In the winter of the third year of Yuanwu of the Tang Dynasty, Yuzhou, which was annexed by the Tang State, experienced more than half a year of small winds and waves, and finally returned to calm. Although the former crown princess of Yu State and the young emperor wanted to go north to attack Yuzhou, they had no choice but to have little support from Xu State, and there was no possibility of recapturing Yuzhou at all.

After several years of war, the Tang State expanded its territory several times on the basis of the Yong State and ruled the old lands of the countries. After several months of brewing, there were countless people from Chang'an to the local government who supported the establishment of the emperor's eldest son as a prince, and the time was ripe. Under the forced request of the ministers, Wang Rong reluctantly set up the emperor's eldest son Wang Han as the king of Qin, and built the Qin palace in the Guangzhai Fang of Chang'an City, and waited until the emperor's eldest son became an adult, and then left the palace and entered the palace.

In the spring of the fourth year of Yuanwu in the Tang Dynasty, the Liangyi Hall was empty, and the entire palace was empty. In fact, after Wang Rong established the palace system, there were no palace maids under the age of eighteen. The hired palace women are all given monthly silver, except for the palace women on duty, the rest of the palace women will return to their homes in Chang'an City. According to the sunrise and sunset time of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the time of leaving the palace is stipulated, even so, there are still tens of thousands of people in the entire Taiji Palace, which is a very densely populated place.

Wang Rong came to the Liangyi Hall and had dinner with Zhang Pu, during which he was a little distracted. In the past few years, the world was chaotic and wars were continuous, but in fact, Wang Rong did not spend much time with Zhang Pu. But somehow, knowing that she was there, not far from him, his heart was steady.

Zhang Pu said softly, "I'll go see Han'er and accompany my husband at night."

Wang Rong smiled and said, "Go ahead. But you can't spoil him too much, the boy should have his independence when he grows up."

Zhang Pu's eyes turned upward, as if he didn't understand what Wang Rong meant, smiled, and whispered, "I'll give you a little princess in the evening, and I'll be satisfied with a son and a daughter."

After that, he gave Wang Rong a teasing look. Wang Rong also laughed "hehe".

He is very satisfied with Zhang Pu, no matter in his past or present life, if he is accompanied by a gentle personality "Bai Fumei", it will probably be a great blessing in life. But Zhang Pu can't be measured by conditions anyway.

Wang Rong sat down in front of a case, took out a stack of files from his arms, and re-examined the upcoming military system reform. This is a plan designed by him and the three political hall chiefs and ten political hall assistants, and he will take it to the Liangyi Hall early tomorrow morning to discuss with the civil and military officials.

After the arquebus was developed in the firearms workshop of the Craftsman's Institute, firearms such as mortars and barrels of explosives were developed. The trial implementation of firearms has become the most important thing, so Wang Rong has been thinking about it all day long, and has thought about it countless times.

This matter had one goal: to set up a firearms battalion in the Tang Army, and the soldiers were given knighthoods and lucrative salaries, hoping to reach an agreement with the generals.

At the same time, Wang Rong is facing another important matter, that is, the reward. Because the treasury did not have so much land and money, it was impossible to reward it at one time, so Wang Rongjun's plan was to spread the benefits evenly to the future court expenditures.

First of all, all the military generals above the middle level of the Imperial Guard, the Wuwei Army, the Xiao Guard, the Wei Guard, the Yi Guard, and the Jing Navy were knighted, and the Duke, Marquis, and Bo were collectively referred to as the Tang Honors.

The newly sealed nobles of the Tang State had substantial benefits from the treasury. The title of knighthood before the Yong Dynasty was only a name, and the substantive benefits of Yulu were better than nothing.

The biggest benefits are the six national princes: Lang Zeqing, Gou Anli, Wuluo, Meng Song, Li Sujie, and Zhang Songqi. They are the founding duke, the town of the country, the auxiliary state, the Yasukuni duke, the Fengguo duke, and the protector of the country.

As long as the Tang Kingdom exists, their descendants will always inherit the title, and the son with the greatest military merit will inherit the title. On the table, it is said that "the founding heroes share the world with the royal family".

