Liu Yan's self-feeling at this time is very good.

He has been king in Jiangdu for more than four years, although his own ability may not be outstanding.

However, the people who assisted and helped him before and after were all the elders in the world!

First by Feng Tang and Zhang Shizhi, and then by Wei Juan and Yuan Si.

In addition, as the closest sibling today, Jiangdu has received the most policies and preferential treatment.

Today, Jiangdu has become the richest kingdom in the southeast.

There are even folk songs that are sung: Xiaoyi still has ten thousand family collections, and the rice is fat and the corn is white......

Shilin public opinion also praised him as a great king, believing that he was a 'virtuous king'.

In this piece of singing praises of virtue, Liu Yan is of course inevitably inflated.

After all, he's not more than twenty years old this year.

It can withstand such propaganda.

Listening to Yuan An's flattery, Liu Yan was even more proud.

It's just that thinking of his eldest brother as the emperor, he shrunk his neck slightly.

He has never been bold, even the youngest of his brothers.

What's more, not long ago, the fate of Liu Piguang, the king of Jinan, scared almost all the princes and kings of the Han family to death.

Didn't you see it, is even Liu Bo, the king of Lujiang, honest?

It's just that......

Handan's temptation and confusion made him difficult to restrain himself.

He didn't like Jiangdu very much, especially Guangling.

The food habits, customs and climate here made him a little uncomfortable.

His heart has been flying north.

If the candidate for King Zhao had already been decided, he would probably have died long ago.

But on the contrary, the Handan Palace. There has been no owner for a long time.

How can he hold back the homesickness that is stirring deep in his heart?

He leaned forward slightly and looked at Yuan Ang in front of him.

"Taifu ......," Liu Yan said slowly. Tentatively asked: "In the opinion of the public, Zhao Guosheji." Who is the master? ”

Although it is a temptation, there is a momentum in the words.

Liu Yan really felt that among the brothers, except for him, no one was qualified to sit in Handan, spy on Zhao Guo, condescendingly, and spur Qilu.

He looked out of the curtain.

Both sides of the road. The channels are staggered, and the water is murmuring.

In some places, there are even waterwheels.

On the distant horizon, the smoke curls and the sound of chickens and dogs.

Although it is winter, this old Wu land is still vibrant.

Countless people trekked among the rivers and walked among the fields. Or busy cleaning up the silt of the river, repairing channels, roads, bridges, or towing ships. Pull the giant wood.

And the cities of Jiangdu Country outside the line of sight are prosperous and orderly.

Even. Not even a single beggar is gone!

Jiangdu has become outside Guanzhong. This is the second blessed land to wipe out beggars in the whole of the world.

This is something that King Wu and Liu Bi couldn't do before!

And now, it's in his hands!

Though. In fact, he didn't have any strength to do these things.

It was all formulated and planned when Feng Tang and Zhang Shizhi were there, and it was even simply supervised by officials from the central government.

He, the king, has to do nothing more than nod his head in agreement.

Even......

Don't even mention opposing opinions!

But that doesn't stop Liu from feeling very good about himself.

Of course, Yuan Ang could hear the meaning of Liu Yan's words, and he could also understand the king's thoughts.

In Yuan An's view, the king of Jiangdu of the Han family is actually a child who has not grown up.

He was put into this southeastern land by his brother for a long time.

If that brother had ignored him, or even been even colder, perhaps he would have accepted his fate.

But on the contrary, the current one is a little too good for his younger brother.

Throughout the year, there is an endless stream of envoys from Chang'an to Jiangdu.

They brought the care and reward of the emperor's brother to the southeastern border.

Even every year, he would edict back to the king of Jiangdu, and comfort Chang'an for half a month, or even more than a month, until the ministers couldn't stand it anymore and began to write a letter to ask for the country of Jiangdu.

Back then, Taizong treated King Li of Huainan, and the first emperor met King Liang, which was not as good as this.

This will inevitably make Jiang Du have some undeserved expectations and undeserved extravagant hopes in his heart.

To be reasonable, if it was Yuan Ang in the past, he would probably try his best to admonish, state the powerful relationship, and dispel his own attempts and thoughts as king.

But......

Now, Yuan Ang himself wants to return to Chang'an and return to the center of power.

He also wanted to fight Chao Cuo and continue to fight for another thirty years.

In order to be able to return to Chang'an, Yuan Ang did everything he could.

And the king in front of him is the best ladder for him to return to Chang'an.

