The 411th Shunta Investigation Report

It's hard.

Without the control of thinking, without the advantages of computer intelligence and even natural science in the 21st century, the difficulty of defeating Yang Lixin, the powerful minister, with a weak blow, suddenly increased exponentially. Simply competing for power struggles and conspiracy brutality, Wei Dongsheng is not necessarily more skilled than Yang Xinning, and time does not bring bonuses to political wisdom. If the establishment of the Spring and Autumn System in the 21st century is a simple model, the counter-killing of Yang Xinning is at least a prohibitive and difficult model, if not a hellish model.

However, no matter how difficult the road ahead is, Wei Dongsheng's character will rise to the occasion.

In a short period of time, Wei Dongsheng adhered to the thinking of "knowing each other and knowing oneself, and not being defeated in a hundred battles".

Even though Yang Xinning barbarously cut off Wei Dongsheng's connection with his vassals, Wei Dongsheng was able to visit Minsheng within his tolerance and indirectly understand the Shunta Kingdom in 1297.

The next day, Wei Dongsheng ignored the dissuasion of the spy Wang reclamation and left the palace by himself. Wang reclamation failed to stop Wei Dongsheng, so he had to send someone to inform Yang Xinning while following behind Wei Dongsheng. Wei Dongsheng did not have a strong attitude to expel Wang Reclamation, because he clearly understood his situation as Emperor Han Xian, if he did not let Wang Reclamation follow him all the time, Yang Xinning would definitely have a high probability of eradicating the problem. Only when he is in Yang Xinning's sight at all times will he look down on Wei Dongsheng's threat, and then allow Wei Dongsheng to live a few more years.

Considering Yang Xinning's hidden worries, Wei Dongsheng tried to act as safely as possible.

Wei Dongsheng did not try to establish contact with other strange vassals, but led the old butlers Luo Jiazhong and Wang Reclamation straight to the nearest vegetable market to get a close understanding of the economic conditions of the people of the Shunta Kingdom.

The experience of the Spring and Autumn business group in the alliance of the Ukrainian republic has already shown that Wei Dongsheng is a capitalist with ideals. Wei Dongsheng will not be arrogant because of his wealth, nor will he discriminate against or despise ordinary people in the aristocratic mentality. When it was time to have a good time with the powerful, Wei Dongsheng was able to talk with the powerful; In front of ordinary people, Wei Dongsheng can also experience treating each other as equals, and try to discuss civilian topics with them. Now shuttling to the Shunta Kingdom in 1297, Wei Dongsheng easily returned to the crowd and asked about the prices of local pork, chicken, duck, mutton, fish, beef, and vegetables as a customer.

The seemingly unremarkable vegetable market provided Wei Dongsheng with a lot of valuable information.

Like money.

There was no department for minting currency in the Shunta Kingdom, and copper coins of the Chinese dynasties were widely circulated in the country. Flip through it casually, there are copper coins of Zhao Song, Li Tang's copper coins, and even sporadically encounter copper coins of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. As long as it is a medium-quality copper coin from China, it is a reputable currency. Of course, the conversion ratio of Zhao Song copper coins and Li Tang copper coins and Northern and Southern Dynasties copper coins is another matter, and it is very cumbersome to exchange them with each other.

Or people.

The Shunta Kingdom seems to have implemented a policy of apartheid, the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty lived in the gathering areas of the Southern Song Dynasty remnants, and the local aborigines lived in the indigenous settlements, and the local natives did not trust the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty did not trust the local aborigines. The statistical population of the Shunta Kingdom does not include the nearby natives, and its more than 10,000 nationals are all authentic remnants and descendants of the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty were not united, and they were divided into numerous small factions because of regional and clan issues.

To put it simply, there are three major ethnic groups among the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty in the Shunta Kingdom.

