[At the same time as Li Yun's rebellion, there was another person who was also secretly ready to move, and he was Li Chongjin, the envoy of Huainan Jiedu. 】

[Among the many festival envoys, Li Chongjin's identity is a relatively special existence, he is the nephew of Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and he is also a general with great achievements.

During the reign of Chai Rong, Li Chongjin shared military power with Zhang Yongde, Zhao Kuangyin and others. After the death of Chai Rong, the imperial court awarded Li Chongjin to inspect the school as a lieutenant, changed the Huainan Festival to make an envoy, and went out of Yangzhou.

Soon after, Zhao Kuangyin was in a yellow robe, Chen Qiao mutinied, usurped the throne and seized power, and then cut off Li Chongjin's guards and Ma Bujun to command the position.

It was at this time that Li Yun suddenly raised an army against the Song Dynasty, and when he got this opportunity, Li Chongjin repeatedly calculated and decided to unite with Li Yun to oppose the Song Dynasty. 】

[But what Li Chongjin didn't expect was that Li Yun would be defeated so quickly, so that Li Chongjin missed the best time to start his army.

After quelling Li Yun's rebellion, Zhao Kuangyin issued an order to transfer Li Chongjin from the Huainan Jiedu envoy to the Pinglu Jiedu envoy, and Li Chongjin was suddenly very frightened in his heart, and he was worried that once he left the nest, he would be poisoned by Zhao Kuangyin.

And Zhao Kuangyin made Li Chongjin feel at ease, and specially gave him an iron coupon to avoid death to show his position.

Li Chongjin is still not at ease, because he is a close relative of the Zhou family, Guo Wei's nephew, and he also has military power, isn't a person like him a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of the new emperor Zhao Kuangyin?

Can an iron ticket to avoid death really save his life (at least there is no guarantee with Zhu Yuanzhang)?

Obviously, Li Chongjin prefers to believe in himself rather than leave his fate in the hands of others.

He refused the order of the imperial court, stayed in his own territory, repaired the city, actively prepared for war, and asked for help from the Southern Tang Dynasty, preparing to fight back desperately. 】

Zhu Yuanzhang: "."

The ministers of the Ming Dynasty who had won the Danshu iron coupon, that is, the gold medal for avoiding death, couldn't help but tremble in their hearts when they saw this.

In history, after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he once awarded 34 meritorious heroes, all of whom were awarded "gold medals for avoiding death".

However, in the end, only 14 people were able to die well, and the remaining 20 were all killed by Lao Zhu for various reasons, and the "gold medal for avoiding death" became a "gold medal for death", how could these people not be frightened.

[Li Chongjin refused to surrender, and Zhao Kuangyin was not polite.

In October of the first year of Jianlong (960 AD), Zhao Kuangyin appointed Shi Shouxin as the capital of Yangzhou Xingying, with Wang Xianqi, Li Chuyun and other generals under his jurisdiction, and led the elite forbidden army troops to crusade against Li Chongjin, but he has not been able to conquer it.

At this time, Zhao Pu pointed out to Zhao Kuangyin: "Li Chongjin relied on Changhuai, repaired the lonely base, rescued from the outside, and lacked food inside, so it was advisable to take it quickly." ”

Zhao Kuangyin listened to Zhao Pu's proposal, issued an edict to march in person, and led the soldiers of the Sixth Army to set off from Kaifeng, take a boat down the river, and go straight to Yangzhou.

The emperor's personal expedition always boosted morale, and the officers and soldiers on the front line began to fight bravely, and finally successfully conquered Yangzhou.

Li Chongjin eventually set himself on fire, reducing him and his family to ashes.

The pacification of the Erli rebellion, in the sense of offering advice and personal conquest, Zhao Pu's contribution is very significant. After the war, he was rewarded for his meritorious deeds, and then moved to the post of squire of the military department and deputy privy envoy. 】

[At the end of the first year of Jianlong (960 AD), one day after Song Taizu put down the rebellion of Li Yun and Li Chongjin, he suddenly summoned Zhao Pu and asked: "For decades since the Tang Dynasty, the emperor Fan Yi has eight surnames, fought endlessly, and the people were ruined, so why is it? I want to rest the soldiers of the world and plan for the country for a long time, what is the way forward? ”

Zhao Kuangyin himself is the power he seized after the "yellow robe", of course, he is afraid that his subordinates will follow his example, and he will also give himself a set of "yellow robes".

