A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 253 Six Doors: Bai Ze
A thousand Han soldiers can attack tens of thousands of Hu.

In front of Xiande Hall, Li Shimin specially summoned all the officers of the Beimen Garrison Imperial Army who were about to go to Yanzhou Township to come here today.

The emperor took out ten sets of Mingguang armor made by Shangfang, ten brocade battle robes, ten black lacquer-wrapped iron horses, ten refined mo knives, ten imperial war bows, and ten imperial horses as rewards.

The officers competed in riding and shooting, and tested the art of war.

Facing these exquisite armored weapons and excellent war horses, a group of officers worked extraordinarily hard, and they also wanted to be able to make a name for themselves in front of the king.

A hundred steps through Yang, the arrow is not in vain.

The rider is flying up and down on the back of the galloping horse, showing his superb riding skills.

The officers of the imperial guards were carefully selected, and the ones who went to Yanzhou were selected again this time.

What Li Shimin saw was stroking his beard and laughing again and again, very satisfied.

"I think back then, the soldiers I led were invincible in all battles, and they were invincible in all battles. One was worth ten, and there was no one else, only a strong soldier."

Well equipped, brave soldiers, invincible in the world.

Although the Turks were born as forging slaves, their military equipment was still far behind that of the Tang Dynasty.

"How many armors have the Ministry of War assigned to you in Yanzhou?" the emperor asked.

Huaiyu replied truthfully from the side, "Return to Your Majesty, I have one thousand soldiers in Yanzhou Town, one thousand soldiers in the state, and another two thousand soldiers in the formation of the regiment. There are a total of four thousand soldiers and horses. Give us 360 collars of iron armor, [-] collars of leather armor, a total of [-] collars, and [-] battle robes."

Li Shimin frowned after listening, "It's less."

The emperor called Du Ruhui, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, Yang Shidao, Wei Weiqing, and Li Shenfu, the military supervisor, "Wu Huaiyu went to Yanzhou to undertake an important military mission. The two thousand town soldiers are the main force, and the two thousand united soldiers are also going to be the attacking force." , For defense missions, the armor you allocated is too little.

"Those two thousand prefecture soldiers have four points for iron armor, six points for leather armor, and ten points for war robes.

Two thousand united soldiers, two points for iron armor, four points for leather armor, and six points for shirts.

Twelve points should be allocated to them for horizontal knives and spears, twelve points for bows, and four points for crossbows... Allocate an extra portion for combat preparation. "

Originally, a total of [-] sets of iron armor were given, but now the emperor said a word, and the Guangzhou town soldiers would allocate [-] pieces of iron armor, and there were still [-] pieces of leather armor.

The united soldiers also had to pull out [-] pieces of iron armor and [-] pieces of leather armor.

560 more sets of iron armor were drawn, and [-] more sets of leather armor were drawn.

When the emperor opened his mouth, Du Ruhui and the others immediately responded. Eight hundred and eight hundred sets of armor were nothing more than a trivial matter to the imperial court.

Datang has strong soldiers and strong horses, but it can't achieve 100% iron armor. If it can reach about [-]% to [-]% iron armor rate, it is already very tyrannical.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Huaiyu knew that this was a special gift from the emperor.

Even though it was just a few hundred sets of armor, for those thousands of people, the hundreds of extra armored warriors were definitely a force that could not be ignored.

"These two thousand generals are military officers and soldiers of the Weifu. With these two thousand elites, we will select another four thousand local young and strong rural soldiers to help restore Yanzhou."

After the inspection, Li Shimin called Huaiyu, Du Ruhui and others into the hall.

"The memorandum that Huaiyu published before is called Kaizhong Salt Method, right? I read it and think it is very good. Yanxia has salt but no grain, and it is not easy to transport grain, but Wubai Salt Pond is rich in salt, so merchants can transport salt Go to Shuofang or even the Lianglan Qinwei border to exchange for grain transportation certificates, then go to Qinwei and Yanxia Dudufu to exchange for salt imports, and then go to the salt field to pick up salt and transport it, and use merchants instead of transportation, it is very thoughtful."

The emperor asked Wu Huaiyu what conditions were needed to implement this plan.

"Returning to Your Majesty, if this plan is to be successful, the salt from the pond in the east of the river must first be released, and then it cannot enter Guanlong. The Guanlong area is designated as a separate salt area, and foreign salt is prohibited from entering and selling.

