"Your Majesty, although we have won a game this time, Chang'an is empty of troops, and we still have to negotiate peace." Wang Xuanjing rode his horse to Li Shimin's side and said, he was also worried that Li Shimin and these Turks were tough.

The Turkic army of 200,000 came, and even if the Tang Dynasty won in the end, it would suffer heavy losses.

Li Shimin nodded, he was very angry at the Turks taking the opportunity to go south, but even more angry was that the passes along the way deliberately indulged the Turks.

Although he has ascended the throne as emperor, there are still many people who are not convinced. When these people saw the Turkic attack, they deliberately indulged, otherwise the Turkic army would not have arrived in Chang'an in just ten days.

After defeating the Turkic vanguard in World War I and defeating the Turkic army, the originally arrogant Turkic Khan no longer had the arrogance of the Turks.

became more and more jealous of the Tang army, especially Wang Xuanjing's amazing arrow.

If you can't fight, why should the Turks negotiate peace with you and kill you, aren't all those things theirs?

It was precisely because of the sight of the Tang army's front that the Turkic Khan was unwilling to engage the Tang army, so that the two sides could sit at the negotiating table.

Even so, the Tang Dynasty still paid a lot of price, a large amount of cloth and wealth were sent to the Turks, and the Turks were required to return the plundered population.

On the banks of Weishui, the two sides killed the white horse to make an alliance, and then the Turkic army retreated.

Originally, the Turks did not want to return the population, but when they saw the continuous arrival of reinforcements from the Tang Army, they were afraid, so they had to release the population and leave with the wealth.

The apse of the Royal Palace.

"Bang!"

Li Shimin smashed his fist on the table, and said hatefully: "Jieli, today's humiliation, I will repay it!" ”

"Your Majesty, as long as we recuperate with the people, persuade the farmers to teach the mulberry, prepare the armor, strictly guard against the passes, and wait for the civil strife in the grassland, and then the army is dispatched, we will be able to win the battle!" Wang Xuanjing said.

"Today's humiliation is unforgettable! The country is in a crisis, and I hope that all you will work together to tide over the difficulties. ”

"Obey your orders!" The surrounding ministers said in unison.

Taiji Palace, because of the rush of construction, the location of this palace is not good, and it is a little damp and dark. The early morning sun shone on this majestic palace, and a vigorous vitality jumped out.

Although the south has not yet been pacified, it is already the center of the world.

A team of palace people quietly entered it, and the civil and military officials behind them rushed in.

Li Shimin came to the main hall, because of the Turkic invasion of the south, this is the third official court meeting since he ascended the throne.

The ministers bowed down and said: "Long live the thousand autumns, ten thousand years of the Tang Dynasty, and your majesty will be safe." ”

Li Shimin bowed back: "Everyone! ”

The ministers bowed three times, and the Son of Heaven bowed back once, and the rules handed down by the great cadres have not changed, as for what to say three kneels and nine knocks, it is simply impossible.

The next step is to deal with the major affairs of the court, and the ministers report on the work of this time, and some important matters need to be decided by the emperor and the ministers after consultation. Normally, there are not many major events to be dealt with at such a court.

But today is different, although the Turks have retreated, but this time the Turks are moving south, and there are a large number of generals and officials in the north who need to be held accountable. And Li Shimin also needs to take this place into his hands.

Li Shimin dismissed a large number of officials and generals, and then reappointed officials, originally many officials in the north were the crown prince's line, after this change, the remnants of the prince Li Jiancheng were basically swept away.

After dealing with the appointment and dismissal of officials, the next thing for the imperial court to do is to recuperate and reunify Jiangnan.

Since Yang Guang, the world has been in turmoil for decades, with countless casualties, and the population has fallen from the peak of 15 million households to 5 or 6 million now.

The population has been reduced by more than half.

Due to the war, a large amount of farmland has been barren, and water conservancy facilities also need to be repaired. The imperial court needed to send a large number of officials to organize the resumption of production.

As for Jiangnan, Li Shimin is not ready to use a large army.

After the Wang family supported Li Tang, the Huai'an Wang family began to contact Jiangnan and cooperate with Li Tang to try to make Jiangnan annexed.

Because of the large number of people killed and injured, there are large tracts of farmland in various places, and a new land system can be tried.

After Wang Xuanjing and Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others discussed, on the basis of the Sui Dynasty Tian system, the Juntian system was implemented. Because of the large population and insufficient farmland, the Sui Dynasty's equalization system often did not have much land in the hands of the common people, and those 'fields' were recorded in the household register.

But Li Tang now has this condition for implementation. It can effectively put the land on the people.

However, even so, the number of acres granted by the Tang Dynasty was somewhat less than that of the Sui Dynasty. This is to prevent the population from increasing in a few decades and the land from not being enough, and as for what to do if the population is more in the future, then leave it to future generations to dispose of.

After all, no matter how perfect the system is, there will be various problems after it has been implemented for decades or hundreds of years.

The Tang Dynasty implemented the Juntian system, and the military system used the government military system. This system, which originated from the Huai period, has been carried forward from generation to generation. By this time, it was very complete.

The government military system can save a lot of military spending, farming, farming, weapons and armor in peacetime, and cooperate with the elite of the imperial court, which is enough to deal with the enemy.

Whether it is to persuade farmers or to organize the army, money is needed, Li Shimin is a little troubled by the lack of money in the imperial court, so he asked Wang Xuanjing: "Is there a way to solve the problem of lack of money and food in the imperial court?" ”

"Your Majesty, the money and grain in the world will continue to accumulate, and the food may continue to be consumed, but the money is constantly increasing, but the vast majority of this money is transferred to the hands of the wealthy families, and then these wealthy families hide the money in the cellar, which makes the market look depressed, and the court is also short of money."

"If you want to change this situation, there are only two ways to open up sources and reduce expenditure."

"Qing already has a good plan?" Li Shimin asked.

"Since the Liu Song Dynasty, there are many people in various places who worship Buddhism, and Buddhist temples are mostly made of gold, silver, copper and other metal statues, and these Buddhism and Taoism occupy a large amount of arable land and population, but do not pay taxes, in the long run, these Buddhism will inevitably become richer and richer, and the people will become more and more poor."

"This is not conducive to the stability of the world, Your Majesty can issue an edict that there can only be one Buddhist and Taoist temple in a city, so as to reduce the number of temples, and the monks and Taoists among them are sent home and let them cultivate. In addition, the temple and Taoist temple were included in the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and the monks and Taoist priests needed to pass the imperial court assessment before they could issue degrees. In order to prevent the abuse of the number of people. ”

"All the acres of land in temples and Taoist temples also need to be registered, and they are not allowed to increase without permission, and all fields also need to pay taxes."

Wang Xuanjing set his sights on Buddhist temples because they were so wealthy. Chang'an City alone has more than a dozen temples of all sizes.

There are thousands of monks, and the fertile fields under them are even more amazing, and they must be restricted.

(End of chapter)