Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 432 The Age of Expansion

Ships Kong County, Zhengyangli.

It was dawn, and the sound of roosters broke the silence.

Liu An sat up abruptly, taking advantage of the moonlight shining in from the window, squinting and looking around. In this small inner room, five people fell asleep, and the other four were sons of the old man who had not yet married. Liu Anwen With the smell, he looked out the window helplessly.

Because of his status, these people gave up the best positions, and they huddled together so that Liu An would not be squeezed.

But even so, Liu An still felt very crowded.

The smell in the house constantly stimulated Liu An, so Liu An had to go out. As soon as she walked out, she saw the old woman sitting in the courtyard pounding rice. She was busy carefully. The weather was very cold. Even with good clothes, you can still feel the chill from the early morning, and this old woman sitting in the courtyard had beads of sweat rolling down her forehead.
Liu An didn't say a word, took a few steps, and then sat down facing the door.

The old woman was startled, but did not speak, and continued pounding rice.

Repeating it over and over again, watching the millet being crushed, the shell falling off, and the rough corn falling, Liu An gradually became fascinated and watched without moving.

Since Liu An came here, he hasn't had much contact with this family. Most of the time, he complains about himself, misses the life in Chang'an, or thinks about the knowledge in his mind. In short, he His style of painting is incompatible with this family. Even if he wears the same clothes, he can be seen to be different just from the appearance. The local villagers say that Zhang Lao Zhang has a distant relative, which is very different. beautiful child.

It has an extravagance of its own, but this child does not look very smart. He is in a daze all day, and others don't pay much attention to it. It is really a pity, he is obviously such a good-looking child.

Zhang Lao Zhang's family is still very polite to Liu An, even if Liu Chang has instructed him to scold him when he should, and beat him when he needs to, but they dare not offend such a noble person, they are polite on weekdays Yes, bring out the best food for him to eat, the best place for him to sleep, and dare not tell him what to do, let An stay at home in a daze.

Zhang Lao Zhang's children also kept their distance from Liu An, and even the youngest did not dare to say anything to Liu An.

"You may not know, this is called pounding rice. The millet you eat is all made this way."

The old woman said with a smile, the old woman's accent is also very close, which is the same as Liu An's accent, but Liu An rarely speaks dialects, he is not like Liu Chang, Liu Chang can speak any dialect, and he speaks It is vivid and can quickly get along with people from all over the world.Liu An spoke slowly, with a special aristocratic tone.

Liu An didn't try to escape, he wasn't stupid and wouldn't do such a useless thing.

Once the father made up his mind, the eldest mother could not change his mind.

The husband Zhang outside was staring at him all day long, looking like an eagle and a dog. Even if he had this idea, he would not be able to walk away.

He said calmly: "I know, the thing you are using now is what a friend of mine in Shangfang made."

The old woman smiled, "So that's what the nobleman's voice sounds like."

Liu An pursed his lips and did not answer.

Looking at the sweaty old woman, Liu An couldn't help but ask, "You have four sons, why don't you let them help you?"

"They have to go to work on the farm after eating. How can they be allowed to do this? I can't do farm work, it's useless, so I can only do such a thing and live at home."

Liu An knew that this old woman had never been idle. She started pounding rice in the morning, spinning cloth, feeding poultry, feeding grass to livestock, delivering water and food to the farmland, and sometimes helping to carry seeds, anyway. , Liu An has never seen her idle.

He felt something was wrong.

"If you love grandma, you shouldn't let grandma suffer like this."

"What did Xiao Junhou say? In the past, I just wanted to pound rice, but I didn't have any millet. When I was young, two younger brothers and sisters in my family starved to death because of lack of millet. Later, thanks to Miaotangren De, sent someone to bring farm tools and seeds"

"Xiao Xiang? You remember correctly. When you were young, and Xiao Xiang, you are old this year?"

"Seven out of thirty, already old"

Liu Chang was stunned for a while, his eyes widened, and he stared at the white-haired old woman in front of him, who had engraved vicissitudes on his face, and was stunned for a long time.

