"Appalling ······"

"Appalling ·········"

Almost at the same time, Changle Palace, Changxin Palace.

Sitting upright on the imperial couch, squinting her eyes, trying to read the words on the briefing in her hand, Empress Dowager Dou's expression was also deeply shocked.

When the Empress Dowager Dou put the briefing back on the case in front of her and looked up at the Son of Heaven in front of her again, the Empress Dowager Dou's sloppy eyes couldn't help but be full of solemnity.

"It's unbelievable that the King of Chu can do such a thing that people and gods are angry about;"

"Whether it was Liu Jiao, the king of Chu Yuan when Emperor Taizu Gao, or Liu Yingke, the king of Chu Yi when Emperor Taizong was the first emperor, they were all loyal old men who made everyone in the world compete to praise each other."

"The good reputation of King Chu Yuan's family is also all over the land of Wu and Chu, and there has never been the slightest stain."

"How did you expect that now, in the generation of Liu Wu, the king of Chu, such a horrific scandal has occurred·········"

Hearing that the Empress Dowager Dou was full of embarrassment and a little frightened exclamation, Tianzi Qi, who was sitting next to the Empress Dowager Dou, only nodded slowly with a calm face, and then let out a long sigh leisurely.

Speaking of Liu Wu, the king of Chu, we have to mention what kind of composition the Liu clan was when Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang, the royal family of the Liu clan.

- The late Emperor Liu Taigong Liu Xuan, who had four sons, namely the eldest son Liu Bo, the second son Liu Xi, the third son Liu Ji, and the fourth son Liu Jiao.

Among them, Liu Ji, the third elde, is what later generations often call Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty: Liu Bang.

Among the four sons of Taigong Liu Xuan, Liu Bang, who was the most promising, naturally established Liu Han Guozuo with his own hands and became the ancestor of Liu Han Sheji.

And Liu Bang's other three brothers have also left their own legends in history······

Uncle Liu, the boss;

As the eldest brother of Liu Bang, the Taizu of the Han Dynasty, when he was alive, he loved Liu Bang, the 'unproductive' younger brother, in every way.

Even on weekdays, Liu Bang is always idle, fooling around with a group of fox friends and dog friends all day long, Liu Bo has never been dissatisfied with this;

only always remembers his duty of 'eldest brother is like father', and he can be said to be responsive to his younger brother Liu Bang.

- Liu Bang wants to spend money, and Uncle Liu will take out a part of the family's expenses and give it to his younger brother Liu Bang;

- Liu Bang got into trouble, and it was Uncle Liu who went to ask someone, find a relationship, and help his younger brother Liu Bang wipe his buttocks.

Even when Liu Bang bragged outside, saying that he would bring a group of friends to his house for dinner, Uncle Liu never complained;

Instead, Liu Bang took such a group of fox friends home, and personally entertained these 'fox friends and dog friends' who made great contributions to Liu Bang's saddle and the Han family in the future.

was so busy until middle age, and Uncle Liu, a farmer, finally died in the last year of Qin Shi Huang;

After Uncle Liu passed away, Uncle Liu's wife, that is, the brother and sister-in-law of Liu Bang, the Taizu of the Han Dynasty, became more and more disgusted with this unproductive little uncle.

Because he was dissatisfied with Liu Bang always bringing some 'indiscriminate' people home for dinner, Uncle Liu's wife began to be bad;

Whenever Liu Bang brought someone to his home for dinner, he would use a shovel to cut the bottom of the pot vigorously, making a 'squeak' friction sound to indicate that there was no food at home and Liu Bang's guests could not be entertained.

But when Liu Bang came to the kitchen suspiciously, he could always see that the kitchen axe was full of a whole pot of meat soup.

This happened several times in succession, and Liu Bang naturally understood his sister-in-law's intentions, so he no longer took his friends to his eldest brother's house, so as not to be bored.

It's just this 'hatred', but it was remembered by the cautious Liu Bang.

