The Son of Heaven personally grasped a water conservancy project, which was reasonable and reasonable, and it should not happen.

But under Liu Ying's sentence 'Xiao Hequ is a gift from the Taishi', and the cold gaze of the Empress Dowager Lu Pheasant, no matter how unreasonable this matter is, it can only become extremely reasonable.

Prime Minister Xiao He was sick at home, and the quasi-Prime Minister Cao Shen was scolded and had nothing to say, so the construction of 'Xiao He Canal' was set in this way.

After the autumn harvest, the 'Xiao He Canal' project located north of Weishui will be officially started under the personal supervision of Liu Ying, the son of heaven.

For this result, although the courtiers and officials felt a little awkward, they were barely acceptable.

- After all, no matter what you say, it is impossible for Liu Ying to really go to the field to investigate, or inspect the progress of the project.

Therefore, nominally, although Xiao Hequ is the 'pro-master' of Liu Ying, the son of heaven, but the ministers and officials of the court can at least have a name; the specific construction operation still needs to be recruited by the Prime Minister and the internal history, and then the water craftsmen of the Shaofu will be specifically operated.

In this way, Xiao Hequ was repaired, and the hundred officials fell into the reputation of 'benefiting the people and benefiting the country', and the appeal of Liu Ying, the son of heaven, was also satisfied······

For this result, the courtiers and officials were satisfied, and they were a little geared up for the excavation and construction of Xiao Hequ.

But after the dispersal of the dynasty, the imperial historian Cao Shen had a calm face, and called Shaofu Yangchengyan to his carriage in a low-key manner, and euphemistically said, "I am willing to walk with you······

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"Chenshi, Yang Gong said that Xiao Hequ's matter is to me, but is it Your Majesty's intention?"

As soon as the 'carriage' pulled by four old oxen started from outside Changle Palace, Cao Shen could no longer hold back the doubts in his chest, and asked Yang Chengyan bluntly.

Frightened by this sudden question, Yang Chengyan only involuntarily adjusted his sitting posture, and only reminded Cao Shen with his eyes full of crampedness.

"Pingyang Hou's words, can he be a little suspicious of the holy will?"

"The so-called gentleman's heart is unpredictable, and it cannot be unpredictable······"

Saying this vaguely, Yang Chengyan lowered his head and put on a posture of 'I don't know anything, Cao Gong don't ask again'.

Seeing this, Cao Shen could be regarded as having the answer, and immediately sighed with sorrow, and his shoulders couldn't help but shrug down.

"If I knew this was the case, why should I be born ······"

But seeing that Yang Chengyan heard this, he only cautiously raised his eyelids and muttered in a low voice: "Yu Zao said that Cao Gong can't say it······"

"Why didn't Cao Gong listen to ······ persuasion?"

There were two inaudible complaints, but Yang Chengyan still seemed to be dissatisfied, and raised his head full of confusion and looked at Cao Shen's changing face.

Yang Chengyan couldn't understand how a shrewd person like Cao Shen could make such a low-level mistake at a delicate point in time when he was about to succeed to the throne and the Han family was suspicious!

Looking at the court, there are hundreds of meritorious princes and hundreds of courtiers, who can't see that Liu Ying's move is inviting people to buy people's hearts?

Who can't see Liu Ying's subtext, which is 'to do things for my Han family, and to be famous before and after my death'?

For such a straightforward political posture of the young and weak king, let alone a quasi-prime minister, even if he is a treacherous person who is really ill-intentioned and will rebel at any time, I am afraid that he will stand up and say: The minister must do things well and strive to get the great benefits bestowed by His Majesty······

As a result, Cao Shen was good, and stood up inexplicably, adding a crack to the already not close relationship between himself and Liu Yingjunchen, and offended the marquis who were bound to 'rest with the country'.

Even, if today's events reach the people, Cao Shen's reputation in the hearts of the people all over the world does not know what it will become!

- Qin and Han conventions: as long as you are willing to build canals, you must be a good person; Anyone who stops the construction of the canal will become a traitor!

That is, Cao Shen's succession as prime minister is imminent, and hundreds of officials in the court dare not chew their tongues;

If this is a change of people, just a moment of effort, the news that 'Dr. Yushi expressed resolute opposition to the construction of the canal' may be able to spread to Xinfeng, a hundred miles away!

"Strange ······"

Thinking like this, Yang Chengyan's gaze at Cao Shen became more and more weird.

At dusk yesterday, when Yang Chengyan was summoned into the palace by Liu Ying, and inexplicably said, 'Tell Mrs. Cao about repairing the canal', Yang Chengyan was still puzzled;

Before entering the palace in the morning, according to Liu Ying's instructions, when he vaguely told Cao Shen that 'you can't meddle in this matter', Yang Chengyan didn't care.

