Five hundred and sixtieth chapters act according to the plan
Fu Zhan and Fu An exchanged glasses in the box and accepted toasts from good women from time to time.
After a while, there was a knock on the door, and several sturdy men walked in from the outside. Fu Zhan looked at them puzzled, and Fu An explained: "Brother, they are all my subordinates. This time I will follow you."
The plains I came with.”
As he spoke, he waved to the good women accompanying him and said, "You have nothing to do with me here, please go out!"
As he spoke, he took out a turtle coin from his arms, handed it to a good woman next to him, and said, "Take it and share it!"
"Thank you, Second Young Master, and thank you, Prefect Fu!" Several good women received the rewards and walked out of the box with smiles on their faces. Two men followed them out, and then stood on the left and right outside the door.
The men in the box did not sit down, but stood aside politely. A young man from the crowd came out, smiled at Fu Zhan, cupped his hands and said, "This must be Governor Fu!"
Before Fu Zhan could react, Fu An whispered in his ear: "Brother, this is Your Majesty!"
Hearing Fu An's words, Fu Zhan suddenly trembled. Without saying a word, he quickly stood up, straightened his clothes, then lifted up his robe, knelt down respectfully forward, kowtowed and saluted, and said
: "The humble minister Fu Zhan, pays homage to Your Majesty!"
The young man mixed in the crowd of Fu An's men was none other than Liu Xiu. He stepped forward quickly, stretched out his hand to help Fu Zhan up from the ground, and said, "Prefect Fu, please get up quickly!"
Fu An looked at his brothers and nodded to them. Several big men bowed and saluted, then filed out of the box and patrolled back and forth around the box to prevent anyone from eavesdropping.
Seeing Liu Xiu, Fu Zhan looked very excited, but he did not dare to make too much noise.
He said cautiously: "Your Majesty has traveled thousands of miles to come to Pingyuan. The humble ministers should have hosted a banquet in the county government. However, the King of Liang is so powerful and ambitious that the humble ministers really dare not speak out. If there is any neglect or disrespect, please forgive me."
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Liu Xiu held Fu Zhan's arm and said: "Prefect Fu is too polite. In the past, I only knew that Prefect Fu was the descendant of Fu Sheng, and the master of all the schools. But this time I came to Pingyuan to know that Prefect Fu was even more capable in governing the world.
The pillar of the country!"
Hearing that Liu Xiu had such a high opinion of himself, Fu Zhan was extremely excited, and even his beard was trembling. Fu An whispered beside him: "Your Majesty, brother, let's sit down and talk!"
"Yes, yes, yes! Your Majesty, please take your seat! Your Majesty, please take your seat!"
Liu Xiu waved his hand, pressed Fu Zhan, and moved him to the main seat, and he sat next to him. Fu Zhan's face suddenly changed. How could he dare to sit in the main seat in front of Liu Xiu?
Just as he was about to stand up and show humility, Fu An explained: "Brother, now is not the time to be humble. If someone comes in later and sees His Majesty sitting on the throne, it will be difficult to explain."
You must know that Fu Zhan is the prefect of Pingyuan and the local emperor of Pingyuan. In front of him, who dares to sit on the throne? That would be too eye-catching!
After Fu Zhan heard this, he gave up. Fu An poured a glass of wine for each of them. Liu Xiu picked up the wine glass and said, "I only heard his name before, but never saw him. Today we meet for the first time. Prefect Fu and I
Have a drink of this!”
"Go! I respect your Majesty!" Liu Xiu and Fu Zhan toasted each other, and then each drank a glass.
Fu Zhan was a master of Confucianism and was deeply influenced by Confucianism. His philosophy was to rule the world with virtue and he hated war.
This idea of his coincided with that of Liu Xiu. Although Liu Xiu had been fighting since he started the rebellion, in his heart, Liu Xiu also hated war very much.
