It was in this seemingly casual atmosphere that Liu Bang, the Son of Heaven, finally gave the final answer to a big problem that made the courtiers and officials nervous for several years, and made the entire court political pattern unable to settle down.

- Prince, don't change!

- Liu Ying, confirmed to be the next one, that is, the second son of heaven of the Han family!

In an instant, the huge Changle Palace Changxin Hall was occupied by an inexplicable sense of relief and a little nostalgia.

Perhaps for ordinary people, the attribution of the crown prince will only have a slight impact on the future development direction of the Han family.

Even this influence should be slowly manifested after Liu Bang dies today and the new monarch is established.

In addition to this negligible, and there is no need to consider the impact for the time being, whether it is Liu Ying or Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, who is sitting on the throne of the prince, the gap does not seem to be very large.

But in fact, the unending or unstable storage position will not only have a negative impact on the future Han family, but at the moment, every moment when the storage position is unresolved, it will cast a shadow on the entire political pattern of the Han family called 'position'.

Back then, Liu Bang, who had retreated from Pengcheng, after receiving the response of his uncle Lu Ze, why didn't he hurry up and regroup and regroup, but set up Liu Ying as the crown prince as soon as possible?

- Because at that time, for the soldiers of the Han army who had just returned from the defeat in Pengcheng, the establishment of the reserve was the most inspiring way to boost the hearts of the people and reorganize the morale of the army!

Because the prince means the future;

With the prince, it means that there is a future;

Liu Bang, the king of Han who had just experienced the fiasco of Pengcheng, still had the heart to establish a crown prince, which means even more: a defeat in Pengcheng did not hit Liu Bang, the king of Han at that time!

Liu Bang still has the confidence to regroup, and he still has the confidence to start all over again!

This is the prince of the feudal era, which can play a stabilizing role in the morale of the army.

So, for the political structure of the government and the opposition, what role will the ownership of the prince play?

In fact, judging from the order of importance, what the court is most concerned about is not who is the prince and who is attacking the crown prince.

Unless the prince is a treacherous and evil person with sores on his face and pus on the soles of his feet, what the court wants to see most is that the prince will always be as stable as Mount Tai!

Because of the feudal era, the court was the first to consider, and at the same time, it was the most valuable, and it would never be 'how to do better', but the word 'stability'.

It is no exaggeration to say that for the feudal regime, a policy that can maintain stability must not be a bad government in the absolute sense!

Conversely, a policy that has the potential to destabilize and cause instability will never be undisputed good governance.

And the crown prince is the center of any feudal era, and he pursues 'stability' the most, and there is no one.

Whether the crown prince is outstanding and excellent is of course an important proposition related to the future of the dynasty.

But before discussing the ability and potential of the crown prince, the court will always maintain a higher level of attention to another issue.

- Stability!

In the most understandable words, it is: the prince is not good, he can be cultivated;

If the cultivation is not good, it will be cultivated slowly;

I really can't cultivate it, it doesn't matter, the court is going to the bottom, don't let the new monarch mess around, wait for a time to 'keep the king', and then train the next prince.

However, the candidate for the prince must be determined as soon as possible, and it is best not to have variables.

Because a prince who is as stable as Mount Tai and a prince who is sure of everything, the significance to the feudal regime is no less than that of the Dinghai God Needle.

In the past few years, the crumbling prince has been the main source of the Chang'an court's inability to settle down and the undercurrent has always surged.

- The prince is not favored, and Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, has appeared, so as a courtier, who should the officials be loyal to?

allegiance to the crown prince is obviously contrary to the will of Liu Bang, the son of heaven;

Loyalty to King Zhao is even more inappropriate!

What's even worse is that Liu Bang, the son of heaven, is not the son of heaven in the prime of life!

At the moment when the crown prince Liu Ying has just turned fourteen, and Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, has just turned nine years old, Liu Bang, the son of heaven, is already over sixty years old!

Coupled with Liu Bang's current physical condition, it is no exaggeration to say that the current Chang'an court has reached the point where it can welcome the arrival of 'accidents' at any time and be ready for regime change!

At such a delicate and sensitive point in time, the position of the crown prince is always in doubt, which will inevitably make the entire court feel uneasy.

- In case Liu Bang falls down in a second, who should inherit this huge sheji?

If Liu Bang 'fell completely', then it would be easy to say - no matter how unstable the prince is, he will be the prince after all; The crown prince will inherit the throne, and no one can make a mistake.

But what if after Liu Bang fell, he coincidentally came to a 'return to the light' and left an edict of 'abolishing the prince and succeeding him by King Zhao'?

Queen Lu Pheasant, how could she accept this result calmly?

If not, what kind of turmoil will Chang'an usher in?

Therefore, from the establishment of the Han dynasty to Liu Bang's clear statement that 'the crown prince Liu Ying is the heir chosen by me' today, what lingers in the minds of the court officials is such a scene.

- Liu Bang insisted on easy storage, the queen refused to sit still, and the dragon and phoenix fought for each other; If it is light, it will be a big earthquake in the government and the opposition, and if it is serious, the world will be in chaos!

