Luoyang, the palace of the king of Wei.

The emperor was dressed in an ochre yellow robe, and he lightly walked out of Jane's palace from the palace.

The fourth man was practicing in the martial arts arena in Fuzhong with his bare arms, and a long rod swept in his hand and smashed the left hook and the right stab, whirring the wind.

"The dance is good, and the Lao Gong has improved a lot, and I thought that if you haven't been charging for a long time now, this kung fu has fallen."

Luo Cheng appeared with a slap.

The fourth child turned his head and saw that it was the emperor's brother who came, so he took Lao and walked over.

Tang Guogong Li Xuanba stepped forward to stop him, "Put down your weapon." ”

Luo Cheng smiled, "It's okay, the fourth child is no one else." ”

Cunxiao turned his head and looked at the Laos in his hand, and smiled, "Cao, Li Laosi, do you still think that I will commit murder against Your Majesty?" The person to worry about should also be you, your father and brother, but they are all my great enemies. ”

This sentence made Li Xuanba very dissatisfied, and directly lit the hammer.

"What, you still want to fight me? Although you and I are both called Lao Si, when I went into battle to charge, you Li Lao Si was still peeing and playing with mud. ”

"Please advise King Wei!" Li Xuanba doesn't talk much nonsense.

Cunxiao looked at Luo Cheng, "Your Majesty, what do you say?" ”

Luo Cheng smiled, "Forget it, if you really start fighting here, you may not be the opponent of Xuanba." ”

"Hey, I'm not convinced, I can't beat Li Laosi?"

"Riding a horse and charging into battle, it's hard to say, but this step, you don't have any advantage as a long man, forget it, put away the guys."

The fourth child glared at Xuanba, "Boy, you are lucky today, the emperor persuaded you to call your mother if you don't beat you." ”

Luo Cheng beckoned back to Xuanba, who was very unconvinced, "You go over there and sit down first, and I'll talk to King Wei alone." ”

The two brothers sat opposite each other under the porch.

"Wang Junkuo is done like this? Too cheap this guy. ”

"I don't mention him today, and I don't want to mention him again."

"What do you mention, Liu Wuzhou or the third child? The third child is in a very bad situation now, let me take command and go on the expedition, I guarantee that Jieli and Liu Wuzhou and others will not be able to find the north. ”

"I won't mention this today, I'm here to tell about brotherhood."

"Grass, at this time, what brotherhood do you still have the heart to talk about? The third child made dumplings in Dingxiang, and if he didn't save them, it would probably be cold. The fourth complained.

"Cunxiao, you are very good, but this mouth is not good, what is cold, how can I make Heiye cold. Rescue is definitely needed, and the Privy Council is already working on plans and mobilizing troops, so you don't have to worry about that. ”

"Then what else is there to say, since you don't need me, then I'll just continue to squat at home. In the past, when we were fighting, we went together, but now you don't need me to fight, so what's the use of me, the emperor's brother? ”

"And the resentment?"

"I'm not angry, I'm holding back what I want to say. I think at the beginning, you Luo Xiaowu was just a small catcher, it was the brothers who helped you, made you a captain of the township regiment, and it was the brothers who helped you to suppress bandits and make meritorious contributions, and then went north to conquer Liao, and it was also the brothers who were born and died to help you make great achievements, so that you could rise to the top, and finally until now, you have succeeded in a hundred battles, and once ascended the throne and became the emperor. ”

The fourth child had hidden these words in his heart for a long time, and no one else was present at this time, so he poured them out.

"You are the emperor, the brothers have nothing to say, because you have the ability, except for you, none of us have the prestige to dominate the brothers, to be honest, you are really powerful, whether it is fighting or winning people's hearts, so that everyone is convinced."

"It's just that now you have changed a little, to those outsiders, you are very generous, this one who gives the prince of the country and worships the prime minister, but his own old brother, you are too guarded, you are just a temperance, you are just a pacification envoy, even the titles of the prince of the kingdom have become bald lords, do you say that the brothers can have a good time in their hearts?"

"I won't talk about the other land restrictions, tax rents, and the like."

Luo Cheng smiled, "You haven't changed at all, what do you say, this is very good, if you have something, take it out and put it on the table and say, there is a discussion." What you are talking about now, I have actually been thinking about it, and the dismissal of the temperance and pacification of the envoys to change the three divisions and six envoys is for long-term consideration, this is a national policy of long-term peace and stability, and it cannot be changed. ”

"It's the matter of the knighthood you said, I've thought about it carefully these days, and the previous arrangement of the title was to take into account that the imperial court wanted to centralize power and avoid future turmoil. But now that I think about it, such a knighthood is indeed a bit unfair to the heroes. ”

Luo Cheng patted the fourth man on the shoulder.

"I want to thank you for bringing this up, so now, after thinking about it carefully, I decided to revise my Daqin's knighthood, which is still a ninth-class title, and there are also real and virtual titles, but the rights and interests of both real and virtual titles should be greatly improved."

When the fourth child heard this, he came to the spirit, "What kind of promotion method?" ”

"Fourth brother, you said that if I give you a fief and allow you to open a country in the fief, how about it?"

"And such a good thing? To the fiefdom and the opening of the country? The fourth child was surprised.

"Of course, but this fief can't be sealed in the Central Plains, and even the border land can't be sealed, so it has to be sealed farther away, for example, if you are the king of Wei, I will give you a fief in Xi or Khitan, or even in the land of Baishan and Heishui in Murowei or Yan, are you willing to go?"

The fourth child touched his chin and thought about it.

"Sealed to the wilderness beyond the frontier? This sounds a bit similar to Zhou Tianzi's division of the princes? ”

"Yes, that's what it means, you are the king of Wei, I will grant you a fief of five hundred miles and let you open the country."

The fourth child was a little excited, but he was not fooled all of a sudden, he asked seriously, "Five hundred miles of feudal country, it is very generous, but the wild land outside this frontier, except for the barbarian is a beast, what is the use of the place no matter how big it is, give me the population, it has to be a Han immigrant." ”

"The imperial court can give you 5,000 people first, and then you have to find a way to recruit yourself, and how much you can recruit depends on your own ability."

"Well, five thousand, that's not a lot. But there is another important question, the wild land, it is very unsafe, to go to that kind of place to open the country, it can be regarded as opening up the frontier for the imperial court, I am willing, but, to the army? ”

Luo Cheng replied directly, "As a prince, if you open a fief, the imperial court will give you 500 personal guards, and set up a government soldier in your fief according to the situation." ”

"This soldier listens to me?" The fourth asked again.

"The military is a weapon of the state, and it should not be given lightly to private individuals. Therefore, the 500-man guards, although they were guarded by the marquis, were commanded by officers stationed in the imperial court, and they had to accept the command of the Privy Council, the military department, and the twelve guards. The power to dispatch the troops of the princes' fiefs belongs to the emperor, and the princes have no right to transfer troops without the seal of the tiger talisman, otherwise it will be regarded as a rebellion. ”