Chapter 1318: The contest between master and apprentice

Chapter 1318: The contest between master and apprentice

  Chapter 1318 The contest between master and apprentice

  The night is deep.

   Sleepy but still not the slightest bit.

  Emperor Li Yin was sitting in front of the imperial case, obviously tired but still not sleepy, he flipped through several memorials but couldn't read them.

  The state affairs are complicated, but not to the point where the emperor is irritable and insomnia. It has been 14 years since he succeeded to the throne.

   Years of fighting did not weaken the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, on the contrary, it is in a state of continuous improvement, and the national strength is several points stronger than Zhenguan.

The third conquest against Xiqi went very smoothly. The privy envoy Li Ji, together with Cheng Yaojin from Hebei and Niu Jinda from Liaoxi, went north along the Tuhe River (Old Ha River) all the way, with a total of 200,000 elites. The Tang army, together with Tie Le, Turkic and other bandit soldiers, defeated Xi Qi steadily. Now that the front line is winning, the remnants of Xi Qi's defeat have escaped Huangshui (Xila Mulun River) and rushed into the territory of the tribe .

And the Ministry of Miao has long been a governor's mansion under the Northern Governor's Mansion of Datang Town. Facing the Xiqi tribe who fled and fled, the Ministry of Miao unceremoniously sent troops to intercept, and many livestock were robbed and damaged. The Xiqi and Qi tribes with many troops had to flee to the northeast again, and finally took refuge in this area (Korqin Grassland) north of the Xiliao River, west of the Nen River, south of the Taoer River, and east of the Great Xianbei Mountains.

  This place is also the last site of the two departments of Xi and Qi. Back then, Xi and Qidan were loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and in exchange for the canonization of Tian Khan, the two governors of Songmo and Raole were set up.

The lower reaches of Huangshui River are also called Rao Leshui (Xiliaohe River). The Xiqi and Xiqi tribes who have retreated here have been seriously injured and panicked, and they no longer have the strength to resist the Tang Dynasty. The tribes rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, but the Mohe tribes also retreated steadily under the attack of Niu Jinda in Liaodong.

The Tang Dynasty established the Bohai Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in the old place of Mohe, with Sumoshui (the southern reaches of the Songhua River) as the boundary, and the Sumoshui, Huhan River (Mudanjiang) and Nahe River (Songhua River) to the east of the river all flow into the Bohai Sea. The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion has set up several military towns, all along the river and coast.

   Even in the more distant Heishui (Heilongjiang) basin, the Heishui Metropolitan Protectorate was established to implement the rule of restraint over the various ministries.

Although there are many Mohe tribes, they are located in a cold and remote place, and the tribes have always been loose. When the Sumo tribal alliance near Liaodong was defeated and conquered by the Tang army, the other Mohe tribes farther away were completely powerless to resist, and even they themselves were not able to resist. Too happy to resist Datang.

Because the Heishui and other tribes are still respectful and knowledgeable, and because of Niu Jinda's strong admonition, he believes that it is the limit for the Tang Dynasty to set the land where the Sumo tribe alliance is based as the Bohai Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. For the cold Heishui and other ministries, it is better to establish them under the rule of Jumi.

  Finally, under the advice given by the Privy Council and the prime ministers of the Zhengshitang, Li Yin agreed to set up the Heishui Dadufu and the Shiwei Dadufu, respectively governing the lower reaches of Heilongjiang and the upper reaches of Heilongjiang and Nenjiang.

  Two major guards, each with thirty-six governors, more than one hundred prefectures, and hundreds of counties.

   As for the impoverished and desperate Xi Qi, Li Yin originally wanted to completely exterminate the two, but in despair, the Xi and Qi II began to fight among themselves. First, the Khitan people took advantage of the chaos to annex and carve up the remnants of the Xi people, and the brothers who had fought side by side were swallowed up by them all at once.

  Then Khitan Babu is still unstable.

Everyone blames the current predicament on the leader of the Dahe clan who led everyone to fight against the Tang Dynasty. Originally, when everyone turned against the Tang Dynasty, it was a decision made at the alliance tribal meeting. Hayes.

  The Dahe clan was originally powerful, so it was selected by the Tang Dynasty as the leader of the Khitan, and was awarded the governor of Songmo, a knighthood, and a surname. But in the three wars against the Tang Dynasty, the Dahe clan also lost the most strength. At this time, the Dahe clan was no longer as good as the remaining strength of the Yaolan clan.

  After a dark night scuffle, the Khitan Khan who abandoned his national surname Li and changed back to Dahe's surname was beheaded by the Yaoren warriors in the night fire.

The noble chiefs of the Dahe tribe were almost killed, and the young and strong men did not escape, leaving only children and women who were not taller than the wheel. The Yaolan tribe also divided up the population and livestock of the Dahe tribe slave property, etc.

  After a great chaos, only five of the original eight Dahe clan alliances remained. In addition to the Dahe clan, two tribes that were close to the Dahe clan were also annexed by fire.

