Xianxia version of Water Margin

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In this world, for the Central Plains agricultural civilization, the grassland nomads are their mortal enemies, and the contradictions between the two sides are impossible to reconcile.

Moreover, the agricultural civilization is definitely the passive party.

This is not only because the grassland nomads have fast horses and curved swords and are brave and good at fighting. In fact, in many aspects, the grassland nomads have obvious advantages, so the grassland nomads can plunder the Central Plains again and again, and they can establish their own dynasties even though they don’t have many people.

In history, the Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Xiongnu Liu Yuan; the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Jurchens; the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongols; although the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by Li Zicheng, it was finally plundered by the Manchus, which became a permanent regret in the hearts of many Han people.

It can be said that for more than two thousand years, the grassland nomads have always been a major concern for the Central Plains Han people.

It is no exaggeration to say that the grassland nomads have been constantly raising troops, and the Central Plains dynasties have been exhausted most of the time.

Although the Han dynasty had several attempts to conquer the wolf and force the Hu people to withdraw from the grassland during this period, to be honest, those were all just short-lived.

Objectively speaking, most of the time, the Han people in the Central Plains were in a defensive and passive situation.

This is first of all because the grassland nomads do not engage in production and are bent on robbing the hardworking and wealthy Han people. This will not change just because you treat them well.

Only by completely defeating the grassland nomads and weakening them to the point of saying goodbye to fast horses and curved swords, and becoming good at singing and dancing and hospitable, can we achieve this goal.

But to be honest, this is not easy to do.

First of all, the grassland nomads are highly organized. They have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people in a tribe, all living on the same grassland. Ordinary herdsmen and the khan of the tribe see each other all day long. The difference between the two people may be that your tent is bigger than mine, and you have more women, cattle and sheep than me, but you go out on a horse, and I go out on a horse.

This kind of thing will definitely not happen in the Central Plains Dynasty. What are the conditions for the emperor to go out? What are the conditions for the people to go out? Where does the emperor live? Where do the people live? There is no comparison between the two sides. Moreover, agricultural civilization is a huge, complex and inefficient machine. The farmland is scattered all over the country, and the population is also scattered all over the country. It takes at least one month to several months to gather an army. Even if the emperor has changed, it will take several months to get the news here.

But nomadic peoples are different. The Khan lives on the hillside. With a call, all the people, young and old, get on the horse and set off. The Khan says where to rob, and everyone follows.

Take the Qing Dynasty as an example.

Before the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the population was less than 200,000, of which more than 80,000 were males, and only 40,000 could ride horses and fight.

Calculated in this way, the war mobilization ratio exceeded 25%.

The population of the Ming Dynasty was close to 100 million. Could it mobilize 25 million people?

Even during the eight-year war of resistance against Japan, only 20 million soldiers were recruited, including the captured men.

At that time, the population was more than 400 million.

This mobilization ratio is just 5%.

This is already the limit of an agricultural country in the 20th century.

Not to mention this period.

Secondly, the grassland nomads are not afraid of losing the war. It is not that they are invincible, but that if they cannot win, they will run away. All their living belongings are on horseback. Where there is grassland is home. If they can't stay in the south of the desert, they will go to the north of the desert. If they drive him away today, they will come back tomorrow.

In addition, grandfather, father, husband, and son are fighting in the front, and grandmother, mother, daughter-in-law, and daughter are following behind with cattle and sheep. Wherever the men fight, the women will follow, and they will never worry about logistics.

Agricultural civilization is not good. Many people have never left their own one acre and three fen of land in their lives. If their houses are burned and their farmland is destroyed, their lives may be over. Not to mention living, even survival cannot be guaranteed.

The last point, and the most important point, is that the racial talents trained by the living environment are different.

The nomadic people of the grasslands were born as robbers. Boys were skilled in archery and horse riding from an early age. At the command, the herdsmen immediately became soldiers. They slaughtered sheep at ordinary times and killed people on the battlefield.

There was no need for training.

What's more terrible is that not only men, but also women can ride and shoot.

And those farmers in the Central Plains who face the loess and the north sky may not have slaughtered a chicken in their lives. If you ask them to pick up weapons and go to the battlefield, how strong do you think they are?

Can a person who grew up eating steamed bread kill more people than a person who grew up eating roasted lamb legs?

Their physical fitness is also different.

Therefore, this grassland hanging over the heads of the Central Plains dynasties has always been a nightmare for the Central Plains dynasties.

As soon as the Huns were driven away, the Xianbei came.

As soon as the Xianbei were driven away, the Turks came.

