"Sit down, sit down~"

"It's all here, what are you still standing for?"

"—If this is spread out, I'm afraid that someone will pass on my blind old woman, and I can't even tolerate my own grandchildren;"

"Say that I don't have a place for the prince in this Changxin Palace······"

Walking into the Changxin Palace, before he had time to bow down, the faint cold whisper of the Empress Dowager Dou quietly entered Liu Sheng's ears.

looked up at the sound and saw the Empress Dowager Dou on the royal couch, who was stunned at the moment and couldn't even raise her head;

Most of the old lady's attention was attracted by the delicate Gillian Weng in her arms, and the daughter beside her: Liu Yan, the owner of the pavilion.

It was Liu Sheng, who subconsciously glanced at Liu Sheng after finding out that Liu Sheng had walked into the hall, forced out a smile, and lowered her head a little weakly.

Seeing Liu Sheng's behavior like this, Liu Sheng's heart was already clear······

"The Imperial Grandmother taught me a lesson."

pulled his eyes back from his aunt Liu Concubine, and bowed to his grandmother Empress Dowager Dou in a proper manner, and when the old Empress Dowager nodded lukewarmly, Liu Sheng also walked forward by himself;

Then, under the gaze of the palace people in the palace, as well as Liu Concubine and Gillian's mother and daughter, he naturally walked behind the Empress Dowager Dou.

"This Changxin Palace, the grandson should have come more diligently;"

"It's just that in recent days, all kinds of affairs have piled up, and my grandson really can't spare time······"

"-The Huns are coming~"

Without waiting for Liu Sheng to explain that he had not been able to visit the Empress Dowager Dou as frequently as usual in recent times, the Empress Dowager Dou interrupted Liu Sheng's words again.

felt the undisguised resentment in the tone of the Empress Dowager Dou, and then looked at the side, with her aunt Liu Concubine who still had a weak heart in her eyes;

In the end, Liu Sheng's eyes still fell on the innocent girl in the arms of his grandmother, the Empress Dowager Dou.

"Gillian ······"

"Gillian ·········"

Regarding Liu Sheng's concerns, Empress Dowager Dou obviously didn't pay too much attention.

You said 'The Huns are coming', but he couldn't wait for Liu Sheng's words to sound, and the Empress Dowager Dou sighed slightly;

Only the dim, cloudy, almost unable to focus on a little bit of gaze, still unwilling to move away from the precious granddaughter in her arms, Chen Ajiao.

"Alas~"

"My Han family has been suffering from the invasion of the border by the Xiongnu Northern Barbarians for decades."

"As early as when Emperor Taizu Gao established Han Zuo, border troubles have always been the biggest headache for my Han family."

···

"Two years ago, the emperor was reluctant to use a piece of paper to eradicate the ills of the clan princes in one fell swoop;"

"In order to be able to free up your hands from the Kanto region and concentrate on dealing with the Huns in the north, without worrying about the future."

"It is precisely for this reason that I reluctantly allowed the emperor to implement the wrong "Cutting Domain" back then."

"It was also at that time, in order to temporarily stabilize the border and keep the Huns from interfering, the emperor and I remarried the princess outside the Saiwai to make peace with ······."

···

"After making peace, a rebellion of Wu and Chu, it was finally not a mess between the princes of the clan and the Xiongnu in the north and the outside world, so that I could start a war on the east and north fronts of the Han family, and I couldn't take care of each other."

"It's just that at that time, I really couldn't bear to marry a real clan girl, and went to the bitter cold place outside the Sai to be a concubine for several generations of the Su Yu clan;"

"So, I discussed with the emperor, selected a maidservant from the palace, named her a princess, and married her to Saiwai."

"And now, the Huns use this as an excuse to say that my Han family is 'insincere', and they keep saying that they want to be friendly, but what they send is just a fake princess······"

With Empress Dowager Dou's low, mournful, and even slightly hoarse voice, Liu Concubine and Chen Ajiao's mother and son also lowered their heads in unison.

saw that the Empress Dowager Dou let out another sigh, and then turned her head slightly to the side at an angle;

Let Liu Sheng stand behind him 'on his own', rubbing the acupuncture points on his head for himself, but there is still no warmth between the eyebrows of the Empress Dowager Dou······

"The Xiongnu have a deep enmity against my Han family."

"Nowadays, the Northern Barbarians are even more aggressive, forcing my Han family to retreat repeatedly, and even about to marry a real princess to be a concubine for the Di chief of his Su Clan."

"I, the Liu clan, have suffered such a humiliation, and I should have harbored resentment and anger towards the Huns."

"But how did I hear: What did the prince say in front of outsiders~"

"Uh, what are you talking about, it's not time for a decisive battle with the Huns?"

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"I'm old~"

"My hair is gray, my body is weak, and even my eyes are half blind."

"-Xu is the prince's foresight, but I, a blind old woman, don't see it;"

"So when I summoned the prince here, I just wanted to ask: What does the prince's phrase 'not time' mean?"

"Is the prince trying to say, 'Isn't it time'?"

"Or use this as an excuse, but in fact, it is based on the calculation that the army will never be raised and will never go north???"

