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While Liu Rui and Liu Xiangjun, father and daughter, were talking, the space-time gate was opened, and then soldiers came through the gate one by one.

But it was Liu Sheng who sent the guards over first.

The members of Liu Sheng's guard corps have not changed much in the past thirteen or fourteen years, and most of them know Liu Rui - although Liu Rui is already in his thirties and his appearance has changed a little compared to that year, his general appearance has not changed.

"See Your Majesty."

The guards saluted one by one.

Liu Rui smiled gently and waved his hand, "No need to be polite, just do what you need to do."

The guards said nothing more and began to deploy defenses inside and outside the villa.

After the guards came some attendants, palace maids, eunuchs, etc.

Behind them came Hongniang and other concubines who came back with Liu Sheng.

"See Queen Mother."

Liu Rui stepped forward and bowed to Hongniang.

Liu Xiangjun was very smart. She also stepped forward to pay her respects and said in a crisp voice, "Greetings to the Empress Dowager."

Lady Hong was very happy to see her son again. She pulled Liu Xiangjun aside and said, "Good boy, you must be Jiu'er, right?"

Liu Xiangjun smiled and replied, "Grandmother, you have a keen eye. It is Jiuer."

However, Liu Rui had mentioned the birthdays of his children in the telegram. Hong Niang estimated their ages and it was not difficult for her to guess the identity of the girl in front of her.

After they chatted for a while, Liu Sheng finally came over after sending the last person off.

Liu Rui then pulled Liu Xiangjun to pay his respects to Liu Sheng.

After the ceremony, Liu Sheng naturally spoke a few words to his granddaughter whom he met for the first time, and even praised her.

Then the group left the villa and went to Liujiazhai.

There were too many of them, the villa was too small, and it was a channel for exchanging materials between the two sides. It was not only crowded but also inconvenient for Liu Sheng and others to stay inside.

Liujiazhai has not changed much compared to when Liu Sheng left more than ten years ago - when he was in office, Liujiazhai had already been expanded and rebuilt to the point where it could no longer be expanded.

As for rebuilding it, it is not easy either, at least it requires the emperor's approval.

It was in the "temporary palace" of Liujiazhai, or in the Liu family mansion, that Liu Sheng and Hong Niangzi had the opportunity to reminisce with Liu Rui, Liu Xiangjun and other family members.

The children of concubines such as Li Xiangyun and Li Lingfei who stayed here also came, but they were not in the villa before, they were all in Liujiazhai. Now they naturally saw Liu Sheng.

After gathering with everyone for a while, Liu Sheng took Liu Rui into the study, while Hong Niangzi and others were still talking in the hall.

"There's no need for us to be so reserved. Let's sit down." Liu Sheng said as he sat down first.

Liu Ruisui also sat down.

Liu Sheng said: "I came back this time because I wanted to walk around here and see if there is anything that needs to be innovated after more than ten years of development in Dalai."

"The second is to learn more about the overseas fiefdoms. Today is a time of global competition. Even though we are ahead in many aspects, we cannot slack off. Let's not talk about other aspects. As far as territory is concerned, the more we occupy, the better."

Liu Rui cupped his hands and said, "Father, please be wise. Although Dalai has developed rapidly over the years, it has also developed some drawbacks."

"It's a pity that my son needs to stay in the court and oversee military and political affairs. He can't move easily, and there are some things that he really can't take care of."

"It would be best if father could help inspect the provinces and correct the mistakes."

"As for the overseas fiefs, according to the clan law established by my father, only a few of my brothers are qualified to be fiefs overseas. This is the result of my son's partiality in appointments and promotions."

"There are many meritorious officials who are now qualified to be enfeoffed. But my father is not here, and I don't know what they think. No one has mentioned this matter."

Liu Sheng currently has more than twenty sons, but when he went to Da Chu fourteen years ago, he took the older ones Liu Yu, Liu Heng and Liu Jing with him.

Therefore, only the fifth to seventeenth sons of the emperor remained with Liu Rui, a total of 19 sons, including Liu Rui. All the daughters remained with him, a total of people.

