Cao Shi is missing.

In a month in Dasuo Pass, tens of thousands of northern troops were mobilized to sweep the seventy-five counties, but the murderer was not found, nor Cao Shi was found.

In the Xiliu camp, Lieutenant Fan Taguang stood with a big armor and a sword, one hundred and twenty captains of the Northern Army sat on the left and right, the army Sima stood by the sword, the drums outside the big tent were like thunder, and the three armies were waiting for the enemy.

"Report!"

The messenger broke in and said: "It has been verified that the deceased abandoned by the side of the road is a person from Huainan, who has been identified as a local ranger, who has frequently been in and out of the Huainan Palace, and has a close relationship with the local ranger organization. ”

"Did you find anything in that Zhuangzi?"

"Nope! The village was burned to the ground, and the corpses of the original farmers were found in the rubble, all of whom had been dead for many days. ”

Fan Qiguang sneered: "Hundreds of people were easily wiped out, what a powerful means!" If you want to say that there are no traitors in the Inner History Mansion and the county government, are the generals willing to believe it? ”

The crowd will be awe-inspiring.

At the time of the case, the road was emptied within a mile before and after, and dozens of merchants who happened to pass by at that time died, and it was even more coincidental that they avoided the route of the daily patrol of the cavalry of the Northern Army.

The results speak for themselves, this was a well-planned raid, and there were shameful moles within the court.

Fan Taguang ordered to continue the search, and he went straight to Weiyang Palace with hundreds of guards, and was always influenced by the ≯ Chang ≯ Feng ≯ Wen ≯ Xue, + ★ ⊕ et Cao Shi, and the nobles who lived in Chang'an City had to be much more careful when traveling.

When I arrived at the greenhouse hall of Weiyang Palace, I heard the emperor's roar from a distance.

The Son of Heaven is like an angry lion who overpowers all officials.

Seeing the timid civil and military officials, Liu Che was angry and didn't fight: "The princess of Huainan is lost." Tingwei told me to investigate slowly, and I believe it! The general of the chariot cavalry was lost, and the court lieutenant said that he would definitely find it, but I still believed it! It's only been a few days, and the prince of the vassal has also been lost, what else does Tingwei have to say? ”

Tian Wei was at a loss with a bitter face.

The explanation is to cover up the incompetence of the expression, a thousand words in the belly is not as good as a silence, the anger of the Son of Heaven is like a fire cooking oil is unstoppable, and he can only bow his head and admit it.

After all, Liu Che was thinking of the family affection of his mother's family, and glared at Tian Wei viciously. Turning his head and shouting, "You are incompetent!" Ordinary intrigues. In terms of seniority, suppressing colleagues are proficient in everything, once the country wants to use you, scratch your ears and cheeks, think hard and meditate and can't get it, it seems that you are waiting for the empty food Guolu's chest is empty, how to govern the country? ”

Prime Minister Xu Chang held the wat board in his hand, and bowed his head and was silent. The three princes and nine kings were embarrassed. It is really unpleasant to be scolded by the Son of Heaven as a wine bag and rice bag.

Imperial Doctor Zhang Ou looked around and sighed: "The ministers really didn't expect such a big flaw in the pass. Xu is Guanzhong Taiping has forgotten his precautionary heart for decades. ”

The chamberlain Guo Sheren made a note and said: "Your Majesty, Lieutenant Fan Itguang is outside the palace!" ”

"Announce him in!"

Fan Itguang strode into the Xuanshu Hall wearing armor, and saw the emperor half-kneeling on the ground and saluted: "Minister, Fan Itguang, pay a respectful visit to Your Majesty!" The identities of the dead Assassins were all identified. The dozens of deceased were all from the rangers of Lianghuai, and many of them had a deep relationship with Liu An, the king of Huainan. ”

"King Huainan, how could it be him?"

"Is he going to rebel?"

"The rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu has not succeeded, and today we will rebel again, looking for death!"

"Don't rush to conclusions, maybe it's a trap, a trap for the Son of Heaven and the princes and kings to kill each other."

