Early Tang Dynasty: forge ahead

Chapter 309 The storm is coming (two in one)

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the joy of this festival has not faded away.

As the minister of the Ministry of War, Chen Qingsi has become a member of the permanent staff.

The so-called regular officials are officials who are qualified to attend court on a daily basis.

There are generally three types of officials in the capital of Chang'an. One is the political officer, which is also the prime minister.

In order to divide the power of the prime minister, the Tang Dynasty adopted a multi-phase system. As long as a Tong Zhongshu was affiliated with Ping Zhangshi, he could enter the council hall and participate in the highest-level meetings.

Such people usually wait in the palace at any time for the emperor's call to discuss state affairs.

One is to be a regular official, Li Zhi is diligent in government, and has one court every three days.

Chang Shenguan must attend every court meeting and can discuss matters with the emperor at the court meeting, but other than that, he cannot see the emperor in private. Except for Chen Qingsi, the emperor specially granted special privileges. Anyone other than political counselors who want to see the emperor must be recommended by the prime minister.

As for the remaining officials, they are special officials. They have the opportunity to meet the emperor Long Yan during the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month.

However, the Shuowang court meeting was focused on ceremony and usually did not discuss government affairs. The purpose was to give officials a chance to meet the emperor, so that they would not have to serve as officials in Beijing for many years and not even know what the emperor looked like.

Becoming a permanent official means officially entering the core of the temple and being able to personally experience everything going on in the temple.

After successive wars, the imperial court's economy was tight. Chen Qingsi was appointed as the Minister of War. After becoming a permanent council officer, the court meetings discussed policies related to people's livelihood such as how to develop the economy and how to reclaim wasteland and build ditches.

Chen Qingsi listened carefully and rarely spoke. The main reason is that we don’t know enough about the situation in various places. Later generations will still have the Internet to check. In this era, different water, soil and different environments have different development directions.

Chen Qingsi only had experience in governing Qingxi County and did not know much about other places, so he was particularly cautious.

Listen more and talk less.

Because they are dedicated to developing people's livelihood, the atmosphere in the temple is extremely harmonious.

But facing this harmonious atmosphere, Chen Qingsi smelled an unusual smell...

After looking at various suggestions from the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the Ministry of Industry, I talked freely about what I thought.

Seeing Li Zhi's face as a well-behaved and benevolent emperor, humbly accepting advice, an inexplicable heaviness surged into his heart.

So unusual.

This kind of atmosphere is really weird when it happens to the emperor Li Zhi.

Chen Qingsi frowned, suddenly thought of something, glanced at Li Zhi, who was listening carefully to the minister's talk about national policies, and muttered in his heart, "The rain is about to come, the wind is filling the building."

The court meeting ended in harmony. Chen Qingsi did not report directly to the Ministry of War, but found Yuan Zhixin.

"Brother Negativity!"

Yuan Zhixin's status in the court was higher than that of Chen Qingsi, but when facing Chen Qingsi, he always demoted himself one level to show respect.

Chen Qingsi whispered: "You give the order and restrain the superiors and subordinates. There will be big things happening in the temple recently, so our people should treat them with caution..."

He paused and said: "Try to avoid contact with the eldest grandson's family. If there are any friends of the eldest grandson's family, avoid seeing them. I will only tell you this, don't spread it out."

Yuan Zhixin is his right-hand man in the officialdom. The person he trusts and relies on the most will naturally treat him better than others.

This abnormality in the temple made him think that Li Zhi might take action against Changsun Wuji. Historically, Li Zhi raised the butcher's knife against Changsun Wuji in the fourth year of Xianqing, first depriving him of his official position and title. He fled to Qianzhou, and then ordered Yuan Gongyu, a scholar from Shushe, to go to Qianzhou to interrogate Changsun Wuji on the charge of rebellion and forced him to hang himself.

It has been five years since Xianqing, and Changsun Wuji is still living a happy life.

Based on Chen Qingsi's understanding of Li Zhi, this was definitely not because of Li Xiaojiu's kindness, but because his appearance changed the direction of the situation. The five Tiele tribes rebelled in advance, and Tubo also entered Tuyuhun in advance. The two sides also fought at Qinghai Lake. One game.

Li Zhi had been busy with the outside world, and to remove Changsun Wuji would inevitably shake up the foundation of the imperial court. He had no time to take care of it, so he allowed Changsun Wuji to survive for one more year.

Now that the imperial court has no intention to expand in the short term, it will naturally use its hands to wipe out Guan Longxungui's last strength.

When Yuan Zhixin heard that it was about the Changsun family, his expression immediately changed. He realized that the storm was coming, and nodded solemnly: "I will inform you."

Chen Qingsi did not talk much to Yuan Zhizhi and returned to the Ministry of War.