Only in this way can we ensure that the salt merchants are willing to transport grain to the side, and then change the salt and lead it to the salt farm to get salt. "

The market in Guanlong was artificially isolated. If salt merchants want to sell salt, they can only exchange grain for salt, and transport the grain to some designated border city warehouses, where they can exchange certificates, and then exchange salt for salt.

In the past, merchants bought salt directly with money, or directly produced salt in salt ponds and salt wells, but now there are many procedures, and you have to exchange grain.

"Your Majesty, as long as you calculate the cost of good luck grain, the profit of selling salt, etc., and then come up with a reasonable ratio of grain to salt, then you can save costs for the court, ensure the grain and grass at the border, and maintain a balance without harming the interests of the merchants. "

Fighting requires food and grass, but more importantly, money and silk.

It also takes manpower and time to transport food, so fighting a war is not a trivial matter.

Li Shimin is of course willing to use the power of merchants to transport grain to the imperial court to save costs and improve efficiency. As for whether the merchants are willing, who cares about them, and Wu Huaiyu also said that he is not directly robbing them.

Wu Huaiyu also pointed out that there is no need for civil officials to collect and sell salt. The salt can be harvested by officials and the people, and they can be sold freely.

"After the merchants transported the grain to the border, the government calculated the distance of the grain transport road, the amount of grain transported, calculated the cost, converted it into the amount of salt, and bought salt by the salt."

After hearing this, Li Shimin said, "It's still a bit complicated."

Yang Shidao suggested that it is better to issue an order that all the salt produced by Guanlong salt farms, regardless of whether they are government or private, are only sold to the government. The government collects the salt and puts it in the warehouse.

Du Ruhui raised an objection, thinking that this method sounds good, but it is too complicated to operate. I am afraid that it will be inconvenient for a while, and it will disturb the people and harm the business. Salt was smuggled into Guanzhong from Hedong and other places.

"Your Majesty, as long as it is profitable, there will definitely be criminals who will take risks. Instead of exchanging grain for salt, it is better to hire merchants to transport grain or attract merchants to buy grain."

The emperor nodded, indicating that he had to think about it again.

"Huaiyu comes with me."

The emperor finished the discussion, but called Huaiyu alone, and took him to another place.

When Huaiyu walked into this small courtyard and saw Zhang Liang, An Yuanshou and a young woman, he suddenly understood a little bit.

This should be the three masters of the six doors.

But what does it mean to call yourself here?
"Your Majesty, Li Yi is about to rebel."

Zhang Liang, the founder of Changping County and General of the Left Guard, reported.

The emperor didn't panic at all.

"Li Yi should have just returned to Jingzhou, right?"

Li Shimin sneered, "I have already given him a chance, but he still took this step in the end, death is not a pity."

Li Yi came to Beijing for the court gathering and participated in the Zhengdan court meeting, but he rushed back to Jingzhou before the Lantern Festival was over.

Before he left, the emperor specially summoned him and talked with him for a long time.

The emperor asked him for advice, expressing that he wanted to transfer him back to the court to serve as the General of the Left Guard. After all, the Guanzhong Twelfth Army had been disbanded, and Li Yi was now a majestic county king.

This is Li Shimin's last way of life for Li Yi, as long as he accepts the order tactfully and never leaves the capital again, maybe the emperor will give him a way of life in the end.

But Li Yi said that the Turks invaded last year, and now Jingzhou is in chaos. The Twelfth Army just withdrew, and it became more and more unstable. He wanted to continue guarding Jingzhou for the court and the emperor, and even boldly proposed to replace Li Daozong as the governor of Lingzhou.

Isn't this courting death?
Li Yi wanted to die because he had been planning a rebellion for a long time, and he was not ready to come to Beijing this time.

But the plot of rebellion is imminent, and it is impossible to stop.

As soon as Li Yi left Chang'an and returned to Jingzhou, he decided to launch a rebellion ahead of schedule.

"Your Majesty, Li Yi has already sent someone to Shuofang to contact Liang Shidu, and has invited troops to go south to Yu Sheshe in Hetao."

Wu Huaiyu sat there, listening to the secret information reported by the three giants of the six doors to the emperor, a little puzzled, why did the emperor bring him to see them?
Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced secretly at Zhang Liang, then at An Yuanshou, and finally landed on the woman.

She is very beautiful, around thirty, with a veil covering her face, but she can still be seen as a beauty, and her voice is also very pleasant.

This should be Gao Hui'an's sister, Daoren Gao Huitong, and her current identity should be Mrs. Gao, the fake mother of Tingyulou in Pingkangfang.

"Li Yi intends to lure the Turks into the army again? But will Jieli respond?"

