King Liang looked at the majestic city gate in front of him and felt a lot of emotion in his heart. Since entering Beijing during the New Year's Festival to reunite with the Queen Mother for a short time, this is the first time he has returned to Chang'an this year.

Time has passed, and things have changed. I still remember that when he entered Beijing during the New Year's Festival, he used the flag of the Son of Heaven given by Emperor Jing, riding from thousands of horses, calling the police, and entering the words, and the guard of honor used was no different from the Son of Heaven. And this time he entered the court to ask for guilt, but he didn't even dare to put out the honor guard of the princes and kings, and he traveled all the way with a light car.

On the contrary, Emperor Jing had already sent envoys to welcome King Liang into the court with the courtesy of princes and kings at Hangu Pass, which made him feel a lot more at ease. The king of Liang changed to Dengyu at Hangu Pass, and the envoys of the imperial court rode high-headed horses and held long royal knots to lead the way. Behind the envoys, the Liang Zi flag fluttered, the guards were majestic, and the escorts surrounded the horses of the King of Liang and rode away.

After King Liang arrived in Chang'an, he was not immediately summoned by the emperor, but went to the royal estate under the leadership of the envoys. In the beautiful royal manor, a huge mansion has long been vacated, and the main entrance is hung with a plaque inlaid with gold medals given by the emperor, with three big characters of "Liang Wangfu" written on it.

King Liang stood at the foot of the marble steps in front of the mansion, looking at the golden characters, speechless for a long time. After a long time, Fang Cai sighed and led many accompanying retainers to slowly walk in. Behind them, the thick bronze gate slammed shut, separating the inside and outside of the mansion into two worlds.

In the next few days, in addition to entering Weiyang Palace to meet the Queen Mother, King Liang was closed to thank guests, and only his sister Princess Liu ** could enter to visit. After King Liang petitioned three times in a row, the emperor issued an order and summoned him in Weiyang Palace.

Weiyang Palace, in front of the North Sima Gate.

King Liang, shirtless, with thorns on his body, knelt on the empty and solemn square in front of the door, accompanied by Princess Guantao, who was leaning on a gorgeous costume. Two lines of hot tears rolled down King Liang's cheeks, wetting the stone slab in front of him, and Princess Guantao, who accompanied him, also wiped her eyes from time to time.

Inside the vermilion gate, Emperor Jing slowly walked out with two columns of brightly armored brocade guards. Seeing King Liang and the others, he slowed down his pace, and his face was quite sour.

"Are you wrong?" Emperor Jing waved his hand, signaling for the Lang guards to stop, and then stepped forward alone, standing in front of King Liang and asked faintly.

King Liang, who knelt on the ground guiltily, also raised his face to look at Emperor Jing, quite surprised, Emperor Jing did not ask about the crime, but asked "wrong", the difference between the words is worlds apart. After a long period of worry, at this moment, he hurriedly slammed the ground and choked up: "Brother Chen knows that he is wrong!" Brother Xie Huang is magnanimous! ”

After that, he was sad again, and he howled unexpectedly, as if he wanted to bring out all the depression in his chest.

Emperor Jing was startled, and a little guilt swelled up in his heart. After all, King Liang has made a mistake, and to some extent, he secretly promoted it. He sighed, patted King Liang's shoulder gently, and comforted: "Since you know your mistakes, don't make them again in the future." I am brothers and sisters, and we need to work together. ”

Princess Guantao was also crying silently at this time, seeing that the emperor had forgiven King Liang, she hurriedly helped him up, and helped him wipe the blood marks on his upper body with a silk silk on his face that was scratched by thorns. King Liang was already thin and tender, and the price of this guilt was not small, and in just half a day, his back was already blurred with flesh and blood.

When Emperor Jing saw it, he was also very unbearable, so he hurriedly asked Lang Wei to help King Liang remove the thorns, and passed the imperial doctor of the Prince Zhan Shifu to come to heal. Nowadays, in Chang'an City, all the best doctors are from the Prince Zhan Shifu, which is a well-known thing. Even the medical officers of the Shaofu often go to ask for advice.

