I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 209 Zhou Yafu!You wanton! ! !
"Hey."

"—Last time, when elder brother was acting as envoy, Uncle Liang's carriage didn't even stop, just speeding past us;"

"I don't know how Taiwei Zhou and General Dou will treat my two brothers this time?"

Looking at Zhou Yafu and Dou Ying who were walking towards him in the distance, Liu Sheng made a self-deprecating joke, which only made Liu Pengzu laugh.

A moment later, the two brothers straightened their backs in a very tacit understanding, and then turned sideways at the same time, checking whether the robes on their bodies were neat for each other.

Then, the two of them turned around in tacit understanding again, raising their heads solemnly.

"Taiwei Tiaohou Chen Zhou Yafu, see Your Majesty~"

"General Dou Ying, see Your Majesty."

"—I...cough cough;"

"—I bow to you~"

After Zhou Yafu and Dou Ying came forward and greeted the Emperor's Day in Liu Sheng's hand, Liu Sheng said the gift on behalf of the Emperor with a slightly strange expression. Today's mission for Liu Sheng and Liu Pengzu is already considered Well done.

——After receiving someone, let the two of them salute the festival, and then answer the salute for the emperor, and the two of them are already "lucky enough to live up to their fate".

The next conversation will naturally be 'Young Master Sheng, Young Master Peng Zu' chatting with these two outstanding generals in front of you;
Rather than "the emperor's principal and deputy envoys" instead of the emperor Qi, he talked with the Taiwei and generals of the current dynasty.

"Cousin!"

After getting rid of his status as an envoy of the Son of Heaven, the solemn look on Liu Sheng's face disappeared, and he just walked forward cheerfully, bowed his hands to Dou Ying with a smile;
Just as she was about to step forward to hug Dou Ying's arm, she saw the smile on her cousin Dou Ying's face, which seemed a little stiff...

"Son."

Liu Sheng's indifferent reply made Liu Sheng firm in his guess.

Looking at Dou Ying a little lonely, he forced a smile again, and bowed to Zhou Yafu who was beside him.

"Tiaohou."

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Quiet.

After Liu Sheng bowed his hands and saluted, there was a full [-] breaths before and after, and no one's voice came from outside the pavilion.

Dou Ying beside Zhou Yafu and Liu Pengzu beside Liu Sheng looked at this strange scene in astonishment.

——Liu Sheng, the crown prince who had been 'introduced', arched his hands and bowed his waist, unable to wait for a reply for a long time;
But in front of Liu Sheng, Tiaohou Zhou Yafu, who was also determined to be "promoted" to the prime minister, looked at Liu Sheng coldly, and looked him up and down from time to time.

How long this situation lasted, Liu Sheng didn't know.

Liu Sheng only knew that he bowed his hands together, his waist felt a little sore, and Zhou Yafu's cold whisper came from his ear.

"Does the general have anything else to do?"

"—If not, let's hurry into the city."

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid I've been waiting in a hurry."

With a cold voice and one last look at Liu Sheng, Zhou Yafu turned his head away, showing the posture of "the general is not leaving, so I will take a step first", unwilling to say a word.

After being teased by Zhou Yafu, Dou Ying, who was already a bit stiff, became more and more embarrassed.

He looked at Zhou Yafu helplessly, and then looked at Liu Sheng in front of him with complex eyes composed of sympathy, bitterness, entanglement and hesitation.

"Uh······"

"The carriages and horses were bumpy along the way, and I may be a little tired..."

With a stiff smile, he defended Zhou Yafu, forced a smile, stepped forward and patted Liu Sheng on the shoulder, and saw Dou Ying take a deep breath.

"Since we have returned to Chang'an, there are plenty of opportunities to talk to the young master."

"Now, His Majesty is waiting for us, so we won't talk to you anymore."

"Wait for Your Majesty and the Empress Dowager to set up a celebration banquet, and my son and I will have a good time..."

After saying this sentence with an extremely awkward expression, like the polite words of "get together next time" in future generations, Dou Ying finally let out a sigh of relief.

Turned around, walked forward, side by side with Zhou Yafu, and walked towards Chang'an City by himself.

Seeing the backs of the two leaving on their own, Liu Pengzu's face also quietly showed a touch of solemnity.

"When did Ah Sheng offend Marquis Tiao and the General?"

Asking softly, Liu Sheng couldn't stop shaking his head and sighing bitterly.

"offend?"

"Hey······"

"—I'm afraid that the one who offends them is not the current 'Gongzi Sheng'~"

"It's the 'Prince Sheng' who has taken away the crown prince's position from the eldest son of the emperor, who is about to be registered as the crown prince..."

He said a word with a wry smile, and smiled again full of self-deprecation.

