On July 25, the sixteenth year of Jian'an, Liu Qi left Zhou Yu, the captain of Sili, to lead the army to guard Luoyang, but he led 20,000 personal soldiers from Luoyang Yique and returned to Xiangyang.

This time, Liu Qi returned to Xiangyang, mainly because it was close to the Mid-Autumn Festival and needed to return to China to worship the temple, in addition to waiting for the worship to be completed, he and the families of high-ranking domestic officials were taken to Luoyang.

Due to the frequent good news along the way, Liu Qi and his army walked very happily, and it took less than half a month to reach the 800-mile journey from Xiangyang on Luoyang Road.

Shangshu Ling Pei Qian, Shangshu Zuo Servant Shot Wang Cang, Shangshu Chen Qun, Minbu Shangshu Fanqin, Ministry of Rites Shangshu Yu Translation, Ministry of Industry Shangshu Huang Chengyan, Military Department Shangshu Kuai Yue, Criminal Department Shangshu Tian Feng, Shizhong Chen Lin, Bu Qi, Imperial Historian Zheng Du, Zhongshu Jian Sima Hui, Pang Degong, Zijin Guanglu Doctor Xun You and others had already learned the news of Liu Qi's return to China, but when they heard that Liu Qi had rushed outside Xiangyang City three days in advance, they were still a little surprised, but fortunately they learned that this lord had always been relatively fast in marching, Therefore, I had already prepared to meet in advance, so I didn't seem to be flustered, and lined up out of the city in an orderly manner to greet him.

Of course, although Liu Yi, as the crown prince of Chu, is only seven years old, he still has to go to greet him, and he still has to be surrounded by the ministers like stars holding the moon in the core, and "lead" these world-famous ministers to greet him.

That night, Liu Qi as usual in the palace banquet of civil and military ministers, at the banquet, when Liu Qi talked about the army in the two months of the war, all the civil and military in the palace were boiling, in fact, there are already many people here know the news of the victory of the Chu army, but today after Liu Qi said it, he was still excited, because this news means that the Chu army has since occupied the entire area south of the Yellow River, such as today's three points. The Chu army is unique, and it includes the Central Plains, where the agricultural economy is the most developed, which proves that the Chu army has achieved the absolute power to unify the Han Dynasty, as long as there is no accident, it will not take a few years for them to unify the whole world, and then they will have the merit of the dragon. How comfortable it would be to be a founding hero?

Therefore, all the civil and military ministers cheered, and then couldn't help shouting: "Long live, long live, long live." ”

In fact, the title of "long live" was not taboo before the Han Dynasty, and "long live" at this time was just a means of cheering. For example, Lin Xiangru holds rare treasures and family bi, "play the King of Qin, the King of Qin is overjoyed, and it is passed on to show the beauty and the left." Long live on both the left and right. "Meng Yanjun's disciple Feng Tan went to Xuehou, burned the bonds, and the people said long live. In order to paralyze the Yan army, Tian Dan "made the old and weak women take the city to send envoys to Yan, and the Yan army shouted long live." Ji Xin made a plan for Liu Bang, who was surrounded by Xiang Yu's army, and ran to the Chu army to lie and said: "'The city is exhausted, and the king of Han surrenders. 'The Chu army all shouted long live. "These can be used as evidence.

Later, it came to the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first year of Yuan Feng. That is, in the spring of 110 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who wanted to live a long life, went to Taimur Mountain to worship the heavens. I don't know what's going on. The officials who followed the retinue heard someone shouting "Banzai" at the bottom of the mountain, and shouted three times in a row (, asked the people on the mountain, and they all said that they did not shout, but they also heard it; When I asked the people under the mountain, they also said that they heard it but did not shout. This incident was recorded as auspicious. Later, fifteen years later, that is, in March of the third year of Taishi, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "was fortunate to be evil, and the day of the ceremony became a mountain." Dengzhifu. Float in the sea. Long live the mountain. That is, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended Zhifu Mountain, even the mountain was called long live, which is the origin of "Long live the mountain".

Since then, next to the throne of the feudal emperor, the sound of "long live" is endless, but at this time there is still no ban on the cheers of the people for long live, for example, there is a famous general of the Sui Dynasty called Shi Long live, until after Wu Zetian, because Wu Zetian's year name often carries the word "long live", such as "long live the book of heaven", "long live Dengfeng", "long live Tongtian", etc., the name of "long live" is almost extinct, and when it comes to the Northern Song Dynasty, long live is equal to the emperor, except for the emperor, No one was allowed to call long live, and from then on, long live became the exclusive term of the emperor.

Of course, with Liu Qi's current status, no one will say anything even if it is a forbidden title, not to mention that Liu Qi is different from Cao Cao, the civil and military ministers under his command are all tried his best to envelop him, these people are actually only loyal to him, not to mention that he is still the identity of the Han clan, and his reputation has far exceeded that of Liu Bei at the beginning, even if he is now called emperor, few people will object.

