Duling's old dream

In the second year of Dijie, the sixth year of Liu Bing's accession to the throne, General Huo Guang died of illness.

Liu Bing had personally delivered Huo Guang's coffin to Maoling, and witnessed it being sealed into the underground palace and covered with layers of thick soil.Huo Guang's death shook the government and the public, and the whole country was in grief. Huo Guang's granddaughter, the Empress Dowager Shangguan, stood there sullenly, her face as pale as wax. Huo Chengjun cried so much that he couldn't stand still. As a minister, he was diligent and conscientious, and he devoted his whole life to the great man, and he couldn't help but feel sad and burst into tears.

Huo Guang was the first person Liu Bing saw after entering the palace.Liu Bing already remembered the feeling of sitting next to Huo Guang when he first entered the palace, as if sitting in an invisible shadow.Huo Guang is like a towering giant tree that does not see its top to the big man, supporting the entire dynasty, and at the same time rooting its complicated roots into every inch of the soil.

Liu Bing has recalled that Huo Guang wanted to hand over power to him after he ascended the throne, but Liu Bing has refused.The experience of growing up in Yeting taught him to be cautious when he was young.Liu Bingji was very afraid of Huo Guang when he first came to the throne, but his experience among the people also made him know that this huge dynasty must rely on Huo Guang's nutrients to survive.Liu Bing already thought that he was afraid of Huo Guang, but when the giant tree really collapsed, he realized that the scorching sun without the shade of the tree was also scorching.

Everyone inside and outside the court was waiting to see the reaction of the young emperor.Liu Bing already looked coldly at the crowd kneeling down on the ground, but he was thinking of the lone goose he saw on Hongguyuan when he was young.

A few days after the funeral, Liu Bing had already changed into casual clothes and left the palace late at night, without even a single entourage with him.He's never done this before.If Huo Guang was present, he would definitely warn him that his behavior was not in accordance with the rules of etiquette, and maybe he would reprimand him behind his back for being a gangster.Since he entered the palace, everyone wanted him to be the emperor in their minds, so did Huo Guang, and so did Zhang Anshi.The people in this land have experienced too much turmoil and displacement that shouldn't have happened in just over ten years. They need a stable leader, so Liu Bing has been trying his best to learn to be a person who can satisfy everyone. emperor.He is not without ideas of his own.He has imagined countless times that one day he is really capable of taking power, how he will display his ambitions, how to learn from Yao and Shun to be a good emperor who is truly people-oriented, or inherit his great-grandfather's behest and fight against the Huns in Mobei.He had many ideas, but when the day really came, the first thought that flashed in his mind was to go home.

Not going back to Weiyang Palace, he never regarded that place as his home.Instead, he returned to Du County, the plain he was most familiar with when he was young, and the place where the lone geese took off.

Liu Bing has finally pushed open the unfamiliar but familiar wooden door, and Zhang Pengzu is bending over to water rose flowers in the yard.