Chastity Layman

  Chapter 939 Zhenguan Sigui

  Your position is different, what you see is different, and even your focus is different.

  Plainly speaking, the **** determines the head.

Qin Qiong has been away from the center for several years and has been guarding the Songzhou fiefdom. While busy developing the fiefdom, he also keeps in mind the duty of the Pingfan to defend the frontier. Therefore, all he sees is the place in front of him, and all he pays attention to is the matter. Frontier security issues in Southwest China.

  Tibetan is threatened, Qin Qiong cannot sit idly by.

   But when Li Shimin was here, sitting in Chang'an City, he had the whole Tang Dynasty in his heart, not just the southwest corner. For Qin Qiong, Tubo is currently the most threatening existence to the Southwest, but for the entire Tang Dynasty, Tubo is not yet ranked.

  The Tang Dynasty has thousands of miles of territory and hundreds of millions of subjects. Any decision made by the emperor has a huge impact, so Li Shimin must consider things from the overall situation.

  Datang is powerful and has a strong military force, but even with a million soldiers on the frontier, it is not that many.

  One radish and one pit.

  The major affairs of the country are about sacrifices and soldiers, and it is about war, so we have to be cautious.

"You are getting old and your health is not good. Why don't you go back to Songzhou and stay in the capital to recuperate your health. If you have time, come to the palace to drink tea and chat with me. If you are energetic, you can go to Yulin Palace Teach those young lads about the art of war. After a few years, let your lads go to manage the land.”

  Qin Qiong did not agree.

He also has his concerns, especially since he knows that he is a good fighter, able to rush and dare to fight, but in fact, even in terms of commanding the army, he is not conceited that he is the number one in the army, let alone the current emperor. Invincible, it is Li Yaoshi who became an official with a leg problem, that is everyone.

  The rest, such as Chai Shao and Liu Hongji, are all veterans in the army, with high qualifications and strong abilities.

   Generals such as Li Ji, Su Dingfang, Cheng Mingzhen, and Li Daozong are much younger than him, but they are also handsome.

  In terms of bravery, not to mention Yu Chigong, Cheng Yaojin, Niu Jinda, Guo Xiaoke, Wu Heita, etc., they are still in their prime, and their bodies are as strong as cattle.

  He was able to sit in the position of the third division of the Taibao, not because he was good at fighting, but because of all kinds of coincidences. He has self-knowledge.

  So after being in a high position, he became less and less drifting, and instead took the initiative to leave the center.

  He has another worry, which is his son Qin Lang. Qin Lang was also a special case in the imperial court. He was appreciated by the emperor with his merits of following the dragon in the Xuanwu Sect.

  In order not to affect his son's future, Qin Qiong voluntarily withdrew from the center to give way to his son. It is impossible for father and son to truly be in the same dynasty.

   Someone has to quit.

The emperor asked him to stay in Chang'an, but he still didn't agree after thinking about it. Even if he didn't care about political affairs like Li Jing in Beijing, he still held the title of Taibao, especially because he had high qualifications and prestige in the army, so he still felt that he was staying in Chang'an. Songzhou is better.

   "If you really want to leave, you have to wait until Saburo gets married."

  Because of the death of the Supreme Emperor, Changle has to observe the filial piety for the Supreme Emperor for one year, which is actually nine months. Therefore, the wedding date originally scheduled for Chongyang in September was changed to the first month of next year.

   "Okay." Qin Qiong finally nodded.

   Li Shimin sighed. As an old buddy for many years, he can actually guess what Qin Qiong is thinking clearly. Although he thinks that Qin Qiong doesn't need to avoid suspicion like this, after all, becoming an emperor is no different than before.

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  In February, Chang'an is full of plain onyx.

  Li Shimin held the national funeral extremely grandly to show his filial piety.

  Qin Lang arrived in Chang'an at the end of the month, and the coffin of the Supreme Emperor was still in Daming Palace for 27 days before the funeral.

Li Yuan is relatively good. After all, after Li Shimin seized the throne, in order to show his filial piety, he began to help Li Yuan’s imperial mausoleum. After a few years of major repairs, the main body has already been completed, so as long as he stays for 27 days according to the rules, he can be moved to Xianling for burial. .

   After some emperors died, because the imperial mausoleum was not built, or it was not built, they had to wait until it was built before they were buried.

   Some emperors may even temporarily park for several months, several years or even ten or twenty years. For example, after the death of Kangxi’s grandmother, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, she was parked for 37 years before being buried.

  In history, Li Yuan died in June, and it was not until October that the main body of the imperial mausoleum was repaired and buried.

   All the way at high speed, almost the whole journey by water, and finally rushed to Beijing before the burial.

  On the road, the whole process of wearing filial piety was done in plain filial piety. As a courtier, Qin Lang didn't need to wear hemp and filial piety all the time, but he was Li Yuan's grandson-in-law.

  After arriving in Beijing, he and his concubines, servants and children had no time to talk, so they were picked up by someone from the palace.

  At the door of Zhongshu in the Imperial City, summoned by Li Shimin, he made a presentation and gave some information about the situation in Lingnan. Then Li Shimin gave Qin Lang some tasks, mainly asking him to help organize the national funeral.

"I know you have worked **** the road, but the national funeral is important right now, so you can't make any mistakes, so you can work harder." Li Shimin took Qin Lang's hand, "Remember to visit your grandfather when you come back, now that he is getting older, don't wait The son wants to support but the relative does not wait."

