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

Chapter 397 I Will Regret It

For hundreds of years, most of the local aborigines used homemade clay pots to cook. Iron pots were still selling quite well here in the late Ming Dynasty.

During the Qing Dynasty, some European businessmen came to the Qing Dynasty to buy a shipload of iron pots at one time and then sold them everywhere, making a profit.

Island countries in all oceans are all short of iron pots, and this will be the case hundreds of years from now, let alone now.

After the leader looked at the iron pot for a few times, his eyes suddenly flashed, and he stretched out his hand to carry the iron pot on his back.

The big iron pot was big and heavy, but he just carried it on his back, waved his hand, and walked away, taking his tribe home.

That day, the Song army went out with twenty groups of sentries and left twenty iron pots outside. When they returned, they found that sixteen of them had been taken away by the natives.

This was deliberately left outside by the Song Army and given to the natives.

The IQs of the natives also vary.

By October, some natives attacked the Song army civilians who were building a fort from the south, trying to steal the Song army's equipment and even carriages.

Of course he was beaten hard by the Song army.

There were also natives who came from the northwest, bringing a pile of animal skins and other supplies, hoping to exchange iron pots with the Song army.

Song Jun's routine was similar to that of Zai Da Yuan. For those with high IQ and who could be negotiated, they used iron pots, salt, sugar, etc. to exchange materials and labor with them.

That day, more than twenty natives came to the scene. Under the leadership of a leader, they all held a large number of animal skins, animal bones and so on.

These things are not valuable to Song Jun. The more useful ones are wild buffalo hides.

There are many wild buffaloes in Hanzhou. The buffalo hides can be used to make leather armor, and the horns and tendons are also useful.

The rest are basically small animals, the most common of which are monkeys, which Song Jun has no use for.

That leader was the one who took Zhang Li's iron pot that day.

This native was smarter and more courageous. He brought a bunch of things with his tribe to trade with the Song army.

It was already October, and several groups of people from the Song Army had arrived. The scene was crowded with people, a large number of Song Army civilians were working, and the shape of the bastion was beginning to take shape.

The leader and his tribe were staring at the tall fortress in amazement, a little unbelievable that such a building could be built.

"Wait a moment. Our commanders will be here soon." Song Jun was talking to the leader. The leader smiled and nodded. He didn't know if he understood. Anyway, when Song Jun talked to him, he smiled and nodded, and then He kept pointing at the goods he brought and then at Song Jun's things.

He was also very courageous. He dared to point out the Song Army's waist knives, carriages, and spears, and seemed to want to change them all.

He also wanted to get closer to see what else Song Jun had, but of course he was stopped.

After a while, Commander Ruan Heng came.

Ruan Heng has stayed in Dayuan for ten years, and of course he has good skills and knows how to communicate with these natives.

He came to the leader with a smile, then patted the leader on the shoulder and motioned for the leader to follow him.

The leader quickly followed Ruan Heng.

Ruan Heng took him to a tree.

Then handed him a saw.

The leader's tribesmen also came over one after another, and everyone watched together.

Ruan Heng showed how to use it, and the leader picked it up, squeaking, and after a while, boom, the big tree was sawed down.

"Keke" the leader was so excited that he looked around with the saw, thinking that Song Jun was going to give it to him in exchange.

But when Ruan Heng took back the saw and reached out to greet him, someone held a bag and poured some candy into his hand.

Ruan Heng poured the candy to the leader.

Indicated to the leader to add another.

The leader added, "Wow, it's really sweet," and his expression became even more excited.

Ruan Heng then signaled to the leader to find someone, and the two natives carried the tree on their shoulders together, and then led them forward.

After walking a few hundred steps, he put it down at the edge of the bastion.

I gave them a bunch of candies again.

Ruan Heng completed the communication with them in only half a day that day.

The indigenous leader finally understood the needs of the Song Army, and they sent their labor in exchange for the Song Army's supplies.

Finally, when they left, Song Jun laid out iron pots, salt, sugar, cloth, silk, wine, and many other materials in a row, indicating that they could choose whatever they wanted.

Of course, the premise is that they need to work hard.

In mid-October, some northern natives began to work for the Song Army. The Song Army asked them to do the most tiring work, blasting mountains to obtain rocks for building forts, and cutting down wood and leveling the land for building houses.

Including the early stage of arable land leveling and preparation for later farming and sugar cane planting, all the hard and tiring work was done by the indigenous people.

But the natives were quite willing. The Song army provided food for them, and the food was much better than theirs. They also provided supplies, and the natives worked hard.

They were happy, and Song Jun was even happier, because Song Jun could let them work for a day at a very small price.

Ten adult natives working for Song Jun for a day could only get half a catty of salt or half a catty of sugar.

