Tian Heng and his guests traveled to Luoyang. Stop at a post station thirty miles away from Luoyang City. He said to his guests: "Tian Heng was lonely in the south of the Han king's capital at the beginning. Now the king of Han is the son of heaven, and Tian Heng is his captive. Such a shame is great enough, and besides, my brother who cooks people, who serves the king side by side with his brother, always chooses to forgive me because he is afraid of the power of the Son of Heaven, how can I not be ashamed of myself. Besides, Your Majesty wants to see me only to see me. Now I have cut off my head, galloping for thirty miles, and the description is still undefeatable, and I can still see it clearly. So he drew his sword and committed suicide. Let his guests hold their heads and gallop with the messengers. The emperor said, "It's a pity. From cloth clothing. The three brothers are all kings, and they are really virtuous and sage. ”

So he wept for it, and worshiped the second guest as the captain. Two thousand men were killed, and he was buried with the rites of a king. After being buried, the two guests perforated beside their graves and committed suicide by entering the grave through their holes. Go underground and follow him. When the emperor heard this, he was shocked, thinking that Tian Heng's guests were all virtuous people, and the remaining 500 people were still on the island, so he sent an envoy to summon them, and when they heard that Tian Heng was dead, they all committed suicide in anger.

At first, Ji Bu of Chu was Xiang Yu's general. He has embarrassed the emperor many times. Xiang Ji was extinguished, and the emperor bought Ji Bu with a thousand gold. Dare to have the three tribes of the Hider. Ji Bu became a slave in disguise and sold himself to the Zhu family, the hero of the Lu Kingdom. The Zhu family knew that he was Ji Bu, bought him home, and then went to Luoyang to see Teng Gong. He said, 'What is the sin of Jib.' It's just that the ministers are their own masters, how can the old ministers of the Xiang family be punished? Now that the emperor has won the world, and he asks for one person with personal grudges, why should people see that you are short-sighted? Besides, with Ji Bu's sage, if Han Qiu is too hasty, he will not go north to Hudi, but to Wu Yue in the south. Sending him to the enemy country because he was suspicious of the strong man was the reason why Wu Zixu whipped the corpse of King Chuping. Why didn't the gentleman calmly speak to the emperor and make the emperor change his mind? “

Teng Gong then found an opportunity to relay the words of the Zhu family to the emperor. The emperor then pardoned Ji Bu's sins, summoned him, and worshipped him as Langzhong. The Zhu family then stopped seeing Ji Bu.

Ji Bu's half-brother Ding Gong is also Xiang Yu's general. Once chased the emperor in the west of Pengcheng, the emperor was very embarrassed, so he turned back to Ding Gong and said: "The two sages are fighting, why should they be embarrassed by each other? When Ding Gong heard this, he led the troops back. and King Xiang was destroyed, and Duke Ding came to see him. The emperor beheaded Duke Ding in favor of the army, saying: "Duke Ding is disloyal to King Xiang, which is the main reason why King Xiang loses the world, and he is killed today so that those who will be ministers in the future will not follow Duke Ding." “

Sima Guang commented on this: Since Gaozu raised troops in Fengpei, he has recruited heroes and recruited rebels, which is really innumerable. and the throne, only Duke Ding was killed because of disloyalty. What is the reason for this? The situation is different from the momentum of the defending. Just as the heroes are competing, the people have no decision, and those who come will receive it. Therefore, it is appropriate. And you are the Son of Heaven, and within the four seas, you are all ministers. If the etiquette is no longer clearly revealed, so that the courtiers are double-minded for the sake of luck, how can the country be stable for a long time? Therefore, the choice of righteousness makes everyone in the world understand that those who are disloyal to their ministers have nothing to bear. Though those who are selfish in favor of themselves are unforgiving, they are not to be tolerated because of their unrighteousness. Killing one person and tens of thousands of people are afraid, Gaozu's worries are really far-reaching. His descendants have enjoyed Tianlu for more than 400 years, which is really deserved.

Qi people Lou Jing guarded Longxi. After passing through Luoyang, taking a bad car, wearing through the sheep's fur. Ask to see the emperor through General Qi Renyu. General Yu asked him to change into new clothes. Lou Jing said: "The minister wears silk clothes, and he sees the emperor in silk clothes." Wear coarse cloth clothes, and see the emperor in coarse clothes. "I didn't dare to change my clothes.

So General Yu entered the palace and told the emperor, and the emperor summoned Lou Jing. Lou Jing said: "Your Majesty's capital is Luoyang, is it to compete with the Zhou family?" “

The emperor said, "Yes." “

Lou Jing said: "Your Majesty's way of taking the world is different from that of the Zhou Dynasty. The ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty were sealed in the land of He, accumulating virtue and doing good, and after more than ten generations, as for the prince, Wang Ji, King Wen, King Wu, the princes automatically returned to their hearts. Then extinguished Yin as the Son of Heaven, and became the king of the throne, Zhou Gong was the prime minister, so he ran Luoyi to think that this place is the center of the world, and the princes paid tribute to the Quartet, and the Quartet was the same. If you are virtuous, you will easily become king, and if you are not virtuous, you will easily perish. Therefore, when the Zhou Dynasty was strong, the world was harmonious. The princes are all subdued. Serve the service. and the decline of the Zhou room, the world Mo Dynasty, the Zhou room can not be controlled. It's not because of his weak morality, but because the situation makes him weak, and today His Majesty started from abundance, rolled Shu Han, and set the three Qin. and Xiang Yu held each other in Xingyang Chenggao for 70 battles and 40 small battles, so that the people of the world were smeared with liver and brain, and the father and son were violent and wilderness. Numerous. The sound of crying is not stopped, and the wounded and sick are not rising, and they will be stronger than the world of Chengkang, and the ministers think that this is not advisable. Qindi is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the four stoppers are solid. If there is a sudden emergency, millions of people can have it immediately. The minister thought that this was a generous gift from God to His Majesty. It is the so-called land of abundance. If His Majesty enters the customs and determines the capital here, once there is chaos in Shandong, the hometown of Qin can be preserved. How can you guarantee a complete victory when you fight with someone and don't choke them by the throat but on their backs? Today, Your Majesty inspected the hometown of the Qin State, which is an important place that chokes the throat of the world. “

The emperor asked the ministers, who were all from Shandong, and they argued that the king of Zhou had been for hundreds of years, while Qin had died II. Luoyang has Chenggao in the east, and there is Yinyu in the west, and the river is back to Yiluo, and its solidity is enough to rely on. ”

The emperor asked Zhang Liang. Zhang Liang said: "Although Luoyang has this solidity, but the shape is small, but hundreds of miles, and the fields are thin, and the enemy is on all sides, this is not a place to use." Guanzhong left the letter, right Longshu. Fertile fields for thousands of miles, the south has the Rao of Bashu, the benefits of Hu Yuan, blocking three sides and guarding, and the princes of the east alone. The princes are stable, the river Weicao is transferred to the world, and the west is given to the Beijing division, and the princes have changed, and they go down the river, which is enough to be lost. This is the so-called golden city of thousands of miles, the land of abundance. What Lou Jing said makes sense. ”

The emperor drove to the western capital of Chang'an on the same day. Bai Lou Jing is Langzhong. The number is Fengchunjun. The surname is Liu.