Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 491 Land Reform + Wuyue National Policy (more than 4000 words, please vote)

After the grand prisoner presentation ceremony, there are still many problems waiting to be resolved.

The follow-up processing is more complicated and lengthy, the most important of which is to reward meritorious deeds.

The rewards of generals at all levels are indispensable, and most of them are added to the ranks according to the usual practice, only two people are special.

One is Dang Jin, because he was captured in the war, and he was rarely defeated, and then Lu Jiang was captured, plus other military merits, counting merits and demerits, so he was added to the ranks, but not many.

The other is Zhao Kuangyin.

As a transfer envoy of Yangzhou, he fulfilled the task of supporting the army very well, and defeated the counterattacks of the local troops of the Southern Tang Dynasty twice in the first month and February of the beginning of the year.

During that time, the troops in the south of the Yangtze River also saw that Yangzhou was an important supply center behind the east of the Qin army, so they sent troops to smuggle across the Yangtze River to attack, and they were all repelled by the local Xiang army led by Zhao Kuangyin.

It is impossible not to reward this kind of credit, but the Emperor Zhao Kuangyin was always worried about leading the army. After thinking about it, he was transferred to the Privy Council. As a direct bachelor of the Privy Council, he participated in military decision-making, but he did not directly lead the army.

The rewards for the middle and lower ranks are more complicated, and it is also a matter of complicated workload.

Over the years, Emperor Shi has kept fulfilling his promise, which is to give soldiers land. How did these lands come from?Naturally, they came from the Shu land, Hedong, Jingchu, central Hebei, Huainan, Lingnan, Jiangnan and other places he had newly conquered in recent years.

After these places were cleaned by force, many powerful families, officials and landlords were uprooted, and many lands were freed. Some of these lands were distributed to the local people, and some were given to soldiers as military rewards.

But this is a complicated and heavy workload. To put it simply, his soldiers of the Imperial Army come from all over the world. To reward them with land, the first thing to do is to give land to those who are adjacent to their garrison or their ancestral home, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army choose by themselves.

Secondly, today's imperial army is a professional army, serving most of the year. Most of their land cannot be cultivated by themselves, so some soldiers will ask to exchange their land for equivalent money. Such requests must also be counted by the Privy Council OK, then cash them out one by one.

It is best to distribute the remaining land to the people nearby, but if it is not nearby, the people can only be moved there.

For example, after the disaster in Hebei, the arable land was greatly reduced, and many people had no land to cultivate. After many officials and landlords in Jiangnan were relegated and cleaned up, a large amount of land under the monopoly control of many powerful families was left idle, reaching as many as one million mu. , the treasury is abundant.

Emperor Shi discussed with the prime ministers and decided to promulgate a new policy. The people in Hebei who have no arable land can get arable land if they are willing to move to Jiangnan. The team to Jiangnan will be organized by the government and food will be provided on the way.

Such a policy will last for several years, and the whole process will last for several years, and in the month of its promulgation, many people responded positively.

As for the powerful landlords in Hebei, Shi Congyun has never forgotten.

Seven or eight years ago, when he first went north to Hebei to fight the Liao Kingdom, he remembered that after the troubled times, due to the turbulent situation and the outflow of people, a lot of land in Hebei he passed was abandoned, but ordinary people did not dare to cultivate it, because those were rich people. The land of powerful clans.

At that time, he felt that such a threat was even worse than that of the Liao Kingdom.

Those powerful landowners are not simply family lords, many of them are warlords big and small in the troubled times after the end of Tang Dynasty. The local tyrants have their own private armed forces.

At that time, Emperor Shi could only watch and sigh, not daring to do anything. Even Guo Rong, the official at the time, did not dare to offend the warlords in Hebei.

He didn't dare in the first few years after Emperor Shi came to the throne, but now the situation has changed.

His rule became more and more stable under the Wenzhiwugong, and the great achievements of the battle. The ever-victorious Central Forbidden Army continued to grow, one after another, and the local forces became more and more afraid. Even the biggest warlord in Hebei at the time, he His old father-in-law Fu Yanqing also voluntarily handed over his military power and went to Luoyang to retire.

However, following the catastrophe in Hebei a few years ago, which was tragic and brought unexpected opportunities to Shi Congyun. Go back to farming and help the village.

Not only did it not encounter resistance, many people thought it was a benevolent policy, and the soldiers were willing to return to their families at such a difficult time.

As the military towns in Hebei that had lasted from the Tang Dynasty in the past continued to be disbanded, the influence of local tyrants continued to decline.

In the winter, Emperor Shi made the last heavy blow and completely disbanded the Tianxiong Army with only more than 600 people left, and the Central Forbidden Army took over the defense of all parts of Hebei.

