After Yuan Shu's wedding, Liu Mastiff did not continue to stay in Yuan's mansion, and returned to his East Palace, and he couldn't continue to bother Yuan Shu, just like that, after staying in the East Palace for seven or eight days, he returned to Yuan's mansion, and just entered the mansion, he noticed that the atmosphere was a little unusual, and the old pawns in Yuan's mansion didn't look happy, most of them had a sad face.

Liu Mastiff went to the study and met Shijun.

The two chatted for a while, and then a maidservant girl entered the door, put some food in front of the desk, and said with a smile: "I heard that His Royal Highness is coming, and my mother specially asked the slave and maid to send these.... Let me also ask, will Your Highness want to eat some fruit? ”

Liu Mastiff hurriedly got up and said, "Thank you for my kindness, don't bother..."

The maidservant saluted the two of them, and then walked out of the study.

Yuan Shu frowned, it seemed that he was used to being alone, but now he was a little uncomfortable, Liu Mastiff smiled and said: "Shiniang is virtuous, he is very happy to be a master." ”

"Okay, these things, don't say more, lately, are you still reading that crooked book?" Yuan Shu asked with some displeasure.

"Shijun is talking about Wen Rengong's transcript?" Liu Mastiff asked rhetorically, and felt a little helpless, in addition to studying the scriptures, during this period of time, he also came into contact with a lot of miscellaneous books, including some agricultural books, Cui Gong's agricultural masterpieces, as well as laws, mathematics and the like, "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", he read it with relish, and often debated and discussed with the Confucian scholars who governed arithmetic in Taixue.

Therefore, everyone thinks that he has the style of a benevolent temple.

Emperor Xiaokang of Renzong, is a study of arithmetic, Emperor Xiaokang had debated with Liu Hong, a master of arithmetic in the Jianning period, all night, regardless of up and down, won the recognition of many people, and later, he also debated arithmetic with the ministers in the court, which is considered to be the most accomplished son of heaven in the field of arithmetic in the past dynasties, Liu Mastiff may be able to become the second.

Of course, if you want to surpass Emperor Xiaokang, it is impossible, you know, Liu everyone's annotation of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", that is inspired by Emperor Xiaokang, this realm, His Royal Highness the Prince is naturally impossible to get, but unfortunately, this master of arithmetic, calendar, and even medical skills, and died four years ago, this is a great misfortune for Han arithmetic, calendar.

After Liu Mastiff watched these books, he held the transcript left by Wen Rengong and read it all day long, which made Yuan Shu a little annoyed, you read agricultural books, laws, and arithmetic, why do you also want to read this business book? You're the prince of the Han Dynasty, how can you look at this?

Liu Mastiff said: "Master, as the prince, if I don't even know the situation of the treasury, how can I govern the family and the country in the future. Liu Mastiff knew why Yuan Shu was so opposed to him reading this book, this book was just a transcript of Wen Rengong, and the words were very vulgar.

He still can't forget the iron-blue face of Shijun when he handed over this book to Shijun to read.

The words at the beginning of the transcript read: "Everything in the world is real because of money, and without the support of money, the Son of Heaven is also false and untrue...", Yuan Shu saw this, and almost burned the book, but Liu Mastiff persuaded him to stay.

Yuan Shu already knew that Liu Mastiff would defend himself, "Just look at it, but you have to remember that businessmen are lowly businessmen, they ignore their family and country, parallel lowly, all their behaviors, only for profit, not for anything else, you can't fall into it, the prince of the Han Dynasty, you can't be a person who loves cheap business...", Yuan Shu said, Liu Mastiff listened, made a teachable appearance, and agreed very much.

However, I was thinking in my heart, businessmen make money, celebrities seek fame, and officials seek power, who has no desire and no desire?

Seeing Liu Mastiff's respectful appearance, Yuan Shu did not reprimand and continued to explain the scriptures.

Walking out of the study, Liu Mastiff was still thinking in his heart, in the front yard, there were seven or eight old pawns, they were standing like that, some anxious, some at a loss, and there were some slaves on the side, cleaning the courtyard, the old pawns were a little sluggish, looking at the slaves around them blankly, not knowing what to do, Liu Mastiff walked up, and the slaves and old pawns hurriedly visited.

"What's bothering you?" Liu Mastiff looked at the old soldiers and asked with some doubts.

