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The King of Chu looked at Liang Wenbo, and Jiangling Xieyuan was wearing a shirt with his sleeves closed, facing the prince of the country, still standing calmly, his face remained unchanged, and his city palace could be seen.

The king of Chu walked by with his hands behind his back, "I will trust you this time, but only this time, not because of you!"

"Your Majesty knows that in His Royal Highness's plan, before leaving the court, His Majesty will order the six kings to ask you about politics with the three kings. The prince already knows it. With his intelligence, I don't need to say anything about how to deal with it."

"If that's the case, I will retire first." Liang Wenbo folded his sleeves and bowed slightly.

"I don't care if you are the crown prince or King Zhao's, if you betray her, I will never forgive you!"

Liang Wenbo stood still, turned around to face the King of Chu, bowed again and said, "Shangyuan is coming soon, and I'm here, congratulate the six kings in advance, Shangyuan is safe and healthy."

Wei Huan condensed the strategy of the document for a long time, and after thinking about it for a while, he still burned it.

"Six sons!"

"Alang?"

"Is the founding father of Lund coming back?"

"Go back to Alang, I heard from the princess that I can hurry back on the day of the Zhengdan Dynasty."

The guard in the front yard hurried to the study to report, "Ah Lang, there is news from the palace, His Majesty has summoned you."

Wei Huan glanced at Little Six, "Don't go with me."

"Ah Lang, this is it?"

"I'm going here, it may be dangerous."

Little Six was shocked, "Ah, how could it be dangerous for Ah Lang to go to Da Nei, then this..."

"They don't want to let me go, what can I do!"

"The princess hasn't come back yet, why don't Alang wait for the princess to come back before making an agreement?"

"The emperor summons, how can we wait?" Wei Huan patted Xiao Liuzi's shoulder with a light smile, "Don't worry, I'll settle for the next best thing, I'll be fine!"

The master's indifferent appearance made him worry even more, but what can he do as a servant, except his duty, "The servant girl will go get Alang's official uniform."

Wei Huan looked at the sky, and it was getting dusk, and it was getting close to the time when the key is under the palace gate.

"The founding father of Longde, it's better to come back earlier, otherwise, if I die, wouldn't your family's expectations be gone?" At this point, she smiled sarcastically.

"Ah Lang, official uniform, jade belt." Xiao Liuzi trembled with his hands.

Wei Huan approached and touched the special engraving on the prince's jade belt, "I never thought it would come so soon!"

"What are you talking about, Aaron?"

She withdrew her hand and shook her head: "It's nothing, if the princess asks, just say, I went to the palace to ask An Shishan."

"But didn't Alang just say..."

"Hush." ​​Wei Huan took off his casual clothes, gestured, then put on his official uniform, and said softly: "When she comes back, the palace gate is closed, don't mention it to her."

The holy driver is in Da Nei, and the key to the gate of the Forbidden City is earlier than that of the old city gate.

"Is Ah Lang afraid that the princess will be worried?"

Wei Huan sat down, Xiao Liuzi picked up the comb and combed her hair again, looking at the bronze mirror on the table, the person inside seemed very helpless, with trembling eyes, "Is it... I don't know either."

The waiting carriage at Chu Palace moved slowly, and the emperor called for it, but the soldiers of the Imperial City Division did not dare to stop her.

The emperor is in Wende Hall, and the crown prince is also there.

"My lord," she raised her head slightly and looked at the emperor, "please be safe."

"I, bow down." The emperor beckoned, "Come, give me a seat."

Zhao Ci moved a stool and placed it in front of the emperor.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wei Huan approached and sat down, and asked respectfully, "Your Majesty summoned the minister?"

"It will be Zhengdan soon, and it will be almost a year, and you are already married. According to the ancestral system, you should leave the court."

"I know that the ancestors have said that the princes of this dynasty are not allowed to participate in politics, and the king is the heir, so there is no problem."

The King of Chu did not have the heart to compete. This is something that the crown prince and King Zhao both know, and the emperor can also see it now, "I am not blessed, and there are only three of you brothers left under my knees. I am old, and the future of the Wei family will still be strong." You are here to guard, you are siblings, you should support each other to prevent thieves from doing anything wrong."

"Your Majesty is now in his prime, and His Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and with the crape myrtle star shining, he will surely live a long and happy life."

"Liu Lang went to Shu, this official dialect is a set, huh?" The emperor smiled at the prince and Zhao Ci each.

