Chapter 677: The Small Imperial Court is Beginning to Take Shape
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Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, the Shuai Mansion began to prepare for the New Year's Festival again. This year, Goguryeo was destroyed, and the entire middle and lower reaches of the Liao River and the lower banks of the Yalu River were captured, plus the two states of Jitan in the Western Liaoning Corridor and Yanshan.
In the fifth year of Qianfu, Li Jing's territory expanded more than three times at once.
Although the Central Plains was full of wars, the territory of the Northeast Province was a year of great harvest and joy. Last year was not only a great military victory, but also a year of great grain harvest. Thanks to the development plan of Northeast China and the launch of various infrastructure projects, Dengzhou's handicraft manufacturing industry and commerce are also extremely prosperous, and the minerals of various states are also booming.
So many victories have been won, and now it's an eventful time.
Under such circumstances, Li Jing had already made a plan with Li Rang and others, and wanted to come up with a large reward and give a generous reward to the soldiers. At the same time, in order to allow those Goguryeo people who migrated to Ziqing Denglai and the Han people in the Central Plains who moved to the northeast to have a richer New Year, Li Jing was also ready to take out a special sum of money to buy various New Year's goods and distribute them to them, which was also a kind of subsidy.
Regarding Li Jing's proposal, Li Rang and others agreed. This time, the festival is mainly based on the distribution of goods, which is another large government order, and while the owners of those shops and workshops make a profit, the most relaished marshal's mansion can also get a tax money.
The New Year is approaching, the flavor of the New Year is getting stronger, and people everywhere take the New Year's money they have saved to buy New Year's goods on the street. In addition to food and clothing, everyone also has some money to spare, and this New Year will naturally be richer. Pull a few feet of floral cloth for the mother-in-law at home to make new clothes. Buy a few pounds of cotton for the kids. One person makes a warm cotton robe. I also want to buy the Door God Town Year Beast. Buy a new peach charm, in addition to the New Year's is also popular in front of the door to paste couplets, on the door to paste the word blessing, these are naturally indispensable, since other people's families have, their own family is not short of these two money, of course.
In addition, you have to buy some sugar cubes, melon seeds, hawthorns, hazelnuts, etc. Pears and oranges are also bought and plated. You also have to buy some tea to entertain guests, and the wine is naturally indispensable for the New Year. In addition, I have to buy fresh vegetables such as Chinese cabbage and cabbage, and now I have some money to spare, so I naturally have to be richer this year, I have to buy chickens and ducks, I have to buy more fish, and I have to buy twenty or thirty catties of pork, and then buy some mutton and beef.
Everywhere there are men and women with proud smiles of contentment, either by their side or with children. Or with a daughter-in-law, a group of joy.
And at this time. Li Jing sat in the original golden palace of Goguryeo and discussed with the generals.
Previously, the Daimyo Daily suddenly published an article publicizing the article that the four towns wanted to support Li Jing as the emperor, which really shocked Li Jing. This incident soon spread to various towns in eastern Liaodong, causing a lot of discussion among the soldiers and the common people and workers and businessmen below.
On this matter, everyone argued with each other and formed three opinions. Some people think that Li Tang is Zhengshuo and do not want to see Li Jing become a traitor. This part of the people represents the current perception of most people, that is, they have become accustomed to the situation where the feudal towns are strong and self-reliant, but at the same time continue to respect Li Tang as the right master. Everyone is accustomed to the status quo over the years, and is willing to see the Zhenguo army strong and self-reliant, but they don't want the feudal town to be completely anti-Tang, but willing to see the relationship between the feudal town and the imperial court like the Spring and Autumn Period is the relationship between the Zhou royal family and the princes.
In the final analysis, this kind of thinking is certainly related to the current situation in the past hundred years since the Tang Anshi Rebellion. After all, the feudal town is strong and self-reliant, as long as it does not oppose the Tang Dynasty, everyone is safe, and the people live a stable life. But once the Tang Dynasty was opposed, the imperial court was forced to crusade with it, and the war was chaotic, and the result was inevitably that the people suffered, which was a lesson from the past, no matter who won and who lost, the people suffered the most in the war. Now that the towns in Northeast Province are living so well, who wants this kind of day to be sent suddenly. As a result, people are more content with the status quo than with the chaos of change.
Another part of the people supported the marshal to simply oppose the Tang Dynasty, after all, everyone put the changes in the territory after Li Jing took charge of the Zhenguo army. Everyone's house is full of food, a house sheltered from the wind and rain, and clothes to shelter from the cold. Everyone has a good job, children can study, and even if they study well, there are scholarships. If you don't read well, you can also send it to a military school. This kind of day is unimaginable before, everyone knows that this kind of life is rare, and no one wants to go back to the past. Therefore, when they heard that the four towns of Hebei were willing to serve Li Shuai as the emperor and overthrow the Tang Dynasty together, everyone was very excited and supportive. In everyone's opinion, with the support of the four towns of Hebei, and then the king of the county leading the army of the town, it is not impossible to replace Li Tang. If Li Jing becomes the emperor of the world, then everyone's life will definitely get better and better, and there is no need to worry about it, always worrying that when he wakes up, he will find that today's good life is just a dream.
