In the Kanto region, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, began to plan the layout;

From Guangling, the capital of Wu, letters and envoys sent to various countries in the Kanto region blocked the gates of Guangling City, and for a time, it can be said that there was an endless stream.

In Chang'an City, the court and the court were also aware of this strange atmosphere, and various departments began to speed up.

Everything was carried out in an orderly manner under the personal supervision of Prime Minister Shen Tujia.

However, Liu Sheng, including the princes, rarely have leisure, and they no longer have to be repeatedly observed by the speculators inside and outside the government and the opposition who are vainly trying to 'step on the prince's position' under a magnifying glass;

While the court was busy with business, the frequency of the sons walking out of Weiyang Palace and playing on the streets was also getting higher and higher.

Only Liu Sheng has been nesting in his Guangming Palace, and in accordance with the agreement between himself and his fifth brother Liu Fei, he made chain mail for Liu Fei.

Finally, by the middle of July, the breath of autumn was quietly coming, and Liu Shengcai finally called his fifth brother Liu Fei to the apse of Guangming Hall where he was.

And after coming to Guangming Palace, looking at the chain mail that Liu Sheng was putting on his body, Liu Fei's face immediately swelled with a touch of heartfelt joy.

"Hey!"

"It's the first time I've seen such a light armor!"

Speaking excitedly, Liu Fei didn't forget to lower his head, tried to raise his hands, and twisted his body from side to side.

When he found that his movements did not encounter the slightest resistance from the armor, but only made a trivial rolling sound of steel rings, Liu Fei's eyebrows immediately swelled with a touch of heartfelt gratitude.

"Little Nine ······"

Unexpectedly, before the words of thanks could be spoken, it was another net-like steel net, which was gently put on Liu Fei's head by Liu Sheng.

adjusted the position left and right, and Liu Fei realized that this chain mail not only has an upper body, but also a 'hat'.

This hat wrapped Liu Fei's entire head, revealing only a palm-sized face;

The hem of the 'hat' is also very long, encircling Liu Fei's entire neck, all the way to the chest, shoulder side, and butterfly bone on the back.

In front of Liu Fei, looking at the fifth brother Liu Fei, who was tightly protected by chain mail in all parts above the knee, Liu Shengcai finally nodded with satisfaction.

"Just the right size."

"If you put another layer of armor on the outside, even if it doesn't reach the level of 'invulnerability', it should be about the same······"

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words came out, Liu Fei's eyes widened in surprise!

"Huh?"

"Another layer of armor?!"

With an exclamation, Liu Fei couldn't help lowering his head, jumped up and down again, and weighed the weight of this chain mail.

When Liu Fei raised his head again, although he didn't say a word, he looked at Liu Sheng's vivid gaze, but he clearly said: This is heavy enough, right?

- With another layer of armor, how can I still fight?!

Seeing the surprise in Liu Fei's eyes, Liu Sheng only smiled and shook his head;

stepped forward, clenched his fists, and smashed a punch on Liu Fei's strong abdomen.

After Liu Fei snorted, then he covered his stomach and bowed down with a flushed face, and Liu Sheng's tired tone sounded in Liu Fei's ears again.

"This chain mail can defend against sharp weapons and arrows;"

"Only for blunt hits, the defensive power of this chain mail can basically be said to be completely none."

"If you only wear this pair of chain mail, the fifth brother will definitely not have to worry about sword splitting, knife slashing, or ge, spear thrusting, and dark arrows on the battlefield."

"But in case of a blunt weapon, the fifth brother's chain mail is no different from no armor."

As he spoke, Liu Sheng also stretched out his hand, helped the red-faced Liu Fei up from the ground, and sat down on the threshold beside him.

After Liu Fei eased up a little, Liu Shengcai smiled and patted Liu Fei's shoulder again.

"If it is someone else, a layer of chain mail inside and a layer of armor outside, you will definitely be exhausted to death."

"But Fifth Brother, can you be the same as others?"

"-Fifth brother, but he is the one who wants to be a general!"

"I can't even carry the two layers of armor inside and outside, how can the fifth brother be a general?"

"How can you support the 'brave and invincible' face for my Liu family?!"

Sure enough, from Liu Sheng's mouth, he heard the word 'general' again, and Liu Fei's face also responded with a high-spirited look!

