After Liu Hong made it clear that Yan and Zhao would re-enshrine the clan as the princes and kings, and would negotiate with the elders of the clan to decide on specific candidates, the courtiers and officials had already understood that Liu Hong did not plan to 'cook for the people' in this matter.

However, in this regard, most of the courtiers only secretly said that it was a pity, and then they were a little unwilling to knock on the side: King Qi and the acting king have been in Chang'an for more than a month, and according to the system, they should return to China.

-- Inserting a foot in everything, whether useful or not, to say a few words to find some sense of existence, this is also a characteristic common to the bureaucratic class.

Hearing the courtiers mention this matter, Liu Hongcai reacted, and unconsciously, nearly two months have passed since Liu Heng and Liu Xiang arrived in Chang'an in early November.

Empress Lu died in September, and by mid-October, the matter of Lu had already settled.

However, when Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, set off from Xingyang and rushed to Chang'an to compete for the throne, Liu Heng, the acting king, had already appeared in Chang'an City.

In this way, Liu Heng arrived in Chang'an at the end of October, and Liu Xiang arrived in Chang'an later, around the beginning of November.

Han system: the princes and kings of Chang'an for three years, in addition, no edict is allowed to leave the fiefdom without permission, and violators will be punished for rebellion.

Normally, unless the princes of the Han dynasty were very close to the emperor and received summons every year and a half, they could only come to Chang'an from the feudal state once every three years, such as the birthday of the empress dowager, the death of the empress dowager, the birthday of the emperor, the death of the emperor, and the routine pilgrimage to Chang'an once every three years.

Moreover, the time for the princes and kings to stay in Chang'an also has a clear period: one month.

Normally, around the twenty-fifth day of the princes' arrival in Chang'an, the courtiers would vaguely remind the emperor that the princes and kings should be ordered to return to China.

If, after a month, the princes and kings still have no acquaintance and invite themselves to return to China, then the hundred officials will seriously impeach him for 'not going to go' and 'seem to have misdeeds'!

Historically, after Emperor Jing ascended the throne, the Empress Dowager Dou Yifang often ordered Emperor Jing to summon Liu Wuchao, the king of Liang, to Chang'an on the grounds of missing her young son, and stayed for half a year.

At that time, Emperor Jing often sent Chao to come out and impeach him for 'not going to go' and 'violating the ancestral system', and then he jumped out and sang red-faced: The Queen Mother thinks about it and comforts King Liang.

And Liu Heng and Liu Xiang's stay in Chang'an this time is a rare special circumstance - the two of them 'courted' Chang'an this time, originally came to be the emperor...

In the end, the emperor did not succeed, and the main owner Liu Hong returned to Weiyang Palace with all his beards and tails, and the situation of the two of them was suddenly extremely embarrassing.

Liu Xiang is better, at least a competitive loser; As a former 'successful person', in the eyes of hundreds of officials, Liu Heng's situation is undoubtedly very embarrassing.

As for the nature of Liu Heng's entry into Chang'an this time, although Liu Hong privately defined it as 'court offering', he was not sure of Liu Hong's attitude, so he naturally did not dare to take the initiative to mention the affairs of the princes and kings in the country, so as not to be implicated by Liu Heng.

However, today, after Liu Hong undoubtedly proposed that the land of Yan and Zhao needed to be suppressed by new princes and kings, and asked the elders of the clan for specific candidates, the hundred officials also understood Liu Hongdi's attitude.

- The sons of Emperor Gao Liu Bang, who are still alive today, are only the acting kings and the kings of Huainan!

The 'elder of the clan' in Liu Hong's mouth is undoubtedly Liu Heng, the oldest acting king among the sons of Emperor Gao who is still alive.

After thinking about it, Liu Hong still decided to comfort Liu Heng for a period of time - this incident will definitely go down in history in the future; And Liu Heng's historical status will depend on Liu Hong's measures.

Regarding Liu Xiang's future writing, Taishi Gong may be written as the king of Qi Ai who 'watched the great treasure', Liu Hong said that he loved it, but Liu Heng and Liu Hong could not let him bear the charge of 'watching the great treasure'.

