Just a few days after the edict to send the princes to the country was issued, Liu Heng's dragon case was full of notes from the princes.

Liu Heng carefully read all the songs, and his brows suddenly tightened. The ministers not only objected, but also some of them were heartbroken, and some of them were obvious, almost without exception, pointing the finger at Jia Yi. It was expected by Liu Hengde to encounter a strong resistance, but he never expected that even Prime Minister Zhou Bo, Taiwei Guan Baby, and Imperial Doctor Feng Jing Sangong would join the opposition without exception.

Liu Heng took a breath of cool air, if the stalemate between the two sides continues, the contradiction will inevitably deepen, and if it is ignored, it will not benefit the country. Moreover, if this matter could not be supported by the three important ministers, it would be almost impossible to make the trip.

Negligence, Liu Heng was a little confused, why did the ministers of the Zhu Kingdom oppose this matter that was beneficial to the country? I'm afraid that they are not only as simple as talking about things, but what is even more puzzling is that most of the ministers who are involved in Jia Yi's participation do not care whether it is good or bad and oppose it for no reason. Although Jia Yi's personality is too intense, and his practical talent remains to be seen, his talent for argumentation is undoubtedly conclusive, and his heart for the country and the people is also admirable. On top of the temple, if the great talent can't gain a foothold, then won't my Han temple become a place of decay?

Liu Heng leaned on the couch, closed his eyes slightly, frowned, and turned over the river and sea in his heart, thinking hard about a good plan.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, took out a stick, wrote on it, "Be cautious and slow down, stand up and solidify", and dictated, and asked the chamberlain to pass on the decree to Jia Yi. In Liu Heng's view, it is important to enrich the country and enrich the people, and the stability of the court is also important, and the two do not matter which is more important, they can only complement each other. In the current situation, some mitigation is necessary. This is the opportunity he gave Jia Yi.

When the chamberlain came back to resume his life, Liu Heng breathed a sigh of relief. Liu Heng once again fell into deep thought, thinking about what to do next. Suddenly, he suddenly remembered another lesson from Jia Yi before, on accumulation and sparseness.

Liu Heng took out the song again, read it carefully, looked at it, and said, "Well done!" Cang Liao knows etiquette... If you have more money and more money, why can't you do it? If you attack, you will take, if you stick to the rules, and if you fight, you will win".

Reading this, Liu Heng's brows suddenly relaxed, and he had a feeling of sudden enlightenment, the emperor's achievements are not limited to the government, and isn't it also a great achievement to benefit the country and the people? The affairs of the liehous must be solved, but there is no need to rush forward, and a gentle advance is the best policy. It is better to make breakthroughs in other aspects and open up a new world.

Liu Heng laughed, and he happily shouted to the outside of the hall: "Come here, pass the decree, on the day of Meng Chun, I want to cultivate the fields myself!" ”

Pro-cultivation of the land was originally Jia Yi's meaning, and Liu Heng adopted this suggestion today, and the intention is self-evident. He wants to let the ministers understand the importance he attaches to Jia Yi, and he wants to send a signal to the world that agriculture is the foundation.

The motive for restoring the field ceremony is noble, but it is enough for officials at all levels of the court to toss for a while, after all, it is the first time in the Han Dynasty that the field ceremony cannot be neglected, and the field etiquette itself is very cumbersome and complicated, and there are not many people who understand. If you don't care to master the various details of etiquette, when the time comes, you will lose your appearance, and it will not be your colleagues who will laugh at you, but even the ordinary people who are watching will have to laugh. This made the attention of the officials suddenly shift to the gift of Jitian.

Let's start with a few introductions.

Jitian, that is, the national public land. The field ceremony is one of the etiquettes that ancient society attaches great importance to, because it is related to everyone's belly problem.

As the saying goes, the power of leadership is endless. The Son of Heaven personally cultivated the fields, that was to set an example to the world, in order to show that the imperial court attached importance to farming, the emperor set an example, and naturally attracted special attention.

Before the Jitian ceremony was held, Taichang selected the auspicious day of the month of Meng Chun, determined the date on which the emperor held the Jitian ceremony, and the relevant departments began to make all preparations according to the selected date. For the first three days, the Daisi Nongfu will use a green box made of bamboo and wood to fill the seeds of the nine grains used in the field ceremony.

On the day of the ceremony, Jiryo had to lay out the mattress at the place where the imperial cultivation was located and the emperor's viewing platform. After the emperor held the ceremony of three pushes, the three pushes were to carry the plow back and forth three times, and then he would climb the viewing platform to personally watch the scene of the ministers of civil and military affairs and the common people cultivating their fields.