Liu Che waved his sleeves and the discussion suddenly stopped: "The disappearance of Liu Ling, the daughter of the king of Huainan, will it have anything to do with it?" Is it possible that Liu An, the king of Huainan, is implicated? ”

Fan Taguang said: "I don't rule out this possibility, Liu An loves the Huainan princess very much, if the Huainan princess falls into someone's hands, it is very likely to force the Huainan king to take risks, but this should not be the reason to take the Che Cavalry General, the Huainan Princess's relationship with the Che Cavalry General is special, but it should never be the relationship between the enemy." ”

Liu Che's eyes closed slightly, and he fell into thought.

The strange thing is that Liu An, the king of Huainan, doesn't seem to be too worried, but he has always been around to find out the news in the early stage, and he returned to normal last summer, as if his daughter had never lost it.

All kinds of abnormal circumstances show that there are uncertain reasons for this, even if Liu An did not participate in the robbery, he must be one of the insiders.

"What's more, the four feudal princes have always been really tricky, and three of the four princes who were kidnapped were from the southern Zhuyue Kingdom, and the assassins happened to be from the two Huai people."

Lieutenant Fan Qi said widely: "It has also been found that the assassin's mentor is the same person, this person's name is Ding Gong, and he disappeared in Guangling County at the beginning of last year. ”

Ding Gong!

The civil and military officials were stunned for a moment, this name is so familiar.

Since ancient times, "Gong" is an honorific title, such as the Duke of Zhou, Zhao Gong and other noble princes, to the Warring States Period when the princes annexed and the etiquette collapsed, the title of the Duke gradually flooded, and the elderly with prestige can also be Duke, but no matter which one it is, there will not be particularly much.

The name Ding Gong is not a flood title, and it is not an old man with the surname Ding who can be called a duke, either with a noble status or from a person of high prestige.

Prime Minister Xu Chang suddenly snorted: "This name is so familiar!" It seems to be the name of a certain general of the Western Chu State. ”

The civil and military officials looked at each other.

Xi Chu has been thrown into the pile of old papers for decades, how did he suddenly appear and kill him by surprise, the hundred officials and ministers can't quite understand.

In particular, the young bureaucrats could not understand the existence of Western Chu, and every time they heard that Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, seemed to be a legendary character, they could not imagine that Western Chu, which had disappeared for decades, would reappear in front of them.

Liu Che asked: "Have you checked in detail and have you made any mistakes?" ”

"There will be no mistake in guaranteeing your life! This person is the son of the late Chu general Ding Gong. ”

The Son of Heaven rubbed his temples and had a headache: "It's troublesome now." ”

The remnants of Chu are a group of very stubborn people, they are scattered in the land of the old Chu in the eastern part of the country, especially in the south of Xiang Yu's birth, almost every household in the vast land has fought for the Xiang family, and the old people in those villages have either been on the battlefield back then, or their fathers and brothers have shed blood for the Xiang family.

That place is very special, it happens to be south of Fengpei County, the ancestral court of Longxing, the emperor of Taizu Gao, Liu Bang. The two places were originally next to each other and belonged to the Western Chu, the famous allusion of the battle of Qixia was "embattled", not that the Han army sang the Chu song to make the Chu army think that the hometown father and elder had betrayed them, so the overlord bid farewell to his concubine, and only escaped from the camp with 27 horsemen, and finally died on the edge of the Wujiang River.

Xiang Yu had 400,000 Chu troops under his command during his heyday, and the 200,000 Chu army was defeated by the Qi State, and most of Xiang Yu's 200,000 Chu troops were divided and surrounded and surrendered, and a small number disappeared after Xiang Yu's death, and the surrendered Chu army soldiers were released. The fleeing Chu will hide in all directions. In the end, there were three ends.

Duke Ding surrendered to Liu Bang and was killed as an example.

Zhong Li took refuge in Han Xin and was killed and sacrificed.

Ji Budong dodged the relationship and said that Xiahou Ying came forward to avoid the capital crime.

