"Hateful !!"

After a period of noise, the Jade Hall Hall returned to its former silence.

But compared to the previous twilight, the silence at this time is more oppressive and unbreathing.

Zhang Yan was sitting on the edge of the couch at a loss at this time, looking at the young man whose forehead had been wrapped in white gauze on the couch, his face was still stained with tears, but his eyes burst out with endless fierce light, full of panic.

"Your Majesty is angry..."

The apse of the Jade Hall, which is not too big, has been filled with creeping figures at this time; The courtiers and nobles who came from the Shuowang Dynasty and failed to get a 'place' in the apse gathered in the pavilion outside the apse and knelt on the ground.

"Since the queen mother is here, you don't know ?!!"

After a roar full of anger, Liu Hong's inhuman tear ducts gushed again: "I have been in the dynasty for nearly half a year, but I still don't know where my mother is, what face should I have to face the people of the world?" ”

As he spoke, Liu Hong's slightly hoarse tone choked up again: "As much as I forced my mother to be miserable, so that I admired filial piety and could not be exhausted, I was born in the deep palace, grew up in the hands of women, and neither knew joy nor worry, what is the difference?" ”

The wail of the young son of heaven provoked a group of Han elites in their seventies and eighties in the hall to raise their heads, so they had to say vaguely: "Your Majesty is sincere and filial, the blessing of this society, the luck of the world..."

Liu Hong turned a deaf ear, only looked at Zhang Yan sitting next to him with guilt, and stopped talking several times, and finally twisted his head into the couch in shame.

From an angle that no one could see, Liu Hong's eyes burst out with infinite light, and his thoughts were flowing rapidly, thinking about the ins and outs of this incident.

——Liu Hong never expected that Uncle Tian, who had been strictly guarding during this time, and even did not hesitate to make vague threats to defend himself, actually wanted to respect the Queen Mother!

Good guys...

I said it earlier!

If you know that Uncle Tian wants to invite the Empress Dowager, and even the backstabbing man has already been found, Liu Hong may definitely plan carefully, so as to hit Chen Zhou's party again!

What 'the prime minister imprisoned the queen mother'~ what 'the captain bullied the queen mother'~

It's a pity that Uncle Tian is still a little bold, and only deducts the basin of 'why did Empress Xiaohui become the queen mother eight or four years ago', and even 'why didn't Your Majesty respect the queen mother', to Cao Yan, who has died.

The reason is also very convincing: Cao Yan, as Lang Zhongling, closed the holy hearing, and deceived His Majesty to say, 'The queen has died'!

Thinking of this? Liu Hong probably has a spectrum in his heart.

"Where is Feng Changqing!"

Got up angrily? Liu Hong ignored the dull pain on his forehead and stood up suddenly.

Liu Budo, who was kneeling behind Zhang Cang, didn't dare to raise his head? only raised his shoulders slightly: "Feng Changchen is not suspicious?" Listen to the hadith of His Majesty. ”

I saw that Liu Hong's eyes were full of determination, and his tone was unprecedentedly tough: "Proposed edict: So Lang Zhonglingyan? Deceive the upper and lower and block the Holy Hearing? His sins are unforgivable; He ordered Zongzheng to go to the Pingyang Marquis Mansion in person? chase the name of the thief in the genealogy, and level the tomb of the thief; Anyone who dares to eat blood will be disrespectful! ”

The order to 'whip the corpse' of Cao Yan will be issued violently, waiting for Liu Budo to kowtow again? After saying that 'Zong Zhengchen does not doubt that he will be imprisoned by His Majesty'? Liu Hong ignored the slightly strange faces of everyone in the hall, and then said: "In the past, I was deceived by Lu Chan, Lu Lu and others, Xiahou Ying, and Cao Yan, and I don't know where my mother is?" If you don't respect the queen mother, this person's etiquette is often not tolerated! ”

Throwing all the pots on the heads of dead people without panting? Liu Hong's face was as usual after he ascended the throne, the first major edict related to the world.

"Where is my mother today? I am still happy and ashamed; Respect my mother, Queen Xiaohui, thought that she was the queen mother, and she was a righteous person! ”

"The first five to advocate respect? All increase the number of households! How many rods do you give? Jinqu Zhou Hou sent it as Zhonglang? Authorized to be buried by the princes; Huaiyang Shoujia entered Beijing in autumn and September to report on his work. ”

"Uncle Shaofu, the rank of General Jiawei, with the rank of Suwei Changle!"