He has fought too many battles and seen too many dead people. He has also seen the tragic situation of people losing their livelihoods and starving to death due to population loss, cultivated land being abandoned.
What Liu Xiu wanted was a peaceful and prosperous age where the country was peaceful and the people were safe, and the country was prosperous and the people were strong. War was just the last resort and the last resort to achieve this goal. In essence, Liu Xiu was by no means a war madman.
At this time, Liu Xiu and Fu Zhan started chatting, and they hit it off immediately, and they were quite speculative. Invisibly, Fu Zhan admired Liu Xiu so much, and Liu Xiu also believed that Fu Zhan was a confidant who shared the same ideas as hers, and a capable minister in governing the world.
The two of them talked to each other for more than half an hour.
The two of them chatted forgetfully, but Fu An was suffering from the pain. Fu An felt drowsy while listening to the ideas and concepts of governing the world, governing the country, and governing the people. If Liu Xiu hadn't been present, he would have yawned again and again.
Already.
After the conversation between Liu Xiu and Fu Zhan, both of them had a deeper understanding of each other. Now Fu Zhan was more determined to go to Luoyang to become an official.
Before Fu Zhan could speak, Liu Xiu had already taken the initiative to invite: "I have benefited a lot from my conversation with Fu Jun today. I wonder if Fu Jun would be willing to come to Luoyang and help me create a prosperous age for the Han Dynasty?!"
Fu Zhan felt hot in his heart, and without saying a word, he stood up and left the table, knelt down and kowtowed, and choked with sobs, saying: "Thanks to Your Majesty for never abandoning me, I will follow Your Majesty to the death, and I will do my best to my heart's content!"
Liu Xiu once again helped Fu Zhan up with his own hands and sighed: "With Fu's support, my great Han Dynasty has established a solid foundation, so why worry about not being prosperous?!"
The two of them, monarch and minister, hit it off like old friends. The next problem they faced was how Fu Zhan wanted to get to Luoyang. To put it simply, how did Fu Zhan want to cross the Yellow River and get to Hebei on the other side.
If Fu Zhan is alone, it's easy to say that he can just find a reason to leave the city. The key point is that Fu Zhan is not alone. He has wives, concubines, and children. Such a big family wants to leave Pingyuan City but doesn't want to attract attention. Then
too difficult.
Fu An rolled his eyes and said: "These Anmen were destroyed, but I survived the catastrophe. The eldest brother did not lose me as a brother. Shouldn't I take the whole family to sacrifice to the gods and pay homage to our ancestors?"
Fu Zhan is so smart. When he heard this, his eyes lit up and he immediately understood what his brother meant.
He said to Liu Xiu with joy on his face: "Your Majesty, there is a City God's Temple in the west of the city. This time A'an escaped from death. I can indeed use this as an excuse to take my family out of the city and go to the City God's Temple in the west of the city to worship!"
Liu Xiu raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "Zhiwen's plan is very clever!"
Fu An then said, "My eldest brother has taken his family out of the city. We can go straight to the ferry. I will arrange a boat at the ferry in advance. As soon as my eldest brother arrives, we will cross the river immediately and go to Qinghe County!"
Liu Xiu and Fu Zhan had no objections, and both believed that Fu An's idea could be followed. After the matter was finalized, it was time for Fu Zhan and Fu An to return home.
Fu Zhan stood up, bowed to Liu Xiu, and said regretfully: "Your Majesty came to Pingyuan. I should have acted like a landlord. However, I can't control the overall situation in Pingyuan. It really makes Your Majesty
I’ve been wronged!”
Liu Xiu disagreed and said: "Liu Yong is very powerful in Qingzhou, and Fu Jun can't help himself. I can understand it."
Fu Zhan couldn't help but secretly praise him in his heart. The young emperor's character and virtues were truly unparalleled. If such a person could not achieve great things, then what kind of person could achieve great things?
Fu An called all his subordinates outside, and then Liu Xiu still mixed in with the crowd and left the box first.
