Qiming 1158

Chapter 1097 Accountability System for War Criminals

Su Yonglin's speech touched the participants a lot.

The Southern Song Dynasty treated the people as cattle, horses, pigs and dogs, while the Ming Dynasty treated the people as their real people.

Once the completely different attitudes of the two sides towards the people are displayed in front of people's eyes, it will naturally prompt people to vote with their feet.

The people of the Southern Song Dynasty would naturally not oppose the rule of the Ming Kingdom, which would greatly reduce the cost of ruling and maintaining the stability of the Ming Kingdom in the early stage of the conquest.

Of course, feudal dynasties also had similar concerns and preparations. Their approach was generally to win over local powerful factions such as landlords and tyrants in newly occupied territories, and promised various benefits.

The local power faction accepted the new dynasty, so of course the people of Limin had no right to speak, so they followed suit.

The Ming Dynasty did not accept the existence and effectiveness of local power factions, and it needed to face the general public, and the expenditure would be huge. However, the actions of Zhang Yuejing and the Henan Corps greatly reduced this expenditure.

The people of Xiangfan have already trusted the Ming army and the Ming country, and they will not show resistance and suspicion to the governance of the Ming country.

"And I don't know if you have thought about it. Even if a group of people with the same ancestors have been opposed for a long time under the rule of two different regimes, there will be great differences. The separation brought a sense of alienation among the Han people in the north and south, and it lasted for 300 years in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

After the separation of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun from the Central Plains, we have spent a lot of effort to eliminate the opposition between the Han Chinese and the Han people in the Central Plains. This political opposition and separation caused by the opposition of the regime can easily lead to our liberation. mistaken for conquest. "

Su Yonglin said solemnly: "We can't let the people of Daming and the people of the Southern Song Dynasty think that our southward movement is conquest, no, this is liberation, it is to reunite the family that was originally separated, which is very demanding for our military operations. .

Therefore, we must adopt a completely different attitude. In the process of going south, we must let the people of the Southern Song Dynasty realize that we are not going to conquer them, we are going to liberate them, we are going to break their shackles and give them freedom. of. "

Xin Qiji deeply agreed with Su Yonglin's idea, and then put forward his own views.

"I think what the chairman said is very important, and this will have a very important guiding role for us after we conquer the Southern Song Dynasty and unified the Jiangnan region, and I also think that what Zhang Yuejing and the Henan Corps did this time are very correct, provide us with great political support.

I suggest that we advertise this event across the country through the Revival Society, and widely publicize the meaning of liberation, so as to avoid rhetoric such as [Da Ming eradicates the Southern Song Dynasty and conquers Jiangnan] in the Ming Dynasty.

We must grasp this key point. We go south to liberate, and our enemy is the superior, not the people of the Southern Song Dynasty. The two must be separated, and the actions of our army are the best evidence. "

Kong Maojie also realized the necessity of this action.

"Not only in China, but in the Southern Song Dynasty, where our soldiers are pointed, we need to organize the members of the revival to advertise the liberation of the army in the local area. We should attract the people of Xiangfan into our propaganda team in many ways, and use their The actual experience supports our actions.”

Su Yonglin continued to add.

"And this is extremely meaningful for maintaining the revolutionary and just nature of the army. Our army is a revolutionary army and a soldier of the common people. Even if we are marching and fighting, we must also consider the safety of the common people.

If they are safe, we will be safe. If their hearts are with us, we will have a steady stream of troops to fight. By relying on them and contacting them, we will be invincible. This is the iron that the Ming army will never shake. law.

Specifically in the Battle of Xiangfan, the Daming army was already invincible strategically, and only tactically may face minor challenges from the Southern Song Dynasty, which proved to be trivial, and the Daming army was not afraid of the Southern Song army at all.

Under this premise, the Daming army should put discipline and the principle of the people above the first place, and absolutely cannot tolerate the situation of Xiangfan Second City again. Even if it happens again, it will be a shame for the Daming army. "

After the speeches of Su Yonglin, Xin Qiji and Kong Maojie, all members' thoughts were opened.

Everyone, you talked about it for more than an hour, and finally formed a broad consensus.