Jireiro also arranged for the ministers of civil and military affairs to have the seats of the cultivators, which were generally distributed on the east and west sides of the emperor's imperial cultivators. Especially the positions of the three dukes, nine qing, princes and kings and other high-ranking officials. After the three pushes of the Son of Heaven, officials at all levels of the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries have to practice themselves.

These civil and military ministers must rush to the neutral class of Sheji Temple to wait and greet the emperor before dawn on the day of the Tianli ceremony.

On the day of the Tian ceremony, the emperor had to set off early from the Yang Palace, ride on the Pingcha, wear a dragon robe, and be escorted by an honor guard of about 2,000 people, and the procession was mighty. First go to the east of the temple to worship the heaven and earth, then breakfast, and then go to the Jitian Imperial Cultivation House to change clothes, wearing a crown of heaven, wearing a silk robe, taking the jade chariot to stand on the imperial cultivation position, from Taichangqing to the imperial cultivation mattress seat. Then the emperor was given the imperial cultivation tools used by the emperor, which was first held by the deacon, and then given to the emperor to start the three-push ceremony.

After the completion of the emperor's three push ceremony, the ceremonial official invited the emperor to ascend the agricultural altar to watch the cultivation platform and personally observe the scene of the ministers of civil and military affairs and the common people cultivating their native fields. After the ministers' five pushes and nine pushes, the scene of the common people sowing their fields was finally guided by Sinong Shaoqing.

After all the procedures are completed, the emperor can drive back to the palace.

Of course, there are many emperors who have held the home ceremony, and many of them have done it for show.

But Liu Heng is different.

Liu Heng held the home field ceremony, not a pat on the ass and leave, he really regarded the home field as his own responsibility field, in his spare time, Liu Heng will take the queen, ministers, palace maids, and guards to farm and produce some food for sacrifice. Liu Heng cultivated the fields, and Queen Dou raised silkworms and weaved cloth. What is particularly rare is that in addition to plowing the fields by himself, Liu Heng also ordered the ministers and princes and kings to have their own responsibility fields, and go to work in the fields when they don't go to work in the office. If you are diligent with your hands and feet, you can still earn your rations back.

Since Emperor Wen resumed the field ceremony in the second year, the field ceremony will be held every year in the future, and it has never stopped.

If an ignorant brother breaks into the field and happens to meet a group of people wearing hats, holding seedlings in their hands, and barefoot people are busy in the field, the brother not only does not ask for warmth, but snorts a few times, then it will be unlucky.

In addition, if you think that the area of the home field is small, it is a big mistake, according to the "Han Guanyi" record, where the home field is called a thousand acres.

The number of thousands of acres, even in the case of today's mechanical operation, is enough to be busy for a while, not to mention the era of slash-and-burn farming.

The pro-ploughing ceremony did divert everyone's attention, but it made the officials big and small quite nervous, and the ministers had their own responsibilities from now on. If you don't plant it, it's not okay, everyone and the emperor will plant it, how can you be lazy as a courtier?! This is simply a death for bureaucrats at all levels, who have long since been detached from manual labor and pampered and pampered. However, it is not at fault that the Son of Heaven advises farmers to restore their native land, and everyone knows that if there is no common people working hard, where will the taxes of the powerful come from?

Many people complained bitterly, but they didn't dare to oppose it, so they had the feeling of being dumb and suffering from eating Coptis chinensis. The emperor naturally couldn't offend, so they could only point the finger at Jia Yi.

It was Jia Yi's idea to restore his native land, and it was also Jia Yi's idea to send the marquis to the country. The magnates gathered together and gritted their teeth with hatred, saying that this hairy boy would not want to die as an official, and he would have to kill him sooner or later if he deliberately opposed the meritorious heroes and nobles.

Although Jia Yi sensed that the situation was a little isolated, he still adhered to his principles and did things as sharp as a knife.

Jia Yi's original intention was to use the Son of Heaven to personally cultivate the land to curb the increasingly extravagant and back-to-back social atmosphere, but Liu Heng had another deep meaning. Liu Heng not only wanted to take the opportunity to gain the hearts of the people, but more importantly, he wanted to temporarily alleviate the contradictions caused by the imperial court because of sending the princes to the country.

When the old ministers learned that Liu Heng was going to impeach Jia Yi under pressure, they were even more keenly aware that a frontal attack on Jia Yi would not work, and it was better to go off the rails with their swords.

