The hot summer and fruitful autumn have passed in a hurry, and now it has been a full eight months since the reform of the court, and now, it is November of the sixth year of Zhenguan, winter has arrived, and the cold wind blows on everyone's body, and also blows on the hearts of some people, these people, don't say it......

It is inconceivable that the family so easily let His Majesty Li Er pass the resolution on the establishment of the General Staff Headquarters, but the real parties know that the passage of this resolution is based on a transaction, and this transaction is some secrets of the Fan Yang Lu clan and some dirty transactions between them, of course, the decisive evidence of the arson case of the Military University is indispensable.

It is said that Lu Li, the head of the Fanyang Lu family, vomited a mouthful of blood and fell into a coma after knowing the news, and it took a while to wake up, and several major families immediately conducted urgent consultations, and the conclusions of the research made them feel desperate, but at the same time, His Majesty Li also felt that it was impossible to eradicate them at one time, the workload was very large, and it needed to be done step by step, and the first to hit the Lu family with the most bad things was the best.

The Lu family was forced to pay a lot of costs, such as the eyes and ears of the court were killed, and they were forced to lose the right to participate in the military aircraft, and Fan Yang was also occupied by a large number of officials directly under Li Er's majesty, and a series of purges followed, and the Lu family suffered heavy losses and temporarily fell into decline, and other big families were also implicated because of the Lu family's incident, lost a lot of things, and became angry with the Lu family, so after the storm under Li Erma's majesty, the Lu family was jointly attacked by several major families. It entered a state where the roof leak happened to rain overnight......

At the same time, the Qinghe Cui clan found that one of their more important tentacle families was missing, which was the family responsible for doing important business such as horse furs with the barbarians in the north, and after some investigation, it was discovered that they had moved to the outskirts of Chang'an, and announced that they had joined the Western Turkic caravan, while still doing the business of horse furs.

Qinghe Cui's clan was furious, but it was difficult for them to start with the huge force of the Western Turk caravan, not to mention the huge force of the demonic Sanyuan Marquis Suning and the military were protecting the Western Turkic caravan. Swallowed this bitter fruit. had to reappoint a family to take over the business, but as Old Man Qi said, people recognize people, and the situation needs to be reopened......

Fortunately, Old Man Qi felt that the Cui family did not treat the Qi family too much. So he gave up contact with the northern barbarians. Gave up running a business for three generations. made Cui's family feel that he had recovered a little loss, and it happened that Old Man Qi's family was immersed in the huge pain of losing everything, and the two sides gave up. The Cui family is facing the storm under Li Er's majesty, and he doesn't want to make any extraneous branches......

After several months of bloody rain, Datang gradually returned to normal, the imperial court operated normally, and all parts of the country began to do things, after the autumn harvest, it was to arrange next year's spring ploughing and tax collection, very busy, Datang began to forget.

A bumper harvest in the autumn harvest, a bumper harvest in the Guanzhong area, a bumper harvest in various places where high-yield crops were planted, the imperial court collected enough taxes for the first time, and the people everywhere suddenly found that the surplus grain in their hands was enough to eat, and enough for the spring ploughing of the coming year, and even surplus, which is especially obvious in Sanyuan County, Yongzhou Thorn Shi Wang Yuan was overjoyed, this year's harvest is the highest in Yongzhou, and the tax is the most, the entire Guanzhong ranks first, the annual performance assessment is first-class, and the promotion and fortune are just around the corner.

After this bumper harvest, the imperial court suddenly found that the grain reserves were enough to support the next big war, so the main war faction Wenchen military generals, who had been supported by the huge gains brought by the war, began to plan the war again with red eyes, and the strength of the main and military faction became particularly weak at this time, and the neutral rational Wenchen military generals believed that they should not start a war immediately, but should continue to reserve food, and they were not opposed to war in their words.

For the first time, His Majesty Li Erlu felt a kind of pleasure, a kind of pleasure that the main battle faction in the court occupied the mainstream, but he did not lose his mind, he knew what the mainstream of the Dao relied on, that is, the food reserves brought by the high-yield crops offered by Suning and the pursuit frenzy caused by the labor reform policy planned by Suning.

High-yield crops do live up to the expectations of the Tang Dynasty, after the first quarter of the bumper harvest began to radiate outward with Sanyuan County as the center, the imperial court purchased seed grain to distribute on the fertile soil of Guanzhong, fertile land to plant rice, relatively barren land to plant potatoes, this is Suning's opinion, according to practice, potato yield is high, but it is very land-consuming, so instead of planting on fertile land, it is better to take barren wasteland to plant potatoes, plant for a year and rest for a year, and then use fertile land to plant rice, every year can be planted.

After all, rice is the real staple food, and potatoes can be eaten until you vomit, rice will not be tired, potatoes will be tired, and potatoes are stored for a long time, you can put them, year after year, you can keep fresh, not to get tired of eating and spitting, only when there is a major famine in the year, the imperial court will issue an order to plant potatoes in fertile soil to survive the famine, in ordinary years, fertile soil is planted with rice, only a small part of the imperial court specially set the fertile land area to plant potatoes, in case of emergency.

But perhaps the fortune of the Tang Dynasty has come, from the fourth year of Zhenguan to the sixth year of Zhenguan, three consecutive years of wind and rain, successive bumper harvests, now the high-yield crops have expanded to most of the Guanzhong Plain and parts of East and South China, the Jiangnan region has also begun to plant rice, and the actual output is concluded, the land and climate in the south of the Yangtze River are more suitable for the cultivation of rice, and can be planted twice, the more times the south is planted, the shorter the growth cycle, which makes the imperial court think about Jiangnan, and the national policy of Guanzhong began to waver.

