Chastity Layman

  Chapter 1099 Chang'an

  Chang'an, by the Weishui River.

  Lonely snow on the cold river, fishing alone with a coir raindrop.

  Going out of Qingqi to step on the snow, disturbing this rare tranquility.

   "Sanlang, Baiqi is here."

  Qin Lang hummed, put away his fishing rod, and ice fishing in snowy weather was originally a pleasure, but it was still hard to escape being disturbed. Baiqisi came to occupy key positions everywhere, and after a while, Li Shimin came.

  The emperor today wore a fur coat and rode a five-flowered horse whose mane was trimmed into five petals. Behind him was Li Zhi, the king of Jin, a young man in brocade clothes, and several old men, but they were Xiao Yu, Li Jing, Yuwen Shi and Yang Gongren.

   "Huiliang is really in a good mood." Li Shimin smiled from afar.

   "It's nothing to do here." Qin Lang stepped forward to greet him.

   "No, there is no need for a big gift here, how about the harvest?" Li Shimin asked with a smile.

Lift a net bag from an ice cave, and there are a lot of fish in it, such as fat carp with whiskers, crucian carp the size of a palm, and slender white fish also called Hunzi fish, as well as scaleless swordfish, and even There are shrimp.

   "Did you catch this?" Li Shimin likes hunting and riding horses to chase prey. He doesn't like fishing very much, but he still fishes occasionally, and his level of self-awareness is not bad. But seeing Qin Lang's gains, he couldn't help being surprised.

"Well, after the Weihe River is frozen this winter, it's actually easier to catch fish." Qin Lang is telling the truth. Fishing has been an elegant hobby for thousands of years, but no matter what rod or bait you use, in fact, fishing There are also some tricks, mastered these tricks, even ancient and modern.

  Different waters, different terrains, different fish, different rods and baits, and patience are enough.

  The place Qin Lang chose is a good Huiwan. The water is deep but slow. There are many fish in this kind of Huiwan. It is easy to catch bait in ice caves in winter.

   Li Shimin simply sat on a small horse in front of an ice cave, picked up a fishing rod and started fishing.

   "You guys have a try too."

   Li Jing sat down with a smile on his face, each picked an ice hole and lowered their poles.

Here, Qin Lang chose a good position in advance, and he has made several nests beforehand, so the fish mouth is very good. Although Li Shimin didn't really come to fish, he fished and chatted half-heartedly, but he also caught fish one after another, which made the emperor very happy. Happy.

  Especially a red carp was caught.

  The emperor was very happy with this red carp, and even caught it on his chest to make a gesture, and asked Yan Lide, a master historian who was good at painting among the attendants, to draw it down.

"This red carp grows really well." Li Shimin held the fish and looked left and right for a long time, and finally put the fish back into the Wei River with a smile. Since the Li family took over the world, they have also traced back to their ancestors. I will go there.

It's just that both the Wude and Zhenguan dynasties adopted a policy of suppressing Buddhism and Taoism, so the Zhenguan Dynasty is not too respectful of Taoism now, and is even colder than that of the Wude Dynasty, but after all, I am the old man of the Li family. The ancestors are gone, so in recent years, there have also been those who love to flatter, and they have spoken to the court, saying that it is forbidden to catch carp and eat carp.

Firstly, the carp has the same pronunciation as Li Li, and secondly, this carp is called Red Carp Lord in Taoism, and there is also a folk legend that the carp leaps over the Dragon Gate, saying that this carp can transform into a dragon by jumping over the Dragon Gate, and the emperor is the real dragon emperor. Therefore, it is proposed that the people of the world should be prohibited from catching and eating carp.

  As soon as this incident happened, there was a lot of discussion between the government and the opposition.

  Qin Lang even specially wrote a book, reprimanding the official for his flattery and nonsense.

