Chapter 371: The Power of Public Opinion
At present, the situation south of the Han River can be said to be in place, and only the east wind is owed.
And this east wind, naturally only Li Shimin, if you can't fight Goguryeo, no matter how good the situation south of the Han River is, no matter how perfect it is, after all, it will be an enclave, which can be called a mirror.
In the past month or so, Anshi City has been beaten to the brink, this place has no natural geographical advantages, and the city defense is only an ordinary level, which is not much more difficult for the brave Tang Army than to fight a small hill.
And Xincheng, although it was suppressed under the siege of Xue Wanche, the fighting faith of the soldiers inside was still there, and Xue Wanche had nothing to do for a while.
However, for Xue Wanche, he never thought that he had to capture this military city, since the current supply line of Datang is quite stable, then slowly consume, a small new city, there will always be a day when the food will run out, I heard that the new city is already full of rats now, so he is quite calm. There is food in the city of Anshi.
For Li Shimin, he is actually only a few small cities left, relying on the Qianshan Mountains to support each other, which can be regarded as the last line of defense stuck in front of Li Shimin's Yalu River.
Originally, those small cities were attacked for two months, and then it was time to prepare for the battle of the Yalu River, but I don't know who said that the Yalu River is really easy to defend and difficult to attack by taking advantage of the danger of Changbai Mountain, so there is no need to rush for a while, it is better to wait for the time being, and wait for Niu Jinda to completely make a profit, and then attack from the north and south lines at the same time, which can naturally get twice the result with half the effort.
On the contrary, there is some political construction work, which can be done now.
First of all, ideological and cultural assimilation, at least to prevent the local forces of Goguryeo from fighting guerrilla warfare and the like, at least so that they do not spend too much time in the occupied areas, and even the Sino-Japanese war a thousand years later has created a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.
This is not a problem at all for the Fengyan Yamen, who has been through a hundred battles and has been trained by Qin Hao.
Where is this place? The old county of the Han Dynasty! Coupled with the constant wars, wars, and wars between the North and the South for 400 years, there are many, many Han people who have taken refuge in this land to live, and the Han people occupy about 40% of the scale of the entire land.
As a result, a natural propaganda strategy was formed, and countless storytellers and singers were all promoting the theory of national origin, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty no longer said anything about revenge, but according to the order, they opened their mouths and closed their mouths to rescue their national compatriots.
At the same time, these soldiers even paid more attention to robbery, and when they met the same Han compatriots, they generally didn't take anything except grab a little general coupon, while the Buyeo people and other races naturally went to the end, and even met some Han people who could speak Chinese, not only did not rob them, but also gave a few more steamed buns and a few pieces of cloth and the like.
Of course, it can't be said that this is good, and it has nothing to do with the word benevolence, but as the saying goes, people are creatures that are easy to compare, and the village of Fuyu people next door has even robbed the batter of the pot at home, but they only lost some general coupons that are about the same as waste paper temporarily.
This sense of superiority came up all of a sudden, and there was even a faint sense of superiority.
In the same way, the Buyeo people and other ethnic minorities are no longer working, why do we have to go hungry when you have food to eat, why do you have to die if you can live? What do you eat is the grain of Datang, what do you eat is our food!
As a result, the native Han people, even if they can't speak a word of Chinese, have suddenly become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of other ethnic groups.
What's more, the people of these years, who can live is not to do their best, for those who will starve to death tomorrow, a life may not be more valuable than a piece of bread.
So, the Tang army robbed the rest of the people, and the rest of the people robbed the local Han people, and the local Han people were not cowards, you must know that they actually didn't have much food, so the local Han people would take up arms to resist, and the hatred between them became more and more fierce.
This is also the basic idea of Qin Hao's strategy, those who know the history of World War I and World War II know that it takes at least a few decades or even hundreds of years for two nations to move from antagonism to harmony or even to a family, and from being like a family to becoming mortal enemies, it is enough for three months at most.
Among them, the Fengyan Yamen naturally also played a role in adding fuel to the fire.
In all the towns that have been beaten down and garrisoned by the Tang army, the Han people are faintly superior, and although the Buyeyu people have not been mixed into slaves, they are still bullied quite miserably in their daily lives.
And those villages where the Tang army whip is beyond the reach of the 。。。。。
Hehe, it's already a sea of blood.
In all the villages where the Buyeo people gathered in large numbers, these people united and killed almost all the Han people of the minority faction, and the Buyeo people almost died in those villages where the Han people were the majority.
What's even more unfortunate is that in those areas where the Buyeo people and the Han people have about the same power, the two forces are like the two armies, and no one has made any good gains.
And to do all this, Ma Zhou only took more than 20 days, and he only needed to instill the national outlook in Datang's own soldiers first, and the rest of the things were actually taken as a matter of course.
All of them were exactly the same as Qin Hao expected.
Then next, you can move on to the second step.
Now comes the next step.
The Tang Dynasty forces focused on protecting the Han influence gathering areas, sweeping the Buyeo influence circle, reducing or exempting the taxes of the Han people in the next few years, selecting the elders who were literate and hyphenated, and who were expected to speak Chinese, and the grassroots officials in the Liaodong region assisted the Tang Dynasty in managing the people's livelihood.
Hundreds of years ago, didn't they make it up as they wanted?
No one knows the specific situation back then, anyway, in the mouth of Mr. Storyteller, it was the old miserable old man who was bullied by every Han person who came here to hide from life, coupled with the increasingly fierce ethnic contradictions on the Liaodong Peninsula in front of him, those Han men were all indignant one by one.
After that, he asked the village chief to organize a 'grievance meeting' invented by Qin Hou every day. The main content is to talk about how the Buyeo people have bullied the big guys over the years, how angry the big guys have been under the Goguryeo court, and so on.
As long as there is a link where no one has to speak, and a good applause is set up, and at the end, the people from the Fengyan Yamen will lead the shouting of two impassioned slogans, well, these Han people are now more radical than the Tang people.