Later, he issued that important edict—an order that Guo Rong was ambitious to implement, but because of the obstruction of Hebei's tyrants, the final result was very little.

Starting next spring, all the abandoned land in Hebei can be reclaimed and planted by ordinary people. As long as it has been cultivated for more than three years, the land will belong to the cultivator and will no longer belong to the original owner. Even if there is a title deed, it is useless.

What is different from the past is that this time Emperor Shi dispatched 24 battalions from the imperial army, with more than [-] troops, led by three of his confidants, Fu Zhaoyuan, Dang Jin, and Liu Qingchuan, to Hebei to carry out this edict.

Sure enough, the imperial edict came to Hebei, and the government posted a notice. Some local tyrants gathered private tribes to refuse to obey the edict, and even took the land deeds to threaten everywhere that their land was passed down from their ancestors, and it was legal. Even if they It is also reasonable to abandon the wasteland and not give the refugees a seed. What are they willing to do?

Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, they have been so arrogant and domineering. Because of the continuous war in Hebei and the separatism of the warlords, all the warlords coming and going need their support, so they are also polite to them. Even if the Khitans come, they will not be able to enter. their camp.

Warlords big and small need their support, and local people need their protection. That's why these tyrants are so confident and domineering.

But they obviously didn't choose the right timing and opponent.

Hebei has not yet recovered from the catastrophe, and its population is declining; in addition, with the continuous unification of the world, the prestige of the emperor is at its peak.

For the people in Hebei, they had no choice in the past. Warlords came and went, and none of them could be trusted. They could only rely on the local tyrants.

Today, the emperor is civilized and martial arts, and there is a great unification of the world. Yu Nei clarified that there is a trend of returning to peace, and many people support the emperor.

And with the promise of the imperial court, including the forbidden troops stationed locally, plus the forbidden troops that the follow-up party Jin, Liu Qingchuan, and Fu Zhao wanted to bring to popularize the law, and the garrison at Sanguan in Hebei, there are more than 6 forbidden troops in Hebei.

It is the area where the Qin Dynasty deployed the most forbidden troops except the capital. Facing the tiger and wolf divisions of the Qin army, the armed forces in these places are not enough.

Before Dang Jin and others set off for Hebei, Emperor Shi and his Zaifu Group had already anticipated this situation, and explained to Dang Jin and others that once this happened, they must strike hard!Deal with it seriously and quickly, and kill chickens to make an example to monkeys!
The Qin army's battle-hardened Forbidden Army went directly to the fields with field artillery to execute the emperor's edict. It was okay for many tyrants to bully and bully the local people. There is no need for the Qin Army's forbidden army.

It was almost a one-sided massacre. At most, more than 1000 people gathered to guard their own village, but the artillery of the Qin Army blasted open the wooden fence and collapsed the wall in less than half an hour. The sturdy imperial army with teeth rushed into the village.

More than 200 people were killed, and all the rest were captured. The whole fight lasted less than a morning.

Subsequently, more than 40 members of the mastermind's family were punished by the clan, and all those over the age of 12 were executed.

After killing chickens to warn monkeys, many local armed forces were immediately disbanded, expressing their willingness to implement the emperor's edict, but then the forbidden army continued to dispatch to wipe out several opposing local armed forces, but most of them were only a few people, most of them were hundreds of people, few The scale of ten people can't make a climate.

The decree is carried out in the winter months. People who have no land and no land can cultivate uncultivated land as long as they register with the local government. In the spring of the coming year, many people will definitely enjoy the benefits. If the forbidden army is maintained, they will also become an important force against the powerful.

At the same time as the military conquest, Emperor Shi did not forget the political offensive and the follow-up of grassroots organizations. Sometimes he couldn't help thinking, how could there be such a wise monarch in the world, how blessed are the common people!

When it was Chinese New Year, King Wuyue went up to congratulate the emperor on cutting off the Tang Kingdom, and then expressed his desire to go to Beijing to face the saint during the Shangyuan Festival and asked for permission.

Although he didn't say what was going on specifically, the entry of the lord of a country into the capital itself is a very big event. When they saw this letter, everyone vaguely guessed what King Wuyue meant.

Several prime ministers were very excited, but they didn't show their expressions, because the final confirmation has not been made yet.

Shi Congyun himself is actually very excited. Wu Yue has always followed the lead of the Central Plains. The kings of Wu and Yue have no intention of participating in the struggle for world hegemony. When other countries are fighting in full swing, they also live in full swing.

It was a piece of fertile land, the people were prosperous, and the products were rich. With the unification of the world, the King of Wu and Yue was probably also preparing to obey the righteousness, submit to China, and hand over the land and the people.

