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Chapter Chaos Has Been Born

Although Chen Dun's analysis failed to involve the essence, it was rare to comment on the situation from all aspects, and it was also admired by Zhao Bing. Now he is no longer the slutty boy. After years of experience in the guard camp and immersion in martial arts, he has the potential of a Confucian general. He then added his comments.

From the perspective of the Mongolian Yuan, the current military system and garrison system of the Mongolian Yuan are increasingly subject to the constraints of economic system, internal and external policies and political situations. As the king's army of the grassland clan moves south and replaces the personal army of the guards that tend to collapse, they take on the main combat tasks. This will inevitably lead to the turmoil of the Mongolian Yuan political situation, and the economy that is about to collapse will deteriorate further, leading to policy changes.

The system of the monarchy of the Mongolian Yuan grassland seems to be a continuation of the feudal system in ancient times, but there are actually differences. Since Genghis Khan launched a war to unify Mongolia, it was essentially a war of nomadic fusion and annexation. It continued to grow by winning and absorbing the leaders of the Mongolian tribes who defected to him, and then grew by conquering and plundering other tribes, forcibly "assimilating" these tribes, and reorganizing the system in a large and large team of thousands or ten thousand people.

Genghis Khan then demarcated the grasslands and did not cross the boundaries by banning and rewarding them. He sent people to inspect household registration and liquidate the people, tied them firmly to the designated grassland, clearly grasped the number of people they didn't know, and stuffed them into this war machine in a tight manner. Through the repeated recruitment and combat operations, he gradually strengthened his control over the nomadic tribes.

With the death of Genghis Khan, Mongolia had actually begun to split. The four Khanate tended to be independent, and the Mongol Empire was more like a modern loose federal state. With the conquering the Jin Kingdom, the political conspiracy surrounding the Khan throne was further divided, forming two forces on the grassland and Han dynasties. After Kublai Khan won the Khan throne with the support of the Han army, this division had become substantial and its relationship with the four Khanate became more distant, and unification was just nominal.

Kublai Khan reorganized the Yuan Dynasty and actually formed the above two ruling centers and Dudu, and implemented two policies to manage them. One was the southern and northern desert areas that still maintained the old system, and the other was the Han area that was not completely sinicized. After the destruction of the Song Dynasty, the political and economic center moved south to Dadu, and Kublai Khan relied on two means of economic win over and military suppression to rule the grassland.

When Zhen Jin inherited the throne of Khan, Zhao Bing launched the battle to restore the country, recovered Jiangnan in one fell swoop, and robbed the Mongol Yuan's money bag. The Northern Expedition severely damaged the garrison troops in the Han area of ​​the Mongol Yuan, especially the personal guards who were regarded as confidant, which was equivalent to breaking the backbone of Zhen Jin. At that time, the king's army had to be transferred south to serve the king, but could not pay his military expenses, so he could only "dividend" the kings again and let them raise their own funds on the fiefdom.

In Zhao Bing's view, Zhenjin's move is a bad move. Although he temporarily solved the problem that the court was unable to pay military expenses due to financial difficulties, the sects who had obtained economic autonomy would probably not listen to his Khan so much. Moreover, this move caused the territory directly controlled by the court to shrink, the provincial system collapsed, and lost a large amount of tax sources. His control over the grassland would further decrease when he could not take care of himself.

In addition, it is easy to ask for gods and difficult to send gods. The power of the court has declined and the prestige of the Khan has weakened. On the one hand, the kings of the grassland sect who entered the Central Plains will collude with the ministers in the court to seek benefits; on the other hand, they occupy land to be kings, and each forms a separatist situation. The rules on the grassland are determined by the big fists, and they will fight openly and secretly for the sake of interests and territory, or even conquer each other and do their own affairs.

These changes will inevitably have an impact on the system of the Mongolian Yuan, especially the system of submission. In the early Mongolian period, the kings, nobles and army generals moved the population captured from the Central Plains and the Western Regions to the Mongolian grasslands, regarded it as slaves, and placed settlements and placed them in agriculture or manual labor. Later, due to the excessive captive population, the rule in the Central Plains was gradually established, so the kings, nobles and army generals placed the households they captured in the Han area on the spot and sent officials to take charge, not in the prefectures and counties.

After Ogedei ascended the throne of the Great Khan, he checked and registered the Central Plains households twice, and distributed them to the kings, noble relatives, Oludo and military generals as fiefs, commonly known as surrender. He also accepted Yelu Chucai's suggestion, and the title of the title was established in the fiefdom, and the lease amount was collected by the local officials established by the government, and then the court paid separately.

However, these regulations did not and could not be implemented at that time, because the fiefdom was hereditary, and the vestigators were subordinate to the original lord and could not be moved out. Mengge continued to divide the corps. After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the centralized system was strengthened. Kublai Khan continued to implement the old system when he was Ogedei, and made some improvements, increasing one pound of silk per five lords to two pounds, and imposing certain restrictions on some privileges and illegal levies and exploitation of the corpstigators.

The general's affairs were separated, and it was not a submission. The Han army revoked all the fiefs they had received before. After the destruction of the Song Dynasty, they divided the fiefs in Jiangnan prefectures and counties, and the control of the fiefs seemed to be slightly weakened. The sealed households collected money, and each household was given five cents of money, which was then added to two cents, and the government collected them uniformly and paid them to the sealed master. However, the kings and nobles were good at recruiting households in the fiefs, and the phenomenon of scattering and consolidating the scattered households has always been very serious, but it was also an important means of aristocrats to make money.

