Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 1050 The ceremony does not cut the funeral
The summer of the 11th year of Zhenguan came quietly.

The troops of Fanshang Suwei in Luoyang also changed into summer clothes, and the heavy winter robes and spring jackets were also replaced one after another. The whole city seemed to be bright and colorful.

The emperor left without saying goodbye and returned to Chang'an. It is said that he has already lived in Zhaoling, so as to be closer to Empress Wende. .

The emperor suddenly threw the court to Chengqian to supervise the country and Linchao, and reduced the prime minister's team to four, with the eldest grandson Wuji, Qin Lang, Ma Zhou and Li Daliang as four ministers to assist the government.

Although the court situation is stable, since Zhenguan, Datang has been invincible all over the world, and the four barbarians have proclaimed their vassals, but it does not mean that Datang will sit back and relax.

Thousands of miles of land and hundreds of millions of people were all on the shoulders of Chengqian. Although Chengqian was very excited, he also felt that there were so many clues that he had no way to start.

Fortunately, Changsun Wuji has been the prime minister for more than ten years. He has been in the central government for many years and has a lot of experience. Ma Zhou has been keeping secrets for many years and is also an expert in this area.

On the contrary, Qin Lang, the prime minister who has been worshiped for many times, is actually relatively unfamiliar with the affairs of the central government. He is also a shopkeeper who likes to be a hands-off shopkeeper.Fortunately, Qin Lang is not bad at employing people. He doesn't want to do it himself, but he has a good plan and assignment.

Therefore, although the emperor has been away from the Luoyang court for a long time, there is no chaos here, but a peaceful one. Although there are occasional minor mistakes, in general, it is still very smooth.

For the current Luoyang court, after all, there is no war outside and no disasters inside. In the past few years, the court has sufficient storage, rich taxes, the court has money and food, and the country's politics is clear. It can be said to be the best era.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this that the emperor dared to leave the stall of the court and directly hand it over to Chengqian, and went to Chang'an to accompany his deceased wife and raise his children and grandchildren.

As long as Cao Sui follows Qian Xiao's rules and manages the court according to the existing track, then there will be no major troubles.

It's just that the young crown prince suddenly took over the court, which is different from the previous times of supervising the country, this time the supervising country is almost in the real power.

There are not so many constraints.

After spending the first period of time in excitement, Cheng Qian gradually got used to it, and began to feel a little restless.

He only listened to the suggestions of the four ministers, and everything was done step by step. To him, he was a little dissatisfied. It was rare for him to be a regent. Chengqian still wanted to do some practical things, especially if he made some political achievements.

For now, Chengqian feels that the court can do a lot, and there are many places where it can make meritorious service.For example, Siyi did not really surrender completely. Taking Xue Yantuo in the north as an example, he not only wanted to succeed the Turks to dominate Mobei, but also kept trying to occupy Monan as well.

After the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Eastern Turks, they first restrained the Turkic tribes and then directly subordinated them. They refused to give up Monan, especially the land of Hetao and Daibei. In addition, the imperial court was actually worried about letting Xue Yantuo dominate Mobei. , intending to support the Huihe Alliance led by Bodhisattva to fight in Mobei, which made Xue Yantuo more dissatisfied.

Datang also passed the canonization of Khitan, Xi and other former Turkic subordinates to make them dissatisfied with Xue Yantuo, which made Xue Yantuo, who was determined to be the new overlord of the grassland, very dissatisfied, and the relationship between the two parties has always been tense.

It's just that after several tentative intrusions by Xue Yantuo, they were all beaten back by Li Ji and others, and the stalemate came to an end.Afterwards, Xue Yantuo was tricked by Li Shimin, who pretended to agree to marry the princess, but demanded exorbitant gifts from them. Xue Yantuo finally collected a large number of livestock from various ministries and sent them all the way. Thinness and other reasons, said that Xue Yantuo was rude and did not marry.

This made Xue Yantuo very angry. After a lot of trouble, they not only offended all the tribes under Tiele, but also accompanied hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses. In the end, the princess of the Tang Dynasty still hasn't married back?

Yi Nan scratched his face with a knife angrily, and vowed to settle accounts with Li Shimin.

It’s just that before he raised an army, the Bodhisattva of Huihe first troubled him, and the Eastern Turkic Khan Qin Guozhong in Monan, and Li Simo and others led the Turkic tribes to prepare for the war, and from time to time they held a group exercise or something. Yi Nan was very uncomfortable.

The border is heavily guarded, and there is no chance of invasion. The Bodhisattva has the support of the Tang Dynasty, and there are Khitan, Xibu and other alliances behind. The concubine was a little eccentric and often had conflicts with the concubine Bazhuobu.

This made Yi Nan very anxious. He has been busy dealing with these messes for the past few years. Although there are constant frictions on the northern border, there has never been a fight.

Right now the imperial court received the news from Mobei that it is said that the brothers Ba Zhuo were dealt with severely by Yi Nan, now that they are being honest, Ba Zhuo and his brother Jie Libi also temporarily shook hands and made peace.

Then the Yinan father and son assembled the tribesmen and horses, raided the Bodhisattva, defeated the Bodhisattva, and defeated the four tribes of the Huihe Alliance in a row.

Now the Bodhisattva asks the Luoyang court for help.

"Huihe Bodhisattva is the governor of Yanran, who was enshrined by the Tang Dynasty. The four divisions of Pugu, Bayegu, Sijie, and Tongluo are also the four governors of Jinwei, Youling, Lushan, and Guilin set up by the imperial court. Xue Yantuo himself It is also the vassals attached to us who professed their vassals to the Great Tang, and now dare to openly violate the oath they made at the beginning, brazenly sending troops to attack the various tribes, this is an act of conspiracy and rebellion, and must be severely punished!"

