Chapter 1574 Kublai Khans friendliness and the courts precautions
Chapter 1574 Kublai Khan’s friendliness and the court’s precautions
"Everyone, please bear with it for now!"
Li Zengbo didn't want to bear the burden of food and grass, but he was more afraid that Su Mingzhe would forcefully recruit 100,000 young men from the local area!
"As for next year...I will write a note to the court later and ask the court to allocate money and food for disaster relief in time!"
Zhou Dai and others saw that Li Zengbo, the boss of Huaidong Road, had plans, so they said nothing.
End of October.
The state governments on Huaidong Road recruited 100,000 refugees for Su Mingzhe.
Recruiting refugees as soldiers was a habitual operation of the Song Dynasty.
For the local government, refugees are a factor of instability.
Now that Su Mingzhe has been taken away, the local government is too late to be happy.
Su Mingzhe and his three junior brothers, pulling 100,000 recruits along with them, pushed towards the north while conducting drills.
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
As time entered the twelfth month, a heavy snow blocked the advance route of the army.
One hundred thousand troops had to rest in Xuzhou.
Xuzhou, belongs to Jingxi East Road.
Among the many official positions given to Su Mingzhe by the imperial court, one was "Knowing Xuzhou".
The Tatars in Xuzhou fled long ago when they heard that the "Great Demon King" Su Mingzhe was leading an army of 100,000 in the northern expedition.
Even big cities like Xuzhou were undefended, and county towns in various places opened their city gates and surrendered without waiting for Su Mingzhe to attack.
After Su Mingzhe captured the city near Xuzhou, he was not in a hurry to advance due to heavy snow and road closures, but instead reorganized and renovated the local area first.
First of all, abolish all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and implement the simplest principle of 'killing those who kill, and those who hurt others and steal will not be punished!'
Secondly, the unowned land should be distributed directly to the local red people.
For lands with owners, taxes will be exempted for three years, and after three years, taxes will be halved.
Third, carry out labor reform for local people who have helped the Tatars.
For local people who have resisted the Tatars, various preferential treatments and substantial material rewards will be given.
Fourth, optimize the integration of all ethnic groups.
Whether it is Khitan, Jurchen, Dangxiang, or Mongolia, under Su Mingzhe's rule, everyone is treated equally without discrimination or targeting.
As measures were implemented one by one, local people quickly returned to their hearts.
After the Spring Festival, time comes to the fourth year of Chunyou.
Seeing that the local people's sentiments had stabilized, Su Mingzhe led the army and continued northward.
The Tatars in Shanzhou, Yingtianfu, Xingrenfu and other state capitals on the east and west roads of Beijing fled one after another, and the rest surrendered.
Early May.
The east and west roads in Beijing are all in Su Mingzhe's hands.
In early June, the army arrived in Qizhou.
Qizhou, belongs to Jingdong East Road.
The Tatars here are still fleeing.
Wu Xiuwen looked at the majestic Jinan City with its high city and deep pond. He was full of emotions for a while, and his tone was also triumphant:
"Brother, these Tatars are really afraid of us. They don't even dare to fight us when we meet them, and they all run away in a hurry!"
"Be careful of fraud!"
Yang Guo was suspicious by nature. Seeing that the road was smooth, he had long begun to suspect that the Tatars were up to something.
Su Mingzhe held the letter sent by Qizhou's official and remained silent for a long time.
This letter was sent by Kublai Khan.
Last year, he sent a letter to Kublai Khan asking for an alliance, but Kublai Khan did not agree.
Now Kublai Khan in turn wrote a letter to Su Mingzhe, asking for an alliance.
In the letter, Kublai Khan wrote that as long as Su Mingzhe promised to form an alliance with him, not to invade each other, and even to help each other, he was willing to support Su Mingzhe's "yellow robe".
To show his sincerity, Kublai Khan had already withdrawn all the Tatar armies on both sides of Jingdong.
"Kublai Khan is indeed a figure who can establish the Great Yuan Dynasty. He actually gave up on the matter of destroying his 300,000 troops!"
"However, you still have to be careful to prevent your home from being robbed!"
Then, several months.
Su Mingzhe asked Yang Guo to take charge of Qizhou, and he led the army to quickly recover Jingdong East Road.
