0772 Righteousness has no size, it is righteousness
One of the more vivid examples is that Wei Gun had a slave Tao Fu in the early Sui Dynasty, which was strong and powerful. He often had Jianxun when he went out to war. Later, Wei Gun let him go and was dismissed to be a good person, and he also gave him a meritorious service and received a reward from the court. Tao Fu killed Huangniu and offered his surname to beg for his name. Wei Gun gave him the surname Wei, but Tao Fu still did not dare to have the same surname as the former master, and only called Huangduzi Wei.
"Chaoye Qianzai" says that the reason why Wei Gun gave the slave the same surname was to guard against the passage of time. The descendants of descendants did not know the past and married the slave family indiscriminately. After the same surname, there would be no such hidden danger and still looked down on the slave. But if Wei Gun knew that after Empress Wei, who was born in the later generations, fell from the Huangdu Wei family, and was killed by him, would he regret this shrewdness at that time?
Putting aside everything else, this is an example of a living master and servant getting along. The friendship and mutual achievements between each other sounds more humane than the cold edicts and promulgation.
Li Tong deeply felt the Tang people's spirit of Shangyi. The more he came from the bottom of his family, the stronger his sense of morality of repaying kindness. After all, he himself gained this benefit from weak to strong, so in the specific situation, he did not ignore this point.
"Mentality is meaningless, it is a righteous spirit in the world! I love this talent and give it generously. The soldiers reward old people with this reward. All families deserve it and accept it safely without refusal. Even if the matter is subject to public opinion, I would rather take it as a jealous person as a robbery than damage the loyalty of the members."
Xu Junchen, a clever ghost, is a good person, but King Yong also has his own grand side, so he will naturally not be stingy with this kind of reward.
It’s meaningless, but there is a future. Resigning to King Yong is undoubtedly to have more opportunities and a greater future than leaving the accident master. The feeling of betrayal and guilt generated in this choice will be solved by King Yong for you!
After hearing King Yong's declaration, when they saw his old masters, they expressed their willingness to donate their talents. The soldiers present were extremely excited and bowed and responded to thank them.
This scene fell into the eyes of Shiliu and his family, and felt a little uncomfortable. Not to mention the loss of their servants being seized, they also felt that it was unnecessary for them to appear here.
This group of extra people did not stay here for too long. Soon King Yong arranged for the soldiers to introduce them to some spare officials in the imperial city to temporarily settle down, and the reorganization of the soldiers in each family officially began.
Although all the officials in the imperial city were killed, the Danei had their own art hall, Yunshao Mansion and other institutions to teach palace servants. There were many people who could make reading and writing records. Dozens of people brought paper and pens into the statistics. It took them half an hour to make preliminary bookmaking.
After the military order was established, Li Tong brought two extremely gorgeous boxes and cages inlaid with gold and jade inside the palace people. One was used to collect and store the books, and the other was placed in front of Zetian Gate. Then he continued to announce: "Although the thieves who violated the palace have been executed, the thieves who rebelled have not yet been eliminated! Tonight, the camps were built here to create a military order, and the camps and brigades were organized to patrol the entire city. Tomorrow, the camps gathered in this gate and cast a name in the box. Those who have merits were awarded the deputy lieutenant of Renyong, and those who have the best merits were awarded the lieutenant of Renyong! If this alliance of gold and jade is violated, the heavens will abandon me!"
In front of Zetian Gate, when he heard the reward order issued by King Yong, the atmosphere suddenly became boiling again.
Most of the soldiers present were guest slaves, and it was a great blessing to be free from slaves and become good people. They originally thought that the so-called gifts were nothing more than a few rewards and some money and silk, but they did not expect that they could become an official in a high-ranking position with this merit.
Although the Renyong Captain and the Deputy Captain were only officials of the ninth rank, it was a great leap from slave to official body, which was undoubtedly a great opportunity for these soldiers who had almost no future before. Therefore, the thank-you sounds in front of the Tianmen Gate were like wind and thunder for a while, and it lasted for a long time.
Li Tong had such an amazing reward, so naturally he had some consideration.
Although he had the entire Xingtai and a huge army of thousands, the following military tasks were extremely heavy. Not to mention the disturbances of the enemy from the border and the Khitan that had raised the anti-banks, the situation in the Kinnet and the states alone, especially the tens of thousands of troops stationed in Hedong, needed enough strength to pacify.
Especially now it is still the end of March, and Guanzhong is still busy with farming. At least it will take early May to complete the large-scale recruitment of the A-Ship. As for the moment, we can only fully utilize the existing strength.
