Chastity Layman

Undoubtedly, in the eyes of Qin Lun, the King of Fuguowei, the remote deep-sea wild Nanshan island fiefdom, no matter how big it is, cannot compare with the capital Luoyang.

The king of Nanshan can't be compared with the king of Fuguowei and the deputy envoy of the privy.

He is only fifty years old. At this age, Zhengshitang has served as the Minister of Zhongshuling. Now that the Privy Council is the deputy envoy, he still has enough time to continue to climb up. One day, he has a great chance to become the Prime Minister of Zhongshuling.

After all, the queen is his granddaughter.

Faced with a letter from his father, asking him to resign and return to the foreign country,

Qin Lun finally refused.

Facing this unexpected result, Qin Lang remained silent for a long time.

Perhaps Qin Lun was dissatisfied with his redesignation of the enfeoffment in Lu Song. Nan Shan had originally allocated Lu Song to stand on its own, but now because of the suggestion of the eldest son Qin Jun, Qin Lang re-allocated Nan Shan to the Kingdom of Lu Song under.

They are both kingdoms, and they are also external feudal seals of the Tang Dynasty. Now that Qin Lang made a memorial, the emperor ordered to change Nanfang to be under the Lu Song Kingdom. Qin Lun has objections.

For a long time, Qin Lang's words in the Qin family were still very useful. Even when his father Qin Qiong was still alive, Qin Lang had already started to be the home of the Qin family.

After Qin Qiong passed away, Qin Lang became the well-deserved patriarch of the Qin clan.

His six younger brothers have always obeyed his elder brother's words. Even Qin Xun dared not contradict Qin Lang in front of Qin Lang because he was a legitimate son.

My twenty-one sons respected and feared this father since they were young.

Unexpectedly, Qin Lang's words now have no effect in front of his son.

Back then, when he asked his eldest son Qin Jun and fourth younger brother Qin Li to resign from their positions as ministers, they both did so without hesitation.

Did he think that he was old and dying, so he didn't want to pay attention to himself, a bad old man?

Or was he dissatisfied with his previous distribution and adjustment, so he responded this way?

Sitting alone on the tower of Miangang, you can have a panoramic view of the entire port, even the opposite Xinlaizhou can be seen clearly.

"I was looking for you everywhere, and I thought you were captured by those damn black slaves." Zhang Chao found the tower, "What's there to see here, Mian Harbor is far worse than San Francisco Harbor."

"What a beautiful place. The Mian River meanders slowly and finally flows into the strait. On both sides are fertile plains and deltas. Look at the windmills by the sea and sailboats slowly moving in the strait. It's full of life."

Zhang Chao smiled.

"Angry because Eryilang refuses to come back?" He shook his head, "There is no need, Eririlang is fifty years old, and he is still Emperor Tang Zaizhi, and he is not a fifteen-year-old boy. You are a father. Yes, and it is impossible to let him listen to you in everything. Didn’t you say that your children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and even support their own choices?”

"Qin Balang went to be a poet who traveled thousands of miles, read thousands of volumes of books, and traveled everywhere. Qin Shishilang became a world-famous master of Danqing. As for Qin Shijiulang, he had the desire to sail all over the world. , went to the new world again, you never forced yourself to do this, and even some of your grandsons just want to be rich and idle people who just want to eat and die, and you haven't seen you get angry."

"It's different."

Qin Lang was really angry. He calmed down here all afternoon, but he couldn't convince himself to let it go.

Zhang Chao was still persuading him.

"Actually, Twenty-one Lang didn't make any mistakes. He is only fifty years old, and now he is the deputy envoy of the Privy Council. Isn't it normal to want to go further? People are willing to retreat bravely, but you can't ask others for it. He If you want to be the prime minister, you let him go. Why do you have to let him go back to Nanyang now? What’s there in Nanyang Island? It’s the exile place where the most vicious and unpardonable villains go. It’s normal for Qin Lun not to want to go, isn’t it? Everyone is like Qin Jun, who is seventy years old and still willing to go to Dongsheng Island to open up wasteland."

"There is no saint!"

"Since Qin Lun doesn't care about Nanshan Island, then I don't have to give him a fortress. If he wants to stay in Luoyang, then he can stay. But he wants to be Prime Minister Zhong Shuling. Without the support of the Qin family, he thinks he can rely on himself Can it be done?"

"Sanlang, don't mess around."

"I asked him to come back because I knew that with his ability, being able to travel between the two mansions was enough. If he wanted to go further, he didn't have the ability. The Qin family would not support him, let alone pamper him. "

"Why do you do this?"

"Qin Lang is my youngest son and the second son. He spent more time in Luzon. Taiping liked him more before. This kid is more proud in character. No one is perfect, so I can tolerate him. But in this matter now, I cannot back down."

"Why?" Zhang Chao asked.

"Because the children of the Qin family are prime ministers, this is not a benefit or honor, but a responsibility and a burden. Every child of the Qin family who enters the two mansions is carefully selected by the Qin family. To be the spokesperson of the Qin family in the court, you must be capable and responsible, and you must be able to think about the family, not just your own interests!"

