Chapter 14 Opponents who began to assemble (5)
King Wang Ying of Goryeo put down his imperial edict, and his facial muscles were spasming unconsciously. After finally waiting for the spasm to stop, Wang Ying said to the envoy of the Great Yuan in despair: "The country is poor and the people are rare. Where can 30,000 people be sent to the court!"
"In other words, you won't send it?" The messenger headed straight to the subject.
Hearing the Mongolian envoy's question going straight to the topic, King Goryeo Wang Ying quickly responded: "Empress. Please give me a few days to give me a grace."
"Two days, you can discuss it for two days at most." The messenger gave the deadline.
"How can such a big event be enough for two days? Please give it another month." Wang Ying hurriedly begged.
"I can only give me a reply within three days." The messenger replied in a very tough tone. This is not the messenger deliberately bullying King Goryeo here. The messenger is just an messenger, and his duty is to clearly determine the other party's reaction as the core goal. As for pity, sympathy, or anger, it has nothing to do with the messenger's own authority.
After finally winning three days, Wang Feng immediately began to convene his ministers to discuss. No matter what his expression was, Wang Feng was not really as scared as he looked. He had been to Dayuan nearly ten times, and Kublai Khan was his father-in-law. Wang Feng felt that this threat was just a test given to him by his father-in-law.
After three days, Wang Feng first agreed in embarrassment, and then said that he would send him in spring on the grounds that the weather was cold and the ground was frozen. After finally seeing the envoy away, Wang Feng immediately sent the envoy to Dayuan to pay his respects to Wang Feng's father-in-law Kublai.
The messenger knew that things were very anxious, so he stayed overnight in the morning and did not dare to stop at all along the way. After finally arriving in Dadu, he quickly submitted a letter to meet Emperor Kublai Khan. Goryeo was just a son-in-law country, so wait after submitting the letter. Now the messenger of Goryeo was very anxious and went everywhere to ask for the ministers of the Yuan Dynasty who could help speak. However, no one took it seriously in Goryeo a small country. Many of the high-ranking officials who could speak were even seen.
The messenger walked on the street in a daze, and saw a team of Dayuan cavalry escorting an exquisite carriage passing by on the street, so he tactfully hid aside. Looking at the transparent glass window on the carriage, the Korean envoy wanted to try hard to see who was inside through the glass. If he knew someone, he might be able to greet him. Now the Korean envoy needs to be able to speak.
But the result disappointed him. Because the car was dark inside, the Goryeo messenger could not see the people inside. However, the cavalry saw the Goryeo messenger protruding his head and looked at him with his eyebrows and eyes raised. The Goryeo messenger quickly lowered his eyes and was finally not beaten.
The car was Borjijin Haorenwanhu. Since he delivered a speech in the court, Haorenwanhu's policy has at least been supported by Han officials in the court. Mongolia established its country with military force, and at this time it has not been corrupt and degenerate in military terms, so Haoren's part of the deduction of the possibility of the failure of the war did not cause any unhappiness. Emperor Kublai Khan ordered Haorenwanhu to continue to implement this policy of military force.
At this time, Hao Renwanhu went south to check the Yingyang Mansion Generals established by the prefectures in Yan and Shandong. The Yingyang Mansion Generals were directly dispatched by the Dadu court. The prefectures in various places did not concentrate in Dadu on weekdays, but were inspected and trained by the Yingyang Mansion Generals in various places, and went to Dadu for general exercises every winter. Based on the results of the exercises, we evaluate how the Yingyang Mansion Generals in various states did.
If the troops who received the exercise perform well, they will commend and reward the local Yingyang Mansion General. If the performance is not good, they will be punished or even replaced. This organizational structure will make the Yingyang Mansion General the court minister of Emperor Kublai Khan, instead of building a military leader who is self-respecting.
Perhaps it was because he had to go far, Hao Renwanhu's subordinates did not attack the guy who was lying on his head. This attack would have to waste time. Moreover, Emperor Kublai Khan recently issued a new law, and if the Mongols "dispute, kill the Han people after being drunk, they would have to pay for the burning and burying silver."
In the past, because of the forced purchases and sales of the Mongols, Han merchants beat the Mongols. Kublai Khan, who learned about this, ordered the Han people to be arrested and killed. Now, this order is because the land area has been reduced after the defeat. He had to ensure the survival rate of the Han people more. Even if the burning of silver was just a donkey money, it could prevent the Mongols from killing Han people wantonly. So before the group arrived at the South Gate, Hao Renwanhu's subordinates forgot the guy who was lying on his head.
Hao Renwanhu in the car didn't care who was outside. He was looking at the roster in his hand. In his design, these Yingyang Mansion generals were sent by Kublai Khan. Hao Renwanhu just went to inspect whether these people had arrived at the place where they took office according to the regulations of the government system, and whether they had ordered officials from the state government to recruit those government soldiers according to the regulations and the roster.
The recruitment of the government soldiers is not the work of these Yingyang government generals, but is carried out by local officials. At this time, supervision personnel such as Hao Ren must inspect and promptly correct all kinds of illegal acts when the system was established.
When the carriage left the south gate, the ground became uneven. Hao Ren couldn't watch the list and leaned against the carriage and closed his eyes to rest. The vehicle swayed gently, and Hao Ren fell asleep for a while. I don't know how long he had walked, a gust of cold wind blew into the car, and then someone began to call Hao Ren, "Ten thousand households, ten thousand households."
