Weiyang Palace Greenhouse Hall, the three dukes and nine kings and the Beijing Sect Room, Chehou gathered here, under the leadership of Liu Hong, ushered in the second official court meeting of the Hun mission into Chang'an.

It was late March, and it wouldn't be long before Liu Hong would move out of the greenhouse hall and return to work and live in the oath hall.

In the summer, Liu Hong had to move to Ganquan according to the usual practice.

For the last days of staying in the greenhouse hall this year, Liu Hong is actually quite reluctant - after Liu Hong moves to the Xuanshu Palace, the greenhouse hall will usher in a small-scale renovation.

What made Liu Hong feel quite painful was that for this extremely simple renovation and maintenance, Shaofu gave an offer of as high as 15 million yuan!

Rao is like this, Liu Hong also had to endure the pain in his heart, and gave instructions on the renovation: Yes.

It's not that Liu Hong is greedy for enjoyment and wants to build a lot of construction; In fact, since the greenhouse hall was built more than 20 years ago, it has not been renovated and maintained even once...

If he could, Liu Hong was certainly not willing to spend the money where it was not necessary - what would he do with the money?

Fifteen million dollars is enough to buy back more than 100 horses!

It is enough to form a regular bow and crossbow unit, and it is enough to pull up the framework of a school captain.

But there is no way, the rest of the palaces, the palace, the Qingliang Hall and even the Xuanshu Palace, Liu Hong can refuse to renovate; But the greenhouse hall has reached the point where it has to be renovated.

The front hall of Weiyang Palace sits south to north, and its composition is from the west to the south, which is the Qingliang Palace, the Xuanshu Palace, and the greenhouse hall where Liu Hong is now located.

Among the three halls, the Xuanmur Hall is the largest and most magnificent in capacity, and it is also the place where almost all important political activities of the Han Dynasty are carried out, and it is regarded as the most standard court hall.

The Qingliang Hall and the Greenhouse Hall are more of a place for Xiao He to take into account the severe cold and heat from a humanitarian point of view, and fully consider the severe cold and heat, and tailor-made for the emperor to escape the heat and keep out the cold.

Qingliang Palace, its construction style is basically 'transparent' as the main tone - in addition to ventilation, there is indeed no other good way to make the building play a cool role.

Compared with the Qingliang Palace, the structural composition of the greenhouse hall is undoubtedly much more complex: except for the outermost layer of the palace wall, all the walls inside the greenhouse hall are hollow!

This alone makes the construction cost of the greenhouse hall directly catch up with the Xuanshu Palace; As for the Qingliang Palace, I'm afraid that the construction cost is not enough to build a wall of the greenhouse hall...

The internal wall of the greenhouse hall adopts a hollow structure, and its purpose is naturally to isolate the low temperature from the outside; In addition, at the end of the hollow wall of the greenhouse hall, there will be a fireplace-like structure, and wood will be burned for heating.

And this is precisely the reason why Liu Hong reluctantly agreed to renovate the greenhouse hall - in the alternation of cold and heat, wind and rain for more than 20 years, there are already slight cracks on the outside of the wall of the greenhouse hall; The height of the inner and outer walls is also faintly different.

As for whether the wall of the greenhouse hall can be supported for a longer time, Liu Hong is more than ninety percent sure - in history, there has never been a record of the collapse of the wall of the greenhouse hall of Weiyang Palace.

This shows that either the walls of the greenhouse hall were repaired before they were damaged, and the repairer was most likely Emperor Wu; Or, it is Liu Hong's worries: the palace wall of the greenhouse hall is not as fragile as it seems.

However, Liu Hong still decided to take out this huge amount of money worth 1,500 gold to carry out a comprehensive renovation and maintenance of the greenhouse hall.

As for the reason, it made Liu Hong helpless, and faintly felt a trace of resentment - since the Hun mission put forward the request to be armed within the Great Wall, Liu Hong has no expectations for the moral lower limit of Chen Ping and Zhou Bo.

Liu Hong is very worried that a certain wall of the greenhouse hall that has not collapsed in history will become his own talisman - the wall of the greenhouse hall is in disrepair and collapsed unexpectedly, Liu Hong died unexpectedly, and has no heirs; As the head of the hundred officials, the prime minister discussed the emperor's choice with the courtiers...

Even if the safety of the palace has been guaranteed, whether it is Lang Zhongling, who is in charge of Liu Hong's personal safety, or the subordinate of the guard who is responsible for guarding the palace, they are all under Liu Hongdi's absolute control, but Liu Hong still does not dare to take risks.

To put it bluntly: The Long March is a few steps away, and there is no need to leave any more possible hidden dangers, leaving opportunities for Chen Ping and Zhou Bo.

