Chapter 171

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Can the affluent Jing Xiang land guarded as solid as a golden soup, do not fear a small violation of the border, and the tiger Lu Bu as a neighbor for such a long time, but also can be peaceful, Liu table's strengths and weaknesses, with all the obvious.

The short is not to think of progress, soft and gentle; the long is not to act rashly, many faces to meet.

He prided himself on the virtue of a good gentleman, in addition to the beginning of the power of a single thin, by Dong Zhuo to push the appointment, had to control the land of Jingzhou by means of thunder, a wait for the situation to be stabilized, more than all pay attention to not offending people on all sides of the delicate and faded that kill the decisive.

He followed Liu Bei's advice and embarked on this trip with the main purpose of not only testing Lu Bu's attitude towards Jingzhou and observing the advantages and disadvantages of the imperial examination, but also to meet with His Majesty, and to show the world his loyalty to the king and the country while offering the tribute.

And then by the way, Liu Bei's achievements were reported one by one, and also help him to seek a formal official position.

This is what Cai strongly supports: regardless of whether or not His Majesty thinks highly of this royal uncle of 3,000 miles, and where he is going to be placed as an official in the end, with this period of care, Liu Bei, if he doesn't want to be poked and prodded, is unlikely to be unfavorable to Liu Jingzhou, who has taken him in.

Both to help him step forward, make a good karma, but also this bad hand in the eyes of the thorn to the logical far away, sent out, no longer worry about his tea time idle to Liu table to push the heart of the Cai's family authority out of the bad idea, really why not do it.

In spite of all the people's thoughts, this banquet was organized in such a way that Liu Biao felt at home, and Lu Bu and Yan Qing also gave him enough face to enjoy it peacefully.

Because of the thought of tomorrow's His Majesty set up a special dynasty, to receive their honor, Liu table beforehand has instructed the entourage, don't greedy wine good, drink to get drunk, then even if did not miss the great event of meeting the Son of Heaven, a body of wine gas sky is inevitably damaged appearance.

But he wanted to understand, this by Yan Qing taught the method of brewing wine purity is unusual more than ten times, the taste varies, some spicy, some sweet, some mellow, the only thing is the same, is the strength of the aftermath.

By the time they were dizzy enough to change into their official uniforms and hurry into the palace, waiting to be received with a blur before their eyes, it was all they could do to force themselves to wake up by surveying their surroundings.

Speaking of the process of building the palace and persuading the emperor to move in, there was a bit of a storm.

In the most difficult drought locust infestation year passed, Lu Bu only in the snowflakes falling non-stop impeachment report, slowly began to order the construction of the temple.

It was fast enough to start as soon as the spring planting was over, and worked all the way through to the fall when the wheat was ripe, and it was finished in time before the weather turned completely cold.

According to Lu Bu, since the civil and military officials and His Majesty are in such a hurry, we can only ask them to keep things simple for the time being, and when the winds and rains are favorable and the people of Han are rich, then we can consider building a large amount of land.

As for when this has to go down, Liu Xie is not a three year old child who can be coaxed by this distant promise.

When he looked at the newly repaired palace, although the details are very exquisite, said sparrow is small, all the organs, left full of reluctance.

Not only even when deceived committed by Dong Taishi lived in the ancient ancient Chinese dock of the magnificent Chengdu less than, but also can not be compared to the old capital of Luoyang those were burned out of the temple group, I'm afraid that even Chang'an he was in the thick of the love for the consort Ma Yunlu built that palace, are slightly inferior.

If we really move in, and live in this area of three-quarters of an acre of land, and live and work as a councilor, will it not undermine the majesty of the Son of Heaven?

Even if you live, it's only barely temporary.

Liu Xie looked at the people of Yuzhou rich, Lu Bu if not deliberately perfunctory, will not repair so simple. So categorically refused, and then urged the court to protest.

Lu Bu also listened patiently, Liu Xie was insatiable, and he was quick to return the favor to these civil ministers who spoke up for the Son of Heaven and spewed spittle.

--Well, it's okay to fix it, so let's have the Treasury pay for it.

