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After the power reached its peak, Xiao Mill and his generals had problems, first of all, Xiao Mill's problem, Xiao Mill, who became the emperor, began to distrust his generals, and his mind became narrow-minded, unable to accommodate his subordinates with strong ability and great merit.

Besides, the generals of the Liang State were the first to support Xiao Mill, in other words, if we don't let you Xiao Mill be the emperor, you are not even a hair, and the expansion of the territory is also the credit of those generals, relying on their merits, these generals are authoritarian and arrogant, very crazy, and they want to kill people at every turn, Xiao Milling They still don't listen, and the accumulated contradictions are destined to explode when they accumulate to a point. First of all, Xiao Mo couldn't bear it, he tried to change this qiē, so he declared that the world was peaceful, cut the army ○~○~○~, ↗ .←ns$b.□m team, and let the soldiers unload their armor and return to the field, the purpose was to reduce the military power of the generals.

Dong Jingzhen's elder brother did not approve of supporting Xiao Milling as the boss at the beginning, but later saw what Xiao Mill did, the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, he simply did not do it twice, conspired to rebel against Xiao Mill, the matter was leaked, and Dong Jingzhen's brother was killed by Xiao Mill. At this time, Dong Jingzhen was stationed in Changsha (now Changsha City, Hunan Province), Xiao Milling issued an edict to pardon Dong Jingzhen and ordered Dong Jingzhen to return to Jiangling, and now Dong Jingzhen no longer trusts Xiao Mill, and is afraid that he will be killed by Xiao Mill when he returns to Jiangling, so he simply surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

Hearing that Dong Jingzhen had surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, Xiao Mo was very angry and sent the general Zhang Xiu to attack Dong Jingzhen. Dong Jingzhen warned Zhang Xiu: "I am dead, and you will be next." Don't you understand how Han Xin and Peng Yue died? Zhang Xiu did not answer. Ordering troops to besiege Changsha, Dong Jingzhen planned to break through. Killed by the generals.

Zhang Xiu made great contributions, returned to Jiangling, Xiao Mo appointed Zhang Xiu as Shang Shuling (Premier of the State Council), but Zhang Xiu took advantage of his merits, arrogant and rude, Xiao Mo made a big killer and executed Zhang Xiu, since then, the generals are all in danger. The combat effectiveness of the army is even weaker.

In May of the fourth year of Wude (621) of the Battle of Pingliang, Li Shimin pacified Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, and then Li Yuan mobilized all the Bashu troops and ordered Li Xiaogong and Li Jing to launch a general attack on Liang. Can Xiao Mo be Er Li's opponent? Can Erli pacify Xiao Milling?

The territory is vast, and the Liang State, which controls 400,000 armor, is it so easy to defeat? Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhaojun, served as the commander-in-chief, and Li Jing was the deputy commander-in-chief, and in September, Li Xiaogong led 2,000 warships from Kuizhou (now Fengjie County, Chongqing City) and went east along the Yangtze River.

At that time, the water in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River was rising, which was not conducive to the march. The generals all waited until the water slowed down a little before marching, Li Jing disagreed, saying: "The key to marching and fighting a war is the word 'fast'. As fast as lightning, we have just assembled an army, and Xiao Mo doesn't know yet. If we take advantage of this time to suddenly appear under Jiangling City, Xiao Mo will definitely not be on guard. Attack, you can win. ”

Li Xiaogong agreed with Li Jing's construction. Xiao Mo believes that the water potential of the Yangtze River is rising. It was inconvenient to travel by boat, not to mention a large-scale fleet, and did not expect that the Tang Dynasty would launch an attack on itself at this time, and was not prepared at all, and the army of Erli captured the border town of Liang all the way, and Xiao Mian came back to his senses and sent the general Wen Shihong to garrison the Qingjiang River (which was injected into the Yangtze River in Zhicheng).