Later, Liu Bang, the former gangster, became Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, enriching the Liu family, which can be described as a chicken dog ascending to heaven.

Don't say it's surnamed Liu;

All those who have been related to Fengpei for three generations have since become 'the emperor's neighbor and the township party of the Son of Heaven'.

As for the two counties of Feng and Pei, they were waved by Liu Bang: never tax!

Outsiders are still like this, those relatives surnamed Liu, Liu Bangzi is also not left behind, and those who can be crowned kings will be crowned kings;

is the eldest brother Liu Bo, who has long since died, and Liu Bang did not forget to posthumously call him the 'King of Wu Ai' to express his respect and thoughts for this deceased brother.

But only for the family of the eldest brother Uncle Liu, that is, the sister-in-law who used to scrape the bottom of the pot with a soup spoon, and the only seedling of the eldest brother Uncle Liu's family, Liu Bang has not sealed it for a long time.

For this situation, the sister-in-law naturally knew what to do, and she didn't dare to go to Liu Bang, so she could only secretly instigate her son Liu Xin to intercede with the Emperor Liu Xuan.

was begged by his grandson like this, and considering that his eldest son died early, and his grandson Liu Xin was the only seedling of his eldest son, Mrs. Liu couldn't bear it;

summoned the emperor's son Liu Bang, and gently persuaded him: Let him pass the past;

You have become an emperor, you should have at least the amount of tolerance······

When your eldest brother was there, he treated you well, but now that your eldest brother is gone, he will leave such a pair of orphans and widows;

And you are now prominent;

If you don't repay the kindness of your deceased brother, what will the people of the world think of you, the emperor?

was persuaded by his father like this, Liu Bang also let go of the mustard in his heart a little, but he still couldn't forgive the past when he took his friends home, but his sister-in-law scraped the bottom of the pot in front of outsiders;

On the one hand, there is the awkwardness in my heart, on the other hand, there is my father's persuasion, and the rhetoric of 'the Son of Heaven must be tolerant';

Under the combination of various factors, Liu Bang could only grit his teeth in the end and named the only bloodline heir of his eldest brother Uncle Liu as the marquis.

It's just that even when it came to the time of the marquis, Liu Bang still didn't forget to disgust the mother and son who had a hard life;

- Liu Xin, the only son of Liu Bo, the king of Wuai, was named the Marquis of Tangjie by Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang.

What do you mean?

Soup, meat soup;

颉者,通戛,音也,;

The so-called soup is to scrape the sound of ', slam' at the bottom of the pot containing the meat soup.

In other words: Liu Bang named his eldest brother's son Liu Xin as 'scraping the bottom of the pot'······

The eldest brother's family is like this, and the second brother Liu Xi's family did not let Liu Bang worry at all.

When Liu Bang was slightly cold, the prince Liu Xuan used his second brother Liu Xi as a case to educate Liu Bang.

Taigong said to Liu Bang: Look at your second brother!

Farming in a down-to-earth manner, being a man in his duty, does not let me worry about him at all;

Look at you again?

——Being idle all day long, not doing anything to produce, is not as diligent as your second brother!

As a result, just a few years after these words were shouted, Liu Ji turned into Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Recalling his father's teachings, Liu Bang is inevitably a little complacent;

pointed to his second brother Liu Xi at the family banquet and said to his father Liu Xuan: In the past, my father always said that I was not as good as my second brother;

Judging from the current situation, who is more promising, me or my second brother?

Is it the second brother who helped his father and planted those dozens of acres of land?

Or was it me who established Liu Hansheji alone?

No matter how you say it, Liu Xuan, the prince at that time, was the emperor of the dynasty;

The emperor's son is stinky, and Liu Xuan naturally can't hang up on his face······

- I ate two more bowls of rice that night!

As for Liu Bang, although he talks about his second brother's angry father Liu Xuan, he is not stingy with his second brother Liu Xi;

The shot is a prince who is a 'acting king', and let Liu Xi go to defend the country against foreign enemies.

