Chastity Layman

  Chapter 956 Deviant

   Qin Lang is still very good to his staff.

  Since a few years ago, Qin Lang has made a rule, that is, he will have a meal with a guest for lunch every day. During the meal, the guest could ask him questions, and Qin Lang knew that he would answer them all.

   This is similar to Buffett's lunch, but there is no extra charge.

  Everyone has the opportunity. When it is their turn, they can ask what they want to ask. It can be about poetry and literature, or about classics, and they can talk about the way of governing the country, or the method of making money and getting rich.

  Qin Lang will answer everything, give a lot of his valuable experience, and provide useful suggestions.

  After a few years, Wei Gong’s lunch has become very popular among Mukes. Everyone will cherish this rare opportunity and prepare their own questions in advance.

  Out of Languan, passed Wuguan, and sailed along Danshui by boat.

  The water of Danjiang River is clear and green, and the banks of the river are green and green. It feels like walking in a fairyland. Sometimes you even mistakenly think that the boat is traveling in the sky, because the water is so clear that you can’t even feel it.

  On the deck, bamboo charcoal is burning in a small red mud charcoal stove, and Danjiang fish in a casserole is simmering on the orange red charcoal fire.

  Two upturned mouths, the mouth is slightly upturned, the fish body is slender, no more than three fingers wide, but it is extremely fresh and delicious.

   Slowly simmering on a small fire, giving off a tempting aroma.

  A glass of old winter wine is more relaxing.

   "The sage issued an edict to let the crown prince supervise the state power and know the military and state affairs, and completely let go of the Gyeonggi in the pass to the prince to practice his hands."

  It was Liu Rengui who accompanied Qin Lang for lunch today.

   This person is ten years older than Qin Lang, but his status is vastly different. Liu Rengui grew up in a poor family, but loves to study, which is very similar to Ma Zhou.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, when the world was in chaos, Liu Rengui could not concentrate on his studies. Whenever he was not working, he would stretch out his fingers to write and draw in the air or on the ground to review his homework knowledge. In this way, while farming and reading, Liu Rengui also learned by himself. At that time, he was famous in the village for his profound knowledge.

At the beginning of Wude, Ren Gui, who served as the appeasement ambassador of Henan Province, drafted a memorial to discuss state affairs. Liu Rengui, who was only a small official at the time, saw the draft and revised a few sentences for him. After reading it, Ren Gui was very impressed, so Chi Di appointed him as Xizhou to join the army.

   Become an official in one fell swoop.

Later, when Turkic Jieli invaded Chang'an, Ren Gui, as the commander-in-chief of King Yiyi, sent Liu Rengui to Li Ji's army to contact him. Later, he was ordered by Li Ji to go to Chang'an to report on the military situation. Be able to deal with it calmly and talk freely.

  This made Li Shimin very satisfied, and he was specially awarded the title of Chencang County Captain.

At that time, there was a military mansion in Chencang County. Lu Ning, the captain of Zhechong, was arrogant and broke the law. All the previous Chencang county magistrates could not stop him. After Liu Rengui took office, he went directly to warn him not to commit another crime. killed.

   Li Shimin was furious when he heard the news. A county lieutenant actually beat and killed my Captain Zhechong. This is unreasonable. He sent someone to arrest Liu Rengui and bring him to Beijing for questioning face to face. Liu Rengui said that Lu Ning repeatedly violated the national law and insulted the county magistrate, so he was executed.

  Li Shimin lamented that this guy was tough, but Qin Lang came forward to defend Liu Rengui at the time, saying that he was upright and upright.

  So Li Shimin promoted him to Xianyang County Prime Minister.

  When Qin Lang came forward to defend him, he also remembered that Liu Rengui seemed to be very successful in history. In the war against Goguryeo and Baekje during Tang Gaozong's reign, he led the Tang army navy to defeat the Japanese fleet and made a big show of national prestige. Later, he became a prime minister.

  Liu Rengui later served as the prime minister of Xianyang County, but he seemed to be forgotten by others, perhaps because he once killed Captain Zhechong and violated the official taboo, so his colleagues also alienated him, and even his superiors deliberately ignored him.

   In this way, he stayed in Xianyang County as the prime minister for many years without moving, and even received poor reviews in the annual assessment.

When Qin Lang returned to Chang'an this time, when he met the stewards of the Qin Family Village in Xianyang, he heard them say that the Xianyang County Prime Minister was a good official and had done a lot of practical things, but he was never promoted because of offending people. It turned out that it was Liu Rengui .

  So Qin Lang specially summoned him to Chang'an, had a meal and chatted, and felt that although Liu Rengui had been sitting on the bench in Xianyang for several years, he did still maintain a sincere heart for doing things, and he did not give up just because of this.

