"Have you ever found out that the acting crown prince has indeed died?"

After more than a month of 'sick leave', Zuo Prime Minister Chen Ping finally 'recovered' from his illness in early summer and returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The right prime minister has not long been in office, and is mainly responsible for the teaching of the cubs in the palace, and the prime minister's mansion, which has the left and right ministers, has once again become Chen Ping's Yiyantang.

In addition to the major decisions that need to be consulted by Emperor Liu Hong in an absolute sense, or handed over to the court for discussion, the decision-making power of large and small affairs in the scope of civil affairs of the Han family has returned to Chen Ping's hands.

Unlike Chen Ping's past time when he was sick and stocked the Prime Minister's Mansion at home, and even after Liu Hong returned to the throne, Chen Ping first acted aggressively and then cautiously, but this time he returned to the center of power, Chen Ping showed unprecedented efficiency and toughness!

The Han dynasty was still in wartime, and every day, hundreds of documents were sent from Chang'an, sent to the Xingyang-Aocang defense line outside Hangu Pass where Huaiyang was garrisoned by Shen Tujia, the Suiyang defense line where the general Guan Ying was stationed, and even where Taizu Longxing, where Zhou Zao, the commander of the expedition to Yue, was stationed: Fengpei.

And in the midst of this massive amount of information, there were several letters related to Chen Ping's net worth and even the final outcome of the rebellion of the princes and kings, which were secretly sent out of Guanzhong through the channels of the central information network.

Since the first day of the fourth month of the fourth month of Xia, the day when Liu Zhang, the Marquis of Zhu Xu, announced the official launch of an armed rebellion, within a month or so, at least 15 letters were sent from the Prime Minister's Mansion in Chang'an City to Liu Zhang, the leader of the rebel army.

At the same time, including Liu Zhang, the commander of the rebel army, Liu Jianglu, who could be contacted by Chen Ping among the sons of King Hui and reached a high degree of agreement, and even the reply letters from the general Guan Ying have also been sent back.

It can be said that Chen Ping has a posture of 'knowing the world without going out', sitting in the prime minister's mansion in the center of the empire, but always maintaining control of the current situation and exerting his own influence.

So far, except for the ambiguous attitude expected by the general, everything else is basically consistent with Chen Ping's plan.

For Chen Ping's time, what is the one who is not Zhu Xuhou? Liu Zhang really expressed his sneer, and only coldly replied in the reply letter about the date of the army's arrival in Suiyang, as well as the general direction of arrival.

And among Liu Fei's ten concubines, there are indeed 'smart people' who have hooked up with Chen Ping in their own way - Liu Jianglu, the eighth son of Liu Fei, the king of Qi Mourning.

Overall, the rebels' every move is still under Chen Ping's control; Even though the next movements of the rebels may not be controlled by Chen Ping, Chen Ping's main purpose has been achieved - in the absence of Zhou Bo to lead the troops to the battle, Chen Ping successfully sent the infant and a third of the northern army out of Guanzhong.

In response to the rebels' righteous banner of 'Emperor Hui', the little emperor Liu Hong also made a very strong response as Chen Ping expected.

To be precise, the toughness was a little beyond Chen Ping's expectations...

——Since the day when the imperial historian Zhang Cang recommended Dr. Jia Yi, the little emperor has been discussing with the absurd 'Dr. Weizhuang' who has not grown a beard for several days!

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Bo endured humiliation and was released from prison under the new political rules of 'will not be humiliated'.

Speaking of which, Zhou Bo's imprisonment was also in Chen Ping's plan - although the rebel army was sent to Chang'an as quickly as possible through an eight-hundred-mile expedited process, as the indirect planner or instigator of the rebellion of the princes and kings, Chen Ping knew everything about it.

As early as mid-March, Liu Zhang replied to Chen Ping's letter, and made it very clear: If you want to let the sons of King Mourning Hui raise troops, you can, but the Marquis of Jiang must suffer a little!

This matter, except for the principal Liu Zhang, is likely to be the entire Han family, and only Chen Ping knows about it - even the person concerned, Zhou Bo, has no idea about it!

In other words: the letter was written by Liu Zhang, and it may have been read by the dozen or so stupid sons of Liu Fei, the king of mourning, but Chen Ping has more than ninety percent chances and is the second person in the world to read the letter.