Li Xiaogong planned to attack Wen Shihong, Li Jing disagreed, Li Xiaogong did not listen to Li Jing's construction, insisted on going his own way, launched an attack on Wen Shihong's army, and ordered Li Jing to guard the camp, Li Xiaogong really lost the battle, Wen Shihong's soldiers plundered property, everyone was carrying a very heavy thing, the formation was chaotic, Li Jing took the opportunity to attack Wen Shihong. Li Jing defeated Wen Shihong, captured more than 400 warships, beheaded and drowned more than 10,000 Liang soldiers, and Liang general Gai Yanju led five states to surrender. …

Li Xiaogong sent Li Jing to lead 5,000 soldiers as the vanguard and marched under the city of Jiangling. Xiao Milling was unloaded and returned to the sky, leaving only a few thousand people as palace guards, seeing Li Jing hit Jiangling City, he was very frightened, and issued an edict to King Qin, but most of the army was south of the Yangtze River and Lingnan, the road was far, the road was not smooth, and it could not be reached in a short time, so Xiao Milling had to mobilize the existing troops to go to the city to defend.

Li Xiaogong led the main force to rendezvous with Li Jing under the city of Gangneung, attacked the water city of Gangneung, conquered, and captured a large number of ships and warships, Li Xiaogong ordered the ships to be put in the river and let them drift, the generals objected: "The booty we have captured should be used for our own use, how can we fund the enemy?" ”

In the face of the incomprehension of his subordinates, Li Xiaogong said: "The territory of Liang is vast, south to Lingwai, east to Dongting Lake, if we do not attack the city, reinforcements arrive, we will suffer from the enemy, even if there are more ships can not be used, if these ships are allowed to drift downstream along the Yangtze River, the rescue of the Liang army, seeing the scattered ships, must think that Xiao Mo has been defeated, and it will take a month for news to come and go, so that we have enough time to capture Jiangling." ”

Xiao Miao's rescuers saw the empty ships coming down the river, and they really suspected that Jiangling had been conquered, and hesitated and did not dare to enter the army. Li Xiaogong blocked all the news in Jiangling City, so the Liang generals who came to rescue Xiao Mo did not dare to act without permission.

It is recorded in the "Zizhi Tongjian" that it was Li Jing's construction to put the boat into the river, but when I looked at the old and new "Tang Books" Li Jing's biography, I didn't see the relevant records, but I saw that this incident was done by Li Xiaogong in Li Xiaogong's biography, I think if it was really Li Jing's doing, the old and new Tang books should not have been written without a single stroke, so I use the statement that it is Li Xiaogong's biography. Li Xiaogong besieged Jiangling, Xiao Milling was cut off from the outside world, Xiao Mill was very depressed, he asked the Zhongshu Shilang Cen Wenwen about countermeasures, and Cen Wenwen surrendered to Xiao Milling Jian.

Xiao Mill expressed acceptance, just like he did not hesitate when he raised the army, and Xiao Mill did not procrastinate when he surrendered, which was much happier than Wang Shichong, after listening to Cen Wenwen's opinion, Xiao Mill said to the Manchu Dynasty civil and military: "God does not bless our Liang country, if I persist any longer, it will be the common people who will suffer, and I can't make the people fall into misery because of me alone." ”

In October, Xiao Mo paid tribute to the ancestral temple, opened the city gate, went out of the city to surrender, wore sackcloth, led the civil and military officials to the Tang army camp, and said to Li Xiaogong: "It's just my sin, and it's just me who deserves to die." The people are not guilty, please do not kill and rob. "He knew he was going to die. Speak for the people before you die.

Xiao Milling is a benevolent person, and he did a qiē before. It seems understandable that he is suspicious of his subordinates because he wants to be honest with his subordinates but can't, he doesn't want his subordinates to kill too much, but his subordinates don't listen, so he reluctantly chooses to regain power and execute his subordinates.

From September to October, Er Li was able to flatten Xiao Milling so quickly, which has Xiao Mill's own credit. The reason why he wants to do this is very simple, he himself has said, I can't put the people in misery because of me alone, he knows the end of surrender, death seems to be the only way, but he still does not regret the choice he made, because he is a real "worried about the world" person. His abilities may not have been outstanding in that era of heroes, but he did enough to be worthy of everyone.

