Chapter 4: The Tragedy of Shaolin (4)

Gogaku is not a small mound. Songshan, the head of the five mountains, is full of mountains and stones. Yang Tiexin's headquarters was located in a small mountain village on the outskirts of Songshan Mountain. The walls of the villagers' homes are made of stone, and the thatched roofs are as ventilated in the autumn breeze as the cracks in the walls. Looking at the four-walled house, Yang Tiexin sighed: "I didn't expect it to be so poor here." ”

A concentration camp had been set up on the road outside Songshan Mountain, and Ruda, as a local veteran, was reconvened to participate in the operation with other veterans. They were responsible for the lives of the people in the camps. At this time, when it was time to start eating, everyone received a tray and went to the place where the food was served.

The patrol was armed with sticks and shouted in the local dialect: "Stand still, don't move." Whoever moves, waiting to be beaten! ”

The people in the camps were fed according to military standards. Three meals a day, the staple food is white flour steamed buns, two large pots of fried meat dishes, and one egg. The soup is corn and squash batter porridge. While ensuring balanced nutrition, it also takes into account the refreshing and strong fragrance. The soldiers fight all day long, and if they are not happy with their food, it is really extremely unhappy.

The people in the camp lined up to eat. As far as Ruda could see, he looked at a few guys hanging from the shelves, and then heard a noise in the team. With a sigh, Ruda turned. Sure enough, I saw a few guys in the team and I didn't know why, you pushed me, I pushed you. The managers here immediately rushed up and pulled these people out. Knocked to the ground, crackling and pumping ten boards on everyone's buttocks. After the fight, they were dragged up and assigned to the back of the other teams to continue the queue.

After such a rectification, those people are honest. The people also saw a lot of guys who were beaten up for destroying the queue, and many of them were beaten, so they turned a blind eye and continued to line up to eat. Ruda didn't care that the guys who were beaten would continue to make trouble, and those guys who hung on the shelves to show off were all thorns. The captured people were not idle after they had eaten their fill, and the camp arranged for them to build a lot of shelves, enough to hang a tenth of the people in the camp.

The people who received the food sat down to eat with wooden trays. Everyone ate intently, not even their heads. It tastes so sweet. Luda looked at these people, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the people of Songshan were too hard. Such a meal is nothing to the people of the plains. Not to mention the people of the big farms, even the people in the village don't care much about such meals.

Knowing that the people of Songshan did not toss when they ate, Luda lit a cigarette and took a breath. It has been six days, and 100,000 Song troops have surrounded Songshan and launched a 'hand-in-hand' encirclement and suppression. The people of Songshan who met him, whether they were good citizens or colluding monks, were all arrested and sent to the concentration camp at the foot of the mountain. It is said that this is the battle plan set by the Zhao official family, known as the 'Iron Wall Encirclement'. Listening to the name is imposing.

Spit on the cigarette, Ruda regrets in his heart. If he had joined the army later, he would have been able to participate in this military operation. If he had become a soldier earlier, he would have been able to fight under the Zhao official family. The mouth of the Yellow River diverted by Zhao's family was not too far from Zheng County, and Luda passed through it many times. Now the people of Henan are saying that the Zhao Guanjia has the Dinghai Divine Needle left by Prince Yu in his hand, and as long as he uses this treasure to draw on the ground, he can make the earth appear in the river. Back then, Prince Yu relied on this treasure to open up the Yellow River and let the flood leave along the new river. The people stubbornly believe that if there is no such treasure, how can the Yellow River be diverted in such a short time!

Luda wanted to know what was so special about the plan proposed by the Zhao Guanjia himself.

Yang Tiexin was in the humble temporary headquarters, and he didn't feel warm even if the fire was raised here. He asked the chief of staff, "How many civilians have been taken away?" ”

"There must be 10,000 people." The chief of staff replied casually.

"It took so much effort to catch 10,000 people. It shouldn't be. Yang Tiexin was puzzled.

"Why?"

