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

Chapter 466 It’s still early for the decisive battle
Many people used to resort to manipulation when registering. They all went to Shaoli to register a house with ten houses, and registered one house with two houses.

Okay, now Song Jun says to come according to the book, now the mute eats yellow lotus, and cannot tell the pain.

As for the land, it was even worse. No matter how much it was, all was confiscated. In the new place, each person was given ten acres according to the family size.

Of course, some people may not have much farmland at home. For example, some officials may have five people in their family. They originally had ten acres of farmland at home. After moving to the new place, they can have fifty acres of farmland. That is an absolute huge profit.

But they didn't know where this new place was. Anyway, some people in the crowd were angry, and a few were surprised.

Then Gao Chong talked about businessmen.

Similarly, according to the records kept by Taiyuan Prefecture, the merchants' shops and houses will be allocated by the court after they arrive in the new place.

All farm property is also based on head, and each person in the family is allocated five acres of land.

Then Gao Zhong said again, officials can bring property worth five hundred taels of silver to each household, and merchants can bring property worth one thousand taels of silver to each household. (Including various materials, silver, copper coins, gold, jewelry, cultural relics, paintings, calligraphy, antiques, etc.)
Everyone at the scene was shocked when this statement came out. Isn't this tantamount to a house raid?

Although they had heard before that the Song army did this when they captured the Jin Kingdom, today they saw it with their own eyes and heard it with their own ears.

Zhao Yurui was fighting so blatantly that the people around him could no longer bear it. After Gao Zhong said he could speak, many people raised their hands.

Someone else's face turned red and they asked with a soulful boast: "In the Song Dynasty, a land of etiquette, none of the emperors of the past generations have ever done this?"

"..." Qiang Shan was speechless immediately.

How can I be so gentle and discuss with them as today, and let them leave with some money and divide the fields.

Lao Zhu often did this when the Ming Dynasty was founded.

A large number of wealthy businessmen moved to Suzhou and other places.

"Insulting Your Majesty, punishing the nine tribes, come here, kill -" Gao Zhong did not hesitate.

Part of the extra land was allocated to future garrison troops and newly arrived officials.

It can be said that after Gao Zhong said these words, the people below were about to explode. If Lu Gao hadn't been killed, everyone would have yelled at Song Jun. What is the difference between this and robbery?

At that time, the population of Taiyuan Prefecture was only more than 400,000, with about 70,000 households. Zhao and Rui successively moved away about 10,000 households, leaving the remaining 60,000 households. Each household was allocated 30 acres of land and exempted from tax for three years.

"Xiaguan Yangqu County Magistrate Qiang Shan, if the court does this, almost all the land and money will be confiscated. What is the difference between this and bandit robbery?"

He learned this trick from Lao Zhu.

Without using the original officials, Zhao and Rui's Song officials were able to quickly establish strong local rule.
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Outside Datong City.

"..." That person.

Of course, the Song army was much more polite this time than when they attacked the Jin Kingdom.

Now that the economic situation of the Song Dynasty was very good, he did not take any deadly action, so he asked Gao Zhong and other local generals to 'discuss' with these people in a friendly manner.

"Our Majesty has done this. If you are dissatisfied, you can go to Lin'an to file a petition."

After doing this, he was able to acquire millions of acres of farmland in just ten counties of Taiyuan Prefecture.

In fact, no matter in the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty or Northern Mongolia, a large amount of local grain fields and property were in the hands of these people. Now that Zhao Yurui is doing this, a large amount of grain fields and property will fall into the hands of Zhao Yurui. .

Gao Zhong casually nodded to the person in front of him to ask him to speak.

Moreover, migration is also differentiated. Officials and businessmen with better local official reputation usually move to Jeju, Daeyuan and Hainan nearby.

Zhao Yurui's Song Dynasty only had ordinary people in Taiyuan City.

Officials and businessmen who usually have poor official reputations and poor reputations move directly to Hanzhou (Fei Lubin) or even Bo Ni (Brunei) and Persia (Persian Gulf).

Now that there is a need for a large number of immigrants overseas, Zhao Yurui takes this opportunity to relocate all the officials and wealthy businessmen from various places controlled by Mongolia, which can at least increase the number of hundreds of thousands of people overseas.

A businessman asked again: "Where to move to, what kind of shop will it be -"

Even friends and classmates of many key figures were also relocated.

Zhao Yurui was even more ruthless than Lao Zhu. He confiscated almost all their money and only left them fields and houses.

With just this move, he instantly won over the hearts of the local people.

These places are far away and many people may die along the way.

Your Majesty wants to use their fields to appease the people and use their money to fight the Mongols. No one will be allowed to stand up and oppose this.

Gao Zhong immediately said: "There is a difference. The bandits will kill your whole family if they rob you. Now you can live elsewhere."

On the tenth day of July, Taiyuan City began to move away officials and wealthy businessmen in an orderly manner, and their relatives were also implicated and all moved away.

