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Cao Shi caught a glimpse of Liu Ling squeezing his eyebrows at himself in the team of the sect girl, squeezing out a trace of snort at the corner of his mouth, and secretly scolded this little girl for being crazy, no, he didn't want to hook up with himself all the time, and he didn't care that the face of Liu Wan, the princess of Yang Nobunaga next to him, was not good-looking.

"The gentleman is so romantic!" Liu Wan snorted coldly.

"Xijun is so beautiful!"

"Don't interrupt, tell me what's going on? Why did you go back to Chang'an with that woman. ”

Cao Shi secretly screamed that he was unlucky, and hurriedly complained bitterly: "Our family's industry has not been laid out in Shaxian for several years, you also know that there needs a person who has the ability and means to control the field, otherwise even if our Pingyang Hou is a strong dragon with a prize, he will not be able to suppress the local local snake force, you have also read the information of Jiangxia County, Liu Ling has done very well in recent years, and it is unexpectedly good, if there is no means for her, she really can't build a big county that is not inferior to Sanhe in a few years, you think about how many counties in the world have a population of 700,000. ”

Liu Wan stretched out two fingers and twisted them around her husband's waist, and even if his iron-beaten body couldn't help but change color, she pouted and said: "I don't believe in the gentleman's nonsense, if there is no concubine by his side, sooner or later he will bring a group of women, and the concubine can not care about these women competing for her husband's love, but the foundation of our Pingyang Marquis Mansion can't be divided by outsiders, you should know that the current situation is not very good......"

Cao Shi held his wife's hand and comforted: "I know, I know all this in my heart, I have worked hard for the family for so long, and I know very well what to do to our family." I'm trying to figure it out. ”

"Gentleman, you don't know. There are a lot of people who say bad things about you behind your back, and my sister-in-law often heard it in Weiyang Palace. And every time it was said in front of the Son of Heaven, the names of those people were also written down by the son-in-law......"

Cao Shi covered Wei Junru's small mouth with his backhand and shook his head gently: "Don't say it, I know in my heart, if you go back, you will tell your husband to talk less in the palace, the day the empress dowager died, it was the time when Empress Chen Ajiao was deposed, and now the son-in-law is getting the favor of the Son of Heaven, so it is better to give birth to the crown prince as soon as possible." Don't worry about other things, even if we are in danger, don't meddle at will, this is a matter between me and the emperor. ”

"Gentleman ......"

Liu Wan was very uneasy, she had never seen her husband's expression become so serious, she had the impression that her husband was always full of confidence, even if there were many difficulties, she would always maintain an optimistic attitude, and she pretended to be a little bit like Zhizhu in her hand, which was particularly interesting with her young and immature face at that time.

After many years, the husband has become more and more mature. The small fluff at the corners of the mouth has become a delicate beard, and the eyes that used to burn like a burning flame have gradually transformed into a gaze as deep as the sea and as calm as an ancient well, and Cao Shi has become more mature, more connotative and more difficult to understand.

Liu Wan vaguely felt that her husband was making a difficult decision. Something perplexed him, but she was powerless to help her husband through it, and she suddenly felt that she was too useless. The princess of the dignified Han family was unable to be like this, and secretly gritted her teeth in her heart and decided to go to the queen mother to ask for an explanation. Why should she let her husband suffer a big loss, there are thousands of heroes and famous generals of the Han family. If the emperor doesn't like it, don't embarrass her husband, she is not uncommon to be a general's wife, who likes to be whom.

The funeral procession crawled slowly like a turtle.

Some people are holding the coffin and crying like the princess of the pavilion, some people are crying and wiping their tears, such as relatives of the Dou family, and some people want to cry without tears such as Zhang Wuhou Dou Wan, Nanpi Hou Dou Pengzu, and more people are heavy or bow their heads in contemplation, or are at a loss.

"An era is over."

Dou Ying put down the curtain and was silent, he rarely did not follow Zhu Dou to support the coffin, but to perform the duties of the prime minister and lead the team of hundreds of officials of the imperial court, the unexpected resignation of the political rival Tian Wei gave him a precious respite, unfortunately the emperor's suspicion is like a dark cloud pressing on his head forever, leaving him not much time to breathe.

The emperor may remove him at some point, or he may use an absurd reason, or even need any reason to just remove, he is powerless to resist and does not know what to resist, the once powerful Empress Dowager Dou Yifang is lying quietly in the coffin in front of him, and in another hour will be sent to the tomb to be buried with the late Emperor Taizongwen for 20 years.

The death of the Empress Dowager represents the sharp blade that symbolizes the passage of time to cut off the last chain of civilization inheritance from the early Han Dynasty, Dou Yifang is the henchman palace maid carefully cultivated by the Empress Lu Pheasant, representing the interests of the Lu family to marry the young king (Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty) unexpectedly completed the transformation from a chess piece to a chess player, but it is undeniable that her legendary life carries exactly the core of the civilization spirit at the beginning of the Han Dynasty sixty or seventy years ago.

