Verses 596 & 597 Uncle Kublai Khan enlightens his ministers

As soon as the Tang army entered the city, while maintaining order in the city and pacifying the people, they set off firecrackers, pulled out the horizontal and vertical signs of "recovering China, relieving the people from hanging upside down", and posted Li Luo's "Seeking Yuan Yuanwen".

The entire city of Chengdu suddenly boiled.

The Tang Army is coming!

King Tang is here!

The Tartars are defeated, the Tartars are defeated!

The city of Chengdu, which was once bloodily slaughtered by the Tatar army, burned the hearts of the people again.

In the sound of crackling firecrackers, there was joy and jubilation everywhere.

There are three improvised poems by Chengdu Hanshi Wu Nie:

"The Wuhou Ancestral Hall is new, and the Shaoling Thatched Cottage is sunny in spring. 90,000 remnants celebrated at the same time, just for Wang Shi to enter Jincheng. ”

Another poem said: "Talking and laughing at Emperor Bai, waving and opening the door." Bashan is green in spring, and it is known that the king of Tang is coming. ”

There is also a poem: "The spring breeze has also reached the end of the world, and the mountain city has seen flowers in February." Wuhou cried at night on Huiling Day, and suddenly heard that the king ordered the Northern Tartars. He personally mentioned the white horses of the six armies, and rode thousands of horses to Wuxia. Ten years of Yizhou is now fast, and then Tang poems are given to the Han family. ”

This Wu Nie wrote a poem, in addition to expressing the happiness in his heart, he also hoped that Li Luo, the king of Tang, would know himself and be appointed. Of course, a Han warrior like Wu Nie is far more than him.

Li Luo entered the Pingzhang Yamen of Chengdu City, and on the same day, Sapler presented the household registration, acres of land, and official books of Sichuan Province.

Sichuan Province Nine Road, a total of 119 prefectures and counties, 17 barbarian pacification divisions. The population of taxpayers with household registration in various colors is 3.27 million, of which 2.75 million are Han Chinese, and 520,000 are from all barbarian departments.

More than 17,280,000 acres of fields of various colors. More than 340,000 acres of official land.

The Mongol magnates cast 136 manors and more than 127,000 slaves. There are 13 military pastures, with a total of more than 26,000 hectares, and more than 18,000 herdsmen.

There are 132 water and land post stations (historical facts), 1,000 horses, 500 cattle, and 86 boats. Seventeen official salt farms, twenty-four distilleries, tea mountains...

When Li Luo saw this, he couldn't help but throw the book on the shore with a "snap", and said to the Sichuan officials without hesitation: "There is a huge Sichuan and Shu, more than 100 states and counties, and there are only more than 3 million Han people plus barbarians? What a reason! Also, why is there only more than 17 trillion acres of taxable land? The official field is less than 400,000? ”

At the height of Sichuan and Shu in the Southern Song Dynasty, the registered Han population alone exceeded 13 million, which is not counting the population concealed by the wealthy clans, as well as hidden households, displaced people, and monks. The population of the barbarian tribes is also not counted.

If you add it all, it is conservatively estimated that there are more than 16 million at the time.

Although he experienced Meng Yuan's brutal killing, it was impossible to really kill more than one million people. You must know that the Sichuan Basin is surrounded by mountains, and if the people are killed, they will definitely flee into the mountains, so that the registered population will be even smaller.

But after so much time, it is impossible for those who fled into the mountains and barbarians not to return. Li Luo estimates that there must be 5 million people of all ethnic groups in Sichuan.

But looking at the book, the Han, the barbarian, cast the feudal people, and the total number of slaves is only more than 3 million!

That's a million less than a million people out of the population. In addition to the innumerable number of displaced people, that is, the large households hide the population.