"There are tens of thousands of monks in the Shaolin Temple. If there were only 10,000 people in the mountains, where would there be so much food for these monks to eat? ”

The political commissar replied, "Monks don't make a living from farming. The lay disciples who studied martial arts had to pay a lot of money and grain, and the monks of Shaolin Temple had to collect money and grain when they did things for other places. In addition, the monks of Shaolin Temple are not all warrior monks, and many of them are just farming and doing miscellaneous labor. ”

Speaking of this, the political commissar asked, "Why haven't you seen the monk yet?" When we pull out their periphery, are these people ready to be turtles in the urn? ”

Song Jun was puzzled by the monks' movements, and the monks were also puzzled by Song Jun's approach. In addition to a large number of pavilions and pavilions, there is also a grain money bank. The bandits who wanted to go to the Shaolin Temple to rob all went straight to the Shaolin Temple, and they left if they wanted to grab a handful. The great monks judged that the Song army would do the same, so they deployed defenses on both sides of the main road according to the previous pattern.

Unexpectedly, the Song army did not enter directly at all, but all kinds of friction around. This inexplicable move puzzled the monks. These Song Jun are full of food, so grinding.

This situation continued for a few more days, and the Song troops from all walks of life continued to advance in the center, bringing out more than 20,000 people from the mountains. Even if it is not enough to be able to hold hands with each other, each soldier is separated by ten meters, and 100,000 soldiers form an encirclement with a length of one million meters, that is, a thousand kilometers, firmly sealing the area centered on the Shaolin Temple.

When the news of tens of thousands of people found in Songshan reached Hangzhou, Zhao Jiaren was a little surprised. The first thing that popped up in his mind was the words 'targeted poverty alleviation'. Tea can also be grown in the mountainous areas of Xinyang, Fujian, Sinhala and the Assam region, which is now part of the Great Song Dynasty but has not yet been occupied. But in a place like Songshan, even forestry may not be appropriate. The best way is to close the mountains in Songshan and afforestation to maintain water and soil. Closing mountains to conserve water and soil allows a small number of foresters to live, but it is not enough to feed a large number of people.

The best way to alleviate poverty is to move the population from poor places to more affluent places. For example, migrated to the Huanghuai Plain, where there are still many open spaces.

It's not easy, though. The first is how to help these people settle down. It is not easy to start a new life in a new place.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiaren wanted to call someone from the Ministry of Agriculture. But before the words were about to be spoken, Zhao Jiaren changed his mind, and he brought Wen Tianxiang, the head of the organization department, to him. After the two sat down, Zhao Jiaren told Wen Tianxiang about the problem at hand, and then asked him: "Do you have someone who can solve this matter?" ”

"Tens of thousands of mountain people captured from the mountains ......, this is not easy." Wen Tianxiang also felt a little numb. As long as the unit of quantity is 10,000, it is very difficult. After thinking for a while, Wen Tianxiang smiled bitterly: "Official, if this is the case, then you can only do distribution." ”

"Where is the punishment still being distributed in the Great Song Dynasty now." Zhao Jiaren said with a smile.

"No, no, no, I mean it's just a matter of making those people feel like they have to stay on the plains. If they refuse to stay in the plains and run back to the mountains, will we have to send men to watch over them? It would take more effort to take care of so many people than to make those people poor in the mountains. ”

"Of course, we can't let the people suffer poverty in the mountains." Zhao Jiaren said without hesitation.

"Official, I have a question. Why are the officials so confident that they will be able to lift the people out of poverty? ”

"It's not that I have faith, it's that the people themselves don't want to be poor."

Listening to this explanation, Wen Tianxiang was thoughtful. These words did move Wen Tianxiang, but they only moved. Because too many people like to say this, but only Zhao Jiaren really executes it. So Wen Tianxiang always has an indescribable feeling that everything Zhao Jiaren does may be killed.

Maybe it's because he knows that he will retire soon, Wen Tianxiang has often thought about things like this recently, and he very much hopes that the current situation of Da Song can be maintained, so he is particularly afraid that this situation will not be maintained.

"Song Rui. Don't you have that kind of talent in your hands? Zhao Jiaren interrupted Wen Tianxiang's musings.

"Official, I think it's too expensive to do this."

"A lot of military spending has been spent to solve the monks of Shaolin Temple, how can you ...... with more money. Wait, what if the troops were to take these people to the fields? Zhao Jiaren felt as if he had thought of a solution.

"It's impossible for the army to watch these people from beginning to end." Wen Tianxiang disagreed with this idea of patting his head.

"If these people can receive the first year's food and have enough to eat, they will not be unimpressed."

