Time flies, and in a blink of an eye another spring and autumn pass by.

In this year, the crown prince Yucheng has experienced a lot in the previous dynasty, and he has been patrolling various places with the emperor's warrant all year round. If there are droughts and floods on the borders of all sides, His Highness the crown prince can be seen to personally rescue the disaster.Prince Liangdi Zhou Qiang followed the wishes of Concubine Li and selected batch after batch of women to enter the East Palace. It is a pity that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was born to follow his father. , an East Palace is more restrictive.

In this year, Princess Hengjun gave birth to a son smoothly, and the Son of Heaven and King Ning, who had just passed middle age, had their first grandchildren, a whole ten years earlier than the year when the first emperor Gu Hong had his eldest grandson.The two brothers looked at the newborn child inexplicably in a trance, how could they have so many grandchildren in their prime?

This year, the little princess Gu Xican started to practice calligraphy. The playful little guy could always find various reasons to pretend to be ill and not learn. When the households were playing, the homework left by Princess Qingzhao was also done by those parents.Princess Qingzhao was not angry when she found out, she just framed the homework and sent it back to everyone according to their handwriting.Only those written by His Royal Highness Prince Ning were not picked out, but it also caused the little princess to be slapped several times. After all, the handwriting is nothing but scribbled, how can there be a series of typos?

This year, Taifu Han's body suddenly felt a little strange, probably due to the relapse of an old injury suffered when he led the army in the early years, and the joints always felt stiff and stagnant when it rained and snowed. Remembered to enjoy.The former emperor's residence hall, Chongning Palace, was demolished and changed into a deep pool, and water from a hot spring pool was introduced into it, and the place was renamed "Muchi Palace".Whenever there is heavy rain and snow, Taifu Han will take a bath here, using the hot spring water to relax the muscles and blood, and maintain the body and mind.

***

September is late autumn, and the autumn cold dew is heavy.

It was another rainy day.

Han Mochu's long hair was tied high on the top, and he was lying on the bank of the pool where the light could be seen, his eyes closed, and he was playing with an excellent jasper wine cup in his hand. The pores of his whole body were sprayed, and his whole body was flushed.

Muchi Palace has gorgeous decorations that are rare in the entire imperial palace. The huge crystal glazed lamp on the ceiling is filled with night pearls dug out from Baiming Mountain. The mechanism for spouting water is covered with veils on all four walls, and behind the veils along the small holes, there is a faint scent of soothing warmth, which blends with the unique sulfur breath of the living water hot spring, making people more physically and mentally Slow down, eyes heavy.

Suddenly the water was turbulent, and there was a figure wading towards him behind him. Han Mochu slightly raised his eyes, and lazily handed a wine jug of the same color as the wine cup to his back: "Your Majesty, please ask Mr. Yuan Bao to fill another pot. I don't feel like talking loudly now."

Gu Xiu took it, and the first thing he did was to probe the cold outer wall of the jug with two fingers, and then stopped him solemnly: "Mr. Su said that you can't drink cold wine when bathing in hot springs, so as not to damage your internal organs. "

"My lord, this is not cold wine, it's ice wine." Han Mochu turned around and leaned on him, and said in a deep and eloquent voice, "Muchi Palace is stuffy and hot, so drinking some ice wine will make you feel better. Why don't you try it too, Your Majesty?"

"You know I can't drink alcohol." Gu Xiu casually put the jug beside the pool bank, turned around and leaned against the pool wall side by side with Han Mochu, looked up at the dazed glazed lamp on the top: "I'm drunk when I turn around, I don’t know what to do out of the ordinary.”

"It's okay, if your majesty is drunk, I will carry your majesty back. Your majesty will always be honest and will never mess around when you are on your back." Han Mochu smiled and moved closer to Gu Xiu, and asked: "I'm lazy here, and I've passed all the government affairs of the country to His Majesty. I don't know if there is any major event in today's memorial?"

"It's not a big deal." Gu Xiu closed his eyes, letting the warm pool water soften his muscles and bones: "There is only one thing, the governor of Huainan Road reported that when the fleet of Prince Rieger, the king of Western Australia, landed for They rushed to the beach and killed a pair of fishermen and sons in Dazhou, and then clashed with the coast guards who came to arrest them. Then they boarded a boat and left the shore, and fled back to Western Australia. I have ordered the Linjiang Navy to dispatch the coastal defense garrison to carry The envoys from Honglu Temple entered Western Australia to negotiate with them, after all, they wanted to give the father and son an explanation."

"My Great Zhou has already said that any foreigner who violates Zhou's laws in the territory of Dazhou, regardless of the monarch and royal family, should be dealt with according to the law." Han Mochu responded after hearing the words: "Although the Western Australian country is larger than Fusang, it is sparsely populated. Every year, I make a living by trading cattle, sheep and animal bones with the business group of Dazhou. Seeing that the people's livelihood is not even comparable to the sixteen states of my state in the outer sea of ​​Dazhou. The monarch of Western Australia can still raise It's not easy for such a rampant son."

