Chapter 283: Goryeo Again
Xiao Ming met the palace of Emperor Daliao in Baoning Palace, Qinzong was waiting in front of Huizong's bed, and the summary was no longer good, and the second emperor cried before he saw Xiao Ming! Over the years, the father and son of the two have relatively no longer known how many tears they have shed, but this time the tears are mixed with joy and relief.
Xiao Ming knelt down and bowed down and said long live! Qin Zong said: "Xiao Qingping, at this time, you may be the only one who still calls the widow long live!" Xiao Ming was speechless and got up to visit Emperor Huizong.
Emperor Huizong was dying, he saw Xiao Ming trembling and put forward his last wish, that is, he hoped to bury the body in the Great Song Dynasty Mausoleum in the Central Plains after death, Xiao Ming nodded in agreement, Huizong seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, this contemporary great painter generation of calligraphers, the emperor of the literary and experienced emperor swallowed his last breath that night.
After Huizong's death, the body was sent to Weihai by Xiao Ming by boat, and then secretly sent to Yingtianfu, ready to be buried in the tomb of the Song Dynasty, Qinzong wanted to escort the bones of the former emperor to go together, but was persuaded by Xiao Ming.
He specially accompanied Qinzong to inspect and visit various places in Liaodong, watched various construction sites and those Jin captives who worked on the construction sites, and said to Qinzong: "Your Majesty is interested in visiting the inheritance base of Chinese civilization on overseas islands?" ”
Qin Zong was naturally willing, he believed that Xiao Ming would arrange for him to return to the Central Plains, so he did not refuse all of Xiao Ming's arrangements, so Xiao Ming sent someone to send Qin Zong to the "Jiaolong!" After the whistle blew, the dragon puffed out billowing black smoke and headed for the Ryukyu Islands.
Xiao Ming breathed a sigh of relief, and then he wrote two secret letters to Gaozong Zhao, the first of which was a letter from the Di Bao, which was an official official document, claiming that in order to expand the commercial interests of the Great Song Dynasty, he had recovered the entire Liaodong, and the Huanglong Mansion of the Dajin Empire had also been conquered, but hundreds of thousands of prisoners needed to be escorted back, because the various construction work currently engaged in needed laborers!
What kind of response will this letter have, Xiao Ming did not guess, he just told Zhao Gou, and hoped that he could not inform the ministers in the court, saying that the time was not ripe, and the second letter mentioned that Emperor Song Huizong had been buried, and the bones were transported to Weihai and were about to be transported to Yingtianfu, hoping that Gaozong would send someone to arrange it, but he did not mention the whereabouts of Qinzong.
Xiao Ming believed that Zhao Gou was a smart person and should be able to think of the key to this, so he didn't explain, because now he had more things to do, for the entire Liaodong, except for the wild land in the north, it had basically all fallen into Xiao Ming's hands, and it was Xiao Ming's thing to take over all traces of the purging of the Jin Kingdom here.
For the Jurchen people of the Jin State, who are still in a semi-clan society, have not yet formed their own inherent inheritance and culture, and have not even had time to invent writing, many customs and habits are figured out with other local ethnic minorities, such as priests and funeral customs, and many of their tribes are also like the Liao people, some of them take tree burial and some burial.
The burial of the Liao people was also influenced by the Han people in the Central Plains, but their burial form generally adopted the mode of erecting and squatting burial, compared with the Khitans, the Jurchens did not even have the most basic ancestor worship rituals, plus the relationship between fishing, hunting and nomadism, always moving around, so there is no traditional concept of land.
This custom also affected many nomadic peoples in the local and northern regions, which made it easy for Xiao Ming to eliminate their traces, so he continued to practice the strategy of arresting laborers, and constantly forced the Jurchen people to the Korean Peninsula in Goryeo, which was his preparation for the invasion of Goryeo.
From two aspects, Xiao Ming did not pay attention to the remnants of the Jurchen Jin Kingdom who fled to the west, and the remnants of the Jin Kingdom were bound to continue to develop into the hinterland of the Central Plains, and this threat was not difficult for the current Great Song Dynasty, as long as there were generals like Yue Fei and Wu Jue, it would not be difficult to fight.
