Xianxia version of Water Margin

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In fact, Jiang Hongfei never expected that the Yuan Empire's capture of Japan would be so smooth.

Hmm... It's not appropriate to put it this way.

Before conquering Japan, Jiang Hongfei already knew that Japan in this world has been closed to the country for too long, and everything is too backward. The Yuan Empire will definitely be able to conquer Japan, which will give the Yuan Empire an extra money bag and a granary. .

However, Jiang Hongfei never expected that in less than half a year, Ruan Xiaoer and others would wipe out the Japanese dynasty and completely incorporate the eight Japanese counties into the territory of the Yuan Empire.

Originally, Jiang Hongfei wanted to use Sun Jing to replace Wen Huanzhang in governing Japan.

It's not that Wen Huanzhang doesn't have this ability or that Jiang Hongfei doesn't trust Wen Huanzhang, but Jiang Hongfei felt that Wen Huanzhang was too soft-hearted before.

This was not difficult to see when Ruan Xiaoer carried out a massacre in Kyoto, Japan.

During that time, Wen Huanzhang often gave memorials to Jiang Hongfei, and because of Ruan Xiaoer's murderous nature, he believed that this was not the way to govern. He advocated that after the Yuan Empire conquered Japan, the eight counties of Japan should be governed by benevolent rule, and the eight counties of Japan should be completely controlled. Eight Japanese counties were incorporated into the territory of the Yuan Empire.

After Jiang Hongfei carefully read the memorial given to him by Wen Huanzhang, he felt that Wen Huanzhang's proposition was reasonable.

Throughout the ages, from the Battle of Chi You to the various modern wars that have not stopped more than a thousand years later, there have been frequent battlefield victories. It is also easy to defeat a country, but there are cases where a nation can be completely conquered by killing alone. ?

Some conquerors ended with the victors killing the losers crazily.

Some people think this is barbaric and cruel.

But some people think that this will permanently eliminate future troubles.

Some conquerors ended up with benevolent policies and pacifying the defeated.

Some people think this is civilization and human nature.

But there are also people who think that people who are not from our race must have different minds, which will cause future troubles.

The whole world is conquered.

Throughout the ages, expansion of territory and hegemony have been the ambitions of countless heroes.

So what kind of conqueror can be considered a true dragon?

Should conquest be achieved through killing, or through benevolence and assimilation?

In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Cao Cao said: "The dragon can be big or small, it can rise or disappear; if it is big, it will stir up clouds and spit out mist; if it is small, it will hide and hide its form; if it rises, it will soar in the universe. The hidden ones are lurking within the waves. The spring is deep now, and the dragon rides on the changes of time, and the dragon is like a hero in the world. "

What Cao Cao calls a true dragon is a true hero and a true emperor.

Like Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, Zhu Yuanzhang and so on.

Which one of them did not endure humiliation and bear the burden and finally succeeded in unifying the world?

It is true that conquest relies on killing, but we cannot blindly end killings with killings and wars with wars.

The word "conquest" refers to conquest and conquest, and victory depends on whose military strength is strong;

Submission refers to the benevolent government after the world is at peace.

It is very easy to defeat a country or a nation in war, but it cannot be completely conquered by force alone.

Qin Shihuang relied on Qin's army to unify the six countries, and conquered the six countries on culture.

The United States defeated Yugoslavia using only its air force, but it did not conquer Afghanistan until Jiang Hongfei crossed over.

Therefore, the most important meaning of conquest is the word "submit".

A wise monarch will focus on obedience and levy as a supplement.

Moreover, the hegemony established by using the word "service" to conquer will definitely last a long time.

The reason why the Zhou Dynasty lasted so long was because of the Zhou Rites established by Duke Zhou, which allowed the Zhou Dynasty to rule for eight hundred years.

Therefore, it seems impossible to conquer the world through killing.

Japan's military power was so powerful during World War II. It carried out eight years of aggression in China and slaughtered Chinese people crazily in Nanjing. Did it conquer the Chinese people? The answer of history is: no!

Zhu Yuanzhang once said that you should not shake the newly planted saplings with your hands often, and you should not pluck the feathers of the birds that have just grown their feathers.

Zhu Yuanzhang said this to his descendants and officials, which meant that they should pay attention to recuperation.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang's subjective intention was not based on the interests of the people, but on maximizing interests.

