Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 286 Rules on the Grassland
What stands out about Zhao Guangmei's use of troops is his lack of skill and skill.

In fact, he knew that he was not the material, so he simply gave up all his skills and just used his strength to overwhelm others.

Don't tell me about the art of war. There is no art of war in front of artillery.

The effect of this bombardment is still very obvious. There are only a few capitals in the Liao Kingdom, and they have been bribed by him. The various capitals have long been inseparable from the trade with the Song Dynasty. How can there be any What's your opinion?
Once this person has lived a good life, if you let him go back and continue living the hard life before, he will not be able to survive this life.

Life in the city is so comfortable, and working in a factory is so comfortable. Who would want to wander and graze on the grassland after being used to the life in the city?They are willing, but their soldiers are not willing either.

In fact, even if he doesn't use cannons to intimidate these places, he can still make these state capitals submissive by simply imposing economic sanctions.

So it didn't take three months at all. In less than one month, all the state capitals of the Liao Kingdom came to him in person to get a temporary prefect title.

At the same time, Yelujing was also taken over, and he formally went through the ceremony of regaining the throne in Linhuang Mansion. Then he solemnly opened the treasury of the Liao Kingdom, invited Zhao Guangmei to sit on the dragon throne of the Liao Kingdom, and personally The gold seal of the Great Seal was handed over.

He even wore white mourning clothes and ordered the eunuch to follow him carrying the coffin, making up a "national gift" for Daliao.

Zhao Guangmei naturally accepted it happily.

At this point, it can actually be said that the territory of Daliao has been completely controlled by the Song Dynasty, and the rest is a public security war.

Of course, you can also send a messenger back to Luoyang to announce that Daliao has been officially destroyed, and let Zhao Kuangyin comfort the Ancestral Temple.

However, given the vastness of the Liao State, there were only a dozen state capitals, which really could not play a decisive role. After all, the social structures of the Liao State and the Song State were completely different.

Nomads, in fact, don’t take the capital that seriously. In fact, as long as Yelvxian is there, he can give orders at any time. His army can house the entire camp at any time, and the royal court can move around, as long as he does not take the initiative to show his face. , Zhao Guangmei also had difficulty finding him.

Besides, there is no use finding him. He can leave at any time. His light cavalry is still not trained yet. He cannot catch up. This is a flaw. After all, he can only defeat him, but cannot completely destroy him in a short time. .

Yelvxian is also a ghost, and has never dared to fight the Song Army head-on. But after thinking about it, he still feels that there are not many options for him to choose at the moment, and he can only think of supply lines. On the head of the military leader.

At this time, the Song Dynasty defined them as rebels, and even handed over the responsibility of suppressing bandits to the prefects and military envoys of various prefectures.

Of course, Zhao Guangmei has also thought about the grassroots governance of the armies. In his opinion, the so-called armies actually mean a little bit of each tribe. He is also willing to respect the ethnic customs of Khitan. After all, nomadic civilization and agricultural civilization are indeed different. Same.

But to be honest, it is indeed impossible for him to tolerate the loose management of these lower-level militaries using methods similar to tax-packaging politics.

This is something that even Xiao Chuo in history couldn't bear. In fact, Xiao Chuo's greatest contribution to the Liao Kingdom was to abolish this tradition of grassroots tribal autonomy. It's impossible for Zhao Guangmei to do worse than Xiao Chuo, right?
Besides, such a system will seriously affect the development of social productivity. The herdsmen under each army are actually the slaves of each military owner. They are completely in their hands from birth to death. They are actually serfs. This is worse than that of the Song Dynasty. Before the reform period, the virtuous rural landowners had much more ruthless methods of controlling tenant farmers through land leases and usury.

That’s why he said that the landlord class was a progressive force in the Liao Kingdom.

This kind of slavery-like thing will not be eradicated.

Then he still engages in industrialization?

This so-called rule is also destined to be unstable.

What Zhao Guangmei is competing with Yelvxian now is the popular support of these military leaders, so after Zhao Guangmei formally accepted the surrender, he asked Yelujing and Xiao Siwen to pass orders to the military chiefs in various places. Those who are willing to be loyal to the Song Dynasty will withdraw their troops and establish counties. From then on, each army He will no longer undertake any war missions for the country, and the taxes that each army needs to pay every year will be waived from now on. From now on, the Liao region, like the Song Dynasty, will no longer collect any agricultural taxes.

The military leaders in various places, according to the size of the area they actually control, divide a part of the stock of the Song Dynasty trading company, and they can go to the nearest city to become a landlord or an apartment, or they can simply take the money to go to the Song Dynasty, go to Kaifeng, enjoy life, or have a The ambitious can also start a business and become an entrepreneur.

