Destiny Only Han

When Liu Le wanted to say something more, Lu Zhi suddenly coughed twice.

"Okay, let me get out!"

This is the delivery room. Before she indulged Lu Yu's willfulness, she just felt that Lu Yu was young. Besides, she watched him grow up, like a daughter and a daughter-in-law. But for Liu Ying and Liu Le, she naturally didn't have a good face.

After all, one of those two is an evil obstacle that is not as good as giving birth to a placenta, and the other is a cutie who has passed away...

Liu Ying stood up, made a funny face at Lu Yu, and immediately shouted cheers, then grabbed Liu Le by the back of the neck and dragged her out amidst Lu Zhi's disgusted face.

"Smelly brother, let me go, or else it will be over if I beat you or not!"

"Look at the headbutt!"

"Ouch, don't run away..."

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West of Changle Palace, on-duty room.

After Zhang Buyi sent Liu Le to the palace, because he didn't want to see Liu Bang, he chose to work overtime here.

Well, it is said to be working overtime, but most of the time these Zhengyin officials from the second generation of Gonghou just drink tea and read books, and the specific work is completely done by those second-generation officials.

civil servants...

The daily life of ancient officials was roughly like this.

Zhang Buyi walked into the guard room, said hello to Guo Ta, the son of Dongwu Hou Guo Meng, and Zeng Hu, the son of Qi Hou Zenghe, and immediately picked up the latest imperial palace newspaper and began to read.

Guo it came closer and asked gossipingly, "Aren't you Xiu Mu? Why did you come here?"

Zhang Buyi lowered his voice: "Don't you know that the queen is giving birth today?"

Zeng Hu also came over, his eyes widened: "Really?"

Zhang Buyi nodded solemnly: "Why did you lie to you? Zhiyang has already entered the palace, and I think there will be news soon!"

Guo it looked envious, shook his head and said: "It's better that you are lucky, you are beautiful, you are the princess, you have a close relationship with His Majesty, and you are invited to accompany you from time to time... Look at our brothers, we can only be here From morning to night in the duty room, I sit all day long, wasting my life..."

There is a reason for Guo Qiqi's envy. If counting from his father's generation, the relationship between him and Liu Ying is not far away.

After all, his father's name is Guo Meng, a native of Xue County, and he was Lu Ze's disciple in the early years.

The important thing is that because of Lu Ze's relationship, the Guo family is counted as belonging to the Lu family, so naturally they should be closer to Liu Ying.

But when he heard Guo Qiqi's complaints, although Zhang Buyi looked normal, he didn't take it seriously.

As the son of Gong Hou, it is entirely his own fault that Guo it got to this point.

When others spend a lot of money overseas to buy property, or seek to be a colonial governor, they only want to guard their own food towns and eat in the fields, and occasionally buy some bonds issued by the government, just like ordinary people. Live on interest on...

Naturally, such a noble family will fall behind...

To be precise, he does not have enough wealth to support him to adapt to the rules of the game in the 'upper class' society.

Politics lies in compromise and the exchange of interests. They don't have enough bargaining chips and resources for exchange, so no one will take them to play.

Therefore, it is also reasonable for the son of Chehou, who is a son of Chehou, who is a majestic two thousand households, to be a job in Changle Palace with a salary of [-] shi...

Zhang Buyi chatted with those two 'Luthers' a few more times, and found that they had nothing to say except complaining, and felt a little regretful in his heart. He would have gone to the palace with Liu Le if he had known about it, even though Liu Bang couldn't speak well. Listen, always inexplicably detailed and reprimanded and suppressed him...

But at least it's interesting most of the time, and he can always learn something from Liu Bang...

So he began to pray, praying that the powerful telegraph machine next door would ring as soon as possible, so that he could use the pretense to send a message, and then get rid of these two peers who were chattering like wives...

Xu is a sincere heart, and when Zhang Buyi vowed boredly that if the telegraph rings, he would like to chatter like a monk Yixiu, a series of rapid electronic sounds suddenly sounded in the room.

Didi, Didi, Didi, Didi...

For a moment, Guo Ta and Zhuang Hu suddenly became excited, and they all turned their eyes to the radio station, while Zhang Buyi felt sad from it, and when he lowered his head, his face was full of struggle...

