Chapter Seventy-Eight: Birthday?

Cao Xiang celebrated his thirty-third birthday, and the Yun family naturally wanted to send someone to congratulate him, and the person who could best represent the Yun family's façade was naturally Yun Zhe.

The thirty-three-year-old already has a little white hair on his sideburns, which Cao Xiang doesn't want to see.

Once upon a time, he still regarded himself as a child, and now, he is middle-aged.

Before his birthday, Cao Xiang had to send rice cakes to his uncle.

Coming to the steps of Weiyang Palace, Cao Xiang was very hesitant, if possible, he was not willing to enter this hall full of painful memories at all.

Many times, for him, this hall is his torture chamber......

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty is waiting up there......"

Cao Xiang didn't move for a long time, and Sui Yue, who accompanied him, reminded him in a whisper.

"Came out of the Yeting Palace?" Cao Xiang then focused on Sui Yue.

"It's a big dream!"

"Don't dream big, sooner or later you will return to Your Majesty, we already know this."

Sui Yue shook his head and said, "The slave also knows, but the waiting period is too difficult. ”

Cao Xiang smiled, patted Sui Yue's shoulder, and the two climbed up to the high Weiyang Palace.

Sui Yue did not lead Cao Xiang into the main hall, but went to the back garden from the cloister position.

Behind Weiyang Palace, there is a small garden, which belongs to Liu Che alone, and even the queen cannot easily set foot here.

Cao Xiang went in once when he was a child, and he almost forgot what it looked like.

The snow had not melted, and it creaked under my feet, and only after passing through the moon gate, I saw six red coral trees more than a foot high standing in the snow.

Cao Xiang patted the coral trees around him and said with emotion: "When I came back then, these coral trees were not so huge, could it be that this thing will grow taller on its own when it comes to land?" ”

Sui Yue smiled: "This is a new one four years ago, from Lingnan. ”

There were six golden-armored warriors standing under the coral tree, and the eunuchs who were not of enough status could not enter, so Sui Yue took the wooden plates in their hands and accompanied Cao Xiang to continue forward.

Cao Xiang remembers very well that although this place is called a back garden, in fact, there are no flowers or plants.

Whether it is the old plum carved in jade, or the flowers and plants, most of them are carved from various colors of jade.

Liu Che was sitting in a pavilion carved out of jade, and the fire in the pavilion was blazing, and it didn't look cold.

After respectfully saluting Liu Che, Liu Che raised his hand and motioned for Cao Xiang to sit opposite him.

Cao Xiang sat down, Liu Che looked him up and down, raised his hand to touch the white hair on Cao Xiang's temples, and sighed: "Why did you have gray hair at a young age?" ”

Cao Xiang said with a smile: "Yun Lang said that I was sick when I was a teenager and hurt my origin, and I have earned it by living until now." ”

Liu Che's expression darkened, beckoned to pass the rice cake held by Sui Yue, and ate it casually.

After a while, Liu Che ate a large piece of rice cake cleanly, patted his belly and said, "It is said that the more I eat, the more blessings you will have, I have eaten him, I hope you can live a long life." ”

Cao Xiang's nose was very sour, and he forced a sour smile and said: "Uncle said that a nephew can live a hundred years old, and a nephew will live for a hundred years anyway." ”

Liu Che nodded with a smile, stood up with his hands behind his back, looked at the old plum tree in the middle of the back garden and said: "Sometimes, my uncle regrets it so much, knowing that you are a sick and crooked body, but my uncle should not have sent you to a wild place." ”

Cao Xiang said angrily: "Join my uncle and let my nephew live a drunken life in Chang'an, and my nephew will probably be dead at this time."

When a husband comes to this world, he must leave something behind, otherwise, it will be in vain. ”

Liu Che smiled and watched Cao Xiang's impassioned speech, and when Cao Xiang finished speaking, he said angrily: "In front of your uncle, you don't have to continue to pretend."

The Great Han Kingdom is mine, and it is also your home, and you should do whatever you do for this family.

Tell me what you think of Liangzhou. ”

"With Yunlang here, Liangzhou will become an inseparable part of my Han sooner or later."

"You trust your brother so much?"

"He hasn't done a single thing that has failed me until now."

"Tell uncle, to what extent are your Cao clan connected to the Yun clan, the Huo clan, and the Li clan?"

