Chastity Layman

  Chapter 378 Wei Guogong

  The plaque of Duke Yi's mansion was carefully removed.

  Qin Lang stood in front of the door, looking at the plaque. This was originally Qin Qiong's title, but after the Xuanwu Gate, it was changed to him, and Qin Qiong was changed to Duke of Qi.

  Now, Qin Lang has also changed his title.

  A large gold-plated plaque was carried up.

   covered with red silk.

  The officials of the Ministry of Rites bent over and said to Qin Lang, "The words on this plaque, the Duke of Wei, were inscribed with a golden pen by His Majesty, and the plaque was made by the Ministry of Industry by order."

According to what the official said, although Qin Lang only changed his title this time, his number of households has increased by another 100, and now there are 1,600 households that are officially granted the title of Duke, and the title of participating in politics has been added, not to mention It is said that the official rank has been raised again, so this time Qin Lang's gatehouse and so on have to be rebuilt to improve the standard.

  The official is promoted to a higher level, and the door enters one foot.

  The dignified residence of a first-rank minister is naturally unusual.

  The Duke of Yi was changed to the Duke of Wei. In terms of the name of the Kingdom of Wei, the name of the Kingdom of Wei must be stronger than the name of the Kingdom of Yi, just like the Kingdom of Qi is stronger than the Kingdom of Wei.

Generally speaking, the titles of titles in the Tang Dynasty are all named after ancient countries and counties. Yan Wang, Chu Wang, Han, etc., and then there are ancient countries such as Zhou Yue Lu Zheng Wei Cao and so on.

  Of course, although the Dukes of the Tang Dynasty are divided into several ranks, if they are in the same rank, the ranking will be distinguished by the level of food.

  For example, for Cao Wei, Zheng Song and other state officials, whoever has the most real food and closed households must be ranked first.

  Now Qin Lang has sealed 1,600 households, and is tied with Qin Qiong for the first place in the city of meritorious officials.

   It turned out that Pei Ji was one thousand and five thousand, but he had already been liquidated and confiscated.

  Behind the two fathers of the Qin family are Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Wei Chigong with 1,300 households and Hou Junji with 1,100 households.

The title of the Tang Dynasty is the most important military merit, and only those who have had strong military merits can be granted the title of Shiyi. Otherwise, it is difficult to easily get the title of Shiyi. There is no military merit, so it also stays at 1,300 households.

  Fang Moudu ruled out these two servants and prime ministers, even if they made great contributions to governing the country, they did not increase the number of food.

  Duke Wei, isn’t this Li Jing’s later title in history?

   Now that the title has been changed to him, will Li Jing be able to be named Duke of Wei in the future?

Qin Lang was a little distracted thinking about it, now Li Jing's title is still the Duke of Yongkang County, and there are only 300 households in the city. His military exploits in the Tang Dynasty are needless to say, but it is a pity that he is not Li Shimin's core team, so although he has to be reused, But the title is not high, and the income is also very low.

  In history, after several years of observation, Li Jing wiped out the Turks in one fell swoop. With this achievement, he first became the Duke of Dai and then the Duke of Wei, and worshiped the prime minister.

   Now, Qin Lang has changed his title to the Duke of Wei with the help of destroying Liang Shidu in advance.

  The plaque is hung up, and the golden words make people feel very comfortable.

  The neighbors heard that Qin Lang had been promoted again, so they all came to congratulate him. Li Jing from the same workshop was not in Beijing, so Hong Fu Nu was the first to come to watch the excitement.

   "I think Duke Wei is not as aggressive as Duke Yi!"

   Zhang Chuchen held a handful of Fengzhou beef to dry in his hand, and said in a sour tone while chewing the beef.

"hehe."

  Qin Lang knew that she must be jealous.

  Zheng Xuanli also came over to congratulate with a pair of calligraphy and painting, "I wrote a pair of calligraphy and painting, congratulations to Bachelor Qin for being promoted again."

This son of the Zheng family in Xingyang, has been severely beaten by the society in the past two years, and the proud edges and corners of his head have been worn away a lot now. He was so beautiful when he was built, but in the past two years, he has really tasted the warmth and coldness of human beings. .

