Chapter 503 You will be the first grader, I will be the fifteenth
Chapter 503 You are in the first grade and I am in the fifteenth grade
Author: The best is like no water
For a moment, Li Sanlang felt a little moved in his heart.
This traitor still has some humanity, and he also knows how to arrange for a beautiful woman to serve him.
After all, when Li Er put Li Yuan under house arrest, he also arranged one hundred and eighty girls for the Supreme Emperor.
However, before Li Sanlang wanted to say anything.
Jiang Caiping, who had a pretty and blushing face, put the tray on the ground, then stood up and walked behind Li Yunze.
Li Sanlang was still in a daze, but Gao Lishi had already noticed that something was wrong because he had no desires or desires.
He laughed angrily and simply scolded, "Your Highness, this is against human nature. Aren't you afraid of the ridicule of the world?"
"The world is laughing at you?"
Li Yunze was very happy when he said this.
Are there not many people in the world who laugh at the dirty things Li Sanlang did in history?
Why am I required to be a moral gentleman when I am here? Why? Just because I look like an honest person?
Simply raising his hands to hold Jiang Caiping's slender waist, Li Yunze raised his eyebrows at Li Sanlang, "Emperor, you are getting old. It's hard to let down the beauty in the palace. How about I take care of you from now on?"
Now Li Sanlang finally understood that this traitor had sent him a green prairie.
Li Sanlang was so furious that he kicked over the bowl of biscuits and porridge on the tray in front of him, pointed at Li Yunze and started to curse.
"Um?"
Li Yunze immediately stared back, "You are an old fool, you don't want Bilian!"
As soon as these words came out, Li Sanlang was stunned.
These words seemed so familiar to him, as if he had heard them somewhere.
Memories flashed through my mind, and I finally remembered what Gao Lishi had said to me before.
At that time, I wanted to force the traitor to send Yang Yuhuan to the palace.
Li Longji was instantly decadent.
I did the first grade of junior high school, and others had to do the fifteenth grade.
Seeing Li Longji's appearance at this time, Li Yunze sneered repeatedly and turned around to leave with Jiang Caiping.
Li Longji, who doesn't want a green lotus himself, must pay the price for what he has done.
That night, the chamberlain in charge of purification in the palace entered the Emperor's house under house arrest.
The sounds of scolding, cursing, wailing, fighting, screaming, and desperate crying made this place almost transform into a ghost-like existence.
After one night, Li Sanlang completely stopped worrying about the world.
Without the root of worries, Li Sanlang probably won't have so many evil thoughts anymore.
Li Sanlang's matter was quickly put aside by Li Yunze. His current energy was mainly focused on stabilizing Datang.
After the overall situation of the world is stabilized, it will be almost the day when the Supreme Emperor attains enlightenment and ascends to heaven, heading to the Western Paradise.
The news of Li Sanlang's Zen throne soon spread to all the vassal towns in the Tang Dynasty.
The reactions of Jiedu in various places were different, but there were no immediate rebellions.
The reason is very simple. At this time, the Tang Dynasty was in a raging fire, and its strength on paper was very strong. No Jiedushi felt that he could successfully rebel.
After all, a fierce man like An Lushan, who occupies the position of three military governors by one person, has not yet taken the position.
It's just that the turbulence in the dark is naturally inevitable.
Just like Gai Jiayun, the governor of Longyou, who focused all his attention on Chang'an City, he was attacked by the Tubo people and lost the crucial Shibao City.
Li Yunze was furious and immediately ordered Wang Zhongsi to execute him on the spot.
Later, he sent Li Linfu as the imperial envoy to inspect the vassal towns all over the country to stabilize the morale of the army.
Li Linfu, who worked hard, used his sharp tongue to comfort everyone one by one, at least maintaining apparent stability.
In the Tang Dynasty at this time, no one understood the dangers of the feudal system more than Li Yunze.
However, eradicating the feudal towns cannot be accomplished by the emperor's imperial edict.
If an imperial edict were issued to remove the feudal towns, those who did not rebel when the emperor was forced to abdicate would definitely rebel when the feudal towns were removed.