If the courtiers just proposed: It is time to let the acting king and the king of Qi take over the country, and Liu Hong agrees with his hind feet, then Liu Heng, who left Chang'an at the same time as Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, will inevitably be regarded by the courtiers as 'the first-class king of Qi'.

And Liu Hong's purpose is to make Liu Heng's trip to Chang'an this time become the nature of 'Liu Hong's summons'.

Therefore, whether it is to comfort Liu Heng from the perspective of 'summons', or to let Liu Heng and Liu Xiang stagger the time to return to China, Liu Hong wants Liu Heng to leave Chang'an later than Liu Xiang.

"What Zhu Qing said is reasonable."

After speaking, Liu Hong turned a little positive and looked behind Zhou Bo: "Zong Zhengqing." ”

A moment ago, he was still out of the class as Fengchang, and Liu Budo, who took over the task of drafting the edict assigned by Liu Hong, responded to the class: "The minister is here." ”

Seeing Liu Budo's face as usual, and then looking at the courtier's awkward face, Liu Hong's heart suddenly swelled up with a popular phrase in the future: As long as I am not embarrassed, it is others who are embarrassed...

Coughing lightly twice, he secretly wrote down the fact that Liu Budo served as two Jiuqing at the same time, and Liu Hong solemnly explained: "Proposed edict: The king of Qi is edicted by me, and leads the troops to help the Taiwei Ping Lu clan's rebel rebellion. ”

"As for the king..."

Saying that, Liu Hong pretended to be a little ashamed, and said to the loyal ministers in the palace with a light smile: "Acting king, I haven't seen each other for a long time, I miss Uncle Zong, and I edicted Chang'an in November in winter." ”

"Although the acting king has been stranded in Chang'an for more than a month, I still do not give up the acting king."

After speaking, Liu Hong straightened his complexion and bowed slightly to the palace: "I am young, and I want to stay for a few more days to describe the friendship between my uncle and nephew; A little beyond the ancestral system, look at the princes and don't blame..."

Seeing that Liu Hong was really like an ordinary teenager, a nephew missing his uncle, in order to stay with Liu Heng for a while, he did not hesitate to kindly accuse the hundred officials, and the officials all felt like a spring breeze, and the gloomy mood for many days suddenly brightened!

- Poor God!

Since the founding of Emperor Taizu Gao, who has been so amiable and so polite to the hundreds of officials in the court?

Needless to say, Taizu Liu Bang was still there, even Zhang Liang, who stayed behind, often pretended to have inconvenient legs and feet in order to avoid Liu Bang suspecting that he was 'ambitious'.

Xiao He, the first marquis of the founding of the country, did not hesitate to discredit himself in order to protect himself.

Later, Emperor Xiaohui, although he was privately called the king of 'benevolence and weakness' by the courtiers, the benevolence and weakness of filial piety were limited to his prime minister Cao Shen.

If Emperor Hui is really allowed to survive until the day when Cao Shen dies, then maybe the hundred officials in the court will be oppressed by the 'benevolent and weak' Liu Ying!

Further on...

Liu Gong, the former young emperor who can say, 'I am not strong, and when I am strong, there will be changes', can he be a docile and kind lord?

When people are less than ten years old, they dare to point at Lu Hou's nose and threaten to 'kill you when you grow up'!

As for the past eight years, Empress Lu, who has been in power on her behalf, or the nephews and nephews of the Lu family, they are all looking like they are on a high level; the Lu family's henchmen and even Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and others, before the Lu incident, were just the Lu family's pugs.

Not to mention that in that situation, even as a background board, there are some courtiers and officials who are not enough.

Now, Liu Hong is cordially asking the officials to understand the matter of staying on behalf of the king?

This is definitely the first major event since the Han Dynasty to respect the courtiers and officials from the level of dignity!

For a while, the hundred officials lowered their heads in great relief and bowed deeply to Liu Hong on the royal steps: "Your Majesty's words are serious..."

Looking at all this, Chen Ping's already unhappy face darkened.

Since then, the officials of the DPRK and China are no longer monolithic; Prime Minister Chen Ping is no longer able to control the situation...