To be honest, Liu Sheng never thought that one day he would be in such a scene.

——Squatting in front of his brother Liu Pengzu, who was kneeling on the ground, and asking his brother Xingshi.

Once upon a time, Liu Sheng and Liu Pengzu were brothers and sisters of the same mother;

The friendship between the two brothers can almost only be described by the words 'intimate'.

No matter where he went, Liu Sheng didn't forget to take Liu Pengzu with him, or follow his brother.

said that when what happened after Ziqi succeeded to the throne today, wherever Liu Sheng was, he could always see Liu Pengzu's figure, accompanying Liu Sheng, and even blocking in front of Liu Sheng, protecting his younger brother behind him.

——In the seventh year of the Emperor's reign, the wild boar incident that occurred in Shanglinyuan provoked the young and vigorous Liu Sheng to be furious, and he was an old fist to Zhidu;

Subsequently, Liu Sheng personally appeared in Chang Chaori's Xuanshu Palace, and in front of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, impeached Zhidu for unfavorable escort and dereliction of duty.

Although in the end, Liu Sheng was able to 'take revenge', and later released his previous suspicions with Zhidu, but at that time, Tianziqi's attitude towards Liu Sheng's actions was to play fifty boards each.

It was also at that time that Liu Pengzu stood up for the sake of the stubborn Prime Minister Shen Tujia and the unconscious youngest son Liu Sheng to 'find something to do', and asked Liu Sheng to worship Shen Tujia as a teacher.

In order to avoid Liu Sheng's apprenticeship with the prime minister, he may find the jealousy of the quasi-crown prince Liu Rong and the prospective queen Li Ji, or to share the firepower for Liu Sheng, Liu Pengzu took the initiative to propose: apprentice with Liu Sheng.

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Even later, Li Ji still regarded Liu Sheng as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh because of this incident, and Liu Pengzu still took Liu Sheng with him every day to attend classes in Shen Tujia's hometown Anhou Mansion;

Until the rebellion of Wu Chu was pacified, the old prime minister Shen Tujia was overwhelmed and died of illness in office, and Liu Pengzu, the seventh son of the emperor, never pushed his younger brother Liu Sheng in front of him.

During this period, there was also the fact that Chao Cuo was instructed by the Son of Heaven to secretly damage the front of the Taimiao Temple, intending to design Prime Minister Shen Tujia, but in the end it was broken by Liu Sheng and Liu Pengzu brothers.

Although in the end, it was Liu Sheng who suffered the monstrous anger of the Son of Heaven because of this incident, but Liu Pengzu never flinched.

——Whether it was with Liu Sheng to 'Liu's left side', leading troops to surround Chao Cuo's mansion, or being thrown into the edict by the Son of Heaven afterwards, or moving the seriously injured Liu Sheng out of the edict, Liu Pengzu's figure was always by Liu Sheng's side.

Later, whether Liu Sheng was pushed to the forefront because he was 'too brilliant', or unexpectedly appointed as the crown prince, Liu Pengzu never forgot his brother's responsibility.

Even in the time gap between the emperor's eldest son Liu Rong was named the king of Linjiang and Liu Sheng was officially canonized as the crown prince, Liu Pengzu was once considered to be the 'candidate chosen by His Majesty' for the prince, which attracted a lot of malice inside and outside the government and the opposition for Liu Sheng.

After that, Liu Sheng wanted to be the prince, Liu Pengzu obviously had a mother, but in order to make room for Liu Sheng to be the 'eldest prince', he was passed on to the deposed Queen Bo;

Liu Pengzu had no complaints.

Liu Sheng became the prince, and Liu Pengzu was temporarily shelved as the king and became a vassal as a vassal when he stayed in Chang'an to assist Liu Sheng, and Liu Pengzu was not dissatisfied.

In the end, Liu Pengzu was named the king of Zhao as he wished, and he was the ancestor of several counties and expanded his territory.

Liu Pengzu said: Ah Sheng rest assured;

If you are an elder brother, there is no reason to cause trouble to your younger brother;

When I arrived in Handan, my brother must have done everything right, and I was relieved to guard the border wall for the sect······

Only nowadays;

It's just that after leaving Beijing to settle for the domain, arriving in Handan, the capital of Zhao, and entering his palace as the king of Zhao, Liu Pengzu seems to have completely changed as a person.

At least Liu Sheng can't recognize this brother anymore······

"In the past few years, the prince has sat down, his father has taught him by hand, the prince has raised his face, and countless pairs of eyes have been staring at him inside and outside the court, and even all over the world, brother, of course he has grown."

"It's normal for my brother to feel that his brother has changed—he has become a stranger."

"Then brother, why did it change?"

"Why did my brother become this completely unrecognizable, and I couldn't even believe that 'this is the seventh son of the emperor'?"

