Chapter 24 The Great Politics of the State Must Be Carefully Planned The land of Hexi is waiting to be felled
(2nd Update)
Zhao Pu went to the local government to be an official, Li Chongmei was still engaged in inventions and creations in the academy, the scholars of the academy had their own style, and as the helmsman of the dynasty, Li Congjing never stopped moving forward. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Since the implementation of the new policy, the world seems to be a thriving scene of great governance, but Li Congjing, as a traverser, knows that the prosperity in front of him is just a temporary flower, and there are still too many problems waiting for him to solve.
First, there is the issue of land.
"In order to curb land annexation, we must first understand the root cause of land annexation. Whether it is a large businessman or an official general, they all have the habit of buying land and houses on a large scale, and if they do not prohibit land sales for one day, they will not be able to prohibit land annexation for one day. The most fundamental way to prohibit the sale of land is to let the landlords only have the right to use the land, but not the ownership of the land. Without ownership, you can't buy or sell. In the Chongwen Palace, Li Congjing said to Feng Dao and others, "The land of the country belongs to the state, and the people cultivate it, and the income except for taxes belongs to the people, but the land itself cannot be controlled by the landlord." β
The landlord class was the ruling basis of the monarchy, or the feudal era, and the return of land to the state was undoubtedly a fundamental blow to the landlord class. Li Congjing's proposal immediately caused controversy.
Li Congjing took a tough attitude and said: "If there is land annexation, there are people who have no land to cultivate, or they become tenants who depend on large households, or they become displaced people." And the exiles either become thieves or traitors and thugs, when the world is full of feudal towns, where do the feudal armies of each town come from? The main ones are the homeless. Once there are more displaced people, the world will be chaotic, and the state must put an end to the displaced people, and it cannot govern the surface and the inside, and it is useless to recruit the displaced people as military soldiers, and can only put an end to land annexation. β
Feng Dao and others were worried that this would cause unrest among the landlords.
In the end, it was agreed that the matter should be carried out step by step, with the pilot project first, and then the effect of implementation.
The second thing is the issue of currency.
The monetary problem is embodied in two aspects, one is that the people privately mint copper coins and disrupt the monetary order, and the other is that copper coins are not conducive to circulation, and dozens of catties of copper coins are often carried on the street, which is very troublesome, and businessmen are even more inconvenient to do business, which seriously affects commercial development.
Li Congjing's method was naturally to establish a national bank and issue currency symbols.
"This move has a number of advantages, on the one hand, it can avoid the circulation loss of copper, silver and gold, on the other hand, it is conducive to the prosperity of commerce, and thirdly, in the future, the Datang caravan can sail overseas and carry out 'currency wars' overseas." Li Congjing said that the more troublesome part of this matter is that the consciousness of currency symbols is relatively forward, and the "Jiaozi" thing cannot avoid counterfeiting.
However, since the currency symbol of paper money, the fight against counterfeit money will be a continuous process, and in the final analysis, the benefits still outweigh the disadvantages, and it must also be implemented.
For this reason, Li Congjing found Zhang Ziyun and others and asked them to draw up the charter, and also pilot it first.
The third thing is the issue of military system.
Li Congjing said: "Under the conscription system, the imperial court has been refining the forbidden army for many years, and the palace front army that became an army in the Tiancheng period has been fighting for a long time, and the soldiers are gradually getting old, and the number of old and weak in the army is increasing, which is not conducive to the follow-up conquest of the forbidden army." β
The biggest problem with the conscription system is that non-commissioned officers serve the army for a day and serve the army for life; as a professional soldier, although he has combat strength when he is young, he still stays in the army when he is old, and is supported by the state, and not only is his combat strength gone, but it is still a great burden.
Li Congjing said: "The army should establish a standard for eliminating the old and weak, based on the number of years in the army, ordinary non-commissioned officers and soldiers for three years, the elite can stay in the army and continue to fight, and the middle and lower-level officers can extend their years of life, and establish a 'demobilization' mechanism -- middle- and lower-level officers who have been eliminated by the army can go to the local ...... to serve as tolerance officers."
Replacing the conscription system with the compulsory military service system is an inevitable trend in army building; under this system, all officers are required to be graduates of the Performing Arts Academy, and ordinary non-commissioned officers who want to become officers must enter the Performing Arts Academy for further study; only in wartime, after the non-commissioned officers have made military merits, can they be directly promoted to officers.
