The land of Yan Zhao, as well as the affairs of Liu Ze, the king of Langya, have all been decided under Liu Hong's seemingly people's cooking, but in fact it is authoritarian.

But in this regard, the hundred officials did not feel that Liu Hong was being a dictator - the division of princes and kings was originally within the scope of the internal affairs of the clan, and Zong Zheng, as a representative of the courtiers, could express his opinions on his behalf.

Emperor Gao has always been arbitrary in the division of princes and kings in the Han family, and the subsequent Empress Lu never took it out for the ministers to discuss.

Now Liu Hong is at least willing to make an appearance, consult Zongzheng's opinion on the matter of dividing the feud, and consult Tingwei about the punishment of the princes and kings, which can be regarded as a relatively popular cook.

Intersecting these two things, the next issue, the courtiers undoubtedly have more room to meddle - the issue of mourning the division of the princes of King Hui.

The emergence of this problem is actually very abrupt - when Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, has not yet left Beijing to take up the country, public opinion suddenly appeared such a voice: The king of Qi led the army to the king thousands of miles away, but His Majesty only rewarded him with money, which was quite unkind...

Then, the meritorious and noble class headed by the prime minister took this as a starting point and proposed to Liu Hong the idea of 'mourning the sons of King Hui' to commend the family of mourning King Hui and their contributions in the process of punishing Lu.

Regarding the actions of the meritorious people, the courtiers naturally easily 'guessed' their political plans - through this matter, the emperor Liu Hong was reminded: Your Majesty should be kind to our meritorious people~

But in this matter, Liu Hong tasted a different atmosphere.

——At the time when Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, was caught in the quagmire of 'seizing the throne', Liu Xingju 'died of thunder', and Liu Zhang took the Shaofu to control the ordnance without permission and was suspected of rebellion, it was really unexpected that public opinion suddenly appeared such an untimely voice?

Coupled with the delicate relationship between Chen Ping and his party and Liu Hongdi, is this really the true opinion of public opinion?

Not to mention Liu Hong, who has been sitting on the throne for a few months and has an initial insight into the emperor's mental skills, even if he is a three-year-old child, he can see the cattiness in this!

This matter is nothing more than two possibilities: first, Liu Xiang, the king of Qi, released this kind of 'public opinion' in order to protect Liu Zhang, who had been detained by the court commander at that time, so as to achieve the goal of making Liu Hong jealous of the theory of things and pardoning Liu Zhang.

However, in Liu Hong's view, whether it is from Liu Xiang's performance as dead or his attitude towards Liu Zhang's ignorance, this matter is unlikely to be Liu Xiang's handiwork.

The driving force behind the scenes, there is only one possibility left - Chen Ping!

In this situation, apart from Liu Xiang, only Chen Ping and his party have the motive to do so.

——Whether it is for the purpose of winning the favor of King Qi Hui in the current unfavorable political situation, or for the purpose of 'persuading the emperor to treat the clan well', to win the favor of the rest of the princes and kings, or to disgust Liu Hong, it is all beneficial to Chen Ping and his party.

And Liu Hong has been put on the fire by this incident.

- Liu Fei, the king of Qi mourning, although his status in the history of the Han family is not as good as that of Zhu Biao, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, but as the eldest son of Liu Bang, Liu Fei's status in the clan is really not low!

For the care of this eldest son, it can be seen from the land that Liu Bang gave to Liu Fei - Qi State, located in the south of the Yangtze River, has fertile soil and a wide range of people, which can be described as a place of ointment; For a long time in the history of the Western Han Dynasty, the wealth of the King of Qi was maintained above the emperor's Shaofu inventory!

Not to mention the land area of Qi country, which is comparable to Yan Zhao - Yan and Zhao are the 'bitter cold land' of the border counties, and Qi is no less than the feng shui treasure land of Guanzhong!

Liu Hongdi's cheap father, Liu Ying, the emperor of filial piety, is also very respectful to this eldest brother - not long after Liu Ying was born, Liu Bang had already raised troops from Pei County and began to fight for the world.

In that turbulent season when Liu Bang was busy fighting for his career and Empress Lu was busy making up myths for Liu Bang, Liu Ying and other younger brothers, and even Princess Lu Yuan, were taken care of by Liu Fei, who shouldered the responsibility of 'eldest brother like father'.

Therefore, Liu Fei's status in the hearts of Liu Bang's sons is actually almost equivalent to his father Liu Bang, who is the emperor.

If it weren't for Liu Fei's bad background, but his concubine, then even if Liu Bang passed on Liu Fei, the remaining seven brothers would probably not have any opinions.

