.Crown Princess

Liu Xie can be said to be basically satisfied with the situation of the entire empire, but he is far from satisfied with the prince's marriage. It is not that the concubine chosen by the prince Liu Wei made him dissatisfied, but that Liu Wei delayed this issue for two years.

At the end of the 23rd year of China, Liu Wei had already chosen a woman from Kyoto Institute of Technology. She was the youngest daughter of Luo Bing, the former Minister of the Civil Affairs Department of the Central Government and the current Governor of Yangzhou. However, she did not expect that Luo Bing and Zhu Xu, a wealthy family member of the Yangzhou, had been married before they were young.

After Liu Xie and Cai Yan noticed it, they asked Liu Wei to choose another one. Who would have thought that Liu Wei would not change if he decided this. After a year and a half, Liu Xie knew that there was nothing he could do. If he dragged on, the prince would be twenty-four years old. Even a man who advocated marriage for twenty-two was rare, let alone the royal family, so he had to invite Lu Ji over.

Lu Ji received the imperial edict summoned by the emperor, but he didn't know what was going on. He was anxious and rushed to Tianjing from Antai Port overnight. It was dawn when he arrived at the Central Imperial Court and stayed outside the Imperial Court for two hours.

In the imperial court, as soon as Liu Xie entered the imperial palace, he heard that Lu Ji was looking for a meeting outside. He smiled and said, "It's quite urgent, let him come in!"

After Lu Ji came in, Liu Xie asked with a smile: "Mr. Lu hasn't been sleeping all night?"

Lu Ji said: "Why would you dare to delay the summons when the Lord summons? I just don't know what the Lord summons the people?"

Liu Xie coughed softly and said, "It's for the Crown Princess. Gong Ji, I heard that you have a good relationship with the Luo family. I want you to talk to a mediator?"

Lu Ji was slightly stunned and said, "As far as the people know, the three daughters of the Luo family are Sanxiujin in Jiangnan. Unfortunately, the first two married Lu Xun and married into the Sun family. The three daughters are the youngest, with a very beautiful literary talent, and further studied geography at Kyoto Polytechnic, which is a beautiful woman in China. It is a pity..."

Liu Xie coughed dryly, interrupted Lu Ji's words, and said directly: "As far as I know, Luo Bing is not married, and the other is not married. You will send a letter to Luo Tong for me today, saying that Prince Wei and Luo Bing have been together for more than a year, and they are mutually sympathetic and satisfied. You should make peace for me and be a matchmaker. Choose a date for them. The letter should be sent in a hurry. Then you set off to Yangzhou as the royal mediator, and send the betrothal gifts prepared by the Interior Affairs Office. The prince's wedding is scheduled to be held on the sixth of September!"

After saying this, Liu Xie asked the palace maid to transfer the betrothal gift list to Lu Ji and said: "This matter is related to the life of the prince. Gong Ji, don't let me down. If there is some trouble, you can handle it yourself when you watch the first release of the Chinese website!"

Lu Ji felt a thrill in his heart. Luo Bing was famous for the number one beauty in Jiangnan and Tianjing City, and both were famous for being a talented woman. Because he had a engagement with the Zhu family in his early years, otherwise the Luo family would have been slashed with the proposal. But he didn't expect that the prince could have any other way to do so with such a straight shot. Only then did he know that Liu Xie asked him to talk about the problem of the matchmaking. It was fake to say that the matchmaking was fake, and he was a middle-aged man, and it was true that the Luo family and the Zhu family had terminated the engagement.

Lu Ji had to take the order and retreated, and rushed to Nanjing again. The prince's marriage was a major national event. If it was handled badly, it was not said that the prince would ascend the throne in a few years, even if he had not ascended the throne for the time being. Now he has control over the power of the imperial palace, he can still play the role of Luo Luo at any time. The Zhu family might even consider his own Lu family in the account book and settle it together.

Luo Bing has been studying in the capital for two years and has dated Prince Wei several times. He knows it. Even if she is not satisfied with Prince Wei, the Crown Princess is the future queen. Looking at Cai Yan's reputation and momentum, which woman is not moved, but she has a engagement, and can only maintain the status quo.

