Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 561 The Emperor's Authority
After the prisoners were sacrificed, there was joy in Daliang City. The curfew was lifted that night, and the celebration continued all night, like a festival.

And Emperor Shi couldn't wait, and plunged into his exclusive Ruanxiang Township. Everyone said that Emperor Shi decided not to be a hero anymore!Let whoever loves it!

Although he was reluctant to part with the empress dowager Fu's tenderness and fragrance, Emperor Shi was forced to deal with many things the next day.

The first is to reward the three armies, and then the prisoners are arranged.

Those who should be killed were killed by him as early as in Shangjing. Since they were brought back, Emperor Shi naturally didn't want to kill them. Yeluxian's family was arranged to collect them by the Bian River according to the usual practice.

Later, Yelu Xiezhen's family was also resettled. Yelu Xiezhen was assigned to serve in the Ministry of War, while Yelusha and Gao Xun were sentenced to death for refusing to surrender.

Their deaths were just a gesture to show the world, and those who were actually going to be killed had already been killed.

Emperor Shi entrusted the Privy Council and Li Chuyun to be responsible for rewarding the three armies, and first drafted the regulations before presenting them to him.

The other three things also need to be arranged by Emperor Shi first.

The first is the aftermath of the war in the north. As the border moves north, the garrison arrangements will also change. This is a big deal. After all, since then, the northern border will have to move thousands of miles north, and it cannot be arranged overnight.

Secondly, the food routes of the Jinzhou army had to be re-arranged. Although the emperor of the Liao Kingdom had captured it, the war to destroy the Liao Kingdom was not yet completely over, and the Liao Kingdom was not yet in his hands.

So Emperor Shi called the officials of the Department of Household Affairs to discuss this matter in the morning and made arrangements.

The last is to report the autumn harvest situation in various places this year. Among them, the tax revenue of Shu is particularly eye-catching, because after several years of climbing, the tax of Shu has caught up with Chuzhou in Huainan, ranking fourth in the country, second only to Daliang in the capital, Hangzhou and Chu in the south. However, depending on the situation, Chengdu will overtake Chuzhou next year.

Emperor Shi naturally knew about this situation, because the new tax law was implemented near Chengdu, and it has been promoted and tried out with Chengdu as the center in recent years. Now the entire Shu region and even Guanzhong have implemented the new tax law.

Emperor Shi had thought about it before, gradually implementing it in the world, but at that time, the powerful enemy in the north, Liao Kingdom, was still there, and a large number of imperial soldiers were stationed on the border.

But now the situation has changed. In the entire north, plus the army that blocked the Liao Kingdom in Jinzhou, there are only about 5 people stationed there.

With the main force of the army by his side, and no strong foreign enemy threat in the north, domestic turmoil can be tolerated, so Emperor Shi can carry out reforms.

Emperor Shi thought about it. In fact, the most difficult place to implement at the moment must be in the Central Plains. At first, the capital of the country was in the Central Plains, and there were many powerful people nearby, and they also had the most land and the greatest power. Huainan was next.

But Jiangnan and Lingnan will be much easier. Those places have been swept by the army, and everything that needs to be cleaned up is almost cleaned up. There is no decent resistance in the place, and the people's customs are not so tough.

Originally, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there were many warlords, and Hebei's liberation was the least difficult, and it had even been implemented.

The main reason is that since the Tang Dynasty more than 100 years of troubled times, the main battlefield is in Hebei, many places have been killed into a piece of white land, the population has withered, and there are large open spaces.

After he promulgated that land that no one cultivated can be cultivated by refugees without land, he followed the implementation of taxation according to the land, so after these years, with more and more refugees, occupying most of the land in Hebei, the income per mu is basically the same. It has been implemented, and today's Hebei basically pays taxes in accordance with the new law.

This method can slow down the speed of land annexation, but Emperor Shi, who has read history books and received higher education in later generations, also understands that this is only a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

Things are always changing, from microscopic particles to the macrocosm, everything is changing at any time, no solution is omnipotent, no reason is always useful, and no truth will last forever. Human history Too short.

Not to mention the boundless and boundless universe, in the hundreds of millions of years of the earth's history, human memory is only a few thousand years ago, and it is only two or three hundred years since human beings became "civilized", so many things are impossible to pursue perfection. For eternity, we can only continue to make choices, which are only in line with the current situation.

Development is the fundamental way out, and making the cake bigger is the key. Problems will always emerge, but he is too lazy to take care of them. Future generations will have their own blessings, so let them worry about it. I have so many wives, so happy very.

