Quanzhen Little Daoist starts

Chapter 331
This time Qiu Zhiqing made a big move against the Han court.

In addition to laying the foundation for future governance.

In fact, the most important thing is the change of the army. Here, the treatment of the big man and the former soldiers is almost entirely based on confiscation and granting of land.

But the great Han Dynasty has been in peace for hundreds of years, and the land has been divided up. How can there be extra land to grant them fields.

Moreover, the Great Han actually inherited the pre-Qin military merit system.

It's just that this system exists in name only, because almost all the soldiers who have done meritorious service "voluntarily" hand in their credit to the generals in exchange for some benefits.

In this way, two pillars.

Almost all of them were hollowed out, and the military merit system existed in name only.

Now it can maintain a certain combat power, which is entirely due to the influence of the national military service system.

It's a pity that the world is in chaos and the household registration is moving. This system of universal military service is also difficult to maintain.

If no changes are made, I am afraid that after a hundred years, the combat power of the Han army will show a precipitous decline.

During Liu Hong's period, the standing army of the Han army was about 50. This is what Qiu Zhiqing knew, according to his previous understanding in the Song Dynasty.

The standing army of the Eastern Han Dynasty was only about 15.

Now it's quite a lot, and the population is much larger than what Qiu Zhiqing knew.

There are about [-] million people, but this is the data from the Xiping years, that is, the few years when Qiu Zhiqing first arrived here.

Today, plagues and droughts, natural disasters and man-made disasters, the population is estimated to be no less than 3000 million.

As far as Guangqiu Zhiqing knew, there were three major epidemics, minor ones, two severe droughts, multiple blizzards, earth dragons overturned, river diversions, etc. It is hard to imagine that these all happened in more than 20 years.

Now the military salary has been re-enacted, as well as a series of honors.

But it is not distributed through the generals, but through the court.

It is directly distributed to individuals or family members. As for the issue of their deduction of military pay, they have come up with a comprehensive plan...

Ma Teng is currently the new Tengxiang left-back general.

To be honest, although this Teng Xiangwei said that he took a word from his name, he didn't recognize it. At the time, Zhang Yang and his fellows took advantage of their battle with Li Jue and others.

Directly rushing in from the flanks, the formations of the two armies were dispersed in one fell swoop.

Before they could react, it was another cavalry charge.

After the cavalry passed, a burst of spears fell from the sky.

Accompanying it was the rain of arrows that covered the two armies, just like the heavy rain that fell from the companions along with the hail, directly disintegrating the morale of the two armies.

Looking at the Bingzhou Army marching in formation in the distance, they knew at that time that they had no chance to fight back.

Even so, they were still unconvinced and wanted to retreat some distance, and then fight again with the whole army!

Unexpectedly, Hu Lai, who had been waiting for a long time, was robbed directly, the food and grass were taken away, and the army was surrounded again. Zhang Yang didn't care about Li Jue and Guo Si who retreated into the city.

Instead, the whole army pressed forward, obviously wanting to deal with Ma Teng, Han Sui and others.

Don't give Ma Teng and others time to regroup.

Zhang Yang personally led the cavalry of his headquarters to rush into the formation, and at one stroke dispersed Ma Teng and others who wanted to regroup.

Finally, tell them the facts and reason.

Ma Teng and others were finally persuaded by Zhang Yang's reasoning and agreed to accept the imperial reorganization and wait for the imperial order. Even if they disagreed, there was nothing they could do.

The army that was used to negotiate terms with the imperial court has been defeated.

They didn't take the opportunity to take their lives, it was a grace of life.

What else can they say, just be obedient.

Compared with Ma Teng and others who were not going to collapse that day.

Gathered Fan Chou, Li Jue, Guo Si and others who were staying in Chang'an, and confronted Wang Yun and Qiu Zhiqing for one night until the next day, the eighth day of May.

Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu led the Nanyang army to help.

At first, Li Jue and the others thought they were their own.

Unexpectedly, it was Qiu Zhiqing's team.

Unexpectedly, there were also Wang Yun and others. They waited for Huangfusong to come, but Huangfusong came with Wu Xian. As a result, Qiu Zhiqing's troops in Chang'an exceeded [-].

Compared with Dong Zhuo's men and horses back then, they were much more numerous.

Coupled with Jia Xu's persuasion, Li Jue and the other three quickly put down their weapons and surrendered.

In fact, Qiu Zhiqing didn't care about these three stupid people, and wanted to kill them directly.

After all, these three people have brought many disasters to Guanzhong in these years.

However, under Jia Xu's persuasion, Qiu Zhiqing finally changed his mind and asked them to go to Liangzhou to suppress the rebellion and suppress the Qiang tribe that was about to move.

