Dahan first prince

Chapter 42 The Heavenly Family Is Ruthless
"Brother Chu Wang Chenjiao, nephew Jing Wang Chen Jia, see Your Majesty!"

After entering Changle Palace, they kowtowed heavily to the upper imperial couch, Liu Jiao and Liu Jia raised their heads and looked at Liu Bang's slightly frail face.

"Your Majesty, this is...?"

In the end, Liu Jiao spoke first, drawing back Liu Bang's distracted attention, coughed twice, and then walked down the imperial steps.

"Cough cough cough..."

"Uh, it's okay, it's okay..."

When he came to the imperial steps, he waved his hand casually, signaling Liu Jiao and Liu Jia to sit in the hall, and Liu Bang knelt down beside Liu Jiao.

"Father passed away, His Majesty still mourns, you must take care of yourself?"

Just as he was wiping his mouth and nose with a silk cloth, Liu Bang couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard Liu Jiao's voice of concern.

"I'm fine."

"Although the father and emperor died, he was already an octogenarian. Although I mourned a lot, I still couldn't come to such a place."

Hearing this, Liu Jia, who was quietly watching to the side, couldn't help pondering for a while, and asked tentatively, "But the matter of Chen Xi made His Majesty feel exhausted?"

Hearing this, Liu Bang's face became even more unruly.

"Only because of him, Chen Xi?"

"Hey!"

"Even if I let him have two hands and two feet, he can beat that thief to death just by relying on this superiority!"

After saying that, Liu Bang put the silk cloth in his hand back into his arms, and couldn't help but straighten his face a little.

"Let's not mention this matter."

"Did Crown Prince Chu explain the matter of turning back?"

As he spoke, Liu Bang turned his body slightly, and looked at his young brother Liu Jiao with a serious look.

Hearing this, Liu Jiao only nodded slightly, and bowed to Liu Bang.

"Your Majesty's meaning, the crown prince generally informed the ministers; however, the ministers were a little puzzled about the subtleties..."

When Liu Jiao spoke, Liu Jia kept nodding and looked at Liu Bang suspiciously.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty: What is the situation in Kanto today?"

"In the future, what should the ministers use as a strategy?"

It has to be said that when Liu Jiao and Liu Jia arrived at Hangu Pass when they went to Chang'an, Liu Bang sent someone to inform them to "go to the funeral quickly and go back immediately after finishing the work", which really surprised them.

If it wasn't for Liu Jiao being the younger brother of the Son of Heaven, King Jing Liu Jia would even have had the thought of 'Your Majesty doesn't want me to go to Chang'an'.

At this moment, the two had finished their condolences at Xinfeng and came to Chang'an again. Naturally, they wanted to hear Liu Bang's detailed explanation so that they could feel at ease.

Seeing that both of them had some doubts on their faces, Liu Bang didn't go around too much and went straight to the point.

"Chen Xi wants to do something against you, it's a foregone conclusion!"

"A while ago, when my father passed away, I sent envoys to call Chen Xi into the pass for the funeral, but Chen Xi claimed that he hadn't arrived yet due to his illness."

"Today, the court has also planned to conquer Chen Xi's generals, soldiers and horses. We only need to wait for the autumn harvest. When the food and grass are sufficient, we can go out!"

After speaking, Liu Bang looked at Liu Jiao beside him again.

"Chen Xi is in charge of the land of Dai and Zhao, with an area of ​​nearly a thousand miles, and it is located at the vital point of the northern wall!"

"It is my intention to send troops from the prefectures of Yan, Qi, Liang, and Chu as assistants, with the Kwantung army as the main force, and my own relatives in command, in order to quickly quell the Chen Xi rebellion!"

"The king of Yan is on his own way; I lead the soldiers of Guanzhong and the soldiers of Liang Guojun to be on the way; the soldiers of Qi and Chu are in charge of the Qi Prime Minister Fu Kuan, and he thinks that they are on the way."

"Three ways in parallel, we can take advantage of the unpreparedness and win quickly, so as not to prolong the war and provoke the Huns to go south, which will only cause trouble."

After a little interpretation of the situation, Liu Bang couldn't help coughing twice, and immediately tightened his collar.

