Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 276 Mouthpiece ([-])

Sima Guang was taken aback by Gao Zong's words.He really didn't think about whether the Da Song law should be applied to Cochin.This is something no one has thought of before.It is said that a vassal like Jiaozhi should apply the laws of the Song Dynasty. There seems to be no such example, but logically speaking, since Jiaozhi is a vassal of the Song Dynasty, of course the laws of the Song Dynasty should be applied.Sima Guang also felt a little overwhelmed for a while.

So Sima Guang found a reason for his own compromise: "Jiaozhi is a subject of the Song Dynasty, so the laws of the Song Dynasty should naturally be applied. It's just that the place is remote, and its own customs are different from those of the Central Plains. The first emperor was kind and allowed him to practice the law of Jiaozhi. ..."

Gao Yan sneered and said: "A few days ago, the review published a masterpiece in the newspaper, accusing the soldiers who went to Guangnan to shave their hair as a courtesy, and that their ancestors did not tolerate it. The officers and soldiers shaved off their hair in order to win the battle for the imperial court, but it was not tolerated by Sima's review; the Jiaozhi people invaded my land and killed my people, but they could be forgiven because of the difference in customs. Why did the review treat the people loyal to the Song Dynasty like this Harsh, but treat the Cochin people so generously?"

You Zhengyan Han Jiang saw that Sima Guang couldn't resist, so he hurried out to join the battle group: "Huairou Yuanyi is the way of a holy king. Gao Yushi should not be too far away from his body."

Gao Yan said: "That's right, Huairou Yuanyi is the way of the holy king. It's just that which holy king hurts the people close to him to subsidize the distant barbarians who harbor evil intentions? Which sage king is willing to let his people be killed by barbarians in vain for the sake of Huairou Yuanyi , without making Yidi pay the price?"

Fu Bi, who had just returned to the central center, said: "Li Buqi, the transfer envoy of the Guangnan Metropolis, is worthy of a great job, and now he is approaching Jiaozhi. The minister thought that Jiaozhi was in a difficult situation, so he tried to make peace with the imperial court. The imperial court must not fall for this treacherous trick."

Pang Ji saw Chaoshang quarrelling with each other, especially the two imperial censors who were promoted from Hebei, and the officials were not at a disadvantage in the verbal battle, so he couldn't help but secretly thankful that he had made preparations early.He knew that although many things Li Buqi did were very effective, they were deviant. It was difficult for the emperor and himself to control the court and not hinder Li Buqi, so he urgently promoted two students from Qingyuan Academy to let Li Buqi Buqi can make a sound in the court, so that he has a reasonable starting point when defending Li Buqi.Now it seems that this arrangement is really wise.

At present, it seems that with these two censors leading the battle, and with the support of ministers who can do things like Fu Bi and Wang Yaochen, there is no need for the emperor and himself to come forward to force today. Let this matter drag on for a long time, and give Li Buqi time to try to resolve Jiaozhi.

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The developments in the court are always sent to Li Buqi who is far away in Guangzhou as quickly as possible. Now Li Buqi knows that the officials in the court have formed an evenly matched situation on the issue of cochin.In the past, Hubu Minister Tian Kuang thought that playing Cochin would be a money-losing business, but after learning that there will be huge war dividends, Tian Kuang has now become a wait-and-see group. Although he will not support Li Buqi, he will not do it again. In a hurry, he asked the emperor to stop the war on the grounds that he had no money.

Many of those officials who shouted that Jiaozhi should be allowed to seek peace all day long actually bought national debts, and they were actually reluctant to part with the land of Jiaozhi in their hearts, just to show that they took the world as their own responsibility and were good students of Confucius. Stand in support of the cessation.So don't look at the fact that there is still a lot of calls in the court to accept cochin peace, but the emperor and Pang Ji can still bear it.Li Buqi wrote another memorial requesting authorization to contact Zhancheng to jointly attack Jiaozhi, and this matter was also allowed.

Of course, this was on the premise that the emperor and Pang Ji believed that Li Buqi could implement the plan smoothly.Li Buqi had no doubt that if something went wrong, the emperor and Pang Ji would sell him without hesitation.Therefore, Li Buqi's action plan is based on the premise of being safe, and he would rather be slower than take risks.

