Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 268: All the wise men come together
When the wind and clouds gathered in Chang'an City, Chen Fan quietly traveled around the counties and counties near Chang'an City alone.

He browsed the scenery of the world among the people.

Sometimes, political games are the most boring games. People immerse themselves in political games, and sometimes they lose the real fun of life.

Such as mountain climbing, such as using one's own legs to traverse the entire world.

Leave your own footprints in the world.

This is the best thing. Today, Chen Fan is immersed in this kind of beautiful people and can't extricate himself. He doesn't want to be a traditional Chen family member.

Chen's people are immersed in politics and ignore the things that really should be paid attention to.

The white mist in the distance looks like fairy-like creations floating in the sky. A red fire rises from the clouds in the distance and then hangs in the sky.

The sun is out.

A gust of wind blew past Chen Fan.

Chen Ju was not trapped by death. He sighed softly and waved his hand. Liu Heng walked to his side, leaned down and looked into Chen Ju's eyes: "Your Majesty, I am here."

"This will make people in the Chen family increasingly arrogant."

His eyes reflected the bright lights of the town king's palace. Liu Heng said softly: "Sir, I want the teacher to inherit the position of the town king. I don't know what you want."

Who in the world can have such a complicated life?
But at the last moment of his life, what appeared in front of Chen Ju's eyes was not these, but those who left the Chen family and quietly went to the Qin army to die for Qin.

On the contrary, Liu Heng's ascension to the throne was like a drop of cold water pouring into a hot oil pan, causing the iron pot to boil again. The ministers wanted to gain the favor of the new emperor.

He took out a bottle of wine from the basket on his side, and then took out some of the useless and worn-out clothes and placed them on the ground. He lay on his side on the small soft cushion made by the clothes.

Among those people was his uncle, who even held him comfortably when he was little.

This sentence seems to run through Chen Ju's life.

Pictures of life flashed before his eyes like a revolving lantern. Chen Ju experienced several emperors in his life.

It existed during the reign of Emperor Shihuang, and then passed through the fourth emperor, fifth emperor, Emperor Gao, and the previous emperor Liu Ying, to the current period of Emperor Wen.

"The Chen family is just the Chen family of Guizhou in the world. She is just the Chen family of all the Chinese states. The Chen family does not want to be trapped in a certain position. I hope your majesty will forgive me."

The people of the Chen family did not pay attention to these things that were surging in Chang'an City, because the king of Zhen was really critically ill this time.

Lying on the bed was Chen Ju who could barely open his eyes. Chen Ju looked at the people standing around him.

The high-spirited young man back then was now lying on the bed waiting for death.

Liu Heng's eyes were filled with tears: "Why is this necessary, sir?"

"I hope that your Majesty will look back a hundred years from now with a clear conscience."

They don't expect to become the next Chen family, but after all, there is no problem in becoming a courtier for one dynasty, right?

Chang'an City is still so complicated, even after Liu Heng ascended the throne.

As a result, the intrigues and intrigues in Chang'an City, the gorgeous Chang'an City, and the luxurious Chang'an City were once again filled with calculations and conspiracies.

A pot of turbid wine comforts one's life.

This may be man's greatest sorrow.

Chen Fan gathered his clothes slightly and sat casually on a stone on Huangshan Mountain. He looked at the scenery in the distance.

Chen Ju just shook his head firmly and said with all his strength: "Your Majesty, I hope that your Majesty will put the world first!"

Chen Ju looked at Liu Heng and said softly: "Your Majesty, you must remember your original intention and never forget it."

Sit and watch the clouds rise.

A veteran of the Five Dynasties.

Later, people from all over the world came to the Han court.

Liu Heng held Chen Ju's hands tightly, with firmness and belief in his eyes: "Don't worry, sir, Liu Heng certainly doesn't dare to forget this."

They stood in front of Chen Ju, with the same smile on their cheeks as when they left. They looked at Chen Ju and asked softly: "You are here? Is the world stable now?"

“I will definitely keep Mr.’s teachings in mind.”

There are his close friends, close friends, and cousins ​​who travel together.

The world is most important!

Chen Ju chuckled lightly and shook his head: "Farewell."

After Liu Heng learned about Chen Ju, he almost ran to the Zhen Wang Mansion. He just looked at his guide.

Before Liu Heng came, he had already finished what he needed to explain.

