Liang Hou Huanwu dismissed Shang Shuling and Taifu, and the people of Shendu did not feel much difference, but it caused a huge shock in the court.

Su Zhe and Chang Yu are the only two surviving elders of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who have served in the imperial court when Emperor Xia Houji of the Ming Dynasty, and it can be said that they have experienced the rise and fall of the Great Zhou empire.

Huan Wu dismissed these two, and in the eyes of the world, there is no doubt that they are the prelude to the usurpation of the emperor. Of course, different people in different places have different names, such as the people within the Huan clan often say that changing the yuan and changing the weapon, in fact, they are all the same thing.

However, when everyone thought that the Su Chang family was like the Meng family back then, they were going to decline, but Huan Wu's next move surprised everyone.

Huan Wu rewarded the younger generation of the Su and Chang families, added officials to the knighthood, and even let the Huan family and Su Chang marry each other, not only to let several daughters of the Huan clan marry the sons of the Su Chang family, but also to prepare his son Huan Qi to marry Su Zhe's niece Su Mei.

Huan Wu has been running the Central Plains for more than ten years, and the younger generation of family members have long been very unfamiliar with the former Great Zhou Empire, and they feel that Zhou Tianzi, who is deeply locked in the imperial palace, is just a puppet.

Huan Wu did this, which was equivalent to tying the Su and Chang families to the Huan family's cart. Of course, it is also a willingness to fight, a willingness to suffer, and even honor.

In the Water Pavilion Xiangtang, Huan Wu leaned on the couch, only listening to the sound of drizzle falling in his ears.

Su Zhe sat down in front of his couch. Su Zhe is a generation older than Huan Wu, not the same generation. But now, although Su Zhe has a white beard, he is in good spirits. And Huan Wu was lying on the couch, his sideburns were gray, and he looked very old.

"Jing'an, do you know why I did this?"

"Old decay understands!"

Su Zhe is not a vassal of the Marquis of Liang, so naturally he does not need to be a vassal to Huan Wu. Huan Wu's recent series of big moves are of far-reaching significance. It is not yet possible for ordinary people to marry the Huan family, but Huan Wu put down his body and took the initiative to marry Su Chang's family.

The meaning of this is not clear. As long as the Huan family still exists, then the Su Chang family can sit back and relax.

It's an honor, and it's also a warning!

For Su Zhe!

Huan Wu is already thinking about the future at the moment, and what is the future? It is undoubtedly Liang Dynasty Zhou Xing. At this moment, Huan Wu pulled over the two main forces in the old Zhou court, the Su Chang family, and Xu Yi's position was huge, and his pace was already very fast.

However, today, Huan Wu summoned Su Zhe to come, but he was not talking about any entanglement of interests, but about old things.

"When people get old, they start to miss the old. These days, I recall a lot of things. ”

Huan Wu looked outside the water pavilion, the rain fell on the blue lake, his eyes were far away, and he didn't seem to care about the audience next to him at all, and said to himself.

At that time, my father was an official in the Shendu, and the family moved here. My mother gave birth to me shortly after entering the Shendu, and I was born and raised in the Shendu. At that time, the world was not in turmoil, and the gods were still the same gods, unlike now, which always made me feel a little strange. ”

"The way of the world is like this, not only becoming human, but also this thousand-year-old capital."

Su Zhe said at the right time, with some helplessness in his voice.

"yes? The world is in turmoil, engulfing the common people, and everyone has changed. I have also changed from the captain of the Great Zhou to the current Liang Hou. Some people scolded me for being a rebel, some people scolded me for being a single husband, and some people scolded me for being a thief of the country. Now that I think about it, the experience of these decades is like a dream. ”

When Huan Wu said this, he saw that Su Zhe was silent, but he smiled.

"But there are always people who don't change. For example, Yang Chun, such as those old Yang clans who followed Yang Xian's side. When Yang Xian assumed the pseudonym Wang Ren and infiltrated the Shendu and made trouble in the palace, Yang Chun followed behind him and never said a few words. But I could feel that he hadn't changed. Yang Chun is still the same Yang Chun, just like when he followed Yang Ci's side, unruly and loyal. ”

Speaking of this, Huan Wu's eyes lit up as if he had thought of something.

"In fact, after Yang Zhong's death, when the Shu Kingdom was made into a miasma by Xia Yunhua, I secretly sent people into the Shu Kingdom to contact those old Yang clans, wanting them to surrender to Daliang. At that time, Yongzhou had already fallen into the hands of our army, and I also offered particularly generous conditions, but those old Yang troops refused without surprise, and impulsively even killed the envoy I sent on the spot. That's when I realized that despite the vastness of the world, some things don't change. ”

Speaking of this, Huan Wu laughed to himself.

"These things used to be the most despised by me, and in troubled times, they were also the most worthless. Soldiers and horses, grain and grass, generals, gold and silver, cities, and armaments, which are not important? But as soon as Zhou Nan was defeated, I gradually understood that Yang Ci was terrible! ”

Yang Ci, this name Su Zhe has only heard from Huan Wu's mouth a few times in the past few decades. But today's Huan Wu, when he said this name, he was no longer as scrupulous as before, and there was even a calmness in his tone.

"When I was a child, I went to the largest Guangyan Building in Shendu with my father, and I happened to meet Yang Ci. My father and Yang Ci didn't deal with each other, and everyone knew about it, and I was vaguely aware of it at that time, but that feeling was not clear. It wasn't until Yang Ci tricked me into calling him an uncle and grandfather with a piece of pastry, and my father's face at that time is still fresh in my memory. When I returned, my father punished me to kneel in front of the mourning hall for a day and a night, and from then on, I understood what the feud of the Ninth World was. ”

"Yang Ci!" When Huan Wu said this, his tone was a little excited, "Ha! What a great Zhou Zhongchen! ”

"There was a great drought in Yangzhou that year, and Emperor Ming secretly ordered the inner servants to replace the rice with chaff, and with layers of exploitation, many people in Yangzhou starved to death. After this matter was investigated, no one dared to speak out among the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty. It was that Yang Ci, with a 600-stone counselor, in front of the court minister, directly reprimanded Emperor Ming's wrongdoing, so angry that Emperor Ming was furious, and he wanted to kill him on the spot. If it weren't for the first emperor, who was still the crown prince at the time, who sacrificed his life to protect him, Yang Ci was afraid that he would have died in the Hanzhang Palace. After that time, Emperor Ming was ill for a long time, and when he mentioned the name Yang Ci in the future, he gritted his teeth and wanted to skin and tear him apart. ”

"Everyone in the world praises Yang Ci's loyalty and integrity, but they haven't thought about why the first emperor, who has always been cowardly, dared to stand up when Emperor Ming was angry and block Emperor Ming's sword?"

When Huan Wu said this, he couldn't help but smile.

"The first emperor was a good gambler, and he was addicted to gambling. Yang Ci made a bet with Emperor Xian as early as the beginning, betting that he would not be able to stop Emperor Ming. As a result, Yang Ci lost, and that was the only time Yang Ci lost to the first emperor. ”

Huan Wu's face was excited, but Su Zhe was a little touched. He witnessed this period of history with his own eyes, and he also saw Xia Hengye with a proud face outside the Hanzhang Palace.

The past is like smoke, Su Zhe sighed leisurely.

"It's all over again!"

"Yes! Let's go! Jing An knows. ”

Huan Wu looked at Su Zhe and said meaningfully.