Cao Xiang thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Life and death are shared." ”

Liu Che didn't get angry, and skipped the topic with a chuckle.

"Do you support your cousin? I mean. ”

Cao Xiang said without hesitation: "We support you, uncle. ”

Liu Che nodded.

"Can you not participate in this year's big competition?"

Cao Xiangleng paused for a moment, and immediately said: "Naturally, if my uncle needs it, we can also not participate in the big competition in the future." ”

"You go with the sick child, Li Dang is naturally no problem, but will Yun Lang agree?"

"If I agree, Yun Lang will agree, but, uncle, it would be a pity if Huo Guang didn't use it."

Liu Che shook his head and said: "It's nothing to be sorry about, there are many talents in this world, and it doesn't matter if there are one or two less."

Didn't he already take over the mountain gate of Northwest Institute of Technology from Yun Lang? Wouldn't it be better to devote yourself to cultivating talents for my big man? ”

Cao Xiang had nothing to say.

"The world is stable, although it can't be put into storage as Yun Lang said in the fold, the horses are put in Nanshan, and the people of the world should breathe a sigh of relief.

Even if the first emperor is not good, the county system is good, Yun Lang was originally a disciple of the former Qin Dazai, I think he has a lot of experience in the county system, right? “

"Uncle is going to implement the county system in Dahan?"

Liu Che nodded.

"Imperative!"

"What about the royal family? And doing so is against the last wishes of Emperor Taizu Gao. ”

"When Taizu ascended the throne, the world had just moved from chaos to great governance, and dividing all relatives as kings could naturally play a role in stabilizing the world and putting an end to ambition.

Now, the world has been completely governed, and there is no need for so many kings, over the years, the people who have repeatedly hurt my Han Jiangshan are precisely my surname Liu.

Not to mention the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the early years, just the continuous rebellion of the feudal king in the past few years gave me enough reasons to depose the feudal king. ”

Cao Xiang's scalp was numb for a while, not long ago, the emperor had just solved more than 600 nobles, and more than 100 marquis were deposed, but he didn't expect that in the aftermath, he was going to attack the king again.

"Uncle, do you want to depose the feudal king, or just take back the feudal kingdom?"

Liu Che sighed and said: "Take back the fiefdom, build a mansion in Chang'an, and settle the kings." ”

"Without taxes, how are kings to live?"

"Give them a share of the bank like a cloud."

"Half percent? That's too little, right? ”

"Wrong, it's only a centimeter, the Yun clan has real money invested in the bank, he can occupy half of the shares, as for the vassal kings, it's good to have a centimeter.

In the 100 years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, there have been 86,371 people in the royal family surnamed Liu, and within five years, the number will increase to 100,000.

In the long run, the royal family surnamed Liu will become the biggest burden on the Han Dynasty, if you want to solve it, solve it now, your cousin doesn't have the courage to do this, rather than relying on him, it is better to solve it in my hands at once. ”

Hearing Liu Che's cold and emotionless words, Cao Xiang's straight body slowly became a little bent.

He knew that his uncle was a ruthless person, and he never expected to be so ruthless.

He can do such a poisonous hand to his own family, let alone others.

"What can my nephew do for my uncle?"

"Since you said that you can be the master of the Cao, Huo, Yun, and Li families, then you have to take these four families to achieve the goal I want to achieve.

Complete the county system thoroughly! ”

The sweat on Cao Xiang's face was dripping, and in the icy and snowy weather, the heat on his head was steaming, and his head seemed to be boiling.

"Why, don't you dare?" Liu Che's cold voice sounded in his ears.

Cao Xiang said with difficulty: "Can you transfer Yun Lang, Huo Quai, and Li Dare back to Chang'an together?" ”

Liu Che sneered: "No, they must hold Liangzhou." ”

"However, if they don't come back, the Yun family, the Huo family, and the Li family are just a group of women and children, how can they help their uncle complete the great cause?"

Liu Che said with a smile: "If you want soldiers and horses, I have 300,000 troops to wait for, isn't it enough to have people to fight for the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty?"

Cao Xiang sat down on the blanket and muttered to himself, "In this way, my Cao family will no longer have relatives." ”

Liu Che smiled: "It's not just you Cao's! ”