Dahan first prince

Chapter 187 Soil, adobe, waterwheel
When Liu Bang departed from Luoyang again, entered Guanzhong from Hangu, and approached Chang'an, in Chang'an Weiyang Palace, Liu Ying finally waited for her mother Lu Zhi's reply.

"—But I am here, Your Majesty will not let my son go out on behalf of my father, and lead the army to pacify Huainan..."

After repeating the words relayed by uncle Lu Shizhi just now, a little helplessness quietly appeared on Liu Ying's face.

It can be said that Lu Zhi's reaction did not surprise Liu Ying at all.

The sentence "Don't be afraid, son, I'm here" can be said to show Lu Zhi's character in front of Liu Ying without any mistakes.

And this means that a few days later, when Emperor Liu Bang returned to Chang'an and began to prepare for the suppression of Huainan Wang Yingbu's rebellion, there would be another round of open and secret fighting between Emperor Liu Bang and Queen Lu Zhi... ··

"Ah~"

"How can this be good..."

Shaking her head full of sorrow and sighing, Liu Ying stretched out her hand, picked up a roll of bamboo slips from the wooden case in front of her, and began to read them worriedly.

Under the strong impetus of the Prince Jian Guo, the grain franchise has been completely on the right track.

In addition to the granary bought by Shaofu from merchants with "payment", Xiangfu has also started to build several large granaries in several important locations marked by Liu Ying.

Grain markets in various parts of Guanzhong, also under the joint efforts of Shaofu and Xiangfu, have sprung up like mushrooms, almost seamlessly replacing the grain merchants who used to buy and sell grain.

What's more, by "purchasing the granary in the hands of merchants and paying in advance", the Shaofu was able to get rid of the backlog of three baht, and temporarily obtained tens of millions of shi of grain storage!
Although the vast majority of these grains are sold to the common people to maintain daily expenses, even half of them are enough to make the Chang'an Central Committee no longer suffer from the upcoming "Huainan Wang Yingbu Rebellion". Headache due to lack of rations.

The renovation of the Zhengguo Canal has been completed, and the harvest in Weibei is imminent; grain prices have been stabilized for a long time under the government-operated grain policy, and Guanzhong is already making great strides in the direction of prosperity.

And Liu Ying's attention was basically focused on the upcoming Huainan Wang Yingbu rebellion.

——A few days ago, news came back from Luoyang: Liang Wang Peng Yue rebelled against him, and his family is already dead!

According to the memories of Liu Ying's previous life, at this moment, Wang Yingbu of Huainan should have received the 'reward' from the emperor Liu Bang-Peng Yue's minced meat!

If there is no accident, it can be as short as ten days or as long as half a month. Huainan Wang Yingbu will "force the people to rebel" and become the fourth king of the Han Dynasty after Zang Tu, King of Yan, Gongwei, King of Linjiang, and Wangxin of Han. Really raised troops to rebel, not princes with different surnames who were 'suspected of rebellion'.

In this regard, the emperor Liu Bang must be aware of it.

Then, the first priority before Chang'an court will be Huainan Wang Yingbu's pacification.

The princes with different surnames rebelled, what should we do?
In the Chang'an court in the early Han Dynasty, there was almost no second answer to this question.

--beat!

——The princes with different surnames who dared to betray the Chang'an Central Committee and intend to bring disaster to the world will be completely destroyed from body to soul!
Undoubtedly, for King Yingbu of Huainan, who would definitely choose "my life is up to me", the court will inevitably come to the conclusion of "suspending troops to crusade".

And under the premise of Emperor Liu Bang's "hospital sickness" and Chen Xi's undefeated, unprecedented "return to Chang'an to recuperate in advance", Liu Ying is almost the only candidate to put down the Yingbo rebellion... ·

"Ugh······"

"Why is no one thinking about Gu..."

Shaking her head with a desolate expression, a little powerlessness quietly appeared on Liu Ying's face.

According to the memories of Liu Ying's previous life, when her father Liu Bang returned to Beijing and proposed to let Liu Ying lead the army to go out, a seemingly innocent but actually extremely funny public opinion would inevitably appear in the ears of Queen Lu Zhi.

——The crown prince sits in the reserve position. If he goes out to fight on behalf of his majesty, if he loses, his success will fall short, and the world will be in chaos; even if he wins by chance, it will not benefit the crown prince at all!

It was under this underlying logic of 'you won't make money if you win, and you can lose everything if you lose', Queen Lu Zhi made up her mind: no matter what, Liu Ying should not be allowed to go to war in place of her father!

But among all the people including Lu Zhi, not even one person, at even a single moment, considered Liu Ying's own feelings...
"My father is seriously ill and lies on the couch. I am alone as a son and don't know how to share my father's worries. I just sit and watch my father go to war when he is seriously ill. In the coming day, he will be on the Ninth Five-Year Plan. How can I face the people of the world?"

