Chastity Layman

  Chapter 132 Flatterer

  Pingkangfang, in the mansion of Duke Yi.

  Under the verandah, there are two tables, a pot of Guogong wine, and two taels of fennel beans.

Ah Huang brought up a regular version of fried noodles that had just been fried. The freshly fried noodles still exuded a strong fragrance. The water in the small red clay charcoal stove just boiled. , Rinse into boiling water, and finally scoop out a spoonful of agglomerated sheep tail oil and mix thoroughly.

  Cheng Chumo sucked his nose straight, "It smells so good."

   "Cut some green onions again." Yuchi Baoqi hurriedly said.

Qin Lang looked at the two items, so he had to ask Ah Huang to bring chopped scallions again. The fresh and tender scallions were cut into rice-like chopped scallions, and sprinkled directly into the cooked fried noodles, and a very strong aroma rushed over. .

   Two foodies grabbed a bowl each.

   "I can't eat fried noodles in a hurry, this thing is hot!" Qin Lang just said it, but the two were already burned, their teeth were cracked, and their mouths were **** non-stop.

   "Hahaha!" Qin Lang laughed.

   "Why are you talking to my brother?"

  Cheng Chumo held the oil tea bowl and blew non-stop on it, "Isn't it because you made hundreds of gold coins playing cards with your brother before? My brother heard that you were dismissed from office, so I came here to visit you."

   "Visit me? Come empty-handed? You want to see brother joke?"

Cheng Chumo cautiously stuck out his tongue and licked the edge of the oil tea bowl, "Don't be too big or small, although you are now the Duke of the state, but in terms of age, you are younger than me, I am the elder brother, you are just a younger brother."

  Yichi Erhei also quickly followed up, "That's right, you are a younger brother, and we are older brothers."

Qin Lang didn't bother to pay attention to these two things. He sprinkled some five kernels into his camellia, and crushed the dried and fragrant nuts into fine powder. Stir, it is really fragrant and rich.

"Do you want to add this thing? Tell me earlier." Cheng Chumo didn't want to lose anything, and immediately came over and grabbed the bowl of broken five kernels and added half a bowl for himself. When Yuchi Erhei saw that most of the bowl was gone, he quickly reached out and put The remaining half of the bowl was grabbed, and I directly added it to my own oil tea.

"You people are vulgar. Adding some five kernels to Camellia oleifera is to add fragrance and taste, but you add half a bowl, why don't you just grab it in your hand and eat it? Brothers, your grandpa is also doing it now. You're in confinement at home, if you don't show filial piety at home, what are you doing here?"

Cheng Chumo laughed and said, "Do you think our old man is still in confinement like you? Let me tell you, the little black old man has just arrived home, but was sent by His Majesty to command the troops on the front line in the west of Beijing. My grandfather also After receiving the decree, I went to lead the troops on the front line of the Weihe River, General Duan, General Liu, etc. also led the decree to go out of Beijing, and you are the only one who will be locked up at home."

  Damn it, it's so cruel.

   "Do you know how King Jiangxia is doing?"

"Fortunately, the old Fengyu from the Shangyao Bureau of Dianzhong Province has superb medical skills. His old man went out and pricked the acupuncture points with silver needles, and he has saved King Jiangxia's eyes. As long as he lies down and recuperates for a while, he will be fine. But listen He said that he might cry in the wind and have blurred vision in the future."

The Shangyao Bureau is the highest imperial medical institution in the Tang Dynasty, and even the top officials of the Imperial Medical Bureau are under their management. There is a Shangshi Bureau that is in charge of food and health care. As for the Imperial Medical Administration at this time, it is under the Taichang Temple and is mainly responsible for medical education and medicinal material management. They are equivalent to the medical school of Datang.

  Hearing that Li Daozong was fine, Qin Lang heaved a sigh of relief. Li Daozong was Li Shimin's most loyal horse boy in the clan, and Li Shimin also valued and trusted him very much. If he was blinded by the fight, then Qin Lang and the others would definitely end up in trouble.

   Now that Daozong is fine, Li Shimin also lifted Yuchi Gongcheng, Yaojin Duan Zhixuan and other fierce generals from the ground, and sent them out to lead the army.

   But why didn't he also lift himself from the grounds?

  Why treat it differently? It is Yuchi Laohei who fights Daozong, not him.

  The next few people chatted while eating oil tea.

  Through these two big mouths, Qin Lang also knew many things that happened in the court.

  For example, Pei Shiju, the new Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, just flattered the emperor and asked to change the Ministry of Civil Affairs to the Ministry of Households, and also asked to remove the word Shi from his name.