This is the reason why the Chang'an court has always insisted on persuading Liu Bang to 'dispel the idea of easy storage' for many years to ensure the stability of the court.

It's not that Liu Ying is really good enough, and it's not because Liu Ruyi is not good enough;

But no matter who is more worthy of the position of the prince, the Chang'an court, and even the current Han family, will definitely not be able to afford a political turmoil that begins with the selection of the prince!

In other words, it is not the candidate for the crown prince who should sit on it, but whoever sits on it, and who can better ensure the stability of the government and the opposition, should be sitting.

Today's ending is undoubtedly the most perfect ending.

——Liu Bang, the son of heaven, dispelled the idea of easy storage and clearly designated the crown prince Liu Ying as the heir!

Liu Ying has also proved her ability, and she is definitely no worse than Liu Ruyi, who is known as 'early wisdom'!

Liu Yingchu's position is stable, and Queen Lu Pheasant will naturally not cause turmoil; And the maternal relatives of Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, have no ability to cause turmoil at all.

It can be said that this ending is a great joy for everyone to complete.

If anyone is unhappy, there are only Zhao Wang Liu Ruyi, and Mrs. Qi's mother and son······

"After the society is established, the government and the opposition will be stable."

"Whew~"

"It's finally ······"

For a while, all the officials and courtiers in the hall breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately looked around with joy on their faces, smiling and nodding to their colleagues on the left and right, as if they were saying hello to each other.

At the foot of the imperial stairs, hearing that Liu Yingman solemnly said the sentence 'I will live up to my father's trust', Xiao He also smiled at ease and immediately got up from his seat.

"Your Majesty Shengming, Prince Xianren; The crown prince will succeed to the administration of the state, and the ministers will have no objection······"

Hearing this, Liu Bang finally nodded with a smile, and immediately took Liu Ying's hand and walked up the imperial steps.

At this point, 'the prince continues to supervise the country', on the premise that Liu Bang, the son of heaven, and Xiao He, the prime minister, reached an agreement, and it has become an established fact.

But in this regard, none of the hundred officials in the palace had different opinions.

Because Liu Ying, the 'prince of the prison country', is no longer the prince for today's Han family.

- rather: the quasi-Son of Heaven······

"When I set out on the expedition, I entrusted the crown prince with the renovation of the Guanzhong water conservancy."

The hundreds of officials in the hall were thinking about it, and they heard Liu Bang's high-pitched inquiry from the royal couch.

When everyone raised their heads, they saw Liu Bang with a faint smile on his face, looking at Liu Ying who was holding a roll of thick bamboo slips on his side with soft eyes.

"More than that, how is the prince doing?"

Indifferently asked, Liu Bang raised his head towards the bamboo slip in Liu Ying's hand: "This, what is it?" ”

As soon as Liu Bang's voice fell, without waiting for Liu Ying to answer, the expressions on the faces of the hundreds of officials in the hall were all a little excited!

Sure enough, Liu Ying's next reply also confirmed the conjecture of the courtiers and officials.

"Father."

Seeing that on the royal steps, Liu Ying bowed to Liu Bang with a respectful face, and then held up the bamboo slip in his hand with both hands.

"With the help of my father and the emperor in Guanzhong water conservancy, my son did not dare to slack off; On the day of the opening of the father's army, the sons summoned Xiao Xiang and Shaofu to discuss the repair of water conservancy. ”

While speaking, the bamboo slip in Liu Ying's hand was also taken by Liu Bang with a smile.

Taking advantage of Liu Bang's opportunity to put the bamboo slips on the imperial case, he immediately spread out the opportunity to read them, and Liu Ying also made a brief overview of the repair of Zheng Guoqu.

"Hou Shaofu Yan'er said: Guanzhong water conservancy, since the second disrepair to the present, has lost its 'water conservancy' effect."

"A few years later, the Kanto region has been fighting for many years, and the water conservancy renovation project has continued to this day and cannot be solved."

As she spoke, Liu Ying chuckled and turned sideways, and bowed her hands to Xiao He, who was at the top of the west seat, and Yang Chengyan, who was on Xiao He's side.

"In the end, the child has to discuss with the government: Guanzhong water conservancy should be headed by Zheng Guoqu; If the Guanzhong water conservancy is repaired, the Zhengguo Canal should be the first. ”

Therefore, the son summoned the courtiers and hundreds of officials, and planned to repair the Zheng Guoqu for the first time in the year; So far, the canal has been repaired and reopened, hundreds of thousands of households and tens of thousands of acres of land in Weibei on the bank of the canal, all of which deserve enough water to irrigate it this year! ”

After speaking, Liu Ying bowed his hand to the hundreds of officials in the hall: "This, it depends on the lives of the hundreds of officials to make the trip!" ”

Then, Liu Ying turned around with a smile and pointed lightly at the bamboo slip in front of Liu Bang.

"And this simplicity is the lack of hard labor when the child wants to repair the canal; When his father set out on the expedition, he had already recruited soldiers and people from Guanzhong, and his son did not dare to call for forced labor to repair the canal. ”

"Hou'er has to build the policy of the Hou, and use the money of the young government to hire hundreds of officials and private slaves in the family of the Marquis."

