Liu Qian found out that the person leading the merchants in the city to strike was Liu Feng, the prime minister of the pre-Qin state. Liu Shu was shocked. However, this person was also involved with Liu Tong's fourth son, Liu Ge. Liu Ge was the most incompetent among Liu Tong's sons. A man with little talent and little knowledge, stupid and confused, and no strength to tie a chicken. According to theory, Liu Feng had been the prime minister of a country, so he should not have been chosen as the leader of the Lu State.
Liu Shu was stunned for a long time: "Is this a mistake? How could it be him?"
"It's really him." Liu Qian said, "General, if you don't show your face in person, I'm afraid that the general was coaxed by the fourth master in the past."
Liu Shu said firmly: "The fourth child is not pretending, he is really incompetent and stupid."
Liu Qian thought: "Then...could it be that Liu Feng fell in love with him so that he could be coaxed?"
Liu Shu said: "People who have served as Prime Minister of Qin do not need to choose fools to assist them."
Liu Qian nodded and thought for a while: "Does this Liu Feng have a way to restore the Yan Kingdom and benefit us?"
"Huh?" Liu Shu narrowed his eyes, "How can you see that?"
Liu Qian said: "Otherwise, why are they making trouble? They have been making trouble for a long time and can't solve the problem. They have sent so many rich men to jail, they have not done any business, and they are fighting the government to the death."
"That's right!" an official clapped his hands, "Why are they going on strike? They didn't ask the general for any conditions, and the general didn't mess with them. It's not the general who did this in Yan State."
Liu Shu snorted coldly: "They want me to give up my power to the fourth child. They don't want to see if the fourth child has the ability."
Another official said: "Even if the general gives up power to him, can he persuade the state of Yan? I don't believe Liu Feng is so eloquent."
Everyone was talking about it when Liu Shu suddenly stood up. The room was quiet for a moment. Then he heard him say: "Get your horses ready. I'm going to the fourth man's house."
Liu Shu was too lazy to change his clothes, so he just ordered someone to get a cloak and put it on, then walked away. Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Liu Qian frowned, got up and went for a walk outside. Others also dispersed in the courtyard, but they didn't dare to leave Liu's house. Liu Qian gave some instructions to the clerk who was with him, and the clerk agreed and left.
Liu Shu arrived at the door of Liu Ge's house, jumped off his horse and walked straight in. The disciple didn't recognize him, so he stepped forward to stop him. The soldiers shouted: "This is General Liu!" The disciple trembled and did not dare to go any further. Stop. Liu Shu went in without blinking.
He had no brotherhood with Liu Ge, so he was not familiar with the house. He stood in the front yard and was stunned. He called a passing servant and asked, "Where is your master?"
The servant was stunned and said: "I don't know."
Liu Shu frowned: "Where is his study?"
The servant pointed out: "Turn around from this corridor. Behind it is a hanging flower door. Inside the door is the courtyard of our grandfather's study." Liu Shu nodded and walked away.
Yiyan passed through the hanging flower gate and entered a quiet courtyard with four or five rooms. After entering the main room, he looked around and saw someone in the east wing. Liu Shu went in and took a look, and sure enough he saw his fourth brother sitting alone in front of the window reading a book. .
Liu Ge put down his book when he heard the noise, but did not stand up. He just looked at Liu Shu and said, "Big brother is here." He said casually, as if he was greeting him every day. "Please sit down."
Liu Shu stood up and looked at him. "Over the years, I have underestimated you."
Liu Gedao: "No. My little brother is still hopeless."
Liu Shu sneered and said: "You are very promising. The Prime Minister of Qin State doesn't even want to have the seal of approval. He would rather go on strike with you. The whole Jinan is restless, and the people can't buy rice or firewood."
Liu Ge said: "They were also forced. The eldest brother offended the Yan State and did not try to find ways to contact and discuss it. He just stayed in the house and wasted away. The merchants were seriously damaged, some were in high debts, and some were on the verge of bankruptcy. How could the merchants dare to cooperate until there was no way out?
Is the government against me?"
Liu Shu glanced at him and said, "Do you have any idea? Do you know what Yan Guo wants?"
"There is no way, and I don't want to know what Yan Guo wants." Liu Ge smiled solemnly at Liu Shu, "I only know that it's okay, big brother, there is no way."
Liu Shu frowned: "Have I offended you?"
"No." Liu Ge said softly, "But my mother died in the hands of my wife. My wife's lifelong wish is for her eldest brother to take over the Lu Kingdom smoothly after my father's death. If she doesn't wish, I will avenge half of my revenge."
Liu Shu was shocked: "Your mother..." He thought for a long time and couldn't remember who Liu Ge's mother was, let alone how she died. "Your mother is Aunt Xu, isn't she? Didn't she die of illness?"
Liu Ge said coldly: "My mother's surname is He. She actually died of illness. Because she offended my wife, who was staying with the Han Deng family, she made her kneel in the courtyard all night for no reason, and she became ill. The stewards in the mansion were afraid that the Han Deng family would not be happy.