And the letter that was announced by the rebels on the first day of the fourth month and sent to Chang'an in eight days and presented to the little emperor was actually read by Chen Ping before the rebellion broke out, and approved that Liu Zhang sent it...

As for why Chen Ping sat back and watched Liu Zhang 'smear' Zhou Bo, the reason is also very simple: Chen Ping is very sure that doing so will not hurt Zhou Bo in the slightest.

In Chen Ping's expectation, as long as the little emperor still has a little brain, he will inevitably turn over the matter when the sentence 'Taiwei Zeng said' in the text does not exist, or pretend to be generous and say a few words such as 'this thief divides the monarch and ministers'.

Since there is no actual loss, he can get Liu Zhang's consent to raise troops, Chen Ping will happily let him go, and dig a pit for the little emperor by the way: Zhou Bo, do you want to catch it?

Chen Ping was originally quite proud of this unexpected trap - if the little emperor chose to announce to the outside world that 'this thief separates the monarch and minister', it is equivalent to putting a 'loyal minister' hat label on Zhou Bo's head!

In that way, when the crown prince was assassinated and the king raised troops in the north, Zhou Bo would be able to lead the army to the expedition and use the central army to force Chang'an from the east and north together with Guan Ying.

With more than half of the Central Army, the military's No. 1 person, Captain Zhou Bo, the No. 2 person, the general Guan Ying, and Chen Ping, who is the No. 1 person in the court, have every chance to remove the little emperor from the throne through armed struggle and public opinion offensive!

As for the little emperor who is really stupid enough to punish Zhou Bo, that is even more wonderful - the rebels are so obviously divided, the little emperor can be fooled, and when the dust settles in the future, this will become direct evidence of the little emperor's 'stupidity and mediocrity'!

When the news of 'The Empress Dowager ordered the Taiwei to be imprisoned' came out of Changle Palace, Chen Ping was stunned for a while, and then almost laughed so much that he turned his back in one breath!

——The old Bodhisattva who the little emperor set up for himself put the little emperor in a big way!

Just when Chen Ping was expecting the little emperor to slap his wife in the face, bear the charge of 'unfilial piety', and strictly warn Zhou Bo to make the choice between chilling the courtiers and nobles, especially the hearts of the founding heroes, the situation was a little out of Chen Ping's expectations.

Will not be dishonored...

Ask yourself, from an objective point of view, the little emperor (Jia Yi)'s 'two thousand stone generals and ministers are not dishonored' can be described as a clever move: at the time when the founding meritorious service wanted to get closer to the Son of Heaven, but was uncertain because of the Zhulu Rebellion, this proposal undoubtedly played a great psychological reassuring role in the ministers.

But his hero, my enemy; Er's good policy, my faint (zhuó)···

Just because of a fluttering sentence, the little emperor forced Zhao to come up with the third choice: the old lady's face, don't hit! The hearts of the courtiers are not chilling!

I'll just slap the Marquis in the face!

- The little emperor's edict of pardon is also good!

According to the little emperor, Zhou Bo was released from prison without the slightest element of 'innocence', but completely out of the political rules of 'not dishonoring each other' proposed by the little emperor, leaving a noble dignity for the marquis of Jiang!

What I thought about behind closed doors, what 'the queen mother pardoned the sins of the marquis of Jiang, and then reinstated the official', it's all!

How can Han Qing, whose self-esteem is higher than life, even higher than right and wrong, stand that he is 'guilty'?

This is going to change to an ordinary official, and he would have gone home and hanged himself a long time ago...

That is, Zhou Bo's situation is a little special, so he is cheeky when this matter does not exist.

Rao is like this, and Zhou Bo didn't dare to blatantly resist and disobey the order, so he could only stay at home depressed and 'think about it behind closed doors'.

- The devil knows if Zhou Bo drinks a lot or sleeps at home!

And this incident, which could not have harmed Chen Ping's side, caused Zhou Bo to accidentally lose his official position as a lieutenant; In addition, the three lieutenants closest to Zhou Bo in the Northern Army, two of which were taken away by the baby, caused Zhou Bo to control the Northern Army more and more difficult now.

It is said that because of this incident, Taiwei Zhou, who has not hated others much for decades, hated the second young man who was only twenty years old in just half a year: Dr. Jia Yi.