Putting aside the thoughts in his heart for the time being, Liu Hong stroked his hand between his mouth and nose, and secretly looked at everyone in the hall.

Prime Minister Chen Ping, who had been on sick leave for more than 20 days, stood in the front half of the left half, closed his eyes as usual, and did not prepare for the slightest momentum, intending to make up for the regretful posture of missing the 'Han-Hungarian War' last time.

Liu Hong didn't believe Chen Ping's illness earlier, only that Chen Ping was brewing some conspiracy, or avoiding an event that was about to happen and Liu Hong himself was not aware of it.

However, later, the imperial doctor sent by Liu Hong to treat Chen Ping kindly brought back a news that made Liu Hong jaw-dropping: The prime minister occasionally felt cold, although he had been cured, he would die soon!

After learning more about Chen Ping's physical condition, Liu Hong was surprised to find that he was only one step away from a comprehensive victory, and it seemed that he was only one step away from Chen Ping's death!

- Chen Ping is a common cold, yes, it's really better; But don't forget: this is a time when medical conditions are extremely backward, and the gods still have most of the credit for curing diseases1

And Chen Ping is already an old man over seventy years old, with incomplete speech, and even walking has some problems.

Even in later generations, a cold in the spring for an elderly person in his seventies will cause very serious health risks, let alone more than 2,000 years ago.

The facts are already obvious: Chen Ping is almost impossible to survive the next winter.

Liu Hong was a little surprised by the news that Chen Ping would die within a year: in history, Chen Ping not only survived the next winter, but also left an explanation to Emperor Wen Liu Heng about the candidate for the next prime minister before he died!

From the fact that Chen Ping was still able to speak when he was dying, it is enough to conclude that Chen Ping in history did not die of sudden illness, but should have died a righteous death.

In the end, Liu Hong could only classify Chen Ping's inexplicably reduced lifespan as a butterfly effect - I am afraid that Liu Hong gave too much pressure, so that Chen Ping was infected with a wind chill that he had never experienced in history in the early spring of this year.

As long as Chen Ping dies, Zhou Bo will be alone; The best result is also, as in history, being driven back to the feudal country to farm by the light sentence of 'its order to the country, thinking that the world is the first'.

As for others, such as Liu Jie, Liu Hong didn't even bother to think about it - as long as Chen Erren left the center, Liu Jie, who was the enemy of the entire court, would inevitably die socially!

But this did not make Liu Hong feel a trace of joy, in the past few days, Liu Hong even always felt that his right eyelid was beating inexplicably!

People are not confused at forty, and they know the destiny of heaven at fifty - since Liu Hong knows everything, Chen Ping himself may also have a general understanding of the passage of life.

After learning that he is about to die, what choice will Chen Ping make?

Bow down and leave an incense for the heirs of the family?

I'm afraid that the greater possibility is that Chen Ping, with a great sense of oppression, began to attack Liu Hongdi in an all-round and unscrupulous way.

If there is a chance, Chen Ping may even finish his work in one battle, bet everything, and strive to kill Liu Hong with one blow, pull Liu Hong off the throne, and be a companion on the Huangquan Road...

The existence of this possibility has put Liu Hong in a high state of mental tension these days; Whether it is the Empress Dowager Zhang Yan's side or Liu Yingke, who is about to become Zongzheng, they have become the objects of Liu Hong's frequent visits during this time.

There is no possibility that there will be problems in the East Palace, the clan has been stabilized, and the court situation has long been controlled by Liu Hongwen like a boiled frog.

The only thing that can be variable is the outside!

Thinking like this, Liu Hong straightened his face slightly, revealing a kind smile that was slightly false, and an interested gaze.

"Your envoy came to my Han room, are you still used to eating and living?"

Under the imperial stairs, Su Bu stood alone, but there was no arrogance on his face when he first came to Weiyang Palace.

On the contrary, the Han courtiers in the palace no longer bared their teeth as they did back then, but held their heads high in a calm and relaxed manner, with obvious disdain, and looked at the stubborn face of Su Bu Bald Li with the corner of his eye.

"Humph! Vulgar and barbaric! ”

"Zhaozhao Han, the great man, how can he allow the presumptuous Yi Di who is clothed in the left hair?"

The old king's unabastic words of disdain suddenly spread to every corner of the greenhouse hall, but the Hanchen in the hall was so proud that he didn't even bother to nod his head in agreement, and only raised his head higher.

Looking at the scene in the hall, Liu Hong had more understanding of politics and diplomacy in his heart.

