Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 626 Sudden Chaos

Zhao Long's battle report terrified many people, including Wang Rui. There were almost zero casualties in each battle, and the crushing massacre gave them a full understanding of Datang's absolute force.

The most terrible thing is Li Shimin's attitude when Zhao Long wiped out Wang Hao's remnants. Since he is happy to see Wang Hao's remnants wiped out, it means that he gave up the strategic plan that Wang Hao suggested to him before and adopted In addition to the conservative development suggested by Sun Xiangfu, the strategy of slowly integrating and promoting expansion in a non-war way.

When the emperor has absolute force and can ignore the economic capital of other families, they always feel that their necks are cold, and they may be beheaded at any time. Therefore, each family is doing similar things. Prepare.

However, what they didn't know was that Li Shimin wanted to use everything he could use, so when Feng An launched a general attack on those miscellaneous coalition forces, Li Shimin's imperial edict arrived.

"Recruitment?"

After Feng An received the imperial edict, he looked in disbelief at the general who had appeared out of nowhere and actually held the imperial edict with Li Shimin's official seal.

He wasn't surprised that there were secret guards in his army, but was surprised why Li Shimin would do such a thing.

"Yes, Duke Yue, how can you say that there are [-] to [-] young and strong, even if there are some extremists among them, just pick them out and behead them. .”

"These people have killed people and seen blood. Even if they farm on the spot, I'm afraid they won't survive."

Feng An naturally agrees with killing less people. For him, as long as he has a certain ability to sail at sea, with a little training, he is a good hand.

However, it may not be appropriate to place them on the remote coast of India in this way, because these people have spent at least a year or two living a life dominated by looting and massacres, and they can no longer be treated as civilians.

"So, Your Majesty will leave me here to manage these people. I'm afraid you will get some ships and a few thousand naval soldiers for me."

Although the soldiers in Lingnan were under Feng An's control, they were also soldiers of the imperial court. If Feng An said nothing about this matter, it would be serious.

However, his original purpose of coming here was to rescue the kingdom of Farnabi and keep the trade from south of the Five Ridges to India uninterrupted. As for the army, he has no intention of rebelling. Li Shimin can use it however he likes. Resistance.

"Well, if you can persuade those people to surrender, I will leave you thirty warships and 5000 troops."

"So, Duke Yue will wait for the good news from the next official!"

Seeing the confident smile of the secret guard general hiding in his army, Feng An knew that the recruiting would be successful.

Now, all he can do is to quickly inform Sun Xiangfu of the situation here. However, this is the remote coast of India. After a month or two.

That night, the secret guard reported to Li Shimin the situation that the people on the No. [-] embankment were vying to say goodbye to Sun Zhengming, but Li Shimin just laughed it off. They should eat, sleep, and spend the night. For several days in a row, the northern workers in the entire Shannan Road area were evacuated, and Li Shimin did not respond.

However, at this time, news came from Chang'an.

I don't know who spread the news of the situation in Jiuyuan County to the whole country, and incited the envy and hatred of the people. Now, like the people in Shannan Road, many people in poor areas feel that the court only treats It is unfair that the people in several counties of Shannan Road are so nice. Of course, if it is under normal circumstances, they will not have this kind of cognition and have any complaints against the imperial court. After all, starting from the new countryside, everyone I know that the policy of the imperial court is gradually advancing to the whole country.

But I can't stand the deliberate incitement of someone with a heart!Ordinary people, who don't want to enjoy free medical care, free education, and free pensions like the people in Jiuyuan County, especially those who are old, lose their labor force, suffer from illnesses all year round, and have no money for medical treatment at home.

Therefore, people in need of assistance and assistance appeared on a large scale across the country, and they went to the government office to petition. After that, many ordinary people also began to join the ranks. Maybe there is!

Human nature is like this, everyone wants more for themselves, poor people come out of poverty, even in later generations, there are many impoverished counties, and the whole county is unwilling to take off the hat of 'poverty', just because they take off the hat, they You cannot continue to receive various poverty subsidies from the state, let alone now.

Moreover, the officials of the current Yamen are actually mainly from family backgrounds. Naturally, they have received the instruction from the family long ago, and rejected the petitions of the people in a very rude way, and deliberately stimulated the people who petitioned. Emotions.

This incident also broke out in Shannan Road at the beginning, but the local county magistrate was stalked by some people for a while. After the eldest grandson Wuji came forward and promised that the policy would be gradually implemented in all counties, the people settled down.

But this is only in the area of ​​Shannan Province. In those places where the folk customs are already strong, there are those local officials who deliberately use violent methods to drive away the people and create conflicts between the government and the people, which immediately formed a huge backlash, and even caused bloodshed. Some people died, emergency reports from all over the country were sent to Chang'an like a snowflake, and the secret guards also sent various news to Li Shimin one after another.

"Okay, why is the world in chaos all of a sudden?"

Li Shimin put his hands on his hips, looked at the eldest grandson Wuji who hurried to Jiuyuan County, Fang Xuanling, Qu Tuquan and others said depressedly.

