The most powerful emperor Liu Bang

Chapter 1 Mole Cricket Help
At the end of the Warring States Period, Qin State far in the northwest had already occupied Chu State, and was further dreaming of annexing the world.For this reason, Qin Zhao Wang Ying made himself sleepless and mysterious all day long.

It was midnight that day, and not long after the maid served him to lie down, he dreamed that a group of maids in Lingxiao Temple were busy going in and out of a room.The house was three stories high, with flying eaves and pillars, majestic and majestic, surrounded by clouds and mist, a bit like my own palace, but it didn't look like it when I looked closely.You can also hear noises inside.He was about to ask the eunuch Moran where it was so lively, when he heard the sound of a baby falling to the ground with a "wow".Then a group of men and women knelt in front of him and congratulated him: "Congratulations to the king for having a dragon son!"

He laughed out loud, stretched out his hands to catch the baby, and said happily, "Come and show me the little prince."

Drowsy, he walked out of the palace on the imperial chariot again, shouting and embracing, and the people along the way rushed to watch and looked up.I only heard some people say: "The king is so majestic!" He was complacent.

Soon, he came to a mountain.Looking up, there are auspicious clouds floating around, and colorful dragons are walking through the clouds.Seeing that the followers around him were not around, he got out of the car alone and wanted to make a long cry, but just shouted "Ah—", in the blink of an eye, a huge thunder exploded in his ears, and a huge dragon swam towards him, and it was too late for him to hide, The dragon's tail swung violently, and with a "slap", it hit the face hard.He sat up abruptly and shouted, "Come here."

Hearing the shouting, a group of maids and guards rushed in and asked in unison, "My lord, what's the matter?"

King Zhao broke out in a cold sweat, calmed down, looked at them, realized that he was dreaming just now, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you all go down."

In the early morning of the next day, King Zhao told Wei Ran, Bai Qi, Fan Ju, Sima Cuo and other ministers about the dream he had last night. Everyone felt that it was not a good dream, but no one dared to tell the truth. People think that "dreaming of giving birth to a boy is auspicious" and other stereotypes to prevaricate the king.King Zhao was dubious, so he ordered Fan Ju and others to observe the celestial phenomena and make fortune tellers.

Fan Ju led the Yiguan who was in charge of astrology and divination to tinker for a few days, and he found out that there was a heavenly spirit in the southeast, the auspicious clouds evaporated, the stars gathered, and a new master was born, and he would compete with Qin for the world in the future.And he got the king's dream, the flying dragon is in the sky, and the master and master are fierce.This result surprised them a lot, and immediately reported it to the king.

King Zhao has been in a daze since he had a dream that day, feeling that something big is about to happen.Hearing this news, he fainted immediately.Everyone frantically helped him up and slammed his back, only to wake up after a while.With one eye closed and one half-opened, he pointed forward with one hand, and shouted viciously: "Quick, quick, send me an army to kill all the newborn babies in the southeast!" !” After speaking, he coughed fiercely and spit out a mouthful of blood.

On the night when King Qin had a dream, in a thatched hut in Zhongyangli Village, Fengyi, Peixian County, several women were busy delivering the birth of Liu Tian's fourth son.Liu Tian's woman has given birth to several children.It is generally difficult for women to give birth to their first child, but it is easier to have another child. Therefore, they do not hire midwives, but the grandmothers, aunts and aunts of experienced children to take care of them.

As soon as the child arrived, the sound of a baby crying came from the hut.Liu Tian, ​​who was sitting in the west room waiting, heard that another boy was born, and let out a "hmm".I don't know whether it's joy or worry, maybe the first thing he thought of was that there was another person to eat.

Early in the morning, Liu Tian got up.He looked up and saw a colorful and handsome long-tailed pheasant standing on the roof of the hall looking around, seeing someone walking around, fluttering its wings and flying away.Liu Tian wanted to go to the main room to see the women and children, but because of the presence of his sister-in-law and brother-in-law, he didn't go in.He went to the well in front of the village to wash his face, filled the tank with water, told the people who came out of the main room, and went to work in the field.

The child born in the Liu family was the fourth eldest, and Liu Tian named him Liu Ji in the order of his brothers, uncles, and uncles (he changed his name to Liu Bang when he grew up).About the day when Little Liu Bang's navel was just dry, news came from Northwest Township that the King of Qin sent an army to the southeast to kill babies.When Liu Tian first heard the news, he was shocked, feeling that it was aimed at their little four.His wife, Kong Hanshi, turned pale with fright.Because when she was pregnant with this child, Kong once dreamed that she was possessed by a dragon.They were working in the field at that time, it was almost noon, Kong felt a little tired, fell asleep on the ground.Suddenly there was a thunderbolt from the clear sky, and a huge thunder exploded not far away. Liu Tian hurriedly looked at Kong, and clearly saw a giant python wrapped around Kong's body. With goosebumps, he yelled "His mother" bluntly, ran over, and when he looked closely, there was nothing.He woke Kong up and told about the situation. Kong said that she also saw a dragon attached to her in her dream just now.After that, Kong became pregnant.

