Qian Song

Chapter 373 Dagan Prince Li Biao (Ask for a monthly ticket!)
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Yue Fei is a genius commander, but his cognition is also limited to the commander, and he cannot look at and solve problems from the perspective of an emperor like Li Cun.

Specifically,

Yue Fei wanted to capture Koryo by surprise after capturing the Dongdong Road in the Kingdom of Jin. There is no problem with this grand strategy.

But the problem is that Yue Fei wanted the Dagan Dynasty to send troops to help Goryeo get rid of the rule of the Jin people and help Goryeo King Wang Kai restore his rule, so there is no way to look at and solve the problem from the perspective of an emperor.

Yes.

According to Yue Fei's thinking, it must be very efficient. With the support of Wang Kai and the royalists and patriots in Korea, the Dagan Dynasty was able to capture Korea in the shortest possible time.

But the problem is, Wang Kai is not Li Cun's son, why did Li Cun send troops to help Koryo king Wang Kai restore his rule? !
Could it be that there is no need for money, food, death, or risk in war?
So, hard work must be rewarded. Since the Gan army can capture Goryeo, Li Cun will of course incorporate Goryeo into the territory of the Dagan Dynasty.

Furthermore, regardless of whether the Dagan Dynasty can overthrow the Kingdom of Jin in the end, as long as the Dagan Dynasty can capture Goryeo and completely merge Goguryeo, which was not completely annexed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, into the territory of the Dagan Dynasty, Li Cun sent troops this time It's not a loss, and it will definitely stop the mouths of those scholar-bureaucrats who slander Li Cun's Daqian Dynasty every day.

In other words, a bird in hand is worse than a thousand birds in the forest, which is the most sensible choice.

The key point is not to completely turn Goryeo into the Dagan Dynasty. In order to get rid of the control of the Dagan Dynasty, Goryeo was able to do it. At the critical moment when the Dagan Dynasty destroyed the gold, they rebelled and sent troops to cut off the Dagan Dynasty. Or directly send troops to attack the front-line army, then the front-line army may be in danger, and more importantly, Li Cun's chance to destroy the gold that he waited so hard for is probably gone.

If that is the case, it is uncertain whether the Dagan Dynasty can destroy the Kingdom of Jin.

The key point is that Li Cun also bears the political risk of failure to cut gold.

Therefore, only by completely turning Goryeo into the Dagan Dynasty can the Dagan Dynasty be truly worry-free and Li Cun truly invincible.

Of course, it is good that the Dagan Dynasty completely annexed Goryeo, but there is also a big problem here, that is, it cannot be done in a short period of time.

This is actually the main reason why Yue Fei wanted to help Wang Kai seize power.

Without it, efficiency ear!
According to Yue Fei's thinking, the Dagan Dynasty should not waste too much time in attacking Goryeo. In this way, there is no need to worry at all. Attacking Goryeo will waste the time and energy of the Dagan Dynasty, and it will not even waste too much time in the Dagan Dynasty. With a large number of troops, it hardly affected the Dagan Dynasty's continued cutting of gold.

however--

Even though Yue Fei made a detailed explanation to Li Cun of his desire for a quick battle, and said that the speed of the army is precious, but Li Cun still chose to annex Korea completely first.

Some people may ask, then Li Cun is not worried, because he was too greedy, he wasted the time, energy and troops of the Dagan Dynasty on Koryo, and then lost the final victory of the crucial national war of Fajin ?

To be honest, Li Cun was also worried about this.

However, Li Cun has a way to solve this problem.

200 years ago, King Taejo of Koryo ended the "Post-Three Kingdoms" era of the peninsula, and Koryo was founded.

But at the beginning of the founding of Goryeo, its royal power was not stable.

After Wang Jian unified the peninsula, the generals from the rich family still had powerful private military organizations, and some local city lords still maintained a semi-independent state. They took captives and refugees as slaves. The growth of slaves meant that economic and military actions growth, and to stem this growth, the number of slaves must be reduced.

Therefore, Wang Jian tried to reform the slavery system in Goryeo.

However, the monarch is weak and the ministers are strong, and the hearts of the people are not united. In the end, Wang Jian's reforms can only be left to nothing.

As a result, Goryeo's slavery system continued throughout the Goryeo period, and was later inherited by the next dynasty of Goryeo, and continued into the twentieth century.

Therefore, if there is no strongman to change this situation, the peninsula's slavery system will continue until the end of the feudal society of the entire peninsula.

From this, it can also be said that the peninsula has not completely evolved from a slave society to a feudal society, at least thousands of years behind the Central Plains dynasty.

Therefore, Goryeo in this period had a ruling class and a ruled class, and if history does not change, this social phenomenon will continue for thousands of years.

