Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 1474 Father and Son
"grown ups!"

Regardless of the obstruction of his attendants, Qin Lun broke into the Luzon Palace.

"You have stayed in Luoyang for so many years, have you forgotten even the rules of etiquette? You have also been a person who has been in the two mansions and served as the governor. What have you done in Luoyang for so many years? Do you only know the rules all day long? Feasting and having fun, arrogant and arrogant?"

Qin Lang put down the book in his hand, looked up at the second son who barged in, with sharp eyes and a bad tone.

When the knife-like sharp eyes met, Qin Lun, who was still aggressive at first, flinched. His eyes quickly turned into grievances, and he knelt directly in the hall.

He raised his head and pouted his neck and said to his father, "The son just doesn't understand what he did wrong, why should his father treat him like this?"

Qin Lang got up and walked towards his son.

Coming slowly step by step, Qin Lun felt a sledgehammer hitting his heart, making him tremble inexplicably.

For many years, Qin Lang has existed like a god in the hearts of the children of the Qin family. Qin Lang is synonymous with omnipotence and has supreme authority in the family.

Qin Lun had been away from Lu Song for many years, and he had also been away from his father for many years. He visited the courts of the two prefectures. He used to think that he was only one step away from his father.

But at this moment, seeing his father's condescending gaze and sword-like sharpness, Qin Lun began to sweat on his forehead.

"Your mistake is that your ambition is great, but your talents are not matched. If you are smart enough, then you should calm down and work hard to improve yourself, learn with an open mind, and even stop or take a few steps back at the right time, instead of blindly Go ahead. Do you know what you look like?"

"You can't control your ambition, so you became its slave, let it control you, 21 Lang, you are actually quite smart, but when you were born, I, Qin Lang, was already at the top of the temple. Ju Yipin. You have never experienced any real tempering since you were a child, and it was too smooth, so your cleverness eventually became a little cleverness."

"Zhongshuling is the Chief Assistant of the Tang Empire, one person is below ten thousand people, do you think that is just a glorious position, representing power and status? No, it represents responsibility!"

"Over the years, in the country and society of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor and the chief executives have jointly ruled the world, and even more often the chief executives are leading the government, and Zhongshuling is the head of all officials. Do you think you have the ability to become The leader of Datang?"

"Why can't I? I'm only fifty, and I still have ten or twenty years to hone my skills."

Qin Lang sneered twice, "Son, if you weren't my son, why do you think you could have traveled through both prefectures before the age of 50? With your current ability? To be honest, when I was 16 years old, You are more capable than you are now. You are just a nobleman who is flattered and forgets your true ability. With your current talent, you may not be able to do well as a governor of Shangzhou. You are just a governor of Shangzhou. The ability of Shi or Sima."

Such an evaluation made Qin Lun's face blush.

"Why did my father insult me ​​like this? Am I not my father's son?"

"It is because you are my son that I tell you these truths. Others will only flatter you and compliment you. Who would tell you these truths? You have lost yourself in those flattery all these years in Luoyang. Others If you flatter you, you think you really have the talent to be the leader and assistant. In the future, if others deceive you again, do you think that you should be the hero of the world, you should replace him, rule the people, and change the dynasty?"

"Son just wants to do something!"

"Hmph, don't be unconvinced. You still planned to become an eunuch before? You also wanted to play the emperor and abolish the eunuchs? If it weren't for my old face, which is still useful, do you know if it is someone else who would dare to do this? It will be backlashed the next day, and the emperor will not even have half a sympathy."

"Don't you know that eunuchs are actually the emperor's serfs? Giving power to eunuchs is the emperor's intention and the need of imperial power? Don't you understand that eunuchs gain power today because several emperors have been in power for decades? What did you do? Don't you understand that the prime ministers in the court have already compromised on this?"

"Why? You don't want to think about it, because this is the result of the balance of power. You were provoked by a group of young scholars with a few words, and you wanted to do something important to kill the eunuchs as soon as you slapped your head. Couldn't you use your brain first?"

If Qin Lang hadn't been suppressing this matter, Qin Lun would have been kicked out of the two houses by the emperor and the eunuchs.

If it wasn't for Qin Lang's son, if someone else dared to poke a hornet's nest like this, his reputation would have been ruined long ago. The emperor now relies on eunuchs to extend the imperial power and maintain the fragile balance of the court, otherwise the imperial power would have been emptied .

Qin Lun, as a top relative and the son of Qin Lang, who is the head of the military group, wants to overthrow the emperor's servants, what will the emperor think?
Wouldn't the emperor have misunderstood that Qin Lun wanted to take the emperor off?
Don't you misunderstand that this is the intention of the Qin family to further usurp power?

