Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 724
Zhao's current mineral resources are among the best in the country.

Yuan An never went to greet the emperor, but came to the endless mines first, which surprised many officials, and his deputy thought his decision was very inappropriate.

"Mr. Yuan"

"You are the head of Zhao Guo's ministers. Your Majesty is here. There is no reason why you should not go to greet him. Your behavior, if you say it in Dali, is disrespectful to the king. Your Majesty may even send someone to arrest you. If the governor finds out Now, you can participate in the performance. You openly resist the temple, hold your own identity, and have the intention of confronting the temple. This is even worse. You usually say that the king's behavior is easy to misunderstand the temple. Why do you have to behave like this today? come?"

This deputy, the prime minister's surname is Lu. Although his surname is Lu, he is not from the same family as Empress Lu. His family comes from Lu Chen, Marquis of Xinyang. These years have grown bigger and bigger. Sometimes, relying on his unique surname, he can scare some people who don't know the truth, such as this Lu Changshi. He never introduces the details of his family, only saying no. It's worth mentioning, but all the officials in Zhao Guo respected him very much. The more he said that, the more others respected him.

These days, I would rather provoke someone surnamed Liu than someone surnamed Lu.

People surnamed Liu still have many scruples about doing things. The Zongzheng Mansion does not allow any member of the royal family, no matter how distant the clan is, to do something to discredit the clan. It is light.Most of those surnamed Lu are doing evil things, no one can control them, and they cause the most troubles.

Lu Changshi let out a long sigh. He really regretted being the young prime minister as a long history.

The young Prime Minister was too reckless, and everything he did was dancing on the edge of a cliff.

Following him, I was always in fear every day. Being a long history, I felt a little sorry for my clan.

On weekdays in the Zhao Kingdom, he directly empties the King of Zhao, and decides everything by himself. He even deliberately deceives the King, blocks the source of the King's news, constantly eliminates those who are close to the King of Zhao, and crazily promotes the people he believes in. Even, he blatantly interfered in the king's private affairs, and several times he even secretly ordered Lang Zhongling to close the gate of the palace so that the king could not enter or leave. This is the king's house arrest! !It was an act of rebellion, and once the temple carried out an investigation, the whole clan would have to follow suit.

Now, he completely ignored His Majesty who came to Zhao Guo, and led the people directly to the mine.

Thinking about it, Lu Changshi felt so tired.

Yuan An didn't care about these, he said calmly: "Your Majesty won't care about these things, he came to Zhao country not to see me to meet him, but to the mine, I came here to count the achievements here, let It is convenient for His Majesty to see, this is the most important thing."

"But you shouldn't sneak to the mine when His Majesty is here. It will inevitably make people think that you came here in a hurry to cheat, to deceive the king, and to hide your evil deeds. I heard that after His Majesty entered the palace, immediately Someone wrote a letter to impeach you, said many crimes about you, and asked His Majesty to send someone to arrest you now"

"I sent so many people to Xia Kingdom, of course they will do this, it's all within my expectation, Your Majesty is kind and has no malice towards others, these people all want to use His Majesty to increase their power in the country, And the people they sent to contact the king were all thrown to the country of Xia by me. Every time they saw me, they would smile all over their faces, and they probably wanted to kill me. Don’t worry about them, just be ours with peace of mind. As for the matter, even if His Majesty blames me and throws me to Xia Guo, that would be fine, Xia Guo is all our old acquaintances."

Lu Changshi couldn't laugh at Yuan An's cold joke when he heard it.

He just nodded with a bitter face.

"Okay, I will continue to count. However, please send someone to the palace to inform the situation. There are some things, it is better to be clear. Although the clearer confesses, once a misunderstanding arises, it is not easy to eliminate it. .”

Yuan An didn't answer, but continued to check the number of miners and their service status.

Lu Changshi left the study, the wind on the mountain was still a bit cold, which made him shrink back involuntarily.

