Sitting silently in the imperial chariot, looking at the furnishings in the carriage, Liu Sheng's gaze never fell on his father Liu Qi on the other side.

Even with doubts about where to go and what to do, Liu Sheng didn't have the slightest intention of asking.

Liu Sheng was so calm, which made Liu Qi, the son of heaven, a little annoyed;

But Liu Qi was not in a hurry to speak, but slowly stretched out his hand, closed his eyes slightly, and let the old lady doctor kneeling beside him take his pulse.

"Hey!"

"Old guy, you still know the truth of 'acting a full set'······"

Secretly glanced at Liu Qi's tired face, and then looked at the old lady's grim expression, Liu Sheng secretly let out a belly slander, but provoked Liu Qi, the son of heaven, to open his eyes with a buzz!

The sharp gaze that looked straight at Liu Sheng seemed to have opened Liu Sheng inside and out in a moment······

"So sure that my illness is faked?"

asked leisurely, which can be regarded as affirming Liu Sheng's guess;

- Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, can read minds!

Disrupted by this sudden question, Liu Shengzi suddenly had some eyes dodging;

If he hadn't known that Liu Qi wouldn't believe it, Liu Sheng couldn't raise his head, pointed to the top of the capped carriage, and shouted: Look!

Flying saucer!

Seeing Liu Sheng's crampedness in his eyes, Liu Qi, the son of heaven, did not continue to press, but slowly turned his head sideways;

Waiting for the imperial doctor to withdraw his hand with a stern expression, Liu Qicai shook his head at the old imperial doctor, and motioned for the imperial doctor to retreat to the outside for the time being.

But what Liu Sheng expected was that the old lady did not follow the eyes of Liu Qi, the son of heaven, but did not follow it immediately.

"Your Majesty;"

"It's better to let Lao Chen stay by His Majesty's side, right?"

"If something happens, the minister is by His Majesty's side, so I can make amends······"

The worried words made Liu Sheng's face stagnant, and when he looked at Liu Qi, he gradually brought a little surprise!

saw Liu Qi smile bitterly and shook his head, and took a deep breath;

"I have something to say to Xiao Jiu;"

"Qing is waiting outside, and there is no way to go wrong."

Try to cheer up as much as possible, half-persuade and half-order the old lady doctor to drive out of the imperial chariot, and when only the father and son were left in the carriage, Liu Qicai, the son of heaven, finally sighed, changed his sitting to lying down, and lay down on his side.

Looking at the tiredness and weakness written on his father's face, Liu Sheng was shocked, but he couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

"Not pretended?"

"Wasn't it okay before······"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Sheng asked a question in his heart, the insightful gaze of Liu Qi, the son of heaven, fell on Liu Sheng's body again.

"Stomach problems;"

"Aged stomach problems."

"Back then, when my father was still acting king, he came out hungry in the acting king's palace."

"In the early years, I was still young and barely able to bear it."

"But in recent years······"

Saying with a little self-deprecation, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, so he simply stopped holding the shelf, straightened his body, and lay down directly in the carriage.

- As the Son of Heaven's Dharma, the biggest difference between the royal chariot and the ordinary carriage is that it is large enough except for the bright yellow roof and the oxtail on the left side of the scale;

It is so big that it takes eight horses in parallel to pull it.

At this moment, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, stretched out his body, lying flat on the north side of the carriage, staring at the bright yellow roof with his eyes scattered, and asked something casually.

"I've heard that someone is behind my back, saying bad things about me?"

"Hmm;"

"What do you say, I am ruthless and ruthless, regardless of human ethics, and often ······"

"—even, and mutilated a sibling brother of a mother's sibling?"

Pretending to be puzzled, Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, did not look at Liu Sheng, but laughed and muttered pointedly: "I don't know which bastard thing it is, but I dare to say that I am not ······"

"Just say it, don't you dare to say it to your face, you have to say it behind your back?"

Listening to the seemingly casual, but actually sneering of the Son of Heaven Liu Qi, and then recalling Fang Cai, the Son of Heaven Liu Qi's voice 'The most bastard one, consciously get in the car', Liu Sheng also knew it in his heart.

