Qiming 1158

Chapter 1104 It's all a thousand-year-old fox, what are you playing in Liao Zhai?
Throughout the month of July, the Ming army's attacks on the Southwest Road, Jinghu North Road, Jingnan Road and Jiangnan West Road were all very smooth, and there was no resistance from the Song army.

Wherever the Ming army went, most of the officials, wealthy households and tycoons of the Southern Song Dynasty chose to flee, except for a very few who chose to surrender with the "Hongwu Political Theory" in their hands, and a very small number of them chose armed resistance.

They dragged their family along with their mouths, took all the softness they could carry, and fled to the east together, fleeing in the direction of Lin'an, trying to escape to Lin'an and obtain the royal blessing.

When "Hongwu Politics" spread throughout the Southern Song Dynasty, the literate population in the upper classes of the Southern Song Dynasty basically read this book and knew very well about Su Yonglin's policies towards the Southern Song Dynasty, as well as Su Yonglin's revolutionary theory and liquidation policy.

Therefore, at this moment when the Ming army was heading south, they generally guessed that they could not survive under the rule of the Ming Kingdom.

They are all tyrannical landlords, their families are thousands of acres of land, and there are hundreds of tenants with thousands of households. In terms of identity attributes, they clearly belong to the [superior people] that must be attacked in the policy of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, if you are just a high-class person, you don't necessarily have to run away, because in the land policy of the Ming Dynasty, the high-class people also have to be graded.

Those who will be raided and wiped out belong to the extremely vile high-class people, the kind of dregs in the world who bully men and women as human beings.

And those who still have a little bit of conscience, as long as they don't do anything destructive, hand over the land and the tenants honestly, and then obediently be farmers, live by labor, and be good citizens who pay taxes according to law, the Ming government will not Physics wiped them out.

But the problem is that under the exploitation system of the Southern Song Dynasty with a high degree of internal oppression, people with conscience are as rare and rare as national first-class protected animals.

In a general sense, the actual situation of the tenants was infinitely close to that of slaves, even worse than that of low-level workers in the British Victorian era.

Do not dare to fight back, dare not fight back, let alone personal residual value, the remaining life of the entire family can be exploited for you together, even the husband, wife and children will be the ox and the horse for the landlord and tyrant, almost luck. All generations are tenants, and the capitalists will cry when they hear it.

When it comes to not being a human being, the veteran capitalists who have the most means to lead the British have to shout at them when they meet them, and they are eager to come to study immediately and learn the advanced experience of exploitation and oppression.

Because they knew that their inaction would inevitably be liquidated by the Ming Kingdom, they fled one after another.

This is completely different from the power change in the style of changing the king's flag when the city head was changed in the past dynasties.

Most of the iron-clad gentlemen were frightened by the liquidation policy of the Ming government and Su Yonglin, and they even heard of the comprehensive liquidation policy of the Ming Kingdom in Jiangbei.

There are also a very small number of iron-headed babies. They think they are probably very brave and have great fighting power, so they dragged their tenants into armed resistance. As a result, they destroyed their homes under the onslaught of the Ming army, leaving nothing behind. seedlings.

In addition, there are a very small number of people who do not take the usual path, holding the "Hongwu Political Theory" which was regarded as a banned book in the Southern Song Dynasty, claiming that they admire Su Yonglin's policy very much, and they also feel that they should not enjoy so much wealth. Hand over the wealth and let the Ming government dispose of it, only to live under the rule of the Ming kingdom.

There are very few such families, very few. There is not necessarily a single family in a county, but there are indeed, so that when Zhang Yuejing gathered all this information, he was surprised. He felt that in the Southern Song Dynasty, the oppression system was so perfect There is still such a person.

Strange indeed.

Regardless of this, with the defeat of the Song army and the rapid advance of the Ming army, it is a matter of time when the distance between the four roads is completely conquered, and it is not a real problem at all.

At this moment, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty in Lin'an was really like sitting on the crater watching the eruption of the volcano.

In April, after learning that the Ming army went south to encircle the second city of Xiangfan, the court of the Southern Song Dynasty was already very panicked. Zhao Wei was so angry that he became a bedridden emperor. A support force of 8 people rushed to support Xiangfan.

