For today's matter, Liu Hong originally had only three choices.

First, he was vague about Tian Lan, and said perfunctorily, 'I will send someone to check again', and then pretended to have no idea about the price of grain, and turned around and went back to the palace.

Second, regardless of whether the Tian family died or not, whether the people were starving or not, they raised their arms and shouted on the palace wall, calling on the people to kill the city wall, kill Chen Ping, and then clean up Chang'an with Liu Hong!

Obviously, Liu Hong chose the third option.

Because, whether it is as thin as the former, or as unyielding as the latter, the pros and cons are quite obvious.

- and the mud, Liu Hong can continue to be a puppet in peace, waiting for the arrival of the army that combines all Liu Hong's hopes; But whether it is out of the heart, or out of politics, for rational reasons, this is a very unwise option.

As an emperor, especially an emperor who has crossed over from later generations, Liu Hong will definitely not allow the Chinese nobles to starve, and even become a disposable gun in the hands of a ruthless king.

Even if he doesn't consider personal emotions at all, Liu Hong can't let go of such an opportunity to buy the hearts of the people and establish prestige!

- Calling on the people to follow his mutiny, Liu Hong does have a good chance of winning: defeat the arsenal, equip the people with the weapons of the arsenal, and then sweep away all hostile forces in one fell swoop.

But once it fails, history will be corrected, and decades later, there will still be that sentence in the historical records of Taishi Gong: If it is not the Liu family, it should not be established, and the princes and ministers will be established as the king.

And regardless of success or failure, the battle process will be extremely tragic; The armed people will starve against the Northern Army, and the soldiers of Guanzhong, relatives and friends, and even their own descendants will fight each other.

The relationship between the Northern Army and the people of Chang'an will develop rapidly in the direction of the enemy, and after the disaster, Guanzhong will also be devastated.

What's more, such a huge political event will cause great damage to the image of the Han regime!

——The emperor led the people of the capital to fight against the forbidden army of the capital, and finally cleaned the court or was purged by the court...

In the near future, the authority of Han officials will become virtually non-existent, and the difficulty of the central government's management of the localities will increase dramatically, let alone the centralization of power.

Therefore, Liu Hong can't be like in the novels of later generations, as soon as the tiger's body was shaken, and as soon as the king's overlord spirit was dispersed, he led the people to waaaaaa to kill his forbidden army.

It is true that today's events will almost certainly stimulate the Zhulu Gongchen group headed by Chen and Erren, so that they will take risks and not hesitate to kill the monarch!

But after weighing it again and again, Liu Hong still decided: no matter what, press the contradiction under the table.

——You must know that in the cognition of the people of Chang'an, and even a considerable part of the low-level shrimp in the court, in the past few months, three major events have happened in Chang'an: the death of the Empress Dowager Lu, the rebellion of the Lu family was quelled by the princes and ministers, and the Marquis of Ruyin was killed!

In addition, the people almost know nothing about Liu Hong's current situation and the situation of the Han family.

Liu Hong, who can't wait to sleep on his skin and eat his flesh, is the old prime minister in the eyes of the people.

Liu Hong was deeply jealous and always on guard against Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, who was a loyal minister who traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an to help protect the Liu family.

Zhou Bo, who once shouted the phrase 'Emperor Hui is not the son of Hui' in the main hall of Weiyang Palace, is a hero who quelled the Lu rebellion!

In this case, if Liu Hong suddenly shouted, 'The prime minister and the captain are all chaotic ministers and thieves!' It will inevitably make the people puzzled - the prime minister and the captain are the founding ministers! How can it be a rebel and a thief?

Oh... Your Majesty, this is unloading the mill and killing the donkey, and treating the old ministers lightly~

From now on, the decree issued by the Yang Palace will become a joke after the people's dinner - hey! And voila! That mean and immature boy has issued a mess again!

Seeing this situation, the princes and kings of Kwantung gathered together to drink horse urine, and it was not difficult to have such thoughts: Can this girl be an emperor?

I'll be on it, too!

really to that point, the best result for Liu Hong is to pinch mud in Weiyang Palace for decades, and then take away the coffin of a 'Han Xiaohuang Emperor' from Fengchang.

And whether Liu Hong led the northern army into the palace at the beginning, or later fought with Chen Ping for power and profit in the court, or showed off his acting skills like today, he did not forget to give a reasonable excuse, so that things seemed to be 'reasonable' on the surface;

All of this is for the same purpose - brothers against the wall, and from the outside!

For the sake of the majesty of the central government and the stability of the regime, no matter what kind of chaos Chang'an becomes, it is necessary to ensure that Chang'an is calm on the surface.

——In the feudal era, the most important thing was never development, but the foolish people!

It is the mouth of the people, more than the Sichuan!

This is also a rare tacit understanding between Liu Hong and Zhulu Gongchen Group, as well as the only common demand.

Politics is like this, even if you play a dog's brain in private and go to the negotiating table, both sides have to be kind and pleasant, and greet each other's family members in the most civilized words.

And force, which is the decision to be used when one party flips the table after the collapse of the talks, belongs to the last option: if the negotiation fails, then fight!

Force, or war, is essentially an extension of politics, and neither side will use force if there is the slightest possibility of resolving a matter in the political sphere.

Liu Hong wrote the edict, and he never thought of summoning an army to Chang'an to kill Chen Ping and Zhou Bo's entire family - the fight was up, and the troops of the Han family died on both sides!

Liu Hong's main purpose was to rely on this to increase his political bargaining chips and obtain political benefits.

As for personal safety, it is a secondary consideration.

If Chen Ping knew about the edict, he would probably not have sent troops to suppress it, but tried every means to weave charges against the army recruited by Liu Hong.

Thinking about raising his head, carefully looking at the clothes enshrined in the hall, Liu Hong took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

"I don't know all this, I'm right or wrong..."

Today, Liu Hong has almost drawn the entire people of Chang'an into his camp, and this blow to the Zhulu Gongchen group will be devastating!

Liu Hong won the hearts of the people in Chang'an in one day, Chen Ping's bargaining chips were all meaningless, and the two sides continued to sit calmly at the negotiating table, and the possibility of political negotiations almost no longer existed.

If Liu Hong did not hesitate to guess with the greatest malice, Zhou Bo would probably have even summoned soldiers outside the northern camp to give a lecture and put a basin on Liu Hong's head, trying to persuade the northern army to enter the Weiyang Palace.

This is also the reason why Liu Hong hid in the high temple - except for large-scale national sacrifice activities, no one is allowed to enter the high temple without permission, and the violator will be considered as a rebel!

As long as Chen Ping and Zhou Bo didn't want to usurp the Han Dynasty and stand on their own, it would be impossible to break into the Gao Temple.

At least for the time being, Liu Hong is safe.

But Chen Ping and Zhou Bo can't enter the Gao Temple, it doesn't mean that Liu Hong can live in the Gao Temple for a lifetime - as Zhou Bo, who was awarded the founding of the country for his military merits and fought in the south and the north for decades, he is absolutely familiar with this situation.

The enemy is surrounded, but unable to attack?

Simple, no food and no water, it will fall in a few days!

Liu Hong estimated that starting tomorrow, Zhou Bo should send troops to surround Gao Miao to 'protect' Liu Hong and Gao Miao's safety.

Now, Liu Hong can only hope that the army will rush to Chang'an before he starves to death of thirst...