Dahan first prince

Chapter 295 Ji Zhonglang's High Festival!
Following Fan Kuai's 'boom', he fell to his knees on the ground, and the content on the wooden block in front of Lu Zhi gradually appeared in Liu Ying's mind.

If Liu Ying remembers correctly, this Fang Mudu is the letter of credence written by the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun to the Queen Mother Lu Zhi alone.

In today's known world, only Han and Xiong, two big men who admit that each other is so strong that they can't sit still, will use this kind of wooden dungeon, which is one foot and one inch in length and width, as the carrier of credentials.

And the content of that letter of credence caused the courtiers of the Han family in the previous life to fall into endless humiliation that lasted for decades...
"The lonely king, born in depression, grew up in the field of plains, cattle and horses, counted to the frontier, would like to visit China..."

"Your Majesty is independent, living alone, and the two masters are not happy, so there is nothing to worry about; I am willing to give everything and change what I have..."

After silently reading this extremely humiliating letter of credence in her heart, Liu Ying clenched her teeth involuntarily.

Even in the previous life, after the relationship between Liu Ying and her mother Lu Zhi had a rift, the content of this letter of credence could always arouse Liu Ying's most primitive violence!
——Let me ask the men in the world, who can stand up to the phrase "Damn your mother" if there is still a lifeline in the crotch? ! !
As for the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun, what he wants to express in this letter of credence is basically exactly the same as the national curse that the world has heard in later generations!
Even worse! ! !

In later generations, a sentence of "Dear your mother" will often cause two young and strong men to fight hard, not to mention Liu Ying, who is the heaven of Liu Han Sheji?

In an instant, Liu Ying almost lost most of her sanity, and there was a rare strength in her eyes when she looked at the people in the hall!

This is not just Liu Ying thinking that she should show such an attitude, but an instinct that cannot be suppressed!

I don't know whether it was frightened by Liu Ying's wide-eyed tiger's eyes, or he didn't dare to say the phrase "the queen mother is angry", after Fan Kuai invited troops to go out, the discussion in the hall was all in the direction of "all ministers and others agree" develop away.

"What Marquis Wuyang said is true!"

"The northern barbarian insulted me too much. If I don't return it with thunder, and sit back and watch the empress dowager suffer such a great humiliation, how can I have the face to see Emperor Taizu Gao in Mingcao Jiuquan?!"

"Yingyin Hou Chenying, I have died a hundred times, I implore the Queen Mother: Xu Wuyanghou's performance, immediately send troops to the north, and use the bloody chieftain to take the shame of humiliation!!!"

Guan Ying was born as a leader, and there were hundreds of figures in the hall, and they stood up one after another, and knelt down to Lu Zhi on the imperial steps.

"Minister, wait for death, I implore the Empress Dowager to allow Wu Yanghou to play, send troops to the north, and suppress the barbarians!!!"

Looking at the huge Changxin Hall, all the officials and ministers knelt down on the ground, begging for war with shame and indignation on their faces, even Liu Ying couldn't help but feel some blood welling up.

——If you dare to humiliate me, you must be beaten!
This is Liu Han's flesh and blood, and staunchness! ! !

Infected by the soaring murderous aura in the hall, Liu Ying's eyes turned red for an instant, and she was about to stand up, but was stunned in place by an unknown voice from outside.

"Lord, don't start a teacher out of anger..."

"Let go of hatred, calm down, and think about it..."

"In this way, we can be worthy of the soldiers who died for the country..."

Startled by this inexplicable external voice, Liu Ying's face froze with sarcasm.

Liu Ying remembered.

This is what my father Liu Bang, who is still alive, has been nagging in his ears every time the Xiongnu is mentioned in the past few months...
"calm······"

"Don't start a teacher out of anger..."

The two murmurs with a sluggish expression finally dispersed most of the violence between Liu Ying's brows, and Liu Ying's attention was finally concentrated in the main hall, which was obviously different from the usual courtiers and officials.

"After persuading my mother, I agreed to Fan Kuai..."

"—No one recommends himself!!!"

After realizing what was wrong, Liu Ying looked at everyone in the hall with clearer eyes.

"In the past, not to mention the Huns, even Zhao Tuo in South Vietnam and Weiman in North Korea are outlaws. These people are in the vanguard position, and they wish they could use their brains!"

"Why today..."

