Chapter 1323 South China Sea Rising Dragon Out of Saints
The cool water beside Xuanwu Lake is crystal clear, and fish swim.
A small boat, a long pole.
Qin Lang is fishing on the lake.
Qin Jun ran over anxiously, "Grandpa, it's not good, the government has undergone drastic changes, and Cui Xiang and Lai Ji have both been dismissed."
The fish mark was floating, Qin Lang did not rush to lift the rod, but waited quietly for a while, and only when the fish mark was pulled a lot, he began to lift the rod to reel in the line.
Water waves everywhere.
A big fish appeared, it struggled but could not get off, Qin Lang slipped slowly, after a while the fish was finally tired, Qin Lang dragged the fish to the shore little by little.
Qin Jun picked up the dipping net to catch the big fish, then stretched out his hand to dig it in from the big fish's mouth, pulling the big fish up with great effort.
"It's such a big fish, I'm afraid it weighs twenty or thirty catties. It's really a giant."
Xuanwu Lake is the back lake of Luzon. This lake is almost as big as 20 West Lakes in Hangzhou. The huge inner lake has unique conditions. It is connected to San Francisco by a big river, which makes Xuanwu Lake and San Francisco Bay one of Luzon today. There are two major port areas within one.
Along Xuanwu Lake, there are now countless villages and towns.
"Grandfather?"
"Why panic, the sky won't fall." Qin Lang took a thick abaca rope, first **** the big fish's mouth, and then the father and son worked together to lift the big fish onto the boat.
The fish struggled hard, but to no avail.
"This is bighead carp. The stewed tofu with fat head is just right. It's also good to marinate the fish tail and make it fried with mildewed fish."
Seeing that his father was still so calm, Qin Jun couldn't help but said, "Grandpa, both Prime Minister Cui and Prime Minister Lai have been demoted from the imperial court. Prime Minister Lai was demoted to the Western Regions. After Prime Minister Cui was dismissed, he was first demoted to Prince Zhan Shi , and demote the Yongchang Dao Propaganda Envoy."
"Where is the letter?"
Qin Lang washed his hands and carefully read the urgent letter sent from Luoyang. The letter was not too long, but the content was astonishing enough.
Qin Lang's closest political allies in the court, righteous brother Laiji and uncle Cui Dunli both dismissed and demoted, and Xu Jingzong also turned to Zuo servant.
Although there are still many people in the court who have supported or befriended Qin Lang over the years, such as Shang Guanyi, who is his protégé and is still a scholar of the Imperial Academy, Xu Jingzong has only changed to Zuo Pushe and is still the prime minister.
Another example is Liubu Shangshu, Zhongshu Sheren, and Geshizhong, and many other important officials, all of whom still have a lot of their own people.
But Qin Jun was right to be worried. Since the emperor made a move, and he went straight to the second minister Cui Lai as soon as he made a move, it was tantamount to showing his sword directly to the Qin family.
To shoot a man, shoot a horse first; to capture a thief, first capture the king.
On the one hand, concubine Huangchen and Concubine Huanggui were canonized before the fourth concubine, and on the other hand, Qin Lang's two most important allies in the court were given to the prime ministers.
It is obvious that they are here for Qin Lang.
The emperor's move, who still doesn't understand his thoughts, is to completely eliminate the previous idea that everyone thought that Su Liqin should be abolished, and that Li Xian, the king of Jin, should be replaced by Prince Li Xiang.
The emperor's ability to play tricks has indeed become more and more powerful. At the beginning, he pretended to throw out the matter of abolishing Su Liqin to divide the veterans and ministers, and then wooed Xu Jingzong and the military group to attack Changsun Wuji's Guanlong Yuanxun faction with all his strength.
Successfully cleaned up Changsun Wuji's party, and now turned around and started attacking Qin Lang again.
"Grandfather, why?"
"what why?"
"Grandfather was originally the hero of Zhenguan's co-consulting and decision-making. During the Zhenguan Dynasty, he made countless achievements, and he even made great contributions to the present. Ask the government. Why do you still treat us like this?"
Qin Junqi blushed.
Qin Lang sighed, "You're already in your thirties, why haven't you calmed down a bit?"
"My son is just not convinced!"
Qin Lang tore up the letter and sprinkled it into the lake, watching the ink on the shredded paper gradually blur when it met the water, and the water-absorbing paper slowly sank, and finally disappeared.
"Actually, I have expected this day. It should come anyway, so I am not surprised at all."
Qin Jun was a little puzzled.
Qin Lang looked at the eldest son, although he was a concubine, but Qin Lang paid a lot for him, especially after he retired to Lu Song, the teaching of the eldest son was even far beyond other people.
