The Son of Heaven is not immortal, the Son of Heaven cannot cultivate the Tao, he can only cultivate martial arts, and although martial arts cultivation is strong in combat effectiveness, it is difficult to live forever. Emperor Wu's lifespan is only a hundred years, which restricts the Son of Heaven in the world.

But his father achieved the martial god, but he sought immortality, and his lifespan was 5,000 years.

With such a father on top, the pressure is huge.

The crown prince Liu Jiang felt very embarrassed, but he was more silent, and vaguely, he felt the undercurrent surging, and under the prosperous age, there were waves of undercurrents surging. Those immortals were forced to ascend, but the forces under their command were not convinced and were making trouble.

The nobles, the heroes, were persuaded by their father to retire early and stayed away from the center of power, and there were certainly rich rewards as a price. But the nobles are still dissatisfied, and they are still brewing a counterattack, wanting to use the north to attack the Huns and expand their influence;

The civil servants are taken care of, but they are suppressed by cool officials, and their lives are not easy, and they always want to expand their rights.

In order to fight against his father, these two forces supported him and seized power from his father.

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Luoyang City!

In the early dynasty, hundreds of officials appeared one after another, and hundreds of officials were silent.

"The emperor has arrived!"

With the shout, the ministers shouted solemnly.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Many courtiers paid homage to the Tao.

"All the ministers are exempt from courtesy!"

Liu Xiu said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Everyone said in unison.

The military generals of Wenchen began to step forward and talk about big things.

After a long time, a courtier stepped forward and said: "Western Regions, Che Chi Guo requested the establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate, and asked the prince to be a hostage and send troops to sweep away the Xiongnu!" Willing to pay tribute......"

It's about the annexation of the Western Regions.

The Western Regions are unstable, and Kyushu is uneasy.

The Western Regions, the barrier related to Kyushu, was extremely important to the imperial court, and it was also the frontier against the Xiongnu.

Liu Xiu was silent.

There was a military general Ma Wu again, who stepped forward and said: "There is a Xiongnu Koubian, who invaded the northern counties, and they all suffered from it." Please Your Majesty crusade against it, establish immortal merits, and become the name of an emperor of all ages! ”

Liu Xiu said: "I know! ”

Ma Wu stepped back and said no more.

Half an hour later, the pilgrimage ended.

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The court meeting was over, and Liu Xiu was eating.

"Meet my father!"

The prince stepped forward.

"I'll sit down!" Liu Xiu said.

"Yes!"

The prince sat down, stepped forward and picked up a bowl of rice to eat.

This is dragon tooth rice!

Dragon's tooth rice is the food of the immortals. In the past, even the heavenly immortals were unwanted, and they were extremely rare; But what his father had from his adventures became a common food for the rich and noble. Because of the dragon tooth rice, it also increased a lot in the imperial court, the number of Martial Saint Wu Emperor.

Originally, with his qualifications, at the age of twenty, it would be good to be congenital; But because he was born in the royal family, he is a prince, and he has the help of dragon teeth and rice, but he became a martial saint early.

Eat without sleeping!

After breakfast, Liu Xiuhou walked around the garden and said, "Prince, how about setting up the Western Regions Protectorate?" ”

The crown prince Liu Jiang was silent, and after a while, he said: "Twenty years of recuperation and recuperation, the national strength is abundant, and it is enough to fight back against the Xiongnu." Under the command of my father, there are many famous generals, who are good at fighting on the battlefield, which is enough to defeat the Huns and establish meritorious deeds through the ages! ”

"Besides, my father is a martial god, and he is already invincible!"

Liu Xiu smiled.

I have to say that the name of the Martial God is too deterrent.

It is equivalent to the nuclear weapons in the previous life, as long as there are nuclear weapons, it is almost invincible.

With nuclear weapons, *** is safe, and without nuclear weapons, it may become Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi.

It's just a martial god, and you can't shoot easily.

The only thing worthy of the martial god's action is the heavenly immortals.

As for the others, it is not worth his shot. Mortals, mortals went to the knot. If you really want him to make a martial god move, winning is equivalent to losing.

"My son, I am already a martial god, and soon after, I will fly to the immortal realm, and the country will still be left to you. Whether it's good or bad, it's all your pot! Liu Xiu said with a smile: "As the crown prince, you should not be forced by blood and tears, not be confused by interests, and always know what you need!" ”

"The world says that I am a merciful emperor, but I am merciful to your mother, and to those friends, and to you; But those ministers, eating the emperor's grain, are filling their own pockets, but they are doing nothing, I don't mind sending them to death! ”

Liu Xiu sneered, he is benevolent, but he is not a bad person at all.

What is an emperor?

Nearest the king nearest the gallows!

I want to kick my nose in front of the tiger, and I don't mind sending you to death.

"Those small countries in the Western Regions, to put it bluntly, are grass on the wall, and the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty are constantly swinging, but they are actually unreliable!" Liu Xiu said: "Don't do everything! If the emperor has done everything, the courtiers will be fine; If the emperor does everything, the crown prince will be fine! ”

"The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade! I'll plant a tree, you go and enjoy the shade! ”

Prince Liu Jiang understood in his heart and understood something in an instant.

The establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate, the Northern Expedition to the Huns, etc., these things can be done by the father, can be done well, and can also lay the prestige of the first emperor through the ages.

But the father can't do this.

If his father had done all these things, he would have nothing to do when he ascended the throne as emperor.

An emperor has nothing to do, which means living in the shadow of the previous emperor for the rest of his life, it means that he cannot suppress his old ministers, he cannot establish his own majesty, and it means that his authority will be suppressed or even hollowed.

Therefore, the emperor should leave a few enemies for the crown prince, and let these enemies become the whetstone of the prince. When the crown prince ascends the throne, kill these enemies, establish his own coercion, and establish his prestige.

Thinking of this, Liu Jiang immediately said: "Thank you father!" ”

"Fighting a war is nothing more than fighting national strength. As long as the national strength is abundant, as long as you don't make big mistakes, it is not difficult to destroy the Huns! Liu Xiu said: "But I won't do it." When I leave and you ascend the throne, you can set an example and establish majesty! ”

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The prince withdrew happily.

Liu Xiu smiled, what he said to the prince just now was just one of the reasons.

There is another reason, which is to rectify the internal situation.

If you want to fight the war and the Northern Expedition against the Huns, you must compromise internally, win over the family internally, be gentle with those hostile factions, and appropriately abandon the interests of the royal family, as for the people, they can only be sacrificed.

This is the price of foreign wars.

And the so-called prosperous era is actually blown out by literati. The prosperity of the era requires a certain amount of time to accumulate, and it cannot be restored in just 20 years. Now, it is only a temporary recovery, the people have barely entered the stage of food and clothing, and various contradictions have eased slightly.

If we can't talk about the security of the country and the people, there may be a slight natural disaster, which will bring a huge disaster.

If you want to continue to develop, you must suppress the family, and you must implement the land order, clear the land, and clean up the hidden population...... And this undoubtedly touched the key point of the family.

The family will inevitably fight back, and at that time, most of the courtiers in the court will be affected, and many nobles will also be affected, and they may rebel...... Any bad situation can arise. These also doomed the Northern Expedition to the Xiongnu to be impossible. In the next 20 years, we will inevitably focus on the interior and focus on the field.

The Northern Expedition to the Xiongnu was still the Dutian Order.

It must be one or the other.

Liu Xiu chose Dutian Ling.