Thinking of this, Liu Ying finally shifted her scrutinizing eyes from the officials in the palace to her mother, Lu Zhi, who was not far away with a gloomy face.

"Generals invite troops to go out to fight for the purpose of robbing military honors..."

"No one recommends himself, but everyone thinks that this battle is almost impossible to win..."

"As for the words of the public, ministers and officials, apart from expressing their positions and attitudes, I am afraid that it also has the meaning of a mother's queen..."

"Mother, I want Fan Kui to lead the army..."

Wanting to understand the stakes, Liu Ying looked at the people in the hall again, and she no longer had the slightest doubt.

As if they had piercing eyes, everyone's calculations in the hall, without exception, appeared in Liu Ying's mind at this moment.

"Under two thousand stones, one dare not offend Fan Kuai, nor dare to show cowardice..."

"Three lords and nine ministers, because of their political standpoint, they dare not and cannot show their intention of 'it doesn't matter if the empress dowager is humiliated'..."

"And the queen mother..."

"Um······"

Thinking secretly, Liu Ying's shining eyes finally stayed in the hall, kowtowing to her uncle, Marquis of Wuyang Fan Kuai, who was prostrate on the ground.

"—The queen mother wants Fan Kuai to be in charge of the army!"

"It is a lie to let Fan Kui lead the army to go out. Taking the opportunity to take charge of the army and stabilize Lu's position above the court is the real intention of the empress mother!!!"

Realizing this, Liu Ying's expression couldn't help becoming excited again!

It's just that, unlike the agitation caused by shame and anger just now, Liu Ying's expression at this moment is even more apprehensive!

——Fan Kuai, but a guilty minister!

He was the guilty minister who was punished and killed by the first emperor Liu Bangming, but was forcibly saved by the current empress dowager Lu Zhi! ! !

Such a person, with an army of tens of thousands, will not return for several years with an excuse of 'the battle is stalemate', and the Queen Mother is backing him?

"no!"

"Absolutely not!!!"

"Fan Kuai must not be allowed to lead the army out!!!!!!"

After making up her mind, Liu Ying looked at everyone in the hall with more urgency.

——Liu Ying herself must never stand up and show the slightest intention to oppose Fan Kuai!

Not to mention opposing Fan Kuai, Liu Ying should have been the first to stand up when her mother Lv Zhi was humiliated by the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun with a letter of credence, angrily expressing that she wanted to be conscripted personally, ashamed of her mother's blood! ! !
However, Lu's hidden evil intentions in Fan Kui's expedition made Liu Ying absolutely unable to sit back and watch Fan Kui really lead the army to the expedition!
As for the meritorious princes of all the officials in the court, whether it is out of the duty of being a courtier "the master humiliates the minister to death" or out of the standpoint of preserving filial piety for the emperor Liu Ying, they must stand up and support Fan Kuai!

In this way...

"Whoo~"

"As expected of a queen mother..."

"Toxic enough!"

"Could it be that even I was counted by my mother..."

Thinking like this, Liu Ying finally turned her complicated eyes back to her mother Lu Zhi, and her temperament suddenly brought a touch of decadence that had never been seen before.

——In her previous life, this decadent temperament also accompanied Liu Ying for most of her emperor's career.

And in this life, the familiar feeling of depression and powerlessness flooded into Liu Ying's heart again just over a month after Liu Ying inherited the throne...

Just when Liu Ying was struggling and wanted to get out of the endless depression, a loud salutation resounded through the Changxin Hall, lighting up Liu Ying's heart like a candle in the darkness!
"Zhonglang General Chen Bu! Confessions of death! Call the Queen Mother!!!"

"—Your Majesty, please behead Fan Kuai, the rebellious minister, and use the Ancestral Temple and Sheji to comfort the spirit of Emperor Taizu Gao in heaven!!!!!!"

boom! ! !
As soon as Ji Bu uttered his words, it could be said that an inch-sized stone was thrown into a calm lake, but it immediately stirred up tens of thousands of waves! ! !

Using the catchphrase of storytellers in later generations, this is the so-called: When one word comes out, everyone is shocked!

All of a sudden, countless eyes focused on Ji Bu's straight back, and all of those eyes were extremely complicated.

