Chapter 164: Recovering Hanoi is just the first step
The state escorted the single King of Jiaozhi Chen Rixuan to the outside of the city of Thang Long Mansion, the capital of Jiaozhi, and saw that although there were not many soldiers in the city, the city gate was also closed. It's normal.
This Thang Long Mansion is Hanoi City, and Zhao Jiaren asked King Tran Ri Xuan to ask if he was willing to go to persuade Kaesong, but the old man said very hard that he would never agree. There was no way, the army of the Nautical Guild could only raise the hot air balloon. As soon as this thing went to the sky, there was a great chaos in the city. The observer looked down condescendingly, and only then did he realize that the scarce troops at the head of the city were actually an illusion. I saw a group of Cochins with weapons hiding behind the city wall, and when they saw that something could fly to a height of more than 20 meters, they all paid attention to the hot air balloon.
The observer quickly sent out the message, and the artillerymen, under the command of the observer, launched a heavy artillery attack on the Jiaozhi people who were gathering in the city. It's really a desire to be poor and go to the next level. The Jiaozhi soldiers in the city were heavily shelled without being able to see them, and they immediately scattered. The Song army outside the city had only 10,000 men and could only block the land route. The scouts saw the cochins fleeing to the river, got into the boat, and fled desperately.
The troops could not pursue, so they could only send people to attack the empty city with a ladder and drive into Thang Long Mansion.
Escorting King Chen Rixuan into the palace that had been carefully inspected, Zhao Jiaren received the news that the various files in the city had been preserved in their entirety, and he breathed a long sigh of relief. It is said that after Liu Bang entered Xianyang, he first took away the various legal dossiers of the Qin Dynasty, and there is nothing more effective than these dossiers to show the situation of a country.
A few days later, all the panicked families in the city were forced by the Great Song army to send people out. What they saw was that the generals of the Song army actually went to the Confucian Temple to worship, and their hearts were a lot more settled. After the sacrifice was completed, Zhao Jiaren told the families who stayed in the city that no matter how many wrong things Chen Rixuan himself did, the imperial examination system was correct. As long as there is a family member who has been admitted to the imperial examination, you can ask to come out and become an official. If you are willing to take the imperial examination, there will soon be a new imperial examination. Those who are interested in becoming officials can sign up.
The people of the Navigation Guild were quite puzzled by this, they could understand the examination and the official, but they could not understand why Zhao Jiaren wanted to let the Jiaozhi people continue to be officials.
Zhao Jiaren said with a smile about these inexperienced statements: "If you want to be an official, you naturally have to be recognized by us, right?" If you want us to agree, don't you need to do anything to stump them? ”
Seeing that Zhao Jiaren looked like he was in his chest, the people of the Navigation Guild also felt that they had a backbone. Looking at the still sad faces of these people, Zhao Jiaren showed an expression of understanding. At the beginning, Zhao Jiaren also felt that he was such a handful of people, how could he rule over the millions of people under the entire Jiaozhi. Is it difficult to find a way to slaughter slowly?
However, after entering Hanoi, Zhao Jia Ren noticed that the city did not feel right. Of course, this city is not as prosperous as the city of the Great Song Dynasty, and the population is understandable, but there are too many empty houses in the whole city. Later, when I asked, I learned that a few years ago, the Mongols sent an envoy to make the king of Jiaozhi surrender, and the king of Jiaozhi detained the Mongolian envoy. In Mongolian culture, the envoy was sacred, so he used this excuse to launch a fierce attack on Cochin.
King Tran Ri Xuan fled after his defeat, and the Mongols entered Thang Long Province. It is said that when the Mongols entered the city to rescue the envoy, they found that the Jiaozhi people actually strangled the Mongolian envoy's whole body with bamboo pieces and untied the bamboo rope, and the envoy died because of a large amount of bleeding from the wound. So the Mongols carried out a massacre in Thang Long. Then the king of Cochin gave a large batch of gifts to the Mongols, expressing his willingness to be a vassal of the Mongols.
This incident had a big impact on Zhao Jiaren. He began to think that even the Mongols knew how to engage in political means, but he was a literate Chinese who couldn't even think of this? History is any guide, and a few thousand French soldiers were able to completely dominate Indochina, which was ten times larger than Cochin. The Americans have nurtured so many lackeys around the world, and those lackeys are quite loyal to their masters. The American boss often kills useless lackeys, and this does not make the lackeys die, but makes all kinds of lackeys run away one after another.
With a decision in his heart, Zhao Jiaren began to think about dealing with it with this idea.
