Chapter 1326 Exhaustion of Wings

"The current situation looks critical on the surface, but it has not yet reached the most dangerous point. We are not Changsun Wuji Chu Suiliang and the others. We still have a strong bargaining chip in our hands. As long as the emperor does not want to cause civil strife, then he Just know enough is enough.”

  Although Changsun Wuji and others once had power in the court, but in the final analysis, Changsun and others are only the elders and prime ministers of the court. Their power comes from the court or even from the emperor.

So when the emperor attacked them and cut off their wings little by little, especially when they won the important support of some prime ministers such as Xu Jingzong Li Yifu, as well as generals such as Li Jicheng Yaojin in the military, Changsun Wuji's party actually had no intention of resisting the emperor. capable.

  But Qin Lang is different.

Qin Lang's biggest trump card is to have an autonomous Luzon. There are now more than one million Han people and millions of slaves and foreigners. Although Luzon has only been a power for more than twenty years, its strength is no less than a hundred Ji or Silla, etc.

  At the beginning, the imperial court fought the peninsula for ten years, and this did not include the conquest by Li Shimin and others before it was barely settled.

  North Korea is a peninsula connected to Liaodong, and is also very close to Shandong Peninsula, but Luzon is a vast archipelago in the South China Sea.

  Qin Lang also admitted that the strength of Lu Song was far weaker than that of Tang, but if the imperial court had no reason to attack, then Qin Lang would have a legitimate reason to call on Lu Song's subjects to resist together, unite as one, and fight a defensive war.

   This is completely different from Qin Lang's first rebellion.

   What's more, Qin Lang still has an important bargaining chip, that is, Qin Lang still has a strong influence in the military.

  Cheng Yaojinniu Jinda Su Dingfang, the three privy envoys, are all Qin Lang's hardcore.

  Generals like Liang Jianfang, Gao Kan, Gao Zhensheng, Xi Junmai, Wang Xuance, Guo Xiaoke and even Xue Rengui have a good relationship with Qin Lang.

  If Qin Lang raises troops against the Tang Dynasty, these people may not support them, and they may even bring troops to quell the chaos, but if the emperor wants to attack Qin Lang for no reason, then they may not support it either.

  As long as there is enough strength in hand, the emperor must also carefully consider what he does.

  The current actions of the emperor are limited to dismissing the prime ministers of Qin Lang's family, demoting the ministers of Qin Lang's family, and even the generals of the military have not been moved.

   "If the emperor is really enough, then we should not move anything?"

  Qin Yong asked.

   "You can't be impulsive." Qin Lang said.

   "But this is too aggrieved. Could it be that Chengqian has forgotten how he got to where he is today? If it weren't for Sanlang's desperate recommendation, Chengqian would have been abolished as a reserve position long ago. How could he sit on the throne of emperor?"

"What's the point of saying this!" Qin Lang shook his head. "The emperor's actions are only for the purpose of stabilizing power. From his point of view, there is nothing wrong with it. Although it is unreasonable and a little cold-blooded, it is understandable. Now we have no If we need to talk about feelings, kindness and other things, let's directly consider the gains and losses."

   "It is absolutely impossible to raise troops now, but it is still necessary to make proper preparations."

   "Where is Concubine Shu? Just stay in the palace and suffer humiliation?"

  Qin Lang frowned.

"As long as the emperor doesn't lose his mind, he knows that he has to stay on the front line. As long as I'm not dead and Lu Song is still there, I believe that Wu Niang and the others are still safe in the palace, and the predicament is also temporary. When Su Liwei is abolished After the dust settles, the situation in front of me will pass."

   "The fourth prince is smart and benevolent, he is most qualified to be the heir apparent." Old Huang said.

  Qin Lang shook his head.

   "We can't just because Shiro is the nephew of our Qin family, he must be the crown prince. If we all think this way, it is understandable for the emperor to take action against us, understand?"

   "Ke Shiro is indeed virtuous and more qualified. Prince Li Xiang is far behind."

   "Selecting a reserve is not selecting talents, everyone." Qin Lang reminded everyone.

   Li Xian being the crown prince is of course in the best interests of the Qin family and Lu Song, but in fact, many things cannot develop according to his wishes.

  Don't say that Li Xian is just the king of Jin and not the prince. Even if he is the prince, if the emperor wants to abolish the crown prince and set up another one, how can a courtier have the right to object?

  Although it is also a state matter to establish a reserve after the establishment, which emperor would be willing to be at the mercy of his courtiers on such matters?

  Anyone who dares to really intervene in this kind of affairs will be looking for a dead end, because this is the core power of the imperial power, and no one else can tolerate it.

  If you are an ordinary civil servant admonishing an official, if you make an admonition against an official, the emperor may be angry, but if you are a foreign relative like Qin Lang and a powerful vassal faction, who dares to intervene in such a matter, then it is really a deadly situation.

   "I heard that Xu Jingzong has also been beaten a lot recently!"

   "What happened to Mr. Xu?"

"A censor impeached that Xu Jingzong was incapable of managing his family. His eldest son, Xu Ang, was originally very talented and fulfilled the position of the prince's servant. Xu Ang's mother, Xu Jingzong's first wife Pei, died of early illness. Pei's maid She is very pretty, and Jingzong doted on her, so he gave the servant girl a false surname of Yu, pretending to be a good family, and making her his successor."

  Although Xu Ang is talented, he is as lustful as his father, and also has bad conduct.

   Xu Jingzong has been kept in the dark about this matter, or maybe he knew it a long time ago, but the family scandal should not be exposed.

