Chapter 1338 Reappointment of the Qin family
The arrest and imprisonment of the six gentlemen aroused the anger of countless students and scholars. Everyone spontaneously held a larger-scale student petition procession. The emperor directly sent Jinwu Guards to drive them away and arrested thousands of students and scholars.
This matter intensified, causing panic in the capital.
Many ministers couldn't help but began to write to the emperor, asking for the pardon of these young scholars.
Some people also asked for a lighter punishment for the reverse case.
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Qi Guogong and Guanglu Qing Qin Jun had just left the palace in front of the saint. They stood in front of the palace gate and turned their heads to look back at the palace gate. They saw that the palace gate was heavily guarded. The generals, the generals, are now also ordered to dress neatly every day, and each town has a palace gate or a battalion.
Today is New Year’s Eve, and tomorrow is New Year’s Day.
But Luoyang still doesn't have the slightest atmosphere of New Year's approaching. Even many diplomatic missions from foreign countries feel that this atmosphere is not light.
Every day I worry about fear.
Anyway, Luoyang City has not lifted the martial law so far. There are patrols and guards everywhere on the streets, at the gates of the city, and at the gates of the city. The golden holiday is coming, especially the first month of next year is the year of the big competition, so there are extraordinarily many foreign scholars entering Beijing this year, and businesses are counting on this wave.
But the imperial decree came down, who would dare to disobey it.
It is said that thousands of rebels have been beheaded this time, and more than ten thousand people have been exiled. The incident of the Six Gentlemen has not yet subsided, but it has already caused thousands of people to be expelled from school, and many scholars have been deprived of Juren Fame.
No one can beat that emperor.
Anyway, under the emperor's toughness, the students are a little restless. Although the students are very enthusiastic, their fathers and brothers dare not do this. Now they take their children home and confine them at home for self-reflection. Students raise people, as well as officials from various places in Beijing, who are responsible for taking people away, and then sending people back to their hometowns to be disciplined by their families.
There are still more than 3,000 students in the prison.
The emperor has even decreed that the examination in the first month of next year will be cancelled.
This year's imperial examinations are gone, including the county and township examinations that were previously passed, as well as the achievements of Tongsheng, Xiucai, and Juren, all of which are abolished.
The emperor is so obstinate.
Be hard with him, and he will be even harder.
A group of scholars dare to talk about state affairs and accuse the king?
Didn't start killing, that's because Li Yin endured it, but if he didn't be strict, the scholars would only become more and more violent.
Although in this way, countless scholars and students were implicated and unlucky, but the emperor didn't care.
Qin Jun thought of the scene when he met that uncle just now, and was still a little nervous.
Because of the mutiny, the two aunts and eight cousins were recalled to Luoyang halfway, and they were not exiled to Fangzhou for the time being.
With the turbulence of the situation during this period, this matter has actually changed a little bit.
In the future, when the emperor's uncle summoned him, he also talked to him about these things that had happened during this period of time. After talking about it, the emperor's uncle said that he still believed in the loyalty of the Qin family.
Therefore, after careful consideration during this period, it was decided to reappoint Qin Shu as Zhaoyi, Qin Wan as Zhaoyuan, Li Xian as Taiyuan County King, Li Hong as Shangdang County King, Li Zhe as Changping County King, etc. Several queens are all Princess Princess.
This news surprised Qin Jun.
He thought to himself, maybe it was because of this mutiny that the emperor killed many more people, and because of the petition of the scholars, the atmosphere in the court was a little tense, so the emperor changed the punishment for the aunts and cousins at this time.
Although only the nine concubines were restored, and the eight cousins were also named county kings, it was a good step after all.
Especially compared to the fate of the deposed prince and Zhao Wang brothers who were cut in half, their situation is undoubtedly even more rare.
Qin Jun is of course very grateful for this.
The emperor then dismissed Qin Junguang from Luqing's position and gave him the right-leading general's position, all of which were three-rank real positions, but they were all titles with little real power.
The ranks of generals and generals in the imperial court have gradually evolved into a kind of title addition, or rank, or a sequence of transfers, without much actual power.
After all, if you are going abroad, you will be awarded the post of marching commander of a certain way, and if you are outside the town, you will generally be awarded the post of governor of a certain governor's mansion, or a certain military envoy, guard envoy, etc.
The generals and generals of the guards have indeed been reduced to a kind of general titles. When the generals already have military ranks, these general ranks have become a sequence for the promotion of senior generals.
