Dahan first prince

Chapter 291 Fan Kui is back...
"All the officials and ministers have gone back?"

Asked in a cold tone, seeing that Chuntuo only nodded hastily, Liu Ying nodded thoughtfully, then waved slightly to signal Chuntuo to back down.

In the Xuanshi Hall, she was left alone again. Liu Ying finally sat on the imperial couch full of thoughts, and even lay down with the word 'big'.

"Whoo~"

"I didn't expect it to come so fast..."

Full of exhaustion, she let out a long sigh, and a little bitterness and helplessness suddenly appeared on Liu Ying's face.

Today, the courtiers and officials may not have reacted to the scene that happened in Changxin Hall.

But as the person who knows Lu's pheasant best in today's world, Liu Ying can't see it more clearly.

— Oboe!

Lu Zhi personally set up the stage and sang a wonderful double-reed opera with Cao Shen, the "famous actor"!
And the title of this play should be: Proclamation!
Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, everything that happened today does not seem to be a big deal.

——Lu Wan defected to the Xiongnu, Cao Shen proposed to kill all the members of the Lu clan who stayed in the Han Dynasty, but Lu Zhi politely refused.

On the surface, today's matter is as simple as that.

But looking at the essence through the phenomenon, it is not difficult to find that today's matter is not just that simple.

Now, what time is it?
——The former emperor Liu Bang passed away, Liu Ying was born immediately at a young age, the Han Dynasty was in ruins, and the lord of the country was suspicious!

At such a delicate time, every move of the Queen Mother Lu Zhi, who is the safety lock of the imperial power, must imply massive political intentions.

And Cao Shen's performance today is Lu Zhi's first intention...

"Report from the border..."

"Ah······"

"The empress is using Cao Shen's mouth to warn the courtiers: as long as she wants, even Lu Wan, who fled to the Huns, will never escape the palm of the empress..."

There was another desolate lament, and Liu Ying just turned over sullenly, and lay down on her side towards the stone wall behind the imperial couch.

Today's political show, on the surface, seemed to be just a simple exchange between Lu Zhi, the temporary controller of the court, and the future prime minister, Cao Shen, on the issue of "how should Lu Wan deal with it".

But the first level of intention implied in it is: all are optimistic, as long as Aijia is willing, even Lu Wan who fled to the Huns, Aijia can move!

As for later, Lu Zhi implicitly expressed the intention of "Xu Luwan's crime and meritorious deeds", and took advantage of the situation to order that "everything in the Marquis of Chang'an remains the same, and taxes will be paid to Fengyi every year." Or reassurance.

——Look, Lu Wan is a traitor, if the Ai family says not to care, then he can ignore it!
——Those thorny heads who had trouble with Ai's family in the past don't have to worry about it anymore, they should hurry up and kneel and kowtow to serve the Queen Mother, right?
Just like this, the group of meritorious and meritorious princes who was originally regarded by Liu Ying as the "primary and powerful enemy in the first five years of ascending the throne" was easily controlled by the Queen Mother Lu Zhi.

The most important thing is: even this medium of accepting and letting go—pardoning Lu Wan for treason and allowing him to make meritorious deeds is the most perfect solution to the problem of "Lu Wan conspired to rebel and defected to the Huns"... ·

"Spicy..."

"There is no more suitable description than this word..."

In her previous life, although Liu Ying knew that her mother was very powerful, so powerful that her father would not dare to act rashly, but Liu Ying couldn't say how powerful she was.

But in this life, or at this moment, Liu Ying finally had a clear understanding in her heart.

——If the late Taizu Emperor Liu Bang was born in Yeluzi, and he deeply tabooed the emperor's art with thick black as the core, then Lu Zhi has mastered the textbook-level authentic court strategy!

To put it another way, Liu Bang, the first emperor, became a qualified and even wise king because of his inherent thick and dark personality, his understanding of the human heart, and his acquired experience;
But Lv Zhi is a very well-informed master of tactics!
In the film and television industry of later generations, the first emperor Liu Bang would probably be born as an outsider, and finally get the inspiration of the actor;

Lu Zhi, on the other hand, is a "professional" with a solid background and a solid background in the "excellent" line since childhood.

Such a professional, in the past, was the amulet of Prince Liu Ying;
Today, it is the safety lock of the young emperor and the fragile Liu Han Sheji;
but the future...

"Whoo~"

"I hope that in the future, the queen mother will still be the same queen..."

"After all, a hundred years later, it will be I, and my descendants who will burn incense to pay homage to my mother..."

