From his cousin Dou Ying's mouth, Liu Sheng got a satisfactory answer.

——Dou Ying is willing to do the same as before, and Liu Rong in advance, and once again unite with the 'quasi-prince' who has not been officially canonized!

Successfully achieved this goal, Liu Sheng also nodded his head from the goodness and adopted his cousin's suggestion of 'get busy with business first, don't care about Zhou Yafu'.

As for the reason, it is also easy to understand: Zhou Yafu, Liu Sheng can't fight at all······

Not to mention Liu Sheng today, he is just a 'son';

Even if Liu Sheng becomes the crown prince in the future, or even the son of heaven, in front of Zhou Yafu, the prime minister with great achievements, I am afraid it will be difficult to straighten his waist.

This has nothing to do with Liu Sheng's own character, but just the word 'prime minister', which gives Zhou Yafu the monstrous authority.

To cite two very classic cases, you can know what kind of 'power' the prime minister of the Han family is.

- The first case is an incident that happened more than 40 years ago, after the death of Emperor Taizu Gao, Liu Bang.

In the summer of the twelfth year of Emperor Taizu Gao (195 BC), Liu Bang, Taizu of the Han Dynasty, died, and the crown prince Liu Ying succeeded to the throne;

Two years later, Xiao He, the first prime minister of the Han family, died of illness.

Subsequently, Empress Dowager Lu, who was in charge of the Lin Dynasty, appointed Cao Shen, the prime minister of Qi, as the second minister of the Han family, in accordance with the testament of Emperor Gao Liu Bang and Xiao He's last wish when he was dying.

After Cao Shen served as prime minister, he drank and had fun all day long, regardless of government affairs;

All the government affairs experienced by the Prime Minister's Mansion were handled by the subordinate officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion in accordance with the old rules and practices during the period when Xiao He was in power.

At that time, Emperor Xiaohui Liu Ying succeeded to the throne for several years, reaching the age of seventeen or eight, and there were only a few years left before the age of crowning the pro-government.

Emperor Xiaohui, who was worried about not knowing where to start, opened up the situation and laid the foundation for the future pro-government of the Linzhao Dynasty, naively set his sights on his prime minister: Cao Shen.

So, filial piety Liu Ying found Cao Shen's son, Cao Ji, the son of Hou Shizi, who served as a doctor in the palace, and instructed Cao Yuan: After Qing goes back, ask Prime Minister Cao Cheng;

Just asked: Emperor Gao has just said goodbye to his ministers, and Your Majesty is very young, but you are the prime minister, but you drink all day long, and you don't ask Your Majesty for instructions and report when you encounter problems, on what basis do you consider national affairs?

After returning home, Cao Wei really asked his father Cao Shen according to the instructions of Emperor Xiaohui.

As a result, Cao Shen was furious, and directly rewarded Cao Jiao with 200 boards, and scolded: Is such a national event something that you kid should care about? !

Go back to the palace and concentrate on serving Your Majesty!

I heard that Cao Ying was beaten because of himself, and Liu Ying, who was filial piety, was also very guilty, so he told Cao Shen in private: I asked Dr. Cao to ask those words, why do you want to punish him?

As a result, Cao Shen immediately took off his crown and hat and asked Xiaohui Liu Ying: Please think carefully about Your Majesty, who is stronger in terms of Shengming Yingwu?

When Emperor Xiaohui heard this, he only said in fear: How dare I compare with the first emperor!

Cao Shen asked again: Then Your Majesty thinks who is more virtuous, me or Xiao He?

Emperor Xiaohui replied: You don't seem to be as good as Xiao He.

So, Cao Shen bowed again and said: Your Majesty is very right;

Emperor Gao and Prime Minister Xiao Cheng pacified the world, and the decree has been formulated;

Now, isn't it nice that Your Majesty is hanging down your clothes, and that your ministers are scrupulously observing their duties and following the original laws without changing them at will?

Since His Majesty is not as good as Emperor Gao and his ministers are not as good as Prime Minister Xiao Cheng, then why should he overthrow the system formulated by Emperor Gao and Prime Minister Xiao Cheng?

Hearing this, Xiaohui Liu Ying finally got up like a dream, and thanked Cao Shen: If it weren't for the Prime Minister's reminder, I would have almost done something stupid······

In the impression of later generations, this is the famous historical scene that happened in the Xiaohui Dynasty: hanging the arch and ruling the Holy Son of Heaven.

——After this incident, Cao Shen became the virtuous minister of 'Xiao Gui Cao Sui', filial piety to Liu Ying, and also became the Ming Jun of 'ruling by hanging the arch'.

