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Chapter 40 Clean up the aftermath

Li Ye was so poked and confessed that he had goosebumps, "I don't want you to be crushed. Just do your business well. How is Wang Xingyu's situation?"

Speaking of the serious matter, Liu Quanli wiped away his tears. "After Wang Xingyu and Li Maozhen turned against each other, he repeatedly strengthened their ties with the court through slaves, hoping that the court could help him prepare food and grass."

"Oh? This Wang Xingyu is really a smart person." Li Ye said with a smile.

Now he had a quarrel with Li Maozhen. Looking around, there were people from Dangxiang to the north and Fufang Town to the east, all of them were weak vassals. Wang Jian of Xichuan was too far away, and he could not help him through Li Maozhen. Tang Ting was his only choice.

However, Li Ye was short of soldiers and food, so it was impossible to give it to him.

"You can tell him that the court has difficulties. If you are poor, you will soon drink the northwest wind. There is no food, but as long as Li Maozhen takes action against him, the court will send troops to rescue him!" If you don't give the goods, you have to issue a blank check.

"I understand."

Today is the day of the court meeting. Li Ye is too lazy to go there, and he is also upset when he goes there. Now there is one more Pei Zhi in the court. Several of them are evenly matched, so let them make trouble.

After learning from one's mistakes, Li Ye dared not walk around in the palace with a few personal guards like before.

No matter what the rules are, the thirty personal guards are fully armed, with armor, horizontal swords, bows and arrows all ready.

Li Ye himself also wore a soft armor and a dagger.

The psychological shadow left to him last night was too great.

Just a moment of negligence, someone took advantage of the loophole.

But then again, the eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty were really awesome. If they hadn't been lucky enough to kill him, and if Dong Congshi hadn't wanted to kill him, he would have gone to heaven long ago.

As we walked, we arrived at the Queen's Ning'an Palace.

The queen had a haggard face, obviously she was worried all night last night. When she saw Li Ye, tears flowed down her face.

"Why are you crying? Isn't this awesome? Where is that little girl from Pingyuan?" Li Ye felt less energetic when he didn't see Pingyuan.

"The incident happened last night, and I sent her out of the palace first."

"It's done well." Li Ye praised.

After comforting the queen for a while, Li Ye took his personal guard to Tianxin Pavilion. At this moment, he was verbally suing the court, and there was not a single person in Tianxin Pavilion.

Li Ye enjoyed peace rarely.

If you think about it carefully, this mutiny has more benefits than disadvantages. If the Shen Ce Army thoroughly screens it, the number of troops will definitely drop significantly, but the combat effectiveness will definitely rise sharply.

The heads of those princes were cut off and the obstacles to checking the fields were gone.

The most important thing is to determine Li Ye’s prestige.

After traveling through the past six months, Li Ye has always been approachable and polite to others. There is no problem in selling, but there is a problem in being an emperor. Li Cunxu is also kind to others. The beloved actor slapped him in front of everyone. He smiled and joked. What happened? Everyone around him turned against him.

The emperor wants people to respect and fear.

When the warriors rose in the late Tang Dynasty, the original order was completely broken. You play kindly with others, and others play with you.

If Li Ye wants to hold the throne firmly, he must have a strong personality, must be bloody, and let others know his majesty!

Only on this basis can you be approachable.

About half an hour later, Han Wei pushed the door and saw Li Ye, and quickly saluted. His attitude was much more respectful than usual. Li Ye knew that it was the result of killing people with his own hands to establish his authority, so he was too lazy to be polite and accepted his greeting openly, "The court discussion will be over so soon?"

"Your Majesty didn't go, they didn't even have the intention to quarrel."

In fact, Han Quanhui and his group seemed to have a high position, but in fact they had no power. The Tang court only had one Chang'an, and the three provinces and six ministries were useless. The vassal states in various places ignored them and said they were prime ministers, but in fact they were not as good as the military advisors and staff of some major vassal states.

Li Ye did not intend to merge the newly captured Huatong states into the central government, otherwise they would be more vicious to succeed than to make trouble, and the two states would be in chaos.

In the two states and one pass, only Li Ye needs to be personally responsible.

If it weren't for the fact that the Tang court had such a slight influence on the vassal states in various places, Li Ye would have abolished them all long ago.