"Throughout the ages, how can there be any reason for a nephew to mourn his aunt?"

After comforting herself a bit, Liu Ying had no choice but to let go of her worries and shift her attention to the essence of the matter.

——I have to say that Lu Zhi's characterization of "Lu Wan's defection to the Huns" today is definitely at the textbook level!
As for Lu Wan, a prince with a different surname who has been confirmed as a "conspirator", let alone a clan punisher, it is definitely not too much to order "every Lu family in the world to die" from the court.

But from a rational point of view, killing dozens or even hundreds of people surnamed Lu in the whole world would not have any effect on what had happened.

Lu Wan has already gone to the grassland, and there is a high probability that she will not come back, and she will never come back.

For the clansmen she stayed in the Han Dynasty, I am afraid that at the moment when she decided to escape, Lu Wan had already made the mental preparation of 'see you in the next life'.

Under such circumstances, Lu Zhi's decision is the most correct choice that a qualified politician can make.

——On the facts, all decisions are based on interests!

It is already an established fact that Lu Wan fled to the Huns to the north; and if Lu Wan's "judgment of the Han Huns" is pursued, it will not bring any benefits to the Han Dynasty at all.

That being the case, it would be better to turn over the past and look at 'Lu Wan' again.

To be more specific, it is to no longer regard Lu Wan as a traitor who "judged the Han and demoted the Hu";

Instead, it is regarded as a Han who descended from the sky on the Xiongnu grassland, and has a high probability of being valued by the Xiongnu Shan Yuting, who can easily obtain information and intelligence inside the grassland!

In this way, Lu Wan's question is very simple.

The big guy next door has a relative of mine?

——Then it doesn't matter if the relationship was good before!
Going bankrupt, selling blood and kidneys, you have to make this relative happy, so that you can find out what the big guy next door is doing recently!

Today's Lu Zhi did just that.

It seems commonplace to restore Lu Wan's title of Marquis of Chang'an and to give a tax equivalent to [-] households.

But don't forget.

Lu Zhi confessed that the Xiangfu allocated to the empty "Chang'an Houfu" every year, but it was a hundred gold every year!
If it is really a food town with 20 households, then the tax of these [-] households is only [-] shi of corn a year.

Putting it on the market, according to this year's grain price, 20 shi of grain is worth [-] million yuan.

It sounds like ten million yuan is worth far more than 'hundred gold'.

But it must be mentioned that: a hundred gold refers to a hundred catties of gold!

Ten million yuan piled up together may be as big as a house, but a hundred catties of gold is no bigger than a human leg.

But looking around the world, is there anyone willing to exchange a hundred catties of gold for ten million copper coins?

——Not to mention counterfeit and inferior coins such as Han Sanzhu, old-style Warring States knife coins, and even today's "Han Wuzhu", even the former Qin Banliang, may not be of such great value! ! !
It's not that 'hundred gold' is more valuable than 'ten million yuan', but that some things must be made of gold!
Just like today's meritorious princes and the princes of the Guandong, starting from this year, they will pay tribute to the Taimiao Gaomiao every year. Maybe they will be replaced by copper coins?
And those who have the allusions of the sages in their homes, but cherish their brooms, are they willing to exchange the books in their hands for a hill piled up of copper coins?
— Not to mention the remuneration of the heroes and princes, and the sale of books, even the congratulatory gifts of the dignitaries of the noble family are "you can give gold, but you can't see copper"!
Therefore, the hundred gold that Lu Zhi ordered the Prime Minister's Mansion to allocate to the Marquis of Chang'an was worth much more than the tax that a feudal state with [-] households could produce in terms of its irreplaceable currency.

Especially what Lu Zhi said was one hundred gold per year!

You must know that today's government and treasury together may not be able to scrape together a thousand catties of gold!

But after decades, or even hundreds of years, Lu Wan's descendants are lucky enough to return to the Han Dynasty, and there will be tens of thousands of catties of gold in the Marquis of Chang'an that can be 'plucked'.

Liu Ying was also very sure that this gesture of goodwill would inevitably be heard by Lu Wan who was far away on the grasslands of the Xiongnu.

This is also the reason why Lu Zhi carelessly put this matter on the court discussion.

——Lu Wan, it’s Feng Pei Yuan Cong~
Even if the condemned Han surrenders to the Hu, Lu Wan will inevitably maintain a certain amount of contact with some bold and plump heroes of meritorious service.

Especially under the premise that Lu Zhi expressly stated that he has no intention of pursuing Lu Wan, there will inevitably be more Feng Pei Yuan Cong, who use the excuse of "investigating for the country" to communicate with Lu Wan.