This matter must also be implemented step by step, at present, the Tang Dynasty still has Hexi, Western Regions and grassland wars, when the strong enemies of all sides have not been pacified, and they plan to pacify, the effect of the conscription system is obvious. In other words, the conscription system exists for the purpose of destroying a target and a strong enemy, and when the strong enemy is eliminated and the target is gone, there is no reason for the conscription system to continue to exist, and if it continues to exist, it will do more harm than good.
For the time being, the idea put forward by Li Congjing is mainly to eliminate the old and weak in the army.
The fourth thing is to establish a college grading system.
Luoyang University is a university, and correspondingly, it is natural to establish a middle school and a primary school.
The establishment of the college grading system represents a major change in the education system.
Li Gu and Zhao Pu, the first batch of college graduates, have made good achievements in various places, which is the basis for the implementation of the college grading system.
Li Congjing has said before that the first blood change in the Tang Dynasty officialdom is to replace the inactive officials with the powerful officials of Tiancheng's new policy, and the second big blood change is to replace the officials under the tribute system with college students - the latter is undoubtedly more thorough and more useful.
Every officialdom change means the improvement of Datang's state affairs and the rise of the country's situation, which means that the current Datang is approaching the Tang Dynasty in Li Congjing's mind.
Li Congjing said: "Luoyang College will expand its scale first, and then establish a branch according to the situation, this time it will first set up a middle school in the state and a primary school in the county, and then gradually push down." Correspondingly, there is a grading system for teaching content, which has high requirements for the teaching materials of the college and requires great effort, but with the precedent of Luoyang College, this matter will not be too difficult. β
Now is not the time to abolish the tribute system, and when the college grading system is completed, there will be no need for the tribute system to exist.
Again, this needs to be done gradually, and there is no need to go into details.
With the time entering the third year of Dingding, the major events of the imperial court's use of troops in Hexi and the Western Regions entered the preparatory stage.
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Xiazhou.
Shi Jingjiao, who is in his forties, stands on the city wall, supporting the wall and looking to the southeast. If it extends from his gaze, he will definitely touch Luoyang, the divine capital, in the end.
He had been standing here for two hours, as if he was thinking about something, and as if he were just letting go. Guozi didn't have any expression on his face, and there was no color in his eyes, which made it impossible to figure out what was going on in his heart.
Cui Linglong, who was dressed in a simple but not mediocre manner, walked up the city from the corridor and came to Shi Jingjiao's side, "Detective, the imperial envoys are close to ten miles away, do you want to let them into the city later?" β
Shi Jingjiao's gaze was still far away, "The imperial court suddenly sent an envoy here, what happened?" β
Cui Linglong sneered: "It's nothing more than two words: move the town." β
"Move the town." Shi Jingjiao smiled, "Where to move the town?" Yunzhou, or Youzhou? None of them. However, in addition to such important border towns, which other festival envoys are not in name only? Isn't moving the town just tying your hands, putting yourself on the chopping block, and letting others slaughter you. β
Cui Linglong's face was as cold as water, "What are you doing now, Li Congjing wants you to move the town, it's nothing more than preparing to do something to you, you and I have been working hard in Xiazhou for many years, aren't you just waiting for this day?" β
Shi Jingjiao shook his head, his face still unchanged, "The imperial court wants me to move the town, if I don't comply, won't it be like a rebellion?" I, Shi Jingjiao, am loyal to the country, how can I do such a rebellious thing? I'm still waiting to send troops to Hexi to recover the mountains and rivers occupied by foreign races for the country. β
Cui Linglong frowned, and after a while, she understood what Shi Jingjiao meant, "Later, someone will welcome the imperial envoy into the city, so that they will entertain and not make the other party suspicious." But this can only delay for a while, since Li Congjing has decided to do something to you, as long as he doesn't see you leave Xiazhou, he will always send troops to come. β
Shi Jingjiao smiled and said: "That is also the court to deal with the party members, and it has nothing to do with me Shi Jingjiao." Even if the imperial court wants to deal with me Shi Jingjiao, it is Li Congjing who is suspicious of the border generals, not that I Shi Jingjiao is disloyal. β
Shi Jingjiao's words can be said to have a big article.
