In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 380 Brother Meng and Brother Song discuss peace in Dingzhou

In ancient times, medical conditions were not good and there was no guarantee. People also lacked relevant experience and knowledge. The survival rate of newborns was quite low. You see, none of Ning Zong's nine sons lived long.

"The imperial court's hospitals in various places must first do their best to protect newborns." Zhao Yurui looked at Liang Chengda, the Minister of Medicine.

Liang Chengda immediately responded and replied to Your Majesty, please rest assured that all places are acting in accordance with His Majesty's will and court policies.

But he also said that there are still not enough doctors.

Since the establishment of the Medical Department, Zhao Yurui has been training grooms intensively in the capital.

In the seventh year of Baoqing's reign, the Ministry of Medicine established branches such as the Medical Bureau, Medical Doctors Bureau, and Doctors' Hospital in the capital city.

Among them, the Medical Academy specializes in training grooms, who are recruited from all over the country. The court provides food and accommodation. After passing the training, the court will recruit them as official medical officers and serve in various places.

At that time, there were countless registrations across the country, but due to limited teaching staff, Lin'an Medical Hospital only recruited 500 people.

At the same time, the Ministry of Medicine set up hospitals all over the country, and basically recruited doctors from all over the country, and assigned them to all of them as official officials of the imperial court.

Zhao Yurui raised all the doctors in the country, and then they were run like local hospitals in various places, and they were under the control of the Zhiji Department and the prefecture and county yamen.

But Zhao Yurui has been at war with Jin Meng, and a large number of doctors have been transferred to many places.

The resources of doctors are indeed limited, and the court has only trained 500 people since Baoqing's seven years in less than two years, and they cannot be used.

Doctors and doctors without more than ten years of clinical experience cannot play a big role.

"Starting next year, hospitals in various places will be divided into pediatrics and other departments."

"The Department of Obstetrics and Obstetrics is responsible for delivering newborns, promoting parenting experience, and ensuring survival rates." Zhao Yurui decided to divide hospitals into different departments, and one of them would have a doctor specifically responsible for newborns.

"The assessment of chief officials in various places also includes the number of newborns every year, survival rate, and natural population growth rate."

“If the population of a certain county increases year by year, then the local chief executive must be responsible.”

Population mobility in ancient times was not as easy as in later generations. Most people would not leave their hometowns easily unless they encountered some natural or man-made disaster or war. Therefore, Zhao Yurui had requirements for population growth in each county. Unless there are special circumstances, you cannot reduce the rate every year. ah.

If the population decreases year by year, there will be either a lack of food in your area and people will be unable to survive, so they will flee famine, or there will be some natural disaster, or military disaster and turmoil. These are all the reasons why your chief officer did not do a good job.

"I'm afraid that the people below will deceive the superiors and hide the truth from the inferiors." Zhao Rushu, the imperial censor, said at this time.

When the following counties report their population, if your court doesn't let me reduce it, then I will just increase it every year. This is not easy.

However, this method did not work in the Song Dynasty.

"Every year, the imperial court will send Jinyiwei, Yushitai and local garrisons to conduct spot checks in various places. If any falsehoods are found, once it is determined that they have concealed and overreported, all local officials and officials will be executed."

Zhao Yurui's job is very simple. If you dare to do this kind of underreporting or overreporting, I will kill you all.

I don't believe that all the government officials are willing to report false numbers with you.

If your political performance is not good, only the chief officer will be punished, and the officials and staff below may not be willing to help you conceal and underreport.

For example, Dinghai County has a population of 18 households and [-] people this year.

At that time, the Jinyiwei Association, together with the Yushitai, and the local garrison and other departments, will each send some people for inspection.

If Dinghai County, Zhejiang Province, would use the imperial guards of the capital, the supervisory censor of Fujian, and the soldiers and horses of the Shandong capital, all of whom were unfamiliar with the three parties.

Randomly check ten villages to see if the population numbers are the same as the reported numbers.

You have to be just a little bit fine, because there may be a small amount of population movement, and you can also ask your family members where they have gone. If you are a little bit worse, it must be a lie.

