MTL - Chastity Layman-Chapter 1437 Year-old coin and pro-king

  Chapter 1437 Year-old coin and pro-king

   In the thirteenth year of Shangyuan (676), winter.

  Emperor Li Ye was sixteen years old, the Queen of Heaven issued an edict, and the Son of Heaven took charge.

   On the first day of the first month of the following year, the name of the year was changed to the first year of Tianbao, and all officials were received at the court gathering, and envoys from all directions paid their respects. An imperial edict was issued to amnesty the world.

  The son of heaven played the queen of Nangong Tian, ​​and made Qin Jun the king of Yi, added Taibao, Zhongshu Ling, Tongping Zhangshi, granted food to ten thousand households, and was named the governor of Dongcaozhou.

  Pei Xingjian is the servant, Lai Heng is the left servant, and He Chujun is the right servant.

  Xu Yushi was Huangmen Shilang, Li Jingxuan was Zhongshu Shilang, and Ma Zai was Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

  Cui Xiuye ​​paid homage to the royal doctor and grandson Yan to the transfer envoy.

  Qin Huaidao added the title of Liang Guogong, worshiped the privy envoy, Gao Kan was the privy envoy, Li Fengjie, Wu Shisheng, Li Siwen, and Xi Junmai all signed the Privy Council affairs.

  Liu Rengui paid homage to the Hanlin Academy's bachelors and received the decree, and Di Renjie was a Hanlin Academy's bachelor and also knew how to make patents.

  After Laiji, Shangguanyi, Jia Runfu, Liu Xiangdao, Su Dingfang, Cheng Chumo, Niu Jianwu and other chief ministers passed away successively, after the emperor took office, the two ministerial executive teams were readjusted, but this team was still basically from Qin Lang's sect.

  The emperor after taking power also gave Qin Lang special titles and various rewards.

   And formally established Li Chongfu, the eldest son of the emperor Qin Lang's granddaughter and the daughter of the uncle Qin Jun's daughter, Empress Qin, as the crown prince, and changed his name to Li Hao.

  The empress dowager is the Qin family, the empress dowager is the Qin family, the empress is the Qin family, and the newly engaged empress dowager is still the Qin family.

  There are two mansions in the east and the west. The Zhongshu Ling of the East Mansion is Qin Jun, who is named King Zhao in Jin Dynasty, and the Privy Mansion of the West Mansion is Qin Li, who is named Liang Guogong in Jin Dynasty.

  Prince Li Hao was born of Queen Qin.

  Everywhere in the world, there is not much reaction to the emperor's pro-government. Even the officials and people in Luoyang City, the eastern capital, even feel that this is the first year of Tianbao, which has not changed since the first year.

  Zai Zhi changed a few new faces, but he was still the same group.

  Even after the emperor took charge, the empress dowager in Nangong still had to be consulted for military and state affairs, and the affairs of the court and China were still decided by the prime ministers of the two governments.

   It is said that it is pro-government, but in fact the young emperor does not seem to want to change these things. After he did not say that he was pro-government, he wanted to burn three fires and reform some new policies or something.

Even in his marriage, the queen mother chose the daughter of the concubine Qin Jun for the prince, and the prince did not object. The emperor was crowned at the age of twelve and married at the age of fifteen. The palace is eighteen, already belonging to an older girl. After entering the palace, the first child was the prince, which was expected by everyone. Although he was not the eldest son of the emperor, he was the eldest son after all.

Even a group of Hanlin scholars around the emperor were basically selected by the queen mother and the ministers, such as Di Renjie, Pei Yan, Wei Yuanzhong, Zhang Jiuling, Zhang Jianzhi, Cui Xuanwei, Jing Hui, Yan Yanfan, Yuan Shu Young talents such as Ji and Lai Jiye were selected and recommended to the queen mother by the prime ministers of the two governments, and they were arranged to serve the emperor after agreeing.

  On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the emperor held a ceremony of registering the land in the suburbs of Luoyang, where he plowed the fields, sacrificed to Shennong in the prison, and the emperor held the plow.

  In the southern suburbs, countless princes, nobles, officials and scholars watched this scene, and they all sighed in their hearts.

  The Tang Dynasty was founded for more than 50 years, and there were five emperors. How many heroes and soldiers were there in the founding of the country, but who is as powerful as the Qin family?

  The head of the governors of the eastern and western prefectures of this dynasty are both the Qin family.