In this era, carp is not only the largest species of wild freshwater fish, but also the number one fish raised by the people of Tang Dynasty. Especially in the north, eating carp not only has a long history, but also is indeed the main fish. Now that you eat fish, you say that you forbid to catch and eat carp. This has a huge impact on people's livelihood. The people's table will lack an important food, and it will also cause countless people to lose a livelihood. Isn't this a crime?

  In these years, there are no four big fishes in power.

  There are so many natural freshwater fish resources, this is mess.

Anyway, Li Yuan has never done such a stupid thing before, and Li Shimin has never done it since he was emperor for more than ten years. Li Shimin even had an edict, as long as the word Shimin is not used together, there is no need to shy away from it. It doesn't matter if you use it, it's not directly prohibited, it's fine if you call it Long Live or Long Ah Biao.

   I have to say that Li Shimin returned to Chang'an after the empress died of illness, and stayed for a year, but he still paid a lot of attention to such matters related to people's livelihood.

  Finally, Li Shimin personally issued an edict, only the red carp is forbidden to be caught and eaten, and the rest is prohibited.

That is to say, the red carp is regarded as a special one. If it is encountered, it must be released and cannot be eaten, and if it is found to eat red carp, it will be beaten with a board, etc., but the rest of the carp are still allowed to be caught and eaten. I have to say that this The edict is still very down-to-earth and considerate of the people.

Of course, it is not ruled out that his descendants will mess around in the future. Anyway, in history, the Tang Dynasty really began to ban the catching and fasting of carp, and it did start when Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, and this was also related to the political environment at that time. related.

The Li family established the Tang Dynasty. Although Li Yuan respected Lao Tzu as his ancestor, he also respected Taoism, but the whole environment of Wude was that Buddhism was powerful, so Li Yuan respected Tao to balance Buddhism. Later, he couldn't control it, so he simply went to the sand to eliminate Buddha. Dao Ling and Shi Dao both suppressed it together.

  After Li Shimin Gongchang came to power, in order to stabilize the situation and win people's hearts, he withdrew Li Yuan's Shatai Buddhism and Taoism decree. He has no special preference for Buddhism or Taoism.

At the time of Wu Zetian, in order to establish Wu Zhou, she created auspiciousness in all kinds of ways, and even advocated Buddhism. The Wu family and other forces adopted the attitude of advocating Taoism and restraining Buddhism, and even made many things, such as making Lao Tzu emperor, making Lao Tzu enshrine a dream, instructing to dig out inscriptions, etc. The ban on carp was also at that time. emerged in a political environment.

  Worshiping Buddhism and Taoism, or banning carp and destroying Buddha, these things actually have deep-seated political factors.

   Just like now, the emperor sitting here ice fishing with Qin Lang must not be idle.

   "The Tubo mission has arrived in Luoyang."

  The emperor took another fish.

  Qin Lang just hummed.

  After the great battle in autumn, Qin Lang actually personally brought Gal Dongzan, Qiongbo Bangse and other thousands of captive Tubo nobles and ministers to Beijing to offer them captives.

   This battle shocked the whole world in the autumn of the eleventh year of Zhenguan.

At the beginning, when Qin Lang's victory news flew into the two capitals, the government and the public couldn't believe it. After all, 250,000 enemies were wiped out, 200,000 were killed, and nearly 50,000 were captured. No one could believe this kind of battle. , especially Tang Qiang only suffered less than 40,000 casualties, and the Tang army himself died in battle with no more than 3,000 combined.

   This is simply a miracle.

  So that after the victory report was made public, some people in the court immediately began to impeach Qin Lang, saying that he lied about his military achievements and so on.

  Then in Luoyang, Prince Chengqian of the Supervisory State, and Prime Minister Sun Wuji, Ma Zhou, Li Daliang, etc. also immediately sent a consolation mission to Jiannan.

   In fact, it is also to find out and see what is going on.

They hurried to Hequ, took pains to count all the pickled heads of Tubo, even went to inspect the headless corpses in Jingguan, counted the prisoners, spoils of war, and interrogated many captive nobles and generals, etc. Interviews with many officers and soldiers of the Tang and Qiang armies...

