Chapter 35: Hunting Luoyang (5)

Hiding in the south palace for more than ten days, Liu Banglian connected to the news brought back from Guanzhong, a piece of Chang'an some utilitarian people had advised the prince to mobilize the official and private merchants to build the Xuanyuan Temple for the brilliant Yellow Emperor at the west foot of Qiaoshan in Huangling County, and was immediately opposed and angrily reprimanded by the prince, saying that the major event of building the temple must be decided by the current emperor, even if the emperor agrees to build the temple, the time to build the temple is not ripe, the current heat is unbearable and it is not suitable to levy the people, and the treasury is insufficient, the north and south border is restless, and the construction of the Xuanyuan Temple must be delayed; Second, the celebrities and wealthy families who migrated from the Kanto region had a better impression of the prince, and when they saw that the prince went out of the palace in the name of appeasement to win virtue, he personally led the three or five ministers to inspect the fields and mansions given by the imperial court to the Kanto people, and paid tribute to them, and appeased them to take root in the Guannai; In addition, the prince inspected the lives of the people in Chang'an despite the scorching heat, and for some fields that needed to be watered, the prince personally sent ministers around him to help the people irrigate the farmland, winning a lot of people's hearts. Reading the recital, Liu Bang was happy and sad, happy that the prince finally had the demeanor of a prince, and sad that Ruyi was afraid that there was no chance to inherit the unification.

"Bang-" sounded, Liu Bang put the song on the case, and the clouds immediately covered the old face, and then he rubbed his face worriedly, only leaning on the mat for a long time and was silent. Mrs. Qi came out of the inner hall, saw the emperor silently lying in the seat, and saw a roll of scattered bamboo slips on the case beside him, Mrs. Qi frowned for a moment and quickly walked to Liu Bang to sit around the table, picked up the bamboo slips on the case and took a look, very surprised, and then carefully planned in her heart, and glanced at Liu Bang, who was silent with a black face, but Mrs. Qi cried alone, and it didn't take long for the pear blossoms to bring rain, which disturbed Liu Bang. "Don't cry, don't cry, I'm upset." Liu Bang's sad hand Mrs. Qi patted her shoulder lightly, and said, "Don't cry, both your mother and son are loved by me, and you will not be called a bad son above my beloved son." Mrs. Qi was still crying, lying in Liu Bang's arms and said, "The concubine seems to be remorseful when she sees Your Majesty, and she seems to be entangled, and the concubine is guilty." The prince's virtue is like the sun and the moon, and it is also like the Beichen being bowed by the ministers, Your Majesty should be protected, and I and Ruyi are called subordinate to the prince. Liu Bang looked at Mrs. Qi in a daze, hugged Mrs. Qi tightly with a 'woohoo', and laughed loudly, "I have promised you to remove Liu Ying when I return to Chang'an, why do you need to say this again?" Mrs. Qi immediately stopped crying, and then took advantage of Liu Bang's unhurried embrace, "High-five is an appointment, and the concubine will believe it." Before the words fell, Mrs. Qi had already raised the five fingers of the jade hand and waited for Liu Bang, Liu Bang was stunned for a moment, then laughed again, and also raised his generous palm to meet Mrs. Qi's palm is 'pop' sound three times. Mrs. Qi immediately changed her smile and said coquettishly, "In this way, the concubine will not be hated to death." After saying that, he happily got into Liu Bang's arms and hugged him tightly to steal fun. Liu Bang smiled bitterly for a moment, patted Mrs. Qi on the back, and looked at the heat outside the hall, Liu Bang knew that the removal of the crown prince was more difficult than suffering from the sun ten thousand times that of summer.

Now to Luoyang is nearly the end of August, February and March will be Luoyang several counties patrol almost, Liu Bang has returned to Chang'an, Liu Bang around the ministers will send the news to the ministers, said that in early September will return to Chang'an.