Qin Lang has long talked to his descendants about the relationship between Lu Song and Datang. Lu Song will always be a vassal of Tang in the Central Plains. Of course, the Qin family will not give up their relationship in the court, nor will they let go of the opportunity to enter the two governments for their own sake. Opportunities, but these are prerequisites.

The sons of the Qin family entered the court as prime ministers, but they only became the spokespersons of the Qin family in the court, and they also wanted to serve the Tang Dynasty and be loyal to the country.

It is to maintain the existing relationship between Datang and Luzon and maintain a stable state, rather than allowing individual children to satisfy their personal ambitions.

Qin Lun being the prime minister is not a bad thing, but Qin Lang thinks that Qin Lun's aptitude and ability are enough for his current position, and it's time to step down and give way to other children of the Qin family.

For example, Qin Xiaozhong's current ability is weaker than Qin Lun's, so Qin Lun's resignation and return to Nanyang can pave the way for Qin Xiaozhong, and give Qin Xiaozhong a chance to make further progress in the future.

Between the second son and the eldest grandson, Qin Lang believed that Qin Xiaozhong was more capable of being the chief assistant.

"Even if Eryilang is allowed to be the deputy privy envoy for a few more years, and then let him be a privy envoy, it's okay, right?"

"If you have the ability, of course it's fine, but the problem is that Qin Lun's ability does not match his ambition. If you support him to continue to rise, it is easy to cause trouble. Besides, I plan to support Xiaozhong to take the position of Shangzhong Shuling in ten years. Then Letting Qin Lun leave now will be more acceptable to the emperor and other ministers in the court."

The Qin family can't always have a Zhongshu order and then a privy envoy. Even if the emperor is young, he probably won't accept it. There are many people in the government and the opposition who have objections to the Qin family. If they do this, it will be easier to be opposed.

"Actually, although Nanshan Island is now desolate, it is a treasure land, thousands of times more expensive than the Mian Island in front of me. Since Qin Lun doesn't cherish it, then I will take it back."

"What is Saburo worried about?"

Zhang Chaowen, he has been with Qin Lang for decades. He started as his attendant and gradually grew into an important retainer under Qin Lang's subordinates. He even served as a Luzon's cabinet bachelor and presided over Luzon's internal affairs.

Qin Lang and he are both young and old, but Qin Lang is by no means confused.

He reacted so strongly to Qin Lun's refusal to come back, he must have some deeper worries.

"Wenyuan, the heights are unbearably cold. The Qin family has reached this state. It seems that the surface is beautiful, but in fact it is walking on thin ice. Every step is very dangerous. If you take a wrong step in the mission, you will lose everything."

"Since the end of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, our Qin family has been walking a tightrope on a cliff and dancing on eggs. Behind the scenery is a hidden crisis. How many people want to see the Qin family fall? There are many, a lot of."

"The Qin family has been able to make it to this day, in addition to the merits of several generations, especially the merits of being able to stand upright at critical moments and establishing a policy and support are the most important, but apart from special merits, our Qin family has been able to stand unswervingly Rather, the more important thing is that we know how to advance and retreat.”

Since the emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty raised his troops in Taiyuan, are there still few ministers who have made meritorious service? But along the way, more people fell down, and there are a few who can never fall.

Liu Wenjing in the early Tang Dynasty was the first founding hero and prime minister to fall, and then Pei Ji in the early Zhenguan period was the most important minister and prime minister in the Wude Dynasty.

Later, Hou Junji, Zhang Liang, Li Junxian, etc. who were killed by Li Shimin himself were all confidant generals of the Xifu who participated in the Xuanwu Gate change.

In the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the eldest grandson Wuji, Gao Shilian, and Chu Suiliang, who supported and assisted Li Chengqian, were once famous, but when they fell, they were not finished.

In the end, whether it is the founding of the country or the success of the policy support, it can only be exchanged for a moment of glory, but if you want to maintain it, these are not enough.

Those meritorious ministers who were killed by the emperor of the Li family, who didn't have one or two gold coupons, but who had the gold coupons that worked?

So the key is not to make great achievements, but to know how to advance and retreat.

"When you enter the political affairs hall, especially when you have the opportunity to sit on the prime minister's position one day, you will understand how big the test you are facing!"

"In the past few decades, do you know how many people have persuaded me to join? How many people want me to seek to usurp the throne or even directly rebel?"

"There are inherently some villains with malicious intentions, but there are also many old brothers who have fought side by side, and even have their own children!"

"Even I used to secretly think about these things."

"My grandpa resigned on his own initiative and asked to return to the vassal after he was worshiped by the ancestors as prime minister. It was because he knew that in terms of ability or even military merit, he was not a qualified candidate for prime minister. At that time, Li Jing, Li Ji, etc. Many generals, in fact, have more merits and qualifications than my father, and the emperor wants to worship him as a prime minister, but because he was the emperor's confidant general when he was in the residence."

