At the insistence of the crown prince Liu Sheng, Queen Jia's birthday was still proud. For this slightly 'extravagant' birthday, neither the Empress Dowager Dou of Changle Palace nor the Son of Heaven of Weiyang Palace showed the slightest displeasure.

The reason is nothing more than the words of the Empress Dowager Dou when Liu Sheng went with the idea of 'organizing his mother's birthday'.

——If it is not magnificent, it cannot stand mighty. This sentence once came from the mouth of the founding prime minister Xiao Cheng to explain why the two palaces of Changle and Weiyang are so 'majestic', and it became a solid basis for the Empress Dowager Dou to explain the queen's birthday and why she wanted to be magnificent.

Empress Dowager Dou told Liu Sheng: When the first emperor was still alive, the annual birthday of 'Empress Dou' was also a great event, and everyone in the world knew that she couldn't get it; until the death of the first emperor, the Empress Dowager Dou changed her face of 'indulging in pleasures' in the past, and when it came to topics such as celebrations and banquets, she would not leave a 'legacy of the first emperor' and 'Taizong's legacy'.

At the end of the day, it's just a matter of ass. - The queen is the lord of the harem, the manager of the concubines and concubines in the palace, and the mother of the princes and princesses.

Therefore, in activities similar to birthdays and celebrations, the first thing the queen needs to ensure is to maintain her honor and show her status.

To put it more bluntly, it is to use the celebration cost that far exceeds the specifications to tell the people in the palace very bluntly: I am the master of the harem!

And after the emperor died and the queen became the queen mother, she no longer needed to use such a clumsy way to show her status.

Queen Mother, why Queen Mother? - because it is his own son who sits on the throne. This means that as long as the son sits firmly on the throne, the queen mother will be able to die in the position of the queen mother.

After all, all dynasties have only heard of the abolished queen and queen, and have not heard of the 'abolished queen mother' of which dynasty, which generation or country, right?

"Prince, take care of it."

"Look, the queen has few birthdays, and she can do it so wantonly······" With the words of Empress Dowager Dou, Liu Shengzi spared no effort to hold a sensational birthday for his mother Empress Jia to stir public opinion in Chang'an.

At the dinner, Tianzi Qi was very happy; Not only did he drink a few more glasses, but he even stayed in the pepper room after not seeing him for many years, and chatted with Queen Jia for half the night.

And after this queen's birthday, the entire Chang'an court inside and outside was suddenly enveloped by a strange atmosphere.

- Spring River Plumbing, Duck Prophet. As the most outstanding elite group of this era, Chang'an Chaotang was the first to realize the abnormality.

More and more people are beginning to realize: Tianzi Qi is really old·······

"Old?"

"Hey!"

"A few of our brothers, the youngest, that's seven out of fifty!"

"Your Majesty, who is less than forty years old, who is the old man?" Shanglin Garden, outside the dormitory of Sixian Garden.

It's still those old men, it's still the old tree, it's still the ridge; It was still Tianzi Qi and Liu Sheng, who were still sitting on the ridge and talking to those old men.

After all, this should be the third time that Liu Sheng was taken under this old tree by the Son of Heaven to talk to these old men.

For the first time, Liu Shengshang was just a 'son's victory', so he could only stand obediently on the side and listen to Tianziqi talking with a few old men.

It wasn't until Tianzi Qi took the initiative to ask that Liu Sheng recounted the provisions on straw tax in the Han Law out of the consideration of 'don't embarrass this stingy ghost'.

When he came for the second time, Liu Sheng was already a 'prince win'. That time, although Liu Sheng didn't get any opportunity to speak, he also extracted a lot of key information from the seemingly casual and really brief 'bitter speed' of several old men.

So far, the most effective money and grain policy for Prince Sheng is the fruit of Liu Sheng's 'meeting'.

Today, for the third time. This is the third time that Liu Sheng has been led by the Son of Heaven to meet and talk with these old men.

What exactly he wants to talk about, Liu Sheng is not very clear. But judging from the state of the Son of Heaven, Liu Sheng can roughly assert: next time, Liu Sheng may have to come alone to visit these old men; And Liu Sheng at that time is likely to no longer be the 'prince Sheng'······

"Alas~"

"Old~"

"Although I am not very old, after so many years, I have long been crushed by the courage of the sect."

"The imperial doctor said that you should calm down and recuperate, stay away from alcohol and sex, or don't ask about the government."