"Sanlang has already called him for questioning. He has been recommending you to me. He said that although Liulang is the youngest of your three brothers, he has his own views on how to run a family and the country. He also said that although you love to play, But you didn't waste your studies, and you said that you wanted to share the worries of me and the prince, so I called you here today to ask about your good strategy for governing the country. If you speak well, I will let the trial court draw up an order. You serve in court."

The emperor was talking about a job, not an official with a title. "Taizong once said that the duty of the princes of this dynasty is only to ask An Shishan. If a minister says it, it is disobedience."

"I allow you to say."

"If the minister's words are not good..."

"Forgive you for your innocence." The emperor looked like a king without joking, very magnanimous.

Wei Huan opened his hands in front of his abdomen and moved them to his knees, "I have only been in contact with local government affairs in the three years in Shu, and my master only teaches the way of sages and sages. The benevolent loves others. There are frontier defenses on the border, and now I have been in the dynasty for three generations, and its territory is unprecedented." After that, she got up and bowed to the emperor, "Your Majesty is mighty." Then she sat down again, "But now the battle has been decided, and the minister thinks, Your Majesty should make peace with himself, with the world, and pay equal attention to civil and military affairs."

"Tai. Zu seized the military power to take over the world, and Taizong used literature to consolidate the world. Now that the two dynasties have passed, the country has been able to stop fighting and stabilize. The minister thinks that we should pay equal attention to civil and military affairs, instead of learning from the previous Emperor Wu, who used military force to slaughter small countries with the power of a big country. Even if he wins, except for that vain prestige, there is only one hundred harms! The Son of Heaven, who sits in the world, and the people are his people, should implement benevolent government, educate the people, and return the hearts of the people, that is the kingly way. The military cannot be abandoned, and the country's abolition of military is intended to prevent internal strife. The internal defense and the neglect of the external are the root causes of foreign troubles. "

"Not only redundant soldiers, but now the court is redundant, redundant bureaus, redundant sentences, redundant officials, redundant officials, all of these are two words, redundant beetles. At present, it is necessary to solve these two words and change it to three years. In one year, he will open a course to recruit scholars, replace redundant officials, and set up a forum to do business with the border states."

The official system was established by Tai Zu. In order to prevent the generals from re-emphasizing power and to prevent the prime minister from monopolizing power and forming a party, there are officials, posts, and dispatches. Officials without real power are often titles, but they have salaries.

"I didn't expect that the six kings usually don't talk about it, and they talk about political affairs unambiguously." The prince sat quietly at the side, with the corners of his mouth raised.

"Besides, the minister also offers the King, the Five Laws!"

"If the home is the township, the township cannot be done. If the township is the country, the country cannot be done. If the country is the world, the world cannot be done. The home is the home, the township is the township, the country is the country, and the world is the world. ..."

"Sixth brother!" The prince's expression changed.

The emperor suddenly turned cold, raised his hand to stop the prince, and said to the king of Chu, "Go on."

"The bridle of the people is the most valuable. The door of the Taoist people is the first. The way of summoning the people is the likes and dislikes of the people. Therefore, if the king seeks it, the ministers will get it. If the king loves it, the ministers will eat it. If the king likes it, he will submit to him. If the king hates it, the minister will hide him...Only the Taoist can be prepared for troubles before they are formed, so disasters will never happen." After taking a breath, the king of Chu continued: "The world Don’t worry about having no ministers, worrying about having no rulers to make it happen. The world doesn’t worry about having no wealth, and worrying about having no one to divide it. Therefore, those who know the time can be established as leaders. Those who are able to prepare for officials can be regarded as emperors. Those who are slow can take care of things later. Those who are stingy with money will lose their relatives. Those who believe in villains will lose their talents."

"Are these all your own ideas?" Emperor La asked with a sullen face. He still remembered that in front of the Chui Gong Palace, the former abolished crown prince Shang Shu refuted King Qi's policy and made impassioned words, which attracted the praise of all the officials and workers. Deputy Chu Rende, the emperor has someone to succeed him!

Wei Huan looked at the emperor whose face became more and more gloomy, "Return to Your Majesty, it belongs to me."

The emperor got up from his seat and walked to the king of Chu. She just wanted to get up, but was pressed down by a strong palm.

She didn't seem to know, she stared blankly at the emperor, "Your Majesty?"

"Do you know that what you said is exactly the same as that sinner from the previous dynasty?" The emperor grabbed the skirt of King Chu's clothes and stared at her viciously.

There is nothing wrong with the policy of echoing the national conditions, but the mistake is that she mentioned the past of the emperor's disloyalty as a subject, which aroused the emperor's hatred.

"The former sinner?"

"Are you my son?"

The king of Chu turned his head away, which aroused the emperor's anger and dissatisfaction even more, so he shook him off severely.

