In the Chongde Palace, the voices of hundreds of officials were endless, and Zhao Zhong was also puzzled when he looked at the scene in the hall, and he was very curious about Yang Xuan's brother Yang Qiao.

"Who is Yang Qiao? Why is it here? Zhao Zhong endured his anger and asked Ren Zhi and Le Songdao, this time the battle was really a humiliation, the court meeting that had already been captured was inexplicably defeated, and even he was beaten by the emperor, it was really unlucky, and sure enough, there was no good result for anything to do with the kid of the Fu family.

The two on the opposite side glanced at each other, and then saw Ren Zhi step forward and said: "Back to the prince, this Yang Qiao is a fashion book of the first emperor, and he died of hunger strike because he refused to marry the princess." ”

At this point, Zhao Zhongdeng's eyes lit up, and he was shocked: "There is such a thing? I see! I see! ”

Zhao Zhong's words were full of loneliness, and the more he spoke, the more helpless he became, as if the whole world had played a joke with him. Seeing him like this, no matter who he was at this moment, everyone understood why Zhao Zhong was like this, because the other ministers and officials in the palace who didn't know why Liu Hong was angry when they heard Yang Qiao's name also understood the whole story after knowing who Yang Qiao was, and it was not difficult to know why Liu Hong reacted so much.

In fact, at this moment, Liu Hong, who brought people back to the palace to dissipate his anger, was still angry about what happened just now, hating Zhao Zhong for being so useless, and he didn't even know the details of Yang Xuan, so he had to lead people to fight back against the foreign courtiers. Originally, Liu Hong didn't want to stop Zhao Zhong's counterattack at all, in his opinion, this is just a balancing force, after all, Lu Zhi had just hit the eunuch force before, if he didn't allow the eunuch to find a reason to fight back, then it would inevitably make the eunuch power lower than the Shiren group from now on.

Therefore, even if Liu Hong stopped the eunuchs in advance and even told them not to harm Lu Zhi, he still allowed the eunuchs to find reasons to fight back, and even went back on their word and did not fight back against the rise of Zhao Zhong and others. But I never expected that Zhao Zhong was so useless, and the excuse he found had such a big handle, which almost humiliated the entire Han family, and it was strange that Liu Hongneng was not angry.

As for the reason why Liu Hong is so angry, there is actually a reason, and the fundamental reason lies in Yang Xuan's brother Yang Qiao, when Emperor Huan gave him marriage, Yang Ci refused, which can be said to be the shame of the entire Han family, and it is the huge five points of the Liu royal family in the entire Han history. Now, Yang Xuan has been revealed to have conspired with Fu Quan to frame the imperial court officials, and this matter is not just a matter of how many people believe it, but it can't be mentioned at all.

If he mentioned it, not only the Fu family would be humiliated, but even their Liu Han royal family would also be nailed to the pillar of shame, and even Liu Hong himself would have no face to see his cousin Liu Zhi, Emperor Han Huan, Liu Hong himself, and the entire Liu royal family would also be laughed at by the world

How so?

There is only one reason, no matter who the princess of the Han Dynasty is, she can't refuse, and the emperor has to accept it obediently if she marries, and if she can't stand it and dare to refuse, then she can only die. And Yang Qiao swore not to marry the princess back then, and finally died on a hunger strike, which is a clear proof, which is extremely insulting to the prestige of the Han family, and the Han Dynasty was not in turmoil at the end of the Han Dynasty, and his prestige was lost, so unless Yang Qiao loosened his mouth to marry the princess, he had no way out except death.

In the Han Dynasty, since the establishment of the Han rule by Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty in the former Han Dynasty, the royal family has become an extremely special class, and princes and princesses, whether they are powerful or prestigious, are far from being comparable to other classes.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the Hundred Schools of Thought and respected Confucianism, Dong Zhongshu's "Jun as a Minister" became the highest standard of all Confucian morality and etiquette. Gender, age, generation, all the rules that are common in the world are not applicable to the royal family, and the princess of the Han family is also more noble, even if she has meritorious candidates, she does not dare to pretend to be a color to them.

This is from the courtier marrying the daughter of the Son of Heaven, not daring to call it "marrying" the princess, but can only say "Shang" the princess, which can be seen in general.

What is "yet"?

There is a saying in "The Book of Songs: Xiaoya" that "still seeks its female", which can be interpreted as spreading out, referring to the evil is to spread out the wings and feathers, showing gorgeous colors, which is a typical action of bird courtship. If you change the translation method to a simpler way, it means serving the princess for the courtier, or it can also be understood as the courtier "marrying" the princess.

