Chapter 492 The beauty is unlucky
Walking out of Luoyang Palace, Qin Lang's back was completely soaked.
Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger.
Even as wise as Li Shimin, he still sometimes goes crazy.
Stepping into the backyard of the Henan government office with the front heel, the emperor's envoy followed.
In the hall, Lu Kuan, the governor of the provincial hall, came in with a smile.
This is originally a branch of the Murong tribe of Xianbei. Lu Kuan's surname is Doulu, his father is Doulutong, and his mother is Princess Changle, sister of Sui Wendi Yang Jian.
At the beginning, Murong Chang, king of Yanbei, surrendered to Zhuang Wei, was given the surname Doulu, and was granted the title of Governor of Changle. The original meaning of this Doulu in Xianbei language is surrender.
Later, the Doulu family did not accept this surname in vain. From Houyan to the Northern Wei Dynasty, then to the Western Wei Dynasty, and then to the Northern Zhou Dynasty and Sui Dynasty. When the Sui Dynasty was in chaos, Doulu Kuan followed Xiao Yu to the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan Yidou Lukuan has made great contributions to the dragon, and specially ordered to follow the Taihe edict to remove Dou's surname as Lu.
This person served as the governor of Qizhou, and his son married Li Yuan's sixth daughter.
Lu Kuan had a prosperous career as an official, and immediately joined the new crown prince after the Xuanwu Gate change. Therefore, he was successively promoted to the Minister of Rites, General Zuo Wuwei, etc. Later, something went wrong and he was demoted to the middle supervisor of the palace.
"Duke Wei, Your Majesty has a reward."
Qin Lang received the order.
The emperor asked Lu Kuan to announce the rewards. He gave Qin Lang one thousand taels of gold, ten thousand pieces of silk, one hundred Turkic slaves, and ten beauties.
Qin Lang didn't know whether Li Shimin wanted to express his apology for his previous madness, or whether he wanted to disgust him deliberately. Just now because of Zheng Wanyan, they suspected that they had an affair, which made the two of them blush, and now they even gave away ten beauties.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."
Lu Kuan looked at this kid with some envy.
"The rewards are not limited to these. His Majesty's special decree, Mr. Wei, you have made great achievements in preventing the epidemic and curing acne. You have added solid food and sealed off 100 households. The first 1,800 households have passed. Luoyang City bestows the first school!"
Qin Lang didn't look happy, which made Lu Kuan very puzzled.
One hundred households are sealed. Now Qin Lang's sealed households are as high as 1,800, which is 200 higher than Qin Qiong's 1,600. The real Zhenguan Dynasty is the first.
But since Qin Lang got the fiefdom of Wu'an Prefecture, he now has more than 20,000 households under his name, so once the feudal system came out, the real food seal is actually meaningless, it's just another economic gain.
Qin Lang feels a little disheartened now.
No matter how generous Li Shimin's reward is now, it can't make him forget the terrifying appearance of the emperor in the palace before.
He felt that it was time for him to reflect on himself. He was not as smart as he thought, and the court was not inseparable from him.
As Li Shimin said, although he has many ideas, the results cannot be achieved without the determination and execution of the court. Without the full support of the emperor and the hard work of the court, no matter how many ideas he has, it is useless.
So most of the credit goes to the emperor and the court.
Qin Lang now regrets very much why he shielded Zheng Wanyan back then, or why he had to be so sympathetic when the emperor rewarded her as a maidservant. If he had just taken her in at that time and became a maidservant, wouldn't it be Is there nothing left for future generations?
Maybe if you accept Zheng Wanyan early, you can settle the holiday with the Zheng family earlier.
Just now the emperor said that he wrongly blamed Qin Lang, but who knows when the emperor will be suspicious again?
This kind of thing, if it gets involved, it will be a fishy mess.
Why did this kind of **** happen to me?
After much deliberation, it is still not low-key enough.
Looking at Qin Qiong, he behaves low-key and does things high-key. He is in his prime, but he retreats bravely, making himself as if he is about to die.
