Chapter 0201 - Draw Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron

Han Shiqu Pavilion is located in the north palace wall of Weiyang Palace, adjacent to the Shaofu Zuo Room located in the northwest corner of Weiyang Palace.

In the original history, about 130 years later, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty convened the doctors of the heavens to hold the famous academic symposium in history: the Shiqu Pavilion Conference.

And now, the ruling school of the Han dynasty is still Huang Laoxue at the time of the founding of the country, although the Legalists occasionally have a son, they are still dressed in the skin of 'learning from Huang Lao', and then vaguely mention in the archives 'the name of the punishment'.

As for the unification of the academic world in the Wudi Dynasty and the only prominent learning in the world, Zhang Tang did not hesitate to play the Confucian bones, and the Confucianism who broke the prison in the Spring and Autumn Period is still deeply mired in the public opinion stain of 'Gaoyang drunkards', as well as the evaluation of Liu Bang, Taizu of the Han Dynasty, 'We take the world as a thing, and we have not had time to see Confucianism'.

In addition, the members of the ruling school Huang Laoxue are mainly based on the founding merits, so Shiqu Pavilion has not yet developed into a 'Han academic holy land' more than a hundred years later, and there are only dozens of historians who are resident in Shiqu Pavilion, as well as the 'heavenly watchers' who are always subordinate to the government.

In the original history, Shiqu Pavilion was responsible for storing the situation of royal archives, until Emperor Wu Liu Che came to the dynasty, the establishment of the "Doctor of the Five Classics" will change, before that, Shiqu Pavilion was only a place for historians to work, and the emperor's living records and other royal archives storage place.

But Liu Hongdi's arrival inadvertently changed the situation.

To be precise, it was Liu Hong's successive 'summons into the palace and my own teaching of scriptures', which transformed the atmosphere of Shiqu Pavilion from the original relaxed and comfortable library to such a cultural and educational place with a bit of a school atmosphere.

Now in the Shiqu Pavilion, there are Liu Wu, the king of Huaiyang, Liu Chao, the king of Changshan, Liu Tai, the king of Liang and other heavenly sons Kunji, as well as the acting crown prince Liu Qi, the youngest son Liu Wu and other clans, as well as the oldest contemporary Pingyang Hou Cao Qi, under the teaching of several Huang Lao giants.

In the past few months, Shiqu Pavilion has been full of vigor because of these young people who are as young as five or six years old and as old as they are about to be crowned.

But an accident this morning completely tore this peace apart...

"Ministers greet Your Majesty, my emperor is happy and happy..."

By the time Liu Hong arrived, there was already chaos in Shiqu Pavilion.

The pavilion, which was originally filled with the smell of books, has been filled with blood stains everywhere, as well as medical officers and samurai who have come and gone.

The three younger brothers and the historical King Xiao Liang Xiao have long been escorted away by the warriors of the forbidden army; The huge Shiqu Pavilion has also been tightly surrounded by Ling Mian personally leading the army.

Even the entire Weiyang Palace was in a mess because of this sudden change - Wei Wei Worm Da was also dragging his old age, and appeared on the palace wall of Weiyang Palace in full uniform, inspecting the defense.

"Where is Qi'er ?!!?"

As soon as the words fell, an old man stood up tremblingly, and knelt on the ground in horror: "Your Majesty, the acting crown prince has been moved to the inner courtyard, and the imperial doctor of Weiyang Palace has ordered him to treat him..."

Looking at the old man's handsome and sassy face, but at this time he was full of shock, Liu Hong didn't care about reproach, and only walked towards the Shiqu Pavilion in a panic.

Looking at the direction where Liu Hong went, the old man sat on the ground in despair, his eyes full of confusion.

"Right phase, right phase!"

"Quickly pass on the medical officer, Biyang Hou faints!"

In the panicked and chaotic cries of everyone in the hall, the old man's confused eyes slowly closed, and he finally became unconscious...

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Walking quickly into the backyard of Shiqu Pavilion, I saw that an elegant pavilion had been surrounded by the forbidden army warriors, and the Pingyang Marquis Cao Qi, who would be crowned in another year, was guarding the door with a sword, and his eyes were scattered from time to time to the forbidden army soldiers who came in and out of his side.

When he saw Liu Hong's galloping figure, Cao Qi subconsciously removed his hand from the hilt of the sword and bowed: "Your Majesty." ”

"How's Qi'er?"

Under the urging of Liu Hong's anxious gaze, Cao Qiman arched his hand with resentment: "Fortunately, Taiyi is blessed, Taizu has a spirit in the sky, and the minister was lucky to get a glimpse of the thief's blade, so that the acting crown prince escaped..."

"However, the thief gave up his life to strike, and the acting crown prince was still hit by the sword in his shoulder, bleeding nonstop, and the imperial doctor ordered the forbidden Chinese medicine officer to be treated in the cabinet."