It stands to reason. The remnants of Western Chu should gradually disappear into the long river of history. This seems to have been the case in the first thirty years of the Han Dynasty.

But in the process of destroying Zhulu. The meritorious princes once received many refuge from the remnants of Western Chu, indicating that the Lü family, who was in danger, planned to unite the remnants of the old Chu and kill the princes and princes in turn.

This despicable alliance attracted enough attention in the imperial court. No matter how the emperor and the princes fought, both sides maintained a tacit understanding and gradually suppressed the people of the old Chu family.

Ji Bu and Ji Xin brothers had a bad career, especially Ji Bu was very self-aware and told the old man to return to his hometown, so he was trusted by Emperor Wen of Han.

More than ten years ago, the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, the remnants of the old Chu who were uneasy about the status quo really moved again, and the four Wu kings and Liu Biao fanned the flames everywhere before the rebellion, and the left and right series was very much to pull up an objective rebel group, if the rebellious princes and kings were united in hatred of the enemy, maybe they could really overthrow the Han court and divide the world equally, but unfortunately the chess was destroyed in three months.

When the Han army invaded the rebel city, something very strange happened.

The Han army broke the capital of Chu, and the king of Wu immediately plundered the whole city, you must know that from ancient times to the present, the rebel army entered the city and plundered this very rarely, for the sake of calming people's hearts, they will make a distinction, and those who are forced to rebel will be forgiven, and those who are firmly rebellious will be severely punished, but the Han army is not so differentiated, just like treating the land that does not belong to itself, and what is more interesting is that the chaos ended, and most of the rebel areas were divided into counties.

At that time, public opinion in the DPRK and China was very dissatisfied with Zhou Yafu's plunder.

However, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty firmly supported it, the reason was to raise military funds to reward the heroes, but the emperor himself knew that this was not the case, and the Han army used the opportunity of the great plunder to destroy the economic foundation of the old Chu, and arrested many remnants of the old Chu in the name of going to the rebellion, and showed the public with heavy punishment by military law to set an example.

The imperial court took that opportunity to suffer a loss for the old Chu, almost knocking out 70% of the strength of the old Chu, the remaining remnants of the old and dead, the big cats and kittens two or three are also gradually withering, the court gradually relaxed its vigilance and turned to internal struggle, Zhou Yafu and Emperor Han Jing's power struggle throughout the past ten years, until Zhou Yafu died unjustly, and Emperor Han Jing's death came to an end.

"They should be dead, why would they still be?"

Liu Che had a headache.

The civil and military officials also had a headache.

In the eyes of the Han army, it is not worth mentioning, it was not as good as the Han army when it was a professional army, not to mention that after the baptism of 60 long years, the original elite prince became fragmented and secularized, they were butchers who killed pigs, fishermen who fished, farmers who farmed in the countryside, hunters who walked around the mountains and forests with hunting bows, swordsmen who walked, pavilion chiefs, and county government bureaucrats who wore official robes to judge cases.

They have no unified organization, mixed with ordinary people, and they can't tell which is the remnants of the old Chu and which is the honest Han people, even if the identity can be searched according to the map, it is not easy to determine which person is resentful and determined to take revenge, and which person is diligent and hardworking.

If they want to control them, unless they are monitored on a large scale, the Han court cannot afford the investment of large-scale surveillance, not only the state finances cannot support it, but it will not be allowed to rule by doing nothing, and the spy government that engages in terror has always been unpopular, and a small bump that has no problem will be interpreted into a big event, and the emperor of the Han family will not allow the collapse of folk customs and customs, let alone accept the emergence of a huge spy organization.

All in all, there is a gap in the control of the past.