That night, the Queen Mother set up a grand family banquet in the Renshou Hall of Changle Palace, and the emperor, King Liang, Princess Guantao and all the princes were present. The old queen mother, who had already put down her heart, looked at the full house of children and grandchildren, and smiled happily, coupled with Zhao Wang Liu Pengzu slapping horses on the side, she couldn't help but drink a few more bottles of wine, and soon her face was slightly drunk.

Seeing this, King Liang knew that his mother had put a lot of thought into him in recent years, and he couldn't help but feel guilty in his heart, and he also gulped down bitter wine. Emperor Jing's face was as usual, sipping the wine carefully, and from time to time he chatted with the princess of Guantao beside him, looking light and breezy.

The crown prince Liu Che frequently toasted to everyone, and this time he was able to defeat Liang Guo without blood, and let him see the political skills of the emperor's father. The soldiers who surrendered without a fight, the emperor's mental trick was really good. In comparison, Liu Che felt that he was too tender, and he was simply a chick with no hair. In any case, he was thrilled that the domestic problems would soon be temporarily eased, and that Liu Che's long-planned development plans could finally be implemented.

The next day, after the early dynasty, Liu Che personally went to the palace of King Liang, accompanied by Liu Fei, the king of Jiangdu, who was at the helm of the royal industrial group.

King Liang looked at the two nephews who were beaming in front of him, the two most outstanding sons of Emperor Jing, and couldn't help but think that when he and Emperor Jing were young, they were also average. The only difference is that Liu Fei now seems to have stopped his mind about grabbing the reserve early, obsessed with the ** business, self-defamy, and knows the times much better than himself.

If King Liang's mind is known to Liu Fei, he will definitely turn his nose up, he is in charge of the business of the Royal Industrial Group, but he is really happy in it, how can he say that he "defiles his reputation"?

Under Liu Che's explanation, King Liang, who had no choice, finally signed the shareholding agreement of the Royal Industrial Group, and "priced" all the leases and real estate of Liang Guo, becoming the second natural person shareholder only in Liu Fei on the surface.

Liu Fei was secretly happy in his heart, you must know that Liang Guo has always been rich, and his background is much thicker than his Linjiang State, but now Liang Wang's shares are deliberately underestimated by the prince Liu Che, which is less than Liu Fei's shares, which shows that the prince regards him as a well-deserved helmsman in the future of the group. King Liang must not know what the chairman of the group is now, and how much power he has in his hands, and he is afraid that he will regret it in the future.

After the agreement was signed, according to the precedent of the princes, the Liang State had been handed over to the imperial court. The Central Government Office quickly dispatched a large number of officials to Liang State to take over all government affairs. In fact, as soon as King Liang's front foot left Suiyang, Zhou Yafu, the assassin of the Yuzhou Department, had already begun to clean King Liang's old department, and hundreds of heads fell to the ground.

When the officials sent by Chang'an arrived in the Liang State, they quickly filled the vacant official positions and began to recruit the people on a large scale to go to the Shuofang Frontier. The original more than 100,000 private soldiers of the Liang State were all scattered, and they were led by the new generals to be stationed in various border counties, and the defense of the Great Wall, which was still weak, could be stabilized a lot immediately.

In November of the second year of Emperor Jing, the capital of Jiaoxi was broken, and the third son of Emperor Jing, Liu Yan, the king of Jiaoxi, saw that the general trend had gone, and was in the main hall of the palace. Emperor Jing issued an edict to demote Liu Yan to a concubine for the felony of attempting to kill his father and rebel, and he was removed from the clan genealogy, and he was not allowed to set up a mound in the name of Liu. Waste rubber west country, Gaomi County.

In December of the same year, Liu An, the king of Huainan, and Liu Ci, the king of Hengshan, entered the court to plead guilty. Emperor Jing issued an edict, which was jointly tried by Zongzheng Mansion and Dali Mansion, and finally judged the felony of "conforming to the guests, following the people, and being a rebellious thing", so he seized his country and imprisoned the two in Zongzheng Mansion, and could not be released for eternity. At the same time, Huainan was abolished and Jiujiang County was placed; Abolish Hengshan Country and place Hengshan County.