Some people were scornful, as if they regarded Ji Bu as a fool or a lunatic;
With admiration, some people seem to regard Ji Bu as a straight minister who only exists in legends;
But more, it was Xiao He, Cao Shen and other veterans who looked at Ji Bu with a touch of shame mixed in, which was not as good as self-sigh...

"Ugh······"

"It's a pity that Ji Zhonglang, a loyal and brave minister, is about to die at the hands of the Queen Mother..."

Looking at Ji Bu for the last time full of regret, Xiao He shook his head and sighed, looked away, lowered his head and closed his eyes and fell asleep.

In Xiao He's opinion, just that astonishing remark was enough to completely wipe Ji Bu, a Zhonglang general in his prime, from the world...
Sure enough, as Xiao He expected, on the imperial steps, Empress Dowager Lu Zhi's face was watery, and her phoenix eyes were narrowed into two straight lines, making it impossible to see what kind of outrageous anger was hidden in those bright eyes.

"Zhonglang said this..."

"Why?"

The extremely cold words caused everyone in the hall to shudder down their spines, and the timid ones couldn't help shivering even more!
However, seeing that Ji Bu still had the awe-inspiring look of righteousness, disregarding his own life and death, he didn't bend his straight back even when he bowed his hand to Lu Zhi in return.

"Report to the Queen Mother!"

"Your Majesty, please behead Fan Kui for no other reason: what Fan Kui said today is nothing but lies!"

Full of righteous words, Ji Bu raised his head, turned his body slightly, and looked contemptuously at Fan Kuai who was kneeling beside him.

"The former king of Han believed in the anti-generation, and dedicated his capital to Mayi and the Xiongnu. Emperor Taizu Gao was furious when he heard about it, so he drove himself to conquer, with a total of 32 troops!"

"As the general, Kui watched the Xiongnu besiege the Taizu Emperor Gao in Pingcheng, but couldn't break the siege of Emperor Gao; the song of the world said: Under Pingcheng, it is also sincerely suffering. If you don't eat for seven days, you can't make (gòu) crossbows."

"The sound of singing is still going on, and those who have been hurt have just risen, and Kuai wants to shake the world, and he pretends to attack Hu with a hundred thousand people?"

"Is this not a lie?"

"—Aren't you deceiving the emperor?!!"

"Emperor Gao, Emperor Taizu, led a personal conquest with 32 soldiers, and Hu Qi was trapped under Pingcheng and Baideng. Today, Fan Kuai threatened to attack Hu with [-] troops, let alone capture Di Chief Maodun? ! ! ! !!"

As he said that, Ji Bu looked at Fan Kui with a slightly invisible sternness.

"My minister is the Duke of Lu, fortunately, Emperor Taizu Gao didn't give up. He used him as a Han minister, and entrusted him with the post of Zhonglang General. He will eat two thousand stones of the Han salary!"

"Today, you are bewitching the crowd with your gossip, slander and bewitchment in front of the Queen Mother, minister, don't dare to turn a blind eye!"

"Once again, I implore the Queen Mother: Please kill Fan Kuai, the rebellious minister, and use Anzongmiao and Sheji!!!!!!"

After saying that, Ji Bu finally knelt down, and solemnly kowtowed, even though the whispers of everyone in the hall resounded in his ears, he didn't get up for a long time.

But what is a little strange is that after Ji Bu elaborated on the reason for "Kuai Ke Zhan Ye", the grim expressions on the faces of the courtiers in the palace actually eased a little.

Especially the terrified Qu Nihou Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief...

"so far so good······"

"I didn't mention the matter that Emperor Gao wanted to kill Fan Kuai, but the Empress Dowager rescued him..."

For a moment, the rest of the people looked at Ji Bu with more and more admiration.

If just now, Ji Bu dared to say that "Emperor Gao issued an order to kill Fan Kui, but the queen mother rescued Fan Kui against Emperor Gao's order", then even if the gods came down to earth, they would definitely not be able to save Ji Bu!

The reason is simple: in today's world, the Queen Mother is the biggest!
And according to the traditions that have been used by the Han Dynasty since the Warring States Period, the actual status of the queen mother is completely equal to that of the monarch!
In theory, the queen mother's status is even more honorable than that of the monarch!
According to the current political ideology of the Han Dynasty that "the emperor can never make mistakes, if there is something wrong, then the world is wrong", accusing the empress dowager of something is equivalent to accusing the emperor of not doing something.