Cui Linglong asked, "How are you going to prevaricate this time?" Pretending to be sick again? β
Shi Jingjiao tapped his fingers on the women's wall, "The same excuse, if you use it too much, it will inevitably make people feel bored." Didn't you say some time ago that there were horse bandits in the north? This time, I'll go and suppress the bandits. β
Cui Linglong smiled, "Do the horse bandits don't know, but the envoys of the Tatar Ministry and the Khitan are coming soon." β
"What else?" Shi Jingjiao asked.
"The party members and Tubo people from the three prefectures of Liang, Gansu and Su will also come one after another." Cui Linglong's smile became more and more intense.
"That's really a gathering of heroes, wouldn't it be a pity to miss such a grand event?" Shi Jingjiao smiled deeply, "No wonder the horse bandits are rampant, it is difficult to pacify, Rao is I can't get rid of it for several months on the expedition, it turns out that these people secretly support it." However, in Liang, Gan, Su and other places, why did they send people to pretend to be horse bandits to bring disaster to my Xiazhou? β
Cui Linglong said with a smile: "The Guiyi Army of Shazhou has frequent contacts with the imperial court, and the imperial court has also sent envoys to be stationed in Shazhou, and after Li Shaocheng sat in Lingzhou, he often sent scouts into Liang, Gansu, Su and other places, all kinds of signs show that the imperial court has the intention of uniting Shazhou to plot Hexi, Liang, Gan, Su and other places, in order to protect themselves, how can they not be angry and take precautions, and strike first?" β
Shi Jingjiao stroked his palms and praised: "Wonderful, wonderful, really wonderful." β
Cui Linglong said: "What's more, in the west of Lingzhou and the east of Liangzhou, there are already party members living in it, and this time Xiazhou has to be echoed by the Tatar Department and the Khitan, which is enough to contain the soldiers and horses of the imperial court. Even if the imperial court raises troops, it is also an expedition of laborers, and we borrow the power of Liang, Gan, Su and other states to be able to deal with it. When the soldiers and horses in the imperial court are short of food and grass, and the people are sleepy and the horses are lacking, how can they not retreat? β
Shi Jingjiao looked at Cui Linglong, "Exquisite thoughts, worthy of the name of Linglong." β
Cui Linglong said with a smile: "Not Linglong, how can I help you achieve a great cause?" β
Shi Jingjiao smiled and said nothing.
After a while, Cui Linglong suddenly said, "But there is something unknown about the slave. β
Shi Jingjiao said: "But it doesn't hurt to say it. β
Cui Linglong asked: "Li Congjing has been hostile to you for a day or two, why didn't he attack you earlier?" β
"Didn't you attack me earlier?" Shi Jingjiao smiled, "How did he attack me?" Send killers, or raise troops to destroy my barracks? In the former, I also have guests and guards, and I am on guard day and night, even if I can't fight back, can't I escape? The latter I have a lieutenant and soldier in the army, and I can retreat calmly. β
"And if Li Congjing is charged with conspiracy to kill me, how do you let Li Siyuan look at him, and how do you let the world look at him? You know, Li Siyuan is not only his son, do you really think that Li Congrong didn't have the heart to fight with him from the beginning? Li Congrong didn't compete with Li Congjing, because in the end, Li Congjing's power was too great, and he couldn't fight, and if Li Congjing gave him a chance, how could he not grasp it? β
"Moreover, the world has not yet been calmed, the princes are entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River, how can Xu Zhihe be an idle person, if Li Congjing is good at killing generals, Xu Zhihe has a way to make his reputation stink - don't you know that Li Congjing thinks about Li Yongning? If so, how can you let Li Congjing gain Li Siyuan's trust? β
"For Li Congjing, successfully becoming the crown prince, and then becoming the emperor, and pacifying the world first is the biggest overall situation, and all other affairs can be put behind. Because he was confident that once he became emperor, he would be able to do whatever he wantedβjust like this time when I moved town. β
Speaking of this, Shi Jingjiao looked at the southeast again, and smiled, "But he was wrong." He underestimated me Shi Jingjiao too much, how could I sit still and wait to die? β
At this time, Shi Jingjiao, of course, would not admit that when Li Congjing's troops attacked, the other party's target was actually Hexi and the Western Regions. As for him Shi Jingjing, Li Congjing, who is sitting on the overall situation, didn't pay attention to it at all, and this time he just destroyed it easily.