The intertwined fences of the Central Plains will inevitably overlap with the fiefs of the kings of the grassland sects entering the Han area, and conflicts of interest between the two sides will be inevitable. In this way, once the conflicts between the old and old nobles intensify, it will be very natural for everyone to start. They fought and plundered each other, and the result was to disrupt themselves and make the Song Dynasty happy. These were just what Zhao Bing could think of, but it was certain that the old and new systems, and the conflicts and conflicts between the forces between the grassland and the Central Plains would only be more.

After hearing the emperor's addition, everyone gradually realized that His Majesty quickly ended the Northern Expedition after the Mongolian Yuan Grassland Army headed south and agreed to peace talks, not because he was afraid of them. Instead, seeing the intervention of new forces, the situation in the Mongolian Yuan would undergo a drastic change. With the efforts of the whole country to fight against the Mongolian Yuan, it would be better to let them lose their positions and fight again when the time is right.

At the same time, the people of Jiangnan and the two Huaihe Rivers can also be allowed to recuperate and ease the conflicts between the court and the country. Then, new policies can be implemented, reformed the court, improved systems and institutions, and achieved the purpose of consolidating rule, and accumulated strength for the resurgence.

At this time, Chen Fenglin raised a question. He was shocked by the incident of Ma Shao committing suicide and dying for his country during the Battle of Yangzhou. As a Han man, he was willing to serve foreign races and did not spare his life. During the Battle of Shouzhou, the Song army besieged the city, and tens of thousands of Han people refused to surrender and died under artillery fire. This situation cannot but make people feel sad, but also worried that they would be subject to tenacious resistance from the Han people in the subsequent battle against the Mongolian Yuan.

Han Zhen also expressed the same concern. The most active part in the current peace talks was not the prince of the Mongol Yuan and the left prime minister Sangge, but Li Qian, a Han man, was running around and fighting with reason. What was even more disheartening was that Li Siyan, a Song man, actually used his relatives and friends to inquire about the news and give advice for the Mongol Yuan peace talks, making people worry that their main enemy would be people of the same clan in the future.

Chen Fenglin's problem seems a bit frustrating, but at this time, he can examine the war from another perspective, which still makes Zhao Bing feel relieved, which is also a kind of progress. But he didn't care much about the literati of the Mongolian Yuan. In fact, during the Jin Dynasty, the sinicization of the Jurchens was already very serious. The emphasis on the Han scholars in governing the country also allowed them to achieve a century-long rule in the Central Plains.

In fact, Zhao Bing is still wary of the current scholars. Not only was a large number of unscrupulous scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty used as the leader of the Jurchens, but those scholars also made great efforts when the Southern Song Dynasty destroyed the country. Of course, this cannot be generalized. After all, there were scholars who worked for the restoration of the Song Dynasty and died for their country, but overall it was disappointing and it was inevitable that people would be skeptical of their morality.

However, relatively speaking, the Han scholars who remained in the north were even more hateful. They not only regarded the Song Dynasty as a "leap rank" dynasty and island barbarians who usurped power, but even developed their own concepts of Chinese and barbarians and regarded themselves as representatives of China. The scholars in the north were all fanatical admirers of these concepts, and they even invented the concept that "the Han people share the words of the world" and believed that Chinese civilization had nothing to do with the Han people.

But when the real "barbarian" Mongolia invaded, the performance of the great Confucian scholars of the Jin Dynasty was very interesting. The early Mongolians were very simple. They didn't care about any family of poetry, books, rituals and music. They snatched away the girls from any family if they were good, and killed them if they were in the way. They were willing to be cuckolded and be a living turtle and brought to the grassland to be "talking". They caught a lot of these unpromising Jin Dynasty scholars.

Yuan Haowen was known as the "Northern Wenxiong" and should be regarded as the most well-known representative of Confucianism. Not only did he not actively resist the Mongolian, nor did he die for the Jin Dynasty. Instead, he wrote poems to lament the fierce war, but he was actively looking for a protector. One of the protectors he found was Zhang Rou, who was the father of Zhang Hongfan, the hero of the Song Dynasty, and Yuan Haowen had a different relationship. Although Yuan Haowen missed his first wife, Zhang Han, the daughter of Zhang Han, the Minister of Revenue of the Jin Dynasty, it did not affect his marriage to his second wife, Mao.

Mao's grandfather was a martyr in the Jin Dynasty. Mao Bopeng, the elder of the same clan, also died in the anti-Mongolian cause. But if you think Mao was a simple descendant of martyrs, it would be a big mistake. Mao's cousins ​​married Qiao Weizhong and Zhang Rou, a thousand households of Mongolian soldiers, so Zhang Rou was Yuan Haowen's brother-in-law, who was Zhang Hongfan's uncle. After Zhang Rou died, he wrote the "Second Stele of Zhang Gongxunde Deeds in Shuntian Ten Thousand Houses", and also praised Zhang Rou as "I came to Heshuo and heard the name of a marquis. People said that he was a man of civil and military aspirations and courage, and he was the crown of a contemporary marquis." It can be said that it was a very stingy thing and shameless thing...
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