Late Tang

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Seeing that the end of the new year is approaching, the Shuai Mansion began to prepare for the New Year's festival rewards again.Goguryeo was wiped out this year, and the entire middle and lower reaches of the Liaohe River and the lower reaches of the Yalu River were captured, plus the Liaoxi Corridor and the two states of Jitan in Yanshan.

In the fifth year of Qianfu, Li Jing's territory expanded more than three times at once.

Although the Central Plains was full of wars, it was an extremely bumper and joyful year on the territory of the Northeast Road.Last year not only achieved great military victories, it was also a year of bumper grain harvests.Thanks to the Northeast Development Plan and the launch of various infrastructures, Dengzhou's handicraft manufacturing and commerce are also extremely prosperous, as are the mineral products in various states.

There have been so many victories, and now it's an eventful time.

Under such circumstances, Li Jing had already planned with Li Rang and the others to come up with a large reward and give a generous reward to the soldiers.At the same time, in order to allow the Goguryeo people who moved to Ziqing Denglai and the Central Plains Han people who moved to the Northeast to have a richer New Year, Li Jing also planned to spend a special sum of money to buy various New Year goods and distribute them to them. This is also a subsidy.

Li Rang and others agreed with Li Jing's proposal.The rewards this time are mainly in kind, and this is another large government order. While the owners of shops and workshops earn a fortune, the handsome mansion will also get a sum of tax money in the end.

The new year is approaching, and the taste of the new year is getting stronger. People are everywhere with their saved New Year's money and go to the streets to buy new year's goods.In addition to food and clothing, everyone also has some spare money, so this New Year will naturally have to be richer.Pull a few feet of floral cloth for the mother-in-law at home to make new clothes, buy a few catties of cotton for the children, and make a warm cotton robe for each of them.I also need to buy door gods to protect the Nian Beast and buy new peach charms. In addition, it is also popular to paste couplets in front of the door during the New Year and paste blessing characters on the door. These are naturally indispensable. Money, of course, has to be there.

In addition, I have to buy some candy, melon seeds, hawthorn, hazelnuts, pears, oranges, etc., for serving.I have to buy some tea to treat the guests. For the Chinese New Year, wine is naturally indispensable.In addition, fresh vegetables such as Chinese cabbage and cabbage are needed. Now that I have some spare money, this year will naturally be richer. I will buy chickens and ducks, and I will buy more fish. I also need to buy twenty or thirty catties of pork. Buy more lamb and beef.

There are men and women with contented and proud smiles everywhere, with children or wives by their side, full of joy.

But at this time, Li Jing was sitting in the original golden palace of Goguryeo, discussing matters with the generals.

Li Jing was a little shocked when the famous newspaper suddenly published an article announcing that the four towns wanted to embrace Li Jing as emperor.This incident soon spread to all the towns in Liaodong, causing discussions among the soldiers and the common people, workers and merchants.

Regarding this matter, everyone argued with each other and formed three opinions.Some people think that Li Tang is Zheng Shuo and don't want to see Li Jing become a traitor.This group of people represents the current view of most people, that is, they are used to the situation where the feudal town is strong and self-reliant, but at the same time continues to respect Li Tang as Zhengshuo.Everyone is used to the status quo over the years, and they would like to see the town[***] become strong and self-reliant, but they don't want the feudal town to completely turn against the Tang Dynasty.

In the final analysis, this kind of thinking is certainly related to the current situation in the past century after the Anshi Rebellion in Tang Dynasty.After all, the feudal town is strong and self-reliant, as long as it does not oppose the Tang Dynasty, everyone will live in peace and the people will live a stable life.But once it rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court was forced to crusade against it, and together with the war, the people would inevitably suffer.Nowadays, the lives of the towns in the Northeast Road are so good, who wants to let this kind of life suddenly happen.Therefore, everyone is more content with the status quo, and does not want to bear the wars brought about by the changes.

Another part of the people supported the marshal and simply opposed Tang. After all, the changes in the territory after everyone put Li Jing in charge of the town [***].Everyone has a full tank of food in their home, a house to shelter from the wind and rain, and clothes to keep out of the cold.Everyone has a good job, children can study, and even get scholarships if they study well.If you can't read well, you can also send it to a military academy.This kind of life was unimaginable before. Everyone knows that this kind of life is rare, and no one wants to go back to the past.Therefore, when they heard in the newspaper that the four towns in Hebei were willing to regard Li Shuai as emperor and overthrow the Tang Dynasty together, everyone was very excited and supported them.In everyone's opinion, with the support of the four towns in Hebei, and the county king leading the army of the town, it is not impossible to replace Li Tang.If Li Jing becomes the emperor of the world, then everyone's life will be better and better, and there is no need to worry about waking up and finding that the beautiful life today is just a dream.

