Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Cui Shiniang looked at her cursing husband curiously. She had never seen Li Shan who looked like this before. Mrs. Zhu, who was in the chair, became impatient, and reprimanded her, "Don't talk when you eat, don't sleep when you sleep!" language."

Li Shan was very angry today, and he retorted reflexively: "Sleeping without talking... The ancient sages may not be able to do it, who knows if they will talk in their sleep?!"

"Even if it's silent, our family doesn't..."

Speaking of this, Li Shan saw that his mother had put down the chopsticks, and changed the subject, "What mother said is true, my child shut up."

Cui Shiniang looked at her cowardly husband speechlessly, he is really a guy who doesn't care about food... She has long understood that there are only two people who can control Li Shan, one is Princess Pingyang, who is in charge of big things, and the other One is A Jia who cares about trivial matters.

No longer talking about it, but Li Shan was furious in his heart. Since you, Li Yuan, are shameless, don't blame me, a time traveler, for making you suffer!

No matter what King Qi, Feng Lun, and Yang Wengan are going to do... Li Shan is very sure that their target is either Li Shimin or Li Yuan.

Considering that Pei Shiju didn't know about it, King Qi's first target was probably Li Yuan instead of Li Shimin. Otherwise, even if he successfully killed Li Shimin, wouldn't Li Yuan abandon the unfilial but at least capable prince and choose the stupid and vicious prince? King Qi?
At that time, Li Jiancheng could only take advantage of the fisherman... Since Feng Lun dared to conspire with King Qi, he would not be stupid enough to do such a thing.

Li Shan put down the bowl and chopsticks, and couldn't help thinking about it, Li Yuan, don't blame me if you are not kind.

After leaving Cui Shiniang to talk to his mother, Li Shan got up and went to the front yard. Ling Jing and Su Dingfang had already arrived. As soon as they sat down, Ling Jing reminded Li Shan in a very calm tone... There are gossips, Wei Si Wang Li Huairen likes martial arts and hates literature.

Li Shan couldn't help spitting, but Ling Jing gave him a warning look... Then he remembered that Ling Jing was on the same side as Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng in this regard.

In fact, the point is not that gossip accuses me of liking martial arts and loathing literature, the key is that once I include civil servants on the list...that means to a certain extent, the situation of the separation of civil and military is confirmed.

Ling Jing said with a straight face: "Your Highness has brought a message, don't act rashly."

"Ah."

Seeing Li Shan's absent-minded appearance, Ling Jing emphasized his tone, "This matter seems simple, but it is actually very important. You can't handle it at will."

Li Shan raised his head and glanced at Ling Jing this time. He is more aware of the importance of this matter and its impact on the future than anyone in this era. Unexpected, unguessable... because this is the insight only a traveler can have when looking at history.

Su Dingfang is not very good at these things, he just watched today's apprenticeship ceremony from the sidelines, hesitantly said: "Pei Ji had a big defeat in Hedong, if he is on the list, then what's the point of Lingyan Pavilion?"

Li Shan sneered, "Although Pei Ji ruined the Hedong War single-handedly, he is second only to King Qin in the list of meritorious officials in Taiyuan Yuanmou, and he has been friends with His Majesty for decades."

Seeing Li Shan's gloomy expression, Ling Jing couldn't help feeling a little worried, "Does Huairen have a plan?"

"The mountain people have their own tricks." Li Shan grinned, "Since Your Majesty... the courtiers can only mess around."

"What are you going to do?"

"Do not worry."

"The list has been drawn up?"

Li Shan stroked his short beard, "No, wait until tomorrow morning."

Ling Jing frowned, "Duke Lu is just joking, Huairen can't be rash."

In fact, the list that Cheng Yaojin drew up for Li Shan was really an idea, but the sequelae were a bit serious... No matter how considerate Li Yuan was for Li Shan, he would act as if nothing had happened on the surface, but secretly he would not be afraid.

Even if Li Yuan only accepted Li Shan, Su Dingfang, Xue Wanche, Li Daoxuan, Zhang Zhongjian and other generals, after Li Shimin ascended the throne in the future, unless Li Shan really became a rich man, Li Shimin would not be afraid.

Li Shan would not do this kind of stupid thing, he shook his head slightly to change the topic, after chatting for a few words, he sent Su Dingfang and Ling Jing away, and walked back and forth in the study for a long time by himself.

He thought a lot, and felt that at certain moments in history, the responsibility would always be placed on a certain person... There would always be reasons and reasons for that person to do so.

Li Shan thought sadly in his heart that it was not until the Northern Song Dynasty in history that there was a clear distinction between civil and military officials. The fuse was caused by the harm caused to the world by the unrestricted proliferation of force during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

What Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin did was actually to a large extent to stabilize the imperial power... His predecessors were all military generals who rebelled and couped, and even he himself robbed the world of orphans and widows.

That's why Zhao Kuangyin first played a game of "a cup of wine to release military power" with those old brothers, and then spared no effort to vigorously suppress the status of generals, and his successors also followed this path.

So many decades later, Han Qi beheaded Di Qing's generals, and said in a mocking tone the sentence that has been passed down for thousands of years, "Only by calling the hairpin flowers outside the Donghua Gate is a good man."

It seems that the cruelty of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and Zhao Kuangyin's personal choice led to the separation of civil and military affairs, but the real and essential reason lies in the centralization of power with the development of the times.

The more critical point is that the separation of civil and military affairs is not terrible, but the ensuing use of civil and military control cannot be avoided... This is also caused by the inevitability of centralization.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there were actually signs of this kind of situation. Those ministers who held great power basically had no military merits... such as Yang Su, He Ruobi, Gao Jiong in the Sui Dynasty, Li Jing and Li Ji in the early Tang Dynasty. There are basically no famous ministers who have gone out and entered the prime minister, and Guo Ziyi can be compared with him, and that is thanks to the Anshi Rebellion.

As for the later Song and Ming Dynasties, the civil servants completely suppressed the generals in terms of status and authority. Di Qing is considered good, at least he is well-behaved, and the worst is Yue Fei.

The key to Yue Fei's death was not that he wanted to go straight to Huanglong to welcome back the second emperor. Even if Song Huizong and Song Qinzong really came back, what qualifications and confidence would they have to fight for power with Song Gaozong who personally created the Jingkang disaster?

The key lies in the fact that Yue Fei had become an invisible warlord at that time. In fact, Yue Fei’s fame rose because of his various battles behind enemy lines, the source of soldiers, the supply of food and grass... These imperial courts could not restrain them at all, and even every attack or defense was done by them. Yue Fei went his own way.

In the following four Northern Expeditions, Yue Fei has always acted independently, regaining Jiankang, advancing into the Central Plains, harvesting all the food and grass, and recruiting Han people from the north to form Wanqi... In other words, it doesn't matter whether Yue Fei will turn back, the important thing is Yue Fei rebelled, and the court of the Southern Song Dynasty had no strategy to deal with it.

In a word, the vigilance of the imperial power and prime minister to Yue Fei's possible self-establishment led to the tragedy of Fengboting...and Yue Fei was the only one among the generals of the Southern Song Dynasty who was not from the Western Army.

Li Shan couldn't help but smile wryly, the separation of civil and military in this time and space, should it start with the Lingyan Pavilion meritorious list that he created?

If it was proposed that the imitation gimbal 28 would not be within the scope of the leading general, the influence may not be so great, but it is hard to say now.

If it weren't for the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, if it weren't for Zhao Kuangyin, the status of generals in later generations might not be so low. If they can transition in a peaceful way, they may change history.

But the problem is that Li Shan is unwilling to take the blame, at least not now.