Pei Ji was startled for a moment and obviously didn't react.
Both Yang Su and Tang Yishun's expressions changed.
Hunting on behalf of the sky!
After the founding of the Han Dynasty, no one was qualified to patrol the sky on behalf of the sky. Of course, this was mainly because Li Xingchen himself ran around in various places. Basically, he had left his footprints in various places from the south of the Yangtze River in the Han Dynasty to the Huaihe River and the northwest, so
There is no need to patrol the sky for hunting.
But now His Majesty has not only moved Dai Tian Xun Shou out, but also directly handed over this power to Yushitai, which shows that His Majesty really puts the development of transportation in a very important position this time, and even the first place has exceeded
for the development of Annan.
In fact, it’s not surprising that Li Xingchen made a fuss. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. From ancient times to the present, transportation has required concentration on development and construction. However, there were border troubles outside the Han Dynasty before. It was difficult for Li Xingchen to make up his mind to develop transportation, because once
Starting to build roads meant that a lot of manpower, material and financial resources would be consumed. Li Xingchen would not dare to do this before Guanzhong and southern Xinjiang were pacified.
Although Yu Wenxian still exists in the north, after the baptism of the Southern Expedition, the Han army and navy have gradually matured, and more importantly, the muskets have finally achieved streamlined production, which means that the Han Dynasty has entered the stage compared to the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
In a new era, the absolute advantages in the number of soldiers and horses, the quality of soldiers and horses, soldier recruitment and weapons and equipment gave Li Xingchen the confidence to quickly defeat Yu Wenxian after the war broke out, so he now also has the courage to make a big determination to develop domestically first
of infrastructure.
The development of infrastructure was not only to allow the people to live a good life, but also to strengthen the court's control over the local area, and also to provide sufficient convenience for the Han Dynasty to continue their march northward and finally defeat Yu Wenxian.
Roads can help to quickly gather and transport troops, horses, and grain. Not only that, the research experience and construction experience accumulated in the process of building roads can also help the Han Dynasty stabilize the situation in the north more quickly in the future.
An annexation war in troubled times is not just a war for one party to annex another, but also a war for the hearts and minds of the people. If the people's hearts and minds cannot be won together, then no matter how much land is occupied, it will be of no use.
The best example is of course Hou Jing. Although Hou Jing single-handedly disrupted the entire south of the Yangtze River, even defeated Emperor Wu of Liang and prepared to replace him, his brutality also caused him to fail to win the hearts and minds of the people in the south. Hou Jing rose up in chaos, and Chen Baxian and other powerful figures
The characters also rose up, and in the end Hou Jing was defeated, but Chen Baxian became the winner. In the final analysis, it was because the people of Lingnan and Jiangnan had already surrendered to Chen Baxian.
Therefore, if Li Xingchen went north without any preparation, it would only lead to the rise of a certain hero in the north, and the troubled times in the Southern and Northern Dynasties would probably last for a long time.
No matter what the considerations are, Li Xingchen must make up his mind to solve the problem of blocked domestic roads first, and at least make the 800-mile express become a real 800-mile express.
Nowadays, the transmission of news from the Han Dynasty cannot be expedited to the extent of eight hundred miles, otherwise the battle report from the south would not have been delivered to Li Xinchen's desk so late.
"Why, the Pei Qing family is having trouble?" Li Xingchen was dissatisfied with Pei Ji's reaction.
Even the original title of Duke Pei was changed to "Pei Qing's family".
Pei Ji was startled, and hurriedly and solemnly handed over his hand: "Returning to Your Majesty, it is not that I feel that there is any difficulty, but that Your Majesty has given the Yushitai such an important task, and I am extremely frightened."
"I regard Yushitai as the clean conscience of the great Han Dynasty. Could it be that Yushitai itself is also a place where filth and evil are hidden, so Mr. Pei dare not take on the important task?" Li Xingchen's tone was a little more relaxed, more like joking with Pei Ji.
Pei Ji took a breath. Although His Majesty's words were a bit heartbreaking, they were correct.
He was upright and not afraid of his shadow. Pei Ji had been an official all his life. He asked himself that he did not have any outstanding achievements, but he was still honest and fair. Others could point their noses and scold him for his lack of contribution, but they could never say that he was corrupt or accepting bribes.
And most of the people in the Yushitai are high-ranking people in the court, who finally gathered in the Yushitai because they were often excluded.
For a long time, the Yushitai has been like an existence with a salary. Of course, Li Xinchen's original intention of setting up the Yushitai was to allow them to monitor all officials. However, the development of the Han Dynasty was really fast, and the Yushitai had no real power. He wanted to
There was really no way to monitor the hundreds of officials. It was not until the last time Li Xingchen went north that the Yushitai relied on Li Xingchen's majesty and was able to investigate the officials in various states along the way.
However, Li Xingchen at that time also realized the importance of the Yushitai, so after Li Xingchen went north, he mobilized a large number of young officials to join the Yushitai, such as Xue Daoheng, and asked them to preside over the supervision of the officialdom in the north. However, in the wider area in the south,
, the Yushitai actually still did not play a big role, and the scope of supervision did not extend beyond Jiankang Prefecture.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Xingchen wanted to let Yushitai show off his power and tell those big Han worms that the imperial court was not letting them let themselves go.
The founding of the dynasty may not have been the most powerful time of the dynasty, but it was probably the time when the most corrupt officials were. This was mainly because when the previous dynasty was replaced, many of the original officials were retained and had made outstanding contributions.
The local gentry was also able to cling to the authority of the imperial court and do evil in the local area.
It's just that the country has just been established and is not yet stable. If you want to clean up these corrupt officials, it will only cause the foundation of the country to be shaken again. Even if Li Xingchen knows that there are many powerful officials who bully men and dominate women and prey on the people, he will not
You can't do it openly.
Therefore, he came step by step to prepare the ground for today.
He established imperial examinations and academies in order to reserve a certain amount of talent to replace these officials.
He suppressed and annihilated aristocratic families, and at the same time, he also wanted to uproot them first, so that the biggest supporters behind these people were often aristocratic families and officials who worked together to seize the interests of the court and the people, so that they would lose extensive local support and cover.
Now taking advantage of the imperial court's opportunity to conduct local research and inspections, Li Xingchen didn't mind sorting out the local officialdom. Even if the people were not good, the dark history had to be grasped first, at least to make them less arrogant.
Of course, at least Li Xingchen won't act too radically yet, because he knows that as long as he hangs out in official circles, everyone's butts will definitely not be clean, just how dark they are. Historically, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, hated evil as much as he hated evil.
, killed all corrupt officials, and even came up with such cruel methods as human skin scarecrows.
But in the end, corrupt officials did not disappear, but the founding heroes and local officials became fewer and fewer.