Liang Xiao stayed at home for only two days, then hurriedly set off and rushed to Youbeiping.

Before leaving, he sent someone to send a letter to Liu Ling, asking her to arrange someone to investigate and count one thing: the birth of a couple with relatives.

Liu Ling was extremely smart. After thinking for a moment, he understood what Liang Xiao meant. There were many people around her who had relatives, and the abnormal examples of children born are not uncommon, but he just didn't think about it. After all, whether it was infertility or dementia, it was common for families who were not relatives to be relatives. In addition, many children died before they could even live in adulthood. Who would have thought about the impact of relatives?

But Liu Ling believes in Liang Xiao. Liang Xiao is good at discovering hidden truths from some seemingly ordinary things, which has been proven many times.

The only thing Liu Ling didn't understand was that Liang Xiao asked her to arrange this matter in person, so that Princess Guantao and Taizhu Dou could not even let them know, nor could they accept their sponsorship. Liu Ling didn't care about the funding issue, and had two businesses, Double-Sided Jin and Liuli. She made money every day and was rich, and didn't care about this little money at all. However, doing this obviously meant to challenge the emperor.

This does not conform to Liang Xiao's usual style, and even the Huainan Prince's Mansion has never been so direct. After all, they are facing the emperor, not ordinary people.

What's wrong with Liang Xiao?

Liu Ling thought about it for a long time, but finally decided to act according to Liang Xiao's requirements. She found a dozen young princes, little marquis, and noble ladies who had been clamoring to play with her, arranged tasks, clarified requirements, and personally visited some heavyweight figures.

Chang'an is a place of wealth and honor. There are countless kings and lords and countless wealthy families. In order to safeguard vested interests, the emphasis on relatives is the most popular among them, and it is far more important than ordinary people. Of course, it also brings a lot of trouble than ordinary people.

Liu Ling had extremely realistic needs to investigate and study this issue. No one wanted to have dementia, and no one wanted to get married but not give birth to an heir. Therefore, this survey received strong support from countless people. Even if Liu Ling deliberately kept a low profile, it still became a topic of conversation between the powerful and powerful in Chang'an.

However, Chang'an has been quite lively recently. This investigation, which was carried out by a group of powerful children, did not attract the attention of the emperor very quickly. It was the end of the year. The county had planned that the kings came to court, and countless people from other places flocked to Chang'an. The emperor asked about politics every day, and was so busy that he hit the back of the head. Yan Zhu and others, as the emperor, were trapped in the palace every day and had no time to go out.

At the same time, soldiers from the northern border represented by Li Guang returned to the court and brought back nearly a thousand Xiongnu prisoners, including more than a dozen nobles from the Xiongnu, and the tribe Xiaowang alone. They were taken outside the northern gate of Weiyang Palace, attracting a large number of Chang'an people to watch, and became the topic that talked the most before and after dinner, no one. Compared with Liu Ling's investigation, this issue has a thicker mass base and a wider range of dissemination.

After several court discussions, the emperor issued an edict to reward soldiers who went to war.

Li Guang forced the surrender to King Xiu and killed King Loufan. He accepted the surrender in total, beheaded more than 35,000 levels, and was granted the title of Marquis of Ji, with a fief of 3,700 households and a grant of 2,000 gold.

Han Anguo beheaded more than 7,000 ranks, and was granted the title of Marquis of Cheng'an, with a fief of 1,000 households. He was granted a thousand gold medals.

Cheng Bushi beheaded five thousand times in succession, and was granted the title of Yang Quhou, with a fief of one thousand households, and was given a thousand gold medals.

In addition to the three main generals, Liang Xiao, Wei Qing, Li Xi and other generals were also rewarded respectively. Among them, Liang Xiao and Wei Qing were rewarded the most. Liang Xiaoyi was granted two thousand households, totaling 3,800 households, and given a thousand gold. Wei Qing was granted the title of Changping Marquis, with a fief of 1,800 households, and given a thousand gold.

In addition, Li Gan, Gongsun Rongnu, Gongsun Ao, Zhang Cigong, Su Jian and others were all granted marquis for their military merits, ranging from hundreds to thousands of households, and the largest number was the Guannei Marquis. Their military merits were not enough to be granted marquis, and some even forced the Guannei Marquis, but the emperor won the first battle and gave them excellent rewards for encouraging military merits.

For a time, Chang'an City was full of morale and restless. Countless rangers were stimulated by their past friends who had returned from meritorious service and decided to join the army to fight, hoping to change their destiny with martial arts and courage.

Liang Xiao was not in Beijing, and the most admired role model for the golfers became Li Guang. Li Guang and his son were granted the title of marquis on the same day, and the emperor gave him a house in a district, right next to Liang Xiao’s house. It can be said that he gained fame and fortune. When he moved to a new house, he naturally had a large banquet for guests. The Li family was crowded with guests almost every day, and the gifts he received were piled up like mountains and countless.

Some people are proud, some are frustrated, and Wei Qihou Dou Ying is one of them.

Speaking of which, Dou Ying was also a rare talent, both civil and military, and could lead troops to fight and study. During the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, he served as the general and led troops to fight against Wu and Chu together with the Grand Marshal Zhou Yafu. Later, he served as the Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince and assisted the Crown Prince Liu Rong, and Rong was very favored.

However, most talented people have tempers, and so does Dou Ying. He even lost the opportunity to be the chief prime minister of all officials. For this reason, he was dedicated to his duties and fought with Empress Dowager Dou several times. When the emperor ascended the throne, he and Tian Fu recommended Confucian scholars together, and implemented the reform, and were demoted together.