However, Liu Qi still has a very high political consciousness, after all, there is still the Son of Heaven, and he is playing the banner of the Han clan, if he rashly claims to be the emperor now, although no one will oppose it under the rule, but in the future, there will be one less weapon against Cao, and there will be less an effective means to win over the people in the north. Therefore, if there is no accident, as long as the Han family is not pacified, as long as the Son of Heaven is still there, he will not be the emperor, Jia Xu and others also understand this truth, so except for a few short-sighted flatterers, no one will rashly persuade them.

However, it was said that after Liu Qi and the civil and military banquet were completed, he hurriedly came to the palace's inner house, and at this time, his wives and concubines and children had already gathered together, and a banquet was set up in the hall of the queen's main bedroom, waiting for his arrival.

When Liu Qi came to the hall and saw his wife and concubine gathered together, his eyes were already red, but he couldn't hold back his longing, hugged his son and kissed him, and then briefly asked about his studies, so that he had time to look at the child in Zhen Luo's arms and the big-bellied Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao sisters.

In fact, long before the expedition, the fetus in Zhen Luo's womb was already seven months old, so he naturally knew that the child would be born soon, and when he left, Liu Qi also thought of a name for the child, if it was a daughter, it would be called Liu Yue, and the son would be called Liu Yu, and later he heard that Zhen Luo had given birth to a son for himself, so he named it Liu Yu, and played it to the Son of Heaven as the prince of Changsha County; But I didn't expect that in addition to the news of Liu Yu's birth in the letter, Kuai Ruyu also said that Xiao Qiao was also pregnant at the same time, and it was already three months old when Liu Qi went out to fight.

After getting the news, Liu Qi immediately remembered that he had often played a one-on-two Three Kingdoms game with the two sisters in the past three years in Xiangyang, and it must have been because of his hard work in these absurd and happy days, and finally let the two sisters get their wish, thinking of this, he couldn't help but be secretly proud, it seems that his hard work has not been in vain.

This is just seeing that the two sisters are all nine months pregnant, and when the baby is about to give birth, he can't help but be secretly disappointed: see that at least in three or four months, he will not be able to live such a fairy life again, and even because this pair of sisters have children, I am afraid it will be difficult to accompany him to live this kind of life in the future.

In this way, Liu Qi couldn't help but secretly regret why he worked so hard in the first place to let them all get pregnant.

At this time, Liu Qi glanced at Huang Yueying apologetically, for fear that she would be sad because she couldn't have children, but when she saw Huang Yueying looking at her with a narrow face, she immediately snorted at the end of the table with her mouth.

Liu Qi's gaze followed the direction indicated by Huang Yueying, and only then did he find that a woman with a flushed face appeared at the end of the seat.

This woman is not any of Kuai Ruyu, Xiao Qiao, Huang Yueying and Zhen Luo, and when she looked at it again, Liu Qi was suddenly dumbfounded, because this woman looked like a talented woman Cai Wenji, but this woman looked radiant and fair-skinned, but she was younger than Cai Wenji.

"Uh, you, you......."

"Concubine Wen Ji has seen the king." The woman slowly stood up, blessed Liu Qi, and then said with a shy face.

This time Liu Qi heard it right, this woman is Cai Wenji!

"Yu'er is really messing around, it's obviously a family banquet, and she actually got an outsider here, which makes people a little confused." Liu Qi quickly glanced at Kuai Ruyu, and saw that she smiled strangely at herself, not knowing what medicine was sold in the gourd.

Although he complained a little, Liu Qi couldn't blame Kuai Ruyu in front of so many people, and Cai Wenji was saluting herself, so she hurriedly returned the salute and said: "Miss Cai doesn't have to be polite, I think Miss is very lonely to celebrate the festival alone, and the queen specially invited her to come to my palace for the holiday, hehe, Miss don't be restrained." ”

But Huang Yueying said with a smile: "My husband doesn't need to return the gift to her, it's all his own people, why be so polite?" We have never seen my husband so polite to us. ”

Liu Qi's face sank, and he reproached: "How can Ying'er say that? Miss Wen Ji is a guest, how can she be like you? ”

"What do you say? Guest? Hee-hee, husband, when did you become so amused when you spoke? Wen Ji is our sister, we are all the same people, why can't we be the same? The smile on Huang Yueying's face was even stronger, and she said to Liu Qi.

"Huh? What did you just say? Miss Bunji is your sister? Like you guys? ”

Liu Qi couldn't help but be confused when he heard Huang Yueying's words, and hurriedly said in surprise.

"Hehe, why should the husband pretend to be confused? Now Wen Ji is your concubine like us, although she is older, but in front of the five of us, she has to call her sister. Huang Yueying laughed, winked at Cai Wenji, and saw Cai Wenji blushing and burying her head, unable to say a word.

At this time, Xiao Qiao also grinned and said: "Exactly, this trip to the north not only harvested the children in the womb of Yu'er and our sisters, but also received a Mrs. Ru, this is a double happiness, don't you know, because she is the sixth, we all call her Mrs. Liuru." ”

"What? Mrs. Liuru? Listening to Huang Yueying and Xiao Qiao's words, Liu Qi not only didn't understand, but felt even more confused, and hurriedly asked. (To be continued......)