In the next few days, envoys from Goryeo, Dali, Liugu Tubo, Ganzhou Uighurs, Goryeo, Guiyi Army, etc. came one after another. With the news spread in the past few months, the fall of the northern overlord Liao has shocked the world.

This time, Emperor Shi did not let the officials of Honglu Temple receive them, but hosted a banquet for them himself.

At the banquet, Emperor Shi held a glass of wine with a friendly expression on his face, but the faces of the people sitting below were serious and nervous. They had probably heard that the Qin army captured and beheaded 50 Liao troops, captured its capital, and captured the emperor of Liao. matter.

What kind of concept is that? Taking Liugu Tubo as an example, all their tribes add up, and there are only about 30 men, women, and children
That's why I was so frightened that I hurriedly sent people here, bringing all kinds of financial specialties, first to please the emperor of Qin, and second to check on the situation.

Emperor Shi happily said some polite words, probably pleased with the arrival of their envoys, and asked them to eat and drink well, and then talked with them about the customs of various places, just like eating, drinking and bragging, talking about the world, The guests and hosts had a good time.

The next day, Emperor Shi summoned the envoy sent by the Guiyi Army into the palace alone and asked him some questions.

The Guiyi army is living a decent life now relying on marriages with various surrounding forces, but they have been sending envoys to keep in touch with various forces in China. They have also contacted the Southern Tang Dynasty, probably thinking that the Southern Tang Dynasty will be like the original Tang Dynasty.

The Guiyi Army has always been awarded by China, so although Emperor Shi did not fully trust them in some issues, compared with Ganzhou Uighurs, Liugu Tubo, etc., the Guiyi Army people are more credible in Shi Emperor's heart.

For example, in July of the 12th year of Tianfu in the Later Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Zhiyuan of the Later Han Dynasty awarded Cao Yuanzhong, the Jiedu envoy of the Guiyi Army, as the special administrator and inspector.In May of the second year of Qianyou in the Later Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Chengyou conferred the title of Jiedu Envoy of Guiyi Army, Tejin, Taifu Cao Yuanzhong, Doctor of Imperial History, and Founding Marquis of Qiaojun.

In the second year of Xiande in the later Zhou Dynasty, the Guiyi Army also sent envoys. Zhou Shizong Guo Rong took Cao Yuanzhong as the envoy of the Guiyi Army Jiedu to observe and stay in Shazhou Jiedu.In May Wuzi, Cao Yuanzhong, who stayed in Shazhou, was appointed as the governor of Shazhou, Taiwei of the school, and Tongping Zhangshi.

And two years after the founding of the Qin State, Cao Yuanzhong, the governor of Guiyi, sent an envoy to offer [-] horses to Emperor Shi, and Emperor Shi even rode them on the battlefield. You must know that the land of Hexi was the largest horse farm in the Han Dynasty. .

Three years ago, when the Guiyi Army sent envoys, Emperor Shi made every effort to prepare for the great war against the Liao Kingdom in order to stabilize the situation in the northwest. Teacher, concurrently Zhongshu Ling, and King Xiping to reassure him.

Now that the envoy of the Guiyi Army was found, Emperor Shi did not beat around the bush, but told him directly. After returning, he would tell King Xiping to make a general report on the terrain near the Hexi Corridor, the deployment of various tribes, and the location of their settlements. Come to the court.

Hearing this, the envoy was stunned on the spot, and then nodded again and again. Although Emperor Shi didn't say anything, he wanted a map and marked the locations of the settlements. From this point of view, it seemed that the imperial court wanted to send troops to the Hexi Corridor.
Afterwards, things proceeded in an orderly manner. By the beginning of October, the rewards of the three armies had been completed, and the forbidden army had a holiday.

In mid-October, the Jinzhou army's food road preparations were completed, and the blockade of Liaodong continued.

In November, at the court meeting, Fan Zhi, Luqiu Zhongqing and others first came out to sing praises, praising the achievements and mighty virtue of the emperor, and then Shen Yilun, an envoy of the Ministry of Household Affairs, mentioned that the tax revenue of Shu had increased greatly this year, and even exaggerated to the point of supplying the Liao army. Later, he pointed out that the reason for the soaring fiscal revenue in Shu was due to the implementation of the new tax law and so on.

Then it is proposed to implement it in the world.

As soon as the words came out, he immediately encountered some opposition, mainly from officials in the capital.

However, these objections are not worth the final word of Emperor Shi, and no one dares to disobey the authority of the emperor at this time.

In the end, the court passed a resolution to introduce the new tax law to the world starting next year.
(End of this chapter)