Chastity Layman

The cold wind and drizzle finally gave Taiping Harbor a hint of winter.

There are still some New Year's flavors left in Taiping Port. There are still red couplets and red blessings posted on the streets, and the Lantern Festival lanterns have not been completely removed.

After all, the Queen of Linyi did not stop at Taiping Port, and went south on the Queen. Before leaving, she left the eldest son behind and let the father and father spend more time together. Although Fan Ren is reluctant to part with his mother, he also likes to play with his half-brothers and sisters.

At the time of parting, Qin Lang asked the queen to inform King Shali Isanavarman I of Chenla after returning home that marriage with relatives is acceptable, but only the princess of Chenla and the son of Qin Linyi are accepted. Qin Lang also asked the king of Chenla to send the princess to Taipinggang came, saying that he wanted to meet the princess in person and hold an engagement ceremony for them.

At the same time, he also asked the Queen to notify the Shandi Dynasty after returning home, and promised to marry the princess and his wife to the Shandi Crown Prince of Java, but Qin Lang hoped that the Shandi would send the prince to Taiping Port to meet him. It is also proposed that Princess Linyi will officially marry the Shandi Dynasty after she reaches the age of sixteen.

"I don't like this Chali Yishena very much. How dare this man threaten my woman, and even dare to have my children's ideas."

Qin Yong hummed, "It's really too arrogant."

And Qin Yong asked directly, "I will go to Chenla myself and kill him."

Qin Lang did have this intention. Zhenla, which was ruled by Yishana first, is now growing in power. After annexing Funan, it not only occupies almost the entire territory of Funan, but also continues to expand to the north. threaten.

"Don't come to the public about this person, can you come up with something dark, with more secretive methods, such as poisoning him?"

Qin Yong said confidently, "As long as you are willing to work hard, there is nothing you can't do. As long as Sanlang has this idea, I will arrange it. I will go to Lin Yi personally. Our Qin family still has a lot of people in Lin Yi Yes, even in Chenla, it has something to do with it."

What he said was simple, but Qin Lang also knew that although Zhenla was nothing in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty, in the Indochina Peninsula, it was now considered the first-class big country, and the king of a country was not so easy to calculate. Of course, as long as he has the heart, with the strength of the Qin family, he dare not speak of seizing the throne of the Chenla king, but if he wants to plot to assassinate a Chenla king, there may not be no chance.

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you. If you want money, you need someone to transfer someone." Qin Lang had murderous intent in his eyes.

Qin Yong asked, "Didn't Sanlang already promise Liulang to marry Princess Zhenla?"

"One size fits all. After all, the strength of the Chenla country lies there, so if the marriage can avoid the war between Linyi and Chenla, it is also the result that everyone hopes for. The court may not be willing to see Linyi and Chenla go to war. For all the merchants of the Tang Dynasty in Linyi, they are not willing to go to war." Of course, the Qin family has to follow the general trend when doing things.

Qin Yong said with a smile, "Sanlang, you marry your sons and daughters on the one hand, but on the other hand you want to assassinate your father-in-law. This is no one."

"Whose father-in-law always wants to hit my woman's country?"

Before and after killing Yishana, the Qin family can still look at the situation and choose a prince of Yishanaxian to support him on the throne.

"After Chenla Kingdom annexed Funan, Funan Bay is also an important transit point and supply point for our maritime trade. If Chenla Kingdom can also open up sea trade like Linyi, it will be a great deal for our Tang and Qin family. There are huge benefits.”

Chenla now occupies the whole of Funan. In later generations, the entire northern part of the Gulf of Thailand and the northern part of the Malay Peninsula was controlled by Chenla. The vast coastline around the Gulf of Thailand in later generations was under the control of Chenla. Although maritime merchants have long been looking for When it came to the southern route via the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, the Funan Bay route declined in importance.

But from Qin Lang's point of view, Funan is adjacent to Linyi and controls the long coastline. Not to mention it is still an important waterway for the northern route, it is also an important sales place for Tang's maritime trade goods, and some of its local products Spices, etc. are also very popular among Tang merchants.

It's a big trade market, and there's certainly no reason to give up.

Datang has supported Linyi in recent years, allowing Linyi to fully belong to Datang. At the same time, after fully joining Datang's trade system, the benefits brought are very conspicuous and huge. If Chenla can also be included in this trade system Among them, it is beneficial to Datang, and it is even more beneficial to the Qin family, a family based on maritime trade.

There is no conflict between killing Yishana, the king of Chenla, and supporting a Chenla prince who is pro-Tang Dynasty to succeed the king.

"Aren't we stretching our hands too far? Now that we're doing all we can to manage Qindao, do we still have enough energy to manage Chenla?"

"Do what we can and start planning. We can't give up on such a big market. Besides, if we want to operate Qindao in the future, then Chenla will be very important to us."

If the Qin family wanted to develop Qindao, they had to rely on the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, but they couldn't rely entirely on the Tang Dynasty, otherwise they would be easily stuck, so they had to make arrangements in advance and develop in multiple directions.

It is very necessary to develop trade relations with countries such as Linyi, Chenla, Gantuoli, Shandi, Boni, and even Waguo and Silla.

"When does Saburo plan to go to Qindao again?"

