On July 13 of the second year of Yanchang, Liu Jian and Murong Ling, the king of Han, arrived in Jinling with three thousand palace guards.

Seeing Liu Jian, the king of Han, leading his army into the city, Qin Zhong, who had been waiting for a long time, burst into tears, and knelt down to worship Liu Jian with the internal guards and defenders. Under Qin Zhong's guidance, Liu Jian sent 1,000 people to take over the 10 million guan money collected from the mansions of various families and clans, and according to the emperor's edict, he went to buy grain and rice and shipped it to various places for disaster relief.

Liu Jian took Murong Ling and the others into the palace to meet the emperor, the palace door opened, the sunlight shone in, and everyone was blinded. Liu Xuan rubbed his eyes, and when he saw that it was Liu Jian and Murong Ling coming, he stood up from the throne with force.

Liu Jian and Murong Ling covered their noses, the stench in the main hall was stinking, and they were afraid of letting these ministers go, so everyone's feces and urine were solved by setting up a toilet in this hall. At this time, the three princes and nine secretaries who were elegant and elegant were unkempt and stinky, and Liu Jian couldn't help but gag.

Liu Xuan laughed: "Prince, the prince of Daliang, the descendant of Taizu, Liu Jian, have you seen it?" This is the pillar of the court of high-ranking officials and Houlu, this is their true face! You have to remember what they look like, and in the future, you must no longer be a puppet emperor like me."

Liu Jian hurriedly knelt down: "Long live the emperor, the ministers dare not trespass if they die, and the ministers ask Your Majesty to take back their orders to calm the hearts of the people in the world." Your Majesty gave birth to a dragon son, and the ministers swore allegiance to the death, and asked Your Majesty to think twice"

As soon as these words came out, the ministers immediately recovered their vitality from their dying, and Zongzheng Liu Qian was the first to speak: "His Royal Highness King Han's invitation is very much in line with the will of heaven, Your Majesty is in full bloom in the Spring and Autumn Period, if the Yuanzhi clan is established as the prince, the ministers are afraid that the country will be shaken, and the army and people in the world will be uneasy."

"Your Majesty, please take back your life, it is all the incompetence of the ministers, causing Your Majesty to work day and night, and hurt the dragon's body, the ministers must do their best to rescue the people from today onwards, and His Majesty will give birth to a dragon son one day, and it is not too late to establish a prince!"

"Your Majesty should respect the law of etiquette, respect the ancestral system, and do not be hasty in establishing a prince!"

"Your Majesty can clearly issue an edict to withdraw the edict issued before and calm the hearts of the army and the people in the world!"

Liu Xuan laughed wildly: "In your opinion, the establishment of the prince is to shake the country, and the death of hundreds of thousands of people who starve to death, sickness and drown is not to shake the country, what is the country, the people are the country!" I have made up my mind, and I will set up Liu Jian, the king of Han, as the prince, and from now on, Liu Jian can go to the palace with a sword to praise and worship his name, and all the uses can be compared with me! Murong Ling was named the young master of the crown prince and accompanied the prince Liu Jian to protect the prince thoroughly! ”

Liu Jian still knelt on the ground and cried and excused himself, after all, Liu Jian didn't know if this was a temptation, although Murong Ling was extraordinary, but after all, Murong Ling and the emperor also had a good personal relationship.

Murong Ling received the order and thanked him: "Obey!" ”

The answer was quick and concise, all the ministers looked at Murong Ling, and Murong Ling spoke again: "Your Majesty, the minister has a little brother Li Xiaofei, who is also a friend of the prince, and the minister has become a prince, but he is nothing, the minister wants to ask for an official position for him!" ”

Liu Xuan smiled with relief: "Even the prince can't believe what I said, only you, Mr. Murong, are so sincere, since it is what Mr. Murong asks, then I will not hesitate to reward, this Li Xiaofei I have also seen it, so I will call him the prince and young master, you two will give me a good support for the prince, after he returns to heaven, you will support the prince to ascend the throne, by the way, don't be the emperor in this Jinling City, the dynasties that founded the country in Jinling are short-lived." ”

Xiao Shan glanced at Liu Jian and asked Liu Jian to continue to resign, but Liu Jian thought that his father-in-law wanted him to come down to the position of prince, so he knelt on the ground and thanked him.

Liu Xuan asked Liu Jian to stand next to him to accept everyone's congratulations, Liu Jian strode up to the throne, Liu Xuan waved his hand, and all the officials knelt down to congratulate: "His Royal Highness the Prince, Chitose Chitose Chitose!" ”

After the congratulations were over, Liu Xuan fell headlong on the throne, everyone was in a mess, Murong Ling jumped straight onto the throne, stretched out his hand and touched Liu Xuan: "Your Majesty is just overworked, just rest for a few days!" ”

Qin Gou'er, the inner eunuch, was not surprised, commanded the yellow-clothed internal guard to stabilize the situation, and then asked Liu Jian: "Your Majesty wants to rest for a few days, and please ask the prince to supervise the country for a few days."

Liu Jian understood that this was not the time to shirk humility, so he said loudly: "The emperor is not feeling well, this prince is temporarily acting as the government, and all the money donated by the officials has been transported to the disaster area, and you have also worked hard, you can go home and rest for a few days today."

Everyone was relieved and fled from the temple one after another, forgetting for a moment that they still had their families detained in the prison.

Murong Ling adjusted the medicine himself and gave Liu Xuan three days in a row, which finally made Liu Xuan recover most of it. Liu Xuan summoned Liu Jian alone and told Liu Jian about his life experience and ambitions.

Liu Xuan talked about how the family had grown up for decades, to how he controlled the government and even intervened in the abolition of the prince, to how he had conspired to murder the head of the Guang family.