One is the Jianghuai ethnic group. Lu Xiufu and Lu Zili are from Yancheng, Chuzhou, Huainan East Road, Zhao Song, and Wei Dongsheng and his titular father Wei Fusong are also from Yancheng. The officers represented by Lu Zili, Wei Fusong, Wei Dongsheng, etc., were mostly from Huainan East Road, and they slowly formed the Huainan Gang in the Shunta Kingdom in a foreign land.

The second is the Fujian ethnic group, and the third is the Guangnan ethnic group. Because of the geographical advantages, most of the people who fled to Nanyang before and after the Battle of Yashan were coastal residents of Zhao and Song Guangnan East Road and Fujian Road, that is, Fujian and Guangdong areas of the later Huaguo. In the past ten years, almost all of the new immigrants who have moved to the Shunta Kingdom are the Fujian ethnic group or the Guangnan ethnic group, and they have gradually formed the Fujian Gang and the Guangnan Gang.

These divisions are far more serious than Wei Dongsheng imagined.

For example, in the small vegetable market, the estrangement of the ancestral homeland is even more severe than the ethnic estrangement of later generations. A civilian, whose ancestral home is Zhangpu County, Zhangzhou, Fujian Road, Zhao Song, came to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and always habitually ignored other stalls and gave priority to patronizing the stores of Zhangpu villagers. If there is a store in Zhangpu, go to the store in Zhangpu, and if there is no Zhangpu, then find a fellow villager in Zhangzhou, and if there is no Zhangzhou, then find a fellow villager in Fujian, so it is difficult to slowly expand the social circle. In the same way, under the name of the so-called Fujian Gang, there are also layers of Zhangzhou Gang, Zhangpu Gang, a township-level gang, and a village-level gang, and Wei Dongsheng was dumbfounded by the many mountains.

In 1297, when there was no nationalism, regional discrimination, or regional ideas, became more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Including the 30-year memory of inferior tomorrow ring deduction, Wei Dongsheng was born in Panyang City, Hedong Province, completed his undergraduate education in Lutong City and Yanjing City respectively in his past and present lives, and then has been starting his own business in Yanjing. These cities must all have regional concepts, but even if they are extreme to regional discrimination, they will not be divided into one district and one county in detail, each with its own mountain? Taking Yanjing as an example, it is hard to imagine that the Yanjing natives living in Wangjing and the Yanjing natives living in Wudaokou would split into the Chaoyang Gang and the Haidian Gang because of their home address.

The chaos on the mountain in Shunta's ancestral homeland, Wei Dongsheng has not only seen it, but also cannot understand it.

Is it necessary to huddle together like this to keep warm?

Relatively speaking, the regional concept of the Huainan ethnic group is poor, although the so-called Huainan gang has been formed, it has not continued to be subdivided into Chuzhou gang, Gaoyou gang, Taizhou gang and so on. Perhaps because it was easier to integrate into one, although the Huainan Gang had a small population, it was able to firmly overwhelm the Fujian Gang and the Guangnan Gang in the Shunta Kingdom.

As far as the Shunta Kingdom is concerned, the Jianghuai ethnic group has a higher status, while the Fujian ethnic group and the Guangnan ethnic group have close ties with other Southern Song Dynasty remnant forces in Nanyang and check and balance each other.

The reason why Yang Xinning did not dare to kill Wei Dongsheng casually may be because he was afraid that the Fujian ethnic group or the Guangnan ethnic group would call his friends in the name of revenge for Wei Dongsheng. Looking around the Nanyang Islands, the Jianghuai ethnic group is a minority of the minority, once the Shunta Kingdom loses the prestige of Lu Xiufu and Lu Zili, Yang Xinning will be difficult to settle down even if he succeeds in usurping power.

In addition, there is a small detail.

This group of remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty who fled to Nanyang, whether they were Jianghuai, Fujian, or Guangnan, all called themselves Tang people in unison. Not to mention the Han people, perhaps because the term Han people in the current context specifically refers to the northern Chinese, who are the third class of the Mengyuan four-class system; Not to mention the Nanren, perhaps because this is the Mengyuan regime's contemptuous name for the Nan Chinese; Not to mention the Song people, the emotions are relatively complicated, some of the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty are because they dislike the Zhao and Song dynasties, and some of the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty are purely afraid of the martial arts of the Yuan and Meng.

