Severe punishment alone is not enough. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info', and when these prime ministers arrived, their opinions were almost finished, Li Chen said lightly.

The bright sunlight shone into the conference room through the large glass windows, making the conference room a little hot. But the prime ministers did not feel the heat, but felt a faint chill.

After being the emperor for several years, Li Chen became more and more moody, no matter whether he was happy or angry, he usually couldn't see it. Only in familiar people, Li Chen is more likely to show emotions, usually when the prime ministers are deliberating, Li Chen is indifferent.

But today, with the same faint performance, everyone felt a chill. The emperor is going to be serious this time, and the severe punishment is not enough? Is the emperor going to be purged?

From Li Chen's announcement of this matter in the newspaper, it shows that there is a big move, and the prime minister is very familiar with the current affairs, saying that it should be severely punished, and no one dares to commit a crime against the wind, for the county order that is upside down, or if it is indeed involved in the county order, but it is obvious that the emperor feels that it is not enough. Could it be that the Tang officialdom is going to make a move? All the prime ministers thought so. Datang has been calm for too long.

Since a few years ago, the war in Youzhou was pacified, and Datang has been calm for several years. The whole operation has been carried out. There are three things that are most important in Datang at present, or two.

The first is to intensify efforts to develop Longxi and the destroyed Youzhou. Whenever there is a natural disaster, the first time, the people from the Immigration Department will go, and then the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies will also win people. began to reorganize the box army and immigrated to Longxi and Youzhou.

Then there are two things that come together, the reorganization of the feudal towns and the army. At present, there are about ten feudal towns left in Datang, and only one-third of them are left. Then these feudal towns were reduced in authority, and several departments under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies were added.

Each feudal town has set up a staff department, and the eunuchs who used to supervise the army have been abolished, and the Jiedu envoy is not in charge of the army on the horse, but in charge of the people on the horse, and is simply responsible for the military defense of a certain town.

The army, according to Li Chen's original idea, began to be divided into third-class armies, and the armor protection law also began to be implemented in the Tang Dynasty.

After a few years of calm, Datang is almost done with these things. In the past few years, hundreds of thousands of people have been resettled in Longxi and Youzhou. The army has also been reorganized, and the most important thing at present is military exercises.

The military department was busy with military exercises. Although it is just two simple feudal towns. The first-class army attacked the city, and the second-class army defended the city, and the number of soldiers involved was only 30,000. However, because Li Chen spoke, in the future, this kind of military exercise will be conducted once a year, and the number of people will be about 40,000.

Then, once every five years, the number of people doubled, and the number of feudal towns involved also doubled. Finally, every ten years, there will be a big military exercise. The number is uncertain, but the scale is definitely above once every five years.

'Warlike will die, and I don't need you to say it, but I understand. For the ministers to object, thinking that this will be a lot of expenses, Li Chen said.

But, you remember, what about the back? If you are warlike, you will die, and if you forget to fight, you will be in danger. Everyone only remembers the front, not the back. How did the Anshi Rebellion happen, isn't it because the internal area has been calm for too long, and the culture is full of martial arts, which led to An Lushan joining forces and not even having any defense ability? ’

'I'd rather spend more on weekdays than find that there are no soldiers to use when things come to an end. Every year, the military exercises, urge the localities, do not slack off. Exercises are regarded as operations, and although they cannot truly represent actual combat, they are better than nothing. ’

In Chinese history, this happens every time, the world is peaceful, and the horses are put in Nanshan, and the swords and guns are put into storage. When the matter came to an end and it was necessary to use troops, it was discovered that the military system in the interior was corrupt, the non-commissioned officers lacked training, and the weapons and equipment were either rotten or sold out, resulting in the army being vulnerable and causing a lot of trouble every time.

As a result, either the army was quickly reorganized and reorganized, or the border troops were mobilized to suppress the rebellion. Like the Ming Dynasty, a little bit of the Japanese can actually make the gate of the capital closed, as if facing a great enemy. Li Zicheng and others made a rebellion, if they had relied on the mainland to defend the army at the beginning, they would have been able to exterminate and there would be no need to mobilize border troops, resulting in a lack of border air defense.

Some people say that if Chongzhen had fled to Nanjing, or at least sent the prince to Nanjing, perhaps the Ming Dynasty could still be called for a while. It's just that, in Li Chen's view, relying on the hundreds of Japanese robbers in Nanjing will close the city gates, and they will not dare to go out to fight to win the army. When the city is full of soldiers, I am afraid that the defenders will open the city and surrender.

