Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 768

Chang'an, the Imperial Palace Cuju Field.

Liu Chang did not take part in the competition in person this time. He sat on the viewing platform, with Cao Shu, Fan Qing, Yong'e, Zhang Buyi and others sitting beside him. Everyone watched the exciting competition in front of them with great interest. .

The fan attribute inherited from the great emperor exists in almost every child of the old Liu family. Even when the big man perished, there were many fanatical clan fans.

Liu Chang is also sparing no effort to promote these movements, because there are gradually no enemies around the big man, and Liu Chang does not want the martial arts of the big man to disappear because of this. Sports to replace it, of course, this is also inseparable from Liu Chang himself who likes Cuju very much.

Just when Liu Chang was very happy watching and couldn't help shouting loudly, Liu Zhang's arrival broke the happy atmosphere.

"His Majesty."

Seeing Liu Zhang with a serious face, Liu Chang got up quickly, glanced at Zhang Buyi and Lu Lu behind him, the two got up quickly, and the three walked down the stands, Cao Shu glanced at them, but did not speak , continue to look at the Cuju competition ahead.

"What happened?"

"Your Majesty, this matter. Oh, you see"

Liu Zhang really didn't know how to explain it, so he simply took out a paper report for Liu Chang to watch. Liu Chang saw that there were multiple copies of the report, and described what happened in Jiaodong from multiple directions. After a while, he was furious, "What do you want to build this scorpion?! There is also Lingsheng! A mere Jiaodong country has produced such two talents. Go, give me an order now, go and kill these two big people." Just escorted them to Chang'an, I will throw them into Shanglin Garden and let them fight!"

Hearing Liu Chang's words, Lu Lu was startled, and hurriedly asked: "Your Majesty, what happened?"

"There are two idiots fighting! See for yourself!"

Liu Chang threw the Zoubiao to Lu Lu, and yelled loudly: "These two idiots, I can't get up if I beat him for half a year!!"

Liu Zhang didn't dare to say anything, after all, the matter was related to his own father, and as a junior, he didn't dare to say anything about his elders.

Zhang Buyi also poked his head out and followed Lu Lu to read the reports.

Zhang Buyi frowned immediately, and said displeasedly: "Your Majesty, apart from King Jiaodong and the Prime Minister who will be punished, there are three more people who must not be let go."

"Oh? Which three people?"

"The first is Feng Tang, the governor. As the governor, Feng Tang knows nothing about his subordinates. He will not know until Dong Chi comes to find him. Such a person is also worthy to be the governor? You can dismiss him!!"

Liu Chang didn't answer, but asked, "How about two more?"

"Dong Chi, as the Prime Minister of Qi, intervened in Jiaodong's affairs without authorization. This is exceeding his authority! We must be punished!"

"anything else?"

"Liu Bo on behalf of the king!"

Liu Chang was taken aback, "What's wrong with this king?"

"Your Majesty, the acting king has no right to issue orders in Jiaodong, let alone pretending to be His Majesty, arresting officials, arbitrarily administering affairs, writing to Dong Chi, colluding with foreign officials, and committing personal dangers. How can he forgive many crimes?!"

Zhang Buyi frowned, and said seriously: "Even if everyone else forgives, Dai Wang will never forgive him!"

Lu Lu curled his lips. After all, he was his own son-in-law. After this accident, he began to clear the charges for his son-in-law.

Sure enough, Liu Chang raised his head and laughed, "What kind of crime is this?"

"If it weren't for this Zhuzi, I'm afraid that Jiaodong would be in chaos. This Zhuzi is brave and resourceful, and has such courage. He should be rewarded, not punished! Besides, what is the fault of a son pretending to be Lao Tzu?!"

Liu Chang waved his hand, "No need to say more, just catch those two idiots and bring them back to Chang'an!"

"Let Zhang Buyi take care of the rest!"

After Liu Chang gave his orders, he was not in the mood to watch any football games, so he turned around and left here, Lu Lu hurriedly followed.