  He especially regretted that he should have betrayed his daughter and betrayed Qin Lang in the first place, but in the end he did not get any benefits. Instead, he let his daughter sever ties with him, and was despised by Qin Lang, and ridiculed by scholars all over the world.

  Now Zheng Xuanli, the Shandong gentry can't tolerate this selling daughter, the Guanlong nobles look down on him even more, and none of the Shandong upstarts likes this guy who likes to stab a knife in the back.

   Li Shimin also didn't want to see him.

  Although the Zheng family has now compromised with the emperor and the treatment is better, Zheng Xuanli is still sitting on the cold bench.

  Qin Lang looked at him, the clothes on his body looked a little gray, and he seemed to be much older. Recalling that when he was in the Zhen Fu Division, this person was still very proud.

   "I dare not accept this!" Qin Lang laughed.

  Zheng Xuanli took the initiative to hand over the painting to Qin Lang, "Someone's calligraphy and painting are not bad, of course, I dare not compare with everyone, so today I specially selected a pair of Wang Youjun's calligraphy that my father collected back then to offer."

  Wang Youjun's calligraphy is naturally very valuable.

   But is Qin Lang short of money?

  Looking at Zheng Xuanli's embarrassing expression, Qin Lang had nothing to sympathize with. This kind of person can only play poorly with a good hand. Who do you blame.

   At the beginning, there were many famous scholars who supported Jiancheng. Why did Zheng Xuanli become the one who didn't treat anyone?

  Because this guy even sells his daughter.

  He probably never thought that Zheng Shisanniang would be able to enter the emperor's harem in the end and win the emperor's favor. Although Zheng Shisanniang has become Zheng Jieyu now, she no longer recognizes him as her father at all.

   "Scholar Qin, I have an unfeeling request." Zheng Xuanli said hesitantly.

   "Speak directly when you have something to say."

   "I'm currently being squeezed out by my colleagues in the Secretary Department, and life is hard. Can Xueshi Qin show me a favor and transfer me to the East Palace, even the Imperial Academy, or the Chongxian Hall."

This guy.

   Asking someone to say so confidently.

   Could it be that a pair of calligraphy and painting is so valuable?

   Besides, Qin Lang confiscated his calligraphy and paintings.

   "Secretary Province is a good place. Don't be impatient. Slowly settle down for a few years and accumulate steadily."

   Zheng Xuanli's expression was so ugly that he almost knelt down and begged for mercy.

  He was reluctant to completely cut off his official career, so he directly hung up the crown and left.

   “I want to do something real.”

  Qin Lang shook his head, "I advise you not to be in a hurry, it's useless to be anxious before the time comes, otherwise it will only backfire."

   Ignoring this guy, Qin Lang turned around and left.

  Qin Guozhong came to congratulate him.

This guy is now very popular in Chang'an City. He often enters the palace to attend the emperor's court banquet. Every time he has to dance and sing at the banquet, his fat body like a mountain dances and sings, which is very interesting. Li Shimin was very happy.

  He has officially become the eldest princess, but the relationship with Qin Lang is complicated. From his wife, Qin Lang has to call him uncle, but if it is from this side, he is a righteous brother again.

  But this guy didn't think there was anything complicated. Every time they met, he still warmly called Brother Qin Lang, and didn't call himself an uncle.

   "Duke Wei, you really deserve your name!"

  Qin Lang looked at the mountain of meat, with brocade clothes and jade belts, ten carrot-like fat fingers, covered with jewels and gold, very dazzling.

  The purple robe on his body is awkward no matter how you look at it.

Qin Guozhong is now not only liked by the emperor, but also by the nobles and ministers of Chang'an, because the empty gifts he gave before have now been fulfilled, and Emperor Qin brought a large amount of livestock, furs, etc. I added another gift.

  Who doesn’t like such a polite King of Huaihua? What’s more, this guy is now the emperor’s brother-in-law and Qin Qiong’s adoptive son, who has entered the Qin family tree.

