Qiming 1158

Chapter 203 The Negative Products of the Political Correctness of the Restoration Army
Hundreds of thousands of Zhending locals were driven out of the city. They were miserable together with their old women and children, and could not see where the road would be tomorrow.

This is actually a microcosm of the rough rule of the Jin Kingdom.

Living in the Jin Kingdom is indeed a little easier than living in the oppressive Southern Song Dynasty, because its rule is rough.

But also because of its rough governance, when it wants to exploit it, it is often just and completely exploited, unlike the Southern Song Dynasty, which sometimes pays attention to a sustainable exploitation.

The space in Zhending City was vacated, but there were still many Jurchens who came to seek shelter. They asked to enter Zhending City, and the number of people in the city was still larger.

After reading the report on the storage of supplies in the city, the governor of Zhending thought for a moment, and then ordered the Jurchens to expel all the non-Jurchen slaves who were counted in the household registration.

In the city, only the women's real mouths and official figures are kept, and the rest are not kept.

This aroused the dissatisfaction of some Jurchens.

When the Jurchen calculates the household registration, there is generally a distinction between the female real and the servants. The two are combined into one and counted as one household, so a household can be counted as almost ten people. Among them, the female real population is less than [-]%, and most Still a slave.

There are a small number of Jurchens among these slaves, most of them are Han and Khitan people, they are composed of free people of Song and Liao countries who lost their personal freedom during the war, and their descendants.

Now they're going to be kicked out too.

But they were indeed Jurchen's own private property, so a large number of Jurchen also protested to the governor of Zhending.

The governor of Zhending was very angry and felt that these guys didn't think about him at all, so he decided to teach them a lesson, and ordered the army to expel these ignorant guys with sticks.

As a result, the golden soldiers lined up and waved sticks to beat the Jurchen who came to make trouble. The ordinary Jurchen is inferior to the army in terms of force and equipment. Facing the deliberate attack of the army, only a fiasco is defeated. Go this way.

Fortunately, not many people died, and more than a dozen people died because of accidents. Most of them were injured and were driven away.

It's much better than the direct killer before.

Under the compulsion of force, those slaves who were not Jurchen were also forced to leave Zhending County, crying and fleeing to the surrounding villages or places where they could hide, hoping only to survive the upcoming war.

As a result, the population in Zhending City was finally controlled, there was room for activities, and loyalty was very reliable.

Only then did the governor of Zhending relax a little and began to arrange the defense of the city.

Su Yonglin kept sending people north to inquire about the truth of Zhending County, and found that Han Chinese and Khitan people were driven out of the city in groups.

They crossed the Hutuo River in mourning and helped each other to the south, coming to join the Restoration Army.

Su Yonglin arranged for the army to go north to pick up these people, and took them to the area of ​​Luancheng for resettlement, and then some of these famous people formed a group to meet Su Yonglin and cry to him.

"So, your house and property have been deprived, and the Jin people don't care about your life or death at all, leaving you to fend for yourself?"

Su Yonglin looked at the group of big men crying and felt helpless, and said, "Why don't you resist? The number of you should be no less than the number of Jurchens in the city. If you have the courage to resist, this may not be the case."

"The golden soldiers were ferocious, armed with sharp blades, spears, and crossbows, and wanted to kill us. Before we were expelled, hundreds of people had already been killed. We were really powerless to resist, and we couldn't match the force!"

An old man with a white beard knelt in front of Su Yonglin and wept bitterly: "The old man's son was killed, his daughter-in-law was taken away, his young grandson and granddaughter were trampled to death, and the whole family was full of only the old man alive, and the old man is gone. The idea of ​​​​living.

Now, I just ask the general to give the old man a knife, and let the old man follow the army to return to true determination. Even if he can only kill a golden thief, it is considered as the old man to avenge his family. In this way, even if the old man dies immediately, he will have the face to see him. family! "

After that, the white-bearded old man cried even more fiercely.

The surrounding people cried together, and the surrounding Shengjie Army officers and soldiers listened to the words of the white-bearded old man, and their hearts were not happy.