I was so happy that I refused to ask a doctor for her, and it took three days. She only had a little girl by her side, so I had the courage to ask a doctor to come back and prescribe medicine, but the kitchen was disgusted with the smell of medicine and was not allowed to fry it. I borrowed the help from my family.
My husband boiled the medicine on the stove for her and was in a hurry to carry it back, but a daughter-in-law pretended to be careless and ran into it and kicked it over. By the time I boiled the medicine and carried it back, my mother could no longer take it."
Liu Shu was stunned. After a long while, he said: "Impossible! There must be a misunderstanding here. Of the many women in my father's backyard, my wife has never treated any of them harshly."
Liu Ge sneered and said: "Which one did you not treat harshly? Which one did your mother let go when she was favored? Of course she wouldn't take action against the one who was not favored. It's just that her life in the house is worse than that of a dog."
Liu Shu stayed for another half day and said, "It must be Mrs. Jiaduo of Han Deng's family who misunderstood Aunt He."
"It's not a misunderstanding." Liu Ge said, "It's a frame-up. The method of frame-up is not clever. Madam can detect something wrong after just a moment's thought." He said with a calm expression, "But Madam didn't think about it. In Madam's eyes
, my mother is not worth her trouble to think about her grievances. Anyway, even if someone said something bad about one of the master's concubines, it was his own concubine who was the one who spoke, so he just punished her casually. After punishing the wife, she forgot about it.
"
Liu Shu immediately said: "I will kill Han Deng's whole family to vent your anger!"
Liu Ge looked up at him for a long time, shook his head and said, "No need. Even if my eldest brother chops their whole family into pieces, my mother still won't be able to survive. Anyway, as long as my wife can't achieve her wish, everything else doesn't matter."
Liu Shu opened his mouth and then closed it. After a while, he said seriously: "Even if my wife has made some unintentional mistake, what does it have to do with ordinary people? You have made such a fuss..."
Before he finished speaking, Liu Ge raised his hand and waved: "Brother, there is no need to talk about big things. Ordinary people have nothing to do with me, I don't care."
Liu Shudao: "Don't you want to be the leader of Lu?"
Liu Ge smiled calmly and said: "Don't you know who I am? How can I be the leader of the Lu country? I just want to prevent you from doing it, eldest brother, and I will kill my wife. As for how the Liu family is, how the people are, and how the Lu country is.
, what does it have to do with me."
Liu Shu stared at him for a long time, sighed heavily, stumbled and turned around to go out. Just when he led the people out of the hanging flower gate, he heard two "squeaks~~ clicks" behind him, and the courtyard door was closed. Liu Shu shook his head, stood stunned for a moment, and raised his head.
Walk forward along the corridor.
Liu Shu left two guards at the door. The two of them were chatting when they suddenly heard a cry of "get out of the way, get out of the way" and the sound of fast horse hooves. I saw a dozen horses rushing out of the front yard like lightning.
He crossed the threshold and rushed straight to the door, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The guards looked at each other. One said: "Look at those clothes, they look like our generals and brothers?"
Another said: "I guess so. Where did they go? Why didn't they call us?"
The two hurriedly went in to inquire. However, there were very few servants in Liu Ge's house, and no one was watching in the front yard! The two servants were playing dice in the concierge just now, and they didn't notice. After all, Liu Shu was not at Liu Ge's house now. The two of them
Reluctantly, he returned to the Liu family mansion.
All the Lu ministers were still waiting in the courtyard of Liu's study. Lao Banri saw two guards coming back. Liu Shu and the other guards didn't know where they had gone, so they had to disperse for the time being.
The next day, the strike was still going on, and the whole city was uneasy. The ministers gathered at Liu's house again, only to find out that Liu Shu had not returned home last night! Everyone was shocked and sent people around to search. It turned out that Liu Shu led his guards from Liu Ge's house yesterday.
After leaving, they went straight out of the North Gate and never came back. No one knew where they went or what they did. Liu Qian thought to himself: "After leaving the North Gate... could they have gone to Beijing?"
Everyone discussed for a while.
Old Mrs. Liu sent people to Liu Ge's house to ask what the two brothers had said. Liu Ge did not hide anything and told the truth. Old Mrs. Liu was shocked and immediately inquired about Aunt He's death. Six or seven slaves were executed that day.
.But based on these words, there was no way to guess why Liu Shu ran out of the north gate. Mrs. Liu then asked someone to ask Liu Ge again. Liu Ge calmly recounted the meeting between the brothers yesterday in detail, and finally ended with:
He swore an oath in the name of his late mother. "As soon as my eldest brother left the yard, I went to close the door myself. I vaguely heard him sighing outside. But half of the sentence was untrue. My mother will never be reincarnated." Once this poisonous oath was made,
, Mrs. Liu couldn't help but not believe it. She just didn't know what happened in the section from outside the hanging flower gate of Liu Ge's house to the front yard, which caused Liu Shu to suddenly leave the city and stay out all night.
