Before setting out on the expedition, Liu Yu must first clear the opposition in Chang'an City.

It has been nearly three months since the rebellion on the twentieth day of the first month, and a number of families of the old factions in Chang'an City have been uprooted, which still cannot reassure Liu Yue, Liu Yue on the one hand began to replace the officials of some key departments of the imperial court, on the other hand, the old factions were suppressed, and many old ministers who had gone through two dynasties and three dynasties were dismissed and investigated.

In order not to rebel after he left Chang'an City, Liu Yu first took Li Mi as the commander of the Yamen of the same defense department and the secretary of the military department, and Qu Zhu served as the commander of the East Water Battalion and the South Chang'an Battalion of Chang'an City.

For this, some former ministers of the court who followed the dynasty also dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.

By March 15, all the preparations before the Son of Heaven's southern tour had stopped, and Liu Yu had already explained the affairs of national affairs to Han Sheng and Sui Yu, and then the Son of Heaven left Chang'an City. After experiencing the persuasion a few days ago, Han Sheng at this time no longer persuaded Liu Yu, but just hoped that he could go and return early.

This time the Son of Heaven toured the south, and the route he took was basically the same as that of Su Yan's personal expedition, which was also out of Tongguan to Luoyang, and then turned southeast to Xuzhou City, and then crossed the river and went down to Jiankang City. Along the way, there would have been local officials as receptions, but in order not to disturb the people, Liu Yue had already sent people to various places to issue orders, and the Son of Heaven would take the official office and the palace as the overnight accommodation point, and the local officials were not allowed to visit and give gifts. Liu Yu knew it very well in his heart. The name of this trip is to go on a southern tour. In fact, the base was moved to Jiankang City. It is convenient for him to go south to quell the chaos.

Liu Yu said that the guards brought by him on this trip were a lot less, and they could already let people see the clues of going on the expedition. In this trip, the daughter army guards and the new army guards are the mainstays, adding up to the number of 3,000 people, originally the Son of Heaven went out on patrol, always had to bring a lot of palace maids and eunuchs, but this time the patrol process was simple, and Luan drove lightly, but Liu Yu brought the whole family with him. Even the old mother-in-law, Concubine Lin, is no exception.

Liu Yuding's departure date was March 16, and the day before departure, on March 15, Liu Zhao, the Marquis of Dingguo, sent someone to find Liu Yu to go home to talk. After the Marquis of Dingguo relocated his family from Hanzhong back to Chang'an City, this was the first time that Liu Zhao took the initiative to invite Liu Yu back to his home.

The person who came was none other than Liu Yu's eldest brother, Liu He, who had just taken office as the head of the household department.

"Father wants to ask you to go back and talk about the Son of Heaven's southern tour, it seems that my father has some ideas, I can't sleep and eat these days, Twelfth brother, you better go back and have a look." Liu He saw Liu Yu. The words were a little unspeakable, which made Liu Yue not quite understand.

Although Liu Zhao is still the marquis of Dingguo. But there is no longer a military general, and he has an empty salary, could it be that he wants to re-enter the court to serve the country?

Liu Yuxin said, can not let Liu Zhao get in touch with the real job again, the rebellion of Liu Zhao and the six princes is still vivid, how muddy Liu Zhao's people are, it is even more muddy than him Liu Yu! Liu Yu didn't want to cause trouble in his rear.

"Husband, since my father wants to see you, the concubine will go back with you."

Xu Xuanzhu wanted to go along, but Liu Yu waved his hand and said, "Madame, let's make preparations before leaving tomorrow, and go back alone for your husband." ”

Taking advantage of the fact that there was still some time before dark, Liu Yu returned to the Dingguo Marquis Mansion together accompanied by Liu He, and just entered the courtyard, he felt that the atmosphere in the courtyard was not quite right, only to see that the flowers and plants in the entire courtyard were in a mess, as if they had been deliberately destroyed by someone, and the family and the maid were hiding in the corner, and they could hear the "whirring" wind as soon as they entered the door.

Liu Zhao's face was flushed, and the whole person seemed to be playing with a drunken knife, not to mention the people in the house who went up to persuade them, everyone hid far away for fear of being injured by mistake. Liu Zhaozheng was completely forgetful, and Liu He hurriedly shouted: "Father......"

Liu Zhaocai looked in the direction of the door while playing with the knife, and looked at Liu Yu.

"Bang!"

When Liu Zhao saw Liu Yu, he put away the knife and slammed the long knife into the ground. A long knife in the style of the green dragon glaive, the length is comparable to the length of the body, Liu Yu has never seen Liu Zhao use it when he practiced dancing, this is obviously to play the knife to establish authority against him. Liu Yuxin said that he was afraid that his father would be cruel to him.

Liu Zhao put away the knife, and those maids woke up from the panic, and they quickly slipped past Liu Zhao one by one when they had something to cross the courtyard, and Liu Zhao's concubines hurriedly went over one by one to clothe Liu Zhao, who was only wearing shoulders and arms, but Liu Zhao stretched out his hand to block it, and Liu Zhao greeted him at the door.

"Greetings to my father." Liu Yu saluted.

"Hmph, are you willing to come back? Come, bring him the sword. ”

Liu Yu was confused in his heart, holding a knife? What's to be done?

