I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 280 Dude, Do You Do Internal History, Dude

Looking at Xiao Sheng's desperate back when he left, even though he was deeply dissatisfied with Xiao Sheng's actions as a "young man", Uncle Tian still inevitably felt a little melancholy and an inexplicable feeling in his heart.

——In the Han family, the surname 'Xiao' has a very special meaning and almost unique special treatment.

Just like what Tian Ziqi said just now, pretending to be casual: since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it has only been fifty years, and the throne of the Han family has stumbled, and it has only been passed on to the sixth generation, Tian Ziqi;
If the two young emperors who were not recognized as 'been emperors' were excluded, the current emperor Qi was actually only the fourth emperor of the Han family.

The first three were the founder of the country: Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang, the first prince of the Han family: Emperor Xiaohui Liu Ying, and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen Liu Heng.

In just 50 years, the throne has alternated four times. In most feudal dynasties, I am afraid it will be called an "eventful autumn" or "a period of turbulent years".

Especially in this, there are also two young emperors who have been in power for four years, a total of eight years of "chaos".

But it was precisely during the 50 years that the throne of the Han family was passed on to Yan IV, and then to the grandsons of Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang, the Binghou Kingdom left by the founding prime minister Xiao He, has already had eight masters successively.

The first Marquis of Feng is naturally the first ancestor: Xiao He, Marquis of Feng Wen;

The second Marquis Bing was Xiao He's son: Bing Aihou Xiao Lu.

"I wanted to visit Prime Minister Lu after the hunt was over and I returned to Chang'an from Shanglin;"

"—As the saying goes, the prosperity of the world is all for profit, and the world is full of hustle and bustle, all for profit..."

In order to stabilize her own position, and at the same time to appease the meritorious princes, Empress Dowager Lu made a decision almost without thinking: Marquis Bing must stay!

"—I just don't think it's necessary..."

"——The words of the father are a bit unreasonable;"

——Second Marquis of Bing, Xiao Lu, has no descendants;

Later, the Empress Dowager Lu passed away, and the late emperor took over the country as his successor, only to find that Marquis Feng, who once ruled the court of Chang'an, turned into a woman?
How can this work?

"Emperor Taizu Gao once said: Liu Han was established, Xiangguo Xiao He should be the first to discuss the merits!"

It's a pity that the fourth Marquis of Feng, Xiao Yan, bears a good name that will be famous far and wide in later generations, but he has not become a man worthy of his name.

"—a price equal to the weight."

"—I know the matter about the Shaofu."

——I am in a small body, and I am here in Yuanyuan, and it is precisely because my elder brother, Emperor Xiaohui, dies, that I have no choice but to inherit the throne according to the rule of "brother ends up with brother".

"—I can't say I'm afraid."

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"What about the price?"

In the third year (186 BC) when Emperor Xiaohui died and Empress Dowager Lu was in power, Xiao Lu, the Marquis of Bing Ai, died.

"——Busy and bustling, it's all about profit coming and going. It's not surprising that something like this happened, right?"

According to the regulations of the Han family on the title of Marquis of Che, such a situation is called 'extinct heir'.

"—Well, we're almost done talking."

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"There is also internal history."

"Lu Xiang, don't be surprised..."

Regarding Tianzi Qi's casualness, Uncle Tian had some doubts, but he didn't say much;
But what Uncle Tian had expected was that in front of his father and himself as an 'outsider', Prince Liu Sheng also had an extremely casual attitude.

"——Well... after counting, six four bahts weigh one tael, and 96 four bahts weigh one catty..."

"--Well;"

In short: In the past few decades, whenever the empress dowager Lu and the first emperor were a little hard-hearted, the Marquis of Feng's lineage had long been expelled from the country due to reasons such as extinction of heirs and convictions.

But in such a blink of an eye, the attention of the father and son was...
"This time, father has to think carefully, who should be the young minister?"

Afterwards, he laid the pieces on the chessboard unhurriedly, and then managed to 'take the time' to turn sideways and grinned at Uncle Tian.

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"I heard that on weekdays, brother Lu Wang didn't dare to go hunting at all due to the prestige of Prime Minister Lu."

——Feng Aihou Xiao Lu has no heir, can't he choose one of Xiao Xiangguo's son and Aihou's younger brother to inherit the title of Fenghou?

As for the basis for doing so, it is also sufficient to make it impossible to refute it.

"Zhou Yafu resigned and went back to adopt, and the position of prime minister left behind was replaced by Tao Qing, the censor doctor;"

In this way, the title of Marquis of Feng, which was supposed to be expelled from the country because of the extinction of Xiao Lu's heir, and was forced to be placed on the head of Madam Hou because of the coquettish manipulation of the Empress Dowager Lu, fell to Xiao He's youngest son: Xiao Yan. on the head.

While Uncle Tian was thinking, the father and son on both sides of the chessboard finally turned their attention away from the chessboard in front of them.

"What does Your Highness mean?"

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"Young Mansion, I plan to let Marquis Tao do it."

