When Zhou Yafu entered the palace, Liu Che was looking at some reports that were placed in front of him.

"Ping Luhou has been taking wax pills made of ginseng recently......"

"Honghou swallowed a lot of pills......"

Liu Che took the reports of the two embroidered guards and played with them in his hand for a moment, and then threw them into the fire tray.

Pinglu waits for Liu Li, and Honghou waits for Liu Fu.

Both brothers are already very old.

After all, they were born in the era before the establishment of the Han Dynasty, when Liu Bang was just a pavilion chief of the Qin State, a scoundrel who ate in the countryside and waited for death.

Moreover, their health is not very good.

Liu Che remembered, in the original history.

Honghou Liu Fu should have died three years ago.

And Pinglu Hou Liu Li did not last a few years longer than his brother, and died a year after ascending the throne of the king of Chu.

Today, the two brothers are alive to this day.

This is thanks to the development of medical technology in the Han family.

Ginseng, deer antler velvet and cod liver oil extracted from deep-sea whale liver have helped them delay their longevity and quality of life.

However, now it seems that this delayed life has probably come to an end.

The flame of their life is being extinguished.

So, the two brothers desperately tried everything to keep themselves alive.

"But how long can you hold out?" Liu Che sighed as he looked at the burning report in the fire.

Chu Guosheji, after the Liu Li brothers left, there was no heir of Prince Yuan.

According to the provisions of the Han law, the legal principles of other direct families who have been enshrined in the Sheji of the Chu State are still the same.

Chu Guo is now like a ripe peach, just waiting for Liu Che to pick it.

There are more than 60 cities in the state of Chu, and it is adjacent to the Huaisi region, and the kings of Huaisi can be monitored upward, especially Liu Rong, who is always chattering all day long, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a loyal minister's brother.

Downward, you can overlook Mitsukoshi.

Condescendingly, together with Jiang Duguo, he became the pillar of the Han dynasty to deter and stabilize southern Xinjiang.

What's more critical is that the state of Chu is too close to Fengpei.

Liu Bang's original temple and the clothes of Han Taizu are enshrined there.

In conscience, Liu Che felt a little uncomfortable in his heart to hand over such a key kingdom into the hands of a fellow clan who was not too close to him.

Therefore, the East Palace has been slow to decide on the candidate for the king of Chu.

Liu Che is also happy to see this.

Anyway, you're going to procrastinate.

Time, here in me.

"Your Majesty, the prime minister wants to see ......" Wang Dao tiptoed to Liu Che's side to report.

"Why did the prime minister enter the palace today?" Liu Che was quite curious: "I remember that today was the day when the prime minister was resting......"

"Go and bring the briefing of the Prime Minister and the Secretaries last month to show me the first ......"

Not long after, Wang Dao held a thick stack of briefings and handed them to Liu Che.

Liu Che took it and looked at it.

There is very little information on the briefing, usually just one sentence.

But the whole briefing can be connected to show the main activities and things that an official has done this month.

Since Liu Che ascended the throne, he has further strengthened and strengthened the institutionalization of briefings.

Now, the Han Dynasty has made it clear that each subordinate must regularly submit his or her briefing to the superior.

In other words, presenting to Jiuqing, he must regularly report his briefing to Liu Che.

This is important!

The establishment and standardization of this system has greatly strengthened the centralization of power.

So that the state can extend its authority to the township pavilion.

As the emperor, he can know whether this guy is doing things with his heart or not by recording the courtier's daily administration and handling of government affairs recorded in the courtier's briefing.

With Gantang, it is simply invincible.

Liu Che looked at the content of Zhou Yafu's briefing, his gaze stayed for a moment under a certain date, and smiled slightly.

No minister would dare to deceive in the briefing.

Because this is a deception.

Bullying the king will kill the whole family.

Therefore, the text recorded in the briefing is absolutely authentic and credible.

"Gengshen, Xiu Mu, pass on the book to Jiangdu friends......" Liu Che played with this sentence, then put away these briefings, and instructed Wang Dao: "Summoning the prime minister to the Hajj......"

"No!"

Not long after, Prime Minister Zhou Yafu came up under the leadership of Wang Dao and came to Liu Che.

"Father Respectfully asks Your Majesty St. Ann!" After a routine salute, Zhou Yafu looked up at Liu Che: "The minister has entered the palace this time, and he has important matters to discuss with His Majesty, please let Your Majesty retreat!" ”

Liu Che waved his hand, and all the eunuchs and maids in the hall bowed, slowly withdrew from the main hall, and covered the palace door.

Of course, there are still people in this temple.

For example, the historians who recorded the emperor's daily life, words and deeds, and the personal guards who guarded the emperor's safety.

