Chapter 1439: Tianbao Shenlong Emperor

Chapter 1439: Tianbao Shenlong Emperor

  Chapter 1439 Tianbao Shenlong Emperor

  Sixty years is not enough to turn the sea into a mulberry field.

  But it has already been two generations. Qin Jun is the generation born after Zhenguan, and now he will reach the year of knowing his destiny. And the emperors of the Tang Dynasty have passed on five emperors, the ancestor Gaozong, the ancestor Gaozong, and Li Ye, who is revered as the Emperor of Tianbao Shenlong today.

The Li family in the Huangtang Dynasty had been fighting fiercely in recent years. Even if the holy ancestor established the clan system, it could not completely improve the situation of this internal fighting. Every time the throne was changed, three or five princes would always die. There are six, seven or eight emperor uncles and even emperor uncles plus a group of side branches.

In comparison, it is the Qin family, Qin Qiong left seven sons behind, and now there is one king and six princes, except for his son Qin Xun who was held in Songzhou by Qin Lang and was not allowed to return to the Central Plains, and was his Duke of Qi who was busy taking concubines and having children. , Which of the other brothers is not a hero?

The fifth old Qin Xun has no skills, but his ability to take concubines and give birth to children is the most powerful among the brothers. He is almost sixty years old, and the number of sons is longer than his age, and he has given birth to more than sixty sons Yes, the eldest son is in his forties, and he even has great-grandchildren. As a result, he added three younger sons last year.

Qin Xun has more than sixty sons, nearly half of them are married and have children. Now he has nearly two hundred grandsons. If this Songzhou house can give birth like this in the future, then Qin Xun's more than sixty sons will have three children. Five hundred grandchildren are not a problem.

  Qin Lang only gave birth to twenty-one sons, but the number of grandchildren has exceeded three hundred, and the number is still increasing rapidly. Qin Lang is expected to have more than a thousand grandchildren and great-grandchildren in his lifetime.

  Qin Qiong's seven sons are now divided into seven houses, and each house has at least twenty sons, adding up to more than one hundred, and grandchildren adding up to a thousand.

Anyway, the Qin Li brothers now have a hard time remembering the grandchildren of the Qing brothers' family, let alone the imperial court, they can only reward a few Yin Fengen from the eldest family's concubine. Where can I take care of it.

   That is to say, the Qin family is special, with impressive martial arts and top-notch relatives, not to mention the ability to make money. Otherwise, it is not impossible for ordinary families to have so many children, but who would dare to do this?

  Do you really think that you won’t have to separate your family after you have a baby?

  Even if concubines and maidservants give birth to concubine sons, they can get less points, but those sons born to regular wives will always get a lot of points, so the more children and grandchildren, the more fierce the internal fighting in the big family, and the more the family business will be maintained.

Many aristocratic families have set up family rules to ensure that the family property is inherited by the eldest son of the family, such as the ancestral house and ancestral land, while the other sons can only share some money, and the other sons can only share a small amount. Fields, shops, etc., ancestral houses and ancestral fields plus ancestral books, etc., often only have the right to use, and are not eligible for division.

  It is to ensure that the family will not be weakened from generation to generation.

   But no matter how small the distribution is, there will still be a lot of distribution if there are too many people.

  So how can ordinary families dare to divide like the Qin family?

   Dozens of sons, hundreds of grandchildren, and thousands of male great-grandchildren in the future. This kind of reproduction and expansion method, even Jinshan can't stand it.

   But the Qin family doesn't care about these things, and the Qin family is really good at giving birth to children, and it is also good at childcare.

  The emperor was on his way to the Yanying Hall, and he couldn't help but think of the Tweeting System established by the Holy Ancestor when he established the system of enshrining the world. The meritorious officials of the imperial family are granted, and then they are enfeoffed from generation to generation. A piece of fiefdom, every time it is handed down to one generation, is redistributed again, and the fiefdom keeps getting smaller so that it cannot threaten the court.

  If this system is used, then although the Qin family has many internal and external fiefdoms, it is not a problem. But the problem is, Li Ye didn't dare to mention this matter rashly.

  Even after these years, the status of Luzon has become blurred.

   Is he still the territory of Datang?

Say yes, but Qin Lang is the king of a country within a country in Luzon. Apart from paying one million guan in taxes to the court every year, Luzon is autonomous in other aspects, and even has the right to levy, mint, It has the right to issue banknotes, and also has the right to command troops, diplomacy and even foreign wars.

  You said that he is not the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but the current laws, taxes, household registration system, etc. in Luzon are basically used by the Tang court.

In short, today's Luzon is in a very strange situation, and I can't say a word or two. After decades of Shengzu, Shizu, Gaozong and the current four dynasties, it has been entangled, and even the court is used to it. Luzon's special status.

In fact, the imperial court now completely treats Luzon as Japan, Linyi, and Chenla, and is not even included in the list of governors of Bohai, Mobei, Tocharo, Tubo, Subi, and Nibala. Because in the Bohai Sea and other places, although the local indigenous barbarians governed themselves, the imperial court had garrisons and even officials in these places, and the imperial court had control over the diplomacy and many other aspects of these places.

But Qin Lang’s Luzon had much more independent power than them. Anyway, the imperial court neither garrisoned nor sent officials in Luzon. Luzon had its own army, its own diplomacy, its own coinage, its own levy Taxation and justice, administration, etc.

  Under such circumstances, if one day Qin Lang dies, can Li Ye say to give Lu Song an order of grace? Can he divide the entire Luzon to his twenty-one sons in the name of the Son of Heaven?