"Is it really as the people say: Is the feng shui of Zhao State bad?"

"Could it be that the throne of King Zhao will definitely turn an originally pure and good person into a rebellious minister who worries the Chang'an court and never reassures?"

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"My brother once said: My brother really doesn't want to treat my brother like his father treated Uncle Liang in the future."

"I don't want the queen mother to be in the future, because of my two brothers, and I don't think about tea and dinner all day long."

"But what my brother didn't say is: Brother, I really don't want my brother to be the Hidden King Liu Ruyi, the Hidden King Liu You, or the deposed King Liu Sui to a miserable end."

"Brother, haven't you ever thought about it?"

"Why is King Zhao's throne so piercing?"

"And after my brother became the crown prince, why did he become the king of Zhao, why is he the elder brother???"

Speaking with sorrow, and then letting out a long sigh, Liu Sheng finally straightened up from the ground.

Turning to the side a little, putting his hands behind his back, and looking out of the temple door, there was another inexplicable melancholy lament, which sounded in the palace······

"Alas······"

"Truth, my brother told my brother, and more than once."

"Today, let's talk to my brother again."

"—Uncle Liang's situation is because of the Liang State, which is located in the pass of Guanzhong-Kanto: outside Hangu Pass."

"Before the Wu Chu Rebellion, my father hated Uncle Liang Wang and couldn't give him what he wanted, in order to let Uncle Liang Wang defend in the Wu Chu Rebellion, so as not to let the rebel soldiers get involved outside Hangu Pass."

"As soon as the rebellion of Wu Chu was put down, the "Policy of Cutting the Domain", "Tui'en Order" and "Zuoguan Order" were issued one after another, and the princes of the Kwantung clan no longer pose a threat to the Chang'an court - no longer pose a threat to my father, our Han family, and even the clan."

"So, Uncle Liang's imperial brother woke up from his dream."

"Uncle Liang didn't want to wake up, and his father also forced the emperor's grandmother and Uncle Liang to wake up from the emperor's brother's spring and autumn dream."

"It's just a brotherly friendship, but there's no going back······"

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"The situation of Zhao is much more complicated than that of Liang."

"Since the first battle of Emperor Taizu Gao's Pingcheng, the king of Zhao of my Han family has the power to act first and then play in wartime, and control the soldiers and horses of Yan, Dai, and Zhao."

"- Emperor Taizu Gao did this in order to justifiably let Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, take charge of the troops in the border areas to protect himself."

"But it is precisely because Emperor Taizu Gao did this that in the eyes of Empress Dowager Lu, she can't tolerate Liu Ruyi's mother and son······"

"What the Empress Dowager Lu wants, is it the head of the man?"

"Is it to let Emperor Xiaohui, let his son, bear the infamy of 'sitting back and watching his younger brother being brutally killed by his mother, but standing by and watching'?"

"No······"

"What Empress Dowager Lu wants is to let Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, who was an unstable factor who had almost become a prince and a threat to Emperor Xiaohui, hand over the military power of Yan, Dai, and Zhao, and ······"

"Doesn't my brother understand?"

When he said this, Liu Sheng seemed to have two lines of tears on his cold and ruthless face;

It's just that Liu Pengzu can't see this scene.

Liu Pengzu, still kneeling and kowtowing, accepted the admonition of Liu Sheng, the younger brother of his mother's compatriot and the eldest prince of the dynasty······

"After the Hidden King Liu Ruyi, it is the Hidden King Liu You;"

"After that, it's King Gong Liu Hui."

"Three heirs of Emperor Taizu Gao died in the position of King Zhao, and finally made Empress Dowager Lu understand: Liu's family is unreliable."

"The Zhao State must be controlled by the children of the Lu family who can be trusted and are not qualified to sit on the throne."

"So, there is the ······ of Lu Lu, the king of Zhao"

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"Later, the Empress Dowager Lu died, and Chang'an turned the world upside down inside and outside the government and the opposition through the rebellion of Zhulu."

"Lu Lu, the king of Zhao, is gone, and Liu Sui, the son of Liu You, the king of Zhaoyou, was reinstated as the king of Zhao by the first emperor."

"Until after the rebellion of Wu and Chu, the king of Zhao committed suicide because of his alliance with the Xiongnu and conspiring against rebellion."

"That is, from that day - from the day when King Zhao Liu Sui committed suicide, the position of King Zhao was left by his father to the brothers and sisters of the crown prince and his mother."

"-If the eldest brother becomes the prince, then King Zhao will probably be the second brother and the third brother;"

"-If the fourth brother becomes the prince, then King Zhao may be the fifth brother."

"But in the end, it was the elder brother who sat on the throne of King Zhao."

"Why is this?"

"Brother, is it the second brother's literary talent?"

