After the discussion, the emperor returned to the harem and stayed alone for a long time.

"Fetch a jug of wine."

The waiter took a pot of high-quality tribute wine, and the emperor looked at it, but did not let the waiter pour the wine, but directly lifted the wine pot and got up and walked out of the palace.

The emperor carried the wine and came to the Xianju Palace.

Xianju Hall is the residence of the Emperor Taishang and the Queen Mother, this hall is adjacent to the west of the city, the east is adjacent to hundreds of millions of years, the south is the Jixian Palace, to the north is the Jiuzhouchi Royal Garden.

In the distance, Luo Cheng heard a clanging sound coming from the Immortal Residence Palace.

"What does the Emperor do?"

The chamberlain reported that the Emperor Taishang was striking iron.

Luo Cheng couldn't help laughing, and when he went in with the wine, he found that it was not the Emperor Taishang who was striking iron, but the Emperor Taishang was instructing several princes to strike iron.

This scene surprised the emperor a little.

"Father!"

It was still King Wu who was more sharp-eyed, and suddenly saw the emperor come in and ran over happily.

Luo Cheng picked up King Wu, and then walked over, the prince saw the emperor coming in, he looked a little nervous and flustered, and the hammer in his hand was not beaten.

Luo Cheng glanced at him and said with a smile, "Go on, or you won't be able to move if you don't get cold." ”

After getting the emperor's words, the crown prince picked up the hammer and struck it again.

"You go on, I'll have a glass of wine with your imperial grandfather." Luo Cheng put down King Wu, reached out and rubbed the head of King Liao of Chu, and then walked to the side with Emperor Taishang to drink under the porch.

"Why do you have time to come to me today?"

Luo Cheng poured a glass of wine for the Emperor Taishang, and pointed at the few princes in the courtyard with a smile, "How did my father think of letting them strike iron?" ”

"These children also have a heart, and they know to come to me every day to see me, an old man."

"Then it seems that the studies assigned to them by the Chongwen Pavilion are not very important."

Dad glared at Luo Cheng, "It's just some children, if you are bound by schoolwork all day long, how can you grow up?" ”

Luo Cheng's rule is that the princes should go to the Chongwen Pavilion to study at the age of five, leave the palace at the age of 12 to open the mansion, and become a vassal at the age of 18. Every morning, they had to go to the emperor's study to say goodbye, and then go to read.

He didn't force the princes and princesses to come to the Emperor Taishang to ask for peace, but now these little guys are still more filial, knowing that the Emperor is lonely, and often comes to accompany him.

The Emperor Taishang also likes these emperors, grandsons and granddaughters, and every time they come, he always prepares a lot of good drinks for them and tells them stories.

Luo Gui also prepared a set of iron-striking guys in the palace, and sometimes he had nothing to do, and he also knocked a few times, which was considered to be exercise. Once the princes saw it and wanted to play too.

So Luo Gui simply taught them to strike iron, and taught them to do it when he had time. In his opinion, although the princes are from noble backgrounds, they are also children, and they are a little early to study in Chongwenguan at a young age, but he is not easy to interfere with. But striking iron is also beneficial, firstly, it can exercise the body, and secondly, it can also know the previous history of the Xia Luo family.

"Our Luo family is born in iron, I think your grandfather was an apprentice blacksmith when he was in Xiangyang, and later made contributions with the army and earned a knighthood. Later, I left Chang'an and went to Shandong, also to support my family by striking iron. When your brothers were six years old, they all helped to strike iron, this is the history of our Luo family, and there is nothing to avoid. ”

"My father was right, heroes start from the times, regardless of their origins. Only those who have ambition and ability can succeed. And even if he was born in a princely family, if he didn't know how to make progress, he was just a fool, and even like the eldest grandson Anye and others, he became a loser and a sinner of the dead family. ”

Luo Cheng thought about it more and felt that letting the prince sometimes strike iron was also a way to cultivate hands-on ability and exercise his body, but he didn't say that as a prince, he could only study and practice martial arts, and he didn't touch anything else, and in the end, he couldn't even distinguish between leeks and wheat seedlings.