The weather in Luoyang is really strange, it is concentrated and hot for so half a decade, and you will never see the hot day again, although it is sunny but not very hot every day. Five days ago, Liu Bang sent a messenger to Liang State, wanting to call the King of Liang to come to Luoyang for a while, Liang King Peng Yue was shocked as soon as he received the emperor's letter sent by the messenger, Peng Yue had already known that the emperor was patrolling Luoyang, Guandong, and also heard that he was going back to Chang'an in early September, and now it is almost the end of August, why did he suddenly receive a letter from the emperor to Luoyang? There is no other word on the edict, only "Liang near Luodi, Wangqing to narrate", this edict made Peng Yue puzzled, frowned and thought again and again, and couldn't wait to ask the confessor whether he knew the emperor's intention to summon him to Luoyang, whether he also summoned other princes and kings, whether the emperor was in a happy mood and many other questions. The confessor replied to him with a smile one by one, and said that the emperor had asked Zhao Yao, the imperial history of Fuxi, to be responsible for summoning the county guards, county lieutenants, county officials and many county commanders, Cheng, and wealthy merchants in the counties near Luoyang, and even the three elders and Li Zheng in some places were edicted to gather in Luoyang South Palace for a banquet in the afternoon of August 21, and the banquet was attended by no other princes except Peng Yue, and said that the emperor knew that a large-scale pilgrimage ceremony would be held in October and did not call other princes, thinking that Liang was close to Luoyang, and wanted to know about the development of Liang in the past year. Human feelings, culture and other things, this called Peng Yue to Luoyang for a while. Listening to what the confessor said, Peng Yue took a long breath, and then looked at the confessor, but saw the confessor standing respectfully beside the pillar with his face hidden. Peng Yue didn't dare to be disrespectful to the emperor's confessor, so he stepped in front of the confessor and waved his hand at him, and said in a panic, "Your Majesty has called, and the widow should go to Luoyang in a hurry." Nai Gong frowned and was displeased, I don't know if the widow has neglected the father? The confessor hurriedly waved his hand, took a step back and bowed his hand to Peng Yueye, "If it is not for King Peng's sake, there is indeed something to tell King Peng in his heart." The cautious eyes of the confessor showed Peng Yue, and Peng Yue understood his meaning and waved away the palace eunuchs in the palace, approached the confessor and suppressed his voice and said, "The widow is not talented, Wang Gongming said." "The confessor had already planned on the road when he came, and even if Peng Yue didn't ask him, he would do everything he could to tell Emperor Peng Yue what he meant. Peng Yue invited the confessor to sit on the mat, and the two lowered their voices and approached each other to whisper in their ears, and saw Peng Yue's eyes suddenly wide, and with a long breath, he solemnly waved his hand to the confessor, "The widow is also taught." The confessor returned the salute but smiled silently. After resting for half a day, Peng Yue first asked the confessor to return to Luoyang, and then he explained the state affairs to the prime minister of Liang Guocheng, and called dozens of people to get on the horse and whip the Luoyang South Palace.

