With Liu Hong coming to Ganquan Palace, the queen and Mrs. Liu Yan were already waiting here. In ancient times, if the emperor was favored and summoned the whole family to give a banquet, it was generally the emperor who received the men and the queen met the women. Only during the banquet will the emperor meet the female relatives of the minister's family, which are still familiar ministers. If it is similar to the New Year's greeting, the queen will have a banquet in **, and the emperor will go over to say hello at most!

As for the ladies who enter the palace, if there are unmarried daughters of the courtier's family who are favored by the emperor, they may be selected to enter the palace as concubines, but the emperor will never meet the daughters of the minister's family alone. Even if the emperor takes a fancy to a married female dependent, he will let her dissolve the relationship with her husband before being included**. Of course, the other party must be willing, otherwise even the emperor can't do it! If there is any ambiguity between the emperor and the minister's daughters, there are almost no Han emperors. Even if they are mediocre and lustful like Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, they all let the palace maids wear open crotch pants or no clothes, but there have never been rumors that they have an improper relationship with any minister's family!

Only the Yuan and Qing dynasties of the non-Han dynasty had the emperor's bad deeds of blaspheming the minister's daughters, so it is said that the emperors of the Kangxi and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty were praised by their descendants, but which of them did not have ambiguous scandals with their courtiers? Although there are some slanders against foreign literati who are emperors, there is no wind and no waves, mainly because they don't know how to avoid suspicion, as well as their national culture! After all, before the Jurchens entered the customs, it was normal for fathers, sons, brothers and wives to have the same wife, in their opinion, women are part of the property, as long as they are not their own mothers and sisters, there is nothing wrong!

Liu Hong's empress surname was Song, and she was originally a palace maid, chosen by Empress Dowager Dou, General Dou and Cao Jie. The reason why they didn't choose a big family lady was because the Dou family and Cao Jie were worried about the appearance of another relative. You must know that Dou Wu and Liang Ji can only become powerful ministers by relying on nepotism. If one more family came out to divide power, Dou Wu would naturally be unhappy, and Cao Jie was also worried about one more force that would oppose him. Therefore, in the selection of the queen, General Dou and the eunuch forces rarely remained the same!

Empress Song, who was born as a palace maid, understood that Liu Hong, as the emperor, really had no rights, so she kept persuading Liu Hong not to go against the generals and even Cao Jie. If it was a young lady from a big family, thinking that the emperor was supreme, and always thinking about letting the emperor seize power, it is estimated that Liu Hong would be killed before he could sit on the throne. You must know that the emperors who were killed in the Han Dynasty were not one or two! After Liu Hong became sensible, he understood that Queen Song was good, and he always respected her. However, Empress Song never forgot her identity. Although she has become the empress, she has been serving the emperor in accordance with the regulations of the palace maid, which is one of the reasons why Liu Hong respects her.

Seeing that the emperor had arrived, Empress Song hurriedly got up and saluted, and Mrs. Liu Yan naturally followed. Liu Hong smiled: "Flat body!" There are no outsiders here, so why be so polite? Come! This is my imperial uncle Liu Yan and Liu Junlang! ”

"I've seen Uncle Huang!" The queen blessed Liu Yan.

This frightened Liu Yan, he quickly got out of the way, and bowed to the queen to the end: "How dare you accept the queen's mother's gift!" ”

"It's fine!" Liu Hong said with a smile: "If I am not the emperor, I don't want to give the emperor uncle a gift of uncle and nephew!" Now the queen should salute me! ”

Empress Song's beautiful eyes are circulating, and after five or six years of getting along, she knows that the emperor values Liu Yan so much, not because Liu Yan has royal blood. It's like Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty recognized Liu Bei as his uncle, just because Liu Bei was a hero, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were his minions, which made Cao Ying quite jealous. Since Liu Yan is useful to Liu Hong, the queen naturally wants to help her, so she has done enough gifts for her juniors, which makes Liu Yan really embarrassed. However, Liu Yan is an old fox, how can those little tricks of Liu Hong and Queen Song stump him, and the two supremes who play Tai Chi in one hand are difficult to parry! The more this is the case, the happier Liu Hong is, if he is touted as a waste wood to the sky, how can it be worthy of Liu Hongjun, who is the emperor?

After the greetings, they took their seats, and the little yellow door began to pass the dishes. Liu Yan knelt at the emperor's head with his three sons, and Mrs. Liu Yan knelt next to the queen with Liu Zhang. In the Han Dynasty, each person was given a small case, and food was placed on the table. The food is both raw and cooked, and even the cutting method has to be done according to etiquette. Confucius said; If you don't cut it right, you don't eat. That is to say, at the banquet, there must be standards for cutting food, and no one thinks that Liu Zhang, a five-year-old child, knows how to cut food according to etiquette!

Indeed, Liu Zhang doesn't know how to cut food, but he can eat! As soon as the dish came up, he immediately changed from kneeling to sitting cross-legged, holding chopsticks and picking up a piece of meat and gnawing it, the action can be described as thunderous! Liu Yan saw that Liu Zhang was usually very polite, but today he was so rude in front of the emperor, and said a little unhappily: "Zhang'er! How does your father teach you? ”

Liu Yan's questioning made Liu Zhang have a black line, he has been pretending to be dumb since he was born, and he was only willing to speak more than ten days ago, Liu Yan He had taught him. But his father was angry, Liu Zhang didn't want to ignore it, he swallowed the meat in his mouth with great effort, and said to Liu Yan: "Father, what kind of banquet are we eating now?" ”

"Naturally, it is a palace banquet given by His Majesty!" Since more than ten days ago, this little son started to speak, which brought many surprises to Liu Yan. Hearing Liu Zhang's question, Liu Yan suddenly realized that his youngest son did it on purpose.

