The seventh year of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty (150 BC)

In the first month of spring, Xiao Liu Yu was in a good mood, and he had been holding back for almost seven years, and he was about to ascend to the throne of the prince.

The clear water and clear pool reflect the distant sky, and the purple cloud fragrance controls the breeze.

The city of Hanjia is suspicious of the sky, and the mountains and rivers of Qindi are like mirrors.

After hearing this, Li Fu, the personal servant, silently memorized it, and read it to Wang Wan when he went back.

After hearing this, Wang Wan just smiled and said, "Very good." ”

Then he called his personal maid and asked her to pass on a message to Princess Guantao and her half-brother Tian Wei, "It's time to get windy."

That night, Empress Dowager Dou and Princess Tao went to Weiyang Palace to meet the emperor. Subsequently, with a holy decree, the chamberlain transferred a piece of music from the central government office that had not been reviewed by the prime minister to the emperor's bedroom.

The next day, above the main hall of Weiyang, the Manchu Dynasty had a lot of civil and military discussions. Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty has been sick for more than three months, and government affairs have always been handled by Prime Minister Zhou Yafu, but for some reason, everyone has been notified to the court.

Could it be that the emperor has been cured? The ministers couldn't help but have this thought in their hearts, but they didn't know how many joys and sorrows were.

Without letting the ministers wait too long, Emperor Han Jing, whose face was a little pale, slowly walked out of the inner hall. He didn't let the chamberlain support him, and with slow and heavy steps, he ascended to the chairman of the main hall step by step, and sat down steadily.

After the ministers had made a big salute and sat down at the table, Emperor Jing, who had been expressionless, spoke: "Where is Chen Xiao in the big line?" ”

"The minister is here!" Chen Xiao got up and walked to the middle of the hall, holding a wat board, and bowed in response.

"You wrote this cantata?" Emperor Jing grabbed a roll of bamboo slips handed over by the chamberlain and threw it in front of Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao picked up the bamboo slip tremblingly, looked at it carefully, and gritted his teeth: "Back to Your Majesty, it was written by the minister." ”

"Read!" Emperor Jing closed his eyes and said coldly.

Chen Xiao's legs were weak, trying his best to support himself not to fall, and with a trembling voice, he slowly recited: "The son is more precious than the mother, and the mother is more precious than the son." Today, the crown prince's mother should be the queen. ”

Emperor Jing suddenly opened his eyes, patted the table in front of him, stood up, and was furious: "Is this what you should say!" ”

Looking at Chen Xiao, who fell to the ground and collapsed into a pile of mud, Emperor Jing calmed down the anger in his heart, sat down slowly, and motioned to the eunuch beside him to announce the decree.

"The Emperor of the Han Dynasty summoned and investigated the Daxing Order Chen Xiao, who was lazy in state affairs, but discussed the affairs of the palace in vain, and messed up the discipline of my Han court. Go to its officials, take its lordship, and take the head in the East City. ”

There was an uproar among the ministers for a while, but until the guards dragged Chen Xiao, who had fainted in fright, out of the hall, no one just stepped forward to plead.

Emperor Jing looked coldly at the ministers in the court, and said quietly: "Prime Minister, I have been sick until now, but there are other things that can be said about the Hou/Palace?"

"Back to Your Majesty, there are still a few copies, and they are also planning for my Han Society, and I ask Your Majesty to forgive the ministers."

"Since someone is playing, why don't you press it back?! I think you also know that the foreign minister's vain discussion of the affairs of the queen/palace is not tolerated by me!" Emperor Jing's face changed, and he scolded angrily: "From now on, Prime Minister Zhou Yafu has thought about it behind closed doors, and without his will, he will not be allowed to leave the Prime Minister's Mansion for half a step!" ”

Zhou Yafu's face was full of frustration, and he wanted to say something, but he was carried out of the hall by the guards.

The ministers in the court immediately reacted and knew that the emperor was playing for real. Suddenly, more than a dozen ministers came out and knelt down in the center of the main hall, begging the emperor for forgiveness.

Emperor Jing sneered and waved his hand, and the guards who had been prepared on the side immediately took them all out.

Emperor Jing looked at the lieutenant (equivalent to the Duke of Beijing. Security Bureau. Wei Wan shook his head, he was a relative of the Li family, and he was too loyal to deal with the follow-up matters.

"Lieutenant Wei Xuan, an old man, was given the dismissal and return home. The Taishou Zhi of Jinan County entered Beijing, served as a lieutenant, and thoroughly investigated the case! ”

As soon as Emperor Jing's edict came out, the ministers were in an uproar again, the emperor was going to put these people to death!

Zhi Du is a "cool official" who suppresses lawlessness and tyranny with severe punishment and strict laws to maintain social order. Zhidu does not avoid the powerful, and anyone who violates the law and prohibitions, no matter who the official is, will be punished by law. The Liehou clan hated and feared Zhi, and when they saw him, they all looked sideways, and called him "Goshawk" behind their backs, which means that he is extremely fierce in law enforcement.

