Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 272
Xiao Gu and Su Yan didn't know how to answer Li Buqi's question. After a long time, Su Yan asked: "The envoy said that the imperial court should suppress and appease the barbarians instead of just accommodating them?"

Li Buqi said: "No, this is only a superficial phenomenon. The actual situation is that the court's soft policy towards the barbarians is very wrong. First, the vast majority of officials shout that they are gentle with the barbarians, but in their hearts they regard the barbarians as beasts. They are not the people of the Great Song Dynasty. If there is nothing to do, they will oppress and oppress, and if there is something to do, they will be gentle. In this way, when doing things, they will blindly play tricks and do things for their own benefit, and even have no faith at all. Repeated several times, it is rare for the court to be trusted by the barbarians."

"Secondly, almost all officials don't know the inside story of the barbarians. When they talk about being soft, they reward the barbarian leaders. In this way, all the benefits given by the court go to the barbarian leaders. Ordinary barbarians don't know the favor of the court. The rebellion threatens the imperial court. On the one hand, ordinary barbarians have no sympathy for the imperial court. When the leader ascends to the top, he immediately revolts. Because of these two mistakes, in fact, the imperial court’s soft policy is mostly just firefighting.”

"In fact, it is not that difficult to change the land and return to the people. Everyone wants to live a good life. As long as the barbarian people see that the people of the barbarians can live a better life than those in their cottage tribes, the ordinary barbarians will definitely live a better life. Will be willing to accept the management of the government. Those who are unwilling to change their land and return to the locals are those leaders who regard the tribes as their private property. But if the government directly deals with these people, it will give these people the opportunity to provoke conflicts between the Han people and the barbarians. Therefore, it is the last A good way is to let the barbarian people ask the government to manage them and fight against their leaders."

"I recruited Dong soldiers not all for the purpose of intercourse. A more important purpose is to let these Dong people who have never seen the world outside the mountain go out of the mountain alone, and see with their own eyes how prosperous and powerful the Song Dynasty is, and how rich life can be. Opportunity. With comparison, they will be eager to accept the management of the imperial court, and when they return to their cottage, they will also promote it for us. Of course, the premise is that no one treats them like beasts."

"So, the success or failure of this matter depends entirely on how we treat these Dong soldiers. If we treat them like citizens, they will help the court to reform the country in the future. If we treat them like animals, they may really become wolves in the future."

Speaking of this, he looked at Xiao Gu and Su Yan and asked: "Would you two help me with this matter?"

Xiao Gu hurriedly said: "The words of Yunshi made Gu Maosai suddenly enlightened. How dare you not be dedicated?"

Then Su Yan said: "No wonder people say that Yun Shi is a talented person, and he is used to exploring secrets. It is true. If Yun Shi is in charge of the overall situation, Ji Zi should be the pioneer to do a good job for the court."

Li Buqi said: "I know that both of you are talented people, so I am relieved. But I am worried about the officials under your command. If you only pay one or two, the efforts of others will be in vain. Therefore, this On the one hand, you have to work hard to supervise.”

Su Yan asked: "Maybe the envoy can talk about how to do it?"

Li Buqi said: "Just treat them like ordinary people, with meritorious rewards and wrong punishments. As for those Dong soldiers, they are used to laxity. It will be difficult for them to fully abide by military discipline. And I don't plan to train them into forbidden soldiers." Such a strong army. So you don’t have to pay too much attention to their formation and lineup, as long as they can observe basic discipline and obey orders at the beginning.”

Now that Xiao Gu and Su Yan got the truth, they worked diligently on targeting the barbarians.

Now that it has entered the first lunar month, rice has been sown soon, rice seedlings will be transplanted soon, and sugar cane will be planted in some places.Because the imperial court exempted the war-torn areas of Guangdong and Guangxi from taxes for two years, the production of these government lands will be the first income of the Guangdong government in this year. Li Buqi had to devote a large part of his energy to supervising production.