As soon as the Turks were driven away, the Khitans came.

The Khitans had just been quiet for a few years when the Jurchens came.

Before the Jurchens were settled, the Mongols came with wheat, sweeping across Europe and Asia and destroying countless countries.

Zhu finally drove away the Mongols, but the Qing Dynasty entered the country again.

Jiang Hongfei, who knew all this clearly, was determined to completely solve the problems on the grassland and would never leave this problem to his descendants.

To be honest, Jiang Hongfei did not believe that his descendants had the courage to sweep across the grassland.

However, the problems on the grassland must be solved, but not now.

To resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the country.

Jiang Hongfei has not yet unified the Central Plains. It would be stupid to fight the grassland nomads to the end and consume his own manpower.

Jiang Hongfei knew that he was very strong now, and even had the strength to fight two or three families at the same time.

But Jiang Hongfei would never be so stupid as to fight on two fronts, let alone multiple fronts.

So, although Jiang Hongfei was back, and although Jiang Hongfei would definitely fight against the Jin Kingdom, Jiang Hongfei would never fight a decisive battle with the Jin Kingdom now.

Based on this strategic idea, Jiang Hongfei did not change his previous deployment, but only added some troops to Chen Ke, Zhan Du, Wang Bin, Li Yanxian, Zhao Li, and let them continue to defend the dangerous areas.

Of course, since Jiang Hongfei was back, it was impossible for him to have no other plans, especially at this critical moment when the situation needed to be broken.

In fact, Jiang Hongfei had already transferred Li Jun back from Liuqiu before he came back.

In the past few years, Li Jun has done a very good job.

Not only did he develop Liuqiu, which was extremely difficult to develop, but he also made Liuqiu the rear base of the Yuan Empire and provided a large amount of food to the Yuan Empire.

At the same time, he has been supporting the Yuan Empire's power in the southeast.

Moreover, sometimes, he was also responsible for transportation and transshipment in various places.

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Jun must be one of the silent contributors behind the Great Yuan Empire.

However, not everyone can see Li Jun's contribution.

Therefore, Li Jun is not outstanding among the officials of the Great Yuan Empire, and his rank is not too high.

However, even so, Li Jun has no complaints. He does whatever Jiang Hongfei asks him to do, and he behaves very calmly.

Others have not seen Li Jun's contribution, so how can Jiang Hongfei not see Li Jun's contribution?

Moreover, no one knows better than Jiang Hongfei what kind of talent Li Jun is.

Now there is a stage that can show Li Jun's talent and make him famous.

In addition, Liuqiu has passed the most difficult stage, and Li Jun is no longer needed there.

So Jiang Hongfei transferred Li Jun back.

In addition to Li Jun, Jiang Hongfei brought Le He back.

Like Li Jun, Le He is also one of the silent contributors behind the Great Yuan Empire.

Moreover, Le He was also hardworking and never picky, let alone complaining.

Jiang Hongfei never wronged his meritorious officials.

So, after Li Jun returned to Yuan Dadu, Jiang Hongfei summoned Li Jun and Le He, and then said to them straight to the point: "Goryeo assisted the tyrant and attacked my Yuan Dynasty. I want you two to attack Goryeo and bring back the money and grain there."

Okay.

Jiang Hongfei admitted that the latter was his real purpose.

The Goryeo Dynasty has been established for more than 200 years, and it has learned everything from the Zhao Song Dynasty, so it must have accumulated a lot of money and grain.

Even if it was robbed and extorted by the Jin people before, it should not have hurt the foundation of the Goryeo Dynasty.

After all, those idiots in the Jin Kingdom only robbed and extorted some money and women, and they certainly would not take away too much food.

And food is Jiang Hongfei's biggest limitation now.

To be honest, if the Goryeo Dynasty did not attack the Yuan Empire together with the Jin Kingdom, Jiang Hongfei would have to deal with the Goryeo Dynasty for food, not to mention that the Goryeo Dynasty dared to attack the Yuan Empire together with the Jin Kingdom.

This just gave Jiang Hongfei an excuse to destroy the Goryeo Dynasty.

However, this excuse alone is not enough to support Jiang Hongfei to destroy the Goryeo Dynasty.

Moreover, the Goryeo Dynasty should not be underestimated.

You know, the life of this dynasty is very long-historically, it not only outlasted the Northern Song Dynasty, but also the Southern Song Dynasty, and even the Yuan Dynasty was outlasted by it.

During this period, the Liao Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, the Western Xia Dynasty, and even the entire Eurasian continent experienced dynasty changes.