This is a later story, and they are not in charge.

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In a side hall, five people including Qiu Zhiqing sat in two rows, with Liu Xiedan at the head.

Although his face was upright, he looked neither happy nor sad.

But Qiu Zhiqing, who has been resting his eyes with his eyes closed, can still feel a trace of complex emotions such as fear, hatred, and gratitude in his eyes inadvertently.

There's no way, it's not that Qiu Zhiqing wants to peep.

Instead, he just knelt and sat there, but that emotion was too strong.

It's too complicated to hide, or rather, he doesn't know how to hide it.

If it is said that although Liu Hong is weak, he can easily suppress the entire Luoyang.

The Liu Xie in front of him is not only weak, but also unable to use the national destiny and the "Eight Dragons Holding Pearl Formation" that guards the capital, and can only let the formation suppress the cultivators instinctively.

This is of course due to the loss of the Jade Seal of Chuanguo and the Chixiao Divine Sword.

But it is also closely related to Liu Xie's failure to receive Liu Hong's inheritance.

As for, when Liu Hong came to power, Emperor Huan was dead.

How he got the inheritance, Qiu Zhiqing didn't know.

But what is certain is that Liu Hong did get a part of the inheritance, otherwise, "Zhang Jiao" wouldn't be so afraid of Liu Hong, and eventually killed Zhang Jiao.

Moreover, Qiu Zhiqing saw the battle back then.

Even though "Zhang Jiao" was well prepared, he still almost overturned the car.

It can be seen that the power of the dynasty cannot be underestimated.

Even if there is no "Cangtian", it is reasonable to use the fortune of the country to run the magic circle of the capital. It is a piece of cake for an adult emperor to control the capital.

But Liu Xie is obviously an exception.

Looking at the various fruits and vegetables placed in front of him.

To be honest, Liu Xie himself likes it very much and wants to try it.

But reason told him that although Qiu Zhiqing was still respectful to him.

He was more respectful than Wang Situ was to him, but he felt that this respect was very limited.

In his impression, the emperor should have the supreme power, just like before, ministers and eunuchs treated his father the same.

Of course, he may have never seen the scene where those ministers sprayed Liu Hong face to face.

That doesn't give face, always saying "Your Majesty doesn't know something!", "Your Majesty is confused by a traitor" and so on...

If you want to ask how Qiu Zhiqing knew, of course it was Cai Bojie who told him.

Oh, by the way, Cai Bojie is now in charge of the household department, and he is still on his way to take up the post. With him, there is also Zheng Yan who is in charge of Yushitai. Qiu Zhiqing feels that Yushitai is a perfect match for his temperament.

Of course, this is really monitoring the world's officials, not trolling people.

As for his other right-hand man, Peng Tuo, he served in the Ministry of Industry.

His task is to dredge the canals and prepare for the resumption of production in Guanzhong.

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting better, Qiu Zhiqing said: "Your Majesty, fellow colleagues, in today's world, you must have some calculations in your mind, how many people can listen to the imperial court's orders?
Presumably His Majesty and colleagues are also aware of..."

Although there is no famous emperor's declaration at this time:

"Emperor Ning has kindness? Those with strong soldiers and strong horses are the ears!"

But this is something that everyone knows. Maybe the emperor of the Han Dynasty in the past really had a "Mandate of Heaven", but now, even "Heaven" has been praised by others, so where is the "Mandate of Heaven"?
Such a long time has passed, even ordinary people don't know it.

Those of them, who can sit in this row, still don't know?

Liu Xie's expression didn't change much when he heard Qiu Zhiqing's words.

The hands clasped in the sleeves were tightly held together, and the eyes that were still somewhat clear suddenly became wonderful, three points regretful, two points frightened, and one point helpless.

Deplored at the downfall of a thousand-year-old man, terrified at Qiu Zhiqing's frankness, and helpless at his own weakness.

At this moment, although he is the Son of Heaven, he seems to be able to control the fate of the people in the world.

But in fact, he is just a young emperor who has no power to resist in the face of fate and power.

They say he is the Son of Heaven, and he is the Son of Heaven.

If they don't admit it, it's not impossible to support other people!
Thinking of this, Liu Xie looked at Liu Yu inadvertently, but happened to meet Liu Yu's looking eyes. There was a hint of complacency in those eyes, as if provocative.

Liu Xie was so frightened that he quickly lowered his eyes and pretended to be calm.

Liu Yushi just felt a gaze fall from the direction of the head.

Staying on himself, presumably the emperor wanted to see his own thoughts.

So he returned a reassuring look.

