Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 480 Raise your eyebrows!

After Zhou Chang's death, there were only a handful of founding heroes of the Han Dynasty.

In the temple, there are only four left, Zhang Cang, Han Xin, Lu Jia, Wang Tianqi, and in the local area, there are only seven or eight people, such as Zhou Bo, Xia Houying, Guan Ying, Liu Jing, Xu Li, etc. There are not even twenty living founding ministers.

When Zhou Chang was still alive, those high-ranking officials who never came to see him, after his death, came to see him off crying instead. They kept talking about how close they were to Zhou Chang and how Zhou Chang treated him. He praised Zhou Chang's daily merits, and each one he said was more touching than the other.

After being busy arranging his funeral, the officials began to discuss his posthumous title. After several days of debate, the officials finally came to a unified idea, and the posthumous title was the end.

"Keeping the etiquette and sticking to righteousness is called Duan, being strict and respectful is called Duan, respecting oneself and being tolerant is called Duan, observing etiquette and self-respect is called Duan"

Zhou Chang also became Fenyin Duanhou of the Han Dynasty, and his title was inherited by his son Zhou Kaifang.

Standing in the mansion, listening to the unreal cry of the person who came to worship, Liu Chang shook his head gently.

"When I was alive, no one came to visit, and no one was there, but these people began to pretend to come to pay respects."

Zhang Buyi said, "Probably because Duanhou of Fenyin has no way to reprimand them now, so they are willing to come."

The two were talking, but Zhou Yi came to the two of them.

"Your Majesty, thank you for taking care of my father's funeral!"

Zhou Chang's son was not in Chang'an, but was still on the road. His eldest grandson, Zhou Yi, was in Tongguan, so he came faster. There was only a baby Zhou Zuoche at home, so Liu Chang took the initiative to take care of Zhou Chang's. In the aftermath, it was not until Zhou Yi returned that he handed over the matter to him.

"Ah."

Liu Chang nodded indifferently, and left here with Zhang Budo.

Zhang Buyi was a little surprised, he got into the car and sat beside Liu Chang, "Your Majesty, why are you so indifferent to Zhou Yi?"

"This guy is not a good person."

"Ah?? How did His Majesty know?"

"This guy returned in a hurry, crying loudly, wishing everyone could hear his voice, fainted a few times, but only fell down lightly, and then immediately went to those dignitaries who came to visit, and kept talking In my own yearning, making friends with them is treating my father's funeral as a place for me to make friends with dignitaries, it's disgusting to put on a show."

"This fellow has a wicked mind. The title of Duanhou of Fenyin will be thrown into his hands sooner or later."

Lu Lu who was driving was a little surprised and said: "Your Majesty, you are making some unreasonable guesses. Zhou Yi is a famous gentleman. He has a name like his father and grandfather. He is honest and responsible. He has many friends. How can he be evil?" He fainted from crying, isn't that because of his filial piety? Greetings with guests is also a welcome gift. It's too much for you to say that based on this."

Liu Chang smiled, "Why, how about we make a bet? A thousand dollars?"

Lu Lu shook his head hastily, "No bet. With your character, in order to win me a thousand dollars, I'm afraid you will order to take his title away now. Then the Duanhou of Fenyin will not come to me at night. You are Not afraid, but I am afraid."

But Zhang Buyi said: "Your Majesty has the knowledge of people, which even Emperor Gao can't match. How dare you question His Majesty's vision? Since Your Majesty said so, this person must be a big villain. Your Majesty, please Kill him now!"

"Fart, if you kill a person who didn't commit a crime because of your guess, wouldn't you become Emperor Gao?"

Liu Chang glared at him, and then said: "If you want to talk about this group of officials, they are also stingy. I hinted at them several times and asked them to give me a letter, but finally gave me an answer. Why do you think these people are so disobedient? What? I won’t do the same in the future, will I?”

