Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 1437
In the 13th year of Shangyuan (676), winter.

Emperor Li Ye was 16 years old, the Queen of Heaven issued an edict, and the Son of Heaven took charge.

On the first day of the first lunar month of the following year, the name of the year was changed to the first year of Tianbao, and all officials were received at the assembly, and envoys from all directions paid congratulations.An imperial edict was issued to grant amnesty to the world.

After the emperor played the Nangong Tianhou, Qin Jun was granted the title of Yiwang, added Taibao, Zhongshuling, Tongpingzhangshi, granted food to ten thousand households, and was named the governor of Dongcaozhou.

Pei Xingjian is the servant, Lai Heng is the left servant, and He Chujun is the right servant.

Master Xu Yu was the Minister of Huangmen, Li Jingxuan was the Minister of Zhongshu, and Ma Zai was the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Cui Xiuye ​​paid homage to the imperial censor and grandson Yan to the transfer envoy.

Qin Huaidao added the title of Liang Guogong, worshiped the privy envoy, Gao Kan was the privy envoy, Li Fengjie, Wu Shisheng, Li Siwen, Xi Junmai all signed the Privy Council affairs.

Liu Rengui paid homage to the Hanlin Academy's bachelors and received the decree, and Di Renjie was a Hanlin Academy's bachelor and also knew how to make patents.

After Laiji, Shangguanyi, Jia Runfu, Liu Xiangdao, Su Dingfang, Cheng Chumo, Niu Jianwu and other chief executives passed away successively, the executive teams of the two prefectures were readjusted after the emperor took charge, but this team was still basically from Qin Lang's sect.

After taking office, the emperor also gave Qin Lang a special seal, and various rewards were generous.

And formally made Li Chongfu, the eldest son of the emperor Qin Lang's granddaughter and the daughter of the uncle Qin Jun's daughter, Empress Qin, the crown prince, and changed his name to Li Hao.

The empress dowager is the Qin family, the empress dowager is the Qin family, the empress is the Qin family, and the newly engaged empress dowager is still the Qin family.

There are two mansions in the east and west. The Zhongshu Ling of the East Mansion is Qin Jun, who is named King Zhao in Jin Dynasty, and the Privy Mansion of the West Mansion is Qin Li, who is named Liang Guogong in Jin Dynasty.

Prince Li Hao was born of Queen Qin.

All over the world, there was not much reaction to the emperor's pro-government. Even the officials and people in Luoyang City, the eastern capital, even felt that there was no change in the first year of Tianbao.

Zai Zhi had a few new faces, but he was still the same group.

Even after the emperor came to power, the empress dowager of Nangong still had to be consulted for military and state affairs, and the affairs of the court and China were still decided by the prime ministers of the two governments.

It is said that he is in charge of the government, but in fact the young emperor does not seem to want to change these things. He did not say that after he was in charge of the government, he wanted to burn three fires and reform some new policies or something.

Even his marriage, when the Queen Mother was in charge, she chose the daughter of the concubine Qin Jun for the crown prince, and the prince did not object. She's eighteen, and she's already an older girl.After entering the palace, the first child was the prince, which was expected by everyone. Although he was not the eldest son of the emperor, he was the eldest son after all.

Even a group of Hanlin scholars around the emperor were basically selected by the queen mother and the ministers, such as Di Renjie, Pei Yan, Wei Yuanzhong, Zhang Jiuling, Zhang Jianzhi, Cui Xuanwei, Jing Hui, Yan Yanfan, Yuan Shu Young talents such as Ji and Lai Jiye were selected and recommended to the queen mother by the prime ministers of the two governments, and they were arranged to serve the emperor after agreeing.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the emperor held a land registration ceremony on the outskirts of Luoyang.

In the southern suburbs, countless princes, nobles, officials and scholars watched this scene, and they all sighed deeply in their hearts.

It was more than fifty years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and there were five emperors. How many heroes and soldiers were there in the founding of the country, but who was as powerful as the Qin family?

The head of the governors of the eastern and western prefectures of this dynasty are both from the Qin family.

After the Three Qins in the palace, there were Gaozong's brothers, eight sons, princes, and the county king who married the Qin family, who married the Qin family as the princess and the county princess. The Qin family also successively gave birth to seven princesses.

