Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 720
After Wei Ming withdrew, Li Mi asked King Yue:
"Your Highness, Tianzhu is far away..."

Li Tan interrupted Li Bi and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Bi, Gu is not going to attack Tianzhu from land for the time being."

Now Li Mi breathed a sigh of relief, now that the world has just settled down and it is time to recuperate, what Li Mi is most afraid of is that the King of Yue, like his grandfather, will get into the habit of rejoicing.

"Your Highness is wise."

It stands to reason that the emperor cannot meet with the prime minister alone. First, the king of Yue has not yet ascended the throne, but is only the ruling prince. This custom has no binding force on him for the time being.

Secondly, Li Bi said that he was Li Tan's teacher. When he invited the teacher to the palace to give lectures, all the officials couldn't say anything.

But Li Mi can go to the palace alone to meet the King of Yue, and Li Mi's voice in the political affairs hall is growing day by day. Although the chancellors are still on duty now, the prime ministers are vaguely headed by Li Bi.

After sending Li Bi away, Li Tan smiled.

Gu said that he would not attack Tianzhu by land, but he did not say that he would not attack Tianzhu by sea.

In fact, Wei Ming's historical explanation of Tianzhu has a later paragraph.

After the age of navigation, the English landed in Tianzhu from the southern sea, and then quickly took the entire South Asian subcontinent into their pockets by using the colonial army and supporting local agents.

All countries in Central Asia know that the Khyber Pass is an important channel to enter Tianzhu. For example, in the north of today’s India, there are black clothes and big food, the remnants of the Turks, the Pratihara Dynasty and the Balo Dynasty in the north of Tianzhu, and several other countries in North India. , is also vying for control of the Khyber Pass.

Datang is far away from Tianzhu land, and it has to cross the vast desert of the Western Regions, so logistical supplies are very difficult.

But walking from the sea is different!

As long as you start from the southern port of Datang and bypass the Indochina Peninsula, you can land in Tianzhu.

Back then, the English only relied on tens of thousands of soldiers to occupy the entire Tianzhu.

Now Datang already has cannons and can make firearms by hand. Isn't it better than the English?

Occupying Tianzhu will own the granary of the South Asian subcontinent.

With a smooth sea route, you can go out from Tianzhu to the Khyber Pass and attack the territory of the black-clothed food!

In addition to the fertile territory of Tianzhu, South Asia's cane sugar and multi-season mature rice are also very attractive to Datang.

However, Li Mi's suggestion is also reasonable. Now that the world has just settled down, the enemies around Datang have not been wiped out, and the pus and blood inside have not been squeezed out. Tianzhu can only be regarded as a long-term goal.

But after the Anshi Rebellion ended, those who took advantage of the fire to rob should pay the price.

In October, the imperial court issued a complete plan for the meritorious troops. Among the 40 troops on the front line, the troops recruited in the Central Plains and Guanzhong regions returned to their original places with rewards.

Anyone who went to the battlefield in the counter-insurgency war, or died on the battlefield, will be reported to the county by the head of the village, and these families can be exempted from the two-year rent adjustment.

This time, although the King of Yue did not conduct a large-scale survey across the country, he also sent a Qingzhang team led by Yushi and Zhongshusheren to areas severely damaged by the war to re-divide the land in these areas.

Among the 40 Shence Army, [-] troops from the northwest region did not disband, but returned to the Longshang area, preparing to put pressure on Tubo.

The troops in Jingxiang and central Shu returned to central Shu to support the Zhongyong army and participated in the counterattack against Nanzhao.

The soldiers recruited by Jiangdong returned to Jiangdong and handed over to Zhang Duanyang to destroy the pirates in eastern Zhejiang.

The principle of the imperial court is to let these soldiers return to their hometown as soon as possible. If there is still war in their hometown, they will appease them to continue to join the army and let them fight for their hometown.

Obviously, this plan has won the support of the soldiers. The biggest wish of the soldiers who have been fighting abroad for many years is to return to their hometown with rewards.

The soldiers are easy to satisfy, but the demands of the officers are not so easy to satisfy.

But soon, the imperial court issued an edict to the officers on the front line.

The imperial court gave officers two options. One was to stay in the army, and then they had to participate in rotation training at the newly established military academy in Chang'an. Only those who passed the rotation training could continue to join the army.

The second is to leave the army, and the imperial court will arrange local civil positions equivalent to the positions of military attaches.

A military school was established in Chang'an, and this matter has also spread to the army.

The school was headed by Yue Wang as the first principal, which was higher than Guozijian in terms of rank and directly belonged to the court.

Officers enter military schools for rotation training according to their respective ranks.

Officers who pass the rotation training can continue to stay in the army, but those who fail the rotation training must be transferred from generals to civilian officials.

The army was naturally rejoicing, and they all praised Yue Wang for his wisdom.

Now that the world is at peace, it is these military officers who feel the most sense of loss.

Ordinary soldiers are naturally willing to go home to farm early, but the officers don't think so.

Only when they fight a war can they have a chance to stand out. Obviously, they are most afraid of the court's disarmament.