After thinking about it secretly, Liu Sheng simply stopped pretending to be dumb, and also learned Liu Qi's casual tone of chatter, and sighed to himself.

"The son thinks that his father has such an opinion, but it is really because he is too narrow-minded."

"Some time ago, Erchen heard such a sentence;"

"If people are not free to point out a person's mistakes, then the praise that person receives is meaningless."

"My father is willing to bear the praise of the people of the world for himself, and he should humbly accept these three or two accusations that appear 'occasionally', change them if they have them, and encourage them if they don't."

"Instead of being so narrow-minded as to hide in the imperial chariot, with guns and sticks, and his sons, he said bad things about the 'loyal ministers and righteous soldiers'······"

replied indifferently, Liu Sheng lowered his head and gently patted the clothes on his body, as if he wanted to dust off the non-existent dust.

On the opposite side of Liu Sheng, Liu Qi, the son of heaven, who was lying flat in the imperial chariot, quietly lost the smile on his face.

"Mrs. Jia, you gave birth to a smart son······

"This son, so smart that even if he sees through all my intentions, he will never pretend to be smart and never forget his identity······"

Liu Qiruo's words made Liu Sheng nod without humility.

"That's what my father said;"

"My brother is indeed the smartest of all the sons."

"On weekdays, my brother always taught me: never forget your identity, and you must put yourself in the position you should be."

"If it weren't for my brother's daily teachings, my son's ministers wouldn't have known how many troubles they would have caused over the years······"

Seeing Liu Sheng pretending to be stupid, Liu Qi, the son of heaven, couldn't help but turn his head slightly;

When he saw Liu Sheng's face, the vigilance and distrust that could not be clearly written on his head, Liu Qicai turned his head again, closed his eyes, and let out a long sigh leisurely······

"You're so afraid of me?"

"—the retainers don't dare."

"I won't eat you again······"

"—the retainer doesn't believe it;"

"No matter how vicious the tiger is, it still doesn't eat children?"

"——Which tiger dares to compare with his father?"

In just three or two sentences, the father and son both expressed their respective attitudes, and they both understood what kind of image they were in each other's hearts.

But what surprised Liu Sheng was that his straightforward words did not cause the dissatisfaction of Liu Qi, the son of heaven;

I saw the Son of Heaven take a deep breath, smile bitterly and shake his head, and let out a long lament.

"With this vigilance, it can be regarded as a bit of a ······"

sighed with embarrassment, and saw Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, turn sideways, leaving only Liu Sheng on the side, leaving an extremely lonely back.

"I'm tired;"

"Let's get some sleep first······"

"When you get to the place, wake me up again·········"

·

Shanglin Yuan;

Liu Qi rode the imperial chariot and came to Shanglin Garden.

Coming to this royal garden nearly 100 miles away from Chang'an, he woke up leisurely from a short snoring, looking at the endless wilderness outside the carriage, the complexion of Liu Qi, the son of heaven, was visibly better with the naked eye!

When the imperial chariot slowly docked outside a building complex, the face of Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, was almost invisible.

Under Liu Sheng's subconscious support, he got out of the car, waved his hand lightly, and motioned to the servant Liu She to pull the imperial chariot away, and Liu Qi, the son of heaven, walked towards the bare field outside the building complex.

It was the cold winter of the lunar month, and the endless fields were covered with ice and snow at the moment.

But in this slack season, among the bare fields, you can still see many figures, squatting between the fields, looking for something in the ice and snow.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Liu Qi, the son of heaven, couldn't help but bring a relaxed smile on his face;

Walking along the ridge for hundreds of steps, I came to an old tree, but I saw several old people sitting under the old tree, looking into the distance with a smile;

There, a child in a winter coat with mud and dust on his trouser legs, despite his cheeks flushed with cold, was picking up straw and hay in the field.

Several old men sat around under the old tree, crossed their hands into their sleeves, smirked, and talked about some short gossip from time to time.

Seeing Liu Qi appear, several old men did not panic, but got up very naturally, bowed to Liu Qi, and sat back under the root of the tree with a smile.

When Liu Qi sat down regardless of it, there were still heartfelt smiles on the faces of several old men.

