Dahan first prince

Chapter 197 The Prince is... What do you want to do?
As Lu Shizhi uttered these seemingly unproblematic words in a cadence, almost all of the disciples of the Lu family and the Zhou Lu family in the hall showed approval on their old expressions.

"What Hou Jiancheng said is true~"

"The reserve position at home is safe, and His Majesty is sick, and Yingbu will oppose the Kanto."

"At a time when the country is in doubt, it is most appropriate for the family to stay in Chang'an, isn't it?"

Listening to these comments, which can be regarded as "disrespectful", Liu Ying's expression, which was not clear at all, could not help but become more gloomy.

But among the people in the hall, there were two obviously taller, burlier, more luxuriously dressed, and more stable figures, quietly frowning.

"Li Shang..."

"Infant feeding..."

After murmuring these two names softly, Liu Ying finally lowered her head and hid her gloomy face at an angle that Lu Zhi could not see.

But after a while, Liu Ying raised her head again because of Lu Zhi's question.

"Looking at the intentions of all the gentlemen, it's just that your Majesty is sick and the Guandong is not peaceful; and my son's reserve position is safe, so you can't take risks."

After saying a word leisurely, Lu Zhi turned his head indifferently, and when he looked at Liu Ying, the coldness in his eyes could not help but recede a little.

"My son thinks that what the gentlemen said is still reasonable?"

As he said that, Lu Zhi smiled and stretched out his hand again, pointing to the serious expression standing under the imperial steps, but looking at Liu Ying's Jiancheng Marquis Lv Shizhi with a slightly apprehensive gaze.

"Again, Jiancheng Hou said: If my son goes out to fight, it will not be beneficial to win, and if he loses, he will lose everything."

"My son thinks that what Hou Jiancheng said makes sense?"

Hearing that Lu Pheasant asked in an extremely gentle tone, "Is Lu Shizhi's statement correct?", everyone in the hall couldn't help snorting and concentrating, casting hesitant gazes on Liu Ying's slightly stiff face.

And Liu Ying, like everyone in the hall, heard the hidden meaning of dissuasion in Lu Zhi's words.

But this time, Liu Ying couldn't convince herself again, and continued to obey her mother Lu Zhi's arrangement...

"What uncle said is true."

After saying a word calmly, Liu Ying got up kindly, and bowed to Lu Shiyi who was under the imperial steps.

When Lu Shizhi smiled lightly and lowered his head, and put on a polite posture of 'not being so', Liu Ying smiled and arched her hands again, and bowed to everyone in the hall.

"However, in the past year, Gu Shang was disliked by his father, and the hidden dangers of the reserve position were endless; and King Zhao was loved by his father, and he had the desire to do something wrong, which only made his mother, queen, and princes worry about it."

Turning sideways with a smile, she bowed her hands to her mother, Lu Zhi, and Liu Ying turned around again.

"However, today, after only one year of merit, Gu's reserve position is as solid as gold; Gengfu Huang bestowed on Gu with the Chixiao Tianzi sword, and he is the name of the concubine, the elder and the younger."

"——This is all due to the service of the princes, so that the father and emperor will change their minds!"

"Lonely, thank you for your righteousness!"

After saying that, Liu Ying straightened up suddenly, and bowed solemnly to everyone in the hall.

Waiting for the sound of "There is nothing like this in the family" and "I dare not be a minister", Liu Ying straightened up, and the iconic light smile hung on her face again.

"Uncle said just now: I'm safe now, and my father is sick, and the Kanto is in chaos; when the country is in doubt, I should put safety first."

"Uncle also said: If Gu goes out on behalf of his father to quell the chaos of King Yingbu of Huainan, if he wins, it will be of no benefit to Gu;

As she spoke, Liu Ying raised her head with a smile, and looked at Lu Shizhi with a questioning look in her eyes.

After Lu Shizhi nodded uncertainly and said, "I really said so", Liu Ying cupped her hands to Lu Zhi beside her, and then walked down the imperial steps slowly, and came to Lu Shizhi's house. around.

Stopped, but Liu Ying didn't speak in a hurry, but surrounded Lu Shizhi a little abruptly, even a little rudely, and looked around?
When Lu Shizhi was also frightened by Liu Ying's posture and showed some anxiety, Liu Ying stopped his movements, and his eyes finally locked on the golden seal on the rare purple ribbon on Lu Shizhi's waist.

"Um······"

"I never had the time to ask my uncle about the past."

"—I don't know when the Han Dynasty was established, how did my uncle get the land of a county in the east of the Guandong from the emperor, and give it to the Marquis of Che?"

As soon as Liu Ying said this, everyone in the hall subconsciously widened their eyes and looked at Liu Ying with a little surprise.

Hearing Liu Ying's question, Lu Shizhi himself suddenly raised his head in panic!
After seeing that Liu Ying still had that smiling, gentle face without any anger, Lu Shizhi turned sideways anxiously, and looked at the imperial steps with a slightly guilty expression, his expression had already changed a little. Unhappy Lv Pheasant.

After such a long time, it was finally Lu Zhi who nodded slowly, which made Lu Shizhi calm down, and bowed to Liu Ying with a little humiliation.

