Chastity Layman

Qin Lang hurried on, traveling all the way through the night and starry night. On the way, he was connected to the eighteen gold medals that the emperor urged him to return to the Eastern Capital. They urged people so much that the gold medal envoys in the back almost ran to their deaths. Seeing Qin Lang was like seeing his own father. They knelt down in front of them and almost broke down in tears, begging Duke Wei to come to Beijing immediately.

He received the emperor's first recall edict at the construction site of New Kunming City by Dianchi Lake in South Central Kunzhou, and it was already a year later. During the New Year, Qin Lang summoned all the barbarian chieftains and powerful surnames in Nanzhong, first dismantled Dong Cuan, then beheaded the Nanzhao king in public, and then dismantled Xi Cuan.

The forces in Yunnan were reshuffled, and central Guizhou was naturally impossible to leave out. There were five governors' mansions in central Guizhou, and around Dongning's governor's mansion, four more mansions were added, and five garrison troops were established. The three mountain ranges of Wumeng Mountain were drawn into the middle of Guizhou.

Even thinking about Zhao Zhuqian's powerful surnames in Qianzhong was adjusted by Qin Lang, or swapped or moved away. Under Qin Lang's prestige, the barbarian chieftains and heroes did not dare to say a word. This is the prestige of Duke Wei.

After roughly integrating the two roads in the Nanzhong area, Qin Lang ordered the barbarians to send troops to take advantage of the situation to sweep the Erhai Lake's Mengshe Zhao, so as to avoid future troubles, and at the same time recruited all the tribes to build Kunming City.

After Kunming City is repaired, the Nanning Governor's Mansion will be moved from Wei County Shicheng to Kunming City. The original Nanning Prefecture will be renamed Langzhou, and Hou Junji, the world-appointed Kunzhou Governor, will be taken away because of the battle of Longyou The land of the world.

When he heard the news, Qin Lang didn't come to gloat, because the messenger brought too much news and it was too impactful.

The emperor summoned him to return to Beijing immediately, and he sent people from Zhen Fusi, and his old friend Liu Jiu, who had been a crown prince, hurried over on horseback, and eight horses ran away and died on the way.

The queen is seriously ill and is about to die. The prince did win a big battle in Longyou, but he was seriously injured and limped on the battlefield. Hou Junji is finished...

One big news after another shocked Qin Lang so much that with his current state of mind, he almost cried out in shock.

Chengqian was injured and limped on the battlefield?

When Qin Lang heard the news, Qin Lang even felt in a trance. Li Chengqian in history was indeed lame. The specific reason is not clear in the history books. Yes, anyway, he was lame when he was young.

Chengqian, after being lame, seemed to have completely deteriorated, becoming less and less popular with Li Shimin, and finally embarked on a road of rebellion, and was demoted as a commoner, and finally died of illness at a very young age. land.

It took Qin Lang a long time to digest this. Liu Jiu is an old friend, so the news he brought is naturally very reliable, especially since he is still from the Zhenfu Department.

Long sigh.

He didn't know if it was the inertia of history, or the retribution of Chengqian's death?

Chengqian's work was a bit powerful before, Qin Lang thought it was a kind of adolescent rebellious performance, and felt that if he made a work, he would know the pain when he hit a wall. Learn to walk.

How can you be mature if you haven't experienced childishness?

But before he left Chang'an, he still tried his best and made a lot of arrangements for Chengqian. He suggested to the emperor to set up Chang'an Xingtai and set up a backup small court, let Chengqian be in charge of the military affairs in the Guanzhong area, and give him more training. Chance.

He also didn't expect that after he left, Chengqian not only messed around in Chang'an, worshiping Buddha, seeking Taoism, restoring temples to welcome Buddha bones, etc., and even went to Longyou directly after being reprimanded by the emperor for taking power.

What was even more unexpected was that Chengqian went to Longyou alone, and continued to grow bigger and bigger. He was able to actually seize Hou Junji's military power, and staged such an exciting scene of storming Tuyuhun. The key is this Risky and even reckless behavior, but he played pretty well.

Although Fanqi and Hou Junji's troops failed to arrive at Huihe in time due to snowstorms, encountering enemies and other reasons, Chengqian still attacked alone, which was too risky, but he still won in the end.

It's just that he didn't expect Chengqian to be wounded on the battlefield in the end, so badly that he limped one leg.

Compared with this explosive news, the news that Empress Changsun is dying is not so shocking.

The main reason is that Empress Changsun's qi disease is an old problem, and it has become more and more serious in the past few years. In fact, Qin Lang has long been mentally prepared.

Now that the queen is going to die, although he is in a heavy heart, he has already prepared for it.

Cheng Qian was really not mentally prepared at all.

He was in Nanzhong, and he only knew a little bit about the battle situation in Longyou. After all, the military situation was tight, and he didn't know if the imperial court hadn't officially notified him for a day.

Previously, he only knew that the battle was won over there, and it was said that the crown prince commanded it. Qin Lang didn't believe it, and felt that Chengqian's title of Generalissimo of Soldiers and Horses was just a false title, besides, Chai Shao and others hadn't arrived at the battlefield yet. Well, this battle is over, it should be fought by Hou Junji.

Qin Lang didn't have much doubts about Hou Junji's ability. After all, Tuyuhun was already a half-dead sick wolf, and Guanlong's soldiers and horses were always elite and capable of fighting, so it didn't matter who commanded them. As long as they didn't make any big mistakes, they could win.

But who would have thought that this battle was really fought by Cheng Qian, let alone that Cheng Qian was lame.