"So he can't control his son, Da Zhou will discipline him." Gu Xiu sighed slowly in the warm water: "Isn't Zi Ran going to be lazy today? Since he is lazy, why can't he be thorough?" ? Don’t ask about these government affairs, isn’t it good?”

"Okay, I don't ask, I will be a casual official who doesn't ask about the court today." Han Mochu leaned forward and picked up the emerald green jug from the edge of the pool: "Your Majesty, please help me to add another jug." Alcohol, if I get myself drunk to death here, I can stop asking questions."

In other words, he, Han Mochu, would only ignore government affairs when he was drunk to the point of unconsciousness.

***

In the Muchi Palace in the imperial city of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the water vapor was thick and the wine was fragrant. When the two monarchs and ministers were chatting with each other, screams came from the main hall of the palace with plantains as the roof and teak walls as the walls.

Prince Rieger of Western Australia was bare-chested, with his hands hung high in rings and tied to a large wooden stake that was as high as a cane. The whipping on Rieger's body, all the slaves serving around lay flat on their bodies, not even daring to pant too loudly.

On this day, Prince Rieger of Western Australia fled back to the land of Western Australia with his cargo and armor thrown away. Seeing this, King Gesulo hurriedly asked why. The entourage behind him killed the fisherman father and son, and how they escaped from the pursuit of Dazhou officers and soldiers and fled all the way back here.

Poor Prince Rieger, who had been on the run for 27 days at sea, was tied to this big wooden stake by his father before he could catch his breath even after reaching the country.

"Father! Father, is it possible that you really want to beat me to death?" Ruige was tormented by this unreasonable and severe beating, and his hands were bloodless from the grass rope. The red skin was covered with bright red tender flesh. Rigg, who was bound here, had no choice but to cry and beg his father for mercy: "Father, I am your flesh and blood! The only flesh and blood! You can't kill me, you can't kill me!"

"It's better for me to kill you than to destroy the country and the city!" Ge Suluo clenched the thorn stick in his hand a little more after hearing this, and slammed it on his son's back more fiercely, these few times: " Why do you want to provoke Zhou people! Just provoking is not enough! How dare you take the life of Zhou people! How dare you run away after taking your life! How dare you escape back to Western Australia! Do you really want your father? , and will everyone in the Theo Kingdom be buried with you?"

"Father! Father, please don't fight! Ah! Ah!" Ruige screamed and screamed, his eyes were blank, and he subconsciously shouted: "At worst, I will go to war with the Zhou people! I will scare them that is!"

Reg, who didn't know what he shouted, rolled his eyes and passed out.

The next snap of his fingers, he was woken up again by a bucket of icy seawater. The salty seawater mixed into the fleshy wound, causing him to twitch in pain. He subconsciously shook the water droplets on his head and opened his heavy eyes As soon as he raised his eyes, he met his father's cold gaze.

"Father...Royal Father..." Rieger trembled his lips, and finally remembered to admit his mistake in the severe pain: "Royal Father, stop beating me, I... I knew I was wrong..."

"My innocent child, do you know what you just said?" Gesuluo's eyes suddenly turned to a kind of extreme sadness: "Blame me, blame me, I have been thinking that you have no mother, and I have kept you in my mother's house." Take care of me. I really should learn from those lords of Molin and Taixi. A few years ago, I asked you to go to the Dazhou territory to study at the government. You will not be so short-sighted, and you will not be so ignorant. "

"Father, my son hurts so much, please put him down." Rieger didn't understand what the sadness in his father's eyes meant, the only thing he knew was that his father finally stopped beating him, maybe it was just not Blame him.

"Alas." Gesuluo shook his head, stepped on a slave with his foot, and asked someone to untie Ruige who was hanging high on the wooden stake, and helped him to the front: "Son, you must know , Dazhou is a country even more vast than the sea. They have huge ships, guns, and countless gold and silver treasures. If you want to go to war with them, you don’t even have the chance to beg for mercy. All of them A big ship has come here, and our troops will be smashed to pieces before sunset."

Rieger stood in front of Gesuluo tremblingly, not knowing whether it was pain, cold, or fear.

He is 19 years old, the same age as the prince of Da Zhou.This time was the first time he set foot on the land of Dazhou with goods. He knew the abundance there, but he didn't know anything about the power there.

He never understood why his father was so afraid of a country.

At the same time, on the dirt road outside the palace, a barefoot slave with a crooked mouth ran quickly towards the palace, shouting loudly while running: "It's not good! It's not good! The envoy of Zhou Guolai has landed."

Hearing the slave's voice, Gesuluo closed his eyes in silence, and said with a choked voice: "Come here, apply the medicine for the prince, change his clothes, shave off his hair, put him in chains, and hand it over to the envoy Zhou. "

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