Seeing the emperor nodding his head and lowering his eyes, Liu Yu thought he had the emperor's permission, so he began to speak: "I don't know Mr. Qiu..." As soon as he spoke, he felt inappropriate again.

Qiu Zhiqing was the State Shepherd before, so it was all right to call him "Emissary".

Now everyone is a member of this so-called "political affairs hall" and performs the duties of prime minister.

The prime minister is in charge of the court, and the yin and yang are divided.

Calling Qiu Zhiqing "Emissary" is a bit unreasonable, but what can you call him?
"Prime Minister"?

This is even more inappropriate...

Liu Yu thought for a moment, and thought it was inappropriate to call him "Duke Ming", so he simply called him by his position, "I don't know what Prime Minister Qiu thinks, what should we do?"

"This question, Xu Xiang is more experienced, it is more appropriate for him to answer this question."

Qiu Zhiqing thought that Liu Yu was quite interesting.

Since they are acting as prime ministers, they are not prime ministers.

Take a word "Xiang" and add a surname in front to distinguish it.

It was still very good, so he readily accepted the title, but for the explanation, Qiu Zhiqing felt that Xu Rong was more professional, after all, the Bingzhou Zhengshitang had been in operation for several years.

Xu Rong is also one of the members and is quite familiar with this set.

Seeing a trace of displeasure flashing in Liu Yu's eyes, Qiu Zhiqing knew it.

He thought that he looked down on him, so for the convenience of future work, Qiu Zhiqing still explained it.

"Brother Bo'an...don't misunderstand. The reason why Xiang Xu was asked to explain to Liu Xiang is because Xiang Xiang has been working in the "Zhengshi Tang" of Bingzhou in his early years. Xu Xiang is more professional..."

When Qiu Zhiqing said this, he was explaining it, and he didn't mean to belittle it.

Secondly, it also shows that Xu Rong is also equal to them, not just his subordinates of Qiu Zhiqing.

Sure enough, Liu Yu's complexion improved a lot after hearing what Qiu Zhiqing said.

As soon as these words came out, it was Qiu Zhiqing who called himself a sign, indicating that the relationship between everyone remained unchanged.

Calling him an official position is just for government affairs exchanges, which basically shows that Qiu Zhiqing is not just playing house with everyone and putting on a show, but really wants to build a good court.

Everyone here was Menqing, and they relaxed a little bit on Qiu Zhiqing's guard.

They all began to listen to Xu Rong's explanation of the working mode of their "Zhengshitang".

Among the people present, only Liu Xie didn't quite understand.

These ministers of his have reached an exchange of views inadvertently.

But because he didn't understand the previous conversation, it didn't mean he didn't understand what Xu Rong said. The so-called "Zhengshitang" was not just acting as the prime minister.

Even his power as the emperor has been exercised by them.

The more Liu Xie listened, the darker his face became, but he didn't have an attack.

It doesn't make any sense for him to have an attack at this time.

After hearing a lot, Liu Xie calmed down instead. He found that this was not completely bad for him. At least, he, Liu Xie, could manage the affairs of the palace by himself.

With the right to mobilize the guards in the palace, even a little Huangmen wouldn't dare to show him face, right?

But what makes him very upset is his so-called control over the imperial army.

It is limited to transfer, he does not have the right to appoint or dismiss, nor does he pay military salaries.

After a period of time, the forbidden army will rotate.

As expected of being a soldier, Xu Rong explained the functions of the Zhengshitang to several people in a few words.

Liu Yu and the others looked at each other. At this moment, they seemed to have reached a deal. They smiled at Qiu Zhiqing and Xu Rong and said:

"In this case, let's talk about the plan for the second half of this year first, as if you are familiar with it..."

For playing by the rules, they think they are not afraid of anyone.

What they were really afraid of was people like Dong Zhuo who didn't follow the rules at all.

After several times of probing, Liu Yu, Huang Wan, Huang Fusong and others all agreed that Qiu Zhiqing is a man of rules, so very good, very good!
Several people quickly agreed on the military.

The original Great General's Mansion was directly split up by them.

By the way, the General's Mansion has its own Mo Mansion, which has another name, also known as "Shogunate".

A Mo mansion is equivalent to a small imperial court, which is called opening a mansion and building a government office.

However, in order to put an end to this, the General's Mansion has the right to manufacture weapons, store arsenals, appoint generals, etc. They plan to split the General's Mansion.

In other words, in the future there will be only the Zhengshitang, not the General's Mansion.

Weapons forging, food and fodder, etc., were distributed by the imperial court.

In addition to the six ministries, under the Zhengshitang, the General's Mansion was set up, and the General's Mansion was responsible for coordinating the military affairs...

(End of this chapter)