As a result, Liu Bang had just named his second brother Liu Xi as the acting king on the front foot, and Han Wangxin on the back foot, and surrendered to the Xiongnu in Mayi, which was in the north of the dynasty;

Hearing the news of Han Wangxin's surrender to the Huns, Liu Bang slapped his chest confidently: It's okay!

- Dai Guo, and my second brother Liu Xi!

Unexpectedly, as soon as Liu Bang said this, news came from the side wall: When the Huns had not yet called, Liu Xi, the acting king who was supposed to stop the defense, dragged his family to Luoyang to ······

The Hun cavalry chased after them, but they didn't even catch up with Liu Xi's shadow or see the dust raised by Liu Xi's carriage······

Upon learning of this, Liu Bang was furious, and because of the critical situation of the war, he could only lead the army from Chang'an to conquer in person;

When passing through Luoyang along the way, Liu Bang did not forget to scold his second brother Liu Xi, and forcibly saved the life of his second brother Liu Xi, abolished Liu Xi's prince, and demoted him to the Marquis of Heyang.

——The king of a country, encountered an invasion by a foreign enemy, not only did he not fight, but abandoned the country and fled!

If it weren't for the 'surname Liu' on the top of his head, and Liu Xuan, the father of Xinfeng Liyang Palace, this crime alone would be enough for Liu Xi to die a hundred and eighty times!

It was precisely because of Liu Xi's 'fleeing from the battle' that the Han-Hungarian War that led to the erosion of the border wall, and finally evolved into the only 'king to king' in the history of Han and Hungary.

- Liu Bang, the son of the Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun, encountered head-on in Pingcheng!

The final result was that Liu Bang rashly advanced with the enemy and was trapped in the siege of Baideng······

was so badly harmed by the second brother, Liu Bangzi didn't dare to believe in the second brother anymore, and only supported him with rich rewards and lulu, but he never gave Liu Xi any real power;

But a year before Liu Bang's death, after Huainan Wang Yingbu launched a rebellion and killed Liu Jia, the king of Jing, Liu Bang's abundant old ministers began to intercede for Liu Xi, the Marquis of Heyang.

Ah~

Your Majesty~

It's all a family~

Blood is thicker than water······

Such persuasive words also annoyed Liu Bang, and at the same time, he was indeed distressed that after Liu Jia's death, there was no clan guard in Jingdi;

In the end, Liu Bang could only follow the persuasion of his old men and took the son of his second brother Liu Xi to Jingdi as king.

It's just that this nephew, who was sealed by Liu Bang to Jingdi, did not become the 'King of Jing', but became the King of Wu.

That's right;

——The current King of Wu, Liu Bi, is the second brother of Emperor Taizu Gao, Liu Bang: the eldest son of Liu Xi, the king of Daiqing.

And now, the throne of the Han family has been passed to Liu Bang's grandchildren, and Liu Bi, the king of Wu, who is the elder of the 'second generation' of the Liu family, has long passed the age of sixties······

After the eldest brother and the second brother finished speaking, they have to mention that they are in stark contrast to the two, and they are not even very similar to Liu's style: Liu Jiao.

As the only younger brother of Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang, Liu Jiao can be said to have been loved by thousands of people since he was a child.

Before and after Qin Shi Huang unified the world, Liu Bo, the eldest and second Liu Xi of the old Liu family, were busy farming, and Liu Bang, the third child, was busy making friends in Fengpei;

Only the fourth child, Liu Jiao, traveled around to study with the support of his parents and several elder brothers, and became a rare 'scholar' in the old Liu family.

——In terms of academic achievements, Liu Jiao's background is really not small!

——Liu Jiao's mentor Fu Qiubo is a classmate who listened to the lecture under Xunzi-Xunqing together with the former Qin Prime Minister Li Si, Gongzi Han Fei, Taizhong Doctor Lu Jia in the early Han Dynasty, and Zhang Cang, Marquis of Beiping!