Taking a deep breath and forcibly adjusting his face, Liu Shengcai finally lowered his head with a forced smile, and reached out to pat Liu Pengzu's back.

"Let's go."

"We should go back too."

While pretending to be relaxed, Liu Sheng frowned quietly at an angle that Liu Pengzu could not see.

——Cousin Dou Ying, Liu Sheng is not very worried;

The left and right are just the candidates for the crown prince, and there is a discrepancy with Dou Ying's expectations, which makes this general with foreign relatives feel a little awkward in his heart.

With Queen Mother Dou as the middleman, Liu Sheng was not worried that his cousin Dou Ying would have a relationship with him because of this.

But Zhou Yafu...
"After stepping down as Taiwei, Zhou Yafu will be prime minister..."

"—Have you offended the future prime minister before taking the crown prince?"

"Hey;"

"hey-hey······"

"What my prince did is really interesting..."

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"My captain and general are back!"

Weiyang Palace, Qingliang Palace.

Just now because of the news that Zhou Yafu didn't want to see Liu Sheng from outside the city, the blushing and thick-necked Emperor Qi, now stood in front of the imperial couch with a smile that made people feel like a spring breeze.

When Zhou Yafu and Dou Ying walked into the hall, Tianzi Qi smiled and nodded, and waved to Lang Guan beside him.

"Proclaim it."

"—Here..."

Hearing Tianzi Qi's 'announcement', Zhou Yafu and Dou Ying hurriedly knelt down and paused for a while at the head of the emperor.

"Taiwei Tiaohou Chen Zhou Yafu;"

"Great General and Minister Dou Ying;"

"—Respectfully hear His Majesty's hadith~"

Following the two saluting in unison, Emperor Qi also nodded with a warm smile, and the Lang Guan also walked down the imperial steps and stood upright in front of Zhou Yafu and Dou Ying.

"I have heard that in a city of ten households, there must be loyalty and trustworthiness;"

"There is also a saying: a good warrior is a minister of the country."

"Today there are loyal ministers and righteous men who say: Tiao Hou Yafu and his relative Dou Ying rose from the grass and became generals, and they were raised in the ranks to become commanders. Each led the army, and in March they quelled the chaos of the seven kingdoms of Wu and Chu."

"Let the ancestral temple be protected, the community be safe, the rebellious officials and thieves reap the fruits of their actions, and the common people and common people get the long-awaited peace."

"There is a saying in the Sima Law: Rewards are not overdue, and the people are expected to get the benefits of goodness quickly; punishments are not shifted, and people are expected to see them quickly, and it is the harm of badness."

"Therefore, this edict is an example of generals, commanders, soldiers, and soldiers who have made great contributions to the suppression of chaos..."

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"—Taiwei Tiaohou Zhou Yafu, sitting in Changyi, made the thieves want to advance and fail, and they wanted to retreat but could not. Later, Gonggaohou Tiaodang attacked Huaisi by surprise, in order to eliminate the rebellion. The disaster took three months and ended Fast flat."

"Decree: Emperor Zhou Yafu was awarded the title of Taiwei, and eight thousand and one hundred households in Jiangxian County were given food, and the title was: Marquis Jiang;"

"The [-] households of the Marquis of Tiao and the Shiyi of the Marquis of Tiao will not go there. After Yafu, they will pass on the titles of Jianghou and Tiaohou to their two sons."

"Another reward is a thousand gold, a hundred bolts of silk, ten slaves and ten maidservants each; one from Jianghou's mansion and one Yujian."

"I salute Taiwei Yafu again, as the prime minister~~~"

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"—General Dou Ying, who guarded Xingyang, supervised the soldiers of Qi and Zhao, and kept the Ao warehouse intact, so that the ancestral temple and society were safe and the people of the world were safe. His meritorious service was outstanding, second only to Taiwei Yafu."

"Decree: Dou Ying, the great general, was granted the title of Wei Qihou with [-] households in Wei Qi."

"Another reward is a thousand pieces of gold, ten bolts of silk, five each for slaves and maidservants, and one for Wei Qihou's mansion."

"Moving general Dou Ying, the crown prince and Taifu~~~"

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The melodious sound of the imperial edict being read resounded in Qingliang Hall, causing the palace people near the front hall to stop and look sideways involuntarily.

And in Qingliang Hall, Zhou Yafu and Dou Ying kowtowed again after listening to Lang Guan read out the imperial edict respectfully.

"Your Majesty's imperial edict~"

"Thank you, Your Majesty Ron~~~"

They saluted again in unison, and the two of them maintained the posture of kneeling and bowing their heads, and raised their hands above their heads.

