The fifth year of Emperor Han's reign.

"Cough! Cough!"

Liu Chang almost choked on the water, raised his head, looked at the messenger in front of him in surprise, and asked: "What did you say?"

"This is a letter from my king to you. Prince Han was born... so that his father-in-law can know about it."

Liu Chang took the letter from South Korea in a daze and hurriedly opened it to check. This letter was sent by the fourth brother. It was the fourth brother's style. He first asked Liu Chang if he had listened to the Queen Mother and Her Majesty recently.

I made a mistake, and then casually mentioned at the end, by the way, I have a son again, named Qi, just to let you know.

"Fourth brother, isn't this too fierce?? Is this the fifth son??"

"One is born every year... I thought the second brother was the most father-like, but I didn't expect that the fourth brother is even worse!"

This is already the fifth letter sent by the fourth brother. Basically, there is one letter every year. Each letter is almost like this. The first part is asking about Liu Chang's situation, and the last part is adding that he has a son.

This has been the case for five consecutive years. Do we, the old Liu family, only have sons? One son every year? Is there still this tradition?

"This is a happy event, I should give you a gift...don't leave yet, wait for me to prepare the gift, and then take it back to South Korea!"

"only!"

The envoy bowed profusely, then turned and left.

Liu Chang looked at the letter in his hand with a smile, and suddenly laughed again.

Luan Bu looked at him in surprise, "Why is your Majesty laughing?"

"It's not good for people to laugh at King Zhao. The eldest brother, the second brother, and the fourth brother all have children, and even the fifth brother's queen is pregnant... Only this King Zhao has no heirs until now! Hahaha!"

Liu Chang raised his head and laughed, then said: "No, I have to write a letter to King Zhao and ask him what's going on..."

Luan Bu shook his head lightly and said, "King Zhao is the elder brother of the king. How can there be any reason to treat your elder brother like this?"

"I am also concerned about him. If he dies one day and has no heirs, wouldn't he have to wipe out the country?"

While the two were chatting, Liu Chang suddenly looked at Ji Bu who was not far away and asked, "Ji Bu? Is this Queen Han also surnamed Lu?"

Ji Bu was stunned, then nodded and said, "They are distant relatives of the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother is close to the Queen Mother of Han, so most of her concubines are arranged by the Queen Mother."

"Then you have to prepare gifts... Serving the person named Lu, all the people under my command are not as good as you. Please be responsible for preparing gifts."

Faced with such sarcasm, Ji Bu was not angry and left the place after accepting the order.

Seeing Ji Bu leaving, Zhang Buyi said angrily: "This guy is unfaithful, we can get rid of him!"

Duke Zhao sneered, "You actually have the nerve to accuse others of being disloyal."

Zhang Buyi was furious and cursed: "You meet and banquet with the ministers all day long, but you are also a disloyal traitor like Ji Bu! It is a great humiliation to be with you!"

"Okay, stop arguing... while Ji Bu is away... go out with me!"

Liu Chang interrupted the dispute between the two and led them out of the Tang Palace in a hurry.

After getting in the car, Luan Bu asked: "Your Majesty? Where are we going?"

"At the Royal Tomb Mansion."

Luan Bu was stunned and drove away.

Liu Chang has been back to Chang'an for some time. Liu Chang doesn't care what happened in Chang'an when he left, and he doesn't want to know. He only knows that the Han Dynasty is now on the right track, and the Queen Mother is in power.

One thing is to abolish part of the law.

She first got rid of the crimes of the three clans and the crime of evil words, so that the people would no longer be guilty of crimes with their words. Even if they committed the biggest crime, they would not implicate the three clans. Then she reduced the current punishments and abolished a large number of

For corporal punishment, the atonement law was promulgated. The criminal can atone for his sins by giving money, food, and performing meritorious deeds. If he cannot atone for his sins, he will be punished for his sins.

Immediately, she and her ministers formulated the system of "annual replacement of garrison soldiers", whereby the soldiers guarding the border were rotated once a year.

Then there is the currency. The currency system in the early Han Dynasty was too chaotic. Empress Lu finally decided to stipulate the currency system and let the whole world use the same currency.

The big man was running forward at a speed visible to the naked eye. The officials were extremely well-behaved and actively carried out the orders of the temple, fearing that they would be invited to drink someday. The local officials were effectively supervised and did not dare to act arbitrarily.

There was no internal friction, everyone worked together, and the machine called Dahan was activated by Empress Lu. Its efficiency was countless times higher than that of Liu Ying's period.

Liu Chang felt that this was enough.

Liu Chang didn't know what the long-term plan was. He only knew that after the Queen Mother came to power, she directly opened the Chang'an West City. Merchants from Chang'an came from all directions. Chang'an City, which was originally bleak and indifferent, suddenly became a noisy and lively metropolis with busy traffic and traffic.

It doesn't have the same deserted appearance as before.

In the past, the poor people who still needed help from the sages are becoming fewer and fewer now. Just the merchants who stay and come and go make these Chang'an people make a fortune. Chang'an is prosperous, and the people living here are also rich.

This time he wanted to visit the royal tomb because he was entrusted by someone.