"Or is there a fifth brother who is heroic?"

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"Brother, how can he ······?"

When he said the words 'He De and how can he be', as Liu Sheng's eyelids slowly closed, another tear slipped from the face that seemed to be resolute and vaguely flashed a little unbearable.

On Liu Sheng's side, Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao who was kneeling on the ground, also began to tremble his shoulders because of low sobbing.

Feeling his brother's remorse, Liu Sheng felt that it was not a taste for a while.

He was silent for a long time, but he sneered coldly.

"Huh;"

"My father always said that my brother can't hide two taels of sesame oil in his stomach-something, let alone hanging it on his face, my brother is directly hanging on his mouth."

"Today, let's talk to my brother directly."

"- King Zhao, the reason why it can only be done by the siblings of the prince is because in the future, the king of Zhao must be the emperor's siblings."

"Why?"

"Because of the power of the Zhao State to control the soldiers and horses of the Yan, Dai, and Zhao Kingdoms during the war, if you go north, you can use it to resist the Xiongnu, and if you go south, you can subvert Sheji."

"So unless it's siblings, this power to be further loyal to the temple and take a step back to subvert the society is something that others are not qualified to have."

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"In front of my brother, my brother has nothing to taboo."

"Princes and kings, don't say anything about leftist politics, governing the country, or persuading and teaching the princes and kings - that is the eyeliner of the Chang'an court!"

"That is to tell every clan prince clearly: If you dare to make trouble, I will be the first to know about it."

"During the rebellion of Wu and Chu, Zhang Shizhi, the prime minister of Huainan, learned that his king intended to collude with Liu Bi and Liu Wu, so he lied that he was willing to lead the troops, deceived the soldiers, and then imprisoned the king of Huainan."

"Afterwards, although Zhang Shizhi was punished by his father for 'binding himself to the king', and even stayed at home and died depressed, everyone in the world knows that Zhang Shizhi is right."

"Princes and kings, that's how it's used."

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"Does my brother know?"

"If one day, my brother has thoughts that he shouldn't have, then everyone in the world will hope that Zhao Xiang can do something;"

"Although in the end, there is a high probability that this Zhao Xiang will not die well, but it does not prevent the whole world, including his younger brother, father, and even the emperor's grandmother, from expecting this Zhao Xiang to do something."

"Because only in this way will the princes and kings pay attention to the words and deeds and behaviors of the princes and kings in order to avoid this happening, and show Chang'an as soon as possible."

"And in the past year or so, my brother has killed three eagle dogs of my father."

"——Three eagle dogs with a rank of 2,000 stones, wise and far-sighted, and carefully selected by their father······"

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"So, what's next?"

"Brother, when are you going to kill your head?"

"--My father is strong, and Xu Shang still has ten years to live;"

"—My brother is young, and he will only live another thirty years."

"In the past forty or fifty years, how many Zhao ministers will my Han family prepare for His Royal Highness King Zhao?"

"How much more do you need to prepare to be enough······"

After saying this last sentence, Liu Sheng closed his eyes tightly and slowly turned his face to the top of the hall;

seems to be looking up to the sky and sighing, and it seems to hate it.

On Liu Sheng's side, Liu Pengzu, the king of Zhao, still didn't say a word······

"Ugly words, the imperial grandmother said yesterday;"

"If it's nice, when my brother goes back later, the queen mother and mother will say it."

"Brother, that's all I ······ said"

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"After you go back, King Zhao, let's think about it yourself······"

"Lonely, no worse than my father;"

"But it's not as weak as filial piety and benevolence······"

Hardening his heart and dropping this last sentence, Liu Sheng's feet, which seemed to be nailed to the plank, finally began to move slowly.

One step, one step, one step;

Every time he took a step, Liu Sheng's face became more miserable;

Every time he took a step and knelt down and kowtowed, Liu Pengzu, the king of Zhao, felt more and more remorseful.

It wasn't until the young man reached the temple gate that he finally stopped.

lowered his head, wiped away the tears on his face slightly, and pretended to be strong and stiff twice······

"Hey ······"

"What's that, Xia Finch~"

"Don't forget to turn around and hand a letter of worship to King Zhao."

"In a few days, it will be the birth of the Queen Mother."

"No matter what King Zhao says, he is also the concubine of the queen mother······"

Throwing down this last sentence, Liu Sheng never stopped, stepped out of the store, and walked out of the palace without looking back.

- Liu Sheng, to go.

Because in Weiyang Palace, there is an old man who is less than forty years old, but he is already in his last years, waiting for Liu Sheng.

It's just that after Liu Sheng left, Liu Pengzu, the king of Zhao, still knelt on the ground and cried for a long time, a long time.

Just like back then, the two brothers, who were busy stabilizing food prices, had been talking and laughing here for a long time······