Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 548 Haidong King

Duan Da is the emperor's confidant, just like Yu Wenshu, he had already followed Yang Guang when he was still the king of Jin.When Yang Guang was crowned King of Jin, Duan Da was his soldier.

Duan Da also came from a general in Guanlong. In the early years when Yang Jian was not proclaimed emperor, he was Yang Jian's personal guard commander.Later, Yang Jian proclaimed himself emperor, granted Yang Guang the king of Jin, and specially granted him to join the army as the mansion of the Prince of Jin. From then on, Duan Da followed Yang Guang.

Up to now, Duan Da has also served as General Zuo Yiwei, and he is very trusted by the emperor, but he is not good at leading the army to fight.

However, there is Luo Cheng in Liaodong, who is good at fighting. The emperor chose Duan Da not to use him to fight, but because he has been his confidant for many years and he has trusted him.

As long as Luo Cheng survives, the emperor of Liaodong will still be handed over to Luo Cheng. If Luo Cheng dies, his confidant Duan Da will take over temporarily.

"Your Majesty, do you want to reconsider granting Luo the post of staying behind in Liaodong?" Yu Shiji also spoke.

Staying in this position was unusual in the Sui Dynasty, especially in the Daye Dynasty.

The Sui Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty unified the world again and ended the 300-year dispute between the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and there were many innovations in its system.For example, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the envoy and governor system was changed to general control in the Sui Dynasty, and all general control was abolished in the Daye Dynasty.

The general manager system is to set up a general manager at the key points of the border.The Sui Dynasty once set up more than 50 general managers, divided into major general managers who command dozens of states, middle general managers who lead more than ten states, and small general managers who lead one or two states.

Back then Yang Guang used to be the chief executive of Yangzhou, and the brothers and sisters were all chief executives who commanded dozens of states on one side.For example, Yang Liang, the king of Han, commanded You and merged dozens of prefectures back then, and he had a strong capital, and he dared to rebel later. Yang Liang, the king of Shu, even sat in Bashu.Yang Jun, king of Qin, was in command of Longyou.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the system of enfeoffing the country to the princes of other dynasties was replaced by the chief administrator who was directly ruled by the prince. Although the chief administrator ruled dozens of states, he was only an official position, not a fiefdom.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, the princes and grandchildren never had a real feudal land.

After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne and suppressed the rebellion of the King of Han, the system of big and small managers was completely abolished.

Along with the abolition of the general management system, there was also the Xingtai system in the early Sui Dynasty.

The imperial court set up Xingtai Shang in the local area, whose full name is Xingtai Shangfang Province. It is regarded as the dispatched agency of Shangshu Province. It has officials such as Xingtai Shangshuling and Ministry of War Shangshu.

But generally this kind of travel platform is only temporarily set up, and it will be dismantled after the event is over.

After Yang Guang succeeded to the throne, he never set up Xingtai Province again.

The establishment of Xingtai provinces, governors, and general managers is actually very practical, especially in the border areas. If civil and military affairs are not unified, or even the states are not unified, the power will be too dispersed. The situation can be dealt with, especially if the enemy invades and loots, it can be unified for defense and counterattack.

During the Daye Dynasty, prefectures were changed to counties, and there were more than 190 counties and more than 1000 counties in the country.The county guard only controlled the herdsmen and did not control the army, and the county magistrate commanded the army without government affairs, and made a big effort to separate civil and military affairs.

Although doing so is good for stability, it is not good for the border, let alone fighting.

Therefore, in the event of a war, the emperor usually temporarily selects a general to be in charge, lead the troops to the expedition, and temporarily govern the counties and counties in the theater.

But in times of non-war, they still face the problem of not belonging to each other.

So in the past two years, the emperor has started to come up with a left-behind system.

In the eastern capital of Xijing, when the emperor is away, he will choose an emperor's grandson or an important minister to stay behind. For example, the emperor is not in Daxing all the year round, so there is a capital stay behind. Wang Yangyou stayed in the capital.

Although he spent a lot of time in the Eastern Capital, he often toured west, south, and south. In the past few years, he went to the East again, so Luoyang was often absent, so the emperor set up the Eastern Capital to stay behind.

In addition to these two capital stays, the emperor also set up many left palaces and local stays.

Yang Guang has more than [-] palaces, and generally there are palace supervisors. In some important palaces, there are heavy soldiers stationed, a large amount of armor, weapons, money and food, etc., and there are palaces left behind.

For example, when the emperor went to the east, he sent Shangshu Zuocheng Langmao to stay behind at Jinyang Palace and take care of the affairs of the palace, in case the emperor visited next time.

In some important places, there are also left-behind places, such as Taiyuan left-behind, Donglai left-behind, Jiangdu left-behind, Pengcheng left-behind and so on.

This kind of place stays behind, in fact, it is no different from the previous governor or general manager, just changed the name, but it still has much more power than the county guard. soldiers and horses.

This kind of left-behind is actually a permanent official office. Not only there are left-behind, but also deputy left-behind, and there are also a full set of subordinate officials such as Liucao Shenjun, Master Book, Changshi, and Sima.

Stay in one place and take charge of the military, civilian and financial power of one place.

The emperor granted Luo to be left behind in Liaodong, which is considered to be another place left behind, and this left behind undoubtedly has greater rights than left behind in other places.

Because the emperor said that Liaodong stayed behind, and he was in charge of the eleven counties of Liaodong, Liucheng, Liaoxi, Xincheng, Jian'an, Lushun, Xuantu, Lelang, Daifang, Zhenfan, and Fuyu.

Beyond Linyu Pass, the east of the sea, and the land of eleven counties are all under the jurisdiction of the left behind in Liaodong.

Although the five prefectures of Fuyu, Xuantu, Lelang, Daifang, and Zhenfan are still in the hands of the Goguryeo people, they are just vassals, but even if these five prefectures are removed, the people still have six prefectures, with a population of [-]. Soldiers.

In normal times, it is estimated that the emperor would not easily set up this left behind in Liaodong.But at this time, the emperor only felt that he owed Luo Cheng a lot. After all, because he listened to Yu Wenshu's slander, he doubted Luo Cheng and let Yu Wenhua secretly hurt him.

"I don't think there's anything inappropriate!"

Before, Luo Cheng served as the consolation ambassador of western and eastern Liaoning, but this consolation ambassador was not a permanent position, but a temporary mission.But this is different from Liaodong staying behind. Liaodong staying behind is just like Liaodong Taishou. This is a permanent position in the permanent yamen.

According to the official system of the Sui Dynasty, there is a small exam every year, and a big exam every three years, which is called four exams. The term of office is limited to four exams. Suspended from another position.

According to this system, an official's normal term of office is three years, that is, after passing three small exams and one major exam, if no one takes over, he can stay for another year at most. If the official position is suitable for conferring, it can only be suspended pending conferring.

Of course, if you perform particularly well in the assessment, you may be promoted in advance, or if you are particularly bad in the assessment, you will be dismissed if you fail to do well.

But under normal circumstances, that is every three years.

Let Luo Cheng serve in Liaodong for three years, who knows what it will be like, after all, one person controls six counties and commands [-] soldiers.

But the emperor sometimes likes to stroke his hair, he only listens to what he wants to hear, and he doesn't listen to anything else you say.

Just like now, he completely ignored the hints of the prime ministers, and was determined to grant Luo the left behind in Liaodong.

The old prime minister, Su Wei, kept silent. He had already seen through the emperor's temperament, so he didn't bother to waste his saliva. He was thinking to himself, this Luo Cheng, now he is the king of Haidong.

(End of this chapter)