The emperor and Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other ten permanent servants, they seem to be female cousins and want to set up a chastity archway.

In fact, with the power they have now, they can indeed directly put Liu Xian to death. Mobilize the forbidden army and surround Liu Xian, then Liu Xian will only have a dead end even if he has three heads and six arms.

But the emperor had to take care of his reputation and face, and he didn't want to publicly execute Liu Xian, so as not to be criticized by the world. In fact, even if he directly ordered the forbidden army to kill Liu Xian, it would not have much impact on his so-called reputation, after all, what good reputation does the current emperor have in the eyes of the world? It's just a ridiculous faint king.

But some things are so strange, now the Han court is corrupt, and the people are struggling to make a living. This is obviously the ineffective governance of the emperor, which has led to the current decline of the Han Dynasty. Obviously, it is the emperor who is absurd, in order to enjoy luxury, he favors the eunuchs to collect money for him, and it is obviously the emperor who causes the court to be full of traitors, but the Han Dynasty, basically few will think that it is the emperor's negligence. The strong and upright court of the Han court, the clear stream of society, etc., they are all those traitorous ministers who point the finger at the court, but they will not think that it is the emperor's mistake.

Therefore, in fact, even if the emperor directly ordered the forbidden army to do something to Liu Xian, it would not have any impact on him in the end. Even if it is influential, it will only target the contradictory eunuchs in the palace. It can be said that the current emperor is born with a lightning rod, and no matter what he does, there will be Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong and other ten permanent servants to top the pot.

But Emperor Liu Hong didn't understand this. Of course, it is also a problem of his own weak heart, more than 100 children of Liu Kui were executed back then, and he sometimes dreams of the emperor's reprimand of him.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Xian can still live a peaceful and stable life here in Luoyang. Otherwise, a little person like Liu Xian, who basically has no foundation in the court, doesn't know how many times he has died.

Even if Liu Xian was guarded, he didn't intend to be caught. But this is the capital, the territory of the Son of Heaven.

The army attacked and killed, even if there was a master like Wang Yue to escort him, it would be difficult for Liu Xian to survive.

If the emperor was not involved in this matter, it would all be those eunuchs to deal with Liu Xian, and if they didn't have to take into account the emperor's reputation and reputation, those eunuchs would have mobilized the forbidden army to take action against Liu Xian. Those eunuchs were much more ruthless.

Thinking about it, even the second-level eunuch Zhao He dared to quietly mobilize 4,000 officers and soldiers in Hanoi to attack and kill Liu Xian. And in history, even the great general He Jin dared to kill him. From these things, it can be seen that the eunuchs in the palace are all ruthless.

But then again, without directly acting against Liu Xian. The method they are now discussing and preparing is also quite vicious.

first show kindness to Liu Xian, so that everyone in the world can see the emperor's kindness to Liu Xian. and then attack Liu Xian, so that even if something happens to Liu Xian at that time, no one in the world will suspect the emperor. At that time, no one would suspect that the emperor, who had always been showing imperial favor to Liu Xian, was the real culprit against Liu Xian.

The emperor felt that Zhao He's proposal was excellent.

He thought about it, and in order to let the courtiers and the world see his kindness to Liu Xian, he decided to summon Liu Xian. At the same time, he also gave an order to the queen to leave the palace and go to the congratulatory banquet of Liu Xianna's Wuyong Marquis' Mansion.

Thinking about it, even the queen personally went to congratulate Liu Xian, the so-called Marquis of Wuyong's mansion, which can be regarded as giving enough face and showing the emperor's great favor to Liu Xian, right? Of course, as for the queen, he doesn't have a good impression of it, but nominally, she is still the queen, and it would be best for her to do these things to show her grace. In the end, it is also himself who gains fame. The Emperor felt that he had really perfected this arrangement.

At the same time, the rewards of the awards, these are all handled by Zhang Rang and others.

Soon, the holy decree was sent to Liu Xian's hands by the inner attendant. Xuan Liu Xian entered the palace to face the saint. No, it was not to enter the palace directly to face the saint alone, but to let Liu Xian enter the court with the courtiers in the morning of the next day.

This is those who are worried that if Liu Xian enters the palace alone, Liu Xian will be suspicious and refuse to enter the palace. In the case that everyone knows that the emperor's attendants want to put Liu Xian to death, if Liu Xian enters the palace alone and Liu Xian refuses, it will be equivalent to having to tear his face. They were afraid that Liu Xian would flee the capital immediately because of his resistance.

