Chastity Layman

  Chapter 1130 Sealing the frontier of Liaodong Town again

  The autumn in Liaodong is very bleak.

  As far as the eye can see, there are withered and yellow areas everywhere. From Liaodong City to Baiyan City, along the Taizi River, along the meandering river, there are rolling hills on both sides.

   Some villages can still be seen on both sides of the river, but before the arrival of the Tang army, all the Goguryeo people outside the cities were evacuated into the city before the arrival of the Tang army. It's a pity that it didn't have any effect. On the contrary, it was made into a mess by Datang, and even Qing Ye was saved.

  There are only villages left along the way, but there are no people.

  Qin Lang rode a horse and followed the emperor's driving force, surrounded by the Sixth Army of the Emperor's Imperial Guard. Originally, an official offered to build a wheel palace for the emperor, which would be very comfortable and ostentatious, but Li Shimin angrily reprimanded him, demoted him three ranks in a row, and rushed back to the Central Plains.

  When Yang Guangbei toured outside the Great Wall, he had people build a wheel palace. It is said that the wheel palace has hundreds of wheels, pulled by countless oxen and horses, and hundreds of people can live in the wheel palace, just like a splendid mobile golden palace. At the beginning, Yang Guang's wheel palace was extremely luxurious, and it really shocked the Turkic people in Saibei. Anyway, Shibi Khan personally cut a grass road for hundreds of miles for the emperor's wheel palace, and he personally hunted and donated deer blood and deer tongue for the emperor every day. of.

  However, after the three conquests of Liaodong in the Sui Dynasty, when Yang Guang went on a tour to Daibei again, he was surrounded by Shibi Khan with 400,000 cavalry as soon as he arrived at Yanmen Pass, and he almost became a prisoner.

  The majesty of the emperor of the Central Plains is not displayed by a wheel palace.

  Although the emperor has not fought for many years, the emperor also often hunts, so his riding skills are still superb, and he has no discomfort at all when marching on horseback.

   Regarding the land of Liaodong in front of him, Li Shimin's evaluation is much stronger than that of Daibei.

  Qin Lang agreed.

Beyond the Great Wall in Daibei, although there are hundreds of miles of land, it is indeed far inferior to Liaodong. The same winter is cold, but there is Liaodong Plain in Liaodong, and the land is more fertile. As for Daibei, the Great Wall line is actually a dividing line of the dry zone. , After passing the Great Wall, the rainfall is no longer enough to maintain farming.

  So although the Central Plains Dynasty was able to control the land of Daibei for a long time, it was still unable to develop, mainly because those places were not suitable for farming, only suitable for nomadic pastoralism. Therefore, for a long time, even if the Central Plains has occupied these places, it can often only settle some nomadic peoples who belong to them.

  Liaodong is different. It can even be said that Liaodong is much stronger than Hetao Plain. Although it is far away from Guannei, it is very cold in winter, and it is underdeveloped in this era, with rivers silted up, Liaoze hundreds of miles away, and a large number of forests. This is not a problem.

When the four counties of Liaodong were developed in the Han Dynasty, it was very prosperous here, and for hundreds of years thereafter, Liaodong has always had a large population. Later, Goguryeo took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains and captured Liaodong from the hands of Houyan. It has been operating for hundreds of years, and it also left Half-cultivation and half-grazing route.

   It is only because Goguryeo lived in a remote corner after all, and was always facing the threat of the Central Plains dynasty to regain the old land. Therefore, the Goguryeo people occupied Liaodong for hundreds of years, but actually spent most of their energy on defense.

   Just look at the mountain cities and fortresses here and there.

The country is small and the people are few, and the main energy is spent all day on stone-breaking and building mountain cities. Most of the young and strong are incorporated into the army, and they have to deal with the invasion of barbaric nomadic tribes such as Khitan and Mohe. It is indeed not easy to often fight with Silla, Baekje, etc. on the peninsula, and it can last for hundreds of years.

   And if Datang recovers Liaodong, then the operation will definitely be different.

  With the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, who would dare to mess around with the barbarians around?

   With the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, it is bound to be faster to manage and develop Liaodong.

  During the Han and Jin Dynasties, Liaodong was operated mainly in the plain area, and the cities were all in the plain area, while Goguryeo operated Liaodong, mainly operating the mountain city system. This is the biggest difference.

"I'm going to grant some clans and meritorious officials in Liaodong City, hereditary Yongzheng." Li Shimin was very interested in Qin Lang's way of enforcing the title of knight when he was guarding Wu'an at the beginning, and thought that Qin Lang could quickly gain a foothold in the barren land Come, and achieve rapid development, has a lot to do with his enfeoffment of knights.

In particular, he has carefully studied the retainers and knights entrusted by Qin Lang. They are mainly the **** of the noble officials in the Central Plains. The family won the support of population, money, etc., and then quickly managed and expanded the territory, which played a great role in the rapid prosperity of Wu'an Prefecture.

"Liaodong is so vast, but it hangs outside the pass. If it is only operated by the imperial court, it may take a long time to recover, and I am afraid that there will be some repetitions in the middle. So after thinking about it, you ran the Wu'an fiefdom back then. Not a bad way."

  Emperor's plan is to designate the Liaohe River Plain and all the places along the coast as the Zhengzhou of the imperial court, and immigrant households to develop it.

  Qin Lang has no interest in these.

Because the feudal system has already changed, just like the current Wu'an Mansion, Qin Lang only has a little economic privilege left, and can enjoy one-third of the tax income of the fief, and the rest is a little bit of supervision .