So when Qin Lang found out about this, he immediately asked Xiaozhong and Qin Shandao to press it, and even personally wrote letters to the emperor, Gao Fu, Yang Sixu and the others.

It's not like other people can't see things like eunuchs intervening in politics. Why are only those students always talking about it? Why don't the ministers and ministers mention it?

Only Qin Lun was in high spirits, thinking that he was the smartest.

At the same age, Qin Xiaozhong is planning to implement the provincial system. The implementation of the provincial system is not only beneficial to the interests of the Qin family, but also beneficial to the stability of the imperial court. This is a strategy for the country.

Instead of being like Qin Lun, always poking a hornet's nest and causing damage.

From this matter, Qin Lang completely believed that Qin Lun's ability was mediocre, and he was able to stand in this high position only because of his background.

The fact that Qin Lun refused to resign made Qin Lang understand that this son is not only mediocre in ability, but also quite ambitious.

This is completely a family hidden danger, and it must be brought back.

Now that he came back, he was allowed to calm down in Taiping Port for more than a month, but he still didn't change at all, and he didn't even realize where he was wrong.

Qin Lang could only shake his head.

The eldest son Qin Yu's ability is also average, but at least he has self-knowledge and does not have unrealistic ambitions.Qin Jun and Qin Xiaozhong are very capable, but they can also control their own ambitions and desires.

"What does father want to do with me?"

"Qin Lun, you are actually very smart. It's just that you don't want to put your head down and work hard. You are afraid of suffering and enjoy yourself. You even like to listen to people's praise and praise. You always want to take shortcuts. You were reincarnated well. You can't reach the position, but even if you stand on my Qin Lang's shoulders, if you are not capable enough, the higher you stand, the harder you will fall. I let you come back, it is the father's care for his son , and only my own father would still want to protect you at this time."

"My son is 50 years old, not 15 years old!" Qin Lun was still not convinced.

Qin Lang ignored him, turned around and returned to his seat.

pondered for a long time.

Only then slowly whispered, "Yes, I am 85, you are 80, we are all old, and the Tang Dynasty has gone through six emperors, and it has been almost [-] years since the founding of the country. How do you think our Qin family will go on in the future?"

"What kind of position should the Qin family be in Datang?"

Qin Lun replied without thinking, "My Qin family is the number one meritorious noble in the Tang Dynasty!"

"What about the future?"

"Naturally, we must keep it up and become the number one meritorious family in Datang!"

"Power, ha ha." Qin Lang smiled.

Unconvinced, Qin Lun asked Qin Lang, "Didn't Grandpa earn all these by himself? Grandpa, the elders of the Tang Dynasty and the Six Dynasties, are still in power in the palace through their disciples, old in-laws, and even women from the Qin family." , to guarantee power?"

"wrong!"

"What I am planning now is far more than just the power and wealth in front of me. You know that I admire the sages of Confucianism, and I like their ideas the most. To cultivate one's morality, regulate one's family, rule the country and the world, one must improve accordingly when one reaches a different class. When I was 16, what I thought about was making meritorious deeds, keeping the Qin family safe, and pursuing wealth. When I was in my 20s, what I thought about was building meritorious service, increasing officials, and making the Qin family in Licheng successful.

When I was in my 30s, I had already started to think about how to benefit the country, the country, and the people.

When I was your age, what I thought about was no longer a family, but a country, and what I thought was not about an individual, but about creating peace for all generations!

What I have done these years is not to stabilize the power and position of my Qin family, but to ensure that the giant ship of the Tang Dynasty can sail smoothly on the long river of history, so that the hundreds of millions of people on board can Be safe and healthy.

In the last days of my life, I just wanted to be the guardian of Datang.

If the Tang Dynasty is stable, the world will naturally be peaceful and prosperous, and hundreds of millions of people will live in well-being.

Qin Lun frowned, not believing what he said.

He felt that it was too empty and unrealistic.

It's just the old man's usual big talk to oppress people. He is the governor of the two governments, doesn't he also like to use general trends and principles to suppress people?

The old man was just as cunning and shrewd as a fox.

What kind of guardian, if there is a chance, the old man will miss the opportunity to usurp the throne and seek the dynasty, and stand on his own as the emperor on behalf of the Tang Dynasty?

He didn't believe it.

Qin Lang chuckled.

