Empress He temporarily put aside her plan to help her son become the crown prince for the time being, because she did listen to what Liu Xian said to her. Now that the emperor is in the prime of life, she is making a move to set up a prince behind her back, isn't this tantamount to looking forward to the emperor's early death?

If you completely anger the emperor because of your secret actions, it will really be more than worth the loss.

Empress Ho has now learned to take a long-term view. As Liu Xian said, it doesn't matter if the prince is not a son, the important thing is that after a hundred years of the emperor, his son can inherit the throne. Therefore, at present, it is still important to cultivate a son, not a time to fight for power.

But in the future, he will always need someone to support his son.

He has fallen out of favor with the emperor, and the eunuchs in the palace are all treacherous villains who are two-faced and stabbed, and they cannot be trusted. His half-brother, General He Jin, has been estranged from him since he was a child, not close to him, and unreliable. As for those powerful ministers in the court, people may not look down on themselves, the queen who is equivalent to being beaten into the cold palace, to put it bluntly, they don't have enough interests for them to stand for themselves.

Under such circumstances, Ma Guiren and Liu Xian, who were also in a bad situation in the capital Luoyang, became the only people who could cooperate with her.

In order to get the help of Ma Guiren and Liu Xian in the future, Empress He decided to help Liu Xian first and let Liu Xian develop in Luoyang.

Liu Xian plans to buy an industry, no matter what she does, this is something that can increase Liu Xian's influence in Luoyang, and she feels that she must help Liu Xian succeed.

Yang Ci?

He is also one of the powerful ministers of the dynasty, and his power cannot be ignored, and his protégé and former officials still have a relatively large influence in the court.

It is said that the queen can't influence a real court member like Yang Ci, one of the three dukes. Yang Ci is actually equivalent to a power party of its own.

But Yang Ci is old and dying, who knows how long he can live? Once Yang Ci is gone, then the tree will fall and scatter, and the court officials of his party will naturally have to regain their footing at that time.

Perhaps, at this time, it is appropriate to stretch out a hand, or you can receive a part of Yang Ci's power in the DPRK and China.

But it's a pity that Queen He is indeed a woman who has fallen out of favor with the emperor, and it is inconvenient for her to come forward for whatever she wants to do, these things must be done by someone else, and Liu Xian seems to be a more suitable candidate.

Queen He thought carefully for a long time on the spot, and then in the princess hall, she asked Princess Wannian to study ink for her, and wrote a letter in her own handwriting, asking Princess Wannian to find an opportunity to send it to Yang Ci's hands.

Of course, Empress He also confessed to Princess Wannian, these are secrets, and no one can reveal them, including her father.

Just looking at the letter, in fact, there is nothing, to the effect that it is to help Liu Xian intercede with Yang Ci, and let Yang Ci transfer Cuizhu Ruan to Liu Xian, in addition, it is vaguely mentioned that if something is difficult to decide, you can also find Liu Xian, or there will be unexpected surprises.

When Princess Wannian saw that this letter was all for Liu Xian to seek some benefits, she would naturally keep it a secret.

Although she and Liu Xian have known each other for a short time, she has never had any friends, and in her heart, she already regards Liu Xian as her friend, and she is still relatively close.

The next day, Princess Wannian sneaked out of the palace and went to Yang Ci's mansion.

This, although Princess Wannian said that she secretly went out of the palace, but it is not a secret, those guards guarding the palace must know, those guards know, then the eunuchs in the palace also know. In fact, it is difficult for anyone in the palace to hide their every move from the eyes and ears of those eunuchs. It's just that in their eyes, Princess Wannian is actually a dispensable princess, and her departure from the palace is just a trivial matter. Under normal circumstances, they would not be idle and would not tell the emperor anything because of some actions of Princess Wannian.

Besides, even if it's a whistleblower, what's there? At most, the emperor just said a few words about the princess of Wannian, and he might not be willing to say anything serious, if the emperor was not lazy, he was actually a qualified daughter slave. For this daughter of his own, the pampering is also real.

Therefore, there is no profit to be made in whistleblowing, it is completely meaningless, so they simply pretend not to know.

After Princess Wannian went to Yang Ci's mansion, she transferred to the Marquis Wuyong's mansion, but she didn't see Liu Xian, because Liu Xian had already left the city and arrived at the Liu Mansion caravan camp outside the city.

At this time, Liu Xian also had to look at the training effect of the thousands of guards, and he also had to eliminate hundreds of people from them to determine the total number of 600 people. This total number is the guards of Ma Guiren and Liu Xian, the Marquis of Wu Yong. The number of people was determined, and this list of personnel was to be reported to the imperial court, and the six hundred guards could be obtained from the imperial court in the future.