Now there are five kings, Qin Lang, King of Qi, Qin Jun, King of Yi, Qin Li, Duke of Liang, Qin Zhongxiao, King of Wu'an County, Qin Siye, King of Huaihua County, Li Siyuan, King of Guide County, and the Dukes of the Four Kingdoms, Seven Counties, Thirteen County Dukes, Nine Marquises and Thirteen Uncles. , Countless sons and daughters.

External seals and internal seals spread all over the frontiers and overseas.

Among the top ten Jiedu envoys in the Tang Dynasty, Qin Shandao, the Duke of Anguo, is now the Jiedu envoy of Hezhong Road, Qin Wei, Duke of Liang, and Qin Yandao is the Jiedu envoy of Yunnan and Yue Dao, and Qin Siye, king of Huaihua County, is the Jiedu envoy of North Korea.

The ten festivals accounted for three.

During the 13 years when Tianhou listened to the government behind the curtain, Datang survived the instability of the court caused by Emperor Shizu's random rebellion in the later period, and even the great turmoil in the Western Regions caused by the abolition of the Western Turks was quickly pacified.

The Qin family, which was targeted and suppressed by the emperor in the late Kaiyuan Dynasty, also took the opportunity to make a comeback, and even took control of the government by virtue of their support. Later, the Queen of Heaven came to help Pei Xingjian and Cheng Chumo to take charge of civil and military affairs, change the military system, and lead the Tang Dynasty to continue to foreign affairs. Expansion, strengthening of foreign trade, etc., as well as further reforms of the tax system, the abolition of tax conversion into silver, the return of fire consumption to the public, and the conversion of money into service, etc., have enabled Datang not only to survive the crisis, but also to a higher level.

In the 13th year of the Shangyuan Dynasty, it was more prosperous than the Kaiyuan Dynasty for more than ten years.

All workers are excited, the people are rich and the country is safe.

The frontier troops of the ten towns of the Tang Dynasty are invincible, and they have opened up countless territories.

To the southwest, Lishui and Sanjiang united with Annan, and then borrowed troops from Luzon and Nanyang to destroy the Kingdom of the Queen of Nanben first, then the Kingdom of Luo and Luo in the Funan Bay Plain, and also wiped out Mixed, Zhujiang, and Baitou. A small country with newly built Mae Nam Road.

Under the leadership of Li Fengjie and Qin Yandao, the Dianyue Road continued to expand west of the Ganges.

In the Western Regions, Qin Jun, Qin Gui, Qin Li, and his uncles and nephews even commanded the three towns in the Western Regions. They completely wiped out the Sogdian countries in the river in ten years, and sent troops to the south, defeating Tocharo several times, forcing them to become a big country again. At the same time, the Jimi Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty also extended its power across the Khyber Pass to the plain of the Xindu River, and built a new post road from the middle of the river to the Haikou of the Xindu River.

The nomadic tribe of Sistan in the south of Tocharo also accepted the canonization of the Tang Dynasty and became the territory of Jiji.

In the tenth year of the Shangyuan, Qin Jun led one hundred thousand Tang troops from the Western Regions and the three consortiums of Tocharo, Khazar, and Sistan, crossed the border line with the big cannibal, and launched an attack on the big cannibal.

The fuse of this attack was the ten-year continuous expansion of the Tang army in the Western Regions, which moved the Western Turks to the west or north one after another.

Later, it dealt a devastating blow to the Sogdian city-states that had been controlling the Silk Road trade in the Western Regions, destroying all the Sogdian city-states, and those Sogdians who had been active on the East-West Silk Road became slaves.

The Tucharian princes were also forced to surrender.

Dashi also protested, and even sent troops to intervene, but the Tang army was too powerful, and finally Dashiren dared not fight head-on.

When the Tang army packed up the Tucharians and opened up the passage to the sea, Dashi also wanted to take the opportunity to conquer the princes in the lowlands of the Caspian Sea who had refused to submit to them. Although they sent troops several times this time, Erbul The Earth Mountains acted as barriers, and Da Shi could only invade through a few specific mountain passes, and thus encountered their tenacious resistance.

And the south bank of the Caspian Sea has always been the place where the heavy infantry is the most. The heavy infantry on the south bank of the Caspian Sea was very famous in the Sassanid Dynasty. In the war with Rome, the Romans who often fought collapsed. Sturdy and tenacious.

