Chapter 1339: Long-term
Qianzhou surrendered to Chang'an.
After nearly half a month of negotiations, the four major chieftains in Qianzhou, led by the Yang family of Bozhou, announced their surrender to Chang'an.
Chang'an also divided the former Qianzhou area into four areas and established four counties, with the four chieftains as the governors of the county. The officials below were also appointed by the four chieftains and reported to the court.
It is obvious that when dealing with the affairs of Qianzhou, the Chang'an court adopted a compromise method. When it peacefully returned to Qianzhou, it also greatly protected the interests of those who were originally in power in Qianzhou.
But it is obvious that it is easy for people to see that this is just a temporary stopgap measure for the court.
Originally, Qianzhou was a whole, and was followed by the Yang family's leader. But now it has been classified into four parallel counties, and the other three chieftains jumped to the same level as the Yang family.
More importantly, in terms of military affairs, the court will reorganize the Qianzhou army.
Min Rou led his troops into Qianzhou, and the original Qianzhou army would be reorganized into the Jing'an Army on the spot. Of course, the tiger-bearing men among them would also be incorporated into Minrou's army.
The army does not interfere with local administrative power.
So it seems that the administrative status of the four major chieftains themselves was not under much threat. The Jing'an Army can still be called their private army. It is conceivable that the original core elites in the Qianzhou Army would never be allowed to enter the army and transform into the Jing'an Army, which seemed to have just been changed.
However, the total number of troops in Qianzhou dropped from more than 60,000 to 12,000. The four counties were each allowed to retain the Jing'an Army of 3,000.
But the most important point for the court is that the wealth and tuition were collected into the center.
The financial and taxation systems of the four counties have been replaced.
After entering the financial and taxation system of Qianzhou, these people also took control of the financial power of Qianzhou in disguise. Any disturbances would be revealed in front of the imperial center due to financial problems.
If the four major toasts want to do something, they can only pay for it themselves.
Of course, with Qianzhou's current financial resources, Chang'an did not have the idea of drawing blood. Instead, after Yang Shi and others announced their surrender to the court, they allocated a large amount of funds to use the four counties of Qianzhou to lay off troops and distribute land.
Land was the fundamental strategy of the Chang'an court, and this is not negotiable. Large landlords who own a large amount of land must hand over the land.
In Qianzhou, the imperial court adopted the method of redemption.
Each family owns no more than one thousand acres of land. The extra ones will be paid by the court to recycle them at a price slightly lower than the market, and then distributed to the landless people.
Naturally, the imperial court does not have so much money now, so what should I do?
Printing the debt roll, over-issuing currency.
There is naturally no need to worry about the sales of bond rolls. The four major chieftains in Qianzhou subscribed nearly half of them. The rest, if you want to buy them in the Tang Dynasty, you still need to ask for favors and find relationships.
The court has been issuing bond volumes for many years, with good reputation and no worries about sales.
As for the over-issued currency, it did not cause too much fluctuation in the market, because Qianzhou surrendered, which was equivalent to opening up another closed market. Compared with the local area of the Tang Dynasty, Qianzhou was basically a place where everything was missing. As long as the goods were transported in, they could basically be swept away.
A lot of money was instantly digested by this extra market.
The court seemed to be quite gentle to the four chieftains in Qianzhou, but the real killer weapon was never exposed to the surface. The soft knife killed people without blood, but it was even more fatal.
Various institutions under the Education Committee entered Qianzhou in large quantities.
The first thing to be opened was the Yunnan-Guizhou Political and Economic College, named by Emperor Li Ze himself. Through this naming, everyone also saw clearly what His Majesty the Emperor was thinking about and what he was going to do next.
Naturally, it is Dali, separated from Qianzhou by a wall.
Everyone in the Chang'an Central Committee knew very well that the emperor always called Qianzhou Guizhou and Dali Yunnan.
As the name suggests, Yunnan-Guizhou political and economics must include the current Dali.
When Min Rou entered Qianzhou, she not only wanted to restrain Yizhou, but also paid more attention to Dali.
The School of Political Science and Economics specializes in training officials.
Although the four counties in Qianzhou have kept the original officials unmoved, they will definitely be replaced step by step by step by step by step by step by officers from colleges.
The brainwashing function of the college is without doubt. Even if the recruitment of locals in Qianzhou, after years of academic studies and exchanges with other academies, when they have a full understanding of the external world, they will naturally become part of the Tang Dynasty.
Every young man has ambitions.
