Cao Ang had no choice but to tell Liu Xiu the content of the edict first, as soon as Liu Xiu heard that he was asked to go to the front line to command the war, his head shook like a rattle, and he said a lot of reasons in one breath, and the new policy in Jingzhou has just opened, I can't leave, otherwise the task of raising food and salary for His Majesty will not be completed, and I have already sent people to help, as long as Your Majesty is properly planned, because people make good use of it, you will definitely be able to defeat the enemy, and I don't need to go to many things, and I am the prince of Chu, and now I have become an official car and riding general, and I have caused enough criticism, I am grateful that I did not believe those slanderous rumors because of your majesty's trust. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info I can't reward my military exploits, but it will cause more suspicion and increase the pressure on Your Majesty.

Everything else is fake, the last sentence is the real meaning, aren't you suspicious of me, then what else do you want me to do, I won the battle and made meritorious contributions, wouldn't it make you even more uneasy? Rather than this, you should fight this battle, and I won't go to this troubled water.

Although Cao Ang is also a leader among young people, he is helpless in the face of Liu Xiu, a senior who does not enter the oil and salt and does not even pay attention to the edict, and Liu Xiu refuses to accept the edict after saying all the good things. Cao Ang had no choice but to hurry back to the revolving gate and reply to the Son of Heaven.

Cao Ang also brought back a letter from Liu Xiu asking for guilt. Liu Xiu once again expressed his grievances, and asked the Son of Heaven to relieve him of his military power and let the Chu King and his wife return to the country. He has been fighting for so many years, he is tired, and now he wants to relieve his armor and return to the field, and enjoy the joy of family, please ask Your Majesty for permission.

Xiao Tianzi was already furious when he saw the edict brought back by Cao Ang intact, and then saw that this letter was ostensibly a plea, but in fact it was a plea for guilt, and he was even more angry that he couldn't even say it thoroughly. He rushed to the Queen Mother with the letter of invitation, presented the invitation to the Queen Mother with both hands, suppressed his anger, and gritted his teeth and said: "Queen Mother, you see, he is indeed a loyal minister." Over the years, he has indeed done a lot of things for the first emperor and me, and he is indeed tired, so he should be allowed to rest and enjoy his old age in peace. ”

Empress Dowager Song glanced at him, opened the petition and looked at it, her eyebrows trembled slightly, and then she regained her composure, put the petition on the case, and said lightly: "Your Majesty, you should be happy." ”

"Should I be happy?" Xiao Tianzi looked at the Empress Dowager Song in surprise, and laughed angrily: "He resisted the edict and didn't accept it, and came to me to threaten me, should I still be happy?" ”

"yes." Empress Dowager Song calmly looked at Xiao Tianzi, who was already on the verge of rampage: "No matter who it is, in his position, there will be complaints." If you have a complaint, it is normal to say it, and it is abnormal not to say it. There are only two possibilities for such a person, one is that he does not dare to say it, and the other is that he does not want to say it, but he will express his anger in other ways. Empress Dowager Song took a sip of the teacup and said slowly: "Do you think that the general of the chariot is a person who dare not say it?" ”

Xiao Tianzi was stunned for a moment, and sneered: "He dared to spill in front of the first emperor, and he has always regarded himself as an elder in front of me, what else dare not say." ”

Empress Dowager Song also ignored the resentment in Xiao Tianzi's tone, and then asked, "Then do you want him to express his resentment in other ways?" ”

Xiao Tianzi opened his mouth, but did not say anything more. Expressing his grievances in other ways, he knew what it meant, and when he thought of this, he felt a chill on his back, and a cold sweat came out of his body, wetting his underwear, sticky, and cold.

Empress Dowager Song didn't urge him, just looked at him quietly, slowly sipping tea.

After a long while, Xiao Tianzi lowered his head like a defeated rooster, and said in a hoarse voice: "Queen Mother, what should I do?" ”

"If he has a grudge, let his grudge be appeased." Empress Dowager Song exhaled softly: "The reward that should be rewarded, the seal that should be sealed, and respect him as before, he naturally has no resentment." ”

"But...... He is already a general of the Che Cavalry, what else can he seal again? ”

"General."

"General?" Xiao Tianzi raised his head in surprise, and was just about to speak, when Empress Dowager Song's eyes were cold: "That's right, you want to marry Ah He as the queen." ”

Xiao Tianzi glared at the Empress Dowager Song angrily, and the Empress Dowager Song also looked at him coldly, the two exchanged eyes for a long time, and in the end, Xiao Tianzi was still no match for the Empress Dowager Song, so he nodded in frustration and said angrily: "Okay, after listening to the queen mother in the palace and the general outside the palace, I can be like the ancient Yellow Emperor, hang my clothes and rule the world." ”

Empress Dowager Song was so amused by his angry words that she almost laughed out loud, she raised her sleeves to cover her mouth, and it was easy to hold back her smile, and after thinking about it, she said: "This time, you don't have to issue an edict, don't use the emperor's identity to press him." Although he is not the emperor, he is the son of the king of Chu, and he may not really take your throne seriously. You write a handwritten letter to Ah He, and I will issue an edict to the general of the Che Cai, thinking that he will at least give me a little face. ”

"Uh-huh." Xiao Tianzi calmed down a little at this time, he didn't want to be rejected by Liu Xiu again, it would be too embarrassing.

"Then go ahead, write a good letter, don't always think that you are the emperor, just like when you were still fostered in the Cheqi General's Mansion, you must treat Ah He as your sister, not your courtier."

