Sima Li Keshi of Luoyang Mansion is a rather peculiar official.

He is the younger brother of the general Li Jing, and he was the former Taishou of Yunzhong County, but although he is now Sima of Luoyang Mansion, this person is an old gentleman, and his favorite thing is to lead the dog with an eagle. He is a good safari and likes to raise birds.

The most proficient is the language of birds and beasts, every time he goes out, he can easily imitate the language of birds, and even attract a hundred birds to chase like a phoenix, so he has a nickname in the capital, called the bird thief.

Like a young man who doesn't grow up, Li Keshi is fun, delicious and luxurious. However, the emperor took a fancy to his professional skills, that is, his ability to raise birds and train birds, so long before the establishment of Great Qin, when the emperor was just in the corner of Liaodong, he let him start domesticating flying pigeons to transmit messages.

Up to now, Daqin's flying pigeon system is very good, and there are pigeon buildings in these big cities and towns in Liujing and more than ten prefectures.

There are long-distance flying pigeons, there are also flying pigeons in the same city, such as Luoyang city, there are more than 100 watchtowers, each watchtower is also a pigeon tower, there are a lot of pigeons in the pigeon cage, each watchtower can be connected with more than ten watchtowers nearby.

Through such a flying pigeon interconnection, more than 100 watchtowers have both monitoring and communication functions, compared with fast horses and running to transmit messages, I don't know how many times, and there is no limit to traffic jams.

The imperial court even specially issued a regulation on carrier pigeons, such as prohibiting private domestication of such carrier pigeons, and prohibiting anyone from hunting and shooting such carrier pigeons, otherwise it will be severely punished.

As a carrier pigeon to carry forward, and constantly improve the breed of Li Keshi, with this alone, he has filed a case with the emperor, which is very important.

However, Li Keshi is just fun, although he is the official Sima of Luoyang Mansion, he is also an important member, but he usually doesn't care much about official business.

Li Keshi lives a chic life and lives freely.

However, today the emperor specially summoned Li Jing, who came to Beijing to gather, not to talk about the affairs of Lingnan, nor about the three feudatories in the south of the Yangtze River, but about this bird thief.

"The bird thief is chic and free, but he is a little too careless about his sons. Do you know what your nephews, Li Dashan, Li Dahui, and Li Dazhi, usually do? They relied on the uncle of a great general, and the father of Sima Luoyang, and his third brother was originally in the shadow of the door and served as a guard in the inner army, but he didn't have to be an errand boy, but liked to mess around in the market. ”

"The three Li Dashan brothers even set up a club in the West City, the North City, and the South City respectively, recruiting scoundrels in the market, and even snagged a group of noble officials' sons, who deceived and dominated the market, and even collected the money from the merchants, and secretly engaged in smuggling and selling contraband."

"A few days ago, Li Dashan's Jishantang actually kidnapped the innkeeper's daughter in order to make a warehouse pay money, and finally the innkeeper gave the money, but they still sold the girl to a green building in Xingyang."

Li Jing is only in his fifties, but in recent years, he has also been fighting in the east and west, and since he led the army south to Lingnan a few years ago, he has been in Lingnan for several years.

Today the emperor told him this, and he was surprised.

He never thought that such a family of generals would produce such unscrupulous children.

"Maybe the Li Dashan brothers still regard Daqin as the Sui Dynasty, and they still want to learn from the way the Guanlong nobles did in Chang'an before, secretly raising gangs and clubs, doing some evil things, and ignoring the laws and regulations of the country. Smuggling, kidnapping, extortion, and even selling prostitution and murder are all capital crimes. ”

Li Jing couldn't say a word.

"Pharmacist, you are the general I rely on, in the past few years, you have been in Lingnan, so that Guangdong, Guangxi, Guangnan Sandao is stable, Li Keshi came to join me earlier, and he has done a lot of things for me over the years, especially this carrier pigeon, which has helped the court a lot. At the beginning, when the Turks surrounded the clouds, Li Keshi also performed very well, and he never retreated from the battle to the death. But now, I'm disappointed. ”

"Your Majesty, although the minister is their uncle, the discipline is not strict, please resign from the official position."