Therefore, let Liu Xian enter the court with the civil and military officials of the imperial court, so that Liu Xian's heart can also be appeased.

At the same time, not only Liu Xian was summoned, but also Ma Guiren was also summoned.

The emperor summoned him, and Liu Xian was really a little surprised for a while. Because Liu Xian thinks that the emperor wants to put himself to death, what else is there to see? If you want to see you, you should summon yourself when you know that you have arrived in the capital.

Ma Guiren was also worried about Zhongzhong, and after receiving the emperor's summons, he rushed from the Plains Palace's Mansion to Liu Xian's new mansion as soon as possible.

"Xian'er, what do you think is going on? Why did the emperor suddenly summon us? And it's better to go directly to the court, there won't be anything going on here, right? As soon as Ma Guiren met, he said worriedly.

"Uncle, I'm thinking about this too. There must be a demon when this thing goes wrong. Liu Xian also felt something, and felt that it must be a little unusual for the emperor to summon him at this time.

"So what now? This decree has been given, and we have to go to the pilgrimage. Ma Guiren sat down and frowned.

"Let me think about it......" Liu Xian carefully read the holy decree again, and said after a while: "Uncle, I don't think you have to worry too much. This time, we were summoned to the court, together with the civil and military officials of the imperial court, and I believe it was not to deal with us. Besides, we didn't do anything when we went to Beijing this time......"

Liu Xian was not too sure.

There must be something wrong, such as destroying Wu Jin, the Taishou of Hanoi, this is the killing of the imperial court officials, if it is really to be investigated, this is also a capital crime. There are also those grievances and grievances with General He Jin, if the imperial court really wants to make a fuss about these things, it is also possible.

"Or ...... Shall we escape the capital? Ma Guiren actually put forward such an opinion.

For Ma Guiren, he is indeed a little afraid of the imperial court now. You must know that the first emperor's Han bloodline was almost all killed. Now it is not easy to have a Liu Xian to continue the bloodline. Ma Guiren would rather have a betrayal on his back, and would rather rebel than see anything happen to Liu Xian.

"No, no, you can't escape the capital." Liu Xian shook his head and said: "Now there is no obvious sign to be against us, if we don't even dare to go to the court and escape, then it will not only be a matter of disobedience, it will be directly beaten as a rebellion, and we will be hunted down and targeted by the entire Han." ”

"But people think it's too dangerous. What if something happens......" Ma Guiren's face turned a little pale, and he didn't dare to imagine it.

In the face of the Han Dynasty and the current emperor, Ma Guiren really felt that he was so weak. Sometimes, the king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die, and they want to kill a person, which is the problem of Chrysostom.

"Sister Ying, really don't worry, things haven't been bad enough to be like that." Liu Xian sat close to Ma Guiren's side at this time, reached out and held her jade hand, and comforted her: "Sister Ying, we all know very well in our hearts that the current emperor can't tolerate people like us who are related to the first emperor, of course, if it's just some women's families, then there will be no threat to the emperor." But now that I'm here, he must be trying to kill us. But even if he kills us, he won't be too pretentious, and now that he openly summons us to the palace like this, it shouldn't be to deal with us. So, at this time, we don't need to be too scared. Let's go up to this court and see what they want. ”

"Really going? Otherwise, people go alone, what about you...... Pretending to be sick, yes, just pretending to be sick, so that you don't have to go to the palace. Ma Guiren's eyes lit up at this time, and he came up with another idea.

Liu Xian smiled and said, "Hehe, Sister Ying, it really doesn't have to be like this. At this moment, we were summoned to the palace to go to the court, which should be our response to the fact that we sent the emperor and the queen an invitation to the palace. I don't know, but this should be a good thing on the surface. Don't really worry, everything is with me, you have to trust your man's judgment. ”

"This ...... That's okay. ”

Ma Guiren heard Liu Xian say this, she had no choice but to put her mind at ease, followed her blushing, clasped Liu Xian's fingers with her backhand, bit her red cherry lips and said: "If something really happens, people can die with you, and it will not be in vain." ”

