Gao Ming had long known that Li Shimin would accept his request, so he was not too surprised, and after complimenting Li Shimin casually, he said goodbye and left.

But when he reached the door, he suddenly stopped again, and then turned his head to look at Li Shimin.

"By the way, I plan to build a memorial arch to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Tang Dynasty outside Chang'an City, so I need to use people from the Ministry of Industry, and I also need to find the Ministry of War to get some brochures, I will pay for it myself, I don't need to go through the Ministry of Households, can you give me an edict?"

"Is it a memorial arch for the fallen soldiers of the Tang Dynasty?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Shimin immediately frowned, but he didn't think much about it, and immediately nodded.

"Okay, I'll write you an edict!"

In Li Shimin's view, as long as the user department does not pay, everything is easy to say, and he himself was born in the military, and Gao Ming is willing to pay for the soldiers to build the archway, and he can't ask for it.

After writing the edict, Li Shimin handed it directly to Gao Ming, and then raised his eyebrows at him.

"This is the edict you want, by the way, do you plan to build a torii in your own name?"

Although Li Shimin deliberately pretended to be casual when he spoke, Gao Ming still heard what he meant, and immediately couldn't help laughing.

"Of course not, I plan to use the name of Admiral Tiance to ask you to read the memorial message after the archway is completed?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Shimin raised his eyebrows again.

"Well, let's talk about it then!"

Although he didn't agree, looking at the corners of his mouth, Gao Ming immediately knew that Li Shimin's mood was very happy at this moment.

Seeing this scene, Gao Ming smiled slightly.

"I'll leave first if it's okay, and I'll tell you when the archway is built."

After speaking, Gao Ming bowed to Li Shimin, and then turned around and left the imperial study.

When Gao Ming stepped one foot out of the door of the imperial study, a bright smile appeared on his face again.

"It's done!"

I'm afraid that even Li Shimin didn't expect that Gao Ming's idea of putting forward the rank of the people was just an introduction, and his real purpose was actually to build this memorial arch to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, Gao Ming prefers to call it a martyr's cemetery!

In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, because of the implementation of the government military system, farmers in leisure time and soldiers in wartime, even weapons and food were brought by themselves, so their social status was not high.

By the middle of the Tang Dynasty, they were reduced to the private soldiers of generals and officials, and they were not much different from slaves.

Later, Wu Zetian abolished the government military system and adopted the recruitment system, although the status and treatment of the soldiers have been greatly improved, but the disadvantages are also very obvious, that is, the object of soldiers' loyalty is not the country, but also the general.

It was precisely for this reason that led to the later Anshi Rebellion and the warlord secession.

Wang Fuzhi said that "the country is always destroyed by weakness, and the Han Dynasty is destroyed by strength", which means that other dynasties perished because they were weak, but the Han Dynasty perished because they were strong.

But in Gao Ming's view, the Tang Dynasty, like the Han Dynasty, also "died by force".

There were five main reasons for the demise of the Han Dynasty, namely the dictatorship of foreign relatives, the chaos of eunuchs, the disaster of the party, the rebellion of the Yellow Turbans, and the division of warlords.

There were also five reasons for the demise of the Tang Dynasty, eunuch interference, gate lord party disputes, Anshi Rebellion, warlord secession and peasant uprising.

From the perspective of the reasons for their demise alone, the reasons for the demise of the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty can be said to be very similar, and the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, which were extremely powerful in military strength, were not defeated by foreign enemies, but went to extinction due to their own reasons, which is really embarrassing.

Take history as a lesson to learn the rise and fall!

As a traverser, it was naturally impossible for Gao Ming to let these things happen, so when he solved his own crisis, he decided to nip in the bud these factors that led to the demise of the Tang Dynasty.

From a few months ago, Gao Ming had reached a consensus with Li Shimin and began to suppress the family gate valve, and now it can be said that he has achieved outstanding results.

Gao Ming believes that in his hands, these family gate valves can't get any bargains, and what door valve party struggle is simply a joke.

As for eunuchs, it is even more impossible to interfere in politics.

Under Liu Bing's active actions, nearly half of the eunuchs in the palace have been replaced by female men, and the remaining half is estimated to be replaced in a few years.

Gatekeepers and eunuchs were no longer a problem, so Gao Ming set his sights on the last item - soldiers.

In the final analysis, whether it is the Anshi Rebellion or the warlord secession, the main problem is still in the soldiers, if the soldiers are loyal to the Tang Dynasty, those warlords want to be the emperor of the soil, first of all, they have to ask the soldiers whether they agree or not.

And what Gao Ming wants to do is very simple, to put it bluntly, it is a cult of personality.

The people of Datang are very simple, and they will remember whoever is good to them, and the governance experience of Jinzhou has given Gao Ming a huge inspiration.

Therefore, in Gao Ming's view, instead of telling the people to let them love the country, it is better to work hard to improve their prestige and appeal.

The construction of martyrs' cemeteries is a way to quickly increase prestige and appeal.

When Gao Ming became the general of Tiance, he had already launched a wave of "money offensive" to subsidize those veterans who had sold their lives for Datang.

The first batch of military subsidies given by Gao Ming was mainly for the soldiers in the Wude period, and now almost all of this money has reached the hands of the soldiers.

Now, the second batch of military subsidies has also begun to be issued, these subsidies are mainly issued to soldiers who participated in the first battle of the Turks, Tuyuhun and Gaochang, although the amount is not as good as the first batch, but many soldiers are ecstatic.

There is hope for following the prince!

The idea of the Tang soldiers is as simple as that, whoever is good to them, they will listen to whomever they say.

There is no doubt that the issue of military subsidies has gathered a very huge prestige for Gao Ming, and now many soldiers in Datang don't know what Gao Ming looks like, but none of the soldiers don't know who is the general of Tiance!

Even before this expedition, many people rushed to gather in the province of Ori, which had never happened before!

The appeal of Gao Ming, the general of Tiance, can be seen from this.

Subsidies are given to veterans for the benefit of the living, and the construction of the martyrs' cemetery is an explanation to those soldiers who died in the Tang Dynasty.

Gao Ming also wants to tell everyone in this way that the soldiers who died in battle for the Tang Dynasty are heroes, and their names will be remembered for centuries along with the martyrs' cemetery!

After coming out of the imperial study, Gao Ming took the edict given to him by Li Shimin, and just arrived at the military department non-stop, and pulled out several large boxes of booklets, all of which were lists of soldiers who had died in the past.

Of course, many of them have been lost, but there is no way around it.

Gao Ming didn't have the time to regret it, and after getting these brochures, he rushed to the Ministry of Industry again, directly transferred more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Industry, and then gave them death orders.

"Within half a year, the Tang Royal Martyrs' Cemetery must be completed!"