Su Yonglin sighed.

"Why do the Jin people treat you as adults? They are usually kind to you, but in the event of danger, the Han and Khitan people will be pushed out to die, and they will never be Jurchens, so why should you work for the Jurchens?
The Restoration Army saw through this, so they gave up all fantasies about the Jin Kingdom, and decided to rise up to resist, overthrow the Jin Kingdom, and take our home back.Those who joined the Restoration Army were also hard-working people.

Either the land was taken away by the Jin Kingdom, or the property was taken away, or the wife and family were taken away, so everyone, join the Restoration Army, and the Restoration Army will take you back and take back everything you lost! "

Su Yonglin took the old man's hand: "I swear in the name of Su Yonglin, the Hussar General of the Restoration Army, that I will definitely take back what belongs to you for you. Moreover, I will make those hateful lackeys of the Jin Kingdom pay the price! Blood debts are paid by blood!"

Su Yonglin's remarks inspired the people present, and they all expressed their willingness to fight with the Restoration Army.

So through their persuasion and organization, Su Yonglin successfully recruited this large-scale genuine refugee who hated Jin Guo to the core.

Afterwards, Su Yonglin placed them in the abandoned villages around Luancheng County, provided them with food, let them live in these places temporarily, and had a shelter, and selected more than [-] strong men to be incorporated into the Shengjie Army.

In addition, there are many craftsmen among these people, who were selected by Su Yonglin and sent to Dongping Mansion.

There are also those who can read and write, and those who are engaged in economic work. They were selected by Su Yonglin and arranged to work in the Department of Food and Salary and the Department of Security, which is considered to be a contribution to the Shengjie Army.

Then Su Yonglin started planning to attack Zhending.

According to the information brought by these refugees, Su Yonglin learned that there are more than [-] Jurchen soldiers in Zhending Mansion, and there is a reserve force composed of a larger number of Jurchen civilians who can be armed at any time.

Because of the ethnic group policy of the Restoration Army, the governor of Zhending distrusted the Han and Khitan-based signing troops, worried that they would cooperate with the Restoration Army, so he disarmed them all and drove them away from Zhending.

Therefore, all defenses in Zhending County are the responsibility of the Jurchen, and there is almost no possibility of persuading them to surrender.

Su Yonglin felt a little unhappy.

It has to be said that the method of using ethnic groups to distinguish the enemy and assigning all the Jurchens to the enemy can unite other people at the fastest speed and expel the Jurchens, but once a situation like Zhending County occurs, the siege will also change. relatively difficult.

The Jurchen knew that the Restoration Army would never let them go, and would definitely resist with all their might, and would never surrender, which would invisibly increase the cost of siege.

In fact, Su Yonglin has always disliked siege.

The cities that were won before were either raids, or a combination of inside and outside, or surrendered voluntarily, or because the number of defenders was too small and could be captured in one or two hours. There were very few fortified cities with a large number of defenders.

And Zhending City is undoubtedly a standard fortified city, with a large number of defenders, making it extremely difficult to attack.

This is the negative product of the political correctness of the Restoration Army.

If there is good, there must be bad.

But fortunately, the number of Jurchens really can't be considered too many, not even compared to the Khitans who have already subjugated their country, let alone the larger number of Han people.

Therefore, as an absolute minority, this policy of the Restoration Army can be smoothly implemented, and the backlash is relatively small.

But there are times when this trick fails.

For example, the number of the other ethnic group is too large, and when the wildfire cannot burn out and the spring breeze blows again, other plans must be adopted, otherwise it will cause a major division.

Nationalism is only an expedient measure and cannot be used as a panacea, otherwise it will definitely backfire on itself.

Su Yonglin thought deeply about his policy arrangements all along, and felt that it was a very correct approach that he did not promote nationalism in the Shengjie Army.

Had it been implemented, he could have imagined that one day he would be kidnapped by the army's turbulent national sentiment.

So this kind of behavior didn't exist in the past, it doesn't exist now, and it won't be possible in the future.

(End of this chapter)