Sappler said, "Your Majesty, this is a large hidden population. There is also much more land than 17 trillion. The criminal minister had checked the archives of the former Song Dynasty before, and the land was more than 380,000 hectares. ”

Li Luo's face was ugly, "You mean, most of the land is in the hands of the Hao family?" ”

Now that Sappler has surrendered, he doesn't care, and said directly: "That's not all in the hands of the wealthy family, the forest land also occupies a lot of fields, and many fields are grazing and grass." In addition to this, there are also toasts and temples, which also occupy a lot of land. ”

"These lands are not included in the tax field. However, the lords, temple masters, and toasts would pay a sum of money every year, not as a tax, but as a contribution. ”

Li Luo nodded: "Herald!" All the gentry and large Toda land population, all re-inventory and registration! ”

"All the people on the temple land have also been re-inventoried and registered!"

"All the estates of the territory are nationalized! All kinds of slaves are freed as a whole! ”

"All salt wells, mines, pastures, tea mountains... One collection for the state-owned! ”

"Set up relief points in various places to help the displaced people, appease the people, and supervise the resumption of farming!"

Li Luo received several orders, which can be described as resolute and very domineering.

"From today, Sichuan Province will be changed back to Yizhou. The roads were changed to counties, and all states were changed to counties. For the time being, Yang Hanming is the pastor of Yizhou. ”

Changing Sichuan to Yizhou and appointing Yang Hanming as the pastor of Yizhou is not surprising to everyone. But the next appointment is a bit intriguing.

"Job!" Li Luo nodded a name.

"The minister is here!" The big spy Jobs is on the list.

"The widow appointed you as the envoy of Yizhou Juntian and supervised the Juntian order!" Li Luodao.

"No! Thank you, King! Jobs commanded.

Why do you want to appoint Job, a spy who is of course a freshly baked Juntian envoy? Because the process of implementing the land equalization order is a process of rational land distribution, it is bound to be full of opposition and bloodshed.

And Job is ruthless, and he will govern those wealthy people who are obedient. The Sichuan Shu Hao clan will either die or obediently accept their fate. Li Luo was sure that Jobe would not only dig up the fields annexed by the wealthy clans, monasteries, and tusi, but also dig up their grain.

Li Luo said to Chen Yu again: "The widow appointed you as the superintendent of the imperial history of Yizhou. ”

"King Xie!"

"Zhu Jie, I will appoint you as the envoy of the Yizhou Festival, recruit 50,000 new soldiers, and guard Yizhou."

"King Xie!"

The Jiedu envoy of the Tang State was in charge of the military power of a state or a town, but had no financial power or the right to recruit troops, and was only responsible for fighting wars and guarding the place.

Zhu Hao is calm and cautious, full of strategy, and it is enough to serve as a festival envoy.

Li Luo planned to leave 30,000 soldiers and horses in Yizhou, plus Yang Hanming's 30,000 Miao soldiers, Yi Shiying's Changning army, and the 80,000 recruits to be recruited, more than 100,000 people were enough to hold Yizhou.

The next step is to arrange for local officials. Li Luo issued an order to transfer all the outstanding officials who served as county commanders in Jiangnan to be promoted to two grades and transferred to Yizhou as county guards.

Then, the samurai who were disabled and retired from the army were used as prefectural commanders.

Use the disabled and retired but literate Shi Chang Wu Chang to serve as a village official.

In this way, not only can the political power at all levels in Yizhou be firmly controlled, but also the disabled and retired soldiers in the army can be resettled, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Li Luo didn't see anything on the first day he came to Chengdu, he just issued orders and appointed and dismissed officials.

If you don't put up the shelves of officials at all levels for a day, you won't be able to really control Yizhou for a day.

As for the original Yamen Daru Huachi at all levels of the Yuan court, they were all arrested and imprisoned and turned into prisoners. And all the Han officials and officials were deposed!

This man is so ruthless. He will not retain a single Yuan court official, but dismiss all of them.

Not only that, but officials who are angry with the people will also be executed to vent their anger. Including the gentry who were angry with the people, they were all executed.

It's completely an iron-blooded policy, without mercy.