Therefore, profit can not only bring hope of life to mankind, but also bring destruction to mankind, it depends on how you control it.

There is a saying that goes, "Too much is too much," and everything must be done in a controlled manner.

After thinking about this, Jiang Hongfei stopped Sun Jing, who was about to go to Japan, and instead officially appointed Wen Huanzhang as the governor of Japan, responsible for helping the Yuan Empire govern Japan.

But then again, although Jiang Hongfei accepted Wen Huanzhang's suggestion, he could not be too relaxed about the Japanese, because Jiang Hongfei knew very well how much the Japanese respected the US military stationed in Japan.

Therefore, while appointing Wen Huanzhang as the governor of Japan, Jiang Hongfei also appointed Ruan Xiaoer as the general manager of the eight Japanese counties, responsible for all military affairs in Japan. One of them was in charge of civil affairs and the other was in charge of military affairs.

In addition, the immigration of 5 million people to the eight prefectures of Japan, including Ezo, and the relocation of 5 million Japanese people from Japan, including Ezo people and native spiders, have officially begun.

At the same time, under the governance of thousands of officials from the Yuan Empire dispatched by Jiang Hongfei, Japan's eight counties gradually began to get on the right track.

It is worth mentioning that although Japan has undergone a major change of blood, Jiang Hongfei is still worried.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei asked the Ministry of War to select all the Japanese with good spiritual roots, led by the generals of the Dayuan Army, and put them into Jidi to end the war in Jidi as soon as possible.

It is said that when the Yuan Empire decapitated the Goryeo Dynasty with thunderous means and quickly took over the Goryeo Dynasty's Kaesong, according to Jiang Hongfei's highest instructions, Jiang Hongfei, who was anxious to complete the great unification first, did not send a large army to Jidi, but only sent 100,000 troops, and asked Li Jun, Lehe and others to form an army with Goryeo slaves and Goryeo civilians to help the Yuan army pacify Jidi.

In the initial stage, Jiang Hongfei's proposal was not a problem at all.

Du Fu and Lu Junyi led the Yuan army and the Ji army coalition, taking advantage of the Goryeo Dynasty's lack of leadership, and successively conquered Gangwon Province, Chungcheongbuk Province, Chungcheongnam Province, Gyeongsangbuk Province, Gyeongsangnam Province, Jeollabuk-do, and Jeollanam-do, and then completely occupied the southern part of Jidi.

But Sun An and Shi Wengong's attack on the north of Jidi was not so smooth.

There was a monk in the Goryeo Dynasty named Miaoqing, who was famous for his expertise in the secret art of yin and yang. He had repeatedly invited Wang Kai to visit Xijing and advocated a northern expedition to the Jin Kingdom, but was later stopped by Jin Bushi and was not accepted by Wang Kai.

Before the Yuan army captured Kaesong, Miaoqing went to Xijing by chance and was not captured by the Yuan army.

Miaoqing once claimed that he inherited the Taiyi Jade Tent Footwork passed down by Zen Master Daozhen in the early years of the Goryeo Dynasty.

The so-called Taiyi Jade Tent Footwork is one of the Feng Shui Tuchen methods popular in the Goryeo Dynasty.

It is said that Miaoqing and his Dharma brother, Ilguan Bai Shouhan, both knew the art of yin and yang and confused the public with their bizarre and absurd theories.

At that time, Zheng Zhichang and others believed in their theories.

At that time, Wang Kai's close ministers Jin An and Minister Wen Gongren all praised Miaoqing as a saint.

In order to counter Li Ziqian, Miaoqing was favored by Wang Kai. He persuaded Wang Kai to build Dahuaque in Linyuanyi, Xijing. Wang Kai appointed him as the three major generals and the clepsydra, and granted him purple.

This made Miaoqing a well-known person among the people in Xijing.

It was heard that the Yuan army had captured Kaijing and captured Wang Kai and all the royal and clan members of the Goryeo Dynasty.

Miaoqing decisively raised an army with Xijing officials Liu Yu, Zhao Kuang and others, named the country Dawei, changed the reign to Tiankai, called himself the Tianxian Zhongyi Army, and claimed that "Goryeo has perished, Dawei is in power", and quickly gathered tens of thousands of troops.