In simple terms, the ruling class is divided into two ladders:

At the top are two classes, usually called "Wen Ban" and "Wu Ban", that is, "Dong Ban" and "Xi Ban";
The ruled class is divided into three ladders: the civilian class, the conscripted class, and the untouchable class.

In Goryeo, the most important constituents of the lowly class and the untouchable class were slaves.

——A man is a slave, a woman is a servant, and a slave is a general title.

There are mainly two types of slaves, namely official slaves and private slaves.

"New Theory of Korean History": "The slaves and maidservants are either public or private. They belong to public servants and are recorded in the official register. They should belong to the government and pay tribute to the government. They have nothing to do with the owner; Master servants. Official slaves are divided into those who perform servitude and those who pay servitude. The former obey the government’s instructions and have to do a certain period of work a year, while the latter have to pay poll tax. There are also such differences among private slaves. The family does chores or works in the neighboring fields, while the servants who live outside pay a certain fee to the master."

Goryeo implemented a strict status hierarchy system, so it had an extremely large number of slaves.

——The number of lovers and slaves in Goryeo reached an astonishing three to one, that is to say, one quarter of the people in Goryeo were slaves.

There are four sources of these slaves:
The first source is blood inheritance.

Liangjian marriage is prohibited by the law of Goryeo. "Korea History Criminal Law" said, "The law of Xiaobang, in its eighth household registration, is not to be a lowly class, and then to be an official; whoever is a lowly class, if the father is Mother, if you are cheap, you will be cheap. ', that is to say, the law of Goryeo stipulates that if one of the parents is a slave, the children must also be slaves.

The second is not being fair or inferior because of a crime.

Because of crimes, especially treason, treason, theft and other crimes, wives commit crimes against husbands, and sons commit crimes against fathers.

The third is to buy foreigners as slaves.

Japan is close to Korea, and Korean nobles sometimes buy Japanese as slaves.

By the way, people's stereotype has always been that Japan is strong and Korea is weak.

This is actually an illusion. In fact, Goryeo in this era is much better than Japan in terms of economy, military, and culture. After all, Goryeo is far from the developed Central Plains and grasslands. It is more recent, and Koryo in this era did not practice seclusion like Japan in this period, but has been actively learning from the Song Dynasty of the Central Plains Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty of the Grassland Dynasty.

Therefore, the Koreans dared to buy Japanese as slaves, and even if the Japanese ruling class knew about it, they dared to be angry and dare not speak out.

Fourth, because of the war, prisoners of war were reduced to slaves.

In Goryeo, the ruled class, that is, the civilian class, the low-class class, and the untouchable class, accounted for more than [-]% of the population of Goryeo; Less than one percent.

However, less than one percent of the noble class in Korea not only accounted for [-]% of the wealth in Korea, but they also never gave the civilian class of the ruled class, the low class of good servicemen, and the untouchable class a chance to stand up. The servants of the low class and the untouchable class are not given a chance to stand up.

For this reason, the rulers of Goryeo, controlled by the aristocratic class of Goryeo, stipulated that the slaves of the low class and the untouchable class have no personal freedom and can be bought, sold, gifted and inherited. Private slaves do not even have household registration, but are appended to the household registration of the master In general, there are only first names and no surnames, strictly restricting the conversion of cheap people into good people.

——The aristocratic class in Goryeo believes that if the low class is allowed to become a good person, the slaves may enter official careers through imperial examinations, intermarriage, etc., occupy important positions or marry into the ruling class, and then commit crimes. Therefore, the nobles in Goryeo Under the control of the class, not only slaves could not take the imperial examinations, they could not be officials, and even slaves could only intermarry with slaves in principle.

From this, it is not difficult to see how severely the Goryeo ruling class, which represented the interests of the Goryeo nobles, exploited and persecuted the servants of the low class and the untouchable class.

Li Cun was too familiar with this situation.

Back then, Li Cunke started his business under similar circumstances.

Now, Li Cun only needs to replicate his successful experience in Korea.

So, originally the army went to attack Goryeo, it was a war of aggression, and it would face resistance from all of Goryeo, but after such a change by Li Cun, the war of aggression would become a war of liberation with justice, and Li Cun's identity would also change completely. , from an aggressor to a great savior.

At that time, all the slaves will regard Li Cun as hope and savior, and follow Li Cun wholeheartedly, hoping to change the fate of themselves and their descendants.

In this way, at least a quarter of the people in Goryeo will firmly stand on the side of the Dagan Dynasty.

The remaining three-quarters of the people will firmly oppose the Daqian Dynasty?
No.