  Originally, Li Shimin has said it all, and there is no need to avoid the word Shimin alone. He said in the public imperial edict that according to the etiquette, the two names are not biased. He said that since modern times, both words have been avoided, and there have been many abolitions.

  The ancients paid attention to avoiding taboos. They should be taboo for the king and the venerable. For kings, fathers and ancestors, etc., they cannot be called by their names directly, or their names should be written directly, and they must be vacant or replaced by other words.

In this way, it will often be very troublesome. For example, the father of the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan was named Li Zong. After Li Yuan became emperor, even in history books and official documents of the court, where the word Tiangan Bing was used, it was changed to the word Jing. Just because C and Z sound the same, it's not even a word.

  Even when Wude re-opened the imperial examination, some candidates had to give up the Jinshi because the father’s name had the word Jin in it, because Jin and Jin had the same pronunciation.

  This kind of taboo has gone too far. Officials have to be very careful when writing reports and poetry. If they forget to avoid taboos accidentally, it will be a big trouble or even a serious crime.

Even since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, many people began to use double characters in their names, which is more troublesome than single-name taboos. If they completely follow the taboo form, they may not be able to write many characters, and they can only be replaced by fake ones. People can't figure out their minds.

  That's why Li Shimin issued an edict on the day he succeeded to the throne, saying that the characters Shihemin should not be taboo, and only the word Shimin should not be used together.

   But Pei Shiju, a sycophant, still went up immediately, demanding that the Ministry of Civil Affairs be changed to the Ministry of Households, and the word "Shi" in his name be removed.

  He took the lead, and Cui Mingan, the servant of Huangmen, had no choice but to submit a petition to change his name to Cui Gan. Secretary Cheng Cui Dunli is the son of Cui Mingan's cousin Cui Minshou. At this time, in order to keep up with the situation, Cui Dunli actually asked to change his deceased father's name and remove the word "世".

  Yu Shinan, the magistrate of Wannian County, was more stubborn. Since the emperor said that he didn't need to use the word "avoiding the world", he didn't follow suit and change his name.

   "These sycophants!"

  How many years has the name of the Minbu existed? After this, there will be no more Minbu.

It can also be seen from this that the Boling Cui family has no backbone. Thinking back to the time when the Boling Cui family began to be active in the political arena in the Western Han Dynasty, Cui Mingan’s great-grandfather Cui Ting and great-grandfather Cui Xiaofen were all important ministers involved in state affairs in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Cui Xiaofen was even the Queen Mother Hu His daughter married Emperor Xiaoming as his concubine.

  However, later Er Zhurong created the Heyin Incident and killed more than 2,000 princes and princes of the Northern Wei Dynasty in Heyin. Although Cui Xiaofen escaped, five of her eight sons died. Later, the hero Gao Huan entered Luoyang and killed Cui Xiaofen, an important minister around Emperor Xiaowu, and the Cui family was almost wiped out.

Later, Cui You, the second son of Cui Xiaofen, escaped from the catastrophe and fled to Guanzhong to take refuge in Yuwentai. Therefore, the second branch of the Boling Cui family went through the four dynasties of Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang in Guanzhong. Follow the royal family, no matter who becomes the emperor, they will follow whoever they are, and they don't have the toughness of Cui Xiaofen before, but this way, the Boling Cui family has regained a firm foothold in Chang'an.

When Li Yuan entered Guanzhong, Cui Mingan was the county magistrate at the time. Seeing Li Yuan's power, he immediately surrendered the city and surrendered. It was built with support, and now Li Shimin has seized the throne through a mutiny, so Cui Mingan and other Cui family members are more active in showing their favor to Li Shimin than anyone else.

   Not to mention changing the name, even changing the surname may be negotiable.

  The Cui family is now shaking their heads and tails at Li Shimin showing their belly, but at the same time they are tightly hugging Qin Qiong and Qin Lang and his son who they looked down on in the past.

   "Brother, are you staying at home now thinking about this thing? Is it called camellia oleifera or fried noodles, why are there two different names?" Cheng Chumo ate up a bowl of slightly cooler camellia oleifera in a few moments.

   "Beating a child on a rainy day is also a free time. Besides, isn't this thing pretty good?"

   "It's pretty good, but brother, you are now a dignified Duke, and you are still a real Duke, a little ambitious, okay, it's too demeaning to mess around with this."

From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the succession of the new emperor, there are really many noble titles conferred by the Tang Dynasty, and there are too many heroes with different surnames at the level of the Duke of the county, but from the beginning of Wude to the present, in the nine years There are not many sealed ones.