He had mentioned this before in his letters to himself.

Emperor Shi was naturally happy, and asked the Ministry of Rites and the Political Affairs Hall to take this matter seriously. If King Wuyue came, he would give him the highest standard of reception. On the other hand, he asked Zhao Shijian to write the letter. Welcome to his arrival.

In winter, the palace is a bit bleak, and the charcoal in the brazier with carved copper animal heads in the corner is burning slowly and beeping.

King Qian Chu of Wuyue sat alone in the hall, surrounded by bright candles, and he was screened away from both sides. During the day, he went to the Taimiao to sacrifice to his ancestors, and cried a lot, crying to his ancestors that he was ashamed that he could not die.

In fact, when Wu Yue founded the country, it was significantly different from other separatist countries.

Qian Liu, the founder of the country, often said: "The people are the foundation of the country. The people are the most precious, and the country is second. To avoid fighting is to love the people."

Since then, since the founding of the country, Wu Yue has always insisted not only that he does not proclaim himself emperor, but also opposes the proclaiming of the emperor by a strong vassal.

Qian Liu earnestly taught his descendants to abide by the courtiers' morality, "do good things to China, and don't use changing surnames to waste things." "Know the current affairs according to your ability, if you meet Allah, you should return quickly."

This is the ancestral training of their Qian family, so he has always regarded the great northern Central Plains as the suzerain, never thought of fighting against the suzerain like Shu, Tang, Southern Han, and Northern Han, and once the suzerain sends troops, mobilize their troops , Wu Yue will follow closely behind and send troops immediately.

It is precisely because of this that the northern suzerain is very friendly to Wu Yue, whether it was in the previous state of Zhou or the current state of Qin.

It's just that the situation in the world is gradually becoming clearer, and Qian Chu is not a person who has no information and does not know the general trend of the world. He knows that Wu Yue can no longer maintain independence, let alone compete with the central government.

In Wuyue, because of the long-term peaceful environment and the thought of loving the people, outsiders once commented on the people of Wuyue, "The people are old and dead, and they don't know how to fight. They play in four seasons, and the sound of singing and drums is heard." The war between the Wuyue Kingdom and the Qin Kingdom is tantamount to seeking death.

For Wu Yue, there was only one path left, and this path was already thought up by their founding monarch, and it was a national policy that had not changed for decades.

And with the integration of the south, Qin must be preparing to use troops to the north, roughly against Liao. Before that, he didn't want his Wuyue to be still in the south and become a burden, so that the Chinese soldiers could not go all out. .

So after weighing it over and over again, Qian Chu wrote a letter to the emperor himself, saying that he was going to go to the capital to congratulate him on the Shangyuan Festival.

At the same time, he has also prepared to give up power, hand over the land and people of the thirteen prefectures of Wuyue's first army to the emperor, accept the land and surrender, and realize the true unification of the world.

Although his parents have taught him earnestly, it is still very difficult to do such a great thing. He is also a little hesitant, thinking whether he will be scolded as a king of subjugation, and said that he is weak and incompetent. For people like them, the reputation of the front and back is very important.

But in the end, after offering sacrifices to the Taimiao and reading the teachings of his ancestors, he still decided to take this step.

Since Wu Yue is doomed not to last long, it is time to cut the mess quickly. The Qin State must have been waiting for it, and the world is one family.

Soon, Daliang wrote back, the emperor invited him to the capital, and allowed to lead soldiers into the capital as guards.

The emperor's enthusiasm made King Wuyue feel relieved, and at the same time, he also understood that the emperor must have understood his intention of entering Beijing.

Although Qian Chu believes in Buddhism, he is a person with great political foresight. He knows that what he fears most in this kind of thing is indecision and swinging from side to side. Instead, you should assume the attitude of a courtier.

On the one hand, he was going to take his family to Daliang. On the other hand, he had already thought about it. Although the emperor had good intentions, he didn't plan to take any extra people except the necessary guards. How could a courtier bring private soldiers when he came to Beijing.

In addition, his clothing and etiquette standards have to be changed, and he gradually adapts to his status as a courtier before entering Beijing.

Chao Wenwu also quickly learned about his decision, but almost no one opposed it. They knew the current situation in the world, and a few veterans who disagreed with it only shed tears, but did not publicly refute the matter.

So far, Wuyue, which has been separated for decades, is about to come to an end, but this ending seems to be expected. No one is surprised. Even Wuyue's subjects seem to have acquiesced in the logical result at this time.

In the winter of this year, with the demise of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the stability of Hebei, many things are getting better and better, and it is about to come to an end.

(End of this chapter)