Chapter 147: Building a Military Academy
Those officials are killed, and they will also have a stalemate with the family, in this case, it is better to send them all to the big island of Liuqiu, in Li Su's words, it should be called waste utilization. It is estimated that in the eyes of those officials, this kind of punishment is even more cruel than beheading, after all, in the eyes of most people, the Liuqiu Island, which is across the sea from Lingnan, is naturally a wild place where miasma is rampant, and it is also a life of death when you go there, it is better to be cut with a knife in Chang'an.
Between the father and son, they have decided the life and death of more than a dozen people, which fully reflects the terrible nature of power, but this is also the allure of power, because every ambitious person is unwilling to let others decide their own life and death, so they will desperately climb up, in order to one day, take life and death into their own hands.
After disposing of these people, Li Su consulted about the progress of the promotion of various new policies, and learned from Li Shimin that the new policies he offered, only the policy of popularizing Champong rice was implemented very smoothly, and many trial sites had been set up in various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and rice had already been planted.
As for the other land replacement and rough planting methods, various problems were encountered in the process of promotion, such as being obstructed by those officials, not being accepted by the majority of peasant households, etc., but these problems were expected before the promotion of the new policy, so it was not discouraged, and has been increasing the intensity of publicity and promotion, among which the people who signed up for land replacement have exceeded 20,000 households, adding up to nearly 100,000 people, most of whom are going to the ten times the fertile land.
Compared with the voluntary nature of land exchange, the method of rough planting is very compulsive. It's just that this kind of coercion was not imposed by someone or the court. Rather, it is compelled by a general trend. As more and more peasant households went out to work, and some poor peasant households were attracted to Liaodong and Goguryeo by the new land exchange policy, leaving some large households with no land to rent. In this case, if they don't want the land to be barren, they have to adopt the method of rough seeds promoted by the imperial court. Therefore, the promotion of the method of karmic harmony is much simpler than land exchange.
After Li Su had a general understanding of the implementation of several new policies in the Tang Dynasty, he finally put his mind at ease, although he encountered various problems, but on the whole, it was relatively smooth, and the four strategies he offered at the beginning, now only the slaves have not been implemented, but this is not just a matter of the imperial court, he and the Cheng family and other big slave traders. is the main executor of this strategy, it seems that there is time to discuss it with Cheng Yanjin and a few other old guys.
After the matter of the new deal was finished, Li Su finally had time to bring up the matter of the military academy. Li Shimin patted his head after hearing this. After returning to Chang'an. He was haunted by the bad things of Li Chengqian and Li Tai's two sons, and then he was troubled by the affairs of the Western Turks and Gaochang. actually left such an important matter as the military academy behind, if it wasn't for Li Su's reminder, he really didn't know when he would be able to remember?
"The military academy is related to the inheritance of my Tang Dynasty, and my father almost forgot about it, it seems that he is really an old man!" Li Shimin rubbed his swollen temples and sighed with a wry smile.
"Father's words are serious, you are in the prime of life, where are you talking about the old words?" Li Su hurriedly comforted, "Besides, there were too many things some time ago, and the treasury was empty, so it was really not a good time to open a military school." ”
After hearing this, Li Shimin nodded, patted Li Su on the shoulder and said: "What Liulang said is good, if the military academy is not run, it will be done, and once it is done, it will be done, so it will definitely cost a lot, and it just so happens that you have brought so much income to the treasury, plus there is no major event during this time, it is a good time to open a military school!" ”
Seeing that Li Shimin agreed, Li Su also breathed a sigh of relief. However, Li Shimin was obviously an impatient, and after walking back and forth in the hall twice, he immediately sent someone to call Li Jing and Li Xiaogong over. The two of them are rare handsome talents, but because of their great merit, they were relieved of military power in order to avoid suspicion, and it was a pity to stay at home all day, and the military academy was a good place for the two of them to exert their spare heat.
When Li Jing and Li Xiaogong came in a hurry, before they could take a breath, Li Shimin impatiently told the two of them about the idea of a general colonel. Li Xiaogong was not surprised when he heard this, because his son Li Yong had already told him about the military academy, so he had already been mentally prepared, and he had been at home for so many years, so he felt that he was about to be abolished, and now he could have a place to show his strengths, which was exactly what he wanted, so he immediately praised loudly after hearing it, and at the same time said that he would also give full support and was willing to enter the military academy to teach what he had learned.
