After Li Qi returned to northern Shanxi, he resettled more than 20,000 southern army soldiers, more than 10,000 Khitan prisoners, and more than 20,000 Lulong immigrants in the Xin Dynasty, Yunzhou, and Shanbei respectively, and continued to engage in the arduous and glorious cause of military reclamation. With the increasing population of these three places, the scope of the reclamation area has become larger and larger, and the ordinary people live a stable and relatively prosperous life, which also makes the people in the Shannan and Hebei plains feel envious.

This situation attracted many displaced people from Hebei to go to Shanbei to take refuge, but Li Qi did not refuse to come, and accepted all of them, incorporated them into the army, and carried out reclamation and garrisoning.

The division of feudal towns since the Middle Tang Dynasty was the main reason for the gradual weakening of central power and the decline of the Tang Dynasty.

The frequent alternation of the five generations of political power is also caused by the fact that the military towns and towns in various places hold the military and political power in their hands and support the army for their own respect.

Without absolute strength, if you want to rush to "cut down the feudal domain", the result can only be "mutiny" and rebellion.

Another purpose of Li Qi's military tuntian in the vicinity of Taiyuan Prefecture, Yanmen, Shanbei and Yunshuo was also to weaken the military power of the local Jiedu envoys and assassins. It's just that he uses a roundabout way, and the means are much gentler. He financed the construction of the dams in the tuntian area, so the wasteland reclaimed was also owned by the royal family.

Therefore, these tuntian fields are imperial fields rather than official fields, and they are not owned by the local government, but directly belong to the royal family.

Huangtian was tax-exempt, so the local government could not collect taxes from these tuntian farmlands, and the production and profits of the tuntian area were directly distributed by the inner court. In addition, the appointment of these officers at all levels of the Tuntian Army is also attributed to the inner court, and local officials have no right to interfere. It was this method of gradually expanding the "Tuntian Army" in various localities to achieve the goal of weakening the military power of the local defenders.

These policies have not met with much resistance to their implementation.

Jinyang is the old nest of the Li family, and Li Qi initially implemented Tuntian with Huangzhuang, and then began to gradually expand the scale of Tuntian reclamation. Moreover, Taiyuan Mansion has always been directly under the Li family, and there is no military general as Jiedu, and Yin Zhangxian, the original northern capital and Taiyuan Mansion, is a civil servant, and there is not much military power in his hands.

The Yanmen Festival made Zhou Guangfu suffer from injuries, and he didn't have much ambition. Therefore, after Li Qi gradually implemented the military tuntian to the Xindai Basin, he simply handed over the military power in his hand, which was quite a bit of a glass of wine to release the military power. Therefore, Li Qi was the most generous to Zhou Guangfu, and after returning to Jinyang, he was crowned as a Taishi to show his favor.

And the Zhenwu Army, the veteran An Jinquan's plan is nothing more than wealth behind him, so Li Qi divided 20% of the shares of the workshop built in the Yunshuo area to the old comrades. Due to the high annual income, An Jinquan also successfully handed over the military power, and now he is still named the envoy of Zhenwu Festival, and in fact, he is not very involved in specific military and political affairs.

As for Shanbei, it was completely built by Li Qi, and the garrison was actually dominated by the Tuntian Army, and the military and political power was basically completely controlled by Li Qi.

In other places, the military and political power of Zelu Zhaoyi Army, Tonghua Zhongwu Army, Jingzhao Yongping Army, including the newly acquired Zhenzhou, was still in the hands of local Jiedu envoys. Except for Yuan Xingkai's Cheng De Army, which had more than 20,000 soldiers and horses to guard against the attack of the Southern Army, the other two Jiedu envoys, Fu Yanchao and Lu Wenjin, had a total of 10,000 troops.

This kind of thing must be done slowly, and it is impossible to solve the problem of excessive military power in foreign towns at once.

In addition, Li Qi began to slowly separate the military administration from the central center, with Prime Minister Zhang Xian in charge of the administration and the privy envoy Yuan Xingqin in charge of the military and the government. The assassin was no longer in charge of the garrison, but was held by the civil minister, and the military affairs of the states were changed to be in charge of the defense envoy or the regimental training envoy.

What he needs now is to cultivate his own power, and he needs help.

Now these young people are pro-army, which is equivalent to the "Whampoa Military Academy" he opened. If you want to master the places thoroughly, you need to wait until these young people really grow up.

Those children of noble and wealthy families are branded with the family as soon as they are born, and they are taught from an early age that the interests and continuation of the family are higher than the royal family, and even higher than the country and the nation. As emperor, Li Qi needed to nurture the children of the commoner class who had no background to enter the ruling group, which was also a balance.

Therefore, after the onset of winter, Li Qi ordered that starting next spring, the establishment of government-run schools in the military camps of the cantonments should be carried out, and the funds should be borne by the middle schools of the cantonment camps, so that the children of the army could attend school free of charge. After all, in this era, most military households could not read a single word, and knowledge was still monopolized by the rich, so they were extremely happy to let their children get the opportunity to go to school and receive education.

Lu Bi, who is in charge of this matter, is also very supportive of this.

He said to Li Qi: "Your Majesty's move is very good at buying the hearts of the army, and now there are people who want to oppose Your Majesty, and these rough men will be surging with affection." However, the price paid is not small, if this teenager wants to be educated and cultivated, 100,000 yuan is indispensable, but I don't know how much can be used in the end? ”

Li Qi replied: "The border troops are tired, and they really need some rewards, and I just spend some of what I have gained from them." Take it from the people, use it for the people, I just spend a little. In the past, the biggest problem of the Jin army was that these generals would only treat their own pro-army well, but they treated the people as fish and meat. ”

Lu Bi said with a smile: "The world is the world of the world, not the world of one person, Your Majesty can understand this, congratulations." It's a pity that there are greedy people in this world, as long as this thing is in your hands, it will never pull out a dime! ”

Li Qi said slowly: "It is said that every time you slaughter dogs, you are mostly a scholar. But if anyone does not know the book, he does not know the righteousness. The so-called chivalrous people are mostly splashed in the countryside, I heard that after the Khitans came, the first to take refuge in them were these people, and ordinary honest people did not have the courage. It is said that good iron does not hit nails, and good men are not soldiers, and this soldier does not know the righteousness, so there will be rebellion from time to time on the battlefield. ”

Lu Bi hesitated for a moment and said: "If the heroes rise together today, everyone will have ambitions, and it will be difficult to convince the whole world!" ”

Li Qi said with a smile: "Under the Putian, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister...... What I do is king! From the beginning of next year, I will carry out the royal Taoism in the northern grasslands, and my husband will have to suffer at that time to help me recruit talents from all over the world. ”

After hearing this, Lu Bi's eyes couldn't help but widen in surprise.

This...... Your Majesty is going to teach the steppe people to read and write?!