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Chapter 73 The first thing to do when you come back: Recruit loyal ministers and kill treacherous ministers!

I have seen Shi Jingtang's life without dignity and moral bottom line, and I have seen Liu Ao's ridiculous emperor's career.

Yang Guang, who returned to his own world, stared blankly at the roof in a daze after waking up.

Before, because Yang Guang issued an edict of guilt in time, and vowed that he would not make those mistakes, it was not easy to stabilize those aristocratic families and the common people.

But Yang Guang knew that the gap between him and the Guanlong nobles had already appeared, and it might be impossible to return to the previous relationship.

But he still has another way to go now, and that is to unite the forces of another class.

After the opening of the imperial examination, the poor families and common people in the middle and lower classes will have a way to rise. As long as there are enough officials in the imperial court to fight against the noble families, Yang Guang will have more means to consolidate the imperial power and suppress the noble families.

What's more, he can still find a person who is strong enough and loyal enough to help!
"Your Majesty, are you awake?" Empress Xiao immediately noticed that Yang Guang was lying on the bed and had opened his eyes.

With the support of Empress Xiao, Yang Guang sat up slowly, and then asked, "Has Zhang Xutuo not come back yet?"

Since he came back last time, Yang Guang has put a lot of trust in Li Shimin's "the last famous general of the Sui Dynasty, Zhang Xutuo", and even entrusted him with the secret task of going to the Li family in Taiyuan to summon Li Shimin.

Yang Guang's mother and Li Yuan's mother are "sisters", so Yang Guang and Li Yuan are cousins.

It is said that the three dynasties of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, and Tang Dynasty were "relative dynasties". It seems that the dynasties have changed, but in fact the core ruling group is still the same few families, which have not changed for hundreds of years.

After hearing Yang Guang's question, Empress Xiao replied: "I haven't heard the news of General Zhang's return yet."

However, before Empress Xiao's words fell to the ground, there was a burst of footsteps outside.

"The last general Zhang Xutuo, see Your Majesty!"

"Li Shimin, the last general, see Your Majesty!!"

Li Shimin is here!
Yang Guang's eyes lit up, he didn't care to put on the dragon robe, and ran out of the room with disheveled hair, holding the loyal minister rune in his hand.

"Haha! My good nephew is here!!!"

Yang Guangda smiled and ran to Li Shimin, hugged him, and patted the loyalty rune on Li Shimin's back.

An imperceptible blue light flashed past, and Li Shimin's feeling of resistance in his heart suddenly disappeared.

Zhang Xutuo blinked suddenly, he seemed to see a blue light in a daze just now.

But when he looked again, he couldn't see anything abnormal at all, except for the sudden good relationship between Li Shimin and Yang Guang.
"Hahaha! Shimin, you are finally here! Come, come, I have set up a family feast for you, and you must not get drunk today!"

"His Majesty."

"Call my cousin!"

"Cousin."

"Okay! Shimin, you were born with a handsome talent and extraordinary heroism. You will definitely be a rare virtuous general in the world in the future! I will definitely make great use of you, and I will not be inferior to General Zhang Xutuo in the slightest!"

Zhang Xutuo, who was next to him, was astonished and grateful at the same time, "Your Majesty, the final general is willing to die for the Sui Dynasty and His Majesty!"

"Come on! Shimin, General Zhang, come with me to the banquet!"

After Li Shimin and Zhang Xutuo looked at each other, they all bowed to Yang Guang and said, "Thank you! Your Majesty!"

Li Longji is still in the tenth year of Kaiyuan.

At this time, the national power of the Tang Dynasty was booming, and the world was singing and dancing.

Although there is no crisis now, Li Longji and the civil and military officials who have seen the future tragedy of the Tang Dynasty are still full of a sense of crisis for the future.

Li Longji is still a wise and decisive emperor now,

He followed the advice of the ministers, immediately ordered the arrest of Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong and others, and sent frontier troops to search for the whereabouts of An Lushan.

At the same time, with the help of Zhang Shuo, he began to abolish the frontier army, reform the military system of the capital, and was still planning how to reduce the power of the Jiedushi.

The name "Jiedushi" has probably become a heart disease for all Tang people.