For example, the current actual promotion sequence is that the Bei Ya is at the top, the Nan Ya is at the bottom, and the Nan Ya is twelve guards, and the left and right leading guards are at the bottom, and the left and right guards are at the top.
Going up one level at a time, for example, the lowest level is the right-leading general, then the left-leading general, and then all the way to the left-back general, and then the right Jinwu general to the left Habayashi general. Further up is the general, leading the general from the right first, and then looping again until the general to the left.
Of course, if the merit is high, you can also skip a grade.
But it has indeed been reduced to such a thing.
For Qin Jun, this post was only changed from Guanglu Temple Yamen to Youlingwei Yamen to drink tea in the future. Even Guanglu Temple was originally in charge of specific affairs, but when it came to Youlingjunwei, he really took care of it. There is nothing to do, the general affairs are for the long history and military personnel, not to mention the important things.
The emperor told Qin Jun that he admired his talent very much, so he was allowed to stay in Luoyang to serve in the Luoyang Dynasty. The emperor returned the post of Guangluqing to Qin Xun, and granted him the title of Duke of Licheng County.
But this is a loose title, a false title, which is very different from the original Duke of Qi.
But at any rate, it can be regarded as giving face to Qin Qiong's son-in-law. A false title of county magistrate and an idle Guanglu Qing can be regarded as a show of the emperor's gratitude to the Qin family.
When he left, the emperor also left a special sentence, "There is no need to return the house of Duke Qi to Qin Xun. You can live in peace of mind. You are the eldest grandson of the Qin family and my nephew. Work hard. I won't treat you badly, let alone your Qin family."
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Kaiyuan fifteen years, the first day of the first month.
The Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting was held as scheduled, more than a hundred foreign envoys from all over the world came to congratulate, and envoys from all over the Tang Dynasty also gathered in the Golden Palace.
After the Great Court Meeting, various routine rewards.
The emperor announced the rewards for the soldiers. All the guards and soldiers in Luoyang, the eastern capital, were rewarded with money and food for March, and a set of spring clothes.
Civil and military officials also have their salaries increased for one month.
For the elderly over 60, there are generous gifts for each of the 67, 18 and 10 grades.
For this grand reward, Ji Xiang, the transfer envoy, spent a total of six million coins.
The killings at the end of the year were a bit more ruthless, and the rewards for the New Year will naturally be more generous, especially for the Forbidden Army. The cleansing of the Forbidden Army was too severe before, which once caused many complaints from the Forbidden Army.
Especially when the Son of Heaven first personally promised to kill Qiu Xinggong and other traitors to be enshrined as Marquises, he did confer the Thirteen Marquises afterwards, but he killed these people again in a blink of an eye.
Many forbidden troops were cut in half, and even killed.
Everyone felt that they were wronged, and those who were somehow implicated in being demoted or exiled because of this were even more dissatisfied.
Troubles come and go, but the emperor never compromised.
The one who was said to be killed was killed, the one who was said to be exiled was not pardoned, and the one who should be ransacked was also unambiguous.
Originally, there was a minister to play, please change the new name this year.
It means that what happened last year is a bit unlucky. Change the name of the new year, and Vientiane will be renewed.
By the way, after the yuan change, there will be a wave of amnesty, and a group of people will be pardoned along the way, including some of the rebels in the mutiny last year, so as to ease the atmosphere of the situation.
But Li Yin refused.
So this year is still the year of Kaiyuan, the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan, and there is no amnesty.
However, when the Hanlin scholar read out the edict, he read that the second concubine of the Qin family was named Zhaoyi and Zhaoyuan, the nine concubines, and the eight princes they gave birth to were all named county kings, and Qin Jun was granted the title of right leader. General, when Qin Xun conferred the news of Guang Luqing, the Duke of Licheng County, etc., it still inevitably moved many people in the court.
Announcing this decree at the Zhengdan Grand Court obviously has a profound meaning.
Could it be that the emperor was afraid that the previous treatment of the Qin family would arouse the resentment of the Qin grand master in Lu Song, and then rebel like the Su family?
So the emperor finally compromised?
He didn't compromise with King Su Han and others, and he didn't compromise with those forbidden soldiers who participated in the mutiny because they violated the emperor's rebellion. The mutiny happened, so they had to be dealt with the most severe blows, even if it was his own prince, King Zhao, who had no evidence to show that He participated in it, but because he was the adopted son of the Su family, he also ruthlessly killed him.