"With An, Bo and the others here, His Majesty needn't worry. I'm a little worried. If one day I'm not around, I'm afraid my posthumous title will be drawn up by these people, and Your Majesty can't interfere. You won't give me a bad posthumous posthumous title, will you? "

Lu Lu asked.

"You, if you talk about merits, it doesn't seem to be much, if you talk about shortcomings, it doesn't seem like there are many. It's probably just a posthumous posthumous title, the kind that can't see the good or bad, so don't think too much about it."

"By the way, no doubt, do you have a posthumous title you particularly want?"

"Loyalty."

"Hahaha, Liu Zhonghou? Not bad, not bad."

The three chatted and returned to the palace, but Zhang Budo resigned and left. In the past few days, because of Zhou Chang's affairs, he has not done the things arranged by Liu Chang, and he is going to go to Shangfang Mansion now, and strive to get it as soon as possible. Shangfang's results are put into various fields of practice.

"Okay, let's go."

When Liu Chang returned to the palace, he first went to Changle Palace to see his mother. Empress Lv was not alone. Sun-in-law Chunyu Tiying was by her side. Tiying was smart, young and eloquent. Father's jokes are always told by the old man laughing. Of course, Empress Lu will also talk about things from a long time ago from time to time. Those were all things when she was a little girl. while still there.

Tiying listened carefully and acted as a good listener.

"Mum~~~~"

When Liu Chang yelled and walked into the Shou Palace, Ti Ying was startled by the sound, trembling all over, and Empress Lu suddenly flew into a rage.

"Can't you keep your voice down?!"

Liu Chang patted his abdomen, ignored Aunt's anger, and sat aside with a smile. Ti Ying rushed to see him, Liu Chang waved his hand as a return gift, and then looked at Empress Lu, "Aunt, the funeral It's all done, you don't have to worry about it."

Empress Lu let out a long sigh.

There are fewer and fewer people in her contemporaries, and most of those familiar names have gone to another world. Many ministers in the court are now unrecognizable by Empress Lu.

"Although Zhou Chang has a bad personality, he has made great contributions to the country. Don't forget to worship."

"Don't worry, I won't forget."

Seeing that Grandma was in a low mood, Liu Chang said, "Grandma, you don't know, this Shangfang Mansion has improved the power of gunpowder very well. They have done a series of experiments, such as purification, changing the proportion of the formula What the hell, it’s doing pretty well anyway, I’ve asked Zhang Buyi to be in charge of it, and then it’s going to be sent to mines in various places, and then it’s going to be used to open roads and dig ditches. Wait until these fields have shown results , send it to the Western Regions, let the teacher take it to scare the Huns!"

"Oh? So powerful?"

"Of course, with this thing, mining in the future doesn't have to be just in the open pit, you can also dig underground. Hahaha, we have a large number of mines in Tang, Longxi, Yan, and Wu. We have dug more mines. When copper and iron come out, more farm tools can be cast, more military weapons, especially this farm tool, sooner or later, I will make all the people in the world use iron farm tools, and eliminate all farm tools made of other materials!"

Empress Lu also began to think about it, "Didn't that Zhuzi Chai earlier say that it is difficult to open the road in the south? With this thing, can the road be opened?"

"It's not easy to say."

"However, at the beginning, my mother always opposed me to support Shang Fang, and said that I was wasting national power. How about it, am I wasting national power?"

Liu Chang said proudly: "How can the dull people in this world understand my foresight?"

"When gunpowder starts to bloom everywhere, I want to see what expressions those ministers will have!"

As Liu Chang was speaking, he suddenly saw his grandmother in front of him squinting her eyes, and his most familiar wooden stick appeared in her hand at some point, and was tapping gently. Liu Chang was shocked, and quickly explained: "Ah! Mother, I am not saying that you are a stupid person, I mean those ministers, don’t think too much, although you also object, but you are not a stupid person, at most you are a little ignorant, which is different from them.”

"Hehehe, I don't know much, Tiying, but you went out for a while. Come in later."

Tiying walked out of the Shousou Hall in a confused manner, and as soon as she walked out, she heard the screams like killing pigs coming from the hall.