"Countless people have persuaded me to rebel against me over the years. With my Qin Lang's reputation, the powerful position of the Qin family over the years, my old disciples, in-laws and allies all over the court and the public, and the huge wealth of the Qin family, I, Qin Lang As long as you want, you can pull up [-] fully armed elite soldiers in Luzon at any time, and the blood shield and golden lion flag will go north, and within ten years, I can change the owner of the world and the throne."

"But I won't do it. Even if it's only for ten years, this war will seriously damage China's vitality and miss the best development opportunities. Even the many frontiers and foreign barbarians that have been conquered and opened up in these years will inevitably take the opportunity to rebel and become self-reliant. .”

"Even if God gives me another 15 years to live to be a hundred years old, I can at most end the civil strife and then order the Sibari frontiers to surrender, but it will be difficult to continue to expand externally like now."

"However, there is a high probability that I will not live to be a hundred years old, and I may even die suddenly on the way to the north one day. Then what will be left behind will be a disintegrated world, with warlords and anti-kings everywhere. The people are in dire straits, the surrounding barbarians are resurgent, and civilization and order have collapsed..."

Qin Lang sighed.

"So you see, the best result is that the country changes hands, but China's vitality is also seriously injured and it will go downhill. The worst result is that the world is in chaos and the people are not able to live. The Qin family may also perish in this turmoil. "

"So, why bother? Let my Qin family be the guardian of the Great Tang, let my Qin family and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yirong, be prosperous and share weal and woe?"

"Why don't my Tang Dynasty become a new pinnacle in the history of China, surpassing Qin Maihan? Is it so important whether the Qin family is in charge of the world?"

Qin Lun said, "But if the Li family has always been the emperor, then sooner or later they will not be able to tolerate the Qin family, which claims to be the guardian of the world."

"So I have painstakingly planned the layout these years, and by chance and coincidence, I have the current power structure in the world. Even if I die now, it is impossible to change in the next three to fifty years. And when the Tang Dynasty has passed 50 years In the next few years, it will only become more and more difficult for the future emperors of the Li family to break through the shackles of this power structure."

A hundred years after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it will inevitably enter the limit of external expansion, and slowly begin to fall into involution. However, the mutual restraint and game of power among all parties can still be maintained for at least 200 years. When it completely collapsed, it was just a historical inevitability.

At that time, perhaps the Qin family will be buried together as the guardians of the Tang Dynasty.

Maybe the Qin family will take the distributor of the new interest structure into the center and replace them to establish a brand new dynasty, but those distant things are not important to Qin Lang at all.

What he can plan is only within a hundred years.

With imperial power, eunuchs, military nobles, feudal lords, civil servants and gentry in the imperial examination, and perhaps foreign relatives, several pillars of power in the Tang Dynasty were formed to stabilize the world.

Even the imperial power was locked in a cage, and the two governors represented by the military nobles and the gentry civil officials ruled the world, and the eunuchs and relatives were used to balance the two governments. No one can dominate the family, so they restrain each other and balance , go forward.

When this balance is broken, maybe when the Tang Dynasty will start to enter the last season, and then after fierce power struggles, it will eventually collapse, reorganize, change dynasties, and the world will return to peace.

Qin Lang never imagined that the Tang Dynasty would last forever, not even 500 years.

If it can last for another 300 years, it is nothing. The bigger the empire, the more involuntary it will be.

"As long as there are many people who have the opportunity to sit on that imperial couch, even if there is a ten-thousandth chance, they will take the risk. As for the behind-the-scenes, who cares?" Qin Lun said.

"Haha." Qin Lang just smiled, "Yes, there are many people in the world who only care about the present. As for after death, who would dare to act like a flood, but in this world, there will always be such a A small number of people can transcend."

Looking at his father, Qin Lun couldn't help blurting out, "This is what Mencius said, will there be a sage in 500 years?"

"Tai Shigong wrote the preface to the historical records. He once said that Shao Mingshi, Zheng Yizhuan, Ji Chunqiu, and this poem book ritual and music are saints. From Yao and Shun to Tang, they are more than five hundred years old. Once a five hundred-year-old saint comes out, the way of heaven Often also. In every civilization and every ethnic group, there will always be a group of sages who are revered as saints by future generations, because they can transcend the times and become the leaders of the times!" Qin Lang said to his son.

Qin Lang took out a sea chart from the desk and handed it to Qin Lun.

"This is a new world. If you want, you can go to the new world to take risks and sharpen your skills. If you have the ability, this whole new world is yours."

Qin Lun looked at the chart handed in front of him, hesitated for a long time, and finally stretched out his hand under his father's encouraging eyes, took the chart and the whole new world.

(End of this chapter)