"Where is my fourth brother?"

"Maybe he passed Longxi? He probably ran into General Cheqi."

"My brothers, there is no one who makes me happy. When the elder brother is messing around, the younger brother is also messing around. It is so difficult for me, the fourth brother, to be a little more reliable!!!"

Liu Heng has been talking with the Peacock Prince all the way.

Liu Heng discovered that the peacock prince was really interested in Gongyang Chunqiu. After years of study, neither Buddha nor Brahmin had any influence on him, and he completely began to believe in Confucianism. Of course, this is not a conflict. The Gongyang school is the most superstitious of the Confucian schools. It is very different from the Xun school. I went to study the stars in the sky every day, trying to find out the principles of governing the world from the movement of the stars, and find out the omens given by heaven.

Of course, they also believe in the proposition of destiny. It is not unreasonable for the prince who came from Shendu to be obsessed with such knowledge. After all, Shendu people have the same superstition as the old Qin spell.

"Yu Shigong, what you said is very reasonable. Today's destiny is in the big man, which has been foreshadowed long ago. It's just that people like His Majesty despise the destiny, because he already has the destiny, so he can do it." Disdainful. But mediocre people like us, how dare we look down upon it?"

Speaking of which, the difference between Liu Heng and Liu Chang lies in Liu Heng's attitude towards these destiny ghosts and gods.

As the saying goes, don't ask the common people and ask the ghosts and gods.

After all, the fourth brother is from the old Chang'an, and it is normal to be a little superstitious. Not only him, but the whole big man, before Liu Chang, will hold an official dancing god. Whenever spring planting and autumn harvest, professionals will be organized Come to perform the activities of dancing to the Great God, as well as various sacrifices, they are all famous, but as the Confucian Xun faction gained the upper hand, Liu Chang's power became stronger and stronger, which led to the continuous reduction of these activities, until now , Many things have been stopped by Liu Chang, and they are not allowed to do it anymore.

It is Liu Chang who can have such an appeal. If it were another person, he would have been torn apart by raging public opinion.

Liu Heng asked him about the situation of ghosts and gods over there, and the two had a pretty good chat.

"Hong Yi, how do you treat this poison in your body?"

"I think that if you want to control the poison of the body, you can only do it through benevolence and righteousness, practice benevolent government, love the people under your command, and spread the principles of the sage. Those traitors in the country have cultivated more talents, and there is no distinction between teaching and learning."

In this regard, the prince has his own ideas. Confucianism has too many things when it comes to governing the country.

Liu Heng listened, but couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

He didn't know if Liu Chang's method of bringing King Hu's successors back to Chang'an and teaching them these advanced knowledge was a good idea.

This method is indeed very helpful for enlightenment. Just look at the prince in front of you. He is very knowledgeable and can see everything clearly. And if he goes back, the Peacock Kingdom will be wonderful. In the place where the common people are impacted, a Confucian student who learns from Gongyang is suddenly ushered in to govern the country. The scene is unimaginable. Does a poisonous person know what benevolent government is? ?On their side, it seems that there have not been any benevolent kings. Most of the virtuous kings over there have built a large number of temples, or took the lead in believing in the Buddha. attainments.

For example, Ashoka, the poisonous people admired him very much, even Liu Heng thought he was a great king, but the reason why the poisonous people worshiped him was not because he expanded the territory, not because he could subdue him with bare hands The lion, not because he defeated almost all the enemies, but because he believed in the Buddha.

This is a very strange place. Ashoka's status is even higher than that of the founding king of the Mauryan Empire, because the founding king didn't have religious attainments?

When he went there, it was very helpful to promote the Sinicization of the local area. In fact, he was already a Confucian scholar of the Han Dynasty.

But what made Liu Heng feel uneasy was the identity of the other party.

A King Hu who learns from rams, this sounds creepy.

If he drives the whole country, makes the whole body start to change its beliefs, and starts to raise the banner of Gongyang Confucianism, then it’s okay? ?

