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Chapter 325: Unexpected Gains(1/2)

That night, Li Shimin lived in the military camp and everything was fine.

When the sky in the east turned white, a rumble of drums gathered around Li Shimin's camp sounded.

The soldiers in their sleep were awakened and hurriedly got up, tied their armor and ran out of the camp...

All the civil and military ministers living in the military camp who were qualified to enter Li Shimin's military camp soon wore them and came to Li Shimin's military camp.

Before dawn, butter candles were lit everywhere in the camp, and flames were blazing.

When the ministers came to the door of the tent, they saw a throne set up in front of the tent, Yuchi Gong and Xue Wanche stood in front of the throne with their helmets and armor, holding the hilt of the sword, but the throne was empty without the shadow of Li Shimin.

Seeing this, Hou Junji moved his heart and stepped forward to the court, Yuchi Gong bowed and said, "Jingde, where is Your Majesty?"

When Yuchi Gong heard this, his eyes turned upwards and said in a buzzing voice: "I only acted under the order. Where is Your Majesty? How can I ask about your ministers?"

Hou Junji was so embarrassed that he had to retreat embarrassedly. When the others saw this, they shut up and refused to ask for it boring.

As the sky in the east gradually brightened, a red sun jumped out of the sea of ​​clouds, and the torches in the camp gradually faded. The ministers who had not eaten breakfast were still standing in the camp waiting for Li Shimin to appear.

At this moment, I suddenly heard the drums of gathering generals sounded outside the camp. The ministers in the camp were shocked when they heard the sound. Where did the drums sound again?

"Your Majesty is here, who is playing drums and gathering generals?"

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Just as the ministers were making noise, Li Shimin's voice came from behind the throne and said, "Why is it noisy?"

When the ministers heard the sound, they immediately stopped.

But he felt puzzled. Why didn’t His Majesty come out to see the ministers in the tent behind?

It was not until this time that Jun Ji noticed that Li Shiji did not appear. Could it be that he was gathering generals outside?

As the three-way war drums sounded outside the camp, ordinary soldiers in the camp walked out of the military camp and lined up on the school ground outside the camp.

When the soldiers came outside the camp, they saw a throne in the north of the schoolyard. On the throne was the crown prince Li Chengqian, and the throne was placed with the magnificent crown prince ceremonial guards in front and behind.

Li Shiji, who was wearing armor and armor, and a group of Eastern Palace generals stood majestic on both sides of the throne.

Many soldiers were worried when they saw Li Chengqian posing in such a situation. Recently, these people have said some bad things about Li Chengqian to the point of view.

Now I suddenly saw Li Chengqian watching them with a high position, thinking that Li Chengqian was going to cause trouble for them.

However, Li Chengqian has no intention of causing trouble for them now, and he has something good to announce here today.

Li Chengqian watched tens of thousands of soldiers form dozens of square formations covering the entire school ground, and said to Li Shiji: "The Duke of England can start."

When Li Shiji waved the flag in his hand and the whimpering horns sounded at the school ground.

The soldiers below gradually became quiet, and then Li Shiji turned to the soldiers and said loudly: "Transfer the orders of His Highness the Crown Prince!"

After hearing the sound, dozens of knights rode out on fast horses and ran quickly along the road between the various phalanxes. Every time they ran through a phalanx, they would shout: "Transfer the orders of His Highness the Crown Prince!" In this way, tens of thousands of soldiers could know what Li Shiji said.

Li Shiji watched the first group of knights running halfway, and then said: "Now the list of enrollment for the Royal Military and Political College is announced."

As soon as Li Shiji finished speaking, he rode his war horses and ran forward along the previous passage, repeating what Li Shiji had just said while running.

When the soldiers below heard that they were about to announce the list of enrollment for the Royal Military and Political Academy, they suddenly started to discuss it excitedly.

At this time, even if it is impossible for people who enter the Royal Military Academy, they will prick up their ears and listen carefully to see if there are anyone they know.

Then he heard Li Shiji pronounce hundreds of names one after another, and each two names and a group of them spread throughout the audience with the sound of the knight.

This news did not cause much sensation in the future. The selected people were naturally happy, but there were also some people who thought they would be selected because they did not feel a strong sense of loss in the center.

So many people who chose remain silent.

These were also expected by Li Chengqian. If there had been no news of the military exercises of various departments and the promotion of meritorious soldiers of various departments had been released before, this list would not have to be announced here.

But immediately afterwards, Li Shiji began to announce another decree against the soldiers, and the scene was ignited.

The beginning is the same, "I will be ordered by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" The content is about the arrangements of the injured and disabled soldiers.

There are three types. People with minor disabilities and combat effectiveness can choose to enter the royal carriage and horse carriage in the Tang Dynasty as guards or work as yamen runners in various government offices in northern Xinjiang.

No matter which one is chosen, the court will give them the pastures in the northern border. The court with family members will arrange for the family members to come to the northern border to settle their homes, and the court without family members will give the court with Shiguanqian to marry and settle their homes.

The second type of people who have no combat effectiveness and ability to work, in addition to giving twenty-tenths of family settlement, the court also allocates grasslands to raise war horses for the court. War horses are purchased at high prices first, and a certain amount of grain and salt can be purchased from the court first.

The third type is that those who are unable to work are not allowed to settle down in the countryside, in addition to the 50-strong settlement fee, staying in northern Xinjiang can also receive dividends from the imperial pastures every year.

Finally, it is stated that all grasslands are owned by the imperial court and are not allowed to be traded privately. At the same time, the imperial court has priority purchasing rights for grassland output…”

Unlike the previous one, this decree immediately caused a sensation as soon as it was announced.