In addition, the Goryeo Dynasty fought with the Jurchens at the beginning of its rise for many years, until the end it just spit out the land it had eaten, and did not encounter a fatal setback.

This shows that the Goryeo Dynasty still has a certain strength.

Therefore, blindly doing it will definitely not work.

Jiang Hongfei said to Li Jun and Le He: "The slaves and servants in the Eastern Kingdom have greatly benefited the moral education. Therefore, they strictly enforced the rules of society, and made the distinction between the noble and the humble. The practice of propriety and righteousness was all based on this..."

The Goryeo Dynasty was indeed rich, but it was also very backward.

Its backwardness was mainly reflected in the fact that the Central Plains Dynasty had long entered the feudal society, while the Goryeo Dynasty was still a slave society, with a large basic class gap between the two sides.

Moreover, the slavery system in the Goryeo Dynasty was difficult to change.

It can be said that the slave system was of great significance to the Goryeo Dynasty, and it was related to the vested interests of the nobles and powerful groups in the Goryeo Dynasty. Reform would affect the whole body.

As far as Jiang Hongfei knew, whenever the monarch of the Goryeo Dynasty wanted to reform the slave system, he would inevitably encounter opposition.

In other words, the Goryeo Dynasty also had extremely serious exploiting and exploited classes.

——The exploiting class is divided into two levels, the top is the two classes, usually called "civil class" and "military class", also known as "East Class" and "West Class"; the exploited class is divided into three levels, the civilian class, the class of good servants and the class of untouchables.

In the Goryeo Dynasty, the most important component of the class of good servants and the class of untouchables was slaves. Men were slaves and women were maids. Slaves and maids were a general term.

There were four main sources of slaves and maids in the Goryeo Dynasty:

The first source was blood inheritance.

In the Goryeo Dynasty, marriage between the noble and the lowly was prohibited by law. If the noble and the lowly did marry, the principle of "the lowly is the lowly" and "follow the lowly and not the noble" was adhered to for the children born after the marriage. In other words, once a person became a lowly person, he and his descendants would never be able to get rid of the status of a lowly person. Even if the person was released as a high-class person, the effect was limited to one generation, and his children and family members (including children born after the release) would still be lowly people. In addition, whether it was the father or the mother, as long as one of them was a lowly person, the person and his descendants would always be lowly people.

The second is that he was not a public lowly person because of a crime.

There were many people who became slaves because of crimes, especially treason, high treason, theft, etc., and the wife was guilty of the husband's crime and the son was guilty of the father's crime.

The third is to buy foreigners as slaves.

Japan is close to Goryeo, and Goryeo people sometimes buy Japanese as slaves.

The fourth is that prisoners of war became slaves because of war.

This is relatively simple. No matter who goes to war with the Goryeo people, as long as they are caught by the Goryeo people, they will become their slaves.

Slavery is an extremely backward system that hinders the development of society.

Therefore, the royal family of the Goryeo Dynasty actually thought about changing the slavery in their country.

However, slavery was deeply rooted in the Goryeo Dynasty, and slaves were important property of the nobles and powerful groups of the Goryeo Dynasty. Therefore, changing it would affect the whole body. It can be said that under the existing power comparison between the royal power and the nobles, this situation cannot be changed at all.

If the historical trend is followed and no powerful people intervene, the slavery system of the Goryeo Dynasty will even continue for nearly a thousand years, and will not be completely ended until the 1990s.

Jiang Hongfei's idea is to overthrow the rule of the Goryeo Dynasty under the pretext of liberating slaves.

In this way, the invasion war of the Yuan Empire will become a liberation war to save the suffering.

This will definitely be strongly supported by the slaves of the Goryeo Dynasty.

Then, by exempting debts, dividing land, and distributing grain, the support of the largest number of civilians will be obtained, and the Goryeo Dynasty will not be undefeated.

Li Jun and Le He are both extremely smart people.

Jiang Hongfei just gave them a little push, and Li Jun and Le He knew what to do.

Moreover, Li Jun and Le He knew that Jiang Hongfei was giving them the opportunity to make merit and become famous. Otherwise, such a good thing would definitely not fall on their heads. After all, before this, the two of them did not have much experience in leading troops to go to war.

Li Jun and Le He said nothing. They knew that Jiang Hongfei would not look at what they said, but would look at what they did.

Soon, Li Jun and Le He took Jiang Hongfei's imperial edict and began to secretly dispatch troops.

In mid-September.

Li Jun and Le He, who were ready, led a 100,000-man army and quietly left Jizhou Port and headed for Licheng Port, the heartland of the Goryeo Dynasty...

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