Qian Song

Chapter 182 Brother is the Emperor (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

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During this time, Li Cun was very busy.

Busy to re-appoint the officials of Jinghu South Road, Jinghu North Road, Jingxinan Road, Huainan East Road, and Huainan West Road.

Busy to receive these five territories.

Busy re-arming on these five roads.

Busy with dealing with those gentry and nobles in the five roads who are still taking chances.

Busy to appease the people of the five roads.

Busy recruiting recruits in these five routes.

He was busy distributing the fields of these five roads to those who supported the Huben army in the form of work relief.

and many more……

In fact, Wu Min is not wrong, Li Cun's background is indeed too shallow.

With only five more territories, Li Cun, whether in terms of officials or the army, has become stretched.

To address the severe shortage of officers.

Li Cun's three-pronged approach:

One is that the admission requirements for this period of the imperial examination were relaxed, making this period of the imperial examination the largest number of Jinshi admitted in the history of the Huben Army.

The second is that Li Cunte opened a "Journal of Filial Piety and Integrity", allowing local lords and aides to elect a group of officials or Confucian scholars who are proficient in classics to enter the court.

The third is to post a recruitment list to mobilize the officials and students of the former Zhao and Song Dynasties to become officials.

After these three tricks are used together, the Huben Army can almost make up the shortage of officials.

However, the level of this group of officials is uneven, and Li Cun dare not release them to the newly recovered Wulu to take up important positions.

Therefore, after discussing with Lu Jiang and others, Li Cun decided to promote the officials of the Jiangnan Sixth Road who had excellent assessments this year to the newly recovered five-way states and counties to serve as chief officials, and it may not be important to send these new officials to serve as deputy positions. The post, slowly temper the appointment.

This is a very huge transfer, and it will definitely not be done in a short time.

Li Cun definitely didn't have the time.

Fortunately, after months of rumors, Li Gang and Li Guang's attitudes have loosened.

Li Cun took this opportunity to say that he wanted to promote Li Guang to be Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and he was fully responsible for evaluating and recommending these new officials.

This is an important task that can shake the foundation of the country, but Li Cun handed it over to Li Guang, which touched Li Guang a lot, who was excluded everywhere in the Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Li Guang didn't flinch, but worshiped: "I can do this, but I have not made an inch of merit, and I am a surrender, so I can't be promoted to a high position. As a king, the most taboo is unclear rewards and punishments, and nepotism." ..."

In short, Li Guang promised to help Li Cun evaluate and recommend these new officials, but he was unwilling to serve as a high-ranking official like the Minister of the Ministry of Officials as soon as he came.

Then, Li Guang played more than 100 articles to Li Cun, which involved a variety of things, divided into categories, and everything. Anyway, as long as he was not used to it, he would definitely play one.

Later, Li Guang impeached and criticized dozens of people, and the most numerous person was actually Li Cun himself, and the thing that Li Cun criticized the most was his excessive indulgence.

Besides Li Cun, General Lu, Zhang Shi, and other high-ranking military and political officials, anyway, as long as there is something he doesn't like, he will say it unceremoniously.

It can be seen that the past few months when Li Guang was with Li Cun was really exhausted.

After Li Cun patiently listened to Li Guang's complaints for more than three hours, he appointed Li Guang as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, fully responsible for the evaluation and recommendation of officials, and then quickly sent Li Guang away.

Unexpectedly, three days later, Li Guang actually played a ten-thousand-character memorial to Li Cunshang, with thirteen impeachment memorials attached.

Seeing this, Li Cun could only take time out of his busy schedule to deal with Li Guang's performance as appropriate.

Of course, Li Guang is not just complaining, he is also very efficient in handling affairs.

——In a few days after taking office, Li Guang presented his evaluation and recommendation of the first batch of officials who accepted his assessment.

Li Cun didn't have time to appoint these officials himself, but transferred them to General Lu, who asked General Lu to appoint them according to Li Guang's evaluation and recommendation, and then used them for his own review.

As for the small officials, generally after the official took office, the original small officials were assessed and used temporarily.

In addition to the shortage of officials, Li Cun's army also became insufficient due to the newly acquired territory of the Five Routes.

In addition, Li Cun considered that there were a lot of scattered Song soldiers, villagers and village soldiers left behind by the gentry and nobles in the newly recovered Wulu.