Liu Zhang turned his head to look at Liu Hong and said, "Brother Huang, when Xiaohuangmen called our mother and son to the banquet, they said that it was a family banquet given by His Majesty, I wonder if I was wrong?" ”

Liu Hong nodded and said, "Today's banquet for Uncle Huang is naturally a family banquet!" ”

"Since it is a family banquet, all of you here are fathers and brothers, as long as the etiquette is done, how to eat is not as good as it gets!" Liu Zhang said with a smile: "If you eat with your father and brother, you don't pay attention to cutting and not eating, wouldn't you treat your father and brother as outsiders?" ”

Liu Hong laughed and said: "What the imperial brother said is right, today there are only fathers and brothers and elders, and there are no outsiders. Uncle Huang, I salute you! ”

"Don't dare, don't dare!" Liu Yan is accustomed to the modesty of the surname.

Liu Hong feigned anger and said, "Doesn't Uncle Huang treat me as a relative?" The son and nephew toast, and the imperial uncle deserves it! Come! Fill this cup! ”

Liu Yan was helpless, so he had to accept Liu Hong's toast. Queen Song is a clever person, seeing such a situation, can she still not understand what Liu Hong means? Coupled with Liu Zhang's gags, the originally restrained emperor's banquet was actually made very lively by Liu Zhang, and Liu Yan and Liu Hong's hearts were a little strange.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Liu Hong looked at Liu Zhang, who was resting on the side after eating and drinking, and said, "Has the emperor's brother ever gone to school?" ”

"Brother Huang, my brother is only five years old, you want to throw me to those rotten persecutions!" Liu Zhang said with a smile: "I want to be the emperor's brother Huo Quai, so I don't have to do those things to find chapters and sentences!" If the royal brother wants to cultivate me, find me a good teacher and teach me to read and write, and forget about those classics! ”

Liu Hong laughed and said: "Huo Qubing is a famous general of my dynasty, he is proficient in the art of war, and his attainments are not low!" However, since the royal brother doesn't want to learn those classics, why don't you be my companion? Now the person who teaches me is the great Confucian Cai Yong Cai Bojiao! He never talked about those classics in class, only about the principles of governing the country, and it was wise to read history! ”

Liu Zhang was a little hesitant, Cai Yong's talent was beyond doubt. Although he was later killed by Wang Yun for Dong Zhuo's corpse, it was Wang Yun's careful eyes, if someone else was replaced, maybe he would praise Cai Yong's kindness, after all, Dong Zhuo has the grace of knowing Cai Yong. If Dong Zhuo died, Cai Yong would be indifferent, but would become an ungrateful villain! But Cai Yong is an emperor's teacher, in the eyes of outsiders, what he teaches is the art of the emperor, how can ordinary people learn it?

Seeing Liu Zhang's hesitation, Liu Hong smiled and said, "What? My Huo Qu's illness is inseparable from his parents? You must know that the champion Hou grew up in the palace and was personally taught by Emperor Wu to become a talent! ”

After Liu Zhang looked at his parents and brothers, he saw that his mother was reluctant, his father was very happy and looked at him, but the three brothers were a little jealous. Liu Zhang gritted his teeth and bowed: "Your Majesty has an order, how dare your brother disobey?" But..."

"Don't worry, brother, I'm not unsympathetic!" Liu Hong laughed and said: "You don't have to live in the palace, I will give you a sign that you can pass freely in the palace, and I don't have to listen to Dr. Cai's lectures every day!" ”

The emperor has to go to court every day, whether he is a puppet or not, he has to sit in that position. Even if you go through the motions, you can't start reading until later. From Liu Zhang's current place of residence, it will take less than a quarter of an hour to reach the palace, even if he lives at home, he gets up an hour early, and the time is enough!

"Then thank you Brother Huang!" Liu Zhang knew that Liu Hong wanted to cultivate him as a pillar and at the same time win over Liu Yan. After all, Liu Hong is Dou Wuli, and after Dou Wu's death, Cao Jie was in power, but Liu Hong has never had his own team. As for those loyal ministers of the Han family, they are loyal to the Han family and their own families, not to Liu Hong.

The appearance of Liu Zhang and Liu Yan allowed Liu Hong to find an opportunity to cultivate the team. Liu Yan is an old fox, this kind of person is the minister that Liu Hong needs, and Liu Zhang is clever and smart, as long as he is properly trained, he is a young talent, maybe he can't use it now, but Liu Hong is only seventeen years old, and when Liu Zhang is thirty years old, Liu Hong is only in his forties. Taking a step back, even if Liu Zhang is incompetent, Liu Hong can still use him to win over Liu Yan, this kind of business that is sure to make money without losing money, if Liu Hong doesn't do it, wouldn't he be a fool?

Although Liu Yan did not express his refuge in Liu Hong, Liu Zhang's behavior hinted at his attitude. And Liu Yan, as a new Zongzheng who entered Beijing, climbed the big tree of the emperor, as long as it does not involve the emperor's bottom line, in the future, he will inevitably call for wind and rain in Beijing. Of course, Cao Jie, who holds great power, still can't be offended. But Liu Zhang knew that Cao Jie was going to finish playing soon.