But before the action of straightening his waist was completed, he saw Liu Fei grinning and bowing his waist, holding his lower abdomen tightly with both hands, and said with a little complaint: "Just talk, what kind of hands do you move······"

"But I also specialize in hitting the lower abdomen ·········"

The vague muttering also caused Liu Yu, the fourth and seventh Liu Pengzu on the side, to laugh heartily, and look at Liu Fei's gaze, which was also full of friendly ridicule.

Being so troubled by a few brothers, Liu Fei finally felt that the pain in his lower abdomen was relieved, and the breath that was stuffed in his chest was finally successfully inhaled.

Tentatively straightened his waist, exhaled cautiously, and then looked down at the chain mail on his body, Liu Feicai finally smiled and nodded to Liu Sheng.

"Xiao Jiu is right."

"If I can't even carry the armor, then I don't have to say anything like 'I want to be a general';"

"Wearing two layers of armor, inside and outside, should be something that has never been done before."

"It's like a workout."

"-After all, only by being able to endure what ordinary people can't endure can we achieve what ordinary people can't."

Hearing this, Liu Sheng only smiled, and then turned back and came to the wrought iron platform again.

Taking a deep breath, he took out a steel bar from the furnace and began to forge again.

Seeing this, the two brothers Liu Yu and Liu Fei on the side couldn't help but be stunned, stepped forward, and looked at Liu Sheng in front of him with doubts, there was no shortage of a pile of steel.

"Eh, Xiao Jiu?"

"Didn't the fifty catties of fried steel that Shaofu took all use to make this pair of chain mail on my body?"

asked suspiciously, Liu Fei couldn't help lowering his head again, and repeatedly confirmed that the chain mail on his body was indeed made of steel wire loops;

jumped up and down again, and it was basically determined: the chain mail on the body, even if it was not as heavy as fifty catties (Han catties), it was basically the same.

But looking at the edge of the forging platform in front of Liu Sheng, the steel bars that were built up were clearly more than forty catties······

"Xiao Jiu, do you want to make another pair of chain mail?"

The lonely voice of inquiry provoked Liu Sheng to nod with a stiff face, but the movements in his hands still did not stop.

Seeing this, the brothers Liu Yu and Liu Fei looked at each other for a moment, but the doubts on their faces were even worse.

- Today, Liu Sheng asked Liu Fei to try out, and Liu Fei was naturally overjoyed;

Calling the fourth brother Liu Yu to come along, in addition to showing off his new armor, he naturally also has the plan to help Liu Sheng clean up, give Liu Sheng a hand, and send these tools back to Shaofu.

But now it seems that Liu Sheng is going to make another pair of chain mail?

"Is there anyone else who wants to lead the army but me?"

The sound of hesitant inquiry finally made Liu Sheng stop the movement in his hand, and gently pressed the stone hammer against the steel bar, full of helpless eyes, but scattered in an unknown direction outside the hall.

"This person~"

"—not as good as the fifth brother."

"I wasn't summoned to make this chain mail, not to go into battle to kill the enemy;"

"It's because this person is doing too much on weekdays and saving too many enemies."

"That's why I asked for this chain mail, so that I wouldn't be able to wake up one day when I fell asleep."

Speaking this in a tone full of resentment, Liu Sheng sighed again, picked up the stone hammer again, and slammed the steel bar in front of him.

Hearing Liu Sheng's words, Liu Fei also nodded thoughtfully.

Can you find fifty catties of fried steel, and force Liu Sheng to make another pair of chain mail?

- This person, I'm afraid it's not small!

But listening to the meaning of Liu Sheng's words, it seems that this person's identity is not convenient to reveal?

Thinking of this, Liu Fei also stepped forward with a tentative face, and asked casually: "Eh, Xiao Jiu." ”

"You ······ this coward"

"Where does he live?"

was full of curious inquiries, but it didn't attract Liu Sheng's attention at all;

Continuing to be busy with the affairs in hand, Liu Sheng threw out a sentence without raising his head: "Weiyang Palace, the main hall of the Xuan Room." ”

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When Liu Sheng, Liu Fei, and Liu Yu and Liu Pengzu were chatting in the apse of Guangming Palace, in the main hall of the Xuan Room of Weiyang Palace, Liu Qi, the 'coward' in Liu Sheng's mouth, was sitting on the royal couch with a gloomy expression.

