Empress Dowager He was seriously ill before and lived outside the palace for four or five months, during which she saw no outsiders, only Princess Wannian often visited. At this time, the Son of Heaven talked about the fact that the Queen Mother was seriously ill, but the ministers in the court had different expressions, and after looking at each other a few times, they lowered their heads one after another.

Empress Dowager He had a frosty face and said lightly: "Your Majesty has a heart, and the illness of the mourning family has been cured." ”

Liu said: "It's okay now, but it may not be a recurrence." ”

Chen Cheng impatiently interrupted the words between the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven, and said: "Your Majesty, I once said that as long as you read those books thoroughly, you will naturally be taught the ability to march and fight and govern the country and the people, but I don't know which books Your Majesty has finished reading now?" ”

"Huh?" Liu Yan opened his mouth and stammered, and after a while, he said dejectedly: "I'm watching "Principles of Geometry". ”

Chen Cheng shook his head and said, "Your Majesty is not required to learn topology and matrix transformation, at least you must first learn probability theory." Your Majesty has studied hard in the past few years, and he will be useful in the future. ”

When it comes to learning, Liu Bian, the son of heaven, is immediately like an eggplant beaten by frost, and he has no temper at all. Those heavenly things, even if someone teaches them, but how can he have the heart to learn them seriously? Every time he listened to the teacher's lecture, Liu Bian felt that his head was as big as a fight, and he fell asleep after a while.

Not only was Liu Bian a little embarrassed, but even the other ministers were a little speechless. There is nothing to say after the end, the general thinks that the Son of Heaven is not knowledgeable enough, and wants the Son of Heaven to do a good job of learning and then learn how to govern the country, although this is like a scoundrel, but the truth can be laid out openly, and no one can find fault.

At present, among the provincial officials, if anyone says that they do not know anything about these "new learnings". Immediately they will be ostracized and despised. People who can't even read books well must not have enough intelligence, and they are not in the same camp as everyone.

After Chen Cheng finished speaking, he said to everyone: "Since it's okay, then everyone is gone." Now that the weather has become cold, wouldn't it be nice to go home and bake the fire! ”

He took a few steps towards Liu Bei and said with a smile: "Brother, let's go back to the General's Mansion with me." ”

Liu Bei took a step back and said, "Your Majesty asked me to talk to him after retreating, and the general can go back first." ”

Chen Cheng frowned slightly, and said, "Then the third brother is going back with me, or with my brother?" ”

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Yide probably doesn't want to wait for me here, let him go back to the fire and drink first." ”

Chen Cheng nodded and said, "Then I'll go first." ”

He walked down from the main hall and was about to leave, when a palace maid trotted up to follow, and when he arrived at his side, he whispered: "The queen mother asks the general to go over to discuss the matter." ”

Chen Cheng looked up at the sky, it didn't look like it was going to snow immediately, and it was okay to go back an hour late. So he said to the little palace maid, "Lead the way ahead." ”

When the general went to the queen mother's bedroom to discuss matters, Liu Bei had already been taken to the side hall. The Son of Heaven Liu Bian asked Gong E to retreat, and then couldn't wait to pounce, grabbed Liu Bei's hand, and said, "Uncle Huang, you have to help me!" ”

Liu Bei broke free of his hand and said respectfully: "If Your Majesty has something, why don't you tell the general?" ”

Liu Yan looked left and right, lowered his voice, and said, "The general has never allowed me to contact the government, and the guards of this palace are all his people, where do I look like a son of heaven?" There are not many prisoners in prison! ”

"This ........", Liu Bei said: "Didn't the general say it?" Your Majesty only needs to do a good job of learning first, and it will naturally be useful in the future. ”

Liu Wei screamed and said, "Those books are all used to harm people, where can anyone really read them?" ”

He pleaded with Liu Bei: "Uncle Huang, for everyone's sake of being a descendant of Emperor Gaozu, you must help me!" Otherwise, the 400-year-old Han Dynasty will fall into the hands of others! ”

This sentence moved Liu Bei, his face changed greatly, and he exclaimed: "Why did Your Majesty say this? Now that the world is undecided, the general wants to pacify the world, and there may be some trespassing. By the time Haiqing Heyan arrives, things will be different. ”

Liu Bian's tears rained down, knelt down, and cried: "The general regards me like a puppet, and the ministers dare to be angry but dare not speak, do you even have to stand by and watch?" ”

Liu Bei panicked, stepped forward to help the Son of Heaven up, and sighed: "Then I will tell the general a thing or two, and let him slowly hand over the government affairs to His Majesty." ”

Liu Bianyan stopped his tears when he heard this, and said: "I'm just afraid that the general will not will, he now has a lot of soldiers and horses in his hands, and he is isolated from China and abroad, which shows that it is the luck of encroaching on the Han family." Uncle Huang, you are a member of the royal family, you can't just look at it. ”

Liu Bei's face was embarrassed, and he sighed, not knowing what to say.