When Nalang Guan stepped forward, he handed over the two imperial edicts to the two of them respectively, and then the two of them slowly raised their upper bodies.

Carefully holding the edict in both hands, and taking it back into their arms as if they had found a treasure, the two finally stood up and bowed their hands to the emperor.

"Okay, okay~"

"I sent you news a long time ago, through word of mouth, there is no need to pretend to be 'extremely surprised'..."

Tianzi Qi cursed with a smile, which naturally made the two people in the hall laugh and bow their heads. For a moment, the hall was filled with an inexplicable harmonious atmosphere.

A moment later, Zhou Yafu and Dou Ying lowered their heads together, and each took out two small wooden boxes of different shapes and colors from their bosoms, but inside the boxes were the same small wooden boxes made of jade military talismans, and lowered their hands without hesitation. go forward.

Seeing this, Tianzi Qi didn't show much affection, and waved to Lang Guan beside him with a faint smile, and then took back the two soldier symbols, which were the only two in the world, into his hands again.

"Well······"

"This one is mine, keep it;"

"The other one, return it to the Queen Mother."

He lowered his head, glanced at the soldier talisman, and gave the order 'I will keep one and send the other to the Queen Mother'. Emperor Qi Ye finally sat down on the imperial couch with a gentle smile.

However, the seemingly weird order given by the emperor did not make anyone in the hall show the slightest weird look.

——Since Emperor Taizu Gao, the army of the Han family had a set of extremely sound mobilization rules.

One of the most core ones is: No matter what position you are in or what your rank is, if you mobilize more than 50 troops, you need an imperial edict and a tiger talisman as evidence, and both are indispensable!

It's better to order and plot rebellion!
The edict and the tiger talisman in this decree are two certificates. The edict refers to the emperor's edict and the empress dowager's edict.

As for the tiger talisman, it was the two tiger talismans made of jade that the emperor Qi took back from Zhou Yafu and Dou Ying just now.

It's not to say that as long as there are more than 50 troops deployed, one of these two Tiger Talismans must be used.

In fact, in addition to these two jade tiger talismans, the Han Dynasty also had hundreds of copper tiger talismans, which could mobilize troops ranging from 1000 to [-] people.

But those copper tiger talismans are mostly "special badges", and the soldiers and horses that can be mobilized are all fixed troops.

——For example, the Bronze Tiger Talisman of the Flying Fox Captain can only mobilize the Flying Fox Captain, but cannot mobilize other troops.

But these two tiger charms made of jade are indistinguishable and full-featured tiger charms for mobilizing troops in the true sense.

All the troops of the Han family, whether they are the central army, the local army, or the state soldiers of the princes, and the armed forces of the counties and counties are young and strong;
As long as you see this jade tiger talisman, as well as the edict to dispatch troops from one of the empress dowager and the emperor, you must obey the order unconditionally!
This is why today's Han family has gradually formed the unspoken political rule of "Taiwei is not permanent".

——Theoretically, one of the two jade tiger talismans should be kept by the Taiwei for a long time, so as to have the military power to 'mobilize the world's soldiers and horses at will'.

As for the emperor Qi to 'return' one of the two jade tiger talismans to Empress Dowager Dou, it is naturally because in the past, these two jade tiger talismans have always been held by the emperor and the empress dowager.

At least after the formation of the unspoken political rule of 'the Taiwei is not permanent', this military talisman that should have been kept by the Taiwei has since been handed over to the Queen Mother.

In today's Han Dynasty, this is not a strange thing.

After all, the two-house system cannot be formed solely by the status of the "Queen Dowager" and "Son of Heaven" - the real gun is the most direct source of power.

Moreover, such an arrangement can also avoid situations that should not occur in certain special periods.

For example, when the emperor was traveling, something happened on the road, and the army wanted to go to rescue him, but because there was no tiger talisman to mobilize, he could only stay where he was!
Similar to this kind of "the emperor needs to mobilize troops, but cannot do so himself", the queen mother can stand up and use another soldier talisman to mobilize troops and horses, so as to solve the urgent need.

It is true that such an arrangement will definitely give the queen mother some powers and abilities that she should not have.

But compared to outsiders, the Empress Dowager is at least the Son of Heaven's own mother...

"How did I hear that Tiao Hou seems to be dissatisfied with my envoy?"

"Ok?"

Putting away his jade tiger talisman carefully, he watched three Lang officials from different departments supervise each other to send the other jade mansion to Changle Palace, and the emperor asked loudly.

Seeing Zhou Yafu's words, the smile on his face froze immediately, and Tianzi Qi turned his head to the side with a smile that was not a smile, and looked at Dou Ying beside him.

"I don't find it strange that Hou Tiao complains;"

"Why even Wei Qihou treats his cousin..."

