Sitting in the royal carriage, Liu Hongdi's mind had already flown thousands of miles away.

Originally, Liu Hong naively thought that after confronting Chen Zhou's party and gaining an advantage, all he could get was more opportunities to install party henchmen.

As for the existing bureaucracy, Liu Hong did not expect much from the existing bureaucracy, even if he fantasized that there would be a few speculators.

When Liu Hong found out that he had quietly gained a huge advantage, and even to the point where there were foreign generals who took effect, Liu Hong was not very happy.

——At the beginning of March, Hou Zhouzao of Longxi expressed his friendship to Liu Hong through the mouth of Chai Wu, the general of the chariot and cavalry!

Speaking of Zhou Zao, we have to mention Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang, a major turning point in the process of changing from the pavilion chief to the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty.

In 208 B.C., that is, in the third year of Qin II, Liu Bang, the head of the Surabaya Pavilion in Pei County, was appointed by the county government to escort a group of young Zhuang from Pei County to Xianyang to participate in the construction of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor on Lishan in the form of hard labor.

Halfway through, several members of the team were afraid of some legends of the Great Wall, so they absconded at night.

After discovering that a strong man had absconded, Liu Bang considered the relevant regulations in the Qin law - a strong man absconding, and the entourage and the escort were all capital crimes, so he gathered the entire team together and said: Now even if we rush to Xianyang, we will all be punished with capital crimes, it is better to disperse, let's go, I will also run away.

It was this incident that made Liu Bang, the head of the Surabaya Pavilion in Qinpei County, fall into the grass and finally embark on the road to destroy Qin.

And in that team of strong men, in addition to those who were tired of their families, they dispersed, and more than a dozen people stayed behind and decided to follow Liu Bang.

Zhou Zao is one of the dozen young men who joined Liu Bang.

In the subsequent battle at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the struggle for hegemony between Chu and Han, Zhou Zao showed the ability to take charge of himself; And unlike the vast majority of generals in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, Zhou Zao is especially good at defensive warfare!

In the final decisive battle between Chu and Han, the overlord of Western Chu finally chose to break through in the direction defended by Zhou Zao, and the final result is needless to say.

After the Han Dynasty, Zhou Zao was awarded the title of Marquis of Longshu - it must be mentioned that the Marquis of the Han Dynasty was also divided into upper, middle and lower grades according to the county queen, township marquis, and pavilion marquis, which were specifically distinguished according to the food estate.

For example, Zhou Bo's Jianghou is the county marquis, and the county is a county marquis; Hou Xiao He is also the queen of the county, and he eats Yi County.

Zhou Zao, like the top marquis of thousands of households, was named the Marquis of Longxi (County), with 3,100 households, ranking 43rd among the founding heroes of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Hong should have been very happy to be a general with outstanding military achievements, who was deeply trusted by Emperor Gao Liu Bang, and had distinctive strategic characteristics.

But along with Zhou Zao's letter of surrender, there was also a war report - Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, was proclaimed emperor!

South Vietnam, this is another historical problem that gives Liu Hong a headache.

In the twenty-fifth year of the first emperor, the Qin general Tu Sui was ordered to lead the army to attack Lingnan, and the first battle was lost, and the main general Tu Sui was killed.

The deputy general Ren Huan took over the position of the main general, continued to attack the land of Baiyue, and after eight years of repeated attacks, he finally unified Lingnan in the 33rd year of the first emperor, that is, in 214 BC.

After the capture of the land of Baiyue, the first emperor ordered: to take the army led by Ren Huan to conquer Yue as the governor of the South China Sea, and control the three newly established counties of Nanhai, Xiangjun and Guilin in Lingnan.

Unfortunately, only a few years later, in 210 BC, Qin Shi Huang died in the sand dunes of Xingtai, and Zhao Gao Li Sijiao gave the death of the general Meng Tian and the son Fusu, and supported the son Hu Hai, thinking that Qin II.

Qin Nanhai Governor, who had already felt the collapse of his faith due to the death of the first emperor, could not get logistical supplies and immigration transportation for a long time after the second emperor ascended the throne, and urged Xianyang several times, but in the end he only got a reply of 'Lingnan counties have been established for five years, and Xianyang should be lost with taxes'...

The governor was ill, and the governor of the South China Sea was panicked; A few years later, Qin perished, and Ren Huan also died in Panyu, the county of Nanhai.

Historically, Panyu City has been called the city of 'Ren Huan' since then, and it has also been called 'the beginning of Guangzhou' by historical researchers.

After Ren Huan's death, the heart of the Nanhai Commander was low, and when the Central Plains was full of beacons, it was Ren Huan's deputy general who stood up and issued the decision to destroy the road and divide the territory to ensure the stability of Lingnan.

This time, he turned the tide and supported the lieutenant of Qin Nanhai, nicknamed Zhao Tuo.

The principle of neutrality is that after many years of scuffle, Pei Gong Liu Ji stood out and forced Xiang Yu to kill himself on the side of the Wujiang River.

