Zhao Ziliang immediately said to all the ministers of the court and the princes and nobles: "The day before yesterday, someone told this king that his wife was forcibly taken away by the army general many years ago and took it for himself, and he was afraid of the power of the other party and did not dare to speak out, for fear of being killed by him and losing face, until the day before yesterday he told this king about it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This king was very angry after hearing this, when did my general of the Tang Dynasty go to rob other people's wives and concubines, is he still a soldier or a general? People who can be generals are decent people, but he does this kind of undignified thing, since he doesn't want to be decent, of course this king will not give him decency! Who is he? The deputy envoy of the Fengxiang Army, Sha Chali, who was once defeated and captured by Ge Shuhan, and loved him for his courage to accept him as a general, did make some contributions in the Anshi Rebellion, is this the reason and reliance for people like him to ignore national law, violate military regulations and discipline, and harm the people? I don't know how many generals have made great achievements in the army, why aren't those people like him? According to the king, he was accustomed to being given by the court, and the court thought that he was a barbarian, who did not know the number of courtesies, and had merits, so he turned a blind eye to what he did and connived at his wrongdoing, which made him more and more arrogant and lawless! Yesterday morning the king sent for him to go to the regent in the afternoon to ask questions, but he ignored him completely. Ha, this king, the regent, can't call him, who else can call him, what's the use of keeping such a general? Will he be the scourge of the imperial court? So yesterday night this king sent someone to get him, how did he dare to arrest, and instigated the Fengxiang army soldiers to detain the people who came to arrest him, and led the Fengxiang army to confront the guards sent by the king, after a night of fighting, the Fengxiang army was defeated by the guards, Sha Chali and henchmen, generals and more than 8,000 people of the Fengxiang army were captured, and the other more than 3,000 people were killed, this is the whole thing yesterday, today the king called all the court officials and princes and nobles above the fourth grade, that is, there are a few things to explain to you clearly! ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Ziliang paused, because he saw a guard captain with a few soldiers bringing Li Baoyu, the envoy of the Fengxiang Army, over.

The lieutenant bowed down to Zhao Ziliang on one knee, hugged his fists and said: "Report to the marshal, Fengxiang Army Festival will make Li Baoyu bring!" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Li Baoyu, who was in his sixties, and asked, "Lord Li, your Fengxiang army has rebelled, do you know about it?" ”

Li Baoyu has long felt that something is wrong, not only is the emperor here today, but also the senior members of the imperial court above the fourth rank and almost all the princes and nobles in Chang'an have come, this must be something big, I didn't expect it to be his Fengxiang army rebellion, his face changed instantly, and he immediately bowed down: "Regent Rongyu, the old minister was not in the army last night, I didn't expect such a thing to happen, for this matter, the old minister really didn't know."

Zhao Ziliang sneered: "Don't know? You are the envoy of the Fengxiang Army, if you don't know, who else can know? Have you done nothing in this knot? So what is the use of the imperial court still wanting you as a festival envoy? ”

Pei Zunqing, the young prince who was nearly eighty years old, stood up on crutches and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Regent, Rong Laochen said a word, Lord Li was quite meritorious during the Anshi Rebellion, and when the rebel of the servant bone Huai'en, the rebellion of the barbarian army and the rebellion of Yao Zhitong, Lord Li had great merits, so he wore many positions, he was not only the envoy of the Fengxiang Army, but also the envoy of the Zelu Festival, the governor of the Luzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the imperial historian, plus Chen and Zheng Erzhou. With so many positions, it is normal to be negligent in Feng Xiangju! ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Li Baoyu, do you have a lot of credit?" How does it compare with Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, and Lai Yao? How does it compare to this king? ”

Li Baoyu suddenly sweated profusely, and said continuously: "The regent, Guo Linggong, and Marshal Li all have world-class meritorious deeds, and the old minister is not as good, and the old minister is not as good!" ”

"Humph!" Zhao Ziliang snorted coldly, "Just now Master Pei said that you have too many positions, and it is inevitable that you will be negligent in controlling the soldiers, if this can be a reason for your innocence, then you do have too many positions, the court was originally kind to you because of your great merit, but I didn't expect that it would hurt you to let you hold so many positions!" In this case, this king has decided to suspend all your duties and let you go home to recuperate for a while, lest there be another neglect of control, and the court will really suffer again! Someone came to draft the royal edict: Li Baoyu had no way to command the troops and was ineffective in controlling the soldiers under his command, which led to a large-scale rebellion in the Fengxiang army, and the blame could not be escaped. From today on, Li Baoyu will be removed from all his positions, and only the title of Duke of Liangguo will be retained! He was ordered to reflect on his thoughts at home, and to hand in a letter of repentance to the king within a month, and there should be no mistakes! ”

Li Baoyu was stunned, but he knew that no matter how wronged he was, he really had to endure this grievance, who let him, the Fengxiang Army, rebel against the army under his command, although he didn't know it in advance, he couldn't shirk the charge of this commander and the ineffective control of the soldiers, which caused a large-scale rebellion in the Fengxiang Army, and this was enough to make his head fall to the ground, but he could still save his life and title, which was already Zhao Ziliang's special kindness.