The situation in Shendu was shattered, and the military affairs of the two yamen were gone. Even if the people from Shanzhou and Tongguan were in succession, there would be less than 20,000 soldiers. Not to mention the reconstruction of the order of Shendu, once the banner of his fourth uncle was erected in Hebei, he would immediately organize a cross-river to conquer the chaos and prevent the situation in Hebei from becoming a disaster.
Li Tong didn't care much about the remnants of Guanlong forces such as Yang Jiaben. These goods still have information, so they would not collapse the situation in the Shendu like this. However, the disciples and slaves controlled by these people are still a considerable force and worthy of acceptance and absorption.
Li Tong did not feel distressed when he released thousands of low-rank military officers' dismissal positions in one breath, including the corresponding materials for the delivery. In fact, he had already thought of giving the Martial Serial rank below the sixth rank as a large-scale merit. However, Xingtai did not have such power at all before, and when military merit was paid, he could only increase efforts in money and silk.
During the Zhenguan period, all civil and military officials above the ninth rank had a dispersed official title, which was called the original rank. This is like a civil and military officials who were just the corresponding titles and treatments of officials, which is a standard for identifying ranks. But in fact, although there are officials, there must be dispersal, but there are dispersals, there may not be any official positions. The latter fully reflects the aristocratic side of the Tang Dynasty's official system.
The so-called method of rank is to give titles, to relatives, to merit, to be meritorious, to be filial, to be labor-tested. Among them, to give titles, to be relatives, to be proud of themselves, to be labor-tested. All of these are the hereditaryization of political resources. As long as they are born in a powerful family, they will carry official ranks in their mother's womb.
Exciting filial piety refers to a person's talent and virtue. Let's not talk about it. Merit and labor exams are meritorious. Only by becoming an official can one be a meritorious and have the qualifications to be a rank.
Li Tong did not exclude the political resources of his father and son. After all, he was born with a noble background and had many fathers. Moreover, history had long given the answer to how to break aristocratic politics and aristocratic politics, that is, to develop the imperial examinations and make the imperial court's way of selecting scholars more popular.
However, in terms of military affairs, the answer given by history is relatively dark or heavy. Although in the original history, due to the gap between military talents and the Martial Arts was opened in the late Wuzhou period, the impact and return of the Martial Arts brought to society was far inferior to the Imperial Arts.
Of course, this is also normal. Military itself is a field of practicality and is also the topic of the ruling group's most concerned and guard against. The cost of testing and trial and error is extremely high, far different from imperial examinations and politics.
Today, the Tang Dynasty has a gradual process of breaking and then establishing it in the military. The government system based on the equal-field system has collapsed, and the large-scale recruitment system has not been fully established.
The experience of Kaiyuan and Tianbao's decline from prosperity also shows that even if this system was established, the results brought about may not be satisfactory. Later generations have many criticized problems such as the excessive power of the governors in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the emphasis on the use of Hu soldiers. In addition to the later years of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, there are profound social reasons behind it.
Li Tong has long been in charge of military operations and often is on the front line. Putting aside the larger military system issue, one thing he felt deeply about in terms of personnel is that there are too few ways to rise in the army. Ordinary small pawns, even elite warriors on the front line, would almost never be promoted without special circumstances, and would be promoted from a soldier to a general.
Most of the generals in the army were not from ordinary families, and this was no exception in the Western Army of Taiwan. The main way for generals to obtain was the guard system of the two yamen, especially the three guards of the Southern yamen, where the main members of these three guards were the children of officials, and they naturally excluded the children of civilians.
Therefore, Li Tong has been considering lowering the standard of military merit rewards, especially the awards of low-ranking military officers, so that ordinary soldiers can complete the transition from soldiers to generals more easily through their own efforts, so as to stimulate the military courage and righteousness of the lower-level soldiers, and at the same time, they can open up the selection scale of military talents for the court.
As for the administrative expenses incurred, first of all, low-ranking officials have no position and will not be given a salary. Secondly, even if they enjoy some economic privileges, it is more than enough to kill the money savings saved by a royal family and make up for the losses of hundreds of low-ranking military officers.
Will such a general and abused award cause the value of Wusan officials to plummet? This is certain, but that is a problem that needs to be faced in the future. Li Tong's rewards are still small. When the Li family rebelled, Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan entered Guanzhong to be awarded the fifth-rank official. The rewards were too numerous to be given by others. However, Li Yuan replied that we were rebelling, not eating a meal. If we fail, we will lose our lives. Now we are redundant.
Although the situation Li Tong is facing is not as difficult as starting a family and rebelling, it is also a matter of life and troublesomeness. If you can't handle it, your ancestors will have to be promoted, and there is no need to use the problems you will face in a few years or more than ten years to restrict your current choice of words and deeds.
