It can be found that the selection of talents from the time of Emperor Xiaokang, the opening of official schools, finally played a certain role, if in the past, only afraid that Deng Ai would finish speaking, he would have to face the unanimous attack of the ministers, more serious, and may even suffer from the treatment of Wang Fu, but now it is different, after Deng Ai said his other views, the ministers actually discussed seriously.

Although they debated very fiercely, and even had plans to do it, they were willing to think about it, and there were many courtiers who stood on Deng Ai's side, Liu Xi found that most of the courtiers who supported Deng Ai were enjoying the benefits of the scientific merit system opened up by Wang Fu, and the poor talents cultivated by the official school, of course, there were also children of the family, such as Cao Chong, as the pride of the Cao family, he was on Deng Ai's side at this moment.

started a debate with his opposing brother Cao Zhi, and the two almost tore their faces, Cao Zhi was still restrained, and the younger and more vigorous Cao Chong directly pointed at Cao Zhi and scolded, "You fool who forgot your roots, can't you forget your father's teachings?" Father has been thinking about how to solve the problem of land annexation, and now you have turned around and stood on the opposite side of Father!! Unfilial and unkind! ”

"Wouldn't taking back the land to the temple solve the problem of annexation? Whether it is the big clan or the common people, fortunately working hard, how can the temple directly seize their arable land and redistribute it? Aren't you afraid of stirring up revolt among the people? Cultivated land is like life to the people, not to mention that the number of people is so large, can you let everyone own land according to the division of 20 acres per person? ! ”

The debate between the two, people kept joining, Liu Xi did not stop it, he wanted to know the opinions of these temple ministers on this matter, and carefully observed, Liu Xi cared about the ministers the most, they all supported Deng Ai, and what he didn't expect the most was that the servant of the government shot Sun Quan, who actually participated in the debate, and still stood on Cao Chong's side.

Seeing that the ministers were about to fight, the Son of Heaven looked at Zhongshu Ling, Lu Bu nodded, then stood up and looked at everyone, "Silence!! Lu Bu shouted, and the people who were debating were silent in an instant, and the temple was extremely silent, and Lu Bu said slowly: "In the temple, how can you wait for nonsense?" ”

"This matter is somewhat controversial, and we will discuss it later!"

"Sincerely." , Everyone said respectfully, although they no longer quarreled, but until the end of the court meeting, the sense of urgency of the saber rattling did not dissipate, the court meeting just ended, and the few people who were arguing each held together, talking loudly about these things, and went out to both sides, only Zhuge Liang, Xun Yu, and Lu Bu did not leave.

After returning to the Houde Hall with the three orders, Liu Xi relaxed and asked: "Duke Xun, today's matter, if it is not handled well, it will cause discord among the ministers, what solution does Duke Xun have?" ”

Xun Yu didn't expect that the Son of Heaven would be the first to hear his opinion, and Deng Aike told the Xun family as a negative example, Xun Yu, as the head of the Xun family, was ready to be suppressed by the Son of Heaven, he frowned, thought for a moment, and then said: "The minister thinks that this matter can't be rushed, and the land annexation naturally needs to be solved." ”

"But Deng Ai's proposal is the law of troubled times, only in troubled times, when the people's household registration is scarce, the temple has a large amount of arable land, and the big clan suffers a heavy blow, the temple can take away the cultivated land and distribute it to the people, but now it is a prosperous age, if Your Majesty wants to recover the cultivated land that has been cultivated since the time of Emperor Xiaokang, the first thing to oppose is those ignorant people."

"The people don't think about annexation, they just think that the Son of Heaven has taken away our arable land."

"What's more, if you are rich today, although there are people who have lost their arable land, there are also many rich peasants who have a lot of arable land, and this order is that these people who have worked hard to obtain arable land will definitely resent the temple."

"It's not a good thing to lose the hearts and minds of the people like this."

Listening to Xun Yu's words, Liu Xi was silent for a long time, and then asked with a smile: "What Xun Gong means, I understand, then how should I turn today's prosperous era into a troubled world?" ”

Xun Yu was shocked, immediately possessed, and said: "The minister is guilty!" ”

"No, Xun Gong, you are not guilty, what you said, I understand very well, the implementation of this order, Haoqiang, the people, and the officials are afraid that they will blame me, because I robbed them of their life...", Liu Xi said, only then did he look at Zhuge Liang and asked, "What does Kong Ming think?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter can be carried out secretly, without informing the world, secretly conducting a survey of cultivated land, so that all localities can record it separately, and then redistribute the cultivated land by giving land to the people, or the temple can buy land from the people and then distribute it, the minister feels that what Deng Ai proposed is very reasonable, and the minister thinks that the annexation of land is the most threatening disaster for the temple from ancient times to the present."

"Whether the family and country are peaceful, or suffer from war, it is the people at the bottom who suffer, and the people's farmland is constantly taken away, and a war will break out, the war between the annexers and the annexed, the household registration will be reduced, and the cultivated land will be redistributed, and then it will be a process of annexation, and the cycle will continue, so for the sake of the Han Dynasty, the annexation problem must be solved."