Zhou Bo even put down his words without scruples in front of the subordinates sent by Chen Ping to contact: When the Marquis of Jiang is reinstated as the chief lieutenant, it will be the day when Jia Sheng will die!

But overall, this unexpected change still did not have much impact on Chen Ping's entire plan.

As long as the acting king follows Chen Ping's prediction, because his eldest son died next to the little emperor who 'taught the scriptures' and responded to Chen Ping's call to raise troops in the north, the little emperor can only choose to reinstate Zhou Bo, who is 'thinking behind closed doors' at home, and order him to lead his army to Xiaoguan to resist the acting army.

The reason is very simple: the young emperor is not yet strong, so that in the rebellion of the princes, which is a major event related to the society of the country, the old ministers can only and must be promoted; And today's Han family, the old ministers who meet the conditions of this 'pillar of the country' are all founding merits.

And the founding exploits of the Han Dynasty are now old and old, dead and dead; Among the old guys who are still alive, there are only a few people left in the Manchu Communist Party who can fight: Zhou Bo, Guan Ying, Chai Wu, and Zhou Zao.

Logically speaking, it has to be counted as a worm; But since the beginning of spring, Worm Da has been in the same condition as Chen Ping, and his physical condition has deteriorated - it is said that even the strong crossbow Du Lieutenant, who the little emperor is highly concerned about, is now the yellow-mouthed child of Wei Wei Cheng Qin Mu in Zhang Luo.

In Chen Ping's original plan, Zhou Zao would inevitably be dragged in the south by the conquest of Vietnam and could not turn back; Although in the end, the little emperor recalled Zhou Zao and stationed him in Fengpei, but Zhou Zao did not return to Chang'an, so Chen Ping's plan was still not affected.

Chai Wu is now the commander of the cavalry general Flying Fox, and he is in charge of the battle on the north wall, even if the little emperor is enduring humiliation and kissing now, Chai Wu still can't get out of the defense of the north wall.

This is also the reason why Chen Ping is so confident in clamoring for the sons of King Hui to raise troops in Guandong: the founding heroes who can fight, remove Chai Wu and Zhou Zao, and leave Zhou Bo and Guan Ying; As long as the Kanto region is in chaos, the little emperor can only send one of them to the Kanto region.

The final result was indeed as Chen Ping expected, although the little emperor used Zhou Zao to stabilize Fengpei, and used Shen Tujia, who had never appeared in Chen Ping's vision, to hold Aocang, but Guan Ying still took charge of the army as he wished, and left Chang'an.

The next thing is very simple: as long as there is a problem in one more direction in Guanzhong, the little emperor will only have one choice left - send Zhou Bo to lead the army to quell the rebellion!

Zhou Bo and Guan Ying, as military generals, especially the highest-ranking lieutenants and generals in the Han family, can only play a role when they hold military power; nesting in Chang'an with Chen Ping is almost no different from Chen Ping staying alone in Chang'an.

Guan Ying successfully led the army to the expedition, and the only thing Chen Ping wanted to promote next was that Zhou Bo led the army to the expedition.

And the key to whether this situation can be formed lies in the focus of Chen Ping's concern at this moment: Acting Crown Prince Liu Qi, is he dead or not?

- First, the little emperor deceived the corpse, so that the original support for the establishment completely collapsed; Later, a eunuch ordered Wang Zhong to fake his death, attracting the Flying Fox Army to support the little emperor!

Chen Ping had some psychological shadows, and as soon as he heard who died, he instinctively doubted its authenticity...

As early as more than ten days ago, a letter about 'Your Majesty secretly imprisoned the crown prince in the violent room, as if he wanted to have a plot', had been sent to the palace of Jinyang, the acting king, Liu Heng.

Calculating the time, the letter should have been delivered to Liu Heng.

Obviously, after experiencing the unhappiness in the 'support' incident, or the dishonesty, Liu Heng's trust in Chen Ping will inevitably approach negative indefinitely.

Chen Ping never thought that he could regain the trust of Liu Heng, the acting king, with just one letter.

But if there is that letter first, and then the news of the death of the prince comes...

According to Chen Ping's estimates, Liu Heng, the acting king, is at least more than sixty percent likely to raise troops!

