Chastity Layman

It rained non-stop.

Because of Qin Lang's sudden illness, the fleet camped directly on the shore and set up a temporary camp. Qin Lang fell on the big boat and didn't move.

After a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge, his face regained some vitality, and his overall spirit improved a lot.

"Have a pot of tea."

Lao Jia shook his head, "It's better not to drink tea when recovering from a serious illness. You are in good health, otherwise you wouldn't recover so quickly. It is said that illnesses come like a mountain and go away like silk. You still have to take good care of yourself."

"I just drank a few cups of stuffy wine on a stormy day, and fell asleep indiscriminately and caught a cold. It seems that I just ate some crabs that day, which is also a cool thing. It's much better now."

"Don't be careless."

Looking at the rain outside the boat window, Lao Jia said, "Anyway, it has been raining continuously for the past few days, and the roads are also muddy and difficult, so we might as well rest here for a few days."

Qin Lang nodded.

"Is there any problem with the tents, food and grass of the soldiers?"

"What's the problem? We're on the Duni River now. The waterways are smooth and surrounded by Zhengzhou and military mansions of the imperial court." Old Jia patted him on the shoulder, "Don't think too much, just let nature take its course."

The grandfather and grandson chatted for a while, and Lao Jia went to rest by himself.

Qin Lang asked Zhang Chao to call Liu Rengui.

"Is there any news from Chang'an?"

Liu Rengui nodded.

"His Royal Highness has indeed arrived in Qinghai, and is currently by Hou Junji's side."

"where?"

"The army city of Lintao in Huangshui, Shanzhou. At present, King Nuohebo of Tuyuhun, with 7,000 tent troops, has also retreated to the Lintao army."

Qin Lang knew that this Tuyuhun Yan King was the son of the previous Tuyuhun Khan Murong Shun. The Tuyuhun Khan who was canonized by the Tang Dynasty as the king of Xiping County and the governor of Qinghai was actually a very sad king.

He is the eldest son of Khan Fuyun of Tuyuhun and Princess Heqin of the Sui Dynasty, and he has half of the Han family blood. But when he was very young, he was forced to be sent to Chang'an in the Sui Dynasty as a hostage, and he stayed for more than ten years. Then he was canonized as Khan by Yang Guang and sent back. As a result, the people of the country refused to accept it and was beaten back to the Sui Dynasty halfway.

Later, in Li Tang Dynasty and Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan sent Murong Shun back to form an alliance with Tuyuhun. As a result, at that time, Fu Yun had already made his second son Zunwang the crown prince.

Murong Shun's position in the middle school was very embarrassing after he returned, and he was changed to King Daning, but he was not satisfied inside and outside.

Later, Qin Lang led the Longyou army to invade Tuyuhun, beheaded Fu Yun and Tuyuhun in the first battle, and Murong Shun led his troops to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and was canonized by Li Shimin as the king of Xiping County and the governor of Qinghai.

Datang still retained the Tuyuhun Kingdom, but divided it into three parts, and Murong Shun, his brother and another famous king each united.

But even if he only guarded one-third of the territory, Murong Shun couldn't control it.

Under the secret instigation of Tubo, King Zun contacted Murong Shun's personal guards, launched a mutiny, and killed Murong Shun.

So the middle school was in chaos.

Hou Junji went to appease Tuyuhun according to the order, and wanted to settle the matter with the mentality of calming things down during the national mourning and not wanting to fight.

It's just that although Hou Junji was also in Qinghai for a period of time, his prestige was not as high as that of Qin Lang's father, and his words were ignored by the king.

Instead, he stepped up his attack on Fucheng City, trying to kill Murong Shun's son, King Nuohebo of Yan.

Seeing the situation, Hou Junji had no choice but to run away with Nuohebo, and fled all the way back to the Lintao Army in Shanzhou, Longyou, where he was temporarily placed.

Qin Lang could imagine the scene when Hou Junji, who was already in a state of desperation, saw Cheng Qian running to him.

This guy must have been stunned too.

"There is a decree from a saint in Luoyang."

"oh?"

When the incident got serious, Chang'an couldn't help it, and didn't dare to hide it, so it reported to Li Shimin in Luoyang immediately.

Li Shimin couldn't have imagined that his son would be so promising. The last play had just stopped, and here he played a more powerful one.

The emperor was furious in Luoyang Palace, kicking all the court cases over.

In the end, it was the queen who went to persuade Li Shimin with her grandson Li Xiang in her arms, which calmed Li Shimin's anger.

Anger turns to anger, but it can't be known to everyone in the world because of this, unless he really wants to abolish Chengqian, but he has no such plan for the time being, this matter involves too much.

Therefore, in the end, under the full efforts of Changsun Wuji, the uncle of the country, Chang'an issued an emperor's decree.