At the same time, Miaoqing took advantage of the chaos to quickly occupy Goryeo Xijing, North Hwanghae Province, South Hwanghae Province, and South Pyongan Province.

After learning about the resistance forces formed by Miaoqing, Li Jun and Lehe appointed Sun An and Shi Wengong to lead an army each to attack; and sent people to recruit Miaoqing and others.

Unexpectedly, Miaoqing refused to accept the recruitment and chose to resist to the end.

How could Sun An and Shi Wengong hold back?

The two immediately led their army to attack Xijing, Goryeo.

Unexpectedly, Xijing, Goryeo was in a strategic location and the city was strong. The two led their army to attack in turns, but they could not conquer it.

——This was not only because Xijing, Goryeo was in a strategic location and the city was strong, but also because the Ji army was composed of Goryeo slaves and Goryeo civilians who had not been on the battlefield before. They did not know how to fight at all, and Jiang Hongfei did not let the precious Yuan army fight such a war of attrition.

So, for a while, Sun An and Shi Wengong had no way to deal with Miaoqing.

Considering that the Ji army was indeed weak, Sun An and Shi Wengong could only not attack, but set up camp and besiege for a long time, on the one hand training the Ji army, on the other hand waiting for Jiang Hongfei to kill Wang Qing, Southern Song and Fang La as soon as possible, and draw out the main force of the Yuan army to sweep across northern Goryeo.

Unexpectedly, Sun An and Shi Wengong's temporary forbearance made Miaoqing bigger.

After Miao Qing relied on the geographical advantage and the inability of the Ji army to resist the attack of the Yuan army, he publicized his own achievements, attracting the nobles, wealthy families, and gentry of the Goryeo Dynasty to come and surrender.

——The nobles, wealthy families, and gentry of the Goryeo Dynasty have heard that Jiang Hongfei was publicly tried in Kaijing, and the nobles, wealthy families, and gentry of Kaijing were all wiped out by the Yuan Empire. They did not want to follow the footsteps of the nobles, wealthy families, and gentry of Kaijing, so they ruined their homes to help the difficulties, recruited soldiers and horses, brought their slaves, and even went into battle in person to help Miao Qing resist the attack of the Yuan army.

Miao Qing's power increased greatly, and he sent troops everywhere to seize territory.

The famous Goryeo general Tuo Junjing, who controlled North Pyongan Province, Jagang Province, Ryanggang Province, South Hamgyong Province, and North Hamgyong Province, saw that Myoqing was so powerful and that Myoqing was willing to ask Wang Kai to ascend the throne again after rescuing Wang Kai, so he led 200,000 of Goryeo's most capable Western Army to join the resistance against the attack of the Yuan army.

What's more troublesome is that after the Jin Kingdom learned that the Yuan Empire had destroyed the Goryeo Dynasty and successfully seized half of the Goryeo Dynasty's territory, it decisively sent envoys to form an alliance with Myoqing and Tuo Junjing, and took the initiative to express that during the period when Myoqing and Tuo Junjing fought against the Yuan army, the Jin people did not offend the areas under their control, and were willing to trade spirit horses, weapons, armor, and food with them, and even willing to send troops to each other.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

After learning that the Yuan Empire and the Jin Kingdom had an irreconcilable blood feud, Miao Qing no longer mentioned the northward expedition to the Jin Kingdom, and changed his words to say that as long as the Jin Kingdom could help them restore their country, they would pay tribute to the Jin Kingdom and come to the court every year.

The Jin people and Miao Qing hit it off immediately.

After Sun An and Shi Wengong had trained the Ji army, Du Fu and Lu Junyi had almost pacified the southern part of Ji, Li Jun and Le He had raised another 200,000 Ji troops, and Jiang Hongfei had also destroyed Wang Qing and the Southern Song Dynasty, Miao Qing's troops grew like a snowball, and now there are 500,000 people, half of whom are regular troops of the Goryeo Dynasty.

But even so, Sun An and Shi Wengong were not afraid of Miaoqing and Tuo Junjing, but were ready to wipe out Miaoqing and Tuo Junjing in one fell swoop, capture Jidi, and achieve unparalleled achievements.

But at this moment, Jiang Hongfei wanted to attack Japan again, and also took away a large number of troops from Jidi.