The reason why the big men are at ease about body poisoning is because they are scattered and there is no possibility of cohesion at all, but as we all know, Confucianism is one of the best in terms of integration.

If this person is doing too well, he won't become a tiger breeding trouble, right? ?

Liu Heng looked at Bai Hongyi with a very tangled gaze, admiring the other party's talent, and feeling a little apprehensive about the future.

Of course, he also told Liu Chang about this, but Liu Chang, a fun person, was very happy when he heard his words, and expressed that he couldn't wait to see what would happen when a Gongyang Confucian scholar cured his body poison matter!
Thinking of this, Liu Heng could not help but raise his head and let out a long sigh.

None of my brothers and sisters are reliable, and it is too difficult for me! !
Bai Hongyi didn't seem to see the entanglement in Liu Heng's eyes, and he kept talking about his plan for governing the country. He was looking forward to it and eager to try it.

"In the past, the Peacock Kingdom has always advocated caste. In fact, this is wrong. Etiquette is important, but how can it be determined by people's origin? It should be divided according to morality. I want to abolish the caste system. The so-called There is no class in teaching, I want everyone to receive education, I am also preparing to establish a perfect sacrifice, standardize domestic sacrifice activities, I want to reduce domestic taxes, reduce corvee and release those slaves."

Liu Heng frowned and said nothing.

After driving for a long time in such conversations, he finally walked out of Longxi and met Zhou Yafu who was waiting at the border.

Zhou Yafu's army was stationed here to rest and reorganize. The former army seemed to have set off, but Zhou Yafu himself stayed here to wait for Liu Heng and others.

When the two sides met, Zhou Yafu was very polite to Liu Heng, but he was very indifferent to the prince.

Except for Liu Chang and the group of sages, Zhou Yafu was a little alienated from others, and would not get too close, and Liu Heng also knew his character, so he didn't get too close to him, and directly talked about wanting to go full speed. Hurry up, the idea of ​​arriving at Xiting Kingdom early.Zhou Yafu didn't stay any longer, and the whole army set off. Seeing the army set off, the prince was very excited, and said to Liu Heng with great interest: "With such a strong army going to Peacock with us, what enemy are we afraid of?"

This army is the Great Han Northern Army, with extraordinary fighting power. When they passed through the Hexi Kingdom, Liu Xiang wanted to visit Liu Heng, but Liu Heng refused.

Worried that this would affect their marching speed.

Zhou Yafu didn't expect King Wu's request to be so urgent, so he accelerated his speed again. Finally, after several months of marching, they finally came to the border of Xiting Kingdom.

Liu Qi excitedly stood on tiptoe on the road, looking nervously into the distance.

Zhidu stood by his side, this goshawk was still as cold as ever, "Your Majesty, King Wu came here suddenly, it must not just be for the purpose of ennobling Prince Peacock."

Liu Qi just smiled, squinted his eyes, and didn't speak.

When the convoy slowly appeared in front of him, Liu Qi couldn't wait to rush out and ran towards the carriage. His shoes almost ran away. The surrounding officials saw how excited the king was, and all the people around He couldn't help but be moved by the king's filial piety, when Liu Qi rushed to the chariot, Zhou Yafu hurriedly stepped aside, Liu Heng stood up from the chariot, and looked at his son indifferently.

Liu Qi had previously rehearsed countless scenes in his mind, and he had already thought of all the touching words, but now looking at his father's cold gaze, he found that he couldn't say anything, and his whole body became numb. A little stiff.

It's as if no matter what you say, it will be seen through by the other party.

Liu Qi lowered his head helplessly, "Father."

Liu Heng nodded.

The matter was not as touching as Liu Qi thought. When the chariot passed by, Liu Qi realized that he was in a hurry to drive for his father.

Everyone got out of the car at the gate of the city. Zhou Yafu was organizing troops to station nearby, while Liu Qi just hung his head and stood beside Liu Heng, looking a little at a loss and panicked.

Liu Heng's face was very cold, even a strong man like Zhidu dared not speak at all at this moment.

