Dahan first prince

Chapter 196 Going out on the expedition on behalf of the father, victory is useless?
Respectfully exiting Changxin Hall and walking on the road back to Weiyang Palace, Liu Ying still felt that what happened today was so unreal that it was like a dream.

——Before the father came back, Liu Ying made all kinds of preparations, just waiting for Liu Bang to attack!
Including Liu Bang's possible use of canal repairs, the turmoil in food prices, and even the assassination, Liu Ying was fully prepared.

Even after confirming that Zhao Wang Liu Ruyi could not threaten her even the slightest, in order to stop her father's mouth, Liu Ying thought about whether she should intercede for her younger brother.

But after all the calculations, Liu Ying never thought that father Liu Bang gave up the idea of ​​easy storage so easily.

That's not to mention——As far as today's situation is concerned, Liu Bang has completely dispelled the idea of ​​easy storage, and his attitude has undergone a 180-degree change!
From the previous 'find a reason to change the prince', it directly changed to 'paving the way for the prince' and 'preparing for the handover of power'!
If she hadn't personally experienced everything that happened today, Liu Ying would not have believed it: this is actually the attitude shown by her father Liu Bang!

But now, even after witnessing and experiencing all this with her own eyes, Liu Ying still feels that what happened is somewhat dreamlike and unreal.

"Um······"

"Perhaps it was my performance that reassured the old guy?"

Secretly suspicious, Liu Ying could only slightly shake her head, convincing herself and accepting this slightly blunt reason.

Then, Liu Ying raised her head involuntarily, and looked not far away, the main hall of Xuanshi of Weiyang Palace towering like a cloud, her brows frowned suddenly.

"Ah~"

"About the expedition..."

Shaking her head and letting out a long sigh, Liu Ying lowered her head with a bitter face, thinking secretly.

It is different from Liu Ying's prediction and the memory of the previous life - after Liu Bang taught in class, he did not put the matter of "the crown prince going to war on behalf of his father" in front of the courtiers and officials for discussion.

After Chaoyi was dismissed, Liu Bang led Liu Ying to the bedroom alone, and said euphemistically: The prince will go to find out what the queen has said about this matter.

Apparently, Liu Bang was also very clear about the "Prince going out on behalf of his father" to put down Huainan Wang Yingbu's rebellion: Queen Lu Zhi, it is almost impossible to nod and agree!

But Liu Ying is equally clear: Although the old man Liu Bang said, "Go and find out", but in fact, "persuading the queen to nod" is almost a deadly task that Liu Bang assigned to Liu Ying!
It is true that today, Liu Bang is above the court, and under the premise that he unabashedly stated that "after a hundred years, the prince will succeed to the throne", Liu Ying can pretend not to know about it.

No matter what, Liu Ying's status as the "quasi-emperor" is already a certainty. Just wait for the death knell to ring nine times in Changle Palace, Liu Ying will be able to ascend to the Ninth Five-Year Plan and become the king of the world.

But if Liu Ying really did this, not to mention whether the old emperor would feel resentful because of it, or even think about changing storage again, Liu Bang and Lu Zhi would definitely have a quarrel because of this matter.

——On one side, there is the old emperor who is old and sick, and has no intention of going to war;
At the moment when King Yingbu of Huainan is coveting the Kanto and rebelling every day, any disagreement between the emperor and empress, especially because of the prince, will inevitably plunge the Chang'an court into a new round of turmoil.

And the only possible result of such a turmoil is that Liu Ying, who 'refuses to fight on behalf of her father', has lost her dignity since then...

"Whoo~"

Taking a deep breath and exhaling it slowly, Liu Ying couldn't help raising her head again, looking at the Xuanshi Hall of Weiyang Palace rising tens of feet from the ground.

"Try it."

"Even if you can't be persuaded, you must avoid turmoil in the court..."

Thinking so, Liu Ying stepped on the long steps outside the Xuanshi Hall with a faint sense of "going forward".

At the end of the long steps, the Xuanshi Hall is already overcrowded, just waiting for Liu Ying's arrival...
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"My son~"

Stepping over the high sill under the watchful eyes of everyone in the hall, before Liu Ying bowed her hands and bowed, she heard Lu Zhi's most joyful soft call from above.

"Quick, come forward!"

Seeing the old woman waving wildly at herself, Liu Ying could only obediently step forward and bowed to Lu Zhi.

"My son, goodbye..."

Before Liu Ying could pay her respects, she saw Lu Zhi jogging down from the imperial steps with a smile on her face, full of joy, grabbing Liu Ying and looking back and forth.

After being satisfied, Lu Zhi turned his head with a smile again, and his expression was full of the superiority of the younger generation.

"Shicai, I still don't really believe that His Majesty Hou Yan's relatives are Chi Xiao at my son's waist."

Smiling lightly, he nodded to Lu Shizhi who was beside him, and seeing Lu Zhi leaned down again, touched the Chixiao sword on Liu Ying's waist without any scruples, and then looked at everyone in the hall again.