"From the perspective of the servants, today is the most suitable person to enshrine Zhao Guosheji, and the newcomer of the first generation is none other than the king!" Yuan Ang bowed and said: "Today, Huainan is indifferent, Changshan is arrogant, Zhongshan is sick, only the king is benevolent and filial, and he is admired by the world......."

Liu Yan was also very happy when he heard it.

Although he had heard many similar arguments in the past.

After all, compared with his brothers, he, the third child, can be said to have an advantage in everything.

Liu Rong, the king of Huainan, although he is the eldest son of the first emperor and the head of the country, has always been domineering, and he is not satisfied with the present, and often privately says: I am the eldest son, and the first emperor should have set me up......

He secretly found a bunch of strategists, plotted day and night, and spread many 'rumors'.

There are even some of these 'rumors' that people can't even think about......

For example, the death of the first mother Su Shi......

For example, today he does not posthumously seal his biological mother, but only treats him as a concubine.

For example, the indifference and resistance to Su's relatives and the favor and wooing of Bo.

I almost didn't say it directly: The reason why it has been established today is just to cover the shameless flattery of Bo's!

Even in the subtext, there is no allusion to today's accusations of unfilial piety of biological mothers.

It's just a pity......

Even Liu Yan has heard about these things.

Don't talk about the Son of Heaven!

It can only be said that the old Liu family is inherently inherently inappropriate to engage in low-key rebellion.

Since Gaozu to the present, every prince and king who has rebelled or slandered or attacked the central government. It's all big grinning, for fear that the world won't know. He's going to rebel against OR and make a conspiracy.

As for Liu Fei, the king of Changshan.

All right......

He is a copy of the original King of Huainan Li.

Liu Yan was in Guangling City, and he often heard rumors about his younger brother: the fifth child raised a 400-pound tripod today...... Lao Wu hunted another tiger...... Lao Wu lifted a 600-pound tripod again......

What are the princes and kings there?

It's clearly a strong man!

As for Liu Yu, the king of Zhongshan......

He was born with a stutter. And I don't like government affairs at all, since I became the king of Zhongshan, I have loved cockfighting and lackeys, so I don't have to worry about it at all.

The remaining brothers Liu Duan, Liu Sheng, Liu Pengzu and so on.

It's either too young, or it's tyrannical, so there's nothing to worry about!

To be reasonable, he, the king of Jiangdu, is indeed the most suitable candidate to be the king of Zhao.

It's just that......

For some reason, the emperor's brother just didn't agree......

This made Liu Yan's hair gray.

Yuan Ang observed Liu Yan's expression, although he had been in this Jiangdu country for a short time. However, he already knew that the king and his brother were completely two people.

Nowadays, he is very good at hiding his anger and anger.

I like to let the courtiers below guess the riddle.

But this one is both happy and angry.

At a glance, people can know that this is a naïve and lovely king without a city.

Such a king, of course, is the best served and controlled by the ministers.

Yuan Ang heard that when Zhang Shizhi was the prime minister of Jiangdu in the past, he simply regarded this king as a clay statue.

Even the disaster relief after the Jiangdu State disaster only made the king show up in Guangling City every day. Then you can go back to the palace.

The rest of the things, Zhang Shizhi and Feng Tang did it single-handedly.

Jiangdu Guo can have today's situation, which is also the foundation laid by Zhang Shizhi and Feng Tang.

Now, Zhang Shizhi is dead. And Feng Tang is old and decrepit, and it is difficult to support it alone.

Jianling Hou Weixuan, who was appointed by the Son of Heaven to take over Zhang Shizhi's position, is a well-known good man who has never taken care of things.

This Jiangdu is in authority. In fact, it fell into the hands of him Yuan An.

And who is Yuan An?

He is the minister who is the best at reading people's hearts today.

Back then, Emperor Taizong's thoughts were repeatedly seen through by him.

A hairy boy like Liu Yan was of course played with by him and applauded without knowing it.

Yuan Ang just took a closer look. You know what Jiang is worried about.

Yuan Ang then smiled and said, "What worries the king? You might as well speak bluntly to the minister. Although the minister is dull, he may be a counselor to the king......"

Liu Yan was worried that he had no one to talk to, and when he heard this, he sighed: "Taifu doesn't know, the widow has written to His Majesty several times, imploring to change the country, but His Majesty has not allowed it for a long time, but he just said: I have a heavy responsibility, entrust it to the king, and the king should encourage!" ”

"But this heavy task is nothing more than shipbuilding, salt drying, and fishing...... Liu Yan lowered his head, quite dissatisfied with the so-called heavy task he undertook: "The widow, the blood of the first emperor, and today's siblings, are they just shipbuilders?" A reckless man who basks in salt? Fishermen? ”

Listening to Liu Yan's words, Yuan Ang also felt a little empathy.