  After the Three Qins in the palace, there were also brothers Gaozong, eight princes sons, and the county king who married the Qin family, who married the Qin family as the princess and the county princess. The Qin family also successively gave birth to seven princesses.

Now there are five kings, Qin Lang, King of Qi, Qin Jun, King of Yi, Qin Li, Duke of Liang, Qin Zhongxiao, King of Wu'an County, Qin Siye, King of Huaihua County, Li Siyuan, King of Guide County, and the seven princes of the four kingdoms, the thirteen county princes, the nine marquises and the thirteen uncles. , Countless sons and daughters.

  Outer seals and inner seals spread all over the frontiers and overseas.

  The top ten Jiedu envoys of the Tang Dynasty, now Anguo Gong Qin Yu Qin Shandao is the Hezhong Road Jiedu envoy, Liang Guo Gong Qin Wei Qin Yandao is the Yunnan Yue Road Jiedu envoy, Huaihua County King Qin Siye is the Korean Jiedu envoy.

  The ten festivals accounted for three.

  During the thirteen years when the Queen of Heaven listened to the government behind the curtain, Datang survived the instability of the court caused by the late Emperor Shizu's reckless rebellion, and even the great turmoil in the Western Regions caused by the abolition of the Western Turks, quickly calmed down.

The Qin family, which was targeted and suppressed by the emperor in the late Kaiyuan Dynasty, also took the opportunity to make a comeback, and even took control of the government by virtue of their support. Later, the Queen of Heaven came to help Pei Xingjian and Cheng Chumo to take charge of civil and military affairs, change the military system, and lead the Tang Dynasty to continue to foreign affairs. Expansion, strengthening of foreign trade, etc., as well as further reforms of the tax system, the abolition of tax conversion into silver, the return of fire consumption to the public, and the conversion of money into service, etc., have enabled Datang not only to survive the crisis, but also to a higher level.

  In the thirteenth year of the Shangyuan Dynasty, it was more prosperous than in the ten years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

   All workers are excited, the people are rich and the country is safe.

  The frontier troops of the ten towns of the Tang Dynasty are invincible, and they have opened up countless territories.

To the southwest, Lishui and Sanjiang united with Annan, and then borrowed troops from Luzon and Nanyang to destroy the Kingdom of the Queen of Nanben first, then the Kingdom of Luo and Luo in the Funan Bay Plain, and also wiped out Mixed, Zhujiang, and Baitou. A small country with newly built Mae Nam Road.

  Dianyue Road, led by Li Fengjie and Qin Yandao, also continued to expand west of the Ganges.

In the Western Regions, Qin Jun, Qin Gui, Qin Li, and his uncles and nephews even commanded the three towns in the Western Regions. They completely wiped out the Sogdian kingdoms in the river in ten years, and sent troops to the south, defeating Tocharo several times, forcing them to become a big country again. The Jimi Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty also extended its power across the Khyber Pass to the plain of the Xindu River, and built a new post road from the middle of the river to the Haikou of the Xindu River.

  The nomadic tribe of Sistan in the south of Tocharo also accepted the canonization of the Tang Dynasty and became the territory of Jiji.

  In the tenth year of Shangyuan, Qin Jun led the 100,000 Tang army from the Western Regions and the three consortiums of Tocharian, Khazar, and Sistan, crossed the border line with the big cannibal, and launched an attack on the big cannibal.

  The fuse of this attack was the ten-year continuous expansion of the Tang army in the Western Regions, which moved the Western Turks to the west or north one after another.

  After that, it dealt a devastating blow to the Sogdian city-states that had been controlling the Silk Road trade in the Western Regions, destroying all the Sogdian city-states, and those Sogdians who had been active on the East-West Silk Road became slaves.

  The Tocharian princes were also forced to surrender.

   Dashi also protested, and even sent troops to intervene, but the Tang army was too powerful, and finally Dashiren did not dare to fight head-on.

When the Tang army packed up the Tucharians and opened up the passage to the sea, Dashi also wanted to take the opportunity to conquer the princes in the lowlands of the Caspian Sea who had refused to submit to them. Although they sent troops several times this time, Erbul The Earth Mountains acted as barriers, and Da Shi could only invade through a few specific mountain passes, and thus encountered their tenacious resistance.

And the south bank of the Caspian Sea has always been the place where the heavy infantry is the most. The heavy infantry on the south bank of the Caspian Sea was very famous in the Sassanid Dynasty. In the war with Rome, the Romans who often fought collapsed. Sturdy and tenacious.