"Looking at it now, my son is the only one who knows how to return from a lost path, and who knows how to serve the country!"

Hearing Lu Zhi's unscrupulous utterance of "Your Majesty knows how to return when lost", everyone in the hall also lowered their heads in unison, assuming a posture of "I didn't hear anything".

But even so, it was not difficult for Liu Ying to feel a touch of sincere joy from the expressions of everyone in the hall.

——Prince, finally got the full approval of His Majesty!

For the nephews and nephews of the Lu family and the old man of Zhou Luhou in the palace, there is no more pleasant news than this, and more exciting news for the future!
And in the hall, among the familiar or slightly unfamiliar figures, Liu Ying finally found a familiar figure.

——One has never appeared in Weiyang Palace, and has never seen the figure of Queen Lu Pheasant alone...
"Qu Zhou Hou Li Shang..."

In her heart, whispering such a name softly, Liu Ying's thoughts also quietly flew away.

Although Liu Ying was a little surprised by the appearance of such a heavyweight like Li Shang, she was not too surprised.

Because of this incident, it was already doomed when Huaiyin Marquis Han Xin died in Changle Palace.

——In the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, that is, one year before the next battle of Chu and Han Gai, Liu Bang, who was then the king of the Han Dynasty, was trapped in Xingyang due to the defeat of Pengcheng.

Relying on the fact that Peng Yue, who had just been ransacked by Liu Bang a few months ago, kept harassing Xiang Yu's grain road at that time, Liu Bang's army barely gained a foothold in Xingyang, but fortunately, Xiang Yu was not pushed back to the west of Hangu Pass.

It was also at that time that the famous "farce" happened in Qi State thousands of miles away from Xingyang.

——In order to win the support of Tian's Qi State and promote the strategic goal of attacking Xiang Chu from both sides, Han Wang Liu Bang sent the most powerful lobbyist under his command: Li Shiqi to promote the Qi-Han alliance.

As the top lobbyist Liu Bang placed high hopes on, Li Shiqi lived up to expectations and successfully reached an alliance with Qi Wang Tianguang at that time:
Tian Guang promised to send troops to the south from Qi State to attack Xiang Yu's base camp, and came out to "encircle Chu and rescue Han" to relieve Liu Bang's turmoil in Xingyang;

Li Shiqi promised: When Xiang Yu retreats from Xingyang and returns to Chu, the Han army under Liu Bang will definitely advance eastward immediately, and will never let Tian's Qi Kingdom bear the tyrannical wrath of the overlord alone again.

Li Shiqi also promised: When the world is settled, the Tian family will still be the king of Qi;

In exchange, Tian Guang also promised: Respect Han King Liu Bang as the emperor.

The covenant was reached, the agreement was signed, and everything was ready. When Qi Wang Tianguang sent troops south to attack Xiang Yu's rear, Han Xin, who had successfully pacified Yan and Zhao, set his sights on the fat Qi State.

The Han-Qi alliance has just been concluded, and Qi Wang Tianguang is naturally defenseless against the Han soldiers under Han Xin's command;
At the time when Qi and Han were not defending each other, Han Xin blatantly attacked Qi, and with a very ugly appearance and completely unarmed means, he attacked Qi in one fell swoop!

In this way, Qi Wang Tian Guang, who harbored the hatred of destroying the country, naturally vented all the anger in his heart on the 'repetitive villain' - Han envoy Li Shiqi.

What happened after that is known to all women and children.

Han Xin was able to "pacify" the Qi State, and he made a statement as soon as possible, and asked to be named the King of Qi. Although Liu Bang was dissatisfied with this, in order to continue to implement the established strategy of "two-sided attack" against Xiang Yu, he finally reluctantly agreed to Han Xin's request. ask.

As an envoy of the Han Dynasty, Li Shiqi was sent to the Qi State, and just after the Han-Qi alliance was concluded, the Qi State fell because of undefended defenses; as an envoy of the Han Dynasty, Li Shiqi was finally killed outside Linzi City by the angry Qi Wang Guangbang.

After cooking and killing Li Shiqi, Qi Wang Tianguang could only take the remaining retainers and guards and fled to the island; when Xiang Yu died in Wujiang and the Han Dynasty stood up, Qi Wang Tianguang still did not escape his death, and even brought the entire Qi Mo family with him. One door, buried with myself.

It was also from then on that the blood feud of 'killing Li Shiqi' was attributed to Han Xin, Marquis of Huaiyin, by Li Shiqi's younger brother Li Shang.

Now, Han Xin has given the head, and the blood feud has been avenged, and it is time for Qu Zhou Hou Li Shang to repay his kindness.

——No, at today's meeting that clearly belonged to the 'inside of the Lu family', Li Shang's figure appeared in the Xuanshi Hall of Weiyang Palace, Queen Lu's pheasant.

If nothing else happened, in the next two days, Li Shang should bring a great gift to visit another benefactor: Fenghou Xiaohe.

But at this time, Liu Ying was already a little bit overwhelmed by the joy of Li Shang's 'joining'...
"Come, sit by my side."