"You're four years older than my grandmother but you look."

Liu An didn't have the heart to speak, and he asked again, "Then the old man?"

"He's seven or eight years older than me"

"In the middle, he is also an elder."

In this era when the nobles are in their sixties and seventies, the average life expectancy of the people at the bottom is less than 30 years old.

Looking at the old woman in front of her who was about the same age as her grandmother, but looked like her eldest mother, Liu An was unable to speak for a long time.

"I come."

Liu An was about to speak when the old woman had already pounded the rice and hurriedly started cooking.

Soon, several men in the family woke up, and they all started to eat together. As before, Liu An still had the most rice, and there were a few vegetables and a small piece of meat on top, while the rest of the old man's family only Simple millet, and some dishes that Liu An had never seen before. They ate it with relish, and they ate very quickly. The speed of eating almost caught up with Liu Chang. They were not big and their health was not very good. At night, they could hardly see anything, unlike Liu An who could still see.

But they seem to contain some great power in their bodies, and their speed and appetite are not much slower than those of famous warriors.

The youngest child ate two bowls in a row, still looking at his grandmother with some reluctance.

They ate happily, and the old man once again praised the prosperity and told the children about the hard-won meal.

However, at this moment, Liu An only felt that the usual pleasant praise had become so harsh at this moment. He lowered his head and resisted the thought of fleeing in his heart.

When the children finished eating, the old man didn't say anything, got up and started to go to the farmland.

The younger son asked reluctantly, "Father. Can I have another small bowl?"

"Haha, work hard today, if you plough the ground, eat more at night!"

They generally only eat two meals, one in the morning and one in the evening.

When they picked up the farm tools and went out, Liu An couldn't help but follow.

The old man looked at Liu An, who was following him, with surprise in his eyes, but he didn't speak, just walked towards the destination.

On this day, Liu An was no longer idle. He imitated those people, rolled up his clothes, and jumped into the ground.

It's just that Liu An, who seems to be tall, can't play any role. Whether it's ploughing or sowing, it's not like he's here to help, but more like he's here to make trouble. The family is very patient. And what to complain about.

Panting out of breath, Liu Anlei sat under the shade of a tree, wiping his face with his muddy hands, and his beautiful face became messy as a result.

Everyone drank some water and rested, but still no one dared to disturb Liu An.

Only the old man said with a smile: "The noble person is busy today, I'm afraid I'm tired, go get sick, you take the noble person back to rest."

"No, I'm fine."

Seeing Liu An insist, the old man didn't say anything more.

After the break, Liu An was busy again. In the evening, Liu An was walking in the mud, one foot slipped, and he couldn't help but fall into the mud, and soon got up again. Couldn't help laughing.

Hearing this laughter, Liu An also raised his head.

He let out a grandfather-like laughter.

The next day, Liu An got up early and started helping the old woman to do things. He was too slow in pounding rice, so he could only pick up firewood or something.

The old woman was very surprised by Liu An's change. Liu An sat in front of her, dragging her chin with both hands, looking at Shu Mi.

"Noble."

"Just call me Ann."

"Anko misses her family?"

The old woman could see at a glance that Liu An seemed to be in a bad mood.

"On weekdays, the eldest mother loves me the most. She hasn't seen me for so many days, I don't know how sad she is."

Liu An suddenly felt a little sad.

"And grandma, although she is very strict, she will send someone to invite me if she doesn't see me one day."

"And two aunts, Bo, Ci, Liang."

The old woman listened carefully and said with a smile, "And your grandfather."

"My grandfather is afraid that he is very happy because no one is robbing him for meat!"

"He doesn't miss me."

"How could it be? When your father brought you here before, every time he looked at you and talked, his eyes were full of pride. I know that expression. What kind of school did the child in Lizheng's family go to, he is also the same. Looks like, every time you look at him, your grandfather who always smiles must be thinking of you too!"

"Come here!! Drag these people down and put them in Tingwei's prison!!"

Liu Chang roared angrily.