"Qi, the governance has been pretty good in these years, it's been done very well, it really surprised me, it's very good."

Liu Heng said good things in his mouth, but with that expression, it sounded like he was mocking no matter what, Liu Qi hurriedly said: "My son is incompetent, I am ashamed of my father!"

"Ashamed and right? How could it be wrong? The most powerful country in the Northwest. I can hear the prestige of Xiting in the country of Wu. The prestige of the king is really frightening."

"I"

Liu Qi was completely panicked, and he no longer had the complacent feeling that everything was at the mercy of chess. Facing his father, he felt an all-round oppression, and even seemed so powerless to defend himself.

"Your Majesty, I'm passing through expensive land, maybe go in and drink some water?"

"Father, what am I doing standing still? Make way!"

Liu Qi yelled, and hurriedly led his father into the city.

After entering the palace, Liu Heng sat in the top position, and no one dared to say anything. Liu Heng looked at the ministers under Liu Qi's command. After these people met, he chatted with them, and Liu Qi wiped his forehead. sweat, sat aside.

"Meet the king."

Liu Qi turned his head and noticed Bai Hongyi sitting beside him.

"Prince Peacock?"

"It's down."

Liu Qi's eyes turned red immediately, he grabbed the Prince's arm, tears streaming down his face, "You are finally here."

Seeing Liu Qi's appearance, Bai Hongyi was taken aback, with a dazed face, Liu Qi said sadly: "Please condolences, your father has passed away. Your father admired the way of kings and became the son of a great man. Lords, I have always been on good terms with him. You see, the dagger I carry with me was a gift from your father. Unfortunately, because of the internal turmoil caused by poison, your father was sick and suddenly saw you today. It's like seeing my old friend appear in front of me."

Bai Hongyi burst into tears as if struck by lightning.

Everyone was silent. Looking at the two people who were embracing each other and crying bitterly, Liu Heng took a deep breath, frowning more and more, picked up the drink in front of him, and drank it down.

Liu Qi comforted the prince, supported him personally, and sent him to rest.

"Please don't worry, a lot of things have happened in the Peacock country today, but I will definitely help you with all my strength, no matter what kind of help you need, you can tell me that your father is a sage, He also helped me a lot, and I have no chance to repay his kindness. If I can help you, I will feel much better."

Bai Hongyi took Liu Qi's hand and just shook his head, "You are a real virtuous king, please don't say such words. When I arrive in China, I will definitely inherit my father's last wish and manage the peacock well."

“Of course it's the best”

Some hesitation suddenly appeared on Liu Qi's face, he hesitated to speak.

"But what's the matter? Brother, I have been away from Peacock for a long time. I don't know the situation here. Please explain it clearly."

"Oh, I shouldn't be talking too much, that's right. Oh, forget it, you have suffered such bad news today, you should go back first, and I will tell you tomorrow."

No matter what Bai Hongyi said, Liu Qi didn't speak anymore. After helping him to rest, Liu Qi just walked out of the other hall.

But at this moment, there was no trace of sadness on his face, his eyes were slightly squinted, and his expression looked extremely cold.

"Liu Qi!!"

Someone in the distance suddenly called out his name, Liu Qi was shocked, raised his head, and met Liu Heng who was in the distance.

The atmosphere suddenly became stiff.

Liu Qi pursed his lips, and walked quickly to Liu Heng's side, "Father, I have no intention of treason."

"It's not a bad thing for Qi to be ambitious. He wants to make contributions and expand his territory. But no matter what you do, you must have a limit. You have become a little too crazy. Don't you think about temples at all? Do you think the people in the temple can't see what you want to do?!"

"I believe Father Zhong won't fear me."

"is it?"

Liu Heng asked back.

At this moment, there was a hurried cry not far away.

"I went to find that bitch again today?! Where did I go tonight?! Which one did I recruit? I insist on making him look good."

At this moment, Liu Qi's face changed drastically.

There was a murderous look in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)