Speaking of which, although the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty hated Yuan and Meng, they were even more afraid of Meng Yuan than they hated it. Putting aside the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty for the time being, just five years ago, in 1292, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Mengyuan Dynasty, once sent Shi Bi, Yihei Lost, Gao Xing and other generals to lead troops to Java Island. Although the Mengyuan conquest of Java was ultimately successful, it also frightened the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty on Java Island. In order to avoid being hunted and killed by the Mengyuan forces as the remnants of the Zhao and Song dynasties, even if the Shunta Kingdom was an authentic rebel party, the people also tabooly called themselves Tang people.

In just 18 years of fugitive life, the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty have forgotten the purpose of opposing the Yuan Dynasty and restoring the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, the Shunta Kingdom is not a completely independent kingdom. There are two major indigenous regimes on the island of Java, namely the Sunda Kingdom in West Java and the Majapahit Kingdom in East Java. Fortunately, the indigenous people of Java have not yet developed a centralized system similar to that of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the so-called Sunda Kingdom and the Majapahit Kingdom are both tribal chieftain-style vassal rule, that is, the state has only a few core areas directly under the administration, and the rest of the country is distributed with countless large and small tribal armies. Nominally, the Shunta kingdom was subject to Majapahit and was required to pay a certain amount of gold every year as if it were a tax system.

In order to soften the Manjapahit, the Tang ethnic group in Nanyang habitually joined forces with the Mengyuan maritime merchants, pretending to use the power of the Mengyuan to ensure the psychological superiority of the Tang ethnic group over the indigenous regime. Although the Majapahit was a new regime that started against the Yuan, it was afraid of the Mengyuan conquest again because of the brutal Yuan Claw War in 1292, and then formed a balanced situation with the Tang people that was both cooperative and vigilant.

With the pressure of Majapahit on the outside, and Yang Xinning's ministers inside, the Shunta Kingdom is really hopeless.

However, Wei Dongsheng has no time to pay attention to the international situation at the moment. To put it mildly, whether it is people's livelihood issues or international politics, as long as Wei Dongsheng shows a certain degree of concern, Yang Xinning will suspect that Wei Dongsheng wants to seize power. At the moment when the situation is uncertain, Wei Dongsheng's safest strategy is to disguise himself as the unhappy queen Liu Chan and reduce Yang Xinning's vigilance as much as possible.

In the vegetable market, Wei Dongsheng put an end to all possibilities of the city's favors and collected information wholeheartedly.

Just asked, Wei Dongsheng quietly summarized the information of the Shunta Kingdom, and gained a lot during the period.

For example, class contradictions.

Wei Dongsheng noticed that the living conditions of the people in Shunta were quite poor, and eighty percent of the pedestrians' clothes were worn and patched, and a new piece of clothing might be a large expense for them to consider and consider. There are four kinds of clothing, food, shelter and transportation, the clothes are shabby, the houses are simple, the means of transportation are all on foot and carts, and only the food is quite abundant.

As far as Wei Dongsheng can see, in terms of food, not only the seafood near the sea is unimaginably cheap, but the chicken, mutton, vegetables, etc. are also very cheap. In terms of chicken and mutton intake, the people of Shunta are much happier than the vast majority of farmers before China's reform and opening up hundreds of years later.

In horizontal contrast with the local aborigines, the people of Shunta are all enviable and well-off lives.

Just like the middle class discussed by the Coalition, a moderately prosperous life is the stable valve of the state apparatus, and citizens who do not have the fear of hunger naturally tend to live in peace. Even the ideals of his father's anti-Yuan and Song Dynasty have gradually forgotten, let alone rebelling at the risk of killing their heads?