"—eyes are not eyes, nose is not nose~"

"how?"

"Does it feel that the crown prince I have chosen does not suit the two of you???"

The unobtrusive, but slightly warning question only made Dou Ying's complexion suddenly change!
After struggling for a moment at the end, he hastened to bow to the emperor Qi!
"I, I dare not!"

"I'm just, just..."

"It's just that I have been away from Chang'an for too long, and I have a relationship with the young master..."

"--Humph!"

Before Dou Ying slipped down, Tianzi Qi gave a cold snort, and gave Dou Ying a light look.

When Dou Ying lowered his head in fear, the emperor Qicai turned his head slightly and cast a meaningful gaze on Zhou Yafu who was still stubborn.

"Tiaohou~"

"What are you upset about again?"

"—Tell me~"

"I will also listen to see what valuable advice my future prime minister can give me."

The tone seemed normal, but there was a hint of sarcasm on his face, and the emperor Qi pretended to concentrate and leaned his upper body forward, waiting for Zhou Yafu's reply with 'concentration'.

After waiting for quite a while, the emperor Qi who was waiting thought that Zhou Yafu was about to give in, so Zhou Yafu gritted his teeth and suddenly arched his hands at the emperor Qi!

"Your Majesty didn't say that before!"

"The envoy sent by His Majesty told the minister: Your Majesty, you intend to enshrine the eldest son of the Emperor!"

"Knowing that His Majesty wants to establish the eldest son of the emperor, I followed His Majesty's instructions and wrote a letter to ask for the establishment of a crown prince!"

"Now, His Majesty has sealed off the eldest son of the emperor to the Linjiang Kingdom thousands of miles away, but let the youngest son among the princes win the crown prince?"

"--What is the reason for this!"

"—Abolishing the elders and erecting the younger ones, this is the way to disrupt the country, doesn't Your Majesty know?!"

Zhou Yafu blushed in the blink of an eye after a few menacing roars, and looked at Tianzi Qi with a full of dignity.

"I was born as a warrior, and the words of scribes who beat around the bush and are full of flowers, I will not say!"

"I only know that when the late emperor was on his way, he repeatedly entrusted His Majesty: If something happens to the ancestral temple or the state, I must help His Majesty!"

"Now, Your Majesty wants to follow the order of 'abolishing the elders and erecting the younger ones'. Forgive me, I dare not follow orders!!!"

The sonorous and forceful remonstrance only made the emperor Qi Youran squint his eyes, and then slowly raised his head, the expression on his face was only attributable to the ultimate pure calm.

But anyone who is familiar with Tianzi Qi will not be unfamiliar with this extremely pure peace.

——Tianzi Qi, angry;

——Tianzi Qi, eyeing a person;

——Tianzi Qi, I have murderous intentions towards this person...

"Tiao Hou's class teacher returned to the court, and he didn't even return home. The journey was exhausting, and it was very hard."

"Tiao Hou, please go back to the mansion to rest."

"Recently, the court has been busy dealing with the autumn harvest and the year-end plans, and I can't spare some time."

"——After a few days, when I have time, I will discuss with the Queen Mother and set up a celebration banquet for Marquis Tiao and Marquis Wei."

"If you have anything to say, let's talk about it later..."

Dou Ying slowly turned her head to the side in horror, and looked at Zhou Yafu with extremely complicated gazes without the slightest clear words;
However, Zhou Yafu, who had just accepted the award and resigned from the position of Taiwei, and had not been formally worshiped as prime minister, did not give in before Tian Ziqi's cold attitude visible to the naked eye...

"Since this is the case, then minister, I will leave now!"

"I hope His Majesty will not forget the promise he made to his minister today!"

"At the celebration banquet, His Majesty must give the minister an explanation!"

"if······"

"--presumptuous!!!!!!"

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A roar suddenly sounded, spreading out around the Qingliang Hall, and even the birds outside the hall, resting on the beams and eaves, were startled and flew away!

In the entire Qingliang Hall, the quiet needle drop could be heard.

Under the imperial steps, Zhou Yafu was still sullen, with his head raised without fear, staring straight at the emperor Qi on the imperial couch.

And on the imperial steps, the Emperor Qi, who was sitting on the imperial couch, had a face so cold that he could scrape off a layer of frost...

"I tell you to back down."

"Go back."

"—Back! Down!!!"

　Four more completed~
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　　The two updates will continue tomorrow, trying to save a few chapters for manuscripts, and try to fix the update time in the morning or early morning.

　　After that, if the status permits, on the basis of the two updates of 1w words, additional updates will be made from time to time to make up for the previous updates.

　　huh~~~
　　Good night, fathers~
　　
　
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