Immediately, there were soldiers who dragged these envoys of the Great Xia Kingdom out, and Musis loudly begged for mercy, but he didn't understand words, and it didn't help.

It has been several days since Liu Changyan invited them. From their mouths, Liu Chang learned a lot about body poison, and even more western things, and learned the names, strengths, customs and so on of those countries in the more western countries. This made Liu Chang very excited, and he had long wanted to go there to see it.

Just today, when Muses introduced the Western world to Liu Chang as usual, and talked about the sages of the West, the artist's desire finally conquered his reason, he stretched out his hand and pinched it on Liu Chang's arm. Pinch, feel the line.

Liu Chang was stunned at the time, not only Liu Chang, but also the ministers and messengers.

And the artist probably still felt dissatisfied, so he stroked Liu Chang's lines again. Liu Chang was naturally rude and threw a punch. The artist flew out and fell to the ground, unconscious, and was offended. Liu Chang was furious, and immediately asked the soldiers to drag these people down and lock them up.

All the way to the prison, the messengers groaned.

Obviously everything was going so smoothly, and the Hercules showed a clear interest in the West. At this time, how could such a mess happen?

After the artist woke up, he was also sent here.

In the prison, he seemed very happy.

"Did you feel the power? I was almost killed by him!!"

"If the line can make him take off his clothes and let me take a good look, I will definitely be able to carve the best work, which will be a world-famous sculpture! The sculptures in the past were all based on the imagination of the gods. Carved, now, there is a real god in front of me, I can carve according to him!"

"Carving? Carving! Carving?!"

Muses grabbed the artist's neck angrily and asked angrily: "Your actions will kill all of us, you are simply a lunatic! Why did you follow me in the first place?!"

"Can't you see"

"I'm fine, he is indeed very powerful, you are flying up"

This artist is considered the strongest among the crowd, otherwise he wouldn't be able to withstand Liu Chang's punch.

But it was this burly man who was so easily beaten and flew out, and it took a long time before he landed.

"I'm going to draw his punch! I'm going to carve it!!!"

Muses sighed and raised his head in despair. There is no cure for this lunatic. No wonder his father did not allow him to continue to study philosophy and art, saying that if he studied these two things too much, he would go mad. Now it seems that his father said It's true, forget it, let it be fate.

At this moment, Chang Liu looked at the huge map on the ground and walked around the map under the leadership of several ministers.

This map is very huge, almost covering the entire half of the hall, and it is sewn from a lot of cloth.

And this map is probably the most detailed map of the Han at present, including the terrain, lakes, military buildings, cities, and the situation within the Han are particularly detailed, from the city, the countryside, the garrison, the terrain, densely packed, It's tingling to look at.

At this moment, several maps that have not been stitched are placed in the surrounding position.

Feng Jing explained to Liu Chang seriously.

"This is the Great Xia Kingdom, but we can't draw the specific city, we can only draw according to what they described. From the three southern countries they said, from here, that is, the area controlled by the Pyu people, you can go directly to the Dian Kingdom!"

"Can you be sure??"

"Yes! The characteristics of the Pyu slaves described by Chai Qi are exactly the same as the characteristics of the three southern countries mentioned by Muses, and even the customs and culture are the same. The Pyu people must have arrested the poisonous people as slaves from here. Yes. Their faces are as black as ink, and their language and customs are the same."

"That is to say, we actually have two ways to get to the body poison?"

"However, according to Chai Qi, the road to the south is very difficult to walk. There are wild beasts and poisonous insects everywhere in the mountains and forests. It is easy to get lost. Even the water cannot be drunk. Everyone who goes there will die there. If a large army is to be dispatched from here, I am afraid that less than half of the people who will reach it alive."

"And the road here, although it is equally distant and deserted, is fortunately not so dangerous."

Liu Chang touched his chin, "You said, can the waterway be reached?"

"Maybe. The south of South Vietnam is isolated by sea water. Maybe merchant ships can rush to it from here."

"It's just that the sea wind is huge, and the boat cannot travel. Our boat can only be in the water, but it can't go out to sea."

