On the Taiji Palace, Chen Kefu asked Fang Xuanling: "What happened outside the city today should already be known to Zuo Servant, right?" Do you think it's appropriate for me to use Hedong Pei Lin and other Li Tang old ministers? "Today's affairs outside the city, Fang Xuanling also knew for the first time, as soon as the general of the Tiger Benwei Shen Guang returned to the city, he happened to meet him in the palace, and all the ministers in the political hall were also there at that time, and everyone knew about the emperor's reuse of Li Tang's old department from Shen Guang's somewhat indignant tone.

The first moment he heard the news, Fang Xuanling was surprised, and then fell silent. Treating these Hedong Guanlong nobles favorably and accepting them for the use of the imperial court was originally something that the ministers of the political hall agreed on. But the current situation is that the emperor's favor is too generous, and even more than many meritorious subordinates who have been following the emperor for these people. Such a situation has to make them think deeply. Reading history often can be clearly learned, and Fang Xuanling is now also in charge of the task of repairing Sui history. Today's events reminded him of Yang Guang and his son. After Yang Guang came to power that year, the most used and trusted people in the imperial court were not those Guanlong nobles who founded the Great Sui Dynasty, but most of them were nouveau riche from Jiangnan.

In Fang Xuanling's opinion, the reason why Yang Guang did that is similar to what the emperor is doing now. Checks and balances, the imperial court went all out to crack down on the old gate valves, the family, so that now the imperial court hero group is dominant. Although this thing is nothing on the surface, the emperor is not an ordinary person, and his eyes are different from those of his courtiers. For the emperor, balance is the most important thing. The Guanlong nobles in Hedong have high prestige and talent, but they just don't have status. Now that the emperor has moved these people into Luoyang, they have become fish without water and must rely on the emperor to survive.

Now the emperor's purpose of treating these people favorably makes Fang Xuanling believe very much that the emperor is already taking precautions. Cultivate a new force to balance the heroes. Prevent these heroes from becoming another Guanlong group, such as the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and Sui Dynasty. Although this approach made them a little frightened, it was from the emperor's point of view. Again, these are extremely normal things.

At this time, the emperor asked him about this, Fang Xuanling was already very cautious, the emperor and the heroes were not the same wealth. To put it bluntly, it is the sharing of rights. The emperor could allow the heroes to be rich and rich, but they were not allowed to share too much of the emperor's power. Fang Xuanling didn't know if the emperor was testing him, but he replied very carefully: "Of course, yes, the minister didn't think of it in advance, but indeed, it is really well used, Pei Lin and the others are all from Hedong, and now they treat Pei Lin and others well." First, it is to show the world His Majesty's benevolent heart. The second is to appease the hearts of the Hedong clans, let them be used by the imperial court, and help the imperial court recover Hedong as soon as possible. End the chaos in Hedong. ”

Du Ruhui didn't think as far as Fang Xuanling. He frowned and said, "This matter is a bit dangerous, Pei Lin and the others are all from the Hedong clan." He wanted to put us to death all the time. Now that Hedong is not peaceful, these people will be awarded to high-ranking officials and lords, and even distributed to various places, will this be to let the tiger return to the mountain and raise the tiger for trouble? ”

Gao Shilian said: "It's too late to take back the will." ”

Chen Kefu's eyes swept over the prime ministers of these empires, except for Gao Shilian, Lu Guangli, and Li Benlei, the rest were still too young. Especially Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, who are actually in charge of Shangshu Province, are only in their early thirties: "What I issued is the holy decree, the emperor's will, and the golden mouth, how can I regret it afterwards?" What's more, Pei Lin and others are indeed talents, and now we are not in Liaodong and Hebei at the beginning. We are no longer a separatist regime, we are the orthodoxy of the world, the court of Dachen. I don't want everyone to be prejudiced all the time, pulling mountains, dividing factions, and engaging in party disputes. If today's peace is not peaceful and the Quartet is withering, this is the time when the imperial court needs to recruit talents. Only by accepting the talents of the world can be used by the imperial court, and the imperial court can become stronger and stronger, and restore its national strength as soon as possible. Otherwise, if we push those talented people out of the door today, they may rise up against us tomorrow. ”

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Chen Jie said: "In this way, I'm afraid it's too cheap for these people." And His Majesty's reward for these people is also a little too generous, they are newly attached to the imperial court, and they have no merit, so the reward is so generous, which makes those civil ministers and military generals who followed His Majesty from birth to death inevitably dissatisfied. The ministers did not intend to set up a mountain, but just hoped that His Majesty would consider the feelings of the soldiers. ”

Chen Kefu patted his head, everything had to be taken into account, which made him a little irritable.

"The Ministry of Rites drew up a list to posthumously award the meritorious civil servants and military generals of the imperial court with the title of Kaoyan, and give their children official positions, reward the wives of meritorious heroes, and then give them land rewards in the frontier, and give all the meritorious heroes with titles a name and death coupon." After thinking about it, Chen Kefu also took out this set of rewards. Posthumously giving titles to the ancestors of the heroes, this is just a name, and the court does not need to pay anything substantial at all. And the orders of the mothers and wives of the heroes only need a little bit of money from the court. As for the shadow official positions given to the children of these heroes, they are just some noble and good-sounding idle positions. And the land on the frontier is what the imperial court has, but it is afraid that no one will reclaim it, and it is not afraid to reward the courtiers. Even this death-free iron ticket is a complete thing of glory. When he really wanted to kill any courtier, how could he care about such an iron coupon.