"I heard that there is a rumor in the south that there is a saint out of the South China Sea, and this saint is me."
Qin Jun nodded. The saying of the Saints of the South China Sea has actually been around for a long time. It has been circulating for about ten years, and with the passage of time, it was only spread in the Jiaoguang area at first, and now it has gradually spread to the entire coastal area and even the Central Plains. The same gradually spread inland.
Everyone called Qin Lang a sage of the South China Sea. This was not deliberately spread by Qin Lang. It was indeed spread spontaneously from the common people, and spread farther and farther by the merchants.
The origin of its name is because of the development of Lingnan driven by maritime commerce and trade over the years. In the early Tang Dynasty, Lingnan was relatively prosperous in the three cities of Guangxi, Guizhou and Jiaotong. Rampant, not to mention the slang barbarians everywhere.
Maritime trade has continued to prosper for more than 30 years, and even many southerners along the coast today are a generation born after the opening of maritime trade.
The Lingnan area, which used to be wild and backward, is very different now, especially the coastal areas, which are very prosperous, not to mention the prosperous scenes of those ports.
And Qin Lang has managed Wu'an and Wu Song for more than 30 years, turning countless poor people from the Central Plains and barbarians from Lingnan into landlords and wealthy businessmen. Even many barbarians in the mountains have now become mine owners. wait.
Even like the poor Fujian area in the past, it is known as eight mountains, one water and one field, and there is no road to communicate with the surrounding area. It is a closed place that can be affected even in troubled times.
However, in recent years, countless Fujianese have left the mountains to do business or go out to work, and many have migrated to Wu'an, Luzon, Liuqiu and other places, becoming new immigrants and enjoying waves of great dividends of pioneering and colonizing.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Mrs. Xian Tai, the head of the family of Feng Xian, was able to command the various tribes in Lingnan, coordinate everyone to live and work in peace and contentment, protect the environment and the people, and make Lingnan less tragic than the Central Plains in troubled times. Mrs. Tai is honored as the Holy Mother of Lingnan.
Compared to Madam Xian, Qin Lang, who is now the king of Qi in Qin Langjue and owns Lu Song, will only be stronger in any aspect.
So as soon as the title of Saint in the Sea came out, it was actively spread widely by everyone.
"You were born in the Zhenguan Dynasty. You have never experienced the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and you have never seen the tragedy of the people in that era. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there were millions of conscripts in Liaodong, and millions of civilians. They transported grain from Jianghuai to Liaodong. The hardships and dangers on the road made people have to cut off their own hands to escape the Eastern Expedition."
"On the other hand, the sons of officials and aristocrats with some abilities deliberately committed some petty crimes, such as privately slaughtering cattle and going to prison to avoid service. In order to escape the Eastern Expedition."
I cut off one of my hands and feet, and it is said to be a blessing, because after losing the hands and feet, I don't have to go to Liaodong to fight or transport food.
"But after the great chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty really broke out, it was useless to be blessed. There was famine everywhere, refugees everywhere, and the people were so hungry that they couldn't help it. They ate up their food, livestock, and seeds. They sold all their property, and finally sold their children and daughters. After they are sold out, they can only wander in the wild like locusts. After eating all the grass roots and bark, they even eat soil, just to relieve their hunger. And die a tragic end."
"There is a saying that it is better to be a dog of peace than to be a person in troubled times. It is difficult for people of your generation to understand the meaning of this sentence now, but for people of our generation, we all personally experienced it back then. There are Turks and other foreign races outside the pass. Repeated invasions and looting, while bandits are everywhere in the prefecture and county, and refugees are everywhere, do you know what the worst thing is?"
"It's not that you lose all your property, you don't even sell your sons and daughters, and you cut off your own brothers and feet. The most tragic thing in this world is to change your son and eat."
"When I am so hungry that my eyes shine, all the order and routine are gone, and there is only one thing left in my heart, looking for food and eating everything that can be eaten, just to survive."
"Hungry people cross the border like locusts, grabbing all that can be eaten, but in such troubled times, there are too many hungry people, and there is nowhere to feed them."
Qin Lang sighed.
"People who are hungry will eat their starving companions and will not waste any food that can be eaten, even if these starving people are only skin and bones."
"At the worst time, everyone can only exchange children for food. Do you dare to imagine that situation, that kind of despair?"
Changing children to eat is already the last bit of human struggle of the hungry.
They retain the last bit of humanity, trading children with others to eat instead of eating their own children directly.
What does it mean to be a dog of peace rather than a person in troubled times?
This is, in troubled times, people are not as good as dogs.
In order to survive, the hungry people can do anything. There is no law and no morality. In an era without law and morality, the people at the bottom are actually the worst.
