I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

"Who?"

"Xinyanghou and Guang'ahou?"

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"It's actually the two of them..."

"How could it be the two of them..."

Hearing that Liu Sheng first asked a question in a little surprise, then murmured to himself in surprise, and the eunuch Ling Xiaque, who specially entered the palace to pass on the news, just shook his head in puzzlement.

But when Xia Que stepped aside respectfully and quietly waited for Liu Sheng's order, Tian Zi Sheng, who was sitting on the imperial couch, was already lost in thought.

Xinyang Hou Lutan, Guang'a Hou Rendan.

——Liu Sheng No matter what, he never thought that the first to react, and the first to enter Weiyang Palace to see him, were actually these two people.

Lu Tan, Marquis of Xinyang, is the sixth grandson of Lu Qing, the first Marquis of Xinyang.

Speaking of the first Xinyang Huhou Lvqing and the second Qinghou Luchen, they are also typical "father and son soldiers in battle" among the founding heroes of the Han Dynasty.

Like the father and son of Qu Zhou Hou Li Shang and Li Ji in a similar situation: Lu Qing and Lu Chen father and son are also the same. A typical representative of Shizi'.

In the second year of Qin II, that is, 208 BC as known by later generations, Chen Sheng, the founder of the Zhang Chu regime and the initiator of the Daze Township Uprising, was killed by the coachman Zhuang Jia, and the Qin Ping rebel army under Zhang Han immediately captured Zhang Chu. Capital: Chenyi.

But shortly thereafter, after Zhang Han led the main force to continue eastward, leaving only a part of the troops to garrison Chenyi, the second generation of Xinyang Qinghou Lu Chen organized the Cangtou Army in Xinyang County;
With a group of "quasi-elderly" people with gray hair, Lu Chen quickly recovered Chenyi, killed Zhuang Jia who had betrayed Chen Sheng, and reestablished the Zhang Chu regime in Chenyi.

Knowing this upheaval, Qin Ting's left and right captains stationed in Lantian attacked Chen County again. The difference in strength between the two sides was too large, and Lu Chen was defeated and went south;

After that, they gathered soldiers again and met Yingbu, the bandit of Fanyi. The two armies joined forces and went north to counterattack the left and right captains of Qin State.

During the renovation of Chenyi, Lu Chen and Ying Bu heard that Xiang Liang had pacified Kuaiji County and was coming west across the Huai River, so they decided to attach themselves to Xiang Liang.

Xiang Liang, who was well aware of the importance of Chen Sheng as an "anti-Qin banner", followed the advice of Fan Zeng after receiving the news of Chen Sheng's death from Lu Chen and Ying Bu. Xiong Xin is King Huai of Chu.

Soon after, Lu Chen, Liu Bang, Ying Bu and others cooperated with Xiang Liang and were able to support Xiong Xin as King Huai of Chu.

In September of the second year of Qin II, Xiang Liang was defeated and killed by Qin general Zhang Han in Dingtao County.Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, who were attacking Waihuang at that time, got the news of Xiang Liang's death in battle, and the army was in a panic;
After discussion, Liu and Xiang decided to lead the troops back to the east with Lu Chen—Xiang Yu was stationed in the west of Pengcheng, Lu Chen was stationed in the east of Pengcheng, and Liu Bang was stationed in Dang County.

King Huai Xiongxin was afraid of Qin's military power, so he took Lu Chen and Xiang Yu's troops under his command, moved the capital of Chu State from Xuyi to Pengcheng, appointed Liu Bang as the head of Dang County, and bestowed the Marquis of Wu'an to command the troops of Dang County;
Xiang Yu was also appointed Duke of Lu, Marquis of Chang'an, and Lu Chen Situ of Chu.

As for Lu Chen's father, Lu Qing, he was appointed Ling Yin (equivalent to Xiangguo) by King Huai Xiong Xin.

Lu Chen served as Situ, and his father Lu Qing served as Ling Yin. Together with Xiang Bo, Zuo Yin of Chu State at that time, Chen Ying of Shangzhu State, and Gong Ao, who later served as Zhu State when he attacked Qin, they constituted the central decision-making layer of the post-Chu regime. .

Later, when Huai Wang Xiongxin formulated the military action against Qin, all the veterans were not optimistic about being able to invade Guanzhong, so Liu Bang was promoted to be the main general of Qin's western expedition, with Song Yi as the general, Xiang Yu as the second general, and Fan Zeng as the last Will go north to rescue Zhao.

In the first year of Prince Qin's baby (206 BC), Liu Bang took the lead in entering the customs and surrendered to Prince Qin.

Afterwards, Xiang Yu led the armies of the princes to enter the pass, presided over the enfeoffment of the princes and kings after the famous Hongmen Banquet, and King Huai Xiong Xin was respected by Xiang Yu as the Emperor of Righteousness.

Later, Xiang Yu forcibly drove Yidi to Chenyi, Changsha County, and the ministers around Yidi gradually betrayed him. In the end, Yidi Chu was ambitious and was killed by the overlord Xiang Yu.

