The capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty is set in Luoyang, which is really not close to Jiaodong, and it is necessary to enter the Sili School Captain Department through Qingzhou and Yanzhou along the road, and can only be reached by crossing Hanoi County.

And in view of the fact that rebellions are not uncommon in various places nowadays, in order to avoid trouble, Yuan Pei first took Li Hao north to Gaotang County, Pingyuan County, and then marched along the Yellow River.

The places along the way are all in the hinterland of the Central Plains, which are the first places to be recovered, and there are many important trading towns, so it will be relatively peaceful.

The caravan that set off in advance also took this road, and according to the footsteps, Li Hao and the others should catch up in Yangping County, Yanzhou East County.

In the process of the road, Yuan Pei talked to Li Hao about various interpersonal relationships in the capital by the way, and how to deal with who he encountered.

First of all, I talked about the nobles in the palace, there is a queen and two concubines in the saint today, among which the queen Xuan has a son and a daughter, who are the eldest prince, that is, the current prince, and the fifth princess; Concubine Yue has one son and two daughters, namely the third prince, the second princess, and the third princess; In addition, there is a Xu Meiren who has a son, who is the fifth prince.

This situation is the same as the show in the TV series, the second prince, the fourth prince, the eldest princess, the fourth princess, and a few younger ones are all gone.

In fact, Li Hao had doubts when he watched the TV series at that time, and it was no problem to say that he didn't want to perform these people in the middle.

After all, there are many people, and the director is tired of directing the play, so it is understandable to reduce the number of people in order to be lazy.

But it is said that since you have reduced the number of people, you can directly get the crown prince, the second prince, and the third prince, why do you still keep the title of the third prince and the fifth prince.

I can't ask when I watch TV, but at this time, I mentioned it in the face of Yuan Pei and Li Hao, after all, this is the real world, and there must be an explanation.

So I only heard Yuan Pei say: "Because these people all died after they were born, but Your Majesty didn't want them to be drowned, worried that no one would remember them in the future."

Therefore, the children born after that are still in order, so that they can remember these brothers and sisters. ”

Li Hao couldn't help but muttered in his heart: "Sure enough, the best way to fill the pit is to bring it to death, so it is indeed reasonable, but those few people are just miserable." ”

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Seeing that Li Hao's eyes were a little sluggish, Yuan Pei said: "Okay, you have to remember what I tell you next, it is estimated that His Majesty will summon you to the palace to answer when the time comes, and you can only deal with it if you understand the situation." ”

After hearing this, Li Hao put away his thoughts and replied: "Father, please say that my son has already taken it to heart." ”

Yuan Pei saw that Li Hao came back to his senses, so he continued: "On the emperor's side, Your Majesty is kind and generous, and Empress Xuan is still too good in this regard, plus you have the merit of dedicating Quyuan plough this time, as long as you are humble and courteous when you meet, you don't need to be too nervous."

In addition, Xu Meiren doesn't need to care, because she is not favored, so whether it is in the harem or in the court, there is no foundation.

Only Concubine Yue's side, if you encounter it, you must be cautious, not that she will deliberately embarrass you, but it is relatively not so easy to get along with, and you don't have to take it to heart.

As for the rest of the princes and princesses, if you see them, just treat them politely, and you don't have to worry about being made difficult. ”

Li Hao naturally knows Concubine Yue's temper, just looking at the few times she appeared in the early stage, all of them scared people out of temper.

When Li Hao first watched the drama here, he felt refreshed, and felt that Concubine Yue was his official mouthpiece.

Of course, when it comes to facing it himself, Li Hao will also be more careful, after all, even if he knows that Concubine Yue has no bad intentions, if she is really scared, it will not affect her mood.

Seeing that Li Hao had no problem, Yuan Pei only thought that Li Hao understood, and then skipped this and told Li Hao about the situation of the courtiers.

"Nowadays, the courtiers can be roughly divided into two categories, because His Majesty grew up in Jingli County, so the courtiers can be divided into those who are originally from Jingli County and those who are not from Jingli County.

If you subdivide it further, because Your Majesty's hometown is Feng County in Jingyan County, and Concubine Yue's original hometown is Rao County next door to Feng County, so when Your Majesty first raised troops, these two counties contributed the most people and followed the longest, and they were also called "Rich Heroes" because of these two counties. ”

Then Yuan Pei picked a few more people as examples, such as Marquis Yu, Marquis Yue, and Marquis Cui, which belonged to the "Heroes of Abundance"; For example, Yin Zhi, who is currently Zuoqing of Dahonglu Temple, belongs to the "Jinglang Ministers" who are "non-rich heroes"; The rest of the Yuan family, the Liang family, the Lou family, and the Wan family, although they defected to each other, their contributions, and their strengths and weaknesses, they did not belong to the above two groups.

