Hanbo

Chapter 356 The matter of Cao Zong’s reduction of household closures (4.1K)

The three of them left the gate of the mansion and walked slowly towards Changping Hou's mansion.

"Have you really made up your mind? Don't regret it after you're done."

Cao Zong shook his head:
"I listen to you and don't regret it."

"That's more than 3 households!" Gongsun Jingsheng couldn't help interjecting.

"It's okay, just hand over the ones left by the ancestors. I'll just keep my own military achievements. Keeping these is just raising a bunch of insects that will harm the country and the people, and I won't get much."

Gongsun Jingsheng continued:

"If it's dealt with, it will be fine. That's more than 3 households."

After finishing speaking, Gongsun Jingsheng turned his head to look at Huo Shan, and Huo Shan also understood what he meant.

"As soon as my aunt and grandma leave, His Majesty will definitely take action. Even if I want to keep my life safe and avoid major accidents, I can't keep these towns, and..."

Huo Shan turned his head to look at Gongsun Jingsheng, stared at him and said:
"Gongsun Jingsheng, I am now that your tail is really standing up!"

Gongsun Jingsheng immediately widened his eyes and called Qu:

"Where do I have it?"

Then he muttered in a low voice:

"And you have 3 households, what happened to Cao Zong's [-] households?"

"Hmph, you compare me with him, Cao Zong, do you think you are comparable?"

Cao Zong immediately shook his head again and again:

"That's definitely incomparable."

Just at this moment, seeing three people coming, Wei Fu, who was driven out from the mansion after the notification, walked forward to salute.

Huo Shan raised his hand to help him up:

"You don't need to be too polite, go tell your uncle and grandmother, and say that you will eat here tonight."

Then he ignored Wei Fu, turned his head and looked at Gongsun Jingsheng while walking:

"Did you see a problem?"

"Ok?"

"You are too greedy. You just took office as a servant yesterday, and there are five new bloody horses in the courtyard of your mansion. You dare to take His Majesty's horses. You are so powerful!

Do you really regard His Majesty as your uncle?Is there a point for you in this world?
Didn't I give you a BMW?Let me ask you, what is the use of being greedy so much? "

Gongsun Jingsheng was a little surprised, but he was only surprised that Huo Shan knew about his taking the horse, and he arranged for all his cronies.

As for the others, he didn't take them to heart, they were just a few horses.

As for Huo Shan's reprimand, it was the same. Since joining the army, Huo Shan's reprimands from time to time made his ears callused, and now he is automatically immune.

Regarding this, Huo Shan can only say that you are a fool, who grew up together, which of your cronies I don't know?
You are so brave that you dare to take His Majesty's royal horse. It doesn't mean that others are not frightened by this crime of decapitation.

They didn't dare to go to Liu Che, and they didn't dare to go to Gongsun He, so they naturally came to Huo Shan who was closer.

It was not until today that Huo Shan understood the profound meaning of the saying that the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.

Originally, he thought that Gongsun Jingsheng had changed his temperament, because he was very good in the army, and he was really capable in his work.

Unexpectedly, this time Chang'an suddenly ascended to a high position, and he was still a servant he was very familiar with. Hearing a few words of flattery, his tail cocked up, and his true nature was revealed.

Seeing Gongsun Jingsheng's behavior of lowering his head, but he didn't take it seriously, Huo Shan shook his head, completely disappointed in his heart.

"A servant, this is the first official position that His Majesty conferred besides me after returning from this battle. On the first day of taking office, he stole the royal horse. I have never seen such a stupid person like you.

I can know about this, do you think His Majesty doesn't know?
I'm afraid it won't be long before the whole city of Chang'an knows about it, ha, being stolen by one's relatives and trusted people is an unprecedented scandal!

Your Majesty has the best face, he didn't call you, he was waiting for me to deal with this matter, but I am not going to help you. "

Huo Shan saw Wei Qing and Ping Yang sitting in the hall from a distance, he turned his head and looked at Gongsun Jingsheng indifferently:

"You are hopeless, wait to die!"

After finishing speaking, Huo Shan turned around and smiled, and shouted loudly:

"Granduncle, great-uncle."

Then he ran into the hall, Cao Zong took a peek at Gongsun Jingsheng, turned around and hurriedly followed.

At this moment, Gongsun Jingsheng was completely panicked, this, is he going to die?

But at the moment no one cares about him.

"How is my aunt?"

Huo Shan looked at the aging woman in front of him, and asked with concern.

"When the grandson visits the grandmother, the grandson is not filial and fails to serve the grandmother."

Pingyang ignored Cao Zong, but first took Huo Shan's hand and said kindly with a smile:
"Okay, auntie, everything is fine."

Then he turned his head and looked at Cao Zong in relief:

"It's cold on the ground, Zong'er, get up quickly."

Afterwards, several people sat together and chatted cordially. Pingyang only saw Huo Shan and Cao Zong, but Wei Qing noticed the distraught Gongsun Jingsheng.

