Taking the memorandum handed over from Pinglu by Jinyiwei, Zhou Jun opened it and read it, handed it to Fan Jinian who was standing aside, and said, "Read it."
Fan Jinian bowed and took the memorial, and read out the contents exactly as they were.
According to statistics, more than 8,000 sergeants from the Jizhou Army participated in the rebellion.
According to the division of culpability set by the imperial court, the masterminds of the rebellion including Pugujuan and others in the Jizhou Army were executed; the rest of the sergeants and civil servants who participated in the rebellion and became subordinates were demoted to slaves and sent to the frontiers as coolies.
In Pingzhou, Yingzhou and other places under the jurisdiction of the Pinglu Protectorate, anyone who participated in smuggling tea to Huihe, whether they were officials or ordinary people, had their good citizenship revoked, their property confiscated, and their entire families exiled.
As for the Pugu family, the principals of this turmoil, all relatives, including the master's family, who participated in the rebellion in Jizhou and the killing of Jinyiwei, a total of 39 people, were taken to the capital and executed in the autumn.
The rest of the Pugu family were not allowed to stay in Pinglu, their private properties were collected, and they moved westward, all moving to Liangzhou.
After hearing Fan Jinian finish reading the memorial sent by Jin Yiwei from Pinglu, many ministers first looked at each other, and then looked at the emperor on the throne.
Zhou Jun said in a deep voice: "After Guo Ziyi led his army to capture Luoyang, he sent troops to encircle and suppress Shi Siming's remnants. During this period, Huaizhou (Jiaozuo City), Ruzhou (Ruyang City), and Zhengzhou were captured.
, everything around Luoyang was recovered, and the land in Guanzhong almost fell into the hands of the Northern Tang Dynasty."
"If Li Guangbi and Pugu Huaien can attack from Hebei to Henan in two directions according to the established plan, then Shi Siming may be doomed this time."
"However, the rebellion in Jizhou disrupted Hebei's plan to send troops. The troops that were supposed to appear on the battlefield were absent from this battle. After Shi Siming's troops were defeated by Guo Ziyi, they regrouped their troops in the Qizhou area and stood firm.
Heel. A great opportunity was wasted!"
The ministers could hear the faint anger in Zhou Jun's voice, and their hearts shivered, and they lowered their heads and remained silent.
Zhou Jun shook his head helplessly, sat back on the throne, and asked: "The source of this military rebellion was just selling tea at first, then forming a clique, then assassinating the Jin Yiwei, and in the end, it became a rebellion... I want to ask
Ask, how could it develop like this? In order to prevent such disasters in the future, what should be done to prevent it?"
Just when everyone was looking at each other, a character that no one expected stood up and spoke first.
Kang Kejing, a Shangguan of the State and Municipal Affairs Bureau, stepped out and said: "Your Majesty, most of the troops and officials of the Pinglu Protectorate were involved in the tea trade. Because their interests came together, they formed cliques for private gain. The imperial court originally allowed the Protectorate to do so.
The government manages taxes and disposes of trade routes so that the feudal town can obtain military pay and supplies as quickly as possible for war. But now it seems that the feudal town collects taxes on its own and then manages the trade routes, but instead allows the generals and officials of the feudal town to bend the law for personal gain.
Opportunity……"
Zhou Jun: "That makes sense, what is the solution?"
Kang Kejing: "I suggest that according to the material transportation area, transshipment envoys should be set up to collect taxes, and officials should be sent directly to collect customs duties and commercial taxes."
Hearing this, a minister said: "During the Kaiyuan period, the imperial court personally sent tax collectors and trade officers to the feudal towns to manage taxation and trade routes. However, in order for the imperial court to collect taxes and light goods, they must first be transported to the capital for inventory and storage.
, and then allocate and distribute them according to the military expenditure of the feudal town. This is two trips, which not only consumes a lot of time and manpower, but also increases the cost of transportation."
Kang Kejing said: "I am also aware of this shortcoming, but the National and Municipal Affairs Bureau has thought of a way to circumvent it."
Zhou Jun: "What can I do?"
Kang Kejing: "The imperial court has previously promoted gold and silver to the people to replace copper coins and silk. Gold and silver ingots are of high value and are not easily damaged on the road, so they can be used for transportation with less money."