  Anyway, they are very serious. This consolation mission came from Luoyang, three provinces and six ministries, as well as Yushitai and many other yamen. It was composed of many officials and conducted joint investigations.

  But in the end they sent a fast horse back to the DPRK, which proved that the record was true.

  Of course, they also found out some inaccuracies, such as not all 200,000 people were killed, but at least 40,000 of them were prisoners.

  After this report was sent back to the Luoyang court, it caused another huge shock.

No one thought that the 250,000 Tubo army would be completely wiped out. Although they failed to capture the Tubo king, this record was already Zhenguan, no, it was the biggest victory since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. Huge, the number of annihilated and beheaded enemies is the largest.

  Back then, Li Shimin conquered the east and the west, besieged Luoyang, and fought against Hulao, which was only a scale of hundreds of thousands. When he fought the Turks, he focused on defense, and it would be good if he could repel them.

   Qin Lang's battle against Tuyuhun and Fuyun was also an astonishing battle of annihilation, but at that time, both the number of combatants and the number of beheadings were far inferior to this time.

  Some people marveled that Qin Lang really deserved to be recognized by the people as the God of War to protect the country.

  But some people immediately impeached Qin Lang for killing prisoners, indiscriminate killing and so on.

  Qin Lang escorted the captives to Beijing shortly thereafter, offering them up.

   Then, Qin Lang resigned from all his duties on the grounds that the war was over, and returned to Chang'an to mourn his father Ding You.

Although Chengqian wanted to keep Qin Lang in the Luoyang court to assist the government, Qin Lang's reasons were also very good. Before that, it was the invasion of the enemy, and he happened to be in Songzhou, so he was ordered in danger and accepted the emperor's retaliation, but now The war is over, so of course he should continue to resign from Ding You, this is the filial piety of a son of man.

  Qin Lang ignored the hustle and bustle in the court, resigned from all posts and returned to Chang'an, thanked guests behind closed doors, read and talked in linen clothes and shoes.

   "The Tubo ambassador is Lun Keer, Songtsen Gampo's uncle."

"I know this person, one of the nine ministers of Tubo, Sanshang Yilun on the theory in the princely meeting, after Langri Lunzan was poisoned and killed, it was this person who joined forces with Niang Shangnang and Qiongbo Bangse Assist Songtsan Gampo, who is only thirteen years old, to succeed to the throne and put an end to the chaos." Qin Lang said.

   "The envoy of Tubo has a low profile, saying that he is willing to pay tribute every year in the future, and agrees with Sun Bo to stand on his own. I want to hear your opinion?"

  Sun Bo, also called Sen Bo, also called Subi, anyway, there are multiple translations for one place. As one of the three heroes of the plateau, Subi was also the old master of the Lhasa River Basin.

   Tubo’s annexation of Supi was also in the era of Langri Lunzan. In fact, it has only been 20 to 30 years now. After Qin Lang wiped out 250,000 horses in Hequ, Tubo can be said to be in danger of subjugation.

  Although Qin Lang didn't take the opportunity to pursue and go to Luoxie City, but he let the Niang family wait for the Tang Dynasty to stand on their own, but it was even more life-threatening for Tubo. Tubo was originally just a small state in the south of Shannan. It expanded from the south of Shannan step by step and annexed countless small states on the plateau. Only then did it have the aura of the Lord of Weizang today, and even suppressed Xiangxiong and others.

  But now Qin Lang has captured a large number of Tubo nobles and persuaded them to stand on their own.

The Niang family was just killed by Songtsan Gampo in one go, so it was natural that they wanted to fight against Tubo with the help of the Tang Dynasty. With the Niang family in the lead, the former officials of Subi, such as Wei Shi and Nong Shi, were naturally shaken. Tubo was strong, and they turned against Su Pi and took the initiative to defect to Tubo. Now that they were defeated by the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty allowed them to stand on their own, and even granted them titles and appointments. Of course, these people had nothing to do with it.

  (end of this chapter)