But Wei Qing didn't pay attention to him, he came in and stood aside in a daze, not knowing how to salute, do you want me to greet you?

But Wei Qing didn't take it to heart. In fact, compared to before, his temper was much bigger.

If before, Gongsun Jingsheng didn't ask, then Wei Qing would have opened his mouth with a smile, and now he has evolved to ignore it.

However, it is estimated that he will not evolve into scolding or yin and yang in this life. He has always been tough on his subordinates in the military, but in life he is a lenient character.

But this kind of toughness can't be compared with Lao Huo and Huo Shan.

After Pingyang's enthusiasm subsided a little, he noticed Gongsun Jingsheng. He touched Huo Shan, and his eyes signaled Gongsun Jingsheng.

Huo Shan shook his head, signaling to leave him alone.

After eating, as usual, people should be evacuated at this time.

Huo Shan will also return to his residence tonight, Cao Zong will not return to his Pingyanghoufu, he will live in Changpinghoufu for the past few days.

On the one hand, avoid those troubles in his family, and on the other hand, have a good time with the old lady.

You know, Cao Zong is the only heir of Pingyang.

But today, to discuss the issue of Cao Zong's household closure, Pingyang dragged Cao Zong to the back mansion, Huo Shan followed, Wei Qing and Gongsun Jingsheng stayed in the front hall.

After the three of them talked about their parents for a while, Huo Shan gave Cao Zong a look, Cao Zong nodded, and after a while, he found a topic, Cao Zong knelt on the ground:

"Grandmother, grandson has something to ask, and I hope grandma will agree."

Pingyang looked at Cao Zong who was kneeling on the ground, then at Huo Shan who was playing with his fingers, and said angrily:

"The two of you made an excuse to drag me to the harem, so I knew I had something to say, so I just said it directly, and I didn't want to see my grandmother."

Cao Zong stood up with a silly smile, and sat beside Pingyang:
"Grandma, I've said it."

"Say."

"Grandson wants to reduce the closure of Pingyang Hou Guozhong by one."

Pingyang was taken aback when she heard this, it was the first time she had heard of the increase in the number of closed households.

But after thinking about it carefully, she understood what Cao Zong meant. She glanced at Huo Shan who was still playing with her fingers, and said after a while of silence:

"Then reduce it, but you can't get rid of the Pingyang country. If the country is removed from the Cao family lineage, it will be completely cut off, and the ancestors of the Cao family will have no incense."

Cao Zong nodded, but Pingyang ignored him and asked Huo Shan instead:
"What do you think, Zihou?"

Huo Shan raised his head and smiled:

"What my uncle said is reasonable, you can just reduce the seal, and you can't remove the country.

Cao Zong is different from me. My aunt can protect him for a while, but not forever, and I am the same. My aunt also knows my uncle's temperament and attitude towards the princes. "

Pingyang nodded approvingly, and after nodding, Pingyang couldn't help being curious and worried:
"What should you do about your champion, Hou Guo?"

"I?"

Huo Shan pointed to himself:
"As for me, after the Xiongnu is destroyed, I think your majesty wants to say that the great Han ancestor system, the champion marquis and the great Han will live together, the imperial court will manage, there will be no political power in the country and no military power.

My Huo family plus my future uncle, two generations and three people are perfect ministers, which is enough.

Set the ancestral precepts, the descendants of future generations should not be officials or generals, but open a college, write poems and books on the art of war, and teach and educate people to pass on to the family. "

In the hands of Liu Che, Liu Shi, and Liu Jin, Huo Shan is not worried, something will happen in the future, this is absolutely certain.

Hand over all the rights, so that the Huo family has no threat to the court, and in addition to the Liu family's ancestral system who lived with the champion Hou Guo and the big man, at least nothing will happen to the big man.

But in this way, it is easy to be bullied, humiliated, and calculated by others.

Therefore, Huo Shan set up a family heirloom rule of poetry, art of war, teaching and educating people. Poems and books come from Huo Guang, art of war comes from the champion, and other knowledge, students must come in an endless stream to cultivate talents for the great man.

With these poems and books and the art of war, as well as the many knowledge left by Huo Shan, it is not impossible for the children of the Huo family to be everywhere in the world in the future.

But everything depends on the future generations, and the future generations are assholes, and it will be over no matter what.

Moreover, he is only eighteen, and the days to come are still long.

Ping Yang nodded after listening, and then asked:
"Then Pingyanghou, please submit the letter directly, please reduce it?"

Huo Shan thought for a while, then said:

"No, my uncle is the best face. If you directly ask for a reduction, it will give the world a feeling that your uncle is persecuting a new hero."

This is purely Huo Shan's nonsense, please cut it directly, it is actually the best choice for Cao Zong.

Liu Che and Huo Shan would naturally make this incident a good story about the emperor's wise devotion to the country.

So after Liu Che knew about this, he probably wished that Cao Zong would directly ask for a reduction, so as to set an example for the princes of the world.