The old pawns were speechless, shook their heads, and sighed helplessly.

"I regard you as if you are a family, why do you hide it from me?"

"Your Highness... The captain's wedding, we are very happy, happy for the captain... It's just that the master mother brought a lot of slaves and maids to clean the courtyard and serve the captain, we are not as good as them, and now, we can't do anything, we live in the captain's mansion for nothing, eat and drink for nothing... We don't want to..."The old man said a little lonely, he was also the most elite member of the Northern Army, and he had his own pride.

"What's more, we are so mutilated that we are afraid of frightening the mistress..."

Listening to their words, Liu Mastiff only felt a little bitter in his heart, because of the merits of Captain Zhang, the Han had a military brigade of 180,000 people at the beginning of Xiping, and the standing army was nearly 60,000 people, after these decades, the elite soldiers in these standing military brigades returned to their hometowns, but they were a little overwhelmed.

You can't just support them, you have to arrange them.

Liu Mastiff thought in his heart, and suddenly had some thoughts, he looked at several old soldiers, and said: "Don't worry, don't worry, wait for me for two days..."

Leaving Yuan's house, he went to his uncle's house, the servants of Zhuge Mansion were particularly close relatives of Liu Mastiff, and they didn't tell the master of the house, so they welcomed him in, and couldn't help but say more, just walked into the mansion, my aunt had already run out, took Liu Mastiff's hand, and went to the main hall, went to eat, greeted each other, and asked about the Son of Heaven and the queen.

The two chatted for a long time, Zhuge Liang walked in, and when he saw Liu Mastiff, he subconsciously wanted to salute him, but Liu Mastiff hurriedly got up and bowed; "Uncle, well!" , Princess Raoyang glanced at Zhuge Liang, and said with some displeasure: "Mastiff is your junior, you can't always greet you as a minister!" ”

"Although it is my family, it is the prince of the Han Dynasty, and the etiquette cannot be abolished." Zhuge Liang said, sitting next to Liu Mastiff, Liu Mastiff talked about the things of the old soldiers in the Yuan Mansion, Princess Raoyang also listened with some curiosity, Zhuge Liang was about to speak, saw Princess Raoyang on the side, frowned, and reprimanded unhappily: "I will discuss with His Royal Highness, you are a woman, what are you doing standing here?!" Don't go back to the house yet!! ”

Princess Raoyang stared at him for a moment and said, "What the husband said is very true. Then she went back to the house.

Seeing her like this, Zhuge Liang was in good spirits, and then he said to Liu Mastiff: "Your Highness Minghui, this matter of the old pawn of the Yuan Mansion is a trivial matter, seven or eight people, you don't need Your Highness's orders, as long as I open my mouth, they can all find errands in Luoyang... Start a family and start a business...", Zhuge Liang said again: "However, in the world, there are so many old soldiers..."

"Since Jianning, the military system has changed, in the past, the standing army was in the prime of life with a family, but now, most of them are recruited Yu Ding who has never started a family, these Yu Ding, no family property, no family, can fight hard, but when they return to their hometowns in old age, most of them have forgotten about farming, and they don't want to do it, they are irritable, and they are easy to use force... Martial arts are not bad..."

"In the local area, it is not easy to do something illegal, or to clash with the local country officials, and there was a military commander who returned from the Northern Army, armed with an iron hoe, and actually killed a pavilion chief and four pavilion soldiers... At this time, Dahonglu Zhao Gong once played in the temple, but because Taiwei and others were not there, they did not attract much attention..."

"I think it's not enough to have maintenance for these old soldiers, they can't start a family, and most of them don't want to marry their daughters to them... However, I found one thing, during the Jianning period, after the crusade against Xianbei, many soldiers returned to their hometowns and discharged from the army, causing a lot of incidents, but in Hezhou and Xinzhou, there was no turmoil..."

"I observed carefully and found that the two assassins at that time had formulated a new policy together, and one of them used a veteran soldier as a soldier in the local pavilion..."

"Oh? It works! Liu Mastiff said, and then asked: "I remember, Situ Gong once served as the assassin in Hezhou, and the other person, I don't know who it is?" ”

"The other one, called Yang Qiu, but the reputation is not good, and it is said to be a cool official..."

Liu Mastiff nodded, Yang Qiu? He seems to be a talented minister, but he has never heard of it before.