After they all left, Fu An called the shopkeeper to pay the bill. The shopkeeper didn't want the money, but Fu An refused and left a bag of coins for the shopkeeper before leaving with Fu Zhan.
Although Fu Zhan is the prefect, and Fu An is just the leader of a Jianghu sect, in terms of money, Fu Zhan is really not as good as Fu An. On the way back home, Fu Zhan and Fu An sat in the carriage together.
, the former was still full of praise for Liu Xiu.
What he admired was not how well Liu Xiu studied "Shang Shu". To be honest, although Liu Xiu majored in "Shang Shu", his learning was really average. His level was far inferior to Deng Yu and Yan Guang, and he was probably about the same as Zhu.
What Fu Zhan admired most was Liu Xiu's quality and virtue.
At a young age, he is already the emperor, but what is commendable is that he has a peaceful mind. He does not feel arrogant or impetuous at all, which is so rare.
Fu An looked at the eldest brother who was mumbling something, and the corner of his mouth curled up. It seemed that he finally had something worth bragging about in front of his eldest brother. The smooth meeting between his eldest brother and His Majesty this time was all thanks to him.
Threading threads from there!
He took this opportunity and said: "Brother, in the future when our brothers go to Luoyang, I will rebuild the Anmen. Brother will not stop me anymore, right?"
Fu Zhan was in a good mood, but when he heard these words, his face suddenly darkened. He had never understood how he could be like this since both were born in the Fu family and both grew up under the influence of scholarly families.
A different kind of brother who only wants to wander around the world and live a life of fighting and fighting.
In the next few days, Fu Zhan held a banquet at his home and invited dignitaries from the county to visit his home. He said it was to give his brother Fu An a clean slate.
Ruin, he can no longer survive in the world, and he will work in the county government in the future.
Naturally, all the officials in charge of the county were vying for Fu An, and no one wanted to take this opportunity to please the prefect.
In the past two days, Fu An has become famous in Pingyuan City, but it is not a good name, but a bad name.
From the dignitaries to the ordinary people, everyone knows that the unsatisfactory younger brother of the prefect can no longer survive outside. He was almost hacked to death by his enemies in the world. In the end, he had no choice but to run to the plains and join his eldest brother.
As long as it was daytime and whenever he went out in the dark, he would have to walk with his head down. When pedestrians on the road saw him, they would all point and comment.
Most people are complaining about Fu Zhan. Why is there such a big gap between two brothers who share the same mother-in-law? The elder brother is a prefect whom everyone respects, but the younger brother is a useless person in the world.
In just a few days, everyone in the city knew about Fu An's existence. Next, it was natural for Fu Zhan to take his whole family to the City God's Temple to pray for blessings and keep the Fu family safe.
Liu Yong's spy in Pingyuan City naturally knew about this, and he did not have any doubts about Fu Zhan taking his family to the City God's Temple.
However, there are still a large number of informants following the Fu Zhan family's team, watching their every move.
Fu Zhan is a scholar, so he may not be able to tell how many informants are around him, but Fu An is a man of the world, and no matter how good the informants are, they can't hide from his eyes.
Seeing that there were too many informants around him, he urged his horse to the carriage where Fu Zhan was riding and whispered: "Brother!"
The curtains of the car window were raised. Fu Zhan in the car looked at Fu An outside and asked in a low voice: "A'an, what's wrong?"
Fu An lowered his body, approached the window, and whispered: "Our plan has to change!"
Fu Zhan frowned and looked at him in confusion. Fu An said: "Liu Yong has too many spies. We can't go to the ferry now, so we can only continue to the City God's Temple."
Ah! Fu Zhan took a breath and asked nervously: "A'an, then... what should we do?"
"Go to the City God's Temple first, and then drag it! If you delay for a long time, the spies will naturally withdraw. As long as the number of spies is not large, the solution will become much easier!" Fu An said with his eyes narrowed.