Chang Shi has two assistant officials directly under him, one assists him in recording documents, and the other helps him travel.

Seeing Lu Changshi coming out, the two officials hurriedly asked, "How is it? When will the Prime Minister return to the palace?"

"Why?! Did your Majesty come to Zhao to see Yuan Gong? He came to see the mine! Don't worry about the affairs here! Don't think about it! We have followed Yuan Gong to govern Zhao Guo carefully all these years, and we have offended you." There are quite a few people, so what? You have a clear conscience!"

As Lu Changshi said, he raised his head and left. The two officials followed behind him, shaking their heads. Your surname is Lu, so of course you are not afraid. Alas, why did you come to serve as this official in the first place?
In this country where everyone is Luan Gonghua, there are still quite a lot of people doing serious things.

Liu Chang stayed in the palace for two days and the day before, all the people who came to see him were those who wrote to impeach Yuan An.

Just listening to their letters, it seems that Yuan Ang has become a heinous traitor and traitor.

What they said was full of affection. When some people talked about Yuan An's crimes, they couldn't help crying. They knelt on the ground, beat the ground with their hands, and almost fainted from crying, crying loudly: This Yuan An will torment Zhao Guo. perish!
Liu Chang spent a whole day watching their performance. Zhao Guoren is still very talented in performance.

They even retell Yuan Ang's previous conversations, one person plays two roles, regardless of the content, this bold and innovative performance style makes Liu Chang feel like he is watching a drama in a dream, and he is very excited to watch it .

Seeing Liu Chang's excited appearance, they naturally performed harder.

Lu Lu explained in a low voice in Liu Chang's ear.

"The remnants of the Spring and Autumn Period are still quite strong in Zhao State. You may feel exaggerated when you look at their expressions and behaviors now, but this was very common in the past. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there were many ways of admonishing them. They even used singing. , and even dancing to persuade people, as well as makeup and sword dancing, all kinds of strange things, these are all evolved from the original etiquette, Zhao people have always been unique, your majesty must not laugh at it."

Lu Lu knew the level of knowledge of his illiterate emperor, so he specially explained it to him, so that he would not say any classic quotations that would be infamous for thousands of years.

This is really the first time Liu Chang has heard of such an ethos in ancient times, but indeed, the legacy of the Spring and Autumn Period is that he likes to exaggerate, and he does everything exaggeratedly, including exorcising ghosts, and even making the emperor go to the toilet. It’s an exaggeration to say that it’s all about rituals. Now that there are Confucian rituals, many things have been simplified. Otherwise, the emperor and his ministers would be busy with various meeting rituals for two hours and an hour and a half. It would be tedious and useless necessary.

In Liu Chang's view, this is something that the nobles in the past had nothing to do and deliberately made it up to scare the bottom people.

While scaring people is fun, there's no need to waste time.

King Zhao sat aside, listening to these people crying about the evil deeds of the Prime Minister, he was completely dumbfounded.

My prime minister is actually such a person? ?

After a brief period of contemplation, he still regained his sanity, shaking his head hastily, and refuted the words of these people.

"Long! Don't listen to their nonsense. Although Yuan An is a bit stubborn, disobedient, and irritable, but these days, he has always been obedient to the widow, and there has never been a situation where he made me empty. As for those people, they all asked to resign from Xia Kingdom by themselves."

"My lord! You were deceived by that guy!!"

"He just agreed to you on the surface, but he didn't do things according to your orders at all. You don't know, just after you came out of his mansion that day, he told us not to follow your ideas To arrange a thousand-year-old banquet or something like that, let us promise you on the surface, but drag it behind our backs, so we can't carry it out."

Liu Ruyi's eyes widened, and she was about to say something, but was preempted by Liu Chang at the side.

"I probably know it, Lu, write down the ministers who reported it. Then let them all go out. I have to meet other officials."