On the other hand, Xiao Ming wants to establish a large circle of influence, then the Korean Peninsula must be included, this is only one of Xiao Ming's plans, including the Korean Peninsula sphere of influence can take the entire Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea as his own inland sea, for which Xiao Ming has developed the shipbuilding industry on a large scale.
And now the entire territory of Liaodong and Northeast China has fallen into the hands, which has to be used well, and the entire Northeast region at that time, whether it is the Changbai Mountains or the primeval forests of the Great and Small Xing'an Mountains, has gone to the sea! It is simply not up to the level of protection that the future generations will have.
In the forest, hundreds of years or even thousands of years of tall trees abound, which is currently the most needed by the shipbuilding industry in Liaodong, but at present, Xiao Ming's entire foundation in Liaodong is still very weak, the most prominent problem is the lack of manpower, logging needs manpower, shipbuilding needs manpower, digging needs manpower, transportation needs manpower, all kinds of mushrooms have sprung up a large number of workshops all need manpower!
However, in addition to the two or three hundred thousand Jurchen captives captured by Xiao Ming, it is really difficult to find cheap and high-quality workers and manpower in the entire Liaodong. For this reason, in several major cities and residential gathering points in the entire Liaodong, some "gold slave markets" were suddenly formed, which is, to put it bluntly, trading markets for slaves and slave laborers!
The so-called "Jin slaves" are the Jin soldiers who have fallen into the people's captives and the captives of the Jurchen tribes, as well as the Jurchens who are captured by some people without permission, and the Han people in Liaodong call them "Jin slaves"! These gold slaves were like slaves, they could be bought and sold at a price, and they were very cheap.
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The Jurchens are burly, even the women are also strong and strong, they do a lot of heavy physical work, and they don't need to pay for it, they mainly take care of the food, they usually live in the livestock shed, the situation is very miserable, some Han people are very harsh on such gold slaves, the Jurchens never thought that they were still powerful lords before, and now they have been reduced to slaves!
But oppression naturally brings resistance, it turned out that some tribal herdsmen and hunters were also arrested, when they were treated unfairly, this resistance came particularly fiercely, there were constantly incidents of gold slaves killing employers, and the people would also find the local army to demand that these gold slaves who killed their owners and escaped.
Xiao Ming felt that this was not a solution, it was very different from his own ideas, for these ethnic discrimination behaviors that have now emerged must be strictly stopped, he captured prisoners for a purpose, those Jurchens who were warriors were generally people who had a lot of killing crimes, and these people needed to atone for their crimes, and ordinary tribal herdsmen and hunters were not among them.
The original capture of the tribe was to control the source of troops in the Jin State, and now there is no need for such arrests at all, in fact, there are actually not many Jurchens left in Liaodong now, and they continue to pour into the territory of the Goryeo Kingdom over the mountains and mountains, and there are hundreds of thousands of Jurchens who ran over to escape the war!
Xiao Ming issued a decree in Liaodong to prohibit the practice of engaging in the trade of "gold slaves", violators were severely punished, and at the same time encouraged a large number of Han people to emigrate, which was mainly carried out from Shandong and other places, because Yanyun and other places were still controlled by the Jin State, a large number of people from Hebei and Hebei continued to cross the Yellow River and enter Jingdong Road, resulting in a sharp decline in the population of Yanyun area.
The decline in population also caused a depression in the region, agriculture and handicrafts began to shrink, and even the phenomenon of land was abandoned in many places, which undoubtedly made the Jin regime entrenched in the Yanyun area even worse, and the army's grain and grass supply and tax revenue were all affected, and it was unsustainable to the extent.
At this time, the Great Song Dynasty was urging the Jin State to pay the military expenses and silver, and asked them to abolish Liu Yu's puppet Qi regime as soon as possible, which inevitably made the Jin State anxious, and they continued to withdraw troops from the west, and even withdrew troops to the north of the Yellow River, and the puppet Qi troops who stayed on the front line of the Yellow River naturally would not give them cannon fodder anymore, and followed their butts to retreat.