"Grandmother!! I'm going to be thirty! I'm going to be a father!!"

"Even if you are seventy, I can still hit you right!!!"

Lantian County is not far from Chang'an.

The nearest mine to Chang'an is here. The mineral resources here are rich, which may not be as good as those in Longxi, Tang, and Yan. However, the advantage here is that it is very close to Chang'an. Therefore, the temple often sends criminals here. Come to serve, the scale of the mine here is still very large, and there are not many people working here.

Both iron ore and copper ore are distributed here.

When Tianzi and Qunchen's frames were parked here, the local magistrate was terrified.

In the past, the largest official received here was the county governor. Those who passed by were not counted. After all, those who passed by would not come to inspect their work, but this time, the entire temple appeared in the county seat. Legs are a little soft, from the emperor to the third prince and Jiuqing, all of them are big people, even those who can only follow behind the carriage are also officials of Jiuqing, and there are countless more than a thousand stones.

The rank of county magistrates in the Han Dynasty depends on the size of the county seat. If it is a county with less than [-] households, it cannot be called a county magistrate, but must be called a county magistrate, with a rank of three hundred to five hundred stones.If it is a county with more than [-] households, it can be called a county magistrate, from six hundred shi to a thousand shi.Because Lantian is close to Chang'an, it has a large population, so the county magistrate here is only a county magistrate of [-] shi.

The county magistrate of Qianshi must be the Chang'an decree, the Handan decree, and the Linzi decree.

Lantian Ling didn't know why the entire temple was moved here directly. He just waited on him very carefully, for fear of offending anyone. When the emperor came to Lantian, he first came to the largest iron mine in Lantian. Ordinary people can't get close to the soldiers stationed. Even he, the county magistrate, can't get too close. He can only wait in a place other than Sangong Jiuqing.

Not only Lan Tianling didn't know it, but also the ministers in the court, who were at a loss at the moment.

During the court meeting, Liu Chang suddenly said that he wanted to show them something good, and then took them out of the city and led them all the way to Lantian.

All the ministers were stunned. They had heard that the emperor went on a tour, and he had heard that the emperor took his ministers on a tour, but he had never seen the emperor take a full court of officials on a tour. Isn't this a mess? ?

Zhang Shizhi of Tingwei immediately expressed his dissatisfaction.

Then he was subdued by the emperor and was thrown on the carriage. The ministers immediately ignored whether it was reasonable or not, and followed the emperor all the way to this small county. Before coming to this mine, they worked here. Those miners are trembling with fear at this moment, they have never seen so many armored soldiers in their life.

Liu Chang's tall figure is also very conspicuous among the officials. Liu Chang looked at the officials in front of him and said with a smile: "Everyone, the main reason I called you here is to show you what Shang Fang is doing now. You have despised Shang Fang for a long time, this time, it is to open your eyes!"

Liu Chang's remarks were very rude, and the ministers just curled their lips.

They know how much Shang Fang is capable, but it's just cutting some wood or something.

Zhang Shizhi was still very dissatisfied with the emperor who was not doing his job properly, so he said: "I heard that the Mohists back then could make wooden birds that make people fly, and wooden oxen and wooden horses that can walk by themselves. Did Shang Fang make it?" Those two things?"

This sentence is a little bit against Liu Chang.

The ministers secretly rejoiced, they didn't underestimate skills like the later generations, but they felt that Liu Chang was too partial to these Shang Fang, and Shang Fang's status continued to improve, and those craftsmen were even higher than scholars. Endure it, they just feel that Liu Chang underestimates the real talents, but pays more attention to these craftsmen who can only dump wood. They think that the status of craftsmen should not be so high. As a small subordinate official, Shang Fang spent more than nine years. The Qing department is still high, which is outrageous.

Unless he made a wooden bird that could fly, or a wooden cow that could walk by himself, Shang Fang would have no way to convince himself. Zhang Shizhi's words probably meant that.