When they invaded Gorgan Province again, Qin Jun decisively assembled a large army to go south for reinforcements.

And these princes on the south bank of the Caspian Sea also surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and sent tribute gifts. Qin Jun then petitioned the court to formally set these small forces on the south bank of the Caspian Sea as the Caspian Road of the Tang Dynasty, and canonized the princes as governors, Governor, etc., ruled by Ji.

Tang Jun's rapid southward reinforcements caught the governor of Dashi Khorasan by surprise. The two sides launched a decisive battle in Luyang, west of Barristan. The entire army of the governor of Khorasan was wiped out.

Afterwards, the Emperor Dashi quickly mobilized a new army, with reinforcements from Armenia, the Mesopotamia region, the Persian Plateau, Khorasan and other regions, trying to save the defeat, and suffered another failure in Gorgan.

Afterwards, Emperor Dashi was forced to retreat the defeated army and sent envoys to ask the Tang army for peace.

Qin Jun established the Gorgan Shouzhu City and Tabaristan Shouzhu City on the south bank of the Caspian Sea, as well as the Gilan Army City, and built two ports on the south bank of the Caspian Sea, Anzali and Tolkman, so that the Tang army can pass through Transportation and deployment of troops within the Caspian Sea.

The south coast of the Caspian Sea is long and narrow, but gentle and fertile. The entry of the Tang army here made Dashi very uncomfortable, and they had to sue for peace.

In the alliance peace talks chaired by Qin Jun, a peace agreement was finally signed.

Dashi gave [-] catties of gold to Datang in exchange for the resumption of trade between the East and the West. At the same time, Dashi recognized the Khazar Governor’s Mansion, the Caspian Governor’s Mansion, the Tocharo Governor’s Mansion, the Sistan Governor’s Mansion, and the Xindu Governor’s Mansion as Datang’s The Jiji territory of the Tang Dynasty is an inalienable part of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, the big eclipse moved the vast Khorasan area east of the Er-Borz Mountains, northeast of the Kavir Salt Desert, south of the Kazkum Desert, and just north of the Lut Desert, which the Persians called the Land of the Rising Sun. All the land was permanently ceded to Datang.

This was the first line of defense for the Persians to resist the Turkic invasion, just as important as the Hetao area where the Turks went south during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Now under Qin Jun's strong request, the big cannibal had to cede all this land to Datang.

The two sides re-established the Lut Desert, the Cavell Salt Desert, and the Elburtu Mountains as new boundaries. Even the land of Sistan in the south has become the territory of the Tang Dynasty, so from the river to the sea, Tang has .

The four centers of the Khorasan region, the northern Mulu, have always been the center of the capital of Khorasan, Herat bordering on Tocharian in the east, and Balkh in the Tucharian Khan's governor's mansion. Nishapur, the capital of Bactria, is located in the southwest of Mulu. Except for one Balkh, the other three are already under the control of Datang.

According to the signed covenant, in addition to sending [-] catties of gold to Datang as a tribute when signing the contract, Dashi will also pay [-] catties of gold every year in the future, and at the same time to maintain the covenant between the two families.Da Shi must submit to Datang and Princess Qin.

The annual coin is two thousand catties of gold. This is actually the amount of tribute that Attila the Hun asked for when he came to Constantinople, the royal city of Byzantium. Originally, the annual coin signed by the Eastern Rome and the Huns was only a few hundred pounds a year. But because the Romans broke the promise, Attila was annoyed, so he tripled the old coins.

In history, Byzantium not only paid the New Year coins to the Huns, but also paid to many opponents, such as Alvas, Bulgarians, Persian Sasanians, etc. They forced the opponents to pay them if they won the battle, and handed them over to the opponents if they failed. No shame at all.

The Persians used to play this trick well. I don’t know how many peace treaties they signed with Byzantium.

Dashi now wiped out Persian Sasanian, punched and kicked Byzantium, of course he is familiar with this set, so when Qin Lang proposed to negotiate a deal, but he had to pay indemnity and old coins, and also cede the land, Dashiren hesitated After a long time, he finally agreed.

Can't beat it.

If he refused, Qin Jun had expressed that he would lead his troops to the Hezhong area to take a look at Taisiphon, the old capital of Persia, and even threatened to go to Syria, which was praised by the Roman emperor as a beautiful mountain and river, and to go to the holy place of the cannibal Check out Medina.

