Chapter two hundred and eighty-one hundred thousand people
In the establishment process of every dynasty, there will always be many careerists around it. They rebel hard, maybe because of their ideals, unwillingness and other reasons, but most people will have the same purpose, that is
Gain glory and wealth.
They want to be separated from the country by the princes and nobles, and win glory and wealth for their descendants that will last for hundreds of years.
Therefore, you can see that in the early stages of establishment of most dynasties, or even when they first start to rebel, they will make generous promises of various benefits, and even directly promulgate various kings and titles, without seeing the ruler's heartache at all.
why is that?
Because when the rebellion first started, no one knew whether it would succeed, and the possibility of failure was extremely high. If the ruler sealed off titles and the like first, it would be equivalent to rewarding the officials with something uncertain in the future.
In order to turn these titles into real titles, these senators must work together. Otherwise, after the rebellion is suppressed, these titles will be in vain.
Li Xuan's decision to knight Fang Dongquan and other senators was also based on this consideration. The title given to them now is just a title at best. If they want to turn this title into a truly powerful noble, they have to work hard on their own.
This process is a bit like a start-up company giving equity to many veterans who started the business together to encourage them to work harder and create greater value for the company. In this way, after the company is bossed, the veterans will be replaced overnight.
Get rich suddenly.
Li Xuan is now planning to be conferred a title, and he doesn't feel heartbroken either. If it is possible and necessary, he can give him titles such as Wang Jue on a hair-by-hair basis, and grant him a title of 18,000.
However, if you want to maintain the nobility of the title and have the ministers work hard to rebel for a title, you need to maintain the scarcity of the title.
This time, Li Xuan learned the lesson from the previous large-scale granting of official titles, and deeply understood what it means to be rare and valuable. In his own opinion, he can grant as many titles as he wants, but he can't really do this.
Yes, he must limit the number and level of titles.
This is like a woman, even if she is extremely emotional and the ditch is as wet as the Yangtze River bursting its banks, she still has to clamp her legs and say no, no, no, no.
It is extremely important to remain humble.
Therefore, Li Xuan is going to take it easy this time and will only grant titles to a few people, and the titles will not be too high. He will not seal off all high-ranking officials at once like he did before. If this happens in the future,
But it’s not easy to handle.
He only controlled a Zhengtai County and was granted the title of marquis. If he conquered Xingquan Prefecture, wouldn't he have to be granted the title of king? And then when he conquered most of China, wouldn't he have to seal the throne of the emperor as well? If not, wouldn't he have to grant the title of prince?
What should I do? I can only imitate Zhu Yuanzhang and kill the heroes!
When a hero has no title or other title, the only reward the emperor can give him is a cup of poison.
So in order to avoid this situation, Li Xuan decided to take it easy from the beginning!
Just like when conferring military ranks before, in order to give these generals the space to continue to improve their ranks, he suppressed the military rank of generals and only gave it to colonels. Fang Dongquan and Wang Shanxu were also very smart, and they did not want to be colonels.
I don’t want a lieutenant colonel, I just want a major.
And this time, he is going to play the same trick!
Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, while the Lanjiang Ferry side continued to remain calm, and there were no disturbances in Zhengtai County, Li Xuan convened senior civil and military officials at the Lanjiang Ferry side to hold an imperial strategy meeting, and prepared to formally determine the decision at this meeting.
The title system.
Now that Zhengtai County is relatively peaceful, it is time for him to deal with these trivial matters.
However, before they can be officially crowned, they have to deal with other matters first, such as how to completely integrate Zhengtai County into the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
Su Jiakang and the others stayed in Zhengtai County and Longhua Town honestly. In order to consolidate the city defense of Zhengtai County, Su Jiakang even voluntarily abandoned Longhua Town and transferred most of the troops originally stationed in Longhua Town to Zhengtai County.
Nowadays, there are only dozens of old and weak soldiers left in Longhua Town and hundreds of young men to guard them. It is no different from being undefended.
On the other hand, the defensive forces in Zhengtai County have been greatly strengthened, with a total strength estimated at seven to eight hundred people.
Su Jiakang and the others were hunkered down in the county town, and the New Army of the Tang Dynasty only deployed a hundred people outside Zhengtai County to monitor the situation in Zhengtai County. However, they had no intention of attacking Zhengtai County, even in order to prevent the Ming army from entering Zhengtai County.
In a hurry, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty did not even completely blockade Zhengtai County, allowing thousands of people and militiamen in Zhengtai County to receive supplies from the outside world.