Being gentle to the people in the city does not mean that Zhao Jiaren is not gentle to everyone. The copywriting on the Jiaozhi side is written in Chinese, and there are about 1,000 commanders and fighters in the army who can read the Chinese written by the Jiaozhi people, and so many people read the content that was originally divided into categories, and the efficiency of summing up intelligence from it is quite high.
The first piece of information was the rosters and locations of various officials, royal families, wealthy families, and wealthy people.
Hanoi is called Hanoi because of its important location in the Red River Plain. Vietnam's rivers are innumerable, and even more so in the Red River Plain. On this plain was the gathering place of the Jiaozhi heroes, and now that they had a list and location, the troops began to send troops everywhere according to the intelligence.
At this time, there were granges on the plains, and the people were in a state of scattered sand. The king's army, which was the core of Jiaozhi, was defeated again, and the king, who was the core of Jiaozhi's power, was also protected by the Song army. The original centripetal force is also completely confused.
Wherever the Song army went, he first sent the owners of the grange documents with the king's seal and asked the owners of these farms to go to the Thang Long Mansion to greet the king under the protection of the Song army. Probably less than a tenth of the granges chose to obey, and the rest refused to open their doors. There was no way, the Song army could only crusade against these traitors who were disloyal to the king Chen Rixuan.
These rebellious granges were soon destroyed and the traitors were captured. Those poor families in Fujian moved into the grange and began to seize the time to familiarize themselves with the situation, so that they could start farming and harvesting in this area full of paddy fields as soon as possible.
Not only did the poor come here, but also Xu Yuanzhi, a retired official. Zhao Jiaren himself couldn't leave Guangzhou for too long, and he didn't worry about these completely inexperienced cadres. Humans are not very well adapted to unfamiliar environments, and instinctive panic about strange groups is likely to cause them to do something murderous. In this regard, a steady official like Xu Yuanzhi is much better. The officials of our Great Song Dynasty have to change places every three years, and the ability to overcome strangeness is a compulsory course.
Xu Yuanzhi arrived at Shenglong Mansion and was stunned after learning about the situation. He didn't speak immediately, but thought for a while before asking, "Zhao Zhizhou, since you have already captured Jiaozhi, why don't you send the king of Jiaozhi to Lin'an." Let the court give him a surname and an official residence. But to leave him in Cochin? ”
Zhao Jiaren smiled bitterly: "What's the use of doing this? If the imperial court knew about it, it would immediately feel that it was their credit. Although Cochin is considered a wild place more than Lingnan, there will always be a few people who come here. When they arrived, they refused to run the business, and only thought about making profits for themselves. Once the freshness is over, it will be a blessing immediately. In that case, it is better to let you, Mr. Xu, and the cadres of the Navigation Guild take care of this place first. ”
As a cultured member of the Great Song Dynasty, Xu Yuanzhi has seen many such descriptions from history books. The moral level of officials is higher in the wealthier places, and higher in the places where there are more jinshi. Many people who look good on weekdays behave as if they have been infected by the local wilderness in those wild places.
Of course, there are other factors in this, and the lack of response is also a very important reason. Even though there are not many Jinshi families in a wealthy place, they are highly valued by the imperial court. In the place where there are many Jinshi families, he did misdeeds, and he was soon known by the imperial court. And in a place like Cochin, even if you do something wrong? The imperial court can't take care of anything at all, and the only thing that can restrain the officials is probably the moral level of the officials themselves. But people have seven emotions and six desires, and how many of the officials who were sent to the wilderness felt content in their hearts and wanted to make political achievements in the local area?
Seeing that Xu Yuanzhi somewhat understood Zhao Jiaren's statement, Zhao Jiaren continued: "We are moving the fifth-class and fourth-class households here from Fujian Road. Here, each family can get 200 acres of land, even if they leave their hometown, so that everyone can eat a few bites of food in peace. It's not that I don't want to inform the imperial court, first of all, I want our people of the Great Song Dynasty to be able to profit from the war, and secondly, we haven't completely taken Jiaozhi. I think so, Jiaozhi County was established for thousands of years, and it has only broken away from it since the end of the Tang Dynasty. This time, Jiaozhi must return to China's territory. If the imperial court knew, they would probably still be the same as before, allowing the Cochin Kingdom to continue to exist. ”
Listening to Zhao Jiaren's words, Xu Yuanzhi nodded slowly, but there was a sparkle in his eyes. What Zhao Jiaren said is true, the imperial court's foreign wars will cost the people and money. The people of the Great Song Dynasty had no benefit except to bear heavier taxes, and even their families were ruined. Zhao Jiaren himself paid for the war, and his immigration policy at least allowed the poor of the Great Song Dynasty to have enough to eat. To do so is the exact opposite of waging war, which costs people and money.
