Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 635
East Palace.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, early in the morning, Qin Lang followed Chengqian on horseback to the East Palace.

Outside the gate of Changlin, the prince's left guard led Su Dingfang, who led the prince's deputy, and the prince Lu Ben was on duty early in the morning, and Su Dingfang, who was in armor, greeted him from afar.

"Chen Su Lie pays his respects to His Highness."

"Meet Mr. Qin."

Chengqian saw Su Dingfang, who was covered with snow and frozen, and smiled at him, "Why is Su Qing standing in the snow, hurry back and warm up." He said, and took a wine gourd from the saddle, "This is the teacher Give me some wine, and Su Qing will take it to warm her body."

Su Dingfang Xie En took it, supported Chengqian's horse, and said in a low voice, "Several scholars are waiting for His Highness outside the Jiafu Gate, Your Highness be careful."

When Cheng Qian heard this, his smiling face disappeared instantly.

"Why did the bachelors come so early in the morning, and why?"

"Because His Highness didn't return last night, they came to Xingshi to inquire about the crime."

Cheng Qian was a little flustered.

Qin Lang said, "Your Highness, don't worry, you don't have to worry if I'm here."

Su Dingfang reminded Qin Lang that those few people are not easy to save fuel, and a mouth is worth more than ten thousand soldiers. For a general like him who can fight and charge, he is most afraid of seeing these few people. Being caught by them and talking about it can make people brainless. Renzi is in pain.

"It's nothing." Qin Lang laughed.

Jiafumen is the main south gate of the East Palace, but outside Jiafumen, there are two gates of Changlin Gate on the left and right, and Changshengyuan.When it was completed, two thousand Changlin troops were stationed here. As a result, Qin Wang Li Shimin acted first, and the Changlin army did not play its due role.

Now, Chengqian's East Palace has 3000 elite prince brigade soldiers. Although these 600 people are divided into five rotations, and usually only [-] people are on duty, they are mainly stationed outside the left and right Changlin gates.

As the prince Zhan Shi and the prince's left guard, Qin Lang also has the title of director of the East Palace Bingma.The three thousand prince Lu Ben was subordinate to the left guard of the Sixth Commander of the Eastern Palace. When Qin Lang was dismissed from the left guard, it was Cheng Yaojin who took over as the left guard and Su Dingfang as the deputy.

Now Cheng Yaojin stayed in Lanzhou as the governor, and Qin Lang continued to serve as the left guard when he returned to the court, and was added the title of director of the East Palace, but the actual commander of the prince Lu Ben was the deputy leader Su Dingfang.

Before that, the Luben army had mobilized elites to rescue Songzhou with Qin Lang, and fought in the first battle of Longyou. They made great contributions. For example, Gao Kan and Gao Zhensheng Liang Jianfang and several generals had already been promoted to governors of a state, and they were awarded the title of governor by virtue of their three battles. Jue, Guo Daizhao, Guo Daifeng, Chang Sunchong and other Luben officers are already well-known, and they have been quickly promoted to the captaincy.

Many Luben troops remained in Longyou, and the East Palace recruited a group of elites from various armies to replenish the Luben army, but the officers were basically the original Luben army, and most of them had participated in the Battle of Longyou.

Seeing Qin Lang, the old boss, they all saluted.

Qin Lang nodded to everyone and kept calling out their names, making these people very excited.

Da Ma came to the gate of Jiafu, and sure enough, Kong Yingda, Zhang Xuansu, Yu Zhining, Du Zhenglun, Lu Deming, Chu Suiliang, Yu Shinan and other scholars of Chongxian Hall were standing in the snow.

The heavy snow fell one after another, and a thick layer of snow had already fallen on each of the bachelors. It seemed that they had been waiting here since dawn.

Cheng Qian came over behind Qin Lang, seeing the scene, his face was a little pale, Cheng Qian was really scared when he met this group of people.Hurry up and get off the horse, and go up to see the ceremony.

Qin Lang sat on the horse and watched.

Cheng Qian crossed his arms and bowed his waist to pay respects, but these guys didn't move at all.

The prince invited them back to the palace, but they were unmoved.