Liu Che was very annoyed, and with his intelligence, he couldn't solve it, and said indignantly: "The first emperor didn't say that at the beginning, he clearly said that the remnants of Chu were not enough to trouble, how could they suddenly become so tricky, are those people really crazy?" They don't understand that tens of thousands of families will be torn apart if I give an order. Are thousands of human heads about to be separated? ”

Weiwei Zhuang Qingzhai got up and said: "This thief should be the land of the two Huai in the south, please ask Your Majesty to order the Huainan State Minister to arrest the thief!" ”

"Enlightenment! There may be traitors in the court, and it is possible that Ding Gong and his gang of thieves may accurately know the patrol rules of the Northern Army with the help of the power of the traitors in the court, please order the Imperial Governor's Mansion to investigate! ”

"陛xià! The minister thought that it would be better to hand over this case to the Tingwei Mansion for handling, and it was not good for the people who dispatched the Northern Army to make trouble! ”

"Please take state affairs as the priority, and the country and society as the priority!"

Liu Che's lungs were about to explode when he heard this.

Tian Wei wouldn't have stood here if he had the ability to solve the case, he was just a gold-plated waste with mixed qualifications, if it weren't for his maternal uncle's sake, he would have been thrown down a long time ago.

"Shut up!"

Liu Che clenched his hands into fists and said in a firm tone: "Listen to me, the general is a pillar of the country, and he must get it back as soon as possible." It had to be brought back alive. No matter how many difficulties must be successful, I can make it clear before I give the order, only success and no failure! The general of the chariot cavalry can't have a single hair, as long as I don't want to explain the result. You are only allowed to enforce and no objections are allowed. Then there are dissidents who are deposed. Never! ”

"Wei Wei Zhuang Qingzhai, how many elite soldiers are there in the headquarters of the Southern Army?"

"About 10,000 people!"

"You led 10,000 soldiers from the county of Jingjing to the south, and went to Huainan to greet Liu An, the king of Huainan. I don't believe that his Huainan Kingdom is as white as paper, and there is reason to suspect that the King of Huainan has close contacts with the remnants of the old Chu, and I can be sure that Ding Gong's fang will not go too far, and he will find them somewhere south of Huainan Kingdom and rescue the Che Cavalry General! ”

"Whoa!"

Zhuang Qingzhai looked awe-inspiring and retreated.

Prime Minister Xu Chang questioned: "Your Majesty! How can you be sure that the Che Cavalry General is safe and sound? ”

"I believe that Ding Gong doesn't dare to hurt people's lives, and he can also observe here!" Liu Che pointed to his head: "The court lieutenant must do his best to find out the identity of the traitor, and I can't allow the person who eats and smashes the pot to appear in the court." ”

The Son of Heaven's gaze was solemn, Tian Wei shuddered and bowed his head and said: "The minister will definitely do his best to handle a serious case and never disappoint the expectations of the Son of Heaven!" ”

"Today's court meeting is over, and we must be more cautious at this very moment, and we must not travel again!"

"Yes!"

Liu Che walked out with a wave of his sleeves, leaving the hundred officials and ministers looking at each other.

The Son of Heaven has changed.

It's tougher and more determined than ever.

This is a sign of evolution into a generation of heroes, and the old ministers sighed sadly, maybe the times have really changed.

Liu Che was in no mood to care about other people's feelings, he was worried about the situation of his eldest sister Yangxin Princess Liu Wan.

The sudden disappearance of her brother-in-law Cao Shi hit her sister Liu Wan very hard, especially when she learned that her husband sent the guards around her to pick her up, and she was suddenly robbed with more than a dozen servants, and her grief and self-blame almost destroyed her.

Chun Yu Sanniang explained the principle of the condition in a low voice outside the Changqiu Palace, overthinking is an ancient term for depression, and the Canggong doctor must also answer the problem with heart medicine, Chun Yu Sanniang doesn't know what the heart medicine is, but he knows that women don't have a disaster that they can't survive.

"Your Majesty, please relax, the daughter of the people assures you that Her Royal Highness the princess's health will gradually get better, Her Royal Highness the princess has always said to the daughter, you must give birth to the child of the Cao family, to let the child in the womb grow up healthily, Your Majesty should believe in the strength of a mother."

"Mother's strength?"

"What Sanniang said makes a lot of sense." The Queen Mother Wang Wan came from the palace: "Che'er, when I was pregnant with you for my mother, I was also worried about the future, for fear that our mother and I would not even have a place to stay, but fortunately, Tai Yishen did not abandon me, and your birth brought hope to my mother...... Wan'er's current situation is the same, she has to survive this threshold to get better. ”

Liu Che clenched his fists and was silent.

