Han Ruzi came to ask his mother to move the palace to Luoyang, but the Empress Dowager Cining still didn't want to leave, "If Your Majesty can defend the capital, I don't have to leave, if Your Majesty can't, I don't want to leave."
Han Ruzi bowed and said: "I will not guard the capital, and not only the queen mother, but also the ministers in the court will move to Luoyang."
Empress Dowager Cining's expression changed, "Your Majesty wants to give up the capital, give up... the imperial palace?"
"Where there is a court is the capital. As for the palace, it's just the emperor's residence."
Empress Dowager Ci Ning was full of anger, "How could Your Majesty say such a thing? How much effort did our mother and son put in... If I don't leave, let me live and die with the palace."
Knowing that his mother would be very stubborn at times, Han Ruzi thought of a countermeasure and was silent for a moment, saying, "If anything happens, Luoyang will be the new capital, and Prince Qing will be the new emperor. He is still young, and his mother, Concubine Hui, has no power or power. …”
The Empress Dowager Cining was hit in the weak spot. She didn't leave before because the emperor was still outside. Now the emperor wants to stay and fight the enemy to the death. Prince Qing immediately seemed helpless, "The queen will take care of him, she promised me. "
"Master Cui's whereabouts are unknown, and he may have been martyred. Cui Teng is the only one left in the Cui family. The queen is a virtuous person and doesn't like power struggles. When she feels that she needs to take care of Prince Qing, I'm afraid that the situation will be over, and it will be too late."
The Empress Dowager Cining was silent for a long time, "Your Majesty has decided to make Prince Qing the Prince?"
"Prince Qing is older and should be succeeded by him. The will has been sent to the queen."
The Empress Dowager Ci Ning sighed, "Why can't Your Majesty stay in a safe place like other emperors, and hand over the defense of the country to the ministers in the court?"
Han Ruzi smiled and said: "The times are different, the Great Chu needs an enterprising Taizu, not a defending emperor. The enemy army is numerous, and as long as the Great Chu shows a little weakness, the Xiongnu in the north will take the opportunity to join the war. Da Chu will have no way out."
Empress Dowager Cining sighed again, "Our mother and son's life is always bad."
Han Ruzi stepped forward and said, "I can't choose 'fate', but I can choose how to deal with it. The more I read history books, the more I feel that no emperor has a 'good fate'. Since the emperor is the master of the world, he must bear the problems of the world. , this is an inevitable truth. From the Taizu to Emperor Wu, the ancestors and sects are all like this. If the fate is good or bad, I think I am better than my father, brother and two emperors."
Emperor Huan was poisoned, Emperor Si committed suicide, and it was too late to show his ability to govern the country.
Empress Dowager Cining stared at the emperor, realizing that she could no longer control her son, "If Your Majesty wins a big victory, will you change the crown prince?"
"Please don't ask the queen mother about this kind of thing. Only after I die on the front line, the queen will show the imperial edict. If I return safely, everything will be done according to the rules."
The rule is that the queen cannot give birth to a direct son, and only the Qing prince is eligible to become the prince.
"When do you leave?" Queen Mother Cining asked.
"Tomorrow morning."
"Hey, it's either the Emperor Qiangu or the ignorant and foolish monarch. Your Majesty has made a big bet this time."
"Reputation belongs to the history books, victory or defeat belongs to me, I have no regrets."
Empress Dowager Ci Ning waved her hand, expressing her acquiescence, Han Ruzi resigned, hit the supervisor Liu Jie to make preparations immediately, and then went to the Qinzheng Hall to formally pass the decree, asking the court to move to Luoyang.
How to deal with the objections of the ministers, Han Ruzi was ready, but to his surprise, no one from the prime minister Zhuo Ruhe onwards raised any objections.
"What about the people in the city?" Zhuo Ruhe asked.
"Moved to Luoyang with the imperial court, and the men over twenty and under forty stayed behind."
"The people are like scattered sand, how can they form an army in a hurry?" Qu Zixi asked in surprise.
"It's enough to have as many people as possible, not for combat power." Han Ruzi paused and added: "There is a lot of pressure outside the Great Wall, and the gods and ghosts can't free up too many troops, at most 100,000 people, the main force of the Chu army is those The surrendered Western soldiers, but they need a little confidence, the more the Chu army, the higher their morale."
The ministers were dumbfounded.
Han Ruzi said again: "The war has been going on until now, and the comparison is morale. The gods and ghosts think that they have defeated the Chu army. It is the time of pride, and they must lead their troops to the south quickly. The Chu army is waiting for work. Treat others with their own way."
Zhuo Ruhe said for a long time: "There are hundreds of thousands of people in the capital, and they are quite old and weak. I'm afraid it will be too late to move."
"As much as possible, each family can keep one adult man."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhuo Ruhe reluctantly replied, leading the ministers to bow to the decree.
"Send the decree immediately and set off tomorrow morning."
Han Ruzi left Qinzheng Hall and went to the arsenal in the capital to check in person. The armor stored there was enough to equip 70,000 to 80,000 people. He asked Liu Jie to take out all the armor from the arsenal in the palace, leaving nothing behind.
He went to Taizu's clothing and crown room again, asked Taizu's sword, remembered the four words Yang Feng left in the scabbard - Xiaoxiao, please stop, I didn't want to be distracted, but at this time, I couldn't help it, and passed the decree to don't die. , let him find Yang Feng's wife and children into the palace.
Summoning ordinary people into the palace, which is usually a very troublesome thing, is now carried out immediately.
In Lingyun Pavilion, Han Ruzi was admiring the sword, and the eunuch informed that Yang Feng's wife and children had arrived.
