Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 227 Absurd Suggestions
The capital of the Han Kingdom in Lingnan, Xingwangfu.

A pair of white, tender, thick and long fat hands quickly fiddled with the big and round pearls one after another, using thin threads as thin as silk to splice the pearls together, and the shadow of the thread is almost invisible at the connecting points.

The owner with such dexterous hands is actually a fat man, a big fat man with cute looks and delicate features.

The fat man named Liu Jixing was King Wei of Lingnan Han Kingdom and the eldest son of Emperor Liu Sheng of Lingnan Han Kingdom.

In a few days it will be his father Liu Sheng's birthday.

Liu Jixing was going to make a present for him with his own hands, a Chinese character for longevity made of pearls, and then inlaid on the red coral reef. At that time, the red and white will shine brightly, which is very beautiful.

Princess Wei looked at her husband's dexterous hands, and said in admiration: "Your Majesty, after receiving this generous gift from you, His Majesty will definitely feel your filial piety, and thus recover from serious illness."

"madness!"

Liu Jixing scolded his idiot princess from the bottom of his heart, and said angrily: "I only hope that the father is in a better mood, and don't beat me to death in a fit of anger."

It is true that Liu Jixing took so much trouble preparing gifts, not because his son wanted to please his father, but simply to save his life.

His father, Liu Sheng, the emperor of the Lingnan Han Dynasty, talked about cruelty and tyranny, which is rare throughout the ages.

Liu Sheng's emperor's seat was snatched by killing his brother Liu Bin.

Therefore, after Liu Sheng ascended the throne, he was afraid that he would step into the footsteps.Started to kill ministers and younger brothers, and killed ministers and younger brothers to play if there was nothing to do. Together with their family members, their own nephews were not spared, and they even brought their nieces into the harem...

His father was able to give birth to eighteen brothers besides himself.Then there were fifteen people who died by his knife.

The other three were not merciful, but two died young, and one died in battle...

After more than ten years, Liu Sheng succeeded in killing very few of the huge Liu family blood left by his ancestor Liu Yin in Lingnan.

Liu Sheng's attitude towards his son was also either beating or scolding, and the attack was not serious.

Facing such a father, Liu Jixing was filled with fear besides fear.

As the first successor in the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Jixing only wished that his father would die immediately.

To save myself from worrying all day long.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Wang Qing Palace envoy Gong Chengshu ran in scrambling and shouted: "Hurry up, enter the palace immediately, your majesty's condition has deteriorated, and the king is summoned to enter the palace."

Liu Jixing got up suddenly, his first reaction was God opened his eyes?

Before Liu Jixing could react, Gong Chengshu had already pulled him outside.

Liu Jixing said as he walked, "Isn't it that the father's condition has improved, why has it deteriorated?"

Gong Chengshu gritted his teeth and said, "It's not Zhou Xingfeng from Wuping. For some reason, his envoy told about His Majesty in front of Emperor Guo. Emperor Guo was so angry that he cursed His Majesty, saying that he wanted to attack my big man. His Majesty was furious when he heard the news. It's getting worse."

Liu Sheng is violent and cruel, but his own ability is not bad.After Guo Rong captured Huainan, Liu Sheng felt that something was wrong, and sent people to the Hou Zhou capital to pay tribute, but was stopped by Wuping, and the attempt failed.

Now that he learned that Da Zhou intends to raise troops to go south, he also knew that he could not resist. He was already seriously ill, his condition worsened in a panic, and he died soon.

Before Liu Jixing arrived at Lingnan Han King's Palace, Liu Sheng had already died of illness.

Liu Jixing was in a state of ignorance, and inexplicably became the new emperor of the Lingnan Han Kingdom, and changed his name to Liu Yu.

Concubine Wei has not been officially canonized as a queen, but she has already begun to pretend to be a queen. She knelt in front of the Lingnan emperor who was already called Liu Yu and said: "Your Majesty is already the ninth-five-year-old, and you should support your cronies, so that you don't worry about it." Take advantage of by thieves. My concubine has the courage to recommend my elder brother Chang Tao, he is brave and good at fighting, and he is one of his own, so he is worthy of trust."

