"Go and gather all the people in Anshi outside the Anshi City Lord's Mansion!" Jingwen said.

Soon, tens of thousands of Goguryeo people in Anshi were also called out of their homes, and then they gathered outside the city lord's mansion one after another, and then waited for disposal. In this conquest of Goguryeo's Anshi City, the Tang army's losses were not small, almost a thousand people. And this qiē was caused by these people in Anshi City, who helped many Goguryeo soldiers to resist the Tang army, which is why the Tang army suffered such heavy losses. So now, of course, there is revenge, and there are grievances to complain, so now Jingwen called them.

"We, the Tang Dynasty, came to recover the land, but you helped the Goguryeo people resist? So the sin is unforgivable! Now, I declare your punishment. Anyone who helped hide Goguryeo soldiers during the battle was reduced to a slave of the Tang Dynasty. Half of the land in your hands will be given to the families in Anseong who did not hide the Goguryeo soldiers. And the family that did not help the Goguryeo soldiers to hide, they can be exempted from taxes for three years and enjoy the rights of my Tang citizens, but they must also fulfill the obligations of my Tang citizens. Jingwen said.

Gyeongwen soon reduced half of the Goguryeo families in Anseong to slavery, and gave half of their land to the other half of the families who did not participate in hiding the soldiers. In this way, more than 10,000 Goguryeo people became slaves, and the land was divided. This can be regarded as their punishment for supporting Goguryeo, after all, if there is no punishment, there will be many people who dare to support Goguryeo to resist the Tang army in the future, which is very inconvenient for the Tang army to conquer Goguryeo.

"Marshal, why degrade them as slaves? Aren't you afraid that they will resist? Lin Fei asked.

But Jingwen said: "Not necessarily, we are actually doing this to punish those who resist." As for the ordinary Goguryeo people, what do you think they would choose? I stripped all the land of those who supported Goguryeo, and then gave them half of it, and they were exempt from tax for three years. So what will they choose? ”

"This?" Lin Fei didn't know what they would choose.

"Lin Fei, in fact, the thing of national righteousness, it is useful to say that he is useful, but it is useless to say that he is useless. The general righteousness of the nation is only paid attention to at the top, and it is said by educated people. As for the common people, although they usually have national ideas, if the foreign nation can bring them higher benefits, maybe they will take refuge in the hands of the foreign race. Jingwen said.

"Will it?" Lin Fei was also a little puzzled.

Of course, Jingwen will not say about the anti-Japanese period in later generations. Because the Kokutong area levied too heavy taxes on the people, they wanted to regain the territory after the fall, and as a result, the people in the occupied areas supported the Japanese to resist the army that recovered the territory. And what should these people say? Say they're traitors? However, they were also exploited too strictly by the government of their own country, and in the end, the Japanese were not so strict, and in the end they supported the Japanese army.

And Jingwen knew that no matter which government it was, it was all exploiting the people in ancient times. The same was true of Goguryeo, where a large amount of their land was occupied by high-ranking officials and nobles, and not much land was available to ordinary people. And if you want to reclaim the land, it is also very difficult. Because the newly cultivated land takes a lot of energy. If Jingwen now directly deprived them of some reclaimed land and gave it to them, and promised low taxes, then they would also be satisfied with Datang. Obey the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

"But why don't we just give them benefits? Why do we have to reduce some people to slavery? Lin Fei asked again.

Jingwen immediately said: "If they get it too easily, then they won't cherish it, but think that this is what Datang should do, but Datang owes them." We have to divide these Goguryeo people into two classes. Only those who use the rule of the Tang Dynasty will be able to obtain a higher class. As for those who resist the rule of my Tang Dynasty, that is the slave class. In this way, we can reflect the kindness of our Datang. and deterrence. ”

Jingwen is deeply aware of the role of class, originally these people are the same class, they are all poor people. However, Jingwen deliberately artificially divided them into two classes, that is, the first was the class that supported the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and the other was the slave class who opposed the rule of the Tang Dynasty. In this way, those classes who support Datang will naturally have to rely on Datang, and only when Datang is strong can they protect their own interests. Therefore, it is inevitable that they will suppress those slave classes and exploit those slave classes.

Originally, they were all the same class, but now they are considered to be divided into different classes, so those Goguryeo people who support the rule of the Tang Dynasty also have targets for bullying. And these bullied objects were the same people as themselves not long ago, but now they are in a higher position, and they have all lost their property and become slaves. In order to maintain their class status and obtain more property, they naturally have to maintain the rule of the Tang Dynasty. If they choose to give up their property and become slaves, then this Jingwen will also fulfill them.

Therefore, Jingwen deliberately divided the classes, so that they would also have a class gap, and they would be divided and disintegrated. After all, there were millions of people in Goguryeo, and of course it was impossible to kill them all. Therefore, it is necessary to fight one faction and one faction, and the same is true for the people. It is necessary to let some people get benefits, and the benefits that some people get are taken from another part of the people. Such deliberate exploitation of Tongguò allowed those Goguryeo people who gained profits to form a class of "spoils", so that in the eyes of those Goguryeo people who had become slaves, they were traitors. But since they have become traitors, in order to protect their own interests, they can only continue to rely on Datang as a backer, and then exploit the lower class. This is also the difference in human nature and class, which makes them think differently.

Originally, those Goguryeo people were artificially divided into different classes, and the "class struggle" within them was probably able to consume their energy, and as for resisting the Tang Dynasty, they would not have a chance at all. If those slaves wanted to resist, the Goguryeo people who had gained benefits would not agree, after all, they had already become a class that relied on the Tang Dynasty. (To be continued......)