With the strong support of the court, the Yunnan-Guizhou Political and Economic College was built at a speed that was far beyond the ordinary. A large number of gentlemen who were selected from colleges from all over the Tang Dynasty entered here, and it is expected that the first batch of students will be recruited by the end of September this year.
Of course, these first batch of students are basically children of the original power class, because in Qianzhou, scholars are still the patent of a few. Where do ordinary people have the financial resources to support their children in their studies?
But the court naturally won't do useless work.
They targeted the small landlords and small businessmen in Guizhou. The children of these families had free money to study and study, but even after studying, they did not have the opportunity to enter the political arena. They were more likely to be in the position of some minor officials. Being a county magistrate or a lord is already an extraordinary achievement.
But the Yunnan-Guizhou Political and Economic College opened a new door for them. As long as they can enter this college and perform well, they will at least be a landlord. Moreover, the court's intentions are so obvious. How can these people not break the truth of rushing in? And the Yunnan-Guizhou Political and Economic College will naturally open a door of convenience for them when enrolling students.
If the Yunnan-Guizhou School of Political Science and Economics is clearly threatening the existing political class in Qianzhou, then the opening of a large number of enlightenment schools is quietly digging the foundation of Qianzhong.
The Education Committee under Zhang Hui joined forces with Queen Liu Ruyan's Charity Federation to enter Qianzhou. The first step was that they planned to open a fully free enlightenment education in counties under the jurisdiction of the four counties in Qianzhou.
Qianzhou has many ethnic minorities and languages, which is their first step to do. On the basis of completing this matter, assimilation was completed unknowingly. In a few years, the entire Qianzhou will be completely integrated into the Tang Dynasty in order to complete the layout of the entire education system from bottom to top.
In addition to schools, a large number of clinics have also begun to bloom everywhere. In some villages, even if there is only one small front and one doctor, it is also an amazing good policy for the locals.
To win people's hearts, we have always started with small things.
The four major chieftains ruled these people for hundreds of years in Qianzhou. Originally, the people took this as a matter of course, but later, they would find that things were not like this.
When more people read books and more people go out, they will find that this world can be so colorful. And the four great toasts that were originally amazing in their eyes are actually nothing and nothing counts compared to many people in the outside world.
When the awe of fear leaves, the rule of the four great chieftains will come to an end.
For Li Ze, this method may take longer. But now he no longer thinks that the best way to have an army to violently solve the problem. Although it is simple to fight, the reconstruction required after a complete destruction may cost more money, and the hatred accumulated by a large number of people who died in the war will take longer. That is a problem that money cannot solve.
Today, only Yizhou, Guiguan, Lingnan and Fujian are left. Qianzhou was successfully recruited and set an example for Guiguan and Fujian.
Nowadays, the Tang Dynasty no longer uses the previous methods. It cuts down with one knife, and wants to cut everything cleanly and then start over. As long as they surrender, they can still save a lot of things, but if they fight, they will not be left.
I can't even have my life left.
This is also a strong hint from Li Ze to them.
It is difficult for the Xiang family in Lingnan to reconcile with Chang'an, and Chang'an does not want to reconcile with them. Zhu Youzhen from Yizhou will definitely not surrender, but Fujian and Gui Guan may be shaken.
Even if it is within them, it is good to cause some suspicion between them.
Li Ze believed that when Qianzhou surrendered, the imperial court's handling of them was passed to these places, there would always be some people who would have new ideas.
The current Southern Alliance is really a small place for the Tang Dynasty under Li Ze's control.
For Yang Shi, the head of the Yang family who came to Chang'an Jin and met the emperor in person, Li Ze really gave him enough face.
Although he became a local governor from Qianzhou, his title of Hou is still very precious. Now the title of the Tang Dynasty is extremely difficult to obtain. More importantly, when Yang Shi left Chang'an and was about to return to Qianzhou, Li Ze personally sent it to Chang'an City, holding hands all the way, staged a rare scene of the king and the ministers getting along, and such a scene had never happened before.
Yang Shi was naturally aware of the opportunity. Since things had reached this point, the disintegration of the four chieftains in Qianzhou was also destined, then how to ensure the wealth of Yang was the most important thing. He sent his eldest son Yang Qiu to Chang'an without hesitation and entered Li Ze's guard camp to show his loyalty.
If you lose something, you will definitely get something else.
Yang Shi's trip to Chang'an was actually quite rewarding. At least, he could guarantee that in his generation, the Yang family would still be the leader of Qianzhou in terms of financial resources.
And this confidence was given to him by the emperor.
Chapter completed!