  Now this matter has been exposed by Yushi, and Xu Jingzong is impeached for two charges. One is taking a concubine as a wife.

  The law of the Tang Dynasty clearly stipulates that those who take their wives as concubines and maidservants as their wives will be punished for three years. Those who take concubines and Hakka women as wives and maidservants as concubines will be punished for one and a half years. Everyone is right.

   Datang has distinct classes, especially in marriage.

  First of all, the good and the bad do not marry, and intermarriage is prohibited. Secondly, a wife is a wife, and a concubine is a concubine. No matter how favored a concubine is, she is not qualified to be a wife after her death. Similarly, a maid is a maid, and a maid is not qualified to be a concubine.

  Whoever dares to act recklessly like this will be sentenced to three years in prison, that is, sent to a labor camp for one and a half years.

   It is also not allowed to reduce the wife to a concubine, otherwise she will be forced to work for three years.

  Xu Jingzong's Yu family is only a maidservant of his first wife Pei's family, so he is not even a concubine. He takes his maidservant as his wife, which means he will be in prison for three years.

  Xu Ang, the eldest son of Xu Jingzong, as the son of the prime minister, also held such a noble position as the crown prince, but he actually committed adultery with the Yu family who was nominally a stepmother, which was a serious crime.

  This can directly convict the crime of unfilial piety in Heinous.

  Xu Jingzong not only took his maidservant as his wife, but also had no way to teach his son.

  Of course, the censor not only listed these two crimes, but also collected some other crimes, all of which were named Xu Jingzong extravagant, built seventy flying towers, and let prostitutes ride on them for fun. In this case, firstly, he committed the crime of overstepping, because the flying building he built was overstepping, and secondly, it was indecent.

Of course, there are also many crimes of Xu Jingzong accepting bribes and so on. Among them, because he is related to Qian Jiulong, Feng An, Yu Chigong, Chong Xiaotai, etc., when he was writing history books, he not only made an exception for these Biography of people, but also the words of their praise.

  For example, Qian Jiulong was originally just a slave of Li Yuan. Although the Wude Dynasty was worshiped as a general, but Zhenguan and other dynasties did not have any achievements, Qian Jiulong put many posthumous words that the emperor once praised other generals into his name.

  The same goes for Feng An, Yu Chigong and others.

Pang Xiaotai was originally just a leader of the barbarians in Guangxi. He became a general after he was attached to the Tang Dynasty. He suffered many defeats in the Liaodong and Korean Wars, but Xu Jingzong completely concealed these defeats, and only recorded or even exaggerated his love for Xiaotai. In terms of victory, he boasted that he was as good at fighting and brave as Su Dingfang and Li Ji, and even surpassed many generals who were really good at fighting.

Of course, when Xu Jingzong compiled history, he actually glorified the Xu family too much. For example, his father was the Minister of the Sui Dynasty. All of these were changed when the history was compiled.

  Because Feng Deyi once suppressed Xu Jingzong, he deliberately belittled Feng Deyi when compiling history.

For another example, when Xu Jingzong compiled histories, he deliberately glorified the achievements of Qin Qiong and Qin Lang's father and son. Anyway, he used super-standard pages to write biographies for their father and son, and even recorded the names of Qin Qiong and his son's trilogy. Yes, I don't remember any bad ones.

  But the censor is also smart, so he didn't announce the part related to the Qin family, but just wrote it in the secret play.

   But when the impeachment memorial was published, Xu Jingzong was not calm anymore, after all, it was a special moment.

  Xu Jingzong could only ask for his resignation to avoid it.

  Unexpectedly, the emperor dismissed Xu Jingzong first and demoted him to be Minister of Rites, but immediately resumed the title of Xu Jingzong's prime minister.

  His eldest son Xu Ang was exiled in Lingnan, and the Yu family was secretly given to death.

  Anyway, this matter is just so fooled.

  Xu Jingzong was naturally very grateful to the emperor for his mercy. From then on, in the court, he was the only one who obeyed the emperor.

   "It seems that Xu Xiangzhi will not be able to count on him in the future, and he has completely turned to the emperor." Wei Chang laughed.

Qin Lang was not surprised. Xu Jingzong, after all, was born in a famous family and was extremely talented, but he was a famous treacherous minister in history. This kind of person is actually very similar to people like Pei Shiju, Yu Shiji, and Su Wei. They are all talented people, but they are relatively soft in dealing with others, and they just don't have a fundamental standpoint.

  When you meet a wise ruler like Li Shimin, of course you can become a famous official, and when you meet a foolish ruler like Yang Guang, you can become a traitor without limit.

  Anyway, this kind of person is flattering, too concerned about their own future gains and losses, and people who have no fundamental stand.

   "One more thing, Wei Shi is pregnant, but according to the news in the palace, the time of the child in Wei Shi's belly is a bit wrong. It may not belong to the emperor, but to Zhao Wang."

   "Hehe, this is interesting. In the future, King Zhao will call this son or brother?" Everyone laughed.

  Zhang Chao said with a smile, "I think this is a good thing. If it can be confirmed, Webster will be the queen in the future. This is the eldest son. With this level, how can he become the heir apparent?"

  Qin Lang didn't answer the question, but asked Wei Chang after thinking for a while, "Can you find out the current health status of the emperor?"

   "Of course it's no problem. Sanlang has figured it out. What are you going to add to the emperor's diet?" Wei Chang laughed.

  Qin Lang shook his head, "I just want to know a little more about the situation, and know ourselves and the enemy, so we can win all battles."

  Murdering the emperor, unless it is really a last resort, who would dare to do it like this?

  (end of this chapter)