After sharing all the joy in his heart to everyone in the hall, Lu Zhi finally regained his airs as a queen, smiled gracefully, took Liu Ying's hand, and sat down at the head seat.

As expected by Liu Ying, almost at the same time when everyone was seated, Lu Zhi asked the question that was bound to appear.

"Just now, Your Majesty summoned my son to the sleeping hall alone, what did you say?"

Hearing Lu Zhi's question about business matters, Liu Ying couldn't help but take a breath, and her expression became a little more serious.

"I'm going to tell my mother."

"What the father said to the son was just a few days ago, when the child care was completed and passed on to the mother..."

After saying that, Liu Ying did not forget to turn her head slightly and nodded in the direction of her uncle Lu Shizhi.

Seeing Liu Ying's posture, Lu Zhi nodded without any surprise, and the joy on his face quietly carried a little solemnity.

"This matter, I have expected."

With a calm expression on his face, he said a word, and saw Lu Zhi raised his head slightly and smiled politely at everyone in the hall.

"Today I invite you into the palace, except that I want to hold a banquet in the evening, to congratulate my son on being bestowed with Chixiao by His Majesty, that's why."

"—Last year, Chen Xi messed with Dai and Zhao, and now His Majesty has turned back first, and the war between Dai and Zhao will soon be peaceful;"

"And this spring, Han Xin died of a crime; Xia, Liang Wang Pengyue clan."

"When Your Majesty decided on Han Zuo, there were eight princes with different surnames in the Guandong; but now, apart from your Majesty's brothers Lu Wan, King of Yan, and Wu Chen, King of Changsha, only Huainan Wang Yingbu is left behind."

As he said that, Lu Zhi's expression also quietly became serious, and he couldn't help but feel a little cold when he looked at the eyes of everyone in the hall.

"Xi, Liang Wang Pengyue, Prime Minister Chen Xi, and Huainan Wang Yingbu are known among the people as saying: The combined abilities of these three people should be comparable to Huaiyin!"

"Now that Peng Yue and Han Xin are dead, Chen Xi will also be defeated; Huainan Wang Yingbu, there is no reason to do the opposite..."

Speaking of this, Lu Zhi's tone was obviously a little tough and annoyed for unknown reasons.

"Yingbu Danfan must be in autumn and July, when the grain is ripe and the food is sufficient."

"However, when Your Majesty returned to Chang'an, Sheng Gong was sick, so he turned around first and rested; if Yingbu rebelled against Huainan, I fear that Your Majesty will not be able to personally conquer..."

The tone of the voice hinted at the anger, and Lu Zhi finally took a deep breath secretly, and immediately sat back on the head.

Without waiting for everyone to come to their senses, Lu Zhi smiled coldly and looked around at everyone in the hall.

"Yingbo must be rebelled, but His Majesty has no way to personally conquer; and today, His Majesty has clearly stated that the prince will continue to be responsible for supervising the country."

"Your Majesty's intention is that the crown prince will go out on behalf of his father to quell the chaos in Yingbu."

"You guys think that the crown prince might go out on behalf of His Majesty?"

Hearing Lu Zhi's repeated questions, everyone in the hall suppressed their joy and lowered their heads to think seriously.

Only a moment later, seeing Jiancheng Hou Lu Shizhi was born first, he bowed his hands to Lu Zhi, Liu Ying and his mother.

"To the Queen."

With a deep salute, Lu Shizhi raised his head tentatively.

After Lu Zhi nodded invisibly, Lu Shizhi felt relieved and bowed again.

"In the past, the court's meritorious marquis would say a lot: Yingbu, the king of Huainan, is comparable in talent to Peng Yue, the king of Liang, and Chen Xi, the prime minister; and these three men are not much different from the Marquis of Huaiyin."

"Such a great talent, but he only acts rebelliously. If he wants to calm him down, I'm afraid it will not be easy..."

"And today, the family has a stable reserve position, and was assassinated in Changling a while ago; Your Majesty was ill, but he was not ill, but at home, he was suffering from sores..."

As he said that, Lu Shizhi couldn't help raising his head slightly, and inquired about the change of Liu Ying's expression indiscriminately.

Seeing that nothing was wrong, Lu Shizhi had no choice but to bow his head again.

"Furthermore: If your Majesty the previous generation of the family went out to fight against Yingbu's disobedience, if they were defeated, the family's prestige would be lost, and if it was serious, they would die on the battlefield, resulting in chaos in the world, and the Kanto region would be engulfed in flames of war."

"And now, the prestige of the family has been established, and it has won the support of nearly a million households in Guanzhong; this time the expedition will win, and it will not be beneficial to the prestige of the family..."

After saying that, Lu Shizhi finally looked at Liu Ying, and then bowed his hands heavily.

"I think: If your family goes out on behalf of His Majesty, you will win, but you will lose nothing; if you lose, you will suffer endless troubles."

"My hometown, you must not go out on behalf of His Majesty!"

　Sao Rui, I've been pulling my hips a bit lately, and I'll resume the third shift tomorrow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)