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After Helian Yue finished speaking, Shen Wandeng and Li Dingguo fell silent.

As the saying goes, "It is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix." Who wouldn't want to be granted fiefdom overseas to establish a country and become the king of his own?

Especially when their ranks in the Dalai Army had reached the point where they could no longer be promoted and their personal and even family development was hindered, they began to think about establishing a country overseas.

In theory, they could resign from the military and develop their business overseas like some big businessmen in the private sector.

But they were, after all, subjects of the Dalai Lama, and even if they resigned, their titles would remain. If they rashly took their entire family overseas to establish a country, it would likely be regarded as defection or even treason.

The most important thing is that although they are heroes of the founding of the country, their family has grown stronger over the past two or three decades and they have accumulated a lot of wealth, but they still do not have the strength to build a country overseas, and this can only be achieved with the support of Dalai.

However, will Liu Rui fulfill the promise Liu Sheng made to allow them to establish their own country overseas?

Even someone like Li Dingguo, who trusted Liu Bei's royal family, had doubts about this matter.

After all, after they were granted fiefdoms, although they became vassals of Dalai, they were actually independent of Dalai.

Moreover, Dalai had to provide money and manpower to help them establish their vassal states overseas.

No matter how you look at it, it was a thankless task for the Liu Bei royal family.

In the long run, these overseas vassals may become competitors or even enemies of Dalai in a few hundred years.

Li Dingguo and others were able to be promoted to the rank of prince due to their meritorious service in the army. Their IQ and EQ were not low.

Therefore, even though there are now as many as nine princes of other surnames in Dalai, and several of the older ones are about to die of old age and illness, no one has taken the initiative to mention this matter to the Liu family.

What they were worried about was that the current emperor would dislike them or even fear them, and as a result, their fiefdoms would not be divided and their family would be suppressed instead.

Now that Helian Yue has brought up this matter, it is obvious that he is looking forward to the overseas fiefdom.

He was a brave and daring man in his early years. Although he restrained himself after the current emperor ascended the throne, and was later transferred to a sinecure because of his son's involvement, his character is still hard to change.

In other words, he really couldn't stand his current situation and wanted to be granted fiefdom overseas.

After a long silence, Shen Wandeng said, "Brother Dingguo, what do you think?"

Li Dingguo hesitated for a moment and said, "Perhaps it is really for this matter, but it is best not to bring it up proactively, so as not to cause trouble."

"Your Majesty will definitely remember the promise." Helian Yue suddenly murmured.

It sounded like he was talking to the two people sitting next to him, but also like he was talking to himself.

Both Li and Shen understood that the "Your Majesty" he was referring to was not the present emperor, but the Emeritus Qianyuan Emperor, Liu Sheng!

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A few more days passed.

Li Dingguo received a handwritten note from Liu Rui, allowing him to enter the palace to discuss matters and allowing him to bring one of his sons with him.

After a little consideration, Li Dingguo took Li Sixing to the palace.

His wives, concubines, and children at home sensed the unusual atmosphere and looked worried when he left, and were reluctant to say goodbye to him.

After passing through numerous palace restrictions, the Li father and son were led into a side hall of the Wuying Palace to wait.

After entering the hall, they found that the other eight princes from other families had also come with a son.

Everyone looked at each other and found that there was anticipation, excitement and nervousness in each other's eyes.

Li Sixing couldn't stand the strange atmosphere in the hall. Standing behind Li Dingguo, he couldn't help but lower his head and asked softly, "Dad, looking at this situation, are you really going to discuss the issue of overseas fiefdoms?"

Li Dingguo scolded in a low voice: "Wait quietly, don't talk!"

Although he was scolded, Li Sixing was not depressed, but looked excited instead.

Divide overseas and establish countries.

If this were to work, Li Sixing would be able to become a prince of a country. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Soon, an old eunuch came over and said, "The Emperor and His Majesty will be arriving at the Wuying Palace. Please go to the main hall and wait, okay?"