Almost no one said good things about Yuan An in front of Liu Chang. After the people who impeached Yuan An left, Liu Chang met some other officials. Among these people, there were also a few people who Liu Chang valued. The young man is called Wen Dang, whose name is Zhong Weng.

Liu Chang was very surprised by this person's speech and behavior. He didn't come to impeach Yuan An, nor did he say good things for him. But they are all the principles of local governance. He put forward five suggestions to Liu Chang, all about the governance of Zhao State. His way of persuading and admonishing is finally normal, without the legacy of the Spring and Autumn Period.

"Your Majesty, governing the place is nothing more than water, agriculture, and education."

"The power of water conservancy and the convenience of transportation cannot be underestimated, but most of the difficulties encountered today are because those who build water conservancy do not build water conservancy for the purpose of governing the region, but to show their political achievements. Abolishing the role of water conservancy in performance appraisal and replacing it with agricultural products can change the status quo. As for farming and mulberry, this is a major event in the temple. The problems encountered in farming and mulberry are due to geographical problems, soil fertility is not equal, and the people's hands The land here is often the most barren land. The output of these lands in three or four years is not as good as that of good fields in one year. Therefore, we must find ways to increase the production of the land. It’s a good idea. I hope the temple can promote it.”

This young man has his own unique insights in governing internal affairs.

Liu Chang couldn't help but nodded his head when he listened.

Liu Chang couldn't help asking: "What is your title?"

"It's just an ordinary person, there is no duke."

"Humph."

Liu Chang snorted coldly, waved his hand, and let him leave.

Lu Lu was dumbfounded. Will a talented young man be kicked out just because he doesn't have a title? ?Liu Ruyi couldn't bear it anymore, and he began to remonstrate: "Master, although this man is young and has no title, but he is still very talented if he listens to him, why should he be kicked out?"

Liu Chang glared at Liu Ruyi in displeasure, "You also know that he is quite talented? Then why don't you give him a title, but those who come to dance in front of me, all of them have ridiculously high titles?!"

King Zhao was taken aback, "I didn't confer this title either, it's my father."

"As the saying goes, the father's debt is repaid by the son! This is your father's fault, so naturally you have to bear it!"

Liu Ruyi thought it made some sense, but soon came to her senses, "That's not right, we are the same father!"

"But you look more like me!"

Liu Chang scolded: "The princes conferred by this old fool are all of this kind of virtue. What about the ability to know people? Let's see who he conferred."

"It should be their father and grandfather who were conferred by Emperor Gao."

"That's right, they canonize even if they don't understand what their future heirs are like. This is clearly blind!"

"Okay, we've stayed here long enough, let's go to the mine! Meet this heinous Yuan Guoxiang!"

The mines are scattered around Handan. One side is connected to Dai State, and the other side is connected to Tang State. In this land of mountains, there are countless mines. Tens of thousands of laborers work here. You can see them from a distance. The billowing thick smoke, the road here is brand new, in order to transport minerals, it is still a bit dangerous for a carriage to walk up, Liu Chang simply rode a horse, when they came to the nearest mine outside Handan, Yuan An He personally led the local officials to greet him.

Liu Chang looked at the young man in the distance. Compared with the past, he looks more mature now, and he even doesn't have much vigor.

"I see your Majesty!"

Yuan An attached himself to salute, and many officials paid homage to him one after another.

Looking at the hot scene in the distance, Liu Chang got off his horse and walked to Yuan An's side, his eyes staring at the distance all the time. Yuan An still maintained the posture of saluting, feeling that his shoulders were grabbed by a huge force, The ground was thrown up, and Yuan Ang looked at Liu Chang who was beside him, "Your Majesty's prowess is as good as it used to be."

"I didn't lose weight back then, but you, why did you become so thin and weak? I remember that you were quite strong at the beginning, and you could scare the officials with a sword. Looking at your current appearance, I'm afraid you won't be able to fight in a row. I can't even be scared."