The only thing is that you can no longer be a military leader, you must not restrict the personal freedom of your soldiers, allow them to work in cities, redistribute land, and allow herdsmen to obtain land on a family basis. They can be appointed as county magistrates on the spot, but they will be evaluated after three years. And it needs to be mobilized, let alone hereditary.

As for how Yelvxian won over them, he didn't know.

This is his condition. He has notified the various state capitals. If the military leaders from various places are willing to surrender to the Song Dynasty, they should go to the capital to report and show their loyalty. If they are not willing, the military commanders and military commanders will suppress the bandits on the spot.

Let the Khitans fight the Khitans.

Of course, if Yelvxian dares to attack those state capitals and big cities, Zhao Guangmei will not watch and will naturally attack him. His Qiaoqi army can still fight.

All in all, the Song Dynasty's governance of the Liao Kingdom was still based on large cities, and worked hard to make the cities bigger and stronger, expand the urban population, and drive the economy around the cities.

As for those vast pastures far away from big cities, don't worry, as long as they don't hinder the development of big cities, he can even ignore everything, no taxes, no management, as long as they don't cause trouble.

When the city develops, it will naturally feed back agriculture through industry, and then it will naturally be able to slowly assimilate the rural people on the grasslands.

In fact, he played the same trick in Song Dynasty.

So even though Yelvxian outside was still alive, Zhao Guangmei had already ignored him, and he wouldn't be able to hang around for long. His people had no supplies on the grassland and could not settle down in a fixed playground for grazing. , waiting for them sooner or later will be death.

Or they may rob herdsmen on a large scale to sustain themselves.

But in that case, he would become a bandit, which would be easier to deal with. After all, in his heart, he did not regard those rural herdsmen as subjects of the Song Dynasty. These herdsmen might still regard Yelvxian as As for their emperor, let's just rob him.

Zhao Guangmei, who took charge of Linhuang Mansion, began to plan and build the house on a grand scale.

First of all, he naturally wanted to build a military horse farm here, train all the soldiers to ride horses, and also change horses for the Xiaoqi battalion.

The current disadvantage of infantry fighting against light cavalry is really frustrating.

In fact, some horses may not need to be replaced. The horses in the Xiaoqi camp were actually good horses when they were first bought. They were raised in the mainland and then used up. Now they are brought back to the grassland for a run. , maybe this energy can come back.At the same time, the design of the coal-fired steam engine was also released, and large-scale immigration was ordered from Kaifeng to Linhuang Mansion. In particular, experienced craftsmen were arranged to come here to attract investment on a large scale. At the same time, they announced that in This heavy investment of 10 billion yuan was to build this place into the heavy industry base of the Song Dynasty, and rename Shangjing to Ma Jing.

The Song Dynasty will implement a fifteen-capital system, namely, Luoyang, the capital, and Kaifeng, the companion capital; Youzhou, the northern capital, and Jizhou, the companion capital; Guangzhou, the eastern capital, and Quanzhou, the companion capital; Dunhuang, the western capital, Liangzhou, the companion capital, and Zhennanfu, the companion capital, Chengdu.

In addition to the four capitals in the southeast, northwest and four capitals, the four capitals are Ma Jing Linhuang Mansion, responsible for raising horses and training troops, Shuijing Jinling Mansion, responsible for the east-west thoroughfare and inland shipbuilding, and Gongjing Yangzhou Mansion, responsible for the development of small handicrafts and linking the north and south. ; and the Yijing Zhenhai Mansion is responsible for connecting the land and sea, and controlling the barbarian states; the Fanjing Taiyuan Mansion is responsible for managing the barbarians, mainly the Khitan party items and the Uighurs.

In this way, the five capitals, five companions, and five capitals will form the basic structure of the core area of ​​the Song Dynasty. At the same time, he also directly took out a huge railway network construction plan. He will build these five capitals within 20 years. The five companions and the five capitals are all connected to each other, leaving a true and iron-clad country for future generations.

Of course, as a result, Kaifeng's business center nature will definitely be further dispersed, and even commercial banks will be split on a large scale with these fifteen capitals. Zhao Guangmei estimates that it will take ten years to reshape the business landscape. time.

These were all discussed with Zhao Kuangyin before he sent troops.

With the laying of railways and the development of coal-fired steam engines, the Song Dynasty is about to usher in a new round of great development.

Of course, he was somewhat selfish in this. Most of the fifteen capitals were land-based cities, leaving little room for Zhao Kuangyin to develop.