"I can't go for the time being, the princess is pregnant, I need to accompany her more." This news made several Qin family elders very happy, "The princess is finally pregnant, and the Qin family has a son."

"Is it a boy?" Qin Yong asked impatiently.

"The doctor said it might be a boy."

"Lord Zhongwu bless you!"

Next, Qin Yong personally rushed to Linyi Country to plan the assassination of the King of Chenla. Of course, his apparent purpose of this trip was to discuss the marriage on behalf of Qin Lang.

Qin Lang assigned Qin Yong the affairs of Treasure Island, and asked Qin Yong to serve as the mayor of San Francisco and also the general manager of Treasure Island. He was fully responsible for the affairs of the entire island on his behalf.

He stayed to concentrate on accompanying the princess.

Because the princess had a severe pregnancy reaction, severe morning sickness, and couldn't eat well and couldn't sleep, Qin Lang deliberately took the princess to live in Shenlong Island Manor in Halong Bay, which was more peaceful than the bustling and lively Taiping Port.

In order to ensure the princess's health, Qin Lang also dispatched dozens of doctors from various places to establish a Halong Bay hospital on the island. He also prepared a steady wife and nurse early on, and some retainers' wives who had experience in childbirth and childcare came to accompany her.

Several dowry wives proposed not to allow Yu Xiao and other concubines to go to the island, which made Yu Xiao and others very wronged. Qin Lang also understood that the meaning of Changsun Rou and the sisters was that they were afraid that someone would play tricks on the princess when she was pregnant.

Although the relationship in the Qin family's backyard has always been relatively harmonious, there were incidents of concubines intending to poison pregnant concubines and serve fetuses earlier. No one dared to have such thoughts afterward.

But after they made such a request, Qin Lang had no choice but to explain to the Yu Xiaos in person, saying that they were only worried about the princess, so that they could stay in Taiping Weigong Castle with peace of mind.

Yuxiao and the others were very wronged, but they had to stay. It would be uncomfortable to follow the princess to Halong Bay at this time. The good relationship that I managed to get along with was probably going to crack, let alone what happened It's a bit of a surprise, who can take responsibility?

The princess was very reasonable, saying that the sisters were very nice and there was no need to see outsiders, but in the end Qin Lang only brought the princess to the island, not even the eldest sister, Sun Rou.

Walking together every day, listening to the piano, Qin Lang even made pregnant women meals for the princess himself, with regular checkups, accompanied by midwives and retainers' wives, and imparted some pregnancy and child-rearing experience, etc., life is not bad.

Although the princess still vomited badly and didn't sleep well at night, she was generally in good spirits.

But being so careful, the princess still became popular unexpectedly, which shocked everyone. Fortunately, among the doctors on the island at this time, the emperor specially transferred the imperial doctor Gong from the Shangyao Bureau from Luoyang after hearing that the princess was pregnant. Feng, under the skillful hands of the experienced old Fengyu, after his miscarriage-preserving secret recipe conditioning, there is no danger.

After three months of pregnancy, the status of the princess has stabilized a lot, and there is no such a big reaction, and even sleep is much better.

Under Qin Lang's diet that changed every day, the princess became much plumper, and her belly finally protruded a little bit. When the princess walked, she also started to put her hands on her hips.

The emperor sent many experienced servants and palace servants from Luoyang to take over almost all the affairs of the Halong Bay manor. The princess's diet, including daily necessities, and everything she came into contact with had to go through their strict inspection.

There will never be any accidents, and musk and other things that endanger the fetus of pregnant women have been removed from the entire island.

The entire Shenlong Island is still guarded by sailors, and the manor is guarded by Jinwu Guards and Baiqi sent by the emperor. The island is almost in a state of isolation, and usually only once every three or five days will a supply ship come over.

On this day, there were some reports from Qin Lang who came to the island with the supply ship.

"I didn't want to disturb Saburo and the princess."

The one who came to the island was Jia Wu, the captain of the Mounted Police of San Francisco's security team. "It's just that the situation on the island is a bit complicated now, so I still want to ask Saburo to make up his mind."

"What happened?"

"Before we sent people to recruit the natives on the island, our envoys and merchant ships were attacked by an indigenous tribe called Maye Village on the big island southwest of San Francisco. Then we led the security team under the leadership of the security captain Shan Sili. Three big ships and hundreds of security guards went to attack."

The encirclement and suppression of Maye Village was very successful, and then Batangas was wiped out. They killed the chieftains of these two large indigenous villages, took away the elite, and then naturalized the original tribute payers and slaves to divide the land. He also promulgated the laws and taxes promoted by the Qin family. When he left, he also took the native children between the ages of six and twelve to study in San Francisco, and left them some weapons. Long, Baojiachang, etc., let them protect the armor and defense.

"You guys did a great job." Qin Lang expressed his appreciation after listening.

Jia Wu smiled wryly, "This operation is indeed not bad, but our actions also intensified the resistance of many other Barangay villages. They quickly united and took the initiative to attack our gold mining sites and wasteland villages. , and even sneak attacks on our ships along the coast.”

"Our security team also counterattacked immediately. We sent scouts to investigate the location and population of these rebellious native villages, and dispatched troops to fight back. We broke through several Barangay villages in succession, but the rebellious natives became more and more They are even preparing to besiege the city of San Francisco!"