Chapter 1717: The Rising Bourgeoisie

Han Yi's Northwest Plan, the policy is actually just a few sentences, but it contains a lot of economic and political theories that are ahead of the times, and it is basically impossible for today's people to understand this theory thoroughly.

Therefore, Pei Xingjian didn't understand it very well, but he felt very surprised, he didn't expect that this 10,000 army came like this, how could this usually cunning and stingy businessman be so generous to come up with so much money to support them, it was incredible.

But if you don't understand, you don't understand, Pei Xingjian saw that an idle official could borrow so many troops, which means that his trick is feasible.

And Pei Xingjian has no better way at present, so he followed Laiji's words, no longer asked for help from various state capitals, but turned his attention to merchants, he began to talk to the merchants of the Dadu Protectorate, and also sent many people to lobby the merchants in various places, so that they could contribute money to support the Dadu Protectorate.

Soon got a response, the first to respond to Pei Xingjian was the Sogdian Hu people-based Hu merchants, that is, Wu Kelie them, they are the richest businessmen in the northwest, because they were born to be traders, they used to do this, there are businessmen's genes in their bones, they are also the first to support Han Yi, you must know that the northwest region can never suppress business, they do not have the humble mentality of the Central Plains merchants, so they think the most clearly, basically did not hesitate, took out a large amount of money and grain to support Pei Xingjian, and herds of cattle and sheep rushed to the Duhu Mansion.

You must know that this Tibet not only attacked from one side, but also incited many old Turkic nobles, who were very nostalgic for the Turkic dynasty in the past, they did not want to be ruled by the Tang Dynasty, and they wanted to return to the golden age of Jieli.

Tibet is a slave society, their soldiers are all slaves, and their generals are all slave owners.

Therefore, no matter who rules the northwest on either side of them, Han Yi's northwest plan will be wiped out, and it is impossible to coexist, because what businessmen pursue is capital, freedom, and equality, which is completely impossible under their rule. The Tang Dynasty was only because the whip was out of reach, and it was not rare for them to have a little money, as long as they didn't make trouble, so they were given a lot of freedom, but when it comes to freedom, this is far less free than the restraint policy, but the restraint policy is the freedom of the aristocracy, and Han Yi's northwest plan is the freedom of the people.

What's even worse is that Tubo is all poor, they have to rob something here, businessmen are the richest, and now the government has no money, so it must be a businessman.

If this money is not needed now, it will be prepared for them in the future.

Originally, this was a war provoked by Lu Dongzan in order to expand his territory, but in essence, it was a war between two countries, and they both wanted to weaken each other's power, which was actually the fundamental reason, a game between countries.

But as soon as Pei Xingjian publicized it, the situation was different.

It turned into a struggle between the bourgeoisie and the slave owners and the aristocracy.

With the Sogdian Hu people taking the lead, a large number of merchants began to contribute money, strength, and people to support the Dadu Protectorate, and even the Han merchants who came here to do business stopped buying and selling, and donated the goods they brought, and now the war is raging here, everyone is going to war, who still buys their things, or donates them, it is very likely to be robbed, and for them, the northwest is a big market, if this land is gone, who will sell the goods to in the future? If you donate, there is still a favor.

Not only that, but in Gongyue City, Qarluq, and other places where rebellions are concentrated, the people have also begun to have the power to resist, which is naturally supported by the merchants, and there are also merchants in the local area, and the merchants certainly stand with the merchants, and many nobles have become merchants, such as those chiefs, they couldn't agree at first, but they found that their lives were more and more nourishing, and they could buy anything, so they gradually thought that they were merchants, and they also stood on the side of merchants.

Folk words, the people of the northwest were originally very war-weary, and they signed a ranch agreement with Han Yi, that is, to stop the war, and later because of the Northwest Plan, this life is getting better and better, everyone is very satisfied with the current situation, never thought that this Tubo came to start a war again, so the local people also hate these people very much, many people bring their own dry food, take the initiative to participate in the war, since you don't want us to have a good time, then we don't let you be happy, everyone hurt each other.

In this way, the situation in the northwest began to change, because whether it was the nobles or the slave owners, they oppressed people to fight, and the merchants had no right to oppress anyone, they paid people to go, but every common people knew what they were fighting for, fighting for themselves, not for others.

More and more merchants joined in, a steady stream of money and food, and mercenaries came to the front.

Pei Xingjian went from 10,000 to 20,000, then to 30,000, and finally he had 70,000 troops in his hands, not counting the mercenaries who organized their own battles against the rebels.

These nomads, born warriors, some merchants don't trust Pei Xingjian's ability very much, so they simply lead their troops to fight by themselves, because they have experience in fighting before.

