After Liu Fa's sentence 'The country is small and narrow, and it is not enough to maneuver', Liu Sheng lost the interest in getting down to business.

- It's not that Liu Sheng forgot to get down to business;

Instead, looking at the hall, each with thoughts and sorrows, but all with deliberate smiles, as if he was afraid of offending his brothers, Liu Sheng, he really couldn't bear it······

Without mentioning business, this palace banquet has naturally become a pure sense of fun.

The brothers, who had not met for a long time, under the meticulous concern of Liu Sheng and Liu Pengzu, pushed each other to change glasses and talked happily.

Except for Liu Sheng, who had other concerns, everyone else had a good time drinking and chatting.

In the end, it was Liu Pengzu who stood up for Liu Sheng, and drew an end to this banquet in a timely manner on the grounds of 'going hunting tomorrow'.

And the next day, the nine brothers also took Wang Shuo according to the agreement, followed Liu Sheng's prince's car, and headed towards Lin Yuan.

It's just that the final destination of the brothers has surprised all the brothers.

- Si Xian Yuan;

Emperor Xiaowen ordered the construction of Sixian Garden, which was built by the former prince Qi to make friends with the world's heroes and settle guests······

·

"Father is really responsive to Ah Sheng?"

"Even Sixian Yuan, the father and emperor let Ah Sheng come and go freely, and he can even hunt here?"

The brothers and the brothers each put on their hunting gear, and scattered at the entrance of the hunting ground, Liu Sheng slowly and unhurriedly instigated the horses, wandering aimlessly in the hunting ground;

After a while, his brother Liu Pengzu's slightly ridiculous words came from his ears, and Liu Sheng just smiled and nodded, and shook his head inexplicably.

"For me, the crown prince, my father is indeed generous."

"But if you really want to talk about the festival (lìn) frugality (sè), my father is more than Emperor Taizong, I'm afraid it will not be too much?"

The joking words only caused Liu Pengzu to laugh for a while, but he saw Liu Sheng raise his head with a big grin and sweep around his side.

"This Sixian Garden, my father allowed me to come and go freely, and it was not without a price."

"If you don't want to use this to achieve your own goals, my father will never be so generous······"

Hearing this, Liu Pengzu smiled slightly, and only nodded thoughtfully.

After looking around for a while, he didn't let out a sigh.

This Sixian Garden is the territory that the first emperor specially ordered Shaofu to carve out for the then prince Qi in Shanglin Yuan after the first emperor established the prince.

In terms of size, Sixian Garden is by no means big;

At least compared to the royal forest garden that covers an area of hundreds of miles, Shanglin, the Sixian Garden of Prince Qi only occupies a very small part of Shanglin Garden.

The entire Sixian Garden is also composed of only a few simple buildings.

There is a palace for the prince to rest;

Banquet halls for the prince's banquets and meeting guests, as well as several open-air banquet halls specially set aside for banquets.

In addition, there is a courtyard group that can accommodate about 100 people, which can be used for the prince to temporarily or permanently accommodate guests.

In addition, it is those tenant acres that are leased, and the tenant farmers who are included in the scope of Sixian Garden, also belong to the extremely valuable 'assets' of the former and current Prince Qi and the current Tianzi Qi.

——In some extreme cases, these peasants, whose household registration cards read 'Sixian Yuan tenants', will become the last force that Tianziqi can rely on.

As for now, after Liu Sheng has been canonized as the crown prince, why didn't Tianzi Qi carve out such a piece of territory for his prince in Shanglin Yuan, like the first emperor back then, the reason is a little complicated.

First of all, it is natural that the Han family's rules on 'how to cultivate the prince' are still not perfect.

After all, since the Han Dynasty, the real prince of the Han family, except for the crown prince Qi when he was the first emperor, that is, the crown prince of Taizu Liu Bang and the later Emperor Xiaohui: Liu Ying.

As the crown prince and founding queen of the founding monarch, Liu Ying is the sole of the high queen Lu Pheasant, and the treatment and education he received during the prince period obviously have extremely high particularity and extreme irreproducibility.

- Liu Ying, Emperor Xiaohui, born in the year of the death of the First Emperor Yingzheng (210 BC);

Taizu Liu Bang raised troops in Pei County, and when he responded to the anti-Qin under the call of the righteous emperor Chu Huai, he was filial to Liu Ying and was still in infancy.

By the time the third child was beheaded and abandoned in the city (206 BC), Yingqin Sheji collapsed, and Liu Ying, who was filial piety, was only four years old.

In the same year, Pei Gong Liu Ji was named the King of Han by the overlord Xiang Yu, and Liu Ying, who was only four years old, also became the crown prince of Han;

Four years later (202 BC), the overlord Wujiang killed himself, Liu Bang became emperor in Luoyang, and Liu Ying, who advanced from the crown prince of Han to the crown prince of Han, was only eight years old.

After that, Liu Ying, the founding prince, was not able to receive a stable elite education and royal education.

——From the time of the emperor's throne until his death seven years later, Liu Bang, Emperor Taizu Gao, has been busy quelling the rebellion of princes with different surnames everywhere.