Even if it turns out that the deposed prince Li Xiang didn’t know about it in advance, and was even imprisoned in Shangyang Palace when the incident happened and didn’t know about it and didn’t participate in the mutiny, the emperor still killed him mercilessly afterwards.
Even Empress Su, who had been a husband and wife for more than 20 years, did not let go of her in the end, and even executed the whole family of the Su family, punishing the three clans.
Li Chongyi and other clans and relatives were not spared, even those who participated in the mutiny in a daze, but in time anyway.
Everyone involved in this matter, no matter active or passive, was purged by Emperor Thunder.
This shows that the emperor has no tolerance for sand in his eyes, and has no tolerance for rebellion.
But for the Qin family, the emperor finally compromised.
It may be said that the previous emperor was just probing, so he had some reservations about the Qin family's attack from the beginning, but Qin Lang never overreacted at all, nor did he have any complaints, and even paid taxes to the court as always, paying taxes to the emperor He paid tribute and sent his son to Beijing Chaoji.
The emperor naturally had to express his attitude. After the Mutiny of the Su Clan's Xuanwu Sect, the Qin family's reaction was even more rare and loyal?
So kill and punish the deposed prince and his party, and then show kindness to the Qin family?
Another decree was read out.
But it was a cover for the children of the Wei family. This mutiny, the most unlucky one was the Wei family. The Su family had already been driven into dust, so they pulled a back when they were dying. This time, Wei Shi almost suffered a catastrophe. , Hundreds of people died.
Although a top-notch family like Webster's has many branches and many descendants, it cannot withstand such torture. Er Wei cried in front of the emperor all day long, and Zhu Wei also submitted memorials, but people cannot be resurrected after death. Now it is appeasement to confer the official ranks of the Weis in the court, and to give some young Wei's children the grace to become officials.
However, for Webster who had suffered a catastrophe, there were not many people who really mourned for them, and they might even feel a little bit happy.
While taking pleasure in Zhu Wei's misfortune, everyone is also in awe of the Qin family.
After all, in front of today's conceited emperor, the Qin family who can always stand invincible is indeed worthy of their admiration. In contrast, elders such as Changsun Wuji, Chu Suiliang, and the newly purged martial arts Su family, even It was the clans of the royal family, as well as those ignorant generals, who showed Qin Lang's power even more.
Previously, the second concubine and eight kings of the Qin family were abolished, and the six brothers of Qin Lang were expelled as citizens. The situation of the Qin family suddenly became critical. If it weren't for Qin Lang's overseas self-government territory and strong strength, he might have stepped down a long time ago. Following in the footsteps of Changsun Wuji. But even if he wasn't implicated for a while, many people still felt that sooner or later the blame would still be on Qin Lang's head.
But who could have imagined how long it had been before Qin Lang made a move, but in the end the emperor restored the second concubine as a concubine and the third son as the king of the county. County Duke.
Does this mean that the emperor is also afraid of the Qin family's power?
Some people even secretly speculated there, whether there was Qin Taishi's action in the last change of Xuanwu Gate? After all, although the martial arts Su family is also a famous family in Guanzhong and the home of the prime minister, but the Su family does not have a single general, yet they were able to contact so many famous clan kings, meritorious generals, and even many of the imperial guards in such a short period of time. The support of low-level officers actually caused a mutiny, even if it was defeated, it was not easy.
Is there any Qin Taishi secretly involved in this?
In other words, if Grand Master Qin also decides to carry out a mutiny like the Su family, then given Grand Master Qin's connections and prestige in the army, wouldn't there be a greater chance?
In other words, if the Qin Taishi raised troops and raised the flag directly in Lu Song, can the court destroy them?
No matter what it is, the current result is surprising.
Some people even thought there that after this mutiny, Webster was severely injured, and Webster's reputation was even worse, especially because of the emperor's severe purge, which caused many people to spread their resentment on Webster. on the head.
In fact, some people in the court have long guessed that the emperor favored Erwei, and even named Wei as the queen. Inside, he might still want to help the famous Wei to suppress the Qin family. Now that the Su family, the deposed prince, and King Zhao were killed, the current Wei I'm afraid that I won't be able to help and suppress the Qin family.
Then, is the emperor looking for another force to unite with Wei to suppress Qin, or should he simply make the Qin family's nephew the crown prince?
After all, Qin Lang still showed a high degree of loyalty this time.
(end of this chapter)