Chapter 171: Difficult to Peace
The change of officials lost the hearts of the people, the granting of land lost the hearts of the people, and the salt law did not lose the hearts of the people.
After a hundred years of struggle, a considerable number of upper-class Han people have entered the ruling group of the Liao Dynasty, and their families have also laid the foundation and prospered, so they naturally do not want the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty to destroy this hard-won achievement. Therefore, the Song tore up the peace treaty and joined forces with the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao, destroying the political achievements of the Youyun Han people, which already made them resentful of the Song Dynasty, and the change of officials also aroused their resistance.
When the Song and Liao went to war, the Song court thought that the Han ministers of the Liao Dynasty would be as obedient as Song Taizong did during the Northern Expedition, so he proudly ordered that "no northerners shall be killed without permission", but the result was very unexpected, like the Han people with official positions, the lower class people in the Youyun area were not inclined to the Song Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty issued an edict and repeated appeals, only one of the Han people in Zhuozhou, Liu Zongji, who served as a soldier in the Liao Dynasty, was willing to open the door to offer his door, and there were few other responders, in stark contrast to the popular scene during Taizong's Northern Expedition. truly
Later, when the Northern Liao regime was on the verge of collapse, many Youyun Han people fled south into the Song Dynasty, but mainly to avoid the killing and plundering of the Jin army, which was more barbaric than the Song army, and by no means to the Central Plains. It can also be seen from the situation of those who defected to the Song Dynasty or attempted to defect to the Song Dynasty that the motive of these southward relocation officials was never because of the sense of national identity and the desire to return to the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty, but on the contrary, they were purely motivated by their own interests, and once the situation changed, they would immediately switch to others.
The result of the change of officials in the interior of the Great Song Dynasty was a great loss of popular support among the upper-class Han people, "at the beginning of the court from Yanshan, from the court of Yanshan, and from the Taiyuan of Yanshan." Those who taste as captives will be made up for them. From the judgment of all the states, they all add to the difference." In addition, the old Liao officials who were ordered to go south when the official change was changed, and the yamen everywhere was overcrowded for a while. People are superfluous, everyone is wary of each other, and they are all busy playing with their hearts, making political affairs wasted.
The so-called "granting of fields" that made the Song court infamous was to deal with the Jurchens' victorious army begging for Guo Yaoshi, and the Great Song Junchen came up with a bad move. They gave all the family property, house property, and land of the Han people in Yanjing to Chang Shengjun, and let them support themselves. Then the Xuanfu Division returned to the dynasty with the victorious army first, and was awarded meritorious service. It's hard to send 'in the name of 'to gag the mouths of the Jurchens.
After receiving the reply from the Song Dynasty, the Jurchens were not ambiguous, and immediately "included more than 30,000 households in the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Yanshan Prefecture, and all of them were launched, and the situation was unbearable." The people of the two states of Duzhuo Yi are safe and prosperous, and the good ones will return to the Great Song Dynasty first", "The great destruction of the states and the walls of Yanshan City, the key points are all peaceful. It also includes Yanshan gold, silver, money, and monasteries, all of which are swept away", "Yancheng officials, households, technical skills, concubines, prostitutes, yellow crowns, Qu Tan, gold silks, children, etc. swept east. "Put the Yanjing Hao craftsman. All migrated to the interior by Songting.
Those Han Chinese who escaped from the Jurchens became proletarians, unable to return to their homes, let alone live and work in peace and contentment. The Jurchens took the opportunity to publicize. It is not our intention to let you move north, but the court of your Han people has given your mansions to the Chang Shengjun. We are kind enough to take you in, and we have pulled all the hearts of the Yanjing Han people to our side. Can they not hate the Great Song?
The "salt law" refers to the economic failures of the Song Dynasty. While the government inflated the price of salt, there was also the speculative business of the Song people who disrupted the economy, and some of them arrived empty-handed, and when they left, they were already full of money. The plundering of the Jurchens has made the people of Yanjing miserable, and the ruthless looting of the Great Song Dynasty is even more chilling, and the feeling in my heart may have turned into a cloud for nine days...
Withstanding the cold wind and braving the wind and sand, Zhao Tan walked from Fengzhou to Daizhou, and there was no place along the way that did not accept Yanjing immigrants, more than 1,800 people, less than hundreds of people, he wondered why these people were not uniformly resettled in the interior, but placed in several states along the border. The border areas along the Hedong are not very wealthy, and there are a large number of forbidden troops stationed there, and they have to rely on the interior to transfer grain for food.
"Zhang An's envoy, do you consider moving the immigrants inward, and choose a vast and sparsely populated place to build a fortress and set up a fort for unified resettlement?" Zhao Ta met Zhang Xiaochun, the prefect of Taiyuan in charge of the resettlement of migrants in Hedong, and Nie Shan was transferred back to Kaifeng as the mayor.
"Lord Wang, it's not that the lower officials are unwilling, but that the court has a decree that it is not allowed to move to the interior for resettlement, but to divide the state into the near border, and not to go far!" Zhang Xiaochun said and handed an edict issued by the court to the prince. These days, the prince has been busy with side affairs, and the time in Taiyuan is very short, and the two have not had much contact, but it does not prevent Zhang Xiaochun from understanding the prince, and he still deeply admires the prince's contribution to the stability of Hedong.