In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, Xiang Yu was defeated in Wujiang.Lu Chen's father, Lu Qing, surrendered to Liu Bang as Ling Yin of Western Chu.

In the first month of Renzi in the sixth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Lu Chen's father, Lu Qing, was bestowed the title of Marquis of Xinyang by Liu Bang.

The above is the full history of the first generation and the second generation of Xinyang Hou: Lu Qing, Lu Chen and his father who made the feudal Marquis Che.

Summarizing the experience of the father and son, it is not difficult to draw such a conclusion;

——The main credit, or the main reason, for the father and son to be named Marquis, first, is that his son Lu Chen restored the Zhang Chu regime twice successively, retained the land for Chu Yin Wang Chen Sheng, and re-established the great cause of anti-Qin banner.

At least try to re-erect.

The second is that the father and son served as Ling Yin and Situ respectively in the post-Chu regime of Emperor Yi Chu Huai Wang;
And the banner that Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty attacked Xiang Yu, was to "avenge King Huai of Chu Huai, Emperor Yi, and make Xiang Yu, the thief of Emperor Si, pay the price."

Liu Bang attacked Xiang Yu in the name of 'revenge for Emperor Yi', so naturally he had to show concern for Emperor Yi's survivors, old and young, and even picked out a few typical ones to crack the soil and make him a marquis.

Obviously: Lu Qing, Lu Chen, father and son, are typical of just the right size...
After understanding all the above, the meaning of the three words "Xinyanghou" is self-evident.

——During the founding process of the Han Dynasty, because they were involved with the Zhang Chu regime of Chen Sheng and the post-Chu regime of the Yi Emperor Chu Huaiwang Ambition, they were set up as a model by Emperor Taizu Gao, and the old and young were granted the status of a thousand households.

To put it more bluntly, the first and second generations of Xinyanghou are already the 'founding fathers' whose symbolic meaning is greater than the actual meaning;

And the current Marquis of Xinyang, Lu Tan, is the sixth Marquis of Xinyang...
Besides, Hou Rendan of Guang'a, whose ancestor was Renao, Hou of Guang'ayi.

Compared with the first and second generations of Xinyang Hou: Lu Qing, Lu Chen and his sons, the "starting" process of Guang'ahou's lineage is undoubtedly much simpler.

——In the last years of the First Emperor, Liu Bang, the head of the pavilion at Peisi River, was dispatched by the county government to escort a group of laborers and prisoners to Guanzhong to build the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin on Mount Li.

On the way, three or two young men escaped at night, causing the entire labor force and young men to fall into the embarrassing situation of "even if they arrived at Lishan on time, they would be executed for lack of numbers".

The head of the Surabaya Pavilion who was in charge of escorting the team was naturally included in this list.

So, Liu Bang reluctantly summoned the rest of the people, and told everyone bitterly: If a few people run away, even if we reach Lishan, we will all be executed;

Instead of going to Guanzhong to die and let the corpse rot in a foreign land, it is better to disperse and find a way out...
After dismissing most of the people, Liu Bang took the rest of his team who followed him spontaneously and hid on Dangshan Mountain.

That night, Liu Bang, who was very drunk, also did the legendary deed of "the son of the red emperor beheading the white snake", which is familiar to the later generations.

And the family history of the first Guang Ayi Hou Renao started from Liu Bang's falling into the grass as a bandit.

——Liu Bang fell into the grass and became a bandit, so he was wanted by the Qin court. As relatives, the Liu and Lu families couldn't escape the relationship.

Among them, the one who bears the brunt of it is naturally the only person recorded in the same household registration book as Liu Bang at that time: Gao Hou Lu Zhi.

The Peixian government official came to the door to inquire, and learned that Lu Zhi didn't know her husband's whereabouts, so he disagreed with each other, so he took Lu Zhi away and locked him in the county jail.

As the daughter of the "big family" - Lu Taigong Lu Wen, Lu Zhi, who has just married and is not yet old and decrepit, naturally has the temperament that belongs to everyone, and the beauty above the standard line.

Such a beauty was locked in a big prison, and the guard couldn't help but throb in his chest. Although he didn't dare to do anything, he still couldn't help but speak provocatively and frivolously.

And Ren Ao has always been very respectful, or in other words, very 'optimistic' to Liu Bang, a fellow villager. He was of course outraged when he learned that his sister-in-law was humiliated;

After spending some money on internal and external management, I was able to enter the cell smoothly;
After asking Mrs. Sister-in-law who was the little official's name, he followed Lu Zhi's fingers and beat up the little official in the cell!
Although in the end, Ren Ao also spent a few days in prison because of this, but from the perspective of God, compared to the harvest of "holding the thigh of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty", spending these few days in prison is really worth it the price.

Just a few years later, the first emperor died on the sand dunes, and the second emperor was born immediately, and the world was in chaos;

Liu Bang, who had already accumulated some troops, also responded to Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's call, and led his "rebel army" from Dangshan all the way back to his hometown: Fengpei.

