Chapter 500: Popping Chrysanthemums
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Yi Feng held a banquet in Daming Palace.
"This banquet was supposed to wait until Chang'an was taken. But everybody can't wait, everybody is very happy, and to be honest, I'm very happy too. In the Northern Expedition, although we failed to compete in the end because of Yang Xiu's rebellion, we still achieved a great victory. 400,000 Turks went south, and only 50,000 or 60,000 remnants of the army were defeated in the end. It can be said that this battle has played the momentum of our Great Sui and the demeanor of our Han people, and this battle has also played the Taiping of Northern Xinjiang for 20 years. If it weren't for Yang Xiu's rebellion, we would have even swept across the grasslands by now, shocked the northern and western regions, and completely ended the Turks. Although there are some regrets, the merits of the soldiers of the Northern Expedition have not been discounted, and the rewards of the imperial court will not be discounted. Today's banquet is not only a celebration banquet for the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, but also a toast for the rebellious soldiers. The Turks have been defeated by our valiant soldiers, and now, we are returning to the Central Plains to defeat Yang Xiu and Yang Guang, and return the world to a peaceful and prosperous era. Come, pick up the wine glass, everyone drink this cup, for the great Sui! ”
"Congratulations for the Great Sui, for His Majesty, for His Highness!" Hundreds of officials raised their glasses.
Yi Feng drank all the wine in the glass in one gulp, sat down again, and Hongfu poured another glass of red wine for Yi Feng.
Gao Gong said, His Royal Highness's next step, is it going south?
When Gao Gong spoke, Yi Feng smiled slightly, he felt that Gao Gong was in a hurry to return to Guanzhong, he had communicated with Gao Gong privately before, saying that the next step was to move the imperial court to Luoyang and make Luoyang the eastern capital. At that time, Gao Gong did not object. But at this time, Gao Gong said that he went south, not that he went south to Luoyang. Instead, he only said that he was going south, obviously wanting to bring up the old things again. Let's talk about entering the customs. Yi Feng thought, maybe it was his frequent movements that made Gao Gong feel Yan Zheng's sense of crisis. Yesterday, Yi Feng built a new Hanlin Academy and a supervision institute. In fact, the Hanlin Academy has changed the original bachelors and scholars of the Taisun Mansion to a new place. Of course, Yi Feng will not be full and have nothing to do. Of course, the establishment of Hallym Academy played an important role.
The Sui Dynasty had a six-ministry system in three provinces, and Shangshu Province was the highest administrative body. It is responsible for the implementation of important decrees of the state, and the ministry is the deliberative body, which is responsible for reviewing and refuting edicts. The Ministry of Internal History, on the other hand, was the decision-making body responsible for drafting and issuing the emperor's edicts. The three provinces originally had their own duties and checked each other, but compared with the previous generation, the biggest feature of this system was that it divided the power of the prime minister into three and strengthened the power of the monarch. However, this system, which was established at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, has undergone nearly 20 years of development. It's also a little out of shape. Originally, because it was the most important decision-making and deliberative body, Menxia Province and Inner History Province, but because of the continuous increase in power of Shangshu Province for a long time, it was finally difficult to restrain Shangshu Province. It even became a subsidiary of Shangshu Province, and the three provinces were separated, and in fact, Shangshu Province became a monopoly.
Gao Gong turned out to be the left servant of Shangshu Province. Now it's Shang Shuling, one step further. has a higher prestige in the Taiyuan court, and the subordinates and the lieutenants of the two provincial governors of the internal history are basically high-ranking people. Among them, the person responsible for drafting the edict was the full-time of the Shishe people in the province of internal history. But now the Ministry of Internal History is basically a subsidiary of Gao Gong, and Yi Feng must be inconvenient to use. And Yi Feng didn't want to move the three provinces immediately, so he directly set up a Hanlin Academy, which was naturally a favor for the scholars of the original Taisun Mansion on the surface, but in fact, it gave the Hanlin scholars the power to draft confidential edicts. After the establishment of the Hallym Academy, the power of the Ministry of Internal History to draft edicts was divided into two, and the Ministry of Internal History retained the right to draft the appointment and dismissal of ordinary ministers and the right to make routine announcements, which was called the external system. The Hanlin Scholars were specifically responsible for drafting edicts related to military affairs, such as appointing and dismissing ministers, announcing Dahe, and ordering expeditions, which were called internal systems. In this way, when Yi Feng, the prince of the regent of the prison country, was the regent of the prison country, many of the edicts that had to be asked did not need to go through the internal history of the province at all.
As for the Supervision Yuan, it is nothing more than the higher-level command organs of the Special Branch, the Military Intelligence Department, the Bureau of Statistics, and the three special forces. However, although the Supervision Yuan commands the following three intelligence departments and three special forces, it has long been an agency that coordinates the information of various agencies, reports to Yi Feng, and acts as an intelligence consultant, and the head of the Supervision Yuan does not have direct transfer power over the following agencies. The newly established Hanlin Academy and the Supervision Yuan are not under the jurisdiction of the three provinces, but directly under the command of the crown prince, and Gao Gong's Shangshu order is not under his control.