Grant the gold medal and holy decree to avoid death, in addition to the rebellion, no matter how big the crime is, the prince will not die, and the title will not be canceled, at most it will only be passed on to the heirs.

It was also very rich, and each family was roughly equivalent to the income of two taxes in a county.

The marquis at the beginning of this dynasty, collectively referred to as the "founding marquis", are mainly the commanders of the Yongzhou Army, the Bingzhou Army, the Youzhou Army, the Jizhou Army, the Yizhou Army, and the Yuzhou Army. Hereditary three generations, after three generations, if the family has greater military merits to the country, it will be passed on to three generations. There is also a rich lucrative.

Military commanders, division commanders, division commanders, and military generals at the division Sima level, as well as some brigade commanders with military merits, are named earls and can be passed on to sons.

But the title is not given in vain, and the imperial court will take back all military power and carry out military reform. The military power of these military generals above the intermediate level will be fully recovered.

The original state army yamen was all disbanded, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was renamed the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and the "Five Armies" established in it, including the Imperial Guard, the Wuwei Army, the Xiao Guard, the Weiwei Army, the Yi Guard, and the Jing Navy, were disbanded.

The original state army was renamed the "Guard". In the future, the Tang Army will include the forbidden army and the guard army, and will control the vast majority of the country's armed forces.

The main armed forces of the Tang State have completely changed from the situation controlled by the two major departments of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Ministry of War, to the separation of powers among the four yamen, namely the Privy Council, the Military Department, the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and the Craftsman's Yuan.

The Privy Council has the power to transfer troops, the Ministry of War has the power to pay for the army, the Metropolitan Government has the power to command the army, and the Craftsman's House has the right to store and control armor, weapons, firearms, and war horses.

Thus, in the absence of war, the largest unit of the army is actually a regiment of nearly 2,000 men, and the regimental general is not yet able to mobilize troops, pay military supplies, or master weapons.

The commanders and generals at the army level no longer have real power, and are led by the Military Division, which is mainly composed of civil and military officials from the four yamen.

In the event of war, the power of the chief general is also controlled and supervised by a number of yamen, and a "former enemy command division" will be temporarily formed to establish a military power system. The herald and official military order system will become the most important place for the Tang *** team.

In the next step, the Tang State will also carry out similar changes to the Wei army, in addition to the decision-making power of the main general, four yamen directly under the imperial court will replace the military power of the main general.

Wang Rong had tested the attitude of the generals in the early stage, and there seemed to be no dissatisfaction. Because in addition to military power, under the new military system, the benefits they get are far greater than in the past, and the previous generals only have a little money, or wait for the emperor's reward, the actual benefits are very small, and there is no long-term commitment.

In addition to obtaining actual benefits and status, the role of military power is to rebel! If he doesn't want benefits, but asks the emperor for military power, what does he want to do?

Once this military system is implemented, it will inevitably lead to a situation in which "soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers", which will lead to a decline in the combat effectiveness of the army. However, because of the subdivision of military power, it is necessary to mobilize troops to fight a war, which involves a wide range of people, and it is almost impossible to suddenly rebel, which ensures that the imperial power is not attacked by internal force and increases security.

The ministers all believed that after the key territory was recovered, the great war that required the emperor to conquer in person might not be much. The pros and cons cannot be taken into account, and in this current situation, it is more appropriate to adopt the strategy of consolidating the regime.

And there are two reasons that can make Wang Rong make up his mind: first, after years of war, the current generals and soldiers of the forbidden army can gain the trust of the soldiers even if they temporarily let a certain general lead the troops, because the emperor and the generals are very famous in the martial arts. At least in this group of people, the change in the military system will not have much impact on combat effectiveness.

Second, with the advent of firearms, organizational forms and tactics will gradually change.

Wang Rong spent the night with a heavy heart.

Early the next morning, in the Liangyi Palace, according to the habit of the past few years, more than 20 or so civil and military ministers with the most power in the imperial court came to gather and talk about the recent situation, and they broke up if they had nothing to do.

Simple etiquette, the courtiers skillfully found their accustomed chairs.