Where is the justification for expecting a military general, who feeds the people of five states and is himself stretched to the limit, to provide for the clothing, food, housing and transportation of hundreds of officials, courtiers and family members of the entire court, not to mention helping to repair lavish palaces?

Among the people under his rule, there were those who had thin savings at home and refused to leave their homes even if they had to endure the devastation brought about by the war, and there were many more who were desperate and fled far away from their homes in admiration of his name.

It's hard to live in a comfortable life envied by everyone in this chaotic world, and accustomed to the preferential treatment of light corvée, this moment suddenly increased corvée, inevitably very uncomfortable.

If these labors are for Lu Bu Yan Qing, these living gods under the peace of millions of people, they have no complaints.

But once you know that the enjoyment of this blessing, is not doing the right thing, but also justified dabbling in food and drink of the little emperor, it is completely different.

Especially to repair to the degree that Liu Xie requested, without a hundred thousand people is impossible to complete in three years and five years, even if not to pay for the labor, can not even give a bite of food, right? The people used are all young and strong, the delay is the agricultural work, and how much loss must be suffered in the fall harvest?

Yan Qing purposely spare valuable time to help stand and talk without waist pain of the court to calculate an account, this is a clear list of things, and a slight smile when the dynasty refuted a few unreasonable civil officials.

Those civil and military officials who had been making a lot of noise, they all withdrew their righteous indignation and stopped speaking out for His Majesty.

Anyone knows, this hall treasury is poor, I'm afraid it's not as rich as the private coffers of Lu Bu's account to get a random higher ranked general or staff member.

What they don't know is that the most eye-catching Yan Qing has received countless generous rewards, but all donated to help the infrastructure, is the real two-sleeve clean, no half of the long things.

Yan Qing that modest gentleman okay, Lu Bu but always is not good, when Yan Qing in the tongue of the group of scholars, he was on the side of the station did not stand phase holding an ape arm, did not say a word back against the column, seemingly smiling, but not laughing at, and was swept by that sharp gaze of the people with the heart of the chills.

To open this mouth at this moment was tantamount to refusing to even put the last piece of shaming cloth on the little emperor.

Fortunately, Lu Bu also knew that he could not force the emperor to get off the stage, but took the approach of a slap to give a sweet date, after which he agreed to Liu Xie's request to set up Fu Shou, the daughter of Fu Wan, who was in the service of the Emperor, as the queen, and promoted her father to the position of the Deacons of the Jinwu.

Liu Xie only a little calm, after quite a long time, do not dare to test Lu Bu tolerance where the bottom line.

At this moment, the tigers have just passed, the day is getting cooler, and early in the morning, have to add a few more pieces of clothing than at noon in order not to feel the cold.

Liu Bei even if all the way carefully planning, will face face count to, not really can face the saint this day, the heart is unable to put down.

And before leaving the door, the heart of the strong suppression of excitement and expectation overshadowed everything, so that when the station here, only to realize that the self in the thin court dress underneath the dress is not thick enough, the only way to hide the hand into the sleeve clenched into a fist, a little sniffing.

"Big brother cold?"

Guan Yu was the most observant, and even though Liu Bei denied it with his eyes, he still moved his standing position to block out the cool wind coming from the south.

Zhang Fei showed slight confusion, but followed suit and blocked Liu Bei's other side.

The good thing is that the little emperor did not call this group of very respectful to him before the courtiers too long to set up a long-lost emperor, but to see the good, quickly let the chamberlain out, will lead them to the side of the hall to wait, and then called Liu table into the separate.

Has been carried to this point, Liu Bei is not in a hurry, only motionless survey of the temple furnishings, the heart of a slight emotion surfaced.

The emperor first hoped on the Liu table, but after he a few words of temptation, Liu table this will only in the hold Jingzhou smooth, let him all the strength has no place to make.

Liu Biao knows that he is not good at gaming, before placing a bet, the more he has to make careful deliberation and consideration. The most exasperating thing is that after such a time-consuming process, if he still feels that the risk is quite high, he will simply abandon the game and continue to wait and see.