  This time, Li Shimin granted the forty-six meritorious officials, including the ones previously granted by Li Yuan, and there are only these forty-six meritorious officials in total.

  As for other dukes of the state, dukes of the county, sons of Hou Bo, etc., they are all false.

  A major feature of the title system of the Tang Dynasty is the real name of the false title. In particular, Li Shimin added the word "founding the country" before the title of all the meritorious officials, but in fact he did not really give him the right to start the country.

  Founding the country does not mean the beginning of the founding of the country, but the establishment of the country, which means the real meaning of cracking the soil and sealing the grass to establish a princely country. The feudal princes in the Han Dynasty were able to found the country, but at that time the word was not added before the title.

After experiencing the chaotic era of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the titles of titles also changed little by little. During the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang had stricter control over official positions, titles, and honorary officers. .

In order to fight for the world, Li Yuan appointed officials arbitrarily. He drove from Taiyuan to Guanzhong Road, and often awarded honorary officers to everyone in the cities and villages passing by. There were too many awards, and he didn't even have a formal appointment document. Don't say anything like robes and official seals, it's all verbal.

   Later, when he fought against Sui generals, he also directly awarded tens of thousands of Guanzhong soldiers who were unwilling to surrender after being captured to the scattered officials of the fifth rank or above, and then let them go home.

Therefore, in the east of Guanzhong in recent years, many newly buried tombstones are very interesting. They are often the titles of scattered officials and honored officials such as Chaosan Doctor, General, and General. Those who don’t know it think they are As for the big people who were buried, they were actually those loose officials who were indiscriminately appointed by Li Yuan at the beginning of his army. Most of the original owners were ordinary people or government soldiers, or even just the fathers of government soldiers and minor officials.

   After Wang Shichong, Liu Heita and others were eliminated, although the situation has improved, the Turks in the north have been threatening, so the Li family is still very generous to civil and military officials, generals and soldiers.

It's just that while Li Yuan conferred titles arbitrarily, at the same time, he also concealed the system of false titles and real names, that is, there are no good-sounding titles, scattered officials, etc., but the actual powers of the nobles who were titled titles were not. Not given.

  For example, the most important thing is to seal the township and the household, and the control is extremely strict. In the nine years of Wude, there were not a few real seals in total.

Of course, even if there is no real title, there are still many benefits once you have a title. First of all, the benefit of real name. Li Yuan greatly increased the sense of honor of being a title, and even gave some other political privileges, such as eight After committing a crime, you can negotiate relatives and nobles, and those with titles can reduce crimes, etc.

  Ordinary people, if you have an honorary officer, your share will increase greatly, and you will also be eligible for bigamy, and you can take concubines.

Li Shimin is now newly ascended the throne, and he has conferred forty-six meritorious officials at one time, which is much more than what Li Yuan has conferred in the past nine years. The veterans of Wude Prime Minister, of course, more of them are the confidantes of the former ministers who helped Li Shimin win the throne.

   But anyway, once the list came out, the forty-six heroes looked very different, even in front of the princes and kings of some clans, they were very unusual.

  In this list, the brothers An Xiuren and An Xinggui, and the father and son of Qin Qiong and Qin Lang, are more conspicuous, and Qin Lang has to seal a thousand households at the age of sixteen, which is even more prominent.

  It is too much for such a promising upstart to cook oil tea fried noodles at home now.

  Qin Lang just chuckled.

   It was still too simple for Cheng Chumo to look at things. He only saw the surface, and he didn't see Li Shimin's intention behind the awarding of the 46 heroes, or the logic behind the awarding of these people.

   It is true that Qin Lang is a young hero, and it is also true that a dazzling star.

   But Qin Lang already feels that he is too dazzling now, and has made many people unhappy. Before he was the governor of Hebei, didn't he provoke countless people to impeach him?

  Being included in this list of heroes this time is probably even more enviable.

   Right now, because of the fight and being dismissed from office, it’s good to be honest and calm at home, so that Mu Xiuyu won’t be blown away by the wind.

   "King Jiang Xia is recuperating in the mansion now, and now Chang'an's defense has been taken over by Duke Du, Shangshu of the Ministry of War." Yuchi Xiaoer said underworld.

  Qin Lang was a little surprised when he heard that.

Li Daozong was awarded the post of commander-in-chief of Chang'an defense before. It was because he was deeply trusted by Li Shimin, and he was also a famous king of the clan, who could subdue all the generals in Chang'an. But now that Daozong was injured, Li Shimin did not Then choose another general to take over this important position, but let Du Ruhui, a civil servant, take over, which shows that it is not easy.

  (end of this chapter)