Chen Qingsi has no ill feelings towards Changsun Wuji. Although in many novels, the leader of Guan Longxungui often appears as a villain, in fact, he himself has no major misdeeds. On the contrary, he has made indelible contributions to the court. Especially "Tang Lv Shu Yi", this criminal code book is a legislative model in the history of Chinese legal system and has influenced for thousands of years.

But he knew that Changsun Wuji did have absolute power.

Li Zhi discovered that officials were shielding each other in the temple and wanted to deal with it.

Changsun Wuji said bluntly: "It has been unavoidable since ancient times to show favoritism and favoritism. But they really don't dare to show favoritism and bend the law. As for giving a little consideration to favors, I'm afraid even His Majesty can't avoid it."

There is nothing wrong with saying this, but if you say it in front of an emperor, it is inevitably inappropriate.

Not to mention the petty Li Zhi...

Changsun Wuji's fate is destined and no one can change it. Naturally, Chen Qingsi is unwilling to stand up for him.

After handling the affairs of the Ministry of War as quickly as possible, Chen Qingsi went to the archives room to view the marching materials as usual. By understanding the marching formations of his predecessors, he tried to figure out and analyze the thoughts and intentions of the coach. When he encountered things that he could not understand, such as Li Jing's attack He went to ask Li Ji and Su Dingfang about those immortal battles.

Li Ji and Su Dingfang have both reached a certain age and are very open-minded in this regard. As long as the person asking for advice is of good nature and conduct, they are not stingy in giving advice.

For some reason, when faced with Chen Qingsi's request for advice, both of them were very enthusiastic and talked about everything they knew.

Li Ji and Su Dingfang are generals with two different styles.

Li Ji sought stability in his military use. He first established himself in an invincible position and then defeated the enemy. For this reason, Li Shimin's evaluation of Li Ji's military use was "not a big victory nor a big defeat."

Su Dingfang, on the other hand, was bold and careful, and was extremely good at seizing opportunities, commanding on the spot, and making extraordinary use of his troops.

Different styles naturally have different answers to questions.

Chen Qingsi often asked this and then that, and enjoyed comparing and analyzing the answers given by the two.

Until dusk, Chen Qingsi returned home.

The chief steward, Jiang Chen, immediately sent up the greeting card and said, "The poems and essays about today's visit by the scholars have been placed on the table in Lang Jun's study."

Chen Qingsi nodded. As a recognized scholar, he naturally had to perform his duties as a scholar. Scholars often submit articles and poems they have written. Chen Qingsi will take the time to read them. Most of the ordinary ones choose to ignore them. He will comment on the excellent poems and articles, and recommend the amazing poems to others for promotion. Invite people into the mansion, encourage and praise people, and most of the people recommended by Chen Qingsi will become famous all over the world.

However, so far, only three people have been recommended by him, namely King Luo Bin, Zhou Maosi, and Lu Zhaolin.

King Luo Bin is currently serving in the army in Shazhou and has written several popular military poems. When I learned that Chen Qingsi was in Chang'an, he sent his poems to someone, and also attached a letter. The words were full of his achievements in promoting the Tang Dynasty style as a pioneer of anti-gong style poetry in the past few years, and expressed his gratitude to the boss. Reporting the results of the battle.

The military poems written by King Luo Bin already had the style of frontier poems. Chen Qingsi was so amazed that he gave his poems to all the great scholars with whom he was friends.

As a result, King Luo Bin, who was already famous, became even more famous.

Lu Zhaolin is also the same. Historically, he, like King Luo Bin, has been exploring new ways of poetry and devoted himself to changing the decadent sound brought by palace style poetry.

Chen Qingsi cut off all detours and gave them a direct road to the top.

Lu Zhaolin was not used to it at first, but after getting used to it, he has found his own feeling. Let Chen Qingsi, a pioneer, evaluate it.

As for Zhou Maosi, Chen Qingsi did not know him, but his articles were indeed excellent, and Chen Qingsi did not hesitate to recommend them to others.

Without exception, the three of them have gained a lot of popularity and fame because of Chen Qingsi's recommendation.

Although they knew that Chen Qingsi was strict in reading literature, there were still some people who wanted to become famous and came to visit him with the attitude of giving it a try.

Chen Qingsi suddenly said "Hey", and one of the five greeting cards in his hand was signed by Merulu's Chimalo.

Chen Qingsi did not know much about the history of Tibet and only knew about some special figures, such as Songtsen Gampo, Galdongzan, Lun Qinling and others.

However, there is no exception for Chimalo of the Lu family. Chen Qingsi went to the plateau during her official trip and saw the statue of Chimalo at a famous scenic spot. Below is the inspirational life of Chimalo, the empress of Tubo, because In the same era as Wu Zetian, Chimaluo was also called Wu Zetian of Tubo.

Chimaluo's life was tragic and somewhat inspirational. She lived in an era when military and political power was in the hands of the Gar family, and important alliances in various places were presided over by the Gar family. She married Mangsong Mangtsan, the grandson of Songtsen Gampo.

