The reason why Li Gang proposed to treat Tu Li politely was for the sake of the Tang Dynasty. It did not mean that he felt that the people of the Tang Dynasty were inferior to Tu Li.
Li Shentong misinterpreted his words, which made him very unhappy.
"King Huai'an, you know I didn't mean this. Why did you say that deliberately?"
Li Gang stared at Li Shentong and asked sternly.
Li Shentong smiled calmly and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Li, my point is very simple, that is, we in the Tang Dynasty should not be knighted for our merits, otherwise we will be sorry for the soldiers who have made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty."
Li Shentong was very measured in what he said. He only said that no one should be knighted without merit, but he did not say that no one should be knighted without merit.
Although there is only one word difference, they represent completely different meanings.
The former is discussing and not sure, while the latter is giving orders and is sure.
Given his status, it is difficult for him to say something definite on such a matter.
Li Gang snorted and glared at Li Shentong, cupped his hands and said, "Then let His Highness make a decision."
Li Yuanji thought for a moment and said slowly: "Then make Tuli the Marquis of Changle and give him a big house."
Everyone in the hall was stunned and waited quietly, but after waiting for a long time, they didn't hear anything more.
Then Li Gang and Li Shentong smiled knowingly and said, "I obey your orders."
Tuli was given the status of Marquis, but Tuli was not given the same treatment.
It can be regarded as a compromise between Li Gang and Li Shentong.
This method can not only satisfy Li Gang's thoughts, but also satisfy Li Shentong's thoughts.
Although Tuli was granted a title, he did not even have a land or household, nor did he have any authority. He was worse than the lowest lord.
When the soldiers knew about it, they naturally understood what was going on, and naturally they would not have any complaints about Tuli being made a lord.
"Now that the sudden profit has been agreed upon, let's discuss other affairs of the government."
Li Yuanji looked at everyone in the hall and said.
Chen Shuda took the lead and said: "Your Highness, spring plowing is about to begin. According to the usual practice, Your Highness should lead all the officials to the Imperial Manor outside the palace to personally serve the farmers. I hope Your Highness will make preparations in advance."
Li Yuan has been doing things like going to the fields to perform since he came to the throne, and it has gradually become a routine.
Now that it's time for spring plowing, this matter should indeed be put on the agenda.
But this matter is not troublesome. You only need to notify the eunuchs who manage the imperial village to prepare.
So Li Yuanji nodded without thinking: "I will pass on the order."
Chen Shuda bowed and sat back.
Xiao Yu then held up his hands and said: "Your Highness, now that the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks has come to an end, can we let the soldiers return to their hometowns and let them help their families with spring plowing? And urge the yamen everywhere to provide services to those who are not yet married as soon as possible.
Are the soldiers getting married?"
Li Yuanji nodded in agreement.
After agreeing to several important things that were beneficial to Datang, someone finally couldn't hold it any longer and brought up the issue of the distribution of hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep.
"Your Highness, I wonder how the hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep seized from the Turks should be distributed?"
The speaker was the Minister of Civil Affairs.
He had already heard the news and knew that Li Yuanji would hand over the matter to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, so he was ready to share this gluttonous feast with the dignitaries in Chang'an City.
In order to get more cattle and sheep, some dignitaries had already started giving him gifts last night.
So now he can't wait to get all the cattle and sheep, and then become a hot favorite in both the government and the public.
When the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs spoke, other people also pricked up their ears, wanting to see how Li Yuanji would answer.
Li Gang had different thoughts in his mind, but he just frowned and did not speak.
Li Yuanji stared at the Ministry of Civil Affairs Minister with a smile: "How do you think it should be distributed?"
The Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs had a look on his face, and he heard the unkindness in Li Yuanji's tone, and hurriedly said: "Of course it is up to Your Highness to decide, but as I am the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, I hope that these cattle and sheep will be distributed to the people as soon as possible so that the people can take advantage of it."
It can raise more cattle and sheep."
Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty was vast and sparsely populated, and the newly recovered six states and half of it were turned into pastures by the Turks, so there was no obstacle to the development of animal husbandry.
If things develop well, the number of cattle and sheep might double in a year.
This is definitely a good thing for Datang.