   "Also, the wedding date between you and Chang Le, after I discussed with your grandpa, it was changed to the first month of next year. When you come back this time, you don't have to go back to Lingnan for the time being, and we can wait until the big wedding is completed next year."

  Li Shimin became a little nagging, talking a lot. Qin Lang noticed that his complexion was also very bad, very haggard, and even had deep dark circles under his eyes, and there was no color on his face.

   "Saint, please mourn, please take care of your health, you are the master of hundreds of millions of subjects in the world."

  As the emperor's prospective son-in-law, he stayed in Lingnan for more than two years. When he came back this time, Qin Lang felt a little strange to Li Shimin, but he acted closer than before.

Li Shimin also clearly felt Qin Lang's transformation, he became more and more affectionate towards Qin Lang, took his hand and sat on his couch, and was very impressed with Qin Lang's peace and chaos in Lingnan, the people of Funan, opened up sea trade, prospered business and developed agriculture Good governance and good deeds such as building water conservancy projects and schools are also highly commended.

Not to mention other things, before Qin Lang went south, the imperial court actually didn't have income from the legal person Lingnan, and the taxes and taxes from several key states in Guangxi, plus the income from the Shipping Department, etc., not only had to be thrown to Lingnan, but even a lot more had to be drawn. Finance goes in.

And Qin Lang tossed there for two years, and the effect was immediate. Just the direct gains brought by the war were very impressive. After deducting the generous rewards for the soldiers, as well as the disability pension, money, food and weapons expenses, road construction and city construction, etc. Qin Lang still managed to save a lot of expenses, and finally turned over half of the expenses to the imperial court.

   This amount of money made the prime ministers call it a windfall, and even in the past two years, the welfare of the officials in Chang'an, the capital city, has increased a lot during the New Year.

Not to mention that after Qin Lang passed away, Lingnan officially started the implementation of the two taxes, so that the imperial court could truly collect the tax. Excluding the two-thirds of Liuzhou County and Liudu Governor's Mansion, the remaining one-third was handed over The national treasury is another large windfall.

However, the city ship tariffs of the City Ship Department, the extraction and purchase of the Transshipment Department, coupled with the explosive growth of special tax revenues such as various salt, tea, wine, sugar, copper and iron ore taxes, Lingnan Sanguang, and Fujian Liuqiu. Dao, its income has made the court almost equivalent to an increase in the income of Huainan Dao.

  Huainan Road is rich and prosperous in the southeast, and has always been the money bag in the eyes of the lords. This increase can be seen how powerful it is. Even Qin Lang's large-scale development of industry, commerce and sea trade in the southeast has benefited a lot from the east and west of the south of the Yangtze River, not to mention the two original southern and central regions of Yunnan and central Guizhou. Although the rebellion is still raging, But taxes have already begun to be paid.

  Based on this alone, Li Shimin had to defend Qin Lang, no matter whether it was Hou Junji or Wei Zheng, no one could attack Qin Lang.

Not to mention, Qin Lang's change of land and return to the natives has added dozens of Zhengzhous to the imperial court, and added millions of people. These people have not been registered in the Tang Dynasty before, so naturally they will not have any taxes. Fu Yao service and so on.

  As for Qin Lang's establishment of ten towns of troops in Jingjiang, Jinghai, Wu'an, and Tonghai in Lingnan, and the selection of tens of thousands of new government soldiers, these were all approved by Li Shimin himself, and the results are gratifying now.

  The once barbaric land is now truly under the rule. Not only does it not require the court to work hard and subsidize the finances, but it has also begun to become another granary and commercial port of the Tang Dynasty.

   Even the emperor's internal treasury now has a large number of new entries from Lingnan every year, and the income is not small.

   Based on these, Li Shimin had to reward and win over this prospective son-in-law.

Therefore, this time, Li Shimin ignored the objections of Wei Zheng and others, and directly granted Qin Lang the title of Sikong. But the real Sikong.

  Although he was much younger than Qin Lang when he was Sangong, he was different after all.

  Qin Qiong Taibao, Qin Lang Sikong, the two fathers, a third teacher and a third father, this kind of honor once again refreshed the Chang'an people's understanding of the Qin family, and it became more and more confirmed that the name of the first upstart of the Qin family's Zhenguan dynasty.

   Those who have good things in the capital also imitate the saying of the four nobles of the founding emperor and the five nobles of the great cause in the Sui Dynasty, and made up the four nobles of Zhenguan.

The head of the four nobles, of course, is the uncle of the country, the eldest grandson Wuji, Kaifuyi Tong Santong, Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, Zhizhongshu Shengshi, Situ, Prince Taishi, Shifeng Haiyan Prefecture Governor, Zhao Guogong Grandson Wuji.

   Immediately after that were Kaifu Yitong Sansi, Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, Shangshu Zuopushe, Sikong, Prince Taifu, Liang Guogong Fang Xuanling.

   Then came Qin Qiong and his father, Shangzhu State, Taibao, Qi State Duke Qin Qiong, Shangzhu State, Sikong, and Wei State Duke Qin Lang.

   Other things like Chai Shao, Yu Chigong, Hou Junji, etc. are all unnamed on the list.

Among the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, the people of Chang'an chose these four as the Four Nobles of Zhenguan, not only because of their high status, but also because they won the holy family. , Solvay et al.

  Compared with the four of them, Hou Junji, Zhang Liang, etc. are not worth mentioning. Hou Zhang, etc. can only be regarded as the sons of the emperor, and Liu Hongji, eldest son, Sun Shunde, etc. are old veterans.

  As for Chai Shao and Li Daozong, they can only be regarded as prominent relatives.

  (end of this chapter)