An Lushan and Shi Siming, the protagonists of the "Anshi Rebellion", both acted as Jiedu envoys of the separatist side when they rebelled.

To a large extent, it can be said that it was Jiedushi's excessive power that caused the tragedy of the "Anshi Rebellion".

To what extent is the power of Jiedushi?This can be said from three aspects.

First, financial aspects.

The Jiedu envoys of the Tang Dynasty could farm fields in their own jurisdiction, be self-sufficient, and meet the logistical supplies of their own army, without worrying about being choked by the central government of the Tang Dynasty and having no food to eat.

At the same time, Jiedu envoys also obtained the management rights of salt resources and collected salt tax, so those Jiedu envoys became very rich.

Second, the military aspect.

In terms of military affairs, the feudal town implements a recruitment system. As long as the feudal town's Jiedushi has enough money, he can recruit troops without restriction.

However, the central government of the Tang Dynasty had no way to control and control the number of Jiedushi's army, and it could even be said that it had lost the right to manage the Jiedushi's army in the feudal town. These soldiers had completely become Jiedushi's personal soldiers.

Moreover, Jiedu enables several group armies with unified mobilization and greater flexibility to fight, and has the right to "military exclusive killing".

Third, the administrative aspect.

In order to avoid the influence of local officials on the military operations of Jiedushi, starting from Tianbaozhong, Jiedushi had the administrative power of the feudal town.

The officials of the feudal towns were all appointed by the Jiedu envoy to the central court of the Tang Dynasty, and even the governor of the state belonged to the Jiedu envoy.

In this way, the feudal town Jiedushi has the administrative power of several states within its jurisdiction, and can select and appoint officials on its own, which leads to a nest of snakes and rats.

Not only that, some people even counted as Jiedu envoys of the Dao. In this way, one can imagine how terrible the result will be.
But why did Tang Xuanzong in history give Jiedushi so much power?

The reason actually lies in the powerful foreign enemies that Datang faces.

Since the early Tang Dynasty, the Tang court has been facing a huge threat from foreign enemies.

Tubo, Turks, Xi, Khitan, etc. took turns to invade the border areas of the Tang Dynasty.

Although Tang Taizong beat them honestly when he was there, he didn't beat them to death. After these foreign countries recovered, they began to think about the rich Tang Dynasty again.

It's a pity that not all the emperors of the Tang Dynasty were Li Shimin, nor were there as many generals as Li Shimin's time.

In the face of frequent and flexible harassment by foreign races, the Tang Dynasty's army often had to be exhausted.

The foreign races are often dispatched by thousands or more than ten thousand elite cavalry, moving quickly and coming and going like the wind.

Often when the court of the Tang Dynasty received news of the enemy's attack, they began to mobilize for battle, transport food and grass, and assemble troops.

By the time the army was finally driven to the front line, the enemy had already disappeared without a trace.

In view of this dilemma of being passively beaten, the court of the Tang Dynasty began to station standing troops in important border towns, and the chiefs of border towns were Jiedushi.

Since the central court was not very clear about the specific situation on the border, it gave Jiedushi the right to recruit troops on his own.

In the prosperous age, those who are willing to go to the border to serve as soldiers are generally helpless, desperate homeless and desperadoes. They can only take the army as their home and serve in the army for life, which is equivalent to professional soldiers.

Jiedushi holds the power of life and death for them, and they have a strong attachment to Jiedushi. If things go on like this, Jiedushi will have absolute control over the army.

Coupled with the fact that Jiedushi gradually took over the military, civilian, financial, and political power of a district, and often controlled two to three towns with one person, and as many as four towns, when they mastered the world's powerful soldiers, they were equivalent to one by one. Earth emperor.

When the power of the central government is divided and the authority of the central court is weakened, those local emperors will turn into hungry wolves with green eyes and show their sharp fangs to the prosperous Central Plains world.

It was from the emperors of later generations that Li Longji learned about the dangers of Jiedushi, so he made up his mind to check and balance the power of Jiedushi first.

And this point is an extreme test of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's ability to know and employ people.

But Li Longji doesn't panic at all now, because he can learn from the later emperors who are loyal ministers and who are treacherous ministers and sycophants!
(End of this chapter)