"What's the matter?" Hao Ren asked in a daze.
"It's snowing heavily in thousands of households." said the attendant who called Hao Ren.
"Oh?" Hao Ren was so energetic. He walked out of the warm carriage. The cold wind was whizzing outside. Large areas of snowflakes slapped Hao Ren's face. The snowflakes stuck to his face instantly turned into water droplets, making Hao Ren completely awake. Looking up, he saw a vast area of white everywhere.
"How long has it been snowing?" Hao Ren asked in surprise. There was no snow on the ground when he set off.
"It's half an hour." The guard replied.
Hao Ren understood what the guards couldn't say. When Xue continued to get off like this, it would be difficult for the carriage to walk on the road. However, Hao Ren was a strong person. He thought for a moment and said, "Continue to go."
Ten thousand households of Borjijin's family went to the local area in person, or came in snow, and the local officials were alarmed. Hao Ren asked three questions: 1. Do you know the system of the government troops? 2. Are the Yingyang government troops going to arrive? 3. Can the local families who are treating the government troops?
According to the complaints submitted by local officials later, if the government did not do what they should do seriously, Hao Renwanhu would scold them and force the local officials to do their business quickly.
Half a month had passed when Hao Renwanhu arrived at Zhigu Village, and several more snow fell. The local officials were puzzled by the fact that Wanhu was actually riding a carriage. He asked, "Why don't Wanhu come by boat? It's too hard to ride a carriage."
"I still can't get used to the boat." Hao Ren replied. Then he started his question. As the port city of the Yuan and Song dynasties, Zhiguzhai has many rich people. Hao Ren's ten thousand households regard this place as one of the areas that focus on recruiting government troops.
Of course, local officials knew about the recruitment of government soldiers, and did not dare to offend Wanhu, so they quickly ordered to do it. Then they invited Hao Ren. The opening remark was not the system of government soldiers, but the weather. The official said: "Since last year, the rain and snow in Yan land have increased."
If it were a meteorological person in the Song Dynasty, he would probably analyze that the Yellow River can bring more water vapor to Hebei, which causes more rain and snow in Hebei. However, officials in the Yuan Dynasty did not have such basic scientific literacy. Among them, Hao Ren was considered simple materialism, half between believing in ghosts and gods and atheism. So Hao Ren could feel the subtle embarrassment of the atmosphere, and he smiled and said, "Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. This year's snow is heavy, and autumn will definitely be a good harvest."
After hearing this, the officials quickly responded. Hao Ren felt a little unhappy and suddenly remembered something. Last year, the Yellow River returned to the north, and the big religion took the opportunity to make money. Hao Ren contacted the Confucian ministers to fight against the doomsday dealers. Of course, it was not appropriate to kill them. Hao Ren forced the group of the most violent guys to tell the story of "If you don't use the blessing items of these people, when will the doomsday come?" Some clever people immediately said that they were just talking nonsense, and Hao Ren did not make things difficult for them. He beat the board and let it go.
Some people were also very tough and actually gave a date. They basically predicted that the end of the world would appear this year. Hao Ren put all the people in jail. Seeing that it was the end of the year, Hao Ren finished the banquet and wrote a letter to Lian Xixian after he went back, telling Lian Xixian that Hao Ren could only go back after the spring, so he asked Lian Xixian to bring the scammers to the street for public trial after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Let the people of the people take a good look at how these people pretend to be a god and deceive the public.
When Lian Xixian read this letter, it was already the first month of the year. As he read it, he couldn't help laughing out loud. Hao Ren emphasized that don't kill these people. If they were killed, it might seem that what they said might make sense. The key point is to openly humiliate these people completely, so that they can't deceive others and never be able to cheat in front of others.
After putting down the letter, Lian Xixian felt that it was really awesome for young people. Hao Ren was only 30 years old this year and had already shown extraordinary ability to do things. A few days ago, the envoy sent by Goryeo was less than 40 years old. After seeing Kublai Khan, he persuaded Kublai Khan. In order to supplement the 100,000 prisoners of the Southern Song Dynasty who lost to exchange prisoners, Kublai Khan asked Goryeo to send 30,000 strong men to Dadu for use. The envoy could use persuasion to send 3,000 laborers, which would be replaced every two years.
Although there is definitely no connection between the Goryeo envoy and Hao Ren, the reason why the Goryeo envoy was able to convince Kublai Khan was similar to the system of military service. In the past, the Yuan Dynasty focused on quantity and had relatively low requirements for quality. After the Battle of the Yellow River, the Yuan Dynasty saw what kind of combat effectiveness the Song army, who had been in the army for only one or two years, could show. This allowed the system of military service to be truly implemented.
The suggestion of the Goryeo envoy was that most of them didn’t know what to do when they arrived. After they learned, they might not be their strengths, nor would they be required by the Dayuan. If they could rotate every three years, Goryeo knew about the Dayuan’s needs and could select talents. Moreover, the rotation of personnel could make the Goryeo people not afraid. So what if the number of people increased after a few rounds? Kublai Khan’s sympathy for his son-in-law, the King of Goryeo may be the reason, but this reason is indeed convincing.
Chapter completed!