Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 628 Brothers with different surnames
Eating meat with his hands was very satisfying, Qin Lang didn't really want to go back to Chang'an to be Naoshizi's inspector Sikong, and to build a mountain mausoleum for the Supreme Emperor's camp.

But Ma Zhou was a little envious. He reminded Qin Lang that the prime ministers must have led the construction of mountain mausoleums in previous 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 examine Sikong and asked him to be responsible for the construction of the Daming Palace and the Taishang Emperor's Mausoleum, which was exactly what he wanted.

"In the past two years, the fortunes of our country in the Tang Dynasty have been booming, and the Eastern Turks have been destroyed in the north, and Tuyuhun has been harvested in Xiping. Now there are three consecutive years of bumper harvests. Do you know that after the bumper harvest this autumn, 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 cents of rice. The imperial court had to let the transshipment department open Changping warehouses to buy grain. Last year we bought 1000 million stone grains at the price of twenty cents per bucket of rice and spent 200 million yuan.”

"This summer, we bought another tens of millions of stones of grain at the price of [-] 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 no choice but 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 good harvest to buy reserves. Unexpectedly, there were several consecutive bumper harvests, and Changping warehouse bought too much 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.

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

Because of the large amount of grain bought, many warehouses could not hold it. The emperor also asked all places to build more warehouses to store more grain and rice for war and famine.

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

"Guanzhong Longyou Hexi is the key place where His Majesty requested to add granaries this time. 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 was simple, many ministers still felt that Luoyang was better than Chang'an in many places as the capital.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 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, and he knows the elegant meaning by hearing the string songs. 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!"

Mohe Tuo 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 internal strife in 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.

As a result, there was a situation in the Western Regions where the five khans stood together.

This practice 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 used to wander 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 East and West hatchbacks are unified, it is natural to focus on this wall.

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 had been staring at the Western Regions for a long time, but it was beyond his reach before.

But now, the Eastern Turks have also been destroyed, Tuyuhun has also been destroyed, and the Dangxiang has also fallen. 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 is furious." Ma Zhou said.

Qin Langxin said, Li Shimin was so angry, he might be so happy that he finally found a 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 was not 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 were very important, especially during the Han Dynasty when they 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 master of great talent and strategy 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 even made 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., many such extravagant big brothers, this is also a place where the prince was very afraid of Li Shimin back then, and there were too many foreign aids.

"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.

Such a powerful subordinate, which boss is not flustered?
"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. Sanlang, you have been in the frontier for a long time, and your ability has become stronger."

(End of this chapter)