These are the benefits of being knighted.

The titles of the Han Dynasty are divided into 20 levels, and in general, they are the liehous, the marquis of Guannei, the chief of the great concubine, the chief of the chariot, the great Shangzao, and the Shaoshangzao...... Public doctors, official doctors...... Shangzao, Gongshi.

These titles seem to be a bit complicated, but in fact, to put it bluntly, they are also very simple, from the top to the bottom, the liehou is generally equal to the county marquis, the fief is a county, and the food households (that is, the food rent tax) are 10,000 households. And so on.

During the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial court sold officials and lords, which has made these title systems very confusing. There are many people in the Han Dynasty who spent money to buy a knighthood, but they are just a false name, without any benefits, and some are not even foodies. And some, they were originally local landlords, they originally had many tenants, and they spent money to buy a knighthood, which would not increase the number of households for them, but only a title sounded good.

Liu Xian, the Marquis of Wuyong, really wanted to say that he really obtained it by virtue of his military merits, but if he did not have a fief, he was equivalent to the Marquis of Guannei. The emperor was definitely unwilling to make Liu Xian the Marquis of Wuyong, but at that time, in order to appease Liu Xian, so that the emperor could justifiably summon Liu Xian to Luoyang. Even if it wasn't willingly, it was sealed.

Then, this is related to the relationship between the nobles of the plain palace, and Liu Xian made such a request in the court, so it can only be done according to the laws of the Han Dynasty. In this way, Liu Xianfang could have the six hundred guards who were in line with the laws of the Han Dynasty, and the imperial court would provide them with private soldiers.

However, this kind of thing is not guaranteed, Liu Xian is still in Luoyang, but if he leaves Luoyang, it is estimated that it will be a little difficult to ask the court for the six hundred people.

But for Liu Xian, these are actually good things, and now he can ask the court for a little benefit, and even if there is no supply from the court in the future, Liu Xian can still feed this little bit of people.

For the thousands of people recruited this time, Liu Xian still attaches great importance to it. After all, there are dozens of martial arts practitioners here, and there are two or three hundred veterans. As for the rest of the people, Liu Xian thought that they were all people who had the potential to become military generals through his own sense of peace and true qi.

If there is no accident, in a few years, these thousands of people are estimated to be masters above the quasi-military general.

That's right, although three or four hundred people will be eliminated, Liu Xian does not intend to give up on them, and will recruit them in the name of the Liu Mansion caravan to become the guards of the Liu Mansion caravan.

Liu Xian, together with Zhang Ning and Huang Wudie, formulated a training plan for these people.

Three days later, Zheng Bo in the city sent someone to report that Yang Ci had been invited.

As soon as Liu Xian heard it, he roughly knew what was going on, and if there was no accident, Cuizhu Ruan was about to start.

Then he went back to the city with Huang Wudie, and after returning to the house to wash, he dressed up and went to Yang Ci's house.

As one of the three princes, Yang Gongfu's mansion is naturally extremely magnificent. Located not far from the palace, it is equivalent to being next to the palace.

However, after Liu Xian arrived, he saw that the whole Yang Mansion seemed to be a little listless, and the atmosphere was a little dignified.

Liu Xian did not see Yang Ci in the living room of the Yang Mansion, but saw him in the backyard of the Yang Mansion in Yang Ci's bedroom.

Seeing Yang Ci, although Liu Xian knew that his life was short, he was still taken aback. You must know that when the emperor summoned him not long ago, Liu Xian also saw him in the court, and at that time, although he looked drooping and old, he could still walk and move, and he could still speak normally.

But Yang Ci in front of him has a yellow face and thin muscles, and he is already skinny, and he is really in his last years.

This is the glorious Han Dynasty, and the years are really unforgiving.

Yang Ci's life is indeed prominent. Or not to mention that in his life, his Yang Mansion is actually a well-known existence in the entire Han Dynasty.

Let's put it this way, Yang Ci's tenth ancestor is called Yang Xi, that is the person who chased and killed Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, since the Western Han Dynasty, the Yang family has been supporting the Han and being loyal to the Han. All along, the Yang family can be regarded as the dragon protector of the Han Dynasty.

Later, there was a Yang family general in the Great Song Dynasty, and in fact, the Yang Mansion of the Han Dynasty would not be too inferior to the Yang family generals of later generations.

In addition, later generations said that the Yuan family of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, the Yuan family of the fourth generation and the third duke, the family was prominent. In fact, this family of four worlds and three princes is not unique to the Yuan family.