"You are not allowed to say anything about life and death." Liu Xian hugged Ma Guiren into his arms and said softly: "Let's enter the palace and go to the court, although it should be said that there should be nothing wrong, but we must also take some precautions." In this way, I asked Ning'er to give me her soft sword, as well as a full moon scimitar that hides a dancing butterfly. In addition, let Dancing Butterfly pretend to be your maid, and when the time comes, she can also enter the palace together, and she will guard outside the palace. ”

"Bring weapons into the palace? It's—it's terrible if it's discovered. ”

"Don't worry, Ning'er's soft sword can be hidden in the belt, and the full moon scimitar of the dancing butterfly can be hidden in the cuffs, even if you search your body, you can't find it." Liu Xian said, his eyes narrowed, and a cold light flashed: "Wang Yue is inconvenient to show up, so let him wait outside the palace, and our people also arrange hundreds of people outside the palace gate, in case something happens, even if they directly seize the palace gate and take us away." Of course, let Ning'er outside the city make some preparations, and Sister Yi Ji will also be sent out of the city first. Of course, this is just a case of preparation, but it is estimated that it will be fine. ”

Liu Xian is cautious, in fact, he thinks there should be nothing.

If something really happens, Liu Xian really won't worry about anything, he will kill out of the palace first and save his life. However, if given the opportunity, it is better to be able to hold some hostages. It's a bit safer that way.

"Okay, then do what you say. Big deal, let's get out of the palace. Ma Guiren buried herself in Liu Xian's chest, at this time, she felt that this little man could give her a special sense of security.

"Then I'll arrange it first, Sister Ying, you don't have to go back to the Plains Palace, just stay tonight." Let's go into the palace tomorrow morning. ”

"Hmmm......"

Soon, Liu Xian arranged these things separately.

Yi Ji was quietly escorted out of the city to the camp of the Liu Mansion caravan outside the city, and at the same time informed Zhang Ning, asking her to be ready to pick her up at any time to leave the city and prepare for the caravan to leave Luoyang. By the way, she will send her soft sword into the city to Liu Xian.

As for the preparations for evacuating Luoyang in case of something, at that time, it was impossible to take those commercial goods away, so let Zhang Ning prepare for destruction, this is very simple, prepare the things that make a fire, and you can destroy them with a fire.

Perhaps, because of a holy decree, Liu Xian has made so many preparations, which will make people feel that it is a big fuss. In fact, no, no matter when, life is your own, be careful, sometimes, make a preparation that is most unfavorable to yourself, if something really happens, then you will not be tied down.

This is also better, after Liu Xian received the holy decree summoning him to Beijing in Liulin Village, Liu Xian was prepared for the worst, and he was careful all the way, what was the result? Sure enough, there was a problem. If Liu Xian had not prepared in advance, then in the face of the attack of the 4,000 officers and soldiers pretending to be thieves of Hanoi Taishou, he would have been helpless, and it was very likely that there would be great losses.

Everything is ready, it's night, Ma Guiren and Liu Xian together, I don't know if it's going to enter the palace tomorrow to face the saint, she doesn't know whether it's a blessing or a curse, a little nervous, so, it seems a little crazy to ask Liu Xian, maybe only in this way to achieve endless pleasure will make her relax, only in this way will she feel Liu Xian's enthusiasm, will she feel at ease.

Generally speaking, the court begins at the beginning of the hour, that is, before dawn, the emperor and his ministers will start a day's work and deal with state affairs in the court.

However, the current emperor has not been in the early dynasty for a long time. Not to mention the early dynasty, this is actually an ordinary court discussion, and the emperor is too lazy to participate. If it weren't clear that there was something important to discuss in the court, then the emperor would not have gone to court.

Let's put it this way, if there is no major matter, the emperor will basically not go to the court, and the affairs of the court will be discussed by the three princes and nine kings first, and then transferred by the eunuchs to the emperor who is having fun in the deep palace, unless it is an urgent matter, otherwise, the emperor will not personally intervene, and it will also be handled by the eunuchs.

In such a situation, it is strange that the power of the imperial court does not fall.

But this time, in order to summon Ma Guiren and Liu Xian, the emperor actually went to an early court, although he did not arrive at the court before dawn, but it was much earlier than before.

The emperor is also willing to do things that show favor to people and win a good reputation. And he also thinks it's a little interesting, thinking about giving it now and erasing it later, which seems interesting.

Of course, what the emperor thinks is more interesting is that he can see Ma Guiren, a beautiful woman who can pinch a handful of water.