After being escorted into Chang'an, in the face of Li Yuan, Xiao Mo did not beg for mercy. did not cry, neither humble nor arrogant, said: "I am Tian Heng, who is the king, and I have not betrayed the Han Dynasty." (It is also a field across the south.) Non-negative Han Dynasty) means that I did not betray the Sui Dynasty. And you, you Li Yuan forcibly took the throne from the little emperor of the Sui Dynasty. You are the real rebel and thief. The person who steals things, what he is most afraid of is that others accuse him of being a thief in person, and in the face of Xiao Miao's words, Li Yuan was speechless, so he chose the lowest way to respond - violence. Li Yuan ordered Xiao Mo to be beheaded in Chang'an, Chinese New Year's Eve nine years old. …

Li Yuan didn't know that violence would never solve the problem, and violence would only increase hatred. A few days after Xiao Mill surrendered, King Qin's army reached more than 100,000 people, and when they heard that Xiao Mill had surrendered, they all lost their fighting spirit and took off their armor to surrender to the Tang Army.

Li Shimin's protracted war was protracted, and the steps were almost the same every time, straining the morale of the opponent, waiting for a favorable opportunity, and annihilating the enemy in one fell swoop. Li Jing chose the most appropriate method to resolve the battle in a victorious manner at the fastest speed, in the fastest time, and Li Jing's art of military command lies in the word "move," and the difference between the two people's methods of commanding operations can be seen from this.

Through the arduous efforts of Li Yuan, Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong, Li Jing and others, the territory of the Tang Empire gradually increased, pacifying the north and attacking the south, and the Tang Dynasty's unification of the land of China was no longer a myth. After resolving several powerful local separatist forces, we will turn our eyes back to Chang'an to see how Li Yuan, who was prostrated by the Manchu civil and military forces in the imperial palace, ruled the empire established in his hands, whether he could make the people live a prosperous life, and whether he could make the country majestic and majestic all over the world.

After the great uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty, continuous wars for many years, the social economy was severely destroyed, the population dropped significantly, the population of the early Tang Dynasty was only one-tenth of the Sui Dynasty, and the population was less than three million households in the early years of Taizong Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty (627), but the population of the second year of the Sui Dynasty (606) was nearly nine million households, one can imagine how much damage the war that lasted for more than ten years to the society at that time.

Although the population is not large, what is even more fatal is that the living standards of most people are below a very low level, and they can guarantee food, but they do not guarantee that they will be full; It can guarantee a house to live in, but it is not necessarily sheltered from the wind and rain; You can wear clothes, but you can't guarantee that you won't freeze in winter. This was the real life of the common people of that era.

As the ruler of the emerging dynasty, Li Yuan has the responsibility and obligation to change this qiē, so that the lives of the common people can be improved, so that they have confidence in this emerging dynasty, believing that under the leadership of the wise emperor, the country can prosper again, and their own lives can be lived, without worrying about being robbed when they originally had nothing, and they don't have to worry about being forcibly dragged to be a soldier in their sleep, so that he and his wife and children have a place to live and live, and they don't have to live on the streets. and do not have to beg to get by.

After Li Yuan became the emperor, he carried out reforms in the political and economic aspects of the time, mainly to eliminate the maladministration of Emperor Yang of Sui, which had two advantages: for Li Yuan, it was conducive to maintaining his rule, and for ordinary people, they could live better, they could eat well, and they could wear warm clothes. At the beginning of Li Yuan's entry into the customs, he ordered the soldiers not to kill, rob, rape, or rebel, and those who violated the law were beheaded. This order must have stabilized the hearts of the people at that time, and was conducive to the reconstruction of the originally chaotic social order.

What Yang Guang did, as well as Yang Guang's later results, Li Yuan saw it in his eyes, and he often took it as a warning and did not dare to follow Yang Guang's old path. When he became emperor, he abolished the draconian laws enacted by Emperor Yang of Sui and promulgated a new decree in the seventh year of Wude (624). That is, "Wude Law", "Wu De Law" is much lighter than Emperor Yang of Sui's "Great Cause Law". It was also improved and more suitable for the social environment of the time.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Juntian system, the government military system, the three provinces and six ministries system, the imperial examination system and other systems have injected fresh blood into this huge country, they are an inseparable part of the Tang Dynasty, and they have played their own role in the development and prosperity of the country. The Juntian system began in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the government military system began in the Western Wei Dynasty and reached the Tang Dynasty. Both the Juntian system and the government military system became the pillars of the Tang Dynasty's strength. …

Anyone who has studied history knows the reform of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the historical significance of the reform of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty has been discussed many times in history textbooks.