These people are the ones who will not leave the emperor no matter what happens.

This is also the reason why the gossip of the old Liu family in the past can always be spread throughout Chang'an.

After Liu Che ascended the throne, he strengthened the supervision within the palace.

This made the gossip party lose a lot of material at once.

Now, basically, there is no guy who dares to chew his tongue outside.

Generally, when they disclose news to the outside world, it must be ordered by Liu Che, the emperor, behind his back.

"The prime minister came just in ......time" Liu Che took a book and handed it to Zhou Yafu with a smile: "Prime minister, please look, this is a strange book I just obtained!" ”

Zhou Yafu was choked suddenly.

But there is no way, the emperor has the greatest labor and capital!

He grudgingly pinched his nose, tilted his head, and saw a small book.

The book is not big, and it is the size of two palms.

With hard paper as the cover, there are five small compilations of "The Legend of the Heroes of the Emperor and Han Dynasty".

"Novelist words?" Zhou Yafu shrunk his neck, Zhou Yafu still knows a lot about novelists.

Even, his house has some novels that are not so river crabs.

For example, what is "The Secret Story of Zhulu" and "The Story of Taizong"......

Anyway, novelists often do big deaths.

Fortunately, Liu doesn't take this seriously.

Today, he has even said to those who propose to censor the text and govern the public to discuss the royal secrets: Can I still delete the post and make a list of blocked words?

Although I haven't understood what the deletion of posts and blocking words are.

But this statement is obvious, and it is in line with Emperor Taizong's "Edict on Removing Slander".

The old Liu family has never cared about ordinary people gossiping about their private lives.

As long as you don't rebel.

But what the hell is this "The Legend of the Emperor and Han Heroes"?

Zhou Yafu opened the book curiously, and then, his eyes couldn't leave.

It's really something in this book, it's too exaggerated.

The beginning of Emperor Gao's White Snake Uprising is quite a bit of a basis.

But then it's pure nonsense.

When Zhou Bo first saw Lu, he knew that he would mess up the world, so he secretly planned and conspired with Chen Ping.

Xiao He raised Han Xin and secretly told Emperor Gao: This son has a backbone in the back of his head......

Even more exaggerated......

Records of the Battle of Heijo.

Chen Ping actually ran to Mao Dun Shan Yu Big Tent, and used his ingenuity to successfully persuade Mao Dun, so that he knew that "the Chinese Son of Heaven and the God and the Man" were relieved.

This, this, this......

It's just nonsense......

But......

"It's so emotional!" Zhou Yafu, who had never seen this kind of style and story, was deeply obsessed.

Especially the last chapter of this novel, it makes Zhou Yafu's blood boil.

This last chapter is about his father, Zhou Bo, who died and his soul ascended to heaven.

Taiyi God personally came to greet him, gave Zhou Bo divine medicine, and took Zhou Bo to travel around the world.

The god Taiyi fished a school of fish from the ocean and commanded them to live forever and follow a fixed route to Andong in Xinhua, where they would be the food of the summers for generations.

Taiyi then took a few foals from the three animals offered to him by the Emperor of the Han family, and threw them into the sea, turning them into huge whales, and commanding them to become a source of oil and fertilizer for Zhuxia.

In the end, Taiyi took Zhou Bo to the body poison, pointed to the fertile land, and said: This land that I built thousands of years ago should be known to the Han 56 years after the Han Xing, and it should be acquired by the Han 60 years after the Han Xing.

"The second and third sons, Jia this destiny, by the Zixuan Society, dreaming of sleeping at night, Yongzuo Huanghan!"

At the end of the story, his father sees countless points of light falling from the starry sky and falling on the land called Poison.

So in one country, one by one.

Zhou Bo also involuntarily fell to the earth, landed on the plain next to a long river, and entered the mountains and the earth

"The gentleman's Ze, the third and the sage, the fifth and the beheaded, the decline of virtue and the death of the country, the prosperity of virtue and the eternal existence of the community, the former one, I trained the Xia Hou clan Jiutao, Yu is the nine tripods, so the Xia Hou enjoyed the country for 800 years, to the emperor Kong Jia is not virtuous and chaotic the world, so the destiny of heaven is over, after the third generation, died in the Ji.

I also ordered the soup to make a soup oath, to the business virtue and the lord of the world for five hundred years, to the emperor Wu Yi, to the martial king's admonition, not to the king's virtue, so the destiny of heaven is over, Zhou is prosperous......"

"After Emperor Wu Yi III, he died in the ......"

This is the end of the story.

Although it does not say how Zhou perished, it does not mention the key to the rise and fall of the Han family.