"Your Majesty, Xieli is too busy to take care of himself now. Saibei is suffering from white disasters, and many livestock are dying."

Wu Huaiyu didn't pay much attention to Li Yi's rebellion, after all, there was no splash in history, and now these few people proved that the emperor was prepared.

He was only curious why Li Shimin brought him here.

"Huaiyu, you shouldn't be unfamiliar with them, right? Changping Lord Zhang Liang, Wuwei Bo'an Yuanshou, this is my swordsman Gao Huitong.

They are in charge of the six gates together. The six gates are mainly to eliminate the remnants of anti-king thieves in various places since the end of the Sui Dynasty, and also to monitor some people who are conspiring.
Six Doors monitors the remnants of rebels in various places, and also adopts many abandoned babies and orphans..."

Huaiyu pretended to be very surprised.

"Bringing you here today is to give you a secret job in the six sects."

The six gates are actually not special, because the gates of the three provinces, six ministries and 24 divisions in the imperial city are six gates.

These yamen have three doors, each with two black lacquered doors, a total of six doors.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the six gates were actually the name of Yamen.

Li Shimin's secret agency is not without a formal name,

It's just not in the imperial court establishment, it's a secret organization, code-named "Six Doors".

This was established secretly when Li Shimin was still the King of Qin. He was responsible for collecting intelligence, contacting heroes in the world, and even doing some black work such as surveillance and assassination.

Zhang Liang has always been doing this. At the beginning, he was caught by Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji by mistake. He was tortured and tortured, but he was a very good guy who didn't open his mouth to reveal anything. So until now, he has been trusted and appreciated by Li Shimin.

After Li Shimin proclaimed himself emperor, the scale of these six sects became larger, and the tasks became heavier.

Now they are not only recruiting rangers, green forest heroes, even street thugs, bandits and grass bandits from all over the world, but also adopted many orphans and abandoned babies, and started training from an early age.

These people are the emperor's eagle dogs.

The term eagle dog is not qualified by ordinary people now.

The six doors are very confidential, and the funds and so on are all the emperor's internal funds.

As for the more confidential personnel, many of them are single-line contacts. There are many eyeliners, hidden stakes, assassins, and some training camps in the six doors, but the most special thing about them is that there may be some inconspicuous traders and servants. The eyeliner of the six doors.

They develop informants like crazy.

Just like Wu Huaiyu's family has several.

"Six Doors is the Fifth Division of the Ministry of Punishment,"

There are four divisions in the Ministry of Punishments, the Division of the Criminal Division, the Division of Dusu, the Division of Bibu, and the Division of Simen. The real name of the six sects is actually the Division of Criminal Constitution, but this does not exist on paper.

Whether it is the Six Doors or the Department of Criminal Justice, they are all secret.

Zhang Liang's hidden identity is the doctor of the Xing Xiansi. An Yuanshou and Gao Huitong are both Yuanwailang. The three of them have four major principals under each of them. Waiting for members.

One person, one team.

The emperor is now going to confer on Wu Huaiyu the third member of the Department of Justice and Constitution, Wailang.

"You are going to Yanzhou to be responsible for establishing a secret intelligence team in Shuofang."

Wu Huaiyu was very resistant to this in his heart, who would want to do this kind of dirty work, these are black gloves.

The emperor not only asked Wu Huaiyu to establish the Shuofang Bureau of the Criminal Constitution Department, set up an intelligence network inside and outside the Shuofang battlefield, but also monitor the governors and generals of Lingzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xiazhou, etc., and even find a way to deal with Hetao. Yu She set up other Turkic tribes to conduct some infiltration.

It's a headache to hear, this job is very difficult.

Besides, he really doesn't want to take on this kind of job, the governor of Yanzhou is not good, the owner of Chongwen Museum is so noble.

But the emperor had already told him these things directly, and he couldn't allow him to refuse.

Li Shimin took out a silver token with a human-faced tiger carved on it, but on the back were an eagle and a thin dog. It was a proper eagle dog.

Then the emperor gave him a small silver seal, and a silver ring with a human face on it.

"Your secret name, Bai Ze!"

Huaiyu had no choice but to take it, feeling heavy.

Zhang Liang stepped forward, "Zhang Liang, the doctor of the criminal constitution department, code-named Bi An!"

An Yuanshou came up, looking at Huaiyu with some embarrassment, "Yuanwai Lang An Yuanshou, his secret name is Bi Fang!"

Finally, there is Gao Huitong with a veil, "Yuanwailang Nine-Tailed Fox."

(End of this chapter)