Chastity Layman

It's raining.

The water in the Duni River rose sharply, and Qin Lang was marching westward with the army on this big river called the Hongshui River in later generations. I stayed in Rongzhou for almost a month in July, destroyed more than a dozen villages, and subdued hundreds of large and small villages. After a combination of grace and power, Rongzhou was temporarily straightened out.

So at the end of July, Qin Lang went down the Qianjiang River, turned into the Hongshui River in Xiangzhou and went up the river, entering Yizhou.

In the vast area on the north bank of the Hongshui River, the imperial court originally set up dozens of Jumi prefectures to divide the barbarians, and Qin Lang took advantage of the Pingman's victory last time to merge these Jumi prefectures. , to the north of the Hongshui River is Yizhou, and to the south is Chengzhou.

"Wei Gong, Xincheng is ahead. During the reign of Wude, Wenquan Prefecture was established and Wenquan County was established. Previously, the prefectures and counties were merged, and Wenquan Prefecture was merged into Yizhou."

Secretary Liu Rengui pointed in the direction of Jiangbei.

"You don't look well, what's the matter?"

Liu Rengui leaned closer to Qin Lang and whispered that he had just received a post-horse express letter from Chang'an that something happened to the crown prince.

Qin Lang raised his eyebrows, and there was no one around, "Go to the cabin and talk."

The two of them entered the cabin with heavy steps, Qin Lang called Cunyi and asked him to guard outside and not allow anyone to approach.

"Old Liu, what happened?"

As Qin Lang's secretary, Liu Rengui was in charge of all the secret codes and writing work, and the letters from Chang'an were all written by him first, he sighed.

"The prince has escaped."

What does it mean that the prince has run away? Qin Lang was stunned.

"The letter was sent by Mr. Gao, and it is very confidential. The news that the prince has escaped is still being blocked..."

After Chengqian angered the emperor earlier, Li Shimin severely reprimanded Chengqian, and directly dismissed him from the post of Yongzhou Mu. He even made a cabinet proposal in Chang'an. The power of Taiwan was completely handed over to the left-behind ministers, and Chengqian, the prince who originally had the power to know the military country, had no power at all.

Prince Ling cannot leave the East Palace now.

After what happened last time, all the left-behind ministers are now not polite to Cheng Qian, and ignore some unreasonable demands. The crown prince used to make great fanfare to save people into Taoism, to restore Buddhist temples, to print scriptures, and to welcome Buddha bones, etc., and now they are all withdrawn.

Chengqian felt that it was very embarrassing.

If you stay in Xijing, you can't do anything. Anyway, these old gentlemen from the three provinces of Taiwan sit in the cabinet and come up with a decision, and then hand it over to the East Palace, and then these few who are also in the East Palace The old relatives of the governor of Fufang agreed on behalf of Zhu.

This way of playing without Chengqian at all really annoyed Chengqian.

These years have been smooth and smooth, when have you been treated like this?

Especially Xiao Yu, Yang Gongren, Chai Shao and others were not from the East Palace, so they were not at all polite and accommodating towards Cheng Qian.

Chang'an is very hot in midsummer, Chengqian has nothing to do in the East Palace, even the beloved second daughter of Marquis Pei was taken to Luoyang by the queen.

And some young female prostitutes and dancers in the East Palace were also moved away by Prince Zhan Shi Gao Shilian, who believed that the prince was still in mourning for Gao Zu.

You can't drink wine, you can't listen to songs, you can't watch dances.

Staying in the East Palace is like going to jail.

Then suddenly one day, Chengqian took Helan Chushi and other guards and said that he was going to Sanyuan Xianling to worship the ancestors, but he disappeared after crossing the Weiqiao.

There was no arrival of the prince at Sanyuan Xianling.

It was already the third day when the prince was found missing.

Gao Shilian didn't care about the crown prince at first, anyway, now he can't get out of the East Palace under the order of the crown prince, who knew that the crown prince could come out of his shell with a golden cicada.

The left-behind ministers hurriedly sent people to search everywhere, only to find out at last that once the prince crossed the Wei Bridge, they sent a team to pretend to be him to go to Xianling, and then deliberately dawdled on the road.

He himself changed clothes with Helan Chushi and others, pretended to be a Turkic caravan, and headed westward. They even prepared fake customs clearance documents, merchant lists, etc. early on.

"No one expected that our prince would actually go to Longyou."

"Longyou?"

"To be precise, it is very likely that he went to Qinghai Hou Junji." Liu Rengui couldn't help but marvel, why is this His Royal Highness the Crown Prince so troublesome now? Could it be that the virtuous names in the past were all fake?

"Did all the gentlemen not stop you?"

"The crown prince ran away for three days before he realized it, and waited for the ministers to issue orders to intercept it, but the effect was not good."

Firstly, the prince and his party had been prepared for a long time and disguised themselves as a Turkic caravan, which Chang'an did not expect at the beginning. Finally found out later, but the crown prince was messing around. As the crown prince, he insisted on breaking through the barrier. He said that he wanted to go on a tour to the west. ah.

So, the prince didn't care about it, and after entering Longyou, he simply played the banner of the prince openly, passed the barrier, and no one dared to stop him.

He even dispatched some soldiers from the Zhechong Mansion along the way to accompany him, pretending to follow the orders of the saints to go to Qinghai to supervise the war and comfort the army.