Although they are uneducated, they have also heard some sayings that all the masters are descended from the emperor.Now hearing that the King of Qin culled the baby, they immediately thought of the strange omens when they were pregnant with the child, and a beautiful pheasant flying from the roof of the house when he was born.Intuition told them that maybe their child would be promising in the future.

The rumors in the countryside that the officers and soldiers were killing children became more and more serious, and the Lius and his wife were extremely anxious.But because Kong had just given birth, her back always hurt when she walked around, and their family didn't have a bullock cart, so it was difficult to escape from their hometown for a while.What's more worrying is, where can they hide? Even if they run, can their two legs be faster than the chariots and horses of the officers and soldiers?

When the couple were at their wit's end, King Qin's army had arrived at the border of Shanfu in the north of Fengyi.Little Liu Bang seemed to feel the crisis, and kept crying loudly, as if to say: "Take me away!" "Take me away!"

Liu Tian was disturbed, and at this time he fell into his "cow power" again, and said to an old novel: "I don't believe that the officers and soldiers are so inhumane, they will kill children when they see them!" There will be rescuers everywhere, if there is no such life, it will be useless to go anywhere, we will not go anywhere, just stay at home." Kong was so angry that his chest hurt.

It was too late and then soon, the officers and soldiers had rushed to Zhongyangli.They found Zhou Zheng, the chief of the village, and asked who had a newborn boy, and threatened, "If you tell half a lie, your whole family will be killed!"

After this incident, Zhou Zheng was so frightened that he was scared to death, and replied tremblingly: "The villain dare not tell a little bit of lies, and I can't tell. I only heard that several families may have given birth to children. I don't know if it is a child." Male or female."

The officer grabbed his clothes and said sternly, "You lead the way, and we will search one by one!"

Dozens of officers and soldiers came to Zhongyangli at once. The leader arranged some people to stay at the intersection of the village and not let anyone move around.The boys were taken away, five or six in a short time.

Little Liu Bang was crying louder and louder.Kong picked up the baby and was about to nurse it, when he suddenly heard the sound of yelling outside, so he quickly picked up the baby and hid in the toilet on the west side of the main room.Liu Tian was stacking firewood at the door, when the officers and soldiers rushed up and asked, "Where is the child at home, take it out and have a look!"

Liu Tian asked, "What are you going to do?"

"What are you doing? Your Majesty said that some of your newly born children will disrupt the country in the future, and you have to take them away now!" an officer said.

"I don't have any children here." Liu Tianzhi said.

When little Liu Bang came outside the room at first, he felt a little bright. He blinked his eyes and then remained silent, as if he was very cooperative.Mother heard the sound of officers and soldiers entering the door, climbed over the wall with a piece of rubbish and went outside the courtyard.

The officers and soldiers rushed to search every room, looked around the kitchen, toilet, and haystacks, and found that there were diapers for children in the main room, but no women or children were seen.When he came back, he asked Liu Tian for someone again.

Liu Tian was still sweating just now, and was about to fight the officers and soldiers. Seeing that they couldn't find anyone, he replied casually, "I went out to visit."

When the officers and soldiers heard the words, the leader shouted: "It must have run away, hurry up and chase!" They swarmed away.

There is a road behind Liu's house.Kong looked around, and there were guards everywhere.She didn't care about that much anymore, and ran straight to the east.The officers and soldiers behind saw it and shouted: "Someone is running away, stop it!"

Look at the officers and soldiers shouting and about to surround them. At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew up, and the sky was darkened for a moment, flying sand and rocks, and no one could be seen on the opposite side.Relying on his familiarity with the road, Kong rushed to the outside of the village, muttering in his heart: "God, scrape bigger, scrape bigger, save my child's life."

When the wind calmed down, Kong had disappeared into the woods in Zhuangdong.A few officers and soldiers had clearly seen someone rushing away with a child in their arms, but at this moment nothing was there.Someone muttered: "Did she fly?"

Kong was afraid of the officers and soldiers chasing him, so he didn't dare to take the main road, so he kept running and walking in one direction.Usually, she always suffers from back pain and leg pain, and she doesn't know where the energy comes from.It was almost noon, and I couldn't walk anymore, so I wanted to stop and have a rest.She didn't know where she had gone, but she asked a passerby that there was a village called Kongzhuang nearby, and not far ahead, there was a big market town called Gaohuangji.

When Mrs. Kong heard the name Kongzhuang, she felt very kind, and thought that maybe this village could save her mother's life.She was in a hurry when she came out, and she didn't bring anything, but now she was thirsty and hungry, so she had to go to the village to ask for some water and food.

The couple went to a family, and the farmer heard that they were being chased by the officers and soldiers, so they were very worried about them, so they hurriedly took out tea and rice for them to eat.After feeding the baby, Kong hurriedly set out on the road again.

The leader of the army heard that the woman holding the child was gone in the strong wind, and said: "The wind is strange. This child may be the one we are looking for. Hurry up and find him. Go back and ask the king for credit."