They thought of a person, and this person was called Deng Tong.

Deng Tong, the official supreme doctor. There is no shortage of magical official encounters in Chinese officialdom, and Deng Tong is the most strange of the strange. We often hear a joke that A tells B that I have an annual salary of 10 million. B asks in surprise what you do. A said that he was dreaming. Don't laugh, Deng Tong's official fortune is indeed a dream, and he dreamed of becoming the richest man.

He is a native of Nan'an, Shu County, and his father's name is Deng Xian. The Deng family is honest, so Deng Tong had the opportunity to read when he was a child, but Deng Tong is not a piece of reading material, and he didn't read a few words in the book, but because of his hobby of fishing and shrimp, he has developed a water skill.

After Deng Tong grew up, Deng Xian spent a lot of money to send Deng Tong to Beijing to be a Lang official, according to his specialty, the position was Huangtou Lang who was in charge of the boat.

If there is no adventure, there is no chance of Deng Tong's talent alone, but Deng Tong also has his advantages, others are handsome, standing in the crowd is more outstanding, of course, there is not much chance just by looks, and the probability of a man getting ahead by his looks is very rare!

Deng Tong's nobleman was Emperor Wen. Although Emperor Wen was generous and benevolent, he was superstitious, and one day he suddenly dreamed that he had ascended to the sky, but when he was only one step away, he could not climb up. When he was in a hurry, someone suddenly pushed him from behind Emperor Wen, and when he turned around, he took a closer look at the person who pushed him, only to see that this person had a yellow head and a short shirt, and his clothes were knotted behind him. After Emperor Wen woke up from the dream, he went to Taichung to look for it, and saw that there was only one person in the Huangtou Lang who was tied behind him, and asked the name, called Deng Tong, Emperor Wen suddenly thought that Deng Tong was "Dengtong", and was very happy, thinking that this person was the hero of his ascension, and then looked at Deng Tong's appearance, and he was very handsome, so he naturally liked it very much. Moreover, Deng Tong is gentle and introverted, which is in line with Emperor Wen's taste. So, Emperor Wen kept him by his side.

A famous scholar looked at Deng Tong and said, "He will be so poor that he will starve to death!" Emperor Wen didn't believe it after hearing this, and said, "With me, how can I let him die of poverty?" In order to break the prophecy of Xiangshi, the young Liu Heng gave Yan Dao Copper Mountain to Deng Tong and gave him the right to mint money. Liu Heng's idea is very simple, those who mint money will die of poverty, and then others will live!

Deng Tong has the right to make copper coins, naturally knows that he has the right not to use, and the truth of expiration and invalidation, he drove full power to mint money, and within a few years, Deng's money will pass the world, and Deng Tong is also rich.

At that time, Deng Tong could not have imagined that the prophecy could really come true.

For such a person who relies on his face and dreams to be in a high position, Jia Yi has always scoffed. He hated this kind of courtier, and thought that this kind of person had no serious ability except flattery.

Therefore, he often unceremoniously ridiculed Deng Tong in front of Liu Heng. Although Deng Tong gritted his teeth with hatred, because of his introverted personality and Jia Yi's well-known mouth, arguing with him was self-defeating. Deng Tong often just laughed when he saw Liu Heng, and he was not disgusted. So Deng Tong's best way is that there is no way, he doesn't refute and doesn't retaliate. However, to Jia Yi's surprise, his ridicule helped Deng Tong a lot, and the more Deng Tong was silent, the more Liu Heng trusted Deng Tong.

In Emperor Wen's heart, he knew that Deng Tong did not have the talent of a minister, and he regarded Deng Tong as a playmate. The emperor is also a human being, no matter how dedicated he is, he can't work overtime all day and night, and it's normal to find someone to have fun when he rests. And Emperor Wen also has a hobby, he likes hunting. Whenever there is hunting, he has to bring Deng Tong, Deng Tong has the strength and agility, and he can always help Liu Heng when hunting. This gave Deng Tong a more stable soil, at least Liu Heng could not do without Deng Tong in the entertainment activity of hunting.

Deng Tong was very jealous of Jia Yi in his heart, but because of Liu Heng's respect for Jia Yi, he could only be helpless. Just when he was helpless, the old ministers sent someone into his mansion and brought the meaning of the old ministers. After some deliberation, Deng Tongcai smiled.

Looking at the back of the person who came, he scolded fiercely in his heart, "Jia Yi, you won't be proud for long!" ”

Since accompanying Emperor Wen, he knows very well in his heart how powerful the old ministers are, and even Emperor Wen has to be taboo. Now that Jia Yi has angered the old ministers, isn't this self-defeating? Deng Tong was determined to get rid of this fly that buzzed all day.