"Your Majesty, but you haven't been here for some days?"

"yes?"

"Why don't I look at it, this complexion is not quite right?"

The words of concern like an old friend's greeting made Liu Qi, the son of heaven, smile even more, and he only waved his hand casually;

"Hi ······"

"I'm old~"

"It's not as good as when I was young, I didn't even watch the twists and turns for three days and three nights, and my face was not red and I didn't breathe;"

"Now, after three or two hours, you have to lie down and rest for a while."

"Sometimes, you have to squint a little bit······"

The tone was full of lightheartedness, Liu Qi didn't forget to laugh at himself and shook his head and smiled, as if what he said was someone else's business;

Hearing Liu Qi's words, those old farmers did not show similar sad and worried looks, only you said a word and I made fun of it.

"Many years ago, I persuaded Your Majesty~"

"-This woman, that's the knife that scrapes the bones~"

"Now that I'm old, I still have to know more moderation and take care of my body~"

is obviously a disrespectful ridicule, but it still failed to provoke the anger of Liu Qi, the son of heaven;

Seeing Liu Qi smile bitterly and shake his head, he clenched his fist and lightly smashed a punch on the shoulder side of the old farmer beside him.

"It's a good thing, but it's all for you He Lao Liu;"

"——Who told me back then that when I became the prince of the prince, I would give birth to a son early, and I would have to have a few more sons?"

"It's good now, I'm only in my early thirties, and I'm starting to persuade me to 'temperance.'"

"Could it be that those boys in the family were born after asking for help?"

Hearing Liu Qi's words, several old farmers immediately burst into laughter, and even the old farmer He Lao Liu, who was ridiculed, shook his head with a smile.

"We are uneducated, and we are not as eloquent as Your Majesty;"

"Isn't that?"

"-In three or two sentences, I have to say that those boys of my family are wild seeds!"

As soon as these words came out, several old farmers laughed again, it was Liu Qi, the son of heaven, who also smiled and leaned back together, and saw his teeth and eyes.

On the side ignored by a few people, looking at the impression that Liu Qi, the father who always had a straight face, was sitting under the roots of this old tree at the moment, chatting with several old farmers without taboos, Liu Sheng's face was only full of horror and dazed······

- This!

- This is the Son of Heaven?!!

Wrong!

This bad old man must be acting again!!

It must be these old farmers who have what Tianziqi wants!!

Thinking like this, Liu Sheng hurriedly raised his head again, only looked at it for a moment, but frowned again in confusion.

shabby shirts, patched trouser legs;

dark faces, calloused hands;

A simple smile, wrinkles all over the ravines······

This!!

"Huh?"

"It's ······"

Liu Sheng was thinking about it, and those old farmers finally noticed Liu Sheng, who was standing aside, with a look of horror on his face, looking up and down at him.

saw Liu Qi hear this, and waved at Liu Sheng nonchalantly;

When Liu Sheng stepped forward blankly, he pulled Liu Sheng by his side again, sat on the cold ridge with his butt, and then turned his head sideways again, looking at the old farmers with a smile.

"-Nine boys in my family, a single name called the word 'win';"

"I've been in the palace for a long time, and I know that I'm naughty all day long, and I can't be annoyed."

"No, come and see you old guys, just take this bastard boy with you, and go out of the palace by the way."

The brief introduction immediately attracted the attention of those old farmers to Liu Sheng's hurried face;

After looking up and down several times, he saw that He Lao Liu smiled and nodded.

"Look, this kid isn't bad at all;"

"When I was a child with Your Majesty, I was carved out of a mold."

He Laoliu's evaluation also provoked the rest of the old farmers to open the conversation, and you and I talked about Liu Shengpin.

"That's it."

"Look at the eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose;"

"If it weren't for Your Majesty to say it, I would have thought that I was dreaming of Your Majesty when I was a child!"

"-It's good to take a look outside the palace~"

"Lest you be taught stupid by the old masters in the palace, who know how to shake their heads all day long, and make a joke about 'meat eaters' one day."

Listening to a few old farmers, you and me, in front of my father, I judged my own taste, but Liu Sheng's face only quietly swelled with a touch of crampedness.

