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Chapter 286

[While Li Yun was rebelling, there was another person who was secretly preparing to move, and he was Li Chongjin, the governor of Huainan. 】

[Among the many Jiedu envoys, Li Chongjin's identity is quite special. He is the nephew of Guo Wei, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and a general with great military exploits.

During Chai Rong's reign, Li Chongjin shared military power with Zhang Yongde, Zhao Kuangyin and others.After Chai Rong's death, Li Chongjin was appointed by the court as Taiwei, changed to Huainan Jiedu envoy, and left the town of Yangzhou.

Soon after, Zhao Kuangyin added a yellow robe, Chen Qiao mutinied, usurped the throne and seized power, and then cut off Li Chongjin's post of commander of the guard and horse infantry.

Just at this time, Li Yun suddenly rebelled against the Song Dynasty. With this opportunity, Li Chongjin made repeated calculations and decided to unite with Li Yun to fight against the Song Dynasty. 】

[However, what Li Chongjin never expected was that Li Yun would be defeated so quickly that Li Chongjin missed the best time to raise troops.

After quelling the Li Yun Rebellion, Zhao Kuangyin transferred Li Chongjin from the Huainan Jiedu envoy to the Pinlu Jiedu envoy under an order. Now Li Chongjin was terrified, worried that once he left his lair, he would be attacked by Zhao Kuangyin. Violent hands.

In order to reassure Li Chongjin, Zhao Kuangyin specially gave him an iron coupon to avoid death to show his position.

Li Chongjin is still worried, because he is a close relative of the Zhou family, Guo Wei's nephew, and has military power. Isn't a person like him a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the new emperor Zhao Kuangyin?
Can an iron coupon to avoid death really save life (at least there is no guarantee for Zhu Yuanzhang)?
Obviously, Li Chongjin is more willing to believe in himself than to leave his fate in the hands of others.

He rejected the imperial court's transfer order, stayed in his own territory, repaired the city, actively prepared for war, and asked for help from the Southern Tang Dynasty, preparing to fight back desperately. 】

Zhu Yuanzhang: "."

The ministers of the Ming Dynasty who had obtained the Iron Certificate of Danshu, that is, the gold medal for avoiding death, couldn't help but trembled in their hearts when they saw this.

In history, after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he granted 34 meritorious officials a "gold medal for avoiding death".

However, in the end, only 14 people died well, and the remaining 20 were all killed by Lao Zhu for various reasons. The "gold medal for avoiding death" became the "gold medal for urging death".

[Li Chongjin refused to surrender, so Zhao Kuangyin was not polite.

In October of the first year of Jianlong (AD 960), Zhao Kuangyin appointed Shi Shouxin as the deployment capital of Yangzhou camp, under the jurisdiction of Wang Shenqi, Li Chuyun and other generals, and led the elite imperial army to attack Li Chongjin, but he was unable to conquer it.

At this time, Zhao Pu pointed out to Zhao Kuangyin: "Li Chongjin relies on the Changhuai River, repairs the isolated fortress, refuses to rescue from outside, and lacks resources inside, so it is advisable to take it quickly."

Zhao Kuangyin obeyed Zhao Pu's suggestion, issued an edict to personally conquer, and led the soldiers of the Sixth Army to set off from Kaifeng, sail down the river by boat, and head straight for Yangzhou.

The emperor's personal conquest can always boost morale, and the frontline officers and soldiers began to fight bravely, and finally successfully broke through Yangzhou.

Li Chongjin eventually set himself on fire, reducing him and his family to ashes.

The suppression of Erli's rebellion, in the sense of offering advice and conquering himself, Zhao Pu's contribution is very remarkable.After the war, he was rewarded for his meritorious service, so he moved to the post of Minister of the Ministry of war and deputy envoy of the Privy Council. 】

[At the end of the first year of Jianlong (AD 960), one day after Song Taizu put down Li Yun and Li Chongjin's rebellion, he suddenly summoned Zhao Pu and asked: "Since the Tang Dynasty for decades, the emperors have changed their eight surnames and fought endlessly. What is the reason for the people's devastation? I want to stop the soldiers of the world and plan for the country for a long time. What is the way?"