Wang Ling is now living at home. He is not a semi-idle like Cao Shen. Cao Shen is also called to the palace from time to time by the Queen Mother to ask about some important matters. Cao Shen does not care about the conflicts between the two at all. In the face of many policies of the Queen Mother, he can give advice.

For expressing his opinions, the Queen Mother often rewarded him, which was very important to him.

But Wang Ling, that is the real resignation, spending all day criticizing the court at home, that is, the Queen Mother pardoned the accusation, otherwise Xuanyi would have chopped off his head.

The Queen Mother sent people to invite him many times, but the man ignored him at all and shouted to the messenger: "Kill him if you want. I have been greatly favored by Emperor Gao and will never bow my head!"

His appearance made the Queen Mother very angry, but she did not take action against him. She just stopped sending anyone to invite him and let him stay at home.

When the carriage approached Wang Ling's mansion, Liu Chang heard yelling and cursing from a distance.

"Dog thief!"

"Old man!"

Liu Chang frowned, asked Luan Bu to stop the car, jumped out of the car, and walked proudly towards the gate of the palace. In front of the gate of Wangling Palace, there were about a dozen young people standing, these people were probably the same as Liu

Ying was about the same age, each wearing bright and beautiful clothes, and there were a few followers standing not far away. They gathered at the gate of Wangling Mansion and kept cursing.

When they found Liu Chang coming, they looked at him with surprise in their eyes.

This is a young man with a heroic face, who is dressed more luxuriously than them. He is obviously not older than them, but he is very tall, with a arrogant expression and fierce eyes. He is followed by three people, who looks very imposing.

Seeing this posture, the leader took the lead in saluting, "Who is he in Gero?"

"Lu Ta? How come I haven't heard of it..."

The more arrogant Liu Chang became, the more these people did not dare to provoke him. The leader smiled and said: "They are distant relatives of the Queen Mother, who just returned from their single father not long ago."

Liu Chang smiled disdainfully and looked at Luan Bu beside him, "Do you know these people?"

"I know... they are distant relatives of the Queen Mother. When we left Chang'an, she was picked up by the Queen Mother. This one is called Lu Ta. His father relied on his relationship with the Queen Mother and acted tyrannically in the local area. He was executed by Wang Ling...

The Queen Mother brought them back and made them each a marquis. This Lu Ta, after hearing about it, made him a Marquis Yu, but this Yu Marquis has no virtue, bullies and dominates the market, and does all kinds of evil in Chang'an!"

Hearing the people in front of them casually talking about the Queen Mother without any fear on their faces, these Lu family members suddenly became a little scared.

"My lord, I have a grudge against Wang Ling. Wang Ling is targeting me, the Lu family. I came here on the order of Marquis Jie..."

"Jianhou? Lu Chan asked you to come..."

"Yes, yes, he asked us to come."

Liu Chang sneered and said: "I usually hate domineering and dandy young men like you the most!"

"The Han Dynasty has its own laws here. You are violating the laws and regulations of Chang'an. As a member of the Queen Mother's clan, you take the lead in violating the law and ruining the Queen Mother's reputation! How can you let evil people like you off so easily?!"

"Luan Bu! Kill them!"

In an instant, Luan Bu did not hesitate, drew out his sword, and struck Lu Ta. Lu Ta was horrified. When the sword fell on the man's neck, Luan Bu stopped his hand.

Lu Ta was trembling all over and almost knelt on the ground. The other Lus looked at this scene in horror and said tremblingly: "We are all princes..."

"Are you worthy?"

"Zhang Buyi, arrest them all!"

Obviously, all these people together are not enough for Zhang Buyi to fight alone. Zhang Buyei cannot beat Ji Bu, nor can he beat Luan Bu, but it is easy to beat these evil young men, and he is not polite at all, stabbing him

There were several people, and one of the followers was almost beheaded by Zhang Buyu just because he pointed his sword at Liu Chang. Looking at the people who fell to the ground and groaned, Liu Chang asked Zhang Buyu to tie them up, and he went to knock on the door.

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Liu Chang took the trouble to knock on the door.

After a long time, finally, a person opened the door impatiently, stuck his head out, and cursed: "Shu Zi, what do you want to do?!"

The person who opened the door was Wang Ling.

At this moment, Wang Ling was wearing ordinary clothes, his body was dirty and stained with mud, and his face was full of displeasure.

When he saw Liu Chang outside the door, he looked stunned, then looked at the Lu family disciples who had fallen to the ground, and then sneered, "The little evil guy met the big evil guy."

Liu Chang looked at Zhang Buyi and explained: "Although I am a bit irritable, I am definitely not a very evil person."

Wang Ling then looked at him, "What's the matter?"

"I came here specially to visit Father Zhong. Why doesn't Father Zhong invite me into the house?"

"I'm just a commoner, but I can't be the king's father-in-law!"

"My father Zhong followed my father in the north and south, and settled the country. If it hadn't been for my father, how could I have been able to divide the land and become a king?"

Without waiting for Wang Ling to answer, Liu Chang rushed into the house. Wang Ling could not stop him. He snorted coldly, turned around and walked towards the inner room. Liu Chang waved his hand, and Zhang Buyu took out the people one by one.

The people were tied up, Luan Bu stood guard at the door, and the officials were summoned to come in together. The division of labor was clear.
To be continued...