"Fifth Brother, I don't know which two things you want to do? I can help me...!" Li Zhi looked at Li You and asked happily.

"Um...!"

Li You took a sip of wine and said, "The first thing is to deal with the monetary system. Emperor Gaozu abolished the Wuzhu coins and carried out Kaiyuan Tongbao coins, with a diameter of eight cents, weighing two zhu and four chunks, accumulating ten cents and weighing one liang, and a thousand cents and six jin and four liang." The legal currency status of the Tang Dynasty coins was established.

Subsequently, the tradition of using silk as currency during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was followed, and the monetary system of "both money and silk" was implemented... Then, laws were issued to crack down on private minting and excessive minting, and the use of evil coins was prohibited. However, due to the serious shortage of copper coins, the value of currency continued to rise and firm, and private minting and excessive minting were profitable, so the results were not ideal.

A major contradiction in the long-term social development after the implementation of the two tax laws is prominently manifested in the continuous deterioration of the so-called "money shortage" problem.

Although in order to curb such a shortage of money, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty also released counters and flying coins accordingly... but they still couldn't handle it, so the first thing I had to do was to remake the currency.

To abolish the tradition of using silk as currency during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and add two coins of gold and silver to copper coins, I decided to print the appearance of a zizi on the gold coins, and print the appearance of a zizi on the silver coins, so that you can pass on it for thousands of years."

"Hehe...!" Li Zhi and Li Mingda said happily, "Really..."

Li You nodded: "Of course it's true. I'll be in a few days. You two can also come and see you. Well... After adding gold and silver coins, I'm still going to set up a ticket number."

"Piece number..." Li Zhi and Li Mingda looked at Li You without understanding.

At this time, Li You explained slightly: "It is a way of exchange for money that has some similarities with Feiqian. It is a way of withdrawing money from other places... However, this is still difficult. What I have to do now is to launch gold and silver coins as soon as possible. At that time, the Ministry of Revenue must listen to my order."

"That's natural... Brother Fifth, the six ministries are all for you to dispatch...!" Li Zhi smiled.

"Hey... you emperor is relaxed." Li Mingda curled his lips.

"It seems like you, the princess, is not easy." Li Zhi smiled, then looked at Li You and asked, "Fifth Brother...what is the second thing?"

"The second thing is to set up a military academy..." Li You smiled.

"Military school..." Li Mingda asked, "What is that..."

"It's a university where soldiers study. Now our Tang Dynasty's army is very strong. Veterans include Li Jie, Yuchi Gong, Cheng Yaojin, and young generals include Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, etc. However, this is not enough.

We have to think about the next generation, and the system of government troops is no longer enough to deal with future wars...!"

"Fifth brother, the system of the government soldiers is very good..." Li Zhi looked at Li You and said.

"It looks okay now, but it will soon be unable to keep up with the times. We are likely to enter another era, and that era, the soldiers of the government will be abandoned...!"

In fact, Li You knew the history of the Tang Dynasty. The system of government troops was in danger. Soon the system of government troops would be replaced by the recruitment system. The reason why government troops were replaced by the recruitment system was not that the system of government troops was worse than the recruitment system. This was determined by the basic characteristics of the system of government troops. Because government troops were a military service system that combines soldiers' food, weapons and even war horses. This required soldiers to have land, otherwise it would be difficult to bear the food, war horses and weapons needed in wartime.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, after a long period of war in the north, the population decreased a lot and the land was deserted. Therefore, the country controlled a large amount of wasteland. In order to develop the economy, increase the population and expand the source of troops, the government came forward to recruit refugees and allocated the land controlled by the state to transplant refugees. Farmers handed over the tax directly to the state. This land system is called the equal-field system.

The equal-field system not only solves the livelihood problems of landless farmers, but also increases the country's fiscal revenue. Only by solving the livelihood problems of farmers can the country implement the government system of unity of military and agricultural.

Because of the small population, we must raise the population and develop the economy as soon as possible. Because the population is small and the social fiscal revenue is small, it is difficult to support a large number of professional soldiers. Therefore, the military service system of the unity of military and agricultural forces is suitable for the development of society. Relying on the system of government troops, the Northern Dynasties finally ended in the military confrontation with the Southern Dynasties, and from the early Tang Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty also achieved a series of brilliant military achievements in the military system.

However, once the population increases and the social economy develops, land annexation will inevitably come at a certain period of time, and the survival soil of the government system will be greatly changed.

As long as feudal land private ownership exists, land annexation will come sooner or later. On the one hand, the increase in population will inevitably lead to the continuous reduction of per capita land. On the other hand, the difference between the rich and the poor will inevitably lead to the poor peasants losing their land eventually.

With the prevalence of land annexation, more and more self-cultivated farmers lost their land and were forced to rely on landlords, and their lives became increasingly difficult.

The "public fields" controlled by the state gradually became "private fields" controlled by landlords of all sizes. The equal-field system on which the government military system relies for survival collapsed, and the government military system could no longer continue.

In fact, in the Tang Dynasty under Li Zhi, land annexation began to gradually prevail, and a large number of soldiers in the palace began to escape military service due to the loss of land.

Li You had a premonition in advance, so he needed to immediately change the current situation of the Tang army. The system of the government soldiers should be changed to the recruitment system... The recruitment system is actually not a new thing, and has a long history. Unlike the military and agricultural cooperation system of the government soldiers, the recruitment system means that the state recruits professional soldiers, and the state provides military pay and equipment. The recruitment soldiers are trained by special officers, served in the military for a long time, and carried out combat tasks.

Compared with the military system of the government, the military recruitment system has a great effect on improving the combat effectiveness of the army, but the military recruitment system also has its own shortcomings. Soldiers are naturally prone to self-respecting the army after a long period of time. If the soldiers continue to do so, they are prone to separatist warlords.

In the late period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, with the large number of Jiedus set up a large number of local officials who were respectful of their troops. This eventually led to a painful lesson in the Anshi Rebellion. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty fell into a long-term separatist rule of the vassal states and eventually withdrew from history in the warlord melee.

So in order to prevent the Tang Dynasty from falling into the long-term separatist rule of the vassal states... Li You was preparing to establish a military academy. As long as the military officers in the military academy became disciples of the emperor, and then invaded into each warlord in turn, these emperor disciples could greatly influence the soldiers. First, these emperor disciples could play a role in supervising the warlords, and second, as long as these emperor disciples led their troops, these soldiers would be loyal to the Tang Dynasty and the emperor, which effectively differentiated the power of those warlords.

So Li You must establish this military academy in advance... and the tradition of military academy must be preserved.

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