Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty.

The West Garden of the Royal Palace.

This is a huge palace garden specially ordered by the emperor to build for pleasure.

Speaking of this West Garden, there are really a lot of allusions to the story.

One of them is the donkey cart yard in the West Garden, which is the emperor Liu Hong occasionally sees the donkey cart driven by others and finds it interesting, and specially opens a donkey cart yard in the West Garden.

The emperor liked to drive a donkey cart and spread it, and the officials and scholars in Beijing competed to imitate it, thinking that it was fashionable, and the price of donkeys among the people rose sharply for a while. Donkeys are also like paper, and Luoyang paper is expensive.

Second, a large area is deliberately set aside in the West Garden, where there are imitation markets, shopping malls, various shops, stalls, etc., including Qinglou. Anyway, it's to make this a place for the market. Then let the palace maids, eunuchs, and even some courtiers enter it, and let them role-play, some are acting as pawns, some are acting merchants, and some are acting guests to shop and bargain. In addition, there are acrobatics such as singing and monkey playing, making this a real market place.

Then, Emperor Liu Hong cosplayed and got into the game, he put on the clothes of a merchant, pretended to be a merchant selling goods, walked around this man-made bazaar, or drank and had fun in the hotel, or quarreled, fight, and fought with the shopkeepers and customers.

Third, Emperor Liu Hong was very yearning for the game of the wine pool meat forest of the king of Shang Shi. However, he also knew a little bit of the impact, and he didn't dare to take it seriously. However, in reality, it is much the same. For he had built a thousand houses in this western garden, and had people collect green moss to cover the steps, and draw water from the canals around the thresholds, circulating everywhere. The canal water is planted with the lotus flower that the southern country offers, the flower is as big as the cover, more than one zhang high, the lotus leaf is rolled up in the night and the day, and there are four lotus clusters in one stem, which is called "night Shu lotus". And because this lotus leaves only unfold after the moon comes out, the moon god is famous for Shu, so he calls it "Wangshuhe" again. In this fairyland-like garden, Emperor Ling of Han ordered the palace ladies to strip naked and frolic and chase. Sometimes he himself was happy, and he took off his clothes and mingled with them. Therefore, he gave this garden the name "Naked Pavilion".

In fact, this naked tour hall is really not much different from the wine pond meat forest.

In addition, Emperor Liu Hong also personally designed a kind of open crotch pants for those palace ladies to wear to facilitate his activities.

Occasionally, Emperor Liu Hong would also invite some close ministers to enter the "Naked Pavilion" to have fun together, which was extremely absurd.

In fact, there are countless more ridiculous things.

It was night, the lights of thousands of homes, and the entire Luoyang City seemed to be unaffected by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it was still as prosperous and lively as ever, and the noisy wine orders came from those restaurants and taverns.

In the west garden of the palace, the palace lights are also as bright as day at this time.

This night, the emperor Liu Hong did not summon the ministers to have fun, and in the midst of a coquettish gasp, Liu Hong threw a palace maid wearing open crotch pants casually, and was thrown into a steaming bath with a pop in exclamation.

"Haha, I am the emperor of the Han Dynasty, everything in this world is mine, including you. Who else! ”

A group of palace beauties giggled or exclaimed as they ran around the lotus pond pavilion in the beautiful fairyland, giggling with the emperor.

On this night, the emperor decided to make a big splash of dragon wind, and wanted to wet the beauties in the palace who had been summoned here, and was determined to let every beauties feel his majesty.

Who else? This sentence is really domineering.

It's a pity that those words are directly proportional to his tall and thin figure, which also looks so thin, where is the meaning of majesty and might? Where does the domineering come from?

"The Emperor, the Emperor's ......"

Outside the palace, someone was snorting softly.

"Huh? Is it the Father? ”

"Your Majesty, it is the old slave, there is a secret report in Jizhou, and there is something to report to the emperor."

The naked Emperor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Hong, beckoned, and a beautieth hurriedly stepped forward with flattery, and put a robe embroidered with a golden dragon on the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Han laughed evilly, reached out and touched the open crotch, and while laughing, he raised his hand to look at the wet fingers, and strode towards a dragon chair in the hall.

"Come in, the matter of Jizhou, didn't Emperor Fu Song have full authority to govern it? Why should I bother with the general situation? What's going on? ”

A fat man about fifty years old rolled in, and then crawled in front of the emperor at once.

This person is the first of the ten permanent servants in the palace.

