Chastity Layman

  Chapter 386 Chengqian's Fear

  That night, neither Qin Lang nor Cheng Qian returned to Chang'an City, but lived in the Bashang military camp.

   There are three thousand Luben and more than a hundred thousand cattle guards, so there is no need to worry about safety issues.

  Qin Lang and Cheng Qian shared the same tent, and Cheng Qian tossed and turned there, unable to sleep, seemed a little excited.

   "It's getting late, go to bed, I have to get up early tomorrow."

   "Teacher, I can't sleep."

  Chengqian was lying on his side, the tent was dark, and he couldn't see his fingers, but the patrolling footsteps of guards could be heard from outside the tent from time to time.

   "Why, this is not the first time you have lived outside the palace?"

   "This time I feel different. Looking at those Luben, I feel excited. When Gu Gu thinks that they are lonely relatives, he can't fall asleep."

Qin Lang knew that there were hundreds of Qianniu Guards standing outside the tent, and there must be many hidden piles arranged by the Zhenfu Division, Baiqi Division, and even the Qianniu Division, so what Cheng Qian said here, the emperor's second God can know every word.

"Your Highness, don't think too much. Although these Lu Ben are His Highness's own troops, His Highness's current task is to study and learn, and to practice bow and horse art, and listen to Xi Zheng when he has time. This is not His Highness who leads troops to train soldiers. task."

  Qin Lang was very blunt, this Lu Ben was only a pro-army of Chengqian in name, but actually had no direct command.

  In terms of command power, Chengqian is not as good as Qin Lang. At any rate, Qin Lang, the left guard, directly commands the three thousand Luben.

"In my Tang Dynasty, I won the previous dynasty immediately. I was a prince alone. I will succeed as the emperor in the future. Of course, I must be an emperor who can fight immediately. I think the emperor Taishang used to hunt for thieves and thieves in Hedong back then, and he tried more than 70 times in a row. Arrows, shot and killed dozens of thieves, my grandfather fought south and north, fought east and west, and was invincible..."

   Cheng Qian became more and more excited as he talked, so he simply sat up.

  Qin Lang turned over.

"Time has changed and things have changed. The Supreme Emperor is the founding emperor. His Majesty started fighting at the age of sixteen. This is the situation at that time. Now it is different. There are two emperors, the Supreme Emperor and Your Majesty, who created the Tang Dynasty. In the future, there will be no need for the emperor to personally command the army. When a war breaks out, the Son of Heaven should rule from the bow, not from the emperor himself."

"Can·······"

  As the son of the emperor on horseback, Chengqian also had a dream of being a general, but now Qin Lang repeatedly poured cold water on him.

   "Does Your Highness think that the 300,000 riders of Jieli Khan's 300,000 horsemen marched directly on the Weihe River the year before last will happen again?"

   "Impossible, Xieli has already surrendered!" Chengqian said.

"Indeed, Jieli has proclaimed himself a vassal, and the Western Turks are now paying tribute. Even Goguryeo, which fought against the Central Plains in the past, also submitted a form to proclaim its vassal. Then why does Your Highness think that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty will need to personally lead the army in the future? Professional matters, leave it to Professionals should do it, there are countless generals and veterans in the Tang Dynasty, they have been practicing riding and archery all their lives, studying battle formations, and they are always ready to make peace with their opponents, why should Your Highness compete with them for errands?"

  Chengqian walked to Qin Lang's bunk with the blanket in his arms, and sat down next to Qin Lang.

   "Your Highness, be careful to catch a cold."

   Chengqian got into Qin Lang's bed.

   "Teacher, I'm a little worried." Cheng Qian said softly.

   "What are you worried about? Your Highness is the Crown Prince, so why worry?"

   Chengqian's expression could not be seen in the dark night, but from the tone, the boy's worry could indeed be heard.

  He was worried, very worried.

   "Teacher, I'm afraid you don't know yet. Your Majesty will grant Li Ke the title of King of Wu and Governor of Guangzhou, and his mother and younger brother Li Yin will be named King of Shu and Governor of Yizhou, and his biological mother Concubine Yang Shu will also be named Noble Concubine."

  Qin Lang was a little surprised.

   "How do you know this? I haven't heard of it."

   "When I visited my father that day, I accidentally discovered on his case that it was written by my father himself."

  Qin Lang tucked the quilt in order to inherit Qianqian, "There was no book issued, so this didn't happen."

   "I know father, since he already has this idea, he will definitely issue an imperial edict."

   "Your Highness, even if you take a step back and say that these things really happened, so what? Isn't it normal?" Qin Lang knew what Cheng Qian was worried about, so he still comforted him.

   "Concubine Yang is a former princess with a noble lineage."

  Although the Great Tang Dynasty was established on behalf of the Sui Dynasty, it still respects the Sui Dynasty as the orthodox and regards itself as the successor of the Sui Dynasty, so it actually respects the Sui Dynasty.

   Therefore, Concubine Yang's identity is actually very noble, not that she is a former prisoner or something.

  And there are four concubines under the empress of the Tang Dynasty, and the noble concubine ranks first.

"Your Highness, in fact, you are really worrying too much. Just because King Wu's birth mother is Concubine Yang, there is absolutely no chance of him getting involved in the position of crown prince. Who is not a new court official in this court? The ministers of the court, but who didn't oppose the Sui Dynasty and embrace the Tang Dynasty? Let me ask, who would like to see the blood of the previous dynasty become the emperor of the new dynasty? Don't they worry that one day, the new emperor with the blood of the previous dynasty will be his mother? Clan liquidate those old ministers?"

