20th year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, May 20.

In spring, only the tail remains, and it is early summer.

Compared with the Jin Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty was much more open in terms of folk customs, and most of the pedestrians on the streets of Chang'an, both men and women, wore breathable thin shirts. Although it is not as revealing as in later generations, it also shows off its figure.

Recently, another major incident happened in Jingshi.

Except for the crown prince Fu Hong, the rest of the princes have been crowned kings!

The eldest prince Fu Pi, the king of Qi.

The second prince, Fu Hui, was crowned the king of Zhou.

The fourth prince Fu Rong, the king of Shu.

The sixth prince, Fu Xi, was crowned King Chen.

The seventh prince Fu Xu, the king of Han.

In the palace of Nan'an Wangfu, a pond of lotus flowers opened, and Pei Shengqin and Fu Deng sat on the edge of the small pond fishing. During this period, Mao Qiuqing personally delivered some fruit pastries.

Let the wife come out to meet the guests, this is the good of the family. The two were gossiping while fishing.

"You always come to my house to eat and drink, this is not good, next time I will go to your house." Fu Deng looked at the wooden barrel beside the two of them, and found that Pei Shengqin seemed to have more fish in the barrel than him, and he was immediately a little dissatisfied.

Pei Shengqin smiled and said, "If the prince wants to go to the lower official mansion, he can do so at any time." ”

"Tsk, forget it." Fu Deng pursed his lips and dispelled the idea of going to the Zitong Mansion. Pei Shengqin, as a subordinate officer during the southern expedition of Fu Deng, occasionally came to visit his old boss, and it was reasonable for others to see it, but when they saw it, they would only think it was a normal human relationship. He is a prince of the clan, and he went to visit the minister's mansion if he has nothing to do, doesn't it obviously mean that he and Pei Shengqin have an unusual relationship. At present, there is no need to expose the relationship between the two people.

"By the way, what do you think of the princes being crowned kings this time?"

Fu Deng fiddled with the fishing rod in his hand and asked casually.

Pei Shengqin thought for a while and replied very succinctly: "Unexpected, reasonable." ”

Since the Qin Emperor cut the feudal domain, the princes of the Qin Dynasty have been very rare, and most of the children of the clan are just dukes or marquises. It is not without princes, but there are relatively few, and Fu Deng, the king of Nan'an, has been suppressing bandits in Longxi for many years, and has accumulated a lot of military merits before he can be crowned.

In the original history, the sons of His Majesty were not crowned kings, and of course, the status of the prince was not lower than that of the prince. This sudden king was indeed unexpected by Pei Shengqin, and there was no such thing in history. But if you think about it carefully, according to the practice of the Great Qin Dynasty, the princes should have been crowned kings a long time ago, and this matter is not abrupt.

Pei Shengqin speculated about the reason, maybe the Qin Emperor had already considered giving the princes the title of king before the southern expedition, and in the previous life, because the world was in turmoil after the defeat of the Weishui War, he was not in the mood to care about these anymore; And there were no bad things in this life, so the king who should be sealed was naturally sealed.

Fu Deng said: "Except for the king of Zhou who guards the Great Wall outside, the other four kings are all in Beijing. Fortunately, His Majesty did not propose to let them become vassals, otherwise I would have thought that His Majesty was paving the way for the crown prince. ”

If all the kings are vassals, and there is only one prince left in the capital, this is equivalent to the prince of the inner family. If even the princes have no chance to compete, how can the rest of the clan children have the slightest chance?

Of course, Pei Shengqin knew Fu Deng's concerns, and comforted with a smile: "Your Majesty's remarks when he ascended the throne are known to the world, and Your Majesty cares about face, even if you want the crown prince to succeed to the throne, you won't be so ugly." This time the king is just the practice of my Great Qin Dynasty, you don't have to think about it. ”

"I hope so." Fu Deng was noncommittal, his wrist shook slightly, the rod was raised, and a carp was fished out of the water.

"It's strange to say, this time the princes were crowned kings, why is there only one missing five princes who have not been crowned?" Emperor Qin had seven sons, and in addition to the crown prince, he should also be crowned six more kings, but this time only five kings were crowned.

For the five princes, Pei Shengqin in this life seems to have no impression, only in the memory of the previous life, he has seen records about him in the history books.

The five princes Fu Lin, the small character Yongyao, its "mountains and rivers are beautiful", and they can "lead the bow 500 catties, shoot the plow and pierce", both civil and military. When Murong Chong besieged the Beijing Division, he recruited 30,000 strong men to enter Beijing to rescue the driver, and fought with the rebels in Bashang, but was finally outnumbered, surrounded by Murong Chong's rebels, and died with ten thousand arrows through his heart.

Thinking about it now, this fifth prince seems to be particularly mysterious, not only are there only a few records in the history books of later generations. Pei Shengqin, who even Emperor Qin had seen several times in this life, had no impression of him.