"Huh······"

"The body of the dignified son of heaven, but he ended up with a 'don't ask about the government', what is the difference between that and death······ Tianzi Qi sighed for a while, which also caused several old men to naturally remove the smiles on their faces, and slowly nodded their heads full of melancholy.

"yes······"

"I think back then, when Emperor Taizu Gao got into trouble, although he was forty-nine years old, he was also wise and martial;"

"That spirit is like a half-grown child!"

"As a result, I became an emperor, and after only seven years of hard work, I was overwhelmed by the world and couldn't stand up······

"When the first emperor entered Chang'an from the Dai Dynasty, he was also in his early twenties, and he was full of spirit."

"Although he reigned for twenty-seven years, in retrospect, the first emperor was also in his thirties, and he was weighed down by this burden."

"In the last few years, it was completely under His Majesty's 'crown prince to supervise the country', and the first emperor was able to rest and recuperate for a while······" In the silence, an old man was full of melancholy sighs, which only caused everyone present to nod their heads, undoubtedly feeling extremely agreed with the old man and the previous words of Tianzi Qi.

So far, Fan Han has been established for more than 50 years; In the past 50 years, Liu Hansheji has encountered countless difficulties and difficulties.

From the establishment of Taizu Han to the peace with the people in today's Qiwei Yahai, in just fifty years, there have been at least three major changes that may have subverted Liu Hansheji!

- For the first time, it was Emperor Taizu Gao who was trapped in the siege of Baideng, and the Han family almost lost the founding king in that Han-Hungarian war!

If the Xiongnu did not judge the situation and fled north before being surrounded by counter-encirclement, but fell into the siege of Baideng Taizu Liu Bang, then maybe Liu Han Sheji would really become a shorter-lived dynasty than Yingqin, who died II.

After all, no matter how you say it, the people are still dying, aren't they? - The second time, it was the death of the Empress Dowager Lü, and the Zhulu rebellion in which the princes and ministers wanted to subvert Liu Han Sheji, and were finally eliminated by the princes and ministers.

And in that turmoil, whether it was Zhu Lu's nephew who successfully subverted Liu Han Sheji, or Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and others who pacified Zhu Lu had undeserved thoughts, it was enough for Liu Han Sheji to be lost in the hands of Taizu Liu Bang's grandchildren.

Even later, after the first emperor succeeded to the Great Unification from the Dai Dynasty, if he did not make the right move, it would inevitably cause an unprecedented disaster for the Han family······ The third time, naturally, was the Wu Chu Rebellion that broke out after Ziqi succeeded to the throne today.

Although the final result of the Wu-Chu Rebellion was the Taiwei Zhou Yafu's dimensionality reduction and blow, and the Wu-Chu Seven Kingdoms Rebellion was pacified in March, in fact, the situation at that time was already so bad that 'Liu Hanzong's life hung by a thread'.

Nothing else is needed; Let's just say that back then, if Liu Bi decided not to go west after holding hostage the soldiers and horses of most of the princes of the Kwantung clan, then Liu Han would instantly return to the era called 'Chu and Han hegemony' before Taizu established the Han Dynasty.

——After the defeat of Taizu Pengcheng, the Chu and Han dynasties fought for hegemony, that is, with the Liangdu Suiyang-Xingyang line as the boundary, with the Han in the west and Chu in the east.

What's more, once the main force of Liu Bi's Wu-Chu coalition army broke through Suiyang, or even just bypassed Suiyang, and let a vanguard of about 1,000 people appear outside Hangu Pass, and the Son of Heaven who sat firmly in the Weiyang Palace of Chang'an, he would immediately 'Mu Monkey and crown'······ In addition to these three major changes that are enough to subvert the Han family sect, similarly, the changes that are relatively harmless have never been broken.

- Emperor Taizu Gao, Liu Bangrong, lived his life, became an emperor for seven years, and spent his entire emperor career and last life, eradicating all the princes with different surnames in the Han family; - Liu Ying, the emperor of filial piety, did not seem to have encountered major changes, but the actual situation was that Liu Ying was defeated in the political power struggle and ended up depressed before Liu Ying had the qualifications and authority to 'deal with changes'.

As for the two emperors before and after, although they did not cause or face changes, the burden that should have been shouldered by the Emperor of Han was on the shoulders of the Empress Dowager Lu.