Maybe I should learn it myself.
The imperial court has just destroyed the Eastern Turks, but it will probably take several years to digest the results of the Eastern Turks' subjugation. Moreover, the rapid destruction of the Turks this time is not a good thing. Too big, anti-card sore throat.
And Mobei lost the leader of the Ashina Golden Wolf Clan, so Tie Le, surnamed Jiu, probably couldn't hold back and would take advantage of the opportunity.
If the imperial court mishandled it, the Turkic wolf would be wiped out, and the Tiele wolf might be raised again.
After this battle, Li Shimin probably didn't dare to be radical anymore, and maybe he would be more conservative in the next few years. It might be a wise move for him, Qin Lang, to withdraw from the court at the right time.
If it is possible, Qin Lang is more willing to manage his world feudal territory well. Last year, he just went there to lay a foundation, and there are still too many things to do.
Qin Qiong also made a new world fief, which is far away in Songzhou in the west of Jiannan, which is under the Daxue Mountain, between Longyou and Jiannan, and is a key strategic passage, but the problem is that the place is really remote and backward.
The place where yaks are raised, you can know the situation.
Rong and barbarians are everywhere there, and on the opposite side are the Dangxiang and other Qiang people who are attached to Tuyuhun. Songzhou is not a small place. After the Qin State destroyed Shu, a county was set up there.
It was just that it was controlled by the barbarians until the first year of Wude, when the imperial court set up Songzhou again.
Although the east is the Sichuan Basin Plain, a fertile land of abundance, but Songzhou, the source of the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, is a completely wild and remote place, separated by the Daxue Mountain. Geographically, it should be designated Enter Longyou, not Jiannan.
It will be more difficult to manage this fiefdom well than Qin Lang's Wu'an Prefecture.
The Rongyi here are mainly Qiangdi, who are more sturdy than the slang barbarians in Wu'an Prefecture. The climate and terrain over there are also high-altitude areas. Songzhou City is nearly 3,000 meters above sea level, and the peak of Daxue Mountain is more than 5,000 meters above sea level.
It is also difficult to cultivate land in that place, mainly relying on animal husbandry. Of course, after all, it also occupies an important traffic route, and it should be profitable to engage in some tea-horse trade.
The Qiang people have been fierce and warlike since ancient times. During the Han Dynasty, the Han and Qiang wars were fought for more than a hundred years. If Qin Qiong wants to do a good job in this fiefdom, it may be quite difficult to gain a firm foothold. The problem is that he has to throw a lot of money into it.
And now Qin Lang is very short of money.
In the construction of Wu'an Prefecture, countless money has been invested in it, just like a bottomless pit.
However, the famine epidemic in the past winter and this spring caused Qin Lang to suffer heavy losses. He also set an example and donated a lot to them. Although the imperial court also expropriated most of them, it may be difficult to cash out the IOUs with the money.
After thinking about it, Qin Qiong came.
After Qin Lang came to Luoyang, he visited Qin Qiong several times. Qin Qiong had a house in Luoyang, which was bestowed by the emperor. Earlier, Qin Qiong asked him to live there, but Qin Lang thought it would be convenient for him to live alone in the yamen, so he didn't go.
"Why is Grandpa here?"
Qin Qiong looked worried, "Fifth lady told me that you have encountered some troubles recently, and that your majesty just called you into the palace and made a big fuss?"
Wu Niangzi is Li Junxian's nickname. He is Qin Qiong's old subordinate. He knows exactly what kind of trouble Qin Lang is in now, but he can't explain it too clearly to Qin Qiong, but he still vaguely revealed it.
"Grandpa, don't worry, Your Majesty misunderstood me a bit, but I've made it clear now." Qin Lang said to Qin Qiong with a smile.
"Tell Grandpa about it." The misunderstanding that can make the emperor misunderstand, I'm afraid it is definitely not something that is clear in a few words.
Qin Lang didn't want to say it, but Qin Qiong was very nervous.