Of course, there are quite a few people who don't have their own opinions at all.No matter what the newspapers and everyone said, they just watched, listened and accepted.

After learning about the discussion outside, Li Jing sent many people to collect everyone's opinions, and finally came up with the results of the investigation.

At this stage, about [-]% of the common people are actually willing to support Li Jing to become a separatist feudal town, but they are against Li Jing's anti-Tang.And about [-]% of the people supported Li Jing's anti-Tang at this time, thinking that Li Jing's replacement of the Tang Dynasty would allow everyone to live a better life.About [-]% of the remaining people have no ideas of their own on this kind of problem and just follow the crowd.

The results of this survey let Li Jing also understand the ideas and thoughts of most common people.Even more than half of the people who benefited from him under the rule of Zhen [***] did not support the anti-Tang Dynasty, so there must be more people in other Tang Dynasty territories.

Li Jing had no intention of turning against Tang at this time, seeing this made his plan even more firm.

Not long after that issue of the famous newspaper, the imperial court sent another envoy to formally confer Li Jing the Order of Minister of Daxingtai on the Northeast Road, the second grade.He also ordered Li Jing and the officials under Daxingtai in Northeast Road to be selected and appointed by Li Jing himself.

Receiving this edict was both unexpected and somewhat expected by Li Jing.

This is obviously because of the consequences of the support of the four towns in Hebei. The imperial court reacted quickly and sealed it generously.

It turned out to be the Daxingtai of the Northeast Road. This Daxingtai Shangshuling is of the same grade as the Shangshuling of the central government, although compared with the Central Shangshuling, the gold content seems to be lower.But in fact, given Li Jing's actual separatist rule of the Northeast, the imperial court gave this position, which is to completely let Li Jing completely and truly separatize the Northeast.

In the future, Li Jing will be able to truly establish a small imperial court with full authority to manage the Northeast, and become a veritable king of the Northeast.

However, Li Jing also clearly understood that the more impatient the imperial court was, the more generous the appointment was, the more it showed the imperial court's deep fear of him.

Every time the imperial court adds an official to Li Jing, it does not represent the imperial court's dependence and expectation on Li Jing, but its fear of Li Jing.If things go on like this, either Li Jing will completely rebel against the king, or the court will finally free up his hand to liquidate Li Jing, and there will be no possibility for them to go back to the past.

However, both the imperial court and Li Jing knew that it would never be possible for them to go back to the past.

Li Jing knocked on the table lightly, and said loudly: "Everyone, the angel has just brought your Majesty's edict. Your Majesty is very satisfied with us for destroying Goguryeo, recovering the land of Andong, and promoting the prestige of the Tang Dynasty. Soldiers, and, from today onwards, Daxingtai of the Northeast Road will be set up in the six towns of the Northeast. From now on, this king will serve as the Minister of the Daxingtai of the Northeast Road, and the rest of the officials will be appointed and dismissed by the king. Daxingtai of the Northeast Road , on behalf of the imperial court, with full authority to handle military, political and civil affairs in six towns, 21 prefectures, and one hundred counties."

As soon as these words fell, the officers and generals in the hall were all overjoyed and extremely happy.

In this way, Li Jing's position in the towns in the Northeast is completely consolidated, without any loopholes, legal and reasonable.Compared with the original Northeast Marshal and Jiedu, this position makes these two officials more inclined to temporarily govern the soldiers, horses and military affairs of various towns, and more stable the command order of the 20 troops in the Northeast.

Northeast Road Daxingtai-six towns-21 states-one hundred counties, the entire Northeast region has formed a complete four-level administrative division.

Everyone knew what this meant, and their faces were filled with excitement.

Li Jing said loudly: "Now this king announces the appointment and dismissal of the Daxingtai official position in the Northeast Dao!"

There was a moment of silence in the hall, this was the establishment of a small imperial court.Once the Northeast Road Daxingtai was erected, it would almost become the governing body of the entire Northeast region.If Li Jing leads everyone to conquer the world in the future, the various official positions in this small court will basically be the positions of the heroes in the Golden Palace in the future.

"Northeast Daxingtai Shangshu Order is held by a certain person, and there are left and right servants under it. From the second rank, Cui Yunqing is awarded the left servant of Shangshu, and Li Zhen is awarded the right servant of Shangshu."

Under Li Jing's Daxingtai Shangshu order, the most important position is the left and right servants. For these two official positions, there are many people who are qualified to take up these two positions. Not only the commander of the six towns, but also the military leaders of each army are also qualified to aspire to the top.As everyone guessed, Li Jing finally handed over these two important positions to civil servants, and not surprisingly, the most important position of Zuo Pushe was handed over to the Northeast Province, but in fact it was The newcomer Li Jing's teacher, Cui Yunqing, who has the least influence.The position of Right Servant was also handed over to Li Zhen and Li Xingxu, who had always been Li Jing's number one adviser in the past, without exception.

