Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 112 Returning to the Rebel Army

Re-dividing administrative regions is a matter of great importance. If it is done well, it can be followed by Hanzhong and Western Shu.

There are two principles for redistricting administrative districts, one is streamlining, and the other is criss-crossing.

The so-called simplification can follow the Han system, one county governs about twenty counties, and five counties form one prefecture.This approach can greatly reduce administrative costs.

But now, a state governor only manages five or six counties, and a Jiedu envoy is added to manage three or four states, which makes the court officials not enough.

You must know that a state governor is from the third or fourth rank, which is equivalent to a ministerial cadre, and manages only half of the city's territory.

The level of local officials is too high, and the corresponding expenditure of the imperial court has also greatly increased.

If it is streamlined, not only can it be greatly reduced, but the number of magistrates and the imperial court can easily manage officials, and it can also help the imperial court save a lot of administrative costs.

The so-called interlacing principle is entirely out of military considerations. At this time in the Tang Dynasty, the division of administrative regions at all levels is basically based on mountains, rivers and rivers.

And what Li Ye has to do is to draw the administrative districts of each state to the side of the mountain and the other side of the river, to break through the natural dangers of mountains and rivers, to form a situation where I am in you, and you are in me, and prevent hidden dangers before they happen.

According to Li Ye's idea, Fengxiang and Jingyuan were merged into one prefecture, Binning, Baoda plus Sui and Yin prefectures were merged into one prefecture, and Tong prefecture was assigned directly under the jurisdiction of Jingzhaofu.

If there are mountains, rivers and rivers on the borders of the states, the borders will be re-demarcated according to the second principle.

Li Ye could not decide on this matter arbitrarily, he had to win the support of his courtiers.

But before discussing with the prime ministers, Li Ye called Jingxiang to discuss.

After Jing Xiang finished watching, he was quite amazed.

The beauty of this is naturally obvious.

"Your Majesty, if you want to carry out this policy, you will probably be hindered a lot."

"Ai Qing, please try your words?"

"Your Majesty, if this policy is implemented now, the household registrations of fields and acres in each state and county will have to be reorganized, and there may be confusion in taxation. All state government offices and officials will need to be reappointed. The existing cattle and farm tools in each state and county will also need to be redistributed. Even the imperial court cannot fully understand the details, and if there is any discrepancy, trouble may arise."

Li Ye said: "I ordered the Ministry of Households to send people to each prefecture and county to make a copy of the existing farmland household registration, and then make a copy according to the state and counties that will be divided later. Farm tools for cattle, etc., are all owned by the Ministry of Households, and after being divided, they will be distributed uniformly.”

Jing Xiang said: "I think that after the autumn harvest, the tax will be put into the treasury."

Li Ye nodded. At this time, stability is still the number one priority. Today's autumn Fu is the most important thing. After digesting Jingyuan, Tongzhou, Fengfang, Yinzhou, and Suizhou, we will make further calculations.

And through this move, the tails of Fengxiang and Binning can also be cut off.

"Even if we do it again in autumn, we must make early preparations at this time. The Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of this matter."

Li Ye turned to the servant and said, "Sun Kui, the servant of the household department."

While waiting for Sun Kui, Li Ye thought again that Zhang Chengye was a good hand in politics. At this time, Zhang Chengye was wasting time in Hanzhong, so Li Ye decided to recall Zhang Chengye to the capital to take care of the matter.

As for who to send to replace Zhang Chengye, Li Ye encountered another difficulty, and there were still too few handsome talents in his hands.

Just as I was thinking about it, Sun Kui, the servant of the Household Department of Xiaohuangmenbao, and also the same as Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhang, arrived.

Sun Kui was not surprised to see Jing Xiang here, and hurried forward to salute.

Li Ye asked the servant to pass the draft of administrative division to Sun Kui, and said, "Sun Shilang, let's have a look first!"

Sun Kui opened the draft and read it very seriously...

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Just when Li Ye and Sun Kui were discussing the division of administration.

A group of people came to Chang'an City.

There were only a dozen or so people who came, and all of them were dressed in rags and had sunken eyes and cheeks.

