Chapter 313

Facing Li Shimin's inquiry, the excitement on Li Longji's face disappeared immediately, and he whispered: "I also want to know... why I am so stupid and let Jiedushi develop."

Hearing his words, Zhao Kuangyin complained mercilessly, "You don't know?"

He looked at Li Longji, and jokingly said: "Since you know how to control civil servants and prevent local officials from monopolizing power, why did you set up ten Jiedu envoys to form a fixed military region!"

"Moreover, Jiedu makes the emperor's order to go to war, granting double banners and double festivals!"

"When traveling, set up banners everywhere. It doesn't matter if you are very dignified, and you have the exclusive military power to kill."

"You don't think it's enough for the Jiedushi to have the three major powers of the army, the people, and the finances. You often use one person to control two to three towns, or even four towns."

"That's enough to build a country."

"There are only ten military districts in total, and one person commands four towns. Are you crazy!"

"The Jiedushi is completely equivalent to the local emperor. Aren't you conniving at the Jiedushi to become bigger and then give birth to a rebellious heart?"

After listening, Zhao Kuangyin tore off his fig leaf directly, and Li Longji became a little annoyed.

And Li Shimin...

"you…"

Li Shimin looked at Li Longji, and said in a daze, "Your head...was kicked by a donkey?"

Even Liu Che couldn't help being speechless!

The entire Datang area is as large as the military area of ​​only ten towns.

He felt that it was not safe enough for one person to rule a town.

A Jiedushi who possesses the three powers of military, civilian, and wealth, is this very different from the princes and kings when his grandfather and father were in power?
No!

Let a Jiedu envoy concurrently unify two or three towns, he even dared not even think about it.

Unless it is established temporarily, it will be withdrawn immediately afterwards, and civil servants must be dispatched to check and balance.

otherwise…

He is absolutely restless!
Authority is such a thing, how can it be easily faked by others.

"This is no different from the state shepherds in the late Eastern Han Dynasty!"

Yang Jian was shocked by Li Longji's operation.

A stupid person like Emperor Han Ling knew a state and sent a state shepherd.

And dare not send a state shepherd to manage two to three states.

Li Longji...

It's really bold!
"The lessons of the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty are right in front of you, and you can't even learn them."

"Say you are stupid. You can appoint so many prime ministers and dismiss them when you are done using them. You can manage the country in an orderly manner, prosper, the political situation is clear, and the national power is strong. You are like a sage king."

"Excuse me, Sheng Ming, but you didn't even pay attention to the most basic prevention of dictatorship, and instead created a dictator yourself, it can be said to be extremely stupid."

Zhao Kuangyin looked at Li Longji in amazement, "Tell me, how should I say hello?"

Li Longji's face was so ugly.

Now is the first year of Tianbao, and he is fully aware of the fact that Jiedushi has such great power.

However, the Anshi Rebellion was still more than ten years away.

He really didn't know this!
[While Xuanzong attached great importance to the reform of internal affairs, he did not ignore the military system]

[Reform the government military system into a recruiting system, and the imperial court recruits strong men to build an army, breaking the shackles of the equal land system on soldiers]

[It not only relieved the pain of taking turns guarding the border under the Fubing system, but also provided a guarantee for centralized training and improving the combat effectiveness of soldiers, and also obtained a sufficient source of soldiers, creating a precedent for the recruitment system in later generations]

[After the reform of the military system, Xuanzong strengthened the expansion training of the Northwest Military Town]

[At the same time, expand the scope of farming, increase the output of military rations, and strengthen the domestication and supplementation of horses, which greatly improves the combat effectiveness of the army]

"Wonderful!"

Seeing the recruitment system, Li Shimin's eyes brightened.

This is simply a brilliant stroke.

It can not only reduce the burden on the peasants, but also build a strong army.

"However, this also means that there is a subordinate relationship between the soldiers and the generals, and it is easy to form a separatist force!"

Zhao Kuangyin reminded.

Li Shimin was instantly poured with cold water.

Although a little annoyed, it is true that what Zhao Kuangyin said made sense.

"It seems that there is no absolutely perfect system!"

He sighed with regret.

[After accumulating strength, they gradually regained Yingzhou and other places, so that Huihe and other separatist forces north of the Great Wall gave up their independence and returned to the Tang Dynasty]

[Re-exercise the jurisdiction over the land north of the Great Wall, restore the Anbei Protectorate, open up the Silk Road again, and re-establish the prestige of the Western Regions]

[Pay attention to the jurisdiction of the frontier areas, set up the Bohai Governor's Office and the Heishui Governor's Office to manage Sumo Mohe, seal Nanzhao's Piluo Pavilion as the King of Yunnan, and Huihe's Guli Peiluo as "Huiren Khan", which consolidated many The unification of nation-states established the status of the suzerain of the Tang Dynasty]

[Establish ten towns including Pinglu, Fanyang, Hedong...Jiannan, Lingnan, etc. to command the armies of the Quartet. While strengthening the control of the frontier, it also caused the outside to focus on the inside, leading to the 'Anshi Rebellion']

this last sentence...

It made Li Longji look rather ugly.

According to what Zhao Kuangyin said.

His biggest mistake was to establish the ten towns and give too much power to the Jiedu envoys of the ten towns, which caused them to rebel.

"In fact, the power of the generals should be divided. The army, civilians, and finances should be managed by one person. One Jiedushi is enough to manage a town."

Li Shimin said.

He was reminded by Zhao Kuangyin just now!
With outstanding military talent, he soon realized that the emergence of the recruitment system had a lot to do with the Jiedushi's rebellion.

Jiedushi has three great powers of managing the army, governing the people, and managing money.

The appointment and removal of officials is only one thing away, and it can directly become a country.

And the right to appoint and dismiss...

When the central government is strong, the local government will of course surrender.

But once the central government is weak, these unruly Jiedu envoys will inevitably commit chaos from below.

And recruiting...

Give them this confidence!
The soldiers under the Fubing system are united with the soldiers and farmers, and the generals and soldiers are separated.

There is affiliation only in wartime!
Both are directly under the emperor's orders, and rebellion means land is gone.

therefore…

As long as the central government does not fall, it will be difficult for generals to rebel.

But the recruiting system is different...

Soldiers are soldiers, farmers are farmers!
The generals have a subordinate relationship, and the soldiers will work for whoever takes the money.

Obviously!

The immediate boss who controls the financial power is more likely to control the bottom soldiers.

Rebellion is what they say.

"and…"

Li Shimin glanced at the military map of Li Longji's period: "Weak troops but complex terrain, concentrated and strong troops and flat terrain, many troops and complex terrain, all need to be treated differently!"

"A powerful town, army, people, and finances need to be separated, and they also need a position to check and balance the Jiedushi, and they need to be supervised."

"Weaker towns can only have one Jiedushi. The army, civilians, and wealth are separated, and the division must also leave a vacancy that is easy to attack and difficult to defend!"

Listen to what Li Shimin said.

Zhao Kuangyin strongly agreed, "That's right, according to Taizong's method, at least one or two hundred years can guarantee that those rebellious Jiedu envoys will not dare to act presumptuously."

"Moreover, it can ensure the combat effectiveness of the army to the greatest extent."

(End of this chapter)

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