Tang Ting's old house was leaking everywhere, and Li Ye was not interested in repairing it. In fact, the three provinces and six ministries were no longer adapting to this era. Tianxin Pavilion was his future power core, and the court was just a cover. With his current strength, it was certain that Han Quanhui, Cui Yin, Cui Zhaowei and others could be eliminated.

However, the undercover agents in the courts of various vassal states are more than just those who are exposed.

Keep them, the vassal states will be at ease and worry-free.

However, the palace does need to strengthen rectification. In the future, his reform will be very strong and the interest groups will not be left alone.

After chatting for a while, Zhang Chengye and Zhao Chongning came together.

Gao Xingzhou eliminated the Shen Ce Army and was so busy that he couldn't get rid of it. Liu Quanli was a non-staff member and was still in the inspection stage. Li Yun was in Huazhou.

Zhang Chengye looked tired and seemed to have not slept all night. After all, Li Ye threw all the aftermath to him. "Report to Your Majesty, Liu Jishu, Wang Zhongxian arrested all his relatives in Beijing, and asked for the execution at noon tomorrow. Liu Jishu was extremely guilty and I was sentenced to the punishment of being split."

From the perspective of later generations, he was not as guilty as his family, but this was the end of the Tang Dynasty, and he had his own order. After this mutiny, Li Ye knew that he should never be rude to the enemy. In history, Zhaozong was imprisoned by eunuchs and people around him were slaughtered, regardless of age or young.

This is the rule of troubled times.

Without killing, you cannot establish your authority!

"How to deal with the family of the three generals of Shence?" Li Ye asked.

"All arrests will be taken together tomorrow."

"Leave some blood to Dong Congshi." The scene of Dong Congshi swaying his sword and committing suicide in his mind is vivid in my mind.

Two people decide the fate of hundreds of people in just a few words.

All four people in the hall were silent.

Zhang Chengye said: "The seven palaces including King Ji and King Hui have been confiscated. With Liu Jishu, they have obtained a total of 13,000 hectares of land, 100,000 hectares of money, 12,000 taels of gold, 47,000 silver, 94,000 pieces of silk, 100,000 stones of grain, and 2,500 treasures of calligraphy and paintings."

Finally heard something happy.

He has no idea about money, but this 100,000 stone of grain is too timely.

The salary of the Shence Army is three dows per month, and the personal guards are calculated at 30,000, which is enough to last for more than a year or several months.

No wonder Li Zicheng conquered Beijing in the late Ming Dynasty, and these princes were really rich.

Han Wei sighed: "During the reign of Emperor Wuzong in the past, any prince and prince went to the court, and his family property was more than that."

Huichang, which has the legacy of Huichang, is the reign of Emperor Wuzong.

Is this too little?

Li Ye felt very satisfied. Chang'an was captured several times by the rebel army, and it would be nice to have so many.

"All the land is filled in the royal farm and then rent it to refugees to cultivate. Do you think about the rent amount appropriate?" Li Ye's most concerned about the land now.

"Your Majesty wants to implement the equal land system?" Zhao Chongning said.

Li Ye came from time to time in his later generations and read a lot of idle books and also learned a little. The land was related to his future development and had to be cautious. The main reason for the collapse of the empire was that there was a big problem with the land.

Zhao Chongning was knowledgeable and had doubts when he saw Li Ye, and explained in detail the equal-field system.

The so-called equal land system means that the land is owned by the state and rented to the people to cultivate. Based on the equal land system, the renting system is implemented.

Any household with equal land, no matter how much land they have given, will be rented according to the fixed tax paid by the head of the family, and will be mediocre for serving a certain amount of corvee service. Paying local specialties is called adjustment.

Equalizing the land is the fundamental problem. The problem is that after the country is stable, the population has increased, and the country cannot produce land to equalize the land. In addition, the land annexation is serious, and the national expenses have increased instead of reducing.

The people are overwhelmed, and more and more farmers are fleeing the land, and the equal land system is still in name only.

Later, Yang Yan, the prime minister of Emperor Dezong of Tang, reformed taxes and created the two tax law. The so-called two taxes meant that they collected taxes twice in summer and autumn, and they collected as much land as they had, and they were exempted from mediocrity.

This law has its pros and cons, which simplifies the tax collection procedures of the court and reduces the burden on the people.

But from then on, the court did not accept land, and the people traded freely, which intensified land annexation.

The imperial court's control over land became increasingly weak. When the imperial court used money, various harsh taxes followed.
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