact, the Han Dynasty's biggest informant and source of intelligence buried in the Xiongnu territory was the Xiongnu King Donghu.
For example, the information about the internal strife within the Huns that Yuan Ang received the year before last, Bank of China said that the information about the Huns' exiles came through this line.
What made Liu Che even more incredible was that King Donghu of the Xiongnu, the son of a traitor to the Han Dynasty, actually had several secret letters arriving in Chang'an.
In other words, it's very possible...
"Lu Wan is a double agent..." Such thoughts flashed through Liu Che's mind.
In the previous life, two years later, the Xiongnu King Donghu took his tribe and five surrounding Xiongnu tribes to defect to the Han Dynasty.
At that time, when Liu Che heard about this incident, he only felt confused. Even after his rebirth, he once thought that this might be the result of Confucian brainwashing.
But now...
Liu Che looked at Gongsun Kunxie who was kneeling in the hall, with unspeakable disgust in his eyes.
Liu Che finally understood why Pingquhou, Da Honglu, one of the Nine Qings, who had made great military achievements by virtue of the Wu-Chu Rebellion, was quickly demoted to a commoner within two or three years.
Moreover, the time of his denunciation coincided with the return of the five Xiongnu kings.
Logically speaking, this is a great achievement!
So why was he still reviled?
Liu Che now finally understands why!
This guy is seeking death!
According to Liu Che's current opinion, Lu Ta's father and the other five Xiongnu tribe leaders should be the spies of the Han Dynasty who had painstakingly planted an informant inside the Xiongnu.
But for the sake of his own future, this guy encouraged these people and even deliberately exposed their identities so that they could not hide among the Xiongnu and had to defect to the Han Dynasty.
Of course, these guys may not really be interested in the Han Dynasty. They are just betting on both ends.
However, Gongsun Kunxie's actions caused the Han Dynasty to lose its source of intelligence on the Xiongnu's domestic, especially high-level political trends and policy trends.
Liu Che had to reluctantly control the anger in his heart.
In his opinion, Gongsun Kunxie probably thought that he was just a smelly boy who was easy to fool. Moreover, he was young and might not know these inside stories, so he wanted to fish in troubled waters so that he could establish his career.
Great work.
Liu Che looked at Zhou Yafu and found that Zhou Yafu was also full of anger at this moment, with fire in his eyes as he looked at Gongsun Kunxie.
This made Liu Che even more convinced that the return of the five Xiongnu kings to Yi in the previous life should be a cover created by Gongsun Kunxie for his own selfish interests.
Liu Che remembered clearly that in his previous life, what caused Zhou Yafu to be dismissed from the prime minister was not the dethronement of Liu Rong, but the return of the five Xiongnu kings to Yiyi, which Zhou Yafu tried his best to stop and obstruct.
At that time, even Liu Che thought that Zhou Yafu, a stubborn donkey, was probably neurotic.
But now, Liu Che understood why Zhou Yafu did not hesitate to break up with the emperor to stop this matter.
In fact, it would be more beneficial to the Han Dynasty for those five Guiyi Marquis to stay with the Xiongnu than to come back. (To be continued...)
ps: Sorry, it’s too hot today. I can’t write at all during the day. Even at night, I don’t dare to sit in front of the computer until nine o’clock~
I'll get up early tomorrow morning to pay off my debt~
It seems like I won’t be able to sleep in in the morning from now on~
