Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 283
When Xuan She was making trouble, His Majesty the Emperor was not idle.

First, to oversee the division of Huainan and Jiangnan administrative regions; second, to oversee the allocation of officials in various provinces, prefectures, and counties, to determine the duties of officials; and third, to formulate the local military system.

The division of administrative districts has probably been finalized almost, but the allocation of officials is still very controversial among the DPRK and China.

What is different from the past is that no one knows what the consequences will be if the power of personnel and supervision is delegated to the provinces, states, and counties.

What's more, the yamen servants, office workers, city defense soldiers, and township officials were all included in the official establishment of the imperial court.With such an increase of so many officials, how to determine salaries, rank customization, assessment, etc. is also a headache.

Zhang Chengye said worryingly: "During the Zhenguan period, there were only a few thousand high-ranking officials in the whole world. Now if you install officials according to His Majesty's idea, there may be no fewer than tens of thousands. If this is the case, the court may be overwhelmed!"

Li Ye shook his head, and said, "For example, the three classes of yamen servants are all paid by the imperial court, but they just set their positions right and work hard for the imperial court!"

His Majesty the Emperor has been studying the official system of the Tang Dynasty, and there are many loopholes, especially at the grassroots level, who rely on these government servants to pay taxes, pay fees, catch thieves and ask questions.

But what is a yamen servant in Datang?

They are a group of untouchables in identity, and they are looked down upon by scholars. Although they receive salaries from the county government, their salaries are very little.

In fact, these people do not live on the salaries issued by the county government. "Even explicitly ordered the children of the family not to engage in this kind of livelihood.

But in the eyes of ordinary people, they are already officials and lords, and even the officials they can see all their lives are these yamen servants.

If such an important post is not included in the imperial establishment, can Li Ye feel at ease?As long as it is included in the imperial establishment, it can be assessed.

Moreover, according to Li Ye's intention, these yamen servants can divert a large number of retired soldiers, who need training, supervision, and ideological education...

Well, His Majesty the Emperor had a good idea. In fact, he didn't know if it would change after it was implemented.

"There are hundreds of states in the Tang Dynasty, and I only need two states to implement the New Deal. If it doesn't work, I can change it again, and I can always achieve satisfactory results!"

Seeing that the emperor only wants the land of the two states, and the officials are silent, there are only two states. Even if it fails, it will not affect the world.

Taking the nearby Songzhou and Bozhou of Xuanwu as the false Henan Province, and the left admonishment doctor Dugushang as the false governor of Henan, the New Deal was tried out.

It was October, and everything was waiting to be done.

The large number of victims in Huainan, Henan also disturbed the emperor's mood.

At this time, His Majesty transferred Han Jian from Chang'an to Xuanwu, and appointed the Tang Dynasty's salt and iron transfer envoy to supervise the water transportation and land transportation of the states, and ordered Zhang Chengye to allocate grain and grass, and the states recruited hungry people to repair roads, dredge water transportation, and build water conservancy projects. .

As long as these hungry people have a mouthful of food to eat, they will respond a lot.

Furthermore, Caizhou, Zezhou, Xuanwu, and Huainan Road have all experienced wars, and there are many bandits in each prefecture and county.

On the one hand, the imperial court sent troops to suppress the bandits. After suppressing several giant bandits, the imperial court issued an announcement that the imperial court would not blame any bandits who surrendered within a month. Most of the local bandits went down the mountain.

Among these bandits, the imperial court selects the strong and strong, and the rest divide the land for farming, and eliminates the old and weak in each army, and enriches these old and weak to serve as government servants in various states, and the city defense soldiers, and enriches the strong and strong to each army.

After such three tricks, the states quickly stabilized.

But His Majesty the Emperor was also bound by these urgent tasks.

When the news of Sun Rujun's pacification reached Li Ye's ears, it was imperative to pacify Jiangnan.

At this time, on the south bank of Chang'an, the imperial court still had influence.

Lingnan Jiedu envoy Li Zhirou was from the imperial family of the Tang Dynasty, and Fujian observation envoy Chen Yan was the son of Chen Jian, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty during Ruizong's time. These two towns paid taxes constantly, and the governors of each prefecture were appointed by the imperial court.

It is a pity that although Li Zhirou was loyal to the imperial court, he suffered from lack of ability to govern the army. He served as the Lingnan Jiedu envoy, but his military power was controlled by his general Liu Yin.

Chen Yan, the Fujian observation envoy, was similar. The military power was controlled by his brother-in-law, Fan Hui, the general of the Fujian guard at the time, and there was also a powerful man in the territory, Quanzhou Governor Wang Chao.

So that after the two died, Liu Yin and Wang Chao soon took over the military and political power, while Liu Yin established the Southern Han Dynasty based on Lingnan, and Wang Chao established the Min Kingdom based on Fujian.

"Qian Miao in western Zhejiang, Dong Chang in eastern Zhejiang, Eyue, Hunan,..."

These future kings of the ten countries are now either occupying a state, or are still attacking each other.

Now is the best chance?
Li Ye called Jingxiang, Zhang Chengye, Du Rangneng, Wei Zhaodu, and Sun Wei to discuss the most important matters. This time, Shi Pu was not called, because the issues discussed this time were too sensitive.

"Sun Dudu, there are rules for the local soldiers and soldiers I mentioned last time!"

Sun Wei said the most: "Reporting to Your Majesty, there are some clues!"

Li Ye raised his eyebrows and said, "Speak carefully!"

"promise!"

"Your Majesty, I believe that there are three purposes for setting up troops. One is to suppress bandits, clear up the bandit troubles, and keep the place peaceful; the second is to coerce lawbreakers so that they do not dare to move; the third is to prevent side troubles!"

Li Ye nodded and said, "What does this have to do with Tuliu's strategy?"

Sun Wei said: "Your Majesty, in the Tang Dynasty, towns are governed by roads, prefectures, and counties, and troops are stationed for three purposes. They are used to suppress bandits, [-]% of them are local soldiers, [-]% of them are soldiers, and [-]% of them are used for coercion. Fifty percent of the soldiers are local soldiers, and those who guard the frontiers should be the best soldiers from the whole country. I think that [-] percent of them should be soldiers of the rank and file, and [-] percent of them should be town soldiers.”

Li Ye thought about it carefully, and asked, "For example, Xuan She, what do you think we should do!"

Sun Wei shook his head the most and said: "Your Majesty, Xuanshe is located inland and has no worries about border troubles. The garrison of troops is nothing more than suppressing bandits and deterring Xiaoxiao. I think that this town alone has no need for garrisoning troops. Xideng Town is the same as stationing an army, choose the main waterway to station troops, if something happens, you can also arrive at the morning and evening, and you can break the bandits overnight."

Li Ye nodded. Sun Wei's words were still to the point. The troops were stationed in places with convenient water and land transportation, and one army could radiate all towns.

"Thirty percent of the army is the brigade army, [-] percent is the native army, [-] percent of the native army is stationed in the same place as the buffalo army, and the remaining [-] percent is in the states, and then led by good generals, it can put the people at ease!"

Li Ye thought for a while, then nodded. There are some things that Sun Weizuo cannot say, but the emperor can do, that is, to control the generals.

For example, the place where the middle and upper-level generals are located and the place where the army is stationed cannot be the same place.

"My dear friends, what do you think?"

　Everyone, there is an urgent matter today, there is only one change, and it will be made up in another day
　　
　
(End of this chapter)