"Hedong Road transports and supports the returned people, and there are thousands of people in one state, deeply considering that there are too many people, there is little money and food, and the support is insufficient, so that the road can be made to appease the transfer officials of the division of the district, and see the people of the state from the long measures, measure the size of the state army, the place where they are proficient, and the number of people who can be parked and taken care of, and go to the place where they can be parked. Be provided for sufficiently, that is, not be in a state, nor be sent away. Zhao Ta finished reading, and only smiled bitterly.
It can be seen that the court wants to help these Han people, but also does not dare to trust them as much as it does for the real people, for fear that they will "go away" to learn about the reality within the Song Dynasty, and the mountains and rivers are dangerous and easy, and the states and counties are both virtual and real, so they are guarded against thieves.
"Lord Wang, the lower officials are just following the edict, and they also have to suffer!" Zhang Xiaochun also saw the prince's dissatisfaction with himself and said, "At this moment, the Yisheng army is stationed in Daizhou, and it needs a lot of food and salary every month, but most of its soldiers are Youyanfan people, unruly and untamable, and there are many conflicts with the local garrison!" ”
"Hmm!" Zhao Ta nodded and said that he knew that the Great Song Dynasty actually did its own thing to move stones and shoot itself in the foot, this righteous victory army is also notorious in history, one of the main supporting roles of the gravediggers of the Great Song Dynasty...
In order to keep Guo Yaoshi, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty played a game with the Dajin Kingdom, thinking that if the Yan people were returned to Jin instead of the Changsheng army, not only could the Changsheng army be retained, but also the land and land of the Yan people were used to support the Changsheng army, and the state did not need to pay for food, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. The Great Song Dynasty of the Changsheng Army focused on training, and the imperial court tried to supply all the weapons, armor, canes, and horses that Guo Yaoshi wanted.
But during the period when Guo Yaoshi served in Tongzhi Yanshan Mansion, he relied on the grace of Huizong, did whatever he wanted, and flew high, and the prefect Wang Anzhong "couldn't make it, and the first song was intended to be followed". He sent his subordinates to the states of the Song Dynasty to do business and earn money, and he also gathered the craftsmen of the Liao State to make all kinds of rare things to make friends with the powerful.
The Changsheng army swelled rapidly, from 8,900 to 50,000 when it returned to the Song Dynasty, and the township soldiers were claimed to be 300,000. However, Guo Yaoshi and his subordinates did not change the "left guard", that is, they still wore Liao clothes, not Song clothes, and they were arrogant and unrestrained, and they were compared with An Lushan at that time.
Tan Zhi took over from Tong Guan Xuanfu Yanjing Mansion, and immediately discovered the abnormal phenomenon of Chang Shengjun. He was worried that Guo Yaoshi would have problems in the future, so in order to contain and supervise the Changsheng army, Tan Zhi asked the imperial court to create an army in Hedong, with 50,000 as the rate, stationed at the key roads of the prefecture and county, called the righteous victory army. The monarchs and ministers were afraid of the army rebellion, and they liked to do A to spy on B, B to monitor C, and then use C to monitor A's work, so that they could elbow each other, and no one would be comfortable to stabilize the army.
So with the former first general of Hedong, Li Siben, as the commander, and Geng Shouzhong, who rebelled against Liao and surrendered to Jin, rebelled against Jin and then surrendered to Liao, and then rebelled against Liao and then to Song, as the deputy commander to form the Yisheng Army. In order to contain the two of them, they selected young and strong people from the Youyun Han people who returned to the dynasty, and established a pure Han army, giving them special treatment of 'monthly food and clothing, twice as much as other armies'...
"Lord Wang, these men behind the mountain are really brave and available, but there are about 100,000 people in Hedong, all of whom rely on the official to support them with money and rice, but for a long time, the warehouses of each mansion are empty, and they still obey them. Now the provinces are also resentful of them because they have no rice to send; And the grain that our army asked for was all moldy and stale grain, and there were many complaints, and when they met the road of the righteous victory army, they were insulted to their faces and intimidated with words. In the long run, there will be trouble, and the prince needs to deal with it as soon as possible! Zhang Xiaochun saw that the prince was silent, and reminded him.
"Zhang Xuanfu envoy, the matter of the Yisheng Army will be solved by this king, and the Youyan immigrants can follow the example of the resettlement of the southeastern refugees and choose the land that can be reclaimed along the border to build forts and resettle, give money, grain and livestock, remember not to lose justice, only to guide, not to rush to relocate, causing civil unrest!" Zhao said.
"Lord Wang, there are quite a few people moving south, which requires a lot of money and grain, and the provinces have no money and grain to adjust!" Zhang Xiaochun frowned and said, I kept complaining in my heart that you two are not at home and don't know the price of firewood and rice, and it will be over as soon as the upper lip touches the lower lip, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice!
"Alas, transfer grain from Taiyuan and pay salt tax to resettle immigrants!" Zhao Ta sighed and said, he had finally made some surplus money in Hedong in the past two years, and was ready to deal with the Jurchens going south for emergencies, but now his father had beaten the local tyrants, and now he can only hope that this year will be smooth and there will be a good harvest to plug this hole.
"Lord Wang, the grain that has been transferred and closed to help the Tibetan people, once there is a famine, there will be no grain relief in Hedong, won't it lose the hearts of the people of the Great Song Dynasty!" Zhang Xiaochun thought for a while and said.
"Zhang An's envoy, aren't the people of Youyan the descendants of my Han Dynasty and the people of the Great Song Dynasty? With the same ancestor and the same origin, how can there be a distinction between the Fan and the Han, and this is the case from the bottom to the next, how can it not be chaotic! Zhao Ta listened to the fire and jumped up, and said... (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )