Chapter 336: Expanding the Army to Ten Thousand People
After bringing a group of civil and military officials to move into the prefect's Yamen, the prefect's Yamen became Li Xuan's new palace!
In the past few years, the imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty has been changed many times, from the Li family manor in the time of the late emperor Li Erbi to the simple palace made of bamboo and wood in Huangzhu Mountain.
There were several temporary palaces in the middle, and finally the prefect's Yamen in Xingquanfu City today.
The Tang Dynasty moved the capital to Xingquan Prefecture, and the prefect's Yamen naturally became Li Xuan's palace.
It's just that the prefect's Yamen is a bit dilapidated, and there are still traces of the war. Even the gate was damaged. This forced Li Xuan to complain about the weird rules of the Ming Dynasty. He didn't like to build government Yamen, but wanted to emphasize it.
And keep the government offices in tatters.
It was a dignified prefect's yamen, and it was as dilapidated as a dilapidated house. Song Zhiwen was not afraid of living in such a house. Suddenly one day the house collapsed and he was buried alive.
Naturally, the Tang Dynasty did not have the weird rules of the Ming Dynasty where rags were considered beautiful. Li Xuan was still very concerned about the safety of the place where he lived.
As soon as I arrived at the new 'Imperial Palace', I quietly ordered my personal guards to seize the time and send people to repair the palace. There is no need to do any major construction work, but at least you don't have to worry about the house collapsing when you live in it.
Only in this way can he safely take over Empress Dowager Bai and Empress Dong Yunyun.
To be honest, if it were not for the political status of the prefect's Yamen, Li Xuan would prefer to find a residence of a wealthy family in the city as a place to stay.
Putting aside the matter of the new palace, Li Xuan quickly summoned the ministers in the lobby of the magistrate's office. However, this summons did not have much practical significance. It was mainly to say some words of encouragement. As for actual matters,
Detailed planning had already been done before they entered the city.
The relocation of various departments and the subsequent internal affairs work have already been planned and implemented. All we need to do is proceed step by step when entering the city.
So Liu Bagou and the others soon dispersed, and then began intense and busy work. They wanted to establish effective administrative rule in this place that was completely unfamiliar to them. This would involve many complicated matters, at least
In the next half month or even longer, they will be busy and dizzy.
Compared to how busy they were, Li Xuan was more relaxed!
As an emperor, what he has to do is to arrange tasks without going into battle himself. Arranging tasks is just a matter of words.
As the saying goes, the boss retreats at every turn, and the subordinates break their legs. This is what the Tang Dynasty is today.
After entering the city, although Li Xuan was excited for most of the night, he still took advantage of the gap time after entering the city to take a nap, and he was still lazy!
When he fell asleep, he also had a dream. At first, he dreamed of countless Ming troops rushing towards Xingquan Mansion. He also led the army to resist and fight. With this fight, he hit a huge and incomparable enemy.
In front of the city, the scene changed and he saw that his army had already conquered this huge city.
Wearing a very handsome military uniform, he rode a tall horse and walked into this huge city amidst the cheers of countless people. After walking for a while, he looked up and saw three dazzling characters in front of him, which looked like 'Forbidden City', and then
He just burst out laughing!
It's a pity that I woke up with a smile and couldn't enter the Forbidden City to see what Mr. Zhengde looked like.
What is this called? This is called waking up from a dream with laughter!
It wasn't until about nine o'clock in the morning the next day that Li Xuan woke up and came out of the room after washing up. Although his sleep was not long, he had sweet dreams all the way. He was still very satisfied with the sleep he had.
However, Li Xuan could sleep in, but his ministers did not have such a good life. Whether they were civil servants like Liu Bagou or generals like Hao Bainian, all of them had panda eyes and looked very tired.
But I was tired, but everyone was smiling, even Liu Bagou, who had always been so serious, was smiling.
Li Xuan walked in and sat on a wooden dragon chair brought with him by the army. He felt like one of those officials who were promoted to court, especially after the guards next to him sang: "Go to court!"
That’s it.
It's a pity that no one shouted "powerful", otherwise it would be more like that.
But how can going to court be compared with going to court? No one would shout long live, long live, long live, long live to the officials when they went to court. But this time in court, Liu Bagou led the civil and military officials to kneel down and then shouted long live.
Long live long live.
Listening to the ministers shouting long live, Li Xuan couldn't help but murmur in his heart, no wonder so many people like to be the emperor, it feels really good to be the emperor.
However, although the Tang Dynasty, a valley dynasty, has been established for more than two years, it has been playing house for most of the time before it has really gotten on the right track. In fact, it has only been in the past six months, so there is not much mess.
rule.
Even though this may not seem formal enough, it makes things more efficient!
When he first came to court, no one talked nonsense. Soon, under the leadership of Liu Bagou, he began to report on various matters.
Let me talk about the situation of the various cabinet ministries first. They entered the city with the army last night. They not only need to settle down this night, but also need to come up with solutions to many matters as quickly as possible.