"Go home."

"Your Majesty bestowed you with the title of Marquis of Che and the land of one county, and the city was built into thousands of households in the Marquis. In fact, your Majesty remembered the past and made some meritorious deeds in the society..."

Hearing Lu Shizhi's answer, everyone in the hall wanted to suppress him, but they couldn't help but lower their heads one after another. There was also a tacit understanding of "seeing through but not revealing" between their brows.

——Lu Shizhi was granted the title of Marquis because of meritorious service?
Hey!
With the martial arts of 'beheading level six', you can crack the soil and become a marquis?

It is no exaggeration to say: As far as Lu Shizhi's insignificant "martial feats" were concerned, at the beginning of the founding of the country, it cannot be said to be worth mentioning, but it can only be said to be insignificant!
If Lu Shizhi is all qualified to "get the Marquis for his merits", then when the Han Dynasty was established, the emperor Liu Bang should not only confer 140 six Chehous!
Today's Han Dynasty should not only have about 130 Chehou families, but there should be five hundred, one thousand, or even tens of thousands!

Needless to say, in the next battle of Gai, how many strong men did the Han army produce with one enemy ten and behead ten enemies?
——There is no three thousand, but there are definitely two thousand and eight!
How many generals and soldiers of the Han army can be granted the title of Marquis of Hanche just because of their achievements in the battle of Gaixia?

five!

Lu Matong, Marquis of Zhongshui, Lu Sheng, Marquis of Nieyang, Yang Wu, Marquis of Wufang, Yang Xi, Marquis of Chiquan, and Wang Yi, Marquis of Du Yan!

Even for these five people, the biggest reason why they were named Marquis was not because of how many enemies they had killed and how many heads they had won, but because Liu Bang promised that "whoever kills Xiang Yu will be rewarded with a thousand pieces of gold and sealed as a prince" by the Wujiang River. Wanhuhou's reward!

After receiving the highest level of rewards, these five people finally broke through layers of dangers, beheaded each enemy and even their comrades under the knife, and were able to share Xiang Yu's corpse, and each was awarded two hundred gold. Two thousand households.

Compared with these Chehou who were hacked out one by one, and even relied on the corpse of the overlord Xiang Yu to exchange for two thousand households, what is Lu Shizhi's martial arts?
There is no need for anyone to deliberately pass it on. Nowadays, in the court, all the dignitaries and courtiers who have come from the founding of the country basically understand in their hearts: As for Lu Shizhi's insignificant martial arts, even giving Shiyi one or two It is even a little bit reluctant for the middle-level and even the bottom-level Chehou of Qianhu to be a personal guard!

But under such circumstances, Lu Shizhi still relied on his pitiful "sixth rank of the enemy's head" to be named a top prince with nearly [-] households in Shiyi. Yuan Xun, such as Wuyang Hou Fankui, Ruyin Hou Zhou Bo, Yingyin Hou Guanying, etc., came very rarely!

The reason for this problem, whether it is courtiers or officials, or meritorious officials, is actually tacit.

——It's just Lu Shizhi's "Shi Lu", who was granted the title of Liu Bangen because of the late Zhou Lv Ling Wuhou who looked after him in the past.

But at this moment, when Liu Ying asked this question bluntly in front of dozens of people in the Xuanshi Hall, "Why did you get the seal", everyone felt a little puzzled in their hearts.

"This question from the prince..."

"Don't you want to secretly tell Hou Jiancheng not to forget His Majesty's kindness?"

While everyone was thinking about it, Liu Ying didn't discuss it further, but nodded with a smile on her face as usual, then turned around again, and came to Qu Zhou Hou Li Shang.

"In the past, I heard more about Qu Zhouhou's ability than Wuyanghou and Jianghou; when I see it today, I know that the rumors are true!"

Without any hypocrisy, she praised Li Shang, and Liu Ying couldn't help but look at Li Shang with a little respect.

——Different from those described in later generations, those "historical dramas" that only know love between men and women: military generals in the cold weapon era, especially generals who have gone down in history, rarely have "beautiful men" that meet the aesthetics of later generations.

Take the most capable generals in the Chang'an court today, such as Pingyanghou Cao Can, Wuyanghou Fan Kuai, Jianghou Zhoubo, Xinwuhou Jinshe, etc., there is no one who can't say "big shoulders and round waist" Hunk' hunk!

As the founding heroes of the Han Dynasty, the sixth person after Fenghou Xiaohe, Pingyanghou Cao Can, Xuanpinghou Zhang Ao, Jianghou Zhoubo, and Wuyanghou Fan Kuai, Qu Zhouhou Li Shang, naturally did not give in.

As far as Liu Ying could see at this time, Li Shang was standing in normal clothes, even if he didn't stand up completely, but was slightly bowed in a neither humble nor haughty way, he was two heads taller than Liu Ying, who was underage!

Liu Ying was very sure: If he straightened his back, Li Shang's height would be at least eight feet and six inches, even if he was not nine feet tall!
And eight feet and six inches, converted to later generations, is nearly two meters...

