Zhao Yu knew very well that after the establishment of a new dynasty, when the war was basically over, it would often implement the policy of Huai Rou, so as to help restore social order and allow the people to recuperate, so as to alleviate the contradictions between the two ethnic groups and achieve the goal of rule. As early as the beginning of the southern expedition, Kublai Khan adopted the policy of using Hanchen to reduce killings, one to reduce resistance, and the other to preserve the wealth of Jiangnan. Now, after the basic pacification of Jiangnan, it has successively issued edicts announcing the reduction and exemption of taxes in Jiangnan, the pardon of criminals, the distribution of land to the people, and other policies to benefit the people.

Kublai Khan's motivation for doing this may not have been to achieve a harmonious society, but to maintain his rule, but it did benefit the people. In the late Song Dynasty, political corruption and tyrannical expropriation caused the people to suffer, and his implementation of good governance made people feel that the new dynasty was stronger than the old people, so he gradually gave up the idea of restoring the country and was willing to be a submissive citizen of a foreign race.

In this way, Kublai Khan's goal was achieved, but Zhao Yu was not happy, these people listened to him, and they would definitely oppose him in the future, and even obey his orders to attack him. And the situation in front of me is that it is difficult to protect myself, and I have beaten others if I want to, and I am still at risk of a fire in my backyard. Do you want to be at a time when there is no concept of a country, the family is now divided into houses and land, and there is no need to pay taxes for a few years, who wants to eat the last meal without the next meal, and the head will be tied to the belt of the trouser belt to follow you to the country, let alone go to this barren overseas place to suffer and suffer.

Even if you give yourself an aircraft carrier now, you have to have someone to open it, you can't be the emperor yourself behind closed doors! So Zhao Yu was ruthless, I can't fucking beat you, and I have to get tired of crooked you, so the action codenamed 'Skua Gull' began. He just wants to spread a series of rumors to make people believe that Kublai Khan introduced good governance, and the weasel did not have a good heart to pay New Year's greetings, and secretly held back the bad! If you don't believe it, just look at the fierce news that Lao Tzu broke out......

In general, God takes care of it, Zhao Hao's luck is not bad. Now is the chaotic era when the order collapsed at the turn of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and it is the era when rumors can be rampant, unrestrained, and popular. If it is a period of political communication and harmony, you go to spread these rumors, not to mention that the people don't believe it, you don't believe it yourself, and if you can't get it, you will be sent to the government to receive a reward as soon as you say it.

The Song-Mongol War has lasted for more than 30 years, and countless people have died, and the enmity between the two ethnic groups can be described as deep as the sea. Now that the old country has just been destroyed, it is precisely when people do not know what the new dynasty will do with their old people, and they are most helpless, and the slightest wind and grass will make these extremely fragile people have an overreaction. Just like after a major earthquake, the slightest shaking will cause panic among those who have just escaped death, even if they know that it may be fake, they will flee to an open place under the domination of the mind that they would rather believe that they have something or not.

And at this sensitive juncture, Zhao Yu asked the spies of the Secretariat to tell these 'stories' to everyone. Of course, each different story is specific to a specific region, in the occupied areas it is mainly about demon monks abducting young children, in areas where the Yuan Dynasty has not yet penetrated its power, it is focused on killing people with ten surnames, and in the areas that have just been conquered, the golden juice cannon is the most popular. The people who told it were serious, and the people who listened were afraid, and these stories spread like a plague all over the south of the Yangtze River.

Whether modern or ancient, Chinese or foreign, each government will control public opinion, and local governments also have the responsibility to monitor public opinion. However, the speed at which the government refuted rumors is far from keeping up with the speed at which rumors spread, and it is not possible to extinguish the rumors that have spread like a wildfire and to dispel the panic of the people cannot be solved by one or two sentences of righteous words and a few proclamations, not to mention that the credibility of the new government has not yet been established.

Under the shroud of terror, the people have become nervous, and when they see the wandering monk, they will hurriedly call the child to their side and hug it tightly, and the ignorant monk tried to bless the child when he was killed on the spot. As a result, the monks who roam the streets and alleys on weekdays, and no one dares to provoke them, often die inexplicably, and the temples they preside over become an outlet for people to vent their fears, which are destroyed by angry people, and the human bones hidden in them become evidence of killing young children. Everyone knows that the Yellow Sect is regarded as the state religion by the Tartars, and they are inevitably labeled as representing the country, which indirectly proves that rumors are not rumors.

In other areas, conflicts over the conquest of people have continued. From the initial passive refusal to enlist, it developed into beating and killing officials who went to the countryside to forcibly recruit, and finally evolved into open confrontation; At the same time, the flight of big surnames in various places has become more and more intense, and the local officials have the responsibility of consolidating the territory and reassuring the people, but they are powerless in the face of the wave of flights. In the past, there was a city, but it was not easy to get out once the gate was closed, but now the city walls have been torn down, and people have pulled their feet and gone outside the city. And the big surnames with many people simply formed a village to protect themselves and openly confronted the government.

The news of the turmoil in Jiangnan soon spread to Dadu, and Kublai Khan learned that the monks he sent to preach had been killed, the temples had been destroyed, and the people had fled on a large scale. However, there were sober ministers in the court, who thought that the counterinsurgency war in the north was still going on, and it was impossible to draw troops on a large scale, while the remnants of the Song dynasty on the southern coast were still in turmoil, and if a large-scale massacre was to cause large-scale unrest, it would threaten the rule in Jiangnan.

Now that they know that the turmoil originated from rumors, the top priority is to catch the makers and disseminators to find out the truth, and the biggest beneficiary of this matter ******as they see it is the so-called Shuai Fu under the leadership of the so-called King Wei, and the matter must be inseparable from it. At the same time, the monks were temporarily forbidden to enter the south of the Yangtze River and the requisition of civil husbands was stopped, so as to alleviate the contradictions between the two sides. In addition, troops were sent to intercept the fleeing civilians and suppress the rioters who were openly confronting, so as to quickly quell the chaos. After the counterinsurgency in the north was completed, troops were quickly dispatched south to cooperate with the local garrison to clear the remnants of the former dynasty, so that Jiangnan could be pacified.

Kublai Khan took these suggestions, but he also remembered that there was also a Wei Wang among the remnants of the Zhao clan. Although these policies are a little mild, where to find the initiators, they either return to Qiongzhou, or go away, so Jiangnan is still inevitably a bloody rain. The brutal repression made the people of Jiangnan believe that the rumors were true, otherwise why would they be so scared and resentful of the Tartars. The new policies implemented by the Yuan court in Jiangnan had to be terminated, and those good policies were also lost, and they did not buy the hearts of the people as they wished...... (To be continued.) )