Chapter 104: The Beginning
At the end of September, the final defensive works were completed, and Xu Shiyang began to divert the newly collected displaced people.
Before and after, he got a total of about 3,000 people, most of whom were young and strong men and women (it was difficult for the old and weak among the displaced people to survive), Xu Shiyang left 500 men who performed best at work as auxiliaries to supplement the defense system of 153, and the others were all temporarily diverted.
All the displaced people who were separated were only handed over to the dock forts under the second and third rooms, and there was no one in the long house, and the split between the fifteen tun system and the long house system had been faintly formed.
Subsequently, at the internal meeting of the family that Xu Shiyang did not attend, the other dock owners of the Changfang system were strongly dissatisfied with him, and the head of the family, Xu Mujiang, even proposed to confiscate the two dock forts 151 and 152 on the grounds that he expanded the dock fort without the consent of the family.
There was no forfeiture of 153, probably because a tail had to be sacrificed to appease the Tartars' wrath.
However, Xu Muhe, the second room, and Xu Muhai, the third room, both refused to punish Xu Shiyang.
In Xu Muhai's words, the family did not agree to Xu Shiyang's westward expansion, but it did not say that he could not expand.
The two dock forts restored by Xu Shiyang to the west were not the territory of the Xu family in the first place, which actually expanded the Xu family's sphere of influence, and it was a merit to the family.
In addition, Xu Shisong, who is in the long-house system, also made it clear that he opposes the penalty resolution.
Under the lonely palm, the punishment resolution was finally aborted, but in order to appease the anger of the head of the family, the family meeting did not agree with Xu Shiyang to distribute the homeless people according to his own ideas.
To be precise, Xu Shiyang's practice of grabbing thousands of new laborers, but not wanting to distribute them to others at all, did not pass.
The displaced people who Xu Shiyang was diverted to other places were redistributed by the three masters, and the specific distribution method was: the three masters took one-third, the other dock fort owners divided one-third, and the remaining one-third went to Xu Shiyang.
Xu Shiliu quietly informed Xu Shiyang of the decision of the family meeting, and he did not say anything about the relatives' practice of dividing his assets without his consent, but only wrote back to remind Xu Shiliu not to forget the agreement between the two.
Because the constant influx of outcasts brought news from afar - the Tartars are coming.
At the beginning of October, the Jin army of 100,000 arrived in the Yanyun area, and joined the various Han tribes here, with a total strength of 150,000, and then swore to the south.
On the surface, the Jin army declared that the strategic goal of this offensive was to pacify the south of the Yangtze River, completely destroy the Great Zhou, and then unify the world.
Of course, the Jurchens and Yanyun's Han people did not have powerful sailors, and for them, the Yangtze River was an insurmountable natural danger, and unless the Yangtze River sailors of the Great Zhou Dynasty could change their courts, this goal was only to scare and scare the Great Zhou court.
The real purpose of the Jurchens was to sack the Jiangbei region on a large scale, replenish the huge labor shortage, and at the same time force the Great Zhou to increase the number of coins.
Since this is the purpose, the offensive line of the Jin army is very scattered, in order to sweep more areas and loot more things, as soon as they leave the range of Yanyun, the Jurchens are like hornets that have been stabbed, and they are scattered everywhere at once.
Last year, Daikin was robbed by the Tatar Dayuan and suffered heavy losses. By the way, the high-pressure policy in the war triggered a joint uprising of slaves of all ethnic groups within them, and after the Jin soldiers suppressed the uprising, they became fierce and killed hundreds of thousands of people in one go, as a result, more than half of the fields on the Liaozhong Plain were abandoned this year, and the foundation of the entire Jurchen Dajin was seriously weakened.
If it weren't for the fact that Goryeo had taken a breath of relief, the Jurchens wouldn't have even been able to make up the food for this trip south.
Today's Jurchens are hungry like wild wolves in winter, wanting to bite at anything they see, chew it and swallow it. In the past, the fortified dock forts that would be spared as long as a certain amount of tribute was handed over were also fought this year.
The looted population and materials are generally directly sent to the Yanyun generation to assemble (the Han people there are very strong and have many strong castles, which can prevent the Tatars from taking advantage of the main force of the Jurchens to eat in the dark), and wait for the large army to complete the looting, and the whole army will go home together.
The Jurchens spread southward like a tidal wave, sweeping every target that caught their eye along the way, but on average, there were actually one or two Mok in a county.
Only the route to attack the southwest of Qi Province was slightly different.
Before going to war, Dajin Guomeng'an Hailin Bao bribed his master, Su Shi Lie Zhi Ning Bo Lie, and asked him to let him preside over the raid along the way.
After crossing the canal, he did not divide his subordinates and let them plunder everywhere, but took his entire Meng'an 800 people, plus 1,000 Han soldiers who were not equipped to act together along the way, and marched in the direction of Juzhou.
Hai Linbao is now in his fifties, and his body is far from being compared with when he was young, but his personality is becoming more and more violent.
Some of his subordinates complained to him that the army was concentrated, that there were too few targets to attack, and that there was not enough booty, and as a result, he whipped his skin and flesh, and even several Han Chinese Mou Ke who belonged to him were directly killed.
The Han soldiers brought by the deceased were turned into slaves by Hai Linbao and distributed to the Jurchen subordinates, which was supposed to be some compensation.
As a result, when they arrived near Juzhou, the Hailin Protection Department had been reduced from the original 1,800 people to less than 1,500 people, of which 400 true Jurchen soldiers and 400 slave soldiers of various ethnic groups were still intact, but the Han servant army had dropped from 1,000 to about 700, and even the Han Meng'an who followed the action was killed by him.
In addition to these 1,500 soldiers, Hai Linbao also brought about 3,000 people (including hundreds of former Han servant troops) with him, and a mighty army of 4 or 5,000, which looked terrifying.
In late October, the Hailin Protection Department swept several dock forts near Yishui County, and then moved slightly south into Juzhou.
"Ahead is Xu Shiyang's dock fort, right?"
Hai Lin Bao, whose beard and braids were already half white, asked coldly a few old Han men who knelt on the ground in front of him.
"If you go back to your master, you will be there after walking more than ten miles."
A Han man at the head replied tremblingly.
This person's surname is Xu, he is the housekeeper of the first tun of the Xu family, and he has been serving the head of the Xu family for more than 40 years, so he was given the surname Xu.
This time the Jurchens went south, and Xu Mujiang sent him out to contact him again, wanting to find out what price would make Hai Linbao let the Xu family go.
"Then Xu Shiyang is also a member of your Xu family, right?" Hai Lin asked coldly.
"It's ......." Steward Xu hesitated slightly.
An old man surnamed Fan next to him immediately interjected: "The master is right, then Xu Shiyang is the master of the Xu family's dock fort!" He has nothing to do with our Fan family! ”
"Did I ask you?" Hai Lin Bao said without yin or yang: "Who allowed you to speak?" ”
Old man Fan opened his mouth, and the rest of the words were choked back.
"Cut him." Hai Linbao waved his hand, and immediately a strong tartar stepped forward and drew a knife and slashed at Old Man Fan's neck.
The housekeeper of Fanjiawu Fort, who occupied the county seat of Juzhou, didn't even say a word to beg for mercy, so he was killed.
The frightened head rolled down at the feet of Old Man Xu, and the frightened latter burst into tears.