Li Luo is not afraid of being unofficial. Even if he is afraid that no one will farm the land, no one will be a soldier, and he is not afraid that no one will be an official.

In Li Luo's view, it is enough to be an official as long as he has common sense, can be literate, and is pragmatic and honest. This threshold is very high, but it is also very low.

To tell the truth, not many people are capable of purely engaging in political struggle. But if you want to talk about being a pure official director, Li Luo thinks that as long as you have the heart, you can do it.

As orders were issued one after another, as teams of Tang Army detachments settled in various states and counties, the land of Yizhou immediately surged.

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During the period when Li Luo led his troops to attack Sichuan and Shu, Liang and Song were not idle.

After the defeat of the Yuan army in Hengyang, the return of the Song army, and the reinforcement of the Tang army, the Tusi coalition army attacking Fujian was finally defeated under the siege.

More than a dozen Tusi coalition troops, more than half of them were killed and wounded, suffered a big defeat, and retreated from Luoxiao Mountain in a hurry. But when he passed through Guangzhou, he was pursued by the Song army.

Tian Jinxian and other Tusi generals were defeated again, and only led more than 30,000 remnants of the defeated army to flee to Guizhou and Guangxi in later generations. After this defeat, Guangxi Guizhou Tusi lost more than 100,000 elite soldiers, and each family suffered heavy losses, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.

Taking advantage of the weakness of the Tusi, the Song army gathered 100,000 troops to march westward and captured Haibei Province, Hainan, which was still in the hands of the Yuan court, and pocketed the entire Guangdong in later generations, obtaining a population of 2 million.

Taking advantage of the great victory in the south and the defeat of the Tusi coalition army, Liang also sent the general Dong Huchen to lead the army south and capture the Liangjiang Province in Guangxi. The entire Guangxi of later generations was included in the territory, and the population of more than 2.4 million was obtained.

Then, in early February, another major event occurred in Yunnan.

Duan's father and son, who led 10,000 remnants of soldiers back to Yunnan, took advantage of the annihilation of the Southern Yuan Army and suddenly announced the restoration of Dali in Yangtho City.

Duan Qing proclaimed himself the lord of Dali and announced that he still used the name of the first year and was still a courtier of the Great Yuan.

He sent people to Dadu to play Kublai Khan, saying that the thieves in the south were huge, and in order to suppress the thieves, they could only restore the country and defend the southwest "trunk passage" for Dayuan. I implore the emperor for permission to follow the example of Goryeo and become a vassal state forever.

Why did Duan Qing do this? Isn't it afraid of arousing the hostility of the Tang, Liang and Song Kingdoms?

Because he can't help it.

It was easy for the Yuan army to attack Yunnan from Tibet, and he did not dare to completely get rid of the Yuan court, and he did not dare to completely tear his face with Kublai Khan.

Besides, even if he announced his departure from the Yuan Court, he knew that Li Luo would not let him go. He was well aware of Li Luo's ambitions.

Of course, he was also very confident in the terrain of Yunnan, and it was easy to attack Yunnan from the condescending position of Tibet, but it would be difficult to attack Yunnan from Huguang in the east and Sichuan in the north.

At that time, Zhao Kuangyin "Song waved the jade axe", and in Duan's opinion, of course, he did not dare to attack Dali.

Duan Qing also sent gifts to officials of the Yuan court such as Nasu Latin, the political minister of Yunnan Pingzhang, who was originally stationed in Kunming, and escorted them to Dadu.

After the restoration of Dali, more than 3 million people of the original Dali Kingdom were all overjoyed, thinking that they had finally gotten rid of the direct rule of the Yuan Court, and their lives were finally better.

Duan's father and son were defeated in Hengyang, and the sorrow of many Dali boys buried in a foreign land was also alleviated.

At this point, four countries appeared in the south at the same time.

From the geographical point of view of later generations, they were the Tang Kingdom that occupied Liangjiang, Fujian and Sichuan, the Song Kingdom that occupied Guangdong and Hainan, the Liang State that occupied Hunan, Hubei, and Guangxi, and the Dali Kingdom that occupied Yunnan.