Liu Wei said again: "By the way, I heard that Uncle Huang has a lot of elite people in Xuzhou?" ”

Liu Bei perked up and said: "Yes, the generals under the command of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Chen Zhi and other generals are all heroes for a while!" ”

Liu Benxi said: "In this case, can the emperor send some soldiers and horses to Chang'an?" Now there are people in the palace and outside the palace who are generals, and I don't feel at ease when I sleep and eat! ”

Liu Bei shook his head again and again and said, "The general is not that kind of person!" ”

Liu Wei lowered his voice, pointed in the direction of the queen mother's bedroom, and said, "Uncle Huang doesn't know anything......

He whispered a shocking secret, Liu Bei listened, his face changed color, and he shouted: "How dare Chen Wenzheng do such a thing? ”

Liu Bian said with a bitter face: "The general is arrogant and domineering for more than one day, I am really afraid, so I will ask the imperial uncle for help!" ”

Liu Bei said with a calm face: "Your Majesty can rest assured, but if you call the ministers, you will definitely not let the Han family fall into the hands of others!" ”

When Liu Bei returned to the General's Mansion and wanted to find Chen Cheng's theory, he was told that the General had not yet returned. He asked the guards guarding the backyard, "Do you know where the general has gone?" ”

"Sorry, I don't know."

When Zhang Fei heard that Liu Bei had returned, he came over with a wine jug and drank with him. Liu Bei is upset and irritable, where is he drinking? At the moment, he said unhappily: "Yide still has to drink less!" ”

While he was talking, heavy footsteps and the sound of steel colliding sounded outside, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei turned their heads to look over together, and saw that Chen Cheng had already walked into the door.

"Wow, Wenzheng, you're finally back, big brother doesn't drink with me, are you willing to drink with me?"

Chen Cheng said with a smile: "Since the third brother is interested, then of course I will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman." ”

Zhang Fei was happy and said with a smile: "Haha, am I Zhang Yide also a gentleman?" ”

Liu Bei on the side had a gloomy face and said to Chen Cheng: "General, I have something I want to say to you privately, I don't know if you are free now?" ”

Seeing Liu Bei's unkind expression, Chen Cheng said to Zhang Fei: "I'll talk to my brother about something serious first." ”

Zhang Fei muttered, "Is there anything more important than drinking?" ”

Taking Liu Bei to the study, Chen Cheng sat down first, and then said with a smile: "Brother's expression is so serious, is it because of something else?" ”

Liu Bei stared at Chen Cheng for a long time, remembering the bits and pieces of the relationship between the two in the past few years, he couldn't help but sigh, and he asked, "Wenzheng, you tell me the truth, do you have the idea of becoming the emperor?" ”

Chen Cheng originally had a smile on his face, but when he heard Liu Bei ask such a question, he couldn't help frowning, he pondered for a while, and replied, "If someone else asks like this, I will say no." But brother, if you ask a question, then I can only say: not for the time being. ”

Liu Bei sighed again and said, "Not for the time being, that means there may be one in the future?" ”

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "What will happen in the future, none of us know, right?" Personally, I don't care if I'm an emperor or not, but sometimes I can't stand others from thinking so. ”

"Didn't you see what happened to Yuan Shu? Once Yuan Shu, the fourth and third dukes, became emperor, he immediately attracted the opposition of the people of the world! Liu Bei's voice raised a lot, "Gaozu destroyed the tyrannical Qin, defeated Xiang Yu, and then founded the Han Dynasty. Wang Mang usurped the throne, and Emperor Guangwu set things right, and revived the Han Dynasty. Although the general is now in a high position, once he has the idea of trespassing, he will inevitably betray his relatives! ”

Chen Cheng laughed and said, "So I'm saying that I don't have the idea of becoming an emperor for the time being." My brother was too excited, could it be that he had heard some rumors from His Majesty? I'm a person, in fact, I hate trouble and reasoning with others, and being a general has a lot of things to do every day, which makes people very busy. If you really become an emperor, then you have to be busy to death? In the past, I was busy, and I didn't have anything else to do anyway, but now I'm a drag on my family, and it's a little bad if I'm so busy. Didn't my brother see that I had pushed all the government affairs to the officials of the provincial ministry? ”

Liu Bei's face was a little pale, and he said in his heart: Although Chen Wenzheng's actions are a little arrogant, compared with the great generals of previous dynasties, it is nothing.

But then he thought of another question, so he asked in a low voice: "Then you ....... with the Queen Mother?"

Zhang Fei was a little sullen drinking outside alone, he didn't understand, obviously the eldest brother was already a state pastor. Wen Zheng is already a general, but the relationship between everyone is not as good as before. Just as he was pouring wine into his mouth, he heard a sudden sound of drinking from inside the sermon.

After a while, Liu Bei rushed out of the study angrily. Zhang Fei said in surprise: "Big brother, are you quarreling with Wen Zheng?" Hey, where are you going, big brother? ”

Liu Bei said with a cold face: "I can't live in this general's mansion, so I'll go outside and find a place to stay!" ”

"No, isn't there anything you can't say well?"

Seeing Liu Bei walking out, Zhang Fei was stunned, and hurriedly drank all the wine in the jug in one go, and then strode up, "Big brother, you wait for me!" ”

Liu Bei spoke and acted neatly, immediately packed up his things, left the General's Mansion with the servants, and went outside to find a place to live. Zhang Fei also ran over to ask Chen Cheng what happened and why the eldest brother was so angry.

Chen Cheng just shook his head and said, "I can't say this, or you should ask your brother." ”