Such a meaningful question, the Empress Dowager Dou still did not turn around, looking at her grandson Liu Sheng who was kneeling behind her;

only lowered his head leisurely and looked at the Gillian master in his arms, who seemed to have some confusion about the situation;

With a slight sigh, he gently held Gillian's chin with the tip of his index finger.

"My baby Gillian~"

"I don't know what kind of situation I will fall into in the future."

"-Will you be given the surname Liu, be crowned as a princess, and then marry to Saiwai?"

"Or will the soldiers come to the city, and even break through the Xiongnu Northern Barbarians in Chang'an City, and take them away from my Changle Palace······"

Listening to his grandmother, the Empress Dowager Dou, who was full of melancholy, said something that seemed to be embarrassing, but in fact it was full of deep meaning, Liu Sheng's expression only stiffened;

When Liu Sheng's gaze fell on his aunt on the side for the last time, Liu Sheng clearly saw the unconcealed weakness of heart from Liu Concubine's body, and a trace of fear that flashed between his eyebrows and eyes from time to time.

The situation is already obvious.

- Sister Liu Yan, who added money, received a higher price than Liu Sheng.

As for Empress Dowager Dou, who changed her past, she gave her grandson Liu Sheng's warmth and title of 'prince', which is obviously due to this.

Empress Dowager Dou, what do you want to ask?

Liu Sheng knew very well in his heart that Empress Dowager Dou was not asking herself: What do you mean by 'it's not time yet'.

To be precise, the Empress Dowager Dou asked not the Huns.

What Empress Dowager Dou really wants to ask is: Is marrying Gillian 'not at the time', or do you have no plans at all?

Thinking of this, Liu Sheng was already a little hanging, and he only tightened up a little immediately.

"Xu is that in recent days, my grandson has not often come to visit the imperial grandmother, which has given some villains the opportunity to slander and slander;"

"In fact, there is another internal reason for this matter."

"I still hope that the emperor's grandmother will be ······"

With a face as usual, and with a stiff smile, he carefully observed the change in his grandmother's expression;

After Empress Dowager Dou bowed her head coldly, and let out a faint light 'um', Liu Sheng exhaled a little turbidity.

Forced himself to press the bitterness in his chest, squeezed the smile on his face brighter, and his hand did not forget to continue to knead the side of the Empress Dowager Dou's ear, a few acupuncture points that soothe the eyes.

"There was a military report from Yanmen, and the feelings inside and outside the government and the opposition were surging, and almost everyone was asking their father for war."

"If it was in the early years, when the teacher was still there, he could always argue with reason and persuade those who kept saying 'Zongmiao Sheji', but in fact they just wanted to win martial arts."

"But now, the court is not like the teacher, who can suppress the old ministers of the court and the pillars who can really plan for the sect."

"——Prime Minister Tao Qing, only promises to his father, no responsibility at all, his father says one, Tao Qing will not dare to say two;"

"-As for Chao Cuo, when he was doing internal history, he was not satisfied with his own responsibilities, and he left Guanzhong alone, patronizing his own "Cutting Domain";

"Now that I am a doctor of the imperial history, I also ignore the rights and responsibilities of my 'sub-phase', and I am busy going to the army all day long, so as to get some martial honors, so that in the future, I will be honored as the prime minister."

"-Uncle Nei Shi Tian, he has just been appointed, and he hasn't even had time to sort out his own position;"

"Even if you sort it out, if you want to clean up the mess left by Chao Mistake, it will take at least a year and a half ······"

···

"The prime minister, the imperial historian, and the internal history can't be counted on, let alone others."

"——Liu She is a Shaofu, he can run five times a day, and he can't even go to the toilet, so he has to ask his father for leave first;"

"-Yuan Ang became a servant, and he was busy taking over Ma Zheng's affairs, and he couldn't spare any energy at all;"

"—and then to Fengchang, the pawn, the guard, ······"

"Speaking of which, if you can say 'maybe it's not the time for a decisive battle', you will be the only one left with your grandson."

"If the grandson also follows and says, 'No war, no husband', then even in the end, my father still sues for peace as he wishes, and he will not be able to step down after all."

"In case you let someone with a heart again, spread the word 'Your Majesty is not in harmony with the prince', 'The prince is not filial to his father', or even 'The prince does not have a sacred heart'······"

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"The imperial grandmother just said that her eyes can't see anything anymore;"

"But my grandson heard that a truly knowledgeable person, even if he doesn't have eyes, can still see everything he wants to see with his heart."

"Today, my Han family, whether we have the ability to fight a decisive battle with the Huns - whether there is a war will win, and victory will be annihilated, rather than the certainty that if there is no big victory and defeat will be scattered······"

"Grandmother Huang is perhaps the most clear and transparent person in the world······

After a lot of twists and turns, but it also pointed to the key explanation of the problem, which made the Empress Dowager Dou's face fade slightly;

was touched by Liu Sheng intentionally or unintentionally, and a smile that seemed to be absent swelled up on the old lady's brows.