Full of fights and calculations, from the founding of Emperor Taizu Gao, who appointed Xiangguo Xiao He as Marquis of Bing, to the current eighth generation Xiao Sheng;

"After all, it's not necessary for Taohou to be a servant."

When Uncle Tian raised his head in deep thought, he saw Tianzi Qi smiled, although he was still looking down at the chess game in front of him, but he didn't see it, and there was already a hint of banter.

↑ (the first year of Xiaowen, 179 BC)
As Xiao He's wife, Xiao Lu and Xiao Yan's mother, the third generation Fenghou Tong didn't have any opinion on this either.

"Until Gu promised Brother Wang to 'talk to Lu Xiang personally', Brother Wang finally reluctantly agreed."

"Well, sit wherever you want;"

——Four generations, passed down eight times successively, the Marquis of Feng had two times of extinct heirs, and one time he was convicted of a crime and seized the title.

Even up to now, in the archives of Shiqu Pavilion of Weiyang Palace, in the biography of Fenghou's lineage, Fenghou Tong is still placed in the position of "the third generation of Fenghou".

Of the tens of thousands of households in Fenghou State, there are only [-] households left in Wuyang County.

"Lu Xiang is here~"

Before, there was a precedent for him to operate the Marquis of Bing, and the first emperor gave the order: once again follow the inheritance rules of brothers and brothers, Xiao Ze, the younger brother of Yanghou Xiao Yi, will inherit the title and become the sixth Marquis of Bing;
Later, Xiao Ze lost his title due to a crime, and the late emperor ordered Xiao Ze's younger brother, Xiao Jia, to inherit the title and become the seventh Marquis on the basis of the saying, "If you can't replace your father with a son, you should be your brother."

"Hey······"

"—um~"

"—The matter of the Shaofu, let's stop here."

"—To make up the whole thing, let's give 190 yuan for a piece of copper brick weighing two catties."

"how?"

"—Anyway, it's not the Shaofu's fault."

When a certain Marquis of Che died and was judged to be an 'extinct heir' by the court at the same time, in theory, the only feasible way to deal with this Marquis' feudal kingdom was to expel the kingdom.

"Your Highness, are you quite calm?"

"--Ok······"

"—The Shaofu will send people to Ao Cang to retrieve it, transport it to Guanzhong, and cast new four baht."

"Haolai is also the crown prince and heir. Although he is not more noble than his father, he should have some dignity;"

"There is something that I forgot to tell Lu Xiang."

"In front of an old man and minister like Tian Ziqing, how dare His Highness pour this dirty water on my head without changing his face?"

"—As the saying goes: the debt of death is eliminated..."

Ai Hou Xiao Lu has no son, so let Xiao Lu's mother and Xiao He's wife temporarily inherit the title of Marquis of Feng first!
Therefore, Xiao He's wife, Tong, has since become the third woman of the Han family to be the Marquis of Che, after Lu's mother, Hou Zhen, and Ming's Tinghou, Xu negative.

"Zhang Ou has been Ting Wei these years, there are too many death row prisoners who have waited for amnesty in Ting Wei's prison;"

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that in the past year or so, my temper has changed..."

Another year later, Bing Dinghou Xiaoyan's son, the fifth Binghou Xiaoyi, also died of illness just one year after becoming Binghou, and his posthumous title was Yang.

As he said that, Liu Sheng did not forget to slightly raise his hand holding the chess piece, towards the door of the palace where Xiao Sheng left, and sweep slightly at the center of the palace where Xiao Sheng was kneeling before.

"—His Royal Highness is worried."

But the next conversation between the father and son made Uncle Tian still unable to remember until he walked out of the palace: what is the reason for entering the palace today...
"There have been a lot of troubles about the money?"

"how?"

"It's just that I haven't had time to go back to Chang'an yet, but in Shanglinyuan, something like this happened again..."

"Father, the royal father shouldn't be too harsh on such loyal descendants..."

At this time, the same question was placed in front of the late emperor.

But only slightly removed;
Obviously: for this game of chess, Tianzi Qi has been looking forward to it for many years...

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"What about the money?"

Like an old friend reminiscing about the old days, he was asking and answering with Liu Sheng. When Liu Sheng talked about the last incident, Tian Ziqi's relaxed, joyful, and even slightly joking face finally showed some seriousness.

——The fifth generation, Marquis Yang Xiaoyi, has no descendants...
It's just that this time, the first emperor didn't make such a coquettish operation like 'the son died, the title is passed on to the mother' like the Empress Dowager Lu.

"Reunited after a long absence, I couldn't suppress the love for a while, so I made an agreement: All my brothers will go hunting in Shanglin for a few days."

At that time, it was the delicate period when the Empress Dowager Lv came to the court to proclaim the system, and in the name of the Empress Dowager, she acted as the Son of Heaven.

"Tao Qing's royal censor is in charge of the internal historian Chao Cuo, but the internal historian left by Chao Cuo has not been appointed by the emperor so far."