That's right, it is the courtiers who "marry" to the princess and serve the princess, not the princess who serves the princess and marries the concubine, there is no other reason, just because they are the princesses of the Han royal family, and they are born with this right, and the courtiers should obey the order in front of them.

From this point of view, not to mention the mess of those princesses of the Western Han Dynasty, just talk about the princess of Yincheng when Emperor Shun, it can be understood that Ban Shi couldn't bear to wear a green hat, and it is not incomprehensible that the clan was punished.

At that time, Liu Xian, the princess of Yincheng, got married to Ban Shi, and because she was dissatisfied with Ban Shi, she had an affair with someone, and later even let Ban Shi enter the bedroom and let him lie under the bed to watch her and her lover cheat. Ben came here, if Ban Shi held back his anger and reported the matter to Emperor Han Shun, although the consequence would be to let the whole world know that he had a big green hat on his head, but it would not have happened later.

But in the fifth year of Yongjian, Ban Shi could no longer stand the betrayal of his wife Liu Xiande, so he pulled out a knife and killed her, which directly stabbed the face of the Han family.

Because for the Han family, what is face, face is prestige, as long as the princess of the Han family is not messed up with the code of ethics, what if she gives you a green hat?

You can report it to the emperor, and the emperor will order you to divorce the princess, or you can go out and find other women, and the two of them will play their own games, as long as you don't make trouble, but you just can't kill the princess, how can the big man tolerate you doing this nonsense?

In a word, for the princess of the Han Dynasty, it is a great blessing to "marry" you as a concubine, you endure it and depend on the princess in everything, even if you divorce, the emperor agrees to let the princess divorce you, do you want to divorce the princess? No way, let alone killing the princess, where did the moral outline of the "monarch as a minister" you learned often go?

Although the princess is a woman, no matter how she is, she is also the daughter of the Son of Heaven, and she is your "lord", you dare to do something to the "lord", even if you are a famous general Ban Chao who has made countless contributions to the Han Dynasty? If you kill the princess, you are trampling on the prestige of the Han family, then you have to pay the price, and the price is several times and a hundred times the price, so it is not surprising that the clan that will fall later will be wiped out.

In the same way, in terms of Yang Qiao's refusal to marry, this is also trampling on the prestige of the Han family, simply put, you don't obey the emperor's orders, what do you think of the emperor?

The emperor chooses a husband for the princess, this is something that the whole world is staring at, and now that you are selected, but you refuse to marry, isn't it equivalent to Chi Guoguo's slapping the emperor's face, making the whole world laugh at the emperor? Therefore, for Yang Qiao, who starved to death later, he had to die if he didn't die, how could he make the emperor establish his prestige in front of the world? Even, if Yang Qiao resolutely refused to marry, or even did not die, maybe he would be the same as Ban Shi, slapping the face of the Han royal family and implicating the clan, at that time, the difference between the two was only how many people died.

Speaking of now, Zhao Zhong in the Shicai court will pull Yang Xuan and Fu Quan together, it can be said that the change of direction is mentioning the ugly matter of the Han family, which will also make the world laugh, as for why, the clear-eyed people will believe that Yang Xuan and Fu Quan have intersections, but they will never believe that they will deal with Zhao Kai of the eunuch family together, because Fu Shi married the daughter of Emperor Huan by coincidence, and there is a feud between the two no matter how they say it.

Of course, even if the two are united, this thing is true, but Liu Hong must not poke this thing out, or put this matter on the table.

It's very simple, this is also a rare scandal for the Han Dynasty, the emperor's baby daughter, the eldest princess of the Han Dynasty, was divorced, how can this be mentioned again? Although it has been a long time, this matter can be mentioned less, after all, unless the imperial power sacrifices the butcher's knife, no matter what, it can't block the mouths of everyone in the world.

Moreover, this matter is not only a scandal in the Han family, but even Yang Xuan, the key figure in it, must not have an accident, because if something happens to him, the public opinion of the world will once again disgrace the Han family.

After all, Yang Xuan's brother Yang Qiao couldn't bear the pressure of Emperor Huan of Han after refusing to marry, so he chose to die on a hunger strike, which was also changing the direction of the army of the Han family. Because Yang Qiao's hunger strike and suicide were in a change of direction to protect the clan and return the face of the Han family, and this matter itself was caused by the Han family's overbearing, and now that Yang Qiao has committed suicide, can they still attack Yang Qiao's family again?