In those seven years, Liu Bang, the son of heaven, was either on the war or on the way to quell the chaos;

In Chang'an, Empress Dowager Lu was busy consolidating Liu Ying's position as the prince, as well as dealing with the threats of Madame Qi and Liu Ruyi's mother and son.

Father doesn't hurt, mother doesn't love, and even the storage position is crumbling, Liu Ying doesn't want to be educated, and even some things that the prince should have, such as the prince's pro-army, vassals, etc., have never had it.

- The crown prince Liu Ying has never even had his own imperial palace······

In this way, he stumbled until the twelfth year of the Han Dynasty (195 BC), Taizu Liu Bang died, and the crown prince Liu Ying finally waited for the day to inherit the throne.

And when he inherited the throne, filial piety Liu Ying had just turned fifteen.

After that, it was the fifteen-year period when the Empress Dowager Lu was in power.

In the past fifteen years, although the throne of the Han family has changed hands three times, there is still no crown prince in the true sense, and the precedent of 'what kind of education should the prince receive' has been established for the later crown prince of the Han family, or the relevant rules and regulations.

- Liu Ying, a filial piety who succeeded to the throne at the age of fifteen, reigned for only seven years and died young at the age of twenty-two (188 BC);

Liu Gong, who inherited the throne, although he succeeded to the throne as the crown prince, was only four years old until the year of succession.

A four-year-old crown prince who inherited the throne, let alone receiving an elite education at the level of the crown prince, can honestly sit on the royal couch during the court discussion, which is already a great thing.

And Liu Gong, the child emperor who succeeded to the throne at the age of four, only reigned for four years, and was brutally killed by Empress Dowager Lu at the age of eight (184 BC) because of the sentence 'I am not strong, but strong will change';

After Liu Gong's death, Empress Dowager Lu chose Liu Yi, the king of Changshan, from Liu Gong's younger brother, that is, the younger sons of Xiaohui Liu Ying.

Before succeeding to the throne, Liu Yi had always been a prince of the clan who 'remotely led the fiefdom' in Chang'an;

At the time of his accession to the throne, the Later Young Emperor, who was renamed Liu Hong, was only six years old······

In another four years, the Empress Dowager Lu died, Zhu Lu made chaos in Chang'an, and the fourth son of Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang, Liu Heng, the acting king, entered the throne of the emperor (180 BC).

Before entering the Great Unification, Emperor Xiaowen of the former Taizong had always been an honest and duty-bound king, and even had no sense of existence.

In other words: today's Ziqi, although he is the sixth emperor of Liu Han Sheji, due to the above reasons, Tianzi Qi, the 'sixth son of Han Tianzi', is also the first true prince of the Han family.

——The first prince who has received a complete set of elite education, and has fully enjoyed the treatment of the prince and experienced a complete career as a prince.

Therefore, whether from a theoretical or practical point of view, all the systems of the Han family regarding the crown prince are actually based on the entire princely career that Ziqi has experienced today.

For example, the first emperor built Sixian Garden for the Son of Heaven, and every son of Han in later generations should also set aside a piece of land for his prince in Shanglin Garden, and named it: XX Garden;

For example, when the first emperor, the crown prince Qi borrowed the prince Zhan Shichao to make mistakes, and euphemistically voiced his voice and expressed his political position in the court;

Therefore, if the later crown prince wants to say or do something in the court, he should also borrow his prince Zhan Shi (family order) to euphemistically achieve his political goals.

Another example: as early as the time of the first emperor, Prince Qi began to reuse his maternal family, the Dou family's relatives;

Therefore, the later prince of the prince could also start to cultivate his maternal family from the moment he became the prince, and installed his maternal relatives in some less important positions in the court.

There is no other reason;

There are examples.

But the trouble lies in the fact that even though Tianzi Qi has been the crown prince for more than 20 years, he may not have encountered all the situations that the prince may encounter.

Just like now, Liu Sheng, in the order of 'the ninth son of the emperor', was turned into an artificial eldest son by the Son of Heaven, and met and met his brothers who returned to Chang'an as the 'eldest prince', which is an experience that the former prince Qi has never had······

Back to Si Xian Yuan;

As the first 'private territory' of Shanglin Garden, which belongs exclusively to the prince and prince, the significance of Sixian Garden is not special.

When Liu Sheng didn't have his own 'xx garden' for the time being, Tianzi Qi temporarily 'lent' Sixian Yuan to Liu Sheng, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.

But as Liu Sheng said: Tianzi Qi is a very 'thrifty' emperor, even more frugal than the previous emperors.

To put it more bluntly, the efforts of the Son of Heaven are often in exchange for higher value gains.

For Tianzi Qi, it is worth lending his Sixian Garden to Liu Sheng, so that Liu Sheng can 'entertain' the harvest of his brothers, and its value is so high······

"Alas~"

"This time I came to Chang'an, brothers, I'm afraid it will be difficult to show your face and return······"

lowered his head and pondered for a long time, but he finally couldn't guess what the Son of Heaven wanted, and Liu Pengzu didn't try much, so he just sighed.