"Don't suffer from poverty, but suffer from inequality. Moreover, some people deliberately took out of context, incited the people, and stimulated the people with a bad attitude, which led to the current situation. It seems that what is said is right. The foundation of our Tang Dynasty is still Unstable, just a little bit of a problem, and it turned into the current situation." Fang Xuanling said a little depressed.

No matter what the reason is, the bloody conflict between the government and the people is due to the fact that the work of the court is not in place. This fully proves that the government is not an object that the people can trust and rely on. The overall popular support of the Tang Dynasty is still very weak. Not to the extent that everyone is patriotic and willing to understand the court's policies.

If all parts of the country are like the counties of Jiuyuan, Jinan, and Zhongxiang, or even as long as they reach the level of the counties in Guanzhong, this kind of thing will not break out, because the people in these areas have a lot of output, and there is no need to count on it. With the help of others, you can live well.

"Is there any problem with the prince's handling?"

The reports from various places were sent to Chang'an first. Therefore, Li Chengqian, who was in charge of the country, came into contact with this matter a few days earlier than Li Shimin, and had already made a preliminary solution. His solution was that all local officials who had bloody conflicts should Dismissed from office and imprisoned, all chief officials of prefectures and counties where quarrels and conflicts with the people are relatively serious will be suspended pending investigation.

The Ministry of Rites was also asked to write an article, and additional newspapers were distributed nationwide. Officials from the Ministry of Justice were responsible for reading and explaining to the people, explaining that these welfare projects were promoted by the cooperation between Jiuyuan County and the local chamber of commerce, and were fully funded by the local chamber of commerce. The imperial court favored the people in a certain place and gave them special and generous benefits.

In addition, the government is already fully promoting the construction of people's livelihood across the country. The new countryside will be promoted to all states and counties in the country within three to five years. Similar to the welfare guarantee in Jiuyuan County, it will also be gradually promoted after the agricultural tax is fully exempted. .

At the same time, he ordered urgently to order all the art troupes under Tailesi to go to counties in remote areas and even villages to perform condolence performances one by one, publicize the policies of the imperial court, do a good job in the ideological work of the people, and tell them to work with peace of mind. Such benefits are available to everyone.

After all, if you want all patients in the country to take medicine, you must first produce domestically enough medicinal materials for all patients. If you want children in the country to read books, you must first have so many books and teachers in the country. , can be used.

Before the national strength has really reached this level, no one has the means to start immediately. Even the Jiuyuan County School has a shortage of teachers. Given the current shortage of talents in the Tang Dynasty, not many scholars are willing to become teachers. , even if teachers can obtain the status of first-class citizens, because people with this level, with a little effort, can become officials with higher income and more dignified social status, willing to contribute to others, and have nothing to do. Those who do not retain the knowledge they have mastered are very few.

"Your Majesty, generally speaking, the crown prince's handling is fairly good. However, hundreds of officials have been imprisoned and thousands of officials have been suspended. The backlash may be huge. You must come forward to stabilize the situation." Fang Xuanling once again spoke out.

"How to stabilize the situation?"

After Fang Xuanling was silent for a long time, he replied, "I think that I can take this opportunity to promote a large-scale system reform, kick out all those who are above the dead from the ranks of officials, and at the same time, promote and appoint Some newly emerged talents, imitating the Jiuyuan county government, build a new official administration based on the local people and more detailed management."

"Do you think so about the auxiliary machine?" Li Shimin asked, looking at the pensive eldest grandson Wuji again.

"Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal. However, I am afraid that things will not be that simple. Even if this turmoil breaks out three years later, it is possible to directly promote the reform of officials and replace officials on a large scale, as the Prime Minister said. Build a new management system to solve the possible chaos in the court. But now, I'm afraid it can't be done."

"Why?"

"Because there are not enough manpower! You should have seen the list of civil servants in Jiuyuan County in the past few days! Although Jiuyuan County is only a county, there are nearly a hundred high-level officials under its governance. Even the mayor , are all officials who have entered the ninth rank. The chief officers, adjutants, and assistant officers of each division are all neat, plus the unranked servants, patrols, community directors of the Ministry of People's Livelihood, and the number of all public officials. There are as many as 600 people. Except for the Yuantian area, or Guanzhong prefectures and counties, if other prefectures and counties establish such a huge management system like them, it may be very difficult. Insufficient manpower and excessive financial consumption are all problems. .

And those people, they chose to launch together at this juncture in a very organized manner this time, and used some ambiguous rhetoric that they can get out of themselves afterwards to stimulate the people. The manpower to promote the comprehensive reform of the bureaucracy does not have the financial resources to promote the comprehensive reform of the people's livelihood policy. In the end, they will definitely choose to compromise with them to maintain stability for the time being. That's why they are so confident.

Therefore, what we have to consider is what is the purpose they want to achieve when they have deliberately planned such a big thing? "

(End of this chapter)