   It is precisely because of this that Qin Lang will find a way to start overseas development.

   Such a fiefdom is actually a little income from a real fiefdom, not a real fiefdom.

  From the standpoint of the emperor, this change is understandable, and even the emperor planned it this way at the beginning.

  Now he intends to grant the title to the world again, and this time, he not only grants the title to the princes of the clan's heroes, but also plans to grant titles to some low-level soldiers.

   "I plan to confer fiefdoms on military meritorious officers."

  Datang has honored officers with 12 military merits, but less than 30 years since the founding of the country, the number of honored officers has begun to spread rapidly, and their value has rapidly depreciated.

  In the past, officers and soldiers were very satisfied with rewards for military merits, because honor officers have high gold content. For many soldiers of ordinary origin, this is a rare way for them to cross classes.

  Officers at least have Xun Tian.

  Nowadays, it is becoming more and more difficult for the imperial court to honor rewards. It is difficult to award honorary fields, and it is also difficult to honor the treatment of many other honored officials. This has led to many problems in the current military system.

  Although it is not serious yet, it is already a hidden danger.

   Li Shimin is a wise emperor, he has a long-term vision and tries to solve this problem.

   "Twelve ranks of honorary officers, honorary officers at all levels will grant corresponding land, let them seal Yongzheng forever, develop and manage, what do you think?"

  The lowest rank is transferred to Wuqiwei, and he is regarded as the seventh rank. Li Shimin plans to grant one hundred acres of land, while the highest Shangzhu Kingdom grants fifty hectares of land, which is five thousand acres.

  After Wu Qiwei was honored, he allocated 100 acres of land in Liaodong, and then allocated some nearby mountains and forests to him to make a Zhuangzi. This Zhuangzi's land can be hereditary, and then he can enjoy one-third of the tax revenue. If it is cultivated by oneself, it is equivalent to a one-third tax reduction.

  The higher the honor, the more land.

   But there is one thing, Xuntian Xun's land cannot be sold, and must be managed by himself and his descendants, otherwise the imperial court will take it back. The benefits of doing this are firstly to reward military achievements, and secondly to use this to develop Liaodong.

After all, the ones who can win honors are at least sergeants, and although Datang now has a Beiya that recruits soldiers, it is still dominated by the southern Yamen of the government soldiers. Even the Beiya recruits soldiers, which are basically from the children of officials and landlords Recruited, so the soldiers are originally the middle class of the common people in this era.

  The higher the honor, the harder it is to obtain. Gradually, the officers are the main ones. Therefore, the officers are awarded the land of honor in Liaodong, and the hereditary management will undoubtedly be able to leverage the huge folk power.

  Qin Lang had to admire Li Shimin for being a thief.

Historically, the military system of the Tang Dynasty collapsed in less than a hundred years. There were no soldiers to recruit, and the military soldiers had no combat effectiveness. Land, fame and other rewards.

  So who are the good sons of landlords and wealthy households who are willing to go to the government soldiers, who are willing to prepare their own dry food to fight, and in the end they can't get anything?

   Or even become the bodyguards of noble officials in the end?

Good families avoid military service, and finally bad people join the army, and the combat effectiveness of the army will naturally become worse and worse. Whether it is the quality of the soldiers or the equipment of the soldiers, they can't keep up. In the end, they can only change the recruitment system. The Fubing in the early Tang Dynasty was not a group at all.

Li Shimin's honorary officer system is obviously based on the practice of absorbing Qin Lang's former Wu'an retainers and knights, and granting land to the honored officers who have made military exploits in a place that is in desperate need of development, such as Liaodong, can not only reward the officers and men for their military exploits, but also give them land. Another advantage of developing and operating Liaodong is that these honored officials will become a warrior class in the Tang Dynasty. They are responsible for guarding the land, and their children will also give priority to choosing soldiers.

  The honored officials with fiefdoms can maintain their financial and military strength, can guarantee the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and can guard the frontiers.

  Guaranteeing such a class is tantamount to an important guarantee for the stabilization of the military system of the Tang Dynasty.

   I have to say that the emperor is a good learner.

For the Tang court, in fact, granting fiefdoms to honored officials in the frontier is also beneficial and cost-effective. The land in the frontier is not valuable at all, let alone a Wuqiwei is only one hundred acres, it is three to five hundred acres so what?

Allocate a piece of land that was just captured to them, and they use their family connections or financial resources to manage it. The court only reduced or exempted one-third of the tax, but still collected two-thirds of the tax, not to mention, How much manpower, material and financial resources for development and management can be saved in the middle.

In particular, the emperor planned to list the fertile plain areas as Zhengzhou counties directly under the imperial court, and enfeoff the mountainous areas. Moreover, according to this method of enfeoffment, in fact, these places entrusted to honored officials are also Zhengzhou counties of the imperial court. County.

   It's just a third of the tax.

This abacus is really good. You can imagine that in the future thousands of miles away in Liaodong, there will be tens of thousands of honored officers, and their manors and fiefs will be everywhere in the mountains. All the honored officers will also have their own weapons, and they are skilled in horse bows and horses. soldiers, who can take Liaodong again?

   And the officials of the Tang Dynasty can all get the fiefdom of Xuntian, which can also ensure that this powerful military class will not be shaken and the combat effectiveness will not decline.

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   "Report!"

  Is about to arrive in White Rock City, a knight came to report.

   "The king of Heshun County led the army to attack Baiyan City, but unfortunately the arrow fell, so he had to suspend the siege!"

   "How is Li Simo injured?" Li Shimin asked in surprise!

  (end of this chapter)