As for his brother's exclamation, Liu Sheng did not deliberately avoid it.

"As the saying goes: the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty;"

"There is also something to say: with a sharp weapon in your mind, you will ······ murderous heart"

"The suppression of the Kanto region with the princes of the clan has been concluded as early as when Emperor Taizu Gao killed the princes with different surnames in the order."

"—This is just a stopgap measure;"

"—This is the conclusion finally reached by Emperor Taizu Gao after reflecting on the lessons of the death of Qin II."

···

"The main reason for the death of Qin II is that the old Qin people no longer follow the Ying Qin clan;"

"And the people in the land of Qin are scattered because Qin Wangzheng abolished the division of feuds in one fell swoop and changed to the full range of counties."

"Therefore, Emperor Taizu Gao established the Han Guozuo, first divided the princes with different surnames to stabilize the interior, and only after destroying Xiang Yu and dominating the world did he start to cut off the princes with different surnames in order."

"After that, although it was replaced by the clan princes, it was only a matter of time before the clan princes were banned."

"Although this time will be long, the end result is certain."

Without any scruples about his brother Liu Pengzu, he will also be divided into clan princes in the future, full of frankness to explain his own opinion, Liu Sheng turned his head slightly;

His eyes stared at the depths of Liu Pengzu's gaze without evasion, and Liu Sheng did not forget to continue.

"The princes with different surnames are not credible because they have different surnames, and they are all outsiders."

"And the disadvantages of the clan princes are only one less 'foreign surname is not credible' than the princes with different surnames."

"From the fact that Liu Bi, the king of Wu, was awarded the land of Wu for no success, but did not want to repay the ancestors, but borrowed the benefits of salt and money to support the army and self-respect, and finally started an army, it is enough to see that the threat of the princes of the clan to my Han family is not much smaller than that of the princes with different surnames."

"Even from some points of view, the threat of the clan princes is even greater than that of the princes with different surnames!"

···

"After all, the princes with different surnames are plotting against the temple and the community, and there will always be people in the world who are effectively loyal to the Liu family, and they are willing to stand up spontaneously to stop them."

"But the princes of the clan are also my Liu Han clan relatives, and they are also the blood heirs of Emperor Taizu Gao;"

"The clan relatives and princes are plotting against the society, and it will be difficult for the people of the world to distinguish who is right and who is wrong, and who is right and who is wrong······"

···

"-Just like Liu Bi's sentence of 'punish Chao wrong, Qing Jun's side', he forced his father to almost cut Chao wrong and abandon the city?"

"That's right."

"This is also the reason why my teacher and I tried our best to oppose my father's killing of Chao Wrong."

"Because of mistakes, you can't kill them all."

"If you kill one mistake, there are still thousands of mistakes, and you are planning for your father in Chang'an;"

"If Chao Cuo dies, then in the future, there will be countless Liu Bi, forcing his father to kill all Chao Cuo and his ilk."

"This precedent cannot be set ······"

The calm voice also caused Liu Pengzu to smile bitterly, and looked at Liu Sheng's gaze, which also vaguely carried a little self-deprecation.

saw Liu Sheng raise his hand with a grin, and punched Liu Pengzu with a smile on his shoulder;

Just talking, Liu Sheng still didn't forget to remind Liu Pengzu: "In the future, my brother will become the king of Zhao, and he will only suffer more suspicion than the eldest brother, second brother, fourth brother and fifth brother." ”

"After all, compared with other clan princes, King Zhao of my Han family has one more power and responsibility of 'taking charge of the defense of the northern wall and the soldiers and horses of the Zhao Three Kingdoms of the Yan Dynasty'."

"In order not to be suspicious of my father in the future;"

"And so that in the future, my two brothers will not kill each other;"

"This time, brother, you must help me."

Seeing Liu Sheng so straightforward, the awkwardness in Liu Pengzu's heart dissipated a little inexplicably;

After thinking about it for a while, he nodded casually, and smiled sideways at Liu Sheng.

"Your Highness, don't worry;"

"No matter how the minister is, he will not embarrass the siblings of a mother."

"——The matter of Zhao State, whatever His Highness says, it is what it is."

"Even if His Royal Highness wants the minister to stay in Chang'an all the time, and lead the king of Zhao and the minister from afar, there will be no complaints······"

As soon as these words came out, Liu Shengdang shook his head and smiled, and nodded to Liu Pengzu gently.

It was between this talking, laughing, teasing and joking with each other that the two brothers had already made a gentleman's covenant.

What will happen in the future, neither brother can say;

But both brothers understand that if there is really that day and that event that makes suspicion arise between the two brothers, then today's exchange will become the reason for the two brothers to give each other 'one last chance' at that time.

Liu Sheng, I hope that in the future, there will not be such a day.

But Liu Sheng is also clear: no one can say for sure what will happen in the future······

"Brothers, you should have almost found your prey;"

"My two brothers, can't you be too ashamed?"

The joking remark only caused Liu Pengzu to nod his head with a smile;

A moment later, the two brothers shouted in unison, and two black horses sprang out and plunged into the woods······

(End of chapter)