  The Yushe Department of Fengzhou has now completely attached itself to the Tang Dynasty. Qin Guozhong is now in Chang'an and he is also reluctant to leave. Whether it is true or not, anyway, it is indeed the case.

  The two brothers entered the Duke of Wei's mansion and sat down to drink tea.

   "Is the county king still used to living in Chang'an?"

   "Brother, this is due to birth, isn't it? It's good to be called brother. I never thought before that there is such a beautiful city in this world. It is so good that I don't want to leave again in my life."

   "What about my brother's tribe?"

   "They are already the citizens of Datang, so naturally the herdsman officials of Datang are in charge of managing them."

   This guy is very smart, and his words are impeccable, but Qin Lang knows in his heart that the more he is like this, the more it shows that this Yushe setup is not simple, and no one will give up his own interests easily.

  Whether he is called Yu Sheshe Ashina Momo, or Huaihua County King Qin Guozhong, they all have the same virtue.

  He is just very smart to use advance as retreat.

  At least until now, his 10,000 tents are still led by his brother Guosheng and his son minister, and those Turkic people in the Yushe tribe must obey their words more.

  The imperial court has been arguing and arguing about the resettlement of the internal Turks and Zahu tribes without a thorough result.

  The louder it gets, the more complicated it becomes, with all kinds of voices flying all over the sky.

  But Qin Guozhong just didn't take the initiative to say anything, saying that everything was in accordance with the emperor's arrangements, but Qin Lang believed that he must have his own bottom line and demands.

Although this guy entered the family tree of the Qin family and called him a brother, Qin Lang would not really regard him as his brother. In terms of ethnic policy, this is related to the safety of the Tang Dynasty in the next few hundred years. This basic national policy must be The formulation will have a profound impact on future emperors and courts, which is equivalent to a typical case of the Supreme Court.

   "Brother, have you heard about the recent chaos in Lingnan?" Qin Lang asked.

   "I heard that Feng An is going to join the court." Qin Guozhong said.

   "Well, Feng An is trustworthy, but there are still many untrustworthy bureaucrats in Lingnan, such as Tan Dian, who have always refused to accept Wang Hua."

  Qin Guozhong chuckled, "Brother may be useful to me, just say it!"

   "Actually, it's not that I use my brother, it's just a suggestion."

  Qin Lang suggested that Qin Guozhong send one of his sons to transfer three to five thousand tribal warriors from Fengzhou to go south to Lingnan, stationed in Guangzhou, Guizhou, and Jiaozhou, to help the court fight against the barbarians.

"My brother's tribe has many warriors, and all of them are skilled in bows and horses. When they arrive in Lingnan, they will be like tigers joining sheep. If one of the 100,000 tribes in Saibei takes one out of ten, they can easily mobilize five or six thousand men and horses, and my nephew will lead them." Take a trip south, and then the credit will be in vain."

   "The weather in Lingnan is hot, and we Turkic people are not heat-resistant."

"Go in autumn and come back in spring. You don't have to stay until summer. The court is in charge of logistics, food and equipment, and the tribal warriors can ride away on horses. They don't have to drive cattle and sheep with their families. They can even go south by boat directly in Yangzhou. It is very convenient to drive directly from Changsha to Guilin.”

   "Once the meritorious service is established, the whole court will be full. Who can doubt my brother's loyalty to the court, and who can doubt my brother's strength?"

  Qin Lang smiled and fooled Qin Guozhong, asking him to agree to send thousands of young and strong warriors from the tribe to South of Lingnan.

   It is said that it is just a trip south, but if it really passes, it will not come back. It is true that the people in the northern grasslands cannot tolerate the heat in the south, but they can’t survive without saying that.

  It is very interesting to transfer these Turkic warriors to the south of the Five Ridges to work as a bureaucrat and barbarian. It is much better than what Wen Yanbo and the others advocated by relocating these Turkic people to the Central Plains area within the Great Wall.

  When these guys arrived in Lingnan, even if they were going to make trouble someday, wouldn't they still have the ability to ride horses from Guangzhou all the way back to the prairie outside the Great Wall?

  (end of this chapter)