With the support of the old courtiers, he Deng Tong naturally didn't have to back down to Jia Yi again and again.

He's going to fight back!

After Deng Tong made up his mind, he often saw the opportunity to talk to Emperor Wen about Jia Yi's disrespectful behavior. To tell the truth, Jia Yi is young and vigorous, a young man who belongs to the category of Fenqing, usually complains a lot, and does not pay attention to uniting colleagues at work, and he has never said anything when he has something to say, and he has to say it if he has nothing to say, and he also chooses to say that if he hadn't met a lenient master like Liu Heng, I am afraid that Jia Yi would have been beaten out with a stick.

Deng Tong constantly collected Jia Yi's small situation and reported it to Emperor Wen.

Deng Tong's cleverness lies in the fact that his small report is not just speculation, he never uses reliable information from so-and-so, according to relevant departments and the like, he has collected small evidence.

Emperor Wen didn't care about it at first, but over time, he was a little concerned, and the foreign minister's evaluation of Jia Yi was not high. Emperor Wen became suspicious of Jia Yi, he suspected that Jia Yi was not a talent, otherwise how could so many people be dissatisfied with him? Those old ministers of the Zhuguo State are not traitors, they are so jealous of Jia Yi, Jia Yi will inevitably be hindered in the court, if they insist on reusing Jia Yi, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to the court situation, but Jia Yi has real talent and learning, and he can't waste his talent.

While Emperor Wen was consciously alienating Jia Yi, he was also considering Jia Yi's suitable position.

Jia Yi was a little stunned, he clearly felt that the emperor no longer trusted him as usual, and he didn't ask him about his views on national affairs as usual.

Jia Yi was very disappointed. In addition to being disappointed, he still insisted on doing one thing, playing sparsely.

In order to stabilize the court situation, in the third year of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Liu Heng issued a decree to Jia Yi, demoted him out of the capital, and went to Changsha to be the prince of Changsha. The intention of choosing Changsha is obvious, Changsha borders Nanyue, and there are frequent border wars, so let Jia Yi go to Changsha to be a fu, not only to assist the king of Changsha, but also to contain Nanyue.

But Jia Yi was obviously overwhelmed by the derogatory sadness, and on the day he left Chang'an full of grief and indignation, he looked at the towering walls of Chang'an City on the Weishui Bridge with tears in his eyes, and couldn't help muttering to himself: "Can you no longer stretch your ambitions?" Will you never be able to step into the capital again? ”

Changsha is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, Jia Yi bumped all the way, when he arrived at the Xiangjiang River, looking at the surging river, the end of the river sprinkled with the afterglow of the setting sun clearly hinted at the sad ending of his life, and he suddenly sighed with emotion, he seemed to see the old man who wore a Chu crown three hundred years ago, a white robe, and white hair like frost walked on the riverside, standing in the wind for a short time, and jumped into the river with the sinking sand.

The birds are not flocked, and they are true from the previous life;

Where can the circle be around, and the husband and wife will be at peace with each other;

bend the heart and suppress the ambition, endure and criticize;

Fu is innocent and straight to death, and the former holy place is thick.

With tears in his eyes, Jia Yi recited Qu Yuan's poems aloud, and couldn't help but feel sad, so he wrote "Hanging Qu Yuanfu" overnight.

Among them, there is a saying, "I don't know what the country is, who does it say alone?" The phoenix drifts away from its height, and it leads away. It can be seen that he is sad and angry.

Jia Yi was demoted, the flies buzzing in the eyes of the magnates finally left, and everyone in the court applauded.

Liu Heng was very unhappy when he learned about the behavior of the magnates, and the court finally cleared up. The magnates were all looking forward to Liu Heng's announcement of the abolition of the edict to send the marquis to the country, but there was no follow-up.

Not long after, Liu Heng gave a clear answer at the court meeting, Jia Yi is one thing, sending the marquis is another, don't misunderstand.

At the same time, an edict was issued to Zhou Bo, which probably means that the work of sending the marquis is not easy to do, the prime minister has worked hard for the country all his life, and it is time to rest.

Zhou Bo had already had the intention of retiring, and he was indeed old, so he no longer insisted and accepted the edict.

What is strange is that when Jia Yi was in charge of the country, there was a lot of uproar and could not be separated, but as soon as Zhou Bo took the lead, the liehou suddenly had nothing to say, and they all went back obediently.