What matched this height of nearly two meters was Li Shang's general's belly, which could not be concealed even if he hid it under his robe, and broad shoulders that were as wide as two Liu Yings!

That is to say, against the background of the height of nearly nine feet and the weight of at least four hundred catties, on Li Shang's face that has experienced many vicissitudes, there is still a kind smile that makes people feel refreshed, like the uncle next door... ·

"Tsk tsk..."

"Attack the three armies of the enemy, level six counties, go down to 73 cities, capture the enemy's prime minister, one general each, two generals, and 19 officers and assistants under two thousand stones; as a general, he beheaded the enemy's head and accumulated a total of 46 ranks. Hou, there are [-] households in the town..."

Recited in her heart a few days ago, the opening part of the "Qu Zhouhou's Lineage" that she saw in Shiqu Pavilion, Liu Ying looked at Li Shang with a little respect.

Soon, Liu Ying also recovered from her thoughts, smiled slightly, and bowed to Li Shang again.

"I have a strange heart, so I asked this question; if there is something impolite, don't blame Qu Zhouhou."

After being polite, Liu Ying asked the same question again under Li Shang's gentle smile.

"—Dare to ask Qu Zhouhou: Why did the father split the soil and live with Qu Zhouhou with [-] households?"

Hearing that Liu Ying put the same question in front of Li Shang again, everyone in the hall looked even more puzzled.

But when Li Shang heard the words, he just smiled lightly and shook his head with a light smile at Liu Ying.

"As soon as you ask at home, the minister will never answer."

After speaking softly, Li Shang let out a long sigh quietly, then shook his head and smiled.

"The subject can be named a Marquis, but there is no 'martial honor', or meritorious service to the community."

"——At the beginning of the second generation, when the world was in chaos, the minister had not yet followed your majesty; later, when your majesty went all the way to the west and arrived at Chenliu, the minister was recommended by the deceased brother, and led more than [-] troops to follow your majesty. ..."

After casually saying the phrase 'bring 4000 people into the occupation', Li Shang couldn't help but feel a little sad.

"Following your Majesty into Qinzhong in the west, you first got Xianyang, and the ministers did not have many military merits; later, your Majesty returned to Sanqin, and went east to Hangu to level the Guandong. The ministers only used meager efforts to get rid of Xiao Xiaosan and two people for your majesty. "

"Your ministers were granted the title of Marquis, and they had to feed the five thousand and one hundred households of the people of Qu Zhou today. However, your Majesty thought of the meritorious service of the deceased brother and the death of the king. Because of the meritorious service of the deceased brother, he gave generously to the minister... ·”

"Today, I got these [-] households to eat, but I didn't make any contribution to the country. I really feel like walking on thin ice. I first died of my brother and died of the king. Even if I feel ashamed for accepting this high title, I will also die of my brother." The spirit cannot rest in peace, so I dare not say goodbye..."

Hearing Li Shang say the previous sentence'I don't have any credit', everyone in the hall couldn't help but twitch their eyes.

After hearing the following sentence, "Your Majesty used the Marquis to make up for me because of my dead brother", everyone lowered their heads again, as if they couldn't bear to look back.

——Li Shiqi, Mr. Guangye, can definitely be regarded as the most wronged "lobbyist" who died at the beginning of the founding of the country, and even in the entire history...
Hearing Li Shangyu say this sadly, the smile on Liu Ying's face was also quietly suppressed.

But seeing that Liu Ying didn't speak to comfort her, she just walked forward a few steps and came to Guan Ying.

"Yingyin Hou...?"

Before Liu Ying could ask a question, Guan Ying looked at Li Shang with a wry smile, and then bowed to Liu Ying.

"That is to say, the Marquis of Zhou also said, 'There is no contribution to the country', and the minister himself has no martial arts."

"Um······"

He looked at Li Shang with a tangled face, and pondered for a long time before he saw Guan Ying looking at Liu Ying with a guilty conscience.

"Qu Zhou Houyan, once followed His Majesty to remove Xiao Xiaosan and the other two, and that minister, as if he had held a weapon, went to your Majesty's side to remove mosquitoes seven or eight times..."

"Your Majesty of Deche, I feel uneasy..."

Listening to Li Shang and Guan Ying starting a contest of 'who is more Versailles', the confusion on the faces of everyone in the hall finally reached its peak.

And at the position closest to the imperial steps, listening to the "self-modest words" of Li Shang and Guan Ying, Lu Shizhi was so embarrassed that he wished he could use his toes to dig out a three-story underground for the Xuanshi Hall. PARKING LOT······
Soon, everyone's attention returned to Liu Ying's figure again.

——The prince asked these questions, what exactly did he want to say?
Before making everyone puzzled for too long, Liu Ying finally returned to Lu Shizhi's side again, but looked at Lu Shizhi, Li Shang, and Guan Ying successively.

"That's it, I can try to say: Jianchenghou, Quzhouhou, Yingyinhou, all because they marched in the army and made meritorious service in the battle, did they get the high ranks they are today?"

Asking softly, Liu Ying's eyes quietly filled with a faint light...

(End of this chapter)