MTL - Chastity Layman-Chapter 1365 Good morning

  Chapter 1365 Sheng Gong is well

  Thirty years ago, Shengzu and Qin Lang launched the Xuanwu Sect Change and brought eight hundred warriors from Qin Palace into the palace, but it didn't go so smoothly.

Qin Jun was granted the title of Duke of Qi in the past because of his father and grandfather's meritorious service, but now he was granted the title of Prince of Wu'an County because of his own ability. After all, the Su family also launched the Xuanwu Sect not long ago, and the defeat was incomparable. Miserable.

  Although the Su family is a literati, Qiu Xinggong is the founding general of the country, not to mention the sons of the famous king Li Xiaogong, as well as the sons of generals such as Qian Jiulong and Fan Xing, but in the end they failed miserably.

   Don’t be afraid to compare goods.

  Qin Jun was a little surprised, why did he change the edict again?

   Isn't he the inspector of the school servant and also the inspector of the soldiers and horses at the North Gate? Why was he also named the king of Wu'an County?

  Qin Jun left the class immediately, and the majesty firmly resigned.

But the prince Li Xian was firm, saying that the situation yesterday was very critical, and that the Tang Dynasty was in danger of being overthrown. Qin Jun not only put down the rebels, but also saved the emperor, not to mention supporting the prince, etc. In terms of it, of course it is enough for a county king.

As for the claim that different surnames are not allowed to be crowned kings, Li Xian also cited the kings conferred by the Wude and Zhenguan dynasties as an example. Of course, some of these crowned kings have been granted royal families and included in their status, but there are also those who have not been given surnames and changed their surnames. No, it's the same as becoming a king.

  It's more casual, Qin Lang has also been crowned king long ago.

  So don’t tell him that people with different surnames are not allowed to be named kings. There were quite a few kings with different surnames in the Tang Dynasty.

  So he not only wanted to make Qin Jun the king of Wu'an County, but also made several more kings with different surnames.

  Cheng Chumo was conferred the title of privy envoy, promoted to be the second-rank general of the auxiliary country, promoted to the title of Dong'e County King, and authorized his eldest son Cheng Bojian to inherit the title of Su Guogong.

  Niu Jianwu was appointed as a member of the Privy Council, he was promoted to be the second-rank general of the auxiliary country, and he was promoted to the king of Langya County, and his eldest son Niu Chang was authorized to inherit the title of Duke of Peng.

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Among the generals who participated in the Qin Wangjing chaos yesterday, brothers Yuchi Baolin and Baoqi also rewarded them for their merits. The son is the county magistrate. And Baoqi was granted the title of Duke of the State, and added a third-rank martial rank.

  The two brothers Qin Li and Qin Gui were both made dukes of the state and awarded the third-rank martial rank.

  Qu Tuquan and Zhou Boyu were also honored, and each was promoted from the county prince to the state prince, and was promoted from the third rank.

  Even Gao Hu and Liu Sigong, the two eunuchs who were upright, also received the posts of the fourth rank as the Young Supervisor of the Internal Servant Province and the Young Supervisor of the Dianzhong Province.

  The crown prince conferred meritorious officials, including three county kings, thirteen state princes, county princes, county princes, Bo Zinan, etc., not to mention adding officials and promoting them.

Anyway, the four major families of King Wei Xiao and Zheng were injured this time. Although they were not uprooted, after this incident, they will no longer have a place in the center of the court, not even for twenty or thirty years. I guess they can't change it.

  After Kaiyuan, after the Changsun family, Gao family, Chu family, and Liu family fell, the Su family, Wei family, Xiao family, Zheng family, and Wang family fell again.

   But when someone falls, someone stands up.

  Everyone is very clear about this. The power struggle in the center has always been so cruel. Since the Shengzu Palace started to purge Prime Minister Pei Ji after the change of the throne, this kind of thing has never stopped.

   It's just that the ancestors used to be clever, and they rarely committed such tragic family destruction. They always left some leeway, both hitting and pulling. However, Emperor Kaiyuan never spared no expense in his actions.

  Of course both Cheng Chumo and Niu Jianwu stood up and refused to accept the king's reward, but the crown prince still said that if you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded, and the court will not be stingy with rewards.

Moreover, his reason for persuading them to accept the reward is also very novel. He cited an incident that Confucius criticized his disciples in the past. It is said that there was a rule in the State of Lu that if the people of the State of Lu saw the people of the State of Lu being reduced to slaves in a foreign country, they should do everything possible. Try to help him and buy him back. This redemption fee will be replenished by the Lu National Congress afterwards.

  Confucius had a student named Zigong, who was also from the state of Lu. Once when he went out, he saw a man from the state of Lu being reduced to a slave, so he bought it and sent him back to the state of Lu. Everyone praised this incident, but Confucius criticized Zigong when he learned about it.

  Zigong was puzzled.

  Confucius said, "You bought back the slaves, but you didn't go to the government to receive the reward. After you did this, no one would buy the slaves of Lu State."

  Zigong is still puzzled.

