Spring is bright, and the banks of the Bashui River are the perfect place for nobles to hold luncheons. △

On this day, the liehou assembly was here, in the name of wishing the general the Che Cai to return to Longxi for the send-off banquet.

Cao Shi brought three members of his family to the banquet, and the pregnant Liu Wan and Wei Junru only showed up and went to rest, and the most eye-catching was Liu Ling, who accompanied him.

Fan Itguang raised his glass and squeezed his eyebrows: "Pingyang Hou has a good means, and he won it?" ”

"Wuyang Hou said and laughed, what can I take?"

Fan It laughed widely, his hair was unkempt, his temples were gray after several years of hard work, and the old face and the prestige of the long reign became more and more extraordinary.

Some people who don't need to say anything particularly clear and sensible understand that as early as a few years ago, the rumors about Pingyang Hou Cao Shi and Huainan Wang's daughter Liu Ling were seen inside and outside Chang'an, and at that time, few people believed the rumors.

It is also unclear from the perspective of ethics and morality, not to mention that there is more terrible political pressure, the ruler in Changle Palace at that time hated Cao Shi's Empress Dowager Dou Yifang, as well as the princess Liu Yan, and the queen mother Wang Wan in the lower row, these three nobles could not tolerate Cao Shi's betrayal of Princess Yangxin to hook up with the princess of Huainan, not only because the identity of the daughter of the sect could not be tolerated, but also because of the jealousy of the identity of the king of Huainan.

The rumors dispersed for a while, and no one mentioned them again soon, proving that the royal family believed in Cao Shi's innocence, and it was also terminated by the disappearance of the Huainan princess, until she was exiled to South Vietnam and happened to meet Liu Ling, the princess of Huainan. There are no rumors about it, but the nobles in the upper echelons think that something may really happen to the two.

Pacify Mitsukoshi. Liu Ling took the initiative to become the business spokesperson of Pingyang Hou, at least it shows that their relationship is extraordinary. Today's appearance is an acknowledgment of her.

Liu Ling took the initiative to get up and salute the princes, and walked straight to the noble women's banquet on the other side with Qinglian steps, her appearance already explained a lot of problems, for example, Cao Shi was using this action to give back to the Son of Heaven, which was equivalent to a complete openness of the contradictions that had been concealed for several years.

Zhuang Qingzhai stared at the clear wine and asked, "Have you thought clearly about the consequences of public contradictions?" Actually, you can make a better choice. ”

"Do I have a choice?"

Cao Shi raised the wine cup and signaled to everyone: "The Son of Heaven will give me a single choice, and I will be a prince of peace with peace of mind, I am still a relative of the emperor, and he can still call me brother-in-law." But the price is you, and the military merit is like this wine cup......"

Syllable!

The wine cup was shattered.

Suddenly, the huge banquet hall was silent, and the nobles and marquis, Hou Shizi, Mrs. Hou and the nobles of the Hou family looked at the porcelain pieces broken into powder in a daze.

Countless adjectives flashed in their minds, and they couldn't describe their mood at the moment in words, and they said that they were going to prepare a send-off banquet for Pingyang Hou. Suddenly turning into a terrible nightmare, should they clap and smile reservedly, or scream and cry in horror?

The noblewomen were instantly messy.

They are far from being able to reach the level of the princes who have honed the Tarzan collapse in front of them without changing their color, and the elk is happy on the left and calm in their eyes. can't do the free and easy arrogance of the Hou Shizi who have no heart and no lungs and don't care, they tremble with fear.

With an exclamation, the eighty-year-old woman fainted.

The ladies hurried to help. The personal maid was helped to the flat ground to do first aid, and the shouts and the busy footsteps of the medical workers came and went.

It was Gao Liang Hou Li's hair-tied wife who fainted. She was originally the daughter of a local wine seller in Gaoyang, before the outbreak of the war at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Li Shiqi used to have a close relationship with his father, so he set an in-law in the year when the children of both parties were born, and the old lady and Gao Lianghou have been married for more than 60 years.

Li Ji didn't move, at this moment he was also shocked by Cao Shi's bold movements, in the past, only the princes shouted blindly, and the Marquis of Pingyang never made any cross-border remarks, and today he finally revealed his true intentions.

"Pingyang Hou, have you made up your mind?"

Wuyang Hou Fan stood up widely, his broad shoulders tightened, like a tiger waiting for an opportunity to pounce on its prey, raising his voice and repeating the seemingly meaningless question.

The princes woke up from the shock, and suddenly realized that today's banquet was extraordinary, and the Marquis of Pingyang wanted to express his will through the banquet, so what did the will he want to convey represent? More intense collisions, bloodier killings, like they did forty-five years ago, or some unknowable decision.

Looking at the Chang'an nobles, their expressions were rich, they held their hands nervously, they were shocked with deep worry, and the anticipation in their eyes was incomprehensible, perhaps they themselves did not know what kind of fate they should expect.

I don't know when, the maids retreated, and the servants disappeared without a trace, Hou Shizi supported his irritable mother, and dragged the sisters who did not want to leave the banquet hall.