Li Yunze was not afraid of anyone's rebellion, but he could not accept the people of the Tang Dynasty being harmed.
Therefore, in the early stage, the focus is on appeasement, and then slowly eradicated after stabilization.
What needs to be done now is to quickly alleviate the internal conflicts within Datang that have reached the level of sharp opposition.
After becoming emperor, the first thing Li Yunze did was not to ask his chamberlains to search for beauties from all over the world, but to reorganize the prime minister system.
In the Tang Dynasty, the power of the prime minister was too great. When famous ministers were prime ministers, the times were prosperous, but when treacherous ministers were in power, the times were chaotic.
Li Yunze could not place his hopes on the lucky selection of famous ministers, so he simply abolished the Ministry of Secretariat, the Ministry of Menxia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and established a cabinet.
The cabinet is also the prime minister, but it has been directly promoted to the level of six cabinet ministers.
Li Linfu, who worked hard after jumping ship, occupied one of the positions.
Niu Xianke, who had been demoted before, was recruited back into the cabinet as prime minister.
Niu Xianke's status in history is a bit special, because he was the last truly fierce man to become a general or prime minister, and there would be no military men to serve as prime ministers in the future.
Those who are named after death are not counted.
Zhang Jiuling, who was also demoted, also received an imperial edict summoning him to return to the imperial court. It is unclear whether he will comply with the edict.
In addition, there is another lucky person, He Zhizhang, the Minister of Rites, who was lucky enough to be selected into the cabinet as a cabinet minister.
Li Yunze continued the tradition of becoming generals and prime ministers, and did not let Niu Xianke become the final swan song.
He selected Wang Zhongsi, the Hexi Jiedu envoy who killed Gai Jiayun, as a cabinet minister.
The last spot was reserved for the former prime minister Xiao Song.
Xiao Song was a good fighter and once defeated Tubo. However, when he became the Prime Minister of the court, he was as submissive as Niu Xianke and did not dare to do anything. Later, he was honored by Li Sanlang.
The main reason for reactivating this person is to reconcile the situation.
At the same time, a group of losers were kicked out of the North Korean army by Li Yunze and replaced by a group of new people.
People like Wang Wei, Wang Changling and others all got opportunities.
The most important thing is that Li Yunze canceled the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya inside and outside Chang'an City, the Tenth Army of the Forbidden Army of Beiya, and the Prince's Sixth Rate (actually tenth rate) and other troops with messy banners.
Reorganization.
The elites from various armies were mobilized to form the Yulin, Xiaoqi, and Huben armies and became the emperor's personal army.
Among the remaining people, the old, weak, sick and disabled were sent home to distribute acres of land for farming.
Among the remaining ones, those with bad habits and those who follow the trap will be expelled.
The remaining ones were arranged to enter the newly built Five-City Military and Horse Division and be stationed in various villages outside the city for village patrols.
In the Tang Dynasty, imperial power did not go to the countryside, and affairs below the county level were usually controlled by the three elders in the countryside, or even clan forces.
The purpose of dispatching police officers to villages is to first regain the law enforcement power in the countryside.
Because of the chaos and intimidation brought about by the Xuanwumen Incident, no one in the court or among the people dared to oppose Li Yunze's series of actions, at least not openly.
So everything went smoothly.
Among them, what really made the nobles in the court find it unacceptable was that Li Yunze included a large number of armed civilians into the emperor's personal army.
These armed civilians were the people inside and outside Chang'an City who shouted to protect the prince during the Xuanwu Gate Incident as he escorted Li Yunze to the palace and sat on the throne.
Li Yunze did not forget them, and in order to alleviate the serious unemployment crisis, he simply absorbed most of them into the armed forces.
There are many people in Chang'an City, with a population of up to two million.
But such a big city cannot provide enough jobs.
Ordinary people in the city either have no land outside the city, or are reluctant to leave their ancestral homes, so they can only struggle to survive.
This army of unemployed people who cannot find jobs is the main force behind Li Yunze's rise to power.
In order to prevent them from continuing to be unemployed and to prevent them from continuing to cause trouble, Li Yunze conducted an assessment on them.
