Chapter 671: The world is unified
And people such as Hu Tian, Sun Tie, Zhao Ji and others also have their own rewards, and after the five military governors are enriched, there will be a great adjustment to the military system of the Tang Dynasty. And Li Xin was in Chang'an, and every once in a while, he and the others used the sand table to deduce tactics and prepare for the most important battle. At the same time, Li Xin also set up the position of university scholar, and increased the rank of bachelor to Wang Meng and other officials such as the six Shangshu and the imperial history of the Imperial Inspectorate. But just because this position is just an honor doesn't mean they have real power in this area.
Wang Meng has been with Li Xin for many years and has a very high ability, and Li Yue has gradually grown up at this time. Therefore, Li trusted Wang Meng to be the crown prince, and he and himself taught Li Yue, which was regarded as a formal establishment of the country.
With the efforts of Li Xin and the ministers, Datang has become more prosperous year by year, and its strength has become stronger and stronger. The population has gradually increased, especially in the Central Plains, which had become much depressed before, and after a few years, it has gradually recovered a lot of vitality.
Under such a situation, when the time reached the tenth year of Tianding, Li Xin officially announced that Datang would adopt the system of opening a branch and taking scholars, so that all people could pass the examination to enter the imperial court, so as to select talents.
There is no doubt that such a system is a huge shock to today. After all, today's world is basically still under the influence of the system of Jiupin Zhongzheng, and the concept of the class is very strict.
But Li Xin's prestige is now unparalleled, and no one in the country can shake his position, and most of the courtiers support it. Especially the children of the poor family, who are in the absolute majority, are even more appreciative of this.
After the imperial examination system, Datang also has the latest policy, that is, to start reinstating coinage, adopting the standard of five baht coins, and starting to mint Datang Tongbao! Because it was lightweight, durable, and valuable, it quickly became available in the market.
The circulation of coins has made Datang's economy more active, which in turn has promoted the development of Datang. With the rise of Datang's national strength, Datang Tongbao gradually became a hard currency around Datang, and even the land with Jiangzuo became popular.
In this way, Li Xin started from the aspects of population, land, talents, and economy, and after several years of down-to-earth peace of mind, he finally made Datang's national strength reach an unprecedented level of strength. The copper coins and grain in the treasury and the official warehouse were piled up like a mountain and could not be used up.
To this extent, Li Xin's personal prestige became higher and higher, and the lives of the people became better and better, from the people to the imperial court, more and more people began to call for Li Xin to ascend the throne and become emperor.
But Li Xin still suppressed this time, also because he felt that the time had not come.
It wasn't until another five years passed, in the fifteenth year of Tianding, in 374 A.D., that Li Xin finally began to act.
In the autumn of the fifteenth year of Tianding, Li Xin took Zhou Tong, the Marquis of Xiling, as the general of the expedition to the east, and sent his troops to the south of Yizhou, leading 100,000 troops and the navy to go down the Yangtze River by boat to attack Jingzhou and Ningzhou on the left side of the river. This place is the area of Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan later.
He also took Li Erhei, Marquis of Anyuan, as the general of the expedition to the south, led 100,000 troops to attack Nanjun, Jiangxia and other places, and after converging with Zhou Tong in Jiangling, he then joined forces to the south to take Jiangzhou and Guangzhou further south.
Then there was Zhao Ji, the Marquis of Yuzhang, who was the general of Pingnan, who led an army of 100,000 troops from Yanzhou to the south to attack Huainan, Hefei, Lujiang and other places in Yangzhou.
And Liu Xiaohai, the Marquis of Haixing, led an army of 100,000 from Qingzhou to the south to attack Xuzhou and other places. At the same time, among his 100,000 troops, there are also 30,000 naval divisions, who will land from the sea, thus after the attack on Jiankang.
The four-way army had a total of 400,000 soldiers and horses, and Li Xin led the pro-army to sit in the rear and thought it was the commander-in-chief. It should be mentioned that Huan Wen, who was in power in power by Jiang Zuo, died of illness last year.
After all these years of fierce soldiers, the Tang Dynasty's current national strength has already far surpassed that of Jiangzuo, so at the beginning of the war, the Tang army occupied a comprehensive advantage.
Whether it is the infiltration of Jiangzuo by the staff in the past few years, or because of the exchanges between the two sides, the people of Jiangzuo naturally have a good impression of Datang.
In addition, an important reason is that because Li Xin is actually a Han Chinese, his regime is actually a choice for many families. When faced with the survival of the family and the interests of the country, these people who only care about the interests of one family obviously choose the family.
Among the Jin army, the soldiers and horses who rebelled and surrendered to Cheng continued, and the river defense of the Yangtze River was almost full of loopholes. Although Xie An, Huan Huo and others tried their best to keep Jiangzuo's regime, under such a general trend, their talents could not play a big role.
Because Li Xin is not Fu Jian, Datang is not a former Qin who is barely pinched together. Especially this time to go south to attack Jin, it is something that Li Xin has prepared for many years. And Jiang Zuo was not able to spend nearly ten years to establish the Beifu army as in history.
As a result, Jiang Zuo fell into the point of retreat in the war. When the upstream naval army and the downstream naval division made a breakthrough, the Yangtze River fell into the hands of the Tang Dynasty, which meant that Jiangzuo's dependence was no longer there.
At the end of November, the prefectures and counties in Jiangzuo were surrendered one after another, and the ministers and clansmen of the Jin family who had fled to various places also surrendered one after another. So far, this most important war to dominate the world has finally been completed in only about three months.
At this point, the world, which had been divided since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, finally ushered in the situation of great unification again after a short period of unification for decades and once again fell into chaos that lasted for more than half a century.
And this was achieved by the Tang Dynasty established by Li Xin, a traverser. From the day he crossed over to this dynasty, it took twenty-one years to truly realize the unification of the world. At this time, Li Xin has also changed from the hairy boy at the beginning to a middle-aged king who is nearly half a hundred years old.
In 375 AD, after Li Xin destroyed the Eastern Jin Dynasty and unified the world to restore the mountains and rivers, he finally officially ascended the throne and became the emperor, known as Tang Taizu in history!
This year, Li Xin changed the first year of Tianyun!! The world thought that he meant that the unification of the world was the meaning of heaven's help, but no one knew, he just thought of all this that he had created by his accidental crossing.
After the establishment of the empire, it went through more than ten years of development, and the national strength was extremely strong.
North and desert Beihai, east to the sea Fusang, west to Kunlun in the Western Regions, south to Cochin Malacca, all Tang soil. The Tang people are all over the world, the prestige of the Tang Dynasty is spread far and wide in all continents, all countries come to the court to serve the Chinese co-master, and the three-year-old child also knows the name of Li Xin!
Towering China, a great country, the torch will be passed on from generation to generation!
End of book!