Liu Mingge went to Jiangling to appease Cui Guangyuan, but he always felt awkward along the way. This was clearly the work of his eldest brother Liu Boxian. Now not only could he not overturn it, he had to continue along the path Liu Boxian had set.

Fortunately, the two brothers looked very similar, and both used the name Liu Mingge, so the Cui family was not suspicious after this trip.

Mainly because Liu Boxian killed a few people last time and scared them. Although Liu Mingge didn't kill people frequently today, his majesty was not much different from Liu Boxian's.

Cui Guangyuan was the only one who dared to talk and laugh with Liu Mingge. At the banquet, Cui Guangyuan shook his head and smiled at Liu Mingge, "Prime Minister Liu is not the Prime Minister Liu before, and the Prime Minister Liu before is not the Prime Minister Liu back then."

Everyone else just said that Cui Guangyuan drank too much and was incoherent. Only Liu Mingge understood what he meant and drank in return.

"Young Marshal Cui understands the righteousness deeply. Whether he was Prime Minister Liu in the past or Prime Minister Liu today, his promise to your Cui family will not change!"

Everyone applauded, but they didn’t know the meaning behind it. Cui Guangyuan filled a glass for Liu Mingge and added another glass for himself: "Cui Guangyuan thanked Prime Minister Liu on behalf of the Cui family!"

At this time, even if Cui Guangyuan is a concubine, no one will question whether he can represent the Cui family. Those who questioned him before have been taken away by Liu Boxian on the spot.

What's more, the current Cui family would probably be destroyed if Cui Guangyuan was not there to support them. Outside Xiangyang City in the north, the coalition forces of Wei and Tuyuhun were approaching.

Liu Jian's small court in Tanzhou is also preparing to go north. The situation has greatly improved, and what they need to do now is the Northern Expedition.

Along the way, there were countless exiled sons and elders of aristocratic families who came to join the small imperial court, and they were all secretly found by Liu Boxian.

When Liu Boxian was here, he had already promised everywhere to restore the family, and even asked Liu Jian to issue an order.

If this promise is overturned now, the credibility of the court will be gone.

It was too tempting to restore the appeal of the aristocratic family. The descendants of the down-and-out aristocratic family sold their jade pendants and clothes, dug out the treasures in the ancestral home, and recruited subordinates to join them.

Suddenly, there was an endless stream of banners from Wang Xie, Xiao Lu, Zhang Wen and others, and the total number of people from all walks of life was almost 100,000.

Liu Jian cannot currently afford the expenses of one hundred thousand people, and the official salary of five hundred people also makes the small court stretched.

Liu Jian summoned Liu Mingge, Li Xiaofei, Zhou Dapeng, Li Jianshang and others to discuss countermeasures.

Liu Mingge believed that these people should be sent north to support Xiangyang, which could at least delay the attack of Tuyuhun and Wei.

Li Xiaofei felt that these people were a ragtag group and would be of little use if sent to the north. If they were left in various prefectures and counties, they would bring disaster to the countryside. It would be better to dismantle them all and distribute them to the various battalions of the Southern Navy for control.

Nanhai could not afford the expenses of these 100,000 people, so Zhou Dapeng thought that these people should be kept and distributed to farm in various places.

Li Jianshang waited for everyone to finish speaking and said, "Self enfeoffment, all the feudal lords will have less power!"

Liu Jian and the other three people all looked at him, and Liu Mingge waved his hands repeatedly, "It is no longer appropriate to enfeoff the title! What's more, the titles cannot be given indiscriminately! If there are too many titles, how will it end in the future?"

Li Xiaofei also smiled, "We have been fighting for half our lives, but we have not been able to be granted a title. These people are new comers. They are just from an unreliable family, and they want to be granted a title. What does this make the soldiers who have been through life and death think?"

"What Li Pushe said, Zhou finally figured it out. This was just the same trick as before Cui Ju's rebellion. He drew a big cake to feed the generals to satisfy their hunger, but he died before he could implement it!"

Liu Jian's eyes lit up. "Li Pushe, please continue. Listen to Li Pushe finish his thoughts! Maybe old medicine can cure new diseases!"

Li Jianshang nodded, "Marshal Zhou is right, but only partly. The pie before was not formed, but today's pie is in order. Both the Wang family and the Xie family are now empty shells."

, it is better to entrust them with some counties and counties in the north, such as Xinye, Dengzhou, Nanyang and other places. These places are currently close to our Daliang, and it is not difficult to capture them. With a little help from our main force in Daliang, we can help the families to defeat them!

After they capture these counties, they will work hard to defend these cities! In this way, our main army in Daliang does not have to divide its troops to guard each city! But in order to prevent the Wang family, Xie family, Xiao family and other forces from becoming too big, your majesty can do it in the name of the imperial court

Establishing a new group of aristocratic families is the first step in building the princes with less effort than someone Li said. In the future, after Daliang regains the Central Plains and sends troops to Yan and Zhao, a piece of favor order can make all these princes and marquis collapse!

"

Liu Mingge, Li Xiaofei and Zhou Dapeng all widened their eyes. In front of them, the tepid Li Jianshang, who was in his forties, had already thought about far-reaching things. It seemed that Liu Boxian's ability to choose people was really extraordinary.

Liu Jian also understood that Li Jianshang was asking Liu Jian to enfeoff these children of aristocratic families into marquises and fiefs, so that they could take the initiative to attack in the north instead of staying all day to consume the court's food and fodder.

"Okay, it seems that Li Pushe is indeed an unparalleled scholar in the country. This is a good idea! If Prime Minister Liu, Marshal Li and Marshal Zhou have no objections, the imperial court will issue an order!"

