Chapter 283: Government Soldiers and Recruitment (II)
Li Yu is an ambitious emperor, since the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, he has deeply understood the danger of the Tang Dynasty, the human heart is always the most unreliable, only a fool will hope for the stability of the country on the loyalty of the general.
Therefore, Li Yu actually agreed with both hands and feet on the reform of the government and military system proposed by Qin Hao, but there is still a long way to go.
There are so many benefits of the government military system, do all the people in the court turn a blind eye? Of course not, the reason why it can't be implemented is that the resistance is actually quite large.
The first resistance is, of course, the festival degree of the various places, the government military system in the early Tang Dynasty, to put it bluntly, is to gather the strength of the whole country to support Guanzhong, the land of Guanzhong is full of government soldiers, and the government soldiers do not pay taxes, and even when there is merit, they will be rewarded at every turn, and the various expenses of the imperial court and these rewards will naturally suck blood from the locality, so that the local festival envoys still have the money to support their private soldiers, and so on to the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the local festival envoys have become bigger, and it is a fool's dream to draw blood from them.
Moreover, in terms of the stability of the regime, I have to say that the stability of the government and military system is not high, the generals are far more prestigious than the conscription system, and the role of administrative orders is basically zero, and it is almost certain to cultivate a monster called Jiangmen, such as in the Gaozong period, it is clear that Li Tao is too old to walk, but as long as he is alive for a day, he still has to come to the war, and a paper edict to change the commander of the army can only appear in the emperor's dream.
The battle that Wu Zetian arranged for the prince of the Wu family to lead the troops to fight was simply miserable, to a large extent, it was also because these soldiers did not obey them, and in stark contrast, Li Jingye's grandson Li Jingye raised his arms and shouted, there were 100,000 troops following the rebellion, and when the general returned victorious, if the emperor's prestige was not enough to suppress the commander, it was not difficult to change the dynasty, this kind of thing happened no less than dozens of times during the Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms.
The complete abolition of the government military system began with Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, and before Li Longji in the Tang Dynasty, except for Li Shimin's prestige when he was alive, no one dared not surrender almost a day, oh wrong, Li Shimin's time was not much in the country, but the old Comrade Li had a hard fist and beat all the opponents down.
Externally, he became the father of all his neighbors, but he was unambiguous about killing and killing all day long behind closed doors within his family, and by the time Li Longji ascended the throne, the country was about to be tossed and abolished, and the abolition of the government military system was indeed an important reason for Li Longji's 50 years of peace.
Well.... To put it simply, the government military system is suitable for the Ming monarch and not for the faint monarch, this is a soil for cultivating power ministers, if the level of the emperor is not enough, it is easy to be kicked down, not necessarily to change the dynasty, because the power ministers who are usually cultivated are always the emperor's relatives, usually speaking, most of them are the same surname, such as Li Yuan and Li Shimin, Li Xian, Li Dan, Li Longji, etc., but sometimes it happens to be more embarrassing if it is not a surname, such as grandfather Yang Jian, wife Wu Mei and the like, it is more difficult to do.
However, Li Yu is not too worried about this, he is still relatively confident in his own level, as for the future, his children and grandchildren will have their own children and grandchildren, as long as the throne is passed in the hands of their Li family, it is better to grab it, it is better than separating the feudal town.
The biggest obstacle comes from the ubiquitous civilian-bureaucratic clique, which can be a catastrophe as long as it is not handled well.
The first thing in front of us is Yongye Tian, if you want to implement the government and military system, you must ensure that Yongye Tian cannot be bought and sold, this is particularly embarrassing, land is not allowed to be bought and sold, how can these civil officials annex land? Tian Du is a soldier, what about those of us who are officials? Shui Teniang's expectation that you will take some money to live?
Compared with the early Tang Dynasty, the Li Tang Dynasty at this time was messed up by Wu Zetian once, and it was already unrecognizable, and the biggest change was the number of civil official groups.
Before Wu Mei, the Tang Dynasty had no more than twenty or thirty officials above the fourth grade, but after Wu Mei, the four-grade officials became more than 400 people in one breath, and there was no way to check below the fourth grade.
Therefore, in order to restore the government military system, the first thing to do is to reduce the number of officials, reduce the number of officials, reduce the number of landlords, curb land annexation, not to mention restore the level before Wu Mei, but at least remove more than half of the existing official posts, and then they will have to be abolished year by year.
The imperial examination has to be kept, but the number of admissions must be strictly controlled in the future, it is enough to record twenty or thirty people at a time, what is the purpose of hundreds of people in one go?
Well.... If you want to do this, you can also know how difficult it is with your ass, and those civil and official groups, especially the small landlord class, will definitely form a group, and if they don't scold Li Yu as a rebel, they will lose.
Yes, since Wu Mei opened the door of convenience for her own selfishness and expanded the world's hundreds of officials to thousands of officials, there is an additional civilian official group in the world, and you want a government military system? Returning to the political system of the early Tang Dynasty? Do you still want to restore the system of six towns in Guanlong? Sorry, not all day! Same! Meaning!
Li Yu was very sober, at this time, he wanted to restore the military system, let alone the door, and there was not even a crack in the door, so he and Li Yu, Qin Hao, and Qin Hao stayed up together for three days and three nights, and the plan could only be pressed under the pillow for the time being, quietly waiting for the day when the time was ripe.
Well... At least he had to wait for the Anshi Rebellion to end, he controlled the army of the whole country and survived Li Longji.
However, the overall plan cannot be taken out now, and temporary forward-looking work and tentative work still need to be done. It just so happened that the arrival of the Yue family's army gave them an excellent heaven-sent opportunity.
When the policy came, each person was divided into ten acres of Yongye land, which was promised, in this stormy situation, every point of combat effectiveness is particularly precious, who dares to disagree? Of course, all these fields are zoned to the vicinity of Luoyang and Chenliu, which are the territory of An Lushan, which is equivalent to the enemy-occupied area, and the Yuejia army has to wait for An Lushan to get their land, and now they are no different from other soldiers.
Who is against? I didn't divide your family's land, and the small landlord of that piece had already been killed by An Lushan and them.
And Yue Jiajun is also willing, what kind of place is Luoyang Chenliu? Chen changed his name to Kaifeng after a hundred years, so it is especially the two capitals of the Great Song Dynasty!
In this reform of the military system, Li Yuxiong no longer wants to simply change Guanlong.