To cut, or not to cut, that is the question.

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Outside Changqiu Hall, Liu Ying, who was pressed by Liu Bang and made Liu Le punch and kick, leaned on the rattan chair full of resentment, but squinted at Liu Bang and Liu Le who was serving tea and water beside Liu Bang, his eyes were full of tears. out of anger.

At this moment, all the guilt in his heart dissipated!
Well, it wasn't because he took Zhang Buyi to Goulan to listen to the music, but mainly because he was going to cheat his own big sister.

In the past, Liu Le bought a lot of bonds for the Chang'an (Chang'an) Luo (Rome) railway in order to see the magnificent scene of the vast sea and the Baizhang ice as soon as possible. Now the railway has been built under the Qilian Mountains, and the north and south fork, all the way to the West Sea (Qinghai Lake) And go, all the way to the Ili River Valley.

And the railway on the southern line leading to the West Sea has been completed and is about to open to traffic!

Opening to traffic means starting to make a profit!
But the crux of the problem is that Liu Ying plans to reorganize the railway trading company, establish a new railway company, and then let the state take full control of it, so as to nationalize the railway, and build a large number of railways across the country!
For Liu Le, the chicken that laid the golden egg is still there, but after the creditor's right is changed, she loses the possibility of taking the chicken that lays the golden egg as her own. With the risk of malicious accounting...

Princess of the empire, what's the point of sacrificing a little for the country and the people... Liu Ying sniffed, resting her chin with one hand, and looked at Liu Le again with a calm expression on her face.

Liu Le glanced at him inexplicably, and walked over dutifully: "Smelly brother, I always think you are weird!"

"No, I've always been like this." Liu Ying stared directly at Liu Le's beady eyes, without any intention of dodging.

At this moment, Liu Ying's eyes were resolute and sharp, full of awe-inspiring sense of sight.

Well, this is a special skill he specially cultivated in order to frighten Cao Shen's veteran officials.

Nothing else, look at the cat until the cat thinks you are provocative and wants to rush up to scratch you, do not hide or dodge, still use this sharp look to glare at the cat until it is forced to retreat.

In this way, you can achieve great success!
Therefore, in Liu Ying's sight, Liu Le couldn't help scratching his head, thinking that he was suspicious and wronged Liu Ying...

"Well, I was wrong..." Liu Le pouted, reluctantly.

"You're wrong?" Liu Ying still kept looking straight.

"I was wrong, what do you want!" Liu Le made a big teapot shape, with one hand on his hips, with a posture of being unreasonable and strong.

"Okay, I accept my sister's apology." Liu Ying wisely changed the subject: "Sit down, don't just stand around..."

"Hmph!" Liu Le raised his eyebrows suddenly when he was about to sit down, and reached out to grab another chair from the side.

Liu Ying was stunned for a moment, and then followed Liu Le's gaze, with a playful expression on her face: "Sister is really considerate..."

Liu Le snorted again, too lazy to talk to Liu Ying, and took a lot of tea and snacks from Liu Bang's side.

Look, I have already said that she is a black-hearted little padded jacket, but you don't believe me... Liu Ying threw a provocative look at the surprised Liu Bang, and then looked at Zhang Buyi who came trotting:

"What's the matter?"

"For a foreigner to enter the palace without permission, what should he do?"

Zhang Buyi simply bowed to Liu Bang who was looking over and saluted, sat directly beside Liu Le, took a cup of tea and drank it down, and immediately took a picture of a telegram in front of Liu Ying: "Urgent telegram, read it yourself!"

At this moment, with his backer at his side, there is no need to bow down too much in front of Liu Ying!
The little white face pulled up, let's see how I will deal with you in the future... Liu Ying sneered silently, picked up the telegram and looked at it twice, her smile became more and more bleak.

The content of the telegram is very simple, that is, the Qiang people are dishonest.

They stole the railway tracks and robbed the caravans passing along the way. For this reason, they had a fight with the patrol team of Linqiang County, wounded six county soldiers, left more than a dozen corpses, left the stolen goods, and fled into the vast wilderness missing.

"What do you think?" Liu Ying raised the telegram.