In this process, Zhao Tuo led the Nanhai Governor to clean up the Qin officials of the Lingnan counties, crusaded and annexed Guilin County and Xiang County, and called himself the Wu King of Nanyue.

After Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, ascended the throne as emperor, he couldn't take care of this pattern regime established in the far south - the problem of princes and kings with different surnames almost exhausted Liu Bang's entire emperor career.

In the end, Liu Bang fell on the road of crusading against Yingbu, the king of Huainan, and could only end up with Lu Jia sending an envoy to Nanyue and letting Zhao Tuo take over the 'seal of the king of Hannanyue'.

In this way, Zhao Tuo changed from a Qin general to a vassal of the Han family: the king of Nanyue.

And Zhao Tuo became the emperor, strictly speaking, it was already last year.

When Empress Lu was seriously ill, Wu Chen, the king of Changsha, told Chang'an: Wang Tuo of Nanyue went in and out to call the police, and the writing system was used, and the Huangwu Zuoxu was used, and he was called Emperor Wu of Nanyue!

When Empress Lu heard this, he was furious, and when he was seriously ill and dying, he did not dare to move the northern and southern armies lightly, so he sent 100,000 troops of Hou Zhouzao to attack South Vietnam.

As soon as Zhou Zao's army arrived in the south, before he could gain a firm foothold in Changsha, he fell ill for most of his time because of dampness; Chang'an was in chaos due to the death of Empress Lü and the subsequent princes and ministers who jointly punished Lü, and Zhou Zao's army was stationed at the junction of Changsha and South Vietnam with almost no logistical assistance.

Without the official order of the court, Zhou Zao did not dare to teach without permission; Continuing to camp in Changsha, his army was repeatedly depleted, with a shortage of military rations, no logistical support, and unsuitable water and soil.

Therefore, in Liu Hong's opinion, Zhou Zao chose to bow to himself at this point in time, just to get an order to 'allow the class teacher' so that he could get out of the quagmire in the south.

And the reason why Liu Hong is not happy with Zhou Zao's investment is not because his purpose is 'impure', but because Zhou Zao's mission can be said to have not been completed at all.

- Zhou Zao's class teacher, Zhao Tuo is afraid that it will be even more rampant; Allowing a secessionist regime that dared to claim the title of emperor to continue to exist would also be extremely damaging to Liu Hong's imperial majesty!

In the original history, Zhou Zao's return from the south did not have any impact on the division of the court - whether it was the clay sculpture emperor Liu Heng, or the powerful ministers such as Chen Ping and Zhou Bo, they all clearly knew that it was not very realistic to solve the South Vietnam problem by force at this point in time.

Because whether from the perspective of national financial resources, military logistics strength, or from a strategic point of view, the Han family did not have extra energy to solve the South Vietnamese regime that was divided in the south - if the Han family dared to shift the strategic center of gravity to the south, the Huns outside the northern wall would definitely cause trouble!

And the Han dynasty, even now when the strategic center of gravity is completely focused on the north, cannot well resist the attack of the Huns, let alone after the strategic center of gravity moves south.

For Liu Hong, the wisest choice is naturally to send Lu Jia, an expert on South Vietnam, to South Vietnam, as Emperor Wen had just ascended the throne and made Chen Ping do in history, to send Lu Jia, an expert on South Vietnam, to go to the emperor's title, and nominally bow down to Chang'an, which is a temporary expedient measure.

However, the arrival of Liu Hongdi made this practice, which had been proven correct in history, no longer suitable for choice.

——In the original history, the reason why Chen Ping Zhou Bo was willing to start from the perspective of the country and send people to persuade Zhao Tuo to go to the emperor and call him a vassal to the Han family was because Chen Ping and Zhou Bo were in power, and Emperor Liu Heng was submissive and made clay statues safely!

And now, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo have lost in the political game; The position of the two is no longer the historical 'power minister', and the South Vietnam issue is no longer a problem of the Han family for the two of them.

In short: as long as Liu Hong releases soft words such as 'sending an envoy to reprimand', Chen Ping and Zhou Bo will inevitably bite this point and create public opinion that Liu Hong is 'weak to the outside world', so as to attack the majesty of Emperor Liu Hongdi.

At that time, if Liu Hong learns from the ostrich, just ignores this matter and continues to send people to solve South Vietnam through diplomatic means, then under the instigation of Chen Ping and Zhou Bo, the little political prestige that Liu Hong has accumulated with great difficulty will be gone.

If Liu Hong, in order to show his toughness, brazenly launched an armed crusade against South Vietnam, it would be even more in the heart of Chen Ping and Zhou Bo - if he sent a miscellaneous army like Empress Lü, then under the wet miasma of the south, the combat effectiveness of the troops in the north would inevitably be sharply reduced; The worst-case scenario is undoubtedly that South Vietnam will become a bloody place for the Han family.

In order to conquer South Vietnam, the central government could only continue to transport weapons and ordnance, food and baggage, and even new fighters to the Changsha-South Vietnam line, and fill all of them into the bottomless pit of tropical forests.

