After walking out of Luoyang Palace, Qin Lang's back was completely wet.

Being with the king is like a tiger.

Even if he is as wise as Li Shimin, he will still go crazy.

The emperor's envoy stepped into the backyard of Henan government office, and the emperor's envoy followed him in.

Lu Kuan, the supervisor of the palace, came in with a smile.

This was originally a branch of the Murong tribe of the Xianbei Province. Lu Kuan was originally surnamed Doulu, his father Doulutong, and his mother was Princess Changle, the sister of Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Zhong.

At that time, Murong Feng, the king of the northern land of Later Yan, surrendered to Zhuang Wei, and was given the surname Doulu, and was appointed as the governor of Changle County. In Xianbei's words, Doulu originally meant to surrender.

Later, the Doulu clan did not accept this surname in vain. From the Later Yan surrendered to the Northern Wei, then to the Western Wei, then to the Northern Zhou, Sui, and during the Sui rebellion, Doulukuan followed Xiao Yu to the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuan gave Doulukuan's contribution to the Long, and specially ordered the Taihe imperial edict to leave the Dou surname Lu.

This has served as the governor of Qizhou, and his son has also become the sixth daughter of Li Yuan.

Lu Kuan had a prosperous official career. After the Xuanwu Gate Incident, he immediately stood in a new crown prince. Therefore, he was promoted to the Minister of Rites and General of the Left Wu Guard. Later, something went wrong and was demoted to the prison of the palace.

"Duke Wei, Your Majesty has a reward."

Qin Lang received the order.

The emperor asked Lu Kuan to come and give Qin Lang a reward of one thousand taels of gold, ten thousand pieces of silk, hundreds of Turkic slaves, and ten other beauties.

Qin Lang didn't know whether Li Shimin was trying to express his crazy apology or to deliberately disgust him. Just now, because Zheng Wanyan suspected that they had an affair, they made the two blush and now they gave ten beauties.

"Thank you for your kindness."

Lu Kuan looked at the kid with some envy.

"The rewards are not only here. Your Majesty's special order, Duke Wei, you have made contributions in preventing epidemics and treating acne, and you have specially strengthened food and sealed hundreds of households, and you will be connected to the first 1,800 households. The first armored house is awarded in Luoyang City!"

Qin Lang looked very happy, which made Lu Kuan very puzzled.

One hundred households are actually sealed. Now Qin Lang has a total of 1,800 households, two hundred higher than Qin Qiong's 1,600, and the Zhenguan Dynasty is actually the first place.

But since Qin Lang obtained the Wu'anzhou fief, he now has a population of more than 20,000. Therefore, after the feudal system was released, the real food seal was actually meaningless, and it was just another economic gain.

Qin Lang felt a little discouraged now.

Even if Li Shimin's kindness is so great now, he cannot forget the terrible appearance of the emperor in the hall before.

He felt that it was time for him to reflect on himself. He was not as smart as he thought, and the court was not inseparable from him.

As Li Shimin said, although he had more ideas, he had to achieve results. It was inseparable from the determination and execution of the court. Without the full support of the emperor and the careful execution of the court, no matter how many ideas he had, it would be useless.

So the majority of the credits are all from the emperor and the court.

Qin Lang now regrets why he had to protect Zheng Wanyan, or why did he be so kind to himself when the emperor rewarded her as a maid? If he had just taken her away and become a maid, wouldn't he have no future events?

Maybe I'll have already accepted Zheng Wanyan and I can't finish the holiday with the Zheng family as soon as possible.

Just now, the emperor said that he was wrongly blamed by Qin Lang, but who knows when the emperor will suspicion again?

Such things will make you look fishy when you get involved.

Why do you encounter such a mess?

After thinking about it, I still haven't been low-key enough.

Looking at Qin Qiong, being a low-key person and doing things at a high-profile manner is in his prime, but he retreats bravely and makes himself seem like he is almost dead.

Maybe I should learn it myself too.

The court had just destroyed the Eastern Turks, but it would probably take several years to digest the results of the Eastern Turks' fall. Moreover, the rapid destruction of the Turks this time was not a good thing. It happened that the court encountered a major hunger epidemic again. The fruit was too big and it was sore throat.

Without the commander of the Asina Golden Wolf clan in Mobei, the nine surnames Tiele probably couldn't help but take the opportunity to rise up again.

If the imperial court does not handle it properly, it will destroy the Turkic wolf, and it may cause iron le wolf again.

After this battle, Li Shimin probably did not dare to be radical anymore. Perhaps he would be more conservative in the next few years. It might be a wise move for Qin Lang to withdraw from the court at the right time.

If possible, Qin Lang would rather manage his Shifeng territory. Last year, he just laid a foundation and there are too many things to do.

Qin Qiong also newly granted a fiefdom, far away in Songzhou, west of Jiannan, it was under the snowy mountain, between Jiannan, Longyou, and it was a key point in a strategic channel, but the problem was that the place was really remote and backward.

You can know the situation where yaks are raised.

There were all over the place of Rongyi, and opposite were the Qiang people such as Dangxiang who were attached to Tuyuhun. To be honest, Songzhou was not small. After Qin destroyed Shu, he set up counties there.

However, it was later part of the barbarian control area, until the first year of Wude that the court set up Songzhou again.

Although the Sichuan Basin Plain is the fertile country of Tianfu, Songzhou, the source of the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, is a very wild and remote place, separated by Daxue Mountains. Geographically, it should be placed in Longyou instead of Jiannan.

It would be more difficult to manage this fiefdom well than Qin Lang's Wu'anzhou.

The Rongyi here is mainly dominated by Qiang and Di, and is more powerful than the Li Liaoman in Wu'anzhou. The climatic and terrain there are also high-altitude areas. Songzhou City is nearly 3,000 meters above sea level, and the top of the snow-capped mountain is more than 5,000 meters above sea level.