Originally, Chen Kangbo felt that although the Song army was not as powerful as the Ming army, there were at least 8 troops, and there were [-] reinforcements from Sichuan and Shu, plus the [-] defenders in the second city of Xiangfan. This rescue mission.

Not to mention a big victory, at least it can repel the Ming army and restore the situation to the point before the Ming army went south.

Then take advantage of the time when the Ming army was resting and recuperate, and then free up his hands to clean up the peasant army and relieve internal worries. In this way, the situation can almost be stabilized, and it will live up to Zhao Tan's trust.

But the situation did not develop as he expected.

In May, just over a month after Li Xianzhong sent troops to fight, he learned the news of Li Xianzhong's defeat.

In the confrontation with the Ming army, Li Xianzhong was defeated and lost in Zaoyang. Li Xianzhong himself died in the battle, and the entire army of [-] troops was wiped out, and few escaped the battlefield.

The only group of cavalry that escaped the battlefield was specially ordered by Li Xianzhong. They ran wild on their horses, ran away from the war horse, and almost broke their legs. They finally escaped the pursuit of the Ming army and fled back to Lin'an, and brought them with them. The news of the annihilation of the whole army and Li Xianzhong's final words.

The Ming army was equipped with a new type of firearm, in the shape of a large iron pot, thick and long in shape, capable of firing huge projectiles. an army.

The Ming army also had a small iron jar in its hand. It was slender and slender. It was the same as an ordinary individual weapon in the hand. It could also fire small projectiles. , but also to pierce armor and shields, the Song army's tight military formation was overturned in a single encounter and could not compete with it.

The escaped Li Xianzhong's personal soldiers burst into tears, and Chen Kangbo, who met them, finished Li Xianzhong's last words, and then committed suicide collectively to repay Li Xianzhong's kindness.

After Chen Kangbo learned of this, his mind went blank, and he fell to the ground at a loss.

Afterwards, the news of Li Xianzhong's annihilation spread throughout the court, and a considerable number of military officials in the court and the field directly broke the defense, rushed into the Privy Council like crazy, and asked Chen Kangbo for specific information and whether this matter was true.

Chen Kangbo's mind was blank, described as sluggish, unable to manage, and barely maintaining his sense, the privy deputy envoy Yu Yunwen confirmed the authenticity of the matter to the ministers, but also said that they would immediately come up with a strategy to continue to assist Xiangfan.

"Xiangfan has not been lost! Xiangfan is still in the hands of our army! The Ming army must not cross Xiangfan and attack Jiangnan directly. Don't panic! This is the time when all the lords work together to overcome the tough times! All lords must calm down! Be sure... …”

Yu Yunwen's words were interrupted before he finished speaking, physically interrupted.

I don't know who threw a big mouth on Yu Yunwen, ranted about the incompetence of the Privy Council, and then punched and kicked Yu Yunwen, knocking Yu Yunwen to the ground and rolling aside, unable to get up.

Then they collectively broke into the Privy Council, smashed it in the Privy Council, and beat the deputy Privy Council envoy Hu Quan who was trying to dissuade them.

In the end, they found Chen Kangbo, who was described as sluggish, and asked Chen Kangbo to give an explanation while holding Chen Kangbo's collar, otherwise they would take him to see the emperor and let the emperor kill him.

All are not fools.

The failure of this military operation completely penetrated the bottom line of psychological safety of the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Li Xianzhong's army of [-] troops supporting Xiangfan was wiped out. What this meant for the Southern Song Dynasty, everyone was like a mirror in their hearts, and they all knew.

Who is Yu Yunwen talking about in Mandarin here?
They are all thousand-year-old foxes, what are you playing in Liao Zhai?
Chen Kangbo couldn't say a word, and his head was buzzing. He didn't know how this happened, how Li Xianzhong was defeated so badly, and he didn't know how to deal with the coercion of the ministers.

His inaction angered the ministers, who immediately carried Chen Kangbo into the palace, ignoring Ye Yiwen, Wang Dabao, Chen Junqing and others who came to dissuade them, and entered the palace in groups, seeing that they had just recovered and had not had time to go to court. Zhao Tan, who handles government affairs.

(End of this chapter)