I sat and watched... Zhang Busu scratched his eyelids that were bitten by mosquitoes, and said seriously:

"As the old saying goes, the thief needs to be attacked! In my opinion, it is natural to strengthen the patrol force, and at the same time order the Qiang ruler to send those who injured our county soldiers to subdue the law!"

"That's not the case, why Zheng Tianwei?"

Liu Ying shook her head:

"It's easy to say, but it's very difficult to do..."

"Just as the Qiang people are blind to the Han people, the Han people are also blind to the Qiang people. If the Qiang people who live with the Xi Rong have high noses, deep eyes, curly hair and purple beards, it is even more difficult to recognize..."

"Besides, the land of the West Sea is full of Qiang people, and do you know which tribe the Qiang people who wounded our county soldiers belong to?"

"In this case, how can you invite the emperor to come to question the crime?"

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Zhang Buji nodded in agreement.

He had also been to the West Sea when he sent troops to Hexi last time. Naturally, he knew that the land was sparsely populated, and it also had snow-covered plateaus. It is open to traffic, but the number of Han people is still far less than that of Guanlong and Shandong.

Therefore, he knew that the so-called thieves need to fight would not work. After all, there is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days, so he thought of solving this emergency by putting pressure on the Qiang rulers.

But what Liu Ying said made sense.

Who would foolishly admit such things as catching thieves and catching stolen goods?
So behind Zhang Buyi, Liu Bang, who was taking advantage of Liu Le's inspection in the delivery room, sat over, poked his head and asked, "You rejected Zhang Buyi's idea, what do you think should be done?"

Liu Ying was silent for a while when she heard this.

The current case of the Qiang people's raid is actually the root of the disaster he planted in the early years.

At that time, he led the troops to the Hexi Corridor to rescue Wusun. In order to stabilize the rear, he could fight the Xiongnu boss Shanyu.

Although there is the Huqiang Xiaowei's Mansion, Feng Tang mainly works in the Western Regions Governor's Mansion, and does not deal with the affairs of the Huqiang Xiaowei's Mansion at all, so that the Huqiang Xiaowei's Mansion is just an empty shelf and has not performed its due functions at all. .

Later, the center of gravity of the empire was not in the west, but in the northern prairie, Bashu, Jiangdong, and Lingnan, as well as seeking overseas interests with great fanfare.

Naturally, even fewer resources were invested in the West Sea.

All the requirements of the Dahan for the Protectorate of the Western Regions and Xihai County are to ensure the smooth flow of the Silk Road and maintain as much peace as possible.

Only with peace can there be development, and the settlements dotted throughout the Northwest will slowly develop into industrial towns, agricultural towns, and animal husbandry towns...

Well, just small towns, not cities.

The resources in the Northwest are limited, and the transportation lines are extremely long. It is enough to maintain some prosperous small towns, and there is no need to spread the big pie to urbanize...

Going to Nanyang is much more valuable than going to Xiguan!
But now it's different, the tiger doesn't show its power and treats me as a sick cat!She thought she could live in peace with them... Liu Ying sighed in her heart and thought of someone.

Li Er.

I want to come back to Tang Taizong when he said, "China has been valued since ancient times, barbarians and di are cheap, and I love them all as one", and when he said to him, "Rong and Di are human-faced and beast-hearted, and they are not proud of themselves, and they will eat back." Maybe Liu Ying's inner feelings are the same as Liu Ying's at this moment. Same……

So Liu Ying sat up straight, looked at Liu Bang and said:
"Naturally, the Qiang people's trouble will be solved once and for all!"

"My idea is to rebuild the Qiang Guard's Colonel's Mansion, and recruit elite troops to enrich it. At the same time, considering the vast territory of Xiqiang, there are Qiang tribes from Xihai County to the surrounding areas of Shu County, so we must fight together. The whole country is a game of chess. Not fighting on our own!"

Zhang asked without questioning, "What's the specifics?"

The corner of Liu Ying's mouth raised:

"I decided to set up a new department, the Southwest Barbarian Recruitment Department, not only to deal with the Xiqiang, but also to systematically sort out the barbarians who surrendered in the Southwest, without leaving any regrets!"