Of course, in some later dynasties, it was useless to check like this, as everyone would make lies.

Therefore, if these three aspects of Jinyiwei also cover up the fraud, they will be executed if found out, and the whole family will be executed.

Moreover, within the same year, the imperial court would conduct re-inspections at any time, that is, sending another group of people to investigate Dinghai County. If there was a problem in Dinghai County, but the previous group of people did not find it, the whole family of the previous group would be killed.

Cheating the superiors and concealing the truth, and falsifying data were something that people were doing from the Great Qin to the Great Song Dynasty. Of course Zhao Yurui knew why he couldn't put an end to it.

First, the court and the emperor above also need false data to show that the country is peaceful and the people are safe, everything is good, and the second is that there is almost no punishment.

But Zhao Yurui did not accept this trick. From the time he ascended the throne, whether it was grain production, tax revenue, or population, he required real reports every time.

It's okay if the data is different, you can't hide it from me.

He was extremely strict with punishments and would kill everyone in his family at every turn.

In this way, fewer people from top to bottom would dare to make false claims.

If your policies are not good, you will be demoted or transferred at worst, or fired at worst, but if you cheat, your whole family will be killed.

However, Zhao and Rui used the implicated method to make a fake, which would bring bad luck to them all. In this way, no one dared to cooperate with the fake.

Your chief officer wants political achievements, but I am a deputy or minor official. It doesn't matter. It may not be my turn if I have merit, so why should I help you fake it?

This basically eliminated the possibility of fraud in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao and Rui and the cabinet successfully agreed on several matters that day, mainly to find ways to increase the population of the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, it was decided to establish the first university in the Song Dynasty.

"Da Song Medical College"

Unlike many people who build a military academy first when traveling across time, Zhao Yurui now puts medical school first.

In the seventh year of Baoqing's reign, he merged all the medical institutions in the Southern Song Dynasty, including the Imperial Medical College, the Royal Pharmacy Hospital, the Shang Pharmacy Bureau and other medical institutions in the capital, and established the Department of Medicine.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, local medical institutions such as Fudi Yuan, Anlefang, Anjifang, Nursing Home, Hefu Bureau, Salesian Hospital, Medical Hospital, etc. were merged into local hospitals, which integrated the medical resources of the capital and local areas in the Southern Song Dynasty and mainly provided services for the army. A large number of doctors.

Over the past two years, everyone still feels that there are not enough doctors.

Then starting from this year, the imperial court recruited doctors from all over the country. Regardless of whether they were willing or not, they were all recruited to various places or the capital.

All doctors are treated as officials. Those with good medical skills and good reputation are officials. Those with poor medical skills are officials, and the court pays them to support them.

But Zhao Yurui also agreed to them. Each of them could serve the court for up to ten years. Those who were unwilling to be recruited could leave after ten years and still work as private doctors.

After all, the next ten years will definitely be the decade of crazy development and expansion of the Song Dynasty, and more doctors will be needed.

The biggest problem among ancient doctors was that master and apprentice taught each other, and they cherished their secrets and were willing to pass them on to others easily.

Zhao Yurui later centralized the imperial doctors and established a medical college, recruiting 500 students from all over the country.

Now these people have been studying for more than a year, but Zhao Yurui deeply feels that it is still not enough.

That’s why Dasong Medical College was established to expand student training.

The teachers include more than 60 medical officers from the former Hanlin Medical College, Royal Pharmacy Hospital and Shang Pharmacy Bureau, as well as hundreds of experienced doctors with superb medical skills drawn from the people from all over the country. The initial enrollment target is set at 3000 people.

The semester lasts for more than six years, and an additional 2000 students will be recruited every year. The final number of students in the school will reach [-].

After the school has [-] students, starting from the seventh year, it will graduate [-] students and recruit [-] students every year.

The emperor attaches great importance to the doctor, and everyone knows that it is for the sake of the people of the world. Of course, everyone fully supports it.

