Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 300
His Majesty the Emperor looked around Bianliang, decided to build school buildings in four places, and confided his heart to the generals.

As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes, but they are all wearing shoes. With pots and pans, they should be afraid of each other.

Take Yang Shihou as an example. From a prisoner, to the emperor's personal guard, to the chief general of an army, he led three thousand soldiers from Jingyuan, and went as far as Hexi to fight. Meijuan, these have become the fetters of Yang Shihou.

In fact, Li Ye had done a deep study on the reasons why generals rebelled.

One is the master of high merit, which arouses suspicion, and there will be great disasters if he does not counter-terrorism, such as Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

The second is to complain about the uneven rewards from the emperor, feel resentful, and turn back in a hurry, such as the Jingyuan Army.

The third is to be ambitious and have enough strength to wrestle with the emperor, such as An Lushan, which dragged Datang into the abyss.

For this reason, Li Ye has many restrictions on the military system. No matter who it is, the maximum number of troops to command is no more than [-], and the rewards are all based on military merit. Whose credit is greater than the emperor?
To the generals, Li Ye was tolerant. Each army had Yushan personal guards. These generals were not complete and did not violate the bottom line. Li Ye basically ignored them.

The only point is that the commanders of each army are required to read and write, and the ideological control of the armies has never been relaxed.

Among them is the movement of recalling bitterness and thinking sweetness.

But the method is completely different from what Li Ye used to be in the army.

There are more than a hundred people in a school, and the soldiers sit on the ground.

A soldier cries in front of people.

"I am from Yingzhou. When I was very young, my family still had [-] acres of land. The rich man Liu in the village took a fancy to my land and let a dog bite my father. When my father resisted, he accidentally killed Liu. The dog of the rich man’s family, the rich man Liu sent money to the corrupt officials in the county, locked up my father, and died in prison that day..."

"My family is from Bozhou. When the nest bandits attacked Xuzhou, the Hedong army came to my hometown. They burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of crimes. They killed my parents and dragged my wife to the military camp..."

"Now my hometown has divided the land, and my uncle also sent a letter. This year's harvest is bumper. There are many mothers in the family. They sold some grain, tore the cloth, and made clothes for a few children..."

"Everyone, you should know what kind of life you lived a few years ago, those corrupt officials and rich men were not human, they were all beasts, they were cannibals!"

"I'm hungry, I've eaten all the book covers. In the end, I'm so hungry that I can't help it. My father said, why don't you eat the second boy? If you eat it, you can survive. If you don't eat it, everyone will die!"

"My mother didn't say anything at the time. She found a rock and hit it. I still remember that when my mother was dying, she said: If you want to eat, eat me, so that the children can survive."

"After that, I still didn't eat, and my father was killed by a head... woo woo woo... I'm not human..."

The words of the people on the stage resonated with the soldiers below. Many of those sitting here were born in hard times, and those professional soldiers were also silent at this time. They also had relatives who lived a hard life. They have seen it before. What does it look like.

"Paoze, it's the corrupt officials who made us suffer, those local tyrants who are rich and unkind, and those envoys who cannibalize people and don't spit out their bones. The emperor's grace is mighty. Now it is finally ruled by the court. It's all Your Majesty. What a blessing to us!"

"Long live Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty punishes corrupt officials, local tyrants and squires. What if someone obstructs you?"

"Kill him, kill him!"

"What if the Jiedu envoy wants to kill our parents?"

"Kill him and fight for His Majesty!"

"Fighting for His Majesty is also fighting for yourselves. Your good life is due to His Majesty's grace. What if someone prevents us from living a good life?"

"Kill, kill all the corrupt officials, kill all the rich and unkind landlord Lao Cai, kill all the rebellious Jiedu envoys..."

His Majesty the Emperor racked his brains to carry out the Recalling the Bitterness and Thinking about the Sweetness and Complaint Movement in the army, and successfully concentrated the root causes of the previous suffering on corrupt officials, landlords, old fortunes, and those Jiedu envoys.

These sufferings have nothing to do with His Majesty the Emperor or the Tang court. The emperor and the court are for the good of the people, and the bad are the corrupt officials below, the bad are the landlords and riches, and the bad are the feudal towns.

This idea must be established, and it is called political correctness.

These soldiers who spoke out and complained were not actually members of this army. They were the personal guards of Yushan.

Judging from the results of the return, the effect is not bad.

But it didn't achieve the desired effect. The reason is very simple. The proportion of soldiers from poor backgrounds is only about [-] to [-]%, and half of them are professional soldiers. I feel much less about this.

"How can I draw the minds of these soldiers to the side of the court and to my side?"

Li Ye looked at Yushan's personal guard report, and said helplessly.

Jing Xiang took a long breath, following His Majesty the Emperor, he could always see new and novel things.

"Ideological Construction of the Army"?
I don’t understand what this thing is, what kind of thinking does the army need, and it’s still building. Isn’t this gang of fierce soldiers just using money to sell their lives?
But as soon as this complaint came out, Jingxiang felt the deep meaning in it.

This is also unprecedented.

Mastering the thoughts of the soldiers is equivalent to grasping the soul of the army. I am afraid that even if the general wants to rebel, the soldiers will not be willing to follow!
"Your Majesty, the yamen's troops are all the soldiers of the Jiedushi. There are very few people. Although most of the soldiers are well-fed and well-fed, they are also from poor backgrounds."

Li Ye said: "Officers who are commanders and below, under the same conditions, we should promote more poor soldiers!"

His Majesty the Emperor thought for a while, and then said: "Decide my will, call some actors, and the director of Chang'an Jiaofang..."

Jing Xiang clicked, is Your Majesty going to indulge in entertainment?Just when I was about to persuade, I heard His Majesty the Emperor continue.

"Weave these sufferings into operas, and my favors into operas, and perform them in the whole army, show the darkness of the past world, and arouse the sympathy of the soldiers..."

"This……"

Jingxiang was a little flustered, having never done such a thing before.

"By the way, there should be fewer women and more male actors. Make up some stories, don't speak in a polite way, just use plain language, and use words that soldiers can understand. The stories you make up must revolve around suffering, corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry. , Rebellious Jiedushi..."

Jing Xiang took a long breath and said, "I obey the order!"

(End of this chapter)