Li Xuan listened to everything one by one, but he didn't say too much. Most of the time, he nodded slightly to indicate that it was feasible. Occasionally, he would raise an objection, such as the tax department's proposal to immediately rectify the merchants in the city and let these
Merchants pay taxes according to regulations. Even though Li Xuan vetoed the proposal, he proposed a postponement.
Now that we have just occupied Xingquan Fucheng, it is easy to cause unnecessary trouble by directly taking money from the wallets of the large merchants in the city.
Nowadays, the most important thing for the Tang Dynasty is to stabilize its position and then expand and train its troops. Having enough guns in hand will make it easier to do anything in the future.
We are going to reorganize and collect taxes from the merchants in the city. Don’t worry, let’s wait for ten days and a half. Anyway, the money is in Xingquan Prefecture. Are you afraid that the money will escape?
Li Xuan did not have much control over the affairs of other cabinet departments, but he directly intervened in the Ministry of War, because the Ministry of War and the Privy Council together constituted the military power of the Tang Dynasty.
The Ministry of War in the Tang Dynasty was responsible for military and political affairs, while the Privy Council was responsible for military order affairs.
Currently, the Ministry of War has an extremely important task, which is to recruit new soldiers. For the Ministry of War of the Tang Dynasty, recruiting new soldiers is their most important task and also their most important power.
Because the power of training, combat command, and even logistics are directly vested in the Operations Department, Logistics Department, Equipment Department and other departments under the Privy Council, and even the merit examination and promotion of officers are also responsible for the Quanxu Department of the Privy Council.
As a result, the Ministry of War has less power. There are two more important points, one is the payment of salaries, and the other is the recruitment of soldiers.
However, today's new army of the Tang Dynasty does not pay salaries. At most, it only gives them a little money to settle down. Therefore, the power to pay salaries is basically non-existent. The only power is to recruit new soldiers.
According to the military system of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty formulated by Li Xuan himself, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, whether it was the departments under the Privy Council or the various units, had no power to recruit new soldiers, or even to add prisoners of war to the army.
This power belongs exclusively to the Ministry of War!
Although salaries have not been paid yet, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty will eventually need to pay salaries to soldiers in the future. Directly controlling the payment of salaries to the Ministry of War can avoid the intervention of generals at all levels, avoid emptying their salaries, or even misappropriating their salaries, or
It is to use salaries to gain the loyalty of soldiers.
These two restrictions are all for Li Xuan to control the situation where the army will be larger and the scope of operations will be larger in the future. The army will recruit troops locally and control the salary and have a small treasury, thus creating a situation where the soldiers are the generals.
He wants to control soldiers and salaries from the source, and will not give the generals the power to recruit troops and pay salaries, whether life or death.
Even if this results in some negative effects, such as the inability to replenish the personnel losses of the troops in time and the difficulty in replenishing new recruits, we will not hesitate to do so.
Many times, in the eyes of rulers, although the combat effectiveness of the army is very important, loyalty is more important.
A disloyal elite army is definitely not as important in the eyes of the monarch as a weak but extremely loyal army.
Combat power and loyalty, Li Xuan will choose loyalty without hesitation!
After talking about the trivial matters, it was naturally the turn of the military generals to play the leading role. At this time, except for Qian Mengjiu, the Minister of War, and Ma Wei, the left minister of the Ministry of War, all the other cabinet officials left.
Although Qian Mengjiu and Ma Wei were disguised as civilian officials, they were actually doing military matters. They all participated in this important strategic meeting.
In this strategic meeting, in addition to discussing the rest and reorganization of the troops, clearing out the remaining soldiers in the city, and quickly recruiting new soldiers, the most important thing was to send troops to Lianhe County.
"According to our intelligence, there is a Thousand Household Station garrisoned in Lianhe County, but the main force of the Thousand Household Station has been transferred to Lanjiang by Song Zhiwen, and what is left is just hundreds of old and young weaklings.
That’s all, even if they can recruit some young men, it’s not a big worry!” Zeng Ziwen was full of confidence when he said this.
The three battles of Lanjiang made Zeng Ziwen fully aware of the combat effectiveness of his own army. When fighting a small company or county, he didn't even need to send a main battalion like the First Infantry Battalion to go there. He could just go to any battalion.
That’s it.
But who will be the commander when sending that army?
But when Zeng Ziwen and others were surprised, Li Xuan did not directly transfer a battalion to Lianhe County. Instead, he directly ordered a team or half a team to be transferred from each battalion, and directly formed it into the fifth infantry battalion, and attached a
There were a number of grenadiers, archers, sword and shield soldiers in the platoon, and they were even asked to bring two 500-pound artillery pieces.
Although this fifth infantry battalion has just been established, because each unit is a veteran directly drawn from each battalion, except that the teams are not familiar with each other enough and there may be problems with coordination, in fact this is a mature unit.
The troops are gone.
After Li Xuan thought about it for a long time, he finally decided to transfer Wang Shanxu to serve as the battalion officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion. He also served as the commander of this unit and was fully responsible for attacking the company and the county.
The newly established Fifth Infantry Battalion can be regarded as the prelude to the formal large-scale expansion of the Tang Dynasty's New Army, and this time, Li Xuan wants to expand the size of the Datang's New Army to 10,000 people!