In the court today, some bureaucrats headed by Zhang Wen, Situ Cuilie, Yang Biao, and Lu Zhi, Shangshu, jointly wrote to the Son of Heaven, asking the Son of Heaven to be crowned as the prince as soon as possible.

Zhang Wen and Cui Lie and other important ministers said a lot of reasons, and they begged the Son of Heaven to start from the safety of the society and appoint the crown prince as soon as possible, so as not to cause trouble in the palace.

According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, the ministers said the truth, and above the court, no minister dared to jump out and openly contradict him, including Zhao Zhong, Zhang Rang and other lieutenant officials.

The Son of Heaven was very unhappy when he heard this, especially when he heard Lu Zhi say that if he didn't establish the crown prince early, he might cause trouble in the palace, he almost couldn't help but scold, but he couldn't help it.

Although he has never publicly expressed such thoughts, the sensitive courtiers have smelled the danger, and they finally can't help jumping out to stop themselves for the safety of the society.

The Son of Heaven regretted that he had beaten Xiao Shihou that day. It's all his own flesh and blood, if you want to say that you don't like it, it's also relatively speaking, he hates the queen, so when he saw Xiao Shihou, he couldn't get angry, he wanted to scold people, wanted to beat people, and as a result, he slapped Xiao Shihou.

Xiao Shihou loved to cry, and when the queen heard the voice, she cried endlessly, and in her anger, she blurted out a sentence that Shihou was not worthy of being the master. Unexpectedly, his unintentional words could be regarded as intentional, which caused a lot of trouble, which made the Son of Heaven annoyed.

He remained silent, his eyes glancing at the general He Jin from time to time.

He Jin closed his eyes slightly, his expression was calm, as if he was asleep, and he couldn't see anything abnormal. The Son of Heaven suddenly felt a trace of fear in his heart, and he suddenly remembered Li Yi who was far away in Youzhou.

Since the Liaodong rebellion, the general's control over the northern army has been significantly strengthened, and the captains of the five battalions have been replaced by him one after another, and the ruling Jinwu Zhenju, who commanded the northern army, has also been coaxed and persuaded by him to go to Hongnong to be the Taishou.

Although the Son of Heaven is vigilant. But he had no way, he couldn't deprive the general of his military power. If you suddenly attack the general without absolute certainty, in fact, you will take the initiative to provoke a palace battle and provoke a big battle for the imperial unification......

He didn't dare to think about it, there were too many such king-killing things in history, and there were already several emperors of the Han Dynasty who died unexplained.

The old lieutenants in the inner palace are all of the same mind as the queen. They all have a share in killing Wang Meiren, without the help of these old lieutenants, how could she easily kill her beloved concubine as a woman?

Although Zhang Rang and Xia Yun knelt in front of him a few days ago and wept bitterly, promising to help him help the little prince inherit the unification, he could see their hypocrisy and cunning, and he didn't believe them at all.

Zhang Rang and the queen are in-laws, will he help himself? Even if he is willing to help, can he trust such a two-faced person?

These old lieutenants grew up with him, spoiling and protecting him when he was at his weakest. So he always regarded them as his own family in his heart, and never had the idea of killing them.

He eagerly looked forward to them aging, to their death, and to Jian Shuo and other little yellow men to occupy and replace these old lieutenants as soon as possible. But the days have to go by day by day, things have to be done one by one, and you can't be in a hurry.

He believed that one day he could be an emperor who could do whatever he wanted, and he could do whatever he wanted. The first thing he had to do was to make Xiao Donghou the crown prince, and the second thing was to expand Wanjintang and move all the money in the treasury to his Wanjintang. Thinking about the room full of money and curiosities, he was excited.

The Son of Heaven and all the other ministers who wanted to persuade him finished speaking, and finally said something that made them almost angry.

"Nine years later."

Nine years later, it was the year of the crowning ceremony of the Great Prince.

The court suddenly fell silent.

The Son of Heaven was very satisfied with this effect, and then he said that after the first lunar month, he would go back to his hometown in Hejian with his mother, the Empress Dowager Dong, to pay respects to his ancestors.

As soon as the Son of Heaven finished speaking, there was an uproar in the court, and the ministers who came out of the class scrambled to be the first.

Dasi Nong Wang Han struggled to grab the first place, and he shouted loudly at the top of his voice: "Your Majesty, there is no money in the treasury." If Your Majesty must go back to his hometown in Hejian Kingdom, please use the money of Shaofu. His Majesty's return to his hometown to worship his ancestors is purely a private matter of His Majesty, and the state treasury is not allowed. ”

There are two secretaries in the outer court institutions of the Han Dynasty, both of whom are in charge of the financial economy, namely Dasi Nong and Shaofu. According to the current words, the big government is in charge of the government economy, and the young government is in charge of the royal economy.

Dasi Nong is in charge of the country's taxes and money, and is the central government finance of the Han Dynasty.

The Shaofu is in charge of the royal family's finances and the emperor's clothing, food, housing and transportation, as well as the taxes of the mountains, seas and ponds, and the income of the Shaofu is used for the private use of the royal family. The royal family could not use the money of the Great Si Nong.