Zhao Kuangyin really didn't expect such a magical thing as a coal-fired generator. He shuddered just thinking about the impact of this thing on the development of the country. Naturally, he pinched his nose and agreed. Zhao Guangmei's plan actually came first. Lu Houhai’s development philosophy.

But he will never give up the development of the navy and maritime trade. While building railways, he cannot stop building ships at the same time.

The reason why Zhao Guangmei publicly announced this news after destroying the Liao Kingdom was to boost confidence and win over people's hearts. After all, with such a large-scale plan, the newly surrendered nobles of Khitan, as long as they are not too stupid, will You can earn real benefits from it.

Even the lives of ordinary people will definitely become better because of this. The total mileage of the entire railway plan is close to [-] kilometers, a large part of which is placed on their grasslands, that is, Linhuang Mansion-Youzhou-Luoyang Line, and Linhuangfu-Taiyuan-Dunhuang line.

These two such long railway lines must be subcontracted to the original Liao nobles and ordinary people, and this is all money.

Even Zhao Guangmei doesn't know how much such a shocking plan will cost, but it is only a few days, and the economic benefits generated by coal and iron will be astonishing, if not for the support of coal-fired generators. However, he knew very clearly that a wave of industrial revolution was coming, and he did not dare to make such a big move.

And after such a big plan is put forward, businessmen with a little more intelligence will definitely realize that prices are going to take off again.

At this time, if anyone has money to deposit in a money bank, even though the money bank promises to pay interest, this person must be a super fool.

Loans are the best way to get rich, or even just to ensure that your net worth does not shrink.

But if the money from the loan is to maintain its value, it must be invested. At this time, where is the biggest investment depression in the Song Dynasty?In fact, it is in Daliao, Linhuang Mansion, Youzhou Mansion, Jizhou Mansion, and the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun!

Here, there is a lot of waste waiting to be done!

These are all dividends specially prepared by Zhao Guangmei for the people of Liaodi.

As long as he can make the Khitan people live and work in peace and contentment, Yelvxian will not go to him no matter what he wants.

Then, in just over half a month, Zhao Guangmei began to receive urgent requests for help from various places.

Moreover, the ones who beat them and caused trouble were not Yelvxian and the remnants of the Liao Kingdom, but people from Shiwei.

The Shiwei people are seizing the Khitan people's pasture!

Even Yelvxian is now getting together with the Shiwei people.

"Your Highness, according to reliable information, after Yelu Xiezhen's army retreated, Dading Prefecture has confirmed that it has failed. The Shiwei tribe rushed out and entered the Liao, oh no, at least 200 million people entered the Song Dynasty."

"Wait a minute, how many people are there? Two million people? At least? How many people does Shiwei have in total?"

"It is indeed 200 million people. This time, not only men came to Shiwei, but also a large number of women, old and weak, children, and even infants. I'm afraid...this time they came , I don’t plan to leave. Shuibin Mansion, Dingli Mansion, Tieli Mansion, and Zhenhai Mansion are all of a high level, and some of the female students seem to have got mixed up with them. It can be said that everything west of Linhuang Mansion is in chaos now."

Hearing this, Zhao Guangmei couldn't help but pinch her temples, and she actually felt a numb scalp.

"Where is Yelu Xiezhen? This man... Hey~, forget it, in short, the Khitans and the Shiwei people are completely at war now? Shiwei is my affiliated country of the Song Dynasty. In the opinion of my father-in-law, I will put aside this matter. Come to the table and offer some benefits, can we talk?"

"I think, no, Shiwei won't succeed this time. Based on my understanding of them, I'm afraid they killed themselves this time, at least 40 to [-] old, weak, women and children. Now that they have come out, Either we fight for the land here, or we don’t plan to go back.”

"........."

This is also true. Shi Wei's ruthlessness has far exceeded Zhao Guangmei's expectations. In other words, he has never had a clear understanding of human nature's ruthlessness.

This time Shiwei's women, old men, and children had already picked up the sword. Some old men who could no longer ride horses had gone to the depths of the desert together before the expedition and starved themselves to death. Some children who were too young had He really couldn't take it away, so he beat him to death before going on the expedition.

Once I got out, I had no intention of going back alive.

However, even Yelvxian no longer works hard around his supply line, but hastily went to find the main force of Shiwei. As for how he wants to fight this battle and how to deal with the intricate ethnic conflicts involved, no one Know.

Zhao Guangmei was also stunned, Shi Wei's cruelty frightened him.

After all, he is still a civilized person. He really cannot adapt to the naked law of the jungle and the strong in the depths of the grassland. It is true that he has made some miscalculations.

(End of this chapter)