Although Zhao Pu has little reading, he is proficient in the way of governance, and he has actually secretly considered these problems of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.

Now after listening to Song Taizu's question, he said: "Your Majesty said this, and the blessings of heaven, earth, man and god are also." This is not because of it, Fang Zhen is too heavy, and the monarch is weak and the minister is strong. If you want to rule it now, you can only seize its power a little, control its money and food, and collect its elite soldiers, and the world will be at peace. ”

It means that the crux of the question you asked is that the power of the feudal towns is too heavy, the monarch is weak and the ministers are strong, and there is no ingenuity in the way of governance. 】

[Zhao Kuangyin is naturally a smart monarch, as soon as he heard Zhao Pu's words, a whole set of policies and strategies to strengthen the monarchy's power, involve and weaken the power of all parties immediately appeared in his mind.

But now, the most important task is to solve the problem of generals who support their troops and respect themselves. 】

[One night, Zhao Kuangyin left Shi Shouxin and other generals to talk about brotherhood.

After getting a little drunk, he took the opportunity to confide in the generals the hardships of being an emperor, and he couldn't stay at night to prevent chaos, and he didn't have as much peace of mind as your subordinates.

When Shi Shouxin and others pledged their allegiance to the death, they said, what if your subordinates seek wealth and prosperity?

He also said that the most important thing in life is not to accumulate more money, farm houses, establish immovable industries for children and grandchildren, and buy more courtesans and beautiful women to drink and have fun all year round. Isn't it great that my emperor and you are married, and everyone has no suspicion of each other?

Everyone finally understood the meaning of these words, so the next day these generals resigned from their military posts, handed over their military powers, and went to the local area to serve as envoys.

This is the famous "cup of wine to release the military power", and Zhao Pu's advice inspired Zhao Kuangyin, so in the third year of Jianlong (962 AD), Zhao Kuangyin promoted Zhao Pu to the privy envoy and the inspection of the Taibao, and he was promoted again. 】

["A glass of wine to release military power" is actually only the first step to solve the general's military power.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the hidden danger of Fang Zhen's power gain, as well as the problem of the new power in charge of the forbidden army, are still the top priorities in front of Zhao Kuangyin.

The key is how to infiltrate Zhao Pu's twelve-character policy and strategy into the construction of officials in the imperial court and local governments, and completely change the logic of operation from the foundation, so that they must operate according to the monarchy.

Under Zhao Pu's counselor, this system of mutual restraint of functions and powers was finally formulated: that is, the central government set up a vice minister, a privy envoy and a deputy secretary to divide the power of the prime minister, and to reap the effect of mutual involvement.

The privy envoy was directly under the command of the emperor, and the guards of the forbidden army, the horses, the infantry and the front of the palace were in charge of training and guarding.

In the first year of Qiande (963 AD), Zhao Kuangyin used Zhao Pumou to remove Wang Yanchao and other local jiedu envoys and gradually reduce the power of dozens of kings with different surnames, arranged for other positions, and replaced military positions with civil ministers, so Wuchen Fangzhen lost the basis for power.

On the other hand, the courage of the imperial court and the recruitment of elite soldiers in the famine year were forbidden troops, so the elite soldiers in the world were all under the command of the Privy Council.

Although there are no elite soldiers in the localities, the combination of local troops can still restrain the forbidden army, and this has formed a system in which the strong cadres and weak branches are mutually restrained from inside and outside. 】

Seeing this, Liu Che suddenly sneered and said, "Hehe, it turns out that the reason for the accumulation of disadvantages started here." Zhao Pu, a strategist, has a good future for the literati. ”

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but shake his head and said: "The art of the emperor lies in balance, and using literature to replace martial arts is the way to take trouble, can't Song Taizu even understand such a simple truth?" No, he must have known, but because he knew that he was not in the right position, he was afraid that his generals would follow suit! ”

Zhao Ji said: "Taizu has made a grand wish to change the idea of emphasizing literature over martial arts, but I don't know if the appearance of Zhao Pu this time will add variables. Alas. ”

(End of chapter)