Hou Xiaomo took his son Luo Shifu up the building, kowtowed to the emperor, looked up at the emperor, and asked, "Why did the emperor meet our mothers?"
The young man kneeling beside him whispered, "Mother..."
Han Ruzi smiled and said he didn't care, and looked at the two carefully.
Hou Xiaoye was probably not a beauty even when he was young. He didn't look like a husband and wife to Yang Feng at all. He had a sturdy body, and he could see that he was very strong. Clear as a girl.
Looking at each other for a moment, Han Ruzi suddenly understood why Yang Feng married this woman.
Yang Feng has too much scheming, almost to the point of being a soldier. He must share a bed with a woman who has no scheming.
Yang Feng's son Luo Shifu was very young, even younger than Han Ruzi. He knelt on the ground and bowed his head slightly, similar to Yang Feng.
"Why did you mother and son move from Hu County in the first place?" Han Ruzi asked.
Hou Xiaomo stood up and pointed at the man who was following him. "Ask him. He used to live well, and the neighbors knew each other well. When he came, he insisted that we move, and he couldn't inform anyone yet."
"It was Yang Feng's last order." Don't make a slight embarrassment, "Yang Feng said that if the world is at peace, his wife and children will never see His Majesty. Some pointers, Your Majesty."
Hou Xiaomo raised his head at the emperor, "If the emperor is in trouble, just ask me."
Han Ruzi smiled, "Yang Gong is really a weirdo."
"No, he has been weird since he was a child, and even more weird when he grows up. He has to change his surname and become a eunuch."
"You and Yang Gong have been engaged since childhood?"
Hou Xiaomo shook his head, "Hehe, we both agree, but the old lady will not agree. I used to be the maid next to the old lady of the Luo family. After the old lady died, she served the son. One night, the son was in a bad mood, so I persuaded me. Persuade him, and in the end, I persuaded myself to him..."
"Mother, needless to say these." Luo Shifu reminded again, blushing a little.
Hou Xiaomo looked at his son lovingly, "The child is shy. Anyway, the son married me, and I gave birth to a son for him."
"Why did Duke Yang change his surname to commit suicide?" Han Ruzi was most confused about this.
Hou Xiaomo let out a long sigh, "Don't say that the son is a weirdo. He originally wanted to enter Beijing to be a jinshi and become a high-ranking official. Their Luo family has many relatives in the court. Seeing that he is talented, they are willing to help. But unfortunately, things just started to improve, and before the son can participate in the big exam, a relative of the Luo family somehow offended Emperor Wu and was beheaded by the whole family.
"The Luo family was beheaded by the whole family?" Han Ruzi was taken aback. Yang Feng never mentioned this incident, only that he was frequently framed.
"Yeah, it was quite a sensation at the time."
Han Ruzi recalled the record of Emperor Wu he had read, but he did not remember any minister surnamed Luo who suffered this tragic disaster.
Don't order him to step forward and say, "Someone from the Luo family once worked in the East Palace and was implicated in the case of the prince."
Han Ruzi had a little impression that too many officials were killed because of the Prince's case, and the Luo family was not prominent, only their first and last names.
The doubts in his heart have not diminished, but more, "But Yang Gong has never supported the orphan of the former prince."
Hou Xiaomo said with a smile: "Young Master didn't support the Crown Prince at first. After the Luo family was beheaded, the Young Master became suspicious, always saying what was hidden here and where, and that Emperor Wu was being controlled, I asked. Who he is, he said that the controller must be invisible, and only people around the emperor can know."
"So, Yang Gong self-harmed to get close to the emperor?"
"Yeah, he said that others can control the emperor, and he can too, and he said he would prove it to me."
Luo Shifu blushed and kept coughing, Hou Xiaomo didn't care at all, "Your father didn't tell me to lie, of course I have to tell the truth, not to mention that the emperor looks good and is a good person. Emperor, are you under the control of the son? "
Han Ruzi laughed and didn't answer, "Mr. Yang... It's hard to understand."
"It's easy to understand. Young Master became a eunuch not only for getting close to the emperor, but also for revenge."
"Avenge the Luo family?"
"The Luo family, the Wu family, the Lin family, many family members, the son said that Emperor Wu regarded the world as a plaything and was not fit to be the emperor. He wanted to teach the Han family a lesson, so that the Han family would understand that the emperor is not omnipotent."
Han Ruzi was stunned.
Luo Shifu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, don't listen to my mother's nonsense, my father is not that kind of person..."
"What kind of person is the 'father'? He left our mother and son soon after you were born, and you don't remember him at all. I know the son best, he is very proud, very proud, but he has always been frustrated, he blamed Emperor Wu, often said the emperor There is nothing more than a single husband, as long as you enter within ten steps, anyone can compete with the emperor."
Han Ruzi knew this was Yang Feng's words as soon as he heard it, no wonder he didn't want the emperor to find his wife and children.
Han Ruzi felt annoyed that he had been deceived, "Yang Gong has indeed entered within ten steps of me."
Don't order to step forward, "Please don't just look at Yang Feng back then, in Yunmengze, Yang Feng once told me that all emperors are born with so much suffering, there is no need for revenge at all, and he also said that Your Majesty is a good emperor, and he is not afraid of His Majesty. If I can't bear the hardship, I'm afraid that Your Majesty will be too proud and become a bad emperor instead."
Han Ruzi was stunned, "Did Yang Feng foresee the crisis in Great Chu today?"
Don't shake your head, "Yang Feng has no such ability, but what he said about the emperor can also be applied to the gods and ghosts."
Han Ruzi raised his eyebrows slightly, and suddenly felt that Yang Feng seemed to be standing in the corner looking at him.