Those who pass the assessment will directly join the armed services as full-time soldiers and receive regular monthly pay.
It doesn't matter if you don't pass. As long as you are not old, weak, sick or have bad habits, you can become an auxiliary soldier.
The amount of training for auxiliary soldiers is only half that of regular soldiers, and their food and salary are only half that of regular soldiers.
Of course, these food and wages are definitely enough for them to support their whole family.
Also in order to solve the problem of grain shortage, Li Yunze opened state-owned grain stores in various cities and towns to sell to the people at the price of five cents per bucket of rice.
The tricks played by private grain stores do not exist here, because if someone is found out or reported, the only outcome is beheading and ransacking the property.
For this purpose, he specially set up an organization similar to Baiqisi. The first task was to strictly keep an eye on various grain stores.
When too many people are unemployed, absorbing into the military is a very good choice.
Historically, the Song Dynasty did this. Unfortunately, after being recruited into the army, they were not put to good use. Instead, they were all wasted.
Li Yunze does the same thing, but he won't keep him like this until he is useless.
After training, these soldiers and horses will be continuously sent to all directions in a round-robin manner to use their swords and guns to open up territory for the people of the Tang Dynasty in exchange for cultivable land.
But before that, Li Linfu, who was touring various vassal towns, came back and learned about the matter and immediately went to the palace to see the emperor.
"His Majesty."
Seeing Li Yunze who had already put on the dragon robe, Li Linfu saluted respectfully and asked, "I heard that the three armies inside and outside Chang'an City have nearly 300,000 troops. I wonder if this is possible?"
"Roughly the same."
Li Yunze thought for a while, "After the re-count of acres in Guanzhong is completed, there should be tens of thousands more."
Li Linfu was speechless and sighed and said, "Your Majesty has raised so many soldiers and horses, where will the food and wages come from?"
The government's military system has collapsed, and most of the current troops are recruited.
The soldiers and horses recruited must be given food, money and silk.
The greater the number of soldiers and horses, the more money and food will be consumed.
In the agricultural era, the money and grain that could be collected was limited. If there were too many soldiers and horses, it would be like the Song Dynasty where it would be impossible to make ends meet.
After taking a breath, Li Linfu said again, "I heard that your Majesty also wants to reduce or reduce taxes?"
"Um."
Li Yunze nodded, "The burden on the people is too heavy and the taxes are too high. Naturally, they need to be reduced or reduced."
"I think this is a good thing, and recuperating with the people is what a wise king does."
Li Linfu first complimented, and then changed the topic, "But Your Majesty, taxes have been reduced, but expenditures have increased greatly. What should the government do if there is no money?"
"How can I have no money?"
Li Yunze waved his hand and said, "I am not the Supreme Emperor. I spend hundreds of millions. The expenses in the palace are reduced to a minimum, and whatever is saved is reserved for military expenses."
"The internal servants will be reduced by half first. As for the palace maids, those who wish to leave the palace can immediately collect their money and go home. There are many soldiers in the army who have not yet married. I intend to hold a blind date meeting so that those palace maids who are willing to get married can marry the sergeants."
After thinking for a while, Li Yunze clapped his hands, "Also, regarding the salaries of the emperor's relatives, your cabinet will discuss and come up with a plan. The bottom line is that the salaries enshrined in the palace should be reduced by at least two-thirds. There are also titles, which must be reduced every generation.
, it can only be passed down to three generations at most. After three generations, everyone will be a commoner."
"That family that has been passed down for dozens of generations, you go there in person, let them understand and hand over all the titles and acres they occupy locally, otherwise."
It didn’t say what else would happen, but the meaning was already very clear.
"And that pear garden, the garden was closed directly, everyone was given severance pay, and they were asked to go out and make a living on their own."
Li Linfu was stunned for a moment, "Your Majesty, those Liyuan children only know magic, acrobatics, playing and singing. How do they make a living on their own?"
"Why not?"
"In the East and West Second Market, there are so many barbarians making a living by dancing and playing. They can also set up stalls on the roadside to do business. I don't charge stall fees, and I won't let the Wucheng Army drive them away!"
"People always have to rely on their own hands to support themselves."