Zhao Ci on the side looked distressed, "Your Majesty, Prince Chu doesn't know..."

The emperor pointed at the king of Chu and shouted, "Speak!"

"Daddy, Brother Six..."

The emperor was furious, and even turned to the crown prince, "And you, go back to the East Palace!"

The crown prince had no choice but to bow and retreat timidly.

The emperor looked down at the king of Chu who was lying on the ground, his eyes were full of viciousness, without any compassion for father and son, "Why did you disobey me!"

"I don't have any!"

"Do you really not know, or do you pretend not to know?" The emperor half-closed his eyes, and said viciously: "Everyone says you are generous and benevolent, but I never thought that you would be like that sinner!"

"I just answered His Majesty, telling the truth!"

The emperor stared round his eyes, "Tingzhang, courtzhang, Xiao Xianfu, Xiao Xianfu!"

Xiao Xianfu rushed into the hall upon hearing the news, "The minister is here!"

"Pull it out, the court staff is thirty!"

Xiao Xianfu looked at the King Chu lying on the ground, surrounded by chaos, he hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, this..."

"Why, even you want to disobey me?"

Xiao Xianfu immediately knelt down, "I dare not!"

"Take me down, I won't blame you if I kill you!"

The emperor's anger was already written on his face, Xiao Xianfu had no choice but to obey, "Yes."

"Your Majesty said that the pardoner is not guilty..."

"Pull it off!"

In front of the Hall of Wende, a group of imperial guards surrounded the imperial city, and Xiao Xianfu ordered people to move out the torture tools.

Zhengdan is approaching, and red lanterns have been hung on the corridors on both sides of Wende Hall. There is a big court on the first day of the first month, so now is the time when the ministers and workers gather the most to work, and the news of the emperor's punishment of the King of Chu will soon come From Wende Palace to the Second Military Government.

Before the execution, the emperor walked out of Wende Hall, "Tell me, you didn't say those words!"

"Even if I didn't say it, will His Majesty let me go? Is it His Royal Highness who wants to test me, or Your Majesty you!"

The emperor frowned and stared at it for a long time, then left immediately.

"Daddy!" King Chu trembled.

"From the beginning to the end, I never thought of competing with the eldest brother and the third brother."

The emperor stopped, turned around and walked back to her, squatted down, and lowered his voice extremely low, but he didn't seem to restrain his heart, "Then let me tell you, in my heart, you shouldn't have been born!"

The emperor walked up the steps of the Wende Hall, turned his back to the crowd and closed his eyes, saying: "The king of Chu disobeyed his father, was disloyal and unfilial, the court staff is thirty, and he is in charge of Zongzheng Temple, waiting for his punishment." After finishing speaking, he didn't even look back. He stepped into the hall.

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East Palace

Wei Shu took a sip of tea to soothe, and immediately asked: "Then he didn't become suspicious?"

"Returning to Your Highness, the King of Chu is intelligent. Not only did he become suspicious, but he also knew that this was a strategy for the confrontation between the deposed prince of the previous dynasty and the current emperor."

Wei Shu was shocked, "He knows?" Rubbing the back of his hand, "This incident almost made Dad lose the chance to go to the court, which he finally got, and Dad was especially jealous of this matter, so he never let people mention it. It was told by my grandfather, how could he know?"

"This, I don't know."

"Since he knew it, why did he continue to say it in the hall as usual? Isn't this why he knew it was a fire pit and jumped into it?"

"Perhaps this is the brilliance of King Chu."

"how do I say this?"

"The Xiao family wants to support the King of Chu, but will His Majesty agree? The Xiao family has a lot of power, so is it useful for His Majesty not to allow it?"

Wei Shu was enlightened, "Giving a single name at the crown ceremony made the ministers and the people suspicious. Marrying Xiao's daughter is what Jian Feng pointed out. The six kings seem to be causing trouble but actually avoiding it?"

The young man smiled slightly, folded his sleeves and bowed slightly: "The founding father of Longde, he is returning to Beijing soon, and he will arrive tomorrow."

"What's your plan?"

"The King of Chu seems to be indisputable, but in fact he retreats to avoid the edge. What he wants to do is to avoid you and King Zhao, and to protect himself wisely."

"The snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's profit. I really never thought that Lao Liu's thoughts are so deep, and I never thought that he would be so cruel to himself. I really have to be careful."

"I have already told the King of Chu that I belong to you."

Wei Shu was startled, "What, you told him, would he still believe you?"

"He will believe it." The young man said with great confidence.

"why?"

He lowered his head and smiled slightly: "Because I understand him."