If the period from Daye 11 to Daye 13 was the period when Li Yuan started his career, then Daye 14 was the time when Li Po laid the foundation.
During this year, Li Po quickly rose to prominence in the northern part of Jin. In just over a year, he used several crucial battles to firmly nail his name on the wall of history.
He is different from Li Yuan. Li Yuan has accumulated a lot of experience and has been operating silently for many years before taking advantage of the momentum and rising to the top with the wind. Most of the time, just by brushing his face and name, he can get everyone to join him.
On the other hand, Li Po was purely created by fighting, and he had a lot in common with Dou Jiande and others. He started from a humble beginning and had a weak foundation.
Moreover, the northern part of Jin region has experienced many wars and is indeed not a good place.
Of course, there are many differences between him and the peasant rebels who started out in the grass.
And there is no need to go through these one by one, because in the winter of the fourteenth year of Daye, some changes quietly occurred in the two states, which separated the northern Shanxi warlords represented by Li Po from some separatist forces in the world.
Revising military and political laws and regulations, ranking official positions, establishing guards, etc., although these things were done in a hurry, they did not show much effect.
There are not many things that can be used to make people's eyes brighter. Some princes also did this when they became emperor, but it was different from most of them.
Because with the passage of time, the meaning of generously rewarding meritorious people became less and less under Li Po's rule. There was no indiscriminate distribution of officials and titles, no large-scale conscription of troops, no building of palaces, and no intention of eradicating the Jin clan.
The people in this gradually formed political and military group were not like the nouveau riche, who only competed with each other for wealth and status, and fought desperately for title and power.
These are all very fatal problems that the rebels will inevitably face when they expand to a certain stage.
But the merger of the two states has quietly passed this stage.
Several of the eunuchs Li Po accepted, including Chen Xiaoyi, Yu Wenxin, Su Dan, and Wang Lu, all came from powerful families. After entering Jinyang, they appeased the Jinyang Wang family and other Jinyang rich families, making him who already had some aura of noble family become more powerful.
It is easy to get support and acceptance from wealthy families.
In the army, after the establishment of the Left and Right Guards, Yuchi Gong and Bu Qun were appointed as the two most senior people in the army, leaving the generals speechless.
In fact, all problems can be attributed to system and personnel issues.
When the system lacks guarantees, the problem of how to properly employ people comes to the fore.
Once some people gain power, they will arbitrarily place close relatives, especially brothers, nephews and other blood-related people. Regardless of their talents, they must occupy important positions. In addition to showing the honor of their own family, they also have the intention of guarding against others.
This is the saying that if you achieve enlightenment in one day, chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven.
Overall, Li Po's employment of people is remarkable.
He relies heavily on Chen Xiaoyi because Chen Xiaoyi helped him a lot in the process of unifying the three counties of Daizhou and has talent and prestige. Therefore, since Chen Xiaoyi came to his side, he has great trust in him. This is obviously
It reassured many people in the three counties of Daizhou.
Su Quan's time in Yunnei was too short and he was young, but he was able to use him as the prefect of Loufan. In addition to having no available people around him, it also showed his magnanimity.
Not to mention the other two, Wang Lu was mediocre in ability and had some grievances with Li Po, but now he is staying well in his position as the governor of Mayi and his position is very stable.
Yu Wenxin and Li Tang were demoted to generals, but Li Po did not hesitate to let him take over the post of Yanmen Prefect.
Wen Yanbo was a descendant of Youzhou, but now he is the most powerful person in the Li Po shogunate.
It can be seen from the appointment of these people that Li Po has his own persistence in hiring people.
Literary men govern politics and warriors govern the army. The thinking is very clear.
He did not let the generals serve as governors, nor did he let Chen Xiaoyi and others lead the troops.
This was very rare in this world, because since the war in the late Jin Dynasty, the concept of integrating military and political affairs has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
For example, the leader of the Tang army in the south was Taichang Shaoqing Li Zhongwen. From the perspective of later generations, that was a standard literati leading troops, which was a taboo for military strategists. However, today, it is normal.
Li Zhongwen is the grandson of Li Bi, one of the eight pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, and the uncle of Li Mi. He is a standard seed player who can become a general or a prime minister.
In Li Po, the gap between civil and military forces has been vaguely divided. As time goes by, this difference will become more and more obvious.
Not to mention other benefits, this must be conducive to the stability of the political structure.
It can be said that all these things have made the two states of Bingdai faintly glow with vitality in the cold wind of the winter of the 14th year of Daye.
The more important point is that sorting out household registration, measuring land, and distributing acres of land, etc., have been carried out since Li Po took charge of Daizhou.
This showed his determination to give the people a rest. By the autumn of the fourteenth year of Daye, Daizhou had already harvested an autumn harvest.
No matter how much it is, it's a happy start.