No matter how you look at it, Liu Xie's gesture of showing his intentions in a hurry, but seriously lacking in planning, is half-heartedly looked upon by Liu Biao.

In full of urgency, but received a few tasteless perfunctory, Liu Xie seems to be a pot of cold water poured under the head, disinterested in this slippery not greasy hands of the old grease to send away, instead of attracting him just vigorously recommend the table of merit of Liu Bei to come in.

Although the Han clan is said to be spread all over the world, concerning the Han bloodline, it is impossible not to check the other party's origin. Liu Xie ordered Zongzhengqing to fetch the genealogy of the clan and read it out, and then determined that Liu Bei was a descendant of the King of Zhongshan Jing, and that he was his distant uncle in terms of seniority, but he didn't care too much about it.

It was only after he had a real conversation with Liu Bei and viewed his uncommon aura that Liu Xie's thoughts had a sea change.

He initially pinned high hopes on Liu Biao, as Liu Yan generally let him disappointed to the extreme; and never had expectations of this distant royal uncle, but gave him a big surprise.

This is both nephews and uncles, but also the relationship between the king and the ministers of the two screened out all but one to follow its many years of beloved chamberlain, after which it was actually a very happy conversation.

Liu Xie in the dragon's face under the great joy, not only personally recognized him as uncle, and give heavy reward, sealed his left general, Yicheng Ting Hou, and then hosted a banquet, and after that it is frequently called into the, just like as a humerus.

For Yan Qing and the others who have good ears and eyes, Liu Xie's such a high-profile behavior has long been communicated in a clear way.

Not all of them are deployed, but see the son of heaven lost power, Lu Bu power has become a fact, there is always no shortage of tendency to follow the trend of the people.

Lu Bu is not in a good mood, but see Yan Qing and Guo Jia are smiling and exchanging glances, also do not care about the sea of vinegar, more is to feel puzzled: "Liu Bei, such as peddlers and weavers to make a living of nobodies a leap to do the royal uncle, I do not know how to be rampant, and the reason why that little brat so valued to rely on, is not to expect to support him to hold us? The situation is so unfavorable, why don't you two gentlemen worry not angry, but also quite happy?"

When I think about it, after he got rid of Dong Zhuo, he made several thousand-mile round trips to save the Emperor, and wiped a lot of asses for Liu Xie, so it can be said to be a credit to him. Even with his own selfishness, the benefits the emperor received were also half a lot. As a result of his hard work and loss of men and horses, the promotion and respect he got is not more than Liu Bei's sporadic achievements.

The most diabolical thing was that he was the one who had let them enter the palace peacefully with his own hands.

Yan Qing patted his tense shoulders and laughed, "What is it for the Lord to be concerned with grasshoppers after the fall? Rather, it is His Majesty who has so cooperated with the luring of the snake out of the hole that I have set up, so I should be thankful to the Lord for his great kindness."

This time it was to cut off all the available wings of Liu Xie, and next time it would be possible to pull the other side off the throne in one fell swoop.

Lu Bu was not a stupid person, and after listening to it and freezing for a moment, he quickly came back to his senses.

Guo Jia said: "That is to be all the people to find out, how to dispose of? If the Lord is rash to do the thing of the king, it is inevitable to be scolded, not to move lightly. Chongguang can not be careless, anxious, or just get burned."

Yan Qing in fact is not as easy as it appears on the surface, even if he knows much more than others, but the state of affairs has also been changing, it is not possible to say that it is completely out of the scope of his grasp.

For this reason he went out of his way to get Lu Bu to agree to Liu Xie taking Fu Wan's daughter as his queen, just to minimize the variables as much as possible.

Yan Qing nodded slightly, "Feng Xiao is at ease."

Liu Xie is not very old, the city is not deep, since he did not know that he thought full of hidden ideas, in fact, in the eyes of the people have been revealed undoubtedly.

When he thought he had thoroughly drawn this royal uncle into his camp, he quickly began his next move.

Author's Note: I feel like I've done nothing on vacation and the time is gone.