Chapter 173 The Direct Relationship between Land and Military Merit

Li Shiji was so frightened that his heart was about to fly out, he would rather wait for a rain of guns and arrows than face Li Jiancheng and Wei Zheng. He was very afraid of Li Jiancheng and shouted: "Come on, take Wei Zheng for me, drag it down and chop it up and feed it to the dog!" ”

It's just a pity that what Li Shiji was worried about didn't happen in the end.

Li Jiancheng instead invited Wei Zheng to His Royal Highness Yin'an in the East Palace, respectfully invited Wei Zheng to the first position, let Wei Zheng sit down, and the palace lady in the East Palace sent tea, Li Jiancheng said lightly: "I am willing to hear it!" ”

Wei Zheng said: "What the minister said is right, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is wrong, you are wrong, you are worried, you are afraid, so you will try your best to cover it up, but you have forgotten that our Tang Dynasty, unlike Sima Jin and Cao Wei, the country established by our Tang Dynasty is burned out of flames and cast from iron and blood, and the process of establishing this country has no privacy!" The whole process of establishing this country is dignified, and the whole process of the Tang Dynasty gaining power is above board. ”

Li Jiancheng was silent for a moment.

Li Tang is different from Cao Wei and Sima Jin, because the way to obtain power is different, Li Tang's regime started from Taiyuan, one place and one city, and attacked all the way. In terms of the rightness of the position, only the Qin and Han dynasties can be compared. It is precisely because of the beginning of Li Tang's victory that it was a war, so in the battle for the prince, Li Shimin made it clear that the chariot and horse wanted to fight for the position of the prince, but he was supported by some people.

Because everyone understands that fighting is an opportunity, and if you don't fight, you don't have any chance. In terms of power and strength, whether it is the Eight Great Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, or the Twelve Pillars of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty is not in fact, it does not have any advantage, Li Yuan originally took a corner of Taiyuan and hastily raised troops, creating a precedent for other families. When other ambitious and powerful families were worried that the Sui Dynasty was a skinny camel bigger than a horse, Li Tang had already begun to show the carriage and horses, and broke through the barriers all the way to kill the generals.

The Zheng clan in Xingyang buckled the rope and supported Wang Shichong half-concealed and half-covered, and the Wang clan in Taiyuan supported Liu Wuzhou because they could fear the heavy consequences in case of failure. As for the so-called first step in Guanzhong to win the king, Li Tang attacked Guanzhong, and the world's name was determined.

In this case, it's either okay with the situation or you go against the trend. But the Yuan family, the Zhao family, the Wei family, the Qinghe Cui family, and the Zhao Jun Li family, they all became shrinking turtles.

Wei Zheng continued: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the darker the thing, the more afraid of the sun. The reason why rumors can spread is because of cover-up. Since covering up will be counterproductive, then simply pierce all the cover and expose it to the sun! Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, can't you let the world see it? You are the prince of the Tang East Palace, and His Royal Highness the Prince of the Tang Dynasty is the luck of the common people and the blessing of the society, so that these doubts that can only be active in the gloom can shake the position of His Royal Highness the Prince, and whether they can shake the founding spirit of our Datang! ”

Li Jiancheng was silent.

In fact, Li Shimin was aggressive step by step, both with Li Yuan's connivance and his appeasement. Because Li Jiancheng showed great tolerance, Li Shimin dared to use conspiracy again and again.

This time, he only used the decree of King Qin to transfer Li Shiji alone, if Li Jiancheng did not fight back, but tolerated and connived, then Li Shimin's next step would definitely be Xue Wanche, Feng Li, Li Ming, and Pei Ju, and even Chen Ying step by step from their original positions, or ascending and descending secretly, or dividing and co-opting, once Li Jiancheng could not protect the subordinate officials under the East Palace, he would really be the prince.

Li Jiancheng thought about it and finally made a decision: "Li Shiji! ”

"The door is here!" Li Shiji really sweated for Wei Zheng, but he didn't expect that Wei Zheng didn't have any problems at all, but instead became the minister who relied on Li Jiancheng in his heart.

Li Jiancheng said: "The palace ordered the prince to go out of the town of Andong to protect the capital, control the Huaiyuan army, the Baoding army and the three armies of Andong, and guard the forty-two states of Andong!" ”

Li Shiji was overjoyed when he heard this.

Although the Andong Protectorate was not richer than the Anseo Protectorate, the Andong Protectorate suppressed the Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, northern Khitan, Xi and other ethnic groups, and was also a real feudal official.

Of course, just like Chen Ying's appointment as the protector of the Western Regions, the Protectorate of the Anton Metropolitan is actually just an empty shelf, and most of the territory is nominal and exists on the map. You need to accept it yourself and open it up. Now Li Yi, the governor of Youzhou, actually only has fourteen states, but since Li Jiancheng gave him the establishment of forty-two states, it is to allow him to expand his territory to the east like Chen Ying.

Li Jiancheng didn't make a move, and as soon as he made a move, he made a judgment with Li Shimin. Li Shimin just wanted to reduce the official position of Li Shiji, the general of the East Palace, in Lingzhou and reduce the army controlled by the East Palace.

In the Tang Dynasty, the First Army was a permanent institution, and the whole army had 12,500 men.