"As for the candidates for recruiting envoys, I don't think anyone other than Wei Zhi, the vice-principal of the Protectorate of the Western Regions!"

Hearing the word Zhidu, Zhang Buyi gasped, with a toothache on his face: "How can you kill a chicken with a sledgehammer, can't it be..."

Liu Bang was very surprised and asked: "What is a bull knife?"

Zhang Buyi turned his head and explained: "About a year ago, during the civil strife in Shule, the general Abexue killed the king of Shule and made himself king. Prince Zhonghan of Shule led his private soldiers to fight Abexue. He was invincible and fled alone. To Shache Kingdom."

"Zhonghan? This name is so strange..." Liu Bang interrupted Zhang Buyi.

Zhang Buyi explained: "Xi's surname is very strange. The so-called Zhonghan is a new name he gave himself later, to express his loyalty to the big man..."

"What a good man." Liu Bang nodded.

Zhang Buyi echoed with a laugh, and continued:

"And because the mother of Prince Shule Zhonghan is King Shache's sister, King Shache joined forces with King Weitou to send troops to Shule, kill Abexue, and supported his nephew Zhonghan as King Shule..."

"But afterward, Dong Chi, the Marquis of Chenghou of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, ordered the vice-principal, Wei Zhidu, to investigate."

"The meaning of Marquis Cheng is very simple, that is, to send someone over there to ask, and at the same time to recognize the loyal Han as King Shule. After all, rebellious ministers cause chaos, and the prince is right to set things right anyway..."

Liu Bang said with deep approval: "It makes sense, it seems that my decision to let Dong Chi be the general guard is not wrong..."

Liu Ying looked at Zhang Busu, smiled and said to Liu Bang:
"Well, the truth is this. But, it doesn't fit the law..."

"So after Zhidu arrived in Shule, he first declared Abexue a traitor and punished his family, but Abexue was dead, and his body was hanging on the top of the city, and his whole family died in the war when King Shule was restored, so Zhi They all changed their crimes to killing corpses, abandoning corpses in the wilderness..."

Liu Bang nodded: "It's okay, just to warn others..."

Liu Ying went on to say:

"After killing Abexue's corpse, Zhidu called Prince Shule, Zhonghan, to continue the sentencing."

"When Abe Xue rebelled before, the loyal Han led private soldiers to fight against him. This is a private fight, the first crime; the defeat and fleeing Shule, this is going to the capital without an order, the second crime; after that, instigating a big war, the third crime... ..."

"With these three crimes, heinous, family punishment..."

"King Shache sent troops without edict, heinous crime, family punishment..."

"King Weitou is charged with the same crime as above, and his family punishes..."

"In one day, the three kings and families were destroyed. Wherever the capital went, the monarchs of the Western Regions all fought against each other. They didn't even dare to call them by their names in private, but called them 'wolves'..."

"After all, if a wolf enters the sheep pen, even if it doesn't eat, it will kill all the sheep..."

"This is what Zhang Buyi said about killing chickens with a sledgehammer."

After Liu Ying finished speaking, when Liu Bang was dumbfounded, she touched the short beard of her chin quietly.

This is a cruel official, and it is also a great sword made by him!

For this reason, even if the impeachment of Zhidu is like snowflakes, Liu Ying just pretends that she has never seen it...

Liu Bang was silent for a moment, shook his head and sighed, as if he was talking to himself: "Young people nowadays...forget it, forget it, anyway, we are just the emperor..."

Liu Ying smiled imperceptibly, and slowly slumped on the wicker chair.

He was very clear about Liu Bang's meaning, and he just wanted to persuade him not to repeat the same mistakes and reuse Legalism like the Tyrant Qin, and eventually he would die and the country would perish.

But Liu Ying knew very well that just as he would not re-use Confucianism, he would also not re-use Legalism.

The political law of the Qin Dynasty has been practiced for a hundred generations, and the root cause of China's fall into the strange circle is actually Confucianism on the outside and law on the inside.

After all, Confucianism after being reformed by demons is the link to maintain society, while Legalism is the magic weapon for the emperor to control the people, especially the latter. After the weak and foolish people, the Han and Tang Xiongfeng became the sick man of East Asia...