Of course, there are many people who have no opinions of their own at all. No matter what the newspaper said and everyone said, they just watched and listened and accepted.
After the discussion outside Zhilu Dao, Li Jing sent a lot of people to collect everyone's opinions, and finally came up with the results of the investigation.
At this stage, about sixty percent of the people are actually willing to support Li Jing to become a secession domain, but they oppose Li Jing's opposition to the Tang Dynasty. And about 30% of the people supported Li Jing's opposition to the Tang Dynasty at this time, believing that replacing the Tang Dynasty by Li Jing would allow everyone to live a better life. There are still about 10% of the people who have no idea about this kind of problem and just follow the crowd.
The results of this survey made Li Jing understand the concepts and thoughts of most people at present. Even more than half of the people who benefited from him under the rule of the Zhenguo Army did not support the anti-Tang Dynasty, so there would definitely be more people in other Tang Dynasty territories.
Li Jing had no intention of opposing Tang at this time, but seeing this, he became more and more determined in his plan.
Not long after that issue of the daimyo newspaper, the imperial court sent another envoy to officially grant Li Jing the Northeast Dao Daxingtai Shangshu Order, which is the second grade. He also ordered Li Jing, the subordinate officials of Daxingtai in Northeast Province, to be selected and appointed by Li Jing himself.
Receiving this edict was really unexpected by Li Jing, but also somewhat expected.
This is obviously because of the consequences of the support of the four towns in Hebei, and the imperial court reacted quickly and was very generous.
It's actually the Northeast Road Daxingtai. This Daxingtai Shangshu Order is of the same grade as the Shangshu Order of the Central Committee of the Imperial Court. Although compared to the Central Shangshu Order. The gold content seems to be lower. But in fact, with Li Jing's actual secession of the Northeast now, the imperial court gave this position, which is to completely let Li Jing completely and truly secede the Northeast.
In the future, Li Jing will be able to truly establish a small imperial court, manage the Northeast with full authority, and become a veritable king of the Northeast.
However, Li Jing also clearly understands that the more the imperial court can't wait to add officials, the more generous it is. The more it shows that the court is deeply jealous of him.
Every time the imperial court adds an official to Li Jing, it represents not the court's dependence and expectation on Li Jing, but its fear of Li Jing. If this continues, either Li Jing will completely oppose the king, or the court will free up its hands to liquidate Li Jing, and it will be impossible for them to go back to the past.
However, both the imperial court and Li Jing understood that they would never be able to go back to the past.
Tap the table slightly. Li Jing said in a loud voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, the angel has just brought the edict of His Majesty. His Majesty exterminated Goguryeo against us. Recovering the land of Andong, raising the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, very satisfied, specially issued an order to reward the soldiers of the whole army, and, from today, the land of the six towns in the Northeast set up the Northeast Road Daxingtai, the king from now on as the Northeast Road Daxingtai Shangshu Ling, the rest of the subordinate officials are appointed and dismissed by the king himself. Daxingtai of Northeast Dao, on behalf of the imperial court, has full authority to deal with the military, political and civil affairs of six towns, twenty-one prefectures and one hundred counties. ”
As soon as these words fell, the Chinese officers and military generals of the palace were all colorless and extremely happy.
In this way, Li Jing's position in the towns in the northeast can be regarded as completely consolidated, and there is no longer any loophole, which is legal and reasonable. Compared with the original Marshal of the Northeast and Jiedu, these two positions were more inclined to temporarily control the military of the soldiers and horses of various towns, and more stabilized the order of the 200,000 troops in the Northeast region.
Northeast Road Daxingtai - six towns - 21 prefectures - 100 counties, the entire Northeast region has formed a complete four-level administrative division.
Everyone knew what this meant, and their faces were filled with excitement.
Li Jing said loudly: "Now this king announces the appointment and dismissal of officials in the Northeast Province!" ”
The hall was quiet for a while, this was the establishment of a small court. As soon as the Northeast Province was erected, it became almost the ruling body of the entire Northeast region. If Li Jing leads everyone to conquer the world in the future, the official positions of this small court may basically be the positions of the heroes in the Golden Palace in the future.
"The Northeast Road Daxingtai Shangshu Order is served by a certain person, and it consists of left and right servants, from the second grade, to give Cui Yunqing Shangshu the left servant to shoot, and Li Zhenshangshu to the right servant to shoot."