  The leader of the Yaonian clan sent his brothers to the south with the leaders of Khitan and Xi Khan, as well as Jiangbiao, to ask Li Ji to surrender, and at the same time started to rebuild the alliance.

Li Ji reported to the imperial court that he advised to accept Khitan's surrender, so as not to fight with trapped beasts. Both of them were also because of the imperial court's relentless pursuit of Xi Qi, which made Tie Le, Shi Wei and other Hus in Mobei feel a bit sad. They all pleaded for mercy for the second part.

  Li Ji believes that leaving the two works of Xi Qi can be used as a buffer between Datang and Shiwei.

Shiwei is considered to be mainly from the Yuwen Department of Xianbei, and is a descendant of Donghu. Today, the large tribe has five major tribal alliances, which are divided into northern and southern Shiwei. The southern Shiwei has about 25 tribes and alliances, and the northern Shiwei has 25 tribes and alliances. Nine tribal alliances.

Although Shiwei's strength is far inferior to that of Turks, Tie Le, or even Xi Qi, but after all, there are a large number of tribes, only the Huangtou Shiwei tribe at the confluence of Songhua River and Nen River has 30,000 households and a population of nearly 200,000 , the strength should not be underestimated.

  Compared to the Turkic Tiele and other tribes that were conquered one by one by the Tang Dynasty, although the Shiwei tribes also had tribute exchanges with the Central Plains, but because they were far apart in the past, they did not have much power to control them.

  Li Ji suggested that since the civil strife in Xi Qi is now over, it is better to place them on the grassland where they are now settled, which is at the intersection of Shiwei, Mohe and Liaodong.

   Of course, it is not simply accepting surrender.

  The Dahe clan, the leader of the eight tribes of Khitan, has been destroyed, as have the other two tribes, and the Xi clan was directly annexed by Khitan. Now the imperial court can accept Khitan’s surrender. The first condition is to let them spit out the swallowed Xi tribes. The imperial court selects the pro-Tang faction, restores the Xi tribes, and rebuilds the eight tribes of the Xi clan, but does not allow them to return to the original Rao Le Dudu The government is also the Luan River Basin, so they and the Khitan are directly divided into two, divide and rule.

  As for the existing five Khitan tribes, the imperial court can confer Yaoni Quli, the leader of the Yaoren clan, as the governor, and the imperial court still allows them to build eight more tribes.

  However, in order to better divide and control Xiqi, the imperial court wants to further divide and weaken them. The first method is to divide the current small area into two, and set up the Rao Le Dudu Mansion and the Songmo Dudu Mansion respectively, and canonize the two tribes as the governors.

  Then within the two Dudufu, it is divided into eight, each with eight states.

   This is not the end, because it is necessary to prevent the most powerful leaders of the two clans from borrowing the position of governor from the Tang Dynasty and rebelling against the Tang Dynasty in the future. Therefore, the Yaoren family and the Duji department were selected to replace the former Khitan Dahe clan and Xi'ahui department as leaders.

This is not enough, conferring the Yaoyan family as the governor of Songmo, but choosing two other tribes with similar strength to the Yaoyan family, assigning them the titles of Changshi and Sima, and sharing the taxation and military affairs. As the governor of envoys and festivals, Renshi only has administrative power.

  However, each of the eight ministries set up a prefecture with its own territory, and the leaders of each ministries were divided into governors of the prefecture. Therefore, as the governor, the Yaozhan clan had limited jurisdiction over the prefectures.

   What's more, after the imperial court annexed the old lands of the original Raole and Songmo Dudufu, a new Dading Dudufu was established and included in Liaoxi Road. And this abbreviated version of Xinraole and Songmo's two governor's mansions is also under the jurisdiction of Liaoxi Road.

In this way, half of the Horqin Grassland is divided into Xi Rao Le Dudu Mansion and Khitan Songmo Du Du Mansion, and then subdivided into 16 prefectures. Undoubtedly, the remaining hundreds of thousands of Xiqi tribes will have more complicated situations in the future. What's more, there are also Baijiao, Huangtou Shiwei, Sumo Mohe, Liaoxi Liaodong Tang armies who have just fought against them, and the Xiqi affiliated tribe who have already been included in the Dading Dudufu.

  A piece of grassland about 500 miles from north to south, east to west, surrounded by mountains or rivers, surrounded by many neighbors, it is difficult to expand outwards, and it is difficult for the two ethnic groups and sixteen tribes to form a group after closing the door.

Li Yin considered it for a long time, and finally accepted Li Ji's suggestion. According to this plan, Xi Qi was recruited, the two strongest leaders were canonized as the governor, and the two stronger parts of the two clans were selected as the governor's chief and Sima. Divide the power of the financial army.

  Of course, Li Yin was not a benevolent emperor. He bestowed the surnames of the six tribes of the two clans, the Dudu, Changshi, and Sima, and at the same time gave Han surnames to the other ten tribes.

At the same time, let Li Ji lead his troops to the north, personally draw the boundaries for the sixteen tribes, hold a meeting, and pledge allegiance to the Tang Dynasty. In the Central Plains, at the same time, the new two tribes and sixteen tribes will also send hostages to the Tang Dynasty, and turn over cattle, horses, llamas and other livestock as a show of loyalty.