As for logistics, Pei Xingjian himself doesn't know how much grain and grass there is, anyway, someone sends grain and grass here every day, and it is all impermanent donations.

Pei Xingjian seemed to have returned to heaven from hell, he really didn't expect that Laiji's plan would be so powerful, he only felt that he was in a dream, but even if he was dreaming, he wanted to defeat Tubo in his dream, so he began to counterattack, and now he has so many troops in his hands, and he is still defending a yarn.

At this time, the Tubo army began to be a little unable to support it, not that Pei Xingjian played any tricks, but now the strength of the Tang army is stronger than them. Zan Xiruo hurriedly asked for help from home, and now his army of 50,000 is now a little less.

What Pei Xingjian didn't expect was that the situation in the northwest also affected Tuyuhun.

Liangzhou was an important transit point, and merchants here soon learned of the news from the northwest, which reminded them that if Tuyuhun was occupied by Tuyuhun, Liangzhou would also be in danger, and that many merchants had invested in Tuyuhun.

It happened that Zhao Zhiman sent people to ask for food.

The merchants of Liangzhou were infected by the merchants of the northwest, and they also began to take the initiative to donate grain.

This Liangzhou Northwest Trade Warehouse Concentration Station, the transit station, there are too many materials here, so a large number of materials began to pour into Tuyuhun, supporting Wang Fangyi and them, beating him.

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Now the west is full of flames, and the war has just begun, but the battlefield in the east has entered the final stage with Yuangai Suwen being killed by Dugu Wuyue.

After Dugu Wuyue transported Yuangai Suwen's body back to Pyongyang, Han Yi immediately showed Yuangai Suwen's body to the public, he mainly wanted to tell the people who were opposing Yuangai Suwen, do your best to oppose it, Yuangai Suwen is really dead, you see, the corpses are here, you don't need to worry about Yuangai Suwen will retaliate against you again.

Sure enough, when those people saw Yuangai Suwen's body, the rehabilitation movement immediately expanded to the surrounding cities, and Han Yi also took the opportunity to expand the scale of the rehabilitation bureau, and transferred all the people who had been persecuted by Yuangai Suwen to the rehabilitation bureau, which was going to be vigorous.

On a hill north of Pyongyang, hundreds of people with hoes were digging for something, and from a distance they looked like ants.

At the foot of the hill were several wagons parked, loaded not with food or weapons, but with wagons of white bones.

It turned out that this hill was a mass grave, which was specially used to throw the corpses of Sui people. In the southeast of this hill, there was originally a village, in fact, it was a concentration camp, when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo three times, many Sui Dynasty soldiers were captured by Goguryeo, Goguryeo treated these people as slaves, specializing in splitting mountains and opening roads, and threw them here when they died, which is very miserable, which is why when the Tang army attacked Goguryeo, they also slaughtered a lot of people, because in the eyes of the Tang people, they inherited the Sui Dynasty, and the two dynasties are in the same line, and this period of hatred should naturally be inherited.

"Xiao Wuyue finally got her wish."

Yuan Vultures looked at the hill from afar, nodded with a smile.

The greatest wish of Dugu Wuyue's life is to send the Zhongyuan brother who was captured by Goguryeo in the Sui Dynasty back to his hometown, even if it is a pile of white bones. This is because at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there were many stories circulating in Guanzhong, telling that some people from the Central Plains saw many Sui Dynasty captives looking at the Central Plains from afar and crying silently when they passed through Pyongyang, and there were many Sui Dynasty captives who looked at them and cried when they saw the Central Plains people passing by here.

And Dugu Wuyue is actually a bit nationalistic, when he was in Guanzhong, he never bullied the weak, and cherished the glory of Dugu's family very much, plus he has a prosperous beauty, and the people of Guanzhong also like him very much. But for outsiders, he is very ruthless, not to mention that he annihilated tens of thousands of Japanese troops, the plan to burn Pyongyang was proposed by him, but he originally planned to burn all the people in the city to death, not to scare them, but his technology was limited, so he did not succeed.

This nationalism prompted him to do so.

Therefore, as soon as he came to Pyongyang, he searched everywhere to find the place where the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty were buried, and the people who are now working on the hill also have relatives who have died here.

Han Yi sighed with emotion: "I hope this hatred can end here." ”

Yuan Vulture laughed a few times when he heard this.

Han Yi said: "What are you laughing at?" ”

Yuan Vulture: "Do you think that the Goguryeo people killed them?" ”

Han Yi was surprised: "Otherwise, who do you think killed them?" ”

Yuan Vultures blinked and said, "Goguryeo." ”

Han Yi couldn't help but smile.

At this moment, Li Jingye suddenly ran over, panting slightly: "Vice president, those businessmen have arrived." ”

Han Yi scolded with a smile: "This group of bastards is finally here. ”