Liu Jian was terrified when he heard it, and if the emperor in front of him didn't tell many insider stories, Liu Jian wouldn't have believed it at all. This family secretly instructed people to rebel, bribed the imperial doctor to poison the emperor, colluded with the Mobei Fire Dragon Clan to eradicate the disobedient border army generals, and so on.

Liu Jian sighed and said: "It seems that I am really as my master said, I am just an idiot boy, it seems that this throne is really the most dangerous position in the world"

Liu Xuan smiled: "When I was young, I thought that I had become an emperor, I could clarify Yuyu, save the people from fire and water, and planned for half my life, but in the end I really became an emperor, and I found that all I wanted was to seek skin with the tiger, which was not what I wanted at all." Let me do my best, the only one I can rely on is the eunuchs, Liu Jian, you are still young, you have to remember that if you want to be a real emperor, you have to make good use of the eunuchs. Let the eunuchs go to the fighting family, and let the family control the generals, so that you will not be set aside. Only when they are all vying for you to affirm them can you really do something for the people. In fact, my body has long been dead, and I have been holding on hard all these years. Now you are the prince, but you can't stay in Jinling, you can't stay in Jinling, and the family still has assassin killers in their hands, so you still have to go to Luoyang. Since I ascended the throne, I have not done a single right thing for the people, if they bring out me and the first emperor to restrain you after you succeed to the throne, you don't have to pay attention to it, overthrow it all, and only by breaking the old can you establish a new one. I can't do it in this life, only you can return the people of the world to a real prosperous world."

Liu Jian thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but ask Liu Xuan a question he had always wanted to ask: "Why did you choose me, if I live up to Your Majesty's expectations in the future, wouldn't Your Majesty be a non-person?" “

Liu Xuan looked at him with a smile: "Just because you can ask this question, it proves that I am not wrong, you are kind by nature, but you can also endure hardships and fight, although you are a little lazy on weekdays, but you are not extravagant and flashy, plus there are top masters like Chen Hongyi and Murong Ling to help, you will definitely be able to do it!" “

Liu Jian asked again: "My master, Mr. Murong and I are also loyal to Your Majesty now, why doesn't Your Majesty do it now?" “

Liu Xuan shook his head: "Time is not with me, I can think of these things, but I don't have time to do them, I have found a folk Langzhong to see, I can live for two more years at most." Otherwise, how could I entrust my aftermath to you now?"

Liu Jian was a little unconvinced, and called Murong Ling to come to Liu Xuan's pulse, Murong Ling waved his hand after coming in: "No need to diagnose, I have been serving by Your Majesty's side for the past few days, if Your Majesty hadn't had excellent willpower, I'm afraid I would have been a guest long ago."

Liu Xuan smiled: "I can't die now, when I'm about to die, I must pull out all the thorns for you!" You don't have to pity me, you still have a long way to go, and you will encounter many more difficulties and sadness than me, so you should think more about the future. Liu Jian also had to send someone to verify the disaster relief matter, after all, the food for disaster relief was transported to those places, which does not mean that it will be in the hands of the victims. “

Liu Jian cried goodbye to the emperor and returned to Luoyang with Murong Ling. The killers of Zhongyi Hall had already been dispatched, but when they caught a glimpse of Murong Ling beside Liu Jian, they didn't dare to step forward.

After the drought in Fanyang City, Zhu Yaoshi relied on his own fish pond well to barely save his life and the lives of hundreds of villagers. The wells in Xiao Ming's Mansion in Youzhou were all dry, and when he heard that there were still fish ponds and wells in Zhujiazhuang, he sent people to fetch water.

Originally, the soldiers under the Assassin Shi came to get water, but Zhu Yaoshi did not dare to stop it, but after a few days, the Assassin Shifu sent hundreds of soldiers to surround the fish pond and well, and even Zhu Yaoshi could not go to get water. In a hurry, Zhu Yaoshi rushed to Xiao Ming's mansion to intercede with the only remaining gold and silver money in the village.

Xiao Ming collected the gold and silver money, left Pharmacist Zhu behind, and explained the great truth of relief to Pharmacist Zhu, and did not let Pharmacist Zhu return to the village for three consecutive days.

Pharmacist Zhu also gave the gift, and it was inconvenient to get angry, so he had to endure it and stay, and on the fourth day, Xiao Ming put Pharmacist Zhu back.

When Pharmacist Zhu returned to the village, most of the villagers had died of thirst, and the rest were dying.

There was a teenager in the village, and he couldn't help it, so he rushed into the fish pond and drank violently while the guards were not paying attention.

The soldiers hurriedly scooped up the child, and beat him to death with punches, kicks, and sticks. Zhu Yaoshi went to theorize, but was also beaten, and the rest of the Zhuang was polite, and they all picked up sickles and hoes and rushed over, Zhu Yaoshi saw that he had no time to stop him, so he had to turn out his knife and rush forward.

Dozens of people were half dead of thirst, and at this moment they were stimulated, so they only cared about killing, and even killed hundreds of soldiers, and after everyone drank water to quench their thirst, Pharmacist Zhu asked them: "Now that we have rebelled, we can't stay here." We've got to run for a living."

A new villager who had been defecting for a few months pointed to the northwest: "Let's go to Herenbao, there will be someone to take us in, so that people can work and escape a way out."

Everyone hesitated, but Pharmacist Zhu got up and lit a fire to his manor: "If you don't leave, you can only be a ghost under the knife, and you are willing to follow him to Renhe Fort alive!" “

Seeing that Pharmacist Zhu had burned all his industry, everyone no longer hesitated, and took out the horse from the stable and went to the northwest.