Everything seems to be a very good form for the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhao Gou sits in the rich land in the southeast, coupled with Li Gang's dedicated assistance, and gradually recovers, he even considers the problem of moving the capital as Xiao Ming said, as the northern captives who continue to return to the south continue to return to Hangzhou in the Great Song Dynasty by boat, the news of Xiao Ming's attack on Liaodong and Huanglong Mansion also came out.
At this time, Xiao Ming was in Goryeo, and this visit was still four warships, and he still landed in Haeju near Kaesong in Ganghwa Bay, and he had already sent a note to the monarchs and ministers of Goryeo before he went again.
Hearing that the original Dongdan King Xiao Ming was coming, Yizong Li Minbo of the Goryeo Kingdom on this side was panicked, and now the Goryeo Kingdom is not as good as before, three consecutive years of drought and floods, so that most of the grain in the south is not harvested, coupled with the oppression of the government, not a single grain of grain can be taxed, and finally rebelled.
The peasants and untouchables in the south rebelled, and the more they made trouble, the more fierce they became, and the north was not peaceful, within the dynasty, because Jiang Handan was sitting in Pyongyang, everything was easy to say, but in order to compete for the prison lord, the Jiang Handan faction and the Park Yongqing faction among the ministers finally fought, and because they had absolute control over the government soldiers, the Park Yongqing faction finally defeated the Jiang Yongqing faction.
But at this time, the Goryeo Kingdom was already full of holes, Jiang Handan dragged the illness and was carried to Kaesong, claiming that for the sake of the people and royal power of the Goryeo Kingdom, he was willing to die by himself, hoping to calm the war in the country, and Li Minbo already held a grudge against him, since it is best for you to confess your guilt, so Yizong ordered that all fifty or sixty members of Jiang Handzan's family were killed!
After quelling the civil war, the Goryeo Kingdom made every effort to suppress the peasant uprising, but at this time they found that the flames of the uprising had become a prairie fire, and it was almost uncontrollable, but fortunately, Park Yongqing was still a good hand, he scooped up money to buy traitors in the rebel army, captured several leaders of the rebel army, and brutally suppressed a number of untouchable riots, many people were killed, and were punished by exile on the island, and finally stabilized the domestic form.
And at this time, Xiao Ming announced his visit to Goryeo! The entire Goryeo Kingdom, from Li Minbo down to every prince and minister, was too impressed by this Xiao Yanluo! Now that I heard that he was coming, I couldn't help but be really scared, Li Minbo personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to the port to welcome Xiao Ming's warship to the shore!
Carrying a sedan chair with 100 people, carrying Xiao Ming to Kaesong, this was the etiquette of the King of Goryeo himself, and now he had to use it for Xiao Ming, and a huge welcome ceremony was prepared in Kaesong, and there were thousands of people in the waist drum team of the ancestors alone, and there were people everywhere who scooped flowers and vegetables in the middle of the road to welcome Xiao Ming.
When Xiao Ming saw this situation, he couldn't help but laugh in his heart, and said secretly: "A good face is the national character of the Goryeo stick!" It's all miserable like this, and it's still fat in the face of the public! "His three regiments of Tiger Guards are his guards, and they have all been warmly welcomed by the people of Kaesong, and the big guys are really a little unaccustomed to it.
When Xiao Ming arrived, he asked about two things, the first thing was to ask the large number of Jurchens pouring in from the north, what was the Goryeo Kingdom going to do? The second thing is to ask why several important trading ports in southern Goryeo were so badly damaged that many merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty could not dock and had to go to the Japanese islands instead.
Li Minbo was worried about this matter, he learned that Xiao Ming had occupied the capital of the Great Jin Kingdom, and even drove away the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, he couldn't help but be even more afraid of him, and now in the face of hundreds of thousands of Jurchens, he really didn't know what to do!