"The Medical Department will prepare relevant tutorial books and set up classes and teachers——"

"The Ministry of Household Affairs prepares budgets and costs based on the size of the staff--"

"The Ministry of Industry began to select places to build schools——"
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When Zhao Yurui was building the first university in the capital, Wokuotai of Guanshan had officially decided to negotiate peace with Song.

The Mongols are very experienced in negotiating peace, because they have negotiated peace with Xixia several times before, all of which were fighting and peace, including the seven subsequent expeditions to Goryeo, during which they negotiated peace six times, and only in the last time did they completely conquer Goryeo.

But this time the peace negotiation with the Song Dynasty was different.

In order to gain the initiative, Chagatai and Kou Wenbuhua continued to be at war with the Song army in Shaanxi and Xixia.

However, the Song army gathered heavily in Xixia, and while negotiating peace with Mongolia, it successively captured Ganzhou, Xiliang, Yingli, Huizhou, Xining and other places.

At this time, the Mongolian troops in Xixia were concentrated in the area north of Oluohai City and to Heishui City.

The remaining cities and states had few soldiers and horses, and were either defeated by the Song army in one attack, or surrendered directly.

Mongolia suffered heavy losses in Xixia, losing ground one after another. Chagatai and Kou Wenbuhua considered another field battle with the Song army, but after detecting the Song army's troops, they simply gave up.

From the beginning of peace negotiations in December last year to May this year, the Song army continuously mobilized elites from various places and poured into Xixia.

By May, 30 Song troops had gathered in the Zhongxing Mansion area, and more soldiers and horses were entering Xixia one after another.

At this time, Chagatai knew about the Xixia peace talks. The Song army had completely taken the initiative, and many places had been occupied by the Song army.

In April, the Mongolian Army's Tasi Division and the Song Army fought near Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, trying to put pressure on the Song people, but failed to gain advantage.

The Song army in Shaanxi had fewer troops and was on the defensive. The Mongolian attack was at a disadvantage, so they turned to destroy the Song army's Xia Bo near Xi'an, and left after a while.

In early June of the first year of Yuanzhen, the Song Army Peng Yibin from Shandong attacked Dezhou, which was occupied by the Mongolian army.

Dezhou belonged to Shandong in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. This would be the city closest to the Song army in Mongolian hands.

The Song army brought hundreds of cannons and hundreds of trebuchets. They roared and fought around Dezhou for three days and two nights. Dezhou was in a hurry.

On the sixth day of June, Shi Tianze immediately sent Xiao Naitai and Yizhaer stationed in Hejian and Shi Tianan stationed in Yizhou, Xiangzhou, to lead troops to rescue.

The Song army immediately returned to Linqing.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, Xiao Naitai and Zhaer led their troops back, but as soon as they left, the Song army came again.

Shi Tianze was completely furious and had nothing to do with Song Jun.

Because there is an official waterway between Linqing and Dezhou, boats from Linqing can go directly to Dezhou City from south to north.

If the Song army were walking on the main road normally, the Mongolian army in the direction of Xiangzhou could make a surprise attack from the west at any time to intercept and block the Song army.

Now the Song army is walking on the other side of the river. The Mongolian army from the direction of Xiangzhou cannot cross the river. The Mongolian army from the direction of Hejian is coming from the north. The Song army can turn around after knowing it.Other troops of the Song Army did not come out because they would be easily ambushed by the Mongolian army.

The soldiers and horses of Linqing often wandered out. Anyway, the Mongolian army had no choice but to go around the river. If you go around the river, you will be far away, and other Song troops will know about it.

In this way, as soon as Xiao Naitai and Jinzhaer left, the Song army came out, and as soon as Xiao Naitai and Jinzhaer came back, the Song army went home.

After the two sides came several times, in July, Xiao Naitai and Zhaer pretended to leave, but in fact they left a large number of troops in Dezhou.

Unexpectedly, the Song army suddenly changed its direction and went to attack Yizhou.

Xiao Naitai, Zhaer and others were shocked and immediately organized troops to chase them out.

The Song army turned back to Linqing, and then went to Dezhou.

