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As Xiong Huai said, if he was hit by Rofonzi, maybe he would be the one who lost.
But Xiong Huai's body is not as bulky and huge as Luo Fangshi, although his strength is not as strong as Luo Fangshi, but his body is flexible.
Of course, Xiong Huai is not as strong as Luo Fangshi, but compared with ordinary people, his strength Xiong Huai is also one out of ten thousand.
A simple fight, Luo Fangshi's performance, made the princes have the intention of wooing, but they also know that if they can be Qi Xiaobai's personal guard, Qi Xiaobai will definitely not treat him too badly, and he will definitely be treated very generously.
Another point is, if Luo Fangshi betrayed Qi Xiaobai and took refuge in their disciples, would they still dare to accept it?
A bodyguard who can betray his master for the sake of profit, this is something that no one dares to want, after all, maybe he can betray you for the sake of profit that day.
Qi Xiaobai came to the bottom of the enthronement platform, the enthronement platform is eighty meters high, when the first emperor recruited 500,000 laborers in the empire, it took three years, spent 60 million taels of silver, and built this enthronement platform in the imperial city of Luoyang.
After this enthronement platform was built at that time, it was provided for the emperors of all dynasties to ascend the throne, and the Zhou Shengdi 'Ji Mingyue' also had to complete the enthronement on this enthronement platform.
Qi Xiaobai and other princes had to follow the emperor to ascend the throne together, the emperor was at the top, and they were on the second floor below the emperor's height.
The next layer is the king's position, where King Wei Wu and King Chu Huai are in that position, plus the princes of the imperial family.
And Qi Xiaobai and the others are Grand Dukes, one grade lower than the king, so they are on the lower second floor.
In the past, when the emperor ascended the throne, he came from all directions to worship, and the enthronement field of the entire imperial city was full of people, but now it seems empty.
At that time, there were only a few of the feudal princes left, and the ministers of the empire had changed from tens of thousands to more than ten now.
In the past, the officials of the Gang Dynasty filled the entire enthronement platform.
In fact, the princes wanted their troops to participate in this enthronement ceremony, but the emperors were unwilling, I ascended the throne, and you brought the army, what does this mean?
However, in order not to be too embarrassed in front of the princes, the emperor would bring his own army, and at this time the audience was full of the emperor's men.
Of course, although this army seems to be dressed luxuriously, but its combat effectiveness is not very powerful, the empire had four major legions, with millions of people, fighting in the south and the north, deterring the Quartet, foreign races dare not come to attack, overseas empires, admiration to worship.
Now the four major armies of the empire are less than 100,000, only more than 50,000, if it were not for the sake of saving face, the royal family would save their own expenses, maybe these 50,000 would not be able to sustain.
Of course, if the princes do not pay tribute, the emperor's 50,000 yuan will not be able to be maintained at all, and the royal family's income comes from the taxes of Luoyang City, plus the annual tribute of the princes.
But the princes attacked each other, consuming money and food, and in recent years, the money and food given to the emperor were much less, basically just coping with it, just giving.
The emperor was afraid of annoying the princes, and did not dare to argue with the princes about this.
At this time, under the throne were the four major legions of the empire, and in the past, their four major legions were combined, a million people, and the highest standing army was two or three million.
These four legions used to be stationed in the east, west, north and south of the empire, on the one hand, to deter the princes, and on the other hand, to deter foreign races.
However, in the seventy-seventh year of the imperial A.D. 'B.C.', Emperor Zhou You'Ji Qian' greedy for pleasure, delegated power to eunuchs and civil officials, and there was the largest party struggle at that time, the two parties were headed by eunuchs, and the leader of the eunuchs was called 'Niu Geng' at that time, but now they are all called eunuchs, and the other party is headed by the literati group, because most of the literati on this side are from Luoyang City, Luoyang City is an imperial city, and they call themselves 'imperial party'!
Although the two parties fought each other, they had a common purpose, that is, they had been suppressing the military against the Cypriot soldiers, and there was oppression and resistance.
There are no armies on the side of the two parties, and when they see that the four major legions are coming to kill themselves, how can they sit back and wait for them to die? The two parties gave up their hatred and chose to unite, and they spoke to the emperor, hoping that the emperor would come forward to call on the world to crusade against the traitors of the four major legions.
When the emperor saw that these four major legions were leading the army to attack Luoyang City, he was also afraid, what if they arrived in Luoyang City and took away their throne?
Therefore, he listened to the words of the bull party and the imperial party, and issued an edict to the world to let his subjects rebel against the four major armies, and of course they also contacted the princes in various places.
At that time, the princes and grand dukes had seventy-two roads, not to mention waiting, and the princes of the seventy-two roads also responded to the call, and they blocked the four major armies on the road.
There was also the first civil strife since the founding of the empire, and the princes had a large-scale war with the four major legions, and a single prince was certainly not the opponent of the four major legions, after all, there were millions of people.
The princes united with each other to form an alliance for the purpose of protecting the emperor, and since the four major legions were opposed, the emperor cut off their grain and grass, and they needed to collect it themselves, which caused the reluctance of the local people.
And because the princes each run their own territories, their supply of grain and grass is very good, perennial war, perennial due to lack of food and grass, the empire's powerful four legions can not hold on, and the leaders of the four major legions are finally killed one by one.
As meritorious princes, they have been rewarded, and the empire has ushered in an era when the princes have become bigger.
The four legions were defeated, and the emperor wanted to rebuild the legions, but the Niu Party and the Imperial Party were definitely unwilling, and they were afraid that this kind of rebellion would occur in the newly built legions, so they persuaded the emperor to have this kind of rebellion.
And they also said that the security of the empire was protected by the princes, and there was no need for an army at all, and the army only needed a little symbolism.
At that time, the emperor listened to this opinion, and Jue's empire was protected by princes, and there was no need to rebuild the army at all, so he began to reduce the army on a large scale.
Moreover, the princes from all over the country also responded to the emperor's call to help the emperor disarm, and the laid off troops all went to the accounts of the major princes.
However, in the 70th year of the empire, there was a palace accident in the emperor's harem, the emperor died, and his first heir was poisoned, and the throne was succeeded by the second heir, and the son who was poisoned was the grandson of the eldest prince at that time, Jin Gong.
Of course, the Duke of Jin did not want his grandson to be poisoned so simply, and he united with the princes who were friendly with him to crusade against the emperor, asking the emperor to give his grandson an explanation.
At that time, the Duke of Jin was the first prince in the world, and there were many princes who responded to him, and the successor emperor could not watch himself being defeated, so he once again used his imperial power to call on the princes of the world to crusade against the Duke of Jin.
The emperor's call was still very strong, and there were still many princes in the world who joined the emperor's camp at that time, but the Duke of Jin was the first prince in the world, and many princes joined his side, and the largest civil war in the empire broke out at that time.