Thinking of this, Xu Yuanzhi was quite moved and said: "Since Zhao Zhizhou said so, I am also willing to do something for the people." ”
With the help of a reliable person like Xu Yuanzhi, Zhao Jiaren arranged the structure here. As the nominal number one in the entire structure, Yuan Hongjie, the secretary general of the Navigation Guild, and Xu Yuanzhi, the second in command. The finance minister and central bank governor is Qi Ye.
The biggest task of this grass-roots team at this time was to exterminate the scattered sand on the Red River Plain and build a new structure dominated by immigrants. Although Zhao Jiaren hopes that he can return to Guangzhou as soon as possible to show up and solve the local problems, he can't believe that things are just as he wishes. Therefore, the work of assigning official posts was busy for another half a month.
When Zhao Jiaren was about to leave, Xu Yuanzhi went to see him off. As an experienced veteran official, Xu Yuanzhi took advantage of the half-month to walk around Hanoi. Holding Zhao Jiaren's hand, Xu Yuanzhi sighed from the bottom of his heart: "After Zhao, you have done so many things for the people, I am very impressed. ”
Xu Yuanzhi's emotion came from the heart, Zhao Jiaren just smiled slightly, but did not say anything grandiose. Xu Yuanzhi obviously thinks of an agrarian country, so he can't see where the benefits lie. In Xu Yuanzhi's eyes, the poor people of the Great Song Dynasty did not have to bear the taxes and military service brought about by the war. As a 'great benevolent man', Zhao Jiaren also provided land to the poor people and gave them a future where they could have enough to eat.
In the thinking of industrial countries, capital and labor are the most valuable things. Based on this concept, the United States and other countries have the choice to export capital and technology abroad. In this matter, Zhao Jiaren seized the land capital of the Red River Plain. With a dense water network and vertical and horizontal channels, it is the center of rice cultivation.
When farmers are able to have enough to eat, there is no point in hoarding rice, which they have to sell for more industrial goods. Workers in the city could buy food with money, and the factories where the workers worked found places to sell their goods. As Zhao Jiaren, he holds the right to issue currency, which is the general equivalent. Those paper tickets can buy labor, and nothing can be more cost-effective and profitable than this transaction.
It is 10,000 times stronger than profit, more than exploitation, and an industrial society is 10,000 times stronger than an agricultural country. Moreover, industrial societies have created brave new worlds that are simply unimaginable in agrarian societies.
Of course, it is the right choice not to say something that Xu Yuanzhi cannot understand at this time, and it is also the right choice to say something that Xu Yuanzhi can understand at this time.
Zhao Jiaren said with a smile: "I have long known that Mr. Xu has the intention of serving the country and the people, since you are willing to benefit the people here, then please Mr. Xu." The people in the Nautical Guild don't have that much knowledge, and I'm most worried about their simple use of force to solve all problems. ”
Xu Yuanzhi could hear that Zhao Jiaren was telling the truth, and he smiled: "Zhao Zhizhou don't worry, as long as I'm still here, what should be exterminated will naturally be exterminated, and those who shouldn't be moved will never be killed." ”
Leaving Jiaozhi, Zhao Jiaren rushed back to Guangzhou. Compared with the earth-shattering changes in Cochin, the changes in Guangzhou are not so drastic. However, Zhao Jiaren can still feel that the city is also undergoing internal changes. The population inside the city has increased dramatically. This is also inevitable, not to mention the iron smelting industry, the transportation industry alone is developing very well. The fleet, the docks needed people, and of course the whole city added a lot of people.
However, as soon as Zhao Jiaren entered the official office, the people below sent many official documents. What these officials below can handle, they have naturally dealt with it, and the rest cannot be handled. Zhao Jiaren first looked at the official document on Guangnan East Road, and read several copies in a row, and the content was actually the same. The official documents were full of accusations and begged Zhao Jiaren Zhizhou not to abduct people from their territory to Guangzhou Mansion again.
When the content was the same, Zhao Jiaren simply put down these unproductive official documents first, and turned to look at the official documents on Fujian Road. The content of the official documents sent by those officials who did not have a profit on Fujian Road was exactly the same as that of Guangnan East Road. It's all about asking Zhao Jiaren not to overdo it.
Isn't it just a little bit of a poor man? Zhao Jiaren expressed great contempt in the face of the hypocrisy of these officials. Why don't the poor have the right to move away if they can't live in the local area at all? What is the benefit of leaving them in the area to continue starving and drowning?