Li Cunming's Privy Council recruited [-] new recruits from each of the newly recovered five routes, filling in the nearby Dongfu Army, Nanfu Army, Xifu Army, and Beifu Army with [-] each, and then transferred [-] from each of the four sides and the remaining troops. Twenty thousand recruits formed the Zhongfu Army.

The Zhongfu Army was stationed in the Gyeonggi area with Wu Lin as the acting capital commander, Qi Fang as the acting capital supervisor, and Wang Sheng as the acting deputy capital commander.

The Dongfu army was stationed in the Huainan area.

The Beifu army was transferred to garrison Nanyang Basin and Jinghu North Road.

Tiaoxifu troops stationed on Jinghu South Road—the remaining two soldiers and horses continued to station in Jiangzhou and Hongzhou.

In addition, the Beifu Army, Xifu Army, and Nanfu Army cooperated with the local government to deal with barbarian issues such as Meishan Man, Wuxi Man, Cheng, and Huizhou Man.

As for the handling of the landlords and gentry, it was also handled by the local government. If the army needed cooperation, they could apply for help from the army. The army was only responsible for disarming the landlords and gentry and could not interfere with government affairs.

The Annan Army and Dingnan Army did not move much.

In addition to mobilizing troops and deploying defenses, Li Cun had to prepare for going north.

Since this is a cross-border and cross-sea expedition, it will be a huge test for transshipment.

Therefore, Li Cun appointed Li Gang as the transfer envoy of the capital, and said that the more than 3000 war elephants who came back by land, the [-] pack horses brought back from Dali, and the East China Sea Navy would all be handed over to Li Gang to command, and he was short of people. It doesn't matter if there is a shortage of things, give what you want, as long as he can transport the food, grass and supplies he needs to Yandi with guaranteed quality and speed.

Different from the grass-roots team in the past, Li Cun is now a real emperor of a great country, and he is an orthodox Han emperor. The key point is that Li Cunjin can rule the world, and he can divide the north and south with the Zhao and Song dynasties.

In this case, the attitude of literati and officials towards Li Cun must be very different.

Don't you see, Li Cun, is it too easy to hold imperial examinations or recruit officials from the Zhao and Song Dynasties now?
Furthermore, Li Cun went north this time for the Han people to regain the Yanyun Sixteen States, which is a dream that all Han people have had for more than 200 years.

Can Li Gang not be used by Li Cun?

With the extremely capable Li Gang helping Li Cun prepare for the expedition, Li Cun can save a lot of worry.

But even so, Li Cun was too busy to hit the back of his head.

As a result, Li Cun was busy until October.

Li Cun took time out of his busy schedule to become an emperor on October [-]st.

Li Cun's country name is "Qian", which comes from "Yuan Ci" in "Book of Changes": "The great Qianyuan, the beginning of all materials, is the unification of the sky. The clouds and rain are applied, and the goods are popular.", Take the "Qianyuan" "The meaning is to show that the regime has a vigorous Qianyuan spirit.

Li Cun originally wanted to take "Yuan" as the country name and go the way of Mongolia, leaving Mongolia with nowhere to go. However, considering that "Yuan" is a foreign country name, and it only has a century of national luck, it is unlucky, so he used "Qian" as the country name.

In fact, many ministers suggested that Li Cun use "Tang", "Chu" and "Wu" as the country name.

Li Cun himself likes the country name "Tang" very much, but it is called too much, and he was tarnished by Li Yu, a wimp. The key is that the country name of a unified country does not coincide well with others. If Li Cun The dynasty of Cun is also called "Tang". When later generations think of Tang, they must first think of Li Shimin, and then they can think of Li Cun. Just like the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, the son of destiny, had to be ranked behind Liu Bang, so let's come here A separate country name would be better.

"Wu" and "Chu" are too regional.

In fact, Li Cun's favorite is "Ming", because he likes Lao Zhu, and even his son's name is copied from Lao Zhu.

However, no matter whether Lao Zhu's national title comes from "Mingjiao" and "Ming Wang", or from the second half of the sentence "Da Ming From the beginning to the end, the six will be completed at the same time, and the six dragons will be used to control the sky at the time.", all of them have nothing to do with Li Cun, so that Li Cun really can't use the word "Ming".

