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

Chapter 476 Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight

This was not done before the Song Dynasty. The imperial court used to use civilian conscripts to do the work. Now after Zhao Yurui came to power, prisoners and criminals were often used to do the work. This saved money and did not bother ordinary people. Shi Yuzhi was not convinced.

A servant once asked Shi Yuzhi, Zhao Yurui is no different from the violent Qin, right? Are you not afraid of the coolies' rebellion?

However, Shi Yuzhi’s investigation revealed that the court treated the coolies well. In addition to no wages, adequate food, and rest, criminals and prisoners had the opportunity to return to freedom after working for a certain period of time, so there were basically no problems. .

From Tianjin to Baozhou, Shi Yuzhi walked along the Luhe River, then from Wuqing to Fenghe River and then to Lugou River.

It was found that people were working in both the Fenghe and Lugou River sections to renovate the river channels.

Sometimes you can't even walk by water, so you have to go ashore and ride a horse.

He didn't arrive in Yanjing until the ninth day of the Lunar New Year.

There is a large market in the south of Yanjing City, where Mongolian prisoners and people who were confiscated (now considered Song Dynasty criminals) were auctioned.

Shi Yuzhi took a look and found that most of them were women and children, with relatively few strong men. He decisively continued to the west. It was estimated that the good ones had been bought long ago.

After a great battle in Baozhou, Zhang Rou also resisted fiercely. After the defeat, many people were arrested.

Outside were merchants from all over the place, and the imperial court openly traded here, making a fortune for Zhao and Rui Xue.

The same merchant should try not to buy too many items. If he must buy them, he must explain why they are used.

Then he began to recruit people from all over Baozhou. The monthly salary was consistent, food was included, and there was one day off every ten days. The main work was to build the city and improve the river channels. The tools were provided by him. If the whole family came together, it would cost 500 coins for a woman and 300 coins for a boy. All meals included.

The common people will also be allocated fields, so how can there be so many people coming out to work.

Although Shi Yuzhi doesn't agree with this approach, he is now buying slaves himself, and he is quite conflicted in his heart.

After the Song army entered the city, the landlords in the city also organized resistance because everyone knew that the Song army had a tradition of confiscating homes.

There are several large camps in the south and east of Baozhou City. The large camps are full of people, and outside are businesses from all over the world.

Shi Yuzhi didn't say anything after hearing this. He motioned to the official to take him into the camp to have a look and start looking for people.

He also introduced to Shi Yuzhi that generally those with whole families were wealthy landowners or former officials of the Yuan Dynasty who were confiscated. Qingzhuang had more prisoners and also had family members of the prisoners. You can tell whether they are wealthy or captives by looking at the clothes they wear.

The transaction officials were also shocked. They didn't expect that he wanted to buy so many people. If Shi Yuzhi hadn't brought his family with him to buy, he would have thought that he was going to train his troops to rebel.

But things changed after Zhao Yurui ascended the throne. Especially after launching the war, Zhao Yurui directly bought and sold the prisoners and criminals in the name of the imperial court.

Shi Yuzhi had no choice but to buy a hundred households among the prisoners of war and select a group of people to manage them.

"It depends on who the boss wants. Ten guan for adult men, five guan for women, five guan for men under the age of 16, and twenty guan for good-looking women -"

Another servant whispered: "The Song Dynasty has always been a country of etiquette. If you do these things now, they will be recorded in the history books in the future."

Shi Yuzhi said that he would form his own engineering team and rely on these people to help him manage and take responsibility in the future.

When I got here, I found it was a bit miserable.

"What's the price?" Shi Yuzhi asked.

Officially, the court has regulations that all slaves purchased must have a contract period, not for life, and it is an employment relationship. Unlike the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the master can decide the slaves' life and the master's private property at will. Same.

The slave business was something that only barbaric tribes on the grasslands could do in the past. It really damaged the reputation of the Song Dynasty as a state of etiquette.

No one was recruited in the first three days, because Hebei had just been settled, the court was recruiting people everywhere, and other businessmen were also recruiting.

"It's really tragic." A servant next to him suddenly whispered to Shi Yuzhidao.

The court will sign a formal contract with the buyers, and these people will have to make slave identity tags individually. Shi Yuzhi will determine what they do, and the court will follow up in the future.

Shi Yuzhi didn't speak this time, but he was thinking in his heart that what will be recorded in the future will also be Zhao Yurui's cruelty and has nothing to do with me, the Song Dynasty.

After the Song army occupied the entire city, they immediately ransacked their homes and confiscated all the rich people.

In mid-December, the weather was getting colder and colder, and he finally arrived in Baozhou.

Young and beautiful girls will be more expensive.

"..." The servant was stunned for a moment and looked at his master strangely.

Labor is needed everywhere.