But what later generations don't know is that filial piety Liu Ying's entire emperor career was overwhelmed by Cao Shen's sentence 'ruling the holy son of heaven';

Liu Ying, who repeatedly tried to control the government and politics, but was repeatedly defeated by Cao Shen's sentence of 'ruling the holy son of heaven', finally had to give up power, and was confused all day long, drunk and dreaming of death;

After only seven years on the throne, the twenty-two-year-old filial piety emperor Liu Ying died in Weiyang Palace, leaving behind the four-year-old eldest son Liu Gong, who became the third emperor of the Han family.

It is also from the beginning of Liu Gong's succession to the throne that the era of Empress Dowager Lü's reign of the dynasty has officially come······

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The second case is something that happened in the last years of the first emperor, and it has only been more than ten years since then.

In the fourteenth year of Emperor Xiaowen of Emperor Taizong (166 BC), Gongsun Chen of the Lu people came to Chang'an and told the first emperor: Qin is water virtue, Han inherited Qin's legal system, and according to the end of the five elements, Han should be Tude;

Tude, corresponding to the present life of the Yellow Dragon, should reformulate the calendar, modify the Zhengshuo, and change the color of the court clothes to yellow.

As soon as this incident came out, the Chang'an court was shaken, and everyone inside and outside the government and the opposition was excited!

Gongsun Chen, the Lu people, has since become the first person in Chinese history to enjoy 'black and red is also red'.

——Prior to this, the attributes of the Han family in the end of the Five Elements were still the fire virtues set by Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang.

As for the reason, it is naturally because the Han family has never recognized the 'Qin' regime and has ever existed as a legitimate regime.

Since Qin 'never existed', what the Han family inherited should be the legal system of Zhou.

Zhou is Huode, and the Han family, which inherited the legal system of the Sect and Zhou, should have been Shuide. (Qin's water virtue also came from this, water overcomes fire)

But Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang said: My Han family did not 'inherit' and replace the legal system of Zong Zhou, but destroyed the Qin who stole the country for Zhou, and 'continued' the legal system of Zong Zhou!

Therefore, Han, like Zhou, still uses Huode!

Emperor Taizu Gao personally designated the 'Han Fire Virtue', and the people of the world could only accept this statement, and cleverly linked it with the legend of 'the son of the Red Emperor beheading the son of the White Emperor'.

——According to the five virtues, Qin's water virtue corresponds to the White Emperor Shaohao;

The fire virtue of the Han Dynasty corresponds to the Red Emperor Shennong, that is, the Yandi Shennong clan among the 'descendants of Yan and Huang'.

Before Gongsun Chen's 'birth', the Han family's discussion of the attributes of the dynasty was still limited to the level of Han Huode (continuation of the Zongzhou legal system) or Shuide (inheritance of the Zongzhou legal system).

If it is Huode, it is a continuation of the legal system of the Zong and Zhou, but the country name and surname have been changed, so it makes some sense;

If it is Shuide, it is to inherit the legal system of the Zong and Zhou, which is obviously very in line with the actual situation, but it will go against the wishes of Emperor Liu Bang······

It was at this delicate juncture when the monarchs and ministers of the Han family were swaying between fire and water virtue that Gongsun Chen was born out of thin air and dropped a sentence of 'Han Tude', which undoubtedly completely ignited this powder keg!

What does it mean to belong to Han Tude?

——It means that Han's 'Tude' follows Qin's 'Shuide'! (Tukeshui)

——It means that the Han family officially recognized the existence of Qin in the nature of a 'legitimate regime'!

In the simplest and most straightforward words, it is equivalent to the legal system of the Han Dynasty, which is the inheritance of the Qin !!

When the news came out, everyone inside and outside the government and the opposition was excited, and people of insight in the world all scolded the Lu Gongsun Chen!

As the 'double representative' of the Chang'an court and the world's academic circles, Zhang Cang, who has the academic label of 'Xunzi disciple' on his head and the post of prime minister, stood up undeniably.

Zhang Cang told the first emperor: Qin has never existed legally;

Qin's illegal rule brought unprecedented disasters and indelible pain to the people of the world.

Emperor Taizu Gao obeyed the order, destroyed the tyrannical Qin and established Liu Han Guozuo - this is the foundation of the Han family's legal system;

If the Han belongs to Tude, it is to abandon the legal system of the Han family and the favor of the Mandate of Heaven, and it is also to live up to the trust of the people of the world in our Han family.

With Zhang Cang's straightforwardness, he couldn't be more straightforward, and he even hated to directly say a reminder of 'Han Tude = Han lost its deer', and the first emperor calmed down and ignored Gongsun Chen's sentence 'Han Tude'.

It stands to reason that this farce should end here.

The Han family should have continued to struggle with whether the Han family belonged to water virtue or fire virtue, and Gongsun Chen should also go back to Ludi and make his own dream of 'changing the day'.