Time comes to Chunyou's fifth year.
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Su Mingzhe had completely mastered the two routes of Jingdong and Jingdong, so he wrote a memorial to Lin'an.
A total of three things were mentioned in the memorial.
The first thing is to cry miserably.
After more than a hundred years of war, there were originally more than 1 million households and a population of more than 6 million on the Jingdong and East Roads, but now there are only 300,000 households and a population of more than 1 million left.
Su Mingzhe directly wrote that there were only a few hundred thousand households left on the two roads, less than 500,000 people.
This is data halving.
Then, he asked the court to move the people from the north to the south to fill the two roads.
The second thing is to request the merger of Jingdong and Jingdong.
The reason is very simple. There are nearly a hundred counties and important towns in the two roads, but the population is only more than 400,000. On average, there are less than 5,000 people in one county or important town.
If there is no merger, officials will be too redundant.
The third thing is to ask the court to allocate money and food.
The reason is the same as above. The population of the two routes is too small, only more than 400,000 people, most of whom are old, weak, sick and disabled, and cannot afford to support an army of 100,000 people.
When Su Mingzhe's memorial was delivered to Lin'an, heated discussions began in the court.
First of all, Su Mingzhe easily regained both Jingdong and Jingdong roads, which was a mixed blessing for Song Ting.
Fortunately, Su Mingzhe regained both roads without a single blow. The territorial boundary between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Tatars was pushed more than a thousand miles north, and the security of Lin'an was greatly improved.
What is worrying is that Su Mingzhe's prestige is so high that even the Tatars dare not confront Su Mingzhe, and the public's respect for Su Mingzhe has reached the extreme.
As the emperor, Zhao Yun was really afraid that Su Mingzhe would come and wear a yellow robe, so he would have no choice but to hide in the toilet and cry.
Faced with such a thorny issue, the court naturally had to have some heated discussions.
As Su Mingzhe's backer, Shi Songzhi will definitely support Su Mingzhe strongly.
However, Yang Gu and his people strongly opposed it.
After more than a month of pulling.
April.
The imperial edict was delivered to Qizhou.
In the imperial edict, Su Mingzhe was first praised for his achievements in recovering the two roads in Jingdong, and then his title was promoted from Jining County Duke to Jining County King.
This reward is neither big nor small, it is just right.
Secondly, selective approval was given regarding the three matters that Su Mingzhe petitioned.
Among them is the migration of people.
Although the imperial court agreed to relocate the people, it also said that this kind of thing would waste people and money and would definitely last a long time.
Therefore, let Su Mingzhe first leave 50,000 of the 100,000-strong army, and disperse the remaining 50,000 to various states and capitals to fill in various places.
In other words, they asked Su Mingzhe to cut off half of his troops in one fell swoop.
This means that the imperial court has begun to take precautions against Su Mingzhe.
The second thing is that the two roads can be merged. After the merger, they will be Jingdong Road.
Su Mingzhe served as the pacifier of Jingdong Road.
Moreover, the appointment of officials in the Xinzhou Prefecture also required Su Mingzhe to submit another memorial, which would be approved by the court.
This was the court's appeasement to Su Mingzhe.
As a result, the new Jingdong Road officials were all promoted by Su Mingzhe, which gave Su Mingzhe a good opportunity to expand his power.
The third thing is that money and food will be allocated, but it will only be allocated according to the number of 50,000 people.
The imperial court was only willing to allocate 50,000 yuan of military rations in order to continue forcing Su Mingzhe to disarm.
In addition, the court also reprimanded Su Mingzhe for meeting and paying taxes without the approval of the court.
Of course, this rebuke means that the thunder is louder than the raindrops.
After reprimanding, the eunuch Dong Songchen who announced the decree quietly told Su Mingzhe that he had been the envoy of the two routes in Jingdong for the third year of Chunyou's reign, and now it was the fifth year of Chunyou's reign.
By next year, the sixth year of Chunyou, before October, Su Mingzhe needs to return to Beijing to report on his work.
After hearing this, Su Mingzhe naturally agreed.
He is not Yue Wumu. Even if he is recalled to Beijing, he is not afraid of being unjustly killed in Feng Boting under the name of "unfounded".