Chapter 155: Settling accounts after the autumn is not as good as national integration
The fall of Western Xia shocked the whole of East Asia. The empire that had once stood with two great empires was gone. When the Western Xia was founded, its territory was in present-day Ningxia, northwestern Gansu, northeastern Qinghai, Inner Mongolia and northern Shaanxi. The Yellow River in the east, Yumen in the west, Xiaoguan (now Tongxinnan, Ningxia) in the south, and the desert in the north, covering an area of more than 20,000 miles. The Western Xia, which once had the same status as the Liao and Song dynasties, made a great contribution to the economic development of a large area from the entire Loess Plateau to Dunhuang, but it still made a little contribution. The various economies in the territory have developed to a greater or lesser extent. It is not clear whether it is because of the peace dividend, the policy dividend, the institutional dividend or the demographic dividend.
The ecological environment of the Xixia region is fragile, with the exception of the two plains in the Yellow River Basin, which are basically grasslands and deserts with very low productivity. Eighty per cent of the area dominates the economy by relying on nomadic pastoralism for food, and there is still some distance from animal husbandry raised by fodder and artificial pasture. This fragile and primitive economic structure was very conducive to the economic binding of the Great Song Dynasty, which was almost in the process of industrialization. The more unitary the economic structure, the weaker its ability to resist risks. This is exactly the same as the diversity and anti-risk ability of the ecological environment.
As long as the caravans under the command of the crossing can supply all kinds of daily necessities necessary for the grassland at a reasonable price. Purchase the livestock products it produces at a fair price. The vast majority of the people of Western Xia would have been as obedient as the Tibetans in Qinghai. Taxes are three times heavier than those of ordinary naturalized party members who continue to retain the habits and hairstyles of party members, and there are no subsidies and benefits for naturalized people, such as education, medical care, housing, migration, entrepreneurship, etc.
The stick of economic means is on the carrot together, and there is no nomad who can resist. In order to rule the territory of Western Xia for stability, in addition to military deterrence, economic bondage was also necessary.
When it comes to gentle methods and buying people's hearts, no one can compare to the wealthy and far-sighted traversers. As long as China's tradition of 'only punishing the evil and not coercing and obeying' is in place, it will be able to silence all the officials and scholars of the Great Song Dynasty and other people who have the right to speak, and it can also appease the hearts of the people of the Western Xia, so as not to cause panic and resistance among the party members. Most of the confiscated property of the royalists and wall-riding factions was divided up through internal auctions, and the money raised was basically used to pay for the costs of the war and to compensate the exiles and their descendants who were ruined by the Xia army when the Great Song Dynasty was invaded.
On the surface, it seems that there is no benefit, but the key is that the benefits that the traversers have gained from this summer war are numerous. The cost of smuggling alone can be ten times more than the previous large-scale transportation of goods to various parts of Western Xia, which has skyrocketed the profits of the region's famous industries. For example, they have opened up mines on arbitrary land, issued bonds for the construction of artesian irrigation and water conservancy projects in the two plains, built shares of agricultural reclamation companies, opened a large number of cotton and wool textile factories and plantations, and opened up toll checkpoints on arterial roads from Hetao directly to New Mongolian City.
Dealing with the legacy of the Xia magnates and reconstructing the political map of the region is many times more complicated than the industrial map of the layout planning of the public, which is good at economic construction and the golden finger of technology. As an authority in this field, Bai Jia naturally stood up and drew up a list of these powerful people.
If you perform well in the early stage of standing in the team but are incapable, you will be given a good and bad idle position and the corresponding title.
The performance is not in place, but the capable, after examining the eight generations of ancestors and values, are still placed in the position of technocrats.
The performance is not in place, and they are incapable, so they have to give some money to let them retire early and go home to eat old rice.
As for those who perform well and are capable? Naturally, he wanted to give high-ranking officials the same reuse as Yeli Yirong, and he liked such a handsome man the most.
This practice of executing the first evil, cracking down on the wall-riding faction, and co-opting the majority of low-level officials quickly stabilized the social situation during the power vacuum period in various localities during the period of military control. After the technical officials sent by the Great Song Dynasty to fill the management positions of the Western Xia were in place, they quickly ended the military management. The capture of the royal family basically announced the demise of Western Xia, and the sporadic resistance of other local forces would hardly hinder the powerful Northwest Frontier Army from exercising military control over Western Xia. Originally, a large number of non-party tribes had long been dissatisfied with the arbitrariness and greed of the party members, and after the local extortionist party nobles lost their greatest reliance——— army, they were united by other Qiang people of the same origin and the Tuyuhun, Uighur, Han and other ruled ethnic groups to settle accounts after the autumn. Although many sensible party members took refuge in the Norishi, there were still some royalists and wall-riding factions among the local nobles and military officers. These unlucky guys basically participated in the military activities of the invasion of the Great Song Dynasty after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and after being arrested, they were listed as war criminals, their family property was confiscated, and their families were imprisoned in the mining area of Qilian Mountain as coolies.
