Chapter 173 The Direct Relationship between Land and Military Merit

Li Shiji was so scared that his heart was about to fly out. He would rather look forward to the rain of guns and arrows than face Li Jiancheng and Wei Zheng. He was very afraid that Li Jiancheng shouted: "Come on, take Wei Zheng for me, drag it down and chop it up and feed the dog!"

It’s just a pity that what Li Shiji was worried about didn’t happen in the end.

Instead, Li Jiancheng invited Wei Zheng to the position of the Eastern Palace Yin'an, and respectfully invited Wei Zheng to the position of the lower-ranking position. He asked Wei Zheng to sit down. The palace maids in the Eastern Palace brought tea. Li Jiancheng then said lightly: "I am willing to hear the details!"

Wei Zheng said: "What I said is right. Your Highness the Crown Prince is wrong. You are wrong. You are worried and afraid. That's why you try your best to cover it up. But you forgot that our Tang Dynasty is different from Sima Jin and Cao Wei. The country established by our Tang Dynasty is burned out of flames and cast out of iron blood. The process of establishing this country has no privacy! The whole process of establishing this country is upright, and the whole process of obtaining power by the Tang Dynasty is open and upright. The Sui Dynasty loses its deer and the world is chasing it together. What's wrong with the Tang Dynasty getting it?"

Li Jiancheng was silent immediately.

Li Tang was different from Cao Wei and Sima Jin. Because of the different ways of obtaining power, the Li Tang regime started from Taiyuan, attacked one by one city, and was attacked along the way. In terms of the right position, only the Qin and Han dynasties could be compared. It was precisely because the beginning of Li Tang's acquisition of the country was war, so in the struggle for the crown prince, Li Shimin clearly stated that the chariot and horses were going to compete for the position of crown prince, but instead received support from some people.

Because everyone understands that fighting means having opportunities, and if not fighting, there will be no opportunities. In terms of power and strength, whether it is the Eight Pillar Kingdoms of the Western Wei Dynasty, or the Twelve Pillar Kingdoms of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Duke of Tang actually did not have any advantage. When Li Yuan started a hastily raised an army in a corner of Taiyuan, he set a precedent for other families. When other families with ambition and strength were worried that the Sui Dynasty would be a lean camel bigger than a horse, Li Tang had already begun to show off his chariot and horses, breaking through the pass and killing generals.

The Zheng family in Xingyang was timid, half-hiddenly supporting Wang Shichong, and the Wang family in Taiyuan supported Liu Wuzhou because they were afraid of enduring the heavy consequences of failure. As the saying goes, to get the king first, Li Tang attacked Guanzhong, and the world was established.

In this case, they either adapt to the situation or go against the trend. However, the Yuan family, Zhao family, Wei family, Qinghe Cui family, and Zhaojun Li family, all became turtles.

Wei Zheng continued: "The darker the thing in the crown prince, the more afraid of the sun. The reason why rumors can be circulated is actually because of hiding. Since hiding will backfire, then just break the hiding and take it to the sun to expose it! Your Highness, can't you let the world see it? You are the crown prince of the Eastern Palace of the Tang Dynasty. It is the blessing of the people and the blessing of the country. These suspicions that can only be moved in the dark can shake the position of His Highness and the spirit of our founding of the Tang Dynasty!"

Li Jiancheng was silent.

In fact, Li Shimin was aggressive step by step, both Li Yuan's indulgence and his tolerance. Because Li Jiancheng showed great tolerance, Li Shimin dared to use conspiracy again and again.

This time, Li Shiji was just used to mobilize Li Shiji alone. If Li Jiancheng did not fight back but instead tolerated him, then Li Shimin would definitely move Xue Wanche, Feng Li, Li Yuan, Pei Ju, and even Chen Ying from his original position step by step, either rising and falling openly or drawing up the rules. Once Li Jiancheng could not protect the officials under the Eastern Palace, his prince would be truly over.

Li Jiancheng thought about it and finally made a decision: "Li Shiji!"

"The disciple is here!" Li Shiji was worried about Wei Zheng. Unexpectedly, Wei Zheng had no problems at all, but instead became Li Jiancheng's direct minister.

Li Jiancheng said: "I ordered the Prince's Order to leave the Great Protector of Andong to control the Huaiyuan Army, Baoding Army and Andong Three Arms, and to guard the forty-two states of Andong!"

Li Shiji was overjoyed when he heard this.

Although the Anton Protectorate is not as rich as the Anthony Protectorate, the Anton Protectorate is powerful in the east to suppress Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Khitan, Xi and other tribes, and is also a real vassal official.

Of course, just like Chen Ying served as the Protector of the Western Regions, the Protectorate of Andong was actually just an empty standpoint, and most of the territory was nominal and existed on the map. You need to accept it yourself and explore it. Now, Li Yi, the general manager of Youzhou, actually only has fourteen states, but since Li Jiancheng gave him the system of forty-two states, he was allowed to expand his territory eastward like Chen Ying.

If Li Jiancheng didn't take action, he would make a judgment on Li Shimin as soon as he took action. Li Shimin just wanted to reduce the position of Li Shiji as the general of the Eastern Palace in Lingzhou and reduce the army controlled by the Eastern Palace. Li Jiancheng was better, so he waved his hand and asked Li Shiji to learn from Chen Ying and establish the three armies of Huaiyuan, Baoding and Andong.