  One Luzon Kingdom, turned into twenty-one Luzon Principalities? In the future, it will become two or three hundred Luzon princes? In the future, it will become thousands of Luzon counties, thousands of Luzon viscounts and barons?

   This is unlikely.

However, Pei Yan, Wei Yuanzhong and other apprentices once told the young emperor that if Luzon was treated separately, for example, directly placed in the same vassal state as Linyi and Japan, then these problems would not exist, and there would be Don't worry about it.

The young emperor felt that this seemed a little inappropriate, but Pei Yan said directly that Lu Song was not an old frontier of the Han family, nor was it opened up by the imperial court. In addition, it was a land in the sea far away from the Central Plains. It is not compared to the rivers in the Western Regions or the Dianyue and Chaonan areas in the Western Regions. After all, those places are connected to the territory of the Central Plains. Dianyue and Chaonan are two new sea estuaries in the southwest, and they are also connected to two fertile estuary plains.

Luzon is just a relatively independent archipelago in the sea, and the connection is not strong. Since the Qin family is strong, then separate him and maintain the current situation of special self-governing overseas feudal territories. There are millions of tax packages. What's more, Lu Song of the Qin family is in the South China Sea, and can still deter the Nanyang for the court.

   As for whether Luzon will be too big in the future, or even endanger the court, this is unlikely. It is not that the Qin family is believed to be loyal for generations, but that Luzon is just an island after all.

  This kind of island country in the sea, even if it develops again, can it still develop beyond the Central Plains?

  For example, Linyi, Baekje, Silla, and Wa, or island countries or peninsulas, which are not hundreds of years or thousands of years old, also cannot endanger the Central Plains. They are inherently restrictive.

The emperor did not fully agree with this statement. He felt that the development momentum of Luzon was different from that of Silla Baekje or Waguo Linyi. This is a regime ruled by the Han people that is very similar to the Central Plains. However, Gaochang is a small country with few people, and there are overlords such as Rouran and Turks restricting the surrounding area, but Luzon has already become a tyrant in Nanyang. Who can restrict him?

  However, the emperor also agreed with part of what Pei Yan and the others said, that is, since Lu Song is still very loyal, and the court has not yet had a suitable solution, it should be shelved for the time being.

  Thinking like this, I went all the way to Yanying Hall.

  Yanying Hall is a side hall, the hall is not big, but it is more convenient for the monarch and ministers to play the right role.

   "Is King Yi here?"

   "I am waiting for the order in the side chamber."

  Li Ye entered the hall, "Please come, King Yi."

  Qin Jun was led into the inner hall by the servants, and the emperor waved his hand to make everyone in the hall retreat.

   "The minister's performance today is not a secret matter. Both the servant and the historian can stay."

  The emperor was a little surprised. He thought it was a very confidential matter, so he had to make it right in private.

"Uncle, please sit down." Li Ye was very polite with a smile on his face, made tea for Li Ye himself, and said while making tea, "This is the new tea this year sent by my grandfather from Luzon. I heard that it is the best tea. The famous Luzon black tea is produced in the mountainous area of ​​Dingyuan Prefecture in the Northeast of Xinjin Mountain in Luzon. It is said that more than two thousand years ago, a group of Baiyue immigrants from the south of the Central Plains traveled across the ocean. After landing in Luzon, they entered the mountains and took them to terraced fields. technology of construction.

  They built terraced fields in the mountains with a height of more than 1,000 steps, and also built canals for irrigation in the winding mountains, which rise layer by layer like steps, towering into the sky.

  Grandpa turned those rice terraces into tea gardens, where the special climate cultivated Luzon black tea of ​​very high quality. "

  When Li Ye talked about this Luzon black tea, he looked quite familiar.

  Qin Jun took the teacup handed to him by the emperor, thank you.

   "Compared with the top black tea in Wuyi Mountain, there is still a gap between Luzon black tea." Qin Jun said truthfully.

   "But I heard that Luzon black tea and black tea are sold far more than Wuyishan black tea in the overseas tea trade, and the share is getting higher every year."

"That's mainly because the black tea in Wuyi Mountain is of higher quality. It focuses on high-end tea and is mainly sold domestically. Luzon black tea is mainly sold in the middle and low-end home. Your Majesty also knows that overseas barbarians drink tea. The method is very different from my Central Plains, there is no such a long tea drinking culture in the Central Plains, which is the same as the black tea that has been mainly sold to nomadic tribes in the grasslands such as Mobei and Southwest, and the demand is different."

   Finish a cup of tea.

  Qin Jun noticed that there were two living historians sitting behind the emperor, who were writing quickly, recording the conversation and behavior between the emperor and Qin Jun just now.

   "Today, I invite Yanying to leave, because I want to ask the saint to resign face to face."

   "Please resign?"

  The emperor was surprised.

  Even the two living men stopped writing for a while in surprise, and looked up, the servants and palace people waiting in the palace were also very surprised.

   "However, what did I do wrong? I was rude to my uncle. I have just been in charge, so I still don't understand many things. If there is something wrong, please speak up." The emperor's posture was very low.

  Qin Jun quickly got up and crossed his hands to apologize.

"Since the sage has been in power, he has acted fairly and generously. He has the air of a sage. It is not because of him that the minister resigned. It is because the minister agreed at the beginning of Emperor Gaozong's succession that he would return to Luzon when the court was stable. Later, when the Grand Master entered the court, he said that the Western Regions were not stable, so he asked me to go to the Western Regions with Su Shuai to guard the frontier and put down the rebellion Xihu. After that, the town lasted for thirteen years, and now the western border is stable, and the sages in the court are officially in charge, and the inside and outside are peaceful , a prosperous scene, the minister will retire and return to Luzon."

  (end of this chapter)