Chapter 367 The Seventeenth Task Zhaozong Restoration Tang 10
Lu Renbing didn't have the heart to pay attention to the careful thinking of the civil officials, he was now focused on how to digest the results of the battle. It's really true to say that you have to eat. Now he has more than 300,000 troops at hand.
With this bit of territory in Guanzhong, it will definitely not be able to feed so many troops, and it must be disarmed and streamlined. Fortunately, the ability to scavenge places in several major festivals is not available, and Lu Renbing is not short of money and food now, nor is he short of horses.
Years of war have made the land of Guanzhong not short of land. It's just that the land is wasted because of the destruction of water conservancy. So what are you waiting for, Lu Renbing immediately sent people to enclose the land, encircle all the wasteland and barren mountains as state-owned, and then distribute the land to these soldiers according to the government military system at the beginning of the country. Let the previous six armies and sixteen guards really be implemented.
However, unlike at the beginning of the country, the ownership of these lands still belonged to the emperor himself, and after the soldiers directly paid the three-layer land rent to the emperor, they did not have to pay any other taxes, but they could not buy and sell these lands, and could only cultivate them themselves. No matter what you say, Lu Renbing will first collect a wave of military hearts.
Then he reorganized the army and laid off 150,000 old and weak soldiers, who took care of the land, but no longer served on active duty, but turned into a construction corps, first dredged the river for the official family for a few years, and then could go home and farm with peace of mind. In the early Tang Dynasty, the separation of military and government was used to manage the army, hoarding the army at several critical passes, as well as Chang'an.
What Lu Renbing has in his hands are civilian officials, and these civil officials are not good at fighting, they are intrigued, they form gangs, and they are definitely good at governing the locality. It took a year to go from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, and the results of governance have been initially seen.
After sorting out the military and political structure, Lu Renbing still focused on army building. His personal security training course is still ongoing. The elite personnel selected from the previous generals in various towns were continuously sent to Lu Renbing's personal guard camp for training, and after Lu Renbing's training, they were sent out by Lu Renbing.
The cycle repeatedly, and Lu Renbing's main thing was to train officers repeatedly. Well, in the entire second year of Dashun, Lu Renbing didn't plan to use troops again. However, sometimes, the timing is so coincidental, in the Guanzhong area occupied by Lu Renbing, there is still a piece of the puzzle that is not perfect, that is, the envoy of the Dunfang Festival in the north of Jingzhao Mansion, also known as Li Sixiao, the envoy of the Baoda Army Festival. This area controls the north gate of Chang'an, and if it is not sealed, Li Keyong and those further north, the party members, can wave their troops south at any time.
Lu Renbing didn't plan to clean up Li Sixiao, although this person also has the fact of separation, but he is quite respectful to the imperial court. But who let Li Sixiao retire from old age. He recommended his younger brother Li Sijing to succeed him.
Lu Renbing doesn't know much about this Li Sijing, and he doesn't know what his attitude towards the court will be in the future. Therefore, after receiving Li Sixiao's retirement application, Lu Renbing refused this practice of giving and receiving privately.
He didn't conspire again this time, but directly sent 40,000 troops to follow the lieutenant envoy who announced the decree, and directly advanced to the city of Yanzhou, directly confusing Li Sixiao's brothers.
Baodajun is located on the Loess Plateau, and there are few poor people. Li Sixiao also relied on the Huangchao Rebellion, and no one in the court paid attention to it, so he occupied the city of Yanzhou, and was later posthumously recognized by the imperial court, this is a person who is good at speculation. He survived by moving right and left between the various warlords.
Because of poverty, combat effectiveness cannot go up. Bao Dajun is actually a theoretical existence. Now that the other warlords in the audience have vanished, Li Sixiao has lost the space to shine and move.
Lu Renbing did not do anything desperately, and promised Li Sixiao's brothers that they would be rich and noble, provided that their family had to move to Chang'an. And the two brothers, in fact, don't have much ambition, after careful weighing. The two chose to obey the emperor's edict and did not resist stubbornly.