Zhang Rang is quite scheming, vicious, and good at flattery, and knows the emperor's heart.

The emperor was extremely fond of him, and when there were no outsiders in the palace, the emperor called Zhang Rang his father. However, in front of the emperor, Zhang Rang never showed a pampered and arrogant attitude, on the contrary, even if the emperor favored and even respected him, he would show trembling and extremely deferential to the emperor.

"The father doesn't have to be like this, there are no outsiders here, flat down, give sitting."

"Emperor Xie!"

Zhang Rang kowtowed in thanks, but did not get up, but knelt in front of the emperor and presented a letter with both hands.

The emperor glanced at it cursoryly, frowned, and said, "Is it the matter of the nobles of the Plains Palace?" And this Liu Xian...... It seems to be a little familiar, didn't a minister hand over a chapter earlier, mentioning Liu Xianqi? ”

The prince of the Plains Palace, although the emperor has not thought about it for a long time, and no one has stood up in front of him for a long time. But his impression was particularly profound, so he remembered it at once, and at the same time, he seemed to have heard of Liu Xian's name.

"Your Majesty, there are indeed people who want to show that Liu Xian has made meritorious contributions to the relief of the people, and wants to seek an official body for Liu Xian. However, the old slave felt that what Liu Xian was relieving was actually some people who were implicated in the Yellow Turban thieves, and Liu Xian wanted to be an official, but he didn't hand in filial piety, so he ...... The old slave pressed down. Your Majesty, you think that this Liu Xian has money and food to help those who have something to do with the Yellow Turban Thief, but why can't he give some money and food to the emperor? You know, now that the Night Lotus Wonderland is far from being built, why can't he contribute to the emperor? ”

"Hmm...... Father, you are right. The rules I have set, whoever wants to be an official will buy it with money, so Liu Xian has money to help the people, but he has no money to buy officials? But...... You said that Ma Guiren and Liu Xian got together? ”

"Your Majesty, how exactly you got a piece, the old slave has no way of knowing. However, the old slave felt that this matter could not be taken lightly, so he dared to come to disturb the emperor's Yaxing, and was anxious to report to the emperor. Zhang Rang said.

"Humph! The secret letter said that Ma Guiren also led Liu Xian to worship the temple? Is this an iron determination to let Liu Xian inherit the bloodline of the Plains Palace? What a big dog guts! ”

The emperor was originally suspicious by nature, and Liu Hong was even more so. Especially when he has a ghost in his heart.

He was really a little annoyed at this time, and when he was angry, there was an emperor's majesty coming out of his body, and this momentum made Zhang Rang a little flustered.

The emperor said in a cold voice: "Ma Guiren Ma Guiren...... is just a woman's family, isn't it over for An An to finish her life? If she has to accept a righteous son, is she still unwilling in her heart? Want to rebel? If it weren't for the fact that she, a nobleman, was the first emperor's own seal, I would have to take care of the emperor's reputation, otherwise, I would have given her a glass of wine back then. ”

Emperor Liu Hong was elected to the palace and ascended the throne as the emperor that year, and it was not easy to gain a firm foothold in the palace, and then it was not easy to regain the imperial power from the hands of the general Dou Wu and the empress dowager Dou Miao.

When Emperor Liu Hong was in power, he was most worried that his throne would be threatened by others, and he was most worried that the people of the world would criticize his improper origin of the throne, and that the people of the world would talk about his unorthodox Han family.

Therefore, when the imperial power was in his hands, he tried every means to destroy those who were closer to the previous emperor. Of course, these were also the tacit common opinions of the eunuchs and ministers who supported him to sit on the throne at that time.

As a result, he didn't have to do anything with his own hands, naturally someone dealt with the aftermath for him, and the family of Liu Kui, the brother of the first emperor, Bohai Wang, did not survive.

In this way, the first emperor has lost any blood relatives, and in this way, he Liu Hong has become a blood relative who is close to the first emperor. Emperor Xian was his cousin.

Since then, no one in the Han Dynasty has ever discussed whether he, the emperor, is the legitimate heir.

But now, the nobleman of the Plains Mansion actually accepted a righteous son? Moreover, this righteous son is also a member of the Han family, which is really intriguing. At least, this more or less made the emperor feel a little threatened.