The news of Liu Shu's disappearance spread like wildfire, and by nightfall the whole city knew about it. Liu Tong's other sons couldn't sit still, and every one of them gathered at Liu's house holding lanterns and torches, shouting that Liu Shu should be dealt with immediately.
The merchants' strike lasted for half an hour when someone from behind shouted: "The old lady is here."
I saw Old Mrs. Liu leading a dozen maids and women out of the back hall, and glanced coldly: "It's so late, what are you doing here?"
The second child said: "Madam, the merchants have been on strike for three days, and they will continue to go on strike tomorrow. Let's go find the elder brother and find out how he plans to deal with it."
Mrs. Liu snorted twice: "Don't you know that your eldest brother left the city yesterday morning after leaving the fourth family's house?"
The second child said: "Yesterday was yesterday, and today is already evening. Big brother must have come back. Madam, we can't even buy rice. Big brother has to find a way to deal with it, right? It's not a problem to hide like this all the time."
Old Mrs. Liu said: "Your eldest brother hasn't come back yet, you all should go back. There will be something you can do when he comes back."
The second child said leisurely: "What if he can't come back?"
Old Mrs. Liu shouted: "Bold!"
Lao Wu said: "It's more than a full day. I'll come back early."
Although Lao Qi was young, he said loudly: "I'm afraid I can't deal with this mess, so I might as well just avoid it. Now that he's gone, what will the Lu State do?"
Old Mrs. Liu smiled and looked at them coldly for a long time: "What do you want?"
The second child coughed twice and said: "Since the eldest brother is not here, it is up to us brothers to help take care of the country of Lu. We can't just be like this, can we?"
"Oh, who of you will do the cooking?"
The third child said: "Let's cook together."
Old Mrs. Liu smiled, looked them over and said: "I have given birth to seven sons. Except for the death of the sixth son and the absence of the guard, there are five more. Can the five of you manage the state of Lu together? Will you not fight?"
It was only then that Liu Ge, the fourth child, spoke up and said: "Five is an odd number by chance. When there is a dispute, brothers can just vote. There will always be one party with more votes."
The other four people nodded in unison: "Absolutely!" "What I said makes sense." "Let's do it."
Mrs. Liu said calmly: "Go back and rest. Even if my son is not in the house, it is not your turn to make the decision in the State of Lu." She turned around and left.
The second child chuckled: "Madam, as the saying goes, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. This is a man's job before the court, and you have no say in it."
Old Mrs. Liu suddenly turned around: "Although I am a prostitute, I can still suppress you!"
Hearing this, Liu Ge smiled and said: "That's good. Since my wife is capable, the merchants must have resumed the market early tomorrow morning. If not, please go back and wipe the dominoes on your back. Sichen Sichen won't have your turn."
"Old Mrs. Liu was stunned - how could she have the ability to let the merchants resume the market?
The second child stood up and said: "It's settled. If the market doesn't resume tomorrow morning, the five of us brothers will join forces to temporarily take charge of the Lu Kingdom."
The other four people also stood up: "Listen to my second brother!"
Old Mrs. Liu squinted at them for a moment and sneered: "But with me as an old man, you can't even think about it."
The second child gave a fake smile, cupped his hands and said, "Then my sons will be waiting for the market to resume!" After saying that, he left his seat first. The other four people also followed. Mrs. Liu watched them go out, her teeth gritted.
It hurts.
Naturally, the market did not resume after daybreak, and shops all over the street were still closed. Officials from the Lu State gathered at Liu's house to wait for the news. At 3:30 p.m., the five men arrived together to take over the government of the Lu State. Naturally, the officials refused.
The second child pointed outside and asked, "It's the fourth day of the market strike. How do you want to deal with it?" Everyone was dumbfounded.
Because Liu Qian was the leader of the ministers, everyone else couldn't help but look at him. Liu Qian thought for a moment, then raised his hands and said, "Generals, do you have any way to let the merchants resume the market?"
The second child raised his head and said: "Yes!"
"Okay." Liu Qian said, "If the generals really have this ability, I'll leave this matter to you!" After saying that, he bowed deeply to the second son. The officials were surprised.
The second child was overjoyed and said, "It's easy to talk about. Just don't worry, adults, we'll take care of it!"
Liu Qian said with a smile: "To be honest, I really don't have a good way to deal with this matter. If you generals can deal with it, I will be very grateful." The second brother laughed loudly.
The fourth child asked: "Where is eldest brother's seal?"
A senior attendant in the study said: "The general's seal is always carried with him."
The youngest, Lao Qi, pointed to a red lacquer box on the desk: "Isn't this for printing?"
The third child stepped forward first, picked up the box and opened it - inside was the general's seal. The third child carefully took out the seal and exclaimed: It turned out that in addition to the gold seal, there was also the tiger talisman of the Lu Kingdom in the box.