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Chapter 1095: Counterinsurgency Successful


In addition to adding administrative agencies at the Dao level, Zhao Ziliang also made some adjustments to the official system, such as canceling the false posts of Xutou Ba Nao, replacing them with titles, and increasing the importance and status of titles.

Since then, people with titles have a much higher status in society than those without titles, and have many benefits, even in officialdom.

No matter how high your official position is, if you don't have a title, you must first greet someone with a title.

However, in order to prevent the proliferation of titles, Zhao Ziliang instructed that the canonization of titles should be strictly controlled.

No titles are generally allowed without great merit.

Only titles of marquis and above can be inherited and will be automatically downgraded by one level each generation.

After reading the plans sent by Li Kui, Li Xian, Yan Zhenqing, Li Mi, Du Fu and others on converting false posts into titles, Zhao Ziliang said to everyone: "It's done well, let's follow this plan.

In addition, the court wants to The people should establish a concept of attaching importance to titles, and at the same time, a government office specializing in the management of titles should be established."

"There is another one.

In order to increase the vitality of the officialdom, improve the administrative efficiency of the court and local government offices, and to give more opportunities to young people, the court will start to implement a retirement system.

Officials and generals must automatically retire when they reach the specified age.

The system of casual civil and military officials must be retained, but only for retired officials and military generals.

According to the arrangement, from now on, officials below the fifth rank will automatically retire when they reach the age of fifty-five.

The imperial court will assign them casual official positions of the same level and receive retirement pay every month until they die; generals below the fifth rank of military generals will automatically retire when they reach the age of fifty-five.

He removed his armor and returned to his fields; the imperial court also awarded him a military official position of the same level, and he received a monthly retirement salary."

"For officials of fifth rank and above and below second rank, they must automatically retire when they reach the age of sixty.

The age limit for military generals is also when they reach sixty."

"Second-grade and above, officials must automatically retire when they reach the age of sixty-five, and the same goes for military generals."

After listening to what Zhao Ziliang said about the official retirement system, all the ministers looked at each other in shock.

Li Mi sighed and stood up, cupping his hands and saying: "Your Majesty, if this official retirement system is implemented, I am afraid that many people in the imperial court and local government offices will exceed this.

Once the age limit is implemented, Go, a large number of officials are about to retire.

Such a large-scale cleanup of the officialdom may easily cause unrest.

Furthermore, there are many students who took the scientific examination and did not pass it until they were in their fifties or sixties.

I am afraid they have not passed the exam.

It has already exceeded the retirement age for officials below the fifth rank."

Du Fu said: "I think I understand the king's intention.

I don't agree with Mr.

Li's opinion.

The king decided to promulgate and implement the official retirement system.

The main purpose is to ensure that there is a steady flow of fresh blood into the officialdom.

We all know that, As people get older, many of their ideas are outdated, and their thinking is not as agile as that of young people.

They are less interested in new things.

Exclusion, and old people like to be conservative.

Being conservative is not a bad thing.

You don't keep things that should be kept, and you stick to things that shouldn't be kept.

This hinders the progress of the times.

Moreover, many people sit in one position for more than ten or twenty years.

In 2017, young people would have no chance if they stayed in the toilet and did nothing.

Another purpose of this system is to make the old people make way for the young people.”

Li Kui stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, letting a large number of young people enter the officialdom can certainly make the officialdom full of vitality, but young people are prone to impulsive things, and impulsiveness is prone to bad things.

Although the old people are old and like to be conservative, the old ministers are cautious and generally do not It’s easy to make big mistakes.”

Li Xian said: "I don't agree with this statement.

I think that although young people are easy to be impulsive, they are also motivated and dare to fight.

When people get older, they become timid and fearful and like to maintain the status quo.

But we all know that any Things cannot maintain the status quo.

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If we do not advance, we will retreat.

We cannot not let young people do things because they are easy to make mistakes.

Whoever has not been young is the time to make mistakes.

Only when they make mistakes can they learn lessons.

Only by letting them do things early can they To prevent them from making mistakes when they are older.”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Yan Zhenqing and asked, "Master Yan, what do you think?"

Yan Zhenqing had to stand up and express his position: "Your Majesty, I think this is a good thing.

State affairs and government cannot always rely on a group of old guys.

How many people today can live to the age of sixty without illness and disaster, and how many people can Live to the age of sixty-five, take the initiative to retire when you are old, take care of your children and grandchildren at home, and take care of your children.

Young people are the future of this world.

Isn’t everything we do for future generations?

" Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Master Yan's words are very touching to me.

Officials who have retired from official service do not have nothing.

They still have the salary to retire from official service, and they can also make suggestions to the government and the imperial court.

This matter is settled."

Mr.

Yan, you will be responsible for taking the lead in this matter.

Several members of your cabinet will prepare a detailed statement and submit it to the king at a selected date."

"Yes, Your Majesty" "Is there anything else?"

After hearing Zhao Ziliang's question, Li Mi stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I have just received news from Hebei.

Due to the attack from the north and south by the imperial court, the officials and generals in Chengde are panicking, and Li Baocheng's temper is getting worse and worse." , for some unknown reason, more than twenty generals were killed at the end of last month.

On the 7th, his assistant generals Wang Wujun and Zhang Xiaozhong jointly conspired to kill Li Baochen and his family, and led their troops to surrender to the imperial army.

On the first day of this month, Marshal Zang led his army into Chengde to receive the troops of Wang Wujun and Zhang Xiaozhong and Chengde.

In other words, the entire territory, Hebei and Henan, was returned to the imperial rule by the imperial court."

