Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Can he subdue these arrogant soldiers in the future?

Binding land and soldiers together can easily form an interest group headed by generals.Although Chen Ying didn't say it clearly, the imperial court's military orders are definitely not as effective as Chen Ying's general orders.

Although they know each other now, what about the future?

No one can tell what will happen next.

The most effective armies today are actually the three armies of the Chang'an Twelve Guards, the Anton Army and the Anxi Army. All the three armies receive the best treatment from Datang and enjoy the best benefits.

Of course, the Army of the Twelve Guards and the Anxi Army can be transferred at any time, and the soldiers have nothing to worry about. They can buy land at will if they have money, but they will not be bound by the land.

The reason for this is to make up for the loss of tax exemption with a military salary of 20 yuan.In fact, the soldiers will never complain. The tax rate in the Tang Dynasty is extremely low. Every Ding has to pay the country two stones of millet every year, which is called rent; Tune; [-] days of corvee service, plus two days in leap years, is regular service. If the country does not need it to serve, it can pay three feet of silk or three feet, seven inches and five cents of cloth per day.If it is all converted into money, it is equivalent to about three times a year.

The tax-free privilege of exchanging seven pennies and two hundred coins for three pennies is equivalent to more than doubling the benefits for soldiers.

In fact, Li Jiancheng can kill two birds with one stone.

The aristocratic family is Li Jiancheng's biggest enemy right now. He wants to dig a big hole for the aristocratic family. The aristocratic family has made the extremely powerful Yang Guang a faint king, and the Sui Dynasty has disappeared. Once they repeat the original method, Li Jiancheng will become Yang Guang's No. [-] two.

Li Jiancheng first decreed that he would never add any taxes, which won the favor of the Li people.

In addition to distributing salaries to the army, Datang is now using money more and more widely, and the investment of more than 700 million military salaries every year will eventually flow to the market. In this way, the prices of Datang will definitely slowly expand, and the wealth of the aristocratic family will also increase. Slowly shrink.

I have to admit that some of these aristocratic families are smart people.When I learned that Li Jiancheng paid salaries to the army, and all the salaries were money.

These aristocratic families are ready to hoard the banknotes that are circulating in the Datang market. As long as they reach a certain amount, they can bankrupt the credit of the banknotes.

Once the banknotes are credit-bankrupt, they are no different from waste paper.

The key point is that as the carriages carrying copper ingots arrived in Chang'an, these aristocratic family members immediately discovered that the fire in the mint workshop of the servants was not extinguished day and night, and these aristocratic family members immediately gave up this plan.

These copper coins have exceeded all the liquidity of the family's family, especially the wealthiest Taiyuan Wang's withdrawal from the game, which made the other six families hesitate.

I have to admit that some of these aristocratic families are smart people.When the imperial court confidently started to start the money-printing machine, when the amount of money on the market was too much, they wanted to eat the money, and they were already unable to do what they wanted.

Aristocratic families are a problem for the current Tang Dynasty, but they will definitely not be a problem in the future.The matter of the army is not a problem in the current Tang Dynasty, but it will definitely be a big problem in the future.

The root cause still lies in the population base of Datang, which is different from the history.Historically, the population of the Tang Dynasty in the fourth year of Zhenguan was about 500 million. However, at this time and space, the population of the Tang Dynasty at this time is nearly 3000 million. calculate.

If the problem of the aristocratic clan monopolizing the land in the early Tang Dynasty was not properly dealt with, there would be big problems in the future. At this time, there was no such thing as a heaven-defying thing like hybrid rice, and the yield per mu was outrageously low.The so-called dynasty rotation is when the land is not enough to support the population.

If the population exceeds the limit of the land, and the food allocated per capita is not enough to eat, people will inevitably starve to death.

What if you are not willing to wait to die?Then only princes and generals can be kind.As for the reincarnation of the five elements and the administration of officials, they are just superficial phenomena. After witnessing the collapse of the prosperous and powerful Sui Dynasty, Li Jiancheng knew that these things were just used to fool people.

The biggest problem for Datang right now is to strengthen the imperial power and balance the relationship between the imperial court and the aristocratic families.In fact, the aristocratic family and the imperial power are like a couple, both of them have cooperation and disputes, if they want to be in the same boat, there must be constant conflicts.Unless one side is strong, one side chooses to give in.

After thinking about it, Li Jiancheng decided that he would never be the one to give in.

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In Qiuci, in order to avoid the wives and concubines who were like tigers, Chen Ying had to carefully teach the children to read. Li Siye, Chen Qian, Prince Li Chengdao, Su Dingfang's son Su Qingjie, Zhang Shigui's sons Zhang Zhilong and Zhang Zhihu ) Duan Zan, Duan Guan, the sons of Duan Zhigan, Guo Daifeng, Guo Daizhao, the sons of Guo Xiaoke, and more than a dozen teenagers studied together with Chen Ying.

The oldest among them is Zhang Shigui's son Zhang Zhilong, who is 22 years old now, and the youngest is Luo Shixin's son Luo Yanqing, who is just one year old.But Chen Ying would never teach a milk baby.

Facing the dozen or so second generations of the Anxi Army, Chen Ying also did his homework.