What is the use of raising such an army? He would rather spend more on military expenses than raise such useless soldiers. Besides, such a waste army is the same, and it usually costs money to raise it. Even if they usually spend less, once they want to use it, those civilian officials have to scratch their scalps and think about where to worry about military spending.

He would rather spend more money than this kind of thing happens. As soon as the war starts, you will have to pay for the promotion and reward. Spend a whole bunch of them. As a result, the imperial court is even more reluctant to go to war, and when it encounters something, it would rather settle the matter and calm the people than use troops.

In fact, he didn't want to spend so much military spending, playing the simulation game of the Civilized Empire before crossing over, inland cities don't need to be defended, he can save as much as he can, what to do with so many soldiers, military construction and maintenance, it takes a lot of money. If the army is outdated, it will cost money to upgrade the army.

With the continuous progress of science and technology, new buildings will always appear, and there will be money to train and raise troops. It's better to save money and build some useful buildings, or spend it on scientific research.

However, it was a game, and in the real world, it was impossible for him to empty a certain place. Military spending is inevitable.

Coupled with the lessons of history, he knows that this money must not be saved, and you don't know when it will be paid. Moreover, there are many benefits to maintaining high military spending. As the saying goes, running water does not rot, and the hub does not beetle, so the army is usually accustomed to this kind of training, although the cost is high, but on the one hand, the army will not be put into mold. This way you can train a little tighter.

Second, we can also be tough on the outside world, and we have to use troops anyway. He canceled the army's promotion fees and rewards. The border army is saying that it can fight if it is fought. Those who offend my Tang Tianwei will be punished even if they are far away. The majesty of the Han and Tang dynasties will be reproduced in his hands.

The most important thing is to defend the interior, ready to deal with the invasion at any time, and avoid the disaster of the wall. Although he has done a lot of prevention, no one knows when he will use it. He didn't want to save on military spending, and as a result, he was wasted by future generations of losers, or he was embezzled by civilian salaries.

He made these ideas clear to all the prime ministers, that military spending cannot be saved, and if it is really insufficient, it must be reviewed, and the army should be raised for a thousand days and used for a while. If you don't usually raise soldiers, you won't be able to use it for a while. That's when the problem was bigger.

It is with such experience that the prime minister knows that when Li Chen is building momentum, he usually has a big move. For example, for the sake of military spending, Li Chen put forward in the newspaper in advance the lessons of the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Anshi Rebellion, and discussed how to prevent the recurrence of the incident.

Li Chen took this matter out for discussion, and most of the prime ministers believed that the design of the feudal town could have been prevented. There are several defense areas, the imperial court can still directly manage, and the local government also has a certain degree of autonomy, as long as it does not cross the border, it can suppress the rebellion on its own, so it should be enough.

As long as there is no longer an army like An Lushan, one person has the military power of several towns, such a thing will not happen. Only Li Deyu proposed that if the generals do not practice for a long time, it is useless. During the Tianbao period, the imperial court was not without defensive capabilities, and An Lushan had more troops, not necessarily more than the imperial court.

However, the generals of the imperial court neglected training, and most of them were composed of rogue children who were idle and idle. The border army has been in war for a long time, An Lushan often harasses the border tribes, the soldiers are full of war, and the imperial army is crushed, and finally other border troops are transferred, and foreign soldiers and horses are recruited to quell the Anshi Rebellion.

Li Chen took advantage of the situation and proposed that all feudal towns should hold military exercises frequently. Then he reasoned and told the facts to convince the prime minister. Henceforth it shall always be customized, and his descendants shall abide by it. Although it may be said that because of the long period of peace, even if a huge amount of military expenditure is spent, it will be a mere formality, resulting in the waste of military affairs, but it is better than nothing.

It's better than usual, and it doesn't matter. The fire burned his eyebrows, only to find that the army was vulnerable. Although we can't be like the Yankees, when there is nothing to do, we can find a country to fight, train our troops, and test the performance of weapons in real combat. However, in these years, the standing army, or the regularly trained standing army, is enough to cope with many things. After all, in the face of it, it is great that it is like a nomad, who serves the people in peacetime and is a soldier in wartime, and there is no trained army at all.

It's just that this time, even Li Deyu couldn't guess what Li Chen planned to do. Severe punishment is not enough, is it too long to be calm, the courtiers have nothing to do, do you want to make a good move?

That's right, Li Chen wants to rectify the official system in the Tang Dynasty, before he moved the military system, and now he wants to move the local administrative system. He has wanted to do this for a long time, it happened before, because of the competition for water, the family was ruined, the county order received benefits, favored the rich households, and finally relied on the parade to get the troupe to expose this matter.

