To say that the biggest gain of Liu Ben's trip to Yangzhai this time, and it is also the biggest gift that Guo Bin gave to Liu Bian, is military merit.

The so-called "major affairs of the country are in worship and worship". It refers to sacrifice and war.

Sacrifice is the respect and service to the ancestors, and it is related to the legitimacy of the throne. The ancients believed that I won a war because I was blessed by the gods. Chinese worship ancestors, and this so-called god is naturally their own ancestors. The ancient Chinese believed that the reason why I was able to defeat the enemy and win the war was because my ancestors defeated the enemy's ancestors in heaven.

Therefore, it is recorded in the "Qin Shi Huang Benji" that after Qin unified the six kingdoms, the first emperor said: "The world will fight hard and endlessly, so as to have a prince." Lai Zongmiao, the world was initially decided, and the country was restored. Isn't it difficult to ask for peace and rest for a soldier? The so-called "Lai Zong Temple" means "thanks to the apparition of the ancestors". This is by no means a cliché, but is closely related to the traditional beliefs of ancient China.

War, on the other hand, is the guarantee of the power of the government in the world, and the basis for the preservation of the inheritance of the ancestors. Since ancient times, war has been indispensable in China. From neighbors fighting for land and villages fighting for water, to fighting for population and land between countries, there is no exception since ancient times.

Guo Bin said that the pacification of the chaotic people in Yangzhai County was the credit of Liu Bian, what wisdom and martial arts, what intelligence, and praised Liu Bian as the only talent of the prince, and the last sentence "The minister knows that the so-called tiger father has no dog." Liu Hong's horse also snapped.

There are countless people who have benefited from this action. Needless to say, He Jin and Queen He were also excited, praising Guo Bin for being very sensible.

As for Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, can he know this little trick played by Guo Bin? What kind of character is his son, can he know it himself? But for Guo Bin's actions, he is happy to see it. Why?

First of all, Liu Bian is his son after all, although he has been raised in the Taoist temple since he was a child, and the relationship between father and son is a little weak. But after all, tiger poison does not eat children, and it is impossible for Liu Hong to force Liu Bian to death. Because Liu Bian is not only his son, but also his eldest son, and the rightful heir to his throne, he will be the patriarch of the old Liu family in the future, and the head of the family surnamed Liu in the world, even if Liu Xie ascends the throne, as long as Liu Bian does not die, and the world is still surnamed Liu, this situation cannot be changed.

Therefore, if Liu Bian cannot successfully ascend to the throne, what awaits him cannot be a pension captivity, but only a dead word. This is not the same as one dynasty overthrowing another, as long as the sign of the Han Dynasty is still hung, Liu Bian, the eldest son of the former emperor, will not be able to hide from it no matter what.

Compared with Liu Xie, his status is very low. Liu Xie's biological mother, Wang Meiren's grandfather, was Wang Bao, who was a general with two thousand stones, but his father was not an outstanding person. was elected to the court as a son of a good family, with elegant manners and very educated; has a good appearance and a well-proportioned figure, and is deeply favored by Liu Hong. However, not long after Liu Xie was born, Wang Meiren was poisoned by the He family, who was the queen, and Liu Xie's biological mother had a low position, and there was no support from relatives in a high position, if it were not for the Empress Dowager Dong to take her to Yongle Palace to raise her, it was a question whether she could grow up.

And Liu Wei was already eight years old in the year Liu Xie was born, and according to the current virtual age, he was nine years old. This is already a rare "high life" in the palace of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a prince who has never been able to raise a prince. Liu Hongneng agreed to send him to the Taoist temple to raise him, presumably because the prince of the Eastern Han Dynasty had always died early, and sending Liu Bian to the Taoist temple was also a kind of protection for him.

Secondly, if the factor of father-son affection is put aside, from the political aspect alone, Liu Hong must also make every effort to protect Liu Bian. As we all know, in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were many foreign vassals who succeeded to the unification. The reason is that the Han Emperor died early or had no queen in his prime. Relatives or eunuchs in power want a new young and ignorant little emperor. In order to continue to control the government. Emperor Huan's throne was obtained by luck because of this, and the throne of today's son Liu Hong also came in this way.

If you want your children and grandchildren to inherit the unification and make your own temple keep incense, it is the best choice to protect Liu Bian, who is about to become an adult. How Liu Hong treated Emperor Huan of Han's half-brother Liu Kui, King of Bohai, he knew better than anyone else. And this matter also involves a secret of the first year of light and the first year.

Liu Kui, the king of Bohai, was the half-brother of Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty and was named the king of Bohai. Liu Kui's princess Song is the aunt of the first queen of the Song family, the son of heaven Liu Hong. Later, Wang Fu, the servant of Zhongchang, killed Liu Kui, the king of Bohai, and his princess Song, and framed the Empress Song for cursing the emperor with witchcraft in the palace. Liu Hong, who had never waited to see Empress Song, took the opportunity to take back her queen ribbon and deposed her and imprisoned her. Empress Song soon died in the violent chamber, and her father and brother were also killed. It was the eunuchs who took pity on her and pooled money to bury her family's corpses.

Later, Liu Hong once dreamed of Emperor Huan at night, and Emperor Huan asked him why he killed Liu Kui and caused Empress Song to die, which made him very frightened. It can be seen that if a person does something bad, he is still the most tormented.

Therefore, if Liu Hong did not want to receive this kind of treatment like Emperor Huan Liu Zhi after his death, protecting Liu Zhi for a long time was also the first method he considered.

Guo Bin's practice of preserving Liu Bian, and touting Liu Bian, actually felt that Liu Hong wanted to preserve Liu Bian's pulse, and Liu Hong wanted to rely on the praise of these subordinates to strengthen the prestige of the young prince, so even if there were many untruths in Guo Bin's recital, although Liu Hong knew it, he would not expose it. As long as you are right about the mind of the Son of Heaven, no matter how ridiculous things are, they can be passed on by everyone to be true, saying that you are true, it is true, and what is false is also true.

The Son of Heaven set the tone, and naturally countless people below came to follow suit, tout, and perfect this lie. So, since Guo Bin's recital was handed over to the Son of Heaven at night, early the next morning, there was a legend in Luoyang City that the eleven-year-old prince Liu Bian, commanded Ruoding in Yangzhai, relied on more than a dozen officials to repel nearly a thousand bandits, and the heroic legend of more than a dozen bandits.

In the afternoon of the same day, a minister wrote to the Son of Heaven to treat Guo Bin for the crime of disturbing the prince in the county. Immediately, the letters imploring Liu Bian to be the crown prince ran to the desk of the Son of Heaven.

Of course, how many of these things were fueled by He Jin, and how much was manipulated by Empress Dowager Dong behind the scenes, Guo Bin doesn't know.

Guo Bin calculates that the Son of Heaven Liu Hong knows it in his heart, Uncle He Jin knows it in his heart, the Empress Dowager He also understands it in his heart, and the eldest prince Liu Bian knows it better than anyone else in his heart.

So, not long after, Guo Bin, who was far away in Yangzhai, received two messages: one was that "the Son of Heaven is preparing to establish the prince"; The second is "because of the merit of exterminating the mountain bandits, in addition to Zhao Yunyang Zhai County Cheng, Guan Yuyang Zhai County Zuo Wei." ”； The third is "Cheng Jiaren of the former Yangzhai County colluded with the mountain bandits to lead the thieves to attack the county government, although he died, he could not escape the blame, and confiscated his family property, half of which was returned to the Yangzhai County Treasury and half handed over to the imperial court." ”