Shi Yuzhi led the people outside the camp and found many officials waiting outside with smiles. When they saw Shi Yuzhi, someone immediately came up to them and said, "Boss, are you buying people?"

Everyone is here to buy people.

Shi Yuzhi thought that the man's clothes looked like those of an official. When he came up, Taotao kept explaining to him that it was cheaper for the whole family to buy it.

Shi Yuzhi arrived at the scene and saw bodies being taken out of the camp one after another and then buried. Looking at the endless concentration camp in front of him, his expression was as if he was dreaming.

Of course, this is an open transaction by the imperial court, and there are rules.

Shi Yuzhi hesitated for a moment and finally said: "If the Mongolian army invades Lin'an, I'm afraid it will be even worse than now."

But his project is not small, and these people are definitely not enough. They are just domestic servants that he will keep for a long time in the future.

It's freezing cold, and many people will freeze to death because they don't keep warm enough.

As he walked, he murmured in his mind that during the Southern Song Dynasty, the imperial court began to ban slave trading, thinking it was the behavior of barbaric tribes. When Zhao Yurui bought slaves in Lin'an, he always found Xiao Kaifeng on the black market.

This scene should not be seen by the Song Dynasty at all.

Then Shi Yuzhi lived in Baozhou for half a month. He selected more than 100 households, all of which were families. Each household had one or two adult men. The total number of people was close to 500 to 600. He spent over Wan Guan.

Outside Baozhou City, it looked like a concentration camp, with a large number of prisoners and people being searched.

At this time, he was a little panicked. What if so many people ran away on the road? He couldn't control it at all.

But the slaves are still easy to manage. Now that Hebei is completely occupied by the Song army, they will only seek death if they run around.

Shi Yuzhi was so busy that he had to think about how to feed so many people every day, including purchasing food and arranging for people to cook.

Fortunately, I brought some servants with me and selected some people to help. Although there was some confusion in the middle, I still managed to bring these people back to Tianjin. I actually ran away from several families on the way.

When I returned to Tianjin, it was already the beginning of the ninth year of Yuan Zhen.

Shi Tianbao also did a good job here. He hired a group of people nearby at the consistently high price of one hundred cents. Because it was the slack period for farming, the nearby people were also willing to help.

They first build the construction site, arrange labor, and then determine the supplier of daily meals to ensure food and drink.

Shi Yuzhi used the more than 200 households he bought as his team and became the first professional engineering team in the Song Dynasty. From then on, he specialized in taking on projects throughout the Song Dynasty.
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At the beginning of the ninth year of Yuanzhen, after a long journey, Wokuotai led nearly a million people and horses of the Mongolian army, and finally arrived near Altai after thousands of miles.

When Wokuotai saw the westernmost tip of the Atai Mountains in the distance behind him, he felt sour in his heart and almost shed tears.

At this time, the soldiers and civilians of the Mongolian army in Liaodong, Hebei, Shanxi and other places had joined forces, including all the kings of the Northeast who could bring them out.

Chagatai brought with him more than 400,000 soldiers and civilians, 700,000 to 800,000 horses and mules, and countless cattle, horses, and sheep. In order to avoid the attack of the Song army, they spared the long way because there were a large number of people coming from Hebei and Shanxi. The Han soldiers and civilians walked for half a year before arriving near Altai.

Their current location is still hundreds of miles away from the extreme west of the Altai Mountains, basically close to the middle zone between Novosibirsk and the Altai region in later generations. (This will not be called Novosibirsk either)

The armies of Chagatai, Meng Ge, Guyu and others are nearby. Wo Kuotai, father and son Yelu Chucai and others stood quietly on the edge, watching the continuous stream of Mongolian soldiers and civilians and various horses and mules passing by not far away, their eyes were red.

The once invincible Mongolian army escaped like a bereaved dog.

There is no way, Mobei is now under the control of the Song Army.

According to the latest news he got, the Song army firmly occupied Harahelin and Qianzhou. Meng Gong, Lu Wende and other 300,000 to 400,000 Song troops were stationed in Mobei. They were originally preparing to cut off Wokuotai and Chagatai. Even Batu's contact.

In order to avoid the Song army, Ogedai took a long detour from the Rus Principality into Novosibirsk, so he was not blocked by the Song army.

Thinking of his father's former enfeoffed homeland and the entire Mongolia and Mobei being occupied by the Song army, Wokuotai's heart was bleeding.

"How far is it from my second brother's camp?" Wo Kuotai raised his head and asked behind him.

Ying Chitai immediately said: "There are still more than a hundred miles."

"It's really cold here." He Shi, Wo Kuotai's son, said suddenly and inappropriately.

Suddenly all kinds of looks came around.

It's the beginning of January and it's getting cold, but what do you mean?
"Drive." The sound of heavy horse hooves suddenly came from ahead.

Then a fast horse messenger came running back excitedly.

"Report, Hehan——"

Wo Kuotai was overjoyed to hear this.