At this time, Huang Fujian walked out, and he brought a sword! It was very strange for the Son of Heaven to carry a sword in front of him, but he was a civil official, and no one said anything, just watching what Huangfu was going to do.

Huang Fujian took his sword and waved it in front of everyone.

At this time, Zhang Songqi couldn't help it and said, "What are you painting better? Don't you look somewhere, your brain is broken?"

"Ouch!" Huang Fujian suddenly pretended to hold his fingers, and frowned, "This sword is unsheathed, and it will accidentally cut itself!"

As he spoke, his gaze swept over the faces of Lang Zeqing and the others, and Lang Zeqing was silent.

Zhang Songqi said, "You can't finish loading the sword scabbard?"

Huang Fujian glanced at Zhang Songqi and said, "Hou Ye Zhang is right. Let's not use this sword for the time being, if it is so open, it is easy to cut yourself, and you may encounter something that makes the blade rusty, curl, or even break, which is not the best way. At this time, it is not to throw away the sword, but to use it at any time, the best way is to do it

Take a pair of delicate and precious scabbards and put them on, and then wipe the oil in peace. What do you think?"

Most of the ministers knew what Huang Fujian meant, and the generals nodded thoughtfully.

Then Huang Fujian put the sword into the scabbard, put it back on a table, clasped his fists and saluted Wang Wei first, and then made a speech, saying his and Chu Kun's ideas in public.

After listening silently, Wang Rong and the generals turned his head to the left and said, "You are all brothers who fought side by side with me, what do you think of Mr. Huangfu's proposition?"

Lang Zeqing said: "The minister seconded the proposal, Mr. Huangfu's statement that "the sword is stored in the sheath" is very reasonable......

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Songqi was extremely excited and said, "Does the Holy Lord still need to ask? Now, the Wang family has been emperors for generations, and we have been princes for generations! Where to find such good things? It is not in vain that the soldiers are willing to give their lives to the Holy One, and the Holy One is gracious, and the last will be grateful!"

Immediately, the generals agreed, and they were all very happy.

The smooth outcome of the scene was a bit unexpected by Wang Rong, especially the six princes, whose faces were red with excitement, and they didn't look like they were pretending at all. At this time, Wang Rong came back to his senses, his reward was indeed very generous, he wanted to be famous, he wanted to be a noble prince, and he wanted to be profitable, and indeed the generals had no reason to be unwilling, and Wang Rong's concerns before were really redundant.

The generals present, under the general trend at this time, I am afraid that there are really not many thoughts of wanting to be emperors. There are things that you can't see when you jump up, so you don't think about it.

With such a thought, being a hereditary nobleman is more stable than holding military power in his hands! Because there is military power in hand, there is still danger, why not sit back and enjoy everything now? It was a happy "spoils party".

The faces of the generals were all smiling, Wang Rong observed carefully, and found that Lang Zeqing seemed to be relieved, and he looked very comfortable.

Zhang Songqi looked at Chu Kun and said, "I didn't expect you to speak for our martial arts."

It was obviously Huang Fujian's words, but he said this to Chu Kun, probably because Huang Fujian proposed that it was the two of them who advocated it.

Chu Kun smiled and said: "You are also heroes of the Tang Kingdom, you are officials in the same dynasty, the old man has no grievances with you, how can it be unfair. The old man was also a little annoyed, he knew that this was the case, he joined the army at the beginning, wouldn't he be rich and noble in the next generation?"

Everyone burst into laughter, but the civil officials still have power, so naturally they don't need to be "redeemed".

Wu Luo said with a smile, "The Holy Lord hasn't agreed yet, aren't you too happy too early?"

However, everyone could almost guess that such a major event must have been planned by Wang Rong himself, and they all looked sideways.

Wang Wei opened his mouth and said, "Mr. Huangfu's "treasure sheath and sharp sword" will become a good story for the ages." :

When the generals heard this, they all stood up and bowed down to thanksgiving, and shouted long live. Wuluo said loudly: "The Holy Lord is very kind to the ministers, how can it be like the Yong Taizu in the play, if he wins the world, he will kill the old brothers one by one!"

The hall suddenly froze, and everyone looked at each other.