A total of six key consensuses emerged from the meeting.

First, to widely publicize the actions of the Ming army and the Song army in this Xiangfan battle, it is necessary to unify the thinking, so that the people of the whole country can realize the necessity of going south to destroy the Song Dynasty and liberate the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, as well as the justice of this behavior.

Second, the justice and revolutionary nature of the actions of the Henan Corps were widely publicized within the army, and their spirit was highly praised.

Third, they criticized the actions of Zhang Yuejing and the Henan Corps first and then praised them. The criticism was because they did not take this into account in the pre-war assessment, and the praise was because they changed their attitude in time and put the safety of the people first. .

Fourth, attract the people of Xiangfan area to join the propaganda team, act with the army, widely publicize what happened in Xiangfan area and the behavior of the Ming army, and show their opinions.

Fifth, vigorously promote the revolutionization of the conquered areas, and recruit elite Fuxing members from all provinces of the Ming Dynasty to go south to the Southern Song Dynasty, and prepare to establish political power in the former Southern Song regions that are about to be conquered.

Sixth, implement the [war criminal accountability system] for the Southern Song Dynasty.

This war criminal accountability system is the result of the collective efforts of the meeting.

At the beginning, Shen Ge brought it up, saying that he was worried that the same situation as Xiangfan Second City would occur when they attacked the Southern Song Dynasty. The bottom line of the bureaucrats in the Southern Song Dynasty was that there was no bottom line.

If such a situation continues to occur, it will inevitably greatly affect the actions of the Ming army.

The Ming army loves the people, but the Southern Song Dynasty abused the people. The barefooted people are not afraid of wearing shoes. It is estimated that there will be many difficulties in the future, and it will also have a huge impact on the Ming army.

Su Yonglin thought that Shen Ge's opinion was very reasonable, so everyone discussed it word by word, and finally came to the conclusion that a war criminal accountability system was established.

This is the draft proposed by Xin Qiji.

The specific action method is because after this war, it is a foregone conclusion that Daming will dominate the Southern Song Dynasty, and the mobile forces of the Southern Song Dynasty have been lost.

If you are worried that they will die, then prepare to go south in Huainan, and make a big battle for them to see, so that they will be frightened and not afraid that they will not come to ask for peace.

And as soon as they come to ask for peace, they can begin to operate.

Daming had a huge advantage. At this time, he could ask for anything and everything from the Southern Song Dynasty. On the one hand, he could ask them to cede land and pay indemnity, and on the other hand, he could ask for their war criminals to be held accountable.

Specifically, it is to hand over all the family members and clansmen of the generals who dominated the battle in the Xiangfan Battle and hand them over to the Ming Kingdom for trial.

Their own deaths are not counted, and their families must be held accountable.

To commit such a maddening crime and want to die?
Impossible, family members will pay for their actions.

Daming will judge them severely and let them use the rest of their lives to atone for what they did for the war criminals.

Depending on the viciousness of the war criminals' actions, their descendants may be held accountable for one, two, three, or even four generations.

They want to make atonement for the sins of their ancestors from generation to generation, and they will never be turned over.

Such punishment might have a market within the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Song state paid attention to Confucianism, didn't it say in Confucianism?

Revenge, even for a hundred generations, is possible.

This suggestion, referring to the methods of punishing corrupt officials within the Ming Dynasty, was put forward by Ma Weiying, deputy head of the staff headquarters. He suggested that in order to give the greatest deterrence to all the bureaucrats of the Southern Song Dynasty, the highest punishment must be given, otherwise it would not be enough to deter the bureaucrats of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Su Yonglin further believed that this could make a big fuss and continue to strengthen the public opinion offensive, so that those bureaucrats who were shaken in the Southern Song Dynasty gradually realized the corruption and degeneration of the Southern Song regime, and further moved closer to the Ming government.

It's really a good way to do more with one stone.

So he agreed to implement this plan.

The bureaucrats of the Southern Song Dynasty must be made aware of Ming's firm determination to safeguard the interests of the people and the price they need to pay for it.

When the price is too heavy for them to bear, they will naturally make the right choice.

(End of this chapter)