However, Chen Ying obviously ignored the precocity of children in this era. If Chen Ying hadn't been well-informed, he would really be overwhelmed.

Li Chengdao bowed and said, "Young Fu, my student, what is your Majesty's overbearing and kingly way when governing the country?"

In fact, this Li Chengdao is a young man, and the debate about what is overbearing and what is kingly has already been concluded in the court by Wei Zheng and Feng Lun.

The matter ended with Wei Zheng's victory and Feng Lun's defeat.

As the crown prince, Li Chengdao had naturally seen the records of this famous court meeting in Kaiyuan.

Li Chengdao wanted to know how Chen Ying viewed what was domineering and what was domineering.

How could Chen Ying fail to see Li Chengdao's intentions?If he can't see, he has lived as a dog in these two lives.

Chen Yinglang said: "The so-called kingly way is that since the beginning of Wude, the Eastern Turks have repeatedly violated the frontier, slaughtered our Tang soldiers and people, destroyed our cities, and robbed our Tang food, grass, and property. Then we must try to destroy them. It is the kingly way. Tuyuhun invaded the border and Tubo invaded the border. We Datang exterminated them. For the absolute safety of Datang, no forces or countries that could threaten the safety of Datang are absolutely allowed around Datang!"

Chen Ying pondered: "As for the way of a gentleman, it is to tell them before destroying them. The so-called Dao of the Tang Dynasty means that barbarians have been destined to be destroyed since ancient times."

Chen Ying didn't care whether these teenagers could understand what Chen Ying said.

However, the oldest Zhang Zhilong couldn't help wiping the cold sweat from his forehead after hearing Chen Ying's words.

Zhang Zhilong lowered his voice and said: "Today, you all keep your mouth shut and don't tell this matter!"

"Why don't you say it?" Chen Ying said displeased: "This general is a person who dares to do something, so why should he be a villain who hides his head and shows his tail? Since this general dares to speak, he is not afraid of them knowing! "

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Zhang Zhilong's cold sweat immediately flowed down, he can be regarded as a serious reader, looking through the history books, no one has ever explained kingly and overbearing in this way.

Mencius said: "He who pretends to be benevolent by force is the king. He who acts benevolent by virtue is the king."Simply put, the kingly way is to conquer people with virtue, while the overbearing is to conquer others with strength.Actually, Chen Ying's explanation is more intuitive.

Wang Dao and domineering, both have the same commonality.

However, in the Spring and Autumn Period, even if hegemony had to be done in a pretense of benevolence and righteousness, the Five Hegemons could still use their power to convince others and at the same time call upon them by respecting the king and fighting barbarians. reason;

But those who practice the kingly way must be justified and powerful, otherwise, it will be difficult to uphold the principles of heaven or justice.Domineering advocates power and force, and promotes the rapid "art of strengthening the country" ("Historical Records·Shangjun Biography"). The principles and purposes it flaunts (such as respecting the king and fighting barbarians, enriching the country and strengthening the army) are not unattractive, but they are often only internal exploitation and external The banner of plunder is just a cover to deceive people's ears, and the purpose is not here.

In Zhang Zhilong's view, what is kingly way?Simply explained, this is order.The kingly way is the law of the world that must be followed from the emperor to the common people. The kingly way is benevolence, the kingly way is righteousness, the kingly way is propriety, the kingly way is wisdom, the kingly way is faith, the kingly way is yin and yang, the kingly way is heaven and earth, and the kingly way is order. , Wang Dao is etiquette, and Wang Dao is the foundation of scholars!

"Be strong until you are strong, and domineering and stop at hegemony. It is especially comfortable for the small ears." We should expand our minds and improve our political realm. , is the ultimate goal that should be pursued.

Looking at the history of later generations, in the previous unification process of China, all the masters of the king who can "hack the people and punish crimes" often dominate one side by striving for strength and then achieve their great achievements in the king's way.

Although kingly politics has never been truly realized in Chinese history, and the so-called "peace and prosperity" are mostly "overlords and Taoists" or "Yang Confucianism and Yin Law", or "Confucianism and Confucianism", people have never given up on this. The pursuit of a political ideal.

The so-called kingly way is not a slogan, but the ultimate goal of all Confucian believers, just like the ultimate goal of our party, to liberate all mankind and realize communism.

In fact, this can also be interpreted as the modern version of the benevolent way.

Chen Ying looked at Zhang Zhilong with a shocked expression, while Li Chengdao and Li Siye looked confused.He secretly sighed in his heart, in fact, Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling were very clear about this height.When I can't beat you, I can take the domineering way, and if I can beat you, I can take the domineering way.

Chen Ying pointed to Zhang Zhilong and said, "Zhang Zhilong, if there is only one bucket of food left in your house, which is enough for your family, and there is a person who is about to starve to death outside the door, what will you do? The prerequisite is that if you give the food to This person who is about to starve to death eats it, and someone in your family will starve to death, either you or your parents..."

Before Chen Ying could finish speaking, Zhang Zhilong said: "I would rather die of starvation!"

"Come on, drag this bastard out and hit him with thirty army sticks!" Chen Ying said with a dark face, "What I hate the most in my life is a hypocrite like you!"

Zhang Zhilong was terrified, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Master, please forgive me!"