What's more, Liu Fei's life is really sympathetic - in his childhood, Liu Fei was raised as an 'illegitimate child' and was taken care of by his biological mother Cao Ji;

Finally waited for Liu Bang to win the world, and Liu Fei was also the mother of the prince Liu Ying: Empress Lu, who was fiercely scrupled for a while.

After waiting for the world to be decided, Liu Fei was named the king of Qi, and finally had a peaceful birthday, but within a few years, Liu Bang died; However, when Liu Fei was in Chang'an, he offended Empress Lu completely during the banquet of Liu's family...

In order to save his life, Liu Fei paid a county of Qi and gave Princess Lu Yuan, the beloved daughter of Empress Lu, Tang Muyi, to Tang Muyi, so that he was lucky enough to escape Empress Lu's killing; But for the other younger brothers who were taken care of by themselves, they were fooled to Zhao by Empress Lu one by one, and then killed, but Liu Fei, who was the eldest brother, had no way at all.

In the end, Liu Fei died young before the age of 30 in the complex emotions of depression, fear, and self-blame.

Liu Fei's experience, coupled with the efforts of Liu Fei's three sons-in-law in the process of destroying Zhulu, made the saying "mourning the heir of King Hui" suddenly have a very strong theoretical basis - in order to make up for the tragic experience of Liu Fei, the king of mourning, and in order to commend the selfless dedication of the mourning king to the matter of Zhulu, Liu Hong should not be stingy with the king!

What makes Liu Hong the most difficult to accept is that this statement appeared at the time when Yan Zhao was vacant, the princes in various places were unstable, and the clan was facing a reshuffle!

If it were a different time, Liu Hong could have put on a posture of 'I don't want to seal it, but there is no soil in the world to seal' and refuse this proposal!

But now that the throne of Zhao is vacant, and Liu Hongdi's three younger brothers have the name of king, they have no king because they are young, this matter is very tricky - if Liu Hong insists on opposing the division of the line of mourning King Hui, then public opinion will inevitably have such accusations: Your Majesty would rather let Zhao Di have no king, let the three kingdoms of Liang, Huaiyang, and Changshan be in the hands of the boy, rather than seal the heir of King Hui...

What governs the world with filial piety, what brothers, friends and brothers, and family harmony, are all fake, right?

Such a moral condemnation, not to mention Liu Hong, who is the nephew of King Qi Mourning, even Liu Fei's younger brother, Liu Hong's father Liu Ying, may not be able to withstand it - the pyramid of feudal society, the higher it goes, the more respectful and inferior it is, and the stricter the etiquette and law outline!

To the apex of the royal family, it is even more orderly to the point of outrageous!

Historically, for the conclusive rebellion of his younger brother Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, Emperor Wen Liu Heng could only be killed in a roundabout way, and he had to put on a whole set of political shows in order to reluctantly remove himself from the stain of public opinion of 'killing his brother'.

If Liu Chang is Liu Heng's brother, then Liu Heng will not say that he will make all the sons of King Li of Huainan as kings, even if Liu Heng hands over half of the world, he will not be able to get rid of the infamy of 'killing brothers'!

It is no exaggeration to say that if one day, Liu Hong's uncle: Liu Jiao, the king of Chu, is in Chang'an, the picture of the monarch and the minister meeting will definitely make Liu Hong feel very painful - Liu Jiao worships Liu Hong with his ministers, and Liu Hong worships Liu Jiao with his son and nephew; Liu Jiao hurriedly said, "Your Majesty is like this", and Liu Hong was even more panicked and said, "Uncle Huang is like this"...

The matter has come to this point, and Liu Hong can't stop it directly from mourning the princes of King Hui's sons-from the perspective of clan status, although Liu Hong is the patriarch in law, Liu Hong is only Liu Bang's grandson.

Although Liu Fei's sons are just Liu Hong's cousins, this matter is based on 'mourning for the sons of King Hui', and as Liu Bang's sons, Liu Fei's generation is not comparable to Liu Hong at all.

What's even worse is that Liu Fei is not only Liu Bang's son, but also the eldest of the children-the eldest son!

That is to say, if Liu Hong wants to stop this matter, in addition to targeting Liu Fei's dozen concubines, one by one to show reasonable moral defects to prove that they are 'incompetent for the throne', he can only invite elders who are higher than Liu Fei and are qualified to make a conclusion about Liu Fei in the clan to deny the matter of 'mourning the sons of King Hui'.

