Li Shimin took his courtiers and returned to the Taiji Imperial Capital to deal with the backlog of government affairs.

And Bai Yuqi also returned to Wuji Palace to rest for a while after inspecting the industries under the [Wuji Gate].

It seems that he has just "gotten out", but in fact, he has been running around for several months without stopping!

I have to say that it may be stimulated by the various exploits made by Bai Yuqi, the Emperor of Wuji.

When Li Shimin, the emperor, was handling government affairs, he also began to show a bold and aggressive and courageous style, which was quite a bit of a competition with Emperor Wuji.

Thanks to the communication cards provided by the [Wuji Gate] Refining Workshop and the support of the [Royal Beast Gate] Flying Bird Communication Bureau, the speed of transmission of Datang's decrees is now 100 times faster than in the past, and the center's control over the local area has also been greatly improved.

Moreover, after receiving the inheritance of Emperor Wuji's "Foundation Management System", combined with the various suggestions mentioned by Emperor Wuji in his chat, Li Shimin also boldly carried out drastic reforms to the Tang Dynasty.

For example, the number of officials has been streamlined, the secretary province has been established, and a three-level management system of "chief officials, auxiliary officials, and secretaries" has been established.

At the same time, the Datang army was reformed, and the government military system was upgraded to a multi-level soldier system that combined the characteristics of the system such as "conscription system (full-time professional soldiers), conscription system (conscription conscription), mercenary system (semi-professional private soldiers), and township soldier system (non-full-time militia)".

That is, the center selects elite soldiers from the national soldiers and forms an army directly under the central government as the main force.

Each of the ten provinces of the Tang Dynasty set up a unified army governor's office (military region), established a 10,000-person elite army corps, plus the "dragoon army" 10,000 cavalry regiments directly under the emperor's direct jurisdiction, a total of 110,000 standing troops.

Then the young and strong men who have a family of property must enlist in the army for two years after reaching the age of 18.

During the service, the imperial court exempted the soldiers' families from paying taxes to ease the burden caused by the lack of labor.

After completing military service, you can choose to become a professional soldier under the "conscription system", or retire to join the private regiment under the "mercenary system", or you can return to the field to become a township militia to protect the township and the people, but no matter what status, when the country encounters war, you must obey the compulsory conscription and re-enlist.

This multi-level military system is already very similar to the military service system of later generations, which greatly improves the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty army and reduces the burden on the country.

Under this system of combining politics and the army and separating military and government, the entire Tang Dynasty took on a new look, and Li Shimin's imperial power began to infiltrate the people, and there was no longer the problem of imperial power not going to the countryside.

As soon as the strong and efficient military and political system was established, Li Shimin's control over the territory of the Tang Dynasty reached a peak, and two major problems that plagued the ancient feudal dynasty were solved at one hand, that is, fugitives and bandits.

Since the Sui Rebellion had just ended in the early Tang Dynasty, the Li regime had been newly established, and the territory had not yet been completely unified, so the energy was focused on eliminating external and internal troubles.

The population count is only a rough estimate, and a large number of people hiding in the mountains and fields to escape war and taxation are the main reason why the population was less than 15 million at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, a large number of warlord forces left over from the war formed a large group of bandits who did not obey the discipline of the imperial court, and also occupied part of the population.

Therefore, after the reform of the military and political system, the Turkic foreign invasion was inexplicably eliminated by a set of riotous operations of the Wuji Emperor, and the salt and grain shortages in the territory were solved because of the establishment of the water and land transportation network, and the locust plague also tended to stabilize under the efforts of the [Wuji Gate] system.

Li Shimin was finally able to relax his mind and free his hands, and began to attack those fugitives and bandits hiding in the mountains and forests.

For the fugitives hidden in the mountains and forests, the local government will organize and persuade them to return to the villages, and if they can't do so, they will organize militia and township groups to go into the mountains to physically persuade them to be forcibly demolished, and those who refuse to obey the discipline will be arrested and sent to the labor camp for labor reform.

As for the remnants of the warlords' forces, the military offices of the states under the command of the Governor's Office of the United Army were sent to form a core of command with professional soldiers.

Recruit mercenary groups to assist, recruit township regiments as a heavy logistics bandit suppression force, first recruit and persuade these bandit forces to surrender, and if they are stubborn, they will be directly exterminated, and try to capture them alive and throw them into the labor camp so that they can go with the Jiuli brothers.

With a multi-pronged approach, it is expected that the population of Datang will double out of thin air, that is, to reach about 25 million and about 5 million Turkic laborers!

Moreover, in order to appease these fugitive bandits and Turkic laborers who were forcibly returned to the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin also adopted the opinions of Emperor Wuji in a good manner, formulated a system of years of imprisonment, sentenced them according to the seriousness of the "crime", told these "prisoners of labor reform" a clear number of years to serve, and gave them a hope to avoid riots.

At the same time, it also promoted those who were willing to obey and obey the discipline of these "prisoners through labor" to act as managers in the group of "prisoners through labor", to improve their treatment and rights, to divide their internal groups by "treating prisoners with prisoners", and to disperse the old forces among the Turkic population.

It is believed that after a short period of one year and a long period of three, six, or nine years of "labor reform", this group of Turkic population will be easily absorbed and integrated into its own people by the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin competed with him for his merits, but Bai Yuqi didn't care about it and even liked to see it.

It's better to be busy, but if you're busy, you won't have the energy to think about it, so where is it? It's just that he swallowed a Turk, and he will be busy in the future......

Bai Yuqi, who returned to Wuji Palace in Kuyu City, was approached by his disciples before he could say relax and relax, and asked him for advice on various problems that occurred during his "retreat".

Among them were Yang Hongwen Lao Cunzheng, who was holding the account book of Kuyuxian City to report to him, and Yang Tieniu, the captain of the Kuyu caravan who came to report to him.

Even after taking office as the head of [Ni Shang Gate], Yang Zhao, who changed her original cowardly temperament and became a strong woman in her career, also came to ask him if he needed to expand the planting area of mulberry forests for large-scale silkworm raising, and asked him what to do with the coaxing wool brought back from the Turks.

The most strange thing is that even the liquor workshop under the [Ding Ling Gate] came to complain to him, saying that the bamboo wine forest they planted was caused by the iron-eating beasts raised by Emperor Wuji.

These emperors' pets are auspicious, they can't beat, scold and dare not scold, the fence can't stop them, and they tear down the fence and run into the bamboo wine garden every once in a while, and bite the bamboo that hasn't been brewed yet, and the good bamboo wine is ruined.

Bai Yuqi was dumbfounded when he heard this, what the hell is it? If they don't gnaw on the bamboo forests on the panda bamboo mountain, why do they have to gnaw on those bamboos that have been filled with wine?

I've only heard that monkeys who can make monkey wine love to steal wine and drink, but I haven't heard that pandas are good at this bite?