  Confucius told him that if you don’t accept the reward, if you don’t accept the reward, if other people buy slaves and then go to receive the reward, they will accuse him of being inferior to Zi Gong, and that he is only trying to save his compatriots for the reward. In this way, who would want to do such a strenuous and thankless thing in the future?

  If things go on like this, the slaves of the State of Lu will no longer have a bright future.

  So although Zi Gong’s behavior is good, it will cause extremely bad consequences.

  Li Xian quoted this allusion, which means that the court will reward you for your meritorious deeds. If you refuse to accept rewards now, then others will not dare to accept rewards for their meritorious deeds. After a long time, who will be willing to serve the court in the future?

  You do not accept rewards, but you are actually undermining the imperial system and endangering the safety of the imperial court.

  After these words were spoken, it would be impossible for Cheng Chumo and the others to refuse.

  The reason for the prince is very good. Firstly, it is because of your merits enough to be awarded the title of king of the county, and secondly, it is a national system. After all, the Tang Dynasty has established the country for decades, and there have been many kings successively. Not to mention those who belonged to the anti-kings at the beginning of the founding of the country, even those who belonged to the Huren county kings who were granted in the Zhenguan Dynasty. The achievements of these people may not be stronger than Qin Jun and the others yesterday.

  Qin Jun took the example of the pacification of Xuanwumen, the holy ancestor, and said that Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui's eldest grandson, Wuji Qin Langhou, Junji Qin Qiong and others who made the first contribution to the pacification of the chaos were not crowned kings.

  But Li Xian still believed that yesterday's situation was more critical, and they made more contributions. It was due to the country, the emperor and him.

  The prince supervised the country's first court meeting, one was rewards and the other was punishment.

   Qin Jun and other three were crowned kings, Qu Tuquan and other thirteen kingdoms were crowned kings, and rewards were lavishly awarded. Even Xu Jingzong, Li Yifu, Li Anqi, etc. all picked up officials and promoted them to rank.

   And reward the whole army.

Then came the punishment. After Webster's abolition, the concubines of King Xiaozheng were all abolished as ordinary people, the servant Xiao Chen, the privy envoy Xiao Siye were expelled from their citizenship and became citizens, and Xuanhui envoy Gao Hu and others died, and they hung their heads in the city. The door was shown to the public, and the rest of the backbones who participated in the chaos were eunuchs and sentenced to Lingchi.

  Wei Xiao and other big families were especially merciful to the princes, only three generations of the direct line were held accountable, and they were not too implicated. As long as they were not involved in the same clan, they were not involved, even the in-laws were not held accountable.

  Although they are so merciful, this cleansing is by no means light, and even if they are not dead, they will be stripped of their skins.

   "For important officials above the fifth rank, if they are involved in important military affairs, they will go out and listen to them, and they will be ordered to enter the rest of the routine."

  With this long voice, the court meeting is almost coming to an end.

   "Advance if there is something to do, and retreat if there is nothing to do!"

The Shuowang Chaohui is not a place to discuss daily affairs, so under normal circumstances, only when there are important military and horse affairs, the provincial and ministerial officials of the fifth rank and above can do it face to face, otherwise ordinary affairs can only be done in person. The regular progress is in the form of playing. As for the officials below the fifth rank, this kind of occasion is actually to make up the number. You can't even see the emperor's face. Standing in the square far away, you can even hear the emperor's voice. less than.

  They are not qualified to play at all.

  The prime ministers generally don’t act on such occasions. If they have something to do, they directly ask for the right to fight, or hold a meeting of the inner court. Sometimes important matters are directly invited to the court.

  The bigger the event, the fewer people actually discuss the decision-making, otherwise the more people there are, the harder it will be to achieve results.

  The Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Liu Xiangdao, went out to Chen and asked Concubine Qin to be the queen.

  Xin Mao, a member of Zhongshushe, will go out to impeach Cui Yixuan, the imperial historian, for malfeasance.

  Ministry Minister Yan Liben impeached Lu Chengqing, the Minister of the Yellow Gate, for colluding with Xiao Chen.

  The censor on duty in the palace is responsible for the discipline of the court meeting, and is responsible for controlling the time and rhythm of the court meeting.

  In the old rule, only three officials were allowed to play in person in the Shuo Wang Dynasty, and officials were not allowed to dispute in the court. Even if they played, there was a time limit to avoid the court meeting being too long.

  Censor Zhang Daan saw that there were still many officials who wanted to stand up, and judging by the attitude, they all wanted to impeach Wei Xiao and other officials who had a good relationship with him, and even impeached some officials from noble families who were previously favored by the emperor, such as Lu Chengqing and Cui Yixuan.

  He quickly stood up and announced that the quota for today's court meeting was full, and immediately impeached Xin Maojiang and Yan Liben, saying that it violated the court meeting system, and gave them a warning.

  Zhang Daan is only a censor from the sixth rank, and his rank is not high, but this official position is quite special, and he is usually a regular official in the Japanese court. Moreover, Zhang Da'an was also a military upstart. His father, Zhang Gongjin, was originally a hero of the Xuanwu sect, but he died a little early, so his official career is far inferior to Qin Lang, Cheng Chumo and others.