This sixty percent possibility is the limit that Chen Ping can fight for in today's situation...

Since the resurrection of the little emperor's corpse and the upset of Liu Heng, Chen Ping has lost his teachers and abandoned his land in the court game one after another, and almost fell off the horse several times!

To be able to save the situation back to such a point in such a difficult situation, Chen Ping has already used all the energy he has learned all his life and all the energy he can use to come up with a strategy.

After months of planning, he has to plan the layout, and finally waited until now, before the overall situation is completed, he is just one last step away, and Chen Ping is extremely cautious.

was tightly locked by Chen Pingyin's vicious gaze, which caused the scribes in the hall to shudder, and then hurriedly surrendered his hand: "Prime Minister, it is true that he died, and the imperial doctor of Weiyang Palace ordered the prince to snort, foolproof!" ”

"When the lower official left the palace, there was already a rumor in the palace: His Majesty was furious in the Xuan Room, and immediately repaired a book, sent the eunuch to order the coffin of the dead body of the prince of the king, and ordered the strong crossbow to send out the elite 100 people, in order to send the body of the crown prince back to the place..."

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PS: No one said I wrote it messily, right?

Chen Ping's purpose is obvious: let Guan Ying and Zhou Bo each lead their own armies to lead the army, lead the troops outside, and then stabilize the situation with the two of them and their armies, through the Qi rebels in the east, and the Dai Di rebels in the north to cause chaos, and at the same time reach a deal with Liu Zhang and Liu Heng to 'support the emperor after the fact', win the support of the princes and rebels, combine Zhou Bo and Guan Ying to take charge of the soldiers and horses outside, and then use their own transcendent status as prime ministers, from the point of 'Shang Fei Emperor Hui', trying to pull Liu Hong off the throne.

Now, it's clear, right?

Hey, I replied to the comment with a few thousand words, but it didn't me off...

Let's talk about the question of 'marrying outside the hall pottery and pro-Xiongnu' that many readers are very concerned about.

Some people say that I am making up the plot, and some people say that I am asking for humiliation.

But as an author, to write such a book that conforms to the historical background, what I need to tell readers and friends is that the peace and pro-diplomacy between the Western Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu is a diplomatic strategy implemented from beginning to end from Taizu Liu Bang, Emperor Hui Liu Ying, Empress Lu before and after the Shaodi period, to Emperor Wen Liu Heng, Emperor Jing Liu Qi, and even the famous Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

In 200 BC, due to the siege of Baideng, he gave up the strategic choice of sweeping away the Xiongnu and shifted the strategic focus to Liu Bang, a prince with a different surname, who sent a daughter of the clan and pro-Xiongnu for the first time.

And this time with relatives, the first choice with relatives is the famous Princess Lu Yuanchang!

It's just that Empress Lu strongly objected, so she was replaced by a clan girl.

In 192 BC, Emperor Hui Liu Ying, who had not long ascended the throne, faced the Huns who came to extort the Han family, and still had to choose to send his daughter and relatives.

This time, it is the famous 'Mao Dun Lu Houshu is absolutely rebellious' in history - Mao Dun humiliated Lu Hou in the national book, so that to the point of the physiological relationship between men and women, as strong as Lu Hou, in the end can only choose to be friendly.

In 176 B.C., Liu Heng, the newly enthroned Emperor Wen, or Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and other old ministers who were actually in power, could only send their daughters with their relatives when the Huns first attacked the border areas and then sent envoys to blackmail.

This time, Emperor Wen Liu Heng wanted to drive a personal expedition, but was finally stabbed by Liu Xingju, the king of Jibei who rebelled in the rear, in order to go back smoothly to quell the rebellion, and finally sent his daughter and relatives.

In 174 BC, Mao Dun died, and the old Shangshan was on the throne, and Emperor Wen Liu Heng could only send his daughter and relatives.

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By 162 BC, when Lao Shangdan was about to die, in order to smoothly transfer power, he first attacked the side wall of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wen Liu Heng could only make peace.

In 160 BC, the old man died, and the military ministers were on the throne, and Emperor Wen Liu Heng still chose to be peaceful.

In 156 BC, Emperor Jing ascended the throne, the Xiongnu committed the border, and Emperor Jing Liu Qi could only make peace with him in order to implement the "Cutting Domain" policy.