"I have to set up my own mother as the queen mother, and when the whole world celebrates, in order to show the importance of filial piety in the Han family; He ordered the prime minister to rebel against the edict and grant amnesty to those who did not plot to rebel and sin. ”

"All the mothers of the people shall be given the rank of husband and lord; if the husband is widowed, he shall be added to the son; Another man was given a piece of cloth and ten pounds of meat. ”

After saying that, Liu Hong turned around and knelt down in front of Zhang Yan, who was sitting sluggishly on the edge of the imperial couch, and the toughness on his face was replaced by infinite indebtedness in a moment.

"The emperor is not filial, and he makes the queen mother live in the deep palace for a long time without knowing it; I ask my mother to forgive the sins of the emperor and move to Changle, so that I can be fully filial..."

Looking at the tears left by the 'son' in front of her again, Zhang Yan rubbed the corners of her sleeves in a panic, and finally nodded invisibly under the encouragement of the old eunuch beside her, and sat back on the imperial couch without saying a word.

"The sinners and others worship the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother Fu Wei is happy for a long time.

In an instant, there was a roar in the hall to say all day long, and Zhang Yan, who had just sat back on the imperial couch, was so frightened that she hurriedly wanted to stand up, but her arm was pulled by a gentle force.

"Don't be alarmed."

Obediently comforting his mother, Liu Hong's eyes were a little cold, and he looked at Zhou Bo, who was belatedly on the side: "But if the emperor has a breath, no one will dare to offend his mother!" ①”

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When the farce ended and the ministers and officials withdrew from the Weiyang Palace, it was already approaching dusk.

In the respectful Empress Xiaohui, oh no, from today onwards, it's time to call Empress Dowager Zhang...

After respectfully sending Empress Dowager Zhang to Changle Palace, which had already been cleaned up by Wang Zhong, and talking with this 'mother' with joy and sorrow, Liu Hong dragged his tired body back to the greenhouse hall.

After the medical officer changed the medicine for Liu Hong's forehead, re-bandaged it properly, and left an explanation of 'jealousy of cold and Xin', Liu Hong sent the attendant next to him to send an order to the servant to shoot: I am guilty of bowing, I have no face in the world, when I bathe and change clothes, fast for ten days, and accuse the high temple!

By the time everything was taken care of, Chang'an City was already shrouded in stars.

Liu Hong stood on the observation platform where he liked to stay in the past, looking at Chang'an City gradually falling into darkness from afar, and couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

On the stone guardrail of the observation deck, there is also a faint blood stain.

——About three months ago, Liu Hong was on this observatory and obtained the consent of the acting king Liu Heng on the matter of 'honoring the concubine'.

Looking back, I really had nothing but immature acting skills at that time.

If he could, of course Liu Hong wanted to honor Zhang Yan as soon as he ascended the throne, and there was no need to go near and far, or even try to disrupt the etiquette and try to win over the Empress Dowager Bo in history and win more political chips for himself.

But the situation at that time was really not clear in half a word.

Liu Hong's best choice is actually to honor Zhang Yan, the queen of filial piety, as he did today, and add the last piece of the legitimacy puzzle to his imperial system.

But the problems faced by Liu Hong at that time were far from being solved by 'cutting through the mess with a quick knife'.

On the subjective side, Liu Hong could not explain why Zhang Yan was still the queen instead of the queen mother eight years after the death of Emperor Xiaohui Liu Ying; Whether it was Liu Hong's elder brother and the former young emperor who ascended the throne eight years ago, or the original owner who ascended the throne four years ago, he never respected his own mother.

What is the reason for this matter, in fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see it - whether it is the former young emperor or the original owner during the reign, it is the emperor and grandmother who really hold the power of the court and politics with the emperor's grandmother as the queen mother, not the empress dowager Lu Pheasant.

But Liu Hong can't blame this incident on Lu Hou; Because once Empress Lu has such a stain, the legitimacy of Liu Hong's throne will be hit.

Therefore, Liu Hong has not respected Zhang Yan for a long time since he ascended the throne, and even tried to win over Liu Heng at the cost of 'respecting the acting queen mother', in fact, he was thinking: what to do to perfectly avoid these problems, and take out of this matter after he did not respect Zhang Yan in name, and Lu Hou, who did not respect Zhang Yan in fact, from this matter.

The answer given by Uncle Tian is undoubtedly the best answer: dead people can't speak.

In today's Han family, almost all the children of the Lu family, except for Empress Lu, are the same as Qin Shi Huang, they are all trash cans that can be deducted without hesitation.

Liu Hong naturally thought of this method, but he has never been able to make up his mind: should he achieve his political goals by repeatedly consuming dead people?

After that, a series of changes occurred that made people unable to take care of their breathing, Liu Hong was busy dealing with a series of major decisions related to the future, and the matter of honoring Zhang Yan as the queen mother was put on hold for the time being.

And the main reason why Liu Hong did not respect Zhang Yan is still objective factors: Chen Ping and Zhou Bo are watching from the sidelines!