It was an era of slaughtering each other. Hungry refugees robbed all the way. Out of control, they were no longer just robbing food. All the evils of human nature became extremely evil after losing the last bit of restraint.
And the powerful landlords and powerful people will also spend all their wealth to recruit Ding Yong to protect themselves, and they will kill the refugees.
In troubled times, the government and army encircle and suppress refugees, but they often become bandits.
Even after the most tragic ten years, after the Tang Dynasty defeated Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, the world was almost unified, but the people in Wude Dynasty and Zhenguanchu had a hard time.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the troubled times were relatively short, and the succession of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was very fast.
Under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, countless refugees were able to return to their hometowns and rebuild their homes, but facing their almost ruined homes, life was not easy.
Especially in the Wude Dynasty, the laws and taxes were almost a replica of the Sui Dynasty, and they had to face Turkic invasions from time to time, so the people in the Wude Dynasty still had a difficult life.
"No one cares about the barbarians in Lingnan. When I first went south, in the mountainous area of Wuling, many barbarians there liked to steal children from other tribes and sell them as slaves for money. Many tribes even sold their own children. The children were sold, some were even sold while they were still in the womb, and some had already received a deposit in advance and agreed to sell them to traffickers before they were pregnant..."
"Wars, disasters, diseases, taxes, the vast majority of people are just struggling to survive, and look at today, many people are truly living a human life."
Live and work in peace and contentment, with light taxes, not to mention clean government, all these are dividends brought about by the prosperity of maritime trade and foreign expansion and colonization.
Many poor people became landlords, many beggars became rich businessmen, and the ignorant mountain barbarians had the opportunity to study and get an education.
Although in Qin Lang's view, even in the relatively developed areas of Luzon and Wu'an, the lives of the vast majority of the people can only be regarded as mediocre. It's just shameful to have clothes to cover your body.
And there are millions of aliens who are actually enslaved slaves.
But even so, everyone is very satisfied.
In Qin Lang's eyes, poverty and deprivation, but in their eyes, there is food, clothing, warmth, and a stable and contented life. Even those slaves feel that they are protected by the law, have basic human rights, and can live on. A little bit of hope.
Qin Jun and his generation were born in the peaceful era, and even the younger generation, they have not experienced those troubled times, and there is no obvious contrast, so they often cannot appreciate the contrast.
But for many people in their thirties, they have a very clear understanding.
For all this, of course, we must first thank the Emperor Shengzu, but Qin Lang's prestige in Lingnan is also unparalleled. In the eyes of many people, the Emperor Shengzu is far away. Compared with Qin Lang, who has always been in Lingnan, That's what you can really feel.
South China Sea Saint.
Qin Lang's prestige is very high, both the government and the public have high prestige, but in the southeast coast, it is even higher.
Even so high that he only knows that there is a sage in Qin, but not that there is an emperor.
In Lu Song, everyone only knows the king of Qi and the Qin family, but they don't care about the Tang Dynasty at all, and they don't care about the emperor.
Because Qin Lang and the Qin family are closely related to everyone's life, they are the ones who really change everyone's destiny.
The emperor of Luoyang will not be blind and deaf. The emperor must also know these things here.
"My Qin family has such a high reputation and even strong strength. After Changsun Wuji and other senior officials of the Guanlong faction were purged, how could the emperor appoint your aunt as the queen and the prince born by her as the prince? A slightly normal emperor , wouldn’t do that.”
The stronger the strength of the Qin family, the higher the prestige of Qin Lang, the less likely it is that the emperor will make Li Xian the crown prince. An overly powerful relative will threaten the imperial power. After all, Yang Jian is a not-too-distant precedent.
When Changsun Wuji was in power, Qin Lang was out, so the emperor's first target must be Changsun Wuji. At this time, the emperor needed the support of Qin Lang and his allies behind him, but now that Changsun Wuyi's party has been eliminated.
The former dragon-slaying teammate has become a new dragon.
The Emperor's Dragon Slaying Saber was about to be swung at Qin Lang.
"Then what should we do? We can't be captured and sit waiting for death like Changsun Wuji." Qin Jun gritted his teeth, saw no one around, and lowered his voice, "It's really impossible, let's rebel here in Luzon, Shuqi Act righteously and establish yourself as king!"
Qin Lang admired the courage of the eldest son, but shook his head and was dissatisfied with his recklessness.
"Remember, it's not just about fighting and killing in this world, there are also people who know the world. Soldiers come to block water and flood the earth. We are now at the table, as long as we still hold enough chips, we can slowly confront each other and negotiate. Lifting the table is the most stupid." Qin Lang taught his son.
The emperor made a move, and he took the move. If he raised the flag rashly, it would be a rebellion. This is probably what Li Yin wished for.
How can he do what he wants!
(end of this chapter)