"Every time Your Majesty rewards the princes, it seems that the Fifth Highness will be omitted intentionally or unintentionally, but I didn't expect that even such a major event as the king would miss him. Don't say it's you, even us royal children don't know why. Fu Deng explained to Pei Shengqin.

Pei Shengqin became interested: "Could it be that the Fifth Highness offended His Majesty because of something?" ”

Fu Deng shook his head and said, "I heard that when His Royal Highness the Fifth Highness was born, some scholars calculated that his life was different from others, so His Majesty treated him differently. ”

Pei Shengqin groaned: "It sounds like His Royal Highness the Fifth is also a poor person, are you interested in wooing him, if you are a prince, it can be regarded as a help." ”

"His Royal Highness has rarely appeared in front of people since he was born, and His Majesty seems to be deliberately downplaying his presence. I don't even know where he lives now, or even if he's not in Beijing, so how can I talk about wooing him. Fu Deng decisively dispelled Pei Shengqin's whimsical idea.

"He's also a prince anyway, he always has his own circle, can't even you clan disciples see him?" Pei Shengqin blinked, feeling that this fifth prince seemed to be more mysterious than he imagined.

Fu Deng thought for a while and said, "The two sons of the Lu King Fu Zhong family, Wei Chang Gong Fu Su and Yongping Hou Fu Shi Nu, are all friendly with the Fifth Highness. However, those two people are also very mysterious, and even King Lu doesn't know where they went on weekdays. The three of them formed a small circle, and no one else could squeeze in. ”

"If I have the chance, I'd like to meet these strange people." Pei Shengqin sighed, not to mention the five princes, just the reputation of the Duke of Wei Chang in later generations is not small. He later inherited the title of King Lu, and was a rare virtuous king at the end of Qin, and pacified many rebels. After Fu Deng succeeded to the throne, he was crowned as a prince, an envoy, and a governor of Chinese and foreign military affairs.

......

At the same time as the imperial court enshrined the kings, Tuoba also began to make official wishes.

Shengle is the county seat of Yunzhong County, the capital of the Northern Dynasty in the past, and now the base camp of Wei Wei.

The Taishou Mansion in the clouds was transformed into a simple "Northern Wei Palace" by Tuoba, and today, the anti-thief leaders under Tuoba Jue are gathered in this palace.

Tuoba sat at the top, wearing a leather robe and a fur hat, with a few big braids dragging on the back of his head, looking a little high-spirited. The rest of the people were basically dressed similarly, with big braids shiny and shiny.

The standard hairstyle of the Northern Wei Dynasty was to comb the hair into many braids and hang down at the back of the head, like ropes. This is a custom that has been handed down by the Xianbei Tuoba Department for a long time, and because of this custom, the people of the Southern Dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties loved to call the people of the Northern Dynasties "Suolu". When there was no rebellion in the past, this group of people were still honestly wearing the clothes of the Qin family, and after the rebellion, they obviously let themselves go one by one.

Tuoba looked around and looked down, the thieves were sitting in a row, and they looked neat.

Dugu Kuren was defending against the court's Rouran Protectorate, but he couldn't come, so his nephew Dugu Yang took the reward instead; Hua Mulan was resisting the Northern Expeditionary Army of the imperial court, and she couldn't come, so her father Hua Chenglai received the reward on her behalf.

Next to Dugu Yang and Hua Chenglai, there were Helan dogs, Yuwen cows, and high chickens, whose families provided a lot of materials to Tuoba when Tuoba rebelled, and were regarded as "heroes from the dragon" by Tuoba Jue.

In addition to these important anti-thief leaders, there are also many well-known people in the rivers and lakes who have recently moved from various places to the north to join the rebels. Among them is a beautiful woman in white clothes, who is the Yongyao woman who rushed to Shenhepi more than ten days ago to join the rebels, because she is famous enough in the rivers and lakes, she was also sent by Mulan to Shengle to participate in Tuoba's official wishing conference.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Tuoba Jue cleared his throat and said: "The lone grandson of the emperor, the nobles of the heavens, only sigh that the Buddha is lucky, the generation of Zuo is tilted, and the tyranny of Qin wins the world......"

In order to cope with today's official wishing meeting, Tuoba Jue deliberately made a very tall inscription, and it took a long time to memorize it. Who knew that he had just read two sentences today, and he was interrupted.

"Big boss, what are you talking about, why don't I understand?"

"I don't understand, Khan, say it again!"

"I'm the same, I'm the same, King, you make it clear."

Tuoba Jue looked at these noisy people in the rivers and lakes without any rules, and couldn't help but be full of black lines.

