Chastity Layman

  Chapter 388 The gods fight, and the old Wu suffers

  Set up the main hall.

  The emperor came and had dinner with the queen.

   "Chengqian looks very mighty in Mingguang armor, a bit like me back then." The emperor said suddenly.

   "I'm just a ten-year-old child, and I'm not a general in armor." The eldest grandson served a bowl of soup for the emperor.

  The emperor's face was not relaxed, "I heard that Cheng Qian likes that armor very much."

"A young man always likes to wield knives and guns. He spends his days studying scriptures with the great Confucian courtiers. He must be very interested in doing activities occasionally. What's more, he also has a plan to conquer the world immediately." Your royal father may have left some of His Majesty's bravery in his bones."

   "It's true to say that, the tiger father has no dogs, but my father-in-law was also a great general who killed two birds with one stone, so we both have this martial blood passed down to him."

  The eldest grandson is a smart woman. Her husband only started at the beginning, but she has already been able to guess many of his thoughts along the way.

   "After Chengqian comes back from Bashang, the concubine will urge him to spend more time on his homework, and study more government affairs when he has time."

   Li Shimin shook his head.

   "Actually, I'm thinking too much. Is there any nobleman who doesn't practice martial arts? It's just that I have experienced the change of Xuanwumen, and I am always worried about these."

   "There are so many Confucian and virtuous ministers in the East Palace, especially a sensible teacher like Huai Liang, Cheng Qian doesn't have to worry."

   "Perhaps Chengqian saw that I planned to make Ke'er the King of Wu and Min'er the King of Shu that day, which made him a little paranoid. This child is too precocious, only ten years old." The emperor said.

  The eldest grandson also knew about this matter, but he never expressed any opinion. Which harem woman the emperor wants to be a concubine is the emperor's power. Which son the emperor wants to be king and what job he wants to confer on them is also his power. The queen has no right to interfere.

  As long as Chengqian is not involved, the eldest grandson will not interrupt easily. This is the attitude that a qualified queen should have.

However, since the emperor mentioned this matter, the eldest grandson also said, "Your Majesty, all the princes who are crowned kings are those who were crowned county kings during Wude, so after your majesty ascended the throne, they will all be crowned princes. Now Min'er is only two years old. I have never been crowned king of the county, so I shouldn't have said anything this time, but since I want to be crowned, the other young princes who are about the same age as Min'er should also be crowned as kings, and only Min'er should be crowned. It might be a bit too abrupt.”

"What the queen said is that I didn't think about it. Before, I only considered that Guangzhou was promoted to the governor's mansion, so I wanted to change Ke'er to Wuwang Town Guangzhou. I thought that there was a vacancy for the governor of Yizhou, so I planned to let Miner be the governor's mansion. King of Shu, it seems that he is a bit ill-considered now."

   "In my opinion, let's forget about this matter. Next time Min'er will be sealed, let Yuan Gui and Ke'er switch titles, let Yuan Gui be in Yizhou, and Ke'er be in Guangzhou."

  Li Yuangui is the fourteenth son of Li Yuan. His first name was Yuan Xuan, and his mother was Zhang Meiren.

  A brother is closer to a son, of course the son is closer.

  Although Shu is actually better than Lingnan, the imperial court now attaches great importance to Lingnan and makes an exception to promote Guangzhou to the governor's office, so Li Shimin wants his son to take on this important task.

  Hearing this, Empress Changsun smiled slightly and said no more.

  At the end of the meal, the emperor was in a good mood, so he simply stayed at the empress's place in Lizheng Hall that night.

  The next day, the emperor summoned his ministers for a meeting.

   Sure enough, as soon as the court discussion started, the emperor proposed to let Li Ke worship the governor of Guangzhou.

   "Li Ke changed his title to the King of Wu, worshiped as the governor of Guangzhou, and Yang Gongren moved to the governor's office of Guangzhou!"

   As soon as the words fell, Kaifu Yitong and the third division, the prince, grand teacher, Zhao Guogong, and Sun Wuji immediately objected loudly.

"Your Majesty, Yuan Gui was originally granted the title of King of Shu, and later changed to King of Wu, and now he is renamed King of Shu. The governor of Luozhou lived in Luoyang for the elderly, but now he is transferred to Guangzhou, which is located in the south of Lingnan, and the humidity and heat are not conducive to recuperation, so it is not the way to wait for merit."

