Plan to cut off the nine states

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After drinking a lot of wine, the building foundation miraculously did not fall down. I was 70% drunk and 30% sober, and everything I saw felt beautiful.

Zhang Shiyu lay on the table and muttered from time to time. Several of his sisters and cousins ​​were either lying on the table like him, or sitting there giggling. They were all out of sight. Only Princess Huanyan could still communicate with the floor. To drink.

"To be honest, you must think us clan daughters are unreasonable, right?"

"Well..." Lou Chu was thinking clearly about how to answer this question. Princess Huanyan laughed, "You have already answered. This is not surprising. I have heard many rumors outside, which describe us in an extremely bad light. In their eyes, we are the worst women in the world.”

"I think you are all... special." Lou Chu couldn't find more suitable words.

Huanyan couldn't stop laughing. She finally held it back and raised her glass to toast. Before she could open her mouth, she started laughing again.

Lou Chu didn't understand why. Gradually, he started to laugh as he was still drunk. There was no reason or purpose. He just had to laugh out loud to feel comfortable.

One of Zhang Shiyu's sisters was giggling. She was temporarily sobered by the laughter of the other two, and asked blankly: "What are you laughing at?"

"I laugh at the ridiculous things in the world." Huanyan raised his glass and drank it all.

"I laugh at the fact that everyone in the world has nothing to laugh at." Lou Chu also drank it all in one gulp, not knowing what he was talking about.

Zhang Shiyu's sister refused to lag behind, grabbed the wine bottle and took a big sip, then lay down straight before she could speak.

"The person you want to marry may be her, her, and her." Huanyan pointed at three people, one of whom was sitting on a chair in the corner sobbing, as if he had just been wronged.

Lou Chu leaned over and whispered: "You know what? I don't want to marry anyone."

Huanyan raised her head, "Why, you are like them, thinking we are all bad women?"

Lou Chu shook his head, "Because... because... I know this is a trap. Whoever marries me will be unlucky together. Even if it's just an engagement, they will be implicated."

"I'm not afraid... We're not afraid of being implicated. It's our reputation to act recklessly."

Lou Chu still shook his head, but his sobriety regained the upper hand and he did not dare to say more. He asked, "Why is Your Majesty so tolerant of you?"

"Your Majesty said, what kind of emperor is the emperor if he cannot command the world but is controlled by others? When he was a child, the old bachelors who lectured on scriptures always said this should be done and that should not be done. When he got a little older, your majesty secretly swore in his heart that when he ascended the throne, he would never Don’t accept the constraints of etiquette, on the contrary, you must set the rules for etiquette.”

Lou Chu believed that this was something the emperor could do, "I see."

"His Majesty also said that ethics is actually a good thing. The emperor should use it to govern his subordinates instead of tying himself up. Only the closest people in the clan are qualified to violate ethics."

"Your Majesty likes young people."

"Well, because His Majesty suffered a lot when he was young." Huanyan tilted her head slightly, "You know? When it comes to His Majesty, you are no different from a secular person. You are all trying to figure out His Majesty's thoughts."

"Isn't this exactly what His Majesty expected?"

"It's not what I expected." Huanyan picked up the wine glass, brought it to her mouth and put it down again, saying quietly: "We are people who were manipulated under the protection of the emperor. We have freedom that others can't dream of, but we don't know how to use it. What they do is just singing, drinking and having fun every night. But I believe that there are truly willful people in this world, and the power of thousands of people is not enough to defeat their ambitions, and the hardships in the world are not enough to change their hearts."

"Maybe there is." Lou Chu was also looking forward to it leisurely.

The two faced each other in silence, staring in different directions. The floor raised a glass, Huanyan also raised a glass, without saying a word, they drank at the same time. At the same time, they found that there was no wine in the glass, smiled slightly at the same time, put down the glass at the same time, and then continued to be in a daze.

There was a banging sound outside, Huanyan tried three pots in succession, poured out two more glasses of wine, and said with a smile: "I haven't thanked Mr. Lou yet."

"Thank me for what?"

"You gave me the opportunity to remonstrate, which angered the eldest princess. She felt that you were two-faced."

Lou Chu laughed twice, raised his glass and said, "Have you tried to rebuke me? What was the effect?"

Huanyan drank up the wine in the glass, "Your Majesty laughed at me and said that I wanted to be a man so much that I must have been born in the wrong child. He also said that he would consider my words, but he would not. I know that His Majesty did not take my words seriously at all. ”

"Your Majesty is not angry, he is tolerant of you."

Huanyan shook his head, "That's not tolerance, that's...contempt. Your Majesty's so-called arbitrariness to us is just singing, drinking and having fun every night. The real arbitrariness that is not bound by ethics belongs to His Majesty alone."

Lou Chu couldn't answer and wanted to pour wine for the two of them, but all seven wine bottles on the table were empty.

"I'm so stupid. We are all stupid. We think we can be as arbitrary as His Majesty. In fact, we are just a bunch of little jesters. It is better to be disciplined since childhood and understand the difference between dignity and inferiority early on."

Huanyan's eyes were red and she seemed about to cry. Lou Chu didn't know what to say, so he could only look at her silently.

"Is it any wonder that the sisters say that you are good for nothing? You can't even say coaxing words, and you can only write articles to find fault with others?"

Lou Chu thought for a while, nodded and said, "I only know this."

"Haha, okay, you come and find my fault." Huanyan did not shed tears, and the smile returned to her face.

"The princess...it is unwise to forget her identity as the princess from time to time."