In this way, the Han family suffered the blow of "Yan Wang Lu Wan sentenced the Han to surrender Hu" this time, and will be subtly transformed into "Yan Wang Lu Wan endured humiliation and went deep into the hinterland of the Huns to spy on the enemy for the Han family" by the Queen Mother Lu Zhi. ·····

"It's so far..."

"I'm far from my mother..."

With a wry smile and a long sigh, Liu Ying finally sat up from the couch, with a trace of solemnity on her brows again.

If you just take advantage of Lu Wan's "Buwei, Shien" to quickly control the court, then today's court ceremony will never become a quasi-moon dynasty for the gathering of hundreds of officials and marquises in advance.

It is also impossible for Liu Ying to order "the queen mother lives in Changle and govern the government" on the front foot, and because the old lady wants to control the court, she can no longer care about other things.

This problem had already been foreshadowed long before the court ceremony began.

——In the mediocre Chang Dynasty, the Empress Dowager did not order the Shuowang Dynasty. Why did those relatives who have no official positions attend the meeting spontaneously?

Especially because of his young age, he has not yet been regent. Since the death of the first emperor Liu Bang in Xia Siyue, the young emperor Liu Ying, who has hardly appeared in the Changxin Palace, why did he appear in today's court meeting?

The answer to this question is almost completely consistent with a certain memory of Liu Ying's previous life.

——The Empress Dowager Lu Pheasant received a letter.

A letter made of Mudu, one foot and one inch long and one inch wide, was sent from the Mubei Grassland thousands of miles away, signed "Shuangda Maodun", and addressed to the Empress Dowager Lu Zhi by name and surname!
This is why today's mediocre Chang Dynasty has attracted the emperor Liu Ying, Fu Xian Gonghou and other "people who shouldn't appear" to gather in the Changxin Hall.

Especially for Liu Ying, who has reopened the game and almost fully understands the contents of the letter of state, today's Changchao must go!

But I don't know if it's Liu Ying's memory confusion, or the butterfly effect caused by rebirth: what should happen as expected by Baiguan Gonghou, and what happened once in Liu Ying's previous life, but it didn't happen today above the court meeting.

The letter of the Xiongnu's state, which was supposed to be thrown out by Lu Zhi angrily, and thrown to all the officials, has disappeared today.

This is also the reason why Liu Ying is so sad and full of doubts at the moment.

"What happened in the end, made the empress hold back the monstrous anger in her chest, and temporarily suppressed the letter of credence..."

Liu Ying is very sure that the possibility of "Lv Zhi not receiving the Hun's credential" is almost infinitely close to zero.

——The letter of the Xiongnu's state was brought into Chang'an early this morning by an eight-hundred-mile flying rider who galloped from the clouds and kept shouting, "The Huns envoy knocks at the pass to see you"!

The envoys of the Xiongnu knocked on the pass and asked to go south to Chang'an. It is impossible to say that they did not bring the letter of credence of the Hun Shanyu.

The reason is simple: for the backward Huns, the letter of credence of Shan Yu is the only token that can prove their identity for the mission.

Without presenting the letter of credence to Chang'an first, it is impossible for the mission to get permission at ease, and it is impossible to cross the Great Wall at all.

But in this way...

"Mother..."

"Could it be that you are waiting for something?"

"Um······"

"Why can't I remember..."

Frowning and thinking for a long time, Liu Ying still couldn't remember: In her previous life, after the letter of credence was delivered to the Empress Dowager Lu Zhi, what happened in Chang'an court.

But after just half a moment, Ling Chuntuo, the eunuch of Weiyang Palace, ran into the Xuanshi Hall panting, and with just one word, he awakened all the forgotten memories of Liu Ying...

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!!!"

"Taiwei Zhou and Marquis Qu Ni have already joined Yanji's squad, and at this moment, they have entered Changle Palace!"

Hearing this, Liu Ying lowered her head indifferently, looked at the bamboo slips on the imperial case in front of her, and said in a relaxed tone: "I know about this matter."

"Go back."

But when Chuntuo heard the words, the anxious look on his face only became more anxious.

After thinking for a while, Chun Tuo finally gritted his teeth secretly and made an unprecedented decision: Go against Liu Ying's will once!

"His Majesty!"

"Marquis Wuyang!!!"

"Marquis Wuyang also entered the Changle Palace together with Taiwei Zhou and Marquis Qu Ni to face the Empress Dowager!!!!!!"

(End of this chapter)