Shi Tianlu and Zhabili, who were stationed in Dezhou, were troubled by the Song army. This time they led their troops directly out of the city and held the Song army in the wild, waiting for Xiao Naitai and others to come over.

The Song army was not afraid and retreated while fighting, relying on the water post road to withdraw to Linqing.

Xiao Naitai and the others led their troops to catch up, and they were all overjoyed.

After finally catching most of the Song army, the Mongolian army also wanted to eat them all. In the end, the Song army was not afraid at all, but they just didn't want to fight to the death with them before.

The Song army's artillery fired, but the routine remained the same, and the Mongolian army still could not break through the Song army's defense.

At this time, there was news that another Song army was going to Yizhou. The Mongolian army had no choice but to retreat.

At this time, the Mongolian army was quite annoyed. It could not do anything to defeat the Song army by concentrating almost the same amount of troops. If it wanted to defeat the Song army, it would have to have far more troops than the Song army.

There are many Song troops in Shandong, and they are everywhere. Their strength is superior. The Mongolian army does not attack the Song army. The Song army comes out to attack Dezhou every three days. The trebuchets hit Dezhou and damaged it everywhere.

News from various places spread to Guanshan, and the Mongolian nobles asked for peace.

Now the main force of the Mongolian army is marching westward, and Batu has taken away 12 elites and 50 war horses. At this time, it is impossible to start a full-scale war with the Song army.

History has changed. According to the original history, the Mongols could conquer the Song Dynasty while conquering the West, but now the territory, military strength, and strength of the two sides are completely different.

The Mongol nobles could only accept the terms of peace.

If you keep talking like this, Texas will be gone soon.

In the Ming Dynasty, Dezhou was the seat of the Shandong Dusi, which shows that the Ming Dynasty regarded this place as more important than Jinan.

This is the bridgehead into Hebei, so it would be best if we could hold it.

The Song army deliberately attacked here with the intention of forcing peace.

At this time, Mongolia was invaded by the Song army everywhere in Xixia. The troops were obviously insufficient, and Hebei and Shaanxi could not benefit. Wokuotai finally decided to negotiate peace as soon as possible.

In mid-July of the first year of Yuanzhen, the second peace negotiation between Mongolia and Song Dynasty began in Zhongxing Mansion.

After several days of negotiation and debate, the two sides finally reached an agreement.

According to the line drawn by Meng Gong for the first time, it is divided into north and south, but the line is slightly slanted to the east.

That is to say, the diagonal line of Xixia was drawn from west to east, ensuring that Heishui City and Oluohai City, the important cities in Xixia, were still in the hands of the Mongols.

In addition, Wulahaicheng, Dingzhou, Xiazhou, Yinzhou, Longzhou, Hongzhou, and Yanzhou belonged to Mongolia, and the others belonged to the Song people.

The areas of both sides look similar from the map, even the Mongolian area is slightly larger.

But the important cities and states, a large number of states and populations are basically on the side of the Song people. The Song people account for about [-]% of the population.

The most important horse-raising areas were all on the Song people's side.

The division of Xixia is basically based on the Yellow River, and finally the branch of the Yellow River to the east is divided between Yanzhou and Bole City.

The two sides agreed during the peace negotiations that they would not use troops for five years.

The Mongolian side mainly wanted to wait for the return of the Western Expedition and bring back a large number of servants, thereby suppressing the Song army in terms of military strength.

The two parties use Dingzhou as the trading location and can exchange what they have.

The Song Dynasty had to trade 50 kilograms of sugar, tens of thousands of pieces of silk, tea, refined salt and other materials to Mongolia every year.

Mongolia traded [-] war horses to the Song Dynasty every year. (At this time, it was obvious that the Song people had obtained the horse-raising land in Xixia, but Mongolia began to sell horses to the Song people, but Meng Gong still accepted it.) The various specialties, materials, and even beauties and slaves that the Mongols looted from the Western Expedition were also willing Trade with Song people.

In addition, Mongolia required the Song people to pay Mongolia 10 taels of silver and 20 bolts of silk every year.

This is to learn from the Song-Liao-Chanyuan Alliance, with Meng as the elder brother and Song as the younger brother.