Liu Ying smiled again, and there was a faint cry of a baby in her ear.

Then his body suddenly became tense.

On the other side, Lu Wan, who looked extremely anxious with her head down before, also jumped up, her eyes widened and her beard trembled slightly: "Listen, did you hear that..."

Without waiting for the people around to respond, the door of the Changqiu Palace was opened wide, and Liu Le ran out excitedly, dancing with hands and feet:
"Born, born..."

"It's a boy, Niu Niu looks so pretty..."

The smile on Liu Ying's face gradually froze, and she really wanted to have her big sister dragged out to beat her...

The same is true for Liu Bang. After all, there are not only him and Liu Ying, but also Lu Wan Yuji, his own group of wives, and Liu Ying's three concubines...

What a shame, what a shame!
But in fact, he was too worried, let alone Lu Wan and his wife, concubines such as Qi Ji and Xu Negative have long been familiar with the strangeness of the brain circuit of the eldest princess of the empire, and they have long been familiar with it... …

Moreover, the folk customs of the Han Dynasty have become more and more crooked in recent years.

If the family of ordinary people gives birth to a little girl, it’s fine, but if the baby is a boy, the family will hold the baby and show it in front of the relatives and friends who come to congratulate.

The point, of course, is Niu...

So after Liu Le chattered for a while, even Qi Ji happily walked towards Changqiu Palace.

They, of course, went to visit Niu Niu...

Dou Yifang smiled lightly, feeling relieved.

She had been praying silently before, praying that Lu Yu would be safe and well, and that she would give birth to a boy smoothly.

Now, it really comes true!
Well, it's not because Dou Yi's room triggered any plot, and got an entry of a flourishing white lotus, but because she has always been very self-aware.

Compared with Lu Yu, she is just a little maid from a commoner family. Even though she gave birth to the eldest son of the emperor, she has never coveted the idea of ​​being a queen, or she has the idea of ​​becoming a queen, but she has never competed for power. move.

Therefore, when she passed Liu Ying, she squatted slightly and saluted: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty..."

Same joy, same joy, um, this seems wrong...Liu Ying leaned into her ear, and said in a voice that could only be heard by her: "I won't go to your place today, the day after tomorrow, just wait for me for nothing... "

A few blush flashed across Dou Yifang's face, her big watery eyes raised slightly: "Well, Zunzhi..."

The voice was soft and full of temptation, and the smile on Liu Ying's face gradually became evil.

After all, compared to Lu Yu's youthful immaturity, Xu Negative's cunning and nimbleness, and Zang Er's resignation, Dou Yi's character of going out of the hall and entering the bedroom is more in line with Liu Ying's sullen disposition.

The learning of Huang Lao is indeed very interesting... The corners of Liu Ying's mouth slightly raised, and she gave a knowing look to Xu Negative who held his head up and his face was narrow, and Xu negative, who lowered his head, but kept stealing eyes on his body. Son.

To be an emperor, the most important thing is to be fair...

Xu Negative twisted his slender waist to catch up with Dou Yifang, and whispered, "So, are you satisfied?"

Dou Yifang nodded: "Aren't you too?"

Before Xu Negative could answer, Liu Le leaned over from the other side, put his arms around Dou Yifang's arm, and asked with his head, "What are you satisfied with?"

Xu negative smiled, his charming face was full of mystery:

""Shen Zi" once said that when a rabbit runs away, a hundred people chase after it. The rabbits are accumulated in the market, and they pass by and ignore them. If you don't want the rabbits, you can't fight for it."

"That is to say, a hare is running in the market, and more than 100 people are chasing after it, enjoying it. However, more than 100 rabbits are sold in the market, but no one cares about it. What's the reason?"

"Because wild rabbits have no owners, and whoever catches them owns them; but rabbits in the market have owners. If you want to get a rabbit in the market, you must buy it with money."

"Sister, do you understand?"

Liu Le pouted:
"If you want me to say that your thinking is superfluous, brother stinky is like a mirror in your heart... If you have time and time to think about it, why don't you think about how to give me two more nephews... Especially sister Xu, you gave birth to this It looks so good-looking, if I were a stinky brother, I would stay with you and not leave, and let you give me a hundred children!"