At the foot of the imperial stairs, the ministers and officials of the court and the central government also sat on both sides, and almost everyone's face was full of worry.

After a long while, in the end, it was the figure of Prime Minister Shen Tujia's old Long Zhong, under the gaze of the courtiers and officials in the palace, he slowly got up from his seat and walked to the center of the hall.

"Your Majesty;"

"The rain and hail in Hengshan are probably so serious that the court must transfer food for disaster relief."

"According to Hengshan's report, in this rain and hail, the largest hailstone has a diameter of five inches!"

"-You must know that the fists of ordinary men are only four inches······"

"Such a big hailstone fell from the sky, and it smashed a two-foot-deep hole on the ground!"

"—And most of the peasants in Guanzhong, who ploughed the land before the beginning of spring, could not plow more than a foot deep······"

"Such a serious rain and hailstorm, but it has never happened since Emperor Taizu Gao established the Han Dynasty······"

Hearing Shen Tujia's low voice, the courtiers and officials sitting on both sides of the Xuanshu Hall also began to shake their heads and sigh in agreement.

But the vast majority of people's attention is not on this sudden natural disaster.

——Including Liu Qi, the Son of Heaven······

"What the prime minister said is very true."

"Such a serious rain and hail will inevitably make Hengshan County lose its grain harvest this year;"

"What's more, there will be people who are stoned to death, injured and destroyed."

"I have already ordered Shaofu to allocate three million stones from the grain in Aocang and send it to Hengshan County."

"As soon as the disaster relief matters are met, I have also ordered the court to have a division and handle it as soon as possible!"

"It's just ······"

"This sudden hailstorm really made me feel a little uneasy······

The tone was full of muffled voice, and Tianzi Qi couldn't help but get up from the royal couch;

With his hands behind his back, he took two steps with a gloomy expression, and Tianzi Qi's worried tone immediately sounded again in the Xuanshu Palace.

"Last month, the stargazing officials said that there was a comet that appeared in the northeast direction of the sky."

"Yesterday evening, the stargazing officials played again, saying that last night, the glowing star retrograde into the northern stars, and saw the moon pass through this star;

"The year star also went retrograde to the Heavenly Court area, and continued to go retrograde······"

"—All this, I'm afraid, is not an auspicious sign······"

As Tianzi Qi's worried voice sounded, the courtiers and officials in the palace finally put the worry in their hearts on their faces without reservation.

This is the focus of today's court discussion, the court!

After all, when there was rain and hail in Hengshan County, the court had a fixed charter to deal with it, and it could allocate grain for disaster relief, and then exempt Hengshan County from taxes this year;

But the Son of Heaven said these things, but it is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to solve them······

- The glowing star is actually the Mars in the cognition of later generations;

The star of the year is Jupiter.

For future generations, the orbits of Mars and Jupiter naturally have their own unique orbits;

It's just that the rotation of the Earth, and the rotation of all the planets in the solar system around the Sun, will cause the orbits of Mars and Jupiter to be 'retrograde' from the perspective of observers on Earth.

For such a phenomenon, future generations will naturally not feel that there is any problem.

But for today, this backward civilization that is still in the feudal era, this ignorant era that has not yet abandoned the 'stargazing divination to determine the great policy of the country', Mars and Jupiter are in reverse orbit at the same time overnight, but it is undoubtedly a bad omen.

In the reading books that have been handed down to later generations, it is often described as 'watching the heavens at night, and everywhere you look, there are signs of great evil'······

For such a strange celestial phenomenon, the courtiers and officials could only bow their heads worriedly;

Even Shen Tujia could only shake his head and sigh and bow to Liu Qi, and then sat back in his seat silently.

For this era, the difference in the heavens must mean that there is a major change or a major disaster to occur.

It's like the slogan shouted by the Yellow Turban thief at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty - the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious;

In the eyes of the people of this era, any strange celestial appearance must mean that the gods in the underworld have issued warnings for some changes that have not yet happened, or they are dissatisfied with things and people who are dissatisfied with them.

And in the face of such a change, except for the emperor who claims to be the 'Son of Heaven', there is absolutely no second person who can give a reasonable explanation for this 'enlightenment' of the heavens······

"The sky is different, and I, as the emperor of the herdsmen on behalf of the sky, have an unshirkable responsibility."

"This rain and hail that happened in Hengshan Country is a wake-up call from the heavens to me!"