"Aren't you afraid of the cruelty and banditry of Secretary Shi Zhao Yurui?" Someone went crazy and yelled madly, fearing that they had forgotten what happened to Lu Gao just now.

When conquering the Jin Kingdom, the Song army went directly into the city and searched Jin merchants and officials door to door.

"Kill. If one clan does not move, kill another clan. If the nine clans do not move, kill the nine clans." Gao Zhong said sternly.

This trick of dividing the land from local tyrants is very effective no matter when and where.

Then they all moved overseas.

As for whether these people are convinced or not, do Zhao Yurui care?
These people and their relatives, regardless of their direct lineal or collateral ancestry, will all be forcibly relocated.

"Why don't we move?" someone yelled unwillingly.

What he means is that he has a shop in the best place in Taiyuan Prefecture, with a large area and a good location. Can he have the same shop in a new place?
"There is no choice, and I don't know. The local people will arrange it. Whatever is arranged will be what it is."

Zhao Yurui did this at that time because he wanted to raise military expenditures to prepare for the war with Mongolia later.

The overwhelming number of people and horses are heading north in an endless stream.

Wokuotai, Yelu Chucai and others were riding horses and looking at Datong City not far away from a high place.

Behind him were many Mongolian nobles, some of whom had expressions of reluctance on their faces, while others were disapproving.

Among the Mongolian nobles, like Batu, there are many who do not like cities and prefer the grasslands.

For example, Nabiedie proposed to kill all the Han people in the north, bulldoze all the cities, and turn them into grasslands.

This kind of person is simply crazy. When he put forward opinions before, Wo Kuotai opposed him and asked Yelu Chucai to collect taxes in the north.

Now that Wokuotai was forced to abandon the north and retreat to the grassland, Biedie was the happiest.

He grinned and said to the people around him: "I have long said that these places are not suitable for us. Only the grassland is the home of us Mongolians."

After speaking, he also looked at Wo Kuotai and Yelu Chucai not far away.

Wokuotai heard clearly, but did not look back. He became angry with shame.

A yurt on the grassland is not as comfortable as living in a big house in Datong City.

But he didn't want to say this now, so he could only pretend that he didn't hear it.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, we will fight back sooner or later." Yelu Chucai had no choice but to comfort Wo Kuotai at this time.

Wo Kuotai thought so in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud.

He forced a smile: "Where is Tasi?"

"Profuse sweat." Someone came forward and reported that they had just received the seventh wave of messengers from Tasi from Hebei in the morning. Tasi's troops have arrived in Baozhou (Zhulu).

"How many troops are there on his side? How many soldiers?" Wo Kuotai asked again.

"There are 60,000 soldiers on the other side of Tasi, about 180,000 people, and 100,000 horses."

Wokuotai's face condensed. He had more than 200,000 people and more than 500,000 war horses. Basically, one person could lead two.

Tasi did not have so many war horses in Hebei, and he did not have any people. This meant that he took a large number of people on foot. Whether these people could reach the grassland in the future was a question.

Wokuotai's son Heshi was surprised and said: "Aren't there more than 200,000 Han troops in Hebei? There are only such a few people now?"

Hebei used to be the place with the largest number of Mongolian and Han troops, but the Song army invaded on a large scale, and various places either lost ground or surrendered. A small number of those who resisted were cut off and blocked in various cities by the Song army.

Tasi could only gather 60,000 soldiers to retreat westward, as well as some family members and craftsmen accompanying the army.

In particular, Yanjing Mansion is also a point where Mongolian craftsmen are concentrated, and it is now considered the last point of the Mongolian army.

There are three places where the Mongolian army has the most craftsmen, one is Harahelin, the base camp, the other is Qianzhou, and the third is Yanjing.

Now that the first two were occupied by the Song army, Wokuotai only had one craftsman district in Yanjing. He did not dare to lose these craftsmen, so he asked Tasi to take them away.

However, after Hebei was invaded by the Song Army in Liaodong, the supply of war horses was cut off. In addition, Hebei was at war with the Song Army all year round, so there were not many war horses.

Most of these thousands of miles would have to be walked, which is impossible even if you think about it.

Wokuotai thought for a while: "Send someone to send an order back and try to bring back as many craftsmen as possible."

The Mongolian army has been conquering the east and west for decades. It was hard to get more than 100,000 craftsmen from Central Asia, the Jin Kingdom and other places, but now they are almost wiped out by the Song army.

If we don’t retain some craftsmen, how can we counterattack in the future?

At this time, Wokuotai was still thinking about the final counterattack.

This time, more than 200,000 Mongolian troops, plus more than 500,000 horses and mules, retreated north. The scale was larger than the last Western Expedition. It took many days for all the troops to finish their march.

In order to prevent the Song army from pursuing them, Orchen Nayan, who had returned from Taiyuan City, led 20,000 Mongolian troops around and pretended to attack the Song army to attract the Song army's attention.

The Mongolian army and the Song army fought two waves of field battles near Yingzhou and Shuozhou, but neither gained the upper hand.