After listening to the emperor's proposal, Lu Guangli also agreed very much. These things were just impractical things for the emperor and the court, but for the courtiers, they were extremely glorious. Sealing wives and sons, posthumously gifting ancestors, obtaining fiefs, and giving iron coupons, each of these things can make the courtiers grateful. With these things to give, Bao Zhun can greatly satisfy the soldiers who are a little uncomfortable.

"Your Majesty, but it's too cheap to treat the nobles of Hedong like this. The old minister proposed that now that the imperial court was short of food, His Majesty could borrow grain from all the noble families who had surrendered to the imperial court, and the imperial court treated them so favorably that it was time for them to repay the imperial court. As soon as Lu Guangli said this proposal, the prime ministers present all showed strange smiles.

This borrowing grain is killing two birds with one stone, thinking that when he was in Hebei, the imperial court borrowed grain from the clans in Hebei, and then forced these clans to rebel and take the opportunity to clean them all. Now since they can't deal with these nobles of the Hedong family clearly, they are not very willing to let these defeated people be ministers in the same palace with them. Then repeat the same trick. If they are honest and hand over the food that each family has hoarded. That was also a one-time release of them, which made everyone angry. And if they dare to refuse to borrow grain, then the clans of Hebei are a precedent. At that time, it would be impossible for the emperor to overtly shield them.

Chen Kefu glanced at Lu Guangli, and he didn't understand the meaning of this old uncle who had been together for more than 20 years. However, he only hesitated and did not oppose the proposal. Now the imperial court is desperately short of food. The imperial court has decreed that it is strictly forbidden for any family or merchant to hoard grain, and all grain must be sold to the imperial court at a reasonable price for distribution to various places in order to cope with this food shortage. Although Chen Kefu did want to use this group of Hedong nobles to balance the power of the DPRK and China a little, it did not mean that he had to favor them in everything.

Hearing that the emperor agreed to this proposal, Chen Jie simply went further and moved all the noble families of Hedong to Luoyang. First, moving them to Luoyang can fill Luoyang and enhance the prosperity of the Beijing Division. Second, moving them to Luoyang can also save them from the possibility of making trouble in the future.

Migrate. This has always been a treasure trove against local forces. I think that at the beginning, after Chen Kefu destroyed Goguryeo in Liaodong, in order to prevent the Goryeo rebellion. At the time of the bloody baptism of the Goguryeo aristocracy. There was also a great migration of the Goguryeo people. Not only did it disrupt the relocation of most of the people, but it also singled out the leaders and wealthy households. Concentrated on the Liaodong Army's heavy troops in Liaoyang and other places.

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Migration can be a good way to destroy the local clan power, and the relationships that crisscross like spider webs. In this era, rebellion is generally based on three modes as the most common, one is to support the army and rebel, the second is the local wealthy clan to kill officials and rebel, and the third is the homeless people to gather for chaos.

At present, the Great Chen Fuli does not have complete jurisdiction over those newly recovered places. Most of the time, county-level localities still rely on those clan forces to manage. After the rebellion of the army and the gathering of displaced people to cause chaos, the most prone to turmoil is the rebellion of local clan forces. The relocation of the people is undoubtedly a good way to break this complex relationship between places and allow the imperial court to control the grassroots areas.

After thinking about it, Chen Kefu did not object to Chen Jie's proposal. On the contrary, Chen Kefu not only agreed with Lu Guangli's proposal to borrow grain from the Hedong aristocratic families, but also agreed to the decree to relocate the Hedong aristocratic families and those who owned more than 500 acres of land or had more than 1,000 yuan of property to emigrate to Henan Province. The aristocratic family moved to Luoyang, the province of Zhongzhili, and the wealthy families of Hedong moved to the provinces of Henan.

Not only that, Chen Kefu also asked all prefectures and counties to check the list of wealthy families and nobles in each prefecture and county. All the nobles of the former dynasty and the families of officials above the fifth rank must move to Luoyang in Zhongjing, Jicheng in Beijing, and Liaoyang in Tokyo. Those who have more than 500 acres of land or more than 1,000 acres of family property are respectively immigrated to Henan, Shandong, Hebei, and the provinces of Liaodong, Liaoxi, Haidong, Haixi, and Mobei.

For Chen Kefu, such a large-scale migration at this time was to break the original clan power relationship in various places and prevent some people from taking advantage of the disaster year to cause chaos with local forces. Second, it is also to enrich some of the major capitals that have withered after several wars. A more important reason is that because of this food shortage, there will be a large-scale famine in Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other places, rather than passively letting millions of people stay in the Central Plains and wait for death. It is better to disperse these people and move them to the border passes and other places in advance, so as to reduce the population of each province, so that the people who remain can also fish and hunt or wait for the imperial court to help. It is better for the people who have migrated to have more opportunities than for everyone to eat up the leaves wherever they go like locusts.

In mid-June, the imperial court issued an order to move to various places, and a huge migration involving more than a dozen provinces began. Tens of millions of people began to emigrate, and the people who were originally the most difficult to leave their homeland also succumbed to the greatest famine that was coming in the first year of Shenlong. The imperial court did not even have much to say, and began to smoothly carry out this great migration involving the entire provincial capital of the Chen Dynasty. Countless people left their hometowns, took their wives and children, and began to move their families, so that they left home only because there was no rice at home, and the new home promised by the court would have the grain pulled by the court, and the land that far exceeded their hometown several times that belonged to them. The rich nobles were reluctant to leave their homes, they had food and land, but the imperial court directly sent soldiers from all over the country to come to the door with knives and guns to help them move, and finally all the noble families also moved to the designated places honestly.