A dull roar focused the attention of the courtiers and officials in the hall on the top of the imperial steps;

Seeing Tianzi Qi sitting back on the royal couch with a stern expression, full of guilty lamentations, he saw his eyes scattered on Shen Tujia, the prime minister who was the chief of the courtiers.

"The heavens are warning, and there is rain and hail in Hengshan, I should bathe and change clothes, fast for half a month, and reflect on my mistakes in front of my ancestors."

"During this period of time, the affairs of the DPRK and China have to worry a lot about the prime minister······

The low voice of words sounded, but Shen Tujia only got up silently and bowed to Liu Qi.

It was also at this moment that Neishi Chao Cuo, who was not far behind Shen Tujia, got up under the disdainful gaze of everyone and walked to the center of the hall.

"Your Majesty!"

"The minister thinks that the heavens have come to warn His Majesty with such a violent change in the heavens, it must be Kanto, and there have been some things that people and gods are angry about, and even the heavens are angry!"

"Because in the past few years after His Majesty succeeded to the throne, there has been no change in the court's policy of governing the world."

"Your Majesty has never done anything wrong in the past few years that is enough to make the heavens feel so angry."

"In this case, the one who commits the great mistake must be ······"

"-Okay, okay~"

Unexpectedly, before Chao Cuo's voice fell, the deep tone of Liu Qi, the son of heaven, sounded again;

When Chao Cuo raised his head full of doubts, he saw Liu Qi looking at him with an extremely serious warning!

"I'm not so stupid as to be so irresponsible."

"As the emperor of the Han family, this divine anger, I, will never be pushed on other people."

"Even in Kanto, there is a certain clan prince who made a big mistake to provoke the heavens so angry, it is also because I, the monarch, did not teach these clan princes well."

If I am guilty, I cannot allow God to implicate others in the world; The responsibility for the sins of all parts of the world lies on me, the emperor. (I am guilty of sin, and there is no way to do it; All sides are guilty, and the sin is bowing)

"I'm going to bathe and fast, and punish myself for thinking about it in the high temple······"

Dropping such a sentence with guilt, Tianzi Qi turned his back, waved his hand behind him casually, and walked in the direction of the apse accompanied by the palace eunuchs.

And after Tianzi Qi left, taking advantage of the opportunity for the courtiers and hundreds of officials to withdraw from Weiyang Palace, Shen Tujia finally shook his head and sighed and got up, and came to Chao Cuo's side.

"Neishi's intentions, Your Majesty, are clearer than anyone else."

"But this time, Neishi really shouldn't be so stubborn anymore, holding on to those clan princes who committed crimes."

"—Especially the ······ of Liu Wu, the King of Chu"

There was a meaningful awakening, but it did not attract a wrong reflection, but instead cast a cruel gaze on Shen Tu Jia's still serious face.

"Prime Minister doesn't have to be so anxious and proud!"

""The Cutting Strategy" is already on the line, and it has to be sent!"

"Even now, because His Majesty punished himself for thinking in Gao Miao, it is only slightly delaying the process of "Cutting the Domain".

"But the prime minister, it can be said that from beginning to end, he did not condemn Liu Wu, the king of Chu, and those clan princes who committed great crimes;"

"-Could it be that those clan princes have already bought off the prime minister in private?"

"Could it be that all the praise for the prime minister in the market is just an illusion deliberately created by the prime minister?"

Hearing Chao Cuo's question, Shen Tujia only subconsciously became angry, looked at Chao Cuo's gaze, and immediately brought a little disgust.

- Why are you so ignorant!

But soon, Shen Tujia shook his head with a wry smile, and one last glance at Chao Cuo, then turned to leave.

When he reached the gate of the hall, Shen Tujia stopped again, slowly turned around, and stared deeply into the depths of Chao Cuo's gaze.

"Someone as smart as Neishi wouldn't fail to understand what I was trying to say."

"The matter has come to this, and I only have one sentence to send to Neishi;"

"——Zhu Jun, so that you can do it yourself······"

The weather turned cold, occasionally felt the wind cold, got up late, and didn't have time to add more.

Ming, Hou, and the day after tomorrow, add one more each, and make up for the 850 average, 900 average, and 950 average.

The fathers are too powerful...

It's growing too fast, and it's going to be a thousand······

Hiss~

Horror is terrifying······

(End of chapter)