Li Yuanji smiled and said: "Then as you said, I have only one condition, and that is to give me a cow and sheep, and you must get me one more person.
People with registered residence.
I don't care whether you recruit fugitives from the mountains or rescue hermits from various mansions.
They all have to get them out for me and register them properly.
For every thousand you report to me, I will order the Twelve Guards to send soldiers and horses to escort them to settle down in the six states and a half newly recovered by me in the Tang Dynasty."
Although the official population of the Tang Dynasty was only 15,600,000, with those who fled to the mountains and forests during the war, as well as the hidden households hidden in various wealthy families, the population was probably more than this.
How to persuade the runaway households from the mountains and dig out the hidden households from the wealthy households is a matter that requires thinking.
After thinking about it for a long time, Li Yuanji finally came up with the idea of benefit exchange.
After all, if there is no profit to drive, who is willing to go to the deep mountains and old forests to persuade those who have escaped from their households to come out and re-register their household registration, and who is willing to put the slaves at home in good condition?
Although a sheep is not enough for a wealthy family to take care of their slaves, a cow definitely can.
The number of cattle seized this time amounted to more than 80,000, which was enough to rescue more than 80,000 slaves from wealthy families.
It is also a good idea to distribute the remaining sheep to the local government and let the people from the local government go to the mountains and forests to persuade the fleeing households.
After all, after receiving the benefits of the imperial court, the local government can still make a fortune in political achievements, so why not?
Anyway, local government officials do not need to personally go to the mountains and forests to persuade fleeing households. They only need to send some government servants and clerks there.
The big men don't have to risk their lives, they will naturally spare no effort to promote it.
As for the danger to government officials and scribes, do the great men care?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Anyway, the court will provide pensions and enough money to support the Yamen and scribes. If they are gone, you can continue to recruit them.
So this is definitely doable.
When Li Gang heard this, he raised his head and his eyes flashed brightly.
He originally thought that after Li Yuanji brought the cattle and sheep into Chang'an and inspired people's hearts, he would hand over the cattle and sheep to the Ministry of Civil Affairs without any cost and let the Ministry of Civil Affairs distribute them.
Because of this, he was secretly distressed, and it was not worth it.
But I didn't expect Li Yuanji to have such a skill.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs must come up with people before it can be replaced with sheep.
Hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, exchanged for hundreds of thousands of people, is definitely a sure-fire deal.
The Minister of Civil Affairs had some secret joy in his heart just now, but now it disappeared in an instant. Instead, he had a sad look on his face and secretly complained in his heart.
Just when he was about to express the pain in his heart, he heard Li Gang shout loudly: "Your Highness Shengming!"
Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu, Pei Ju and others also saw the benefits of this and shouted together.
Li Shentong and others also understood the benefits and started shouting.
Some people who were interested in carving up cattle and sheep originally wanted to express some opposing opinions and support the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
But when Li Gang and Li Shentong shouted like this, they were speechless for a moment and could only shout Shengming together.
Li Yuanji smiled and said amidst the loud shouts of civil and military officials in the palace: "I proposed this method, and I will set an example. I will release five thousand maids from the palace and marry them to those who were seriously injured during this war."
, and a widower soldier without a wife or children.
Then I will allocate them all to the newly recovered six states and a half, and according to their official positions and merits, let them serve as county captains, military officers, government officials, and postmasters of each post."
More than 5,000 people were spread out, and soon a local government office with military control as the main body was established in the newly recovered six states and a half, and all the post stations in the six states and a half were able to be unclogged.
As long as military control is implemented and the post stations are cleared, the imperial court's various decrees can be implemented in these six states and a half.
When the Turkic captives who are clearing up wasteland are used up and the local population develops, official governance can be restored.
Anyway, in the Tang Dynasty, military and political affairs were not separated from each other.
There are no pure civil servants or pure military ministers. Many ministers are basically officials who can kill enemies when mounted and herd people when dismounted.
Therefore, there is nothing wrong in temporarily not sending senior officials to the newly recovered six states and a half, but only sending county lieutenants and other minor officials to implement military control.
Coupled with the control and supervision of the generals stationed at various passes on the Great Wall, there will be no big trouble.
This is currently the best and fastest way to restore the rule of the newly recovered six states and a half.
This is also a no-brainer.
