Chapter 124: Transformation One
"Corruption, there is no good way to do this, we can only try to reduce it, we can take a multi-pronged approach, the first is to raise the salary of officials, especially the bottom officials. Second, financial disclosure, local financial disclosure, let the people supervise. Third, to increase the intensity of investigation, Confucianism has many people who are good at reading, but they are the kind of nerds who have no other use, and it is best to educate Mengtong and supervise the local government to use them, but they can only be given the power to supervise and report. Feng Daiwen suggested.
"It's a good way, this is a kind of separation of powers that Aiqing said before, you write a detailed excerpt and discuss it in the court." Li Shimin thought for a while and said, he also wanted to see the reaction of everyone in the court.
"We're in command." Feng Daiwen hugged his fists.
On the eighth day of the first month of April, the imperial court rewarded the soldiers who went out on the expedition, and as expected, Li Shimin accepted Feng Daiwen's suggestion, adding officials who can increase officials, and improving the salaries of those who cannot increase officials, and the rewards for the younger generation are particularly generous.
In order to appease people's hearts, the cemetery of martyrs and heroes was announced for the incense of all people. Lingyan Pavilion was established again, from the founding of the country to the first year of Zhenguan, a total of thirty-six people, the number of Tiangang, Feng Daiwen ranked twenty-eighth, is the only young generation in his twenties, and his father Feng Ang ranked eighteen.
Li Shimin originally wanted to put the third sister, the eldest princess, Princess Changping, in the first place, but in the end, the minister objected because she was a royal person, and Li Shimin also thought that it was inappropriate to put a woman at the head of everyone, so he was not reluctant. Feng Daiwen proposed to change the name of Weize Pass to Niangzi Pass and build a temple in the local area to worship.
Feng Daiwen was awarded the title of General of Sanpin Zhennan for his merits, and all the young generals were also promoted.
The former Sui Xiao was placed in Xiao Yu's family to live for a long time, which can be regarded as the emperor's grace, and Xiao Yu entered the palace on the same day to cry and thank you.
Yang Zhengdao was named the king of Taiping and settled in Chang'an, and Jieli Khan and Tuli Khan were named county kings and lived in Chang'an.
The Hui clan officially joined the Tang Dynasty, becoming the first grassland clan to join the Tang Dynasty, the Hui Khan was crowned the king of the county, and the Hui clan was placed in Dingxiang, and 30,000 troops were formed into the left military guard. He also formed 50,000 horses to raid the Turkic, Taya, Gaochang and other tribes. The main thing is to taste the sweetness of exchanging things with robbers and merchants.
Xue Yantuo also called himself a minister, and also formed an army of 50,000 hired by the Tang Dynasty to plunder the grasslands and deserts.
Six counties were set up in the newly occupied grassland, namely Dingxiang County, Yunzhong County, Anxi County, Yinshan County, Zhenxi County, and Hetao County. The Anxi Governor's Office was moved to Hetao County, and Zhang Gong was appointed as the Metropolitan Governor, in charge of the military of the six counties.
The Lu family, the Qinghe Cui family, the Zheng family, and the land were relocated to Hetao County, and Li Shimin reciprocated the favor, not only allowing the three families to settle a large number of officials in the local area, but also letting several families buy and sell grassland wool and goat milk powder.
Li Shimin ordered the Hetao area to design three major horse farms, and followed Feng Daiwen's suggestion to raise horses from all over the country to be crossbred together, with the intention of cultivating better horses, including horses from the Western Regions, Persian horses, Tianzhu horses, dwarf horses, Hequ horses, etc., and arranged for Turks, Han people, Xue Yantuo, Western Regions, Huifu, Persia and other more than 20 famous races to understand horses to be trained in three groups.
This expedition to the Tang Dynasty gained a lot, and without using a penny from the treasury, it captured more than 300,000 prisoners, half of whom were young and strong, and there were captives that would be sent in a steady stream. All the court could get was land, captives, and horses. All other seizures were used to pay for food, grass, supplies, and rewards for soldiers.
