Dahan first prince

Chapter 7 The situation is not optimistic

A moment later, the Xuanshi Hall of Weiyang Palace was occupied by more than a dozen meritorious officials with gold seals on their waists and purple ribbons on their bodies.

Han system: the prime minister and the Taiwei are compared to the princes, and the gold seal is purple;
It is precisely because of this that the later Han Dynasty formed the political unspoken rule of "no prince, no minister".

——You are not even a Marquis of Che, and you don’t even have the qualifications of a golden seal and a purple ribbon, so you want to be the prime minister of the Han Dynasty?

It's cool to stay and go you!
Of course, in today's court, there is no unspoken rule of 'not a prince, not a minister'.

Because at present, when most of the founding fathers of the country are still alive, not to mention the prime minister, even Jiuqing, there are very few people who are not the Marquis of Che.

Let’s just say now, removing the temporarily idle positions of Internal History and Zongzheng, the other seven in the Nine Qings are only Fengchang Shusuntong and Shaofu Yangchengyan, and there is no Marquis of Che for the time being.

Even these two people are capable people with unique skills and are almost irreplaceable.

——Feng Chang Shusun Tong is the only official of Confucian origin in the Han Dynasty. He once formulated a system of etiquette for the Han Dynasty and established (invented) the exclusive etiquette system of the Han Dynasty!

Yangchengyan, the Shaofu, even built the Weiyang and Changle palaces, and now shoulders the burden of building the entire Chang'an city!
These two positions, one is in charge of etiquette and sacrifice, and the other is in charge of construction and manufacturing. They are highly specialized, even if they are thrown to the founding fathers, no one can play with them at all.

But soon, Liu Ying's attention was shifted to the identities of the dozen or so people in the hall at this time.

——The children of the Lu family, only the two sons of Lu Ze, the Marquis of Lv Ling of the old Zhou Dynasty: Lu Tai and Lu Chan are both nobles of Chehou, and the rest are all white!
As for the meritorious lords who were recruited by Lu Zhi, although they are the top nobles with thousands of households per capita, none of them served in the court...

"In this way, it should have been a long time since Liu Bang suppressed Lu's relatives..."

The reason couldn't be simpler: among the dozen or so people in the hall, apart from the young Lu's children, among the few meritorious officials, there are even Qucheng Hou Chongda and Yangdu Hou Dingfu. The Top Twenty Giants of the Founding Fathers!

Such a group of people, occasionally a few people failed to take up the post of Sangong Jiuqing, can barely be understood as too many monks and too little food.

But now, without exception, these few people are unemployed at home, and they don't even have the military power of thousands of children and eight hundred soldiers!
It doesn't make sense to say that this is not a long-planned and planned periodic suppression against Lu's relatives and his subordinates.

What frightened Liu Ying the most was: Thinking about it carefully, it seems that even Liu Bang's brother-in-law today, Fan Kuai, the brother-in-law of Empress Lu Zhi, is now unemployed...

"No wonder the matter of Yi Chu came so suddenly."

"Co-authoring is not a sudden attack, but a well-thought-out plan..."

In just a moment, the scattered individuals and events in the previous life, which were also shrouded in mist, were all connected together in Liu Ying's mind, and a grand blueprint was pieced together.

"First kill Zhou Luhou Lu Ze, the Lu family will have no leader, and it will be easy to cut off his old tribe!"

"Then Lu's military power will be lifted in order, and when the time is right, I will abolish my position!"

"The son is more valuable according to the mother, and the mother is more valuable according to the son; the reserve position will be abolished, and Lu Zhi's posthumous position will not be guaranteed."

"Lu Ze's sudden death, the old family is idle, and the Lu family will have no military power; after Yi Chu is abolished, the Lu family will have no future to speak of..."

"Let's take advantage of the Chen Xi Rebellion to cultivate cronies for Liu Ruyi, plant party members in the court, and then support Qi's relatives..."

Thinking of this, Liu Ying loosened her mouth uncomfortably, but her suffocation was still slightly relieved.

"Whoo~"

"Indeed……"

Even if it was Xin Yu, Liu Ying did not dare to say the word "Pei Gong".

Looking at the tall figure slowly approaching from the gate of the palace, he couldn't help straightening his clothes, and stood respectfully beside Lu Zhi.

——In today's meeting, the most important person is here.

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"Is the Marquis Yingyin coming here all right?"

With a dark greeting, Lu Zhi's face was covered with frost.

When the visitors saw this, they came to the center of the hall without haste, and bowed their hands.

"Yingyinhou Chenying, worship the queen."

"Thanks to the Queen's care, the subject is safe..."

Before Guan Ying finished speaking, Lu Zhi asked abruptly, "I'm all right, all the officials are going to Xinfeng today, why did Marquis Yingyin ask for leave?"

At first hearing this, Liu Ying thought it was Lu Zhi who was still angry and was venting her anger on Guan Ying.

But only a moment later, Liu Ying came back to it, raised her head in surprise after a while, and looked at Guan Ying's obviously flustered face!

"Guan Ying already knew about Liu Bang's desire to store easily!"

There was a sad cry in her heart, Liu Ying's complexion tensed for a moment, and she looked at Guan Ying's eyes, as if she wanted to pass through Guan Ying's tall and mighty body!

In her previous life, Liu Ying only knew roughly that Guan Ying, Marquis of Yingyin, ranked ninth among the founding heroes of the Han Dynasty, and was an indispensable founding hero of the Han Dynasty.

At the same time, Guan Ying was also the second general in Zhou Luhou Lu Ze's former army, second only to Pingyang Hou Cao Shen!
But now, from Lu Zhi's obviously distrustful eyes, Liu Ying clearly saw: Guan Ying, I am afraid that he has the idea of ​​"abandoning the dark and turning to the bright"!

"Is the situation really so bad..."

"Even Guan Ying came up with the idea of ​​changing the king's flag on the wall?"

While Liu Ying was thinking about it, Guan Ying coughed a little uncomfortably, and said with a little guilty conscience: "In the early autumn, Chang'an was suddenly cold. Unfortunately, I was a little bit cold, so I didn't go to Xinfeng today..."

Seeing Guan Ying's eyes that kept dodging and wishing she could just close her eyes, Liu Ying only felt that this scene seemed familiar.

——Isn’t it just the flustered look on Liu Ying’s face when she lied to the teacher that she forgot to bring her homework when she was still a child in later generations?
It is no exaggeration to say: Liu Ying told this lie at least a hundred times!

But not even once, I heard the phrase 'bring it tomorrow' from the teacher's mouth as I wished, and 'this is not an example'.

But at this moment, Guan Ying's clumsy acting skills obviously also failed to fool Lu Zhi's eyes.

"Oh?"

"Is that so..."

With a leisurely murmur, Lu Zhi got up from the soft couch, raised his head and stepped forward, looking down at the panicked Guan Ying from the corner of his eyes.

"If I remember correctly, last year, my elder brother Zhou Lv ordered Marquis Wu to die, and Marquis Yingyin also said that he was 'slightly caught in the wind and cold', but he didn't come to express his condolences, but only sent his nephew and nephew to come?"

"Now, the Marquis of Yingyin is suffering from the wind and cold again, so he did not go to Xinfeng to pay his condolences in front of the emperor's spirit..."

"From this point of view, Yingyin Hou is old and frail, suffering from serious illness?"

Without waiting for Guan Ying to explain, Lu Zhi suddenly slapped Yu An, his eyes widened!
"Or maybe Yingyin Hou is old and faint, thinking that if he abandons my Lu family and joins Liu, he will have a good end?!"

(End of this chapter)