Cui Yunqing and Li Zhen both held the positions of a town commander and a state governor, and now they are both ministers of Xingtai Minister Shuxing, and their power is astonishing.

However, Li Jing announced another appointment afterwards, which made everyone startled.Li Jing announced that Cui Yunqing would be removed from the post of Jiedu Envoy of Ziqing Funing Army and Qingzhou Inspector, and Li Zhendenglai Town [***] Jiedu Envoy and Dengzhou Inspector.

Hearing this appointment, neither Cui Yunqing nor Li Zhen was surprised at all. The others immediately understood that Li Jing must have discussed such an important matter with the two of them in advance.Judging from Li Jing's long-standing style of acting, what the county king likes most is the way of balance, and he will never allow people to easily grasp too much power.Now that Cui Yunqing and Li Zhen have been promoted to be the left and right servants of the stage, it is absolutely impossible for them to be the commander-in-chief again.This is also the way to balance!In fact, it is similar to the situation in the imperial court. You can either become a general or become a prime minister. If you want to be a prime minister and an envoy, you can only be an envoy, not a real prime minister.

Judging from Li Jing's arrangement, it is obvious that he is an entry station, so he cannot hold important positions in various towns.

The official position of the Xingtai is completely imitated by the Central Minister of Shangshu, and the official positions of the Central Shangshu Province are also available in the Xingtai.

Under the left and right servants, the most important thing is the six books.However, the six central ministries are headed by officials, while Xingtai is headed by the Ministry of War.

Li Jing also considered the candidate for the Minister of War for a long time, and even discussed with Li Zhen, Cui Yunqing and others.At the beginning, Li Jing wanted to use military as Minister of the Ministry of War, but after much deliberation, considering the general atmosphere in the late Tang Dynasty, he still planned to use civil servants as officials and military as deputy.

"Give Jingxiang the Minister of the Ministry of War of Daxingtai, the third rank. Exempt Jingxiang from the post of Jiedu Envoy of the Pinglu Army in Liaoxi and concurrently the post of governor of the prefecture. Grant Lin Wei and Pei You Daxing Taizheng the Minister of the Fourth Rank of the Ministry of War, and exempt Lin Wei from the defense envoy of Pingzhou , Exempting Pei You from the navy, everyone knows the job of a soldier and horse envoy."

Orders were issued one after another, and the former important officials of the entire Northeast Province underwent a drastic change.

Cui Yunqing shoots from the left servant, and Li Zhen shoots from the right servant.

Jingxiang is the minister of the Ministry of War, Gai Yu is the minister of the Ministry of Officials, Li Rang is the minister of the Ministry of Households, Guo Chengan is the minister of the Ministry of Industry, Li Liang is the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Li Chun is the minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

Each of the six subordinates has two servants, two doctors, two Yuanwailang, and two principals.There are four divisions under each department, and there are 24 divisions in total under the six departments.Each division is dominated by doctors, and Yuanwai Lang is the deputy.Each division has one doctor, two members, and four outsiders.

In addition to the six ministers of the left and right servants, there is also one left and right minister of the fourth rank of Daxingtai, one of the seventh rank of the Daxingtai Shangshu, and six masters of the ninth rank of Daxingtai.

Cui Yunqing, Li Zhen, Jing Xiang, Gai Yu, Guo Chengan, and Li Liang, the original commanders-in-chief of the six towns, all entered Daxingtai, and their original positions as commander-in-chief were all vacated.

There are more than one hundred high-ranking officials in Daxingtai.For the time being, Li Jing only appointed and dismissed the left and right servants, the left and right ministers, the six ministers, and the two servants of the Ministry of war.Most of the remaining official positions are temporarily vacant and need to be discussed with the officials.

However, the positions of six Jiedu envoys and six governors were vacated all of a sudden, which made the eyes of many military leaders present warm up.

Although Li Jing has always been used to serving as the commander-in-chief and governor as a civil servant, but now that Li Zhen and others have been promoted to Daxingtai, for a while, in terms of qualifications and prestige, the candidates who can serve as the commander-in-chief of the six towns are There is no one higher than Lin Wu, Wang Zhong and other military leaders.

In fact, Li Jing does not have any suitable candidates for Jiedushi now, and Li Jing has always avoided the appointment of generals as Jiedushi.Li Jing also thought about removing the position of Jiedushi, but for the time being, he couldn't do so.

It is even more unacceptable for Li Jing to let officials from Daxingtai serve as Jiedu envoy.In Li Jing's plan, he wanted to take advantage of the establishment of the Daxingtai to compress and weaken the power of the town commanders, and bring all the rights back to the Daxingtai.

However, seeing all the generals staring at the vacant seats of the Jiedushi of the Six Towns one by one, Li Jing knew in his heart that this step was not easy to take. (To be continued.)