Cao Shi did his best for him, and he still survived the great blow, how aggrieved and helpless the arrangement of the general of the chariot cavalry, the Son of Heaven in order to appease him has been ready to increase the number of troops, and in the next two years, 40,000 new soldiers will be added, so that the general of the chariot cavalry will become a powerful army that is not inferior to the two armies of the north and south, and become the fourth military force of Gongwei Chang'an.

The general will become a veritable Shangqing, and the power will be above most of the Jiuqing, this is Liu Che's curve to save the country, the three princes and Jiuqing are a toy to him, if he is not happy to play, there are a hundred ways to abolish them.

Cao Shi persuaded him for many days to let the young son of heaven take a break from the wrath of the thunder, and tolerate the three princes and Jiuqing to continue to save under his nose, and in the blink of an eye, Cao Shi was robbed, and Liu Che almost jumped up!

The Son of Heaven muttered: "Queen Mother, the child wants to add a title to his sister. ”

"Oh, what title does the Son of Heaven want to add?"

Liu Che cleared his throat, and his voice was as clear as the striking of a jade chime: "The eldest sister of the emperor and I are related to each other, and the hard work and achievements deserve the heavy gifts of the country, from now on, Princess Yang Nobunaga!" Tang Muyi added 10,000 households, and the princes and kings of Yitong! ”

The chamberlains and palace maids all knelt down to listen to the order.

Tongye Fenghou Zhuyu is in front, the emperor has a word of Tianxian in his mouth, it is difficult to chase the horse, the eldest princess is not just Tang Muyi, the seal itself contains great political significance, the Son of Heaven has a very deep trust in the Cao family, and no one should want to fight the crooked brains of the Cao family.

Just like the Chen family of the Tangyi Marquis for more than ten years before, relying on the favor of the princess of the pavilion, the Chen family has been prosperous for more than ten years, if it were not for the death of the Chen family, maybe it would be more than a few decades old.

Cao Shi doesn't need to rely on the eldest princess, but the Cao family won't mind having one more eldest princess, there is no doubt that Princess Yang Nobunaga is enough to protect the Cao family for decades of peace.

Her daughter was the eldest princess, and the princess was very happy: "The Son of Heaven decides for himself!" However, we have to take into account the attitude of the chief princess of the pavilion, after all, the two eldest princesses are always a little ......"

The princess of the pavilion pottery.

When it comes to the difficult mother-in-law, Liu Che's mood is not very happy.

Recently, Liu Concubine has been sick and has stayed at home, and she seems to be much more honest than before, and the Son of Heaven does not intend to give up.

"My aunt's Tang Muyi has 20,000 households, and if she has no heirs, she doesn't have to be so extravagant, leaving 10,000 households for her aunt to support her for the elderly, and the remaining 10,000 households will be merged into the county, so that the county that was rewarded again and again will come back! There is also the Changmen Garden adjacent to the Taimiao Temple in the south of the city, I plan to give my aunt a million dollars to buy the garden and buy it, and change it into the Changmen Palace as a palace outside the city, so that you can rest outside the city when you go out of the city to worship and hunt in the future. ”

The Queen Mother reminded: "The Son of Heaven is very thoughtful, and Empress Chen should explain more to prevent the Son of Heaven and his wife from getting into trouble." ”

"The child is save, the queen is my wife, as long as she abides by her duty, I don't mind letting her be a queen of peace, just like Queen Bo did back then." Liu Che made a statement.

The Empress Dowager Wang Wan finally showed a satisfied smile, the sixteen-year-old Son of Heaven was a lot taller than last year, more and more like the handsome and upright emperor of the year, and within ten years he would become a great emperor who covered the sky with one hand like his father.

Her child has finally grown up. (To be continued......)

ps: The title has been added, the princess of Pingyang in history is not so lucky, and I don't know if it's luck or luck this time

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