Yuan Ang shook his head, "I am old."

"You're not as old as me."

Liu Chang pulled Yuan An, and the two walked towards the mountain. Liu Chang took the initiative to ask about the situation of the mine, and Yuan An answered seriously. He seemed to have known what Liu Chang wanted to ask, so he did it in advance. The arrangements were made, the answers were fluent, and he had already explained all the situations clearly before he even walked into the tent. Among other things, his ability to handle affairs is still very good. With a smile on his face, Liu Chang said, "Ah! , when I first came to Zhao State, seventeen people wrote to impeach you, and they were all high-ranking officials in the country. According to their impeachment, they can kill your family, do you know about this?"

"I heard something."

"Then why aren't you afraid at all?"

"Your Majesty is a wise king. You can see who is right and who is wrong at a glance. Why should I be afraid?"

"Hahaha, well said, it looks a bit like your elder brother."

"You really don't have to be afraid, just take care of those people in Zhao who wrote to impeach you. I think they are quite talented. I'm going to take them back and let them work in the Yuefu and perform for me. By the way , that man named Wen Dang, I will also take him away, he is quite talented, I am going to let him govern Hexi County, and see the effect."

"Yuefu?? Show??"

Chang'an, Prime Minister's Mansion.

Zhang Cang squinted his eyes and drooped his head, looking very tired.

He stretched out his hand, rubbed his head, and looked at the bound young man sitting in front of him again.

"Come here, untie him."

Several soldiers stepped forward and took the rope from the young man.

The young man cursed, "You dare to treat me like this, when His Majesty comes back, I will definitely not let you go!"

Zhang Cang asked: "So, you brought people to break through the checkpoint to see off Emperor Xiaoren?"

"I still need to discuss important matters with His Majesty! It was His Majesty who ordered me to come here to report!"

"Well, Captain Chai, do you know that forcibly breaking through a checkpoint is a capital offense?"

"They didn't allow me to go in. I waited outside the checkpoint for thirteen days. Isn't this deliberately embarrassing me?"

"Your Majesty is not in the temple, and foreign ministers want to enter Chang'an, so naturally they have to wait for His Majesty's edict."

"Then you can't let me wait outside the pass? I'm not a traitor. They won't allow me to come in. Naturally, I will use this method to enter Chang'an."

The person sitting in front of Zhang Cang was Dian Kingdom Lieutenant Chai Qi, the son of Chai Wu. Not long ago, this national lieutenant was captured by the Northern Army for breaking through the checkpoint, and he was taken directly to Chang'an. It can be said that he has achieved his goal, and when he entered Chang'an, the prince should have come to see him, but now that the prince is at his busiest, Zhang Cang came to see him and asked him why he came.

Chai Qi is hot-tempered, has an impatient personality, and has the ability of a group of talents. He belongs to the kind of talent who is suitable to be earned by the group of talents.

Even sitting in front of the prime minister of Han, Chai Qi was dishonest.

"I'm here this time on the orders of His Majesty. As far as the affairs of your court are the most important, aren't the local affairs not important?"

"Under the leadership of Xiao Xiang, we have opened up the road to Shendu, burned a piece of road, and the carriage can pass. Although it is not enough for the army to pass, but the news is faster than the sea road. This time I will bring Here is a detailed map, I want to dedicate it to His Majesty, by the way, there is also a piece of news about Shendu Road. It is also very important news, I need to see Your Majesty as soon as possible."

"Your Majesty is in the country of Zhao. If there is something important, you can tell me directly. I will send someone to report to His Majesty."

"It's not very important news either."

"The Ailao people decided to submit to the great man, and their leader decided to accept His Majesty's canonization."

"Ailao Kingdom? Why do they want to surrender?"

"Oh, my country of Dian accidentally had a little conflict with them when we were exploring the road, so we invited their king to the country as a guest"

(End of this chapter)