Moreover, this time the masses helped the rebels in front of Zetian Gate, and their contributions were indeed quite good. Although my door was often opened, it was a mess in the North Gate that my family was almost jokingly. This time I was almost forced to face it. It made people feel scared to think about it. Therefore, it is reasonable to reward merits.
Taking advantage of the announcement of the reward order and the crowd was excited, Li Tong ordered the reorganization of the camp. There was no trick in this regard. There were 3,000 or 300 people present in the Shendu, and 300 people were organized into a battalion. With fifty old soldiers in the Xingtai Gate as the core, the already neatly arranged Shendu people were drawn one by one every ten times, and soon they were organized into fifteen battalions.
With a basic military formation, it will be much easier to dispatch tasks. The camps were divided into three shifts, two shifts were patrolling the entire city, one shift stayed behind the imperial city, and cleared the streets in the city. If there was a large-scale chaotic soldiers roaming, there was no need to attack. Return to the imperial city as soon as possible, and the imperial city sent troops to capture and challenge the attack. The commander of the Xingtai General Zhao Changxing was appointed.
After Chen Mingzhen, the Dingyun envoy, led a team to patrol the whole city, Li Tong finally had time to understand the specific situation of Qi Lianyao's rebellion. The sudden occurrence of this rebellion, Li Tong knew about it in advance and returned to the capital was from Tian Shaoan's revelation. Tian Shaoan's revelation only pointed out that there was such a possibility, and there was not much in the specific situation.
"The reason why this chaos arose is still the root cause of the rebel thief Wei Chengqing. The Wei bandit plotted to welcome the King of Luling and secretly sent a conspiracy to gather soldiers. However, because of the sage, the soldiers of the Southern Yamen entered the yard to kill the Wei family, resulting in the lack of coordination among the rebels in the city. Qi Lianyao used the Luozhou Sihu to join the army to plan a traitor..."
Xu Junchen was waiting far away. When King Yong started asking about related matters, he quickly walked out to tell the story.
Listening to Xu Junchen's story, Li Tong gradually outlined the rebellion in his heart. Simply put, Qi Lianyao's rebellion was an aftermath of King Luling's escape and returning to China.
With Wei Chengqing being killed in the market, the relevant accomplices in the Shendu City were also without leaders for a while. Next, the soldiers of the Nanya Army searched again, but they did not have a specific goal. In addition, they were greedy for merit and prosecution, which was far from enough to attack the relevant anti-party party, which made the entire Shendu City order even more collapsed.
Later, the saint Li Dan was kidnapped by the mutiny of the Northern Yamen, and the remaining soldiers of the Southern Yamen were also collapsed. After the forces involved in the Shendu gathered, they also fell into an embarrassing situation, that is, the King of Luling disappeared!
When things have developed to this point, there is no longer any matter of good, evil, loyalty and rebellion, and the entire capital of God has fallen into disorder.
As the King of Luling, Qi Lianyao was not as powerful as an official title, but the Luozhou Sihu Army was in charge of matters closely related to people's livelihood, such as household registration, taxation, warehousing and other people's livelihood. Although the power brought by the official position was no longer there due to the collapse of order, it allowed him to gain a considerable amount of power in the initial turmoil.
"Qi Lianyao first sent the provincial officials to guard the warehouse of the prefecture, and then plundered the high households of the houses by relying on their own, and they were powerful and powerful. Liu Sili, the envoy of Dushui, had an old plan to commit adultery. He took advantage of the chaos and wandered around the house to lobby for him and recruited accomplices. The Han family also visited..."
Zhang Shuo continued to make supplements, and took out a list from his arms and handed it on: "Although my family is not a famous family, I have received the kindness of the Tang family for many years, and I will not be in harmony with the thieves. However, the thieves are powerful and cannot compete with the enemy. They lie dormant in the fields and collect evidence of the crimes in detail. All those who rebel and plot against each other will be recorded here..."
Li Tong took the list and browsed it briefly, then handed it back to Zhang with a calm expression, and said, "Daoji is in a square and upright position. Although he is in a turbid world, he can be loyal and unyielding. He will give you the position of a mission to me. I will investigate the hidden evils of the capital. Do not be ruthless and do not indulge it!"
When Zhang Shuo heard this, he was both happy and worried for a moment. He was happy that he could have a position in the new team of King Yong, and the worried that the office was the punishment of the clerk. It was a grudge and was quite different from his positioning. But since King Yong had already instructed him, he did not dare to refuse and could only accept it respectfully.
As for Xu Junchen, he was immediately disappointed when he heard Zhang say that he had taken over his old power. The current Shendu City was simply an extremely rich hunting ground for him. His hands were almost worn out, and the heroes were useless.
Chapter completed!