"I have no objection, Your Majesty is wise!"

Three days later, people from all walks of life drove north in a mighty manner. The leaders were all dressed in red and colorful and carrying a big "Marquis XX" flag.

"Marquis He'an, I heard that your fiefdom is in Xinye! There are two thousand Wei troops there, so be careful!"

"Marquis Zhongyuan, your fiefdom is in Xuchang. If I can't take Xinye, how can you get to Xuchang?"

"My fiefdom is in Xinyang. It is said that there are less than a thousand soldiers. When the time comes that you need my help, brother, I will give it to you!"

"Jing'an Marquis, please stop trying to bully us. Your surname is Xiao. The current queen is a member of the Xiao family, so you are taking advantage."

"Did you see that team to the west? That's Prince Wang Fu of the Wang family. He was so stupid that he wanted to conquer Chang'an. The court actually gave him the title of Duke of Chang'an!"

"Chang'an was occupied by Tuyuhun. It is said that this silly boy wanted to take Chang'an to avenge his grandfather!"

"Young people are young people after all. I think if he leaves, he will soon meet his grandfather!"

"Stop laughing at people. If we are unfortunate enough to meet Wang Tiezhu of Wei State, we will probably have to meet our ancestors!"

Wang Fu had a resolute look on his face, and several of his hometown generals around him also fell silent, and the team behind him began to murmur.

Wang Fu listened for a while and turned around and shouted, "It's too late to leave now. I know you all think I'm going to die! But the court gave us the title, and we have to pay for it! If we don't fight a few tough battles, we will just be living under someone else's roof in the future!"

Half of the 3,000-person team was gone. The other teams in the distance were pointing and pointing. Wang Fu waited quietly without changing his expression.

"My lord, there are only more than a thousand people left. Should we recruit more people?"

Wang Fu drew his sword and pointed it to the northwest, "That's enough! Those who remain are not afraid of death!"

"Your Majesty's courage is commendable, but Chang'an City is guarded by nearly 30,000 Tuyuhun troops, and we are not even a fraction of their number!"

Wang Fu sneered, "I don't think the imperial court will sit back and watch us die! I still say the same thing, those who are afraid can stay, I, Wang Fu, will not force it!"

Wang Fu's team roared away with more than a thousand people, and the news quickly spread to Li Xiaofei.

Li Xiaofei still remembered that he and Murong Ling protected Wang Xian's body and broke out of the siege in Chang'an City, and he had long wanted to meet his grandson Wang Fu.

This time someone came to report that Wang Futong's troops had dispersed, so Li Xiaofei took Hua Xiaoan and gave chase.

Before Wang Fu's team had gone far, Li Xiaofei shouted from behind, "Young Master Wang! I am your grandfather's friend Li Xiaofei! Wait a minute, I have something to say!"

Wang Fu stopped his horse and turned around, "Master Li, please call me Duke Chang'an!"

"Okay, okay, Duke Chang'an, it looks like you are indeed your grandfather's grandson! Well done!"

Li Xiaofei and Hua Xiaoan were riding close to each other. Hua Xiaoan suddenly turned sideways and reached out to slap Wang Fu's men. Several of them were knocked off their horses one after another.

Everyone was shocked and drew their swords, but Wang Fu didn't panic, "Stop! Master Li is here to test our skills!"

Li Xiaofei shook his head, "Mr. Chang'an, you are young and promising, but the powerful enemies in Chang'an City are indeed much more powerful than your subordinates, and their number is more than twenty times that of yours!"

Wang Fu asked, "Since the imperial court knows this, why doesn't it send me reinforcements?"

"Mr. Chang'an, nothing in this world is taken for granted. What's more, when you met the Emperor the day before yesterday, you were in high spirits, and you didn't tell the Emperor about your plight. How could the Emperor know about it? I advise you to stop first, and I will report it to the Emperor.

, I will send you people and weapons, and the court will also have people to cooperate with you!"

Wang Fu closed his eyes and said, "Master Li, you are here to be my teacher and teach me how to do things!"

"If Li is not talented, how can he dare to teach the Duke of Chang'an? He just can't bear the Duke of Chang'an leading these passionate and loyal people to die! The Duke will definitely achieve great things in the future and surpass his ancestors!"

Wang Fu opened his eyes, leaned over and whispered, "I heard that my grandfather has never won a battle. Is it true?"

"The battles your grandfather Wang Xian fought were all due to disadvantages. Either the enemy army was several times his size, or he was trapped in an isolated city. It is very rare for Wang Xian to fight like that!"

"I know, it doesn't look like I'm much better than my grandfather! I've been reading military books and strategies for more than ten years, and most of them seem useless! The really useful ones are what some servants do, feeding horses and dealing with excrement.

Find herbs to make decoctions to treat illnesses, find wild vegetables to hunt and cook, etc. There are no books to teach you these things!"

Li Xiaofei pointed at the men and horses around Wang Fu, "The most difficult thing is how to save the lives of these people! They are all human beings, not the tens of millions in the military book. They are grandchildren, sons, husbands and fathers. I have been a soldier for more than ten years.

Tens of thousands of lives have been lost at my hands!"

Wang Fu took out a copy of "Wei Liao Zi" from his arms and threw it into the grass. "I have been thinking about one thing for a long time. Those people in Tuyuhun and Mobei are illiterate and cannot read, but they

You can also win the battle! This shows that this military book is actually useless!"

Li Xiaofei dismounted and picked up the book of war. "The books of the sages are still useful, but some things are not stated directly. They are more about how to arrange troops and how to distinguish rewards and punishments. The books should not be thrown away casually. Illiterate people
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