  He went south again, so he specially asked the emperor to recommend Liu Rengui as the secretary in charge of the Jiufu Jinglue Xingyuan.

  The position of being in charge of the secretary is similar to joining the army as a secretary. They are all secretaries in charge of confidentiality.

Qin Lang's post in Lingnan Jiufu Economic Strategy is a mission, that is, a temporary dispatch, not a formal official position, so there is no complete subordinate organization personnel, etc. This is different from the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Guangzhou. It is an official official position of the imperial court, with the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and a full set of subordinate officials such as Changshi, Sima, Recorder Joining the Army, Recording Joining the Army, Liucao Joining the Army, and Joining the Military.

  However, the economic envoys are only envoys, so their subordinate staff have always been borrowed from various places, or Qin Lang recruited and recommended, etc. Their staff are not fixed, and there is no corresponding official rank.

  Generally, it is the official rank before the secondment, so it is still the original official rank.

  The shogunate’s shogunate positions mainly include marching commander, secretary in charge, judge, joining the army, and staff officer.

  The position of secretary is a secretary who is responsible for confidentiality. It is very important and must be held by someone who is deeply trusted by the economic strategy.

  Qin Lang directly asked Liu Rengui to take the important position of secretary of the Lingnan Jiufu Economic Strategy Envoy. It can be said that he really has no doubts about employing this person. Liu Rengui was also very surprised, and at one point was extremely grateful.

  So he accepted the transfer order without hesitation, bid farewell to those colleagues in Xianyang County who were always alienated from him, packed his luggage and came to Chang'an to follow Qin Lang south.

  When they learned that Liu Rengui had been conscripted by Wei Guogong himself as the Secretary of the Nine Mansions in Lingnan, his colleagues were both surprised and somewhat regretful. It seemed that Liu Rengui was about to make a fortune.

So one by one bought generous presents and rushed to give them to each other, but Liu Rengui took all the gifts with a cold face and left, leaving a group of people looking at each other, secretly cursing that this Liu is really lucky. Duke Wei favored him.

   also secretly cursed this guy to offend Duke Wei and lose his career.

However, after Liu Rengui packed his luggage and reported to Qin Lang, Qin Lang admired Liu Rengui all the way south. He has a temper, but he also has more skills.

   For talented people, Qin Lang likes to use them.

   "Just after receiving a letter from Chang'an, the crown prince issued an order to amnesty the prisoners and convert them to Taoism, in order to pray for the queen. First, he called 3,000 people to become monks, and then took money from the East Palace treasury to build Xihua Temple and Puguang Temple."

   "Then immediately ordered to rebuild 398 abandoned temples in Guanzhong to pray for the queen."

   "The third order of the prince to rebuild Yanxing Temple in Chang'an and create all scriptures."

  Qin Lang sandwiched the fresh and tender fish in the casserole, but he was a little absent-minded when eating, and didn't know the taste of the food.

  Suppressing Buddhism and eradicating Taoism is the basic national policy established at the beginning of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, the action was so violent that it swept across the country and ordered hundreds of thousands of Buddhist and Taoist nuns to return to vulgarity, and tens of millions of acres of land cleared by the imperial court. are strictly regulated.

A large number of temples and Taoist temples were abolished, and a large number of young monks returned to secular life. Basically, only one temple was preserved in a county, and even Chang'an did not retain a few temples. It was strictly forbidden to establish temples and Taoist temples in urban squares, and had to be built in mountains far away from urban and rural areas. Among them, monks and Taoists are more strictly prohibited from entering and leaving the market at will, and they are not allowed to participate in industrial and commercial economic activities. The previous loans, mortgages, and donations are not allowed.

   Even the power of tax exemption is gone, so you have to farm your own land, and you have to pay taxes and serve in the service.

It can be said that the movement of the year also contributed a lot to the take-off of Tang Zhenguan, releasing a large number of young and middle-aged labor force, and taking back a large amount of land economy, etc., not to mention thoughts, people's hearts, etc. up.

  In recent years, this system is still strictly in operation.

  But now Li Shimin has just gone to Luoyang, and Chengqian is staying in Chang'an. He presides over the Chang'an Xingtai. The first few things he does are not other things, but these things.

   This move is still big. First, save 3,000 people, rebuild two temples, and then rebuild 398 abandoned temples, and start engraving, translating Buddhist scriptures, and engraving and printing a large number of Buddhist scriptures.

  These behaviors seem to express filial piety and pray for the queen, but they run counter to the basic national policy formulated since the Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty.

  Laozi banned Buddhism and Taoism, and strictly controlled religion.

  You, a son, are here to rebuild the abandoned temple, save people, and you wantonly engraving and printing scriptures. Is it plausible?