At the beginning of the crossing, the main reason why Liu Hong was able to reach a balance with Chen Zhou's party on the surface was that Chen Zhou's party still theoretically had the possibility of denying Liu Hong's legal system and tripping Liu Hong.

Based on this, Chen was willing to temporarily refrain from using force, striving to push Liu Hong off the throne at the lowest cost and correct history to the original trajectory.

But if Liu Hong had been desperate to honor Zhang Yan at that time, then the legitimacy of Liu Hong's throne would be unshakable; As long as Zhang Yan admits that Liu Hong is his 'son', the fig leaf of 'Emperor Hui' will no longer be applied to Liu Hong.

It sounds like respecting Zhang Yan at that time, which is more beneficial to Liu Hong?

The truth is far from as simple as it seems.

In the absence of enough strength to protect himself, Liu Hong tried to confirm the legitimacy of the throne as the emperor of the light pole, which was almost equivalent to studying mushrooms in an African country in later generations.

- Chen Ping and Zhou Bo, it is impossible to choose to continue the relatively mild political game to contend with a feudal emperor whose legal system is indestructible!

It may sound paradoxical, but this is the common political norm: an opponent who is too busy to take care of himself and has constant civil strife only needs to be restrained and suppressed; But an adversary, united internally, is worth mobilizing the armed forces!

Therefore, before recruiting the Flying Fox Army into the King of Guanqin, so as to ensure his own safety, and accidentally triggering the Gaomiao Incident, the matter of honoring Zhang Yan belonged to Liu Hong's 'untouchable' high-voltage line - touch it and die!

After the Gaomiao Incident, although Liu Hong objectively had the conditions to honor the Queen Mother, the various events that followed, such as the reshuffle of the princes and kings, the Xiongnu envoys, etc., locked Liu Hongdi's attention tightly on the court.

Chen Zhoudang's looming figure in the matter of the transfer of the princes and kings, the entitlement, and even the Xiongnu mission, made Liu Hong's attention highly tight, and he had no energy to think about the matter of honoring the empress dowager.

At this time, Uncle Tian resolutely jumped out, allowing Liu Hong to send Zhang Yan to Changle Palace almost effortlessly!

"Oh, the Righteous One..."

Looking at the brightly lit courtyard outside the east wall of Weiyang Palace, on the periphery of Shangguanli, a sneer swelled on the corner of Liu Hong's mouth.

If Uncle Tian really went against the current and resolutely asked Zhang Ao's son to be the king of Zhao, then Liu Hong would be angry and ruined, so he could not help but feel admiration for Uncle Tian's loyalty.

But Uncle Tian bypassed Zhang Ao's son, the direct 'master', and only said that he respected the queen mother, was it really out of loyalty to Zhang Ao?

If that's the case, Uncle Tian won't be able to pull two Jiuqing of the dynasty, a nobleman with more than 5,000 households, and a local county guard who is far away in Kanto and will definitely enter the temple in the future-Shen Tujia, will be jointly played!

The reality is: those who can survive in politics for more than 20 seconds can never be a 'good person' through and through!

Regarding the possible political drawbacks of requesting the reinstatement of Zhang Ao's family for King Zhao, Uncle Tian was afraid that he knew everything about it; And the political benefits that can be brought by honoring the Queen Mother, Uncle Tian is also well aware.

And in between, Uncle Tian finally chose the option with greater political interests; What kind of person could such a person be who 'laid down his life for the sake of righteousness'?

If this is the case, then as early as when he followed Zhang Ao into Chang'an, Uncle Tian should have cut himself outside the Tingwei Yamen!

The actual situation is that Uncle Tian only won the treatment of 'reinstatement as the Marquis of Xuanping' for Zhang Ao's lineage, but instead focused on the matter of 'respecting the Empress Dowager' that Liu Hongchao thought about.

For such a person, Liu Hong said...

How many are for you!

What chivalrous courage and righteousness are not what bureaucrats should have; As an adjutant minister in the feudal era, Liu Hong only needs his courtiers to have enough political wisdom to look at problems from the perspective of the whole world, so as to make rational judgments.

Only such a person can be expected to become a politician who 'serves the country and the people', rather than a politician who abandons the country and society for his own selfish interests.

There is no doubt that Uncle Tian scratched Liu Hongdi's itch very accurately.

Cast it into a peach, Liu Hong naturally did not hesitate to repay him: give Uncle Tian the title of general, stay in the Changle Palace, completely sit on the identity of Uncle Tian's 'Queen Mother's Party', and set up the person of 'Zhang Ao's loyal guest' to Uncle Tian to support; in this way, Liu Hong can use Uncle Tian as a signboard to gather the 'Zhang Ao's old and old 'old Zhang Ao' forces that are still active in the political arena and are not too small, and hand them over to the Empress Dowager Zhang Yan.