What I want to say is, do you remember that Emperor Xiaowen pushed a land system at that time, remember? It doesn't matter if you don't think about it, I can remind you. That's it—the Junda system.

Li Yuan, who became the emperor, as the largest landlord in the country (this set of emperor landlord theory, pays tribute to "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty"), controls a large amount of land, and he alone cultivates so much land. You must exhaust yourself to death, this kind of business with a lot of losses, as a shrewd person, Li Yuan will not do anything. But so much land can't be left empty, that would be a waste. What can I do?

The best way to do this is to divide the land among the farmers who have no land or very little land. Let them farm, and then collect the rent themselves. There is a lot of money all year round, and he is not tired, of course Li Yuan is happy to have money to make, and this is not his beginning, the ancestors have personally tested it a long time ago, this system is very good, the risk is small, and the income is considerable, so Li Yuan promulgated the Juntian Order in the seventh year of Wude and implemented the Juntian system.

The Juntian Decree stipulates that each taxpayer (Ding male, adult male between the ages of 21 and 59) shall be granted 100 mu of land, of which 20 mu will be Yongye land and 80 mu will be divided into fields. After the taxpayer's death, the land will be recovered by the government, and the Yongye land will be owned by the taxpayer and can be passed on to future generations.

By the way, in the Tang Dynasty, whether it was land distribution or tax payment, it was not according to households, but according to Ding, that is, adult men (between 21 and 59 years old), if there is a Ding, he will pay one person's tax, and if there are two Ding, he will pay the tax of two people.

After the land is allocated, all that remains is to collect rent, but this can't be collected indiscriminately, you say that you will collect one stone this year, you will collect one stone, you say you will collect ten stones, you will collect ten stones, although you are the emperor, this is not allowed.

Even if you want to exploit the common people, you must exploit them within the scope of the people's ability to bear them, otherwise the common people will produce ten stones a year, and you will be taken away, and the common people will not be able to live, what will people eat? Drink the Northwest Wind?

Killing chickens and taking eggs is such a thing, Li Yuan knows that it is not good for him, so he will not do it, since this is the case, a system is needed to stabilize what the government collects every year, that is, to formulate an effective tax system, the tax system implemented in the Tang Dynasty is the rent adjustment system.

The equalization system is a land distribution system, and the rent-adjustment system is a tax system based on the equalization system. Of course, this tax is still based on ding, and one ding pays two stone millet to the government every year, which is called rent.

The hometown of sericulture is handed over two zhang of silk every year, and three taels of cotton are attached; The hometown of linen cloth is handed over every year two zhang and five feet, and three catties of hemp are attached, which is called tune. In addition, the common people have to serve the government, you have to help transport grain to fight, you have to help control the water when there is a flood, and you have to follow the road if the road is broken, if the wind and rain are good that year, there is no war or flood, you think you can take a break, you are wrong, the ruler has already thought about how to deal with this situation, the next order, I want to build a palace, you still have to work.

Every Ding serves the government for 20 days a year, but can you not do it, you say that Lao Tzu has a very hard year, and wants to rest at home for two days, or is not in good health to recuperate. It's okay, but it's not that you make a report to the chief, and the chief will do it in a batch, but you have to take out something and bribe it, not to bribe the chief, but to bribe the court, yes, to bribe the court, and the rules and regulations are clearly written, the court can't rely on the account, and you can't pay the bill.

After you decide not to serve this year, you have to prepare the silk to hand over to the imperial court, three feet of silk for one day, that is, to pay three feet of silk for one day less work, if you don't want to do it for 20 days and a day, you have to pay six zhang of silk, this is called Yong. For the special meticulousness of this imperial court regulations, there is no sloppiness at all, what if it encounters a leap year?

A leap year is one month longer than a normal year, and it can't be counted as a substitute for silk service, but an additional month, and two more days of labor every year, if you don't want to go, pay an extra 6 feet of silk, and that's it. In this way, he didn't want to work in ordinary years, so he bribed the court for 6 zhang of silk; I don't want to work in a leap year, so I bribe the court to pay 6 zhang and 6 feet of silk, and that's it. ("Those Things in the Tang Dynasty" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "ddxis" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)