Under Li Jing's Daxing Taishang Order, the most important position is to shoot left and right, and there are many people who are qualified to hold these two official positions, not only the marshal of the six towns, but also the military masters of various armies. As everyone guessed, Li Jing finally handed over these two important positions to the civil officials, and not surprisingly, the most important position of the left servant was handed over to Cui Yunqing, a newly arrived teacher who was respected in Northeast Province, but was actually the least powerful in his own right. And the position of the right servant was handed over to Li Zhen and Li Xingxu, who had always been the first strategist under Li Jing in the past.
Cui Yunqing and Li Zhendu are both in the position of the commander of a town and a state assassin, and now they are appointed as the left and right servants of the province of Shangshu, and suddenly this authority is amazing.
However, Li Jing then announced another appointment, which made everyone stunned. Li Jing announced that Cui Yunqing was dismissed from the post of envoy of the Ziqing Funing Army and the history of the Qingzhou Assassin, and Li Zhen was dismissed from the post of the envoy of the National Army of Denglai Town and the history of the Dengzhou Assassin.
Hearing this appointment, Cui Yunqing and Li Zhen were not the slightest surprised, and the others immediately understood that Li Jing must have discussed such an important matter with these two in advance. Judging from Li Jing's style of acting all along, the king of the county likes the way of balance, and never let people easily grasp too much power. Now that Cui Yunqing and Li Zhen have been promoted to the left and right servants of the stage, it is absolutely impossible for them to serve as the marshal of a town again. It's a balance! In fact, it is similar to the situation of the imperial court, either out of general, or into the prime minister, if you want the prime minister and the envoy of moderation, it can only be the prime minister, not the real prime minister.
Looking at Li Jing's arrangement, it is obvious that he is entering the industry, so he cannot hold important positions in various towns.
The official positions of Xingtai are completely imitated by the Central Shangshu Province, and the official positions of the Central Shangshu Province are all in Xingtai.
Under the left and right servants, the most important thing is the six Shangshu. However, the six central departments are headed by officials, and the Xingtai is headed by the military department.
Li Jing also thought about this candidate for the secretary of the military department for a long time, and even discussed it with Li Zhen, Cui Yunqing and others. Li Jing initially wanted to use the military general as the secretary of the military department, but after thinking about it, considering the current general atmosphere in the late Tang Dynasty, he still planned to use civilian officials as the main officials, and then use military generals as deputies.
"Awarded Jingxiang as the secretary of the military department of Daxingtai, is the third product. Exempt from respecting Xiang Liaoxi, Pinglu Junjie, envoy and concurrently serving as the governor of the state. Awarded Lin Wei and Pei You Daxing Taizheng four military department attendants, exempted Lin Wei from the Pingzhou defense envoy, and exempted Pei You's naval army from knowing the soldiers and horses. ”
One order after another was issued, and the former important officials of the entire Northeast Province underwent a great change.
Cui Yunqing was shot by the left servant, and Li Zhen was shot by the right servant.
Jing Xiang is the secretary of the Ministry of War, Gai Yu is the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Li Rang is the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Guo Chengan is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Li Liang is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Li Chun is the secretary of the Criminal Department.
Each of the six subordinates has two waiters, two langzhong, two outsiders, and two directors. Each department has four divisions, and there are 24 divisions in the six departments. Each division is mainly based on Langzhong, and Lang is the deputy outsider. Each division is one of the two members of the outer lang and the four are in charge.
In addition to the six Shangshu of the left and right servants, there is also one Shangshu Cheng of the left and right of the four products of Daxingtai, one person of the provincial capital of the seven products of Daxingtai, and six directors of the Nine Products of Daxingtai.
The original six townsmen, Cui Yunqing, Li Zhen, Jingxiang, Gai Yu, Guo Chengan, and Li Liang, all entered the Daxingtai, and their original positions as festival marshals were all vacant.
There are more than 100 high-grade officials in the entire Daxingtai. For the time being, Li Jing only appointed and dismissed the left and right servants, the left and right servants, the six Shangshu, and the two attendants of the military department. Most of the remaining official positions are still vacant and need to be consulted with the officials.
However, the six knots and six assassin positions were suddenly vacated, but it made the eyes of many military masters present burn.
Although Li Jing has always been accustomed to serving as a civil official and assassinating the history, but now, Li Zhen and others have been promoted to Daxingtai, for a while, in terms of seniority and prestige, there is no one who can serve as the commander of the six towns, but there is no one who is higher than Lin Wu, Wang Zhong and other military masters.
In fact, Li Jing does not have any suitable candidates for the festival commander now, and the appointment of military generals has always been what Li Jing has been avoiding. Li Jing had also thought about removing the position of Jiedu Envoy, but for the time being, he couldn't do so.
And letting the officials of Daxingtai concurrently serve as the envoys of the festival is even more unacceptable to Li Jing. In Li Jing's plan, he wanted to take the opportunity of the formation of Daxingtai to compress and weaken the rights of the town commanders and bring all the rights to Daxingtai.
However, seeing that the generals were staring at the vacant seats of the envoys of the Six Towns Festival one by one, Li Jing knew in his heart that this step was not easy to take. (To be continued......)