I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 274 What does King Jiaodong think?
Following Liu Sheng's deep and powerful voice, the heads of everyone present, without exception, slowly lowered;
Waiting for Liu Sheng's last sentence, "Brothers, what do you think?" As he exited, everyone present except Mrs. Wang couldn't help but let out a short sigh.

The meaning implied by this short sigh is not uncomplicated.

——There is a lament similar to "I still haven't escaped this day after all";

There is a solemnity like "the prince finally wants to see you poorly".

Somewhat unexpectedly: more people seemed to be relieved and breathed a long sigh of relief...
"Xiao Jiu speaks, is it better than the envoy of the emperor, bringing the edict to deliver the order?"

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"The prince is so frank, we brothers, it doesn't make sense to talk about him..."

"—after all, it's Xiao Jiu;"

"Even if you want to cut it, you won't be merciless?"

With such thoughts in mind, the brothers quickly raised their spirits, and subconsciously cast their gazes on their most trusted elder brother.

——Liu Fei, the fifth child, Liu Fa, the sixth child, and Liu Duan, the eighth child. Naturally, they immediately looked at their fourth brother: Lu Wang Liu Yu;

The seventh brother, Liu Pengzu, is special. While looking at the fourth brother Liu Yu politely, he also carefully scrutinized the expressions of the fifth brother Liu Fei and the fourth brother Liu Yu for Liu Sheng.

Liu Yu, who gathered the eyes of all the brothers, looked at the boss Liu Rong politely;

As for Liu Rong, under the polite and sincere eyes of the fourth brother Liu Yu and the second child Liu De, he slowly got up from his seat.

"As early as when Emperor Taizu Gao was seriously ill, Emperor Taizu held tightly the hand of the crown prince at that time, who was later Emperor Xiaohui;"

"Emperor Taizu Gao confessed: To be the emperor of the Han family, you must always remember the superiority and inferiority of the monarch and ministers."

"Earlier, Emperor Taizu Gao also told the people around him: The Supreme Emperor is the father of the Taizu Emperor, so he can become the Supreme Emperor;"

"And the ancestral temples and shrines of the Han family were built by Emperor Taizu Gao himself, so the power to govern the country must still be in the hands of Emperor Taizu Gao."

"—In order not to disturb the order of father and son, Emperor Gao respected his father as the Supreme Emperor."

"That is, after becoming the Supreme Emperor, the Taizu Gao Emperor was able to go to Liyang Palace every five days in order to be the Supreme Emperor..."

With a calm expression on his face, Liu Rong focused the eyes of all the brothers on him, and Liu Rong turned slightly to look at Liu Sheng, who was in the upper seat.

After bowing his hand for a while, before Liu Sheng got up to return the salute, he turned around and continued to say to everyone: "All my brothers and sisters know about these past events."

"That is to say: as early as Emperor Taizu Gao, our Han family has always had the rule of discussing the monarch and his subjects first, and then discussing the seniors."

"—and this rule was set by the ancestor Gao Emperor himself for the future kings and clan members of our Han family."

"As clan vassals, especially the blood of the father, the rules set by the Taizu Emperor Gao, my brothers, there is absolutely no reason to violate..."

At this point, Liu Rong turned around completely, facing Liu Sheng who was headed up, and bowed deeply.

After Liu Sheng also got up in a regular manner, and bowed his hand to Liu Rong to return the salute, Liu Rong finally straightened up and smiled slightly at his younger brother Liu Sheng in front of him.

"On the old and young, the widow, how old is the crown prince;"

"But when it comes to monarchs and ministers, it's not just the widows—the Kings of Hejian, King Lu, King Jiangdu, King Jiaoxi, King Changsha, King Jiaodong, as well as Lao Qi and Xiao Shi, who have not yet been crowned kings, are all ministers of the prince."

"According to the rules set by Emperor Taizu Gao, His Royal Highness, you can treat us as elder brothers and elders of the clan;"

"But we can only regard ourselves as courtiers, and absolutely dare not treat His Highness the Crown Prince as our juniors."

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"Now, the imperial court is going to cut down the vassal, which is naturally not a good thing for us and other clan princes;"

"However, cutting down the vassals is a major policy related to the ancestral temple and the country, and it is a century-old plan related to the rise, fall, and survival of our Han family!"

"——The court wants to cut down the vassal, and we wait for the clan and princes, and we can only bow our heads and bow our heads to thank His Majesty..."

"And the specific matters of cutting down the vassal were handed over by the father to the crown prince and prince, and to the 'jun' of all of us."

"Whether it's about brotherhood, or the respect of rulers and ministers, all of us have absolutely no reason to stand idly by and not help His Highness handle this matter..."