The high-altitude climate is much more powerful than the humid and hot climate in Lingnan.

It is difficult to farm in that place, and you can only rely on animal husbandry. Of course, it also occupies the main transportation routes, so it should be profitable to engage in some tea and horse trade.

The Qiang people have been fierce and warlike since ancient times. During the Han Dynasty, the Han-Qiang wars fought for more than a hundred years. It is probably difficult for Qin Qiong to establish a firm foothold in this fiefdom. The problem is that he still has to throw a lot of money in it.

And Qin Lang is very short of money now.

To build Wu'an Prefecture, countless money has been invested, just like a bottomless pit.

But the famine epidemic in the past winter and this spring caused Qin Lang to suffer heavy losses. He set an example and donated a lot. Although the court also bought most of the money, it would be difficult for a while to use the money to cash out the bill.

As he thought about it, Qin Qiong came.

After Qin Lang came to Luoyang, he visited Qin Qiong several times. Qin Qiong had a house in Luoyang, which was given by the emperor. Qin Qiong had asked him to live there before, but Qin Lang said that he was now a bachelor living in the yamen alone to facilitate official business, so he did not live there.

"Why are you here?"

Qin Qiong was worried, "The fifth lady told me that you have been in some trouble recently, and said that Your Majesty had just summoned you into the palace and even had a big fire?"

The fifth lady is Li Junxian's nickname. He is Qin Qiong's old subordinate. He knows very clearly what kind of trouble Qin Lang is in now, but he can't explain it too clearly to Qin Qiong, but he still vaguely reveals it.

"Don't worry, Grandpa, your Majesty has a little misunderstanding of me, but now it's clear." Qin Lang said to Qin Qiong with a smile.

"Tell me and grandpa." I am afraid that the misunderstanding that the emperor misunderstands is definitely not something that can be explained clearly in a few words.

Qin Lang didn't want to say it, but Qin Qiong was very nervous.

He rarely saw this general nervous, and it seemed that he was struggling and entangled a few days before the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

"It's not really a big deal, it's simple...

Qin Qiong listened very seriously.

"It's this Zheng girl again, she's a complete disaster." Qin Qiong slapped her legs angrily, and became more and more dissatisfied with Zheng Shisanniang.

"No wonder a woman."

"You still talk for her at this time, hey."

Qin Qiong suddenly stared at her son, "Tell the truth to Grandpa, you really don't have any personal relationship with her, right?"

"No."

Qin Qiong couldn't understand why the emperor suddenly investigated this matter. "Is it the same thing that Li Yaoshi had encountered before?" Qin Qiong suspected that this was something Li Shimin intended, and perhaps some imperial power trick.

Hearing Qin Lang said he was planning to resign, the emperor did not agree, but after giving him two months off, Qin Qiong felt more and more that it might be his guess.

The emperor now likes to play imperial skills like this. For meritorious ministers, especially ministers, they always have to find some trouble to knock on them first, and then let him sit on the bench for a while, and then investigate them clearly and express their innocence, and then give them a reward of favor.

"Our Qin family has been doing a little too well in the past few years."

Qin Qiong decided to go to the fiefdom.

According to the imperial court's law of the world, if the meritorious officials do not serve in the court, they will indeed be granted the title of the vassal. It is precisely this that has led many meritorious officials to firmly oppose the world's law of the world, thinking that the emperor wanted to use the world's law of the world to drive the meritorious officials out of the court's center and to the border.

Under the feudal system of the Han and Jin dynasties, the feudal marquis were also very reluctant to leave the capital and go to the fiefdom.

"Your Majesty often says that the wind is strong and the strong grass is strong. When the storm meets loyal ministers, our Qin family is not afraid of the wind. It's just that the times change, and now it's not as good as before. The two of us in the court are indeed a bit too annoying, especially the Guanlong family and the Shandong gentry. "

"Let's retreat. When your Majesty needs it, we two will come out and serve your Majesty again."

Qin Qiong patted his son. He always thought that his son was smart, but he was a little too sharp. It was easy to break even after just getting better. This was something he had always worried about.

In the past, he was not worried about Qin Lang. After all, he had the emperor's trust, but now the emperor has played this, so he has to wake up.

Qin Lang felt that although Qin Qiong was too cautious, it seemed nothing wrong now.

For people like Li Shimin who can’t afford to play, let’s play with him. Let’s talk about it first. Anyway, there will be no major problems in the court for the time being.

Next, Li Shimin would definitely enter the stage of rest and recuperation. The court's grain and the people's family did not have three years of storage, so Li Shimin probably wouldn't dare to give up easily anymore.

Qin Lang also felt that he had done his best for the emperor and the court. Now he had to manage his own small family, otherwise Qin Lang would go bankrupt.

He had more than 100,000 acres of land in the Central Plains, but now due to the impact of hunger and epidemic, it is difficult to complete the spring sowing, and most of the tenants are still fleeing to famine.

As our family finally started large-scale ecological farming, the farms were completely shut down. When the hunger was serious, even the sows in the sow farm were handed over to the government to slaughter and get meat to help the people.

When it comes to losses, Qin Lang's losses are really huge.

He is really heart-wrenching to the court and the emperor, and treats the court as his own. But Li Shimin actually did that with him, which is too boring.

Sitting in front of the stove, Qin Lang closed his eyes and was planning.

Zhang Chao knocked on the door.

"Sanlang, someone just put a letter on my desk, but there was no one. The envelope said Saburo's enlightenment."

Qin Lang frowned, took the letter, and opened it, there was only one sentence inside.

"Concubine Zheng hanged herself in the cold palace, which was actually a secret death."
Chapter completed!