  The reason is quite reasonable, but it is obviously because Yang Gongren is Li Ke's uncle.

   "How about the appointment of Shi Wushi, the governor of Yangzhou, as the governor of Guangzhou?"

  Changsun Wuji didn't object immediately this time, but another minister immediately stood up to object.

Although the samurai Xun was the emperor's confidant, at first he was just a businessman in Hedong, but he later married Xu Xian Yang, the daughter of Sui Dynasty Prime Minister Nayan Yang Da. This Yang Da is Yang Xiong's brother, so Yang is the cousin of Yang Gongren and Yang Shidao , is the cousin of Li Ke's mother Concubine Yang.

   Those who opposed were also on the same line as Changsun Wuji.

  Qin Lang sat in the hall without saying a word.

  In fact, he had already visited Changsun Wuji before, and mentioned that Chengqian discovered that the emperor planned to designate Li Yin as the king of Shu and Li Ke as the king of Wu in Guangzhou. He also said that Chengqian was very worried about this.

  When the eldest grandson heard this, he immediately expressed his desire to stop the emperor's wrong behavior.

He is Chengqian's biological uncle, so of course he has to support the crown prince Chengqian. What's more, the future of the eldest grandson's family has already been linked to Chengqian. Being the emperor, the eldest grandson's family will naturally benefit a lot as the country's uncle's family. If Cheng Qian cannot become the emperor, his eldest grandson's family will be the first to be hit.

  At times like this, if the uncle does not contribute, who will contribute.

  Before this court meeting, Changsun Wuji had already made arrangements.

   It took a long time to discuss.

  It is full of opposition.

   In the end, Li Shimin had no choice but to back down.

Li Tai, king of Yue, changed his title to king of Wei, and Li Ke, king of Shu, changed his title to king of Wu. The townships of Yangzhou and Yizhou remained unchanged. up.

  The focus of the next controversy is the long history and personnel issues of several Metropolitan Governments.

  In the end, Yang Gongren still served as the governor of Luozhou.

  Instead, Shi Wushi, the former governor of Yangzhou, was transferred to be the governor of Lizhou in central Shu. From the governor of Yangzhou to the governor of Lizhou in the frontier, this is obviously degraded. After all, the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is actually the agent who presides over the affairs of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

  The samurai Xun probably couldn't imagine how he was shot innocently.

  Revolving around the candidates for the Governor-General of the Guangzhou Metropolitan Government, the Governor-General of Yangzhou, and the Governor-General of Yizhou, the court officials debated fiercely.

  Everyone wants to come up with their own pick.

  In the case that the prince is remote and the governor cannot actually take office, a governor is very important.

   Li Shimin's head hurts from the quarrel. He thought it was just a simple personnel adjustment, but who knows that now it's getting a bit overwhelming.

  Things were more troublesome than he expected.

  Every prime minister and minister has his own recommended candidates.

  In the hall, only Qin Lang sat there quietly, watching the situation with a smile. He did not participate in the debate, nor did he recommend his own candidate.

   Li Shimin directly named Qin Lang.

   "Qin Lang, who do you recommend?"

   "Your Majesty, I think the candidates recommended by the ministers are all good."

   "I'm asking you, who would you like to recommend as the governor of Guangzhou Metropolitan Government?" the emperor asked directly.

  Qin Lang is helpless, this is obviously like a fight between gods and gods, why do you want me to mix it up?

  But the emperor is a little annoyed now, so he has to stare at him.

  Qin Lang looked at the hall, no one was easy to offend, Fang Xuanling was probably unhappy when he recommended the elder grandson, and Wen Yanbo was probably unhappy when he recommended someone from Master Yang.

  So after much deliberation, yes, if you want to offend, just offend together, it's better than being obviously biased towards someone.

   "The minister recommended Li Daliang as the governor and governor of Guangzhou Metropolitan Government!"

  The name caused the monarchs and ministers to be taken aback.

Li Daliang, who served as the governor of Yuezhou before, and later served as the inspector of Fengzhou governor with Qin Langbei, made a great contribution last year, so he was appointed as the long history of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate at the beginning of the year. In the Northern Expedition strategy, Li Daliang was still the chief of one of the routes.