Although Dalai liberated many rights for women, it did not allow women to join the army. Therefore, although Liu Sheng's daughters entered many industries, they did not join the army.

Without joining the army, it is almost impossible to accumulate enough merits to be granted an overseas fiefdom.

According to the "Dalai Royal Family Management Regulations" promulgated by Liu Sheng that year, royal family members must win military merits overseas and be promoted to the rank of duke before they can apply to establish a country overseas, which is also called enfeoffment overseas.

Ministers from other families must obtain the title of Prince.

Excluding Liu Rui, among the 18 sons of Liu Sheng who stayed here, only 9 are currently adults, and only six of them chose to join the army.

Due to their age, even with the halo of being a prince and Liu Rui's partial appointment and promotion, there are only two people who have accumulated merit and been worthy of the rank of duke.

"When my father left, our army in the South Pacific used the Luzon Islands as a springboard to attack other islands."

"In the past ten years, our navy and army have traveled all over Australia, Africa, and America, fighting with Western countries and rarely losing."

"But even so, among all the royal brothers, only the sixth and seventh brothers who entered the army earlier accumulated merits and became dukes."

The sixth child, Liu Wei, whose nickname was Wuji, was born to Xu Wan.

Perhaps because he was weak when he was young, Liu Wei became particularly fond of wielding swords and guns and military affairs as he grew older. Therefore, he joined the Xia army at the age of sixteen (Xia men were considered adults at the age of sixteen).

As for the fifth prince Liu Chen (born to Bai Taiwei), who was one year older, he loved medicine and scientific research. After graduating from high school, he was specially recruited by Nanjing Medical College with excellent grades. He has been studying and doing research there ever since, and is now an associate professor at Nanjing Medical College.

The seventh child, Liu Yu, whose nickname was Yu'er, was born to Zheng Haizhu. He was only eight months younger than Liu Wei and joined the army one year later than Liu Wei.

However, Liu Yu's maternal family, the Zheng family, was quite powerful in the navy. After he joined the overseas army of Dalai, he was taken care of a lot. In addition, there was land tax in the military, so he continued to make meritorious services and was awarded the title of Duke one year earlier than Liu Wei.

Apart from these two, the remaining princes who were training in the army either had not yet been granted a title or had a low title, and were still a long way from becoming a duke...
After listening to Liu Rui's words, Liu Sheng picked up a pen and wrote down the names one by one on the white paper on the desk.

Liu Rui leaned over to take a look, and saw the names of the meritorious officials who had been conferred the title of Prince in recent years.

Peng Youyi, King of Yunzhong.

Yang Heqing, King of Kuaiji.

Helian Yue, King of Guanghan.

Li Dingguo, King of Cangwu.

Shen Wandeng, King of Wuwei.

Zhang Ao, King of Rinan.

Huang Gan, King of Wudu.

Liu Changhe, King of Luzon.

Huang Fei, King of the South China Sea.

There are nine princes from other families!

After finishing writing, Liu Sheng stood up and looked at a global map hanging in the study.

This map was specially placed in the study by Liu Rui. It was replaced not long ago and is considered a newer map of Dalai.

From the map, we can see that in addition to occupying the vast land in the eastern part of the Asian continent, Dalai has also occupied almost all the islands in the South Pacific!
In addition, although there is red color representing the occupied territories on the four continents of Australia, Africa, North America and South America, it only exists in spots in the coastal areas.

In Australia, although the land occupied by the great mackerel is small, it can still be considered unique because there is no competition.

But in North America, South America, and Africa, the red color representing the major power areas is somewhat inferior to that of European countries.

Therefore, Liu Sheng looked at it for a while and said, "None of the nine princes mentioned the issue of enfeoffment in the outer seas. I guess one reason is that they are worried about suspicion from the court; the other is that they are not yet fully grown and are afraid that they will not be able to compete with the Western countries if they go overseas."

Liu Rui nodded slightly and asked, "Father, how do you think we should deal with this matter?" (End of this chapter)