In the process of establishing every dynasty, there will always be many careerists around it, and they may rebel hard, perhaps for the ideals and unwillingness in their hearts and other reasons, but most of them will have the same purpose, that is, to win a glory and wealth.

They want to be a prince and prince who lives with the country, and strive for glory and wealth for their descendants that will last for hundreds of years.

Therefore, you can see that most dynasties will promise all kinds of benefits in the early days of their establishment, or even when they first start to rebel, and even directly promulgate various princes, without seeing the heartache of the rulers at all.

Why is that?

Because when the rebellion was just started, no one knew whether it would succeed or not, and the possibility of failure was extremely high, and the ruler sealed the title and the like first, which was equivalent to rewarding the ministers with something uncertain in the future.

If you want to turn these titles into veritable titles, you need these elders to work together, otherwise after the rebellion is suppressed, these titles will come to naught and become empty.

Li Xuan's decision to knight Fang Dongquan and other elders was also in this consideration, and now giving them a title is just a title at best, and if they want to turn this title into a real noble, they have to work hard themselves.

This process is a bit like a start-up company at the beginning of its business, giving equity to many veterans who started the business together, in order to motivate them to work harder and create greater value for the company, so that the veterans will become rich overnight after the company's boss.

Li Xuan is now going to confer a knighthood, and he is also not heartbroken, if he can and if necessary, he can go down according to the person's hair and seal him with eight thousand.

However, if you want to maintain the dignity of the title, and make the courtiers rebel for the sake of a title, you need to maintain the scarcity of the title.

This time, Li Xuan has learned the lesson of the previous large-scale official sealing, and he deeply knows what it means to be scarce and expensive, and this title is in his own opinion, he can seal as much as he wants, but he can't really do this, he must limit the number and level of the title.

It's like a woman, even if she is already extremely emotional, and the ditch is as wet as the Yangtze River bursting and flooding, but she has to clamp her legs tightly, and she has to say no, no, no.

It is extremely important to be reserved.

Therefore, this time, Li Xuan is ready to take it easy, only give a few people the title, and the title will not be too high, he will not seal all the high-level official positions at one time like the previous official, so it will not be easy to do it in the future.

Only then did he control a Zhengtai County, and he was made a marquis, wouldn't he have to be crowned a king when he laid down a Xingquan Mansion, and then when he conquered most of China, wouldn't he want to seal the emperor's throne too? What should I do if I don't seal it, then I can only learn from Zhu Yuanzhang to kill heroes!

When a meritorious person's title or something cannot be sealed, the only reward that the emperor can give him is a cup of poison.

So in order to avoid this, Li Xuan decided to take it easy from the beginning!

Just like when the military ranks were awarded before, in order to let the follow-up generals have room to continue to improve their ranks, he was stunned not to give the rank of general, only to the school officer, and Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu They are also very smart, the colonel does not want it, the lieutenant colonel does not want it, as long as there is a major.

And this time, he's ready to play the same tune!

Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, taking advantage of the fact that the Lanjiang ferry continued to remain calm and there were no waves in Zhengtai County, Li Xuan convened senior civil and military officials at the Lanjiang ferry to hold a strategic meeting in front of the emperor, and prepared to formally determine the title system at this meeting.

Now that Zhengtai County is relatively calm, it is the time for him to deal with these trivial matters.

However, before they were officially knighted, they had to deal with other things first, such as how to completely bring Zhengtai County into the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Su Jiakang and they honestly stayed in Zhengtai County and Longhua Town, and even in order to consolidate the city defense of Zhengtai County, Su Jiakang also took the initiative to give up Longhua Town and transferred most of the troops originally stationed in Longhua Town to Zhengtai County.

Now Longhua Town knows that there are dozens of old and weak remnants of the left, and they are only guarded by hundreds of young and strong people, and there is no difference between it and not defending.

However, the defensive forces on the side of Zhengtai County have been greatly strengthened, and the total strength is estimated to be seven or eight hundred.

Su Jiakang and the others cowered in the county and did not come out, and the Datang New Army only deployed more than 100 people outside Zhengtai County to monitor the situation in Zhengtai County, but they had no intention of attacking Zhengtai County, and even in order to prevent the Ming army in Zhengtai County from jumping over the wall in a hurry, the Datang New Army did not even completely block Zhengtai County, so that thousands of people and militias in Zhengtai County could still get supplies from the outside world.