He seldom saw this great general nervous, and this seemed to be his struggling and tangled appearance a few days before the Xuanwumen Incident.
"Actually, it's not very important, it's easy to say..."
Qin Qiong listened very carefully.
"It's this daughter of the Zheng family again, a complete disaster." Qin Qiong slapped her legs angrily, becoming more and more dissatisfied with Zheng Shisanniang.
"No wonder a woman."
"You still speak for her at this time, hey."
Qin Qiong stared at her son suddenly, "Tell the truth to Grandpa, you really have no personal affair with her, right?"
"No."
Qin Qiong couldn't understand why the emperor would suddenly investigate this matter, "Could it be the same as what happened to Li Yaoshi before?" Qin Qiong suspected that this was Li Shimin's intention, or it might be some kind of imperial power.
Hearing that Qin Lang planned to resign, the emperor did not allow it, but after giving him two months off, Qin Qiong felt more and more that maybe it was his guess.
The emperor now likes to play the imperial art like this. For ministers with meritorious service, especially those with great merit, he always finds some trouble to beat him, then let him sit on the bench for a while, and then say that the investigation is clear, that he is innocent, and then he will be bestowed with grace reward.
"Our Qin family has indeed gone too smoothly in recent years."
Qin Qiong decided to go to fiefdom.
Originally, according to the imperial court's secular law, if the secular meritorious officials do not serve in the imperial court, they are indeed granted the feudal vassal if they want. It was also this that led many heroes to resolutely oppose the feudal law before, thinking that the emperor wanted to use the feudal law to drive the heroes out of the center of the court and to the frontier.
Under the enfeoffment system of the Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, the feudal lords were also very reluctant to leave the capital to entrust the land.
"Your Majesty often said that the strong wind knows the strength of the grass, and we see loyal ministers in a stern manner. We, father and son of the Qin family, are not afraid of the strong wind. It's just that time has changed and things are no longer what they used to be. It's true that our father and father are too much of an eyesore in the courtroom. Especially the Guanlongmen faction and the Shandong gentry find it an eyesore."
"Let's take a step back. When His Majesty needs it, our father and I will come out to serve His Majesty again."
Qin Qiong patted his son. He always felt that his son was smart because he was smart, but he was a little too sharp and easy to break. This was something he had always worried about.
In the past, he wasn’t too worried about others criticizing Qin Lang, after all, the emperor trusted him, but now the emperor has played this game, so he has to be vigilant.
Qin Lang felt that although Qin Qiong was a little too cautious, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it now.
For someone like Li Shimin who can't afford to play, let's play with him, let's let him hang out first, anyway, the court won't have any major issues for the time being.
The next step is definitely to enter the stage of recuperation. The court food and the common people's homes don't have three years of food storage. It is estimated that Li Shimin will not dare to take it easily.
Qin Lang also felt that he had done his best for the emperor and the court, and now he had to take care of his own small family, otherwise Qin Lang would go bankrupt.
He used to have over 100,000 mu of land in the Central Plains, but now due to the impact of the famine, it is difficult to complete the spring sowing, and most of the tenants are still fleeing to beg for food.
And I managed to start a large-scale ecological breeding. Those farms are now completely shut down. When the hunger is severe, even the sows in the sow farms are all handed over to the government for slaughter and meat for the people.
As far as loss is concerned, Qin Lang's loss is really huge.
To the imperial court and the emperor, it is really heart-wrenching, treating the imperial court as one's own. But Li Shimin still played with him like that, which is so boring.
Sitting in front of the stove, Qin Lang closed his eyes and meditated while making plans.
Zhang Chao knocked on the door.
"Sanlang, someone put a letter on my desk just now, but there is no one there. The envelope says Sanlang Qi."
Qin Lang frowned, took the letter, opened it, and there was only one sentence in it.
"Zheng Jieyu hanged herself in the cold palace, and she died in secret."
Seeing this sentence, Qin Lang felt his hair stand on end.
(end of this chapter)