Chastity Layman

  Chapter 706 Fanzhen

   "Huailiang, we are the only ones in this palace. If you have something to say, just speak up and let it go."

  On the outskirts of Chang'an, on the bank of the Chan River, Changle Palace.

  The emperor was wearing a hunting suit, but Qin Lang was wearing a long gown.

   "I have officially granted this Changle Palace to Lizhi, and it will be Lizhi's property from now on."

  Qin Lang sat there, holding a teacup in his hand, thinking what does this have to do with me, besides, who are you with.

  According to the agreement, in four more years, Princess Li Lizhi of Changle will officially marry into the Qin family and become Qin Lang's wife. This day is getting closer and closer, Li Shimin is already preparing a dowry for Li Lizhi.

  Because the dowry was a bit too generous, several times what he had prepared for the royal sisters, this matter also caused Wei Zheng to complain several times, saying that the dowry of the niece was richer than that of the aunt, which was a disrespectful behavior. Li Shimin didn't bother to pay attention to Wei Zheng this time, when he gave the land to Tang Mu of 3,000 households in Changle, Wei Zheng also said too much.

In the end, Li Shimin, who had just become emperor for a short time, admitted his mistake and agreed to redefine the ranks and feudal titles of the royal princesses. Princesses were only given false titles before they were married. There were strict regulations on the number of sealed households. It is only when the seal is officially issued, but the number of seals cannot be rewarded indiscriminately.

   These Li Shimin have endured.

  But now he buys the dowry for the princess himself, and he doesn't use the treasury, and he doesn't break the rules set at the beginning to give it to Shiyi.

  Wei Zheng talked about it several times, and even annoyed the emperor, so he simply gave this Changle Palace to Li Lizhi as her private estate.

   "Whatever your Majesty wants to ask, I will definitely say everything, and I will never stop talking!"

  Li Shimin was not satisfied with Qin Lang's attitude. He was respectful on the surface, but dissatisfied in his words. "Sanlang, what's going on with you recently? But because I suppressed your military reform plan, you're going to quit and take sick leave for a long time instead of going to court?"

   "The sage is wronged. I have also devoted myself to the king's affairs. I have been secretly presiding over the firearms workshop and the Shenji camp for the sage. When inspecting the development of firearms, I was injured when the artillery exploded. This is not a fake."

  Li Shimin sighed, "I know you are injured, but the imperial doctor also said that your injury is not serious, and it will be almost healed after taking care of it for so long."

   "Kechen really feels uncomfortable recently!"

  Li Shimin can't wait to get up and beat him up. When you **** moved to Tuyuhun, you marched deep into barren, snow-covered plateaus, glaciers and snow valleys. I never saw you complaining about suffering. Now that you are enjoying the happiness every day, you are complaining.

"Let me tell you the truth. I have read your memorial to the reform of the military system. I have read it very carefully and thought it over. The prefectural soldiers were stationed in Jiuzhen after a round of garrisons, and they became permanent frontier soldiers for hire, which can certainly solve many of the problems you mentioned, but it will also create many new problems."

   "I ask you, do you know the Six Towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty?"

  The Six Towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty, of course, knew that the uprising of the Six Towns ruined the Northern Wei Dynasty.

"I think back then, during the time of Emperor Daowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the capital Pingcheng was first built to prevent the invasion of Rouran from the north. People started from Shanggu in the east and overhauled the city defenses in the Hequ area in the west."

  The Northern Wei Dynasty was started by the Tuoba tribe of Xianbei as nomads. Later, they established their capital in Pingcheng in Yunzhong and established the Northern Wei Dynasty outside the Great Wall. After that, they conquered the northern countries and unified the north.

  Because the capital, Pingcheng, is located in the Fortress, it is very close to the Rouran people in the grassland, and is extremely vulnerable to invasion threats. Therefore, several emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty strengthened the frontier defense of the Fortress, built six military towns, and stationed heavy troops.

  The six towns are equipped with generals and subordinates in the town capital, and garrisons are placed under the town, and the town soldiers patrol and defend. The generals of the six towns are all served by Xianbei nobles and Liangzhou warriors, and the garrison soldiers are mainly Xianbei people, and some are from the Central Plains.

  The six towns were the lifeline of national defense in the Northern Wei Dynasty, so they enjoyed an important position in the court of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The officers of the six towns became dignitaries of the country and enjoyed higher privileges. Then, with Emperor Xiaowen, they vigorously promoted Sinicization and moved the capital to Luoyang.

  The role of the six towns in the north is gradually weakening, and the generals of the military towns gradually lose their generous treatment in the past.

In the past, the generals of the six towns were the pride of heaven, but later they all became outcasts of the times. The relatives of the emperor and the noble family, but later they were all thieves and refugees.

  The six towns were far away from the frontier, so they were unable to support themselves. They had to rely on the Northern Wei court for supplies. When the Northern Wei Dynasty moved from Pingcheng, which was close to the six towns, to Luoyang in the Central Plains, the six towns were completely abandoned.