The first offenders who committed the most heinous crimes, such as the Empress Dowager Liang and the generals who led the invasion of the Great Song Dynasty, were sentenced to death, and were given a cup of poisoned wine or white silk. War criminals who committed lesser crimes and unlucky people who were politically part of the Nori's enemies were sentenced to hard labour ranging from 1 to 20 years. The unlucky young emperor, the future Xia Chongzong Li Qianshun was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor, although he did not plan to invade the Song Dynasty and do many evils, but the crossing of the public and the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers have no sympathy for him, and the death is considered to be through the benevolence of the people, and Puyi's fate is worthy of his status as a minority emperor.
The sad Empress Dowager Liang still couldn't escape the fate of being poisoned by poisonous wine, although she didn't die at the hands of Liao Daozong, but ending her sinful life a few years ahead of schedule did change the fate of many people. After the Yeli clan completely rectified the party forces in the Western Xia, the Western Xia court successfully dissolved the puppet puppet regime of excessive hostage. This puppet regime, which only existed for half a year, was like the puppet Qi regime supported by the Jin State in later generations. It's just a puppet regime, and it only plays the role of an auxiliary military control. But a lot of things have been done.
The greatest merit is to organize the examination and liquidation of all war criminals and party dignitaries. The most that took refuge in his own magnates was to go bankrupt and pay a large fine of atonement, and those who performed well could continue to serve in the puppet court and receive salaries, and finally became a local official in the former Western Xia annexed to the Great Song Dynasty. If the crime is less serious, the maximum penalty is one year.
The second credit was to organize some of the party, herdsmen, and other ethnic minorities to move inward and disperse to the prefectures and counties in the Great Song Dynasty, and to arrange and organize the migration from the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty to settle down in the two anointed lands of Western Xia (Ningxia and the artesian irrigation plain of the Hetao). This one-in-one-out approach has realized the possibility of eliminating the Western Xia and recovering the country from the ethnic level, and the party members have basically disappeared, all of them have merged into the Han nation, and it is impossible to set off storms again. It can also consolidate the rule of the Western Xia territory and strengthen the influence of the Great Song Dynasty on the Hexi Corridor.
Dealing with cultural and religious issues after dealing with economic and political and ethnic issues involves a grand strategy of national integration. In order to speed up the integration of party members into the new region, education and supporting facilities must keep up. Changing customs and changing the living habits and language of party members is the primary task.
The upper-level party members basically speak a little Chinese.,As the leader, the wild Li clan naturally wants to take refuge in his own party members to actively promote the plan to cross the public.,There are many teachers in the literacy class of the Chinese education that opened the class, and there are many party members who know the current affairs.。 Although the traversers did not learn the advanced experience of 'I Daqing' to keep their hair without leaving their heads, they still learned the advanced experience of the Arabs very quickly.
Just like Lao Xi said, to destroy a nation, you have to start from the school, and the Western Xia doesn't even have an education system, and there are few decent schools, so you have to start from scratch through the crowd. Abolish the cumbersome and difficult to read Tangut square characters, and directly teach all Chinese. All of the students are children of elite families who are not illiterate. As for the illiterate herdsmen's families, they had to wait until the per capita GDP of the Western Xia reached one-tenth of that of the Great Song Dynasty, when basic compulsory education was universalized.
Xixia is a Buddhist country, the whole people believe in Buddhism, but Buddhism here has also lost the original intention of the Buddha, there is almost no great virtue of Buddhism, the host of many temples usury and cruel exploitation of the tenant farmers on the temple land is indeed a good hand, the bald donkey of the Great Xiangguo Temple can only bow down.
How can such a religious environment serve to educate customs and lead the people's spirits to a healthy and positive path? The traversal had no choice but to order all the temple properties of these temples and temples that eat people and do not spit out bones, and all monks and nuns must pass the Dharma theory examination, and only those who pass can continue to hold the degree, and the fake monks who are not familiar with the business must also be engaged in production and self-reliance. Those key influential monasteries also need to bring in foreign aid from Zen monks, partners of the Congregation, to fill the job gaps.
Although the Western Xia was destroyed, it did not cause the surrounding countries to move, 2/5 of its borders were the Great Song Dynasty (including the border between the Tibetans and the Huangtou Uighurs), 2/5 was the Great Liao, which was too busy to take care of itself, and 1/5 was the courageless Gaochang. When the reactionary restorationists who were hiding in the localities saw that the foreign forces they had hoped for interference and did not take any action, they slowly became disheartened and lost to the people. Even if there are a handful of fanatical forbearance elements jumping up and down in the shadows, it will not hurt the overall situation. As long as he dares to jump out, his fellow clansmen who are eager for a happy life will immediately escort him to the yamen to receive the reward.
After a year of the Summer War, everything that needs to be settled is basically settled. Xixia just laughed at it.