In the previous life, this stubborn view was not expressed by Liu Yingdao, but was deeply buried in his heart.

After succeeding to the throne as the emperor, and because of his young age, he was still unable to get a hold of the great power, and became a puppet emperor in the middle of the night. These words appeared in Liu Ying's mind more than once.

Whenever she wanted to do something, but was sent back to the deep palace and autistic by the phrase "hanging down and governing the emperor", Liu Ying would cowardly hide in the bed and fantasize: If at that time, I had said this sentence bravely If so, would things be different?

If I really led the army to quell the Huainan Wang Yingbu's rebellion, would Cao Shen, Marquis of Pingyang, who became the prime minister, be more respectful to me?
It's a pity that for Liu Ying at that time, all of this was just a meaningless fantasy.

But now, an opportunity to 're-select' was placed in front of Liu Ying.

Going out on behalf of your father, doing all your filial piety, and gaining prestige in the military by the way?
Or is it the same as in the previous life, under the instigation of his mother Lu Zhi, to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and to sit and watch his father Liu Bang drag his old sick body to fight Huainan Wang Yingbu on the battlefield?
In Liu Ying's mind, she already had the answer.

However, compared to the fear and cowardice faced by her mother Lu Zhi in the previous life, Liu Ying in this life obviously has more and more appropriate choices.

"Um······"

"And wait..."

"Wait for Dad to return to Chang'an, then wait for the opportunity..."

Thinking so, Liu Ying raised her head and nodded towards Chun Tuo who was at the gate of the palace.

——Because a moment ago, Liu Ying caught a glimpse: outside the gate of the palace, there seemed to be a figure of Liu Ying who had been waiting for a long time...
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"The minister of the Shaofu is leaving, and I would like to pay my respects to my family."

With a slightly cautious bow, Yang Li walked to the banquet at the side of the hall and knelt down under Liu Ying's spring-like smile.

Without being overly polite, he exchanged a few simple greetings with Liu Ying, and Yang Li got straight to the point.

"A while ago, the family's ordering officials secretly sent letters to gather Mo Di's disciples scattered all over the world; however, this matter is still a little bit difficult."

Without beating around the bush, Yang Li said, "This matter can't be done for the time being," and Yang Li looked at Liu Ying calmly.

"The family knows that the Mo family is divided into three parts after the sage Mo Di, each into Qi, Chu, and Qin."

"The Deng Ling family who entered Chu are mostly knight-errants and bandits today, so it is of no benefit to the family;"

"The husbands who entered the Qi Dynasty all followed their deceased fathers and hanged themselves in front of the Qi Wang Tianheng tomb. Today, except for one minister, I am afraid that there will be no more eloquent scholars in Qi and Mo."

As he said that, Yang Li's face could not help showing a little stiffness.

"As for the Xiangli family who entered Qin Dynasty, they are more skilled in the art of Luban's equipment, and often perform their duties in the Qin Shaofu."

"After the Qin Dynasty died and the Han Dynasty prospered, most of this generation has entered the Shaofu as a craftsman."

"However, although this generation is still alive, they dare not show others what 'Qin Mo' has learned; and the craftsmen in Shaofu are not all descendants of Qin Mo."

"The old minister wants to call this generation, but he has no way of identifying what he has learned..."

After saying that, Yang Li lowered his head worriedly, sighed secretly, and then bowed his hands to Liu Ying again.

"After the family wants to gather Mo Di, I'm afraid there is no hurry; in the future, the minister will be a little prominent in the court, and he will show what he has learned, so that this generation can come by himself and understand his "Qin Mo" body .”

Hearing Yang Li slightly helplessly said this, Liu Ying could only nod her head slowly, even though she felt regretful.

What Yang Li said was basically the same as what Liu Ying knew.

Among the three sects that splintered out of the Mohist school, among them Chu Mo, that is, Deng Ling's branch, can be said to be all knight-errants; Liu Ying, as the crown prince, was too late to eradicate the knight-errants, so naturally it was impossible to reuse them.

Among the remaining two branches, Qi Mo, whose main skill is eloquence, that is, the Xiangfu family, basically all followed the late Qi Wang Tian Heng.

Had it not been for the former son of Qi Mo Ju, that is, Yang Li's late father, who had left Yang Li as a spark for the sake of inheriting the theory, I am afraid that Qi Mo's eloquent scholars would have been completely extinct a few years ago.

Chu Mo was not available, and Qi Mo only had Yang Li, the only seedling left. The only one left was the Xiangli family's ink that Liu Ying valued the most and was most useful to the Han Dynasty, that is, the Mo of Qin branch.

And according to what Liu Ying learned from various sources, in the Qin Dynasty, these disciples and grandchildren of Xiangliqin were basically arranged by successive Qin kings into the Qin Shaofu to manufacture weapons and advanced siege equipment for the great Qin warriors. .