Lu Renbing took the four prefectures of Dun, Yan, Dan and Fang without a fight. The locks and keys around Chang'an were finally all in Lu Renbing's hands. Further north is the party member Li Sigong's Dingyan Army Festival Envoy, also known as the Xia Sui Festival Envoy. There are Yinzhou, Xiazhou, Suizhou and other states under its rule. Well, that's right, it's the ancestor of Western Xia in the future.
The current Li Sigong, also known as Tuoba Sigong, will give up the throne to his younger brother Li Sigong in a few years, opening the hereditary rule of the Tuoba Li family over the Dingyan army until the establishment of Western Xia.
However, the current Li Sigong and Li Sijian brothers are still loyal to Datang. Lu Renbing has no intention of expanding further north for the time being. He's going to have to digest the current territory.
Sometimes, things are as simple as that, and many seemingly hopeless things, as long as you seize the opportunity, you can quickly break the game. The premise is that you have to have absolute power. Lu Renbing seized the last self-help window of the late Tang Dynasty. After unifying the Guanzhong region, he now has an elite army of 180,000 at hand, and controls all the relevant passes in the east, west, north and south, at least self-protection is no longer a problem.
The next step is to go south to kill Wang Jian and Chen Jingxuan in Shuzhong. It formed the pattern before Qin's annihilation of the Six Kingdoms. He will open up the Western Regions again, open trade, gather the power scattered in the Western Regions and finally the Tang Dynasty, and then wait for the opportunity to kill the Kanto region in one fell swoop and unify the whole country.
Well, the plan is good, but eat the meal one bite at a time, don't be in too much of a hurry.
Lu Renbing now has 20 states under his rule, and because of the perennial division and war, the population is still less than 3 million, and all industries are in ruins, so he must recuperate. Passerby Bing's body was only twenty-five years old, and he waited for it.
In the second year of Dashun, it passed like this, and in the third year of Dashun, Lu Renbing did not make any big moves, he was still recuperating, strictly implementing the separation of military and political affairs in the area under his jurisdiction, and further compressing the army, and cutting out 50,000 troops to turn them into military cantonments. Maintain the army at hand at about 120,000.
Although the number of troops has decreased, the combat effectiveness has risen by several steps, and the land reclaimed by the army that has been cut off in the past two years is enough to supply half of the needs of the remaining army in the three years of Dashun.
Lu Renbing also regularly mobilized the army, requisitioned labor in the military cantonment, dredged the river in Guanzhong, and repaired water conservancy. In just two years of hard work, the number of fertile fields in Guanzhong has returned to the level of the Tianbao period. In the coming year, it will not be a problem for Guanzhong to achieve self-sufficiency.
Unlike the cultivation and recuperation of the imperial court, the chaotic war of the Kwantung princes has become white-hot. Li Ke used the same towns in Hebei Province to fight in a mess. Zhu Quanzhong fought on three sides, and it was also very difficult. He was also cunning, and on the pretext that the three towns of Hebei could not provide grain and grass, he withdrew the army in Luzhou that was beaten by Li Ke with his father and son and had no power to fight back, and then put it into the battlefield against Shipu in Xuzhou. In the battlefield with Yang Xingmi in the south, he also chose to give up and let Sun Ru's anti-thief toss blindly.
He now wants to take Xuzhou with all his might. As soon as he exerted such a force, Shi Pu couldn't bear it. His move also directly led to great changes in the Hebei battlefield, and Li Cunxiao and others were miserable.
If you want to say that these things were not planned by Zhu Quanzhong, no one believes them. First of all, the war was initiated by Zhu Quanzhong, he instigated the princes to besiege Li Keyong, and then he had a loud voice and little effort, so he easily stirred up a mess in Hebei, and then used a gang of thieves to turn the land of Huaiyang upside down. gave him the opportunity to digest new territories such as Qing, Yan, and Henan, and took the opportunity to take Xuzhou in one fell swoop. The land of the Central Plains is completely controlled in your hands.
In history, he also successfully pushed the small court of Chang'an to the front of the stage, exhausting the last strength of the small court. It's a lot of money.
He is worthy of being a great conspirator who destroyed the Tang Dynasty and became self-reliant!
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