But the results were very different. Tian Feng was still favored and still had enough influence on the government, but he completely fell into decline. The emperor seemed to have forgotten him. He originally thought that the emperor was afraid of the Dou family because of the relationship between the Empress Dowager and the empress dowager, so he was inconvenient to use him. When the Empress Dowager passed away and the threat of the Dou family disappeared, he would return to the court and make great achievements again.

Now he realized that he was really thinking too much.

The Empress Dowager passed away and Tian Fen was appointed as prime minister, and he continued to be unemployed.

The emperor launched a large number of troops to fight back against the Huns. Li Guang and Cheng Bushi, and even the Liang general Han Anguo commanded the troops to fight. He was once the general and was ranked first among the generals, still unemployed.

Now, Li Guang and others are named marquis, and are famous all over the world, with guests all over the family, but no one can remember him Dou Ying.

Dou Ying was very disappointed and angry because of this. He closed the door and thanked the guests, neither went to Li Guang and others' houses to congratulate him, nor saw guests. Of course, he had no guests now, and there was no difference between him and the door was closed.

Until Princess Guantao came to her house.

Dou Ying was very surprised by Princess Guantao's visit. Because of opposing King Liang's succession, he had a very unhappy relationship with the Empress Dowager and was a little accustomed to the eldest princess. After being unemployed at home for so many years, Princess Guantao had never been to his door. When he suddenly came to visit, Dou Ying was a little confused about the situation.

The first thing he thought of was to share the same illness. Obviously, after the Empress Dowager passed away, Princess Guantao was also very disappointed. At the moment of thinking about this, Dou Ying refused. He didn't even want to receive Princess Guantao, but under the advice of his wife, he barely came out to welcome the guests.

Princess Guantao went to the hall, looked at Dou Ying, and chuckled: "Why did Wei Qihou stayed to thank the guests, is it because he was old and weak and lacked energy?"

Dou Ying was silent and too lazy to speak.

Princess Guantao knew Dou Ying's temper very well and was not angry. She said slowly: "Marquis Wei Qi can be good at nourishing his body. At your age, there are not many people who have been named Marquis of Marquis for military merit. Now it is the world of young people and the world of common people."

Dou Ying snorted, his face cleared a little. Princess Guantao's words were mentioned to his heart. He was a nobleman, but he was different from those nobles of the heir marquis. His marquis was earned by his military merits. This is also one of the reasons why he is proud. In terms of bloodline, he is qualified to be proud, but in terms of ability, he is not inferior to others.

"I heard that Li Guang has sealed 3,700 households?"

"Well, but he is not the most. Liang Xiao has sealed 3,800 households." Princess Guantao glanced at Dou Ying. "Will Wei Qihou remember that when he saw Liang Xiao?"

Dou Ying's smile on his face became a little more. He remembered his first career as a government official, and his eyes showed memories of the past.

"How can I compare with him? When I was granted the title of marquis for military merit, I was already over 100 years old."

"That's a different time. Li Guang was able to be named a marquis for his military merits today, but Emperor Xiaowen once said that if he was born in the High Emperor, the marquis of Wanhu would be worthy of it. If you are about the same age as Liang Xiao today, your military merits may not be inferior to him. Among your peers, you are the best."

"Hahaha..." Dou Ying finally laughed out loud. He stroked his beard and glanced at Princess Guantao. "The Grand Lord came to the door today, can't it just to make me happy, right?"

"How dare?" Princess Guantao smiled cleverly. "There are a few things I can't figure out. I sorted out the familiar people. I felt that only Wei Qihou could solve my doubts, so I took the liberty to visit. Wei Qihou, your threshold is too high, so it's not easy to get in."

Dou Ying smiled awkwardly and headed straight to the point. "What kind of virtue in the baby can do? How dare you solve the doubts for the Tailor? I wonder what the Tailor has to do?"

"Does Wei Qihou know the result of his recent title of marquis?"

Dou Ying nodded, his face a little bad. Of course he knew the result of being a marquis, otherwise he would not have been so disappointed.

"Three armies attacked, Li Guang alone won 3,700 households, Han Anguo, Cheng Bushi only had a thousand households, why is this?"

"What's hard to understand? Li Guang has more achievements and naturally has more fiefs." Dou Ying blurted out, and then felt that it was too hasty. He thought about it and thought. "Li Guang has more cavalry, so he has more achievements. Han Anguo, Cheng Bushi is mainly infantry, so he has less achievements. Of course, cavalry is still effective in dealing with the Huns."

"So, Wei Qing, as a deputy general, has the merits of Cheng Buzhi. Is Han Anguo also because of the horseman?"

Dou Ying was a little hesitant. "It should... be right."

"But I still don't understand. Both of them were deputy generals, Liang Xiao only led three thousand cavalry, and Wei Qing led ten thousand cavalry, but the number of beheadings of the two was about the same. Why did Liang Xiao only enthrone two thousand households, but Wei Qing could enthrone one thousand eight hundred households?"

Dou Ying suddenly realized. He smiled and said, "The Lord is probably not upholding the justice for Liang Xiao, but he feels that there is no one in the Chen family and is being compared by the Wei family?"

"There is no one in the Chen family, but there are people in the Dou family." Princess Guantao's eyes fluttered and she smiled. "Wei Qihou, you are the pillar of the Dou family now. Are you willing to watch the Dou family have no heads and be stepped on by someone?"

Dou Ying sighed: "So what if I am willing, so what if I am not willing? What else can I do except lying around and looking at the mountains?"

Princess Guantao smiled and said, "Who said that this body is not in the court, so it cannot have any influence? Don't you know that the saints are inaction and do nothing. With the influence of Wei Qihou, there is no need to go barefoot in battle. Just wave your hand to change the trend in Chang'an."—

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