Soon after, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui jointly handed over a copy of "Jiangnan Shu", which triggered a big debate in the court about whether to develop Jiangnan, and the quarrel was called a world upside down, and the faction that advocated the development of Jiangnan and the faction that advocated the importance of Guanzhong and the north quarreled day by day, and they almost rolled up their sleeves and fought hard, just like when local states and counties competed for the priority of popularization of labor reform, it was called a fierce ah!

Because agriculture is the foundation of the country, the output of agricultural production is related to whether or not a war can be waged. During this period of time, the establishment of the General Staff Headquarters and the analysis of the situation around the entire Tang Dynasty occupied most of the time of the military bigwigs, and for a time there were almost no military generals in the court, and it was completely a group of civil servants who were noisy there, arguing about national policies, and military generals and civilian staff officers were concentrated in the General Staff Headquarters to discuss the possible locations and fortifications of future wars, surveying the terrain everywhere, making sand tables, and arguing about the places where the war would occur, and their interest in government affairs was greatly reduced.

In this regard, Li Er's majesty felt very good. The separation of military and political affairs has had a good beginning. As long as you persist and after a few generations, this will be a foregone conclusion, and the civil servants will govern the country. Generals fight. The two are irrelevant. The separation of the military and the government is a sign of the stability and maturity of the regime, and His Majesty Li Er walked around on both sides. Maintain presence and influence.

However, with regard to such a huge problem as agricultural production, military generals and staff officers could no longer sit idly by. A group of people participated in this controversy in the name of the General Staff Headquarters, and took out a research report for several months pointing out that the situation around the Tang Dynasty was bad, and a large amount of grain reserves were needed in case of emergency, and the current grain production in Guanzhong and North China could not support more than two large-scale wars, but this was necessary, so from a military point of view, they supported the argument of developing Jiangnan.

So the faction that advocated the development of Jiangnan gained the upper hand, and there were Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, a pair of left and right servants, who were pushing hard, and Li Erji finally made up his mind to develop Jiangnan!

The first step in the development of Jiangnan is to set up a representative political center in Jiangnan, just like Luoyang is to Chang'an, every year His Majesty Li Er will take a period of time to live in Luoyang to deal with government affairs, expressing the importance of Luoyang as a companion capital, and now since Jiangnan is to be developed, it is necessary to make a statement, set up a political center with the same status as Luoyang in Jiangnan, and send high-ranking officials and generals to station heavily to show the determination to develop Jiangnan.

For this, there was also a fierce debate in the court, the main controversy focused on whether to choose in Yangzhou Jinling or Jingzhou Xiangyang, and a few people felt that it should be set up in Yizhou Chengdu, which was directly ignored, although Nima Chengdu is a big city, but the transportation is really inconvenient, do you want the emperor to go to Chengdu once to come to life and death?

Therefore, Jinling and Xiangyang, which have convenient transportation, are located in the plain, have relatively prosperous economies and relatively large populations, have become candidate cities, and the reason for choosing Jinling is that it has been regarded as the capital by many dynasties, which is very prosperous and has innate advantages, while Xiangyang is relatively backward; The reason for choosing Xiangyang is that it is an important town in ancient times, bordering Sili in the north and Jingxiang nine counties in the south, which is in the center of the Tang Dynasty, with convenient transportation and strong symbolic significance.

The result of the most controversy is that Xiangyang is not only a big city in the south of the Yangtze River, but also a strategic point, and its strategic position is important, compared to the sound of Jinling, the symbol of war in Xiangyang is relatively strong, it can be said that Xiangyang is a symbol of a strong Jiangnan man, and Jinling is a symbol of a soft Jiangnan woman, Xiangyang was selected as the second capital of the Tang Dynasty after Luoyang, the news spread all over the world, and it was a shock for the Tang Dynasty.

Immediately, the rectification of Xiangyang was launched, a complete set of official teams were set up, and they were sent to Xiangyang to preside over government affairs, the official grades of Xiangyang Taishou and Jingzhou Assassin were raised several levels, and the number of garrisons was also increased to 13,000 people, and the army of a right Xiaowei was directly arranged to be stationed in Xiangyang, and the army of the right Xiaowei was directly recruited from the local Jiangnan area, and the number of military offices in Jingzhou and other places surged, which was another symbol of the development of Jiangnan.

Behind all this, the reason why Xiangyang was chosen as the second companion capital of the Tang Dynasty is not as simple as recorded in the history books, and there is another important reason that has been ignored, or many people do not realize that the reason why they have such a good impression of Xiangyang is precisely because of the birth of a novel that caused great repercussions.

That's right, that's right, that's the result of Suning's retreat for several months - Su's "Three Kingdoms"!

The appearance of "Three Kingdoms" began in the second month after Suning's retreat, Li Er Majesty still remembers that day, because he was very busy dealing with government affairs, Li Er Majesty felt very tired, and when he was about to take a break, a guard hurriedly ran over and said that Hou Suning of Sanyuan County had something to hand over to His Majesty to preview, Li Er Majesty was very strange, didn't this kid want to read history books behind closed doors? And what moths?

Take a look, Li Er Majesty understood something, this is a thick stack of paper, was slightly bound, the first piece of paper has only two big characters, it is the word "Three Kingdoms", Li Er Majesty thought at first that this was Suning after reading the history of the Three Kingdoms and something, thinking that he was resting, then take a look, the right is entertainment, but when he opened the first page, he was deeply attracted, without him, it was a preface......

That's right, it's Yang Shen's "Linjiang Immortal", as the emperor, Li Er's majesty can see the essence of this long and short sentence at a glance, especially the last sentence of the last sentence, how many things in ancient and modern times, all of them are laughing and talking, which deeply touched Li Er's majesty, and sighed, Li Er's majesty opened the second page, and began the journey of the Three Kingdoms that he couldn't extricate himself...... (To be continued......)