In Yang Chengyan's opinion, not to mention the important ministers of the countries of Cao Shen's level, they are the miscellaneous servants of ordinary county roads, and they can see through the twists and turns at a glance;

But when Cao Shen ignored his own 'dissuasion' and really took Liu Ying's sentence 'the princes still have objections' as the truth, and immediately stood up at the court meeting, Yang Chengyan was completely confused.

At that moment, there were only two sentences in Yang Chengyan's mind.

- No wonder Your Majesty asked me to breathe Cao Shen!

- What is Cao Shen's serious illness?!

As for this moment, when Cao Shen was called to the car to go home together, Yang Chengyan only had one doubt left in his heart.

- Cao Shen, why did you react so much to the matter of repairing the canal?

But it's a pity that Cao Shen will never be able to give an answer to Yangchengyan's doubt.

What can Cao Shen say?

Saying, 'Although the treasury has some money, it still has to save some money' is this kind of that the hell doesn't believe it?

Or tell Yang Chengyan: I originally wanted to keep the matter of repairing the canal by myself, so as to stabilize the phase?

Or is it the vague general Cao Shen himself, who no longer believes in the sentence "As long as you don't do anything, the world will get better and better" Huang Laoxue's famous words, told Yang Chengyan, a former dynasty warmaker?

Obviously, neither.

Especially after Cao Shen witnessed the Shaofu official grain and rice, Liu Ying's repair of Zheng Guoqu, and Liu Ying's personal expedition to counterinsurgency, and the former emperor Liu Bang's whole life in the rebellion, which proved that 'it is better to rule by doing', and wavered from the concept of 'rule by inaction', Cao Shen himself couldn't explain why he had such a big resistance to 'Xiao Hequ'.

But if one day, Cao Shen has the opportunity to ask Liu Ying, then he will inevitably get the most reasonable and true answer to this question from Liu Ying's mouth.

——Now that the current Prime Minister Xiao He is sick and is about to die, and the next Prime Minister Cao Shen has not yet officially succeeded him, the battle between Liu Ying and Cao Shen over 'monarchy and power' has quietly kicked off without the parties Cao Shen realizing it······

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When Cao Shen's oxcart returned to Shangguanli and left Yangchengyan inside and outside Shangguan, in Changle Palace, which was only one street away from Shangguanli, there was peace and tranquility between the Queen Mother Lu Pheasant and the Son of Heaven Liu Ying's mother and son.

Especially when talking about Cao Shen, the face of the Queen Mother Lu Pheasant couldn't help but burst into a joking smile.

"Today's court discussion, Wu'er is a big 'dismount' with Pingyang Hou?"

"I expected it, seeing the embarrassment of the Marquis of Pingyang, I, but I can't bear it······"

Although he said this, Lu Pheasant's gaze at Liu Ying was still almost overflowing with appreciation and recognition.

- Cao Shen may not have reacted to this situation now, but as Liu Han and even one of the top politicians in Chinese history, Lu Pheasant can see the current situation very clearly.

To be precise, Cao Shen, the quasi-prime minister who is about to take over from Xiao He, is the last test left by Lu Pheasant to Liu Ying.

As long as Liu Ying can give a full score in this test, or even just an answer sheet close to a full score, instead of crying like Liu Ying did in his previous life, with the sentence 'The prime minister said that he will rule the Son of Heaven', let alone wait for next year, Liu Ying will be seventeen years old, even if Liu Ying wants to immediately crown the pro-government on the spot, Lu Pheasant will never say anything!

As for the reason, it's not that Lu Pheasant has any quirks, or something like 'I have to see my son and his courtiers fight wits and courage';

But Lu Pheasant clearly understands: for every young king, the prime minister who is "highly respected", "famous all over the world", and even "entrusted by the emperor" is a test that must be faced and will be faced sooner or later.

The balance between the power of the monarch and the power of the prime minister is based on the premise that the prime minister is "famous all over the world and admired by the courtiers and hundreds of officials", and the son of heaven is "loyal to the people under his rule".

Both sides each have chips of similar weight in order to maintain the impartiality of the balance called 'Sheji', and the two monarchs and ministers are hostile and cooperative, and at the same time 'fight but not break'.

However, for the young emperor, it is obviously too early to say that 'Ze and birds and beasts' are followed, and 'to be followed by the people of the world' is even more impossible to talk about.

Therefore, in the past, and even in the future, whenever the king is weak and the general trend of the court will inevitably develop in the direction of the old minister in power and the son of heaven is weak;

Once the Son of Heaven is like this, it will not hurt, but if it is like this for several generations, then even the foundation of the country and society will be shaken.