"The wish of the leader of the world is like a torrent that can blow away everything in the world."

From returning to Qin back then, leaving Qin when the fourth emperor was rampant, protecting the heirs left behind by Emperor Fusu, protecting Ziying's lineage, and later helping Liu Bang gain a foothold.

"My lord."

There were tears in his eyes. He did not expect that his guide and the pillar of the strong man would be unable to hold on when he was more than fifty years old.

Chen Ju felt relieved now. He glanced at the people standing in the room and said nothing more to his son.

There was bitterness in his voice: "The throne of the Chen family can be passed down to one generation. After all, this is not a good thing for the world, and it is not a good thing for the Chen family."

Chen Ju seemed to have strength in his body. He slowly stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch the people floating in the air.

"The world is stable"

These five words came out of Chen Ju's mouth. He seemed to have exhausted all his strength, and his hands hung weakly by the bed.

Alas!

The king of Zhen died in the winter of the first year of Houyuan.

Heavy snow fell from the sky one after another, at the moment Chen Ju passed away.

People didn't know that King Zhen was leaving. They just saw the snowflakes falling one after another in the world and thought that this must be a good sign that "the auspicious snow heralds a good harvest".

good sign!
This means there will probably be no disasters next year, at least no drought.

Snowflakes all over the sky blocked Chen Ju's leaving shadow.

And when people gradually came to know that the heavy snowfall that night was a signal for King Zhen to leave, they began to hate the heavy snowfall again.

They felt that the symbol of snowflakes meant Chen Ju's death.

The snowflakes didn't know what they had done wrong, but they just fell on the ground.

Winter, the first year of Hou Yuan Dynasty.

The King of Zhen, the head of the Chen family, the teacher of tens of thousands of students, and the mentor of half of the officials in the court, left on this snowy day.

The Emperor issued an edict: He should be buried with the ceremonial honors of a king and be posthumously named Imperial Master.

This is the honor given to the king by the emperor and the Han Dynasty. In the first year of Houyuan, the death of King Zhen was a huge blow to the Han Dynasty, and people cried bitterly.

This is because Chen Ju, the king of Zhen, helped the Han Dynasty suppress all turmoil at the most critical moment of the Han Dynasty. He was the real pillar, so it is normal for people to feel sad when the pillar leaves.

The passage of time makes people feel the pain of clarity.

He arrived in silent footsteps in the second year of the Yuan Dynasty. In this year, Chen Tuo was already in his weakest years. He wanted to become an official, but he was afraid that his becoming an official would bring huge trouble to the Chen family because he was hesitating.

It was also this year that Xiao He fell ill.

Perhaps it is because the sages always leave together. After Xiao He fell ill, Chen Ping, Cao Shen and others also fell ill.

For a moment, the upper level of the court hall was almost empty.

At this time, even the enemies of these people are praying for them and praying that their bodies can get better as soon as possible.

Perhaps God heard people's prayers, and Cao Shen and Chen Ping got better one after another.

Soldiers come like a mountain falling, and sickness goes away like a thread.

Their bodies are still being nourished.

But Xiao He, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, could not recover after all. He fell ill this spring and fell asleep forever this spring.

In just one month, the Han Dynasty lost two pillars of the country.

When the king of Zhen and his right minister Xiao He were buried, the Supreme Emperor Liu Ying also returned to the court from his wanderings in the world. He died for the king of Zhen as the Supreme Emperor.

Emperor Liu Heng even asked his eldest son "Liu Qi" to "pay filial piety" to the king.

This is something unprecedented. Even when Chen Ye, the ancestor of the Chen family, passed away, he was not able to enjoy this kind of treatment.

After all, it’s not like Chen Ye didn’t have his own children, and Chen Ju also had his own son. How could it be the turn of the emperor’s child, the upright eldest son of the emperor, to pay filial piety to Chen Ju?
But Liu Heng insisted on having his own way.

He said that Chen Bi was his teacher and his other father. However, his great-grandfather passed away. As an emperor, he could not pay filial piety to him, so he asked his heirs to pay filial piety to him. How normal is this? one thing?
For this reason, even if the quarrel in the court almost killed the emperor, and even if several censors even wanted to hit the pillars, Liu Heng did not retreat at all.

At the funeral, Chen Bi had a sad look on his face, and beside him stood Chen Tuo.