"Official, you are taking this for granted. Even if you eat half a year, so what. They have been starving for so many years, are they starving to death? Now the official family ordered the extermination of the Songshan Shaolin Temple. According to the intelligence, the Shaolin Temple is the big landlord of Songshan, and if there is no such powerful monks, as long as the land can be distributed equally, the people will not starve to death. It's better to stay at home than outside. ”

Zhao Jiaren didn't speak for a while, and Wen Tianxiang's words did convince him. This statement reminded Zhao Jiaren of one thing. In Daliang Mountain, southwest of New China, there is a kind of fluffy chicken. The feathers on this type of chicken are not feathers, but fluff. The place in Daliang Mountain is very suitable for breeding, so some people go to the local area and want to cooperate. But I didn't expect that the local people couldn't cooperate at all, and the one couldn't help but ridicule the local cadres, but the local cadres ridiculed each other, "How many people take money to help us and send money to us." If you want to do such a project, you want us to contribute, and it's so beautiful. ”

When he first read this story, Zhao Jiaren only felt that the poor mountains and bad waters came out of the people. But now Zhao Jiaren feels that this story is actually very reasonable. Failing to see human nature clearly, or mistaking human nature, is actually the guy who wants to invest. He thought that those people were poor, so they had to listen to him. It's a beautiful idea.

Wen Tianxiang saw that Zhao Jiaren was silent. couldn't help but ask out loud: "Official, what are you thinking?" ”

Zhao Jiaren sighed: "I'm thinking, you're right. Just because those people are poor doesn't mean we can do whatever we want with them. Even if you are poor, you will not go to the point of taking the initiative to be a slave to others. ”

Hearing that Zhao Jiaren accepted his opinion with such modesty, Wen Tianxiang was also a little surprised, Zhao Jiaren's personality is extremely tough, even if he hit the south wall, he will also collapse the south wall. This is like the means he adopted when facing the enemy, and he completely defeated and destroyed it head-on.

So Wen Tianxiang persuaded: "The official family doesn't need to worry. This is like our land reform in Jiangning and other places, looking back now, the two sides are so deadlocked, and as a result, those retired soldiers have a vision and leave with more and more people. After the migration of this population, the asking price of long-term and short-term tenants immediately increased, and the land tax insisted on by the imperial court, and the landlords could not bear it. If there are some people who have seen the world in poor places, there will be changes in the future. ”

"Hmm." Zhao Jiaren nodded, "It seems that in the future, every village will have to be required to have troops every year." ”

Zhao Jiaren's tone was not serious enough, but Wen Tianxiang felt that the content of his words was very serious. If all the villages in the Great Song Dynasty have people who come out to serve as soldiers every year, it means that there will be people in every village in the future who may become the leaders who lead the villagers to follow the imperial court. As he just said, the new wave of immigration is driven by those retired soldiers, who have fought in Henan, Hebei and other places, knowing that the enemies in these places have been killed by the Song army, knowing that the local non-Han people have been slaughtered, and knowing that the alien races that once entrenched in these lands have been completely wiped out and can never come back. That's why they dared to take their families to farms with military backgrounds.

Thinking of this, Wen Tianxiang couldn't help but smile and said, "Haha, what the official said is right. I think it's a good idea. ”

"Hmm." Zhao Jiaren nodded. He had read some books, in which it was written that in the past, every village had a task to serve as a soldier in New China. At that time, Zhao Jiaren didn't understand, but now after seeing the power of retired soldiers, Zhao Jiaren felt that he began to understand why he did it. This is also a means of bringing imperial power to the grassroots. So he said: "When the battle is over, I will let the recruitment stations be set up in the mountains, and every year someone will have to be recruited." ”

Thinking of this, Wen Tianxiang couldn't help but smile and said, "Haha, what the official said is right. I think it's a good idea. ”

"Hmm." Zhao Jiaren nodded. He had read some books, in which it was written that in the past, every village had a task to serve as a soldier in New China. At that time, Zhao Jiaren didn't understand, but now after seeing the power of retired soldiers, Zhao Jiaren felt that he began to understand why he did it. This is also a means of bringing imperial power to the grassroots. So he said: "When the battle is over, I will let the recruitment stations be set up in the mountains, and every year someone will have to be recruited." ”

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