Zhou Jun: "What if the annual taxes and light goods of the feudal town are large and it is inconvenient to transport them even with gold and silver?"
Kang Kejing: "If this is the case, the imperial court can set up money banks in the capital and the feudal town respectively. The so-called money bank is the warehouse where money and goods are stored. The money and goods in the feudal town can be stored here, and the money bank in the town can be stored there.
Issue a voucher with fire stamps, signatures and seals to form three layers of security for easy identification. When transporting taxes and light goods every year, there is no need to transport the physical objects to other places. Only one voucher is needed to make loans in other places and use them on the spot.
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Zhou Jun nodded slightly and said, "This method is very good."
The method mentioned by Kang Kejing is actually the bank of later generations.
The taxes and light goods collected by the feudal town were deposited in the local national bank of the feudal town. After the imperial court sent someone to count the tax, a voucher would be issued and handed over to the Ministry of Accounts in the capital.
Once the imperial court confirms the feudal town's budget, it will issue a voucher to the bank where the feudal town is located, instructing it to lend money to the military in the feudal town.
This move has two benefits, one is to take back the power of taxation from the vassal town, and the other is to solve the cost and fire consumption caused by taxes and light goods in transportation.
Of course, this method was actually proposed by Zhou Jun who summoned the National and Municipal Affairs Bureau in advance and explained it to him personally.
After Kang Kejing was asked to write down this rhetoric repeatedly, he was asked to throw it out in the palace.
After disposing of the financial power of the feudal town, the next step is the military power.
Kong You stepped out and said: "This time there was a military uprising in Jizhou. With just one commander's seal, Pu Gujun was able to mobilize nearly ten thousand troops and almost captured Taiyuan. This sounds incredible, but there has been precedent before.
.The control of the army in the feudal town was completely controlled by the generals, which made the sergeants unaware of the court, which caused great disasters. An Lushan was one of them."
Hearing the name An Lushan, there was a lot of discussion in the court, and the words of the ministers were all wary of the feudal town.
Kong You: "With the mobilization of border troops, if the vassal general harbors evil intentions, the Tang Dynasty may usher in the second Hebei Rebellion... I suggest that the power of leading troops and sending troops should be separated. The vassal general has control over the army.
, only has the power to lead troops and train them. As for where the army should attack, when to set off, and the number of troops, it should be decided by the court."
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Kong You: "The imperial court can set up another office in addition to the Ministry of War, called the Privy Council, to oversee the mobilization of soldiers and horses in the world, on the same level as Zhongshu's family."
Zhou Jun: "Where did this chief official of the Privy Council come from?"
Kong You: "Officials in feudal towns should be transferred regularly to assume positions in the Privy Council. Of course, officials in the Privy Council should also go to serve in feudal towns."
Kong You's words have actually pointed out the two major functions of the Privy Council.
First, the Privy Council separated the power of dispatching troops from the generals of the feudal towns, so that they only have the power to lead troops, but not the power to mobilize; second, there will be a localized rotation of officials between the Privy Council and the feudal towns to ensure that any feudal
Generals will not serve in a fixed place for too long, thus forming too strong bonds of interest with the local army and officials.
After talking about the Privy Council, Zhou Jun confirmed a series of details of the feudal town reform with many officials in the main hall:
First, the tax collection and business powers of the feudal town were returned to the imperial court, and banks were used to minimize the transportation costs and losses of taxes and military expenditures.
Secondly, the imperial court set up a Privy Council (prefecture) outside Zhongshu's family to oversee the mobilization of troops and horses in the feudal towns all over the world, ensuring that the generals in the feudal towns had no right to mobilize troops without permission.
Finally, an official rotation mechanism was established between the Privy Council and the feudal towns. Any general in the feudal town who has served in the local area for a certain number of years must move to the Privy Council to report on his duties.
In this way, the military rebellion in Jizhou caused by the Pugu family gave the imperial court a reason to intervene in the vassal town.
The three items proposed by the court were continuously improved and revised in the days to come, becoming the basis for the military reform of the Northern Tang Dynasty and a good solution to the dilemma that had plagued the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years.