And now there is only one person in the clan who is still alive, and his seniority is higher than that of Liu Fei, the king of Qi Mourning Hui, - the younger brother of Emperor Gao Liu Bang, the king of Chu, and Liu Jiao!

In fact, after the emergence of public opinion, Liu Hong issued a letter summoning Liu Liu, the king of Chu, to Chang'an for an audience on the grounds that 'the Xiongnu came to envoy, I am young, and I am afraid that I will be lightly treated by Hu', and handed it over to Zhang Cang, and sent it to Chu through the communication channel of the local imperial history.

But first, Liu Hong was not very sure whether Liu Jiao would come-because in the original history, Liu Jiao's lifespan did not last long; Liu Hong didn't know if Liu Jiao's body could withstand the fatigue of the carriage and horses to make the morning to Chang'an.

Second, even if Liu Jiao came, Liu Hong was not sure if he could get Liu Jiao's support - after all, Chu and Qi bordered, and the relationship between Liu Jiao and Mourning King Hui was undoubtedly closer than that of Emperor Xiaohui, who was far away in Guanzhong.

Therefore, while trying to summon Liu Jiao, the king of Chu, to Chang'an, Liu Hong habitually prepared a second set of solutions, that is: how should this matter be handled under the premise that Liu Jiao failed to come to Chang'an, or did not support Liu Hong?

If it really gets to that point...

Mourning the King of Hui's lineage, Liu Hong really has to be sealed!

Even in the original history, Emperor Wen entered Chang'an to succeed the unification, but he did not escape this - Liu Xingju was named the king of Jibei, Liu Zhang was the king of Chengyang, Liu Piguang was the king of Jinan, Liu Zhi was the king of Zichuan, Liu Wei was the king of Jiaoxi, and Liu Xiongqu was the king of Jiaodong...

After Emperor Wen divided, among the sons of Liu Fei, the princes and kings of King Mourning Hui alone reached seven!

Of Liu Fei's thirteen sons, seven are kings, and the remaining six are all marquis!

In this life, Liu Hong was extremely reluctant to let the Mourning King have a situation of 'one family, seven kings and six marquis'.

Because in the Wu Chu Rebellion of the Jingdi Dynasty, four of the seven princes and kings of the line of King Hui were directly involved in the rebellion!

The other three were not Mingzhe to protect themselves, but were either seized of military power by Wang Xiang and placed under house arrest, or they were blocked at the door of the house by Dou Ying, the general stationed in Xingyang.

Such a family has a strange record of 'rebellion' in history, how could Liu Hong make them princes and kings?

Moreover, Emperor Wen in history named these seven people as kings, not in the counties that were originally directly under the central government, or in other vassal states, but directly divided the Qi country into seven parts, so that these seven people were divided into kings.

In other words, although the princes and kings of Liu Fei's line have changed from one to seven, the territory under their actual control has not changed substantially, and it is still the land of Qi in the early Han Dynasty.

But Liu Hong was quite reluctant to do so.

Because both history and the knowledge reserves of later generations clearly told Liu Hong: The first obstacle in front of the centralization of power is to divide the power of the princes!

Dividing the originally lone Qi State into seven, and letting Liu Fei's seven sons pile up together, watching and helping each other as horns, that will undoubtedly greatly increase the difficulty of Liu Hong's future cutting of the domain.

If these cousins of King Hui are to be crowned as the king's borderlands, Liu Hong is even more reluctant - whether it is Emperor Wen's lenient policy or Emperor Jing's rough cutting of the domain, the problem of the princes and kings of the Han family will always appear with the figure of the Huns!

In case in the future, this prince and king who was personally sealed to the side wall by Liu Hong will lead the Huns into the customs in order to lead the Huns into the customs in order to make a mistake in the heart of his brother who is far away in the Qi country, then Liu Hong will lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot.

Qi can't tear the soil, and the side wall can't be sealed, and the rest of the choice is only about the inland east...

But in the eastern part of the country, let alone the king of the land, even the counties that nominally belong to the central government, Chang'an can actually achieve very limited control; As for the existing princely kingdoms, they are even more clustered in the Kanto region!

Liu Jiao's state of Chu, Liu Bi's state of Wu, Liu Chang's Huainan state, Wu Chen's state of Changsha; It's not something that Liu Hong can touch!

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"If the king of Chu is unwilling to come forward, he can only wronged my two younger brothers first..."

In the interior of Kanto, the only vassal states that Liu Hong can call the shots are the Huaiyang Kingdom of his younger brother Liu Wu and the Changshan Kingdom of the Liu Dynasty...