Later, the seventh "Marquis of Feng", or it should be said that Xiao Jia, the Marquis of Wuyang, died, and his son Xiao Sheng succeeded him, and became the current Shaofu Marquis of Wuyang, Xiao Sheng, or the "Eighth Marquis of Wuyang". Xiao Sheng.

"Your Highness, do you want to give me an explanation?"

"What price did His Highness promise for the copper bricks of the clan princes?"

The Fenghou family, which was once hailed as "the first marquis of the Han Dynasty" by Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the great ancestor, also ushered in a major test that may cause the severance of blood and the subversion of the ancestral hall for the first time.

Relaxed and freehand, as if he didn't care about being the emperor of Jiuqing and Yuanxun——Xiao Sheng's calm tone of dying soon made Uncle Tian slightly surprised.

——Just one year after inheriting the title of Marquis of Feng, Xiao Yan, the fourth Marquis of Feng, died of illness, and his posthumous title was: Ding;

"How are you talking with King Linjiang, King Hejian and other kings?"

"—From now on, all copper mines unearthed in the territory of the clan and princes of the Guandong will be smelted into copper bricks weighing two catties and sent to Ao Cang."

In 50 years, the eighth generation passed on, and the emperor of the Han family brought the Fenghou family, which was about to lose their kingdom, back to the title of Fenghou three times to stabilize it.

"I can't think of a way every time I want to do something, how to prevent the Shaofu guard from stealing and poaching the corners of our house?"

"For several years, Zhang Ou used seals to kill death row prisoners, but there were no more than five fingers..."

Only this time, because Xiao lost his title because of his crime, not 'extinct heir';
Therefore, in order to maintain the majesty of the law and let the people of the world know that "Fenghou was really deprived of his title because of a crime", the title of Fenghou was changed to Wuyanghou by the former emperor;

——Since ancient times, I have only heard of the two ways of succession from father to son, brother to brother, and these two inheritance methods. I have never heard of the rules of husband's wife's succession and son's mother's succession;

Therefore, shortly after succeeding to the throne, the late emperor, based on his own experience, replaced the lineage of Binghou's lineage from the extinct eldest son of Xiao He: the lineage of Xiao Lu, with the lineage of Xiao He's youngest son: lineage of Xiao Yan.

"Hey;"

What made Uncle Tian even more unexpected was that the topic between the father and son was really "jumping"...
Just a moment ago, the father and son were still talking about the future, and they would do things in the world with four baht money;

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"What's next, Your Highness, what are your plans?"

——Isn't this the most appropriate way?
——My elder brother died of heirs, so my side branched into the successor clan, inheriting the ancestral temple and the community left by Emperor Taizu Gao; can't this be the case for the title of Marquis Feng?

Listening to the father and son playing chess, you and I said something, in a tone of joking and chatting, and settled such a big deal, Uncle Tian's expression only became more and more suspicious.

But back then, Empress Dowager Lu made a move.

"I always worry about this kind of thing, if I tell it, I'm afraid it will make people laugh..."

"—A few days ago, the brothers all came back from the feudal kingdom in the Kanto region, and went to the Tai Palace to have a banquet;"

It was so quiet that a needle could be heard falling, but instead of the clear and crisp sound of falling needles, Liu Sheng finally heard a soft whisper of emotion.

The chess piece that was always sandwiched between the index finger and middle finger of his right hand and could not wait to drop was finally thrown back into the chess basket by Tianzi Qi reluctantly.

"—um~"

And today...

"There is also Ting Wei, I plan to change someone else to do it."

"—For copper bricks weighing two catties, I will give four baht for two catties."

In other words: the second Marquis of Feng, Xiao Luxie, did not leave behind a son with the right to inherit, so according to the rules, the Marquis of Feng should be deposed directly.

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"—copper bricks are pure copper, but copper coins have to be mixed with lead;"

"If there is an internal history, and if there is an internal history to stare at Chang'an, those rats will always restrain themselves even if they have such evil intentions?"

Frowning and lowering his head, after thinking for a long time, Tian Zi Qi finally raised his head with a gloomy expression.

"Wait until I finish playing this game of chess."

Seeing Tian Ziqi finally put on this serious expression of worrying about state affairs, and even began to think about the upcoming large-scale personnel changes in the Chang'an court, especially at the Jiuqing level, Liu Sheng finally grinned slightly .

"Marquis Feng Wenzhong is a hero of our Han family."

"Your Highness is afraid?"

With a smile on his face, after Uncle Tian bowed his hand with a worried face, Liu Sheng turned around again and rejoined the chess game in front of him.

After the emperor opened his mouth, he finally said that sentence: For the post of internal history, does your highness have any recommendations for candidates?At that moment, Liu Sheng's eyes finally moved away from the chessboard in front of him;

Turning his head slightly, his playful eyes fell on Uncle Tian who was "observing secretly" in the hall...
"I was so busy playing chess that I forgot that Prime Minister Lu was there too;"

"Why did Prime Minister Lu enter the palace today?"

"Could it be that Gu Du has already received the wind before the nomination, Prime Minister Lu?"

(End of this chapter)