Xuande

Chapter 66 Liu Hong in the West Garden
The West Garden is a private enjoyment park built by Liu Hong after he became the emperor, and it is also famous all over the world because it is rumored that there is a "gong swimming pool" specially used for swimming.

According to records, Liu Hong and many concubines like to play without clothes in the West Garden.

In order to avoid the heat in midsummer, he built a swimming pool, and asked people to pick green moss, cover it on the steps, and attract channel water around the thresholds, and circulate through the entire swimming pool.

Liu Hong was also very lustful, so he immediately chose a singer with jade skin and a light body, and rowed a boat with a pole, swaying in the water of the canal.

In the hot summer, he ordered people to sink the boat in the water, watch the jade-like and gorgeous skins of the maids in the water, and then play "Seven Words for Merchants" and other songs to attract cool air.

And outside the swimming pool and in the West Garden, Liu Hong's maids can't wear normal clothes, but they have to wear crotch pants that children would wear. There is no interior, so it is very cool.

It is said that it is convenient for Liu Hong to do things quickly anytime and anywhere, so as to avoid wasting time.

The emperor's time is very valuable!
Liu Bei didn't know if there were these famous entertainment facilities in the real West Garden. Anyway, what he knew were all recorded in the history books, which specifically described Liu Hong's own licentiousness.

As for the truth, it is right in front of you.

Although the Gong'e in front of Liu Bei is gorgeously dressed, full of feminine appeal, easy to attract men's attention, but it is not enough to wear crotch pants.

Of course, it's also possible that those wearing crotch pants are all in the swimming pool, otherwise Liu Hong wouldn't let her come out and call them into the West Garden.

The buildings in the West Garden are indeed very luxurious, with exotic flowers and plants, rare and exotic animals, and creatures that Liu Bei has never seen in Youzhou and Luoyang City are everywhere here.

There are not only ordinary hounds, rabbits, monkeys, geese, but also lions and tigers.

Many diligent young eunuchs are sweating profusely to serve these rare animals and exotic flowers and plants.

Obviously, their lives are worth far more than their lives.

Liu Bei looked at it for a few times, then turned his head away and stopped looking.

The buildings in the West Garden look like four characters, graceful and luxurious, even if it is just a private royal garden of the Eastern Han Empire, which is declining in the West Mountain, it can be seen a bit of style.

It's just that Liu Bei doubts whether such a style can enhance the dominance of the empire.

At this moment, Liu Hong is listening to music and taking a nap in a small palace not far from the main entrance, not in the world-famous swimming pool. It may be for this reason that he heard Liu Bei's call outside the West Garden, So he decided to summon Liu Bei.

When the four people who were introduced to the West Garden saw Liu Hong, Liu Hong was lying on the bed in simple casual clothes, behind him was also fanned by a lady in gorgeous clothes. His eyes looked at the four people who entered the hall.

"sit down."

Xu heard something, but Liu Hong opened his mouth and said two words without opening his eyes, and the four of them saw a row of seats on both sides of the hall, so Liu Bei helped Guo Hong go to the side, while Chen Dan and Cao Cao walked towards On the other side, the four of them faced each other, sitting upright, without squinting.

Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong came later, but it was inconvenient to enter the hall without the permission of the emperor, so they could only stare blankly on the steps outside the hall, straighten their necks and peek in, as if their necks were given by some indescribable existence. Picking it up, it looks very funny.

Of the four people who entered the hall, Cao Cao was the most impatient. Although he was sitting upright, he sneaked a glance at the emperor who was on the floor from time to time, wondering when the emperor would speak.

They have very important matters to come to see the emperor.

But when the emperor saw them, he kept silent and didn't ask any other questions. He just lay there and rested... Don't fall asleep, right?

Cao Cao was very anxious.

Among the other three, Chen Dan and Liu Bei were the most calm. Guo Hong, who sprained his foot, seemed calm, but he was also worried like Cao Cao in his heart.

What is the meaning of this emperor?

After a while, Liu Hong straightened up as if he had just woken up, stretched himself, moaned comfortably, and then smacked his lips, looking very comfortable.

"Siestas are always comforting, so I like naps the most, and I hate people interrupting my naps the most. Who was it? Shouting at the door to interrupt my nap?"

Cao Cao immediately looked at Liu Bei worriedly.

Chen Dan and Guo Hong's expressions changed slightly, but they didn't move.