Knowing what Ren Ao had done, he naturally wrote down Ren Ao's feelings, and since then he has increased his trust in Ren Ao.

Although Ren Ao was really not very capable—at least he seemed too ordinary in that era when fierce men came out in large numbers, Liu Bang didn't use Ren Ao too much, but because of the past events back then, Ren Ao was still able to lead the army in Liu Bang. During this period, Liu Bang stayed in Chu, where he was stationed at Fengpei Longxing.

Conglong as a guest, was appointed as the censor, not a relative, not an old man like Fan Kuai, but Ren Ao was still left by Liu Bang to guard his hometown;

——Trust the word, nothing more.

After the Hongmen Banquet, Liu Bang was granted the title of King of Han, and then he began to unite with the princes from all walks of life to attack Xiang Yu in the east.

At this time, Ren Ao was appointed by Liu Bang as the prefect of Shangdang.

The struggle for hegemony between Chu and Han came to an end, Liu Han was at the top of his power, and Chen Xi, the prime minister of the country, raised his troops to rebel. As a marquis, there are [-] households in Shiyi.

Later Liu Bang died, Xiaohui Liu Ying succeeded to the throne, Empress Dowager Lu came to power, and Ren Ao also served as the imperial doctor for three years before being replaced by Empress Lu's cronies: the second Pingyang Hou Cao Yu.

It's just that compared to the ancestor's hard work, or luck, Ren Ao's descendants have perfectly inherited the ancestor's mediocrity, but they have completely failed to inherit the ancestor's "good luck".

Ren Ao's son, Marquis Yi Ren Jing, had never held any official position in the 24rd year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's reign until the 21th year of Emperor Taizong.
And Ren Ao's grandson, now the third Guang'a Marquis Rendan, has not been appointed to a position of even a hundred stones since Emperor Taizong took the title in 24 years.

In other words: the third generation of Guang'ahou's lineage has been marginalized by the power center of the Han Dynasty. He is already the Marquis of Kongliuche, but he has no power to set foot in the top decision-making layer of the power pyramid.

And this is exactly the reason why Liu Sheng was so surprised by the arrival of these two people...
"Xinyanghou's lineage is originally the archway set up by Emperor Taizu Gao to take care of the old and young of Chu Yin Wang Chen Sheng and Chu Huai Wang Xiongzhi;"

"Now that it has been passed down to the sixth generation, we can only hold on to those thousand households and wait to die."

"Although Guang'a Hou can be regarded as a rich Yuan Cong, he has only been passed down for three generations, but he is not comparable to Jianghou and Wuyanghou at all."

"If it is passed on for another three or two generations, I'm afraid there will be a dude who commits crimes and loses the country..."

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"It turned out to be the two of them..."

"It was the two of them who reacted first..."

Muttering to himself, Liu Sheng finally turned around from his thoughts, and calmly looked at Xia Que beside him.

"Outside the gate of the palace just now, did the Marquis of Xinyang and Marquis of Guang'a ever report their intentions?"

Hearing this question, Xia Que only thought for a while, then shook his head with determination;
Then, he pursed his lips hesitantly.

"Never."

"It's just that on the way to the slave, I met Lang Zhongling who was about to leave the palace, so I exchanged a few words with the slave."

"According to what Lang Zhongling said, the two entered the palace hand in hand, perhaps in order to persuade His Majesty to speed up the imperial examination..."

As Xia Que's words fell, Liu Sheng pondered for a moment, and finally nodded slowly.

The purpose of these two people's visit, Liu Sheng had already guessed that it was almost inseparable;
After getting the news from Xia Que again, it can be regarded as a complete guess.

——These two were the first to react.

I was the first to understand that the imperial examinations are not something that farmers can get involved in. It is Liu Sheng who specially opened a green channel for the meritorious relatives and those school lords in the Kanto region. These two people came here so impatiently, please. See Liu Sheng, and persuade Liu Sheng: the imperial examination should be done as soon as possible!
As for the reason...
"The longer the time drags on, the more disciples and disciples of those 'everyone' and 'famous scholars' in the Kanto will get news;"

"The sooner you take the exam, the fewer candidates will come from Kanto to Chang'an to take the exam, and the chances will be higher for the dandies in Chang'an Gonghou's family..."

"Such a simple truth, the first to react, are these two people?"

"Or is it that other than these two people, other people don't care about the future of the nephew at home?"

Frowning and thinking for a while, Liu Sheng finally shook his head in puzzlement, and temporarily put aside the doubts in his heart.

Finally, after pondering for a while, Fang raised his hand, rubbed the bottom of his lower lip with his index finger, and said calmly: "Tell Xinyanghou and Guang'ahou: I already know the intention of these two people."

"It's just that I've heard that when there are few people, the words are light; when there are many people, the words are heavy."

"Imperial examinations are related to the government and officials, and I dare not make arbitrary decisions."

"If Marquis Xinyang and Marquis Guang'a can find a few more "virtuous and respected" meritorious relatives to enter the palace together..."