   "His Royal Highness is the eldest son. No matter how favored Concubine Yang is, her son will not be able to threaten His Highness. No matter how virtuous the King of Wu is, he can't be more important than being the eldest son."

  Now Qin Lang understands why Chengqian is so excited, he probably also felt the threat from Li Ke, but this young man is thinking about soldiers.

  Hope to be like his old man back then, hold a soldier firmly in his hand, and even go to the battlefield in the future and make a name for himself.

  This kind of thinking is too naive.

  How could Li Shimin let the crown prince take charge of the army to fight?

  The current situation is not at the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. At that time, Li Shimin’s brothers were all in command. Of course, they were father and son soldiers in battle, brothers fighting tigers, and their own family members were the most reliable. But do we still need that?

  The emperor has learned from the past, and will never let Li Ke and others truly support the leadership.

  The only ones who can really threaten Chengqian are his own brothers, but the possibility of this is extremely low, unless Chengqian commits suicide to make the emperor dislike him and cause resentment in the court.

  As long as Chengqian is normal, even if he is not as smart as other brothers, it doesn’t matter if he is wise.

  As long as the prince is not a fool or a tyrannical person, then he is unlikely to be abolished.

  In history, Chengqian was abolished. It cannot be said to be someone else's problem, but only his own problem. He has done too much to die.

   No matter how others say that the emperor favors Li Tai and others, this is not the most important thing.

You have to know that even if Chengqian was lame, he started to engage in radicalism again, even pretended to be a Turkic person, and even assassinated his teacher. .

  It's a pity that Chengqian himself completely gave up on himself in the end, and there was no possibility of saving him at all. In the end, Li Shimin had no choice but to abolish him.

   Chengqian's situation can be said to be completely different from that of Jiancheng.

  It was the beginning of the founding of the country when it was built. Li Shimin and Yuan Ji both held military power, and had extremely high prestige in the military, and they also had a group of loyal and interested people.

   There will be tons of people pushing them down that path.

   May be different now.

  Basically normal people will respect the prince Chengqian, and will not think about speculating on Li Tai and Li Ke. At most, there will only be a small number of people from the two palaces, or their in-laws who will speculate for certain purposes, but there will never be many.

  Chengqian wants to hold military power, because he feels the power. He wants to take military power for self-defense, and secondly, he hopes to have military merits, but these are too naive ideas.

   Chengqian really wants to reach out to the army, which will definitely violate Li Shimin's taboo. Now that he is young, it is better. Once Chengqian becomes an adult, if he dares to think about it, it will definitely arouse the suspicion of the emperor.

  Even if it is a father and son, this is absolutely untouchable.

   "His Royal Highness, even if Li Ke was renamed the king of Wu and became the governor of Guangzhou, so what? He has no real power, nor is he a vassal. He is just a remote leader."

   "But, but I heard that His Majesty intends to transfer Yang Gongren as the governor and governor of the Governor's Office of Guangzhou." Chengqian was a little anxious.

  Who is Yang Gongren, the former prime minister, served as Shizhong and Zhongshuling during the Wu Dynasty, also served as Yongzhou Biejia, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, etc., and also served as the governor of Liangzhou, Feng Guan Guogong, and now he is serving as the governor of Luozhou.

  And his younger brother Yang Shidao, Princess Shang Guiyang, newly worshiped as a servant, entered the center as a prime minister, and was granted the title of Duke of Ande County.

  These two brothers are the sons of Yang Xiong, the imperial clan king of the Sui Dynasty. Yang Xiong’s great-grandfather and Yang Guang’s great-grandfather are brothers and have the same mother. Therefore, Yang Xiong’s family was very favored in the Sui Dynasty and was the most powerful in the clan.

Although the Sui Dynasty is now destroyed, their branch is called Hongnong Yang's Guanwangfang, but it is extremely prominent. Not to mention anything else, their family has already had a family in eleven years from the beginning of Wude to the second year of Zhenguan. Two prime ministers, three concubines, and five princesses.

  Brothers Yang Gongren and Yang Shidao are both Concubine Yang’s cousins ​​in terms of seniority, and Li Ke called them cousins, so the relationship is of course very close.

   Li Ke worshiped the governor of Guangzhou, but he was only a distant leader. After all, he was only nine years old, and he could not leave the feudal clan. However, if Yang Gongren became the chief historian, then the plate in Guangzhou might really belong to Li Ke.

  After all, Yang Gongren not only served two prime ministers in the Wude Dynasty, but also was extremely capable, and the Hongnong Yang family also had a wide network of contacts.

Not to mention other things, although those local kings in Lingnan, such as Feng An, Xian Baoche, Ning Changzhen, etc., had their own separate regimes and ruled the roost at the end of the Sui Dynasty, they were also ministers of the Sui Dynasty in the early years, such as Feng An, Chen Shilue, etc. They all led their children in Yangzhou. Guang has served as a general for many years.

   Yang Gongren has arrived in Guangzhou, can these Lingnan soil kings keep in touch with their old relationships?

   Chengqian's worries are not unreasonable.

Li Yin took over from Li Ke's class as the governor of Yizhou and became the king of Shu. If the Yang family consolidates Yizhou, the strength of the Li Ke brothers is really not small. They are still young now. But what about ten or twenty years from now?

   Have to guard against.

   "This matter is actually not without a solution."

  Qin Lang also felt that Yang Gongren could not be allowed to go to Guangzhou. After thinking about it, he thought that Changsun Wuji could come forward and ask Gao Shilian to be transferred to the post of the governor of Guangzhou.

  Gao Shilian is the uncle of Empress Changsun, so naturally he will try his best to protect Chengqian's interests, so it would be meaningless for Li Keyao to lead the governor of Guangzhou.

  (end of this chapter)