In order to take good care of the Han family, the Empress Dowager Lu bears and shoulders no less than any Han emperor, including Emperor Taizu Gao.

Then to the first emperor, in his early twenties, he ran from the country to Chang'an to 'join the unification'; as a result, the throne under his ass was not yet hot, and he found that his 'son of Han Tian', but he could not even control his own forbidden army.

In desperation, the first emperor first introduced 'General Wei' to replace Wei Wei in order to initially ensure the safety of his life, and then through a series of political means, he started from scratch and took back power from his hands little by little.

During this period, Liu Xingju, the king of Jibei, raised troops, and Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, 'failed to raise troops', which seemed to be trivial matters that were not worth mentioning.

And when Ziqi succeeded to the throne today, the broken chessboard of the year finally waited for its own reckoning······

"Whew~~~······"

"Since Taizu established the Han Dynasty, for more than 50 years, my Han family can be described as a blue thread, and there have been many great changes."

"The first emperors of the past dynasties worked hard to govern the country, and when they arrived in me, they passed on to the sixth generation;"

"But there are still the Xiongnu in the north and Zhao Tuo in the south, ready to bite off a piece of meat and suck out a mouthful of blood on my Han family at any time······" Speaking with melancholy, Tianzi Qi turned sideways slightly, lying on his side under the roots of the tree without caring about the image, pointed at Liu Sheng not far away, and smiled a little self-deprecatingly.

"It's all babies······"

"Born in a farmer's household, a baby at this age is a pawn;"

"Born in Gaomen, at such an age, he must be a general who controls thirty or fifty people."

"Even if you were born in the royal family, you can't escape the fate of either being crowned a king or being a prince."

"But at such an age, in which dynasty and generation, they are all babies······" As he spoke, Tianziqi shook his head with a wry smile and withdrew his gaze from Liu Sheng.

Just a moment later, Tianzi Qi's fingers, which were already a little weak, even so weak that they trembled slightly, pointed at Liu Sheng again.

As for Tianzi Qi's gaze, it fell on the few old men who were next to him and were also lying on their sides under the roots of the tree.

"This kid, that's good."

"That's good."

"At this age, I'm not doing as well as this kid······" Seeing that Tianzi Qi became more and more sad and melancholy, and the atmosphere became more and more gloomy, among those old men, one of them suddenly opened his mouth to enliven the atmosphere.

"Hi~"

"Look at that;"

"Which family's baby can smash a relative's kid to death with a chessboard at the age of a teenager?"

"Speaking of which, anyone who is obedient and at such an age is more well-behaved than His Majesty back then!" The old naughty boy obviously made some deliberate ridicule, but it did not attract everyone's laughter as expected; only instinctively gnawed and laughed twice, and everyone's eyes were already a little sad, and they fell on Tianziqi again.

- Everyone, also realized; Realizing that the Son of Heaven may have died soon; Realizing that today, it is likely to be a farewell for everyone to the Son of Heaven and this 'old friend'······

"After a hundred years, if this kid is stubborn or disrespectful to the Queen Mother, you brothers, remember to persuade you."

"Alas~"

"Who doesn't have a young man, fresh clothes and angry horses?"

"If there really is such a day, a few old brothers, for the sake of my old face and Emperor Xiaowen of the former Taizong, help this kid·········." A few simple words caused several old men to turn their heads away and scatter their eyes in all directions, although they all pretended to turn a deaf ear, but they were all old tears.

But seeing that Tianzi Qi was silent for a moment, he smiled a little freely; turned his head sideways, glanced at Liu Sheng deeply, and wiped the tears on his face.

"Hey!"

"You boy, Ann?!"

"I'm like this, but I still have to worry about you bastard!"

"I can't save my worries and ???"...

"These old things are all in my heart!"

"If you have something to hold in your heart, you can't tell the people around you, so come and talk to these old guys!"

"Keep your mouth tight, don't be like a stunned blue, say anything!"

"Even if you are frank, there are always some words that cannot come out of the mouth of the Son of Heaven."

"Did you hear that?" After a few words, the tears that Tianzi Qi had just wiped away returned to the tired and sick face again; As for the old men on the side, even though they were already using all their strength to suppress it, they still couldn't hold back their crying.

Under the gaze of the Son of Heaven, Liu Sheng was like a statue, stunned in place, unable to come back to his senses for a long time; Only those two lines of unexplained tears can prove: this is really the crown prince's victory; And not the statue of Prince Sheng······