The Luo family understood the point and immediately broke the engagement with the Zhu family. The Zhu family was not happy. Lu Ji took out Liu Xie's betrothal gift list and gave Zhu Ji a review, meaning, we should tell that it is something from the imperial palace, and the betrothal gifts are not all the best treasures. In addition to the royal family, who is eager to submit so many betrothal gifts? Moreover, the imperial Qilin Baoxiang Yezhen Tower and the imperial Six Dragon Xiang Yunyu Case Ruler are both items that are marked with imperial use. The matter is obvious.

Lu Ji looked at Zhu Ji, who was stunned and said, "Forget it, just pretend that this has not happened. You two families have quickly broken up the engagement. Don't make it difficult for Gongxu and me. The prince will definitely ascend the throne within ten years. Don't make trouble at that time, then all our three families will not be able to make a good deal!"

Zhu Xu was behind Zhu Ju and said angrily: "How can I take my wife's house from the throne of the prince? Do this unvirtuous thing!"

Lu Ji and Luo Tong were stunned, not knowing what to do. Zhu Ju looked at Zhu Xu, slapped Zhu Xu in the face, knocked Zhu Xu back to the ground, shouting, "Don't you, you don't want your head, your father and dozens of people in the family still want heads!"

Looking back and said to Luo Tong, "Congratulations to Gongxu. When Bing'er becomes the crown princess, our families in Jiangnan have their own faces, which is also a happy event. I hope Gongxu will support my dogs in the future!"

Luo Tong was ashamed and pressed Zhu Ju's hand, saying, "Everyone can know what you think. I will hold a banquet in the mansion tomorrow night. If Brother Zhu is inconvenient to go, I will go with Mr. Lu today and the three of us will go to the Zuitian Tower to gather. Tong will apologize for his brother!"

Zhu Ju turned his face and smiled, "This is a happy event, why bother apologizing? Today, you and my brothers are rarely together. The family is noisy, so why not go to Zuitian Tower to make a small splash..."

After receiving the news of the Luo family's consent, Liu Xie mentioned the matter with Cai Yan. Cai Yan was a little dissatisfied and said, "Does the emperor be too spoiled with the prince? As the saying goes, it is better to demolish ten temples than to demolish one marriage. This is not a matter of virtue!"

Liu Xie smiled and said, "This is the case, the queen can understand this. If we want the prince to be with you and me for life, then this is the case. Otherwise, he will always have a knot in his heart. If it is not handled well, the Luo family and the Zhu family will suffer some losses. You think they don't know. Besides, I heard from General Guo Huangji that Luo Bing and Zhu Xu have never met many times, and they were unable to do anything when they were young. They have a good relationship with the prince in the past two years. That's all, that's enough."

Cai Yan sighed, took off his outer robe for Liu Xie, and handed it to the palace maid, saying, "Since the emperor said that, then let's do it. As long as Wei'er feels happy, his wife will be satisfied!"

Liu Xie smiled faintly and said, "Some things are hard to explain. Especially these loves, sometimes, just talk about fate, I still think it is three points for heaven to determine. You can determine seven points for yourself, but love is really seven points for heaven to determine seven points for man to determine three points for man to determine three points for!"

Cai Yan smiled softly and gentlely: "Did your wife always think that everything in the emperor's heart is determined by others?"

Liu Xie was silent for a long time and said, "I used to think there were no gods, but a long time ago, I knew that there were indeed gods in this world, maybe there were many, maybe there were only ones, but this was not important. What was important is that they could change people, and people changed the world!"

Cai Yan smiled slightly, pressed Liu Xiedi's shoulders and said, "Although my wife can't understand what the emperor really wants to say, my wife believes that what the emperor said is correct!"

Time flies quickly, September comes, and Liu Xie and Cai Yan hosted the Prince Weidi wedding together. As the Crown Prince's concubine, Cai Yan gave her the name Qingqin. However, when Prince Wei read it, Liu Xie thought it was "kiss" no matter how much he heard it. Liu Xie told himself that he should be very happy. He sincerely hoped that Prince Wei and the Crown Princess could live together as long as he and Cai Yan. Although Liu Xie himself had not lived together with Cai Yan until he was old, he believed that this day would definitely come.

Ten years ago, he hoped to be with Xiao Qiao and Cai Yan until old age. But now he understands that Cai Yan can be with him until old age. Some problems are really unexplainable. To be honest, a truly smart woman is definitely a tolerant woman, and she also knows how to get along with her partner and keeps harmonious.

There is one thing that Liu Xie knew very well. That is, it was not herself who maintained the harmonious relationship between herself and Cai Yan. It was Cai Yan. For her, she endured much more than she got, although she was the most popular queen in the history of the Han Empire and was almost as loved as Liu Xie, because since she was thirty, most of her energy was devoted to welfare and public welfare.