Now Gao Gong and the other old parties are very quiet on the surface, but Yi Feng believes that Gao Gong and others must not be willing to be thrown out of the power center like this.
"It is necessary to go south, but I plan to divide the troops into two routes, one route is Marshal He Ruo to lead the rebel vanguard army back to Guanzhong, and other officials of the Taiyuan court will follow me to lead the Beiya soldiers and horses to Luoyang, and Luoyang will be the eastern capital, and Luoyang will be the base camp for the rebellion, and after recovering Chang'an, the capital will be restored. I think about it this way, there are also many factors, Yang Xiu according to Guanzhong, although the rebellion of killing the king and usurping the throne, but Guanzhong is extremely dangerous, and it cannot be attacked overnight. Second, in addition to Yang Xiu, there is also Yang Guang who claims to be the emperor, so after we go south to Luoyang, we can also send troops and horses to attack Yangzhou nearby. On the other hand, we can also let Yang Xiu and Yang Guang fight to the death first, and then clean them up together. There is a news that has just been received, and it has not yet come to inform everyone, not long ago, Yang Guang's pseudo-prince Yang Zhao led 50,000 Yizhou troops to Jianmen Pass, wanting to directly attack Sanguan to cooperate with Yang Guang's attack on Wuguan. As a result, the Jianmen guard deceived Yang Zhao into loyalty, lured Yang Zhao into the pass and killed him, and now the Jianmen guard Liang Feng has taken over the 50,000 Yizhou army, and turned his head to kill Jiangling, Jingzhou, which is quite unexpected. It is said that after Yang Guang heard the news, he vomited blood and fainted, and after being in a coma for a long time, he woke up, and immediately changed the direction of his march, no longer marching to Xiangyang, but continued to go up the river, rushed to Jiangling, and summoned Yang Hong to lead the Jingzhou soldiers together, vowing to destroy Liang Gang. ”
"Oh, it's good news that there's such a thing." When Gao Gong heard the news, he couldn't help but nod his head again and again. No one takes Yang Xiu seriously, they all think that he is just a grasshopper who can't reach the autumn queen for a few days, and the enemy of the Taiyuan court should be Yang Guang. Now Yang Guang has been hit hard by this. Everyone was happy.
Yi Feng paid attention to Yang Xiu, although the sword gate was closed. It's more that Yang Zhao is inexperienced and careless. can't just say how good Yang Xiu is. But after Yang Xiu killed Yang Zhao with such a yin trick, he immediately took control of 50,000 Yizhou soldiers, and did not transfer these soldiers to Guanzhong, nor did he let them return to Yizhou, but let them kill Jiangling in Jingzhou, which is not simple. Yang Guang originally planned to attack Guanzhong with 200,000 soldiers and horses in two ways, but now Yang Xiu first broke Yang Guang's army on the first road, and then transferred this army back. The attack on Gangneung went. forced Yang Guang to give up attacking Guanzhong immediately, but to meet this army first, which was equivalent to Yang Xiu suddenly transferred the battlefield from the gate of Guanzhong to Jingzhou.
"Yang Guang was defeated for a while, and now he was beaten to the door by Yang Xiu, which is our great opportunity. I plan to go south to Luoyang immediately, and then send troops to Yangzhou, Yangzhou is Yang Guang's base camp, is his foundation, and lost Yangzhou. Yang Guang is not far from defeat. "Yi Feng is determined to do Yang Guang first, and not to fight a frontal battle, but to raid his backyard nest. After all, Guanzhong has always been the center of the world, not only the city is dangerous. Moreover, the forces of all parties are gathered, and it is definitely not easy to fight. And Jianghuai is different, and the defense is not as good as Guanzhong. And Yang Guang led an army of 100,000 to the west, and it was appropriate to copy the back road at this time.
Yifeng has such a good reason. Gao Gong originally wanted to use the topic to play at today's banquet, but there was no suitable opportunity. I had to press it and not mention it.
The banquet continued, and the matter of going south to Luoyang was also officially decided.
At the banquet, Emperor Yang Yong still did not attend, it was really Yang Yong who didn't have the face to come, he knew that he was coming, and the protagonist would not be him, but he could only lose face, and simply said that he was sick and couldn't come. Yi Feng is also happy to see this, he doesn't even bother to send someone to invite him again, Yang Yong doesn't come, everyone is at ease, once he comes, the atmosphere will definitely not be good.
It doesn't matter if Yang Yong doesn't come, anyway, when Yi Feng wants to use his full stop, he just takes it, and no one can object. At today's banquet, Yi Feng directly issued two edicts, the first important edict drafted directly by the Hanlin Academy.
It has not been reviewed by the Ministry of Internal History, nor has it been reviewed by the Ministry of Menxia, let alone reported to Gao Ying of Shangshu Province.
Yi Feng asked the Hanlin Academy to draft an edict to reward the meritorious soldiers of the Northern Expedition, whether it was the Middle Route Army or the Western Route Army or the Eastern Route Army, all of them were rewarded, and they were given a first-class meritorious service when they were discussed. Gao Gong, He Ruobi, Han Seng Shou and others have made great contributions, in addition to Li Jing, Gao Jia, Dou Jiande and others of the East Route Army, etc., they are also great achievements, and the West Road has also made great contributions to Yang Sushi, Long Live Han Hong, etc. All meritorious soldiers are rewarded for meritorious deeds, those who are promoted, those who are knighted, and those who are rewarded with money, for many meritorious soldiers without rank, Yi Feng gave a special order to award them medals.
Decorations are awarded to medals, swords, and officers.
It is also specifically stipulated that all those who receive the medal shall enjoy certain privileges.
There are five main privileges granted by Yi Feng to these meritorious soldiers, and the recipients can receive additional honorable fields according to their rank in addition to the land granted by the government. The number of fields awarded is according to the grade of the medal, 12 are transferred to the officer, the highest is 12 to 3,000 acres of the honorable field, and the lowest is 50 acres of the first honorable field. This field is not included in the number of fields, although these fields also need to be paid, but they belong to private ownership, and they can be passed on to their children and grandchildren. Xuntian cannot be stacked, and if the rank is increased, then Xuntian will only make up the maximum number of Xuntian that can be obtained after upgrading the rank. Yi Feng stipulated in the edict that all those who made meritorious contributions in the Northern Expedition could be awarded medals, and the corresponding medals were awarded according to the corresponding number of medals.
This is the best reward for the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, and it is also the most powerful means that Yi Feng used to buy the soldiers.
If you are awarded the honor, you will not only receive the honor of Junda's place, but also have the same treatment as a minister in criminal law. Where their grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, wives, or children or grandchildren commit up to the crime of miscarriage, their sentence may be "commuted by one degree"; "If an official is used as a migrant, each rank of the ministry shall be an official, and the commander shall be one official from each rank, and the higher one shall be the first, and the second shall be the honorable officer."
Third, the awardees also have the qualifications to serve as officials, and those who have honors are given priority in the selection of state and county governors, city orders, and the selection of Lizheng and county records, as well as the selection of canal chiefs and doumen chiefs. Although the officials are just not in the stream, it is also a good privilege to directly have the qualifications to fill the position.
Fourth, the children of honored officers have the right of priority to join the army and have the qualifications to serve as officials.
Fifth, the imperial court legally forbade Bai Ding to take concubines for bigamy, unless he was of a certain age and had no children. Honorable officers, on the other hand, enjoy special concubines.
Although the privileges given by Yi Feng are not as good as those in the Ming and Qing dynasties, these are also very real privileges and have a lot of attraction.
Regardless of whether the official is an official or a common man or a soldier, it can be awarded, mainly as a state reward. Historically, after Li Yuan raised his army, it was called an indiscriminate reward, he went all the way from Taiyuan to the military pass, he rewarded people when he saw them, and rewarded hundreds of thousands of officers at every turn, and it is said that at most he rewarded thousands of people a day. But Li Yuan is not as good as Li Shimin, Li Shimin later conquered Liao and returned to the court, and directly issued an edict, all the soldiers who crossed the sea to conquer Liao were awarded a medal, and at that time, there were 100,000 soldiers and horses with Li Shimin to conquer Liao, and 100,000 were awarded at a time. By the time of Tang Xuanzong, the number of lords in the world had reached 500,000.
Now Yi Feng also directly took out the big killer of the honor, according to the estimate, the 500,000 Northern Expedition army, there are also tens of thousands of people who can be qualified for meritorious service, Yi Feng waved his hand and agreed without stinginess. Anyway, after the rebellion is put down at that time, the land of those guys who are on the wrong side will be returned to the state at that time, and the fields given by the honorable officers will be able to make up for it immediately.
After awarding medals to the meritorious soldiers of the Northern Expedition, Yi Feng's second edict was to give the people Juntian. All the landless people in the world, as long as they are willing to move to Daibei, Youyan, as well as Saishang, Xijing, and Liaoxi, the imperial court will immediately grant land, every 100 acres, a few hundred acres. At the same time, after moving to the north, the imperial court would also give them interest-free loans, loans to ploughing cattle seeds, and exemptions for the first three years, so as to attract the people of the Central Plains to go to the north to reclaim land and immigrate to fill the border. This is also a very beneficial edict, after all, the population is increasing, but the fields will not increase, the Central Plains is already difficult to have spare land, the annexation of the landlords and the powerful, the increase in the population, leading many people to have no land to cultivate, so that the increase in landless peasants will inevitably lead to the strict differentiation of the rich and the poor, followed by a large number of social contradictions. And immigrants are filling the border, and the land is reclaimed, which is a good solution. Especially now that the imperial court has just defeated the Turks, the northern frontier can be said to have no major turmoil for twenty years, for the people, this is a very tempting way out, especially for those who have many brothers and children, the government can't share the land, and the family can't share the land, so leaving home to go to the border is naturally a way out. What's more, Yi Feng also promised to provide them with interest-free loans, provide seeds for cattle, and even have three years of land reclamation and exemption, which is real. (To be continued......) R1292