  The political loss of the six towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the reduction of the military, as well as the economic bankruptcy, the confusion of the organizational structure, and various contradictions intertwined at the end of the Wei Dynasty, and finally the six towns uprising broke out.

  Datang was established by the Guanlong Group, but the Guanlong Group was an alliance between the generals of Wuchuan Town who entered the customs and the powerful people of Guanlong.

  At the end of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Six Towns revolted, and the Northern Wei Dynasty suppressed it several times. Although the rebellion was quelled, Erzhu Rong also relied on his military power to win the government, and many generals of the Six Towns also turned to him.

Later, Er Zhurong was killed by Gao Huan, who was born in Huaishuo Town. Gao Huan controlled the court of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The emperor was established, so the Northern Wei Dynasty split into the Eastern and Western Weis.

  Li Shimin's great-grandfather, Li Yuan, was a soldier in Wuchuan Town, and Li Hu's ancestors were military officers guarding Wuchuan for several generations. Later, Li Hu followed Tuoba Yue into Luoyang to pacify Yuanhao, and then followed him into Guanzhong to destroy Wanqi ghost slaves, and stayed in Longyou. Later, He Bayue, the leader of Wuchuan Town, was killed by his subordinate Hou Mo Chenyue, and the generals tried to embrace Yu Wentai as the eldest brother. Li Hu disagreed, and went to Jingzhou starry night to persuade He Bayue's elder brother, He Basheng, to take over the people in Guanzhong. Unfortunately, He Basheng didn't listen.

  Later Yu Wentai was supported by Wuchuan military leaders as the new eldest brother, Li Hu had no choice but to return, but was captured by Gao Huan's men halfway and sent to Luoyang. At this time, Emperor Xiaowu Yuanxiu of the Northern Wei Dynasty was also dissatisfied with Gao Huan's dictatorship and seizure of power. He wanted to gain the support of the generals in Wuchuan Town in Guanzhong, so he appointed him as General Wei and sent him to Yuwentai to assist in guarding Guanzhong.

  Later, Li Hu and Yu Wentai pacified Hou Mo and Chen Yue, and Yuan Xiu also found an opportunity to escape from Guanzhong and establish another court.

Later, Yu Wentai led the Wuchuan army leaders to sweep Guanlong, conquer the dissatisfied forces, and fight against Gao Huan in the Guandong. After Yuanxiu was poisoned and killed, the Wuchuan army leaders supported Yuan Baoju as emperor and established the Western Wei Dynasty .

  Li Hu was also named Zuo Pushe and Taiwei because of his meritorious service, and he and Yu Wentai were awarded the highest military title "Zhuguo".

  Qin Lang’s military system reform plan reminded Li Shimin of the Guanlong Group, the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties established by the military leaders of Wuchuan Town, and the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi established by the military leaders of Huaishuo Town.

  The establishment of six towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty did solve the problem of northern border defense at the beginning, but later it became the culprit of the Northern Wei Dynasty's demise.

  The Li family was born as a general of the Six Towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Six Towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty not only destroyed the Northern Wei Dynasty, but also established the Eastern and Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Northern Qi, Sui and Tang.

  Destroy the Northern Wei Dynasty, establish the Six Dynasties, the rise and fall are all in the hands of the military town.

   This made Li Shimin have to be vigilant.

  Since Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, he has been looking for a way to control the escaped tiger, with the intention of putting the Guanlong Group back into the cage. Wenzhi and martial arts are excellent, especially Yang Jian, who is powerful in political tactics. Together with Gao Jiong, Li Delin, and Su Wei, he reformed step by step, and finally introduced a mature, stable and safe new military system.

The soldiers will be separated and the soldiers will be naturalized, which not only retains the combat effectiveness of the government soldiers, but also reduces the cost of the court's military support. The most important thing is that the military power of the generals has finally been taken away, so you don't have to worry about the soldiers embracing the soldiers at every turn. The rebellion broke out.

  Qin Lang wants to build a standing frontier army, the focus is on relocation and garrison and employment and payment.

  The frontier army is no longer a place where prefectural soldiers are dispatched in turn to be on duty. The frontier army is normalized and fixed. This makes Li Shimin start to worry, will there be a new six towns?

  Will the Border Town Army form a new warrior group?

  History tells Li Shimin that this is inevitable.

  Even if Qin Lang said that the imperial court controls the equipment, food and payment, the problem is that the frontier troops have been controlling the frontier for a long time, and even their family members are also there, which will inevitably form a group of warriors.

  It is very dangerous to control these frontier troops only by food and equipment.

"The army is a double-edged sword. The imperial court needs this sword to maintain the peace of the frontier and deter the Central Plains. But if you are not careful, you will be cut by this sword. The best way is to add a scabbard to the sword. Wear the sword instead of flashing the sword lightly. When the sword comes out, see blood, and put it back into the sheath, and you must never draw the sword out of the sheath all the time." The emperor said slowly.

  The current government military system is basically the government military system of the Sui Dynasty. The biggest feature is the separation of soldiers and generals.