No one would have thought that Qin Lang would recommend him, but when he thought about it carefully, Li Daliang was really good enough. After all, he is now the governor of the capital, which is at the same level as the governor of the capital, not to mention the great contribution he made last year. I also had the experience of working in Yuezhou in the south before, and my performance was not bad.

  Of course, Li Daliang has a special background. He was born in a noble family in Guanlong, but he once stayed in Wagang.

   "Okay, I will transfer Li Daliang to be the governor and governor of the Guangzhou Metropolitan Government!" The emperor made a final decision and was too lazy to entangle with the ministers.

   "Where is the chief governor of Yangzhou?" Li Shimin asked again without letting Qin Lang go.

Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion used to be the most important establishment in the south. In the earliest days, it had a very wide jurisdiction. After Chang’an left Lantian and passed Wuguan, it started from Danyang, continued to Yangzhou, and even the entire Lingnan to Jiaozhou. It belonged to the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion within its jurisdiction.

  Now the former Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion has been divided into Jingzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, Guangzhou Metropolitan Governor’s Mansion, and Annan Metropolitan Protectorate’s Mansion. They are all top-level units.

   Even if it is divided up, the Yangzhou Metropolitan Government still controls Huainan, Huaixi, Jiangdong, Jiangxi and other places. This is the most important area in the southern part of the Tang Dynasty.

  Qin Lang had previously recommended Li Daliang because of selfishness. After all, Li Daliang had been Qin Qiong's subordinate for a few days, and had partnered with him in Fengzhou before.

  But now Li Shimin asked Yangzhou Governor again.

   "I didn't think of a suitable candidate for a while!"

   "Then you should think about it now!"

Qin Lang looked at Changsun Wuji, then at Fang Xuanling, then at Yang Shidao, and finally at Wen Yanbo. These are the four heavenly kings in the court today, the prime ministers among the prime ministers, and each represents a faction. It's amazing.

  He wants to recommend Yuwen Shi and Gao Shilian, etc., but these books are also candidates recommended by the Four Heavenly Kings.

  After thinking for a long time, Qin Lang finally decided to just push someone else.

   "My minister recommends Huang Junhan, the governor of Luzhou, Guoguo Gong. Huang Gong once fought fiercely in Hulao, and led the army to quell the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River. He has great military exploits and is familiar with the south of the Yangtze River."

  Huang Junhan was also a general who was born in Wagang. He used to be a jailer in Dongjun. Huang Junhan also participated in the conquest of the Liao Dynasty, and won the extremely rare merit of being the first to ascend. He was awarded the title of Lixin Captain, and was by-elected as Yueqi School Captain and Sima of the government.

  There was great chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Huang Junhan later also took the officers and soldiers of his government to Wagang. After Li Mi was defeated, he returned to Datang.

  When Huang Junhan descended to the Tang Dynasty, he brought his own land and subordinates with him, so he was directly awarded by Li Yuan as the governor of Shangzhu Kingdom, Huaizhou, governor, and Dongjun Duke.

  Later, he participated in the rebellion of Ping Wang Shichong and Pingfu Gonghu, and was promoted to the governor of Luze and other five states due to his meritorious service.

  But he is also a Shandong general who was born in Wagang, so he has a good relationship with the Qin family, but in detail, Huang Junhan actually has a better relationship with Li Ji.

After all, when Li Ji was still called Xu Shiji, he was a good brother of Zhai Rang, and later became one of the three chiefs of Wagang along with Shan Xiongxin. The beach of land with Wagang.

  So when the Li family recruited Xu Shiji to surrender, they insisted on conferring the surname on Xu Shiji and his son.

  Li Shiji was actually restricted in his use during the Wude period, because Li Shiji, like Luo Yi, was at the level of a leader, and was quite different from generals like Qin Qiong.

  Even today, Li Shimin is very careful in using Li Ji, a very capable and young general.

Li Shimin was afraid that Li Ji would be as ambitious as Luo Yi, so he raised his arms one day, so the old Wagang people responded one after another. After all, most of the people in the court, especially Li Shimin's old people in the Qin Palace, were from Wagang. .

  Qin Lang thought, if he pushes Huang Junhan, Li Shimin probably won't use it.

  (end of this chapter)