The Song army made salt directly on the beach, and then sold the natives for labor.

It is also very convenient to transport sugar from Dayuan, and sugar cane will be planted in Hanzhou later.

The costs are extremely low, except for cloth and silk, which are relatively expensive and have to be shipped from Fuguang.

By December of the second year of Yuanzhen, there were thousands of tents on both sides of the Hanzhou River, and thousands of natives came from all directions to work for the Song army.

And there is a steady stream of natives coming from further places.

Of course, there are submissive ones and there are fierce ones.

In February of the third year of Yuanzhen, the weather was neither cold nor hot.

"Woo" Early in the morning, the Song Army began to blow the horn.

Large groups of cavalry began to gather, and the natives who helped build the city in the distance looked at the Song army in horror.

The Song soldiers all wore armor, covering their whole bodies, making a swishing sound as they walked. They looked like a torrent of steel, and the natives couldn't take their eyes off them.

Zhang Hui and Nahe soon appeared, followed by a cavalry team.

This is not conducive to cavalry. The Song army's horses are either used as sentries, to explore roads, or for transportation.

This time the Song army dispatched five thousand (mainly Jurchen Khitan), one thousand war horses for transportation, and five hundred sentry riders to fight north.

There is a mountain in the northeast, and there is a huge indigenous tribe. There are thousands of people in the tribe. They also sent people to intercept and kill the Song army's sentry cavalry, and even wanted to attack the Song army's base camp. However, they saw that there were many Song soldiers and they were armored. Only retreat when you are powerful.

From last August to now, less than half of the nearly [-] Song troops have arrived. This time they finally decided to attack them. At the same time, they began to eliminate the indigenous people in the north who were disobedient, uncooperative, and did not come out to work.

After Ruan Heng came out, he ordered to be divided into five groups, with a thousand men and two hundred horses, and each group would bring ten local natives to lead the way.

There is also a weapon unique to the Song Dynasty, a weapon for mountain warfare.

"Woof woof woof woof" suddenly the scene was full of dogs barking, and the surrounding natives looked even more surprised.

Hundreds of Song troops appeared one after another, each holding a dog.

Zhang Hui himself brought a thousand men and two hundred horses, and then he was divided into fifty dogs and one hundred sentries. Following the order, large groups of Song troops headed north.

The natives fought in ambushes and used traps, but the Song army brought dogs, so the ambush of the natives became useless.

A few days later, Zhang Hui's men were the first to return to camp.

At that time, more than a hundred natives were brought back first.

Then, directly in front of other natives who were working for the Song Army, they lined up in a row and beheaded them one by one on the spot.

Later, Song troops returned to the camp one after another and captured many natives. Then they selected some old, weak, sick, disabled, and injured ones and beheaded them all.

The other natives were trembling with fear after the Song Army killed them, and they were glad that they did not go against the Song Army.

In the third year of Yuanzhen, the Song Dynasty was conquering Hanzhou and began to attack Tubo.
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Tubo is a little different. Even in the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty only enshrined [-] households in the local area and let the households take care of themselves.

But Zhao Yurui definitely can't do this. He needs the land of Tubo, and he also needs Tubo's servant army and war horses.

At that time, Tubo mobilized various tribes to fight the Song army, gathering nearly [-] soldiers and horses.

According to Tubo's custom of drawing one out of three households, the Song court estimated that the total number of households in Tubo was about [-]. Later, after Tubo was defeated and negotiated peace with Song Dynasty to pay tribute, the Song court has been counting the population of Tubo. Through the opportunities of trade in these years, it can basically judge Almost the same. The number of households in Tubo is now less than [-], and the number is decreasing year by year.

The reason for the decrease in the number of Tubo households is that some of them fled to the Ruogai Grassland and the areas controlled by the Song Army in Diezhou City.

Tubo still had nobility and slavery, while the Song Army was considered a feudal system. In recent years, through word of mouth and the Song Army's propaganda work, more and more people in Tubo began to wake up and defect to the Song Army.

In March of the third year of Yuanzhen.

Amidst the rumble of horse hoofbeats, a group of cavalry ran from inside Diezhou to the outside of the city, and then gathered outside the east city gate.

There are more than a thousand riders in this group, all of whom are Tibetans.

Soon, they divided into two directions, with about [-] riders on one side and about [-] riders on the other.

It can be seen that the side with more people has almost no soldiers and armor, while the side with less people is fully armed. Both sides look at each other with various complicated expressions.

Among the Tubo people on the less crowded side were Song Army deputy commanders Murti, Dutou Gerile, Deputy Dutou Dazazan, and Corps Commander Azanbi, etc. These people successively participated in the Song army's attack on the Western Xia Mongolian army. During the battle, after taking turns to defend Xixia for a period of time, they all returned to Diezhou at the end of last year.