The nine princes from other families immediately went to the main hall with the eunuch.

When they arrived at the main hall, Li Dingguo and others found that two mighty young men were already waiting inside.

However, they are the only two people in the current Liu Bei royal family who have been granted the title of duke, namely Liu Wei, Duke of Wu, and Liu Yu, Duke of Yue.

After seeing the two of them, Li Dingguo and others became more certain that what they were going to discuss today was the issue of overseas fiefdoms.

Because according to the Liu Shi clan law designated by Liu Sheng, Liu Wei and Liu Yu also met the conditions for being enfeoffed as fiefdoms overseas.

There are also tables and chairs in the main hall of Wuying Hall, and the layout is similar to that of later conference venues, but more spacious.

Everyone sat down as usual, and soon, an eunuch shouted loudly, "The Second Saint has arrived!"

Liu Sheng and Liu Rui entered the hall from the back door. Liu Sheng sat on the dragon throne, while Liu Rui sat on another chair next to it.

Everyone stood up, bowed, and shouted in unison: "Your Majesty!"

"Everyone is safe."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The ceremony is over.

Liu Sheng smiled and said loudly: "I called you all here this time because I have been away for more than ten years and I want to see you and catch up with you."

"Secondly, when Dalai was first established, I established the "Dalai Royal Family Management Regulations" and the "Dalai Lord Management General Principles", and promised to grant fiefs overseas."

"Now my Liu Xi royal family has the two dukes of Wu and Yue, and there are nine great princes of other surnames, but no one has mentioned this matter yet."

"As I and the others grow old, we cannot just pretend that this never happened. As the saying goes, my words are golden. Once I have promised, I will definitely fulfill them."

"So, this time we summoned all the princes and nobles to discuss the overseas enfeoffment."

Although they had some guesses, everyone in the hall was still surprised when they heard Liu Sheng bring up the matter in person.

Especially for Helian Yue, who was so eager to be enfeoffed overseas, his joy was beyond words.

After a while, when everyone calmed down, Liu Sheng continued: "I have discussed the general rules with Rui'er. Let's take a look at it first. If there is anything you don't understand or are not satisfied with, we can discuss it again and strive to make the overseas enfeoffment a complete success."

After saying that, he waved his hand.

Immediately, a secretariat official came with a stack of white booklets and distributed them.

It is the "First Draft of the Methods for Enfeoffment of Overseas Vassal States in Dalai".

Li Dingguo immediately flipped through it.

I found that there is not much content in it, and after distilling it, there are only a few points.

First, the conditions for allowing overseas fiefdoms were in accordance with the regulations and general outline promulgated by Liu Sheng that year, that is, only dukes and kings of Liu Sheng's royal family, and kings of meritorious officials of other surnames could be granted fiefdoms overseas.

Second, the enfeoffment was entirely voluntary and the court would not force anyone.

Third, the fiefdoms are temporarily set at four locations: Africa, Australia, North America, and South America.

Fourthly, if there are princes who want to establish fiefdoms overseas, they are allowed to recruit no more than 5,000 retired soldiers from the country and no more than 100,000 civilians from the country.

Fifth, Dalai will lend one million yuan to the princes who have been enfeoffed without interest, and sell the firearms, weapons and other equipment of the 5,000 soldiers who have been replaced by the Lai army at a low price.

Sixth, after the princes and nobles were established overseas, they automatically became vassal states of Dalai and had to obey the orders of the Emperor of Dalai and be unified in external affairs. They were not allowed to fight against each other, and they were not allowed to betray the suzerain state (Dalai).

Seventh, the location chosen by the princes for their overseas fiefdoms must be at least a thousand miles away from the existing developed areas in Dalai.

Li Dingguo was deep in thought after reading it when he noticed Li Sixing peeking at him from behind. So he simply handed the white booklet to him and continued thinking.