Zhuge Liang said, and looked at Xun Yu again, "However, what Xun Gong said is very reasonable, the implementation of this order, we must be cautious and careful, the harm is also very great, if you are not careful, it will provoke a civil uprising, and it will seriously damage the prestige of the temple... The hearts of the people..."

Liu Xi seemed to be shocked by Zhuge Liang's words, didn't say a word, pondered for a long time, raised his head, and looked at Lu Bu.

Lu Bu was stunned, why did he have to speak himself?

He frowned, and said with some hesitation: "I think it's okay, Deng Ai's words are all reasonable, my own cultivated land is constantly increasing, I didn't take care of it myself, and handed it over to my relatives, but in ten years, my family's cultivated land has increased exponentially, and I have personally asked, they said that they are all bought from farmers, and there is also an indispensable overt and covert seizure... I didn't care about it at the time, and I was glad that I had more farmland. ”

"Oh? Since Guozhang is so happy, why do you want to support Deng Ai today? ”

Lu Bu smiled and said: "As soon as Deng Ai said it, I woke up to the fact that if it goes on like this, the cultivated land is in the hands of the temples and ministers, the big clans in the world, there is no arable land, and the people who have been bullied will not set off a popular uprising, I don't read much, but I also know that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, although they are all fine now, but if there is a great change when Hu'er is in power, it will be a bad thing?" ”

Xun Yu and Zhuge Liang were startled, and hurriedly looked at Lu Bu, intending to dissuade them.

Liu Xi didn't care, nodded with a smile, and then said: "What Guozhang said is reasonable, I will think about it again, by the way, later, I will bother Guozhang to go to the military academy in person, apologize to General Taishi, I will let Hu'er pass later." ”

Lu Bu agreed a little embarrassedly, and the Son of Heaven let the three of them leave the Houde Palace, and as soon as he walked out of the Houde Palace, Zhuge Liang said to Lu Bu: "Guozhang, if the emperor's eldest son will rule in the future, don't say it again, at least don't say it in front of the Son of Heaven." When Lu Bu heard this, he asked a little angrily, "What do you mean?" Do you think Hu'er can't become the Son of Heaven? ”

Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly and said: "That's not the case, Your Majesty is young and strong, and he has never appointed the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince. ”

"Heh, the Son of Heaven is such a child, isn't it normal for him to come to power? You people, all day long, don't dare to say anything, hehe. Lu Bu looked at Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu with disdain, and left the palace with a swagger, Zhuge Liang and Xun Yu glanced at each other, shaking their heads helplessly, the prince didn't want to listen, so they didn't have to persuade more.

Liu Xi frowned, but he didn't make up his mind in his heart, thinking about what Deng Ai played, and walked slowly towards the harem.

"Mother! Tell your father, and let him give me his sword." ”

"Hey, your father's long sword, it was given by his master, he has killed people, you child, how can you use it to play? I'll ask Gongfu to cast another one for you another day, okay? ”

"Don't, I just want my father's hand, if you don't give it to me, you won't eat!"

Liu Xi listened to the sound coming from the hall, sneered, walked into the hall, walked into the hall, and saw the tiger who was pestering the queen, the tiger muttered his mouth, shook the queen's sleeves, and begged unrelentingly, the queen was a little helpless, and saw the son of heaven who walked in, so she was a little happy, and hurriedly said: "Hu'er, your father is here, you go and ask yourself, maybe it will be given to you?" ”

When Hu'er heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly ran over, hugged Liu Xi, and raised his head with a smile.

Liu Xi frowned, extremely solemn.

"Father, can you give me the sword you are wearing?"

"What? Shooting with arrows is not fun? Want to take a sword and slash it? Liu Xi asked coldly, Hu'er was stunned, turned around and was about to run towards his mother, but Liu Xi grabbed the back of his neck, and the other hand hugged his waist, so he hugged him horizontally, Hu'er screamed, wanted to struggle, but couldn't break free, Liu Xi directly pressed Hu'er to the ground.

"Someone's coming!" , Liu Xi shouted, Huangmen walked in with his head down, holding a wooden stick, and walked to Liu Xi's side, Liu Xi picked up the wooden stick, and hit the tiger, the wooden stick was very thin, and it was whipped on the back of the tiger, and the tiger screamed in pain, and the queen saw this, and hurriedly rushed through and blocked Liu Xi's face.

"Your Majesty, what are you going to do?"

"This guy did a good thing in military science, and he almost shot and killed the military science sacrifice wine? Are you still holding back? Get out of the way! Liu Xi roared angrily, the queen could only retreat to the side, and the Son of Heaven picked up the stick and beat it, "I made you naughty!" Let you go shoot people!! Which one taught you to be a mustard? Yes? What if someone dies?! ”

"Do you dare to listen to your master's teachings?!"

"Dare to ask me for a sword?!"

Holding the wooden stick high, the figure of the tiger and the wolf howling gradually coincided with twenty years ago.