"Who?"

"Xinyang Hou and Guang Ahou?"

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"It's the two of them······"

"How could it be the two of them······"

Hearing that Liu Sheng first asked a question in a little surprise, and then muttered to himself in disbelief, Ling Xia Que, the eunuch who specially entered the palace to spread the word, only shook his head in confusion.

And when Xia Que respectfully stepped aside and quietly waited for Liu Sheng's instructions, Tianzisheng, who was sitting on the imperial couch, was already in trouble.

Xinyang Hou Lu talks, Guang A Hou Ren Dan.

- Liu Sheng didn't expect that the first to react and the first to walk into Weiyang Palace to meet were these two people.

Xinyang Hou Lu Tan is the sixth grandson of the first Xinyang Hou - Huhou Lu Qing.

Speaking of the first generation of Xinyang Huhou Lu Qing and the second generation of Qinghou Lu Chen, they are also among the heroes of the founding of the Han Dynasty, a typical 'father and son soldier who went into battle'.

Like the Quzhou Hou Lishang and Liji father and son in a similar situation: Lu Qing and Lu Chen's father and son are also typical representatives of 'both father and son are the founding fathers, and the merits of the two are awarded to the father together, and then the son is the son of Hou Shizi'.

In the second year of Qin II, that is, in 208 BC, Chen Sheng, the founder of Zhang Chu's regime and the initiator of the Daze Township Uprising, was killed by the chauffeur Zhuang Jia, and the Qin Ping rebel army under Zhang Han immediately captured the capital of Zhang Chu: Chen Yi.

But soon after, that is, after Zhang Han led the main force to continue to advance eastward, leaving only part of the troops to garrison Chenyi, the second generation of Xinyang Marquis Lu Chen, organized the Cangtou Army in Xinyang County;

With a group of gray-haired 'quasi-elderly' people, Lü Chen quickly recovered Chenyi, killed Zhuang Jia who betrayed Chen Sheng, and re-established the Zhang Chu regime in Chenyi.

Knowing this drastic change, the left and right lieutenants of the Qin court stationed in Lantian attacked Chen County again, and the gap between the two sides was too large, and Lü Chen was defeated and went south;

After that, the soldiers gathered again, and met with the great thief Yingbu of Fanyi, and the two armies united to the north, counterattacked the left and right captains of the Qin state, defeated the Qin army in Qingbo, and re-established the Zhang Chu regime in Chen County.

During the renovation of Chenyi, Lü Chen and Yingbu heard that Xiang Liang had pacified Huiji County and was crossing the Huai River to the west, so they decided to attach themselves to Xiang Liang.

Xiang Liang, who was well aware of the importance of Chen Sheng's 'anti-Qin banner', followed Fan Zeng's advice after implementing the news of Chen Sheng's death from Lü Chen and Yingbu, and decided to support Xiong Xin, a descendant of the Chu royal family and the son of Xiong Xin, the king of Chu Huai, as the king of Chu Huai.

Soon after, Lü Chen, Liu Bang, Yingbu and others cooperated with Xiang Liang and were able to support Xiong Xin as the king of Chu Huai.

In September of the second year of Qin II, Xiang Liang was defeated and killed by the Qin general Zhang Han in Dingtao County. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, who were attacking Waihuang at that time, received the news that Xiang Liang had died in battle, and the soldiers were immediately in turmoil;

After discussion, Liu and Xiang decided to lead their troops back to the east with Lü Chen—Xiang Yu was stationed to the west of Pengcheng, Lü Chen was stationed to the east of Pengcheng, and Liu Bang was stationed in Dangxian.

Huaiwang Xiongxin was afraid of the military strength of the Qin State, so he incorporated the armies of Lu Chen and Xiang Yu under his own command, moved the capital of the Chu State from Xuyi to Pengcheng, appointed Liu Bang as the magistrate of Dangjun, gave him the title of Marquis of Wu'an, and commanded the soldiers and horses of Dangjun;

He also appointed Xiang Yu as the Duke of Lu, gave him the Marquis of Chang'an, and appointed Lu Chen as the Situ of Chu.