In 152 B.C., when the cutting of the feudal domain was completed and the strength of the Han princes and kings shrank significantly, Emperor Jing, who was consumed by the Wu Chu Rebellion, could still only kiss and even send the daughter of the clan first, and in the case of the Huns proposing to 'send the true princess', in just half a year later, Emperor Jing sent the daughter born to Emperor Wu and Emperor Wu's biological mother Wang Meiren to the Xiongnu and relatives.

By 140 BC, Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, ascended the throne, and faced the blackmail of the Huns, he could still only kiss and even send his own daughter!

These sixty years of humiliation is the reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has such a high status in history and has such a lofty image in the hearts of the Han people at that time: from Liu Bang to Liu Che, every Han emperor can only be friendly in front of the Huns!

Liu Bang has had his teeth, Liu Heng has had his teeth, but the final result is still to send his daughter and relatives, and in the name of marriage, he will send a large amount of materials, which is the popular sense of 'compensation'.

The protagonist has just been here for half a year, and all the time has been spent cleaning up Chen Zhou and others, and there has been almost no transformation of this era, but it has triggered the 'Rebellion of the Sons of King Hui', which has never happened in history, in this situation, and the background of the above-mentioned sixty years of harmony, the protagonist is for the stability of the side wall, for the time being! For the nonce! For the nonce! For the time being, what is the problem of stabilizing the Huns with peace and relatives, and sending women and relatives in order to concentrate on cleaning up internal problems?

If you want to say that twenty years later, the protagonist and the pro-Huns, the reader said that the poison I wrote passed through a loneliness, then I admit it; But under the premise that he hasn't done anything after crossing over, is it necessary to let the protagonist do something tougher than Liu Bang, Lu Hou, Liu Heng, Liu Qi and even Liu Che, and not bear the consequences?

Let's not talk about whether it is or not, first of all, it is not history, but fairy tales.

As a history writer, Zuo has always been entangled between 'cool' and 'true', and there are always readers who feel abusive, unhappy, and tired.

But writing this, the assistant finally determined his direction: if the pure picture is 'cool', then the existence of the evidence is completely unnecessary. The assistant can let Liu Hong carry Gatling and sweep the Hun army, and the unreasonable can be explained by the word 'plug-in', without consulting historical documents, and without making readers suffer.

And the final opinion of the assistant official is: the first thing that should be emphasized in the examination of the text is to restore the history as truthfully as possible, restore the background and elements of the times, and within the scope of understanding and acceptability of the human brain, through the means that mortal people in the flesh can grasp, to change this worrying era little by little.

As for the cool, of course it will be cool, but it is not the cool of Liu Hong carrying the Gatling strafing, not the cool of Liu Hong's sword splitting Chen Ping and Zhou Bo, but the cool of the Han general's little by little growth into a hundred victories, invincible, the cool of a Han and a five-hu, it is Liu Hong's use of wisdom step by step, the cool of pushing the old scheming like Chen Ping step by step into the abyss, and the cool of the protagonist leaving his name as 'Emperor of the Ages' in history.

Therefore, my attitude is very simple: harmony is not that I abuse the protagonist, nor that I distort history, but that history is restored to the greatest extent.

Of course, the protagonist will change the situation of the Han family little by little through his own efforts, and make the Han family strong as quickly as possible to the point that he does not need to be friendly; But it takes time, at least the protagonist needs to do some specific things, such as improving development ability, increasing agricultural output, increasing population, improving comprehensive national strength, developing weapons and ordnance, and developing combat methods. Plausible! Plausible! Reasonably achieve coercion on the grassland, in order to avenge today's blood feud with relatives.

Even if you don't understand this paragraph, I should always understand the following sentence: What the primary school teacher has taught everyone, what do you want to do when you are writing?

If you want to promote it, suppress it first! Suppress first! Suppress first!

How ruthless it is, how hearty it is!

And I don't have the slightest exaggeration of the oppressive atmosphere, this is the situation in the early Western Han Dynasty, even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, at the beginning, he also sent his own daughter and relatives, and finally achieved the achievement of the rebellion.

Finally, the good news, the beginning of the day, today two more completed, the next two daily two more!

I went to sleep, and it was nothing.

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