  Kong Anguo, a great Confucian in the Western Han Dynasty, said: When the father is alive, the son cannot be self-disciplined, so it is just to observe his ambition. If the father is gone, he will watch his actions. Three years without changing the way of the father can be called filial piety. When a filial son is mourning, his admiration is the same as that of his father, and there is nothing to change from his father's way.

  This means that while the father is alive, the son must not be independent, but must obey his father. Even if my father is gone, I still have to respect God and dare not overstep. The set of rules set by the father should not be changed at will. This is close filial piety.

  The way of not changing one's father is what Kong Anguo said is the greatest kindness, otherwise it is unkindness and unfilial piety.

  Qin Lang didn't quite agree with this set of arguments, after all, his father's rules were not necessarily all right. The ancestors' family laws and rules also had to be updated to adapt to the current situation.

   But now that Chengqian is still with his father, he starts to change his father's rules, and even changes the basic national policy. This is nonsense.

  In order to strictly limit the number of monks and Taoists, the imperial court set extremely strict conditions for shaving. Now, two new subjects, Ming Buddha and Ming Dao, are newly established in the imperial examinations, just to assess those who want to be ordained. Every monastery can only have one less person, and then make up another person, and it has to pass a lot of examinations. After passing the examination, it has to pay a large amount of tuition fees. These are all to limit the expansion of monkhood.

  The number of monks in the entire Tang Dynasty is limited to 8,000, nuns to 3,000, and Daoguan to 5,000.

  The national total is only 16,000.

  Now, under the order of the crown prince, 3,000 people have to be ordained directly to enter the Tao, without assessment, without quota, and without paying huge quota fees.

   Hundreds of abandoned temples will be rebuilt and countless scriptures will be printed.

  This kind of behavior is said to be praying for the mother and showing filial piety, but it is unfilial to change the way of the father.

   "The sage built Chang'an Xingtai, imitating the imperial court's three provinces, six departments and one hundred divisions. They all kept a set of institutions in Chang'an, and selected a group of famous veterans to stay behind to assist, but why did the crown prince issue such a prince's order?"

   "If a son changes his father's way, won't his life be messed up?"

  Liu Rengui couldn't help shaking his head.

  He also knew that Qin Lang was the core of the iron-clad princeling party, even one of the leaders, and the status of the prince was closely related to Qin Lang.

"It seems that I also underestimated this Highness. The saint went to Luoyang, and he turned the world upside down in Chang'an. Gao Shilian, Yuwen Shiji, Yang Gongren, Xiao Yu, Li Jing, and Wang Gui are so many senior officials. I can't control a prince."

   "What should we do now?" Liu Rengui asked Qin Lang, "You can't let the trouble go on, can you?"

  Qin Lang put down his chopsticks, picked up his wine glass and took a sip of the warm winter wine.

   "Toss, let him toss, see how long he can toss."

  Qin Lang couldn't tell whether the prince's behavior was ignorant or stupid, or intentional, but no matter what, he managed to attract the emperor's attention, and even inevitably aroused the emperor's anger and dissatisfaction.

   It will be up to the two men to see how they counterattack, but no matter what, Cheng Qian is asking for trouble.

   "Do you want my subordinates to write a letter to His Highness the Crown Prince to advise Xuan Xiang?"

  Qin Lang shook his head.

   "Writing to the prince now, he will not take it seriously at all, but it is annoying."

   "Are you just sitting idly by?"

   Liu Rengui means that this is not the way to be a minister, and if you make a mistake, you have to persuade and advise.

"I think His Royal Highness has been suppressed for too long these years. Now, once you get stubborn, you can't get out of it for a while. In fact, it's like a child messing up. At this time, you insist on talking about life with him. Philosophy, the way of sages, etc., are actually useless at all, it is better to let him vent first, wait for him to calm down a little, and then come to have a good chat with him, maybe you can listen to him better at this time. "

"Of course, His Highness the Crown Prince is honorable, and we as ministers, it is not easy to say too much, but if you offend the saint, the saint will not show affection to him, and the saint will also get angry at that time, but there is no such thing as His Royal Highness, It’s only natural for Lao Tzu to discipline his son, so let’s leave it alone.”

  Liu Rengui did not expect Qin Lang to say such words.

   "Isn't Prime Minister Xuan worried that the crown prince will offend the sage and even endanger the status of the crown prince?"

   "How can it be so serious? Who doesn't make a mess a few times, but whoever you see will be beaten to death or even kicked out of the house once the child gets messed up?"

   "Come on, let's continue drinking and eating fish."

  Liu Rengui couldn't help admiring Qin Lang even more. This kind of determination is really beyond the reach of ordinary people.

  (end of this chapter)