Accusing the emperor of not doing something may be called admonition in later generations, but in the Han Dynasty, it will be called: resentment!

According to the values ​​prevailing in the Han Dynasty today, even if the king finds out that the king has acted inappropriately, the courtiers must never say it, or even think about it!
The correct way is to give an interpretation that can convince the world, especially yourself, at the first time, to prove that it is not the emperor's fault!
Then, the subjective initiative of the courtiers should be used to deal with the rebellious courtier who 'almost shamed the emperor', or deal with that bad thing well.

After everything was sorted out, this "loyal minister" should face the emperor crying bitterly, expressing that he almost humiliated the emperor, and that he really failed the emperor's trust.

So just now, when Ji Bu jumped out and said, "Please behead the rebellious minister Fan Kuai", everyone in the hall thought: Ji Bu, I am afraid that he is trying to find fault with the Empress Dowager, thus committing a principled mistake.

And when Fan Kui perfectly avoided the point that "the queen mother is at fault" and pointed out with substance that "Fan Kui really deserves to die", everyone immediately felt indifferent to this general who was only in his forties. Some looked at it with admiration.

It is not difficult for every politician to collect charges - as the saying goes, there is no excuse for imposing crimes;

Faithful advice, not to mention something with a high degree of difficulty - saying what you see is nothing more than courage;

What really tests the level of a politician is actually what Ji Bu just did.

——If a person is found guilty, he will stand up without flinching, but he will not directly mention the crime that may involve a wide range of crimes that may even shake the political arena. A crime that will shake the political arena!
Just for this item alone, Ji Bu's political skill today undoubtedly made all the courtiers in the palace, and even Liu Ying, Lu Zhi's mother and son on the imperial steps, a little bit bright-eyed!
Since Ji Bu didn't say 'the Queen Mother shouldn't save Fan Kui', but said 'Fan Kui deserves to die', there is still room for further discussion on this matter.

"Well······"

"What General Zhong Lang said may seem a little extreme, but it is not unreasonable..."

Seeing Lu Zhi say something with a slightly stiff expression, he frowned and thought for a moment, finally, he looked at Qu Ni Hou Chen Ping who was hiding at the back of the court.

"When Emperor Gao was about to die, he once said: After Xiao He, Cao Shen can be the prime minister; after Cao Shen, Wang Ling can be prime minister; after Wang Ling..."

"The bento will defy the Lord's residence with a song."

Seemingly saying something, Lu Zhi raised his head slightly and looked at Chen Ping at the end of the class.

"Xiao Xiangguo is old now, Pingyanghou is in charge of the imperial censor, and Anguohou is also appointed as the internal historian and the emperor's tutor by the order of Emperor Gao of the Taizu..."

"How about, let Qu Nihou try to say: My Han family, should we fight against the northern barbarians?"

Suddenly being involved again, Chen Ping only sighed bitterly, then walked out of the court with a complicated expression.

"Report, report to the Queen Mother..."

"Di Chief Mao Dun insulted the Empress Dowager. This is the disgrace of the Han family. If this revenge is not avenged, it may shake the foundation of the country, so that the hearts of the world will be scattered and the soldiers will be frustrated."

"Wait for a long time, fearing that the elite soldiers and generals of the Han family will no longer have the heart to resist the Hu, and will only see the Hu riding and run away, making the side wall of our Han family as if there is nothing."

"Of course..."

Properly pointing out that 'it would be embarrassing not to fight', to show that he holds the same position as the courtiers and officials, Chen Ping reluctantly made up a turning point after thinking about it in every possible way.

There is no other reason: when Lu Zhi called Chen Ping out of the class to answer, he mentioned the appointment of the former emperor Liu Bang for the next few prime ministers...
If at this time, Chen Ping was still unable to shoulder his due responsibilities because he did not dare to offend anyone, then he would say goodbye to Chen Ping forever as the prime minister.

"Ugh······"

"People in the world always say: the emperor and empress of the Han family are at odds..."

"And who knows that the way of the two royal officials is like one person?"

With a bitter sigh in his heart, Chen Ping finally took a deep breath and bowed to Lu Zhi again.

"However, Emperor Taizu Gao himself had 32 soldiers, horses and chariots, and he could not win;"

"Today, our Han family may not be able to recruit more than 30 elite soldiers, and go north to conquer Hu..."

(End of this chapter)