In his previous life, Liu Sheng was just an ordinary peasant child;

Every New Year's holiday, when he returns to his hometown, scenes like today will always appear on Liu Sheng.

In addition, when he was a child in his previous life, he spent almost a whole childhood by his grandfather in the countryside, which made these old farmers even more intimate in Liu Sheng's heart.

It's just that in addition to this intimacy, Liu Sheng still hasn't been able to recover from the horror brought to him by the 'other side' shown by Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven······

- This kind of Tianzi Qi really made Liu Sheng a little stunned······

Liu Sheng, some of them can't recognize the Son of Heaven······

"Eh, don't say it!"

"Those few in my family are still these bastard boys, and they can't make that 'meat eater despicable' joke!"

While thinking about it, the high-pitched voice of Liu Qi, the son of heaven, sounded, causing Liu Sheng to hurriedly turn his head sideways;

I saw that on weekdays, Liu Qi, who always does not forget the words 'Son of Heaven's prestige', is like an ordinary old farmer, full of proud smiles, saying something to those old men.

Seeing that the old farmers didn't believe it, Liu Qi was not annoyed;

After only thinking about it for a while, he turned sideways, his eyes skimmed to Liu Sheng at his side, but his finger pointed to the children chasing and playing in the fields.

"Tell me;"

"—what are those kids doing?"

As soon as he asked, Liu Sheng hurriedly raised his head, but saw that in the eyes of Liu Qi, the son of heaven, he couldn't wait to write the words 'I can't say it, I want you to look good'!

Seeing this, Liu Shengzi no longer had any doubts, and without looking at the children, he sat up straight and bowed his hand to Liu Qi and several old men.

"During the reign of Emperor Taizu Gao, the Han Law formulated by Xiao He, the Marquis of Yuwen, the prime minister, stipulated that in addition to the agricultural tax of 15 taxes and 120 yuan per household, peasant households should also pay the 'chú gǎo' tax;"

"I'm talking about crop straw and hay;"

"According to the regulations of the second year of the Empress Dowager Lu's decree, for every 100 acres of land, you need to pay three stones each for straw and hay."

"But the land in Shangjun and Daijun is barren, and you only need to pay two stones each for straw and hay."

"If you can't make up the straw and hay, or if you don't want to collect it, you can also directly pay the money that can buy straw and hay three stones each to the government at the market price, as the 'stalking' tax ······ that year."

Speaking indifferently, Liu Sheng finally turned sideways, stretched out his hand, and pointed at the children chasing and playing in the fields.

"So these children are collecting hay from the fields to pay the government taxes for their own homes."

Hearing Liu Sheng's words, the old farmers were surprised, and looked at Liu Sheng's gaze, and then brought a trace of subconscious closeness.

As for Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven, he didn't seem to have enough addiction to 'showing off how promising the children are', and without thinking, he looked into the distance, and the children who had played enough and began to bend down and pick up the hay again pointed to it.

"Tell me what this tax is used for."

"Also, why are these young children who collect hay, and not the strong men of the family?"

Hearing this question, Liu Sheng did not hesitate, and after a little deep speech, he spoke again;

"The straw and hay from the tax are used by the court to raise horses;"

"The horses raised are to be used to form cavalry and fight against the Huns."

"—As for why the hay collectors are children, it is because Emperor Taizu Gao once set a rule: if a scholar is not taught, he shall not be levied;"

"It means that soldiers who have not learned to fight and have not trained to fight fighters must not go to the battlefield."

"So every winter, all young people over the age of 14 and under the age of 17 will have a one-month winter training under the organization of the local county."

"Young people over the age of 17 and under the age of 30 will also take advantage of the winter slack to dredge the canals that irrigate the acres of fields and repair the roads."

"And now, it's winter."

"The young and strong have all gone to participate in winter training, and the adults have also gone to dredge the channels and repair the roads, leaving only the elderly, women and children at home."

"The old man is old and in poor health; Women have to take care of the family, and also cook for the elderly and children; ”

"Therefore, the only one who collects hay in the field can only be a child······

(End of chapter)