The same is true of this Yang Ci.

Yang Ci's grandfather, Yang Zhen, was a lieutenant; His father, Yang Bing, was also an official to the rank of lieutenant; As for Yang Ci himself, he actually served as a lieutenant, which was in 182, although he was deposed because of arguments with the emperor, but he was immediately recalled to another position, and then appointed Situ and Sikong, these are the positions of the three dukes.

In fact, this is already the third world and the third duke. Okay, let's go to Yang Ci's son. His son is actually Yang Biao, who is also an official to the rank of lieutenant. Then this is the fourth world and the fourth duke, compared to the Yuan family, it is even more powerful. It's a pity that Yang Ci's grandson Yang Xiu, a man of extraordinary intelligence and talent, was killed for offending Cao Cao. Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be the fifth world and the fifth duke.

There are many things, not to mention that I don't know, but when I say it, I am really shocked. It turns out that Yang Ci Yang Mansion has such a background.

It can also be seen from this that the Yang Mansion does have a pivotal position in Luoyang, not even worse than the status of the Yuan family.

Of course, Yang Ci's family was accompanied by his son, Yang Biao, who was about forty years old, and his grandson Yang Xiu, who was only about ten years old. For the rest of the women, Liu Xian didn't know who was who.

However, Liu Xian saw that Wang Xianwang's shopkeeper was also there, and he supported an old woman who seemed to have cried.

"Lord Yang Ci! Liu Xian, Marquis of Wuyong, was invited to come to visit. Liu Xian naturally didn't greet Wang Xian at this time, relaxed his steps, approached Yang Ci's bed, and bowed down in a low voice.

Then Liu Xian said: "Mr. Yang, you owe your body to the lamb, you should recuperate with peace of mind, if it is because of Xiaohou's trivial matters, I don't think you need to let Mr. Yang personally ask, right?" ”

Yang Ci still looked really weak, his eyes were closed, he seemed to be a little out of breath, and the beard on his mouth trembled.

"Ahem......"

Yang Ci still tried hard to open his eyes, but his eyes no longer had any brilliance, and they seemed to be a little empty.

After a while, he slowly focused, and looked at Liu Xian, who was bowing in front of his bed, very seriously.

"Ahem, yes, it's Liu Xianwu Yonghou who is here, okay, it's good to come, Biao'er...... Lift up for the Father. ”

"No, no, Master Yang, you can just lie down." Liu Xian wanted to stop it.

"Huh...... Ahem...... It's okay...... The old man is not dead. Yang Ci stubbornly struggled to sit up, so frightened that Liu Xian stepped forward despite Yang Biao, and was busy helping Yang Ci up, and then took a big soft pillow and put it on Yang Ci's back, and then Liu Xian let Yang Biao help him and stepped back a little.

"Alas, this person is old, he is really sick, it seems that the old man's limit has come......" Yang Ci's voice was like a leaky wind, old and weak.

"Lord Yang Ci only gets sick occasionally, but he will get better soon, and he will definitely live a long life. Now that Dahan is in an eventful season, Dahan can't live without a national minister like you. Liu Xian complimented.

"Haha...... Marquis Wu Yong is really good at talking, so the old man will accept your noble words and live a long life. ”

Yang Ci smiled when he heard this, although it was ugly, but it seemed that his mood was indeed better, and then his spirit was also better.

"What are you all doing here? The old man is not dead yet, go out, don't let Marquis Wu Yong laugh. Well...... Biao'er and Wang Xian stayed" Yang Ci saw the family in the room at this time, and said with a tiger face.

Summoning Liu Xian here is indeed an important matter to discuss, and these family members should not participate in it, and it is not appropriate to know too much.

Although Yang Ci is old, his status in the family is useless. The people did not dare to disobey and left the dormitory.

"I'm sorry, I can't entertain you well." Yang Ci seemed to be a little apologetic and said to Liu Xian.

"These are all trivial things, Lord Yang doesn't have to take it to heart." Liu Xian waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care.

"Okay, the old man's spirit is really not very good, so let's make a long story short. Do you want Cuizhu Ruan, are you planning to pass through the Qinglou? Yang Ci asked directly.

"No!" Liu Xian said very simply.

followed Liu Xian and said very honestly and directly: "The Qinglou industry, in my Liu Xian's opinion, is indeed a place to hide filth. I, Liu Xian, don't plan to run Qinglou in the future. ”

"Oh? You want to buy the Qinglou, but you don't open the Qinglou, so what do you want Cuizhu Ruan to do? ”

Yang Ci suddenly asked with some curiosity.