The severe drought in Daye's thirteenth year was overcome with great difficulty thanks to Li Po's efforts. By the autumn of Daye's fourteenth year, the entire food shortage situation in Daizhou had completely become a thing of the past thanks to Li Po's various methods.
Those who were preparing to flee rearranged their crops and herded cattle and sheep. Those who were preparing to cause trouble also honestly picked up hoes and grazing whips.
It started to soar in the eighth year of Daye, and finally the price of food, which had already gone up to the sky, quickly fell back.
The bandits and refugees who were fighting in various parts of Daizhou returned to their hometowns one after another. Li Po used countless cattle and sheep recaptured from Yunzhong Grassland and the grain and grass brought back from Youzhou to stabilize the people of Daizhou.
Compared with things like systems, employment, military discipline, etc., this is actually Li Poshi's real achievement.
In fact, in addition to the rapid increase in the state's population during this era, various warehouses, treasuries, and pastures were overfilled.
And coins that have always seemed to have lost their usefulness have become valuable again this winter.
Once food prices fall, the impact will not be the slightest bit. Prices as a whole have plummeted from the sky, and the primitive method of barter has been immediately thrown aside.
The convenience of copper coins, a general equivalent, was immediately apparent.
In fact, at this time, once copper coins began to circulate on a large scale, it would symbolize the economic recovery of a place in the land of Sui Dynasty.
In Mayi, tents covered both sides of the Cangshui River. These were the people who were preparing to build a city on the bank of the Cangshui River.
Wang Lu, the governor of Mayi, and Yuen Long, who was stationed in Yunnei, both sent letters saying that all the preparations for building the city were ready and the construction would start next year.
Yu Wenxin of Yanmen was not idle this winter. In addition to proposing marriage to the Wang family, he sent a message to Jinyang and asked Li Po to mint coins to replace the Kaihuang five-baht coins and Daye white coins.
Not to mention how Yu Wenxin is a person, he is undoubtedly a talented person and his vision is very accurate.
He had already noticed a problem when copper coins began to circulate.
There are not many copper coins in the Yanmen treasury, and the war also caused a large loss of coins in the Yanmen area, especially Daye white coins. After being not used for a long time, they are very corroded and very brittle. The more you use them, the more coins you will get.
It was thin, and the writing on it quickly became blurred, so people were reluctant to use it.
Next year, Yanmen will spend more and more money. If it is replaced by grain, cattle and sheep, it will be very uneconomical for the current Yanmen government.
According to Yu Wenxin, recasting coins is a top priority.
Of course, this is also because Yanmen currently has the largest population among the three counties in Daizhou. Once the coins began to circulate, the Yanmen government immediately noticed something was wrong.
Of course, this is also one of the messes left by Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty. Compared with the five-baht coins issued by the emperor, they were shoddy products.
After several years of use, people began to resist this kind of currency. Many merchants were unwilling to collect this kind of white money. It looked bright but was not easy to preserve.
Well, this matter is not a trivial matter. Li Po is also a little confused. How about making money?
Someone seemed to have mentioned it before, but he couldn't remember clearly, but if a place as large as two states were to be merged, it would be necessary to mint copper coins privately. Is it useful?
He briefly discussed it with a few of his confidants, and finally came to the realization that most of the people around him were people who spent money, and it would be difficult for them to put forward some constructive opinions on this matter.
Fortunately, there is indeed such a talented person under Li Po's rule. The Su family in Guanxi has been in charge of branch matters for generations.
Su Wei, the grandfather of Su Dan, the prefect of Loufan, was one of the main initiators of the Kaihuang Five Baht Coin.
According to his family background, Su Dan's appointment as Loufan's prefect was not considered an incompetence of talent, but his use was a bit wrong.
But Su Dan's age was his fatal injury. Due to his lack of experience, when the governor Lin was killed by Li Po and ordered to enter the building to pacify the county, Su Dan suddenly rose to a higher position and was very anxious for some time.
Now, he is serving as the prefect of Loufan, and he is doing a good job.
At the age of more than 20 years old, taking charge of the government affairs of a county is actually a very satisfying thing for Su Tan.
There are many children of the Su family, and there are countless people with high official positions.
But now that the world is in chaos, the Su family's children are scattered in all directions.
His grandfather Su Wei was taken to Hebei by Yu Wenhuaji. After Yu Wenhuaji was defeated, he went to join Li Mi.
Most of his brothers and elders were working for the Li family, and few were given important positions. Some stayed in Jiangnan, while others went to Luoyang.
But with so many people asking who in the Su family could become the head of a county, it was probably just him, Su Dan.
He did not stand out much at home back then, but now that he has left the group and moved north, it can be said that he has seized his own future without any help from his family.
Having made it this far, what is there to be dissatisfied about?
As the saying goes, a scholar dies for his bosom friend. The reluctance he felt at the beginning has long since disappeared, and he only focused on government affairs upstairs.
But he didn't expect that more opportunities were waiting for him.
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