"As soon as the bleeding stops, the crown prince should be fine."

Hearing that Liu Qi was fine, the stone hanging high in Liu Hong's heart finally landed, and the panic between his eyebrows slowly dissipated.

Looking at the resentment in Cao Qi's eyes that could not be concealed, Liu Hong's heart moved, and he slowly stopped, looking at the third Pingyang Marquis in front of him.

Although Cao Qi's death was not directly caused by Liu Hong, Liu Hong still has no bottom in his heart about this kind of operation similar to 'forcing the death of the minister' - what does Cao Qi think of this matter?

If Cao Qi has a grudge against Liu Hong because of this, then Liu Hong will remove the Pingyang Hou line from the future central team.

At present, although Cao Qi is close to adulthood, getting along with the cubs for several months has invisibly changed Cao Qi's three views, and a trace of manly responsibility has been revealed between his eyebrows.

Looking at Liu Hongdi, his eyes were completely free of impurities, and there was no posture of secretly blushing when the enemy met.

This undoubtedly made Liu Hongan feel at ease.

Cao Qi can be regarded as Liu Hong's attempt: for forcing his father to death, can he continue to trust his son's attempt.

Because Liu Hong is really not very sure that when some high-ranking officials die in violation of the 'royal law', the sons of high-ranking officials, such as Zhou Yafu and others, will hate the maker of the 'royal law': Emperor Liu Hong.

At present, this possibility is not very big - as long as Liu Hong can guarantee that he will not punish him out of personal grudges, then this 'revenge for killing his father' will not be able to carry Liu Hong's back.

Secretly writing down this matter, Liu Hong glanced at the room behind Cao Qi, and said with a heavy face: "Can you find out who the assassin is?" ”

Just from Cao Qi's appearance as if he was facing a great enemy, as well as the blood stains on his clothes, and his left arm tightly tied by a corner of his clothes, it is not difficult for Liu Hong to deduce what happened.

——As the prince of the Marquis, Cao Qi is not even mighty and majestic, but he also has the most basic martial arts qualities!

In addition to the privilege of having a fief to support him and giving priority to serving as the three dukes and nine ministers, one of the most important obligations of the Marquis of Han Che was to prepare his own saddle horse military rations when the country faced war, and even make up his own soldiers and generals to fight the enemy!

Just like the rebellion against Chang'an launched by the princes of King Hui dozens of days ago, the Chehou family began to prepare for the war as soon as possible, with swords, guns, bows and crossbows taken out of the treasury of the family, and the slaves and subordinates all received the 'settlement fee' issued by the master's family, and they were ready to go to war at any time.

About ten days later, except for the Marquis Che who has an official position, and the Marquis of Che who is still 'young and strong' like Cao Qi, all the lords and princes in Beijing will lead their soldiers to march to the Xingyang-Suiyang line to resist the rebels.

And Cao Qi, who has fully developed his body and has been trained by his father Cao Ji and even his grandfather Cao Shen as the successor of the family since birth, is still injured when the target of the assassination is not himself, which is enough to prove that this assassination must be very sudden!

At least Cao Qi, who was strong enough to sit in the pavilion to study and listen to classes, had not yet reacted, and Liu Qi, the acting crown prince, had already been stabbed!

- Shiqu Pavilion as a storage of the Han emperor's living records of the royal archives, its defense level is no less than Liu Hong's alert level, plus the princes, princes, clans, and even the contemporary Marquis, when the right prime minister is included, its defense must be tight.

Coupled with the fact that Shiqu Pavilion itself is located in the Weiyang Palace, the possibility of assassins breaking into the Weiyang Palace, or even outside the Shiqu Pavilion, is about zero.

Combined with Fang Cai, the right minister who served as the mentor of the little cubs ate his frightened appearance, it is not difficult to guess: the assassin is afraid that he can enter and exit the Shiqu Pavilion openly, and naturally approach the little cubs, so as to burst out and hurt people without warning.

This made Liu Hong feel a strong aura of conspiracy coming to his face, and his hair stood on end!

- Since the person behind the assassin has the energy to let the assassin enter the Shiqu Pavilion of the royal archives, it proves that the person behind the scenes has every chance to insert his tentacles into Liu Hong's side, and even assassinate Liu Hong!

A person with such monstrous power is full of calculations in today's Han family, no more than five fingers!

Liu Hong himself, Empress Dowager Zhang Yan, Wei Wei Worm, Lang Zhong Ling Mian, and...

Prime Minister Chen Ping!

It was only at this moment that Liu Hong finally knew why Chen Ping still clamoured Liu Zhang's rebellion when he knew that Liu Zhang's army could not play a big role, Chang'an City was impregnable, and the Hun mission had also returned to his life!

——Instigating Liu Zhang's rebellion was not at all to divert the defenders of Chang'an, but the first step to push Liu Hong to the forefront!

