Qiming 1158

Chapter 1006 Su Yonglin's Heart Will Never Die

The former Daming landlords and squires who fled from the refugees crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, tasted the sufferings of the world, and finally escaped and came to the Southern Song Dynasty.

They experienced ups and downs in the process of going south. In order to avoid the local Luka of the Ming Dynasty, they had to take the inaccessible mountain path.

Although there were no Ming chasing troops on the mountain path, there were harsh natural environments and ferocious carnivores. They looked at the group of good people who had traveled thousands of miles to deliver food to their door with green eyes, and tears of emotion flowed from the corners of their mouths.

Of course, only a few were killed by the predatory beasts. Most of the people who died were because the mountain road was difficult, or fell to their death, or lost their way, or ran out of food, and thus turned into nutrients for the vast mountains and forests.

And those who survived to reach the Southern Song Dynasty were indeed a lifetime of luck.

Not only did they know what their significance to the Southern Song Dynasty was, but they really hated the Ming Kingdom, so they made up a lot of tragic jokes in response to the propaganda requirements of the Southern Song Dynasty officials.

They describe themselves as the kind people who lead the tenants to live and work in peace and contentment and feed the whole family without hunger.

The tenants were very supportive of their good governance. As a result, the Ming court used a lot of money to buy off their tenants, or coerced and intimidated their tenants, causing the tenants to attack them in groups.

They have either lost their kind and wise wives, or their beautiful daughters, or their brave sons, or their kind old parents.

Invariably, they all described the family members who died as a result of their escape as the hero who sacrificed their lives to protect more family members from fleeing the tiger's mouth, or the unfortunate who was slaughtered.

They stated that the imperial court incited and condoned the mob to loot their property, plunder their land, kill their family members, and said that the tenants who had benefited from them were bewitched and showed their fangs to them.

Or killed the kind-hearted young master, or forcibly abused the kind-hearted and beautiful little daughter, or killed their wives and ate them, or hung their 80-year-old parents and whipped them to death.

They are kind-hearted all their lives, and they are not willing to trample an ant to death. Even if they are so kind, they still cannot escape the murder of the murderous court and the ungrateful white-eyed wolf.

It's a miserable cry.

All in all, they described the Ming Kingdom as the hell of riots, described the vigorous revolution as a terrifying riot, and described the people who smashed their shackles and resisted as ruthless mob.

They are kind, gentle and correct, the Ming court and the Ming emperor are evil, the mud legs are perfidious and punished by heaven, and the Ming army is cruel and unkind.

This kind of propaganda was very much in line with the needs of the Southern Song court. The officials of the Southern Song Dynasty were overjoyed, so they were taken to Lin'an in large numbers to speak in front of civil and military officials and the emperor.

They cried and asked Emperor Zhao Tan for help, for protection, and for a bowl of rice to eat.

Their ability to make up stories is very strong. When they said it, Zhao Tan was tearful, and when they said it, the civil and military officials sighed.

Civil and military officials are not stupid, they are all smart, not stupid.

Although they all know that these guys are absolutely impossible to be so gentle to the tenants, absolutely impossible to be so righteous, but they still feel deeply about the great revolutionary action initiated by the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty's behavior of standing on the side of the mud-legged people. deep fear.

They have never seen a regime that stands with Mud Legs, a regime that shovels landowners and squires for Mud Legs, let alone an emperor who allows all this or even dominates it all.

Is this special lady the emperor?
They are very worried that the present of this group of guys is their future, and they are even more worried that some of these guys will escape, but they cannot escape.

These guys can still escape across thousands of mountains and rivers to the Southern Song Dynasty to beg for food. When the Ming army goes south, where will they flee?
Lingnan?

Champaign?
They began to worry deeply about their future.

And this is the purpose of Zhao Tan and the Saisuke team.

Using this group of people to tell them the revolutionary policy of the Ming Dynasty, to once again gather people's hearts on a large scale, to bring the unprecedented unity of the ruling class of the Southern Song Dynasty, and to curb internal friction to a considerable extent.

Through this wave of public opinion work, the ruling class of the Southern Song Dynasty is basically full of a sense of crisis, the desire for infighting is not so strong, the party struggle is not so fierce, and the fighting spirit against the Ming Dynasty is also unprecedentedly strong.