Compared with Li Xiaogong's early preparation, Li Jing heard about the military academy for the first time, so after hearing it, he carefully weighed it in his heart, considered the impact of the appearance of the military academy on all aspects, and after a long while, he let out a long breath and said to Li Shimin with a firm face: "Your Majesty, the military academy is related to the inheritance of my Tang Dynasty for thousands of generations. ”
"Good!" Li Shimin saw the two veterans express their attitudes, and also got up excitedly, turned the table and walked in front of the two, patted each other's shoulders with both hands, and said with a sincere face: "Senior Brother Yao, cousin, the two of you killed the enemy on the battlefield back then, and helped me to lay the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and today I will also have full authority over the matter of the General Academy, I believe that with the joint efforts of the two of you, you will definitely be able to lay the foundation for the eternal stability of the Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop!" ”
"Ministers will be dead!" The two gray-haired old men were also moved, and they clasped their fists together and saluted.
Li Su waited patiently for the three of them to finish their performances, and then Li Shimin finally got to the point and began to discuss the details of the opening of the military academy, which was discussed with Li Shimin when he was in Pyongyang City, but Li Xiaogong and Li Jing, two veterans who had been in the water city for half their lives, listened to it, but put forward a lot of their own suggestions to supplement the details of the entire military academy more completely.
The two bigwigs of the military have agreed to the school's plan, and the details have been discussed, and the next thing is much simpler, Li Shimin issued an order on the spot, appointing Li Xiaogong and Li Jing as the vice principals of the military academy, and he himself served as the principal of the Tang Military Academy.
Li Su naturally didn't dare to have any dissatisfaction with this, Li Xiaogong and Li Jing are both elders, and they are both so old, of course the hard work is his young man, and he is not stupid, if there is something to tell him, then he will hand it over to others to do, the so-called hard work governs people, he has always regarded this sentence as his own code of conduct.
After being appointed, Li Xiaogong and Li Jing held a small meeting with Li Su, and the three of them temporarily assigned their respective tasks, of which Li Xiaogong was responsible for contacting the veterans who had retired from the army and persuading them to teach in the military academy, which was a top priority, and the quality of teaching in the military academy in the future would all depend on those veterans.
As for Li Jing, he is in charge of the issue of the source of students, and the students in the military academy naturally cannot be recruited directly from the people like those academies. Rather, it is to be selected from the army. When Li Su and Li Shimin were in Pyongyang, they had already discussed this issue, and the students of the military academy were first selected from among the officers and men who had made meritorious contributions on the battlefield in Goguryeo, and then from among the young officers and men who had performed well in peacetime and had development potential from among the various armies of the Tang Dynasty, and the number of cadets in the first phase was initially set at about 2,000.
Although Li Jing retired, he still served as Li Shimin's military adviser in peacetime, and he also knew a lot about the affairs of the army, so it was appropriate for him to go to the army to select. In addition, in addition to selecting cadets, Li Jing is also responsible for formulating the relevant disciplines and regulations of the military academy, and even the arrangement of the course must be roughly planned in advance, and it is not an easy task for all the tasks to be added together.
As for Li Su, he is responsible for more aspects, the most important thing is naturally the selection and construction of the site of the military academy, this is ordered by Li Shimin, and he can't push it off, in addition, he also has to assist Li Xiaogong and Li Jing in the work of the court, for example, some stubborn veterans are unwilling to go out, at this time, Li Su has to rely on his good popularity, start with the juniors in the other party's family, and help Li Xiaogong to be a lobbyist.
In addition, Li Jing is responsible for the military discipline of the military academy, as well as the military academy curriculum and other aspects, Li Su also has to participate in it, although he is a novice in the military, but with the insight of later generations, he often puts forward many very constructive suggestions, and Li Jing also values him, so he strongly asks him to help himself. In fact, this is exactly what Li Su wanted, so despite the fact that the burden on his body was already very heavy, he resolutely agreed.
After the meeting ended, Li Su immediately went to find Yuwen Hu, who had just returned from Dengzhou. After the battle of Goguryeo, Yuwenhu did not come back immediately, because the Perak Temple in Dengju had only been built for a long time, and there were still some problems in all aspects, so he had to stay there to deal with them.
In addition, because of Li Yong's going to the battlefield, he, as a brother-in-law, helped a lot from it, so he was afraid that his father-in-law and mother-in-law would blame, so he kept hiding in Dengzhou to avoid the limelight, until Li Yong returned to Chang'an, knowing that Li Xiaogong was not angry about it, so he hurriedly rushed back from Dengzhou, but Li Xiaogong's father-in-law was not angry, but the mother-in-law of the princess of Hejian was not so generous.
Li Su was very relieved when he heard the news, if it weren't for Yuwen Hu, Li Yong would not have run to the battlefield, and he would not have been severely criticized by Princess Hejian last time.
However, when Yuwen Hu heard Li Su's request to build a military school, he frowned, and then said something that made Li Su cry and laugh.