Li Shimin took his ministers back to Taiji Emperor's capital to deal with the backlog of government affairs.

After Bai Yuqi inspected the properties under [Wuji Sect], he also returned to Wuji Palace to take a rest.

It looks like he just "came out of isolation", but in fact he has been running around for several months without stopping!

I have to say that it may have been stimulated by the various achievements made by Bai Yuqi, the Wuji Emperor.

The emperor Li Shimin also began to show a bold, aggressive and aggressive style when dealing with government affairs, which seemed to compete with Emperor Wuji.

Thanks to the communication board provided by the [Wuji Sect] Weapon Refining Workshop and the support of the Flying Bird Communication Bureau under [Yu Beast Sect], the transmission speed of government orders in the Tang Dynasty is now a hundred times faster than before, and the center's control over local areas has also been greatly enhanced.

Moreover, after receiving the inheritance of Emperor Wuji's "Foundation Management System" and combining the various suggestions mentioned by Emperor Wuji in their chat, Li Shimin also boldly carried out drastic reforms in the Tang Dynasty.

For example, the number of officials has been streamlined, a secretary province has been established, and a three-level management system of "chief officials, assistant officials, and secretaries" has been established.

At the same time, the army of the Tang Dynasty was reformed, and the imperial army system was upgraded to a system that combined the characteristics of the "recruitment system (off-the-job professional soldiers), conscription system (recruitment of compulsory soldiers), mercenary system (semi-professional private soldiers), and rural army system (non-off-the-job militia)"

A multi-level military system.

That is to say, the central government selects elite soldiers from all over the country and establishes an army directly under the central government as the main force.

Each of the ten provinces of the Tang Dynasty established a unified military governor's office (military region) and established an elite army of 10,000 people. In addition to the "Dragon Cavalry Army" directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, the 10,000-horse army totaled 110,000 standing troops.

Then, young men with property in their families must unconditionally enlist in the army and serve for two years after reaching the age of 18.

During the service period, the imperial court would exempt soldiers from paying taxes on their families to reduce the burden caused by the lack of labor force.

After completing military service, you can choose to become a professional soldier under the "recruitment system", or retire and join a private corps under the "mercenary system", or you can remove your armor and return to the fields to become a rural militiaman to protect the hometown for the people.

When the country encounters war, everyone must submit to compulsory conscription and re-enlist in the army.

This multi-level military system is very similar to the military service system of later generations. It not only greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Tang army, but also reduced the burden on the country.

Under this system of combining government and military and separating military and government, the entire Tang Dynasty took on a completely new look. Li Shimin's imperial power began to penetrate into the people, and there was no longer the problem of imperial power not going to the countryside.

With the strong and efficient military and political system in place, Li Shimin's control over the territory of the Tang Dynasty reached a peak, and he solved two major problems that plagued the ancient feudal dynasty at once, namely, refugees and bandits.

Since the Sui Rebellion had just ended in the early Tang Dynasty, the Li regime was newly established, and the territory had not yet been completely unified, so the energy was focused on eliminating external and internal troubles.

The population statistics are only rough estimates. A large number of people hid in the mountains and fields to avoid war and taxes. This is the main reason why the population in the early Tang Dynasty was less than 15 million.

Coupled with the large number of warlord forces left over from the war, large groups of bandits were entrenched in the mountains and forests, disobeying the government's discipline, and also occupied part of the population.

Therefore, after the reform of the military and political system, the Turkic foreign invasion was inexplicably eliminated by the Wuji Emperor's tricks. The salt and food shortages in the territory were solved due to the establishment of the water and land transportation network. The locust plague was also controlled by the [Wujimen] system.

Stable with effort.

Li Shimin could finally put his mind at ease, free his hands, and sharpen his sword to start attacking the fugitives and bandit forces hiding in the mountains and forests.

For the refugee villages hidden in the mountains and forests, the local government organizes teams to persuade them to return. If this fails, they organize militia and township groups to go into the mountains to physically persuade and force them to be demolished. If they continue to disobey the discipline, they will be arrested and sent to the labor reform team.

As for the remnants of the broken armies and bandits from the warlords' forces, the state military offices under the command of the unified army governor's office were dispatched to organize professional soldiers as the core of the command.

Recruit mercenary groups to assist, and recruit rural corps as a bandit suppression force with heavy logistics. First, recruit and persuade these bandit forces to surrender. Those who are stubborn will be directly exterminated. Try to capture them alive and throw them into the labor camp to keep them company with the Jiuli brothers.

go.

With a multi-pronged approach using various iron-blooded means, it is expected that the population of the Tang Dynasty will double out of thin air by then, which means it will reach about 25 million people and about 5 million Turkic laborers!

Moreover, in order to appease these fugitive bandits and Turkic laborers who were forced to return to the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin also obediently adopted the opinions of Emperor Wuji, formulated a system of life limits for prison sentences, sentenced sentences according to the seriousness of the "crimes", and told these "re-education through labor prisoners" clear

Serve time in prison and give them hope to avoid riots.

At the same time, we also promote those "re-education through labor prisoners" who are willing to obey and obey discipline as managers of the "re-education through labor prisoners" group, improve their treatment and rights, "treat criminals with crimes" to divide their internal groups, and break up the Turkic population

the old forces in the country.

It is believed that after as little as one year and as long as three, six or nine years of "reform through labor", this group of Turkic people will be easily absorbed and integrated into the Tang Dynasty and become their own people.

Li Shimin competed with him for merit, but Bai Yuqi didn't take it seriously and even liked it.

It's better to be busy, because if you are busy, you won't have the energy to think about it. Where are you now? It's just a Turk. He will be busy in the future...

When Bai Yuqi returned to Wuji Palace in Kuyu City, before he could relax, his disciples came to him and asked him for advice on various problems that occurred during his "retreat".

Among them were Yang Hongwen, the old village master, who came to him with the account book of Kuyuxian City to report his accounts, and Yang Tieniu, captain of the Kuyu caravan, who came to report to him.

Even Yang Zhao, the "fairy mother-in-law" who changed her timid temperament and became a strong career woman after taking office as the head of [Nishang Sect], came to him to ask whether it was necessary to expand the area of ​​mulberry forest for large-scale planting.

He raised silkworms and asked him what to do with the wool he brought back from the Turks.

The most bizarre thing is that even the wine brewers under the [Dingzumen] came to complain to him, saying that the bamboo wine forest they planted was caused by the iron-eating beast raised by Emperor Wuji.

These emperors kept auspicious pets, but they could not beat them, but they did not dare to scold them. Even the fences they built could not stop them. Every now and then, they would tear down the fences and run into the bamboo wine garden, killing the unripe bamboos.

It was chewed to pieces, and the good bamboo wine flowed all over the floor and wasted.

Bai Yuqi was dumbfounded when he heard this. What the hell? They don't want to nibble on the vast bamboo forests on Panda Bamboo Mountain, so why do they have to nibble on those bamboos that have been filled with wine?

I have only heard that monkeys who can brew monkey wine love to steal the wine and drink it, but I have never heard that pandas are also good at this?

Please tell me
Chapter completed!