After all, there were only so many scholars in the Tang Dynasty, and the places that had been recovered for many years were not enough. There were not many people in the areas that had just been recovered, so naturally no one wanted to go.
Therefore, if you want to restore the civil service in the newly recovered areas, you can only start with military control.
The Tang Dynasty's rule in Jing, Yi, and Jiao states was like this. First, military control was used to suppress all local dissatisfaction and let the local governments completely recognize the rule of the Tang Dynasty. Then, civil servants were sent in to sort out the people.
Develop mulberry farming.
At present, Jingzhou's civil rule is only half implemented, and Yizhou's is half the same. Jiaozhou is still under military control, and is still co-managed by the Tang Dynasty and the local overlords and barbarian kings.
Jingzhou South, Yizhou South, Jiaozhou, these places with large populations, no scholars are willing to go, and the officials in the imperial court regard these places as places for distribution, not to mention the six and a half newly recovered states.
So martial law is the only solution.
"Your Highness is indeed generous. He opened his mouth with five thousand concubines, so I can't lag behind others. There are still more than 300 disabled soldiers in my house, and more than 100 hermit households attached to my sect. I can...
And took it out and replaced it with cattle and sheep.
I will hold an all-sheep banquet at my house later, and I hope you all will appreciate it when the time comes."
Li Shentong laughed and started to support.
Seeing this, Li Deliang, Li Daoli and other royal families also spoke one after another.
Li Gang even took out all the family property in one go. Not only did he take out the servants who were slaves in the family, he even removed his youngest son Li Liyan from home and asked him to take the family members to the newly recovered territory.
Six states and half of the land took root, restoring the cultural context of the six states and half of the land.
Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Pei Ju and others also contributed more or less.
Su Dingfang, Xie Shufang, Yu Wenbao, Hou Junji and others contributed the thousands of servants they had just received last night, plus the domestic servants injured during the war.
When the other civil and military ministers saw this, even if they were cursing in their hearts, they had to stand up and claim a share.
There is no other way. Li Yuanji, Li Shentong, Li Gang and others have all taken the lead. If they don't keep up, it will be time to put their shoes on.
At that time, it will not be Li Yuanji who takes the lead in letting the good guys go, but Li Yuanji who leads a group of minions with knives to force them to go against the good guys.
You have to leave it anyway, why not make a good impression now?
When Li Yuanji and his minions raised their knives, it was no longer a matter of whether they should do justice or not, but that their whole family, or even the whole clan, had to follow suit.
"Your Highness, I have calculated that the total number of cattle exchanged by the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty this time is 58,000."
After everyone expressed their opinions, Chen Shuda made a statistics and then reported it with a bright smile.
The palace alone gave out five thousand in one breath, and Li Shentong and other royal relatives basically also spent thousands. Some of them came from wealthy families and had strong family backgrounds, and they also made generous moves. Su Dingfang and others even went out of their way to support them.
Li Yuanji.
Fifty-eight thousand people are neither too few nor too many.
After all, there were more than a thousand officials attending the court meeting this time, and the average number per person was about fifty.
These fifty people are simply a drop in the bucket for the vast majority of people who come from prestigious families.
For example, the Eight Families of Guanlong, with five surnames and seven hopes, have thousands of clan members alone, and tens of thousands of servants, slaves, and hermits. Fifty people are nothing to them.
Li Yuanji nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Are you sure it's a cow?"
Chen Shuda was stunned for a moment, and his smile became even brighter, but he couldn't stand it.
Li Shentong smiled cheerfully and said: "I like to eat mutton, so I'd better switch it to sheep. I just said that I would invite all my colleagues to my house for a whole lamb feast, so naturally I can't go back on my word and get fat."
Others, willingly or unwillingly, also joined in.
Soon, more than 58,000 cattle turned into more than 58,000 sheep.
After most people expressed their opinions, Li Yuanji said with a smile: "I know some people may be dissatisfied and feel that they have suffered a loss. In this way, I will give you some compensation, and each sheep will compensate you with one acre of land."
The specific division will be discussed with the Civil Affairs Department of the Zhongshu Provincial Government."
As soon as they heard about the land compensation, some officials who were scolding their mothers felt a lot better.
"Thank you very much, Your Highness, for your kindness."
