Li Xuan and Liu Bagou talked for a whole afternoon and waited until the evening before the meeting ended and they dispersed.
They talked about a lot of things that day, some of which had already been decided, and some of which were delayed temporarily because everyone had different opinions. Li Xuan couldn't make up his mind for a while.
For example, everyone has the same opinion on how to maintain influence and implement effective control over surrounding villages.
Whether it is military generals like Fang Dongquan or civil servants like Liu Bagou, they all believe that if effective governance needs to be implemented in these villages, local garrison and grassroots management institutions are indispensable.
The management organization is easy to talk about. According to Li Xuan's idea, it is enough to follow the example of later generations and establish a village-level administrative organization.
The specific organizations include a village chief, a robber officer, and a tax officer, each responsible for civil affairs, public security affairs, and tax collection. Under the robber officer, there will be two to ten police officers.
However, considering the small size of many villages, it is not cost-effective to set up separate village-level administrative agencies, which may be a waste of human resources.
Because the preliminary decision is that densely populated villages with a large population will establish an administrative point alone, and small and medium-sized villages will merge several villages to establish an administrative point.
For example, in a large village like Liusha Village, not only will an administrative point be set up, but the size of the bandit-capturing camp will be as many as ten.
With Xikou Village as the center and many surrounding villages within the actual military control of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, a total of twelve administrative points will be established. It is initially estimated that these twenty administrative points will cover a population of approximately 20,000, with an average of
The population of the administrative point is approximately one thousand people.
The grassroots officials and police officers at these village-level administrative points are a combination of official dispatches and local people. For example, the robbery officers representing military presence are all dispatched from the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, and 20 people were selected.
A non-commissioned officer who is willing to retire serves as the officer, while some of the ordinary agents are recruited locally, and some of them are selected from retired soldiers who have been injured.
Tax officers were directly dispatched by the Tax Department of the Cabinet of the Tang Dynasty. These tax officers were not under the jurisdiction of other departments and were directly under the Tax Department. However, the tax officers would also have an assistant, which was recruited directly from the local area.
In addition, there is the civil affairs officer. This civil affairs officer will also be sent from the cabinet to serve, and his attachés will also be recruited directly from the local area.
However, in order to alleviate the opposition and hostility of the local people, especially the big and wealthy households, towards the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan did not revoke the village chief, village chief and other positions that he had promised before, and even strengthened the nominal power of the village chief.
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Because nominally, the village chief is in charge of the affairs of the entire village, and the civil affairs officer, the thief officer, and the tax officer are all located under the village chief.
But this is only in name. In fact, whether they are the civil affairs officer, the thief officer or the tax officer, they are directly responsible to the cabinet and do not listen to the village chief's orders.
The main purpose of establishing village-level administrative points was to completely bring these villages under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, recruit troops, collect taxes, and maintain the Tang Dynasty's foreign campaigns.
After finishing all the messy things, Li Xuan returned to the so-called temporary palace, which was the earth temple.
In the evening, Li Xuan had a rare dinner with his family. The royal family rarely ate together in the past. They basically ate their own meals. Today was a special case.
No one spoke much during the banquet. Even the two women, Dong Yunyun and Ye Shi, wanted to talk to Li Xuan, but with Empress Dowager Bai around, they couldn't express their longing for her too obviously.
This dinner, everyone ate a little absent-mindedly, especially Li Xuan. During the day, Dong Yunyun and the others didn't feel it when they first arrived, but at night, the more they looked at them, the more unbearable it became.
It has been several months since he led the army on an expedition, and he has been acting like a monk during these months. This is unbearable for a normal man with a wife and concubines.
Now that I saw Dong Yunyun and Ye under the lamp, I naturally couldn't help it.
Li Xuan, Dong Yunyun, and Ye were eating absent-mindedly because of their children's affair, but Empress Dowager Bai didn't eat well either, but it was because of business matters.
Queen Mother Bai was not idle today. She walked around and even visited the military camp. Then during dinner, she also asked about the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, especially the battalion officers of several battalions and the team officers of each team.
appointment.
Although Empress Dowager Bai just asked, Li Xuan could feel that Empress Dowager Bai seemed to have other ideas about the many appointments in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, especially when she heard that Bai Yunqi only served as the battalion officer of a heavy supply camp, and
When he didn't serve as the battalion officer of one of the three infantry battalions, his expression obviously changed a little.
However, Queen Mother Bai did not continue to talk any more, and Li Xuan naturally would not be foolish enough to say more on his own.
Even though this woman is his mother, Li Xuan knows very well that military power must be controlled personally, and others should not get too involved, even if this woman is his mother.
He knew that his mother, Queen Mother Bai, had always wanted to support Bai Yunqi, but this was only Queen Mother Bai's own idea, and it did not mean that Li Xuan himself thought the same.
According to Li Xuan's own plan, after a few months, the captains of each team, that is, the emperor's disciples who were from the Guards and had been personally taught by him, actually took control of each team and gained initial prestige.
, he will continue to think of ways to make these people truly serve as officers of the first battalion.
Because only these own students, those who are most loyal to him, serve as the main officers of the army, and at that time he can truly control the army.
At that time, whether Fang Dongquan or Wang Shanxu wanted to object, or even Queen Mother Bai had ideas, Li Xuan planned to maintain a tough attitude.
Military power cannot be left behind. This is Li Xuan's goal, and it is also his bottom line.
With the army, he felt safe, otherwise he would always worry that Fang Dongquan, Liu Bagou and the others would start a rebellion, depose him and establish a new king to continue playing the rebellion game.
Tonight's dinner, the only person who enjoyed the meal was Princess Huichen. We haven't seen each other for a few months. This eldest princess and the only princess of the Tang Dynasty still maintained her former style. She could bite off a chicken leg in one bite.
Half, half of the roast chicken was under her mouth, and she couldn't last even five minutes!
With such fierce fighting power, even the most elite musketeers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty would have to be defeated!
After the whole family finished dinner, Queen Mother Bai took Princess Huichen, who was still full of food, back to the room first. After Queen Mother Bai left, Dong Yunyun and Ye Shi both turned their attention to Li Xuan.
The look in the eyes of these two women was like Princess Huichen seeing the roasted chicken!