Chastity Layman

  Chapter 628 Brothers with different surnames

   Eating meat with his hands is very satisfying, Qin Lang doesn't really want to go back to Chang'an to be Na Laoshizi's inspector Sikong, and build a mountain mausoleum for the Supreme Emperor.

  But Ma Zhou was a little envious. He reminded Qin Lang that the prime ministers must have led the construction of mountain mausoleums in the past dynasties. Generally, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry is in charge, and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry is sometimes called Da Sikong. This is because in the official system of the Zhou Dynasty, Sikong was in charge of construction and other affairs at the earliest.

  The emperor appointed Qin Lang to inspect Sikong and let him be responsible for the construction of the Daming Palace and the Taishang Emperor's Mausoleum, which was actually exactly what he wanted.

"In the past two years, the fortunes of our country in the Tang Dynasty have been flourishing, the North has destroyed the East Turks, and the West Ping has had a bumper harvest for three consecutive years. Do you know that after this autumn's bumper harvest, the price of grain in various places is still falling sharply. Even the price of grain in Chang'an, There has already been a market for two or three dollars for a bucket of rice. The imperial court had to let the transshipment department open various Changping warehouses to buy grain. Last year, we bought 10 million stone grains at the price of 20 yuan for a bucket of rice, and spent two million guan money."

"This summer, we bought another tens of millions of stones of grain at the price of 15 yuan per bucket of rice. But this autumn, our Changping warehouses in various places have been a little too much. The rice from last year and this summer is still piled up in the warehouse. Now that the emperor has ordered the storage of rice, Chang Pingcang has to open a warehouse for nanometers again at the price of ten dollars per bucket of rice."

Changping warehouse bought rice at a price higher than the market price, mainly to prevent the low price of grain from hurting farmers, and at the same time, to take advantage of the harvest to buy reserves. Unexpectedly, there were several consecutive bumper harvests, and Changping warehouse bought too much All the grains are bought too much higher than the market price.

As a transshipment envoy, Ma Zhou also reminded the imperial court that now that the harvests are continuous and grain is everywhere, the grain in the court's Zhengcang, Taicang, Juncang, transshipment warehouses, social warehouses, and righteous warehouses has also begun to fill up one after another. As a special warehouse, there is no need to buy too much high-priced grain at one time.

However, because Li Shimin was too embarrassed by the food shortage in the past few years, he had some psychological shadows. In addition, after the tax reform of the court, although there were some problems with the food in the past two years, he was still very rich in money and silk. It's also cheap. A few years ago, a bucket of rice cost two to three hundred yuan, and there was no market for it. Now, a bucket of rice is only two or three yuan. White rice and wheat are everywhere, and no one wants to buy it.

  The governors from all over the country reported one after another that the low price of the grain hurt the farmers, and asked the court to take action, so Li Shimin naturally had to take care of this.

  Because of the large amount of grain purchased, many warehouses could not be piled up. The emperor also asked all places to build more warehouses to store more grain and rice to prepare for war and famine.

  Border states such as Song, Die, and Tao even requested that Changping warehouses be built to store Changping grain.

   "Guanzhong, Longyou and Hexi are the key places where His Majesty requested to add more granaries. Your Majesty requests to store more grain."

  Qin Lang heard something beyond the words.

Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, in fact, Chang'an in Guanzhong has been somewhat unsuitable as an imperial capital. Environmental damage, population growth and other reasons have led to the lack of self-sufficiency in Guanzhong, especially Chang'an, which has always had to rely on food supplies outside the pass. It is also severely limited by water transportation capacity. If there is a catastrophe in the Guanzhong, it will be completely dependent on food outside the Guanzhong, and that transportation capacity will become a fatal problem.

On the other hand, the center of gravity of the empire has slowly shifted eastward. Not only are places such as Hebei, Shandong, and Henan still important places, but Huainan and Jiangnan have also become more important, and even the southeast coast is becoming more and more important. It is very safe in the turbulent era of separatism.

   But in the era of great unification, it has been somewhat unable to keep up with the needs.

  The last time the imperial court stayed in Luoyang for two years, although Luoyang is simple and simple, many ministers still feel that Luoyang, as the capital city, is better than Chang'an in many places. If the city and palaces of Luoyang can be restored and built, then Luoyang is indeed more suitable to be the capital, whether it is food security or being in the center to facilitate the governance of the world.

  After the emperor returned to Chang'an, he had to store a large amount of grain in Guanlong, Heshuo and other places. Qin Lang believed that this was not just to prevent food shortage in Chang'an in the future, otherwise it would be fine to store grain directly in Chang'an.

   "Could it be that the imperial court is planning to march into the Western Regions?" Qin Lang asked.

"Sanlang is really smart. He knows the elegant meaning by hearing the string songs. Now there are indeed many voices in the court, saying that they want to restore the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, re-open the Silk Road, and control it in the hands of the Tang Dynasty. Tuyuhun is destroyed, and Western Turks are next. Goal."

  Qin Lang threw the gnawed sheep bones on the ground, "I'm so impatient."

   Ma Zhou told Qin Lang, "Mo He is dead!"

  Moheduo Khan was the son of Datou Khan, a famous Western Turkic Khan, and the uncle of Shekui Khan and Tongyehu Khan. He poisoned Tongyehu and became a Khan himself. However, his great-nephew Mohe, together with Yili Khan and Dulu Khan, supported Yehu's son as Siyehu Khan.

   This caused the Western Turks to split, and both Khans proposed marriage to Datang, hoping to form an alliance. However, Li Shimin did not agree with each other. Not only that, but in the end he sent envoys to canonize both of them as Great Khans, and asked them to draw a boundary and rule, and they were not allowed to cross the boundary to attack.