However, many people in Zhengtai County saw that Zhengtai County was in danger. Many gentry and landowners had already fled from Zhengtai County. Some went to the countryside to escape the war, and some even fled to Fucheng and other places.
In this regard, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty did not obstruct too much. After all, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty did not want these landlords and rich people. What they needed was the 100,000 ordinary people in Zhengtai County, or more accurately, 100,000 farmers, and those living in
To be honest, the small citizens and gentry in the city did not really need the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
Once these people cannot farm to provide food or serve as soldiers to fight, their only role is to be officials, and they are unwilling to be officials in the Tang Dynasty. Li Xuan can force the sons of the gentry and landlords in the countryside to
Come here to be an official, but you can’t just pull everyone over to be an official.
Therefore, apart from wasting food, these people were not of much use to the Tang Dynasty. If they wanted to escape from the war, Li Xuan was too lazy to stop them.
Su Jiakang and others were huddled in the county seat, so naturally they could not stop the Tang Dynasty from taking the vast rural areas of Zhengtai County into their rule.
Many village officials sent by Liu Bagou also quickly established village-level administrative points in the vast rural areas of Zhengtai County with the support of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
According to one administrative point in a large village, several small and medium-sized villages share one administrative point. Each administrative point has jurisdiction over about one thousand to two thousand people. The Tang Dynasty quickly established about sixty administrative points in Zhengtai County.
The population exceeded 80,000 people.
As a result, except for the population in Longhua Town and Zhengtai County, most of the other people in Zhengtai County were already under the direct rule of the Tang Dynasty.
Due to the excessive number of administrative agencies at the village level, the Tang Dynasty could not directly govern them all. According to the suggestions of Liu Bagou and others, Li Xuan re-established administrative agencies at the town level.
According to local areas, eight towns were established in Zhengtai County, which governed each village in their respective areas, in order to completely control the hundreds of thousands of people in Zhengtai County.
The administrative agencies at the town level also followed the previous village-level agencies and established the town mayor, town financial officer, town peace officer, village chief, tax officer, and robber catching officer of each village directly under the management of the town-level officials, and established
Separate institutions do not have jurisdiction over each other.
In other words, the town mayor has no power over the tax collectors and thieves officers of the villages below. He only has civil power.
The town sheriff is only responsible for public security affairs and cannot hold other positions.
As for the town treasurer, he is responsible for collecting taxes in each village and providing for public expenditures.
These three independent systems together formed the basic administrative structure of the towns and villages under the Tang Dynasty.
Among the officials at the town and village levels, some of the town mayors and village chiefs are responsible for people selected by the cabinet, while some are directly appointed by local landlords who actively pledged their allegiance to the Tang Dynasty. Of course, these landlords will not be family-style.
If they stupidly let the head of the family be the village chief, they would find some agents who seem to have nothing to do with themselves, but that doesn't matter.
The most important thing is that with their participation, the Tang Dynasty's rule at the grassroots level will be smoother.
However, allowing local people to serve is limited to civil affairs, and the officials in the two systems, taxation and public security, are all people sent from the Tang Dynasty. Taxation officials are directly dispatched by the Ministry of Taxation, while those in the public security system are
The new army of the Tang Dynasty directly dispatched retired soldiers and even officers to serve as thieves and peace officers.
For example, the peace officers of the six towns were all transferred from the active-duty officers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. The burglar officers of each village were also transferred from the active-duty non-commissioned officers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. Even some ordinary police officers were recruited from some retired soldiers.
Responsible for.
Most of these people are disabled veterans.
The New Army of the Tang Dynasty has experienced more than ten small battles. Although the casualties in each battle were not large, the accumulated casualties were still considerable. The cumulative number of disabled soldiers who could not recover was at least two to three hundred.
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In the previous battle at Lanjiang Ferry, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty suffered hundreds of casualties, and at least half of the wounded were unable to return to the army to continue their military careers.
How to arrange them was a troublesome problem for the new army of the Tang Dynasty. These people who retired due to injuries are either still weak due to excessive injuries, or they are simply disabled. It is too chilling to just leave them alone.
, but it is impossible for the New Army of the Tang Dynasty to continue to support them.
Someone had previously suggested that Li Xuan build some special farms to house these retired disabled soldiers, but Li Xuan did not approve it. He did not want these disabled soldiers to end up in a position where they could only accept charity from others. He wanted to
These retired and disabled soldiers have a job opportunity and even a relatively decent social status.
Today's administrative offices in towns and villages just provide a large number of jobs to accommodate them. Although they are all retired from the disabled army, their combat effectiveness is enough to intimidate ordinary bandits even if they are injured cripples.