But after Gongsun Chen shouted the sentence 'Han Tude', just a year later, something that shocked everyone in the world happened.

——In the fifteenth year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Huanglong is ready-made!

When Gongsun Chen played the first emperor's 'Han Tude', the sentence 'Huanglong is in the world' mentioned has really come true······

The news was transmitted back to Chang'an, and the Chang'an court was instantly dumbfounded;

The world's academic circles were also shocked by this sudden change.

In the end, after thinking twice, the first emperor ordered: Summoning the Lu people to re-enter Chang'an.

After careful discussion with Gongsun Chen, the first emperor appointed Gongsun Chen as a doctor, and asked Gongsun Chen and Confucian scholars who were proficient in this way to discuss matters such as correcting Shuo and changing clothes.

In that year, Zhao Xinyuanping proposed that the first emperor set up the Five Emperors Temple in Weiyang, and said: After the Five Emperors Temple was established, Zhou Ding would appear, and there would be a jade Ying to point out the direction for the first emperor.

Two years later, in the seventeenth year of Emperor Xiaowen of Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty, the prophecy of Zhao Ren Xinyuanping was also fulfilled - the first emperor got a jade cup, which was written: The lord of the people prolongs his life.

At this point, the first emperor finally no longer hesitated, regardless of the courtiers and officials led by Zhang Cang, and officially issued an edict: the Han belongs to Tude, which is to order the court to have a division to correct Shuo, change the color, and the color is still yellow;

The first year of the change made the world drunk.

This is a historical allusion that happened in the reign of Emperor Wen and made later generations famous: Emperor Xiaowen of Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty changed the Yuan.

And the result of this incident is the same as Cao Shen's sentence of 'hanging the arch and ruling the holy son of heaven', which is not well known to later generations.

——In the year when Emperor Wen Huanglong changed the Yuan, the Aragaki Ping case occurred.

After careful investigation, Prime Minister Zhang Cang and Tingwei Zhang Shizhi finally arrested the craftsman who carved the words 'Lord Longevity' on the jade cup in the mansion of Aragaki Ping;

Soon after, the officials sent by the court to investigate Chengji replied: the legendary 'Yellow Dragon Present' is just a cloud formed by wind and sand, not the real Yellow Dragon.

It was only at this time that the first emperor finally came to his senses and wiped out the three clans of thieves, including Gongsun Chen and Aragaki Ping;

The change of Huanglong to the Yuan Dynasty has also become one of the only stains in the life of Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Taizong Xiaowen Emperor······

Speaking of which, some people may be puzzled: In this whole incident, Prime Minister Zhang Cang does not seem to have made any moves, reflecting the weight of the word 'Prime Minister'?

This is because an incident after the first emperor Huanglong changed the Yuan Dynasty is also not well known to later generations.

——After the incident of Xinyuanping and the change of Huanglong to the Yuan, Prime Minister Zhang Cang entered the court with hundreds of officials, and asked the first emperor Liu Heng: Change the fire virtue of the Han Dynasty to the virtue of water!

Zhang Cang's move was naturally to take advantage of the opportunity that the first emperor had just made a mistake because of the 'Yellow Dragon Reform Yuan' and had no confidence in his heart to change the five elements attribute of the Han family from the fire virtue that Liu Bang's head was set to the water virtue that should be so.

But at that time, the first emperor was ashamed because of Huanglong's change of yuan, and when he heard that Zhang Cang also wanted to change the attributes of the dynasty, he naturally expressed his irritability: Don't mention anything about the end of the five elements!

I still have a face!

The first emperor refused in shame, and Zhang Cang repeatedly invited;

In the end, when the monarch and the ministers did not give in to each other, the first emperor finally had to angrily order: remove the prime minister Zhang Cang, order him to return to the feudal country, and not return to Chang'an for the rest of his life!

At this point, the matter of the Yellow Dragon Reform of the Yuan set off by the Lu people (Lu Ru) Gongsun Chen and the Zhao people (Fang Shi) Aragaki Ping finally came to an end.

Huanglong changed the yuan, and became the black history in the hearts of the first emperors, who never wanted to recall again;

And Zhang Cang, a generation of virtuous ministers, also forced a generation of saint Liu Heng to become the first monarch of the Han family to remove the prime minister as a last resort.

——Just because Zhang Cang couldn't help Zhang Cang in the matter of 'changing fire virtue to water virtue', the former emperor who was in power and ruled the world could only say 'no' to Zhang Cang by recalling the prime minister······

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These two incidents are classic cases that have occurred between Han Xiang and Han Tianzi in the past few decades.

In front of Prime Minister Cao Shen, Liu Ying, the emperor of filial piety, was sentenced to a sentence of 'hanging the arch and ruling the holy son of heaven', and he was sprayed for the rest of his life;

In front of Prime Minister Zhang Cang, Rao is a powerful saint like the first emperor, and he can only ensure that he achieves a tragic victory in the direct collision of 'monarchy' and 'prime minister' through a rude dismissal.