  When they invaded Gorgan Province again, Qin Jun decisively assembled a large army to go south for reinforcements.

And these princes on the south bank of the Caspian Sea also surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and sent tribute gifts. Qin Jun then petitioned the court to formally set these small forces on the south bank of the Caspian Sea as the Caspian Road of the Tang Dynasty, and canonized the princes as governors, The governor and so on, ruled by the ruler.

  The rapid southward reinforcement of the Tang army caught the governor of Dashi Khorasan by surprise. The two sides launched a decisive battle in Luyang, west of Barristan. The entire army of the governor of Khorasan was wiped out.

  Emperor Dashi then quickly mobilized new troops, with reinforcements from Armenia, the Mesopotamia region, the Persian Plateau, Khorasan and other regions, in an attempt to save the defeat, and failed again in Gorgan.

  Afterwards, Emperor Dashi was forced to retreat the defeated army and sent envoys to ask the Tang army for peace.

Qin Jun established the Gorgan Shouzhu City and Tabaristan Shouzhu City on the south bank of the Caspian Sea, as well as the Gilan Army City, and built two ports on the south bank of the Caspian Sea, Anzali and Tolkman, so that the Tang army can pass through Transportation and deployment of troops within the Caspian Sea.

  The south coast of the Caspian Sea is long and narrow, but gentle and fertile. When the Tang army entered this place, Da Shi was very uncomfortable, and they had to seek peace.

  In the alliance peace talks chaired by Qin Jun, a peace agreement was finally signed.

Dashi gave 11,000 catties of gold to Datang in exchange for the resumption of trade between the East and the West. At the same time, Dashi recognized the Khazar Governor’s Mansion, the Caspian Governor’s Mansion, the Tocharo Governor’s Mansion, the Sistan Governor’s Mansion, and the Xindu Governor’s Mansion as Datang’s The Jiji territory of the Tang Dynasty is an inalienable part of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, the big eclipse moved the vast Khorasan area east of the Er-Borz Mountains, northeast of the Kavir Salt Desert, south of the Kazkum Desert, and just north of the Lut Desert, which the Persians called the Land of the Rising Sun. All the land was permanently ceded to Datang.

   This was the first line of defense for the Persians to resist the Turkic invasion, just as important as the Hetao area in the Sui and Tang Dynasties defending against the Turks going south.

   Now under the strong request of Qin Jun, the big cannibal had to cede all this land to Datang.

The two sides re-established the Lut Desert, the Cavell Salt Desert, and the Elburtu Mountains as new boundaries. Even the land of Sistan in the south has become the territory of the Tang Dynasty, so from the river to the sea, Tang has .

The four centers of the Khorasan region, the northern Mulu, have always been the center of the capital of Khorasan, Herat bordering on Tocharian in the east, and Balkh in the Tucharian Khan's governor's mansion. Nishapur, the capital of Bactria, is located in the southwest of Mulu. Except for one Balkh, the other three are already under the control of Datang.

  According to the signed covenant, in addition to sending 11,000 catties of gold to Datang as a tribute when signing the contract, Dashi will also pay 2,000 catties of gold every year in the future, and at the same time, in order to maintain the covenant between the two families. Da Shi must submit to Datang and Princess Qin.

The annual coin is two thousand catties of gold. This is actually the amount of tribute that Attila the Hun asked for when he came to Constantinople, the royal city of Byzantium. Originally, the annual coin signed by the Eastern Rome and the Huns was only a few hundred pounds a year. But because the Romans broke the promise, Attila was annoyed, so he tripled the old coins.

In history, Byzantium not only paid the New Year coins to the Huns, but also paid to many opponents, such as Alvas, Bulgarians, Persian Sasanians, etc. They forced the opponents to pay them if they won the battle, and handed them over to the opponents if they failed. No shame at all.

  The Persians used to play this trick well. I don’t know how many peace treaties they signed with Byzantium.

Dashi now wiped out Persian Sasanian, punched and kicked Byzantium, of course he is familiar with this set, so when Qin Lang proposed to negotiate a deal, but he had to pay indemnity and old coins, and also cede the land, Dashiren hesitated After a long time, he finally agreed.

  Can't beat it.

If he refused, Qin Jun had expressed that he would lead his troops to the Hezhong area to take a look at Taisiphon, the old capital of Persia, and even threatened to go to Syria, which was praised by the Roman emperor as a beautiful mountain and river, and to go to the holy place of the cannibal Check out Medina.

