Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 255 Liu and Chen, the world shares

In the eighth year of the Qin Dynasty, the emperor's health became worse and worse.

The maids and chamberlains serving Liu Bang even reached the point where they did not dare to say a word about the emperor's physical condition.

And Liu Bang himself felt something about this.

After all, a person actually knows his or her physical condition better than others most of the time.

However, the emperor's physical changes did not scare the people in the court or the world, because in their view, the emperor had already made a decision and decided on his successor.

Among the several princes, only Liu Ying stayed in Chang'an City, and this was not an ordinary prince, but a "prince".

If something happens to the emperor, and the prince succeeds to the throne, isn't this an agreed upon thing?

What do the ministers of a country fear most?
This huge country has no successor, so all their efforts will be in vain.

On the road.

Leaving this place now may be the best choice. The rights and wrongs of Chang'an City cannot affect him in this short year, and he will come back again after the disaster is over.

Of course, this was also because the emperor's health was getting worse and worse, so he asked the prince, prime minister and others to supervise the country.

Liu Heng looked at the erratic mountains and rivers in the distance through the curtains of the carriage and horses, and secretly made a decision in his heart.

He couldn't help but think of the last look Liu Bang looked at him.

Bo Ji declined, and silently expressed the meaning of "Although I have served your Majesty for a while, your Majesty's true love will always be you", and Lu Pheasant was even happier after hearing this.

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On the contrary, when Bo Ji told him that he was leaving the palace with King Dai, Lu Zhi even held Bo Ji's hands with regret and comforted her.

The carriage and horses were swaying. Liu Heng sat in the carriage, and everything he said to his father that day came to his mind.

In the eighth year of the Qin Dynasty, Xia.

There is no hatred between Lu Pheasant and Bo Ji, not even a "conflict" between the two of them.

Finally he sighed quietly.

While Prince Ying's position became more and more stable, Lu Fei's ambitions also continued to grow, and she began to support Zhu Lu's power.

At that time he will be the supreme emperor.

As for Zhao and Ji who left at the same time as Queen Bo Jidai and her son?

They were just kicked out. If it were Queen Zhao and her son at this time.
I'm afraid Lu Pheasant wouldn't be so polite.

She said that if Bo Ji wanted to, she could stay in Chang'an City instead of going to the fiefdom with Dai Wang to suffer.

The two of them did not have such luck. Not only did Lu Pheasant not even see them, he even ordered the Queen of Huainan, her mother and her son, to be driven out of the Weiyang Palace.

Zhao Ji was not angry. In her opinion, Lu Pheasant was worried about Gaozu because Lu Pheasant did not "keep them completely".

When the mountain flowers bloom again, he will return to Chang'an City, a city full of desire and power, and everything in Chang'an City will welcome his return again.

Bo Ji left this place of right and wrong with Dai Wang. Before leaving, Bo Ji went to Weiyang Palace to meet the queen.

In Lu Pheasant's view, King Dai has no "competitiveness" at all. Would anyone be angry with an "ant" who was caught in the storm and couldn't control himself, but kept escaping?

It was also in this year that Zhang Liang was left to write a letter to retire.

When the news came out, not many people in the world believed it. How old is Liu Hou now? Why did you get old?

If you have to get old if you stay, how many people in the court can stay now?

Just ridiculous. But when Liu Hou proposed to "complain to old age" again in the court, the people in the court confirmed what was happening in front of them with stiff eyes.

If you stay and wait, you will indeed grow old.

Even though Zhang Liang is still in his prime now.

The reason he gave was also very simple. He had been injured secretly during the chaos of the late Qin Dynasty. Now he was seriously injured. Occasionally, the old illness recurred and the pain was unbearable. In desperation, he had to ask for retirement.

Faced with this very false reason, the emperor did not have any doubts.

On the second day, he agreed to stay and wait for his retirement.

On the same day, the emperor ordered Chen Ju, the head of the Chen family, to enter the court as an official and serve as Grand Master and Situ.

Chen Ju once again refused the edict, and said that he had been lingering on the sickbed for a long time, and he was afraid that he would not take this position for a long time, so he declined.

But this time, the emperor did not give up so easily, but gave the order again.

The edict ordered the head of the Chen family to be "Grand Master" and "Situ". He did not need to enter the court as an official, nor did he need to come to Chang'an City. He could just continue in Guandu. He also emphasized that this was just a "false title".

His edict even used more heart-wrenching remarks.

"Do you want to restore the old Qin Ye?"

Under such questioning, Chen Ju finally accepted the emperor's edict.

After Chen Ju accepted the emperor's edict, Liu Bang once again moved to the Imperial Academy to offer wine, and the prince Zhan Shi and the prince's young master Chen Bi were appointed as "Yushi Dafu", in charge of admonishment in the court hall.

What is strange is that after worshiping Chen Bi as the "Yu Shi Dafu", the emperor even once again made Chen Bi the "Chang Shi".

What is the official system of Changshi?

With a long history and a rank of thousands of stones, he is the leader of all the officials in the Prime Minister's Mansion and holds all the posts. If the prime minister has something to do, he will summon the chief minister to put it into effect.

It is probably equivalent to the specific manager of the Prime Minister's Office, similar to the position of secretary-general of the government. This secretary-general is not a position similar to "secretary".

The status of the Prime Minister Chang Shi can be regarded as relatively high among many bureaucrats.

Although most of the official positions in the Han Dynasty inherited the official system of the Qin Dynasty, there were also some subtle changes in some places.

After Chen Bi was appointed as Prime Minister Chang Shi, the emperor even ordered the salary of the position of "Chang Shi" to be increased to two thousand dan.

In other words, at least during the period of Liu Bang's reign, the status of Chang Shi and the prime minister and other important ministers were equivalent, and it could even be said that he could restrict the prime minister to a certain extent.

The reason may be that Xiao He was too close to Lu Pheasant during the battle for the throne.

It was so close that Liu Bang began to be afraid.

Fearing that after his own death, Xiao He would completely stand by Lu Pheasant's side and assist Lu Pheasant in controlling government affairs.

Liu Bang saw it very clearly, especially now that he was seriously ill, he saw it even more clearly.

His son "Liu Ying" cannot escape the control of his mother Lu Pheasant. Although Lu Pheasant is different from other women's families, she will still reuse her brothers, nephews and others in her family.

Although he had previously carried the power of the Chen family and established an alliance of "whoever is not the Liu family to be king, the whole world will attack him", Liu Bang was still afraid. This fear continued during the period before his death. It's getting more serious.

Because of this, he issued an edict.

The contents of this edict are so explosive that people even begin to doubt whether the emperor's mind is still awake.

There is a sentence in the edict that is sonorous and powerful.

"Liu and Chen, the world is together!"

(End of this chapter)