Xiao Tianzi replied sullenly, said goodbye to the Queen Mother, returned to his residence, thought for a long time, asked someone to find Cai Yan, and said again that he was going to write to Liu He. When Cai Yan heard this, he was amused in his heart, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud, so he had to agree to be a gunman and help Xiao Tianzi write a letter asking for peace.

Everything was ready to stop, this time, the Queen Mother arranged a candidate for the edict, not a young man like Cao Ang, but Shaofu Zhang Wen. Zhang Wen explained Liu Xiu many times in front of the Queen Mother and Xiao Tianzi, the Queen Mother knew that his wife Cai Lin spent the New Year in Jiangling, and the relationship with the eldest princess and Wang Chu was very good, and the Nanyang Zhang family also accounted for a lot of shares in the iron ore mine in Jiangxia Guishan this time, and Zhang Wen's heart had long been biased towards Liu Xiu.

In late February, Zhang Wen rushed to Jiangling, but learned that Liu Xiu was not in Jiangling, but in Jiangxia. He turned around again and rushed to Jiangxia. As soon as he arrived at Sha Sha Xian, he was stunned by what he saw. At the foot of Turtle Mountain, rows of beautiful houses have been erected, although there is no city wall, the scale is no less than a new city, countless people are under construction, they are lined up, although the number of people is large, but in order, with tacit understanding.

As soon as Zhang Wen and his entourage walked to the edge of the construction site, a soldier in charge of safety greeted them, and as soon as they heard that it was an envoy of the imperial court who came to see the general of the chariot cavalry, someone immediately invited Zhang Wen in. Walking through the busy construction site, Zhang Wen came to a small city with a radius of one mile, this small city is not tall, but there is a soldier on the city wall five steps, and it is heavily guarded, and it is a very important place at a glance.

The man who led the way took Zhang Wen to the city gate, and he went back first. The guards at the city gate checked Zhang Wen's talisman and led them into the city. The inside of the city and the noisy and busy construction site outside the city are completely different, there are rows of tall and delicate houses here, each window is inlaid with glass, through the glass, you can see that many people in white robes are busy around the long and wide wooden tables, on which are placed countless strange things, shiny, and look like they are made of glass.

Zhang Wen was surprised all the way, although the glass is not as precious as before, but the windows used to inlay the windows are not something that ordinary people can afford, and even the windows in the palace have not been able to be fully inlaid with glass, and every window he sees here is inlaid with glass without exception. Liu Xiu's hand is too big.

Zhang Wen and his entourage stopped in front of a three-story building, since someone went in to report, it didn't take long, Liu Xiu walked out quickly, he was wearing a white robe worn by those people Zhang Wen just saw, looking a little weird.

"Brother Boshen is here, and he has missed the distance, forgive his sins." Liu Xiu greeted him warmly, and he bowed his hand from afar. Zhang Wen hurriedly returned the salute and said with a smile: "General, what kind of clothes is this, is it a new fashion in Jiangling?" ”

"Where, where, this is a lab coat." Liu Xiu smiled and took Zhang Wen's arm and asked inside: "Come, I'll show you around, I promise you more surprised." ”

Zhang Wen is indeed very curious, but he is now an envoy, and the most important thing is to pass on the edict. Listening to Zhang Wen's words, Liu Xiu laughed and pointed to the clothes on his body: "Do you think I can accept the edict like this?" Don't be in a hurry, that's what is going on anyway, you take you to visit, you first tell me the meaning of the edict, if you can pick it up, I will go to change the court clothes, if you can't take it, it won't take that effort. You don't know, I'm short on time right now. ”

Zhang Wen swallowed his saliva, and said in his heart that the little emperor was jealous of this chariot general, it really made sense, this thing simply doesn't take the Son of Heaven in his eyes now, no matter whose edict it is, first read the content, and then decide whether to accept it or not, this is no longer something that a powerful minister can define, this is simply a big rebellion.

Zhang Wen was not Cao Ang, in the face of Liu Xiu's arrogance, he pretended not to hear it, and followed Liu Xiu into the house with great interest. The first floor is divided into many rooms, and there is a door on the lintel of each room, on which are neatly written with words, what is a rough group, a rough group, a refined group, a refining group, a refining group, a pharmacy group, etc., Zhang Wen is confused, he is also a person with good learning, and he has been an official in the court for so many years, but these terms, he is really the first time to hear them. The layout of the room is about the same, there is a large wooden table in the middle of the room, and there are many papers and books piled on the table, and several people are sitting together, some are immersed in the information, some are discussing with each other, and there are two spittle, their faces are red, as if they are arguing about something.

Liu Xiu directly led Zhang Wen to the second floor, and when he saw the spectacular scene on the second floor, Zhang Wen was completely stunned. There were no cubicles on the second floor, except for the pillars that supported them, and the eyes were full of those long, wide wooden tables. There are bottles and jars made of exquisite transparent glass on the wooden table, and there is a lamp, although the room is very bright, but the lamps are all lit, and the bottles and jars on the lamp are boiling different things, some red, some green, some black, some white. Countless people in white robes surrounded the wooden table, paying attention to the bottles and cans, recording something from time to time.

"General, are you alchemizing?" Zhang Wen asked with some difficulty breathing. He felt that his heartbeat was a little abnormal, not to mention anything else, how much was the glass ware in this room worth?

Liu Xiu laughed: "Yes, I'm refining the pill, I'm refining the powerful pill that can make the Han rampant in the world." ”