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In September of the fifth year of Yongping, Dongfang Suo issued a decree to the world, and appointed his second son to Huai as the crown prince. In December of the same year, he was canonized: "the emperor Shaoji will be in power, and long-term stability will be achieved. He will establish Yuan Chu, Maolong national foundation, and comfort the hope of his subjects with the auspiciousness of mianzongshe. The three-year-old prince, born to his concubine, mu, has a magnificent day. He looks up to the Empress Dowager's instructions and is named the crown prince. "

In addition to the imperial edict, there are dozens of blessings, such as amnesty, tax exemption and so on. The people cheered happily, and all of them were grateful for the kindness of the imperial concubine and the prince.

This imperial edict of canonization naturally attracted many ministers' dissatisfaction. However, under the pressure of the emperor and the empress dowager, they did not dare to say anything more. At most, they secretly complained, and then wrote a few letters of dissuasion, which did not matter.

This is why Dongfang Su would rather spare Qiu Yue and Rong's family, but also force empress dowager Chen to issue an imperial edict. Da Zhou Su Lai attached great importance to filial piety. Without an imperial edict from empress dowager, it would be a bit unfair to give her the crown prince's position. Officials could also take the opportunity to attack and prevent her from setting up an imperial edict.

In the sixth year of Yongping, dongfangsu, in the name of recuperation and lightening the burden on the state capitals, made an order that there would be no talent show in ten years. In this order, all the famous families in Jinling City could not sit still and wrote one after another, demanding to continue the talent show on the ground that there were too few concubines in the palace, which was not conducive to the emperor's descendants. In addition, state governments also sent memorials to Beijing one after another. The contents were the same as those before, and they all asked to continue the draft.

Once on the branch, it's not only xiunv who makes a sparrow into a Phoenix, but also the family behind her. Even those who are already in the position of extreme officials also hope to consolidate their family status by the way of the harem. However, Dongfang's intention is tantamount to breaking their path. How can he be willing.

After waiting for several days, the ministers saw that Dongfang Su didn't pay attention to their compromise at all. They went to see empress dowager Chen again, hoping that she would persuade Dongfang Su to take back her fate.

Empress Dowager Chen himself is also a clay Bodhisattva crossing the river. How could she manage this matter? She let the ministers knock on the door and petition, and all of them said they were sick. But they went to ask Master Su and Zongzheng of zongrenfu.

Although they knew that these people were secretly selfish, they went to see dongfangsu together after several weighing. They had a whole afternoon's discussion behind closed doors. Few people knew what they had said.

In the early Dynasty the next day, Dongfang made an order to elect once every three years as usual. However, in order to avoid wasting people's money, it was limited to the officials and women in Jinling City.

Baiguan was not satisfied with the result, and went to see Mr. Su and Mr. Zongzheng again. But this time, they got a lot of scolding, and left one by one, not mentioning the draft.

In the past five years, dongfangsu has not moved any more to let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the empty Treasury has become full again.

In the first World War five years ago, the state of Qi lost five cities and suffered heavy losses. In recent years, he did not dare to act rashly. As for the Western Chu, although Xiao Ruo Ao regarded the Northern Zhou Dynasty as an eyesore, how could he act rashly without the help of the state of Qi, let alone the state of Yan.

In the past five years, the four countries have maintained a mysterious peace, but everyone knows that this peace will not last long. Sooner or later, there will be another war, and it will be a white war. Whoever wins in the end will be able to unify the Central Plains, which has been under separate rule for hundreds of years, and become an emperor for thousands of years.

In the 10th year of Yongping, the envoys of the western regions paid tribute and brought two kinds of tribute: one was a hundred mares and one hundred ponies, which required that someone in the Northern Zhou Dynasty could distinguish the mothers of the 100 ponies; the other was a piece of sunken wood three feet long, which had been buried in the ground for thousands of years, which was very valuable; but there was also a requirement that the weight of the sunken wood should be weighed.

These two questions really baffled many people. The ponies were surrounded by each other and refused to get close to the mare. They managed to get close to the mare, either kicking or escaping. After several times, they not only failed to distinguish, but also injured a pony.

As for the problem of sunken wood, it seems simple, but in fact it's no better than the first one. Sunken wood has been buried for thousands of years, and it's very heavy. A small piece is as heavy as gold. What's more, it's three feet long, and the two of them embrace each other. When it comes, it takes ten strong horses to pull it.

After using hundreds of strong men, they couldn't lift up the dull wood. Instead, they broke the hemp rope with thick arms. The envoy of Xicheng also said that cutting is not allowed. It's really embarrassing.

The envoys of the western regions made it clear that if the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty could solve these two problems, they would pull the tribute back as they came.

Although there was no shortage of these things in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it would be a great shame if they were taken back intact. At the age of eight, when the officials were helpless, Yu Huai, who was auditing the government, solved these two seemingly unsolved problems.

The first question is to close a hundred ponies for a day without any fodder or water, and then bring them to the mares. The ponies are hungry and thirsty. As soon as they are free, they immediately run to their mothers for milk.

The second question is, since people can't lift the sunken wood, let the water lift it, transport the sunken wood to the ship moored at the wharf outside the city, draw a line along the ship's draught, then take off the sunken wood, press the ship's body to the waterline with stones, and then weigh and add them separately, so as to get the weight of the sunken wood.

The envoys of the western regions were amazed to see that the problem was solved by an eight year old child. They changed their elated appearance before and bowed their hands to Yu Huai respectfully. "I always boast that I am smart. Now I know that there are people outside the world and there is heaven outside the world. My highness the prince is extremely smart. I really admire him!""I admire you for your ingenuity." Yu Huai bowed his hand and responded freely. Although he was only eight years old, in the second year when he was appointed the crown prince, Dongfang Su took him to the court to listen to the government. In addition, he was intelligent in nature and had a good sense of speech. Even in the face of many senior envoys, he did not lag behind.

With a smile, the envoy made a salute to the East and said, "I have benefited a lot from this trip, especially today. When I go back, I will report to the king of Khan one by one."

Dongfang Su beckoned to Yu Huai and said with a smile: "I heard that the old Khan king passed away a month ago, and his third son will inherit the throne. Is that right?"

The emissary's eyes moved slightly and said, "the news of Emperor Zhou is really good. It's true that Rogge Khan is now in charge of my western regions."

"Rogge Khan..." Dongfangsu read these four words slowly, and his eyes were always around the envoys. For a long time, he said with profound meaning: "as soon as Khan succeeded to the throne, he personally came to my court to offer tribute. It's really rare."

The color suddenly changed. In a moment, it turned into a color of surprise. "Where does the emperor of Zhou say this?"

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