However, Mangsong Mangzan died early, leaving an orphan and a widowed mother. Faced with the powerful officials outside Tubo, the Gar family, there were treacherous people inside.

However, Chimaluo relied on his superb political skills to stabilize the court situation, and finally succeeded in killing the Ga family and Lun Qinling. The mother and son completely recovered the royal power from then on.

Trimalo's son was called Tridu Songtsan, who was mainly in charge of military affairs and engaged in foreign expeditions to expand territory. All affairs in Tubo were put in charge of the queen mother Chimalun.

Mother and son are harmonious and trust each other...

This is not the end. By coincidence, Tridu Songtsan was another short-lived man. Unfortunately, he died on the way to attack Nanzhao at a young age.

Losing a husband in middle age and losing a son in old age are the greatest pains in ancient women's lives. Chimalo has overtaken them.

At this time, Tubo was already in a desperate situation. Zampu passed away in front of the battle, which caused the situation in Tubo to change. Various forces scrambled to seize power by taking advantage of the domestic turmoil.

The eighty-year-old Chimaluo led the troops to put down the rebels, then killed the chickens to scare the monkeys, and executed the rebels on the sacred top of the Nala Mountain. Then he elected the seven-year-old grandson Chidaizhudan as the new Zanpu, and trained him as A wise master of a generation. She experienced four Zanpu in her life, assisted three of them, and held the power of Tubo for decades. During this period, she carried great food in the west and reached the Tang Dynasty in the east, without falling behind.

To be fair, for such a figure to call her the Wu Zetian of Tubo is actually a slander.

That is to say, Chi Malun was born in Tubo and her influence was not big enough. Otherwise, based on her achievements, she would not be inferior to Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao Kingdom.

It can't be her, right?

Why did such a person come to Chang'an?

Chen Qingsi had a strange look on her face and asked, "Is this Wu Lu's Chimaluo a woman?"

Jiang Chen said: "It's a handsome man... no..." He thought for a while and said: "Maybe it's a woman, just dressing up as a man."

"Just her!"

Chen Qingsi looked strange and curious now, and a crazy idea came to her mind, what would be the consequences of forcing her to stay in Tangting?

Tubo has lost such an amazing queen, will it continue to grow in the future?

No, that's not right!

She cannot be left behind.

Chen Qingsi shook his head. Historically, Lunqinling was lost to Chimaluo.

If it weren't for the death of Lun Qinling in the hands of Chimaluo, Wu Zetian's military level would not have been destroyed by the Tibetan military god.

Chimaluo's killing of Lun Qinling did not mean destroying the Great Wall.

Although Qin Ling's military ability was extraordinary, his political talents were much inferior to those of his father and brother.

Moreover, Qinling's military was too strong, and he successively defeated Li Jingxuan and Wang Xiaojie's hundreds of thousands of troops, which overwhelmed the Wu Zhou Dynasty.

His prestige was too high, and he didn't know how to restrain himself. He directly bypassed Zanpu and Chimalun many times, appointed officials to important positions in various departments without authorization, and regarded Tubo as his own authority. He already had the posture of Cao Cao.

As a member of the Zanpu family, Chimalo naturally cannot let Lun Qinling continue to be arrogant.

Chimaluo belongs to the Zanpu faction, and forcing her to stay will only benefit the Ga family.

It's better to listen to her purpose of coming here.

Or maybe he is just unfounded, and the person coming is not the Chi Maluo he knows at all.

Otherwise, why would a future Queen of Tubo come to Chang'an?

Out of curiosity, Chen Qingsi specially prepared Yangxian tea that she brought from her hometown of Yixing County.

In about two-quarters of an hour, Chen Qingsi met Merulu Chimaluo.

Looking at the familiar face in front of him, even though she was wearing a green Confucian dress and a black bun, and dressed up as a man, Chen Qingsi still recognized her: she was the beautiful plateau woman he met last night.

"We meet again, Lady Tubo!"

Chi Maluo saluted formally and said: "I have met Chen Shilang, and I have been living on the plateau for a long time. I didn't know yesterday that Chen Shilang was the famous Mr. Qingxi. I have offended you, and I hope you can forgive me."

"It doesn't matter!"

Chen Qingsi said generously: "I don't care about what happened yesterday."

Chi Maluo immediately said: "Mr. Qingxi is really elegant and noble, which makes people admire him." She said timidly: "I live in the mountains, and the culture where I live is far less magnificent than the Central Plains. I have always admired the gorgeous style of the Central Plains. Mr. Literary talent is the best in the Central Plains. Sir, I have read your master's masterpieces and am fascinated by him. I will be returning with the mission in the next few days. No matter what, I want to see you and ask for advice in person before leaving, so as not to regret it for the rest of my life."

(End of this chapter)