"Then you said that those liars were the ones who deceived the First Emperor. How did they go to sea?"

Feng Jing was also stunned, "This minister doesn't know, maybe they have a way to avoid it"

"Really can't go to sea?"

"Can't go to sea."

Liu Chang turned to look at Ji Bu, "Bu, what's the difference between this water and the sea? A boat can walk on water, but not in the sea??"

"Your Majesty wants the shipyard to build a ship that can go out to sea?"

The earliest sea ships discovered in Huaxia were built in the Song Dynasty. Before the Song Dynasty, Huaxia had always been a river ship, and there were no sea ships and no ability to trade at sea.On the excavated Song Hai boat, a large number of spices from Southeast Asia, such as agarwood, betel nut, pepper, etc., were found, as well as coins, medicinal materials and the like.

"Build, you must build!"

"Let them not be afraid of failure, reward many times, and make sure to build ships that can go out to sea"

Ji Bu hurriedly said yes, and Liu Chang reminded again: "However, don't let them make blindly, you must first figure out why the ship can't go to sea, and then build it according to the idea of ​​how to avoid maritime risks, that's good!"

During this time, Liu Chang was still very busy.

When the king of Chu died, his posthumous title was Yuan.

"Thinking and debating the masses is called Yuan, practicing righteousness and expounding the people is called Yuan, the capital of the country is called Yuan, the principle of morality is called Yuan, the morality is pure and one is called Yuan, the respect for benevolence and virtue is called Yuan, and the good deeds of benevolence are called Yuan."

This posthumous title is not bad, it shows the benevolence of the king of Chu, Liu Chang was still a little dissatisfied, and wanted to give a martial arts or propaganda, but the ministers refused.

On the power of posthumous title, the position of the ministers is too firm.

Not willing to obey at all.

This made Liu Chang also a little worried, wouldn't he be able to get the posthumous title of "Wen"? ?
Liu Chang can't tell whether the posthumous title is good or bad, but he can understand the length, the text has the most compliments, the range of compliments is the widest, and the compliments are the strongest, that must be this.

And several Wen emperors in history are all famous ruthless men, don't think that Wen emperor is outstanding in literary talent, several famous Wen emperors in history are quite capable of fighting.

Name a few famous Emperor Wen, Emperor Wen of Han Liu Heng, Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Tang Li Shimin, Emperor Wen of Ming Dynasty Zhu Di, Emperor Wen of Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji, all of them are ruthless. Although Tai, Chen Wendi, Chen Qian, and Jin Wendi Sima Zhao were not as famous as the first batch, they were still famous.

As for the powerful state of Chu, it was naturally disintegrated with the death of Liu Jiao.

Chu has three counties, Donghai, Xue, and Pengcheng. Although it sounds small, it is definitely a very powerful country in terms of wealth and population.

Liu Jiao's second son Liu Yingke became the King of Chu, the third son Liu Li was named the King of the East Sea, and the fourth son Liu Fu was the King of Xue.

At the same time, Liu Chang dismantled the state of Chu, and sealed several "county kings". Most of the remaining sons of the concubines were also named princes, who were distributed in various parts of the state of Chu, and successfully turned the state of Chu into "half Pengcheng County". , Since then, the era of Chu State as a great power and leader in the South has officially ended, and the State of Wu has become the most powerful vassal state in the entire South.

At this moment, Liu Heng is gearing up for his efforts and set his sights on the south of South Vietnam.

If there is a Mahan king in the north who does not respect the emperor, is there not one in the south?
ps: When I walked into the shrine paved with gold, they told me the name of the building, it was called the Palace of the Moral Man, and in the palace, I first met the oriental Hercules, he Very tall, taller than the tallest steed, and full of strength, just like all our sculptures are built for him, that strong physique does not belong to any mortal, even the most famous hero. He would be ashamed in front of him. His angular and tough face exuded a golden light. He held his weapon and looked into the distance. Lightning flashed in his eyes. We hurriedly bowed and bowed. —— "The Travels of the Pilgrim Moses"

(End of this chapter)