Your Majesty.

Prince Chengqian set the tone as soon as he came up, there is no need to discuss, he must send troops, fight!
The eldest grandson Wuji is the order of Zhongshu, the inspector Zuo Pushe, who also holds the Shangshu to save trouble, and is the uncle of the prince, so he is the head of the four assistants.

He frowned slightly at the prince's yelling and killing attitude.

"During the national mourning period, it is not advisable to raise troops. Xue Yantuo is unruly and difficult to tame. This is a long-standing thing, but dealing with Xue Yantuo does not necessarily require large-scale crusade. You can order Huihe and Khitan tribes to join forces to crusade, and let Monan's Yang Guozhong, Li Simo and the other Turkic soldiers can cooperate to restrain them."

Chengqian was obviously dissatisfied with Changsun Wuji's concept.

"If you beat a snake to death, there will be endless troubles. Xue Yantuo is not always rebellious. He is an ambitious wolf. He must send troops to fight against them, so that he will never suffer future troubles!"

"Your Highness, it is not appropriate to send troops during the national mourning period." Changsun Wuji insisted.

But Chengqian believes that since the Han Dynasty, the month has been used to replace the day, and the three-year period of national mourning has been shortened to 27 days.

"Although it is said that the ceremony does not attack the mourning, it means not taking advantage of the mourning of the enemy's country to attack the enemy in order to show benevolence and righteousness, but now the other party is plotting rebellion, and our Tang Dynasty is raising troops to attack the chaos. Why not? The thieves have already attacked the city and looted the land , How can I ignore it in the Tang Dynasty? Is the Yanran Dudu Mansion not the king of the Tang Dynasty? Is Huihe not my Tang clan?"

"If the Great Tang cannot maintain the vassals, how can the vassal system be maintained? How can the name of my father, Emperor Khan, be respected by all the vassals?"

"We must send troops!" Cheng Qian said firmly.

Qin Lang sat there very quietly. Ever since the emperor left Luoyang and returned to Chang'an, kicked Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and many other people out of the court, leaving only the four of them to assist Chengqian, Qin Lang has actually been relatively quiet.

He seldom speaks in the court, unlike Changsun Wuji who takes the opportunity to monopolize the power and wishes to be in charge of the government by himself.Ask him about everything, ask him for instructions and report on everything big and small, and if you don't like it, you have to reprimand and scold others.Changsun Wuji also quickly recruited a large number of people, such as Chu Suiliang, the servant of Huangmen, Han Zhongliang, Shangshu of the Ministry of punishment, and Liu Shi, a member of Zhongshushe.

Qin Lang saw these things in his eyes, but he didn't take them seriously. After all, no matter how hard he tried, he was still Li Shimin today. Don't let the emperor run back to Chang'an without saying a word. He didn't care about the Luoyang court, but who One cannot ignore the control ability of the emperor who immediately invaded the country and seized the throne in a mutiny.

In the final analysis, the current crown prince is only a maid who carries the keys, and is not the master of the house.No matter how much power Changsun Wuji holds, the emperor is still above him.

If the emperor is dead, now that Chengqian is the new emperor, Qin Lang has to be careful. After all, the highest power is not there. If the eldest grandson controls the government, it may be a real dictatorship. At that time, Qin Lang is also in danger.

But there is no danger now, so he can tolerate Changsun Wuji's seizure of power. In other words, in fact, Changsun Wuji's current behavior of arbitrarily authorizing power and even forming a party may not be without Li Shimin's tacit support behind it.

After all, Li Shimin prefers to balance when employing people. This is very similar to Li Yuan. It can be seen from the appointment of prime ministers by the emperor in the past ten years. Among the prime ministers used by the emperor, Changsun Wuji, Gao Shilian, Yang Gongren , Li Jing, Yu Wenshiji, Yang Shidao, Wei Ting, Du Ruhui, Du Yan, and even Hou Junji were all from the Guanlong Group.

Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, and Cen Wenwen belonged to the representatives of the Jiangnan gentry.

Wang Gui and Xu Jingzong are representatives of the Shandong gentry.

Wei Zheng, Ma Zhou, Dai Zhou, and Sun Fujia are representatives of poor families and petty gentry.

As for Fang Xuanling, Qin Qiong, Qin Lang, Li Ji, etc., they are all representatives of Shandong powerhouses.

The emperor kept adjusting the team of prime ministers, but no matter how they changed, the prime ministers in the Zhengshitang were always in a relatively balanced state, and no one was dominant.

This is also the key to the emperor's control of power. If the courtiers belong to the same faction, the imperial power is in danger of being emptied.

In the past, Li Shimin was very guarded against the Guanlong Group. This was also because the Guanlong Group created four dynasties, and they also overthrew several dynasties. Therefore, Li Shimin, like his father, even Yang Jian and Yang Guang, although they are also Guanlong Group Long was born, but has been guarding against the Guanlong Group.

Using Fang Xuanling as the prime minister, using Wei Zheng to disrupt the situation, and then reusing the poor family Ma Zhou, including the appointment of Qin Qiong and Li Ji as prime ministers from the upstarts in Shandong.

In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it is even more important for the Shandong gentry who were even higher and superior. Li Shimin has always had the attitude of hitting two poles before giving a date. They can't even enter the center. Brother Zheng Shanguo and Zheng Yuanxuan, since they were killed in Jiancheng, have never been able to enter the core central level.

(End of this chapter)