"So how do you do that?" Liu Mastiff asked again.

"No one in the court cares about this matter, if His Highness can speak, it will definitely be feasible..."Zhuge Liang said, and said: "However, I still have to inform the Son of Heaven..."

Liu Mastiff nodded.

Walking out of Zhuge Mansion, Liu Mastiff took a deep breath, looked at the palace in the distance, and stood quietly, not knowing what he was thinking, but he didn't move, and the guard behind him asked, "Your Highness?" But to the palace? ”

Liu Mastiff was still thinking about it, and after thinking for a moment, he shook his head and said, "Let's return to Yuan's Mansion..."

Two days later, the Son of Heaven convened a court meeting.

The main center of the court is still in the war, now, Yuan Shao is also a little unable to withstand the pressure, hoping that the Son of Heaven can withdraw the army, as a commonplace, he has seen the situation of the treasury most thoroughly, and if the war continues, the treasury will be destroyed in his own hands, this point, he has already understood in his heart, no matter what, the war must be over, this infamy, can't let me bear it!

As soon as the court discussion began, the hundreds of officials in the court showed extraordinary unity, and asked the Son of Heaven to end the war, some cried, and some directly admonished, and the purpose was the same, the Son of Heaven still ignored it, he knew better than Yuan Shao the strength of the treasury, and also knew how long the treasury could support, and he chose to ignore the persuasion of the ministers.

The crown prince sat on the side of the three princes and listened to the deliberations of the ministers.

After the ministers gradually calmed down, he stood up, the temple was suddenly silent, after the prince went to court, there was never any performance, or words, he always listened quietly to the ministers, never spoke, today, is he going to make a statement?

He stood up and said, "I am still young, I don't know about the war, and I don't dare to speak rashly... But I have the rest, Your Majesty! ”

He looked at the Son of Heaven and said: "Your Majesty, the previous Dahonglu Zhao Gong had played the matter of the old pawn, and the ministers did not pay attention to it, I have heard more things in the past few days, after the old pawns returned to their hometowns, there were many illegal acts, and there were acts of resisting officials and killing officials..." ”

Lu Zhi trembled and looked at the prince, and many old ministers fell into memories, frowning, not knowing what they were thinking.

Liu Mastiff looked at Lu Zhi, smiled, and said: "In the past, Situ Gong and Yang Gong discussed, with the old pawn as the pavilion pawn, so that Hezhou, Xinzhou Dazhi, worry-free thieves, no turmoil, is really the best, so...", he looked at the Son of Heaven, and said solemnly: "Erchen plays, please Your Majesty and the country to implement this policy, make the old pawn the pawn in the pavilion, govern one side, defend against thieves, this policy, good old pawn, and good villagers, I hope Your Majesty will agree!" ”

He bowed to the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven was stunned for a moment, and frowned, such a big thing, why didn't this kid tell me?

He was thinking about it, but many ministers began to play, starting with Situ Luzhi, all the officials disagreed, and only Guo Jia and Xing Ziang did not speak, and the rest of them all supported the prince's proposal, and some even hoped that the Son of Heaven could let the prince host this matter.

Liu Mastiff stood among the hundred officials, raised his head, and looked at the Son of Heaven.

Facing Liu Mastiff's gentle and simple gaze, the Son of Heaven still had some doubts in his heart, why didn't he tell me in advance? If that's the case, there's no need for him to play, and I directly order it to be executed, isn't it a lot more convenient?

"The prince has the people in his heart, and he really has the legacy of the temple!"

"The prince ordered this, I'm afraid that those old pawns will set up plaques for His Royal Highness and visit them day and night!"

The Son of Heaven was suddenly a little sluggish.

"Father, I'm studying in the Yuan Mansion alone... I.. I'm a little scared..."

"Father.. I think.. Think.. To observe.. The camp of the Golden Go..."

"Father! Those wretched soldiers are so pitiful! ”

"Father, can I live in Yuan's mansion?"

"Father, Duke Lu, Zhuge Jun, say I have... Ariaki-kun... Assets..."

"Your Majesty, Duke Yuan's teaching is limited, His Highness should go to Taixue!"

The Son of Heaven took a cold breath, his heart beating violently, and he looked at the prince below.

It seems that he has always mistaken this eldest son.