Obviously, of course not, if the Han family insists on forcibly doing this, they are facing the leisurely mouth of everyone in the world, saying that the Han family is unkind and unreasonable. Once someone with a heart manipulates it, the Han family will take action against Yang Qiao's family, which will directly affect and may even shake the foundation of the rule, which the Han family will never be able to bear.

Just like the famous Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty in the former Han Dynasty, because of his pain for the side branches, the central court was weak, so after he ascended the throne, he continued to prepare to cut the domain. But later, because of public opinion, he had to grit his teeth and crown all the three sons of his dead half-brother Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, when he was clearly preparing to cut the domain, so as to block the mouth of the world.

Liu Chang, a native of Peifengyi, is the young son of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, the half-brother of Emperor Liu Ying of the Han Hui Dynasty and Liu Heng of the Han Wen Emperor, and his mother is Zhao Ji, the prince of the early Western Han Dynasty. His strength can carry the tripod, was named the king of Huainan, in the Han Emperor Wen, arrogant and domineering, often with the emperor out of the same car hunting; In the fiefdom, there is no need for Chinese law, and it is a decree for itself. Later, he contacted the leaders of the Xiongnu and Minyue to plot a rebellion, and was detained. The courtiers discussed the death penalty, Emperor Wen pardoned him, abolished the king's name, and migrated to Shu County's Yandao Qiongyou, and died without eating on the way, and was called King Li.

Originally, Liu Chang's crime, under the conclusive evidence, can be said to be deserved, even if he is Liu Heng's own brother, he can't escape legal punishment, and even his sons should stay away from the Han family from now on. However, just because he died on a hunger strike during exile after being convicted, he completely turned himself into a "scandal" of the Han family, and the people even suspected that this was a trap designed by Emperor Wen of Han from the beginning to frame this younger brother who had the opportunity to grab the emperor's throne with Emperor Wen of Han.

It wasn't until later that some people sang because they missed Liu Chang, the king of Huainan: "A foot of cloth can still be sewn; A bucket of millet is still acceptable. The two brothers are incompatible. ”

It is this song that gradually magnifies the scandal of the Han family, and even makes trouble to the point that everyone knows that "the mouth of the people is more important than the defense of Sichuan", he was afraid that the whole world would think that he was greedy for the fief of his younger brother Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, and hurriedly ordered Liu Xi, the king of Chengyang, to lead the homeland of the king of Huainan, and named the late king of Huainan as the king of Li, and built a cemetery for him according to the princes' rituals.

Of course, regardless of whether Emperor Wen of Han designed to treat his own brother or not, anyway, after this "scandal", the Han family did not dare to "treat Liu Chang's relatives too much". In other words, unless Liu Chang's relatives are the same as Liu Chang and have absolute evidence of rebellion and rebellion that are caught by the Han family, the Han family must take good care of them, and tolerate them no matter how they toss and behave recklessly.

Even later, under the clear policy of cutting feudal domains, Liu Heng also decreed that Liu Zhang's three sons should be crowned kings, and Liu Anfeng, Marquis of Fuling, would be the king of Huainan, Liu Bo, Marquis of Anyang, would be the king of Hengshan, and Liu Ci, Marquis of Yangzhou, would be the king of Lujiang. Let them regain Liu Changshi's fiefdom, share it with three points, and ensure the safety of the lives of the three people, and completely refute the rumors that he coveted his brother's fiefdom with the mouth of the world.

Corresponding to Yang Qiao's matter of Liu Chang, Yang Xuan is Yang Qiao's brother, does the Han family dare to punish Yang Xuan because of the eunuch's unwarranted speculation? Obviously, this is impossible, they want to make Yang Xuan's life safe, prosperous and rich, and with Yang Xuan's choice to be an official, of course Dahan has to ensure that his official fortune is prosperous.

Otherwise, with Yang Qiao's previous conviction of offending the Han family, even if Yang Xuan is extraordinary, the imperial court will not appoint him as the senior position of the county guard, is the Han family going to slap himself in the face? The reason why this is so is not to block the mouth of the world, otherwise, if it is mentioned every day, the old face of Emperor Liu Zhi of the Han Dynasty in the coffin will be lost.

Therefore, this is Liu Hong's strange behavior after knowing Yang Xuan's life experience, he just wants to end this farce as soon as possible, and he can't let this matter ferment anymore, so he beat Zhao Zhong, let Zhao Zhong take the blame, and quickly dissolve the court, otherwise, even Liu Hong's own face will be lost.