As for Lu Chen's father, Lu Qing, he was appointed by King Huai Xiongxin as Ling Yin (equivalent to Xiangguo).

Lü Chen served as Situ, and his father Lü Qing served as Ling Yin, and together with the then Chu State Zuo Yin Xiangbo, the Shangzhu State Chen Ying, and the later Gongao who served as the Zhu State during the Qin attack, they constituted the central decision-making level of the Later Chu regime.

Later, when Huai Wang Xiongxin formulated a military operation against Qin, the veteran generals were not optimistic about being able to attack Guanzhong, so they launched Liu Bang to become the main general of the Qin State in the west, with Song Yi as the general, Xiang Yu as the second general, and Fan Zeng as the last general to go north to rescue Zhao.

In the first year of Prince Qin (206 BC), Liu Bang took the lead in entering the customs and accepted Prince Qin to infant.

Afterwards, Xiang Yu led the army of the princes into the customs, and presided over the division of the princes after the Hongmen banquet in the famous history, and King Huai Xiongxin was respected as the righteous emperor by Xiang Yu.

Subsequently, Xiang Yu forcibly drove Emperor Yi to Chenyi, Changsha County, and the ministers around Emperor Yi gradually betrayed him.

In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu was defeated in Wujiang. Lü Chen's father, Lü Qing, returned to Liu Bang as the commander of Western Chu.

In the first month of the sixth year of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, Lu Chen's father Lu Qing was given the title of Marquis of Xinyang by Liu Bang, with thousands of households, and his credit was equal to that of Chen Ying, Marquis of Tangyi.

The above is the first and second generation of Xinyang Marquis: Lu Qing, Lu Chen's father and son, and all the resumes of the Marquis of Fengche.

Summarizing the resumes of the father and son, it is not difficult to come to such a conclusion;

——The main credit for the father and son to be crowned, or the main reason, is that the son Lu Chen has reinstated the Zhang Chu regime twice, retained Sheji for Chen Sheng, the king of Chu Yin, and re-established the banner for the anti-Qin cause.

At least an attempt to re-erect.

second, the father and son served in the Later Chu regime of King Chu Huai of the Yi Emperor, and served as Ling Yin and Situ respectively;

And the banner played by Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Taizu Gao to attack Xiang Yu was to 'avenge the righteous emperor Chu Huai and make Xiang Yu, the thief of the emperor, pay the price'.

Liu Bang attacked Xiang Yu in the name of 'avenging Emperor Yi', so he naturally had to show concern for Emperor Yi's widows, and even singled out a few typical examples to seal the marquis.

Obviously: Lu Qing and Lu Chen, father and son, are typical examples of just the right size······

Knowing all of the above, the meaning of the three words 'Xinyanghou' is self-evident.

——In the process of the opening of the Han Dynasty, because he was involved with Chen Sheng's Zhang Chu regime and the Hou Chu regime with the ambition of Emperor Yi Chu Huai, he was set up as a model by Emperor Taizu Gao, and was named the widow of a thousand households.

To put it more bluntly, the first and second generations of Xinyanghou are already the 'founding fathers' whose symbolic significance is greater than the actual significance;

And today's Xinyang Marquis Lu Tan is the sixth Xinyang Marquis······

Speaking of Guang'a Hou Ren, the ancestor is Guang'a Yi Hou Ren Ao.

Compared with the first and second generations of Xinyanghou: Lu Qing and Lu Chen, the 'start' process of Guang Ahou is undoubtedly much simpler.

——In the last years of the First Emperor, Liu Bang, the head of the Pei Surabaya Pavilion, was dispatched by the county government to escort a group of laborers and prisoners to Guanzhong to build the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Lishan.