"Return to Your Majesty, it's a minister."

Liu Bei took the initiative to stand up from his seat, walked into the hall, and bowed to Liu Hongchang.

"Your Majesty, Liu Bei, Minister of Shangshutai, pays homage to Your Majesty."

"Liu Bei, Liu Xuande, I've heard of you. Your poems are very good. You can write five characters well, and you can also write seven characters. I haven't seen anyone write seven characters before. You write well. The whole Luo Yang has spread all over the world, and even reached me."

With one hand propped on the ground and one leg arched, Liu Hong looked quite dissolute, with a frivolous smile on his face, and he looked completely devoid of the majesty of an emperor.

"Your Majesty praises it, poetry is just a path of pleasure, and I have nothing to do in my spare time, so I do it occasionally."

"Hehehe...Your surname is Liu, so you're not a member of the Han clan?"

When Liu Hong asked this question, of course Liu Bei answered all of them.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the minister is the descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan. His family has lived in Lousang Village, Zhuo County, Zhuo County, Youzhou for generations. My father was a county official, and my grandfather was a county magistrate."

"Oh? After King Jing of Zhongshan?"

Liu Hong is quite interested in this.

If it is just an ordinary clan of the Han family, there will be ninety-nine thousand if there is no one hundred thousand in the world, so there is nothing worth caring about.

However, because Liu Xiu, the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was a descendant of Liu Fa, the son of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Hong was the great-great-grandson of Liu Xiu's grandson, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, Liu Da. Strictly speaking, he was also the descendant of Emperor Han Jing.

After all, the ancestors of Liu Hong and Liu Bei were still two brothers, and if they insisted on building a relationship, they could make it.

But then again, one side is the emperor, and the other side is the dilapidated clan, it's a bit ridiculous to build a relationship.

But after all, the two have the same surname and the same family, and this relationship is inside, so there is always a feeling of difference.

So Liu Hong asked again: "How old is it?"

"Return to Your Majesty, I am 21 now."

"Well, is there anyone else in the family?"

"My father and grandfather passed away early, and I was raised by my mother since childhood, and now my mother is Antai."

"Well... why are you an official?"

"I was fortunate enough to be valued by Han Taishou of Zhuojun County, and invited him to be my son-in-law. In the third year of Guanghe, Han Taishou recommended me as Xiaolian, and went to Luoyang to pass the re-examination of the government and was awarded Lang Guan. , has been in office so far.”

"Well, it can be regarded as young and promising."

Liu Hong nodded, quite satisfied with Liu Bei's background.

Since he came up with a filial piety, his net worth is innocent, and he is not a former official of someone's family. He has political independence and will not run to death for a certain minister.

There is always more flexibility in dealing with those who are filial and honest than those who call them to be officials. They don't have to admit death, they are more free, and they can be qualified emperor's courtiers.

Such a free courtier is his favorite type.

Not to mention that he is still a member of the Han clan.

Speaking of it, Liu Hong hates the unspoken rules of the current government and the opposition. If he becomes a protégé of someone else, he will be a hawk and dog's minion for the rest of his life. ?
Isn't this the second minister?

However, the unspoken rules of society are like this, even though Liu Hong is the emperor, there is no way to change it.

And even if it changes, scholars are still scholars, have their own family, have their own interest orientation, have their own thinking value, and will not follow the emperor sincerely.

Therefore, in the end, only eunuchs and the emperor have the same interests, and will protect the imperial power sincerely, and will also protect the emperor incidentally.

Liu Hong has a normal IQ and is not stupid. He also summed up some experience after a period of study and observation, and then came to this conclusion. From this, he trusted eunuchs more than gentry officials. He always felt that gentry officials were more selfish than eunuchs. Even bigger, not worthy of trust and entrustment.

Compared with eunuchs, scholars and officials with many interests and relationships behind them are much more complicated.

The other three people here, not to mention Situ Chen Dan and Sili Xiaowei Guo Hong, are all people with strong family background.

That Cao Mengde was born in a family of eunuchs. Although it was not a family of scholars, the family actively moved closer to the scholars, and the family had a big business, and began to have inheritance. It was far less good than Liu Bei, a small family with only a mother.

If you want to say that the emperor's favorite courtier is the courtier of this background.

With an inexplicable affection, Liu Hong asked Liu Bei about his family and his childhood background.

(End of this chapter)