Qin Lang urged the horse to go forward, until he came in front of everyone.

"My lords!"

Qin Lang crossed his hands on the horse, but when Yu Zhining and the others saw Qin Lang, they all glared at him.

Qin Lang was also very upset by this, he sneered twice, "My lords, if I remember correctly, it seems that a certain is still the Prince Zhan of the East Palace, and he is also the scholar and consulate of the Chongxian Hall, and he is still the Prince Zuowei. , Director Donggong Bingma, right?"

Prince Zuo Shuzi Yu Zhining stood there motionless, looking at Qin Lang, "Qin Xianggong is just riding on a horse and talking to us, is it polite?"

"My lords, under the Tang Dynasty system, Zhan Shi's mansion is set up in the East Palace, and Zhan Shi is set up alone. What is the responsibility of Zhan Shi?"

Everyone didn't answer, Su Dingfang said from behind, "The system of the Tang Dynasty, Prince Zhan's affairs, is in charge of all internal and external affairs, correcting impeachment is not a violation, and the general judges the affairs of the government."

"Since I am in charge of palace affairs, why don't you all, as officials of the Eastern Palace, pay a visit to the chief?" Qin Lang asked again.

This is the use of officials to seize people.

The East Palace is a small imperial court, and Li Shimin had high hopes for Prince Chengqian, so he began to equip Chengqian with a complete set of officials from the East Palace very early on.

The imperial court has the three provinces of Shangshu, Zhongshu, and Menxiawai, while the East Palace has Zhanshifu and Zuochunfang, which imitate the three provinces of the imperial court. Except for the three masters and three young masters of the East Palace, such as the prince, grand master, and prince Shaoshi, this is basically an honor. The titled official of the East Palace is the Fu Erfang who is really in charge of the affairs of the East Palace.

Among them, the prince Zhan Shi is the main one, which is equivalent to Shang Shuling, the prince Shao Zhan Shi is equivalent to the left and right servants, and the left and right concubine is equivalent to the Zhongshu Ling and Shizhong.

The entire East Palace official family is mainly based on Zhan's affairs, even Yu Zhining, who is the son of the prince Zuo Shu, has to accept Qin Lang's leadership.

Although the Fufang Temple rate in the East Palace was set up in imitation of the three provinces, six divisions and nine temple guards of the imperial court, after all, the crown prince is only the crown prince and not the emperor. Especially when the crown prince was young, the affairs of the East Palace were mainly in charge of the affairs of the East Palace. The affairs are not as clear as the three provinces and six ministries of the imperial court. Zhan Shi's command of the affairs of the East Palace is very clear.

From Li Gang to Pei Ju, and then to Qin Lang.

The East Palace has experienced three princes Zhan, two old and one young.

But it was all chosen by the emperor himself. Qin Lang left the East Palace for two years, and the position of Zhan Shi was not granted separately, but the left concubine Yu Zhining, the right concubine Du Zhenglun, and the young Zhan minister Zhang Xuansu all led the mansion together. thing.

After a long time, I really forgot about Qin Lang's orthodox business.

Guozijian Jijiu, Crown Prince You Shuzi, Chongxian Academy scholar Kong Yingda and Qin Lang have always had a good relationship. Seeing that Qin Lang is oppressing others with officials at this time, he came out to ease.

"The right concubine Yingda paid a visit to Zhan Shi."

Kong Yingda crossed his hands and saluted, other scholars of the Chongxian Academy, such as Chu Suiliang, also stepped forward to salute, now Yu Zhining, Zhang Xuansu, Du Zhenglun and others had no choice but to go forward to salute.

Qin Lang didn't get off the horse either, just accepted it like this.

"Your Highness returned to the palace, and you blocked the palace gate. Your Highness saluted, but you didn't return the salute. Is this another courtesy?"

Seeing Qin Lang being aggressive, Yu Zhining refused to back down.

He crossed his hands again at Qin Lang, "I dare to ask His Royal Highness the matter with Qin Zhan, why did you not return yesterday?"