In the past, the disarmament of the imperial court was basically a one-size-fits-all approach for low-level officers and ordinary soldiers.

This time I went to the military academy for rotation training. If I can pass the test, I can continue to serve in the military.

The civil and military officials in the Tang Dynasty were not so clearly divided. For example, the third in command of the county, that is, the position of county lieutenant, could be held by both civil and military officials.

The starting point for many Xinke Jinshi to become an official is the county lieutenant, and many generals also start as an official from the county lieutenant.

If they can be converted to civil servants and become local officials, for these military officers, the ancestral graves will also be smoked.

When the civil servants heard this plan, they were naturally very opposed to it. A snowflake of letters filled the political affairs hall, which made the prime ministers embarrassed.

But when the King of Yue heard about it, he just said something lightly, and asked those civil officials who had written to ask the court to take back their orders, to go to the barracks to explain to the generals why they opposed the transfer of the generals.

These snowflake-like letters immediately disappeared without a trace, just kidding, the front line is a proud soldier who has won the battle, why don't you explain to them that you are going to die?
Anyway, the positions that most military officers can occupy are not critical, and they cannot threaten the status of scholars.

After dealing with the matter of the meritorious ministers, Chao Tang finally freed up his hands to deal with the rebellious Three Towns of Hedong.

According to the content of the previous crusade against Shi Siming, the surrender of the three towns in Hedong cannot let the past go.

Except for a few soldiers who sacrificed Shi Siming's head, all the officers in Hedong were detained and sent to Chang'an for questioning. For a while, there was an endless stream of prison cars from Xiangzhou to Chang'an, almost forming a line.

Among the soldiers, the king of Yue dispatched military judges to conduct trials directly on the front line for those who were dissatisfied with the public and bullies, or those who murdered and set fire.

However, the imperial court did not hold ordinary soldiers accountable, and sent them back to their original places after the war.

In Taiyuan City, in front of the ancestral hall of the Wang clan in Taiyuan, Wang Xuan, the patriarch of the Wang clan, was discussing the imperial court's disposal of Hedong with his fellow clan Wang Jun.

The Wang family in Taiyuan had a great career, and they also hedged their bets during the Anshi Rebellion.

The Wang family served in many places in Hedong, and An Lushan and Shi Siming also got bets from the Taiyuan Wang family after they raised their troops.

But now that the Wang family in Taiyuan has the credit for dedicating the city anyway, the court will definitely not be able to liquidate the descendants of the Wang family.

Today, the ancestral hall of the Wang family in Taiyuan is full of incense, and Wang Xuan has led the people to offer incense to the ancestors, thanking the ancestors for protecting the Wang family in Taiyuan from another catastrophe.

The Wang family of Longyou has already left the room and cannot enter the ancestral hall of the Wang family of Taiyuan. After the ceremony was over, Wang Xuan pulled Wang Jun and said: "Seventeen Lang, you are going back to Longyou soon, I have a few words I want to warn you."

Seeing Wang Xuan's warm expression, Wang Jun couldn't help feeling sick.

When their house was in poverty, his father received a lot of cold eyes from the family. Wang Xuan still remembers the cold expression on Wang Xuan's face when his father led him to bid farewell to the head of the family a few years ago.

Unexpectedly, in just a few years, the situation was completely reversed.

The champion of Wang Chengwei's high school, whose father recognized his ancestor, is now highly valued under the command of the King of Yue, and will soon become the son-in-law of the prime minister of the current dynasty. His future is limitless.

The Wang family of Longyou gave up buying land and opened a workshop in Longyou. Then Longyou's industry and commerce took off, and now they have saved a fortune.

This time Wang Jun entered Taiyuan with Yu Chixin and authorized the Taiyuan Wang family to dedicate the city, which is also a great achievement.

Now that Wang Xuan is getting hotter, it makes Wang Jun feel nauseous.

However, Wang Jun has also experienced these years, and he is no longer stupefied. He endured his nausea and said some polite words.

Wang Xuan continued: "Our Wang family can be passed down to this day, relying on hedging the bet, only in this way can we always stand on the side of the winner."

"As long as we can survive, the imperial court will always need people to manage Hedong, and we must rely on our Taiyuan Wang family!"

"Seventeen Lang, when you become the head of the family, you will understand that the continuation of the family is more important than anything else."

Wang Jun really couldn't help asking: "Is family continuity more important than loyalty? You have done so many things for An Lushan Shi Siming, don't you feel any guilt?"

Wang Jun used to be a member of the Wang family in Taiyuan, so he naturally knew that the family had placed a heavy bet on Anlushan before Anlushan raised its troops.

Even when An Lushan raised troops, the Wang family was behind it.

Now that the Anshi family has been defeated, the Wang family has made a contribution instead. This has to be said to be quite black and humorous.

Wang Xuan smiled, and patted Wang Jun on the shoulder: "The family is in the country, and when Shi Qilang becomes the master of the family, he will understand the truth."

At this time, a family child came over cautiously and said in a low voice:
"Patriarch, the court has announced a plan to deal with the offenders."

(End of this chapter)