  Generals usually do not command troops, and the court does not have to bear too much military expenditure.

   As for the mercenary system, Li Shimin is also experimenting. The Sixth Army of the Beiya Army and the secretly established Shenji Battalion all use mercenary standing soldiers, but these soldiers are at the feet of the emperor, and the emperor and the court have stricter control over these soldiers.

  But if it is placed on the frontier, the sky is high and the road is far away, it will be difficult to control.

The current government military system can't keep up with Li Shimin's pace of expanding territory, but he still treats the army very cautiously, and will never change the military system easily. This is a military system that has been polished for decades in the Sui Dynasty. It brought prosperity to the Sui Dynasty.

  Back then, Yang Guang had reformed the military system of the government and established a large number of recruited Xiaoguo Army with strong combat effectiveness, but in the end the Xiaoguo Army not only failed to defend Yang Guang, but killed the king.

  Qin Lang admired Li Shimin very much.

  Thinking very long-term, even though he is young but already has great martial arts skills, he is still so cautious, not as drifting as Yang Guang.

Looking back at his own plan, there are indeed many problems. In essence, he explained the problems that actually occurred in the Tang Dynasty in advance from the history, and used the methods used by later generations in advance, but ignored this. Not necessarily the best.

Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty changed the military system of the early Tang Dynasty, set up Jiedu envoys and military towns in the frontier, which seemed to adapt to the rhythm of the Ming emperor's expansion of the territory and strengthened the efficiency of frontier warfare, but in fact it also buried The hidden danger of the separatist rule of the feudal town was eliminated.

   Later, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, and it was also the border town rebellion initiated by An Lushan, who was also the governor of the three towns.

"I also know that there are many problems in the current government military system. If we don't solve them now, we will not be able to prevent them from breaking out in 20 or 30 years. But we can't find a perfect solution. Changing them easily is not a good way. Huailiang, You are smart, you have led soldiers in the army and fought in wars, and you understand economics, you can think about a new military system for me that has the best of both worlds, can you?"

  Qin Lang smiled wryly, there is no such good way to achieve both in the world.

  After the collapse of the military system in the early Tang Dynasty, the recruitment system was established, which also led to the rise of feudal towns. After the Anshi Rebellion, Li Tang could only use vassals to control vassals, but he could not find a real solution.

   Later, after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, which experienced the late Tang and Five Dynasties, it was deeply troubled by the turmoil of the vassals and towns, so it implemented a system of strong and weak branches, and internal and external maintenance. The men and horses in the capital are the strongest, and the various policies know that they are outnumbered, so they dare not rebel. If there is a change in the capital, the forbidden troops stationed in various places combined with local forces will be sufficient to deal with it.

  However, although the military system of the Song Dynasty solved the chaos of the feudal towns, it also brought about a serious problem, that is, after the strong stems and weak branches, the border defense forces were insufficient to suppress the border tribes. In a feudal town in the late Tang and Five Dynasties, the border barbarians who could fight did not dare to make a sound, but after the Song Dynasty unified the Central Plains, it did not win a few decent foreign wars. The victory was a small victory, and the defeat was a big defeat.

   With such a military system, Qin Lang felt that there was nothing to learn.

As for the Ming Dynasty, um, when they expelled the barbarians and restored China, they were indeed devoured like a tiger, but the subsequent corruption of the Weisuo system was not ordinary. They became landlords, and all the military households in the guards became slave tenants. In the end, only the servants and soldiers of the generals were left to fight.

  The barbaric Jurchens between the white mountains and the black waters finally entered the Guanzhong and seized the country in one fell swoop.

   Jurchen's Eight Banners soldiers and Green Battalion system, there is nothing to talk about. It was strong in the early stage for a few years, but it was rotten in the later stage.

  After much deliberation, the Fubing system is indeed quite strong, but the problem is that the root of the Fubing system is rotten. It looks good now, but it won't last for many years.

"I can't think of a good way for a while. Maybe we can implement a more garrison method. The frontier army and the forbidden army will be rotated regularly, and the frontier army will also be led by mid- and low-level officers at ordinary times. The senior generals will not fight. When the court is still stationed in Beijing, in case of war, the emperor will choose to send troops to the frontier to command troops, and return to the court after the battle?"

  Qin Lang tentatively said.

   Li Shimin pondered, this is a way, but it is not what he wants.

"Recently, the northwestern frontier has become a little unstable again. The four-leaf guardian Ashina of the Western Regions has now repeatedly intercepted our Datang Silk Road merchants, and has threatened Gaochang, Yanqi, and Qiuci several times. The current kings of Gaochang Ju Wentai and Gui King Baisufade of Zi, King Longtuqizhi of Yanqi, and King Yuchi Fujaxin of Khotan all sent envoys to ask for help from Xiyi Prefecture of Tang Dynasty to resist the force."

   "I plan to send troops to the Western Regions, you are the minister of the Ministry of War, you have to plan well for me."

   "Tomorrow morning, I want to see you!"

   After Li Shimin finished speaking, he ignored Qin Lang and turned around to leave.

  (end of this chapter)