The enemies of Li Cun and the Goryeo servants were not all the good people of Goryeo, but only the noble class of Goryeo, which was less than [-]% of the population of Goryeo, and the most populous civilian class was the target of the Dagan Dynasty.

How to win over?

Hit the local tyrants to divide the land.

Li Cun is too familiar with this matter.

Yue Fei was a little dissatisfied with Li Cun's change of his strategy, and he was also a little hesitant. He was worried that Li Cun would cause trouble, and even tried to persuade Li Cun to liberate Korea after he captured the Huining Mansion in Shangjing in the Kingdom of Jin.

But Li Cun asked Yue Fei to concentrate on fighting the war, and not to be distracted by these political matters. He would find civil servants to be responsible for political matters.

Knowing that Li Cun's big taboo is military interference in politics, Yue Fei could only put his worries away in the end and continue to study with Li Cun the next strategy of cutting gold.

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A few days later, Yue Fei, who went to Beijing alone, returned to Pingzhou with a huge team composed of hundreds of officials and [-] troops.

As soon as he arrived in Pingzhou, Yue Fei invited Zhang Jun, Niu Gao, Wang Gui and other generals from Pingzhou over, and then Li Gang, Zhao Ding, Song Jiang, Wu Yong, Liu Yanzong, Shi and others sent by Li Cun to cooperate with Yue Fei in the gold campaign. In the presence of Li Ai, Gao Qingyi, Xiao Qing, Yelu Yulu and others, they read Li Cun's imperial edict to Zhang Jun, Niu Gao, Wang Gui and other Pingzhou generals.

"Following the fate of heaven, the emperor said: The Jin people are rampant, and they have repeatedly violated our frontiers, and deceived me to have no one? Fighting chaos must be done by force! And Yue Fei is the pillar of the imperial court and the backbone of the country. Today I am a great army. 200 million, strong soldiers and strong horses, rich country and strong people, everything is ready, ready to fight. Yue Fei is hereby appointed as Generalissimo, Su Dong as Generalissimo, Han Shizhong as Marshal. Yue Fei will decide when and how to start the matter of cutting gold. When necessary, Yue Fei can issue rewards and punishments on my behalf. Civil and military personnel on the front line will not be disobedient. In addition, I specially grant Yue Fei the right to kill first and then play , to serve as a warning to others. Look at the civil and military officials on the front line, work together to wipe out the golden captives in one fell swoop, and do it for me forever. Proclaim the great achievements of the Yuan Rong's heroes in Huaxia, use Zhaolubu's pifu, temporarily tin Wubian, and another Jia Pi Ji, Qin Zai."

After hearing Li Cun's imperial edict, all the civil and military officials on the front line took a deep breath.

They never expected that Li Cun would give Yue Fei such great power.

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Cun has completely handed over the matter of cutting gold to Yue Fei, and even handed over the crucial right to start the war to Yue Fei.

This is enough to show that Li Cun trusts and values ​​Yue Fei.

At the same time, it also shows that Li Cun's attitude towards cutting gold is firm.

In this way, it is also a good thing. From then on, everyone will have no disputes, and they can just focus on overthrowing the Kingdom of Jin.

After Yue Fei held a very comprehensive pre-war meeting with all the high-level miners, Liu Yanzong followed Li Cun's transfer from Pingzhou to Yunzhong Mansion to serve as the left guard of Yundi and be responsible for all government affairs of Yundi; Pingzhou went to Yanjing and served as the left-behind of Yandi, responsible for all government affairs of Yandi; while Shi Liai served as the left-behind of Pingzhou, responsible for all government affairs of the three prefectures of Pingluanying.

In other words, the Dagan Dynasty officially opened the curtain of cutting gold since then.

It is worth mentioning that Yue Fei distributed the [-] Musketeers he brought from the capital to various armies by drawing lots in the name of fairness and justice.

Of course, the more than 90 princes of the Dagan Dynasty who were mixed among the ten thousand Musketeers were also distributed among the various armies in Pingzhou in a fair and just manner.

Seeing this scene, Yue Fei couldn't help thinking: "Official, official, you really put Yue Fei on the fire!"

"Hey! Let it go! I, Yue Fei, do things, but I want to be worthy of my heart and worthy of His Majesty's trust! The rest, let it go!"

At this time, a tall and thin young man dressed in a small school beside Yue Fei asked Yue Fei with a smile: "Marshal Yue, how do you arrange for me? Shall I also go to draw lots?"

Yue Fei turned his head to look at this smiling young man, his head suddenly became ten big!
Do you know why?

The reason is that the identity of this young man is so scary that Yue Fei, who has already done a lot of construction, can't face him calmly until now.

And this young man who makes the selfless Yue Fei feel like a big head is——Li Biao, the prince of the Daqian Dynasty! ! !

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