On April 13, the second issue of the Datang newspaper was published urgently, and several news caused a sensation in Chang'an City, and the Xinyun Temple in Chengnan was hiding filth and dirt, arresting 17 prostitute monks, and finding out 10,000 taels of silver, 180,000 copper coins, a box of gold and jewelry, and encroaching on 120 acres of land. Qingta Temple harbored three murderers, and found more than 200,000 gold, silver and copper coins. The Lingfeng Guan Taoist priest and the female crown fornicated, and also found more than 100,000 yuan of property. The Iron Bucket Temple refused to be inspected by the government, violently wounded seven people, and took out dozens of pairs of weapons and armor.
For a while, the people of Chang'an couldn't believe in the temple and Taoism.
On April 15, at the court meeting, the ministers unexpectedly found that Feng Daiwen appeared in the Taiji Hall, kneeling in front of him with a thick stack of folds, thinking of the temple Taoist temple that has been spreading in the past few days, knowing that something big must happen today, they can't help but communicate with each other.
"Does the father-in-law know what's going on?" The eldest grandson Wuji looked at Feng Daiwen, who was closing his eyes and recuperating, and asked Fang Xuanling beside him.
"Hmph, the old man doesn't know." Fang Xuanling glanced at Feng Daiwen and said angrily.
The eldest grandson Wuji knew what Fang Xuanling was angry about, and he smiled and didn't speak.
Today's court meeting was unexpectedly fast, there was no such thing as a ramp-up, and it didn't take long for the Taiji Hall to be quiet, and everyone in the court looked at Feng Daiwen, waiting for him to speak.
Li Shimin knew it in his heart, and asked, "What else do you Aiqing do?"
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Feng Daiwen saw that he was looking at himself, so he got up and said, "Enlighten the saint, minister!" There is a performance. ”
"Aiqing, please speak." Li Shimin pretended not to know.
"Minister, please abolish the government soldier system, change to a recruitment system, streamline the current government soldiers, and improve combat ......effectiveness," Feng Daiwen carefully introduced the streamlining of government soldiers.
"What do you think?" Li Shimin asked.
"The minister seconded the proposal!" Yu Chigong was the first to stand up and agree.
"The ministers seconded the proposal." Li Ji, Cheng Yanjin, Qin Qiong, Li Daozong, and Li Xiaogong got up at the same time to second.
"General Feng explained quite clearly, and the minister also seconded it." Li Jing also spoke.
Seeing that so many bigwigs in the army agree, no one else objected, and it didn't hurt the interests of that one anyway.
"Since everyone agrees, General Twelve Wei selects soldiers in the army, and the first phase of training 50,000 people will see the effect first. Wei Guogong Li Jing trained, assisted by Zhenxi General Feng Daiwen. The selection of the remaining government soldiers will be arranged in detail by the Ministry of War. Li Shimin ordered.
"The ministers obey."
"Initiate the sacred, the minister has his own music!" Feng Daiwen saw that the matter had been decided, and picked up another book and said.
"Aiqing, please speak." Li Shimin saw that things were going well, and said with a smile in a good mood.
"The ministers are invited to play, the establishment of the Tang Dynasty Martial Academy, one is to train young outstanding soldiers in the army, and the other is to invite the Holy Decree, all the children and grandchildren of officials in the court, under the age of 18, regardless of civil and military, need to be sent to the martial arts academy to study for more than one year." Feng Daiwen said.
"Oh, this is the Martial Academy, why do you want literati to go and study?" Li Shimin was surprised, Feng Daiwen put forward a new point of view, and asked puzzled.
The minister thinks that there are two reasons, the first is that reading can be rational and nourishing integrity, and practicing martial arts can strengthen the body and nourish the spirit. You can compare the people sitting here, whether the people who have practiced martial arts and those who have not practiced are different in spiritual temperament. Feng Dewen explained.
"The princes of the second court are busy with official business, neglect management, and some are too doting on their children and grandchildren, so they have to be sent to the martial arts academy and managed by the rules of the army, of course, they will not cut off their heads, but it is inevitable to suffer a little crime. You don't want your children and grandchildren to become a bunch of troublesome ruffians. Feng Daiwen saw that everyone in the hall was observing each other for a while, and then continued.