Today, the Son is more radical than his father and ancestors in the idea of governing the world.

If the two generations of emperors Taizong and Renzong just don't like literature, they love cool officials more.

Then, today is to tell the world nakedly - the article is useless!

When Taizong and Renzong were in power, those who wrote good articles did not worry about a way out.

As long as you have a good reputation, you will have your own county guard or Jiuqing to recommend it.

But today, on the one hand, the examination is opened, and a large number of scholars, reading seeds, are directly stuffed into the local township pavilion, and the farmers are in company, and they are also complacent and say: All the heroes of the world are in my urn.

It's just Sven sweeping the floor.

But the more frightening thing is that it is not.

It is the township pavilion shuffle that comes from this.

Starting from Guanzhong, the grassroots political power of counties and townships was occupied by the examiners.

These scholars from hundreds of schools, and even ordinary people from Yeluzi, once they were in power, they gave orders.

Confucian scholars wanted to establish the Confucian order according to their own ideas and ideals.

The scholars of the Legalists also want to build their own ideal country according to their own ideas and concepts.

The same is certainly true of the old school of Huang.

And everyone interprets what they have learned in different directions.

So, starting from Guanzhong, a strange thing gradually surfaced.

When Yuan Ang began to notice it, they found that it was impossible to stop it.

One after another, low-level pavilion chiefs, wandering and even lizheng, they are like spider webs, weaving a huge web of echoes and unity at the grassroots level of the Han family, although they do not belong to each other.

Under this network, the old gentry and landlords retreated.

A large number of interests, which were originally occupied by the gentry and landlords, fell into their hands.

Then, these young men, relying on the meat snatched from the mouths of the landlords and gentry and even the aristocracy, began to carry out their ambitions and transform their places as they wished.

Don't look at these scholars, they belong to different factions, have different philosophical differences, and sometimes, they can even spray each other and play dog brains.

But when faced with the outside world, there is a surprising unity.

There was once a protest in a certain county and a township in Guanzhong, because the reform was too radical, which angered the local gentry, and was boycotted and expelled.

As a result, the next day, this person handed a complaint to the Tingwei Yamen.

Something like this used to happen.

Officials such as You, who offended the local gentry, were jointly expelled.

The above did not dare to act, and could only punish the wanderer - who told you to mess around?

But on that occasion, things were reversed.

After this person submitted the complaint, 300 scholars supported him.

Three hundred people signed a joint letter, which shocked Guanzhong.

In the end, the prime minister ordered a thorough investigation.

An investigation team composed of Neishi, Tingwei and Lang Zhongling went deep into the local area and ascertained the truth.

Then, it was the local gentlemen who were out of luck.

They were found guilty of illegally resisting court officials, and some even lost their heads.

This matter made Yuan Ang not think clearly for a long time.

It wasn't until he was relegated to Jiangdu that he figured it out.

Those examiners, although they belong to different factions, have different ideas.

But they have a source.

Everyone came out of the examination and took the way of examination to become officials.

If, today, something happens to so-and-so, everyone does not support it.

If you have something to do tomorrow, who will help?

More importantly, they all know, and understand, that if they want to realize their ideals and ambitions, they have to go to the mouths of the local gentry to grab food.

Whether it is Confucianism who wants to realize the ideal country of his father, father, son, monarch and ministers, who are up and down, who are farmers and industrialists, and who have their own duties, or Legalists who want to 'teach the best of their ability', or Yang or Huang Laopai who want to 'smell each other and never get along with each other. 'All need money, all need resources.

That's all there is to it.

And they have a lot to do.

Besides, no matter what the sons of the hundreds of schools of scholars are, when they arrive in the place, they will face the same situation.

There is no such thing that Confucianism can just reason, and the Legalists are only in charge of the households, and the Huang Lao faction is left alone.

This forced them to grab food from the gentry and landlords if they wanted to make achievements.

What's even more troublesome is that these examiners are not locals at all.

Nothing to do with the native squires.

Trying to buy and win them over, the cost and difficulty have risen dramatically.

As a result, the old social order collapsed and a new one was established.

However, old-style bureaucrats and scholars like Yuan Ang are at a loss in the face of the new situation, and they don't even know how to deal with the embarrassment. (To be continued.) )