When Liu Ling turned around and withdrew to close the door tightly, the function of the banquet hall changed from holding banquets to temporarily becoming a secret room for the princes to discuss important matters.

Cao Shi looked back at everyone and said softly: "The fate of our waiting is like this, and there is no life to survive if we fall to pieces." ”

As if a mouthful of turbid air spewed out, the whole person was in a different mood, the big stone that had been pressed in his heart for several years was finally put down, he didn't know whether to congratulate his bravery, or laugh at his weakness, thinking of the high-spirited young minister a few years ago, at that time, his mind was full of fantasies to help the Han to sweep away the Huns, to be the first general of the Han Dynasty, to be the first general of the Han Dynasty, and then to be the first minister of the Han Dynasty, and his achievements were close to Yi Yin, Zhou Gong, and Guan Zhong.

"However, the wise and martial Son of Heaven thinks that I have done enough for the Han Empire, I can stop and rest, and enjoy the rest of my life in happiness and tranquility in advance, the responsibilities tied to me, my personal aspirations and ideals, and the interests of the marquis as a whole, all of which will be given up as sacrifices, you must know that giving up means self-denial of my personal career, my persistence will become a joke in the end, and my ideals will eventually become empty, can I give up?"

Cao Shi turned his head and looked for answers.

But he is not looking for answers, just because he has the ultimate answer hidden in his heart.

Liang Zou Hou Wuying Qi said hatefully: "Lieutenant Xue Ze complained to me, he, the lieutenant, should cry!" The lieutenants of the Northern Army were changed all over again, even Li Guang's son Li Kang was sent to Longxi as the county lieutenant, none of the new lieutenants of the Northern Army were people in our military merits, a group of fresh faces did not give him a good face for the lieutenant, and the recruits of the Northern Army who were exchanged for last year did not listen to the greetings, Xue Ze was not familiar with military affairs and was pulled to Wei Qing's Northern Expeditionary Army as a deputy general, he did not have a score in his heart about how much he could do in the Northern Army, he himself said that it would be the end of the Hun Lieutenant after this posture was defeated. ”

"Your Majesty's patience with us is getting less and less, if it weren't for the fact that Wu'an Hou Tian Wei is too useless, how can there be a liege's right to speak in the northern and southern armies, and the loss of our military aristocracy means losing our political status, and Your Majesty will cut off our back road." Zhuang Qingzhai said worriedly.

The influence of the liehous in the imperial court is rapidly declining, the last time they were treated like this can be traced back to the early days of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, a large-scale derogation of the incumbent princes and issued an edict of "the country of the princes", and then for more than 30 years, the court was famous for prohibiting the princes from entering and leaving Chang'an, although this edict lost its effect after the death of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, especially the princes who won the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu should have been rewarded but were not given the title, and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty acquiesced in order to appease the princes who had not been rewarded, and acquiesced that they could enter and leave Chang'an at will.

Those dark years are unforgettable, but everything is the result of the princes' own blame, if the killing of Zhu Lu is a last resort to protect themselves, then killing the sons of Emperor Han Shaodi and Emperor Hui of Han is suspected of killing the lord, Emperor Wen of Han came to power to suppress the princes in his own opinion is justified, especially to execute the mastermind who killed Emperor Shaodi of Han Jianghou Zhou Bo, although it is not in agreement, but the reason is reasonable.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was relatively kind, and the foundation of the liehous returned to the feudal state was not weakened, and the big cut was that Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty took advantage of the destruction of the seven kingdoms of Wu and Chu, and took advantage of the situation to return the military power and governance power exercised by the liehou in the feudal country to the imperial court, as an exchange for the princes to get a large-scale concession to serve as the secretary of the imperial court, which is equivalent to the emperor exchanging the feudal power of the princes with high-ranking officials and Houlu.

This is the biggest political crisis in the past 45 years, 45 years ago, Emperor Wen of Han did not want to completely eradicate the Lihou group, 20 years ago weakened the privileges of the Lihou feudal state, Emperor Jing of Han did not want to completely eradicate the Lihou group, and today, the Son of Heaven is sincerely to completely eradicate the Lihou group.

The Son of Heaven really intends to do this.

In the past five years, 36 people have been exempted from the throne for crimes, an average of 7 princes have been taken away from the throne every year, of which there are as many as 27 people who are exempted from the marquis and removed from the country, and 2 out of every 3 marquis have been removed from the country, setting a new record since the founding of the country.

In particular, in the past three years, all 27 criminal princes have been punished by the state, of which 22 have been executed, 12 have been sentenced to beheading, 7 have been beheaded and abandoned the city, and 3 have been beheaded and abandoned the city.

The meritorious liehous have been inherited so far there are only 146 people, and if the marquis make small mistakes and be removed from the country, they will be beheaded and abandoned if they commit a big mistake, and they will be decapitated and abandoned in less than ten years, and the liehou group will be completely finished.

Qu rebelled Hou Chen He and said: "The emperor wants us to die, we might as well fight!" ”

"Shut up!"

Several old lieges shouted at the same time: "Don't sit down yet!" (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and faster!)