This winter, tens of thousands of acres of land have been leveled out around Guangzhou through work-for-relief methods, which would not be able to be taken care of by each family in the past.But now after a winter, most villages can organize labor cooperation, and the government bought a lot of cattle from Fujian and Jiangxi for the people to use, so a lot of manpower was allocated to work for the government, and the tens of thousands Mu Guantian has also been planted, and the situation seems to be very good.

However, this is the first time that the government has organized such a large-scale labor cooperation. Although there are many students from Qingyuan Academy to supervise and help, these students only have theoretical knowledge and lack practical experience.The so-called all things are difficult at the beginning, some flaws can easily turn a good thing that benefits the people into a bad government that harms the people. What Li Buqi is most worried about is that officials will take the opportunity to harm the people and allocate them to work. After staying for two days, I dispatched to several demonstration counties around Guangzhou for inspections. Even the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was spent in Yingzhou.

Before returning to Guangzhou, the messenger rushed to report that Di Qing had flown troops to capture Kunlun Pass on Yuanxi night.

Li Buqi had seen the comic strip of this story when he was a child before traveling, but he didn't expect to witness this historical fact now, but Nong Zhigao was replaced by a cochinese.

Now the Cochin people in Yongzhou are suffering.A large number of various materials were transported around Yongzhou and waited to be exchanged for Cochin captives. If you want to know with your toes, those tough mountain people will rush into Guangyuan Prefecture with red eyes to intercept and kill the Cochin people's food and grass team, because it is consumption. The highest combat method.It is estimated that it will not take long for the Cochin people to be short of food.The Jiaozhi people lost the natural danger Kunlun Pass again, so they won't be able to stay in Yongzhou for long.

As for the Cochin people in Qinzhou and Lianzhou, they are also very hard-pressed.Because Li Buqi left a fleet of three large ships and six fast boats at Fangcheng Port to intercept the Cochin people's grain transport ships.Then there is another fleet resting in Qiongzhou Harbor, which is rotated every few days.

At that time, the registered population of Guangxi was only 40 million, and remote places like Qinzhou and Lianzhou had a population of only [-] to [-]. Because of the war, everyone who could escape escaped. Where did the Cochin people go to raise food?As long as the sea transportation is cut off, the Jiaozhi people in Qinzhou and Lianzhou will not be able to stay.

When the time came to mid-February, Guangxi reported that they had received more than 2000 Song people who escaped from the vicinity of Yongzhou, more than 2000 Jiaozhi prisoners, and more than [-] heads from the barbarians.

Guangxi also needed development, and these captives stayed in Guangxi to build roads under the guard of the Xiang Army.Now Guangzhou Duzuo Academy has also begun to produce gunpowder. With the support of Li Buqi, a group of southern students from Qingyuan Academy used gunpowder in various projects to open mountains and explode rocks, and they also needed Jiaozhi captives.

In fact, the black powder of this era is still less effective when used for blasting, and the method of use is still clumsy. In fact, it can't help the project too much, and sometimes it even adds chaos.But without creating opportunities to use it, how can we accumulate experience and explore better ways to use it?

Originally, Li Buqi still had another worry, that is, due to the unstable performance of gunpowder, frequent squibs would cause casualties to the personnel who fired the guns, which would seriously damage morale.But now it’s all right, I have Cochin captives in my hands, let them get rid of them if the cannon doesn’t go off, no one will fart if they are killed, and no one will feel sorry for them.Thanks to time travel, thanks to Cochin King Li Dezheng, for giving Li Buqi the opportunity to experience the feeling of being a slave owner.

In May, the rice and sugar cane had grown, and Li Buqi had to go and kill the Jiaozhi navy again.Because in the near future, those merchant ships going to the west will enter the South China Sea, and Li Buqi does not want these merchant ships to be robbed by the Cochin people going south to Champa and other places.Time can't be delayed any longer, because in summer, there are often typhoons in the Beibu Gulf, and there are at least five strong typhoons.In this age when there is no weather forecast, Li Buqi doesn't want to fight the typhoon at sea, so go and return quickly, and must kill the Jiaozhi navy before entering the summer.

(End of this chapter)