If these two things are too far away, then in recent years, there is another thing that can show how terrifying the prime minister of the Han family is.

——Before the outbreak of the Wu Chu Rebellion, when today's son Liu Qi, because of a disagreement with the deceased old prime minister Shen Tujia on the matter of "Cutting the Domain", he could only secretly instruct the internal history to make mistakes and chisel the outer wall of the Taishang Emperor Temple.

for, but I just want to try to do this, can I make Shen Tujia angry······

understands all this, and then looks back and looks at Liu Sheng's current situation, it is not difficult to understand what Prime Minister Zhou Yafu means to Liu Sheng;

——As the heir personally designated by the founding emperor Liu Bang, after inheriting the throne, Xiaohui Liu Ying was unable to take care of himself by Prime Minister Cao Shen.

- So far, Emperor Xiaowen of Xiantaizong, who has been recognized by the world as 'virtue by the common people, Ze and birds and beasts', was forced by Prime Minister Zhang Cang to resign;

——For the twenty-third year of the prince, Tianzi Qi, who was already full of wings when he ascended the throne, was forced by Prime Minister Shen Tujia to have no choice but to dig up the temple of his ancestors to try to see if he could make Shen Tujia angry to death!

And now, it's Liu Sheng's turn.

It was Liu Sheng's turn to deal with the current prime minister: Zhou Yafu, who was malicious towards himself.

But there is a slight difference: the previous cases were all collisions between the 'current prime minister' and the 'reigning emperor';

But this time, Liu Sheng came as a 'son' to meet Zhou Yafu's malice that 'Gongzi Sheng can't become a prince'······

In other words: this is not Liu Sheng's war.

It was another collision between Tianzi Qi and Zhou Yafu, the monarch and the prime minister.

The outcome of this collision will determine the future fate of Liu Sheng and even the entire Han family.

And Liu Sheng was just the fuse of this collision······

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"Ah Sheng, do you really want to compete with Prime Minister?"

Walking out of Dou Ying's Wei Qihou Mansion and walking on the way back to the palace, he heard his brother Liu Pengzu's inquiry, but Liu Sheng could only shake his head helplessly and smile bitterly.

"I'm afraid I'm not worthy of competing with the prime minister now······"

"-To compete, it is also the father and the prime minister to compete."

"As for me, I can only do what my cousin said, and get the food done first;"

"The right is to do something useful, so that my father can have more confidence in front of the prime minister······

The tone full of helplessness only provoked Liu Pengzu to laugh bitterly;

Regarding Liu Sheng's current situation, the two brothers obviously have a very clear understanding.

Liu Pengzu was also secretly relieved that Liu Sheng could recognize the status quo and calmly conclude that 'I am not worthy of competing with the prime minister'.

But for Fang Cai, Liu Sheng's tough attitude in front of Dou Ying, Liu Pengzu is obviously still a little puzzled.

"Since that's the case, then Ah Sheng, why did you say that to your cousin?"

"Aren't you afraid that Uncle Cousin will think that Ah Sheng is a person who is not self-sufficient and unworthy of allegiance because of today's incident?"

Hearing this, Liu Sheng only smiled, and turned sideways with interest.

Looking at Liu Pengzu's eyes, there was also a hint of cunning.

"Brother, I still don't know about my cousin······"

"- Uncle Cousin, is a person who likes to solve problems for others, and is also very worried about not being able to solve problems for others."

"If I show that attitude, of course my cousin will be worried because I 'can't do it myself';"

"But at the same time, I feel satisfied that I can be dissuaded because of this."

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"In addition, I also want to use today's incident to make my cousin realize: I am not a big brother."

"- When it comes to such a thing, I won't hesitate like my big brother."

"With today's experience, my cousin should also be able to react, what is the difference between me and my eldest brother."

"Of course, the most important thing is that my cousin is willing to accept the reality and help me, the 'quasi-prince', as the crown prince."

Saying this, Liu Sheng couldn't help but smile again, then shook his head and sighed and stopped, and stretched lazily.

"Ugh! Uhh

"-Prime Minister, just leave it to your father to have a headache~"

"For me, instead of wasting time on Zhou Yafu and doing some useless work, it is better to focus on what I can."

"—like my cousin;"

"—such as food;"

"Another example······"

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"Hey;"

"In a few days, it will be the Yuanshuo Dynasty······

The first update.

This chapter is a foreshadowing and transition chapter, and the content may be a little boring, so the fathers will take care of it.

The hand is much better, but it's still a little itchy, so I'll change it for two more today.

The second watch was three hours later.

(End of chapter)