The West Garden is a private paradise built by Liu Hong after he became the emperor, and it is also famous for the "Gong Swimming Hall" that is rumored to be used for swimming.

According to records, Liu Hong and many concubines liked to play without clothes in the West Garden.

In order to escape the heat in the middle of summer, he built a swimming pool, and had green moss collected and covered it on the steps, attracting water to circulate around the thresholds and circulate throughout the pool.

Liu Hong was very lustful again, and then chose a singer with jade skin and a light body, rowing a boat, and swaying in the canal.

In the scorching heat of midsummer, he ordered the boat to sink in the water, watch the jade-like and gorgeous skin of the palace ladies who fell into the water, and then play songs such as "Seven Words of Merchant" to attract cool air.

Outside the swimming pool and in the West Garden, Liu Hong's palace maids can't wear normal clothes, but they have to wear open crotch pants that children can wear, and there is no interior, which is very cool.

It is said that this is convenient for Liu Hong when he is interested, and he can do things quickly anytime and anywhere to avoid wasting time.

The Emperor's time is valuable!

Liu Bei didn't know if there were these famous entertainment facilities in the real West Garden, anyway, what he knew was recorded in the history books, specifically describing Liu Hong's own absurdity.

As for the truth, it is in front of us.

Although the palace lady in front of Liu Bei is gorgeously dressed, full of feminine attractiveness, and easy to attract the attention of men, it has not reached the point of wearing open crotch pants.

Of course, it is also possible that those wearing open crotch pants are in the swimming pool, otherwise Liu Hong would not have let her come out and call them into the West Garden.

The buildings in the West Garden are indeed very luxurious, with strange flowers and plants, rare and exotic beasts, and creatures that Liu Bei has never seen in Youzhou and Luoyang City are everywhere here.

There are not only hunting dogs, rabbits, monkeys, geese, but also lions and tigers.

Many diligent young eunuchs are sweating and serving these exotic beasts and exotic flowers.

Obviously, their lives are worth far more than their lives.

Liu Bei glanced at it a few times, then turned his head away and stopped looking.

The buildings in the West Garden look like four words, graceful and luxurious, even if it is just the private royal garden of the Eastern Han Empire, you can see a bit of grandeur.

It's just that whether such a style can enhance the dominance of the empire, Liu Bei doubts this.

Liu Hong was listening to music and taking a nap in a small palace not far from the main gate at this moment, not in the world-famous swimming pool, probably because of this reason, he heard Liu Bei's shouts outside the West Garden, so he decided to summon Liu Bei.

When the four people who were introduced into the West Garden saw Liu Hong, Liu Hong was lying on the floor in simple casual clothes, and a brightly dressed palace lady behind him fanned him, his face was comfortable and comfortable, and he didn't open his eyes to look at the four people who entered the hall.

"Sit down."

Xu heard something, Liu Hong didn't open his eyes, he opened his mouth and said two words, and the four of them saw a row of seats on both sides of the hall, so Liu Bei helped Guo Hong to the side, Chen Tan and Cao Cao walked to the other side, and the four of them were facing each other, sitting upright, not squinting.

Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong came later, but it was inconvenient to enter the hall because they did not have the permission of the Son of Heaven, so they could only stare dryly on the steps outside the hall, stretching their necks and peeking in, as if their necks were picked up by some indescribable existence, and their appearance was very funny.

Among the four people who entered the hall, Cao Cao was the most breathless, although he was sitting in a precarious position, he peeked at the emperor from time to time, and he didn't know when the emperor would speak.

They had something very important to ask for the Emperor.

But when the emperor saw them, he never spoke, nor asked anything else, but just lay down there to rest...... Don't fall asleep, right?

Cao Cao was anxious.

Among the other three, Chen Tan and Liu Bei are the most calm, and Guo Hong, who sprained his foot, seems to be calm, but his heart is also like Cao Cao, a little worried.

What does this emperor mean?

After a while, Liu Hong straightened up as if he had just gotten up, stretched his waist, let out a comfortable moan, and then smacked his lips, looking very comfortable.

"Naps are always comfortable, so I like naps the most, and I hate people disturbing my naps the most. Yelling at the door to disturb my lunch break? ”

Cao Cao immediately looked at Liu Bei worriedly.

Chen Tan and Guo Hong's faces changed slightly, but they did not move.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's a minister."