After being amazed, Qin Lang immediately packed his things and started to return to Beijing.

There is no time to go back to Guangzhou in the south of the Lingnan by the same route, and set off directly from the construction site of Kunming City. After handing over the matter here to Duan Zhixuan, Zhang Shigui, Cheng Mingzhen, and Jia Wuben, Qin Lang led a light cavalry guard Go north with Liu Jiu.

Kunzhou went north via Langzhou and arrived at Rongzhou (Yibin) via Qujing. After going through the most difficult journey of more than a thousand miles, he was finally able to transfer to the waterway. It was there that Qin Lang met the second envoy who came to remind him of the gold medal. , this time it was Wei Chang from the Zhenfu Division.

Old Wei was also running away, saying that the queen was really dying, and the emperor urged him to go to Beijing immediately to marry Princess Changle.

"The saint hopes that the princess will be happy for the queen when she gets married now, and also thinks that if it doesn't work, it will avoid another three years of delay. This is what the queen means. The saint hopes that you can understand and return to Beijing as soon as possible."

The emperor even had the idea of ​​using his daughter's marriage to celebrate the queen, but he went to the doctor in a hurry and ignored it.

In order to speed up his return to Beijing, Qin Lang had to change his itinerary plan. Instead of taking the Yangtze River to Jiangxia, he went directly north to Chengdu, returned to Guanzhong via Hanzhong, and headed east to Luoyang.

I don't care about the hard work, I don't care about the light car, and I don't care about the luggage and entourage. I ride the horse and run all the way, passing the post station along the way, changing horses without changing people, and only rest for two or three hours a day.

Fortunately, starting from Rongzhou, this route is actually a very smooth traffic artery. There are also complete post station routes along the way. There are post horses in each station for twenty miles. After entering the city, eat and rest at the post station when you are tired, and then continue on the road.

They met the third emissary in Chengdu.

In the Jiange out of Shu, I met the fourth Baba envoy, and in Lizhou, I met Yiba again.

When Qin Lang arrived at Nanzheng City, Liangzhou, Hanzhong, he had already met the seventh envoy, one after another, gold medal after gold medal, and kept pushing.

Although they could change their mounts at the post stations along the way, several horses ran to death. Even when they were crossing the plank road, Qin Lang's mount fell off the cliff, which shocked Qin Lang very much.

It wasn't until after passing Dasan Pass and arriving at Chen Cang that the road was wide and smooth, and before Qin Lang entered Chang'an, he had already heard several waves of contradictory gossip, some said that the queen had collapsed, some said that Okay, this and that for a while.

Passing by Chang'an, Qin Lang met several old gentlemen from Chang'an Xingtai who came to greet him outside the city, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Yu Wenshi and other old gentlemen came to greet him specially.

After some communication with them, I got more accurate news. The queen's condition is indeed very serious. She even passed out for a day a few days ago. After waking up, she became very energetic. up.

"Where is the prince?"

Qin Lang asked.

As a result, several old ministers were unhappy, and Xiao Yu even criticized the prince very unceremoniously, "I have gone to the angels in Longyou for dozens of plucking, and there are one or two plucking almost every day, but I haven't seen it yet. To His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Qin Lang couldn't help but get a headache when he heard this, it's an unfilial act for you to hide and not come back at such a time.

"It really doesn't work, I'll go to Longyou."

"Wei Gong should go back to Luoyang first, but the saint has sent more than a dozen envoys to call you one after another, so hurry up."

"Even if I tie him up, I will tie the prince back to Luoyang!" Qin Lang was furious.

On the same day, Qin Langzhen disregarded everyone's dissuasion, turned around and headed west, and headed for Longyou.

All the way at high speed, two thousand miles, Qin Lang only ran for five days, and then he ran to Haiyan.

When he arrived in front of Haiyan Fort, he saw an envoy from Luoyang kneeling outside.

Chengqian refused to even meet the emperor's envoys, and he didn't believe the news that the empress was seriously ill. He thought they were just here to trick him back to Luoyang, which was all false news.

Zhang Liang was also very surprised when he saw Qin Lang appear.

Especially Qin Lang's shape, originally it was more than three thousand miles from Kunzhou to Chang'an, especially the road was difficult, Qin Lang ran on the road for more than ten days, and the people who ran were ashamed, and finally came from Chang'an to Long On the right, it is even faster to run hundreds of miles a day, and only five days to run two thousand miles.

The courier who was more urgent than eight hundred miles was not too slow. The courier also changed people and horses at post stations along the road. Qin Lang was only changing horses and not changing people. His legs were worn out and his mouth was full of blood blisters.

"Why is Duke Wei here?" Zhang Liang was surprised.

Qin Lang glared at him, "So many envoys from Luoyang came to summon the prince back, don't you know how to persuade the prince?"

"How can I persuade you, the prince won't even meet me..."

Before he finished speaking, Qin Lang spat in disgust, "Trash!"

Zhang Liang was stunned, his face swelled into a pig's liver. He really didn't expect Qin Lang to humiliate him in public. After all, he was also the commander-in-chief of the strategic side, and he was the elder who worked with Qin Qiong since Wagang. How dare Lang do this?

But Qin Lang didn't care about his thoughts.

Pushing Zhang Liang away and rushing in, Prince Lu Ben, who was guarding the gate, ordered that no one should be allowed to go in and disturb him, except for food and clothing and the woman who served him.

But looking at Duke Wei with a dark face, no one dared to stop him in the end.

Qin Lang broke in directly holding the whip, Zhang Liang hesitated and followed.