Zhao Yurui actually agreed. Zhao Yurui also wrote to Wo Kuotai, calling him brother and younger brother. After Song and Meng, they formed a brotherly alliance and lived in harmony, and said they hoped to have a "Chanyuan Alliance" with Song and Liao. "In this way, in the next 200 years, we will live in peace, courtesy and envoys will be attentive.

After the "Chanyuan Alliance" between the Liao Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, there was no large-scale war between the two countries for more than 100 years. The two countries exchanged courtesies and diligent envoys. The two sides exchanged a total of 380 times. If there was a famine on the border of the Liao Dynasty, the Song Dynasty would also send people to provide relief on the border. When news of the death of Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty came, Liao Shengzong "gathered the Tibetan and Han ministers to mourn, and everyone from the concubine to the concubine was in tears." Every time the Liao Dynasty sent an envoy to the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty would also give a large number of gifts to the Liao envoys.

Zhao Yurui's words once made Wokuotai feel the sincerity of the Song people in negotiating peace.

In August, the final decision on the peace negotiations came to Guanshan. Wo Kuotai summoned the nobles and read out the Song Dynasty's peace agreement.

"Zhao Yurui said that he has no blood feud with Mongolia, nor is he ashamed of Jingkang. He is willing to learn from the Song and Liao Dynasties, negotiate peace for a hundred years, and become brothers--"

Before Wokuotai finished speaking, there was already a sound of curses all around.

In the past, the Song army was merciless and cruel to the Mongolian army on the battlefield. They also massacred everywhere in the Chagatai territory, causing numerous casualties to the herdsmen. Now they are saying this in a scene like this.

But in the current situation, with Batu strongly demanding a western expedition, Mongolia lacks enough troops and can only accept peace negotiations.

Moreover, Song Ting was very sincere and clearly had an advantage. He was willing to call himself his brother and form an alliance and give him coins every year.

After the scolding, someone shouted that when they returned from the Western Expedition, they should gather a million troops and attack the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop.

Some people also shouted, didn’t you agree not to fight for five years?

Immediately there was a lot of opposition. Do you take this kind of peace seriously and go to kill the Song people after the Western Expedition?

The scene was quite noisy, but most people still agreed with the peace talks. Although Mongolia was forced to lose most of Xixia, the Song army gave Sui coins, and the Great Khan Wokuotai was still more honorable.

The Song people also promised to trade large amounts of sugar in the future, which was something the Mongols liked very much.

After confirming the peace negotiation, things will be easier to handle later. We divided according to the agreed boundaries. Mongolia decided to station heavy troops in Uluohai City and Heishui City. Each of the two cities had [-] soldiers and horses, and another troop was stationed in Uluohai City. Thirty thousand, forming a triangle, echoing each other.

The remaining Dingzhou, Xiazhou and Yinzhou have thousands of soldiers and horses, because they are very close to the Song people. Once a war breaks out, these cities and states will be unable to defend themselves with too many soldiers and horses, which is of no use.

The Song army stationed 31 troops in Zhongxing Prefecture, 40 troops in Shazhou, [-] troops in Guazhou, [-] troops in Suzhou, [-] troops in Xiliang, [-] troops in Shunzhou and Jingzhou, and an initial army of [-]. Stationed everywhere, tens of thousands of troops will march into Ningxia in the later period, eventually reaching about [-].

Among them, Shazhou and Guazhou are mainly aimed at Chagatai territory, while Suzhou and Xiliang are aimed at dealing with Heishui City in the future.

In September, the two sides formally signed a peace agreement in Dingzhou, which was known as the "Dingzhou Peace Agreement" in history.

At the same time as Dingzhou was negotiating peace, Chagatai came to Datong.

In the same month, Wokuotai also came to Datong from Guanshan.

The two brothers had not seen each other for two or three years since the election of the throne, and they burst into tears when they met again.

The two brothers hugged each other tightly and separated reluctantly after a few breaths.

The friendship between these two brothers is indeed much better than Tuo Lei.