It turned out that Chagatai, his son Guyu, Meng Ge and others came to greet him.

He quickly led most of the nobles and clans forward, and after a while, two groups of cavalry met in front of a jungle.

When the two sides saw each other, Ogedai and Chagatai hugged each other, they shed tears in unison.

The two brothers looked at each other in silence, not knowing what to say.

After a while, Chagatai comforted him: "The Song army is fierce and Zhao Yurui is vicious. Let's stay away from the enemy for now and fight back sooner or later."

Wokuotai could only nod, not knowing what to say.

At the beginning of January, Ogedai's men and Chagatai's men met east of Novosibirsk.

Chagatai's men were originally in the west of the Altai Mountains, but later it was not easy to supply, so they had to continue to retreat westward.

There are more than 300,000 people on Chagatai's side. After Ogedai comes, there will be a combined 6 to 700,000 people on both sides.

This is equivalent to the migration and flight of the entire Mongolian clan.

On the way from Wokuotai in the middle, not only did some get separated, but some died on the way.

It was a big problem for so many people to eat and drink every day. It was unknown how many war horses, cattle and sheep were killed.

Now that the two armies are united, there are more people and horses, food and drink are even more problematic, and life is under great pressure.

"Where is Batu?" The first thing Ogedai asked Batu after arriving at the Chagatai camp.

"Batu is building his capital, Sarai City, and doesn't care about us at all." Guyuk said angrily.

Guyu and Batu have always had a bad relationship, and now they are adding insult to injury.

Chagatai hurriedly said: "Fortunately, Batu often transports grain and grass to us, so we can still survive."

People from Chagatai pastored here, and Batu also sent people to support them, so more than 300,000 of them could barely live nearby.

Now that Wokuotai has brought hundreds of thousands more people over, their future survival will be a problem, and even Batu cannot afford it.

Wokuotai asked Batu's capital, which was located on the lower reaches of the Volga River, still four thousand miles away.

Supporting them were the former Rus principality and other conquered places in Batu territory.

Now that they have so many people coming, the locals must not be able to support them.

Of course, they also brought Dali's cattle, horses and sheep, so they could survive if they found a suitable water source.

But the problem is that not only do they have to survive for a long time, they also have to consider whether the Song army will fight back later and how to fight back.

Chagatai said: "Let's settle down first, and then we will go to Sarai City together."

Chagatai had the same idea as Ogedai. He must persuade Batu to first find a place for them to settle down and rest, and then gather all the Mongolian troops to go back and teach the Song army a lesson.

Because they knew Zhao and Rui's urinal nature, even if the Mongolian army did not attack them and continued to the west, and really all moved to Europe, the Song army would sooner or later come to attack them.

Ogedai was in a hurry and couldn't care about the others. The next day he took Yelvchucai, Chagatai, Temuge Ochijin, Beiligutai, the three sect kings and him, the great khan, with him. Some nobles went to find Batu themselves.

He and Chagatai and Batu's uncles are the same generation, and Beligutai and Temu Ge are Batu's grandfathers.

These elders take action to see how Batu responds.

On the way, Wokuotai asked Chagatai.

Because Chagatai had also been to Salai City before and met Batu alone.

Batu's intention was very obvious. He was focused on building his capital, Sarai City, and did not want to send troops. Unless the Song army attacked first, Batu had no intention of sending troops at all.

Chagatai looked left and right. The ones in front of them were Wo Kuotai, Temuge Ochijin, Beligutai and Yelu Chucai. The rest were the guards following them, far behind.

We are all our own people, so there is no need to mince words when speaking. He immediately said: "Batu just wants to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, watch us and the Song people fight, and then look for an opportunity to become a khan on his own and establish his khanate."

"Is it more difficult to convince Batu to return to the army than to go to heaven?"

Wo Kuotai frowned when he heard this, and the other two uncles also had helpless expressions on their faces.

It would be fine if Chagatai didn't say it, but if he does say it, it would be difficult to persuade him.

Who doesn’t want to be a sweat?

If Temu Ge, Ochijin and Beligutai, were not powerful enough, they would want to be independent if they could.

Batu's attitude was resolute and he clearly stated his thoughts. He wanted to be a big sweat, which was not easy to persuade.

Upon hearing this, Wokuotai's face suddenly turned from embarrassment to anger, and he couldn't help blurting out: "If he puts the interests of the whole clan first, why not give up my throne to him?"

"Absolutely not." Several people exclaimed at the same time.

Chagatai explained that Batu did not want to be the Great Khan of Mongolia, but wanted to become a Khan on his own.

According to the original history, after Guyu's death, someone proposed that Batu be Khan, but he declined and strongly recommended Meng Ge as Khan.

Batu just didn't like the place here in the Jin Kingdom of the Southern Song Dynasty, so he wanted to stay on the Volga River.

(End of this chapter)