Later, Qin Shaofu was defeated by the overlord Xiang Yu in Julu because of Zhang Han, the commander of the Shaofu. Zhang Han surrendered to Xiang Yu, and was gradually abandoned by the second generation Huhai.

When Qin died at the hands of Ziying of the third generation and Xiang Yu enshrined all the eighteen princes, most of Qin Mo's lineage who had committed themselves to Qin Shao's mansion put on the vest of "craftsman" and temporarily scattered in various places in Guanzhong.

In the end, the "Chu-Han Struggle for Hegemony" that lasted for several years ended with Xiang Yu Wujiang committing suicide, Han Wang Liu Bang succeeded the emperor in Luoyang; and those Qin Mo scholars who wore the vest of "craftsman" scattered all over Guanzhong , but because of his status as a "craftsman", he was once again taken in by the Shaofu.

Only this time, it wasn't Young Master Qin's Mansion, but Young Master Han Mansion under Yang Chengyan's control.

So, Yang Li was right.

Liu Ying asked Yang Li to integrate the Mohism secretly, in fact, it was to integrate the Qin Mo school that still remained in the world.

However, it is indeed as Yang Li said: not all the craftsmen in the Shaofu are the descendants of Qin Moxiang Liqin who committed himself to the Qin Shaofu to build weapons and ordnance for Qin in the past.

——You must know that even the craftsmen of Qin Shaofu are not all Qin Mo!
In this way, it is almost impossible to use coercive means to identify the "descendants of Qin Mo" who may not exceed 100 from the hundreds of craftsmen in Shaofu today, and it is definitely not Liu Ying. One word will do it.

The reason is simple: Qin Mo's lineage, who once committed himself to the Qin Shaofu, put on the vest of a "craftsman" and hid in the current Han Shaofu, precisely because Qin Mo is first-class, and almost everyone has "helping the tyrant" on their heads. Qin lackeys' political stain!

Under this premise, it is simply unrealistic to ask these people to take off their vests and admit that they are the remnants of the previous dynasty who helped the "tyranny of the Qin Dynasty" just by Liu Ying's sentence "I want to reuse you".

The only way is just as Yang Li said, wait for a while.

After Yang Li occupies a place in the court and has a certain amount of energy, let Yang Li tentatively reveal the identity of 'I am Mo Di's grandson'.

When the fact that "Mohist scholars live in temples" is accepted by the entire court, and through the form of miscellaneous talks, it gradually becomes the gossip content of Chang'an people before tea and after dinner, those Qin Mo scholars who are hiding in the Shaofu may slow down. Slowly surfaced.

Those who are more cautious may wait for the opportunity to test Yang Li's 'identity' before making plans as appropriate; those who are more courageous may even call on Yang Li directly, assuming that the Mo family's life and death depends on the two of us.

However, Liu Ying was still a little unwilling to accept the reality that "the Mohists can't count on it for the time being".

"Um······"

"Even after Qi Mo, he shouldn't be completely ignorant of invention and creation, right?"

"Even if you really don't understand, Young Mansion, don't you still have those 'Desires from the Former Dynasty'..."

After staring at Yang Li deeply for a while, Liu Ying finally made up her mind, and took out a piece of silk cloth that was not too fine from her sleeve.

Then, seeing Liu Ying look extremely distressed, she shook her head and sighed 'talking to herself'.

"Ah~"

"Unfortunately, unfortunately..."

"It's such an important tool, but if it is successful, it will be of great benefit to the world!"

"It's a pity that Qin Mo has no one to use for the time being..."

As she said that, Liu Ying shook her head with regret, and put on a posture of 'it's really a pity'.

Seeing Liu Ying's behavior, Yang Li thought about it for a while, and then reacted, but he didn't rush to speak, but sat up straight with a little tentativeness, and carefully threw the silk cloth in Liu Ying's hand. look.

Seeing this, Liu Ying didn't hesitate much, and "generously" handed the silk cloth in her hand to Yang Li.

Then, Yang Li's youthful brows were twisted together little by little...

"If you want to get something, cut it with straw and moisten it, combine it with human and animal excrement, pile it up to a height of more than ten feet, and seal it half a year old to get it ripe..."

"If you want to get something, the method of making it is like pottery. It is formed by mixing loess with water, drying it and burning it for three days before it can be made..."

"If you want to get something, make it in the shape of a giant wheel made of old wood, with a diameter of several feet..."

Silently reading the words on the silk cloth with a strange expression, Yang Li raised his head full of confusion, and looked at Liu Ying, almost full of confusion.

Seeing that Liu Ying was only in a daze for a moment, she suddenly put on an overjoyed expression, and hurried forward to grab Yang Li's wrist.

"Is it possible for you to make these three things?!"

(End of this chapter)