Li Jing, the Duke of Weiguo, was the governor of Hedong Province and the general of Zuo Xiaowei. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the Metropolitan Governor's Office of Hedong Province is about to be abolished, and it is quite suitable for Li Chao to recommend Li Jing as a privy envoy. Li Shimin pinched his chin and read Li Jing's name.

Li Jingguanlong was born in a military aristocracy and has a rich resume. It can be called a late bloomer, in the founding war of the Tang Dynasty, the pacification of the southeast has a huge contribution, and it can even be said that the war of the Tang Dynasty to pacify the southeast, although it is Li Xiaogong who is in charge, but in fact it is Li Jing who is responsible for command and planning.

The only thing that made Li Shimin dissatisfied was the Xuanwumen Change, when he asked Li Chao to contact Li Jing, hoping to get the general's support. But Li Jing remained neutral. If it weren't for Li Chao's protection later, Li Shimin would have planned to stop using this guy for the rest of his life.

However, Li Jing was in Hedong, but he shined brightly, and in the war with the Turks, he performed very perfectly.

Among the generals of the imperial court, Li Jing is considered to be old, but his performance is the most fierce. Except for Li Chao, Li Jing is almost invincible.

Now Li Chao wants to recommend Li Jing to be the first privy envoy.

"Li Jing is a military general!" Li Shimin said.

"Wei Guogong also entered the office as a civilian in his early years." Li Jing came out at the age of sixteen, and the first official he became was Chang'an Gongcao of the Sui Dynasty, and later he also served as a county commander, a driver of the military department, and then a soldier in Mayi County. Everyone admired Li Jing's military talent, but they forgot that although he was born in a family of generals, he had indeed been a civilian official from the beginning.

"Li Jing is the god of war, if he is a privy envoy, he will not be able to command the army in the future."

"There is such a person who can be civil and martial arts to take charge of the Privy Council for His Majesty, and he will play a greater role than on the battlefield."

"Yes. Then let Li Jing serve as the first privy envoy, and who should be used as the governor of the five armies? ”

The Metropolitan Governor of the Five Armies is equivalent to the five branches of the Privy Council and the five theater commands of the Tang Dynasty, and his role is also very large.

"I believe that Your Majesty must have a suitable candidate in his heart." Li Chao was reluctant to recommend again, after all, he had already recommended a privy envoy, and he couldn't recommend the five major governors again, so that the most important generals of the Tang Dynasty would all become the people he recommended, which was not good.

Li Shimin smiled.

"The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, where do you think it is appropriate?"

Li Chao thought for a while, "The establishment of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is mainly for the purpose of unifying the face. The minister thought that the former military capital governor's office could be set up in Taiyuan. The Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army was established in Luoyang. The Left Army Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was established in Chang'an, and the Right Army Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was established in Youzhou. The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Later Army can be set up in Guangzhou. ”

The five metropolitan governors are not located in the most frontier areas, but they are all located in the most important places. For example, Taiyuan is the center of Hedong, Youzhou is the key point of Hebei, and Chang'an is also the center of Guanlong.

Luoyang is the core of the Central Plains, and Guangzhou is an important place in the southeast.

"With Li Ji as the former military governor, Qin Qiong as the left army governor, and Wei Chi Gong as the right army governor. Liu Hongji was the governor of the Chinese army, and Qu Tutong was the governor of the rear army. What do you think? ”

Most of the governors of the five armies said that it was important and very important, but they could not directly command the troops.

They have control over the military orders and military affairs of the armies of several dozens of states, but they cannot directly command the troops, so it can be said that it doesn't matter who they choose. These governors are not temperate envoys, they can't command the army, and they can't manage the people, so they don't have to worry about supporting the army and self-respecting, and the tail can't get rid of these situations.

It is neither as powerful as the previous Xingtai, nor as powerful as the newly withdrawn Governor's Office.

However, looking at the five people elected by Li Shimin, they are still very attentive.

Four of the five major governors of the imperial court were actually located in the north. Taiyuan, Chang'an, Youzhou, and Luoyang are all in the north, of which Chang'an, Taiyuan, and Luoyang, the three theaters, are also focused on defending the northern grassland. Li Shimin's election of Li Ji, Qin Qiong, and Wei Chigong was also very deliberate.

If there is really a police in the north, Li Shimin can also give the three soldiers military orders at any time and let them lead the army to fight.

"Then it's settled."

"Wen Yuan, do you think Tong Ye Hu will go south this year?" Li Shimin asked a very worrying question.

Yu set up the Tang Dynasty and brought more than 300,000 people from Monan, of which more than 100,000 were Han Chinese who had been taken captive before. Yu Sheshe was awarded the title of duke of a country by Li Shimin, and gave him a big mansion in Xiangyang, rewarded beautiful women, and rewarded him with many gold and silver treasures.

According to Li Chao's suggestion, Li Shimin moved all the tribes he belonged to, and then scattered them and placed them in various places, with no more than 100 households in each place. In this way, the whole was divided into parts, and the hundreds of thousands of Turkic tribes set up by Yu Shot were directly digested.

Yu Shotsha didn't expect this trick, and now it's too late to regret it.

Yu Sheshe also had a brother who stayed in Monan, and Li Shimin gave him the title of Khan, and then left him to fend for himself there.

Now that Li Shimin has eaten and wiped the Yu Shot set dry, he is more worried about Tong Ye Hu.