Liu Bei took the initiative to get up from his seat, walked to the hall, and saluted Liu Hong.

"Minister, Shang Shutai ordered Shi Liu Bei to meet Your Majesty."

"Liu Bei, Liu Xuande, I've heard of you, your poems are very good, you can write five words well, and you can write seven words, I haven't seen anyone write seven words before, you write well, the whole Luoyang has been spread, and even to me."

Liu Hong supported the ground with one hand, arched one leg, quite a profligate appearance, with a flirtatious smile on his face, and looked completely devoid of the majesty of an emperor.

"Your Majesty praises falsely, poetry is just a pleasant path, and the minister has nothing to do, and occasionally does it."

"Hehehe...... Your surname is Liu, isn't Mo a member of the Han family? ”

Liu Hong asked, and of course Liu Bei answered everything.

"Back to Your Majesty, after the minister is King Jing of Zhongshan, the family has lived in Lousang Village, Zhuo County, Youzhou for generations, my father was a county official, and my grandfather was a county magistrate."

"Oh? After King Jing of Zhongshan? ”

Liu Hong is quite interested in this.

If it is just an ordinary Han clan relative, there are not 100,000 but 99,000 in the world, and there is nothing worth caring about.

However, because Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was himself a descendant of Liu Fa, the son of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Hong was the great-grandson of Liu Xiu's grandson, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, strictly speaking, he also belonged to the aftermath of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty.

Counting it up, the ancestors of Liu Hong and Liu Bei are still two brothers, and if they insist on climbing a relationship, they can climb.

But then again, one side is the emperor, the other side is the broken clan, and the relationship between Pan is a little funny.

But in the end, the two have the same surname and the same ancestry, and this relationship is always a little different.

So Liu Hong asked again: "How old are you?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister is twenty-one years old."

"Well, is there anyone else in the family?"

"My father and ancestor died early, and I was raised by my mother since I was a child, and now my mother is Antai."

"Hmm...... Why are you an official? ”

"The minister was lucky to be valued by Han Taishou of Zhuo County, invited to be his son-in-law, Guanghe for three years, Han Taishou recommended the minister as filial piety, went to Luoyang to pass the re-examination of the government and awarded Lang Guan, Lang Guan's term of office expired, and he was appointed Shang Shutai Lingshi, and he has performed his duties so far."

"Well, it's young and promising."

Liu Hong nodded, quite satisfied with Liu Bei's background.

Since he came up with filial piety, his net worth is innocent, and he is not a protégé of anyone's family, so he retains political autonomy and will not run to death for a certain minister.

There is always more flexibility in dealing with the lords who are filial and honest than the government that summons them to be officials, they do not have to admit death, they are more free, and they can be the courtiers of qualified emperors.

Such a free courtier is the type he likes.

Not to mention that he is still a member of the Han family.

Speaking of which, Liu Hong hates the unspoken rules of officialdom in today's government and the opposition very much, if he is a protégé of others, he will be a man for the rest of his life, and he will not be autonomous unless he rebels, so is this his Liu Hong's courtier, or someone else's courtier?

Isn't this a second minister?

However, the unspoken rules of society are like this, although Liu Hong is the emperor, there is no way to change it.

And even if it changes, scholars are still scholars, with their own families, their own interest orientation, and their own thinking values, and they will not follow the emperor sincerely.

Therefore, in the end, only the eunuchs and the emperor have the same interests, and will sincerely protect the imperial power, and by the way, they will also protect the emperor.

Liu Hong has a normal IQ, he is not stupid, he also summed up some experience after a period of study and observation, and then came to this conclusion, and thus trusted the eunuchs more than the scholar officials, and always felt that the selfishness of the scholar officials was greater than that of the eunuchs, and they were not worthy of trust and trust.

Compared with eunuchs, scholars and officials with many interests and networks behind them are much more complicated.

The other three people here, Situ Chen Tan and Sili Captain Guo Hong, not to mention, are all people with strong family backgrounds.

That Cao Mengde was born in a family of eunuchs, although he was not a scholar family, but the family actively moved closer to the scholars, and the family had a big business, and it began to have inheritance, which was far less good than Liu Bei's small family with only a mother.

If you want to say that the emperor's favorite courtier, there is no one more than a courtier of this kind of background.

With an inexplicable good feeling, Liu Hong asked Liu Bei about some family information and childhood background.