With the threat of Chi Guoguo, the big cannibal had no choice but to sign the contract.

Who said they were defeated, but fortunately, the Khorasan area was not originally Persian, so it was not distressed. Even the Caliphate shouted angrily at his opponents and generals, telling them to go back and attack Byzantium. Byzantium gave the money away.

Qin Jun also relied on his great contribution to pacify the Western Regions and subdue Dashi to return to the court, and because of this, he was promoted to King Yi, and became the Prime Minister of Zhongshuling of Zhengshitang.

Even Qin Li originally ordered Jin to confer him the title of King of Jinan County, but in the end Qin Li refused to accept it, and the court changed him to Liang Guogong.The reason why the imperial court wanted to crown him king was also because of the ten-year war in the Western Regions. He was the Jiedu envoy of Beiting, and he had been Qin Jun's deputy all along, and he had established this incomparable achievement together.

Datang bullied Dashi, and Dashi bullied Byzantium.

But in any case, it was under the leadership of Qin Jun that the Tang army not only completely pacified the Western Regions, stabilized the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, but also completely included the Hezhong area under the direct jurisdiction, and took Tocharo, Xindu, Khazar, and Caspian The Hu Man in the regions of Sistan and Sistan were all incorporated into the Tang dynasty system and became the territory of Jimi, which added a huge safety buffer line to the west of the Tang Dynasty.

Even through this covenant, diplomatic relations with Dashi were restored and trade relations were resumed. After all, Dashi is now the number one Western power that replaced Persia and even surpassed Rome. Restoring friendship and trade is very important for Datang.

After all, they are stuck on the water and land silk road between the east and the west. If they are determined to fight against Datang, it will also cause Datang's trade loss. It is still very good to receive old coins every year.

With this achievement, Qin Jun was promoted to King Yi, and entered the political affairs hall as the order of Zhongshu, so no one can gossip.

Datang's current internal and external situation is extremely good.

To say that the only unsettling factor is actually the emperor who has just taken over the government. The 16-year-old emperor has just been married for more than a year, and he also has a crown prince. If you say that this is the time when the Tang Dynasty is booming, but in the new In the hearts of the executive team of the two governors of the first term, they were actually a little uneasy.

Now that the emperor has just taken charge, he shows the same respect for the Queen of Heaven as always, and also respects the chief ministers. The operation of the court is still the same as it has been for the past ten years or so.

But since a person has grown up, it is impossible to not care about power, let alone this is imperial power?
"Your Highness, a letter from Luzon."

Qin Xiaozhong, the eldest son of the concubine who inherited the title of Qin Junwu'an County King, handed over a letter, "Grandpa's personal letter."

Qin Jun nodded, opened it, and read it carefully.

long silence.

Now Qin Xiaozhong, who is serving as a member of Zhongshushe in the court, couldn't help asking, "Grandpa, should you congratulate Grandpa?"

"Look for yourself, your grandfather said that I should not accept the title of King Yi, and that you should not accept the title of King of Wu'an County, and that I should not accept the post of Zhong Shuling, let me resign and return immediately. Go to Lu Song, and tell you to resign from this Zhongshu Sheren, as well as your uncle's privy envoy."

"Why is this?"

Qin Jun sighed, "I'm greedy. Back then, I promised your grandfather that I would stay in the court for three to five years at most before leaving. It's been 13 years, but I still accepted the order Having been conferred by the King of Liang, he was even a little complacent, and he was really carried away."

"Dalang, please write the essay for me, and write your own by the way."

"Is it related to the saint's personal administration?"

"Your grandpa's letter reminded me that the saint is already 16 years old and has already taken charge of the government. Our Qin family has supported the saint for 13 years. , I am afraid that the saint will regard it as a disaster."

"When it's time to retire, you have to retreat, otherwise you will become enemies if you stay here and there. This person is just average."

Qin Xiaozhong hesitated, "Probably not."

"What's wrong with this, don't talk about the emperor and the imperial power, let's say you are old, if you should be in charge of the family, but the servants in the family always control the power of the family affairs, what do you think?"

Qin Xiaozhong thinks about it, but this is also the reason.

"Really back?"

"It's time to retire, your grandpa is the most wise and sober, listen to him is right!"

(End of this chapter)