Chen Tuo said softly: "The emperor wants to let the eldest son of the emperor have a relationship with the Chen family, right? To pave the way for the eldest son of the emperor?"

At this time, Liu Qi was not the prince yet, so there was some resistance, but not much.

But when parents plan for their children, they plan for the long term. This is the long term.

If he could gain a relationship with the Chen family, or even just pay filial piety for "Chen Ju" in this grand funeral, the benefits Liu Qi could get would be enough to make him the "prince", and he would be a prince without any controversy.

This is Chen's power.

Chen Bi just looked at the man in plain clothes in the distance who came to the palace of King Zhen and said that he wanted to personally send off the emperor Liu Heng to King Zhen.

In fact, Chen Bi knew that Liu Heng would change after becoming the emperor, but this change was still within Chen Bi's expectation. After becoming the emperor, he would naturally be different from when he was the prince.

When you become a prince, you only need to consider yourself and a part of the fiefdom.

After becoming an emperor, you have to consider the affairs of the world, and it is normal to pave the way for the prince. After all, if the future prince cannot convince the public and has no one to support him, it will also be a major headache.

Now it is logical to take this opportunity to get the prince and Chen related.

Therefore, Chen Bi was not sad or in pain. Chen Ju had already explained everything to him before leaving.

On the contrary, Chen Tuo looked at Liu Qi with a slightly dissatisfied expression. He respected Chen Ju very much. In this case, it would naturally make him dissatisfied if someone used Chen Ju's people to make profits for themselves.

However, Chen Tuo didn't say much, he just sighed quietly.

If he wanted to enter the political arena of the Han Dynasty, he also lacked a stepping stone, and now this stepping stone has been handed to him by himself?

Chen Bi looked at the look on Chen Tuo's face with a faint look in his eyes.

In fact, this was also expected by Chen Ju, but he felt that Chen Tuo still needed more training, and he would definitely suffer a certain degree of blow when entering the court like this.

After all, politics is never an aboveboard and clean matter.

Spring, the second year of the Yuan Dynasty.

In the spring breeze, the funerals of Xiao He and Chen Ju, the king of the town, passed. After these two pillars of the country left one after another, the political arena of the Han Dynasty ushered in a certain degree of turmoil.

But it disappeared in an instant.

The emperor issued an edict to worship Zhang Wu as Lang Zhongling, Song Chang as General Wei, Chen Bi as Prime Minister of the Right, Zhou Bo as Prime Minister of the Left, Cao Shen as Chief of the Prime Minister's Office, concurrently as Yushi Dafu, and Chen Ping as Tai Nong. The order and censor Cheng.

At the same time, General Han Xin was still the general.

General and Taiwei Chen De are still Taiwei.

It was just that under these two people, several of their own people were appointed again to limit the power of Chen De and Han Xin. Both Han Xin and Chen De accepted this well.

After all, for them, as they grow older, their love for power gradually diminishes - at the same time, their energy gradually diminishes, and it is a waste for them to let them deal with these complicated government affairs. torture.

Neither of them felt that their power in China had been taken away from them. Instead, they wished they could give each other high fives. Soon others knew about it, and the others in the court were also dumbfounded.

But they also felt that what they did was quite right.

This is how it should be.

Similarly, other high-ranking people have more or less allocated some of the power in their hands.

When the emperor saw this situation, he was naturally happy.

For him, it is very difficult for the former emperor and courtiers to gain his trust. Of course, he wants his people to control the power of the court.

The generosity of the veterans naturally made him feel happy, so he came up with another way.

He wants to seal it.

In order to obtain the title, Liu Heng painstakingly created another title "Doctor".

This title is derived from the "Qing Da Fu" in the pre-Qin period.

In the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, a general amnesty was granted to the whole country.

The emperor's edict.

Chen Bi was granted the title of "Doctor of Purple Gold Salary" and ranked first among civil servants.

Below them are Cao Shen and Chen Ping, doctors with purple salary, and then Zhang Wu and Song Chang, doctors with green and purple salary.

Han Xin was named "Mighty General" and Chen De was named "General Wu'an".

These are "virtual positions" that have no effect at all, but they can bring honor.

This is something that the emperor can part with.

Chen Mansion
Chen Tuo was sitting in the backyard, with a somewhat sad look on his eyebrows.

"It's time for me to enter."

(End of this chapter)