At that time, Multi and Gerile were the first batch of Tibetan soldiers to return.

I was shocked when I arrived a dozen miles outside of Diezhou City.

They were not so exaggerated when they left.

The north and south directions of Diezhou City are all mountainous, and there have always been relatively few people, but now there are camps stretching for more than ten miles in the east and west directions.

When they went to Xixia, there were at most [-] Tibetan herdsmen households around Diezhou City. Now two or three years later, at least [-] households have gathered around it.

What is this concept? There are only tens of thousands of households in Tubo?

Almost one-sixth of the Tubo people gathered near the Song city.

Although Murti and the others were shocked, they could understand.

Because only on the edge of the Song city, many Tubo people lived like humans.

After Multi and the others came back one after another, they quickly summoned all the Tibetan soldiers and assigned tasks.

At that time, they returned from Ningxia (Western Xia) with a total of [-] Tibetan soldiers.

The Song army gave them a choice. Those who were willing to change their surnames to Chinese names and follow Han customs from now on could continue to stay in the Song army. Those who were unwilling could leave.

As a result, two-thirds of the more than [-] people, or about [-], chose to go home and become herdsmen. Only Multi and others were willing to fully follow the Song army.

No, Multi has now been renamed.

His name is Mo Yong.

This is the Chinese name he gave himself to express his bravery.

"Mo Yong, Mo Yong, Mo Yong." Multi reminded herself a few words again in her mind and looked up to the opposite side.

More than [-] people on the opposite side had fought bloody battles with them on the battlefields of Xixia, bloody battles in Guazhou and Shazhou, and many battles with the Mongols, but now they had to say goodbye.

Everyone has their own beliefs and choices, and Mo Yong expressed helplessness.

"Don't think about it anymore." Ge Meng (Gerile) said loudly to the more than [-] people.

Gerile saw that Mul was named Yong, but he called himself Meng.

Therefore, among the more than [-] Tubo people who decided to change their surnames to Chinese names, there are many who are called brave and fierce.

A herdsman named Ah Lili opposite was an old acquaintance of Ge Yong. He shook his head decisively: "We can't go back to face our families. We are Tubo people."

"Without the protection of the Song people, you are worse than dogs in the eyes of the nobles." Zhang Xiong (Dazhazan) sneered: "You guys want to go back and live like slaves?"

"We are now the most elite warriors." A Tubo man said loudly: "Following the Song Army in the past few years, we have become stronger and stronger, and the nobles need us."

These Tubo people believed that they had trained their skills by following the Song army in southern and northern wars for so many years, and they would naturally be put to good use when they returned.

No matter what, they cannot abandon their faith.

"You are elite soldiers who follow the Song Army." Zhang Wei (Azanbi) also sneered: "You follow those nobles and are just a bunch of rubbish."

The Song Army was famous for its strict discipline and the benefit of soldiers and armor. Although the Tubo people fought with the Song Army for several years, after they returned, without the Song Army's soldiers and armor, without the Song Army's discipline, they would not be able to become powerful lords at all. .

"Azanbi." Someone yelled from the opposite side: "Lama will protect us, but you are not worthy. You have abandoned your tribe."

"It was the Song people who gave you dignity, but now you don't want it." Zhang Wei was also furious.

The two sides only exchanged a few words and almost started to quarrel.

Zheng, Zheng, Zheng, Mo Yong's Tubo soldiers who had changed their surnames drew their swords one after another, and some wanted to kill them.

There were no more soldiers on the opposite side, and everyone's expressions changed drastically.

"What's the fuss about?" Mo Yong quickly stood up.

He was the deputy commander of the Song Army. He had the highest official position and was still somewhat majestic. The surrounding area suddenly became quiet.

"This is the path they chose. I hope they won't regret it."

"We will definitely meet again in the future." Mo Yong stopped the quarrel with a wave of his hand.

"Farewell." The people on the other side were not polite. Some of them glanced at the tall Diezhou City with a little nostalgia, and some of them didn't even look back.

The people of the Song Dynasty asked them to change their surnames to Chinese names and use Chinese customs. Many people were extremely dissatisfied.

"Drive." The more than [-] people quickly turned around and left.

Mo Yong watched them leave coldly, and then said slowly: "They will definitely regret it."

"Let's go as planned."

"Nuo." The subordinates shouted one after another, and boom, the Song army dispersed in all directions.

Among the more than [-] people in front, the leaders were mainly Aili, Geerqin, Dawaci and others.

Ah Serili is a believer in the Wise Man Gyaan. Now the Song army wants them to take Han surnames and use Han names, and live according to Song customs. Ah Serili will not agree even if they are beaten to death.

Most of the others were the same, they all had their own beliefs and could not agree with the customs of the Song people.

(End of this chapter)