Immediately, Liu Zhao answered the question in Liu Yu's heart: "If you want to go to the south, you have to abduct the Son of Heaven away, this is to play the Sheji of the Great Shun Dynasty in the palm of your own hands, and now there are only two ways in front of you, either give up your decision, or win the knife in the hands of your father." Otherwise, you can't go anywhere! ”

Liu Yu looked at Liu Zhao's fierce appearance, and said in his heart that this was a clear mistake. It's his business to go on the expedition, what can Liu Zhao do? If you want to go out on the battlefield, you have to win his sword, this is simply bullying him Liu Yu is weak and sickly, Liu Zhao is a martial artist who has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and he is better than a well-mannered and powerless son, and he is not a martial artist if he wins.

The family took a knife from the weapon rack, these family members were also sincere, let him take the knife and really take the knife, but it was a three-foot long knife commonly used, compared to the one that Liu Zhao inserted on the ground, the one handed over to Liu Yu was like a toy. One inch long and one inch strong, just in terms of weapons, Liu Yu has already been defeated, even if he bullies the weak in martial arts, he has to play tricks in weapons. If it weren't for Liu Zhao being his cheap father, Liu Yu would have had a seizure on the spot when he was depressed.

Liu Zhao saw that Liu Yu didn't take the knife, and shouted: "Take the knife!" ”

Liu Yu sighed and said, "Father, it's not that I don't want to take this knife. It's this kind of thing. It's outdated. ”

Liu Zhao's eyebrows furrowed. shouted: "The sword is the head of the eighteen blades, how can it be outdated!?" Let you take it quickly, don't you dare? ”

Liu Yu didn't argue with Liu Zhaoqiang, he directly took out something from his back waist unhurriedly, and held it in his hand, Liu He beside Liu Yu was shocked, because what Liu Yu was holding in his hand was a short gun.

"Father, this is popular now!"

Liu Yu said. "Bang! Bang! Two shots were fired, one shot hit the center of the arrow target, and the other shot hit the courtyard wall, these two sounds were somewhat earth-shattering, and Liu Zhao, who was standing very steadily, also took two steps back to barely suppress Liu Yu's momentum. At this time, Liu Yu was holding a short gun in his hand, with a somewhat calm smile on his face, and he was no longer the uncompetitive twelfth son Liu Wenyan who he thought was sick.

Even Liu Zhao was shocked, the people who had been on the battlefield in the dark path were different.

"Father, do you have to compare?" Liu Yu's latter sentence is a provocation, and it is clear that no matter how fast the long knife is, he must stand aside. Even with a bow and arrow, he can't match the speed at which he can hook his fingers to kill people invisibly, and then ask so. That is to embarrass Liu Zhao.

Liu Zhao's face was swollen with anger, but he didn't know how Lu Dao attacked, if he said "to compare" in one breath, he didn't know if Lu Dao would really collapse him with one shot with Liu Yu's current level of tricking. Although Liu Zhao often makes mistakes, he occasionally thinks about problems with reason.

Liu Yu said: "If my father has nothing else to do, I will leave!" ”

Liu Yu just took two steps into the door and was about to leave, which was a bit unfilial, but Liu Yu's main purpose was not to let Liu Zhao continue to mess around. As soon as he entered the door, he was going to fight with a knife, if he was entangled, Liu Zhao and he didn't agree with him and cut each other, it would be very bad.

Liu Yu said this, Liu Zhao stood there silent, and the other onlookers, such as the lady and the young master of the Dingguo Marquis Mansion, were frightened one by one for fear that their father and son would make something happen again. But now it is different from the past, Liu Yu has taken over the baton from Liu Zhao and has become the trick of the Liu family, which belongs to the contest between the old and new families, if the two people pinch each other to the point of going out of the situation, then the status of the Dingguo Marquis Mansion in Chang'an City will be gone. What's even worse is that even the Son of Heaven behind Liu Yu may fall, and the Dashun Dynasty will fall into turmoil.

Liu Zhao endured and endured after the most reluctance, and when he saw that Liu Yu really turned around and was about to leave, he finally suppressed the anger of the most reluctant, no longer entangled in the knife, and said: "Who said it's okay, come in!" ”

Only then did everyone breathe a sigh of relief, Liu Zhao rarely softened this time, which was in line with the overall situation. But Liu Yu's side didn't move, which made the hearts of his family lift again.

Liu Yu and Liu Zhao's personalities are simply in the same vein, they are both stubborn, if Liu Yue doesn't give face and just walks away, then there is no possibility of easing the relationship between father and son.

But Liu Yu didn't seem to pay much attention to Liu Zhao's provocation before, swallowed his anger and pinned the short gun to the waistband of his trousers, and entered the main hall with Liu Zhao.

When the father and son went in, no one dared to go in and listen to what they were talking about. The woman in the family tried to push Liu He in to listen, but Liu He smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he was not suitable for mixing at this time.

"The twelfth brother knows how to be measured, and he shouldn't let his father not get off the stage." Liu He said.

The women on one side are a little disapproving, Liu Yu is now in power and the opposition is covering the sky with one hand, even the regent dares to proclaim himself, what else dare not do.

After waiting for a short time, Liu Yu came out of the house, and Liu Zhao also came out later. Liu Yu didn't stop and went in the direction of the door, as if he had made a charge, and he didn't look back.

Liu Zhao didn't have any annoyance on his face, Liu He stepped forward and asked, "Father, what did you say to the twelfth brother?" ”

Liu He smiled and said, "This kid, he is sensible." Tomorrow, the Son of Heaven will tour the south, and the father will go to the south with Luan, and you will go and prepare. ”

Only then did the family understand Liu Zhao's purpose of looking for Liu Yu to come back, it turned out that Liu Zhao was old, and he was still worried about Jin Ge Tie immediately killing the enemy, as long as he let him go to the battlefield, he would admit his son as Lao Tzu! (To be continued......)