Liu Yu nodded and said: "Aifei is right!" He thought for a while and said: "Aifei, why don't you let brother Ling enter the palace as a servant first to show your loyalty?"

Princess Wei was dumbfounded.

In Liu Yan's heart, as long as he has a family, he will refuse to be loyal in order to take care of his descendants, so eunuchs are the most trustworthy.

If foreign ministers want to be useful, they have to come from the palace!

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The territory of Khitan is extremely vast. For better governance, the five core areas of the territory are divided into five capitals.Among them, Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, the capital of China, Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, Youdu Mansion in Nanjing, and Datong Mansion in Xijing are all accompanying capitals.

However, Khitan was built by nomadic peoples, and their migration was uncertain. Its political center was not in the capital, but in Nabo, that is, Xingzai.

Wherever the Khitan emperor was, that was the administrative center for handling government affairs.

The real chief executives of the five capitals are all left behind.

The left behind in Nanjing Youdu Mansion is Xiao Siwen, the well-known Xiao family in Khitan.

Xiao Siwen was in a very happy mood recently. The great virtuous man who he had visited three times and hadn't invited here unexpectedly went out to serve his mother to treat her illness.

Xiao Siwen didn't have the roughness of the Khitan people at all, but was polite and well-mannered. He was dressed in gorgeous clothes, dressed like a noble from the Central Plains. Even if he was thrown in Kaifeng, no one would know that he was from the Liao Dynasty.

"Sir, I recently read "The Great Learning" in the "Book of Rites", and I am very confused about what it says. I hope you can give me some guidance."

Xiao Siwengui stayed behind for Nanjing, but he respected Song Xiong very much.

Song Xiong replied: "The "Great Learning" read by the stay-at-home students is only superficial. If you want to learn the real "Great Learning", you need to learn it together with the annotations. There are four annotations for this "Great Learning", one is Dong Zhongshu's "Great Learning", and the other is Zheng Xuan's "Great Learning". The "Book of Rites·University" in "Three Rites Notes", one is "University" interpreted by Kong Yingda, and the other is "University" written by Han Yu."

"These four sages analyzed "The Great Learning" from different angles. Dong Zhongshu's "The Great Learning"..."

Song Xiong spoke logically.

Xiao Siwen heard it in a cloud. You must know that although "The Great Learning" is a prose, it has been studied by Chinese scholars for thousands of years, and countless annotations have been derived.

Without a solid foundation, how can it be easily understood.

But just because he couldn't understand, Song Xiong's knowledge was brought out.

Xiao Siwen was so obsessed with the Central Plains culture that he was not ashamed to ask.

Song Xiong also answered the questions one by one.

Until the news came from outside the study that his son Xiao Kuiyin asked to see him.

Song Xiong said tactfully: "If Xiao Liushou has important tasks, his subordinates will leave first."

Xiao Siwen was in high spirits, so he would let him go and said: "Sir, wait here, I will come when I go."

Xiao Siwen walked out.

Song Xiong stayed where he was, and Xiao Siwen came back after just a cup of tea, with a bit of joy on his face.

He has already received the news that Guo Rong is preparing to march south, so Nanjing can sit back and relax.

"Sir, let's continue talking!"

Song Xiong continued to explain "The Great Learning" to Xiao Siwen.

For half a month, Xiao Siwen paid more and more attention to Song Xiong.

On this day, Song Xiong suddenly spoke to Xiao Siwen and said: "Xiao Liushou, my subordinates heard that the Central Plains intends to conquer Lingnan south? Is there such a thing?"

Xiao Siwen smiled and said: "It's true, it has nothing to do with us, just sit and watch."

Song Xiong said in a deep voice: "This subordinate thinks that this is a plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea. The Central Plains is not going south, but going north!"

(End of this chapter)