On the afternoon of August 21, the Luoyang South Palace was already crowded with people, the huge hall was full of candles, and the rows of connected cases were full of sumptuous delicacies. After bowing to each other, the crowd sat around the table, smiling with the people around them. Fang in the crowd of noisy, the eunuch a sharp "The emperor arrived-" and everyone focused on the emperor who came out of the inner hall, as expected, the emperor left hand pulled the well-dressed Zhao Wang Ruyi from the east platform to the dragon couch, sitting on the couch and holding Ruyi on his lap. Everyone attended the pause, "Your Majesty will be happy for thousands of years-". Liu Bang smiled and waved his hand and said, "Everyone." It is not a big deal to summon you to come, and I will return to Chang'an in early September, and I would like to ask you to come and talk about it. In addition to Luoyang, some counties and counties in Kandong also have quite a method and effect in governing the place, Shangdang County Shou Ren Ao, Yingchuan County Shou Chen Tianshou, Hedong County Shou, Nanyang County Shou and other ministers govern the place very well, and give Ge Bu a hundred cuts, a hundred catties of gold, and exempt the people of their counties from three years of forced labor. I patrol the blacksmith village to the merchants quite touched, the original Nanyang Kong clan has the reality of 'good Kong', allowed to wear silk and satin, and pay taxes equivalent to agriculture. As soon as Liu Bang finished speaking, the ministers in the palace handed over to the emperor at the original table and said, "Your Majesty is clear, and the ministers are encouraged." "We won't talk about state affairs today, you can eat and drink as you please. This banquet was originally intended to be wishful, and it was also presided over by him, and it seems that I have robbed King Zhao of his glory. Liu Bang touched Ruyi's face and said with a smile, "If the queen is King Zhao himself, I don't care, you are free." Liu Bang put down Ruyi, whispered solemnly in his ear for a long time, and smiled at his eyes, Ruyi understood the meaning, took a step forward and stood on the stage, arched his little hand and bowed to you, such as a Confucian scholar gushing, "In the past, Xiang was tyrannical, Han made merits, and died as an emperor. Your Majesty is over the age of six, and the Han family will inevitably be inherited by the prince, and I hope that you will be like the stars hanging down the arch Beichen and the prince and the Han family......"

"If King Zhao's virtue is like King Wu of the Western Zhou Dynasty, he is heroic and heroic, and the Han dynasty should be inherited by His Royal Highness King Zhao." Before King Zhao could say anything, a man with an unknown surname stood in the atrium and said to everyone, "Those who hear the country are the great tools of the world and have important responsibilities. Those who hold the country are called the way of the law, and who is the son. Weak and brave people will not be able to bear the heavy responsibility of the country, even if the old man is too public as a wing, but twenty years of wings will also pass away, the country, need to have the courage to preside over the best policy, King Zhao is bold and courageous and does not lose the former martial king, Prince Lu is in his name but not substantial. The minister was ...... in a panic."

"I'm afraid of you!" Before the man could finish speaking, he heard a loud roar from behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that it was the upright imperial historian Zhou Chang, and in the blink of an eye, Zhou Chang came out of the banquet and stood on the side of the man and glared at him angrily, pointing to his nose and black face and roaring, "In broad daylight, I don't respect the prince and flatter the emperor's beloved son, I don't know what his intentions are!" How do you know that the prince can't carry the Han family on his shoulders? You are really a traitorous courtier, in the past, the second and fifth sons of the Jin State, the Chu State Fei Wuji, the Zhao State Guo Guo Kai, and the Qin State Fan Ju although they slandered others, they were only plotting with the monarch, and today you are swaggering and slandering the prince when the thunder is in the public regardless of the thunderbolt on the sunny day, woohoo! Heaven will be to blame you. One hundred and ten twenty-five sons will not be able to catch up with the father. After saying that, Zhou Chang waved his hand at him sarcastically with a look of disgust and disdain, and then snorted coldly and returned to the table. The man was sarcastically surprised by Zhou Chang and couldn't speak for a long time, he was stunned, Liu Bang coughed, but the man returned to his seat as if he remembered something.

The hall was silent for a moment, and all the ministers had their own attitudes and looked at the people around them, and then they all brushed their eyes on the emperor on the stage. Seeing that the atmosphere was embarrassing, Liu Bang's old face suddenly stiffened for a moment, and then he smiled quickly, waved his hand, and said, "You are in a hurry, don't you not talk about state affairs?" Why did you go around it again? Don't say it, don't say it, taste the wine, Lanling wine is mellow and not greasy, you taste the wine. "As he spoke, he picked up a bottle of Lanling wine and clinked glasses to the ministers in the audience, and then raised his head and drank it all, Lanling wine itself is not spicy, but he felt very heartburn when he drank it, and there seemed to be an inexplicable fire in his heart that was quickly burned by the wine, and he told himself that he should not have asked Zhou Chang to participate in the banquet when he thought about it one step less. Whenโ€”' put the wine bottle on the table with a loud bang.