Zhao Kuangyin himself seized power after "adding the yellow robe". Of course, he was also afraid that his subordinates would follow him and give himself a "yellow robe".

Although Zhao Pu did not study much, he was proficient in governance. In fact, he had secretly considered these issues of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.

Now after listening to Song Taizu's question, he said: "Your Majesty said this, the blessing of heaven, earth, people and gods. It's not because of it. Fangzhen is too heavy, and the monarch is weak and the minister is strong. If you want to rule it now, you have to seize its power and control it. With his money and food, and with his elite soldiers, the world will be at peace."

It means: The crux of the question you asked is that the power of the feudal town is too heavy, the monarch is weak and the ministers are strong, and there is no clever way to govern. The only way to do it is to deprive them of power, control their money and grain, and recruit their elite soldiers, then the world will naturally It's settled. 】

[Zhao Kuangyin is naturally a wise monarch. As soon as he heard Zhao Pu's words, a whole set of policies and strategies to strengthen the monarchy, restrain and weaken the power of all parties immediately appeared in his mind.

But now, the most important task is to solve the problem of generals who support their own troops. 】

[On a certain night, Zhao Kuangyin left Shi Shouxin and other generals to talk about the brotherhood.

After getting a little drunk, he took the opportunity to confide to the generals the hardships of being an emperor. He can't rest at night and prevent accidents, which is not as good as your ministers' peace of mind.

When Shi Shouxin and others expressed their allegiance to the death, they said, what if your subordinates are only a few for the sake of wealth and honor?

It is also said that the most important thing in life is to accumulate more money, farms and houses, to establish immovable property for children and grandchildren, and to buy more singing girls and beautiful women to drink and have fun all day long.My emperor and you are in-laws, isn't it great that we don't have any suspicions about each other?

Everyone finally understood the meaning of these words, so the next day these generals resigned their military posts one after another, handed over their military power, and went to the localities to serve as Jiedu envoys.

This is the famous "a cup of wine releases military power", and Zhao Pu's advice inspired Zhao Kuangyin. Therefore, in the third year of Jianlong (962 AD), Zhao Kuangyin was promoted to Zhao Pu as a privy envoy, school inspector and Taibao, and he was promoted again. 】

["A glass of wine releases military power" is actually only the first step in solving the general's military power.

Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, the hidden dangers of Fang Zhen's power-gathering and the power-gathering of the new Forbidden Army have been Zhao Kuangyin's top priority.

The key is how to infiltrate Zhao Pu's twelve-character policy and strategy into the establishment of court and local officials, and completely change the logic of operation from the foundation, so that they must operate under the authority of the monarch.

Under Zhao Pu's counselor, this set of mutually restrictive functions and powers system was finally formulated: this is the central government to set up a deputy minister, a privy envoy and deputy, and three division ministers to divide the power of the prime minister and achieve the effect of mutual restraint.

The privy envoys are directly under the command of the emperor, while the horse guards and infantry commanders of the imperial guards and the front of the palace are all in charge of training and guarding.

In the first year of Qiande (963 A.D.), Zhao Kuangyin used Zhao Pumou to dismiss Wang Yanchao and other local envoys and gradually cut down the power of dozens of kings with different surnames.

On the other hand, the imperial court recruited the bravest soldiers and recruited the best and strongest men into the forbidden army in famine years, so all the best soldiers in the world were under the command of the Privy Council.

Although there are no elite soldiers in the local area, the combination of local troops can still restrain the imperial army. This has formed a system of strong stems and weak branches, and internal and external constraints. 】

Seeing this, Liu Che suddenly sneered and said, "Hehe, it turns out that the reason for the great conspiracy and evil started here. Zhao Pu, the counselor, has created a good future for the literati."

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but shook his head and said: "The art of an emperor lies in balance, and replacing martial arts with literature is the way to bring disaster. Could it be that Song Taizu couldn't even understand such a simple truth? No, he must have known it, just because he knew what he had to do." The position is not correct, and the fear in the heart is that the generals under his command will follow suit!"

Zhao Ji said: "The Taizu has made a great wish to change his thinking of emphasizing civility over martial arts, but I don't know if Zhao Pu's appearance this time will add more variables. Sigh."

(End of this chapter)