Autumn in Liaodong is very bleak.

As you see, there are yellow and yellow everywhere, from Liaodong City to Baiyan City, walking along the Prince River, along the winding river, with rolling mountain monuments on both sides.

There are also some villages on both sides of the riverside, but before the arrival of the Tang army, all the Goguryeo people outside the city were withdrawn into the city before Liaodong City, and the country was cleared. Unfortunately, they did not have any effect. Instead, they were all ruined by the Tang Dynasty, and even cleared the country.

There are only villages left along the way, but there are no people.

Qin Lang rode a horse and followed the emperor's imperial guards, with the guards of the six emperors and the emperor's guards on both sides. An official originally offered a message saying that he would build a wheel palace for the emperor, which would be very comfortable and pompous. However, Li Shimin angrily scolded him and demoted him three levels in a row and rushed back to the Central Plains.

When Yang Guang was patrolling the outer border in the north, he created a Wheel Palace. It is said that hundreds of wheels were pulled by countless cattle and horses, and hundreds of people could be lived in the Wheel Palace, just like a brilliant moving golden palace. At that time, Yang Guang's Wheel Palace was extremely luxurious, and it really shocked the Turks in the north of the Wheel Palace. Anyway, Shibi Khan personally cut a grassy road for the Emperor's Wheel Palace, and also hunted and offered deer blood and deer tongues to the Emperor every day.

However, after the Sui Dynasty conquered Liaodong in the third expedition, Yang Guang went on a tour of Daibei again, as soon as he arrived at Yanmen Pass, he was surrounded by Shibi Khan and led 400,000 cavalry, and almost became a prisoner.

The majesty of the emperor in the Central Plains is not demonstrated by a wheel palace.

Although the emperor did not fight for many years, he often hunted, so he was still superb in riding skills and was not uncomfortable at all when marching on horseback.

Li Shimin's evaluation of the Liaodong area in front of him is much stronger than that of Daibei.

Qin Lang agreed.

Although there are hundreds of miles outside the Great Wall of Daibei, it is indeed far inferior to Liaodong. The winter is cold, but Liaodong has the Liaodong Plain, and the land is more fertile. In Daibei, the Great Wall Line is actually a drought-belt dividing line. After passing the Great Wall, the rainfall is no longer enough to maintain farming and planting.

Therefore, although the Central Plains dynasty could control the land of Daibei for a long time, it was still unable to develop, mainly because those places were not suitable for farming and were only suitable for nomadic peoples. Therefore, for a long time, even if the Central Plains possessed these places, they often could only place some nomadic peoples. However, with the characteristics of the nomadic people, it was not common for rebellion and would sooner or later become a border problem.

Liaodong is different. Liaodong can even be said to be much stronger than the Hetao Plain. Although it is far away from the inner palace, the winter is very cold, and the development of this era is insufficient, river silt, hundreds of miles of Liaoze, a large number of forests, etc., this is not a problem.

When the four counties of Liaodong were developed in the Han Dynasty, it became very rich. In the following hundreds of years, Liaodong also had a large population. Later, Goguryeo took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains and seized the Liaodong in the hands of the Later Yan Dynasty. It has been operating for hundreds of years and has also taken the semi-cultural and semi-pardon route.

It was just because Goguryeo was located in a corner after all and was always facing the threat of the Central Plains dynasty to recover the old land. Therefore, the Goguryeo people occupied Liaodong for hundreds of years, and in fact, most of their time spent on defense.

Just look at the mountain towns everywhere here and you will know the fortress.

The country is a small country and has few people, and they spend their main energy on rocks and mountain cities all day long. Most of the young and strong are incorporated into the army. They have to deal with the invasion of the barbaric nomadic tribes such as Khitan and Mohe, and often fight against Silla, Baekje and others on the peninsula. It can last for hundreds of years. It is indeed not easy.

If the Tang Dynasty recovered Liaodong, it would definitely be different when the operation was carried out.

With the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, who dares to do anything around the surrounding barbarians?

With the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, it will inevitably lead to faster development of Liaodong.

During the Han and Jin Dynasties, Liaodong was mainly managed by the plains, with cities all in plains, while Goguryeo operated Liaodong mainly managed by the mountain city system, which is the biggest difference.

"I am planning to enfeoff some royal families and heroes in Liaodong City, and hereditary Yongzhen." Li Shimin was very interested in Qin Lang's practice of enfeoffing the knights when he was guarding Wu'an. He believed that Qin Lang's ability to quickly stabilize his foothold in the wilderness and achieve rapid development has a lot to do with his enfeoffment of the knights.

In particular, he carefully studied the retainers and knights who were granted by Qin Lang, who were all concubines of the noble officials of the Central Plains. These people followed him to Wu'an and divided the fiefs. After obtaining the land granted by Qin Lang, they each obtained support from their families, including population, money, etc., and then quickly managed and strengthened the territory, which played a great role in the rapid prosperity of Wu'an Prefecture.

"Liaodong is so vast, but it is hanging outside the pass. If it is managed by the court, it will take a long time to recover, and I am afraid that there will be some recurrence in the middle. So after thinking about it, your method of operating the Wu'an fiefdom was good."

The emperor planned to divide the Liaohe River's thousand-mile plains and the coastal areas into court states, immigrants and households to develop, and then in the mountainous areas of Liaodong, the heroes of the royal family were divided into guards, allowing them to invest and work hard to operate and develop.

Qin Lang has no interest in these things.