  Anyway, he can save the lives of the two races, but he has to take a layer of skin first.

  In the end, the two half-dead clans are left behind, and they will guard the border for the Tang Dynasty.

   "At home, it's getting late, let's go to bed early!"

  The house servant, Gao Hu, advised carefully.

  Li Yin asked him to pass the tea.

   "It's so late, it's even harder to fall asleep after drinking tea, why don't you let Yushanfang have a midnight snack."

"Um."

Li Yin was in better spirits this time, so he picked up a few more memorials and looked through them. Yin Anguo, the supervisor of the Lusong Qianjian, had entered the memorial. Hand it over to the imperial court. Seeing this, Li Yin was a little surprised.

Facing the teacher Qin Lang who was only eight years older than him, Li Yin never dared to be careless. He admired Qin Lang's wisdom very much, and what he admired even more was that Qin Lang was always sober, no matter it was Zhenguan It was still in the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and I have never seen him drifting by.

  Even at the beginning of Kaiyuan, they did not rely on the merits of establishing a policy to stay in the center and did not leave. On the contrary, they were very sober and took the opportunity to get out of their shells early.

  For such a teacher, Li Yin was always on guard against him.

Returning the right to mint coins to the imperial court was a matter that had been agreed a long time ago, but Li Yin still asked Yin Anguo to negotiate with Lu Song in private first, and did not directly issue an order. Fortunately, Qin Lang's reaction still satisfied him, and he actually directly agreed Handed over Luzon's money casting supervisor?

   This is a super money mint that mints 3 million coins a year. The amount of money minted by a Lusong money prison in a year exceeds the sum of all the other dozens of money mints in the imperial court.

  Continuing to look down, Yin Anguo reported that Lu Song had indeed handed over the Qianjian, but many craftsmen and machines had already been dismantled.

   It was not dismantled to other places in Luzon to build another mint for private minting, but it may have been transported to the free port of the Qin family’s concessions in Waguo, Linyi and other places to strengthen the ability to mint coins there.

The Qin family also has mints outside of Luzon. Li Yin actually knew about this a long time ago, but the scale of mints overseas is very small. In addition to casting Kaiyuan and Tang coins, it is said that they will also cast some other coins and happy coins. There are even pure gold and silver coins or melted gold and silver ingots, collars, etc.

  Li Yin's brows were habitually frowned, often frowning, causing the emperor in his forties to have a deep Sichuan character line on his forehead.

Qin Lang's approach is actually understandable. After all, the amount of coins minted in a year is several million coins, and the profit of the coinage alone is hundreds of thousands of coins. After that, there is another year that consumes more than ten million catties of copper and iron, and millions of taels of gold and silver. Quantity, which has greatly promoted the Qin family's mining and smelting industry.

   Even provided strong support for the Qin family's financial industry.

   Now that the handover is handed over, the Qin family has suffered a lot. Now it is normal to transfer some craftsmen and machines overseas. If the Qin family handed over Qian Jian without saying a word, and then did nothing, Li Yin would be uneasy.

Just transfer it. Anyway, as long as the imperial court strengthens the crackdown on private casting and strengthens the control over gold, silver, copper and iron, the Qin family can build several mints overseas, but without raw materials, they can't mint much money. , It will not affect the court much.

The Qin family’s mintage of 3 million coins a year before was due to the imperial government’s policy cooperation. It converted countless iron materials into copper, and supported the Qin family with a large amount of copper materials, and even allowed the Qin family to mine and smelt copper and iron without handing over The imperial court, but directly for their own use.

Without these policy support from the imperial court, the gold, silver, copper, and iron mined by the Qin family will not be able to go to sea in the future, and can only be taxed and purchased by the imperial court. Although the Qin family's ability to mine and smelt is still there, and the profit is still there, they can no longer go to sea. It provided important raw materials for its coinage.

  Thinking of this, Li Yin smiled.

  Two evils balance whichever is lesser.

   I think this result is also a helpless decision made by Qin Lang after much thought.

Over the years, Li Yin felt that the two of them were actually doing the same thing, which was to actively forge ahead. The difference was that he led the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to conquer Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Xi, Khitan, and Mohe. Tamra and Gaya were annexed, and they still opened thousands of miles in the southwest.

   Qin Lang took Luzon's vassals to expand overseas, conquered the Luzon Islands, entrusted his retainers and knights, and even established many concessions and colonial points in overseas countries.

   There is not much difference in essence, they are all expansions.

   Li Yin felt that his record was stronger.

  Of course, Qin Lang was able to build a fairly good maritime kingdom in twenty years with the little foundation of Luzon Island, which indeed proved Qin Lang's ability once again.

   This is indeed a talent who can be both civilized and stable, and can also rule the country, the kind that comes out once every five hundred years.

  In comparison, Changsun Wuji is far behind, short-sighted and ignorant of current affairs.

   As for Li Ji, there is also a big gap. Li Ji is more knowledgeable about current affairs, but much weaker.

  (end of this chapter)