"It's boring. Any scholar can find faults, and it's also a problem that all of us have." Huanyan was dissatisfied, and the way she forced the other party to tell the truth was somewhat similar to the emperor.

"The princess's name is too real."

"Do you think I don't deserve to be a princess?" Huanyan was a little curious.

Lou Chu shook his head, "Princess is just a title. The princess often says "willful", and these two words are your name. The princess always seeks it, but always fails, so she is exhausted and often like a prisoner, trapped in prison. This is what I call "name is too real", princess..."

"Stop talking." Huanyan said loudly.

Lou Chu's drunkenness faded a little, and he stood up and bowed, saying, "It's late at night, and we have to welcome the king tomorrow. Princess, you should go to bed early."

Huan Yan looked up at him with an apologetic look on her face, "When the kings return to the capital, even our superficial freedom will be taken away. We can no longer drink and talk with Master Lou."

"Without the power of the emperor and the suffering of the rivers and lakes, how can you know whether your willfulness is true or false?"

"That's right, let me toast you one last time."

After drinking all the wine, Huan Yan handed over an empty cup, "With an empty cup without wine, toast the willfulness without substance."

"With a realistic state of mind, toast the empty reputation of self-improvement."

The two made a drinking gesture, threw down the cup, turned around, and Lou Chu walked out of the room and never looked back.

The next morning, Lou Chu was pushed awake by Qiao Zhisu, washed his face several times with cold water, and asked the servants to massage his whole body to relieve the pain. When he got on the horse, Lou Chu felt much better, but his head was still a little heavy.

Outside the Ten-mile Pavilion, several colorful tents have been set up, and servants from various households are busy. The masters are either hiding in the car or standing under the shade of the trees, waiting for the Jibei King's team.

Zhang Shiduan and others drank too much last night, and all stayed in the car.

Lou Chu was bored, so he rode up a nearby hill and looked into the distance, and saw a continuous military camp.

Qiao Zhisu followed and said, "This is one of the five Western Expedition camps."

"Has the court set a date?"

"In half a month."

"Everything will be clear by then."

"Of course, the general will personally lead the expedition, and the Qinzhou rebellion can be quelled in a few months."

The two were talking about different things, Lou Chu smiled and said no more.

There was a sound of horse hooves from the pavilion, and Qiao Zhisu said, "The palace has also sent people."

He was right, dozens of riders galloped from the direction of Luoyang, with flags flying, and could only be from the royal family.

The two rushed back to the place where they came from and saw Shao Junqian chatting and laughing with Lan Yong. Shao Junqian did not show any embarrassment when being reprimanded by the emperor.

Qiao Zhisu jumped off his horse, bowed from a distance, and said with a smile: "Mr. Shao came to greet you personally. Your Majesty must miss the King of Jibei very much."

Lou Chu also came to meet him. Because they were not familiar with each other, he only said: "Mr. Shao, you have worked hard."

Lan Yong nodded slightly to Lou Chu, but did not look at him, and bowed to Shao Junqian to take his leave.

The remaining three people exchanged greetings, and Qiao Zhisu soon left tactfully. Shao Junqian asked Lou Chu to take a few steps away from the crowd, and whispered: "I just met the general and the general of the central army yesterday, and talked about that matter again."

"Father and brother are the boss, and the Lou family will follow their lead."

Shao Junqian had verbally conveyed the emperor's secret order, hoping that the general would secretly eliminate the Huangfu family in Jizhou. Lou Chu had been away and had not known the progress for several days.

"I don't know if it's my illusion or what, but the general doesn't seem to be too enthusiastic about this matter."

"The general is calm in the face of hundreds of thousands of enemies, so of course he won't show too much enthusiasm."

"Haha, that's me judging others by my own standards. Mr. Lou, please let me have another word."

The two walked a distance away, and Shao Junqian said, "Accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger, Mr. Lou, did you see that?"

"This is how the loyalty of the ministers is shown."

"Haha, that's right, I'm afraid that the ministers have the heart to be loyal to the emperor, but they don't have the order to be loyal to the emperor."

"Mr. Shao is the most favored by His Majesty, who in the world doesn't envy him?"

Shao Junqian glanced at the crowd in the distance, "I don't envy myself, I'm trembling every day, entering the palace with my head on my shoulders, and leaving the palace with a dead heart, it's hard to continue, it's hard to continue."

Shao Junqian's words became more and more wrong, Lou Chu said, "Mr. Shao's loyalty is as bright as the sun and the moon, Your Majesty is smart Rui, will definitely see it and will never treat Mr. Shao badly. "

Shao Junqian sneered twice and said coldly: "The assassin Hong Daohui actually confessed on the third day of being arrested."

Although he had expected it, Lou Chu was still surprised and forced himself to be calm, "Then we should arrest the accomplices immediately to calm people's hearts."

"The accomplices are too small, and there is only one big fish behind them. Your Majesty is not satisfied and wants to catch more and bigger fish."

"Your Majesty is so powerful that ordinary people can't do it."

"One of the small fish I mentioned is Mr. Lou."

"Me? As the son of a general, I can't avoid being falsely accused by evil people."

"You don't believe me? Haha, it doesn't matter. Isn't Mr. Lou supposed to follow the orders of his father and brother? When you return to Beijing, talk more with the general and the general of the central army, and then we'll talk. "

Just as Lou Chu was about to speak, there was the sound of horse hooves in the distance, and someone shouted loudly: "His Royal Highness the King of Jibei is here!"