Many people believe that since the self-proclaimed Huangzhushan bandits of the Tang Dynasty have begun to entrench themselves in the local area and establish a political power to collect taxes, they will definitely have the same scruples as many dynasties in the future, such as avoiding provoking popular uprisings as much as possible, and vigorously co-opting the contemporary middle social class: the gentry and landlords.

And naively believe that as long as they insist on not paying taxes and raise any objection slogans, the Tang Dynasty will give in and make concessions, thus returning to the previous state of not paying taxes.

But they obviously overestimated the conscience of Li Xuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and his civil and military ministers!

Those civil and military ministers who were born as bandit leaders don't understand what it is to win the hearts of the people, Liu Bagou, Zeng Ziwen, Ma Wei and others know the importance of winning the hearts of the people, but they know better that if they make concessions at this time, then more people will use various slogans to oppose the Tang Dynasty in the future, which will be a disaster for a new and weak dynasty.

They all felt that it was time to suppress it with the most severe means in order to deter other opposition, especially those that had not yet been brought to the surface.

As the saying goes, killing chickens and making an example of monkeys is also!

The Tang Dynasty is weak, but it is precisely because of weakness that it needs to put on a posture of ignoring things and even crazy actions.

Those who have money are afraid of those who have no money, those who have no money are afraid of not dying, and those who do not want to die are afraid of going crazy.

And the role that the Tang Dynasty wants to play is that madman!

However, these were the thoughts of these courtiers, and as for Li Xuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he ordered the army to suppress those recalcitrant landlords, but his starting point was not these.

His starting point is very simple: he has no interest in these big landlords, and even these big landlords block his steps, so when these people object, Li Xuan simply came to the scene and confiscated them.

In the past, when the Tang Dynasty was still only nested in Huangzhu Mountain, Li Xuan did not have a clear direction of governance, and he was taking one step at a time.

But now, when the Tang New Army has occupied the vast countryside of Zhengtai County, and the people under its rule have exceeded 80,000, claiming to control the land of 100 miles and 100,000 people, Li Xuan has also officially decided on his own governance, or the strategy of rebellion.

The first thing is to find out where your foundation is, and this foundation is not about the place, but about people, to be precise, about a certain class of people.

Based on the fact that the Tang Dynasty was born as a bandit, and it was still a child's play of rebellion, no one with a little insight would support the Tang Dynasty, even if the new army of the Tang Dynasty had taken control of Zhengtai County, but many people in Zhengtai County were waiting to see the jokes of the Tang Dynasty and wait for the imperial army to come back.

Under such circumstances, it was almost impossible to gain the support of the upper echelons of society, such as scholars, gentry and landlords.

So who are the people that the Tang Dynasty can fight for?

Ordinary people, especially the poor who are illiterate and illiterate!

This can be seen from the tax system issued by Li Xuan, which still treats the peasants relatively well.

As long as you have the support of these ordinary people, you will be able to get resources such as soldiers, food, and even weapons.

In contrast, the value of the so-called upper echelons of society is not worth mentioning.

As for what needs to be read by scholars, landlords and gentry to maintain control, there is no need to worry, to be an official does not need to read the Four Books and Five Classics, their role is more to see, and the people who really do things only need to recognize hundreds of commonly used words.

The stone blacksmith didn't know a big character before, but he only learned a small number of words in the past year, but he was not the same as the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty, and he was also impressive, under his leadership, the Ministry of Industry established a large number of workshops to provide various materials and ammunition for the Tang Dynasty.

Besides, Liu Bagou, although this person is also a scholar, he can actually only be regarded as a child, and what he is best at is bragging and self-fantasy, but in front of the cabinet chief of the Tang Dynasty, he is not quite good.

As for the influence of those gentry and landlords in the countryside, this is indeed a bit troublesome, but the rule of the Tang Dynasty is not the same as that of previous dynasties, limited to the county seat, and the rule of the Tang Dynasty is directly at the village level.

The establishment of the town and village governments was enough for the Tang Dynasty to extend its ruling tentacles to every common people.

In other words, the Tang Dynasty did not need these clans in the countryside to help maintain its rule, and it can even be said that those large-scale clans in the countryside also affected the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

To rebel is to win over those who can be co-opted and are worthy of being co-opted, and then to strike at those who oppose it.

To a certain extent, the current Tang Dynasty is pulling a group of small and medium-sized landlords and more ordinary peasants, and then launching a war against the Ming Dynasty represented by the big landlords and gentry class!

After the brutal and violent suppression of the military, the turmoil caused by the tax system was completely quelled, and the recalcitrant landlords were swept away.

Looking at the report on the suppression of the rebellion handed down from below, Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction, and then said to Fang Xitong, who was in charge of the first mixed battalion in charge of this suppression operation: "Major Fang, this time you did a good job, you can clear up the turmoil in various towns in such a short time, and the rapid action of the first mixed battalion is indispensable!" ”

Fang Xitong said: "The minister doesn't dare to take credit, the reason why this operation went smoothly is because Your Majesty, your Tianwei has spread all over Zhengtai, and those who are stubborn only hear the arrival of my Tang Dynasty Prince, they have already heard the wind and surrendered!" ”

"In addition, the robbery battalion has also played a great role and effectively cooperated with the actions of our army!"