He had long been dissatisfied with this. I plan to attack the local system. To change a lot, first of all, he has to start with Datang's supervision system.

The local supervision system of the Tang Dynasty, from a large point of view, must first be said to be set up in the early Tang Dynasty. In fact, there is no fixed place of governance for these ten provinces, and there are not even fixed officials. The imperial court directly sent officials to the localities, whether they were envoys, dethroned envoys, or inspection envoys sent by the imperial historians, they were all temporary.

It was not until the Xuanzong Dynasty that the ten provinces were changed to fifteen provinces, and each province was placed with interviews and disposal envoys, so it was determined that a certain district should be supervised, and there was a fixed place for governance and subordinates.

It's just that these are all big places, and the implementation of the state and county inspectors has to rely on the records of the army and the main book. At the state level, it is necessary to register whether the state officials are derelict in their duties. At the county level, it depends on the main book.

Although there is a way to interview and dispose of the inspector, but after all, the manpower is not enough. A road is a big place. Inevitably, there will be omissions. If the county order and the assassination history are illegal, it is very likely that they will cover the sky with one hand. Li Chen wants to reform this situation, or in other words, to carry out a major transformation.

First of all, it is necessary to improve local supervision. In fact, by the middle of the Tang Dynasty, local control became increasingly strict. It can be seen from a series of wrong rescues in the Xuanzong Dynasty, but everything was ruined by the Anshi Rebellion. In the Tang Dynasty, the rights of the imperial court and the local government were light from the beginning, the Chang'an was heavy, and the local was light. Later, the inside was light and the outside was heavy, Chang'an was light, and the place was heavy.

There are many reasons for all this, including the lack of money in the imperial court, and many officials would rather go to the local area than serve in the imperial court. Although there are still many restraints, it is unavoidable that the outside is heavy and the inside is light, and it was not until the Song Dynasty that the policy of strong cadres and weak branches completely reversed the situation.

After Li Chen ascended the throne, he has actually improved a lot. He took the financial power back from the local government to the imperial court. Now the feudal town has been completely restructured, a bit similar to the Song Dynasty, but it is not comprehensive enough.

Li Chen's military defense strategy is a bit like an onion, layer after layer, with equal emphasis on both inside and outside. The outermost layer is the strongest frontier army, which is responsible for foreign conquests. In the middle is a layer after layer of defense system, each feudal town is divided into places according to geographical characteristics, each has its own defense pass, all directly under the imperial court, everything is controlled by the imperial court, but there is a certain degree of autonomy.

In addition, no army is allowed to cross the border. Regardless of Class A, Class B, Class C, etc., they all have their own defense zones. The first-class army on the frontier was not allowed to cross the border at any pass without the order of the emperor, the military department, and the governor's office of the five armies. The same is true for the second-class army, not to mention the first-class army that was originally trained for the third class.

And every army is subject to the constraints of the imperial court from the grassroots level. There are direct guidance and staff officers of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. Soldiers are warned as soon as they join the army that they are not allowed to cross the border unless they are transferred. In addition, recruits are also an important defense.

To train recruits, the capital of the five armies was directly under the imperial court. In the worst-case scenario, the first class colludes with the second class army, so that it can cross the pass, clear the king's side, or rebel or something. There is also a third-class army directly under the imperial court, and this army will never leave the country unless it is about to die. After all, they all came to train, and they went back in a few months. You want him to be too far away from home, and neither does the recruit.

In the end, no matter what level of officer, they will be transferred by the Governor's Office of the Five Armies. The high-level was dispatched by the Ministry of War, and the middle and low-level were all the governors of the five armies. Every army will continue to have middle and lower ranks, and graduates from the officer and non-commissioned officer academies will be replenished. Avoid any army, privatized by someone. If it is a traditional dynasty, I am afraid that this will cause the soldiers to not know the generals, and the generals will not know the soldiers, but all of this is constrained by the first class, and the whole army will be unified in practice, so that the new officers will not have a dark eye.

Li Chen didn't know if such a reform would have an effect. Of course, he can imitate the Song Dynasty, strengthen the weak branches, and completely wipe out the disaster that may lead to the feudal town. The Song Dynasty had proven that this system worked.

However, the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty are also obvious, and Li Chen must of course try to transform them. Since this method does not know the effect, it is necessary to go further and thoroughly implement a reform from the top down, so as to completely eliminate the local forces and eliminate the scourge of the feudal towns.

This incident just gave Li Chen a chance.