Because the feudal system has changed a long time ago, just like in the current Wu'an Mansion, Qin Lang only has a little economic privilege left and can enjoy one-third of the tax revenue of the fief, and what remains is a little power of supervision.

It is precisely because of this that Qin Lang found a way to start developing overseas.

Such a fief is actually a little income from a real fief, not a real fief.

From the emperor's standpoint, this change is understandable, and even the emperor planned it in the beginning.

Now he plans to pronounce the world again, and this time he not only enthroned the princes and princes of the royal family, but also enthroned some soldiers from the bottom.

"I plan to grant the fiefdom territory as a military meritorious official."

The Tang Dynasty had great officials who had twelve military achievements, but less than 30 years after its founding, great officials have begun to proliferate rapidly and depreciate rapidly.

In the past, the soldiers were very satisfied with the rewards of military merits because the honorary officials are of high value. For many ordinary soldiers, this is a rare way for them to cross the class.

At least the honorary officials also have honor fields.

Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the court to fulfill the honorary rewards, and it is difficult to give real awards to many other honorary officials. This has led to many problems in the military system now.

Although it is not serious yet, it is already a hidden danger.

Li Shimin was a wise emperor. He looked at the long-term and tried to solve this problem.

"The twelve transfers of honorary officials, and the honorary officials at all levels will grant them corresponding land to be granted to Yong Town and develop and operate. What do you think?"

The lowest-ranking Wuqiwei, who is considered to be the seventh rank, plans to grant 100 acres of land, while the highest-ranking Shangzhu Kingdom grants 50 hectares of land, which is 5,000 acres.

After Wu Qiwei was awarded the honor, he distributed 100 acres of land in Liaodong, and then distributed some mountains and forests next to him to make a farm. This farm land can be hereditary and can also enjoy one-third of the tax income. If you farm yourself, it will be equivalent to reducing one-third of the tax.

The higher the merit, the more land.

But there is one thing: the land of Xuntian and Xundi cannot be sold. You must manage and guard yourself and your descendants, otherwise the court will take it back. The benefits of doing this are to reward military merits, and to use this to develop Liaodong.

After all, at least those who can win the honors are soldiers. Although there are North Yai that recruit soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, they are still mainly the South Yai that is the government soldiers. Even the North Yai that recruits soldiers, they are basically recruited from the children of officials, landlords and wealthy families. Therefore, the soldiers are originally among the people of this era.

The higher the honor, the harder it is to win. Gradually, it will be mainly military officers. Therefore, the officers who received honors for honors in Liaodong were awarded land and hereditary management, which undoubtedly could leverage huge civilian forces.

Qin Lang has to admire Li Shimin for being terrified.

In history, the Tang Dynasty's government soldiers system collapsed in less than a hundred years. There were no soldiers to recruit, and the government soldiers had no combat effectiveness. The key point was that there was no field to be granted later. The basic military field of the government soldiers could not be guaranteed, and the rewards of honors could not be fulfilled, and the rewards of honors, fame and other rewards could not be fulfilled.

So who is willing to choose the soldiers of the landlords and wealthy families? Who is willing to bring their own dry food to fight, but he ends up being able to get nothing?

Even the guards who eventually became the nobles and senior officials?

When a good family avoids military service, the bad people join the army, and the combat effectiveness of the army will naturally become worse and worse. Whether it is the quality of the soldiers or the equipment, they can no longer keep up. In the end, they can only change the recruitment system. The soldiers who serve as soldiers and pay are no longer the same group as the soldiers in the early Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin's system of honorary officials was obviously a way to absorb Qin Lang's Wu'an retainers and knights, and to grant land to the honorary officials who made military achievements in a place that needs great development, which can not only reward the soldiers for their military merits, but also develop and operate Liaodong. It also has another advantage, that is, these honorary officials will become a warrior class in the Tang Dynasty. They are responsible for defending their territory, and their children will give priority to selecting the soldiers in the palace.

The great officials with fiefs can maintain their financial and military power, ensure the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty's soldiers, and be able to defend the borders and borders, which is indeed a win-win situation.

Ensuring such a class is tantamount to having an important guarantee for stabilizing the Tang Dynasty's military system.

I have to say that the emperor is a good learner.

For the Tang Dynasty, it is actually a blessing to grant fiefs to the honorary officials on the border. The land on the border is not valuable. Not to mention that a Martial Cavalry lieutenant only has 100 acres, so what if you give three or five hundred acres?

Dividing a piece of newly seized land to them, and they used their family's connections or financial resources to manage it. The court only reduced and exempted one-third of the tax, and could still collect two-thirds of the tax, not to mention how much manpower, material and financial resources can be saved in the middle.

In particular, the emperor planned to list the fertile plains as the county directly under the imperial court, and to use the mountainous areas for enfeoffment. According to this method of enfeoffment, in fact, these places where the imperial court were enfeoffed were also the county.

It's just that one-third of the tax was given up.

This abacus is really exquisite. You can imagine that in the future, there will be thousands of honorary officials in Liaodong, and their manors are everywhere in the mountains. Each honorary official also has his own weapons and skilled warriors. So who can take Liaodong again?

The honorary officials of the Tang Dynasty were able to obtain the honorary land and fiefs, which also ensured that the powerful military class would not waver and their combat effectiveness would not decline.

sharp.

"Report!"

As he was about to arrive in Baiyan City, a knight came to report.

"The Prince of Heshun led his army to attack Baiyan City, but unfortunately he was caught in an arrow and had to suspend the attack!"
Chapter completed!