The territory of the Yuan court in the south was only the newly conquered Jiaozhou (Annam), Xiangzhou (Cham), and Burmese (Bagan).

The combined Yuan army in these three places was less than 100,000 people, and almost all of the elite soldiers were previously siphoned off by the king of Yunnan, and now they can only barely maintain the rule of these three states.

Speaking of which, these three states have a combined population of 10 million, but now they have become an enclave of the Yuan court, and they are beyond the reach of the whip.

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At this time, although the snow has melted, it is still cold and windy, and it seems that the breath of spring cannot be seen.

It was not until early February that Dadu learned of the defeat in the decisive battle in the south.

The king of Yunnan was captured!

Yuxi Timur and Lu Wenhuan died in battle!

Tian Jinxian was defeated!

Yang Hanming rebelled!

Tieshan killed himself, and Li Luo captured Sichuan!

Dali is restored!

Except for Myanmar, Jiaozhou, and Xiangzhou, Dayuan has no more land in the south!

This piece of news, every piece of news is extraordinary, but it almost came to the capital at the same time period, like a thunderstorm, and the officials of the Yuan Court opened their skin.

It is said that when the Great Khan received the news of the defeat in the south, he locked himself up in Eagle Fang for a full day, and the next day he went to dismount and fly to hunt.

Most of the officials speculated about the Khan's reaction, and they were all uneasy. Even the prince Zhenjin has become gloomy, not at all as easy-going and amiable as before.

It was not until the third day that Kublai Khan returned from the hunting grounds. The old man had hunted two tigers, and his face did not look ugly.

"Knock knock—"

The bell announcing the dynasty rang, and the officials in Beijing entered the Da Nei one by one with solemn expressions, and entered the majestic Daming Palace.

"Great Khan (Holy Lord) Hail Blessings! Hooray, hooray, hooray! ”

Hundreds of courtiers bowed down together, only to feel that the ground today was extremely cold.

"It's all flat." The Emperor's deep and slow voice came, and there was no joy or anger either.

"Xie Da Khan!" The hundred officials got up together, and only then did they have the opportunity to quietly look at the man on the throne.

Kublai Khan wore a white tiger skin coat and a white fox fur pottery hat, which was very different from before.

What he is wearing today is not the emperor's court clothes and crowns, but the clothes of the early Great Mongolia, which looks very simple and wild.

This outfit made the elegance cultivated because of the influence of sinicization in the early years, and the graceful atmosphere cultivated by dominating the world for many years, immediately dissipated.

At this time, Kublai Khan was neither like the pampered Great Yuan Emperor, nor like the proud and majestic Xue Chan Khan, but like a leader who was weathering the wind and rain on the grassland and was leading his tribes to fight in all directions.

This was Temujin's attire back then, and it looked plain and rugged.

"The news from the south, like the white-haired wind on the grassland, has blown to the capital, and made my courtiers feel cold?" Kublai Khan said with a smile, he gently stroked his braids, and his voice was like a river of vicissitudes.

"If you feel cold because of this, then it will be white-haired, if not white-haired."

Kublai Khan stood up, "There was a hunter who had nothing, and who, because of his bravery and tenacity, hit a few sheep. The hunter is happy that I finally have a few sheep. ”

"But one day he lost a sheep, will he be depressed and pull at his hair and wail in pain?"

"Although he lost a sheep, as long as he still has the ability to hunt, he can hunt another sheep. Even if you can't beat it, it's more than if you had nothing at all. ”

"The most important thing is that just because you lose a sheep, you can't lose courage and hard work. That's what I say to you. ”

After hearing this, the hundred officials bowed down again, and said unevenly: "The words of the Great Khan, the minions are ashamed, and the minions know." ”

ps: Something bad happened today, and I almost couldn't update, so that's it, let's not talk about it first, crab everyone, good night. I beg your pardon and I'm sorry everyone! There's something else to do at night.

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