The decree is to confer the crown prince Chengqian as the Ambassador of Qinghai Consolation, let Chengqian go to Qinghai according to the order, and confer the title of Nuohebo, the son of Murong Shun on behalf of the emperor, as the king of Heyuan County, Zhu Kingdom, Tuyuhun King of the Tang Dynasty, and Udi Yebaledouke sweat.

With this decree, he also helped Chengqian cover up the big mistake he made.

He didn't act privately, but the emperor authorized him to go.

Tuyuhun Khan was canonized by the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and he was blessed by watching the ceremony.

Wipe Chengqian's ass.

It's also to save some face for the emperor and the court, otherwise, if the incident breaks out, I don't know how much trouble it will cause.

"In addition, the Chang'an imperial court has decided to use troops against Qinghai, and is dispatching troops. It has appointed Hou Junji as the chief commander of the Xikaidao march, and Zhang Liang as the deputy commander. The troops of Longyou, Qinghai, Hexi, and Western Regions, All under its control."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince announces the strategy."

After listening, Qin Lang let out a long sigh.

This result, in general, is already very rare. It can be seen how Li Shimin suppressed his anger and saved Chengqian's face.

But it is obvious that Chengqian also consumed a lot of the emperor's goodwill and patience this time.

Even if the two close relatives, Empress Changsun and Changsun Wuji, hadn't worked hard in front of the emperor, such a good result probably wouldn't have happened.

Now the emperor canonized Nuohebo as the new Tuyuhun Khan, and bestowed the Han name Zhong, and asked Hou Junji to escort him back to Fuqi City.

The respected king Murong Cheng was publicly designated by the Tang Dynasty as a brother-killing and rebellious minister, depriving all official positions and titles.

The war in Qinghai was inevitable.

Datang originally wanted to fight with Xue Yantuo in Mobei, but failed, and then fought with Goguryeo in Liaodong, and temporarily stopped fighting. Unexpectedly, Tuyuhun, who was beaten only a few years ago, was going to fight with the Central Plains so soon.

"After all, the imperial court's policy towards Tuyuhun was still wrong. Although Duke Wei's method of destroying the khanate and setting up prefectures and counties may seem radical, in retrospect, it was the most appropriate." Liu Ren said.

Qin Lang just smiled.

"No one can say for sure. After all, Tuyuhun is thousands of miles away. It is basically a pastoral area suitable only for nomads. To the west is the uninhabited desert Gobi, and to the south are glaciers and snow-capped mountains. The place to live. The ones that are really more suitable for us to occupy the Central Plains are actually the Hehuang Valley in the east and some areas in the east of Qinghai Lake. These good places suitable for farming and suitable for farming and animal husbandry are all directly designated as the territory of the Tang Dynasty."

Murong Shun has the support of Datang, why is he still unable to secure the position of Great Khan, and why is he still killed by his subordinates?

In fact, one of the key reasons is that after Fu Yun was killed, Tuyuhun was not only divided into three parts, but more importantly, its core and rich eastern region, the only area more suitable for farming, was directly poached by Datang .

After losing this important farming area, not only would it be difficult for Tuyuhun to supply even the royal city of Fucheng, let alone want to go east to occupy more fertile valleys in the future, and even enter the Longyou area.

Murong Shun had no foundation and no prestige in Tuyuhun, he was obsessed with Datang, and he would cut away those places that Datang wanted, and he dared not say a word.

Even Tuyuhun existed in name only, the Tang army not only cut off three hundred miles, but even established many towns and post stations around Qinghai Lake in Tuyuhun to control Qinghai Road and trade routes.

These are difficult for many Tuyuhun people to accept.

In retrospect, Li Shimin retained Tuyuhun, but it was not necessarily wrong, because at that time, Murong Shun was made a khan, and the whole of his khanate was actually made him a puppet. On the surface, Tuyuhun was preserved. It can disintegrate the resistance of Tuyuhun people.

In fact, Datang cut off the fattest piece of meat and swallowed it first. Under the banner of Tuyuhun Hanting, the Tang army can still easily and freely build fortresses and fortresses on the important land by Qinghai Lake, and can still build a road. It directly leads to Qinghai Road and Post Road in the Western Regions.

If Tuyuhun was directly abolished, changed to Qinghai Road, and prefectures and counties were established, the Tuyuhun people might have faced endless rebellion and resistance. The Sui Dynasty did this in the past, and they did face such resistance. The four counties established existed in name only.

Li Shimin obviously learned his lesson at the beginning, and played a trick of building plank roads and crossing Chen Cang secretly.

So now it seems that the Tuyuhun people have turned against each other after all, but in fact, the stability of the past few years has actually allowed Datang to successfully digest the three hundred miles to the east, and it is around Qinghai Lake. It still maintains a high level of control.

Those fortresses were not built in vain.

Don't look at Hou Junji's retreat to Shanzhou now, but the Wuning Army, Weisheng Army, Jintian Army, Guangen Army, Shence Army, and Shenwei Army are still firmly standing around Qinghai Lake.