And the party of the queen mother is almost no different from the party of the emperor.

At least for the current Liu Hong and Zhang Yan, this is indeed the case.

In fact, in the early Han Dynasty, for a long time before Emperor Wu killed his mother and son, the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty and the emperor were not as blackened as later generations, and were in a 'dire strait' struggle for power and profit.

In the final analysis, the Queen Mother is the mother of the emperor after all; Whether it is Emperor Wen Bo Empress Dowager, or Emperor Jing Emperor Dou Empress Dowager, or Emperor Wu Empress Dowager, they are actually the emperor's biological mothers.

What a frenzied person can do as the queen mother to snatch power from his own son?

The reality is not like the "Empress Dowager Dou suppressed Emperor Jing" and "tried to depose Emperor Wu" recorded in the history books, and it seems that 'the Empress Dowager = the emperor's biggest enemy'.

Just imagine, three years after Emperor Jing succeeded to the throne, when Wu Chu launched a rebellion, if there was no Empress Dowager Dou in the East Palace, would Emperor Jing still be able to suppress the field?

I'm afraid that at that time, Wu Chu will not raise the banner of 'punishing Chao wrong, Qing Jun's side', but 'acting king should not be established'!

Emperor Houwu ascended the throne in less than a weak crown, if there was no Dou clan to suppress the government and the opposition as the empress dowager, would the young and vigorous pig master be fooled and lame by the Confucian students of the Manchu Dynasty?

Even if he is optimistic, I am afraid that Emperor Wu will have to spend half of his life as an emperor, and devote himself to pulling power out of the hands of the powerful ministers in the court little by little.

So the real situation is: the role of the Queen Mother in the Han family is more like insurance during the transition of regimes!

That is, Lu Pheasant, who has a blue face and fangs and pus on the soles of his feet in the history books, is also a person who used the body of the queen mother to suppress the court and control the court within a stable range during the critical season when Liu Bang died and Liu Yingnian ascended the throne at the fifteenth year.

Later, Dou Hou ensured the two political successions of the Han family, especially the latter one, which pulled the Han family out of the quagmire of the Jianyuan New Deal, laying a solid foundation for the pig master to finally go down in history and complete the great cause.

Therefore, the argument that 'the empress dowager and the emperor are opposed' was not at all the norm in the early Han Dynasty; in most cases, the significance of the existence of the empress dowager of the Han Dynasty was limited to the positive role of 'taking the town for the young emperor's town', 'coming out to persuade the emperor when he did something wrong', and 'coercing the government and the opposition as the wife of the former emperor to prevent the court power from flowing excessively into the hands of powerful ministers'.

In addition, between the emperor and the clan, as well as between the emperor and the court, the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty generally played a neutralizing role, acting as a peacemaker, and playing a lubricant to alleviate the contradictions between the monarch and the minister.

From this point of view, the emperor of the Han dynasty and the queen mother can be said to be completely in the same camp - it is not normal for the mother and son to fight and live.

The Empress Dowager was established, and the last condition required for the legitimacy of Liu Hong's imperial throne was also satisfied; Only Liu Hong locked himself up through 'bathing and fasting', which was to put aside the issue of Zhou Bo's 'leading the troops to fight'.

After Liu Hong and Zhang Yan cultivate the 'mother and son' relationship and reach an agreement, the matter of the Xiongnu mission can be declared to be ended with the 'Queen Mother's Order' - Zhou Bo may dare to suppress the young Liu Hong as the 'Founding Hero', but let alone Zhou Bo, even if the Manchu Dynasty nobles are added together, it is impossible to have the courage to raise objections to the Queen Mother's instructions.

Even the Queen Mother Zhang Yan is actually only twenty-two years old.

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PS: Some people may wonder: Tianyan? Isn't it only for emperors?

It must be mentioned that the administrative treatment of the empress dowager of the Han dynasty is basically the same as that of the emperor: self-proclaimed me, called collapse after death, and buried with the first emperor in the emperor's mausoleum after death, etc.

In the famous historical 'Mao Dun Shu Absolute Rebellion' incident, the Xiongnu Shan Yu Mao Dun's title to the Han Empress Dowager Lu Pheasant is also 'Your Majesty'.

It can be seen from these signs: the queen mother in the early Western Han Dynasty had a political status on par with the emperor; In history, the Empress Dowager Dou almost abolished the throne of Emperor Wu, and faintly pointed out that the status of the Empress Dowager is slightly higher than that of the emperor, which is also consistent with the national policy of the Han family to rule the world with filial piety.

Therefore, Tianyan, the royal use of something, or calling myself I, being called His Majesty, etc., can be used on the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty.