Chapter 59: A Big Move

(I can still exercise by the way of updating every day, what should I do?) Cycling the ····· It's too late again······ Continue to be speechless······ Four hundred and five crosses are given throughout the day. )

The reason why Li Yu was reluctant to be called the "Emperor of Tax Exemption" was because he did not want people to think that he would only be tax-free and end up with a benevolent and weak evaluation, just like Emperor Gaozong, who liked tax exemption the most in the Tang Dynasty. Gaozong Li Zhi actively improved the people's livelihood internally, expanded the land for thousands of miles externally, and was the king of the inner and outer saints, in order to get rid of the shadow of his Lao Tzu, but he was tossed out of illness, and was finally evaluated as •••••• forget it, or don't talk about it.

Therefore, when Li Chun was still busy organizing disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction, Li Yu's energy was reinvested in consolidating the rule of the empire, and one after another edicts were issued, showing the Tang Emperor's determination to seek change in a big way.

In the first month, Pei Yan took the same level as his servants.

In February, Fan Xichao, the loyal general of the Right Jin Wuwei, will serve as the prime minister of Lingyan, and the two towns of Shuofang will be the envoy of the festival. Jingyuan Jiedu made Duan You transfer to the general of the right Jin Wuwei.

Hao Xuan, the general of the Right Guards, will serve as the envoy of Jingyuan Jiedu. General Hao, who has been aggrieved in Chang'an for more than a year, finally got his wish and wanted to go back to plague the Tubo people

In March, Li Yong, the middle of the imperial history, served as the envoy of Hezhong and the Jin Festival. The living housekeeper Pei Du served as the middle of the imperial history.

The right concubine, Lu Tan, served as the Xuanshu Observer.

Chen Qi, the young yin of Hezhong, was transferred to the post of Jingzhao Shaoyin, and Sima Hantai, the former march of the Jingxi Battalion, was transferred to the eastern capital to be in charge of the military and assist Zheng Yuqing.

Ling Huai, a bachelor of Hanlin, was transferred to Hongzhou Assassin History. Bachelor of Hanlin, Li Chongjian, who was sent to Tibet as a subordinate official with Lü Wen, was transferred to the Fengxiang Jiedu judge, and Wang Pi, who was originally demoted to the Fengxiang Jiedu judge, was transferred back to the central court as a military weapons junior supervisor.

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In March, after the Xichuan Rebellion, more than a dozen people including Qiu Liangfu and Li Wenyue, the former generals of the Xichuan Army, who were recruited to study martial arts, were finally allowed to graduate and were assigned to serve in Fengxiang, Longyou, Suining, Jingyuan, Shuofang and other towns. Dozens of officers of the Changwu Army and the Dongchuan Army, who had previously participated in the counterinsurgency, had graduated from martial arts and served in Xia Sui, Lingyan, and the Guards.

While these officers were on the road, Zhang Jing, the ambassador of Fengxiang Jiedu, was also on his way back to Chang'an. During the first month, Ambassador Zhang was ill and did not want his illness to get worse, so he had to apply to return to Chang'an to recuperate. The imperial court then used Li Yu as the ambassador of Jiedu, recruited Zhang Jing to enter the court as the secretary of the criminal department, and Du You was promoted to Situ. At the beginning of April, Zhang Jing died of illness in Chang'an, and his last words were "restore Hehuang", reciting Du Fu's "death before leaving the school, and the hero was full of tears". The imperial court posthumously presented Shangshu to the left servant to shoot, and the dynasty was abolished for a day.

The reorganization of the Fengxiang Army, which was suspended due to Zhang Jingze's serious illness, was delayed until the winter. Fengxiang's whole army was reorganized into three armies, each army of 12,500 people, together with other soldiers, the whole army of 40,000 people, a total of more than 5,000 old and weak people, the old and weak were given money and food, the old people returned to their hometowns or transferred to the state and county miscellaneous service, in addition to the monthly wages of a small amount of money and food. The young ones either returned to their hometowns to work as farmers, or took severance pay to learn to do business, and many people joined the caravans as escorts, but as for not doing anything, Li Yu introduced them to a promising profession: horse thieves, of course, the business scope of this profession was in Tibet.