The second part is to assassinate Liu Qi and throw the pot to Liu Hong, so as to obtain the position of the elder of the clan: Liu Heng, the acting king, and even respond to Liu Zhang's army from the north wall!

Liu Hong could guess with his eyes closed that before the assassins entered the Weiyang Palace, Chen Ping's secret letter persuading Liu Heng, the acting king, to rebel had already been sent to Daidi.

It is even very possible that Chen Ping once again proposed to welcome Liu Heng, so as to increase his chances of winning!

In the end, as long as Liu Heng rebelled as Chen Ping hoped, then Guanzhong would face the approaching rebels from the east and north, and thus have to fall into a two-front battle.

At that time, Liu Hong will have to reinstate Zhou Bo, the only commander of the military, to face the army of the king from the north - send Guan Ying to Suiyang, also because of this embarrassing reason: the military has no available commander.

At that time, there will be too many things Chen Ping can do...

Whether it is to let Zhou Bo and the army of the acting king Liu Heng join forces and force Chang'an together, Chen Ping will respond in Chang'an City, or strive for the infant outside Hangu Pass to return to the arms of Zhu Hong's party, it will make Liu Hong fall into a desperate situation...

When it really arrived, it was the army of Guan Ying, Zhou Bo and the army of Liu Heng, the acting king, who entered Guanzhong unimpeded, and easily surrounded Chang'an!

And all Liu Hong could do was to defend Chang'an with the only remaining strong crossbow in his hand, and do his best to summon the Flying Fox Army to re-enter the Zhongqin King.

But after the last accident, not to mention whether Chen Ping will allow the Flying Fox Army to step into the pass again, just how to send the letter will become the simplest one of the problems faced by Liu Hong...

"Hehe, Prime Minister Chen, the first generation of poisoners..."

"Even if it's more than Jia Xu, it's not too much..."

Secretly smiling bitterly, he listened to Cao Qi and said again: "The assassin is a historian, and he has always lived in Shiqu Pavilion. ”

"If it weren't for today's changes, the ministers would still think that this person is a graceful and flattering person, and they want to climb the king and the high branch in order to gain benefits..."

Listening to Cao Qi's resentful words, Liu Hong's heart was cold again, and his face couldn't help but be gloomy.

"Have you been preparing since a few months ago?"

"One step at a time, Chen Ping, Chen Ping, how good it would be to be a loyal minister..."

At this point, Liu Hong, who thought he was looking up to Chen Ping enough, had to admit: Judging from the ability to plot and set up layouts, Chen Ping is definitely not as simple as Liu Hong imagined!

Even Liu Hong did not hesitate to speculate with the greatest malice that Chen Ping's move to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle would probably have appeared in Chen Ping's mind when Liu Heng, the acting king, returned to China.

First of all, he supported all over Qi to mourn the sons of King Hui, which made Liu Hong subconsciously suspicious, so that the matter was put on hold, and finally successfully aroused the dissatisfaction of Liu Fei's sons, laying the groundwork for the sons of King Hui to raise troops again.

Even Chen Ping did not hesitate to give up the huge advantage, and sat back and watched the Flying Fox Army appear outside Chang'an City, so that Liu Hong turned the trend and gradually took control of the situation, Chen Ping's ultimate goal is likely to be just to force out all the hole cards in Liu Hong's hand, so as to plan a more comprehensive counterattack this time...

Later, he secretly colluded with the Xiongnu, so that the Xiongnu mission put forward a request for armed stationing, so that Liu Hong thought that Chen Ping was already poor in donkey skills and was dying, but in fact, he secretly planned to contact the sons of the king of mourning, and was ready to assassinate Liu Qi.

Now, Liu Hong has completely determined that Chen Ping's long-term illness is not to avoid suspicion, or to be really sick.

- Chen Ping is trying his best to keep a low profile, so as to make Liu Hong relax his vigilance and let the court's eyes move outward, so as to buy time for the implementation of the plan!

Until today, the assassination of the acting crown prince Liu Qi and the final decisive battle initiated by Chen Ping can be regarded as a trumpet.

Every day that followed, Liu Hong had to face thousands of problems, as well as open guns and hidden arrows.

But for some reason, when this moment really came, Liu Hong felt relieved for no reason.

"Is this the emperor..."

"Hehe, it's disgusting..."

No matter how unwilling Liu Hong is to admit it, he can only accept this reality: subconsciously, Liu Hong never thought that Chen Ping, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, would be defeated so easily.

It wasn't until the moment when Chen Pingtu saw the dagger that Liu Hong's subconscious prediction was confirmed; The fear that was originally hidden in my heart because of the unknown is no longer terrible because the curtain is opened.

Liu Hong did not feel desperate because of Chen Ping's serial schemes, but ignited his fighting spirit and looked forward to everything next!

"If I can't even clean up a single courtier, how can I suppress the desolations of the world?!!

"Let's see..."

"Chen Ping, I will definitely let you lose convincingly!"

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