In the end, Yuan Pei mentioned another special group of courtiers, that is, the Qian'an royal family and the Xuan family.

"At the beginning, Your Majesty and Concubine Yue were childhood sweethearts, and Your Majesty did marry Concubine Yue as his wife at first.

It was only later that in order to pacify the world as soon as possible, it was necessary to use the soldiers and horses of the old Qian'an king, so he had to marry the daughter of the old Qian'an king's sister, Xuan, as his wife, and made Concubine Yue degrade herself to a concubine.

However, after Empress Xuan married His Majesty, he was indeed dedicated to His Majesty, and sat in the rear when His Majesty was fighting in all directions, stabilized the situation on all sides, and gave birth to children before Concubine Yue.

At that time, the world was undecided, and His Majesty decided the position of the crown prince early in order to maintain stability and appease people's hearts.

At that time, because Concubine Yue had not yet given birth, all factions in the court naturally had no objections, but now Concubine Yue also has a son under her knees, and the situation has naturally changed slightly.

For the ministers of Jinghua, especially the rich heroes, Concubine Yue is their own person, and emotionally they naturally hope that the son of Concubine Yue will ascend to the throne in the future.

On the contrary, the Qian'an royal family and the Xuan family naturally support their own family, but the old Qian'an king died early to save the lonely city, which caused the Qian'an royal family to suffer a big blow, and now it is difficult to fight against the Jinghua ministers. ”

These words really inspired Li Hao, when he was watching the TV series, Li Hao found that this prince was quite pitiful.

There were Lou Taifu and Wang Chun around him, and in the end, they were driven away by Ling Budo.

It is said that if a prince is allowed by the emperor to participate in politics, then there will naturally be courtiers who will take refuge.

Although Lou Taifu is a person with a lack of character, he is not stupid, and under the watchful eye of the three princes, he will not turn away all the courtiers who have taken refuge in the prince.

So at this point, it is very likely that the ministers of Jinghua are secretly resisting, and then those ministers who are not ministers of Jinghua do not want to offend these people, so this embarrassing scene is formed.

When I thought of it, I asked, anyway, for Yuan Pei's father, Li Hao can't say anything except his identity that he has crossed, and there is nothing else to hide.

"What is my father's position here, do you want to help Empress Xuan's side, or do you want to help Concubine Yue's side?"

Yuan Pei's face turned straight when he heard this, and his tone became quite serious, and he said: "Ang'er, it is not easy for our family to inherit it for a hundred years.

Therefore, in such a major matter, it is necessary to be extremely cautious, if you are not 100% sure that you are willing not to get involved, you must understand the truth of doing more and making more mistakes.

After all, my Yuan family has accumulated for several generations, in order to be able to deal with it safely, and there is no need to do things in the fire, and your cousin also agrees with this. ”

Hearing this, Li Hao was roughly sure that his guess was right, and sure enough, a group of people were hiding on the side and not helping each other.

Of course, in the face of Yuan Pei, Li Hao naturally pretended to be glad to be taught, saying that he completely understood.

Having said that, this is almost the case, Yuan Pei himself doesn't want to instill too many utilitarian things into Li Hao now, and explaining these is just to let Li Hao have a general understanding of the situation in the capital, so as not to make mistakes unintentionally without knowing the details.

On the road after that, Yuan Pei told Li Hao about the customs and folk customs of various places, after all, Yuan Pei had been a ranger for a period of time and had traveled in the north and south of the river.

With a sense of truth and good eloquence, Li Hao listened very energetically, and only felt that he was a gold medal tour guide in modern times.

Just walked all the way, looked all the way, and it took more than a month for Li Hao and his party to finally arrive in the capital.

To be honest, when he saw this capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Li Hao really had a shocking feeling.

It's not that this city wall is tall and magnificent, on the contrary, compared to the city wall of Bianjing, the city wall here is inferior in height and thickness.

After all, the times are a thousand years apart, and the construction technology of the Song Dynasty has been greatly improved compared with the Han Dynasty.

It's just that this kind of ancient and rough charm of respecting nature, conforming to nature, and integrating nature and man is really eye-catching.

Originally, when he stayed in Jiaodong, Li Hao had also been to various state cities, but none of them could reach the level of Luoyang, and it seemed that there were still many masters in the capital.