After making an eloquent statement, Liu Rong bowed to Liu Sheng at last, and then sat back in his seat in a relaxed manner.

And after Liu Rong's extremely sincere statement, the first thing that sounded was Liu Fei's iconic rough voice.

"Eh~"

"Don't even mention it, it's really the reason of the big brother!"

"——This cutting of the feudal clan, even if we brothers say that we will break the sky, and the father should cut it, we still have to cut it."

"I have to suffer this knife anyway, so instead of making it easier for outsiders, it's better to let Xiao Jiu..."

"Uh...cough cough;"

"Prince."

"It's better to let the prince do the knife, and cut off the knife on our brothers, which can't be avoided at all!"

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"As the saying goes: This fat water, it doesn't flow into outsiders' fields!"

"Instead of letting outsiders do the trick and use our brothers as stepping stones, it's better to let the prince borrow our brothers to secure the reserve position."

"After all, blood is thicker than water. The prince's knife should be cut lighter than the outsider's knife..."

As soon as Liu Fei said this, all the brothers could only hold back their laughter.

It seems that I want to laugh, but I dare not laugh out loud;
Want to agree, but dare not nod.

And after Liu Fei's very personal statement, the fourth brother Liu Yu, who was truly recognized by all the brothers except the second Liu De, finally spoke up.

"The policy of cutting down the vassals has a long history. It started planning as early as Emperor Taizong Xiaowen."

"Even the chaos of Wu, Chu and Seven Kingdoms did not shake the determination of the father and the emperor to cut down the vassal. Finally, the government and the public worked together to wipe out Liu Bi, Liu Wu and other thieves in one fell swoop."

"—Yu Zi, as the blood of the father, we should obey the father's words, and we should do our best to support all the decisions of the father;"

"Yu Gong, my Han family cut down the vassals in order to completely stabilize the interior, so that we can raise troops to the north as soon as possible to fight the Xiongnu decisively, without worrying about the worries of clan princes making trouble."

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"Whether it is public or private, if the court wants to cut down the vassal, we should support it;"

"Even if the vassal is cut, we are the clan princes who are cut. As the sons of the father, we should do our best to cooperate."

"What's more, now, the specific matter of reducing the vassal has been handed over to the crown prince by the father, as a test for the crown prince."

"—As King Jiangdu said;"

"Whether it's because of our brotherhood with the prince since we were young, or because of the principle of the superiority of monarchs and ministers..."

At the end, Liu Yu also got up from his seat and bowed to Liu Sheng who was above him.

"This time, my brothers and I absolutely did not stay out of the matter and turn a blind eye to the prince's request for help."

"No matter what the prince intends to do, all my brothers will never complain."

"—On this matter, Your Highness no longer needs to regard all of us as his elder brothers and clan elders;"

"After all, this is a state matter."

"Since it's a state matter, we only need to talk about the monarch and his ministers, not the elders..."

The eldest brother Liu Rong and the fourth brother Liu Yu both spoke, and the fifth brother Liu Fei, an important clan prince, spoke;
In addition, Liu Pengzu, the seventh child, grew up wearing a pair of pants with Liu Sheng.

Speaking of which, brothers, it is obvious that there is no way to continue to sit at the banquet and "watch the development of the situation".

"Exactly that."

"This time, I'll wait, it's all up to His Highness to order!"

Then they saw the brothers stand up separately, bowed to Liu Sheng together, and howled in unison;
But seeing that Liu Sheng didn't get up immediately, he bowed his hands and returned the salute to his elder brothers.

Instead, he nodded thoughtfully, turned his body slightly, and hugged his younger brother Liu Zhi again;
Holding Liu Zhi on his lap and sitting down, he lowered his head with a smile and asked softly, "What does King Jiaodong think?"

"If this is for my brother, in the name of 'cutting the vassal', the clan and princes will no longer be allowed to mint money privately, and even the copper obtained from mining in the mountains must be moved to Chang'an and sold to the Shaofu... ···”

"Jiaodong Wang thinks that doing this is a good thing or a bad thing?"

Seeing Liu Sheng half teasing, and half seriously questioning the four and a half year old Xiaoshi Liu Zhi in his arms, all the brothers also looked at Liu Zhi in Liu Sheng's arms with kind eyes.

But after Liu Sheng's question, little Liu Zhi frowned suddenly.

"Father once said: The biggest thing for my Han family is to fight the Huns!"

"Father also said: In the early years, the reason why my Han family did not have a decisive battle, but repeatedly compromised and made peace with the Huns, was because the clan and princes were about to move!"

"If the army of the imperial court goes north regardless, there will definitely be problems in the Kanto region!"