"When we return to Chu, the king of Chu should immediately start preparing for the battle. He will dispatch [-] elite soldiers, and send several of them to Linzi for Fu Kuan's dispatch."

Listening to Liu Bang's instructions, Liu Jiao didn't notice the emperor's elder brother's actions at all, and just knelt aside with doubts on his face.

"how?"

"What does King Chu think is wrong?"

Hearing Liu Bang's question suddenly, Liu Jiao shook his head quickly, and said with some confusion: "Fu Kuan..."

"In the past years and more, Fu Kuan was fighting hard in the state of Qi, and his behavior was a little unclear..."

"With Fu Kuan in charge, the soldiers of Chu..."

"Could it be more dangerous to fight in the army?"

Hearing this, Liu Bang just raised his head slightly.

"It's okay."

"What Fu Kuan did in the past one year old was the emperor..."

"Well, it's all according to my edict."

"The one pictured was originally Nanjie Huainan Wang Yingbu, who was waiting for an opportunity to get rid of it; unexpectedly, Yingbu was not in chaos, but it was Chen Xi who first turned against Dai and Zhao..."

Calmly, he attributed the strange actions of the Qi State in the past year to "the emperor's fate is hard to break", and Liu Bang hurriedly moved the topic away.

"There is no need to worry about Fu Kuan's excessive military power."

"When Chen Xi is in chaos, Fu Kuan will be moved to be the prime minister; in the state of Qi, only the Marquis of Pingyang will be left as the prime minister."

Hearing this, Liu Jiao finally suppressed his worry a little, and bowed to Liu Bang.

"There is nothing wrong with it. I will return to Pengcheng in a few days according to your majesty's order, and quickly select [-] elite soldiers to hand over to the prime minister!"

After saying that, Liu Jiao smiled shyly, looking at Liu Bang with a hint of flattery.

"A strong soldier, a minister without worries, only a brave general..."

"hey-hey!"

"Brother Huang knows that ministers are better at poetry, books and prose, but slightly shorter than ranks and military formations..."

Seeing Liu Jiaohan looking at him with a smile, Liu Bang couldn't help but squint his eyes a little, and there was a little bit of banter in his tone.

"What does the King of Chu mean, that I send generals to lead the soldiers of Chu?"

"Your Majesty's eyes are like torches~"

As soon as Liu Bang's words fell, Liu Jiao hurriedly bowed his hands to agree, as if Liu Bang had already agreed, and smiled reassuringly.

Looking at his younger brother's appearance, Liu Bang was amused, and couldn't help but feel that the hall was even more deserted.

"Father died in less than ten months, and there is already such a gap between my brothers..."

How could Liu Bang fail to see that Liu Jiao's statement that "Chu has no good generals" was clearly showing that he had no second thoughts?
If he really didn't even have a leading general, how could Liu Jiao have the courage to promise to send [-] elite soldiers to help Fu Kuanping to replace Zhao?
To put it bluntly, Liu Jiao didn't really have no available generals at all, nor did he want to preserve his strength.

Liu Jiao wanted to take advantage of this move to hand over the military power openly, so that Liu Bang would know: Well, younger brother, I don't care about military power at all, third brother, don't doubt me.

It has to be said that from an objective point of view, Liu Jiao's attitude of holding the steps and planning to send them to his feet at any time is very useful to Liu Bang.

But as an elder brother, as a blood-linked brother, Liu Bang couldn't be happy at all when he felt the defense and so-called "loyalty" visible to the naked eye.

"Ugh······"

"The heavenly family has no relatives, the royal family is ruthless..."

Sighing secretly, Liu Bang shook his head with a chuckle, and asked tentatively, "Does the King of Chu have a heart to belong to the general?"

But when Liu Jiao heard the words, he smiled softly again.

"Your Majesty is joking..."

"If your Majesty asks each other with poems or books, I may have something to say, but when it comes to the military formation, I really don't know anything about it."

As he said that, Liu Jiao couldn't help shaking his head in 'ashamedness', and bowed to Liu Bang again.

"Your Majesty also asks you to appoint a good general, and my younger brother Wei Wei, please obey your majesty's edict..."

(End of this chapter)