The disabled soldiers were overjoyed, and the disabled people were not happy, and some even wondered if they had to get themselves disabled in the next battle.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were usually middle-aged or young children from their families, and they did not have an advantage in inheriting the family business. In the past, many people lived a miserable life when they were injured. Li Chengqian knew something about it when he was in Chang'an.

The Tang Dynasty did make a very good set of Juntian Orders, but the implementation was very bad.

There are many reasons, first of all, there are not many fields, and many fields are in the hands of the gentry and wealthy families.

Secondly, the court should give priority to the distribution of land for nobles and officials, and then the soldiers and the people. For example, a prince would have to divide 10,000 acres of land, which would not be broken at all. All the honors and relatives below the prince would have to divide the land from hundreds to thousands of acres.

Then when they were divided into ordinary soldiers and people, there would be no land, otherwise the system of military service and tax adjustment laws would not have been broken before Li Longji.

Now Li Chengqian wants to divide the grassland for these disabled soldiers who have no inheritance, which is very exciting.

Why is it difficult to move homeland?

Doesn't exist?

In a few years, the Han people came to the frontiers themselves. Therefore, Du Mu's poem in the late Tang Dynasty said: Although shepherds sheep and drives horses, she has white hair and loyal hearts.

Li Shiji turned his head and saw that the sun had reached the treetops, and then signaled to blow the trumpet again. He also announced that he would reward the meritorious soldiers.

In addition to the original imperial court, the reward of meritorious soldiers should be promoted, of course, also the reward grassland is also allowed to attract some landless or small-land farmers from the mainland to manage grasslands for them.

The Hetao area is known as the Jiangnan area on the Fortress, and it can be cultivated.

This policy was announced and tens of thousands of soldiers were caught in cheers.

Li Shiji looked at the soldiers below and felt a lot of emotion. In the past, the Tang Dynasty captured these places for various tribes to manage them, and asked them to guard the borders of the Tang Dynasty and pay some tribute to some tribute every year.

No one ever thought of giving the grassland to their soldiers. Now it seems like what a big mistake!

Then he glanced at Li Chengqian quietly and sighed secretly how wise the crown prince was to come up with such a brilliant plan!

In fact, Li Chengqian's plan was to learn from Zhu Yuanzhang's garrison system, but only turned the land in the garrison system into the army and finally became the general's ownership. This disadvantage was changed to the land belonging to the court and being managed by the local government.

This is the separation of military and political affairs.

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Since he was summoned to Li Shimin's camp before dawn, the sun has risen to the treetops, and Li Shimin has not come out of the tent.

This made Hou Junji and others mutter, especially when they heard the cheers of tens of thousands of soldiers outside the camp.

Li Chengqian's ability has been obvious to everyone this year, and it is not difficult for Li Shiji to change the minds of the soldiers.

It seems that things can't be started today.

Hou Junji thought so, but he was very unwilling to accept it. This time he was able to get support from all parties and fan the morale of the army!

After all, they are not a whole. This time, the matter against Li Chengqian was targeted by some local wealthy families in the northern border. These people have been doing business between the Tang Dynasty and various tribes, and they are the least they want the court to intervene in the northern border.

There are also some who were neglected by Li Chengqian in the central army of the court. Only when the joint attacks were launched this time could the army's motives turmoil. It happened that Li Shimin and Li Chengqian and his son were both in the army, so they would not have such an opportunity in the future if they gave up this time.

On the contrary, as long as Li Chengqian successfully prevents his policies to various ministries this time, they will form a force from the court to the local government in the future, no one dares to move easily.

Hou Junji even thought that as long as he mastered this force, he would be the elder of the country if Li Chengqian was deposed and then appointed the crown prince...

Just as Hou Junji was thinking, he saw Li Shimin slowly turning out from behind the throne.

Because Li Shimin was about to take off and return to Chang'an in two days, the most important thing today was to summon the leaders of various tribes.

So after Li Shimin sat down on the throne and paid homage, he ordered the eunuch to pass the order and began to meet the leaders of various tribes.

Because Li Chengqian had killed the leaders of the tribes in the northern part of the Mobei region and their relatives in the schoolyard in the south of the city a few days ago, the first group of people who worshipped Li Shimin today were the leaders of the five Turkic tribes, and then the elders of the ninth surname of Zhaowu.

These people were trained by Li Chengqian, so they all dressed in Tang Dynasty official uniforms and bowed in order and soon passed.

Next are the Dangxiang tribes. The civil and military ministers on both sides are cheering up to see if these Dangxiang people will cause trouble?

After all, Li Chengqian killed their people yesterday.

After a while, more than twenty leaders of Dangxiang who were appointed as governor of the state by Li Shimin walked in wearing the official uniforms of the Tang Dynasty.

However, these Dangxiang people did not perform the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty because they wore the official uniforms of the Tang Dynasty. On the contrary, they all knelt on the ground and cried when they reached the throne.

Li Shimin was also a little surprised when he saw this scene. Could it be that he was complaining about the Yeli clan who was killed by Li Chengqian yesterday?

"Why are you crying?" Li Shimin asked lightly.

"I am so excited that I can see the Khan of Heaven, and I cried bitterly!" Tuoba Chici said in the way the Tang people spoke.

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Now when you see me, please calm down!"

Tuoba Chi Ci heard this and bowed to the top and said, "I don't dare."

"Oh! Why?" Li Shimin said with a deep face.
To be continued...
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