On the way, three or two young men escaped at night, causing the entire labor and young strong team to fall into the embarrassing situation of 'even if they arrived at Lishan on time, they would be executed because of the lack of number'.

The Surabaya Pavilion Chief, who is in charge of escorting the team, is naturally also among them.

So, Liu Bang reluctantly gathered the rest of the people and told everyone bitterly: If a few people run away, even if we reach Lishan, we will all be executed;

Instead of going to great lengths to go to Guanzhong to die and let the corpse rot in another country, it is better to disperse and find a way out······

After dismissing most of the people, Liu Bang took the remaining few teams who spontaneously followed him and hid on Dangshan, which can be regarded as a fallen grass.

At night, Liu Bang, who was drunk, also made the legendary deeds of 'Red Emperor Son Cutting White Snake', which is familiar to later generations.

And the history of the first generation of Guang Ayi Hou Ren Ao is also based on Liu Bang's fall into the grass as a starting point.

- Liu Bang fell into the grass and was wanted by the Qin court, and the Liu and Lu families, as relatives, naturally couldn't escape the involvement.

Among them, the first to bear the brunt was naturally the only person recorded in the same household registration book as Liu Bang at that time: Gao Hou Lu Pheasant.

The Pei County official came to inquire and learned that Lu Pheasant did not know the whereabouts of her husband, so he disagreed, so he took Lu Pheasant away and put him in the county prison.

As the daughter of Lu Wen, the 'big family', Lu Wen, who has just married and is not yet old and decrepit, also has a unique temperament that belongs to everyone's ladies, and her appearance above the level line.

Such a beauty was locked up in a prison, and the little official who was guarding it couldn't help throbbing in his chest, although he didn't dare to do anything, he still couldn't avoid being provocative and frivolous.

And Ren Ao has always been very respectful, or very 'optimistic' of Liu Bang, a fellow countryman, and when he learned that his sister-in-law was humiliated, of course he was angry;

spent some money to get into the cell;

asked Mrs. Xiang about the name of the little official, so she directly followed Lu Pheasant's finger and beat the little official in the cell!

Although in the end, Ren Ao also squatted in prison for a few days because of this, from God's point of view, compared to the harvest of 'hugging the thigh of Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty', squaggling in prison for a few days is really too much to deserve.

Just a few years later, the first emperor died in the sand dunes, and the second emperor was established, and the world was in turmoil;

Liu Bang, who had already accumulated some men, also responded to the call of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and led the 'righteous army' under his command to fight all the way back to his hometown from Dangshan: Fengpei.

learned what Ren Ao did, and he wrote down Ren Ao's feelings, and since then he has trusted Ren Ao.

Although Ren Ao is really not very capable - at least in that era of fierce people, it seems too ordinary, Liu Bang did not use Ren Ao too much, but because of the past events of that year, Ren Ao was still able to be left in Chu by Liu Bang during the period when Liu Bang led the army to requisition, stationed in the place of Fengpei Longxing.

As a guest, Conglong was appointed as the imperial history, not a relative, nor an old guy like Fan Xu, but Ren Ao was still left by Liu Bang to guard his hometown;

- The word trust is nothing more than that.

After the Hongmen Banquet, Liu Bang was named the King of Han, and then began to unite the princes of all walks of life to attack Xiang Yu in the east.

At this time, Ren Ao was appointed by Liu Bang as the county guard of Shangdang.

The struggle for hegemony between Chu and Han came to an end, Liu Han stood up, and was sent to the acting minister Chen Feng to raise troops to rebel, and the party guarded the city of Ao, which won enough time for Taizu to conquer and quell the rebellion, and was awarded the title of marquis with 1,800 households.

Later, Liu Bang died, filial piety Liu Ying succeeded to the throne, Empress Dowager Lu took power in the dynasty, and Ren Ao also worked in the position of the imperial historian for three years before being replaced by Empress Lu's cronies: the second Pingyang Marquis Cao Ji.