Chengqian said in a panic, "Yesterday, Prime Minister Qin returned to the capital and went to meet the Xuanzhi on the order of the saint alone. Later, when it happened to be snowing, he stayed overnight in Prime Minister Qin's mansion."

"Your Highness stays outside the palace at will, what do you think about the rules in the palace?" Yu Zhining asked.

Qin Lang interrupted him with a cold snort, "Yu Gong, you are too lenient in such a small matter."

The two were tit for tat, Yu Zhining came from a dignified family, his great-grandfather Yu Jinnai was the Grand Master of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, one of the famous Eight Pillar Kingdoms, a native of Xianbei, his original surname was Wan Xiyu.

Yu Jin and Li Hu were called the Eight Pillar Kingdom back then, and the Yu family's family status can be seen in general.Yu Zhining's father was a member of Zhongshushe in the Sui Dynasty. When he first served in the Sui Dynasty, he started as a county magistrate.Later, when Li's family revolted in Taiyuan, he directly defected to Li Shimin's command, and advised him on the plan. Later, he was ranked as one of the eighteen scholars of the Qin Palace, and he was also one of Li Shimin's confidants.

After succeeding to the throne, Li Shimin made him the Duke of Liyang County, paid homage to the Minister of Zhongshu, and also granted him a regular servant on Sanqi, and let him serve as the Prince Shaozhan and teach Chengqian.During the two years when Qin Lang was not in Chang'an, he was conferred the title of Prince Zuo Shuzi, actually in charge of the affairs of the East Palace.

Li Shimin trusts Zhining very much. At a palace banquet before, the emperor didn't see Yu Zhining attending, and asked why, but the servant replied that officials above the third rank were summoned for this banquet, and Yu Zhining's Zhongshu Shilang is only a fourth-rank official.

So the emperor specially summoned Yu Zhining to the banquet, and made him a third-rank official on the spot.

Yu Zhining won the emperor's trust. As the minister of Zhongshu and the prince Zuo Shuzi of the East Palace, he was also very conscientious, for fear of disappointing the emperor, he not only managed the East Palace in an orderly manner, but also bluntly advised him whenever there was anything wrong with Chengqian. .

Now as soon as Qin Lang came back, Cheng Qian actually stayed out at night, which was too much.

This morning's battle was called by Yu Zhining to give Qin Lang a blow.

"Qin Xiang, this is not Longyou, this is the Great Tang East Palace, not where you messed up!"

"presumptuous!"

Qin Lang yelled angrily, "As an official of the Eastern Palace, Mr. Prince, it is your job to advise and advise, but don't forget the superiority and inferiority. His Royal Highness, as the heir of the Tang Dynasty, how can you be so contemptuous? How can you be contemptuous of Donggong Zhan's affairs? Still not backing down!"

"Qin Xiang, the responsibility for today's matter is yours. If you can't repent in person, I will come to court with you later."

"Step aside!"

Qin Lang waved his whip, urging the horse forward.

Yu Zhining actually stopped in front and stretched out his hand to pull the horse's head, which really annoyed Qin Lang, and he became lawless.

He kicked the leopard head directly in the belly of the horse. The leopard head was a military horse that had fought several battles in Longyou, and immediately rushed forward with a neighing sound. He was overturned to the ground at once, and fell all over, covered in mud and snow, very embarrassed.

"Everyone back down!" Qin Lang shouted angrily.

A group of civil servants and Confucian scholars dispersed one after another with their expressions changed drastically.

"It's so cold and heavy snow is flying, but you and the others surrounded the palace gate and stopped His Highness here to blow the snow, do you want to murder His Highness?"

As soon as this accusation came out, the expressions of the group of people changed drastically.

I followed Yu Zhining today because I wanted to suppress Qin Lang, but if it really made His Royal Highness suffer from the cold, no one would be able to afford it.

Everyone stepped aside one after another, Qin Lang got off his horse, and pulled Cheng Qian, who was looking restless, inside.

Yu Zhining lay on the ground in embarrassment, and shouted tremblingly at Qin Lang's back, "Qin Lang, I want to impeach you for being arrogant and domineering, and insulting to gentlemen!"

(End of this chapter)