To a certain extent, the Han Empire may not need a strong royal family, but it certainly needs a royal family that is more worthy of love. Of course, this love base is that the royal family has sufficient ability to support and protect the empire.

Liu Xie hoped that he could protect the Han Empire forever, but he knew that he would definitely get old. He might be a little old now. From the moment he found that he had to use force to straighten his waist.

At this time, the man of the Earth did not have pills to quickly supplement calcium, but he could drink some deer bone soup frequently. For a forty-seven-year-old man, it is time to prevent calcium looseness. If he still wants to continue to control the world, he must also prevent the arrival of the elderly and the weak.

In fact, if he wanted to drink tiger bone soup, it would not be a problem, but he himself forbidden people to kill tigers unless the tiger attacked and killed people. In fact, hunting was prohibited by the Han Empire. Although Liu Xie tried to pass the "Rare Animal Protection Law", he obviously overestimated the awareness of the representatives of the great nationals in the National Court. Protecting people and property is the sacred duty of the representatives of the great nationals, because they were richer people in the Han Empire, but protecting animals had nothing to do with them.

However, Liu Xie still passed the Nature Protection Law, which has a lot of reasons. Taoism advocates the protection of nature and live in harmony with nature, does not destroy forests, does not deforestate, does not hunt on a large scale or destructive basis, does not rely entirely on hunting, and likes nature, can dig lakes to breed, but it is absolutely not allowed to surround the lake to plant.

As for more bills that promote the advancement of the Han Empire, Liu Xie did not rush to pass it. It doesn't matter. Liu Wei would guarantee that the Han Empire would establish a more complete bill within thirty years. Liu Xie believed that Prince Wei could do better than him because he was his own son. Putting aside the factors of the empire, Liu Xie felt that he should believe in his eldest son. However, Liu Xie still formally appointed Liu Wei as the crown prince. The night before, he said this to Liu Wei--Although we know that the empire needs democracy to be more harmonious, and harmony is the basis for stability within the empire, in many special moments, the empire and the people need iron fist, and the emperor exists for iron fist, so never be weak and kind.

Regarding this sentence, Liu Xie said a few very contrasting words to Liu Wei--the people of the Empire need a very kind queen, but no kind emperor. For example, the people of the Empire are children, and the emperor is a father, and the empress is a mother. The children hope to have a kind mother. In this way, when they are embarrassed, they know who can ask for help; for the children, if they make mistakes, they can accept the punishment of their fathers, but more importantly, when they are bullied outside, they never need their mothers. What they want most is that their father rushes out, pulls the bully boys over and beats them, and then asks the bad boys to apologize to them, and it is best to give some benefits, such as war reparations, new land and more preferential trade policies.

Looking at Liu Wei who was thinking, Liu Xie simply put down his favorite jade cup and added: "In fact, it may be that our children have been bullying others and only occasionally suffer a small loss, but this is not important. For the emperor and the people, if we suffer a loss, we need to get more compensation!"

A few days after the Crown Princess entered the royal family, Liu Xie asked Luo Bing: "Crown Princess, when do you think I will be able to meet the third generation of the royal family?"

Luo Bing did not answer, but just smiled slightly, and Liu Wei said, "Father, my son and I think it should be very soon!"

Liu Xie was very happy and said to the princes and princesses: "The prince's marriage has finally been concluded. The other princes and princesses are ready to inform the queen about your own affairs. No need to wait for your second brother. The father believes that he will not come back next autumn. This is not good news for several of you princes who are twenty-two years old and princesses over twenty years old!" Cai Yan smiled and said: "As long as the eldest prince is settled first, according to the rules in the palace, there is no need for other princes and princesses to be arranged by size!"

Liu Xie said "Oh" and said with a smile: "It seems that I am too worried, but what's going on with this rule?"

Cai Yan smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. This rule was privately modified by my wife last year. The reason is that the emperor asked the second prince to go too far!"

Liu Xie nodded and said, "It's good to have it modified. Yi'er will be there for three years this time. If you have better luck, we will see him at the end of next summer."

At the end of the imperial banquet, Liu Xie slowly stood up, looked at the clock, and said to all the princes: "Half an hour later, my father will wait for you in the imperial study. It's time for my father to choose a stage for you!"
Chapter completed!