However, many people in Zhengtai County have seen that Zhengtai County is in danger, and many gentry and landlords have fled from Zhengtai County, some have gone to the countryside to escape the war, and some have fled to Fucheng and other places.

In this regard, the Datang New Army did not hinder too much, after all, the Datang New Army did not want these landlords and tycoons, what they needed was 100,000 ordinary people in Zhengtai County, or more precisely, 100,000 peasants, and those small citizens and gentry living in the city, to be honest, the Datang New Army did not need much.

These people can't farm and provide food, and they can't serve as soldiers to fight, their only role is to be officials, and they refuse to be officials of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan can force the children of the gentry and landlords in the countryside to be officials, but they can't pull everyone over to be officials.

So in addition to wasting food in vain, these people are not of much use to the Tang Dynasty, and if they want to escape to avoid the war, Li Xuan is too lazy to stop them.

Su Jiakang and the others retreated in the county seat, so naturally they could not stop the Tang Dynasty from bringing the vast countryside of Zhengtai County under their rule.

Many village officials sent by Liu Bagou were also supported by the Datang New Army to quickly establish village-level administrative points in the vast rural areas of Zhengtai County.

According to the administrative point of the large village, several small and medium-sized villages share an administrative point, and each administrative point has jurisdiction over the scale of about 1,000 to 2,000 people, and the Tang Dynasty quickly established about 60 administrative points in Zhengtai County, and the population under its rule exceeded the scale of 80,000.

As a result, except for the population of Longhua Town and Zhengtai County, most of the other populations of the entire Zhengtai County were already under the direct rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Due to the excessive number of village-level administrative institutions, the Tang Dynasty could not directly govern all of them, and according to the suggestions of Liu Bagou and others, Li Xuan re-established the town-level administrative institutions.

According to the local area, eight towns were established in Zhengtai County, which governed each village in their respective areas, so as to completely control the 100,000 people of Zhengtai County.

The administrative organs at the town level also followed the previous village-level institutions, and set up the town mayor, the town finance officer, and the town magistrate, and the village head, tax officer, and thief arrester of each village were directly under the management of the town-level officials, and set up separate institutions, which did not govern each other.

In other words, the mayor of the town has no authority over the tax collectors and robber catchers in the villages below, but only civil power.

The town sheriff is only responsible for public security affairs, and the others cannot be officials.

As for the town treasurer, he is responsible for the collection of taxes in the villages and the provision of public expenditures.

These three independent systems together constitute the basic administrative structure of the towns and villages under the Tang Dynasty.

Among the officials at the town and village level, the town mayor and the village chief are partly responsible for the people selected by the cabinet, and some directly appoint some local landlords who are actively loyal to the Tang Dynasty, of course, these landlords will not be stupid to directly let the head of the family be the village head, they will find some agents who seem to have nothing to do with themselves, but it doesn't matter.

The most important thing is that with their joining, the Tang Dynasty's rule over the grassroots will be smoother.

However, letting the locals serve is limited to civil affairs, and the officials of the two systems of taxation and public security are all people sent by the Tang Dynasty, and the tax officials are directly dispatched by the Ministry of Taxation, and the robber arresters and magistrates in the public security system are directly dispatched by the Tang New Army to serve as retired soldiers and even officers.

For example, the sheriffs of the six towns were all transferred from the active duty officers of the Datang New Army, and the robber arresters in each village were also transferred from the active non-commissioned officers of the Datang New Army, and even some ordinary arresters were also served by some retired soldiers.

And most of these people are disabled veterans.

The Datang New Army has experienced more than ten small battles, although the casualties in each battle are not large, but the accumulated casualties are still not small, and the accumulated and unrecoverable disabled soldiers are two or three hundred.

In the previous battle of Lanjiang Ferry, the Datang New Army suffered hundreds of casualties, and at least half of them were unable to return to the army to continue their military careers.

How to arrange them, this is a troublesome thing for the former Datang New Army, these people who retired due to injuries either continue to be weak due to their injuries, or they are simply disabled, and it is too chilling to throw them down directly, but it is impossible for the Datang New Army to continue to support them.

Someone suggested before that Li Xuan should set up some special farms to house these retired disabled soldiers, but Li Xuan did not approve it, he didn't want these disabled soldiers to end up in a situation where they could only accept alms from others, he wanted these retired disabled soldiers to have a chance to work, or even a more decent social status.

Today's administrative points in various towns and villages just provide a large number of jobs to house them, although they are all disabled and retired from the army, but even if they are injured and lame, their combat effectiveness is enough to shock ordinary bandits.