Fortunately, Guangdong and Guangxi have begun to recover.In winter, immigrants and captives refurbished two 10,000+ mu of new fields, and planted rice and sugar cane.In the spring, the sugarcane planted last year was harvested, and thousands of captives from the Nongzhigao army were assigned to work in the sugarcane fields and sugar rolling workshops.Since Li Buqi still holds more than 20 yuan in funds, he can build all the sugar mills into hydraulic machinery.These workshops set up along the banks of rivers use huge water drains to drive heavy stone rollers or even steel rollers to squeeze sugarcane. Workers only need to stuff sugarcane between the stone rollers and steel rollers.This way of squeezing sugar not only saves manpower, but also squeezes the sugarcane juice very cleanly. Now Li Buqi is worried that there is no truck to transport enough sugarcane to the factory.

According to Li Buqi's temper, how can sugar not be co-produced?On one side, the white sugar and rock sugar are transported to the port, and on the other side, the remaining molasses is put into large vats to ferment into wine.Li Buqi separated ammonia water from the smoke of charcoal and used it on farms in Hebei and Shaanxi to increase the grain yield per mu by half. It made the students of Qingyuan Academy go crazy looking for all kinds of strange things. Not even the bagasse.They set up a few more papermaking workshops near the sugar mill. The paper produced by these workshops does not require fine detail, but it can meet the requirements of cargo ships for sea trade to wrap porcelain and valuables. Since its launch, it has sold well.

Seeing this thriving scene, Li Buqi still lamented the lack of manpower.More than 7 people immigrated from the north in two years, which is not enough for the population loss caused by the Cochin people. Therefore, Qinzhou, Lianzhou, and Yongzhou have not yet been populated, let alone mining and steelmaking in Guangdong.Fortunately, there are Cochin captives providing cheap labor, otherwise the infrastructure construction around Guangzhou would not be so fast.

But the next step is to occupy Jiaozhi, which requires a large population.Li Buqi repeatedly asked the emperor for people, not only asking all places to immigrate to Guangnan, but also asking all the prisoners who could be sent to Guangnan to be sent here.

The situation on Li Buqi's side is very good, but the situation on Jiaozhi Li Dezheng's side is sad.Now not only are the people on the beach absolutely afraid to go fishing, but they must always be on guard against Song people going ashore to catch people, and even the land near the sea cannot be cultivated.In order to prevent the Song army from landing, Li Dezheng deployed more than 3 people along the coast.

On the other side, it is unclear who owns Guangyuan Prefecture from the Song Dynasty. A large number of barbarians from the left and right rivers rushed in to catch the Cochin people, and the furthest even ran to the Bailong River to attack the villages and the Cochin army food roads.Some mountain barbarians have already caught people's eyes, and even attacked the small tribes in Guangyuan Prefecture.The aborigines in Guangyuan Prefecture were so frightened that they scrambled to express their allegiance to the Song Dynasty government, so as not to be wiped out by the Jiaozhi people.

This time the officials of the Song Dynasty are not as easy to talk to as they used to be - if you want to belong to them, you can use the certificate of merit.However, there are also advantages to accepting the voting certificate. You can join a group to catch Cochin people and sell them to the Song Dynasty government.

In the eyes of the tribes on these mountains, the Cochin people are like copper coins for walking, and everywhere they go, they can't do without open guns and hidden arrows.The Jiaozhi people couldn't take it anymore, and they withdrew from Guangyuan Prefecture in the twelfth lunar month, but the aborigines of Zuojiang led by Su Yan followed closely to the territory of Jiaozhi.

Li Dezheng was afraid that the Shanman would rush into the hinterland of Jiaozhi, so he had to deploy more than 5 people along the Bailong River to guard against possible attacks by the Shanman and the Song Dynasty army.

Li Rizun, the leader of the army, also launched several attacks on the Guangyuan mountain barbarians, but these mountain barbarians were local snakes, and immediately disappeared among the mountains when they saw the Jiaozhi army approaching.But if the Cochin Army retreats, they will appear behind the Cochin Army again.

At present, nearly [-] troops of the Cochin people are pinned down on the east and north lines, which has affected the agricultural production of Cochin. Champa, who has been held down and rubbed on the ground by Cochin several times in the south, also began to move around after learning of Cochin's predicament.Li Dezheng felt that he was in serious trouble, and after he had not received any news about whether Da Song would accept his peace proposal, he sent envoys to Da Song twice to ask for peace.

However, the wind direction in the Great Song Dynasty Hall is becoming more and more unfavorable to Jiaozhi, because Guangdong has started to have a surplus. Although it is not much, there are still 10,000+ copper coins and hundreds of thousands of shi grains.This proves the correctness of Li Buqi's plan. Now everyone in the capital is waiting for Li Buqi to earn money for them.Who wants to say that you shouldn't have intercourse, you will be scolded to death by the common people when you go out. Recently, student Sima Guang doesn't go out all day except for work.

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