After that, Zhao Tan was keenly aware that his decree made a lot of work.

There were always some stumbling and stumbling before, and some people were not able to work hard, and the administrative efficiency was low.

Fortunately, the administrative efficiency has been greatly improved, and it is more efficient than the previous period.

By mid-October of the fourth year of Hongwu, the recruitment plan of [-] troops was successfully completed.

This time, it was a real 7 people, not mixed with water. All of these 7 people were enriched into the Jianghuai Theater and the Lin'an Forbidden Army. The full amount is quite rare.

To say that there is no credit for this group of squires and gentlemen of the Ming Dynasty is really not objective.

After the Lin'an Imperial Army suffered two devastating blows, they finally had a quota of 4 people again, and the remaining 3 people were sent to the three armies of Zhenjiang Mansion, Jiankang Mansion, and Chizhou Mansion.

Zhao Xuan organized all these 4 people into the Guard Horse Army Division and the Guard Infantry Division under his command. As for the Dianqian Division, they were not assigned because they were still outside with Zhao Gou.

But these 7 people are certainly not the end, but just a starting point.

On the day when the 7-man recruiting plan was completed, Zhao Yan proposed an ambitious 8-man recruiting plan, demanding that the army be restored to the size before the first Ming-Song War within two years.

And with the implementation of this 8-strong recruiting plan, the Southern Song Dynasty court also began to announce the holding of special military exercises to recruit talents with courage and military skills from the whole society.

As long as you pass the exam, you can be directly awarded military positions and grant generous benefits.

At the same time, in the official imperial examinations, the questions also began to be biased towards military strategy.

In addition to the traditional problems in the study of classics, at the request of Zhao Tan, there were military problems in the palace examination, requiring the selection of military talents from the candidates who participated in the imperial examination.

Zhao Tan also recruited military talents for the officials who had become officials, and prepared to expand the scale of the Privy Council on a large scale, give the Privy Council greater power, and cheer up the Privy Council, and by the way, cheer up the military in the Southern Song Dynasty.

With the implementation of a series of new policies, more and more military talents entered the Privy Council, and their arrival provided a guarantee for the professionalism of the Privy Council.

And Zhao Tan was finally dissatisfied with Zhou Linzhi's conservative military strategy, and was ready to adopt a more radical military strategy to confront the threat posed by the Ming Kingdom.

To this end, Zhao Tan exchanged the positions of Chen Kangbo, who had returned from the Ming Dynasty, and Zhou Linzhi, who had been appointed to the Privy Council.

Zhou Linzhi heaved a sigh of relief, while Chen Kangbo accepted the mission with a solemn expression.

After Chen Kangbo returned to Lin'an, he submitted a detailed report to Zhao Tan about all the experiences and knowledge of him and the envoy in Ming.

Knowing the series of changes in the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Tan felt uneasy.

Knowing that Su Yonglin was trying to interfere in the internal affairs of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Tan was really angry and frightened, and immediately rejected the suggestion.

"I thought Su Yonglin suddenly showed kindness, but I didn't expect him to be so vicious, trying to win the hearts and minds of the Song Dynasty in this way and interfere in the internal affairs of the Song Dynasty, it is really hateful!"

Zhao Tan said angrily, "It seems that Su Yonglin is not going to die after all!"

Chen Kangbo nodded.

"Although the Ming Dynasty will not die, but they still have a lot of things to do. They want to repair the Yellow River, and they need to concentrate a lot of manpower and material resources, so it is unlikely to be my enemy in the short term, and it is unlikely to go south."

"Didn't you say that they won't be able to fight because of repairing the Yellow River?"

Zhao Tan whispered: "This kind of thing can't be misjudged, otherwise Da Song will be very dangerous."

Chen Kangbo nodded.

"Of course the veteran knows, but the Song Dynasty is a big country after all, and the Ming Dynasty also knows that going south to invade the Song Dynasty is not enough to have an army of tens of thousands. If it intends to overthrow the Song Dynasty, will it only send 6 or [-] people? It must be comprehensive Attack, in this case, there is an unfinished big project behind it, it is unimaginable."

(End of this chapter)