However, the military system of the Tang Dynasty was also flexible, just like Chen Ying firmly believed that the number of people in a regiment of two hundred to undertake tactical-level tasks was too small, and eight hundred or one thousand people in one Chong Mansion was too much. Therefore, he changed one Zhichong Prefecture to a five-regiment system, so that each Zhichong Prefecture had five regiments and each regiment had 300 people.

What Li Shiji got was an empty shell of the Anton Metropolitan Protector, which was the official position of Zheng Sanpin. Li Shimin wanted to demote Li Shiji's official, and Li Jiancheng promoted him.

Of course, this is not to challenge Li Yuan's authority, but to tell Li Yuan with practical actions that it is not okay for Datang to order more than one door like this.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the separation of powers, Li Yuan's decree, the prince's decree of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, the decree of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, the decree of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and the decree of Li Xiuning, the princess of Pingyang, also have the legal effect of the holy decree.

At the same time that Li Jiancheng issued the prince's order to Li Shiji, he issued it directly from the East Palace along with the weapons, equipment, and orders for the transfer of troops from the East Palace.

Li Shiji took the prince's order, directly found the garrison located in the Lantian camp, and transferred more than 50,000 men and horses from the three armies.

The soldiers and horses under Li Xiaogong's command were instantly reduced by one-third.

One-third is not important, the important thing is that Li Shiji is also an expert in soldiers, and his eye for picking soldiers is poisonous, and he directly empties the backbone of Li Xiaogong's Jiannan Army Company.

Li Xiaogong naturally quit.

When Li Xiaogong found Li Yuan, he complained to Li Yuan.

Only then did Li Yuan know that Li Jiancheng quietly and directly established the Tang Andong Protectorate.

Li Yuan was about to send someone to inform Li Jiancheng, but he never thought that Li Xiaogong had just walked into the Wude Hall with his front foot, and Li Jiancheng would arrive with his back foot.

Li Jiancheng directly put a stack of posters in front of Li Yuan, Li Yuan looked at it for a while, and his brows furrowed: "What, there is not enough land?" ”

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly: "The fields in Guanzhong are divided into feuds, and the rewards are rewarded, and now the idle land is more than 38,000 hectares in total.

Li Yuan frowned.

Li Xiaogong smiled bitterly and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, thanks to Your Majesty's prestige......"

Li Jiancheng said: "Li Jing, the left attendant of the Ministry of Soldiers, can get 500 households of Zhuangzi alone, 2,400 hectares of fertile land. If it is cashed out to the soldiers below first, I am afraid that there will still be a gap of thirty percent for the generals. ”

Li Yuan was shocked and said, "It's so much worse? ”

Li Xiaogong was also stunned.

Li Yuan said: "Then how did you let Li Shiji take away more than 50,000 people?" ”

Li Jiancheng explained: "Father, after last year's defeat of Xue Yantuo, the Turks have recovered their vitality, this year it is not good to make a big move, there is Erlang in Hedong, naturally don't worry, but Li Yi is not pure-minded, it is better to let him come to Chang'an as an official, I let Li Shiji go to Liaodong and set up the Anton Protectorate for two purposes, one is to deter the Eastern Turks, and the other is to use the fertile fields of Liaodong to reward the generals!" ”

Li Xiaogong nodded and said, "Guanzhong really can't take out 76,000 dumped fields!" ”

Li Yuan looked at Li Xiaogong and said, "You said that the Lingnan Army alone will reward 76,000 dumped fields?" ”

Li Xiaogong shook his head and said, "More than that, it will cost 103,000 to pour it all down!" Among them, the soldiers who were transferred away were all soldiers with military merits and could be rewarded with more than 500 acres! ”

Li Yuan was also silent now.

There are a number of lands in Guanzhong, coupled with the crazy mergers of major families, coupled with successive defeats, military merits and rewards, the land in Guanzhong is no longer enough for only six years.

In history, the Tang army in the late Zhenguan period, gradually lost the land that can be rewarded, these Guanzhong soldiers are no longer keen on fighting, in the Li Zhi Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Li Tang army fell very badly, foreign wars, the victory and defeat were mixed, lost the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the kind of sweeping the world, invincible momentum.

Li Yuan thought for a while and said, "Do you want to change the military lord system?"

Li Jiancheng shook his head and said: "It's impossible, if this is the case, it will definitely repeat the mistakes of Great Qin~"

In the war of unification, the Qin army also won a hundred battles, and the heroes of the six countries were defeated. Because at that time, the foundation of the Qin Dynasty's military merits was still there, but after the Unification War, especially in the later stage of the Unification War, Yan Guo became impotent all of a sudden, so the Qin Dynasty government simply couldn't take out enough land to fulfill its military merits.

Therefore, the rebellious army with hoes and sticks began to fight the Qin army, which lost the city and land, and was unable to form an army.

system, on the root of the guarantee of combat effectiveness.

The decline of the Tang Dynasty was the end of the military system of the Tang Dynasty.

The demise of the Ming Dynasty was also directly related to the unbearable battle of its guards, and the hungry soldiers could not fight a tough battle.

There is a direct relationship between land and military merit.

A government that loses its trust and soldiers will definitely lose the support of its soldiers!

Li Jiancheng directly copied Chen Ying's model in the Western Regions, which can solve this problem well.