Liu Chang knows very well in his heart that he attaches great importance to Shang Fang, making these people jealous. They don't hate technology, they just hate that it's not him who is favored by the emperor, and it's not himself who is given the title. However, he has a way to change these people. idea.

"I haven't made a flying wooden bird. But it's almost done, Chen Tao! Show them!"

Chen Tao came out, met the disdainful eyes of the officials, walked to a mine, called the officials of the Shangfang Mansion, and then started to get busy. He also brought in a few local miners and let them To help himself, the officials just watched with cold eyes.

Until they were busy for a long time, they pulled out a rope and pulled it all the way to Liu Chang's side, and all the ministers were a little dazed.

"My Shangfang Mansion is to use nature for human use. Water, fire, thunder, and everything else must be guided by me, and obey my orders!!"

"Chen Tao!"

Chen Tao immediately ignited the fuse in front of him, and sparks flew all the way towards the mine pit. Liu Chang took a few steps back, and in the blank eyes of the officials, "Boom~~~", the mine pit There was a loud noise, the ground shook and the dust flew up. The officials were terrified and shouted. Some of them were frightened and sat down on the ground. These soldiers are all Shangfang soldiers. I know, there is not much rush. As for the miners, they have seen gunpowder before, and although they are not so powerful, they are not so afraid.

The gunpowder directly exploded a huge hole, revealing the dark iron ore.

The stones splashed, but fortunately, everyone around was isolated by the soldiers, otherwise they would definitely be seriously injured.

Liu Chang didn't move, looking at the iron exposed after being blasted, his face was full of proud smiles.

The ministers did not recover for a long time, their eyes widened and they looked at the tragic explosion scene.

Even Zhang Shizhi's eyes widened at this moment, and his mouth couldn't close for a long time.

Liu Chang took a small iron pipe from Chen Tao. The pipe was hollow and filled with gunpowder. Liu Chang looked at the officials with a smile and raised the thing in his hand. Throw it into the enemy, even dozens of armored ones won’t be able to carry it, and they will be torn to pieces on the spot.”

"This is the power of Shangfang. It can open mountains and break water. It can do what adults can't!"

The ministers were stunned, looked at the iron pipe in Liu Chang's hand in horror, pursed their lips, and was speechless.

"I never do useless work. If Shangfang can't accomplish something, why would I pay so much attention to it? Of course, whoever thinks that he can make such a thing, can control such a huge power, of course I can bestow a title For this thing, I don’t know how many people were killed or injured. Should Shang Fang be rewarded?!”

"Should."

Wang Tianqi nodded first, agreeing with Liu Chang's statement.

"Shang Fang actually has a lot of things like this, but I can't show them to others. Why don't I believe in ghosts and gods, because what ghosts and gods can do in the rumors, my Shang Fang can also do it. Why are ghosts and gods afraid? ? Not as good as my Shang Fang!"

Liu Chang felt elated this time. Gunpowder is not the same as other inventions. Other inventions are at most improvements to some of the original equipment. If it is a new thing, it will not feel too outrageous on the basis of understanding its principle. But gunpowder, among the officials present, who can understand its principle?This completely refreshed their world view, and did not conform to their usual cognition. If Liu Chang was prepared, he could even play ghosts and gods for them.

It's just that Liu Chang disdains such means, he just wants to rectify Shang Fang's name, but also to rectify his own name.

You are not a foolish monarch who doesn't do his job properly, his foresight is unmatched by any of you!
Looking at the ministers who were still doubting life in front of him, Liu Chang finally set his sights on Zhang Shizhi.

"Zhang Jun, what do you think of Shang Fang's ability?"

As he spoke, he threw the iron pipe in his hand to Zhang Shizhi, Zhang Shi caught it subconsciously, then his eyes became frightened, and subconsciously he dropped it on the ground, and the ministers screamed in fright.

Looking at these embarrassed officials, Liu Chang put his hands on his hips, raised his head and laughed.

In the distance, Sima Xi frowned and was seriously recording this scene.

(End of this chapter)