After comprehensive consideration, Li Cun still used "gan" as his country title.

The year name is not so troublesome, Li Cun directly copied Lao Zhu's "Hongwu".

Li Cun made Fang Baihua the empress, his eldest son Li Biao the prince, Lu Wei the young teacher, Zhang Shi the young tutor, and other civil and military officials all received promotions.

Li Cun's enthronement ceremony was held in the unfinished Daqing Hall.

By the way, Li Cun's family also officially moved from Hangzhou to Yingtianfu.

Although the Ministry of Rites has made Li Cun's enthronement ceremony as grand as possible, but the existing conditions and time are here, no matter how the people in the Ministry of Rites dress up, they can't hide it. God's facts.

As for the choice of dragon robe, Li Cun did not choose yellow or more red, but chose the black dragon robe from the Qin and Han Dynasties.

The reason...

To the outside world, Li Cun said that I rose from the water in Daqian Dynasty, and I admire the virtue of water, which is soap;
But the actual situation is that Li Cun doesn't like yellow and red, but likes black.

The enthronement ceremony was a bit rough, but the etiquette that should be given is not bad at all.

So, Li Cun: "Brother is the emperor!"

After ascending the throne, Li Cun promulgated an imperial decree to amnesty the world: Except those who disobeyed the emperor's orders and conspired against the emperor, all other criminals, regardless of their crimes, would be pardoned and released immediately.

He also promulgated the Order of Zhen Zhuxian: Anyone who has a skill, not limited to civil and military, all kinds of craftsmen, all kinds of craftsmen, officials of all states and counties will dig and report, and the court will use it as appropriate.

In the end, Li Cun issued a land reward decree: For those who have no land in the territory, regardless of gender, age or age, they will be rewarded with two mu of ration land.

——Combined with the fields distributed through work-for-relief, and the family's fields together, as long as they work hard, they will definitely be able to ensure food and clothing for the whole family.

With these three orders from Li Cun, the whole country celebrates the new emperor's enthronement!

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On October [-], Li Cun ascended the throne.

On October [-]rd, Li Cun led his army to set off.

The next day, that is, October [-]th, Li Cun arrived in Xuzhou, where he had been away for many years.

The new governor of Xuzhou, Liu Jie, was originally Li Cun's Jiyi character. He was quite capable in his work, and he was also capable.

Liu Jie knew a long time ago that Li Cun was coming today, so he organized Xuzhou's civil and military officials, monks, Taoists and elders to welcome Li Cun early.

The military situation is urgent, and it is said that Li Cun should not stay in the place.

But Xuzhou is Li Cun's real hometown after all, and since Li Cun passed by, he had to stop for reasons.

To Li Cun's surprise, Liu Jie actually found many of Li Cun's senior brothers and nephews, and even found his senior uncle who had been taking good care of Li Cun before -- Zhang Xuzuo.

Some of these people are now out of vulgarity like Li Cun, and some are still dressed as Taoists.

Seeing these people, Li Cun was a little dazed, and some memories that didn't seem to belong to him flooded out like a tide.

Just when Li Cun was thinking about how to greet these senior brothers and nephews, these senior brothers and nephews, including Zhang Xuzuo, all paid homage to Li Cun: "Greetings, Your Majesty."

Seeing this, Li Cun smiled wryly to himself, and could only help him in vain: "Free from courtesy."

After Zhang Xu got up from the left, he hesitated again and again, but he still couldn't hold back and reminded Li Cun: "Your Majesty has neglected to practice recently."

Although Zhang Xuzuo was very restrained, Li Cun could still hear Zhang Xuzuo's concern for him.

Li Cun smiled bitterly: "I've been too busy recently, I've been slacking off."

Zhang Xuzuo chose his words carefully: "Your Majesty is extremely talented, and what he has practiced is the true teaching of my teaching. Even if he works hard, nothing will happen at all, but this practice should not be neglected."

Li Cun felt that Zhang Xuzuo's reminder was very timely. Recently, he forgot to exercise his body because he was too busy. He needs to know that his body is his greatest asset.

Li Cun didn't say anything else, and directly brought Zhang Xuzuo with him, and asked Zhang Xuzuo to remind him to practice in the future, while he would take care of the old man.

After that, Li Cun went to the Jade Emperor Palace under the guidance of Liu Jie and others.