The Song army did not bring artillery or carriages, but the forwards were all flintlock guns. Both sides suffered casualties, and the Mongolian army was repulsed.

At this time, Wo Kuotai, who heard the news, was already a little afraid of the Song army.

In the early years, the Song army used a large number of carriages, huge shields, countless spear formations, fierce artillery, and various trenches to fight against the Mongolian army in the wild.

Later, the Song Army gradually eliminated shields, spears, and carriages, and now they no longer even dig ditches, nor do they carry artillery.

The Mongolian army can be fought in the field with only infantry and fusillade formations.

The Song army became stronger and stronger, and the Mongolian army became weaker and weaker.

In fact, the Mongolian army in Wokuotai's hands is not weak, and it is not even weaker than the Mongolian army that founded the country.

But because the Song army is getting stronger and stronger, it contrasts with the fact that his Mongolian army is weaker than the one in Temujin's hands.

The peak of the Mongolian army should be in the hands of Kublai Khan.

The elite Mongolian army that participated in the Western Expedition was unable to defeat Kublai Khan's Mongolian army when they competed for the throne.

Han troops accounted for the majority of Kublai Khan's Mongolian army, and their fighting style was different from the Mongolian army's old routine. In addition, their weapons were advanced, so the Mongolian army in Ogedei's hands was actually not much worse than the main force of Batu's Western Expedition. .

The largest scale trebuchets used by Batu during his Western Expedition were only seven or eight.

During the Song Dynasty, the Mongolian army used hundreds of them when besieging Xiangyang.

The style of play on the grassland is not applicable here.

Although the Western Expedition is the main force of the Mongolian army, it may not be able to defeat the partial division of the Mongolian army that invaded the Song Dynasty.

Wokuotai and others always thought that the elite Mongolian army was in Batu. In fact, they were in Hebei, and the Han army in Shanxi was also quite powerful.

Now seeing that the Song army is getting stronger and stronger, Wo Kuotai subconsciously placed his trust in Batu.

In mid-July, Wokuotai arrived at Guanshan.

Not long after, Chen Nayan led a group of Mongolian troops and chased him to Guanshan.

Chen Nayan caught up with Wo Kuotai and told Wo Kuotai that he had calculated that the last batch of people to leave Datong would burn Datong City to the ground with a fire before leaving.

Then they drove the Han people in the city out of the city and followed the Mongolian army, mainly to delay the pursuing Song army.

But a large number of Han people are unwilling to go to the grasslands with the Mongols.

So Orchen Nayan directly killed the Han people in the city who refused to follow them, and sent people to kill them, and then left.

"You?" Wo Kuotai was dumbfounded, shocked and angry: "These are all my people in Mongolia."

"My people in Mongolia will naturally follow us to the grassland. Those who refuse to leave will all be Song people in the future. It is better to kill them." Orchen Nayan disagreed.

Yelu Chucai on the side shook his head secretly.

When Tasi evacuated Yanjing, a messenger came to ask Wo Kuotai if he wanted to burn Yanjing with fire and kill all the local Han people.

Yelu Chucai strongly opposed it.

Because Mongolia will still fight back in the future.

Moreover, these Han people are now considered Mongolian subjects. If the Mongols withdraw, you will kill the local people and how will you rule this place when you return in the future.

Wo Kuotai may have a vague feeling that he will never come back in the future, but he is not willing to do so.

People always have luck in their hearts. Although Wo Kuotai admitted that the Song army was now more powerful than the Mongolian army, he always subconsciously believed that he could fight back in the future.

What's more, Hebei and Shanxi have been ruled by him for so many years. Now that Chen Nayan is killing and burning, the reputation of the Mongolian army has completely collapsed.

Moreover, Orchen Nayan forced the Han people to follow them to the grassland, which also aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Han people.

Wokuotai couldn't scold Orchen Nayan.

Chen Nayan did this for their own good.

Ochen Nayan drove tens of thousands of Han people to follow the Mongolian army. If the Song army caught up, it would be temporarily blocked.

But Wokuotai obviously thought too much, and the Song army had no time to chase them.

Knowing that the Mongolian army had withdrawn from Datong, the Song army, in addition to sending a small group of cavalry to check the situation, continued to conquer Hebei and Shanxi.

After Wokuotai led his people to withdraw to the grasslands, there were still many cities in Hebei and Shanxi that were defended by the Mongolian army.

The Song army eliminated them one by one, then occupied them, then cleaned up the local officials, and inspected and distributed the land. They had many things to do, so they had no time to manage the Mongolian army.

Now Wokuotai is anxious to join forces with Batu and then come for a decisive battle with the Song army, but Zhao Yurui is not in a hurry.

For Zhao Yurui, it is still early for a decisive battle. At present, Zhao Yurui just wants to take back all his hometown in the Northern Song Dynasty and then consolidate and digest it.

If the Song army wanted to reduce casualties at this time, it would be easier to wait for the Mongolian army to attack.

(End of this chapter)