"The old minister is guilty, and the old minister obeys the king's orders!" Li Baoyu was in tears, prostrate on the ground and kowtowed.

All the court ministers and princes and nobles present sighed in their hearts, among the current court generals, except for a few generals such as Guo Ziyi, Li Baoyu has the highest official title, and now he has been taken down, and it is so understated.

After the soldiers took Li Baoyu away, Zhao Ziliang looked at the ministers and princes and nobles and said: "What Master Pei said just now is really good, once a person has too many positions, it is inevitable that there will be omissions. It is to supervise the impeachment of hundreds of officials, so that a local military and political chief is not only the prime minister, but also the imperial historian, is it really good? Do you want them to monitor themselves, let them monitor themselves? ”

"In the eyes of this king, this is not a good thing, is it true that my Tang Dynasty has no talents, is it true that the imperial court is so poor that it can't even afford to pay the salaries of officials, so it has to let one person hold so many positions? The number of official positions in the imperial court and the local government is limited, that is a radish and a pit, you alone occupy so many pits, what should you do with those who have talents? Okay, it's okay if you occupy more than one pit, but you occupy so many positions but don't work, so that the official office of the imperial court can't operate normally, no wonder the world will become like this, on the one hand, wearing multiple positions has caused the government to not operate normally, on the other hand, those who don't occupy the position are definitely unwilling, why do you occupy more than one person, and I can't occupy one? ”

"In view of the lessons of this incident, this king has decided: First, from today onwards, the post of envoy of the Fengxiang Army will be revoked, and the establishment of the Fengxiang Army will be revoked."

"Second, from today on, except for the border area, the imperial court will no longer appoint any jiedu envoys, no longer appoint any official positions in charge of both political affairs and military financial power, and will take back the current position of jiedu envoy one by one, if there is a rebellion, the imperial court will no longer appoint local officials to recruit troops and horses to carry out counterinsurgency, and the imperial court will directly send a counterinsurgency marshal to lead the army to conscript, the ordnance and equipment will be transported by the imperial court, and the grain and grass will be borne by the imperial court and the local government!"

"Third, the official positions of the governors in all regions should be abolished, and all the governors should be called Taishou, and the Taishou would only be in charge of government affairs, and the local defense affairs should be taken over by the imperial court by appointing a separate defense envoy, and in order to prevent the state defense envoys from being autocratic and disobedient to the dispatch of the imperial court, it is necessary to assign one or two deputy envoys to the defense envoys to contain and supervise the separation of powers. The Taishou can supervise military affairs, and the defense envoy has to meddle in local affairs, and can only observe, and if one party is at fault, the other can be impeached in the letter! ”

Jia Zhi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, stood up and arched his hand: "Regent, if you don't appoint a festival envoy, many local people will be fierce, and if the local officials don't have military power in their hands, they won't be able to deter the locality." In addition, if there is a rebellion, the local officials will not have the strength to exterminate it in time! Wait until the imperial court sends troops again, I'm afraid it's too late! ”

Zhao Ziliang angrily reprimanded: "Is the fierce style of the people the reason why local officials have no military power and cannot deter the locality? If your local officials are diligent and love the people, always have the interests of the people at heart, and always think about the people, how can the people rebel? As the so-called official coercion and the people are against you, do you understand? Without the oppression and oppression of the government, how could the people rebel? Even if there are a few small crumbs occasionally, the local officials still have officials and arresters who can be used, if there are really people with malicious intentions to incite the people to make trouble and rebel, what do the defense envoys do, this is the responsibility of the local defenders! If the scale of the rebellion is large enough, even if the imperial court asks the local officials to recruit troops, don't they need time? All in all, from now on, except for a few border areas, the rest of the Tang Dynasty will no longer appoint this kind of feudal officials with military and political power, which is the source of the chaos caused by the division of feudal towns! ”

"In order to solve the problem of the grain and grass needed by the army for the expedition, in order to make the local garrison not need to transport grain from the imperial court, and in order to solve the problem of excessive loss of taxes in the process of collection, the king decided to reform the tax system in advance, first of all, the taxes were divided into local taxes and imperial court taxes, and the local taxes were used as the expenses of the local government, and the imperial court taxes were all collected from the household department of the imperial court, which were used to pay the salaries of the imperial officials, the office expenses of the various yamen, the military expenses of the imperial court and local governments, and other expenses. Taxes will be collected from in-kind to the collection of silver, the salaries of the imperial court and local officials will all be issued in silver, and no longer in kind, while the army's military pay will be issued in silver, and the army stationed in areas with lack of materials will be supplied with military funds and grain and grass by the imperial court, and the troops stationed in the rich and economically developed areas will be issued military expenses, which will be purchased by the garrison from the local people! ”