Li Xuan said: "In this way, according to Fang Aiqing, this robbery camp is already usable?" ”

Fang Xitong said: "The scale of the robbery camp is not large now, and the training days are short, if they are allowed to go to the front line to fight against a strong enemy, it is naturally not enough, but it is still barely usable to arrange it in the rear to threaten the younger generation!" ”

The pore camp in the mouths of the two of them is an auxiliary force that was established just last month, and first of all, strictly speaking, this pore camp is not a simple army, but an armed force under the dual jurisdiction of the military and the cabinet.

Because of the pressure from the local security system, especially the armed resistance of some large landowners, Li Xuan realized that it was not so appropriate to rely on the professional army to maintain law and order, and to carry out these small-scale bomb and suppression tasks.

The new army of the Tang Dynasty is to be used to fight with the Ming army, if the Ming army comes to attack in a big way, it will be poured out, and it is impossible to leave a part of the troops behind to suppress the place and maintain law and order when the front is fighting.

However, if you let them catch the thieves, you can let them catch the thieves, but it will be difficult for you to let them attack the big families with high walls and those big bandits.

For this reason, Li Xuan had the idea of establishing a local garrison force, this garrison force is not the kind of first garrison battalion in the sequence of the Datang New Army, although the first garrison battalion has the name of garrison, but it is also a real combat force, not used to suppress the local security and maintain law and order.

This garrison should have a certain combat effectiveness, but the cost should not be too high, and finally this kind of garrison unit was hung up on the name of the thief hunting camp, equipped with common swords and spears, supplemented by a small number of archers, officers above the platoon level with armor, and other soldiers are all light infantry.

In terms of establishment, it still follows the establishment of the main force, but there are only three teams of about 300 people, according to Li Xuan's own imagination, this kind of robbery camp should be set up in each county, usually stationed in the county seat, and after encountering any turmoil, it will be directly dispatched to suppress it.

A 300-person raiding camp is usually enough!

If the 300-strong raiding camp is not enough, then the military will send combat troops to suppress it.

At the same time, this robbery hunting camp is under the dual jurisdiction of the cabinet and the military, and for this reason, Li Xuan's cabinet has also set up a new organization, called the Patrol Police Department, and this theft hunting camp is under the jurisdiction of the Patrol Police Department.

In addition, the duty of the patrol police department is to maintain law and order and crack down on all kinds of crimes.

It is worth mentioning that Li Xuan took advantage of this opportunity to make certain changes to the functions and powers of various ministries of the cabinet recently.

For example, the Ministry of Inspectorates was separated from the cabinet, and the name of the Inspectorate used in all dynasties was restored, and it was directly responsible to Li Xuan after independence, and part of its authority was similar to that of the Inspectorate of other dynasties, and it could supervise hundreds of officials.

In addition, the Metropolitan Procuratorate not only managed officials, but also had the power to manage civil crimes, and followed the example of later prosecutors to prosecute all kinds of illegal acts.

In addition, a new Ministry of Justice was established, which was responsible for the formulation of various laws as the name suggests, and additionally assumed the tasks of later courts to adjudicate various lawsuits.

As a result, the three judicial organs of the public procuratorate and the law were formed, which completely solved the problem that the Tang Dynasty had been facing: the chaos of judicial power.

And the most important thing is that any trivial matter will bring the lawsuit to Li Xuanyu, even if it is not to Li Xuan, it will also be brought to Liu Bagou, and the judiciary will deal with it in the future.

In addition to the changes in the judiciary, other departments have also undergone changes, for example, in the Ministry of Households, the new Department of Industry and Commerce, the Department of the Interior, in addition to the original civil affairs, but also responsible for industrial and commercial development affairs, while other matters related to people's livelihood are under the management of the Department of the Interior.

In addition, the Ministry of Industry has also added two institutions, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Workshops, so that the Ministry of Industry can better manage the workshops established by the Ministry of Industry, as well as the construction of roads and bridges.

This improvement of the various ministries of the cabinet is to make the central organs of the Tang Dynasty more perfect, and after the various functions and powers are clarified, when these things are encountered in the future, there will be no situation where they do not know that they belong to that department.

Not only has the cabinet changed, but the administrative institutions of the following towns have also changed, and in less than half a month, although the cabinet of the Tang Dynasty and the institutions of each town still look the same on the surface, the actual changes are still very big.

Since the day it was established, the cabinet has been developing and improving all the time to adapt to the expansion of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise even if the new army of the Tang Dynasty has laid more territory, the Tang Dynasty will not be able to rule effectively!

If one day the new army of the Tang Dynasty occupies a province or even more territory, but the cabinet is unable to maintain its rule, then it is not necessary to laugh at the teeth of the old man of Zhengde!