"Father, what do you think I should do with those who rebel?"

"I heard you've arrested a lot of people?"

"More than 2,000 people participated in the rebellion."

Luo Gui nodded, "It's amazing." ”

"Almost half of the old nobles and nobles are involved."

"But I heard that there were not many people who planned to make trouble, but you deliberately indulged, and even deliberately fanned the flames, which is why so many people were introduced?"

Luo Cheng smiled.

"Not very kind."

"I'm just squeezing out the pustules ahead of time."

"But no matter what, this is still too widely implicated after all, although it is said that it has killed a hundred, but it is too much. If you do, you will inevitably leave the name of a tyrant and a very bad head. In fact, I have read a lot of books before, and I have read in books that killing people is actually just a manifestation of lack of control, and it is just a helpless choice. ”

Luo Cheng admired his father at once, and he was able to say such a truth.

"But now that these people have been arrested, if they are not killed, it is a hidden danger, and it cannot be treated as if nothing happened."

Dad thought about it, he looked at the happy emperors and grandchildren over there, "Then don't kill it, but don't let it go." ”

"How?"

"Xiao Wu, haven't you been immigrating to Shibian before? Not only did they immigrate many proletarian people from the Central Plains to the frontier, but they even exiled many criminals, and even many officials and slaves in the hands of the government were also exempted and moved to the frontier. As far as I know, many of these official slaves were prisoners of war and criminals, right? ”

"Indeed."

"Since you can free those officials and slaves and move to the frontier. Why don't you do the same with those people, spare their lives, don't kill them, but you can take away their titles and remove them, cut them down to the people, confiscate their family property, and confiscate their property, and then exile them to the frontier, so that they can live on the frontier forever. ”

For example, before Lingnan, there were many long-term people from all dynasties and generations.

What Daddy means, many of these conspirators this time are officials and nobles or scholars, and most of them are still relatively capable, not to mention anything else, at least they are all scholars.

And the frontier land, what is most lacking?

There is not only a shortage of people, but also a shortage of readers.

Therefore, by exilering all these plotters to the four borders, the forces of the border government garrisons and so on can be replenished.

"These people are indeed a threat in the Central Plains, but if they go to the frontier, without the connections of their family and in-laws, and without the support of their current land and money, what threat do they have?"

Luo Cheng thought about it, this is indeed the truth.

These people tried their best to rebel, but as a result, he was all arrested at once, and they were vulnerable, if they were all scattered, and then exiled to various frontier places, three or five here, six or seven there, they had lost their past environment, and without those connections and financial resources, what storm could they set off?

"Changliuren, thank you, Father, this suggestion is indeed very good."

"Actually, I believe that your prime ministers must be more thoughtful than me, if you are undecided, you might as well listen to the opinions of the prime ministers, isn't there such a sentence, partial listening is dark, and listening to it is clear, as an emperor, you can't just listen to what you like to hear."

"Taught."

After returning from the Immortal Residence Palace, Luo Cheng found Wei Zheng.

"The more than 2,000 families involved in the rebellion, as well as their three clans, will have all their property confiscated, their officials and titles will be stripped of their titles, and they will be expelled from the people, and then they will flow to all sides."

"More than 2,000 families, and their three clans, that may be tens of thousands." Wei Zheng was a little happy to see that the emperor had changed his mind and not to kill, but he still felt that it was too expanded.

"This is my last tolerance." But the emperor could not afford to change it.

"Among these three clans of the chaotic party, there are those who are the relatives of my Great Qin clan, and they can be exempted from being implicated." The Emperor added another.

Wei Zheng nodded, understanding his meaning, the eldest grandson Anye rebelled, and the three clans were connected, and the eldest grandson Wuji, as his brother, would definitely be implicated, but the emperor would definitely not implicate the eldest grandson Wuji, there would be many such situations, so if it was a relative, an exception could be made to avoid being implicated.

This can be regarded as the emperor's mercy.

But it is still possible to implicate tens of thousands of families, and tens of thousands of homes have been copied at a time, and they are all noble and noble families, and they are all noble and powerful families, this wave is a bit ruthless, and the court really doesn't know how much money and how much land to copy.