Chapter 118: Undercurrent (I)

The arrangements of the imperial court have been assigned, and Li Yu is full of confidence in completing the intention of this war. According to the plan, the war would begin after the autumn harvest and winter planting. The armies of all walks of life still have more than half a year to transfer grain and grass, train soldiers, run in tactics, and collect intelligence. However, after the three provinces and six departments got busy, Li Yu felt that he had nothing to do. The prime minister and officials are too capable, and they have left the boss idle, and Li Yu suddenly felt that the past few months have been very difficult. Just when Li Yu decided to devote himself to the discussion and put his energy into thinking about the long-term development of Datang, someone finally found something for him to do.

The drought in the second and third years of Yongzhen caused the Tang Dynasty to reduce a large number of soldiers and build a large number of farmland water conservancy projects, which also enabled the Tang Dynasty to resettle a large number of displaced people and reclaim a large amount of wasteland. According to the principle that the whole world is not the king's land, of course, these lands are not given to the peasants in vain. Historically, this policy was called tuntian. Tuntian can not only provide a large amount of grain for the imperial court, but also the imperial court also assures the people in the border areas that if they are willing to turn into military households, the money and grain paid will be reduced by half, and if they make certain military achievements, Tuntian will be converted into Yongye Tian, or another piece of Yongye Tian. This is a fatal temptation for displaced people who have lost their land. Most of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people recruited by Li Weijian in Fengxiang alone have joined the military household. According to rough estimates, in Fengxiang alone, more than 20,000 soldiers can be conscripted according to the calculation of one ding per household, and 50,000 soldiers can be conscripted if there are two dings per household. The area around Longyou and Hexi is mostly occupied by Tubo, and Li Yu is not afraid that he will not be able to resettle more military households.

With so many garrisons, coupled with a large number of hukou controlled by the land recovered from the clan nobles and even the monasteries through violent repression and redemption policies, the Tang Dynasty court now no longer has to worry about the source and quality of soldiers. The Ministry of War has already moved to convert all the tun people who have joined the military households from Liangchuan to Shuofang into government soldiers. The significance of this turn is extremely significant, and people with a little common sense know that the government soldiers are the foundation of the political power, and the Tang Dynasty implemented the national policy of strengthening the cadres and weakening the branches, and more than 600 of them were in Guanzhong, which ensured that the central government had absolute military superiority over the localities. The reason why the Anshi Rebellion broke out and the reason why the secession of feudal towns spread for so many years was that the central court lost control over the households, and the land annexation and taxation were heavy, resulting in a large decrease in the number of households.

Nominally, although the central government also controls a large number of troops, most of these troops come from recruitment, and the advantage is that a large number of soldiers can be quickly recruited in a short period of time, and the disadvantage is that the quality and combat effectiveness of individual soldiers cannot be compared with the government soldiers, and the loyalty to the imperial court is far from enough. Most of the members of such an army group are from homeless people who have no property, or the children of broken households, merchants, and even beggars, criminals, gangsters, etc. Meng Ziyun, those who have no permanent property have no perseverance, such an army may have loyalty, and combat effectiveness may also have, but it is far from catching up with the government soldiers who have their own family business to defend. If the imperial court regains a large contingent of government soldiers, I am afraid that the previous emperors will be able to turn over happily in the coffin.

However, things are not as easy as you think, and the difficulty is in one word: profit. People who can serve a cause are either comrades or Tongli. And without this, Comrade Tongli will also become a stranger, and Li Yu knows that he can't do this thing just by letting people work hard and not giving benefits. However, there are too many interest groups within the Tang Group. The clan is a piece, the family is a piece, the officials from the poor family are a piece, the businessmen who are gradually being valued are a piece, and the small people in the market are also a piece.

If you are not afraid of interest groups, you can reconcile, but what you are afraid of is not selling your account and is unwilling to reconcile you. For example, in the area of small people in the market, Li Yu knows that the small people in the market also have interests and demands, but many clans and families do not recognize it. In the eyes of these people, the interests of the small people in the market are the interests used to sacrifice for themselves, and what "water can carry a boat and can also overturn a boat" is all nonsense in their eyes. Therefore, when many of Li Chen's new policies were implemented, there was always great resistance, such as the redemption of land, although several items ceded to the royal family from the sea trade were of great interest, but the most important thing for the clans was the land, if it weren't for Li Chen's use of the dead Shu King Li Yi to make a fuss, the land of these clans would not be so easy to be replaced.

As for the family, it gave Li Yu even more headaches. The clan is in trouble, in the end there is no power under the hands, and the family is different, each family is a family that lasts for hundreds of years, the children of the family, the protégés and former officials are all over the government and the opposition, and they have a stake in each other, one is prosperous, one is lost, the family is closer to the court, then the court rule is stable, and the town is closer, so it is extremely difficult to cut the domain. What's even more infuriating is the family and the country, and the big families often put the family in front of the country, considering the interests of the family first, and then the interests of the country. For the sake of family interests, many families do not put their eggs in one basket, and often step on several boats to hold ** to their own weight. Before the feudal town was settled, these families could still be restrained, but now that ZTE is a foregone conclusion, some people can't wait to come out and fight. Not to mention that the land in Longyou and Hexi, which is still in the hands of the Tubo people on the map, is the land in Guanzhong that was forcibly controlled by Li Yu by forceful means, and some people have begun to make up their minds.

In recent years, the implementation of the new policy and the flattening of the feudal towns have relied on officials from the family, with the help of the power of the family. People ask for meritorious deeds, portraits into the Lingyan Pavilion, the lord can be passed on for several more generations, the fief is larger, close to Chang'an or Luoyang, this is a matter of course. However, Guanzhong and Dongdugi are limited after all, and Guanzhong must also serve as the imperial court to ensure that the imperial court controls a large area of land. This is another contradiction, the family is not at ease in the foreign court, and if it is placed in the Guannei, it will take out the land to seal it to them; And if it is to be given to these people, then the land in the hands of the peasants is bound to be insufficient, and if the land of the peasants is not enough, then the foundation of the imperial court will be lost, and the foundation will be lost, and the rule will be unstable, and if the rule is not stable, then the wealthy families in the Kanto region may be ready to move again······

"Not only will it be ready to move in the future, but it is already ready to move now!"

Li Yuxin threw a secret report on the side of the table, and said hatefully.