But in the book, the meaning of the One God could not be more straightforward.

If it cannot help the people, and the society of the country that has leveled the four seas, it will lose its destiny.

As it continues, the merits accumulated by our ancestors are gradually consumed.

As a result, the self-possessed male lord started from the grass and worked hard in the world.

Zhou Yafu thought about it carefully, it seems that some things in this nonsense novel really look like that.

The flow of the Mandate of Heaven mentioned by it seems to be more reliable and logically consistent than the so-called Five Virtues of the Yin and Yang Family.

Zhou Yafu looked up at the Son of Heaven with a smile on his face.

He felt a pimple in his heart, and he couldn't help but make up his brain: "Perhaps, some of the content in this book is the words of His Majesty's fake novelist and is known to the world?" ”

Thinking of the Son of Heaven before the year, he suddenly rebuilt the Xuanshu Palace, spending tens of millions of dollars to change the decoration of the entire hall.

In front of the Xuanshu Palace, the edict of Emperor Taizong was burned.

He also hung Tang Wu's oath in the main hall of the Xuanmur Palace, 'the four seas are poor, and Tianlu will end forever'.

I think of the mysteries of today.

Reading this book again, Zhou Yafu had to think deeply about something deeper.

"What is said in the book is not necessarily false......

The Han people firmly believe that there is a spirit after death, and their ancestors have protected their descendants for a long time under the nine springs.

Historically, those who became gods after death also grabbed a handful.

Guan Kou Erlang of Shu County, Du Bo of Guanzhong, Qu Yuan of Chu State, and even Zhang Shizhi, who died of illness not long ago, and even Xiang Yu, all have incense sacrifices and offerings, and are considered ghosts and gods.

Of course, Zhou Yafu is willing to believe that his father will become a ghost and god after his death and ascend to heaven.

In particular, his father also served as a protector for his poisonous 'feudal country'.

This kind of heaven destined their old Zhou family to become the princes' writing, which made Zhou Yafu extremely useful.

It's just that......

"The Ze of the gentleman, the third and the sage, the fifth and the fifth!" Zhou Yafu played with this sentence in his heart.

What this represents, Zhou Yafu knows too well.

This is the death knell of hereditary system!

Although the Han family has always had a system of demotion to the knight.

Titles below the rank of marquis descend from generation to generation.

Even the lieges themselves could hardly escape the fate of surrender.

There are more than 100 princes who founded the country, and there are probably only a dozen of them who can still keep their feudal states.

The rest either disappeared or flew into the homes of ordinary people.

Even, even the heroes of Taizong have withered a lot now.

No family can be rich for long.

Just like his Zhou family, if there is no Zhou Yafu, maybe the next generation will be punished and exterminated.

It is even likely that it would have been expelled long ago.

In that year, his elder brother Zhou Shengzhi touched the law and was deposed, and he then inherited the Hou State, which had a lot of luck and his own efforts.

Therefore, Zhou Yafu did not object to the system of descending titles also extended to the princes and even the princes and kings.

If the previous generation has no meritorious service, the next generation will be punished by depriving the feudal state of food or even demoting the lord.

That's fair.

But the problem is, I'm afraid other people won't see it that way.

For most of the princes, the heroes of labor and management are the best people in heaven and earth.

The family should live forever and eternal, riding on the heads of others.

Even they know that this is impossible.

"So Your Majesty uses this novelist's words to explore the way?" Zhou Yafu pondered in his heart.

Liu Che looked at Zhou Yafu and said with a smile: "This book is still good for recreation, the prime minister can take it back and read it slowly......"

Okay!

The Son of Heaven recommended a book to the prime minister, saying that it was very good.

What should the prime minister do?

Of course, I would recommend it to other colleagues when I go back.

Zhou Yafu knew very well that the meaning of the Son of Heaven was like this.

Let him, the prime minister, come forward and recommend this book to the officials, scholars, and diners.

Then, the book slowly flowed into the market, becoming the target of various gossip parties, and even became a part of the daily entertainment and pastime of the people.

In this way, more than ten years later, when the content of this book was widely accepted, the Son of Heaven took advantage of the situation to issue an edict to institutionalize 'the Ze of the gentleman, the third and the third generation, the sage, the fifth and the fifth. ’

There were no saints after the Duke of Zhou.

In other words, all the nobles, princes, ministers, and doctors will all face the crisis of 'three generations and beheaded'.

In order not to be beheaded by the third generation, they can only work hard to gain political achievements.

And each generation must not let up.

Otherwise, the current feudal lords who were demoted to their titles because they did not make military merits are the fate of the future princes! (To be continued.) )