Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 777 Two things
"Fifth brother, what two things are you going to do? I don't know, can I help you...!" Li Zhi looked at Li You and asked happily.

"Ok!"

Li You took a sip of wine and said: "The first thing is to deal with the currency system. Gaozu abolished five baht coins and issued Kaiyuan Tongbao coins. It weighs six catties and four taels."Established the legal currency status of Datang Mint.

Later, it inherited the tradition of using silk as currency during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and implemented the currency system of "both money and silk". There is a serious shortage of money, the value of the currency continues to rise and remain firm, and there are huge profits to be made privately and indiscriminately, so the results are not ideal.

After the implementation of the two tax laws, a long-standing contradiction in social development is prominently manifested in the continuous deterioration of the so-called "money shortage" problem.

Although in order to curb this kind of money shortage, the merchants of Datang also came out of the cabinet and Feiqian correspondingly. But they still couldn't cope, so the first thing I had to do was to remake the currency.

To abolish the tradition of using silk as currency during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and add two coins of gold and silver to the copper coins, I decided to print the appearance of a child slave on the gold coin and the appearance of a sizi on the silver coin, so that you can It can be passed down for thousands of years. "

"Hee hee!" Li Zhi and Li Mingda happily said together: "Really?"

Li You nodded: "Of course it's true. I'm going to engrave the mold in a few days. You two can come and see it too. Well, after adding gold and silver coins, I'm going to set up a ticket number."

"Ticket number.?" Li Zhi and Li Mingda looked at Li You in confusion.

At this time, Li You explained slightly: "It has some similarities with Feiqian, a way of exchanging money from other places. However, this is still very difficult. What I have to do now is to release the gold and silver coins as soon as possible. When the time comes, The household department must listen to my orders."

"That's natural. Fifth brother, all six are at your disposal!" Li Zhi chuckled.

"Hey, you are an easy emperor." Li Mingda curled his lips.

"It's as if you are not easy as a princess." Li Zhi chuckled, then looked at Li You and asked, "Fifth brother, what about the second thing?"

"The second thing is to establish a military academy." Li You smiled.

"Military school...?" Li Mingda asked, "What is that...?"

"It is a university where soldiers study. Now our Tang army is very strong. The veterans include Li Ji, Yu Chigong, Cheng Yaojin, and the young generals include Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, etc. However, this is not enough.

We have to think about the next generation, and the Fubing system is no longer enough to deal with future wars.!"

"Fifth Brother, the Fubing system is very good." Li Zhi looked at Li You and said.

"It looks good now, but soon we will not be able to keep up with the times. We are likely to enter another era, and in that era, the soldiers will be abandoned!"

In fact, Li You knew the history of the Tang Dynasty. The Fubing system is already in jeopardy. Soon the Fubing system will be replaced by the recruiting system. The reason why the Fubing system is replaced by the recruiting system is not because the Fubing system is inferior to the recruiting system. This is determined by the basic characteristics of the Fubing system. of.Because Fubing is a military service system that combines soldiers and farmers. Soldiers must prepare their own food, weapons and even war horses. This requires soldiers to have land, otherwise it will be difficult to afford the food, war horses, and weapons needed in wartime.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, after long-term wars in the north, the population decreased greatly and the land was barren. Therefore, the country controlled a large amount of wasteland. In order to develop the economy, increase the population, and expand the source of troops, the government came forward to recruit refugees and distribute the land controlled by the state to the refugees. Planting, farmers will pay taxes directly to the state, this land system is called the land equalization system.

The land equalization system not only solved the livelihood problem of landless farmers, but also increased the country's fiscal revenue.Only by solving the livelihood problems of farmers can the country have the conditions to implement the army-farmer military system.

Because the population is small, it is necessary to raise the population as soon as possible to develop the economy. Because the population is small, the social financial income is also low, and it is difficult to support a large number of professional soldiers. Therefore, the implementation of the military service system that combines soldiers and farmers is suitable for social development.Relying on the Fubing system, the Northern Dynasty finally had the last laugh in the military confrontation with the Southern Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty also achieved a series of brilliant military achievements by virtue of the Fubing system.

However, once the population increases and the social economy develops, land annexation will inevitably come after a certain period of time, and the living conditions of the fubing system will also be greatly changed.

As long as feudal private ownership of land exists, land annexation will come sooner or later.On the one hand, the increase in population will inevitably lead to a continuous decrease in land per capita; on the other hand, the gap between rich and poor will inevitably lead to poor farmers eventually losing their land.

With the prevalence of land annexation, more and more self-cultivating farmers lost their land and were forced to depend on landlords, making their lives increasingly difficult.

The "public land" controlled by the state gradually turned into "private land" controlled by large and small landlords, and the land equalization system on which the Fubing system relied collapsed, and the Fubing system could no longer continue.

In fact, in the current Datang under Li Zhi, land annexation has gradually become popular, and a large number of government soldiers have begun to evade military service because they lost their land.

Li You already had a premonition in advance, so he needed to change the current situation of the Tang army immediately. It is actually nothing new to change the government army system to a recruiting system, and it has a long history.Different from the integration of soldiers and peasants in the Fubing system, the recruiting system means that the state recruits professional soldiers, and the state provides military pay and equipment. The recruited soldiers are trained by specialized officers, serve in the military for a long time, and perform combat tasks.

Compared with the Fubing system, the recruitment system has a great effect on improving the combat effectiveness of the army, but the recruitment system also has its own shortcomings.Soldiers who have been trained and commanded by specialized officers for a long time are naturally prone to the phenomenon of self-respect. In the long run, they are prone to the phenomenon of warlords.

In the later period of Tang Xuanzong, with the establishment of a large number of Jiedushi, more and more local officials supported their own self-respect.It eventually led to the painful lesson of the Anshi Rebellion. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty fell into a long-term separatist regime, and finally withdrew from history in the warlord melee.

Therefore, in order to prevent the Tang Dynasty from falling into a long-term separatist regime, Li You plans to establish a military academy. As long as all the military officers in the military academy become disciples of the emperor, and then infiltrate each of the warlords in turn, these disciples of the emperor can greatly influence the soldiers. First, these disciples of the emperor can play the role of supervising the warlords, and second, as long as the disciples of the emperor lead soldiers, these soldiers must be loyal to the Tang Dynasty and the emperor, which effectively divides the power of those warlords.

So this military academy, Li You must be established in advance, and the tradition of the military academy must be preserved.

(End of this chapter)