"Retreat!"

After the great purge in the court, Emperor Jing actually felt lighter, and it seemed that his body had recovered a lot after recovering from a serious illness. A few days ago, the few medicinal dishes offered by the Hongning Hall were really good, which were both delicious and curative. simply set up the Changle Palace, summoned Xiao Liu Yu to teach the imperial chef to cook a few new dishes, and the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren had a family banquet. As long as the queen mother can be stabilized, without her resistance, a series of follow-up actions can be much easier.

In the prince/palace, Wei Qihou Dou Ying looked at the restless prince in front of him, and his heart was full of powerlessness.

Since Zhidu took over the lieutenant's mansion and thoroughly investigated the nonsense. Since the palace case, the power of the Li clan in the court has almost been uprooted. Mrs. Li's immediate family members were all arrested and executed, and the current prince is tantamount to a lonely family.

After quelling the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, due to his great achievements, Emperor Jing appointed Dou Ying as the crown prince and concubine, and it has been more than three years. His future has been completely tied to the prince, and seeing that the prince is losing power, he is also concerned.

"Your Highness, don't panic yet, this matter has nothing to do with Your Highness. The position of the crown prince is related to the society, and if there is no big mistake, it cannot be lightly wasted. As long as His Highness is more careful in his actions in the future, it may not be fine. Dou Ying settled down and comforted.

The prince's eyes lit up, and he was about to speak, but was interrupted by a rush of footsteps.

"Why are you so alarmed?" The prince looked at the attendant who had boldly entered the house and asked.

The waiter looked at Dou Ying on the side, a little hesitant, not daring to speak.

The prince now only has Dou Ying to rely on, and he was afraid that he would have a gap in his heart because of this, so he hurriedly raised his hand and waved it, pretending to be generous: "It's okay, Taifu is his own person, there is nothing to hide." ”

The waiter froze and said boldly: "Wei Wei Chengtian took His Majesty's edict and searched Niangniang's Zhaoyang Palace. More than a dozen puppets used for witchcraft were found, with the names of the ladies and princes in the palace written on them. ”

"It's over! It's all over! When the prince heard this, he roared, but his eyes were dark, and he fell to the ground unconscious.

Dou Ying also had weak legs and collapsed on the ground, but refused the support of the waiter. After a long time, he slowly stood up, clenched his teeth, and squeezed out a sentence with all his strength: "The foolish woman misunderstood me!" ”

Emperor Han Jingdi looked at the puppet on the case with a gloomy face, which was full of large and small needle eyes. Especially the puppets with the names of the Wang Wan sisters and Liu Yu have been poked beyond recognition. It can be seen how great the hatred in Mrs. Li's heart is, and it is conceivable how violent the means to deal with these people will be once she takes power. It seems that what Princess Guantao said at the beginning was not entirely alarmist.

"Your Majesty, Mrs. Li is clamoring to see you!" The chamberlain came in to report.

Emperor Jing let out a long sigh, feeling that the whole person was full of exhaustion, and said faintly: "Pass the decree and demote Mrs. Li to the cold palace." Go and tell her that I don't want to see her again. ”

The next day, above the court, Emperor Jing issued an edict to abolish the position of the emperor's eldest son, Prince Liu Rong, and renamed the king of Linjiang.

As soon as this edict came out, the government and the opposition shook.

The crown prince and the prince Dou Ying resolutely objected, and even a group of ministers who did not know the inside story knelt down in the court. Several old ministers ran to Changle Palace to cry to the Queen Mother that the prince was virtuous, and he was afraid that the society would be shaken by the arbitrary abolition.

Empress Dowager Dou, who knows the inside story, obviously will not act against the emperor, and Emperor Jing's holy decree has been issued, so she is not going to discuss it with the ministers at all, it is just a routine notice.

Dou Ying and several old ministers tried to threaten to resign, but they were quickly approved by Emperor Jing, and they didn't even do the superficial effort to retain them. I don't know if any of the few people regretted it, but in short, the court immediately cleaned up a lot.

With the arrival of summer, the debate over the choice of a new prince has been raging for three months.

After the crown prince Liu Rong was deposed, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, came alive again. Liang Wangping said that he was a heroic man from all over the world, known as a virtuous king, and he made great military exploits in the pacification of the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, and his momentum was very high. A month ago, he left the fiefdom and entered Beijing in the name of celebrating the birthday of the Queen Mother.

After King Liang entered Beijing, he wantonly befriended important ministers in the court, and at the same time continued to go to Changle Palace to meet the Empress Dowager Dou. Empress Dowager Dou couldn't resist his soft grinding and hard bubbles, and hinted several times that Emperor Jing established King Liang as the prince.

Emperor Jing was forced to have no choice but to agree to hold a court meeting today to decide on the candidate for the prince.