In other words, even if he met Qin Xiang Li Si, Liu Jiao could call Li Si without any worries: Uncle Shi.

In addition to the fame of his teacher Fu Qiubo, Liu Jiao's own academic achievements are also quite excellent.

Especially in the attainments of the "Book of Songs", Liu Jiao is even more famous, and his personal collection of poems "Yuan Wang Poems" is famous all over the world;

Even now, the literati who govern "Poems" basically have a copy of "Yuan Wang Poems" in their hands.

has such a high literary attainment, which naturally shows from the side that Liu Jiao is a cultural person in the absolute sense.

Corresponding to Liu Jiao's world-renowned academic achievements is the rigorous style that still amazes people all over the world.

- I think that back then, when Emperor Taizu Gao was still there, the family of Liu Jiao, the king of Chu, had become synonymous with 'three good model clansmen';

Liu Jiao's sons are also more humble and polite than the other, and one is more gentle and pure than the other.

For these good princes with both virtues, the Chang'an court could not bear to waste it, and successively appointed several sons of Liu Jiao as the court, in charge of the etiquette system.

In recent years, there has even been a saying in the Chang'an court that 'as long as he is the son of Liu Jiao, he can be born to be a regular person'!

This is indeed the case: in the past few decades, the position of Fengchang, as one of the nine Qings, has almost always been monopolized by Liu Jiao's sons.

But it's a pity that the current King of Chu, Liu Wu, is not the son of the King of Chu Yuan, who 'can give birth to a litter of Fengchang';

It is the son of Liu Yingke, the king of Chuyi, and the eldest grandson of Liu Jiao, the king of Chu Yuan······

The virtues of grandfathers, fathers, and uncles, Liu Wu, the king of Chu, did not learn half a word.

It is the unique skills of the second generation of gentlemen that made Liu Wu, the king of Chu, learn them one by one.

To this day, this appalling family scandal has occurred, so that the Son of Heaven Qidu has to put aside the "Cutting Domain" that is ready to go first, and specially free up his hands to solve the problem of Liu Wu, the king of Chu······

"What does the emperor think should be done to resolve this matter?"

The mother and son sat silently opposite each other for a long time, and finally it was the low inquiry voice of the Empress Dowager Dou that broke the silence in the hall.

saw that the Son of Heaven heard this, and his already gloomy face couldn't help but go dark again;

After thinking for a while, he raised his head with a stern expression and looked at the Queen Mother Dou in front of him, who also looked gloomy.

"The child thinks that mother, maybe she should be ready to choose a new king of Chu from Liu Li, Marquis of Pinglu, and Liu Fu, Marquis of Hong."

"——The reputation of the King of Chu Yuan cannot be ruined by Liu Wu, a disdainful descendant;"

"The position of the king of Chu must be sat by the son of the king of Chu Yuan, so that the child can feel at ease······"

Hearing Liu Qi's words, Empress Dowager Dou couldn't help but take a deep breath, sighed, and finally had to nod helplessly.

Liu Li, Marquis of Pinglu, and Liu Fu, Marquis of Hong, are the two most outstanding virtues among the sons of Liu Jiao, the fourth brother of Emperor Taizu Gao, King of Chu Yuan.

At the same time, they are also the oldest two among Liu Jiaoshang's surviving sons.

In the past ten or twenty years, the position of 'Fengchang' in the Chang'an court has basically been in the hands of these two brothers, passing around like a ball.

To be more specific, that is, Liu Li was tired, so he replaced Liu Fuding for two years; Liu Fu was sick, and Liu Li supported him for another two years.

It has been rotated like this for more than ten years, and it is only in the last few years that the two of them have finally rested.

- Because Liu Li's son Liu Dao has finally grown up to the age where he can take over the burden for his father and uncle;

As for Liu Fu's sons, although the older ones are a little unproductive, the youngest son Liu Biqiang, it is said that when he is less than ten years old, he is already 'quite the style of the ancestor Yuan King'!