After entering the city, I didn't go far to Jinyangfang, there is an ancient house that has been built for several generations, and more than ten giant trees arranged by the number of stars have already grown into towering ancient trees, and the strong branches covering the sky cover a part of the dazzling sunlight, and the whole mansion is enveloped in a group, vast and deep.

Stepping into it is like opening an old book, the courtyard is sparse, the mountains are towering, dozens of tall and tall giant trees stand upright, and the sunlight is dotted on the ground through thick leaf points, and everywhere exudes a comforting sense of oldness.

This mansion is more than 100 years ago, the ancestors of the Yuan family were ordered by the emperor at that time to come to this capital to serve as officials, one term is decades, so they took over their wives and children, and slowly expanded the small courtyard into today's huge scale.

It's just that later Emperor Lu rebelled, and the old and young of the Yuan family in this city were killed together, and then Yuan Pei returned to Jiaodong to take charge, and no one from the Yuan family set foot here.

It wasn't until Emperor Wen re-established the capital here that Yuan Pei brought people over to recover the old mansion and arranged for slaves and maids and subordinates to stay behind to take care of it.

To tell the truth, among the powerful people under the command of Emperor Wen, this old mansion of the Yuan family is also a unique existence, after all, other powerful families either bought a separate mansion, or the emperor gave the mansion of the original rebel minister.

No matter what the situation, it always needs to be renovated slightly, and only the Yuan family's mansion is still original, so there is a kind of quaint heritage that is incomparable to other families.

Anyway, Li Hao was very happy to look at, which was very in line with Li Hao's aesthetics.

After that, Yuan Pei was going to be busy with the gift, and he also needed to contact the old friends in the capital, so he didn't have time to deal with Li Hao for the time being, so he simply arranged a few subordinates and servants who were familiar with the capital to follow, and let Li Hao find a place to play by himself.

Whether you are staying in the house or visiting the capital, the only requirement is that you must come back every night to rest.

Since Yuan Pei said this, Li Hao naturally wanted to go out for a walk, after all, it is estimated that this mansion may not be able to change in a few decades, and he will have time to see it in the future.

It's better to walk around the capital and see if you can meet people or things that interest you.

In fact, the first thing Li Hao wanted to see was Wan Songbai, after all, according to what was said inside, the Cheng family's house was next to Wanjia.

Of course, this point was not mentioned on TV, so Li Hao is not sure now.

It's just that this excuse is not easy to find, after all, I have met Wan Songbai once, if I face Wan Songbai directly, it would be better to say a little, but I am afraid that it will not be easy to get the shrewd and abnormal Mrs. Wan Lao.

In the end, Li Hao still decided to give up, anyway, even if he boarded the door of the Cheng family now, there was no reason to take care of the Cheng family's family affairs.

It's better to secretly inquire about the situation of the Cheng family, since Cheng Shi is suppressing bandits in Xuzhou, as long as Li Hao wants to encounter it, it will be easy.

At that time, I casually mentioned to him the gossip he heard in the capital, so that he knew the current situation of his daughter, and he should have made a move himself.

And as long as he really spreads the news in the capital before leaving, even if Cheng Shi's shrewd wife really has doubts, he will send someone to the capital to verify, and the news he gets will be the same.

Now that things are arranged, Li Hao is really just a casual game next, and he turns the capital around the front and back.

In the next few days, Yuan Pei arranged things properly, and said to Li Hao: "Quyuan plough has been dedicated to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty has tried it personally, and this thing is indeed miraculous for farming.

So I ordered you and me, father and son, to go to the palace tomorrow to see the driver, don't be nervous when you arrive, you will answer whatever Your Majesty asks you, you know? ”

Li Hao replied: "Father rest assured, son understands." ”

Li Hao thought to himself, what can I be nervous about, it's not that I haven't seen the emperor, I used to see it every day, and I was used to it.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li Hao dressed up and went to the imperial city with Yuan Pei.

This time, Li Hao really felt Emperor Wen's partiality, and Li Hao didn't say anything else.

Why did when Cheng Shi's family entered the palace for the first time, Emperor Wen let them take the car directly to the front of the palace, and he needed to get off outside the palace gate and go on foot.

If you want to say that your own identity is higher than that of the Cheng family, it is more than a step higher, and in terms of merit, Yuan Pei is also stronger than Cheng Shi.

As a result, people gave preferential treatment because Ling Budo liked Cheng Shaoshang, which was really .......

Holding this stomach full of complaints, Li Hao and Yuan Pei walked together for more than half an hour, and finally arrived at the Xuanming Hall and saw Emperor Wen.

There were not many people present this time, neither Empress Xuan nor Concubine Yue were there, and there were no courtiers, only the crown prince and the third prince accompanied Emperor Wen.