It's just that compared to the efforts of the ancestors, or luck, Ren Ao's descendants have perfectly inherited the mediocrity of the ancestors, and they have not been able to inherit the 'good luck' of the ancestors at all.

Ren Ao's son, Marquis Ren Jing, was crowned by Emperor Xiaowen of Taizong for three years, and until the twenty-fourth year of Emperor Taizong, he never held any official position for twenty-one years;

And Ren Ao's grandson, the current third Guang'a Hou Ren Dan, has not been appointed to a position of even one hundred stones since Emperor Taizong's twenty-fourth year of succession.

In other words: the third generation of Guang Ahou has been marginalized by the power center of the Han court, and he is already the marquis of Kongliuche, but he is not able to set foot in the decision-making level of the top of the power pyramid.

And this is also the reason why Liu Sheng was so surprised by the arrival of these two people······

"The Xinyang Marquis lineage is the archway set up by Emperor Taizu Gao in order to take care of the old and young of Chen Sheng, the king of Chu Yin, and the ambition of the king of Chuhuai;"

"Now that it has been passed down to the sixth generation, it can only hold those 1,000 households and wait for death."

"Although Guang Ahou can be regarded as a rich and abundant Yuancong, it has only been passed down for three generations, but it is not comparable to the Marquis of Jiang and the Marquis of Wuyang."

"If you pass it on for another three or two generations, I'm afraid that there will be a gentleman who will commit a crime and lose the ······ of the country."

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"It's the two of them······"

"The first to react was actually the two of them······"

Muttering to himself, Liu Sheng finally turned around from his thoughts and looked indifferently at Xia Que beside him.

"Outside the gate of the palace, Xinyang Hou and Guang Ahou, have you ever made it clear what you wanted?"

Hearing this, Xia Que only thought about it for a while, and then shook his head with a determined face;

Then, he pursed his lips with some hesitation.

"Not really."

"It's just that on the way to the slave, I met Lang Zhongling who was about to leave the palace, and I exchanged a few words with the slave."

"According to Lang Zhongling, these two people may have joined forces to enter the palace in order to persuade His Majesty to quickly carry out the imperial examination······"

As Xia Que's voice fell, Liu Sheng pondered for a while, and finally nodded slowly.

The intention of these two people, Liu Sheng had already guessed eight or nine;

got the news from Xia Que again, and he was completely convinced of his guess.

- These two people were the first to react.

The first to understand the imperial examination is not something that the peasant Qianshou can mix at all, but a green channel opened by Liu Sheng specifically for the meritorious relatives and nobles and those scholars in the eastern part of the country, so these two people will come so impatiently, please see Liu Sheng, and persuade Liu Sheng: The imperial examination should be early!

As for the reason······

"The longer the time drags on, the more disciples and protégés of 'everyone' and 'celebrities' in Kanto will get the news;"

"The sooner you take the exam, the fewer candidates who can come to Chang'an from Kanto to take the exam, and the more opportunities there are for the children of the Marquis of Chang'an······"

"Such a simple truth, the first to react was actually these two people?"

"Or do you mean that apart from these two, everyone else doesn't care about the future of their children and nephews at all?"

After frowning and thinking for a moment, Liu Sheng finally shook his head in confusion and temporarily put aside the doubts in his heart.

Finally, after a little more muttering, Fang raised his hand, rubbed the bottom of his lower lip with the tip of his index finger, and said indifferently: "Tell Xinyang Hou and Guang Ahou: I already know the intentions of these two people." ”

"It's just that I have heard it: if there are few people, it is light; The crowd is also important. ”

"The imperial examination is about the dynasty of the country, and I dare not act arbitrarily."

"If the Marquis of Xinyang and the Marquis of Guang can find a few more 'highly respected' meritorious relatives and nobles, they will enter the palace together to face the holy ······"