"Ahem, my lord." Gao Ji whispered to Tuoba Jue, and hesitated: "The cultural level of these heroes may be a little low, so you should speak it in layman's terms." ”

Tuoba Jue couldn't hold back any longer, and yelled at Gao Ji: "Call me the King of Northern Wei!" ”

Damn, these newly recruited gangsters, bandits and horse thieves are not sensible, and they just scream nonsense. You Gao Ji is also a cultural person, and you are also qualified to go to court when we didn't rebel, so you can't scream with it.

Gao Ji was verbose and hurriedly said: "I know the king of the Northern Wei Dynasty, I know the king of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the king of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the king of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the king of the Northern Wei Dynasty, ......"

The high rooster barked several times in a row, coupled with the playful laughter and scolding of the people in the rivers and lakes behind, Tuoba Jue inexplicably felt that this seemed to be mocking him, and his face suddenly turned black to the bottom of the pot.

"Hey, the big boss seems to be angry."

"It's not good, you look at Khan's face, red and black, like a monkey's ass."

"Who offended the king, it's terrible, the king won't cut people, right?"

Although these gangsters have no culture and no knowledge, they also know the most basic observation of words and feelings, and at this time, seeing that Tuoba's face was not right, the originally noisy people quieted down one after another, and looked at Tuoba Jue one by one.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, I want to be elegant and easy-going, elegant and easy-going. They are all a group of vulgar people, who have just started a business now, and they still need to rely on their strength and not be angry with them. When I become a great cause, I will definitely change a group of excellent civil and military generals......" Tuoba Jue continued to comfort himself in his heart, and his face finally slowly improved.

Originally, when Tuoba rebelled in history, although most of his subordinates were reckless, but because of the chaos in the world at that time. Many celebrities and scholars are no longer optimistic about the former Qin court, and have turned to look for the "Ming Master" in the anti-thieves and rogues. Therefore, Tuoba Jue also recruited many high-quality subordinates, such as Cui Hao, the famous strategist of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

In the current history, the former Qin court is still solid, the prestige is still high, and only the Tuoba family rebelled, and the really smart people naturally would not defect to the thieves at this time. Therefore, now Tuoba Jue can recruit only a group of reckless people, and the current reactionary group of the Northern Wei Dynasty is a big difference in comprehensive strength compared with the reactionary group of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the original history.

Tuoba Jue is also a smart person, and he quickly figured it out, so he forced himself to put on an elegant and easy-going smile, and said in a reckless tone: "To put it simply, rebel with my Tuoba Jue, you are my good brother Tuoba Jue." Let's eat meat, drink wine in a big bowl, divide the gold in a big scale, and play little girls together! Today I will give the brothers officials, and everyone will be officials in the future, if the court eagle dog comes to find our bad luck, I will kill them! ”

Tuoba Jue can bend and stretch, and when he said this, those rivers and lakes instantly understood, and there were bursts of cheers immediately.

"The real boss, my black whirlwind has been messing with you since then!"

"Yes, yes, I'm going to mix with you!"

"And my big yellow fangs."

"Count me Xiao Meng!"

Listening to these reckless people cheering and expressing their loyalty, Tuoba's mood finally improved. Thinking in my heart that these foolish critics are stupid, their muscles are also strong, and they must be able to make do with them in the future.

Tuoba Jue's eyes rolled, and he was ready to start sealing the official. His original intention of official position was to imitate the imperial court and make three provinces and six ministries. However, looking at the IQ of these criticisms, Tuoba felt that they might not be able to understand those complicated official titles, so he temporarily decided to simplify the official position. For example, it is very appropriate to seal the generals and the second generals, the big bosses and the small bosses and the like.

At this time, a new defector stood up and said excitedly: "I think that today's happy thing should be recorded!" ”

This person used to be a copycat dog-headed military teacher, barely read a private school for a few days, and knew a few big characters, and was a rare "cultural person" among these anti-thieves.

He really took out a pen and paper from his arms, put it on the stool he was sitting on, and read it out while writing, shaking his head and reading it: "Sitting in the lobby today, the Khan has a large number of soldiers, and the military book is ...... in twelve volumes."

You write Nima!

Annoyed, he hurriedly ran over and snatched his pen and paper, and then immediately tore it off.

"Oh, why is the Khan like this!"

The man was terrified.

Tuoba Jue glared at him viciously, but thinking of being elegant and easy-going in his heart, he still forced a smile and said: "No need to record, my Tuoba Jue is modest in my life, I don't want to be famous, I don't want to be famous, hehe." ”

Just when Tuoba was trying to persuade the critic not to scribble, he suddenly heard a chuckle of "poof".

Tuoba Jue followed the sound, but saw a beautiful woman in white standing in the anti-thief pile, smiling, as if standing out from the crowd.

"Who is this?"

"General Hua has Yongyao under his tent and has seen the king of Northern Wei."

The woman's voice was like a yellow bird, awakening the throbbing heart of the young man.

Tuoba suddenly felt as if he was in love.