"Okay" Zhao Ziliang slapped the table and stood up happily.

"As a result, there is only one Ziqing Jiedu envoy Li Na left.

However, according to the report sent by Li Sheng on a fast horse, he has already reached the front lines of Jeju and Yizhou, and Li Na led his troops to withdraw to Qizhou, that is, Jinan. , Li Na’s general Gao Yanzhao surrendered, and the day when the thief general Wang Hui was killed was not far away from pacifying Li Na.”

When the courtiers heard the two good news, they all cheered and were beaming with joy.

Everyone was happy for a while.

Li Kui stood up and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, now that Henan has been pacified, why should Zhang Shouyu go south to make a contract with Zang Xiyan and order brothers Zhu Si and Zhu Tao to come to Chang'an for an audience?"

Li Xian stood up and objected: "You can't tell the king.

You can order brothers Zhu Si and Zhu Tao to come to Chang'an for pilgrimage, but you can't let Zhang Shouyu lead his army south to join Zang Xiyan.

Now that Hebei has just been recovered, bandits are rampant and rebels are causing harm everywhere. , still needs a large army to guard it, so we won’t do it for the time being.

It was better to let the Mobei army go south.

The old minister suggested that Zhang Shouyu should temporarily lead the army to guard Hebei.

On the one hand, the imperial court sent generals to reorganize the soldiers and horses of the vassal towns in the former Hebei and Henan areas.

On the other hand, it sent large armies to Hebei, Henan, Huaixi, and Huainan areas.

Station and take over defense according to military district divisions."

As Li Sheng's army of more than 100,000 troops approached Qizhou, all parts of Shandong saw that the situation was over, and the imperial court had regained Shandong.

Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and immediately ordered: "Transfer Luo Yuanguang to be the general of Zuo Xiaowei, and transfer Liu Qia, the prefect of Heyang, to be the general of the Shence Army."

He led the Shence Army out of Youzhou and mobilized Wei Boyu led the Zhenguo Army out of Zhenyingzhou, appointed Zhang Shouyu as the General of the Youzhou garrison, controlled the Shence Army and the Zhenguo Army, and changed the Mobei Army into the Zhaoyi Army.

He appointed Gao Rulei as the General of the Zhaoyi Army and garrisoned in Xiangzhou.

The Yunzhong Army was designated as the Xuanwu Army, and Zhang Xiancheng was appointed as the general of the Xuanwu Army to garrison Bian Hedong Jiedu envoy Xue Qianxun was transferred to the Bianzhou garrison general, and the Zhaoyi Army and Xuanwu Army were controlled.

The Dengzhou Army was changed to the Wuyi Army, Li Baozhen was appointed the Wuyi Army General, and he was stationed in Xuzhou.

The Huaixi Army was changed to the Xuanyi Army, and Shang Kegu was appointed.

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As a general of the Xuanyi Army, he was stationed in Yangzhou and appointed Gao Xiuyan was appointed as the general of the Yangzhou garrison.

He controlled the Wuyi Army and the Xuanyi Army and mobilized the Wu Army to garrison in Mobei City.

He changed the Hedong Army to the Zhenbei Army.

Han Youhuan was appointed as the general of the Zhenbei Army.

Li Baoyu was stationed in Yunzhong and had been raising horses for a year.

It's time for him to return to the capital, and an edict is issued asking him to return to the capital for an audience."

Inevitably, various places were disappointed.

Each city took down Li Na's banner and replaced it with the imperial banner.

They no longer accepted Li Na's orders.

At the same time, they sealed up their official seals and waited for the imperial court to send someone to take over.

Li Na was furious, but there was nothing he could do.

There is no way to advance or retreat.

On April 18th of the fourth year of Dali, Li Sheng's army of 120,000 horsemen surrounded Qizhou City.

Li Na stood on the city and begged to surrender, hoping to be pardoned.

Li Sheng sternly refused unless Li Na surrendered unconditionally.

The unconditional surrender made Li Na wary and worried that he would be executed by the court.

This incident made the rebel generals, officials and soldiers in Qizhou City panic.

On April 21st, Li Na was so anxious that he went into a rage and killed all his family members, including the young and old, and then committed suicide.

The officials and generals in Qizhou City discussed and opened the door to surrender, and Li Sheng's army entered the city to receive the rebels.

Take over defense and government affairs, and send people back to Chang'an quickly to report.

On April 27, the news reached Chang'an, and the civil and military officials of the entire court celebrated the event.

Zhao Ziliang ordered no curfew for three days and three nights.

In view of the fact that although Qizhou has been pacified, the social order is still in chaos, Zhao Ziliang ordered Li Sheng's army to be temporarily stationed in Qizhou, leaving only the left leading army guard and the right Xiaowei stationed.

The other armies were transferred back, and Chen Xuanli was appointed as the commander of Qizhou.

The general of the state garrison controls the left leading army and the right Xiaowei.

Some officials who were originally under the jurisdiction of the feudal towns could no longer be used, at least they could not be allowed to continue to serve in their original positions.

In the next few months, Zhao Ziliang began to gradually replace or replace the officials in the territories under the jurisdiction of the several feudal towns.

Transfer.

In July, large-scale purges were carried out in official circles in Hebei, Henan, Youzhou, Yingzhou, Qingzhou and other places.

The old bureaucratic forces were eradicated and a large number of young officials entered.

The power of the aristocratic families in these areas was almost eliminated.

They were all wiped out and suffered heavy losses.

For a time, the power of each family in the officialdom was at a loss

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