Therefore, as the only insurance in the process of her husband Liu Bang and son Liu Ying handing over power, Lu Pheasant must guarantee: when Liu Ying wears that Fang and his family around her waist and sits alone on the imperial couch in the Changxin Palace, the balance between Liu Ying and Cao Shen, or a certain prime minister later, must be in a state of balance!

If it can't be guaranteed, then Lu Pheasant would rather stand at the end of the balance with the word 'monarchy' written on it, or even directly slap the balance overturned, and never allow his son Liu Ying's throne and the society set up by her husband Liu Bang to be suspended in the air by a courtier with a foreign surname!

But what made Lu Pheasant feel more and more at ease was that this had not officially stood on the scales, and his baby son Liu Ying had already begun to look for chips for himself to 'weigh the scales' in the future······

"I don't insist on doing this······"

"Yesterday, my son has entrusted Shaofu with this matter, and it is clear that Mrs. Cao knows about it."

Liu Ying's half-hearted, half-smug self-defense finally pulled Lu Pheasant's scattered thoughts back to his eyes.

looked at Liu Ying with love, and Lu Pheasant's smile suddenly brought a touch of ridicule.

"Huh······"

"Please, Shaofu, make it clear ······"

Full of joking to say this number, Lu Pheasant was overjoyed, and even patted Liu Ying on the forehead!

"Emperor Wu'er, will he really 'entrust' Shaofu?"

"You Shaofu came from a despicable background, and there was no high lord; What Shaofu said, can Pingyang Hou listen to it? ”

"Moreover, according to the temperament of Pingyang Hou, even if the Shaofu used to talk about it, Pingyang Hou also heard about it, and because of this, his mind changed?"

Seeing that all her calculations were seen thoroughly by the old lady inside and out, Liu Ying only lowered her head weakly, and muttered unwillingly: "The ministers of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China are hundreds of officials, and they are only slightly familiar with Shaofu······"

"Except for Shaofu, I really don't know who else can take on this heavy responsibility······"

Regarding Liu Ying's defense, Lu Pheasant didn't believe a word.

But it was precisely because of this that Lu Pheasant's gaze at Liu Ying took on a strange brilliance.

——Liu Ying, the young son of heaven, in order not to conflict with Cao Shen, who is about to become prime minister, sent Yang Chengyan, the young mansion with the best relationship with him, to communicate with Cao Shen in advance?

To say this, without some ulterior motives from Liu Ying, Lu Pheasant would be the first to disbelieve it!

But then again, at least on the surface, that's exactly what happened!

It's also very convincing!

Compared with 'the young son of heaven is precocious like a fox, all this is a bureau for Cao Shenbu', people in the world are obviously more willing to believe: Liu Ying really doesn't want to conflict with Cao Shen;

It's just that Cao Shen doesn't know what to do, so he has to be a stubborn cow!

Even the courtiers, officials, and princes who can see through this matter must be more willing to convince themselves, so as to believe in the latter explanation.

And this is what makes Lu Pheasant's eyes shine and he feels extremely satisfied······

"Collect the people's hearts and prestige through the 'Yuqu', establish authority and blessing in the court, and in addition to soothing the meritorious marquis of the Yuan, he also secretly admonished the Marquis of Pingyang to control the ······ of the Prime Minister's Mansion"

"That's it, I don't forget to whitewash the peace, and say that the people of the world: this is not my original intention, but it is actually the insistence of Pingyang Hou?"

Saying this meaningfully, Lu Pheasant chuckled and looked at the depths of Liu Ying's gaze.

"But when he was about to die, he summoned my son to the tenth month of Changle, and Emperor Taizu Gao taught me?"

Hearing this, Liu Ying only smiled shyly, and sat next to Lu Pheasant with a slightly stiff face.

"Hmm~ Yuqu?"

"The wisdom of the queen mother, the fruit is far better than the child!"

"Compared with 'Xiao He Qu', the Yu Canal is indeed more pleasant to the ear······"

Seeing that Liu Ying answered the question, pretending to be stupid and stunned, the appreciation in Lu Pheasant's eyes finally gradually tended to the extreme.

"Not bad······"

"Not bad·········

He smiled and nodded to Liu Ying with deep meaning, and Lu Pheasant finally turned around with a light smile, looking out of the hall with satisfaction.

"If you are still alive, see my son's majestic posture today······"

"Huh······"

"The ······ of the Weak and the Weak"

Thinking like this, Lu Pheasant only smiled and shook his head, and got up from the imperial couch.

smiled at Liu Ying again, patted Liu Ying's head lightly, and Lu Pheasant turned around without saying a word and walked in the direction of the apse.

At this moment, there was only one sentence in Lu Pheasant's mind.

- The Lord of the Weak?!

Joke!!!

Big joke!!!!!

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