After destroying the East Turks, Li Shimin directly added three more khans to the West Turks, respectively acknowledging the Dadu She Khan, the eldest son of Tong Yehu who occupied Tocharian, and the brother Zha of Tong Yehu. Bill established the Khazar Khanate, and finally made the leader of Tie Leqibi Khan Ge Leng.

  So there was a situation where the five Khans stood together in the Western Regions.

  This approach of the Tang Dynasty did not prevent the civil war of the Western Turks. When Mohe Duo was fighting Siyehu Khan, he was betrayed by his subordinate Ge Luolu.

  Ge Luolu's troops turned against each other, causing Mo Heduo to flee Jinshan, and was finally beheaded by Ashina Niyu.

The killing of Mohe Duo also brought about a new situation in the Western Regions. Both Tocharo and Khazar are offshoots of Western Turks, and they will not be affected for the time being. However, the top ten tribes of Western Turks, East and West, are now united again. After being under Siyehu Khan, Qibige couldn't hold on anymore.

  He originally wandered between the Eastern and Western Khans, surviving in the cracks, and with the support of Datang, the two sides also wooed him, which was polite.

  But after all, he is a Tiele, not a Turkic.

   Now that the Western Turkic and Western Turks have unified the ten divisions of the East and West, it is natural to focus on this fool.

   Ge Leng had a grandson, Qibi Heli, who served as a general guard for Tian Khan in the court. He wrote a letter to his grandson, asking him to ask Tian Khan for his decision.

   Li Shimin has been staring at the Western Regions for a long time, but he was out of reach before.

   Now, the Eastern Turks are also destroyed, Tuyuhun is also destroyed, and the Dangxiang is also surrendered. Li Shimin feels that it is time for him to start reaching out to the Western Regions.

   "Si Yehu killed Mo Hedu, which obviously violated the wishes of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. His Majesty was furious." Ma Zhou said.

  Qin Lang said in his heart, Li Shimin was so angry, he might be so happy that he would die, and finally found another reason to interfere.

"I don't think your Majesty needs to be so anxious. Let Qibige move to the Jinshan area first, and move closer to Xue Yantuo Zhenzhu Khan Yinan in Mobei. They are all Tiele tribes. Back then, the two tribes were still allies. Yi Nan helped Qibige hold the stage." Qin Lang picked up another piece of mutton and began to eat it.

   Ma Zhou froze for a moment.

   "Could Sanlang want to provoke a war between the Western Turks and the Tiele people?"

"Why not? Xue Yantuo's barbarians took advantage of me to destroy the Eastern Turks in the Tang Dynasty last time, and picked up a big leak. Now they occupy Mobei, and they are really a bit frivolous and arrogant. Tie Le people, but the effect is mediocre, Yi Nan's strength expands a little fast, and he is a little drifting."

  But Qin Lang still objected to turning against his former ally Yi Nan at this time, it would not be worthwhile to impress him.

It would be better to lead the disaster to the west and let them fight with Khan Siyehu. This Khan Siyehu is said to be quite young and arrogant. When two tigers fight, one is bound to be injured. Datang is waving the flag behind and shouting, just sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.

  Ma Zhou sighed.

   "Why didn't I think of this."

  Qin Langxin said that the emperor must have thought of this, but he still couldn't help itching and wanted to directly send troops to intervene. The Western Regions are very important, especially when the Han Dynasty conquered the countries in the Western Regions and set up the Protectorate. And Yang Guang in the Sui Dynasty once extended his hand to the Western Regions, how could Li Shimin be worse than Yang Guang? He will definitely attack the Western Regions as well.

"Brother Ma, you are now the favorite of the emperor's close ministers. If you have time, you should persuade the emperor more. Don't be impatient, don't be impatient. It's only the fourth year of Zhenguan, and it's only five years after the new year. It took a few years to do it. There are too many things, and the pace is too fast and it is easy to pull the egg."

  Ma Zhou couldn't help but shook his head and smiled wryly when he heard the words of pulling eggs, "Sanlang, sometimes you speak more freely now."

   "I'm telling the truth." He said, "Yang Guang was also a talented and strategic leader back then, but his pace was too fast, and the result was torn apart, and the consequences were disastrous."

  Qin Lang asked, "I heard that Ashina Niguo had been to Chang'an back then, and had brothers with different surnames with His Majesty?"

   "It did happen."

  Li Shimin had a lot of brothers with different surnames, such as Tuli Khan, Ashina Nishi, etc., a lot of such extravagant bosses.

"When I was in Longyou, I heard that Nishu was very capable. Originally, after Tong Yehu was assassinated, many Turkic nobles wanted to support Nishu as Khan, but Nishu did not support Siyehu. I also heard that although Ni Shu has made great achievements in support and battle, Si Yehu is very afraid of him, and even wants to get rid of him all the time."

In fact, it's normal when you think about it. Nigu has high prestige and ability, and he is sworn brother with Tian Khan in the Central Plains. He can be a Khan himself, but he insists on hugging Ye Hu. Now he still gives Mohe Duo Khan to him. Beat killed.

  With such a powerful subordinate, which boss doesn't panic?

"The Zhen Fusi must have hidden stakes with Siyehu in the Western Regions. Let them take action to sow discord. I think Siyehu will explode. If Siyehu turns against Mui, the Western Regions will be chaotic, which is just right for us. Take the fish with your hands and win in the chaos. At least, it can give us a few years to prepare, isn't it?"

  Ma Zhou gave him a thumbs up, "Gao, after three days away, you should look at him with admiration. Saburo, you have been in the frontier for a long time, and your ability has become stronger."

  (end of this chapter)