At this time, Xiao Liu Yu was standing in the small garden of Hongning Palace, looking at Weiyang Palace in the distance, with an obscure face.

"Yu'er, didn't you comfort your mother yesterday, saying that the courtiers would never agree to King Liang as the prince, why are you like this now?" Wang Wan had never seen her son show such an expression, and she was very distressed.

"Mother, the child is not worried about the position of the prince, but about the ministers......" Liu Yu stopped talking, shook his head at the puzzled old lady, and stopped talking.

He had nothing to say, he still underestimated King Liang's influence on the Empress Dowager Dou, and he still came to the point of court discussion.

According to the trajectory of history, the result of the court meeting was to reject the Empress Dowager's idea of appointing King Liang as the prince, and Emperor Jing would order Yuan Ang and other ministers to admonish the Empress Dowager. Liu Yu was made the crown prince, but the king of Liang refused to stop there, but sent people to assassinate Yuan Ang and more than a dozen other ministers who were right in the court.

There are more than ten ministers, and they are all the most loyal ministers in the court!

It was this killing that made the capable ministers of the Han Dynasty almost cut off. So much so that ten years later, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, he still lamented that there were no talents available, otherwise he would not have reused relatives like Dou Ying and Tian Wei.

At this time, there was no political school, let alone a central/central/party/school, and the inheritance of most positions was passed on by the old and the new, and by word of mouth. Most of the officials elected by the probation system are filial piety, and filial piety has a hammer relationship with talent. Therefore, for the Han Dynasty, the loss of more than ten experienced ministers at a time means more talent loss.

Xiao Liu Yu was covered in cold sweat when he thought of his uncle Tian Wei, who is now the head of the guard, and he could be the prime minister in the future. I still have to think of a way, I can save one more person, at least Yuan Ang wants to save it. Yuan Ang's surname is upright and talented, and he is known as the "unparalleled national warrior" in history, an excellent candidate for prime minister.

Sure enough, after the court meeting, Yuan Ang took several old ministers to Changle Palace to meet the Queen Mother. In the face of Yuan An, who was already a high-ranking and powerful minister in the Wen Dynasty, the Queen Mother did not dare to slack off.

Yuan Ang went straight to the point and asked the Queen Mother: "The Queen Mother hopes that Your Majesty will be in King Liang in a hundred years?" ”

Empress Dowager Dou nodded silently.

"Then who will King Liang pass on the throne to a hundred years later?" Yuan Ang asked.

Empress Dou looked embarrassed and said hesitantly: "Of course, I will return the throne to the son of His Majesty today." ”

Yuan Ang nodded in agreement: "Song Xuancheng in the Spring and Autumn Period does not pass on the throne to his son, but to his younger brother. ”

"Since there is a precedent, isn't it possible to do this?" Empress Dowager Dou was full of smiles, not expecting Yuan Ang to support her.

Unfortunately, when his younger brother wanted to pass the throne back to Xuan Gong's son, the younger brother's son disagreed. Since then, the descendants of the two have been killing each other for five generations. ”

Empress Dowager Dou was shocked when she heard this, and was silent.

Yuan Ang ignored it and continued to persuade: "If you can't bear it, you will harm the righteousness, and there will be trouble." Therefore, "Spring and Autumn" thinks that the son is correct. ”

"I see." Empress Dowager Dou knew that she was at a loss and no longer mentioned the matter.

The next day, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, received an edict from the Empress Dowager, ordering him to return to the fiefdom of Liang immediately without entering the palace to resign. King Liang knew that he couldn't do anything, and although he was resentful in his heart, he had no choice but to pack up and set off to return to China immediately.

After receiving the news that King Liang had left Beijing, Empress Dowager Dou stood on the high platform of Changle Palace, looking at the direction of Liang Guo in the east, and stood all night. The next day, due to the cold, he was bedridden for more than half a month, and his condition gradually improved.

All the obstacles were removed, and everything that followed naturally fell into place.

In the second month of April, Mrs. Wang's wife Wang Wan was canonized as the queen.

Ding Si, Liu Yu, the king of Jiaodong, was made the crown prince and renamed Liu Che.

Xiao Liu Yu is very happy, Yi is the meaning of pig, and whoever is called Liu Zhu for seven years will be unhappy. Now he has changed his name to Liu Che, the name of the first emperor through the ages! From now on, I will be called Liu Che, who dares to call me Liu Yu again, I will play with him!

(Note: I finally finished explaining what happened before Liu Yu became the prince, and it was very hard.) Liu Yu worked hard, and the author also worked hard, and he had to follow most of the historical facts, because he couldn't destroy the historical process too much, otherwise he would be miserable if he couldn't be the prince. Now that the pain is over, after becoming the prince, you can develop, as long as you don't do too taboo things, it's okay! I'm going to climb the tech tree, brothers, give advice, give recommendations! ）

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