At that time, the national land income was a large amount, and it was managed by Dasi Nong. Taxes from industry and commerce, such as salt by the sea and mines in the mountains, are generally very small and are managed by the Shaofu. The laws of the Han Dynasty clearly stipulate that the government and the royal family are absolutely separate in the use of money.

When the Son of Heaven heard this, the fire was great. He stood up suddenly, glared at a pair of small eyes, pointed at Wang Han and scolded angrily: "Da Sinong is too stingy, and the money in this treasury is not your family, why don't you let me use it?" Do you want to do whatever you want? I haven't been home for 18 years, do I have to pay for it when I go home? ”

"As Your Majesty said, it is your Majesty who pays for it himself." Taiwei Zhang Wen said, "It is Your Majesty's private matter to go home to worship your ancestors......"

"Shaofu has no money, everyone knows this. His Majesty goes home to worship his ancestors, and it takes more than a month to go back and forth, and the expenses are very huge, can he do it without more than a billion dollars? Is there a billion money in Shaofu? Taiwei Zhang, Wang Sinong, when you say that, you are determined not to let Your Majesty go home. Shaofu Fan Ling didn't wait for Zhang Wen to finish speaking, and said loudly.

Fan Ling is a famous scholar in Nanyang, and when he was young, he wanted to worship under the disciple of the famous party member Li Ying, that is, Li Yi's dead grandfather, but Li Ying thought that his character was not good and was unwilling to take him in.

Fan Ling was later attached to Cao Jie, and Zhao Zhong was commensurate with brothers, and was repeatedly promoted in the court.

Cui Lie said: "Your Majesty, the war in Liaodong has just subsided, but Xiliang is still fighting fiercely, the cost is quite large, the treasury is empty, and the cost of Your Majesty's trip home is huge, and the treasury is simply unable to pay it." Your Majesty, according to the ministers, just wait a few more years for the matter of going home to worship your ancestors? ”

"Is Cui Situ talking about human words?" Zhang Rang hadn't appeared in the court for a long time, but his first words as soon as he appeared shocked people, and he dared to insult the three important ministers.

Zhang Rang's words were shocked, and dozens of pairs of angry eyes in the court stared at the skinny Zhang Rang at the same time, eager to tear him apart.

"Your Majesty wants to fulfill filial piety and accompany the Empress Dowager Xiaoren home to worship her ancestors, Cui Situ actually said something to stop it, is this something done by people who read books and know etiquette? I read Cui Situ's books to the soles of my feet, right? Zhang Rang held his head high, looking disdainful.

Cui Lie was furious, opened his mouth and scolded: "Emasculating a villain, you dare to speak out about etiquette and righteousness? Dare to talk about national affairs? ”

Cui Lie's words immediately annoyed Zhao Zhong, Duan Qi, Guo Sheng and other regular servants, and everyone attacked him.

Zhang Wen, Yang Qin, Yang Biao, Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun, Tao Qian and other ministers were even more excited, and everyone immediately quarreled in the court.

The general He Jin, Sikong Xu Xiang and others came forward to mediate, but the more they adjusted, the more angry everyone became, and they even wrapped He Jin and Xu Xiang into the quarrel, and the shouts resounded inside and outside the hall.

The Son of Heaven shouted twice, and when he saw that no one was paying attention to him, he was so angry that he brushed his sleeves away.

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Xiangkai, a native of Qingzhou Plain County, is a well-known scholar in the world, and he has studied the Taiping Sutra very much.

Where the "Taiping Sutra" came from and who wrote it, there is no place to study in history. The book adopts the views of Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi in cosmology, and it tells believers to govern the state by magic and religious creed, rather than by law and morality. In addition to governing the country, the Taiping Sutra can also nourish the individual's body and mind, so that it can reach the state of immortality.

Many of these spells and creeds did not come from Taoism, but from the Five Elements, the Immortals, and the Mohists. The Mohists were a guild-style folk school of craftsmen in the pre-Qin era, and their disciples believed that God was a god with a will and would respond to everyone's good and evil behavior, so they evolved moral cultivation into religious precepts.

From the very beginning, this school used a method similar to that of the current black society* to organize its members, so they had already disappeared in the Qin era of the previous dynasty.

According to the laws of the Great Qin, the Great Qin State did not allow secret societies, and violators were punished to kill the nine clans, but the followers of the Mo family, with their attainments in physics and chemistry, turned into alchemists who were proficient in making utensils, refining pills, and claiming that they could make people immortal.

Xiangkai and Taiping Taoism advocate that the horn is a friend, although one is a monk, believes in Mohist doctrine, the other is a Taoist, believes in the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu, but both study the "Taiping Sutra", both believe that religion is not only people's spiritual destination, but also should be an ideal home, only by using various forces to establish a religious country on the land of the Han Dynasty, the common people in the world can be happy and peaceful, in order to have absolute average and noble morality, in order to achieve a classless, no government, no law, no exploitation, no natural disasters, the ideal state of disease-free. (To be continued.) )