Above the main hall of the palace, Liu Hong was sitting on a gorgeous circle chair, yawning constantly, obviously not sleeping well.

At this time, the court meeting generally begins at the end of the night, that is, an hour before sunrise, which is April, which is about the sunrise in the middle of the day, and the court meeting in the middle of the night.

This is also the reason why Liu Hong is reluctant to participate in the court meeting, when the middle of the court meeting, he has to get up at the end of the ugly time, and it is when he is sleepy.

Fortunately, the convening of the court meeting is not like in film and television dramas, which is held once a day. Otherwise, even adults can't bear it, let alone a fourteen-year-old child.

The biggest feature of the Eastern Han Dynasty bureaucracy is: "Although the three princes are placed, the matter is returned to the Taiwan cabinet", and the weakening of the rights of the three princes has been replaced by it

The great strengthening of the rights of the "Shangshutai" and the Liucao institutions was later on

The prototype of the "three provinces and six ministries system". In the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the emphasis on scriptures, Taifu was the head of the courtiers.

The prince used this to instill his own political ideas in the prince. After the crown prince ascended the throne, he often used the prince to record the affairs of the book and deal with the daily affairs of the court and the central government, without the need for the Son of Heaven to intervene.

Until the death of Taifu, that is, to remove this official, in order to show respect. However, there are exceptions, and that is Taifu Hu Guang.

Originally, when Liu Hong ascended the throne, he appointed Chen Fan as the Taifu, but he didn't expect that Chen Fan was killed because of the failure of conspiring with the general Dou Wu to punish the eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven was still young and could not be taught by the Taifu, so Hu Guang took over the post of Taifu.

At this time, Hu Guang and the three dukes and Jiuqing were sitting on the ground in the main hall of the palace, discussing the content of the court meeting.

Because there is a Son of Heaven listening to the government today, the people who come to participate in the court meeting are all officials at the level of more than 2,000 stones. At this time, the officials were all sitting when they went to court, and if some ministers were older, they could even lie down and go to court.

Instead of being like in the Qing Dynasty in later generations, officials knelt down to the court, listened to the speech, and then got up and became groveling.

Those who are in power are like this, and you can imagine how much the people's spirit has been destroyed. At today's court meeting, Taiwei Wen Ren, Sikong Liu Huan and Situ Xu Xun quarreled the most, and the others also stood on their own positions and argued with others.

This is as noisy as a vegetable market, how can it have the majesty of the power center of the Han Dynasty.

I don't know how long it took, everyone stopped arguing and looked at Liu Hong, who was sleeping soundly. Taifu Hu Guang hurriedly sat up straight, coughed heavily, and said, "Cough!" Your Majesty, the princes have finished the discussion, and I ask Your Majesty to decide. After finishing speaking, he waited for a while and didn't see Liu Hong wake up, so he glanced at Dong Meng, the Huangmen Ling who was waiting on the side.

Dong Meng stepped forward and whispered in Liu Hong's ear: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty ,......" I don't know how many times he shouted, Liu Hong opened his eyes sleepily, and saw that the ministers below had stopped arguing, and couldn't help asking: "It's all negotiated?" Then let's retreat, just in time for me to go back and sleep for a while. Situ Xu Xun immediately said loudly: "Your Majesty, everything else has been discussed, and after being reviewed by Shangshutai later, it will be handed over to Your Majesty for review, but there are still two things that Your Majesty needs to decide." ”

"Oh, what's the matter, can't you handle it?" Liu Hong sat on the circle chair and yawned again. Situ Xu Xun shook his head and replied: "These two things involve the people of the world, and it is not easy for the princes to make a conclusion. "Liu Hong is interested,

"What are the two things that the princes can't decide, but I have to decide?"

"One is about Wu Yong's filial piety, and the other is about the question of Nanyang Taishou Chen Qiu's departure." Situ Xu Xun didn't talk nonsense, and immediately said it.

Liu Hong was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Nanyang guards Chen Qiu too much, I know it, the son-in-law of Cheng Huang, who is often servant!" Didn't he make a lot of achievements in Nanyang? I heard that hundreds of thousands of displaced people have also been relieved! What did he do? He had to be removed from his position as Nanyang Taishou. After a pause, he asked again, "And who is this Wu Yong?" For example, filial piety and honesty also alarmed the princes to discuss, and in the end, I have to make a decision from the Son of Heaven, how can he be virtuous? Hearing Liu Hong's question, Situ Xu Xun had to retell the ins and outs of the two things.

"This Wu Yong is the descendant of the 28th general Guangping Marquis of Yuntai, when he was two years old, his father died and his mother remarried, and he also became stupid because of the cold, and only his grandmother was the only one in the family who depended on him for ten years. Unexpectedly, not long ago, he suddenly got better due to a cold illness, and he told people everywhere that he had been stupid for ten years, which was caused by the fugue being too weak. Next, Situ Xu Xun told Wu Yong to teach the people to eat too much, as well as the new daily necessities invented.