  Prince Li Xian saw the situation and announced the end of today's court meeting.

  Because the court meeting was held for a long time, it was already close to lunch, so the prince gave corridor food to officials above the third rank as usual.

The prime ministers of the eastern and western prefectures, as well as the two officials from the Hanlin Academy and the Transshipment Department, who are called inner ministers and financial planners, also received an extra high-standard lunch. They ate in a side room of the main hall. For food, there are twelve dishes per person. According to the standard, one sheep will be used directly for this meal.

  The crown prince purposely stayed to have dinner with these prime ministers and ministers. Li Xian was nervous for his first appearance today, but the result was not bad. The court meeting went smoothly without any accidents.

  The most important thing is that all the officials are quite supportive of His Royal Highness, who was installed after the palace change yesterday, which made Li Xianda heave a sigh of relief.

  Up to this moment, he really felt that he had become His Royal Highness the Prince of the Tang Dynasty, and truly grasped the supreme power of the Tang Dynasty.

  Controlling the center and being recognized by all the officials, the position of the supervisor is considered stable. There are veterans such as Cheng Yaojin, Su Dingfang, Niu Jinda, Liu Lancheng, Qin Guozhong, etc. in the place, so there should be no need to worry about rebellion.

   This is also the reason why after discussing with Qin Jun, Xu Jingzong and others yesterday, they planned not to call these generals into the court for the time being. The local area now needs these veterans to guard.

So yesterday Li Xian recruited ministers such as Cui Dunli, Laiji, Pei Xingjian, and Shangguanyi to return to the court, and at the same time gave Cheng Yaojin, Niu Jinda, Su Dingfang, Wu Heita, Liu Lancheng, Liang Jianfang and other generals promotions and honors. Their temporary power to act cheaply allows them to guard a good place.

  During the meal, no one talked to the prince about any important military affairs. The prince had just taken the position of supervisor of the country, and now he had to give the prince a process of getting used to it, so there was no rush for him to start dealing with these affairs early.

   Anyway, even if the emperor is paralyzed, it doesn't matter. The imperial court has a complete system, so there is no need to worry about chaos.

  For the crown prince, he is currently supervising the country and facing the court. As long as the important personnel are adjusted first, the rest is actually not in a hurry.

   There is the Zhengshitang in charge of the three provinces, the Transshipment Department is in charge of taxes, money and food, and the Privy Council is in charge of the military, so it can run well with inertia.

  Today is October and a half, and the annual court gathering is about to start again. Some of the military and political chiefs in the remote border areas of the empire have already mobilized on the way to Luo, and those who are closer are almost starting to pack their things.

  Because of the special situation today, Xu Jingzong advised the prince yesterday, and sent someone to rush through the post station to deliver an order to the vassals in various places, ordering them not to enter the Beijing court for the time being this year.

Those emperor uncles and uncles who canceled Li Xian, as well as some distant royal clans and vassals, entered Beijing at this time to avoid complicating the situation in Beijing and China. What Li Xian needs now is to quickly grasp power and control the center. Safe court.

  Therefore, there is no need for those clans to enter the capital. When they come, they are distracted to stare at them.

  So simply order them not to enter Beijing this year.

The vassals of the Tang Dynasty have actually lost a lot in these years. There are more than 20 princes in the Gaozu, and more than a dozen in the Holy Patriarch, but there are not many who are still alive. If one dies, Li Yin has killed more uncles and brothers in the past ten years since he succeeded to the throne, and even several sons and grandsons have been killed.

  Boss Li Xiang and second child Li Jue were killed by Li Yin himself, and even the children of the two sons were not spared.

  Even Lee Hyo-gong’s children and grandchildren were wiped out last time.

   Also killed two uncles, King Han and King Teng, and directly killed all the descendants of the two kings, removing the country.

  After the meal, the chief executives went back to their own yamen to handle official business.

   Li Xian left Qin Jun behind.

  Although Qin Jun is the school inspector now, he does not go to the province to handle government affairs, nor does he go to the government affairs hall to work. He concentrates on staying in the palace and is responsible for leading soldiers to guard the palace, just in case.

  The two cousins ​​left Zhenguan Hall and went north directly to Jiuzhou Pool. The emperor was still in Ninghua Hall in Xizhou.

   One reason is that the emperor is currently in an unstable condition and is not suitable for moving, and the other reason is that Jiuzhou Pool is very close to Xuanwu Gate, and it is on an island in the lake, using guards.

  Even if he is a paralyzed emperor, he is still an emperor after all, if he is taken away by someone with a heart, it will be very disadvantageous for the prince.

   You must firmly control the emperor in your hands.

   "The saint's condition has improved greatly today. His left leg can already be raised, and his left hand can barely grasp things. Although his speech is still confused, he may be able to recover his language soon..."

  As soon as he went to Xizhou, Lao Fengyu came to report.

  Hearing the good news, Prince Li Xian didn't have any happy expression on his face, while Qin Jun on the other side also frowned.

  The emperor's condition improved?

  This is not good news.

  (end of this chapter)