  With the threat of Chiguoguo, the big cannibal had no choice but to sign the contract.

Who said they were defeated, but fortunately, the Khorasan area was not originally Persian, so it was not distressed. Even the Caliphate shouted angrily at his opponents and generals, telling them to go back and attack Byzantium. Byzantium gave the money away.

  Qin Jun also relied on the great credit of pacifying the Western Regions and convincing the Dashi to return to the court, and because of this, he was promoted to King Yi and became the Prime Minister of Zhongshuling in the Zhengshitang.

  Even Qin Li originally ordered him to be Jinan County King, but in the end Qin Li refused to accept it, and the court changed him to Liang Guogong. The reason why the imperial court wanted to crown him king was also because of the ten-year war in the Western Regions. He was the Jiedu envoy of Beiting, and he had been Qin Jun's deputy all along, and he had established this incomparable achievement together.

   Datang bullied Dashi, and Dashi bullied Byzantium.

But in any case, it was under the leadership of Qin Jun that the Tang army not only completely pacified the Western Regions, stabilized the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, but also completely included the Hezhong area under the direct jurisdiction, and took Tocharo, Xindu, Khazar, and Caspian The Hu Man in the regions of Sistan and Sistan were all incorporated into the Tang dynasty system and became the territory of Jimi, which added a huge safety buffer line to the west of the Tang Dynasty.

  Even through this covenant, diplomatic relations with Dashi were restored, and trade relations were resumed. Today, Dashi is after all replacing Persia and even the number one Western power above Rome. Restoring friendship and trade is very important for Datang.

After all, they are stuck on the water and land silk road between the east and the west. If they are determined to fight against Datang, it will also cause Datang's trade loss. It is still very good to receive old coins every year.

  Based on this achievement, Qin Jun was promoted to King Yi, and entered the Political Affairs Hall as Zhongshuling, so no one could gossip.

  Datang's current internal and external situation is extremely good.

To say that the only unsettling factor is actually the emperor who has just been in charge. The sixteen-year-old emperor has just been married for more than a year, and the crown prince also has a crown prince. It is said that this is the time when the Tang Dynasty is flourishing, but in In the hearts of the new two ministers and the executive team, they are actually a little uneasy.

   Now that the emperor has just been in charge, he shows the same respect for the Queen of Heaven as always, and also respects the chief ministers. The operation of the imperial court is still the same as it has been for the past ten years or so.

  But since a person grows up, it is impossible not to care about power, let alone this is imperial power?

   "Your Highness, a letter from Luzon."

  Specially ordered Qin Xiaozhong, the eldest son of the concubine who inherited the title of King Qin Junwu'an County, to hand over a letter, "Grandpa's personal letter."

  Qin Jun nodded, opened it, and read it carefully.

   There was a long silence.

  Qin Xiaozhong, who is now serving as a member of Zhongshushe in the court, couldn't help but ask, "Grandpa, should you congratulate Grandpa?"

"Look for yourself, your grandfather said that I should not accept the title of King Yi, and that you should not accept the title of King of Wu'an County, and that I should not accept the post of Zhong Shuling, let me resign and return immediately. Go to Lu Song, and tell you to resign from this Zhongshu Sheren, as well as your uncle's privy envoy."

   "Why?"

Qin Jun sighed, "I'm greedy. Back then, I promised your grandfather that I would stay in the court for three to five years at most before leaving. It has been thirteen years, but I have been a Zhongshuling and returned to you." Accepting the conferment of King Liang, I was even a little complacent, I really lost myself."

   "Dalang, write the rhetoric for me, and write your own by the way."

   "Is it related to the sage's personal administration?"

"Your grandpa's letter reminded me that the saint is already sixteen years old and has already taken charge of the government. Our Qin family has supported the saint for 13 years. I am afraid that the power of the government will be regarded as a disaster by the saints."

   "When it's time to retire, you have to retreat, otherwise you will become enemies if you stay or stay. This person is just average."

  Qin Xiaozhong hesitated, "Probably not."

   "What's wrong with this, don't talk about the emperor and the imperial power, for example, if you are old, if you should be in charge of the family, but the servants in the family always control the power of the family affairs, what do you think?"

  Qin Xiaozhong thinks about it and this is the reason.

   "Really withdraw?"

   "Retire when you are done, your grandfather is the most wise and sober, listen to him is right!"

  (end of this chapter)