As soon as the armistice agreement was signed, it ate 300,000 Turkic people, which is a big piece of meat. The western part of Monan was empty all of a sudden, and Tong Yehu jumped to his feet angrily.

"The soldiers will block, and the water will flood."

Li Chao wasn't too worried, Tong Ye Hu went to Mobei to fight the man. However, the news from Mobei came back that the progress of the Northern Expedition of Tongyehu was somewhat unfavorable, and the snow in the north this year was relatively large, and most of the livestock froze to death.

This season, it is more difficult to crusade against Yi Nan.

And after Yi Nan failed with Tong Ye Hu last time, he also learned to be smart. He didn't fight head-on with Tong Ye Hu at all, he took the Tiele tribes, relied on the familiarity of the terrain, and got the Yi Nan who was pointed out by Li Chao's fingers, and now he took the sixteen-character guerrilla warfare secret given to him by Li Chao, and started a guerrilla war with Tong Ye Hu in Mobei.

What enemy advances and I retreat, it's a very slippery game.

Tong Yehu has elite soldiers and strong generals, but he can't even find anyone, you fart. The tribes on the grassland are not like the people of the Central Plains, there are cities and villages in the Central Plains, and there is a vast land on the grassland, and they run away with the whole tribe, and they don't even have a home.

As long as one side refuses to fight you head-on, it will be difficult for you.

Now Tong Yehu is in a dilemma, continue to chase, the weather is cold, and he can't loot supplies. Don't chase it, where is this prestige, and if you don't chase these damn Tiele people, these 100,000 people who are protected by the general Ye will eat the northwest wind.

I heard that there are already some people from the Khitan and other tribes who want to go home, but Tong Yehu still refuses to agree.

"Your Majesty, now we can urge Mo Helu Khan to make a move in the Western Regions, at this time, Ye Hu is definitely not the opponent of old Mo Helu."

Li Shimin shook his head with a smile.

That's how ruthless it is.

This side has just eaten 300,000 people from Yu She, and there has instigated Mo Helu to rebel in the backyard of Tong Ye Hu, so that Tong Ye Hu will not even be able to return to his hometown.

"Wait for Mo He to take Moxi, let's find a chance to have a good talk with Desire Valley, if we can't talk, we will find an opportunity to dry up Desire Valley, and then occupy Mo Nan. At that time, Moxi returned to Mo Helu, Mo Nan returned to my Tang Dynasty, and Tong Yehu stayed in Mobei to fight with Xue Yantuo. ”

"It's a good way to surrender without a fight." Li Shimin couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

"You proposed that the Imperial Court set up 900 Zhichong Mansions in the Eighteen Provinces, and I approved it. Next, it is necessary to select and recruit the soldiers of these nine Baizhi Chong Mansions as soon as possible, and then give them enough military fields and let them buy equipment. ”

"I understand."

There are 900 Zhichong Prefectures, more than 700,000 government soldiers, and more than 300 prefectures in 18 provinces in the Tang Dynasty. In this way, when needed, enough troops can be called up at the first time. However, in general, the setting of the military government is still first in the north and then in the south.

There are more military offices in the north and fewer military offices in the south, and there will be more in the Gyeonggi region.

The conditions for selecting government soldiers are that the landlord's family first, then the rich yeoman farmer, the first Duoding family, the only child family, the poor family, and the man from the family with a bad background will not be hired.

If you want to be a government soldier, it's not so easy.

You have to have a good family background, rich family resources, many brothers, and strong health.

Those who are 21 years old to 30 years old can be selected, and once they are qualified, they will be government soldiers for life. They will be given land and land, and they will not have to pay taxes in the future, but they need to pay for their own equipment.

This self-provided equipment means that according to their military type, the military government equips them with equipment, but they need to pay their own money to buy it. The equipment is unified by the imperial court, and the government soldiers need to pay for it. Instead of finding a blacksmith or something to make it yourself, that's not going to work.

Pikemen have to buy spears and lances, crossbowmen have to buy bows and crossbows, jumping soldiers have to buy swords and shields, etc. The purchase of equipment according to the equipment of the armed forces requires a lot of financial resources for self-equipment, so the government soldiers are selected to give priority to those landlords' children who have more wealth.

More than 700,000 soldiers from the Southern Yafu and tens of thousands of soldiers from the Northern Yaya, with a total of 800,000 soldiers, the imperial court has to take out 800,000 hectares of land.

"Wen Yuan, privy envoy, don't you really need to add the same Zhongshu Sect Pingzhang matter?" Li Shimin asked this question again.

The power of the privy envoy is very heavy, and he commands the 800,000 soldiers, horses, military, and military orders of the Tang Dynasty.

But according to Li Chao's plan, this privy envoy did not add the title of Pingzhang, that is, he did not enter the Zhongshu Sect and became the prime minister.

"Your Majesty, of course the privy envoy can't add the title of leveling the chapter."

If you add the title of Pingzhang, you will become the prime minister. What, then, is the point of having a privy councillor? The establishment of the privy envoy was originally to help the emperor balance the power of the prime minister and avoid the prime minister's civil, military, military and political grasp.

The privy envoy does not have the title of Pingzhang under the same Zhongshu Sect, and is not the prime minister, but he still holds the power of the military, government, and military orders of the 800,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty, which is an important position on an equal footing with the prime minister.