"So, in order to be able to concentrate on the decisive battle with the Huns, it is necessary to cut down the feudal clan!"

The milky voice, and inexplicably solemn voice, caused the brothers to chuckle;
But after a brief laugh, all the brothers adjusted their faces, looking as serious as possible, and looked at the young brother Liu Zhi who was seriously growing up again.

Even Liu Sheng raised his eyebrows in surprise when he heard the words;

There was even more undisguised encouragement in the eyes looking at Xiao Liu.

"anything else?"

"Besides these, what else did the father say?"

"Aside from what my father said, has Ah Shu figured out anything else?"

Seeing Liu Sheng continue to question, a tangle visible to the naked eye flashed across Little Liu's brows.

Carefully turning around, he glanced at his mother, Mrs. Wang, from a distance;

However, the distance of more than ten steps made it impossible for Xiao Liu to see any valuable information from his mother's blurred face.

In the end, it was Liu Shengman's easy-going and encouraging gentle eyes that made little Liu Zhi make a decision alone for the first time—the first time in his life.

"My father said... um..."

"The widow, the widow remembers so much."

"But the widow thought about it in private, and felt that cutting down the feudal clan should not be done too hard."

"After all, the one who cut down the feudal clan in the end seems to be the widow himself?"

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"—Pfft~hahahahahahaha!!!"

After Xiao Liu Zhi frowned and said these words seriously, the forest where all the brothers gathered fell into an inexplicable silence;

In just a short moment, there was a burst of laughter without warning, which caused the birds in the forest to scatter, and cuckoos and crows sang together...
"Yo!"

"How old is Ah Shi, you already know that you are going to call yourself a widow?"

"When our brothers were so old, we had to be fed by others!"

"—Mrs. Wang, you are a good parent~"

"——In time, the King Jiaodong of our Han family may not become a fierce king with strong bones."

Brothers, you said something, and I said something, it seemed to be joking, and it seemed to be ridiculed, and each praised Liu Sheng's younger brother Liu Zhi in Liu Sheng's arms.

Even Xiao Liu's mother, Mrs. Wang, was praised intentionally or unintentionally by the brothers.

But in the first position, Liu Sheng still couldn't take his eyes off, just leaned over with great interest, and continued to ask: "Then, do you want to be a sage who saves money and spends all his money on beating the Huns?" Where is the king?"

"Or do you want to be a foolish king who is addicted to pleasure and is building a big country?"

By this time, Xiao Liu She obviously couldn't care less about his mother's teachings to him.

The elder brother of the crown prince asked, and little Liu Yi just had time to answer.

"Well······"

"The widow does not want to be a faint king..."

"My widow, I want to fight the Huns!!"

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"but······"

"Ugh······"

"But the widow, once promised in public: to build a house made of gold for Cousin Gillian..."

"My widow, I don't want to be a person who doesn't keep his word... oh, the king who doesn't keep his word..."

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moment.

At the moment when the word 'A-Jiao' was uttered from the mouth of Xiao Liu Zhi, the smiles on the faces of all the brothers froze!
Even Mrs. Wang, whose complexion gradually calmed down, also raised her hand in astonishment after her baby son's 'outrageous' words, and subconsciously covered her mouth.

But to everyone's surprise, Liu Sheng still maintains the most magnanimous attitude towards this rather interesting "declaration" of little Liu Zhi.

Or it should be said: From the beginning to the end, the word 'Liu Sheng' runs through the word 'Liu Sheng', which has always been the word frank...
"This matter~"

"Hi;"

"A-Jiao, the imperial grandmother has betrothed to me~"

"After a while, Huh, you can no longer be called Cousin Gillian."

"--what?"

"—what's that called?"

"Well, call me sister-in-law;"

"Or the princess, it's fine."

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"It's okay~"

"Brother, I will find another marriage for Ah Shu;"

"The golden house, as a brother, I should also take it!"

"In the future, my brother will definitely build a golden house for Ah Shu, so that Ah Shu can house the future queen of Jiaodong."

"OK?"

"--Well······"

"—Yeah, no need..."

"——If the money is not enough, the widow, don't want the golden house;"

"—You don't need to marry a daughter-in-law, but the Huns must be beaten!"

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"—But if the money is enough to fight the Huns, then the golden house..."

"--still······"

"--still·········"

"Pfft~hahahahahaha!"

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"Good~"

"If Ah Shu wants it, I will build a golden house for Ah Shu as my brother;"

"I don't want it, I will use all the money for building the golden house to beat the Huns for my brother."

"So, is it okay?"

"—Hmm... okay..."

"—But the Huns must fight!!!"

"——If you don't fight, you can't do it!!!!!!"

"Pfft~hahahahahahahahahahaha..."

(End of this chapter)