The officers and soldiers were all excited when they heard this, and they were about to catch up immediately.The leader felt that this village was very important, so besides personally leading dozens of people to chase after Kong, he also left a dozen people waiting in Zhongyangli to ensure that no boy would slip through the net.

Kong went out of Kongzhuang and walked towards Gaohuangji. After walking for a few li, he suddenly heard the sound of galloping soldiers and horses behind him.She looked back, "My mother", and cried out in despair. Not far away, dust was flying, and a group of people was rushing towards them.She was so frightened that her face turned sallow, and she burst into tears: "My son, mother can't save you now, why is your life so miserable!"

It was late autumn at that time, and the crops in the field had been cleaned up, and we could see far away at a glance.In desperation, Kong saw an old farmer driving a cow to plow the field. She subconsciously ran to the farmer, hoping that he could save the child.

The officers and soldiers had seen Kong running, and some officers and soldiers who had seen her in Zhongyangli shouted: "This woman ran out of that village. She can't run away. Hurry up and catch her!"

As soon as the officers and soldiers opened up their positions, some ran to the front of Kong, some blocked behind, and some lined up on the left and right sides. The dust raised by the horses temporarily blurred the sight of all the people present, and only the officers and soldiers were heard. Shout: "Surround her, don't let her run away."

Feeling hopeless, Kong felt that he was in a hurry and put little Liu Bang into the furrow under his feet.She didn't know that she had already run ahead of the old farmer, who was still driving his cattle to continue plowing the field. He didn't notice a child in the furrow, and the plowed soil just buried the child under it.

The officers and soldiers gradually narrowed the encirclement, and the dust stirred up by the horses had dispersed.The old farmer's ox walked to the place where the child was buried just now, and without saying anything, the ox stopped right on top of the child.Only then did my hometown see clearly that there were so many officers and soldiers chasing a woman, and stood there in a daze.

The officer asked Kong: "Where is the child in your arms?"

Kong was no longer afraid, and replied, "What child? I didn't hold the child."

Then he asked the old farmer, "Where did you hide that child?"

The old farmer looked puzzled: "I've been working, but I haven't seen any children coming over."

The officer yelled: "I clearly saw her carrying a baby, if you don't hide it, could it be that he can fly?"

The old farmer replied: "It's a joke, the child is nothing else, where do you think it can be hidden?"

The leader of the army said viciously: "It's strange, will they be buried with soil? You use guns to shove this land densely for me, without leaving any gaps!"

Dozens of soldiers raised their iron guns and scrambled vigorously on the land, leaving almost no room for a needle.Every time Kong saw them pierce the gun, he felt a "thump" in his heart, as if it was piercing his own heart.She didn't dare to look down at the cow, for fear of attracting the attention of the officers and soldiers.

It took a long time for this group of jackal-like officers and soldiers to plow through dozens of acres of land, except for a small area under the cow's front hooves. They felt that if the cow stood on it, even if someone was underneath, it would be trampled by the cow. If you die, you don't go to tie it.Unexpectedly, little Liu Bang was right there, and the cow seemed to understand human nature, and the hoof was only placed on it, making a shallow mark.

The officers and soldiers left after tossing like this for a while.They thought that Lao Nong and Kong might be husband and wife, but they might have misread it just now.

Seeing the officers and soldiers walking away, the cow had already moved its hooves away.Kong hurriedly looked at the place where the cow stepped, and saw a hole drilled by a mole cricket on the cow's footprint.She carefully pushed the soil away, and saw that little Liu Bang had fallen asleep, but only mole crickets were lying on his face.Kong's heart ached so much that she hated the little bug for bullying her child, so she picked it up and tore the mole cricket into two pieces.

The old farmer plowing the fields watched as she did all this.At this time, he said: "Why do you treat your child's savior like this, but this mole cricket saved him."

"Why did it save my child?" Kong asked, holding out little Liu Bang.

The old farmer explained to her, "Didn't you see that the child was buried in the soil, and my cow used its hooves to protect that spot, and the mole cricket made a hole where the hoof prints were, and the child's nose happened to be on the ground. Down below, so that the child is not suffocated to death. Isn't my cow and this mole cricket both your child's lifesaver?"

When Kong heard the truth, he regretted tearing the mole cricket into two pieces.She looked at the worm's body and didn't know what to do, so she took a straw stick and stuck it in the middle of the mole cricket's body to connect it.I didn't want to put it on the ground, it moved and crawled away.All the mole crickets we see now, when we tear apart its body, we can see a stick in the middle.From this, it can be inferred that the mole cricket that Liu Bang's mother tore off may be the ancestor of the mole cricket.

The old farmer said enviously: "This child is really lucky. This is God blessing him. You have to raise this child well, maybe what you can do in the future."

"Who knows, this child has encountered so many things since he was born." Kong looked at the old farmer and his cow affectionately, bowed deeply, and said, "I really don't know how to thank you."

After little Liu Bang escaped this catastrophe, he was taken to Pei County by his mother, grew up in Pei County, and was later named "Pei Gong".

(End of this chapter)