But Huo Shan didn't suggest that, it was because of one person, Gongsun Jingsheng, I really broke my heart for you.

"Furthermore, if Cao Zong resigned on his own initiative, it would offend the Cao clan and be detrimental to Cao Zong's reputation."

Cao Zong nodded approvingly, and Ping Yang next to him also agreed.

Huo Shan was right about this matter, they both knew the virtues of the Cao family, this group lived by sucking the blood of the Marquis of Pingyang, and relied on the name of the Cao family of Pingyang to do their best.

If they knew that Cao Zong had resigned, they would definitely go crazy. They had no strength to resist, but they would definitely pour dirty water on Cao Zong.

A toad lies on the feet, it does not hurt people, but it is disgusting!

"How to do it then?"

Huo Shan heard Pingyang's question and said directly:

"I've been thinking about this matter for a long time, and I'll discuss it with His Majesty first. The new seals will be kept, and the remaining [-] we will go in two steps.

The first step is to commit a crime first, then Cao Zong took the initiative to suffer the crime before the court took action, and then please reduce the household closure.

In the second step, the domestic clansmen committed heinous crimes and committed crimes repeatedly, and were captured and beheaded by the court.

Then Cao Zong went directly to plead guilty, but His Majesty was wronged and owed, so he refused. In the end, Cao Zong supported him, and His Majesty had no choice but to reduce the closure of the household. "

Pingyang and Cao Zong's eyes lit up, they didn't pay attention to the first step, they mainly focused on the second step.

In this era, the clan is very important, the people of the clan are united, and devotion to the clan is everything, but Pingyang and Cao Zong have only one word for the clan's attitude, and that is disgust.

Of course, only for the Cao clan.

Pingyang remarried after the death of Cao Zong's grandfather Cao Shou, and married Xiahoupo, Xiahouying's great-grandson.

During this period of time, Cao Xiang, Cao Zong's father was still alive, but within a year, Cao Xiang passed away, and Xia Houpo was beheaded because of his father's favorite maid, and then the country was eliminated.

The two of them, one old and one young, had a very difficult time during that time.

Especially Cao Zong, the orphan and the widow were oppressed by the clan. Pingyang wanted to take care of it, but she couldn't do it, she was not qualified to do it, and she didn't have the strength to do it.

It wasn't until later that he remarried Wei Qing that Pingyang called Cao Zong to Chang'an and put him in front of his eyes to take care of him.

It can be said that Cao Zong's childhood was very bitter.

But this life is fine, Princess Wei, Cao Zong's mother, Wei Zifu's eldest daughter did not remarry, and did not leave Cao Zong alone in the feudal kingdom like in the previous life, and the two were taken over by Pingyang and Wei Zifu together. Arrived in Chang'an.

This matter also happened to Huo Shan, Lao Liu didn't trust alchemists anymore, so there was no such thing as Princess Wei remarrying Luan Da, an alchemist.

"Zihou, how should I proceed?"

Huo Shan laughed:
"It's simple, let's talk about the second step first. Ting Wei Wang Wenshu and Ting Wei Cheng Du Yannian will inspect the big man in a short time. Just let them go to Pingyang Marquis, and we will cooperate when the time comes."

Cao Zong said quickly after listening:

"Among the clan, there are people who treat my mother and me kindly, and they often took care of us when we were in Fengguo."

"Well, go back and discuss it with your aunt, and make a list for Du Yannian."

Cao Zong nodded.

"This first step should be done sooner rather than later. It will be the day after tomorrow. I will talk to His Majesty tomorrow."

"So fast?" Ping Yang said in surprise.

"Isn't Zong'er going to commit crimes today and tomorrow?"

Huo Shan sighed:

"Isn't it just that someone bumped into something, and Cao Zong happened to get in here."

Cao Zong thought about it, and tentatively said:

"You mean about Gongsun Jingsheng?"

"Exactly."

"I thought you really didn't care about him."

"The last time, I really don't care about it next time, and I don't care, he won't be in trouble. My uncle has always been kind to his own people."

Unless you are old and faint.

the last time?Even Pingyang doesn't believe this, others don't know, who of them doesn't know that you, Huo Shan, value love and righteousness?
Looking at Pingyang's puzzled expression, Huo Shan explained:
"Gongsun Jingsheng was bewitched by an official of the imperial servant, and stole five royal horses and brought them to his own mansion. This man is from the abundant lineage, and he was also stupid and couldn't hold back his greed.

Tomorrow, let His Majesty call him into the palace to scare him, and want to kill him. You kill this official at this time, and say that you heard that he secretly sold the imperial horse, and you caught him, and killed him in a fit of anger.

Although he did the right thing, isn't that a crime?

Your Majesty will not kill Gongsun Jingsheng, you gave Your Majesty the steps, Your Majesty accepts your love.

You saved Gongsun Jingsheng, and the Gongsun family also accepts your favor. After the matter is settled, you will receive two favors. Why not do it? "

(End of this chapter)