Just talking, the old lady still didn't forget to be a sheep and asked suspiciously: "In this way, the prince saw that there was no one in the court, so he personally built a step for the emperor?" ”

"Hmm······"

"In that case, there's nothing wrong with that······"

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"Then what if the emperor doesn't need this step?"

"If you don't have to consider the question of whether the platform is not stepped, what is the prince's attitude towards the Huns?"

Seeing that the old lady's tone tended to be gentle, Liu Shengzi didn't dare to delay in the slightest, and hurriedly climbed up the pole.

"If it weren't for the father, of course, the grandson would not have said anything 'it's not the right time'."

"After all, the grandson is also the heir of Emperor Taizu Gao and Empress Dowager Gao-Lu;"

"How can there be any mercy for the barbarians who humiliated the ancestors and made the emperors of the past generations gnash their teeth, and the grandson is a young and enthusiastic age?"

···

"Imperial grandmother, you should remember it too, right?"

When the teacher was dying and was seriously ill and bedridden, his grandson and seventh brother served at the teacher's bedside."

"When the teacher was dying, he explained: If one day, Wang Shi goes north, Ma Talongcheng, and escorts the Northern Barbarian Monarch to Taimiao to confess, my brothers and sisters must tell the teacher."

"At that time, Sun Er and Seventh Brother were only sons who had not yet been crowned princes;"

"And now, my grandson is the crown prince."

"My grandson heard that the promises made by men must be kept, especially the promises made to those close to them, and they must be kept without discount."

"The grandson and the teacher, although they are not closer than the grandson and the emperor's mother, but the promise made to the teacher, the grandson, will never dare to go against it in the slightest."

"If one day, my grandson has that opportunity, he will definitely fulfill the teacher's last wish."

"I, the king of the Han Dynasty, will definitely break through the Dragon City, string up the royal family of the Suo clan with ropes, and go to the high temple of Emperor Taizu, the temple of Emperor Taishang, and the temple of Emperor Taizong to confess ······"

Listening to Liu Sheng's solemn confession, the cold look on Empress Dowager Dou's face finally disappeared completely.

Especially after Liu Sheng said the sentence 'If you make a promise to those close to you, you must abide by it', 'Although my teacher and I are not as close as the imperial grandmother, I will also keep my promise to the teacher', the worries that Empress Dowager Dou hid in her heart finally turned into smoke······

"Look at you!"

"I'm frizzy all day long, listening to the wind is rain, and I can't sink my temperament at all!"

"-If it weren't for today, summoning Xiao Jiu to make things clear, I would almost end up with a reputation of 'mistreating the prince and prince' because of you, a fool!"

"What do you say?"

Seeing that Empress Dowager Dou was silent for a moment, she raised her hand coldly, and nodded at the corner of her daughter Liu's forehead;

glanced at Liu Concubine again, and then leaned down with kind eyebrows and gently held the side of his granddaughter Gillian's face.

"Gillian is good~"

"I became a princess in the future, but I must not learn from my mother, Ao?"

"This woman, she wants to understand the general situation and take the overall situation into account~"

"You can't just suspect the people around you because of the demagogy of others······"

's meaningful words only provoked Liu Yan on the side to smile and lower her head, and from time to time squeezed out a "how can I have" and "don't talk nonsense" and other unconfident justifications;

Empress Dowager Dou didn't care about her daughter's feelings at all, teased Gillian in her arms, and naturally turned sideways;

It was not until this moment that Empress Dowager Dou's 'gaze' finally fell on her grandson: Liu Sheng······

"Last time, the emperor planned to marry his daughter and relatives, so as to stabilize the Huns and concentrate on cleaning up Liu Bi, Liu Wu and others;"

"At that time, Mrs. Wang took the initiative to stand up and said that she was willing to let her daughter marry outside the country and sacrifice for the country."

"It's just that at that time, I couldn't bear to marry the daughter of the Liu clan far away, so I found a palace maid to marry."

"This time, Mrs. Wang, once again took the initiative to stand up ······"

Hearing the deep meaning of his grandmother's words, and also feeling that his grandmother had lost her breath, Liu Sheng hurriedly slid off the couch with a bright smile and knelt on his grandmother's knees.

And Empress Dowager Dou's next words finally made Liu Sheng completely determined.

- Chen Ajiao, you must get closer to the Tai Womb earlier······

"Mrs. Wang wants to marry her daughter to Saiwai, which is inappropriate;"

"-After all, Xiao Shi has been crowned king, and if he is not two years old, he will go to Qi to become a vassal."

"Sister Wang marries a barbarian, and it doesn't sound good to say it."

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"I'm already planning to make Liu Wu's daughters princesses."

"—After the sinful, something must be done to make up for the sins of the fathers and ancestors······"

"I also greeted the emperor about this matter."

"In the matter of harmony, Xiao Jiu will stop meddleling."

"After I go back, I will do a good job of the money and hand over a satisfactory answer to the emperor."

"It's also good for the people of the world to take a look: the prince of my Han family, not a cat or a dog, can hurt the foundation with three or two sentences······"

After saying this last sentence, Empress Dowager Dou's dim, turbid, but also implied warning gaze once again fell on Liu Concubine beside her.

This time, what Liu Concubine can do is still to sink her head deeply······