However, dozens of days ago, Su Bu Balli came to this hall with the entire delegation, and his every move followed the etiquette of the Han family.

In the face of intimidation and even insults from the Han courtiers, Su Bu Bald was only indifferent; Even if he was beaten by the entire Han court, he could barely maintain the apparent etiquette.

The courtiers of the Han family, who were obviously at a diplomatic disadvantage, did everything they could, and the grinning appearance of that day was like a hyena barking at a lion in fear...

On the other hand, now, the courtiers of the Han family have faintly had the arrogant posture of 'scolding and afraid of dirty mouths';

After thinking about it for a while, Liu Hong was relieved.

——Whether it is in later generations or before the Western Yuan Dynasty today, the essence of diplomacy is like this: the strong are gentle and gentle, and the weak will not be able to escape the knife no matter how fierce they are.

The politeness of Su Bu when he left did not affect him in the slightest to take out the return gift list full of fantasy; The fangs and claws of the Han courtiers could not change the ending of the Han family being oppressed.

But for some reason, Liu Hong instinctively felt that today's Subu was bald and not quite right.

To be precise, from the perspective of later generations, Liu Hong said that there was something wrong with Su Bu's bald separation!

——Logically speaking, after Liu Hong unscrupulously said the words 'Your lord Shan Yu is about to die, I know it', the wisest choice for Su Bu Bald is to make a silent ignorance at the first time and continue to exert pressure in response.

Because whether it is a fierce denial of words, or a matter of looking left and right like mud, he will confirm the authenticity of Liu Hong's bargaining chips.

Su Bu's face changed greatly that day, and he didn't deny it at all, but just withdrew from Weiyang Palace with his tail between his legs, which was almost a tacit acquiescence to Liu Hongdi's statement.

After making the act of the day, Su Bu Bald left this mission, undoubtedly completely messed up - even if he was born in the noble Su Bu clan, the best outcome may be to lose all political rights in the Xiongnu, including the right to inherit the clan.

It stands to reason that at this time, the most important thing in Su Bu's mind is how to make meritorious contributions to make up for the huge mistakes he made last time.

Especially after specially asking for instructions from Shan Yuting and getting clear diplomatic instructions, Su Bu Balli should at least come out with a confident momentum to win more bargaining chips for the follow-up diplomatic game.

- Even if Mao Dun is dead, Su Bu Bald should come out with a posture of 'even if the Huns are dead, they are not afraid of the Han people'!

But whether it was when the 'Han family Diaomin' attacked the residence, or after the deputy envoy Han Zhang almost died on the streets of Chang'an City, Su Bu Bald did not have the slightest awareness to use the topic, but instead shrank in the residence, as if he had no idea of everything that was happening in the outside world?

If Su Bu Bald is not an extreme straw bale, it can only prove that there must be a demon when things go wrong.

And the origin of the clan of Su Bu Bald, and the status of being selected by Mao Dun as the chief envoy of the mission, reduced the former possibility to near the zero line...

With a little hesitation, Liu Hong pretended to be indifferent and said tentatively: "I have heard for a long time that your lord is riddled with evil diseases, and his life will not be long before he changes. ”

"My Han family and the Xiongnu also have brotherhood; Every time I think of the death of a serious illness, I am deeply saddened. ”

"I wonder if Shan is okay now?"

As he spoke, Liu Hong's gaze naturally locked on Su Bu's slightly evasive gaze: "If you ask for something, it doesn't hurt for your envoy to say it; Whoever is successful in the Han room should do his best to help your lord Shan Yu. ”

Listening to Liu Hong's gentle and kind tone, the Hanchen in the hall couldn't help but show a look of enjoyment.

——In front of the Huns, how long has it been since the Han family has been so proud?

With a mentality similar to that of later generations, 'I am relieved to see the motherland so rogues', everyone naturally put on a slightly sympathetic expression of regret like Liu Hong, and looked at the cold sweat in the hall.

There were hundreds of people in the greenhouse hall, and the ages must be at least five thousand years old under the gaze of all the men, Su Bu Bald couldn't hold back his face at all, and lowered his head crampedly.

"My lord is single... It's still healthy..."

"The concern of the Han Emperor will be forwarded to my lord before the foreign envoys..."

The panic in Su Bu's bald expression slowly pushed the enjoyment in the hearts of the courtiers in the palace to the peak; A few people who reacted quickly even couldn't suppress the corners of their mouths, thinking about how to ask Liu Hong above the imperial ladder to go on the expedition after Xu Bu Bald left!

- Looking at this posture, Mao Dun is probably really going to die!

Even if you can't get too much bargain from the Huns' cavalry cluster, you must seize this opportunity and take a vicious breath!

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