Of course, the emperor didn't think that this Ma Guiren and Liu Xian could threaten him. After all, he has been an emperor for more than ten years, and at this time, no one will dare to jump out and say whether he is an orthodox and legitimate emperor. He was worried that if he sat back and watched Ma Guiren and Liu Xian go on like this, whether he would threaten the succession of his two sons to the emperor in the future.

However, this thought only flashed in the emperor's heart. Because he was only in his thirties at this time, and he was in the prime of life, he would not think about his own son inheriting his throne in the future.

He just felt annoyed for no reason, to put it bluntly, he was indeed waiting for Ma Guiren to die, and when the time came, everything in the Plains Palace would be owned by the imperial court, which would be equivalent to his ownership. All the wealth of the Plains Mansion will belong to him, the emperor, in the future. But now a righteous son suddenly appeared, so even if Ma Guiren died, there would still be an heir to the Plains Palace, and as the emperor, it would not be good to risk the world to collect the wealth of the Plains Mansion into the treasury and collect it for himself.

Before Liu Hong was taken into the palace as a young man, his father made a living in business, and he often followed him, so he more or less knew some business methods.

I don't want to say anything if I haven't learned this way of management, anyway, he has learned a lot about the merchant's philistines and the things that must be investigated.

In addition, Liu Hong is really poor and extravagant, profligate, coupled with greed and ink, which makes today's treasury extremely empty and has no money.

Yes, there is really no money.

Historically, his "naked tour hall" was so large that it was not completely built until 186. Now, it is only a small part of the construction, but it has to be stopped because of lack of money.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Han Army and the Yellow Turban Army fought for nearly a year, and the soldiers' food and salaries and the sergeants' pensions have been spent like money for nearly a year. And now, there are still Yellow Turban troops in all parts of the Han Dynasty who rebel from time to time, and it is necessary to allocate money and food first to mobilize troops and horses to clear out the Yellow Turban thieves. If there is no money and no food, how can we send troops to quell the rebellion?

It has been decades since the first emperor of the Plains Palace, and the wealth accumulated by the Plains Palace is estimated to be popular with everyone.

But now that Ma Guiren is doing this, when will he be able to get the wealth of the Plains Palace?

"Father, Ma Guiren, this slut really deserves to die, and that Liu Xian. However, after all, Ma Guiren is a noble person given by the first emperor, and it is difficult for me to make a clear decree...... Justice. What should this be according to the Father's view? After the emperor's face changed several times, he asked Zhang Rang for advice.

"Your Majesty, actually...... Ma Guiren accepts righteous sons, which is in line with the world's norms. Our court really has no excuse to ask them for their guilt. Perhaps, we can do that......"

"Oh? Let's talk about it. ”

"Jizhou was originally the base camp of the Yellow Turban Army, although it has now been pacified by General Huangfu Song, there are still many remnants of the Yellow Turban that cannot be wiped out for a while. There has been another express report that the remnants of the Yellow Turban have gathered nearly a million troops in the area of Montenegro. In other words, Jizhou will also become a troubled place for the Yellow Turban Army at any time. Why didn't the emperor give Ma Guiren a holy decree, in the name of protecting the widow of the first emperor, bring Ma Guiren to the capital, and by the way, take the money and property of the Plains Palace. Then let that Liu Xiandai Ma Guiren stay in the Plains Palace, and then, we can let people ......"

Zhang Rang said, making a neck-scratching motion.

The emperor immediately understood, and couldn't help but say with great joy: "It's still a way for Yafu, yes, in the name of protection, he summoned Ma Guiren to Jingshi, as long as she arrives in Jingshi, what else can she do as a woman?" As for her righteous son, hehe...... Okay, that's it. ”

"But...... What if the nobleman finds an excuse to resist and disobey? Liu Hong said again.

"How dare she? This is the best, but you can directly copy the plain king's mansion by the next holy decree......"

"No! In any case, in this name, she is also my royal relative, and I cannot give anyone a voice. ”

Liu Hong waved his hand.

There are really many excuses for killing Ma Guiren, and there is no need to wait until now. Liu Hong kept Ma Guiren, which was actually to block the mouth of the world. deliberately left a person who is related to the first emperor and has a close relationship, so that the people of the world can see that this emperor is a Ming monarch, not the kind of brutal monarch, who is tolerant of people, and has great respect for the relatives of the first emperor. This is also tantamount to telling the world that the affairs of Liu Kui, the king of the Bohai Sea, and his family back then were not done by this emperor.

It can be said that Ma Guiren is the person of Liu Hongli's archway, and he can no longer be sentenced to death in a clear manner.