As for sending the central forces, that is, the northern and southern armies, to crusade, it will make the already grim strategic situation of the northern wall even worse, and even lead to the emptiness of the defense of Guanzhong and the instability of the princes of Kwantung.

If you are not careful, the world will be in chaos; The Xiongnu in the north invaded the border, the princes in the east knocked on the pass, and the south was even carrying out a battle to bleed the Han family...

It's really to that point, Liu Hong's best result is probably no better than Chongzhen...

This is what made Liu Hong rush to Changle in a hurry and gently appease Zhang Yan: at this point, when great changes will occur, Liu Hong must ensure internal stability.

As the queen mother, Zhang Yan will play an incomparably important role in the stability of the situation and people's hearts.

By ensuring that Zhang Yan always stood on his side, Liu Hong would be able to concentrate all his energy on facing the Xiongnu outside the northern wall, the Kwantung princes waiting for an opportunity outside the Hangu Pass, and the so-called 'Nanyue Wu Emperor' Zhao Tuo who had already brazenly claimed the title of emperor in the south.

Even in the center of Chang'an, Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and other members of the Xuhong Group who are always thinking about how to make mistakes...

For this reason, Liu Hongcai did not rely on the important 'intelligence' in his hands to show excessive toughness against the Xiongnu mission - before the internal hidden danger was solved, Liu Hong's wisest choice was to stabilize the Xiongnu first to ensure that the border wall could maintain general stability.

For this Han-Hungarian diplomacy, Liu Hong's expectations are not too high: as long as Mao Dun does not force people too much, and gives Liu Hong enough dignity, then Liu Hong can also reluctantly pinch his nose and take some grain, rice, tea and salt to the mission to bring back, which is all a thank you gift to Mao Dun.

The internal problems, that is, the problems of Nanyue in the south and the princes of Kwantung, were not solved by Liu Hongneng by relying on his knowledge of history.

The problem of the Kwantung princes, Liu Hong has been arranging since he initially took power: whether it is to prevent Liu Sui from becoming the king of Zhao as in history, and then fall to the Xiongnu, or to kill Liu Xingju with a dead hand, it is a move made by Liu Hong out of his understanding of history and in order to avoid the instability of the princes.

——Whether it is Liu Sui, the king of Zhao in history, or Liu Xingju, who was named the king of Jibei after Emperor Wen ascended the throne, they are all people with a history of rebellion!

The reason why Liu Hong was stuck in progress and unwilling to mourn the sons of King Hui as kings was also due to the same consideration - the Wu Chu Rebellion of the Jingdi Dynasty in history, known as the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in history; The seven princes and kings who directly participated in the rebellion, except for the initiators Liu Bi, the king of Wu, Liu Wu, the king of Chu, and Liu Sui, the king of Zhao who was affiliated with the Huns, the other four were all the sons of King Hui who were sealed by Emperor Wen Liu Heng after he ascended the throne!

- Liu Piguang, King of Jinan, Liu Xian, King of Zichuan, Liu Wei, King of Jiaoxi, and Liu Xiongqu, King of Jiaodong, are all sons of Liu Fei, King of Qi Mourning, and they were all named kings by Liu Heng in history because of their meritorious achievements in the process of Zhulu!

If you can, let alone crown these people as kings, Liu Hong can't wait to kill these people directly!

All of this was paved by Liu Hong in order to stabilize the interior, strive for a stable development environment as soon as possible, and finally obtain the strategic offensive right against the Xiongnu.

But what Liu Hong didn't expect was that the South Vietnam issue, which was considered to be 'unification by political means' in later generations, became the primary problem within the Han family after Liu Hong's arrival...

Looking at the battle report in his hand, and the final signature: Long Xi Hou Zao, Liu Hong felt endless fatigue and fatigue.

Chen and Erren, who were briefly forgotten by Liu Hong, also reappeared in Liu Hong's field of vision.

In the past period of time, compared with when Liu Hong first arrived, Zhou Bo undoubtedly had a lot of responsibilities - except for the daily routine inspection of Beiying, Zhou Bo had almost no other actions, which would remind people of his identity as a 'member of the Zhuhong party'.

Chen Ping has been sick since the beginning of spring, and even the daily operation of the Prime Minister's Mansion has been thrown into the hands of the Prime Minister's Minister, and he is hiding in the Qu Shunhou Mansion, not knowing what he is doing.

Guan Ying is even more exaggerated - the historical prime minister Guan Cheng seems to have not realized that his political label has been exposed, thinking that Liu Hong does not know his identity as a 'Zhuhong party', and is still meticulously handling the military affairs that have been piled up by Zhou Bo as a general.

It is not ruled out that Guan Ying intends to continue to be neutral, or if he really changes his mind and decides to make a mistake, quietly break away from the arms of Chen Zhou's party, and fall to Liu Hong openly.

But after the problem of South Vietnam appeared, the little patience that Liu Hong had for Chen Ping's people had bottomed out at the speed of light; Regarding the issue of South Vietnam, Liu Hong even had in his mind the option of 'destroying Chen Zhou first, and then sending South Vietnam'...

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