In the Tang Dynasty, one army was a permanent institution, and the entire army had 12,500 troops.

However, the Tang Dynasty military system was also flexible, just like Chen Ying firmly believed that a regiment of 200 was responsible for tactical tasks, with too few people, and a Zhechong Mansion of 800 or 1,000 people, and too many. So he changed all Zhechong Mansion into a five regiment system, with five regiments in each Zhechong Mansion of 300 people.

Li Shiji received an empty shell Protectorate of Anton Protectorate, which was a third-rank official position. Li Shimin wanted to surrender Li Shiji's official position, and Li Jiancheng promoted him to him.

Of course, this is not to challenge Li Yuan's authority, but to tell Li Yuan with practical actions that it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to leave many families like this.

The establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the separation of the four powers, Li Yuan's imperial edict, the crown prince's imperial edict of Prince Li Jiancheng, the tutor of King Li Yuanji of Qi, the tutor of King Li Shimin of Qin, and the tutor of Princess Pingyang Li Xiuning, all have the legal benefits of the imperial edict.

While Li Jiancheng issued the Crown Prince Order to Li Shiji, he issued a direct release from the East Palace with the weapons, equipment and orders to dispatch troops.

Li Shiji took the Crown Prince's Order and directly found the garrison located in Lantian Camp, and transferred more than 50,000 troops from the three armies.

The troops under Li Xiaogong's command instantly decreased by one third.

One third is not important. What is important is that Li Shiji is also an expert in military use. His vision of provoking troops is poisonous, and he directly drained Li Xiaogong's backbone elites of Jiannan Army.

Li Xiaogong naturally stopped doing it.

When Li Xiaogong found Li Yuan, he complained to Li Yuan.

Only then did Li Yuan realize that Li Jiancheng quietly formed the Andong Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yuan was about to send someone to inform Li Jiancheng, but he never thought that Li Xiaogong had just walked into Wude Hall when Li Jiancheng arrived.

Li Jiancheng directly placed a stack of newspapers in front of Li Yuan. After watching for a while, Li Yuan frowned: "Why, the land is not enough?"

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly and said, "The land in Guanzhong is divided into bans and rewards. The idle land is now more than 38,000 hectares. No one expected that Lingnan would be so unscrupulous, and this time it would be a bonus for the boss to give him a piece of military merit.

Li Yuan frowned.

In addition to laughing bitterly, Li Xiaogong said bitterly: "Your Majesty, it depends on your reputation..."

Li Jiancheng said: "Li Jing, the left minister of the Ministry of War, can get a 500-household farmhouse and 2,400 hectares of fertile land alone. If he cashed it out for the soldiers below, there will probably be a 30% gap for the generals and officials."

Li Yuan was shocked and said, "Is it so much different?"

Li Xiaogong was also stunned.

Li Yuan said: "Then why did you let Li Shiji take away more than 50,000 troops?"

Li Jiancheng explained: "Father, after defeating Xueyantuo's tribe last year, the Turks have recovered their vitality. If they don't do it well this year, they will have to make big moves. There is Erlang here in Hedong, so naturally there is no need to worry. However, Li Yi is not pure in mind, so it is better to let him come to Chang'an to become an official. I asked Li Shiji to go to Liaodong and form the Andong Protectorate for two purposes. One is to intimidate the Eastern Turks, and the other is to use the fat fields in Liaodong to reward the generals!"

Li Xiaogong nodded and said, "Guanzhong really can't afford 76,000 yuan to pour out the fields!"

Li Yuan looked at Li Xiaogong and said, "You said the Lingnan Army alone would reward 76,000 yuan of land?"

Li Xiaogong shook his head and said, "More than the end, all of them will be 100,300 yuan! All the soldiers who were drawn from the army have military achievements and can be rewarded with more than 500 acres!"

Li Yuan was also silent now.

There are many land in Guanzhong, and the crazy annexation of various major families, and the successive defeats and military merits are rewarded with land. The land in Guanzhong is no longer enough for only six years.

In history, the Tang army gradually lost the land that could be rewarded in the late Zhenguan period. These Guanzhong soldiers were no longer keen on fighting. During the Li Zhi Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Li Tang army declined very strongly. Foreign wars were mixed, and they lost the momentum of sweeping the world and invincible at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yuan thought for a while and said, "Do you want to change the military title system?"

Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "It's impossible. If this is the case, he will definitely repeat the mistakes of the Qin Dynasty~"

The Qin army also won every battle in the War of Unification, and the powerful troops of the six countries were defeated. Because at that time, the foundation of the Qin Dynasty's military merits was still there, but after the War of Unification, especially in the late War of Unification, the Yan State suddenly became impotent, so the Qin government could not provide enough land to fulfill its military merits. Then the soldiers saw that, fuck, fight to the death and live, and they didn't even have any rewards, and they even fucked.

Therefore, the riot army with hoes and sticks began to defeat the Qin army and lose its territory.

The system is the root of the guarantee of combat effectiveness.

The decline of the Tang Dynasty was the end of the Tang Dynasty's military system.

The demise of the Ming Dynasty was also directly related to the inability to fight the guards. The hungry soldiers could not fight tough battles.

Land and military merits are directly related.

A government that has broken trust and soldiers will definitely lose the support of soldiers!
Chapter completed!