In the future, when Liu Li's son Liu Dao grows old, Liu Fu's son Liu Biqiang should be able to stand up and continue to complete the lineage of King Chu Yuan, the decades-long monopoly of the position of 'Han Fengchang', and 'hereditary'.

As for the current King of Chu Liu Wu, as the only seedling of Liu Yingke, the King of Chuyi, after such a horrific scandal, he can't stay.

Regardless of what Liu Wu did, it might cause damage to the reputation of the King of Chu Yuan;

This matter alone may cause damage to the Liu family, and it also makes Tianzi Qi have to erase the name 'Liu Wu' from the Liu family's genealogy no matter what!

And Liu Wu, as the only son of Liu Yingke, the king of Chuyi, now that he 'must die', the position of the king of Chu can naturally only be handed over to the other sons of Liu Jiao, the king of Yuan.

For this point, Empress Dowager Dou is obviously also prepared in her heart.

"There is no need to discuss this matter."

"The ending of Liu Wu, the king of Chu, is already doomed;"

"But the emperor should not forget: the emperor can put aside the paper "Cutting the Domain" for the time being, but the old thief of King Wu will not let go of this good opportunity."

"Even for the sake of the stability of the temple and the community, Liu Wu's affairs have to be suppressed for the time being."

"Otherwise, if Liu Wu is also followed by Liu Bi and becomes the thief who brazenly raised troops, I am afraid it will not be a good thing for Zongmiao and Sheji······"

A deep voice uttered, seeing that Tianzi Qi did not immediately nod yes, Empress Dowager Dou couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then took her eyes off Liu Qi.

"The matter of cutting the feudal clan is related to the life and death of my Han family, so I can't be careless."

"How to operate, Emperor, you can listen to the opinions of the old ministers."

"—especially Prime Minister Shen Tujia's opinion."

"As for Liu Wu, the king of Chu, after all, it's just a scandal of my Liu family, and it's not too late to clean it up when it ······ cleaned up."

Hearing this, his heart was still full of anger, and Tianzi Qi had to take a deep breath and force himself to suppress his anger;

After lowering his head and thinking about it again, he finally smiled at the Empress Dowager Dou.

"Mother's teachings, children, to be remembered ······"

The indifferent words finally made the grim look on Empress Dowager Dou's face dissipate;

couldn't help but smile and turn his head sideways, as if casually mentioned: "I heard that Yuan Gu was driven back to his hometown in Kanto by the emperor?" ”

Seeing his mother mention this, Tianzi Qizi hurriedly nodded, and put on a look of 'It's a trivial matter, but the mother must not be too satisfied with the child because of this matter'.

saw Mrs. Dou shaking her head with a smile behind her, bowing her head and thinking for a moment;

After a long while, Empress Dowager Dou, who seemed to have finally made up her mind, finally cast her gentle and kind gaze on the Tianzi Qi in front of her.

"This matter, Xiao Jiu has been nagging in my ear a lot these days;"

"After listening to that kid's words, I remembered: In front of those literati, the emperor also has his own difficulties······"

"- The matter of Yuangu is that I am too aggressive to leave no room for the emperor."

"After three or two years, the emperor will find a reason to recall Na Gu back to Chang'an······

The smooth and gentle tone also provoked Tianzi Qi to be stunned;

Looking at the Empress Dowager Dou's eyes, there was a faint surprise!

But seeing that the Empress Dowager Dou shook her head with a helpless smile, stretched out her hand, and patted the back of Tianziqi's hand gently.

"No matter how you say it, I am also the emperor's mother~"

"As a mother, how can she cause trouble to her son?"

"—and more;"

"Just fix that stinky mouth, the whole world, only the emperor and I have this mind, and we can tolerate him."

"But if he is allowed to die of old age in Kanto, it will be a matter of great loss of reputation for the emperor······"

(End of chapter)