At the same time, Emperor Jing ordered the matter to be strictly investigated, and finally deprived nearly 100 marquis of his surname at a time, and as many as thousands of people were implicated and killed.

The princely forces of the entire Central Plains region suffered heavy losses in just over a month, but no one dared to resist. Zhou Yafu, the assassin of the Yuzhou Department, now has the soldiers of several counties, and he has already killed the red eye. He is also forced by the emperor to have no choice now, and he has no time to care about how many wealthy families he has offended, and it is much better to be a lonely minister than to be exterminated.

It wasn't until the New Year was approaching that Emperor Jing was afraid of forcing the princes of the Central Plains to jump over the wall in a hurry, so he sent someone to stop Zhou Yafu, who was killing him. Not only was he severely reprimanded in the name of strict law enforcement and brutality, but he also complied with the removal of all his official positions and recalled Chang'an to think about it behind closed doors.

The princes of the Central Plains, who were like frightened birds, although they understood that the initiator of everything was the emperor himself, they still praised the generosity and benevolence of the Son of Heaven and greatly appreciated his kindness.

Zhou Yafu, who carried the black pot for the emperor, not only did not have the slightest sorrow of hiding the bow, but happily packed up and hurried back to Chang'an with a few personal guards.

Zhou Yafu knew in his heart that His Majesty the Emperor was now thinking about cooking rabbits and dead dogs, and he would no longer think about his life. It also means that he has finally cleared the suspicion of plotting to attack and kill His Royal Highness the Prince, and can be an idle marquis comfortably. In addition, Chang'an's relatives have sent letters, saying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has privately rewarded a lot of shares of the Royal Industrial Group, which is enough for the entire Zhou family to live a luxurious life for several lifetimes.

It's not bad to be a rich man, Zhou Yafu thought.

With the advent of the New Year's Festival, the second year of Emperor Jingdi, which was constantly disturbed, slowly came to an end.

Nearly one million people from the Central Plains continued to go to the newly established four border counties, Tuntian and Tuntian. There, the more than 100,000 officials and slaves who arrived in advance had already built houses, repaired canals, and demarcated Qianmo. A large number of livestock and farming implements are also available, and there are sufficient reserves of grain, grass and timber for wintering, and even seeds for spring planting in the coming year have been carefully selected.

Liu Che, the crown prince who entered the central government office to assist in the administration, admired the administrative system headed by Prime Minister Yuan Ang so much that he threw himself into the land, and the nearly one million large immigrants were able to manage it in an orderly and comprehensive manner, and there was hardly any omission. Even in later generations, when communication and transportation were extremely developed, it was a miraculous existence. The rule of Wenjing, which was praised by later generations, does not seem to be fake.

The Xiongnu and Xiqiang tribes, who had suffered heavy losses, could only look at the winding and majestic Great Wall speechlessly, even though there was an extreme shortage of food and grass for wintering. At this time in previous years, they had already plundered a large amount of grain, grass and livestock from the border people of the Han Kingdom, but this year they could only attack other ethnic groups.

For a time, Yue's, Wuhuan, Hujie, Xianbei, and even the countries of the Western Regions were unlucky. Different from the auspicious weather in the Han Dynasty, in the winter of the second year of Emperor Jingdi, there was chaos and blood outside the Great Wall, the big fish ate the small fish, the small fish ate, and the natural law of the weak eating the strong was vividly exerted in this cold winter.

Between the light and blood of the sword, hatred is also like a grass seed in winter, buried under the frozen solid soil, and when spring comes, it will break the ground and sprout, all over the vast grassland.

(Huhu, Emperor Jing finished writing in the second year of the Middle Dynasty, this volume is really difficult to write, but fortunately, I still racked my brains to finish it.) A new volume is finally about to unfold, farming, development, and Liu Che is about to ascend the throne. (To be continued.) )