Dou Yifang is alive, many people will be very relieved, at least the young emperor has reformed several times, at least there is a confidence to do a crash and overturn to restore the old system, Dou Yifang died, completely cut off the illusions that remain in the hearts of those people, the footsteps of the Son of Heaven will not change, and the era of relying on a certain political strongman to set things right is over.

Dou Ying's heart was a little blocked, the indescribable feeling, as if he was very disappointed, and seemed to be very lost, watching the Empress Dowager die quietly, watching the emperor stride forward to a direction that he couldn't understand, as if watching everything change, and suddenly he doubted whether he was suitable to continue to be prime minister.

"Am I old?"

Dou Ying looked down at the gray beard and shook her head helplessly: "The sacred heart is unpredictable, what should I do?" ”

Gongsun Hong opened his mouth and sighed, he wanted to get Wei Qihou out of the predicament, but considering that he was just a guest gentleman, if it weren't for Dong Zhongshu's face, he would have been swept out of the house long ago, and it was a bit unbelievable for him to mention the noble prime minister, so he was interested in closing his mouth and driving with peace of mind.

Dong Zhongshu said with relief: "The prime minister filtered, Your Majesty admires the new Confucian learning, and attaches great importance to my deleted and sorted out "Ram Spring and Autumn". ”

Kong Wu muttered: "What the prime minister is considering should not be the difficulty of Confucianism, I don't know much about the causes and consequences of the changes in the court situation, but I feel that the current pattern should be directly related to someone." ”

Dong Zhongshu asked: "Former Taiwei Tian Wei?" ”

"No, it should be Cao Shi, the general of the chariot."

"General Cao! I admire General Cao's talent, his Huang Lao Xinxue inspired me a lot, he inspired me to reinterpret the works of Confucius, Hao Shou exhausted the scriptures and even delved into the theory of yin and yang induction completely out of the way is a waste of time and talent, I want to devote my limited time to the compilation and research of unlimited works......"

Dou Ying's heart jumped.

Kong Wu's analysis is right, the current turmoil in the court is precisely related to Cao Shi, the border troubles in the north are constantly gathering, it is said that the golden wolf banner of the Xiongnu Dadan Yu is wandering near the border county, they are like hungry wolves on the grassland sharpening their minions before hunting, just waiting to lock the prey and pounce on it at any time to tear the prey into pieces.

However, the war report from the border was only the attack of the small Xiongnu tribes, and the huge discrepancy between the intelligence and the status quo was that the main force of the Xiongnu was stagnant, and there was only one reason why the Xiongnu army did not dare to invade the border.

From the trend of intelligence summary from all walks of life, it shows that the Xiongnu Shan Yu is hesitating, he is uncertain about the risk of southward invasion, it is not clear whether what is in front of him is the next siege of Mayi, whether there will be another Jedi counterattack and a big defeat, not to mention that the Huns' willingness to invade the south is not strong, from last year's battle of Yanmen to the battle of Yinshan to lose the Hetao Plain, it stands to reason that it will take at least two or three years to recuperate.

Moreover, since the autumn of last year, the injured Huns did not stop the pace of recuperation, but dragged the seriously injured main force around the more miserable Xianbei people, Wuhuan people chased and beat fiercely, the Huns rarely gritted their teeth and persevered until the winter ice and snow did not let go, the Xianbei and Wuhuan people forced the face of the opportunity to store food, in a war between the two sides to compete who died later, the Huns became the victors.

This series of actions reflects that in fact, the Huns do not plan to invade the Han in the south in the coming year, and they have to cultivate for at least two or three years to defeat the Xianbei and Wuhuan people, during which the underage children gradually mature, and the young couple can have two more children, and they can make up for the loss of the population by the way, and by the way, let the lost cattle and sheep make up again, and then they will consider the southern invasion to retaliate against the Han people.

But then the situation was abruptly reversed, even the Huns did not expect things to happen suddenly, the Han emperor put the good situation alone, let the excellent Han army commander not use, and even appointed an unknown general plus four nepotistic ministers to attack the Xiongnu in the north, trying to use these five waste to eat the Xiongnu in one bite to complete the fatal blow of picking the fruits of victory.

But the Han emperor underestimated the power of the Xiongnu, and his contempt and arrogance paid a terrible price, all the way to extinction, all the way to collapse, all the way to defeat, all the way to the end, only one of them hiding in the desert as a despicable jackal who stole other people's prey.

In the crusade sent by Xiongnu Shan Yu, his tone became arrogant again, perhaps Xiongnu Shan Yu also felt that the Han emperor was an incompetent person who was ambitious and exaggerated.

Dou Ying knew that this was not the case.

The Son of Heaven is ambitious and down-to-earth, although in recent years the tendency to be arbitrary has become stronger and stronger, but on the whole it is not bad to the point that the pen has not listened to the advice, the difficulty is to untie the knot of the Son of Heaven, persuade the emperor to re-enable the general Cao Shi as the main general, as long as there is Cao Shi as the main general, the Xiongnu Shan Yu will never dare to offend.

Dou Ying muttered to himself, "But how should I convince Your Majesty?" (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and faster!)