Although Fucheng temporarily changed its owner, this did not allow them to completely regain control of Qinghai.

"Does Duke Wei think Hou Junji can win this battle?"

"As long as Hou Junji is not too stupid, this battle can certainly be won. In fact, not to mention Hou Junji, any general of rank three or above who came from the Central Plains Unification War is capable of winning this battle. .Today's Tuyuhun is not the Tuyuhun at the beginning of Zhenguan."

Liu Rengui nodded, "That's right, Tuyuhun was severely injured in Sanlang's battle at the beginning. Although the imperial court has conquered its khanate in recent years, it has moved no less than 200,000 households from Qinghai one after another, let alone Dangxiang, Bailan Zhuqiang, these once staunch allies of Tuyuhun, are no longer affiliated with them now."

"Don't forget Yifu Abao!"

"Yes, that's your father-in-law." Liu Rengui laughed.

Yifu Abao is from Xianbei. He is from the Yifu tribe of Xianbei. He was a Xianbei tribe that came to the northwest earlier than Tuyuhun. Later, Tuyuhun established Tuyuhun, and the Yifu tribe also joined. Yifubu is famous for being good at fighting, riding and shooting well, very sturdy.

Yifu Abao's family is descended from King Gaoning, a famous royal family in Tuyuhun.

After Fu Yun's death, Abao became the governor of Qiemo, and Nuohebo was the governor of Shanshan, but because of his young age, his uncle Weixin Wang Murongying took the place of governor.

Later, Li Shimin specially brought Nuohebo into Chang'an and raised him in the palace for three years. Because Murong Shun said that his wife missed his son, Li Shimin later asked Murong Shun, who came to the court, to take his son back and stayed in Fuqi City. .

Although Tuyuhun is divided into four capitals, Qiemo and Shanshan in the west are actually united as one. Murong Yingdai Nuohebo, the governor of Shanshan, died in the battle when he conquered the Western Turks in the previous Tang Dynasty, and the court rewarded him more. Then let Yifu Abao lead the Shanshan Mansion on his behalf.

Therefore, the four capitals are actually divided into three parts. Murong Shun, the governor of the surrounding area of ​​Qinghai, is the governor of Xihai, and the respected king Murong Cheng is the governor of the southeast of Tuyuhun, and he is the governor of Heyuan.

Yifu Abao has high prestige and is good at fighting. His twin daughters served as Qin Lang's concubine and gave birth to a daughter for Qin Lang. With this relationship, he is now the only leader in the west of Tuyuhun.

He did not conspire with the king.

Even Murong Shun had engaged A Bao's youngest daughter as his fiancée for his son Nuo Hebo, so A Bao was not only Qin Lang's father-in-law, but also Nuo Hebo's father-in-law.

King Murong Cheng killed his brother and rebelled against the Tang Dynasty. Although there was support from Tubo, Tubo was still separated by Bailan, Domi, Dangxiang, etc. Yifu Abao will not be with him.

So don't look at how much Zun Wang is making a fuss, his current strength may not even be as strong as Fu Yun's back then, Fu Yun's soldiers are strong and strong, and Qin Lang has forced hundreds of thousands of horses to the ground, Zun Wang is now making a fuss, what will be the result?

"There is another very important thing. The Western Regions can now be owned by my Tang family, especially the countries south of the Tianshan Mountains. Now they are all my Tang vassals, so don't say that Yifu Abao is the father-in-law of Nuohebo, even if it is not , He didn’t dare to act rashly, otherwise, if he sent troops to the east, his lair would be killed by the cavalry from the countries south of the Tianshan Mountains and the Western Turks led by the Governor’s Mansion in the west of the town.”

Based on such an analysis, Hou Junji can win as he fights.

Unless he made some very mentally retarded mistake.

But although Hou Junji didn't have any great military exploits before, at least he studied the art of war with Li Jing for a few years, and served as the commander of the emperor's guards for many years. And he was still in the hands of Changsun Wuji before, and he forcibly took the great merit of Pingxi Turkic, so this person actually still has some skills.

Rollover is unlikely.

"In this way, if Hou Junji wins this battle, the crown prince will have made military achievements." Old Liu smiled.

Qin Lang could only smile wryly.

As long as Chengqian works hard, does he need to make military achievements like this?

Today's Tang Dynasty was not at the beginning of the founding of the country. Even at the beginning of the Wu Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty, the great ancestor Li Yuan rarely let Li Jiancheng go out to lead the army.

What the prince needs is to assist the emperor in governing the government and managing military and state affairs, not commanding troops to fight, going to the front line, or even charging into a trap. That is at most the prince's business, not the prince's business.

Outside the window, the rain rests and the clouds gather, and the sun shines down.

I'm afraid that Chengqian will continue to mess around when he reaches the front line. If he can be a soothing ambassador with peace of mind, he will certainly get some credit.

But in case he commits suicide again, it's the front line, swords and guns have no eyes.

I hope I won't do it again this time!