Although the army reorganization plan was completed last, Fengxiang's three armies still obtained the number of the 11th, 12th, and 13th armies of the Tang Infantry Army, ranking behind the ten armies of the Shence Army that completed the reorganization in the 21st year of Zhenyuan and the first year of Yongzhen, and the 11th Army was named "Jingze Army". The Shence Army was supposed to have 12 armies, but the 1st Army was abolished due to the rebellion of Yang Zhilian with Ju Wenzhen, and the 1st Army was organized into the Right Guards Army (1st Guards Army), so there were only 10 armies left. In the second year of Yongzhen, in addition to Fengxiang, Jingyuan, Shuofang, Lingyan, Xia Sui, Xichuan, Suining, Longyou, Hezhong, Shannan East and West Dao armies also completed the reorganization, each town ranged from one to two armies, the most three armies, Lingyan, Xia Sui, Dunfang, and the two towns were finally revoked. By the end of the second year of Yongzhen, the armed forces under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court totaled 29 armies (including two guards) and more than 380,000 people.

The reason why the Jiedu envoy held the military and political power was that the financial inability to support the army in the middle of the Tang Dynasty was that the Jiedu envoy was ordered to solve it by himself, so the Jiedu envoy had military power. In the second year of Yongzhen, Lu Congshi went out to become a teacher without authorization, and the imperial court ordered him to withdraw the army, and the excuse he justified was "food". After the army was reorganized, the army was supported by the imperial court, and the power of the envoy to govern and finance was naturally withdrawn, and dozens of states were directly governed by the imperial court again. In the process of reorganization, the interests of officials and generals were naturally damaged, and there were many people who tried to confront each other in vain, and the mutiny was not in one or two places, so the emperor, who had always been benevolent, had to smile slightly and suppress it. There are also peaceful settlements, typical is the Shannan Xidao soldiers, who made great contributions in the pacification of the Xichuan battle, and were clamoring for a mutiny, Shannan Xidao Jiedu made Liu Sheng ride lightly, saying:

"Why do you get rewarded for your deeds?"

The soldiers replied:

"Because we put down the Xichuan rebellion."

Liu Sheng said loudly:

"Are you now going to rebel to the credit of all others?"

The soldiers were shocked when they heard this, and then they obediently complied.

More than 300,000 people have been reorganized, and the number of soldiers who have been eliminated is also extremely impressive, reaching 50,000 or 60,000, and even 15 of them have gone out to fight and 80 have returned. Li Fan and Feng Yan both said that the elimination of so many soldiers will inevitably lead to social instability. In all fairness, in order to appease the dissatisfaction among the soldiers, Li Yu gave a very considerable severance pay, but the problem is that he can only provide severance pay but cannot provide a career for these retired soldiers, so many soldiers are eliminated, and now the price of the caravan to the Western Regions to ask for escorts has fallen in a fall, these soldiers should have been farmers, but the land annexation is so serious, where did Li Yu get so much land for these soldiers who can only kill? The land promised to them Lingnan was not on favorable terms, and the soldiers refused to go to unknown places. It is dangerous for so many people with a violent element to wander around in the countryside.

Grandma, Lao Tzu is originally peace-loving, do you have to force me to expand my territory? Li Yu thought hatefully, in the end, he had to select more than 10,000 people from these cut sergeants to form a reserve army, and put them in the Tiande army, with half of the salary of the regular army, and if you want to make up for the other half, you go to the grassland to ask for it.

In this way, although the control was tight, more than 10,000 people still flowed into the feudal towns of Hebei, and even Huaixi got a part. With so many troops, the annual military expenditure is several million, and according to the "Yongzhen National Accounting Book", there are only eight financial endowments, if it were not for the prosperity of maritime trade this year, the imperial court was really breathless.

Even so, Li Yu still started the idea of sea trade. He planned to take out several major items from the sea trade, on the one hand, for the purpose of guaranteeing the retirement of soldiers, and on the other hand, in exchange for sufficient land.