No one dared to doubt.

After all, no one would dare to doubt what the majestic crown prince said in person.

Although the official documents of the Chang'an Xingtai ministers chased after him, but on the one hand, the Chang'an Xingtai stayed behind, and on the other hand, the living prince was in front of him.

In the end, the local officials in Longyou who were in trouble had no choice but to send troops to accompany the guards after a few persuasive words, but to no avail.

It's not like the prince's order from the prince, everyone can follow the words of staying behind and ignore it, this is the prince himself.

"Then the prince should have arrived in Qinghai now?"

"Gao Gong said that the crown prince has passed Longdi and entered Qinzhou. This is the news when the letter was sent from Chang'an. It has been half a month since the letter was sent from Chang'an to Guangzhou, and then from Guangzhou to Yizhou. Now the prince may have reached the edge of Qinghai Lake."

Qin Lang's face was ugly, and he almost wanted to scold his mother.

This Chengqian really wanted to come out as soon as possible. He had already been warned so severely by the emperor that he had played too much before, but in the end, not only did he not repent at all, but he even intensified it.

Actually ran directly to Qinghai.

The crown prince, who was staying in Xijing, just quietly ran to Qinghai, what's the matter?

"It is estimated that Hou Junji cannot be separated from this matter. Without Hou Junji's help, I don't believe the crown prince would dare to go to Qinghai alone."

Qin Lang shook his head.

"Hou Junji doesn't have the guts to lure the crown prince to go to Qinghai privately. He is not afraid that the sage will cut off his head? I guess this is the crown prince's own idea."

Originally thought that if he was asked to toss a few times, the emperor would naturally beat him. Qin Lang felt that he should learn a lesson from what happened last time, but who would have thought that he could do more outrageous things.

He dared to run to Longyou privately with a team of guards, not to mention anything else, even if something happened along the way, no one would be able to resist.

This journey is thousands of miles, but it is not safe.

Who can guarantee that the title of Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty is so easy to use?

Furthermore, even if they arrive safely all the way, but Qinghai is currently in civil strife, it is a battlefield, so are you afraid of a mistake?

Even if everything is safe, what is the nature of your majestic prince running to the frontier battlefield in private like this?

He neither invited the emperor, nor asked the left-behind princes, nor even the generals of the Luben Army in the East Palace.

Fortunately, Su Dingfang had already been transferred from Luben Army to Jiannan Weizhou as the governor, otherwise Su Dingfang would have been miserably punished by Chengqian?

If he can't even look down on a prince, he will definitely be blacklisted by Li Shimin.

"How to reply to Duke Gao?" Liu Rengui asked.

Gao Shilian probably regretted it now. If he had known this, he would never have agreed to stay in Chang'an to assist the crown prince.

I was thinking about my grandson, but who would have thought that even my uncle would be cheated.

Qin Lang heaved a long sigh.

Outside the rain is getting heavier and heavier, a river of rain and fog.

"You don't need to reply anything, I won't get involved in this beforehand."

There was a lot of rain outside, Liu Rengui couldn't hear clearly for a while.

Asked again.

Qin Lang had no choice but to get closer, "Don't reply for now."

"Just ignore it like that?"

Listening to the sound of rain outside, Qin Lang said in a disappointed tone, "So what can we do now? Besides, we are thousands of miles away in southern Xinjiang, and the crown prince went to Qinghai. We are thousands of miles away. The tube is beyond reach."

"Not in his own affairs, not looking for a job, let the old gentlemen in Chang'an go to have a headache."

"Wei Gong is not afraid that the crown prince will make a mistake?"

"If not, if Hou Junji can't even protect the crown prince's safety, then he has spent so many years in vain."

The wind is getting faster and faster, and the rain is getting heavier and heavier.

The fleet docked temporarily, lowered their sails and dropped anchor.

Depressed in his heart, Qin Lang drank a few cups of mulled wine, and simply fell asleep in the sound of heavy rain.

Maybe it was because I was sleepy on the boat in the heavy rain and felt cold.

That night, Qin Lang started to have a fever, the fever didn't subside, and he even talked nonsense, which was very scary. The military doctors accompanying the army were also frightened by this emergency.

The doctors are in a hurry.

Qin Lang's illness came and went like a mountain. For several days in a row, the high fever came and went, and he was half-conscious all the time.

In the next few days, Jia Wuben, Liu Rengui and others also sent people around to seek medical advice. Fortunately, on the fifth day, Qin Lang's fever finally subsided completely, and he began to wake up.

"Hungry."

Lao Jia's hair has turned gray a lot these days, and he heaved a sigh of relief seeing Qin Lang regain his clarity.

"I heard from Secretary Liu Zhang about that. In fact, why are you so depressed now? I know that you have an unusual relationship with him. You have put a lot of effort into it, and even put the future of the entire family on it. But there are some things that hit you Destined, cannot be forced."

"Relax your mind. Besides, even if something like this happens, it's not really bad in the end. After all, it's just young people messing around, and it's not a big mistake."

"I'll ask someone to make you a bowl of porridge. You should have a good rest and don't think too much about it."

Qin Lang let out a long sigh.

"I just want to have a bowl of porridge with preserved egg and lean meat. As for other nonsense things, I don't want to think about him."

Old Jia laughed loudly, "That's right!"