"What about the three of them?"

A look of pain flashed in Li Jing's eyes, these nephews are too lawless, as the emperor's guards and the sons of the noble generals, but they secretly raise gangs and do all these evil things, this kind of thing The emperor wants to investigate, it can implicate the entire Li family.

"Please ask Your Majesty to investigate and punish the crime."

Luo Cheng shook his head.

"I've thought about it, these people are just young people in their early twenties. If the arrest and interrogation are made public, the matter will be very troublesome. I have decided to send the three brothers to Lingnan and hand them over to you to take care of. However, before you take them away, I will first ask the Imperial City Division to secretly arrest the three brothers and put them in the prison of the Imperial City Division, and then suffer some hardships first. When they repent and know their mistakes, I will strip them of their official positions, remove them from their nationality, and then hand them over to you to take to Lingnan. When they arrived in Lingnan, they were Changliu with the army, with three brothers, one in Guangdong, one in Guangxi, and one in Guangnan. ”

"As for Li Keshi, I will add him to the list of conferrals this time, and let him leave Luoyang and go to the Xishan fiefdom."

"Minister..."

"This matter has nothing to do with you, so you still go back to Guangnan after the year, I know that the situation in Lingnan is a little complicated, in order to let them belong, so I also gave a lot of conditions, and now these people still hold soldiers and horses, and hold the military and political power, Ning's Chen and other Lingnan heroes, just want to be the emperor of the soil, this is impossible."

"You are in Lingnan, use more dim sum, if anyone dares to confront the imperial court, you send troops for me to recruit them, and those who are willing to hand over the military power and accept the adjustment of the imperial court, I can keep their wealth and nobility for them, but I will not tolerate those who oppose the imperial court."

In fact, now with the implementation of the imperial court's policy towards the Lingnan counties, those local emperors are extremely dissatisfied, and they refuse to hand over their private soldiers, let alone actual power.

Of course, the imperial court would not allow it, so these people began to openly confront the imperial court, and now under the stubborn resistance of some heroic commanders such as the Ning family, the imperial court is not only unable to implement military reform, but also unable to implement tax reform, tax collection cannot be collected, the army is not controlled, and the local administration is all controlled by these people.

In addition to the fact that on the surface it has been attached to the Great Qin and is under the rule of the imperial court, in fact, he wants to be the emperor of the soil and become a country within a country.

In their opinion, there is a historical tradition, whether it was in the Wei and Jin dynasties in the past, or in the Southern Dynasties, they all came over like this, nominally submitting to the central government, and the central government also handed over the localities to them, and everyone was good.

Now the Great Qin Imperial Court has to break this tradition, which is to violate their ban.

Especially the Ning family in Hepu, who shouted the most.

said that if the emperor insisted on messing around, they would not even pay the taxes of previous years.

"The three roads of Lingnan, I have all been handed over to you, Li Xizhi and Feng Ang are your deputy commanders, after you go back, you will hurry up training soldiers and horses, and once you are ready, you will destroy the Ning clan first."

The appeasement of the imperial court to the three feudal feudatories in the south of the Yangtze River was thought to be weak by the Lingnan Ning clan and others, and seeing that the imperial court had made peace with the Tubo truce after the war with the Western Turks and other countries last year, they thought that the vitality of the imperial court was greatly damaged, and now they want to openly oppose the imperial court's rule over Lingnan.

The emperor didn't want to deal with the Jiangnan feudatories for the time being, because the territory controlled by the three feudatories was large, and it would affect the whole body. But these Taishou in the Lingnan counties have already been attached to the imperial court, but now they want to split again, and Luo Cheng will never agree.

Whoever dares to jump out, Luo Cheng will inevitably let Li Jing fight immediately.