"Later the emperor used Hou Junji, Zhang Liang, etc. as chancellors. Even when I was prime minister at the beginning of Zhenguan, it was only because I was the emperor's son-in-law, my grandpa's son, and a member of the military group of the Qin Palace.

"Grandpa has never drifted away, and he was very cautious from the beginning to the end, so he was able to end well. But Hou Junji, Zhang Liang and others thought they could be prime ministers. It is true that they have such achievements and abilities to match the position of prime minister, so they If it swells, it will inevitably end up being punished later."

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"I've said so much, can you understand?"

Zhang Chao, whose beard and hair were all white, nodded. He was over seventy years old, so he didn't understand, "King Zhongwu is cautious, Sanlang is careful, Qin Jun knows how to advance and retreat, but Sanlang thinks Eryilang can't do it?"

"Qin Lun is reluctant to resign even as a privy deputy envoy. If one day he really becomes Zhongshuling, and there are so many people who flatter him genuinely and falsely, if there happens to be some special changes in the royal family, At that time, the supreme power will be at your fingertips, do you think he can bear it?"

"Do you think he can still have a clear understanding?"

"If it is true as what Saburo said, Erichiro stretched out his hand and plucked the supreme fruit of power, maybe it is not a bad thing."

Qin Lang snorted coldly.

"Based on the current structure of the Tang Dynasty, I dare to predict that the Li family in the Tang Dynasty will maintain stability for another hundred years. Even if there is a moment of turmoil, it will not change the overall situation. Qin Lun is fifty, and he is alive. He is still healthy in his seventies or eighties, but in twenty or thirty years, Li's country and society will not be shaken in the slightest, if he goes the wrong way in a moment of confusion, it will implicate the entire Qin family."

If only a descendant of the Qin family in Lu Song rebelled like Li Jingye, there is still room for salvation, but if Qin Lun, who was the chief assistant of the dynasty, failed to usurp the throne, then the Qin family would definitely not survive.

Qin Lang was not angry because Qin Lun was disobedient, but that Qin Lun had embarked on a dangerous path, which might even affect the entire Qin family.

Take back Nanshan Island, which has been entrusted to Qin Lun and his descendants, and re-entrust it to the second son of the concubine. Qin Lun and his descendants will not be enfeoffed temporarily as a warning.

At the same time, Qin Lang gave Qin Lun an ultimatum, telling him to resign and return to Nanyang immediately. If he doesn't listen, he will bear the consequences.

"If Twenty-one Lang is determined not to return, what will San Lang plan to do? Father and son turn against each other?"

Qin Lang let out a long sigh.

"It's better for father and son to turn against each other than to implicate the whole clan in the future. I'm really determined not to come back, and I have the means to control him."

"How to do it?"

"Let Yushitai impeach him!"

Zhang Chao was speechless.

"Do you really want to get there?"

"Since you make a move, you can't show mercy."

Although Qin Lang is only worried that Qin Lun will not be able to grasp it in the future, the Qin family's decades of careful management have made them what they are today, and they cannot fall down because of a black sheep.

Qin Lang is still alive now, Qin Lun is so disregarding the interests of the family, when Qin Lang dies, and Qin Yu is replaced as the head of the family, I am afraid that he will not listen to his mother and brother, and Qin Yu is also old, when Lu Song It is to be headed by the eldest grandson.

But the eldest grandson has no qualifications and prestige, how can he shock Qin Lun?

Qin Lang had no choice but to deal with Qin Lun himself. Although Qin Lun was the King of Wei, the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council, and the Queen's grandfather, Qin Lang was Qin Lun's father.

What's more, even if Qin Lang has not been in the court for a long time, which of the ministers in the court now has a deep relationship with him?

Even on Yushitai, Qin Lang has a strong influence.

It is very simple to arrange for Yushitai to impeach Qin Lun. As for the reasons for impeachment, it is also easy to find out. There are many ways to make Qin Lun finally resign in desperation, and he will never have the opportunity to return to the central office.

"You are going to provoke the Qin family's infighting yourself. This is a bad start."

"I'm clearing the door at best," Qin Lang said.

"But how do you plan to end it? Qin Lun was kicked out by you, and then went to Nanshan Island?"

Qin Lang shook his head.

"No, after driving Qin Lun out of Luoyang this time, I will not let him go back to Nanyang. The Lu Song Qin family will not have him in the future."

"Chang'an or Wu'an, choose one, and set up another branch."

"It doesn't have to be like this? You are only two sons, at least you have to think about the late Princess Taiping of Zhenguo. No one is infallible. After all, they are your sons. Besides, Qin Lun's children and grandchildren are so innocent. ?”

"That depends on how Qin Lun chooses himself. If he insists on choosing that path, he can't blame others!"

Seeing this, Chao Zhang stopped persuading him.

He knew that Qin Lang was old, eighty-five years old, and he might die someday, so when dealing with these hidden dangers in the clan, he had to be ruthless, after all, there was no extra time to take his time.

He turned his head to look at Miangang, "It's really rare to see such a good situation now, and it's really unforgivable if everything is ruined by greed for a moment!"