After hearing this, Liu Hong couldn't help laughing: "It turns out that all those too empty foods are passed on by him, and now the food in the palace is all this." But no one ever mentioned him to me. Then he showed off again, pointed to the circle chair under him, and said with a smile: "Look at this nursing chair, I originally heard that it was invented by a filial son for his grandmother, but now that Da Situ said this, I understand that this nursing chair should also be invented by Wu Yong." Then he asked with some doubts: "Since he is so filial, and he doesn't care about gains and losses, he passes on the food to the people, such a noble character, just a filial piety, why is Zhu Qing still hesitant?" Situ Xu Xun smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, do you know how old he is this year?" Liu Hong was stunned for a moment, and said with some uncertainty: "Isn't it that you haven't reached the age of Guanli yet?" Situ Xu Xun shook his head, and then exclaimed: "Only twelve years old!" This is also the reason why the princes present have been slow to make a conclusion. It's really that Wu Yong's age is too young, and since the Han Dynasty, there have been no children who have shown filial piety. ”

"In fact, Nanyang Taishou Chen Qiu recommended it once, and at that time, all the princes vetoed it because of their young age. Later, there was a recommendation from Chen Wang Liu Cheng, and the princes discussed it for a long time at that time, but finally rejected it, worried that he would become famous at a young age, which would be unfavorable to him. Recently, several township elders jointly recommended it, and the princes had to pay attention to it, and they were worried that if it continued like this, the people thought that the court deliberately did not give Wu Yong a name, and there was an accident for no reason. After Situ Xu Xun finished speaking, he sighed again: "Seeing that this Wu Yong's influence is getting bigger and bigger, I have to wait for the third prince to ask His Majesty to make a decision." Then he thought of something and continued: "Perhaps Your Majesty does not know that this Wu Yong also invented a kind of farm fertilizer, which can more than double the yield of the field, and the officials of Hu Cao have confirmed the feasibility of this farm fertilizer. If it is popularized, over time, the grain production of our Han Dynasty will definitely increase greatly, for the people, there will be plenty of food and clothing, and for the imperial court, there will be more taxes to make the treasury abundant. After Liu Hong listened, he frowned and thought for a while,

"This Wu Yong really can't simply show filial piety, since he has such a talent, how do you think I summoned him to be the Son of Heaven to accompany him?" In fact, this is also Liu Hong's selfishness, since he entered the palace, he has always been alone, no playmates, every day is either reading the scriptures, or learning the way of the emperor, living a very unhappy life, now there is a character like Wu Yong, he wants to try, this Wu Yong can change his situation.

The three princes and nine ministers below glanced at each other, and then replied in unison: "Your Majesty Shengming, I am ashamed of myself!" Liu Hong smiled, he didn't take their praise seriously, although he was young, he also knew that there was a difference between monarchs and ministers, and courtiers should not easily believe the words of the king.

So he smiled and said: "Now that Wu Yong's matter has been solved, who Aiqing will tell me about Chen Qiu's matter?" In fact, Liu Hong still didn't want Chen Qiu to have an accident, after all, a lot of the Taixu food he had eaten before was handled by Chen Qiu, and then Huang paid tribute through the process.

Besides, this Nanyang County is the richest county today, and you must always find a trustworthy person to be the Taishou.

At this time, the Taiwei heard someone attack and said: "Your Majesty, let's let the old minister come to say, after all, the transfer of officials is the responsibility of my Taiwei Mansion." Then, he told some of Chen Qiu's deeds in Nanyang.

"Your Majesty doesn't know that Nanyang is too guarded by Chen Qiu, although he has the merit of rescuing the homeless, but his behavior has gone beyond the norm. According to the report of Cheng Guo Chi of Nanyang County, Chen Qiu used Nanyang's reserve grain privately during the rescue of the displaced people, resulting in the lack of timely food replenishment in Luoyang, and many Luoyang people and displaced people who came to ask for help starved for many days, almost causing a riot. Subsequently, I don't know if the Taiwei heard the attack on the intention to confuse the public, in the main hall of the palace, he said loudly: "Presumably Your Majesty also knew about the 'Bingyin obscure, the sun has eclipsed' incident last month, and after that, there were continuous rumors that the government seized food and did not provide relief to the displaced people, and the former Taiwei Guo Xi was also deposed because of this matter." In fact, although it is true that he heard the attack, he also has selfishness in it.

Not to mention that this Nanyang County is the richest county today, but it is just that because of the recent appearance of too empty food, merchants from all over the world have gathered in Nanyang Wancheng.

So many businessmen, casually collecting a little tax, will be on top of their three princes for a few years, who is not tempted.

But there is Chen Qiu in Nanyang County, and it will be difficult for outsiders to start, if he is transferred away and replaced by someone who he can control as the Taishou, it will not be money rolling in.

Of course, he is not alone. Therefore, the palace suddenly fell silent, and it seemed that all the ministers agreed with the view of Wen Ren's attack.

Of course, the transfer of a county Taishou still needs the nod of the Son of Heaven. Liu Hong frowned slightly, as if he didn't think of the current situation, his fingers inadvertently knocked a few times on the circle chair, and couldn't help asking: "In this case, let's remove Chen Qiu first, can Zhu Qing have the right person to recommend to be this Nanyang Taishou?" "The Son of Heaven has opened his mouth to dismiss Chen Qiu, this is okay, everyone is naturally a person who recommends your confidants.

Seeing that everyone was so hyped, at this time, Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, suddenly spoke: "Since Zhuqing is arguing, no one can convince anyone, so it is better for me to recommend Gai Sheng to be the Taishou of Nanyang." The ministers categorically did not expect that the Son of Heaven would propose such a proposal.

Although they have the heart to argue, they also know that in the face of such interests, no one can convince anyone. Since it's better to be cheap today, make a good impression.

So everyone said in unison: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”