"I'm afraid raising tigers will lead to trouble." The first thing Chagatai said after meeting was that he was worried about the rise of the Song Dynasty: "Zhao Yurui is a man who can stretch and shrink, and he is a hero."

This peace negotiation gave the people of Song Dynasty time to develop steadily. The people of Song Dynasty were on the rise. In five years, they might be even stronger. Although Chagatai had never met Zhao Yurui, he already recognized him as the hero of the Song Dynasty.

Wokuotai said: "It's all Batu's fault. We have to march westward. If we can't work together, how can we make money?"

Wokuotai still hated Batu. Originally, he planned to launch an all-out war against Song Dynasty. In order to seize power, Batu insisted on a westward expedition and took away the most elite soldiers of Mongolia.

"The Emperor of the Song Dynasty cannot be trusted. He said it was five years. We must be more prepared." Chagatai said solemnly.

Zhao and Rui behaved badly in the past. When they were in alliance with Jin, they suddenly rebelled and besieged the Jin Kingdom. Chagatai looked down upon this treacherous Emperor of the Song Dynasty and firmly disapproved of it.

Wokuotai stopped talking when he wanted to, and couldn't tell the pain.

It turns out that when Liu Run went to Lin'an to negotiate peace with the Song people, Zhao Yurui said in return that the Mongols were unfaithful and unjust, and that he rebelled against the Jin Kingdom and learned from the Mongols.

When Liu Run came back, he said that he couldn't tell Wo Kuotai what he was suffering from, so he could only hold his nose and admit it.

Because the Mongols did do this often. During the Western Expedition, they deceived others many times, saying that they would not massacre the city as long as they surrendered, and they would not kill the surrendering troops as long as they surrendered. As a result, they would kill the enemy immediately as soon as they surrendered.

This was also the case with the Xixia annihilation in history. They agreed not to massacre the city until they surrendered, but as soon as Xixia surrendered, they immediately massacred the Zhongxing Mansion.

The Mongols have done this too much. Zhao Yurui said that he learned from the Mongols, which left Wo Kuotai speechless.

Zhao Yurui later used the metaphor of the Song-Liao-Chanyuan Alliance, saying that although they were also nomadic people, the Liao Kingdom was moral and upholding its alliance. It had not fought with the Song Dynasty for nearly 200 years. I think you Mongolians can do it. ?
Zhao Yurui praised the Khitans, implying that the Mongols were inferior to the Khitans.

Wokuotai felt unhappy, but he couldn't refute it. Now that Chagatai mentioned it again, he had to say: "The Song people actually have the upper hand in Xixia. It seems true that they are willing to negotiate peace."

Chagatai's mouth moved slightly, he wanted to say something but didn't know what to say.

These two men were both considered heroes of the generation, one ruled the Great Mongolia, and the other laid the foundation for his own khanate, but they were definitely not as good as Genghis Khan, and even worse than Zhao Yurui.

Although the Song army had the upper hand in Xixia, Zhao and Rui mobilized the whole country, recruited troops everywhere, built Changchun City, and were undergoing reforms in the country. There were countless things to worry about, and the entire Song Dynasty was busy.

A temporary truce and peace negotiation may not be a good thing for Mongolia, but the benefits for the Song Dynasty will definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

The Great Mongol Empire of Ogedei still relies on plunder and occupation for a living. Whether they can cease the war will have little impact on them, and it will not weaken Mongolia. They will continue to fight against the enemy, leaving the enemy unable to farm and unable to cope. It would have been a good thing for them.

It is even more difficult for the Song army to stop fighting, rest, and train troops in the fields.

Therefore, Zhao and Rui had the upper hand and were willing to negotiate a peace. After all, wars in ancient times also involved logistics and money.

Moreover, Zhao Yurui was waiting for the flintlock gun to come out, and even wanted to negotiate a peace to delay time. At the same time, he also had to rectify domestic political affairs, personnel, and build water conservancy projects. There were also a lot of things waiting for him in the country. He could temporarily suspend his troops and attack the Song Dynasty. For Zhao Yurui, it's actually better.

(End of this chapter)