And everyone carries weapons.

When the city guards saw it, they knew that this pedestrian had a background, so they hurriedly stopped and asked.

"Who are you guys? Why did you come to Chang'an?"

The leader said humanely: "A certain general Chi Haijian, under the command of Zhang Weishen, the governor of Yizhou, came to Chang'an to meet His Majesty."

Hearing this, the pawn didn't dare to make a judgment, so he hurriedly informed the superior officer. Seeing this, the city gate guard sent someone to notify the Jingzhao Mansion directly. When Han Jian heard this, he hurriedly sent someone to send the group to the post, and Han Jian himself reported to the emperor.

The reason is simple, this pedestrian really has a lot of background.

This matter is related to the land of Hexi in the Tang Dynasty, and it started 40 years ago.

Zhang Yichao, a Shazhou tycoon who was trapped in Tubo, secretly made friends with heroes and plotted to return to Tang Dynasty. In the second year of Tang Xuanzong's Dazhong (848 A.D.), Zhang Yichao led the people to launch a mutiny, expelled the Tubo defenders, and recovered Shazhou.

After the recovery of Shazhou, Zhang Yichao immediately sent ten teams of envoys to report victory to Tang Ting.

Then in the following year, Tuoba Huaiguang, the general of the party department, was conquered, and Ganzhou and Suzhou controlled by Tubo were captured.

In the four years of Dazhong, Zhang Yichao regained Yizhou after a series of battles and victories.

In this year, among the ten teams of envoys sent by Zhang Yichao, only Gao Jinda reached Chang'an all the way. At this time, two full years had passed since Zhang Yichao raised his troops on Shazhou.

The Tang court never expected that decades after the court lost control of Hexi, there would be a lone army resisting Tubo in Hexi. Tang Xuanzong Li Chen was greatly moved and awarded this army the Guiyi Army.

After the envoy returned, the praise and praise of the Tang Empire greatly boosted the morale of Zhang Yichao's Guiyi Army. The following year they successively conquered Hezhou, Shanzhou, Kuozhou and other eleven states in Hexi. Except for Liangzhou, Hexi has returned to the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the Guiyi Army continued to win consecutive battles, and the imperial court became more and more afraid of the Guiyi Army.

To show his sincerity, Zhang Yichao sent his brother Zhang Yitan to the capital as a hostage.

Five years later, King Tuguhun invaded Shazhou. Zhang Yichao led his troops to crusade, defeated the enemy in the first battle, pursued for more than a thousand miles, and won a complete victory. In the second year of Xiantong (861 AD), Zhang Yichao conquered Liangzhou in one fell swoop in 13 years, and the Hexi Corridor has been unimpeded since then.

In the eighth year of Xiantong (867 A.D.), Zhang Yichao's elder brother Zhang Yitan, who had been held hostage in Chang'an, died. Zhang Yichao, who was 69 years old, left Shazhou resolutely and went to Chang'an as a hostage.

This was Zhang Yichao's decision to show the two brothers' loyalty to Datang.

After Zhang Yichao entered Beijing, he handed over the position of Hexi to his elder brother Zhang Yitan's son, Zhang Huaishen.

Although Zhang Huaishen was brave, he defeated Uighurs and Tubo many times. Unfortunately, during the reign of Emperor Xizong, the court's suspicion of Hexi never stopped.

Zhang Huaishen was only granted the Observation Envoy of Iraq, Gua, and Shazhou, and could not command all the Guiyi Army. He asked the court many times to grant him the Guiyi Army Jiedu Envoy, but the court did not agree.

Without the name of Jiedushi, Zhang Huaishen couldn't order Zhang Yichao's son and son-in-law to be a gang of titans.

At this time, the Xizhou Uyghurs took advantage of the opportunity of the split of the Guiyi Army and successively captured several states in Hexi. Since then, the Guiyi Army and the Tang court have been separated again.

This time, it was the eighth time Zhang Huaishen sent an envoy, and the purpose was still one thing, to ask for the envoy of the Guiyi Army.

(End of this chapter)