Just as Li Cun guessed, the Jade Palace has already started to be rebuilt.

Although this is no longer the Jade Palace where Li Cun lived for more than ten years, Li Cun still donated [-] yuan, and personally nominated the Jade Palace, and also Jinkou Yuyan named the Jade Palace as a royal Taoist temple.

Not long after leaving the Jade Palace, Li Cun suddenly heard someone training in the distance.

Li Cun asked left and right: "Who is training?"

Liu Jie quickly replied, "It's the eight thousand soldiers recruited by His Majesty to the Ministry of War."

Xuzhou belongs to Chu, and there have been warriors here since ancient times.

When Li Cun issued the recruitment order, he suddenly realized that Xiang Yu's main force was eight thousand Jiangdong soldiers, and he was also from Chu, so he asked the Ministry of War to recruit eight thousand Jiangdong soldiers from Chu.

However, the recruitment time for the eight thousand soldiers from Jiangdong was too short, so Li Cun did not plan to take them with him in this battle.

But then again, since he met him, Li Cun would definitely want to see how his eight thousand soldiers are doing, will they be as good at fighting as Xiang Yu's eight thousand soldiers?

From a long distance, Li Cun saw that these 8000 people were training vigorously and vigorously, not like recruits at all.

Li Cun secretly praised: "Good soldier."

Seeing Li Cun approaching, the instructor quickly stopped the training of the eight thousand soldiers.

Li Cun came to these eight thousand good soldiers and asked with a smile: "Who among you are waiting for a general?"

This is Li Cun's experience in commanding troops, and the few people the soldiers often look at subconsciously are mostly materials for generals.

The reason is very simple, that is, they can convince the crowd, which is an extremely rare ability for generals.

But this time, Li Cun was a little surprised.

Because the eight thousand recruits present looked at one person almost at the same time.

This person is a grown man standing on the left side of Li Cun who is not very outstanding in appearance.

"Can nearly [-] recruits obey him? Who is this person?"

Li Cun looked at the grown man: "What's your name?"

The grown-up man bowed and said, "Report to Your Majesty, the villain Zhao Li."

"Zhao Li?!"

Li Cun's eyes lit up.

"Where are you from?" Li Cun confirmed calmly.

"From Zhang Yi Village." Zhao Li replied.

Li Cun's smile became brighter and brighter: "Is my eight thousand soldiers worthy of great use?"

Zhao Li didn't answer, but asked without turning his head: "Your Majesty asked me to wait for eight thousand soldiers to be useful?"

To Li Cun's surprise, the eight thousand soldiers said in unison: "Use me in the first battle, use me to win!"

This is Li Cun's military training routine.

But this is not something an ordinary recruit can do.

Li Cun looked at the instructor, and said without anger: "Tell me the truth, who trained my eight thousand soldiers?"

The instructor was so frightened that cold sweat shot through his back in an instant, and he said hesitantly: "Nai...nai... what the last general of Zhao Li's gang practiced."

Li Cun did not look at the instructor again, but looked at Zhao Li: "I will continue to go north after the meeting, and I will give you three days. If you can bring my [-] soldiers to see me, I will make an exception and appoint you." For the sake of the [-] subordinate soldiers, take you and other [-] subordinate soldiers to recover Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, do you dare to accept?"

It seems that it is not difficult to bring [-] recruits to meet Li Cun within three days.

But in fact it is not the case at all.

They need to prepare to go, and they have to prepare food, grass and luggage during this time, and they don't have a guide yet.

Moreover, although Li Cun was a large army, his marching speed was not slow. When Zhao Li and the others were ready to set off, if they wanted to catch up with Li Cun, they had to march in a hurry, even at night.

The point is, Li Cun only mentioned the rewards for Zhao Li, not the rewards for others.

More importantly, this is eight thousand recruits.

Undoubtedly, this will definitely test Zhao Li's commanding ability, adaptability and prestige.

But Zhao Li responded without hesitation: "No!"

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Regarding the national name, I have carefully counted it. Those who support it are added, those who oppose it are subtracted, and those who like it are also counted. The result: the most popular is "Tang", the second most is "Qian", and the third most is " Bright".

I wrote the reason why Tang was useless in the book, so I chose "dry" with the second most support.

(End of this chapter)