"This Jane is the number of private slaves and forced servants issued by hundreds of officials and meritorious marquis."

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Rao already knew about this matter, and Liu Bang also nodded cooperatively.

Seeing Liu Ying continue to say softly: "The son wants to ask for a slave with money, but all the justices in the court and the central government say 'this is their duty', and they do their best to be a private slave in the family, and they do not accept the remuneration of their sons." ”

"The son respects the righteousness of the princes, and he feels guilty, so he plans to get this policy, record the slaves offered by the princes, and sacrifice them to his father and the emperor in person······"

As Liu Ying softly reported the origin of this scroll of bamboo slips, Liu Bang's eyes finally moved away from the dense numbers on the bamboo slips.

nodded with a gentle expression, and saw that Liu Bang's face was slightly stagnant, and then he looked up at Liu Ying with a slight play.

"The prince wants to replace the private slaves to repair the canal and ask for a reward?"

Hearing this, Liu Yingzi also smiled shyly and gave Liu Bang a little bow.

"Father's eyes are like torches······"

Seeing that Liu Ying fulfilled his promise without any discount, the courtiers and officials in the palace also nodded with satisfaction, and moved their expectant gaze to Liu Bang's faintly meaningful face.

In fact, the courtiers who can have a place in today's Changxin Palace, even if they are not the marquis of thousands of households, are basically high-ranking officials above the rank of a thousand stones.

It is impossible for Liu Bang, the son of heaven, to promote everyone in the palace to the rank of knight, or to increase the marquis of the palace because of the merit of 'sending private slaves to help the prince repair the canal'.

For Liu Bang to give a sword, or a few batches of cloth and other rewards, everyone in the palace was not overjoyed.

But no matter how you say it, this is also an opportunity to brush a wave of presence in front of the Son of Heaven and the Prince, leaving an impression of 'well, this person can handle it, and something is true', and by the way, it is an opportunity to gain a wave of fame.

Even if you don't look down on the two jujubes rewarded by Liu Bang, such an opportunity is definitely not a chicken rib.

For the expectation of the courtiers in the palace, Liu Bang, who was sitting on the royal couch, had a panoramic view.

"Hey ······"

saw Liu Bang lower his head again, and then looked at the bamboo slip in his hand, and then looked up at the hall again.

"Even if the prince personally invites me, I should not be stingy."

"——Whoever goes out of the house as a private slave to help the prince repair the canal, will be given a sword, ten gold, and ten cloth!"

"In addition, the marquis of Jueguan, the rank of Qianshi and the subordinates, are all prepared in the Prime Minister's Mansion; In the future, Jiuqing has a vacancy, and he will be moved to the chief of a thousand stones first! ”

As soon as these words came out, the courtiers and officials in the palace all showed happy smiles, and got up to bow to Liu Bang.

"Ministers, thank you for your generous gift!"

After thanking the courtiers, more than half of the courtiers and officials who sat back in their seats still showed uncontrollable joy.

- One sword, ten gold, and ten cloth, all of which are still secondary!

For most of the courtiers whose rank is no more than a thousand stones, and there is no high lord by their side, what is really worth looking forward to is the sentence 'Jiuqing has a vacancy, so he will move to the chief of a thousand stones first'!

The chief of a thousand stones!

What do you mean?

- You must know that nowadays, even those Jiuqing deputies at the level of a thousand stones, or even two thousand stones, such as Shaofu Cheng, Fengchang Cheng, etc., are all young officials in the absolute sense, not long officials!

The thousand-stone-level chief officials refer to nothing more than Jiuqing's Yazhong, those who control one and one subordinate alone, and are directly responsible for Jiuqing above their heads!

And Jiuqing's thousand-stone chief official is almost equivalent to a candidate for Jiuqing on half a couch!

After a few years of governance, a few years of Kanto as a county guard, and then a little martial arts, and then back to the center, it is a sure Jiuqing!

Such an opportunity is undoubtedly extremely precious to these officials in the DPRK and Central China, whose rank is no more than a thousand stones, or even who have been in the position of a thousand stones for more than ten years, and it is very likely that they will not be able to touch the threshold of 2,000 stones in their lifetime!

- No matter how bad it is, the thousand stone chiefs under Jiuqing will also start with the county guard!

Even if you can't be a Jiuqing with 2,000 stones, being a 2,000 stone-level county guard is undoubtedly a very rich legacy for future generations.

Just when everyone in the hall was secretly happy because of the promise of 'keeping it for the chief of Jiuqing and a thousand stones', above the royal steps, above the face of Liu Bang, the son of heaven, there was a quiet emergence.

"Hmm~"

"The court's meritorious marquis and hundreds of officials have so many private slaves······"

As if to say something casually, Liu Bang raised his head and looked at the shocked faces in the hall with his sharp gaze.

Hearing Liu Bang's words, after a short period of shock, everyone in the hall couldn't help but lock their eyes on Liu Ying's harmless and even somewhat dazed face······

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