The energy Sun An and Shi Wengong had just mustered up was exhausted again.

In fact, what Sun An and Shi Wengong didn't know was that Jiang Hongfei and his ministers had their own reasons for such arrangements.

This was not only because Japan was richer at that time, and conquering it would solve the Yuan Empire's problems of food and spiritual money shortages, but the northern part of Jidi was very poor. After conquering it, it might become a burden to the Yuan Empire. It was also because Jiang Hongfei, the emperor and his ministers, wanted to use political means to collapse the resistance of the people in the north of Jidi.

After the Dayuan Empire acquired the southern part of Jidi, Lehe carried out a series of reforms in Jidi under Jiang Hongfei's instructions, which actually replicated the many successful experiences of the Dayuan Empire.

First, Lehe abolished all tax systems in Goryeo, including the two taxes.

At this time, the two largest taxes were changed by Lehe to be paid only once a year - starting from the time when the land was obtained (including land allocated by the government and land reclamation by oneself), in the first year, only the area of ​​the land owned multiplied by one was paid. If the average grain production in Chengdu is equal to 20% of the grain production in the second year, the land area multiplied by 30% of the average grain production from the third year will be paid every year.

At the same time, Lehe implemented value-added tax, consumption tax, business tax, corporate income tax, personal income tax, resource tax, urban land use tax, real estate tax, urban maintenance and construction tax, cultivated land occupation tax, land value-added tax, vehicle There are nineteen types of taxes, including purchase tax, vehicle and vessel tax, stamp duty, deed tax, tobacco tax, customs duties, ship tonnage tax, fixed asset investment direction adjustment tax, etc., and detailed explanations of these nineteen tax systems are provided.

The tax system formulated by Le He can also be said to be the tax system formulated by Jiang Hongfei. It taxes turnover, income, resources, property and behavior. It is extremely flexible and extremely flexible. Ingeniously, take stamp duty as an example. The scope of taxation is extremely wide, and people still pay it voluntarily.

Not to mention, the tax system devised by Jiang Hongfei and his ministers has greatly reduced the burden on farmers and poor people, while also doubling the tax revenue than before. And this is only the amount received in the initial stage of development. In the foreseeable future, more will be collected.

The main subjects of taxation (rich businessmen) do not find it difficult to accept, and they are also actively maintaining this tax system.

Why?

Because Jiang Hongfei was different from previous rulers, he strongly encouraged trade and lifted the heavy shackles that had been placed on merchants for thousands of years.

Previously, the status of merchants was very low.

There are generally four classes in society, namely scholars, farmers, workers and merchants.

Scholars such as scholar-bureaucrats, officials, civil servants, and scholars had the highest status, followed by farmers and landowners, then handicraftsmen, craftsmen, and finally merchants.

Businessmen were discriminated against.

To what extent is there discrimination?

Qin Shihuang "raised the peasants and eliminated the poor, and the head of Guizhou was rich", which meant "advocating agriculture and abolishing industry and commerce, and the people became rich", and then "moved 120,000 wealthy households from all over the world to Xianyang" to monitor and supervise the wealthy.

By the time of Qin II, it was even more absurd: he banished nine categories of people with the lowest political status to Lingnan, four of which were closely related to businessmen, namely: he himself was a businessman, he had been a businessman, his grandparents were businessmen, and his parents were businessmen. In other words, once a businessman has been a businessman, all three generations of his descendants will be exiled.

After the Han Dynasty and before the Song Dynasty, the rulers' attitudes and routines towards businessmen were mostly the same, and there were always a few words that could not escape: suppression, attack, smear, and humiliation. There are various techniques, some of which are really unbelievable. For example, in the Jin Dynasty, the law stipulated that those who do business must wrap their foreheads with a white towel and write their names on the white towel. The shoes they wear must be white on one foot and black on the other. shoe. Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty ordered merchants not to wear gold, silver and brocade, and those who violated the rules would be beheaded. The laws of the Northern Wei Dynasty stipulated that merchants could never be officials. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was also stipulated that merchants or their sons were not allowed to participate in scientific examinations.

(In the Han Dynasty, there was a saying of "donating an official", but in reality it was "buying an official". However, most of the people who could buy an official were nobles and those who worked and studied for others, and had no business being businessmen.)

The Song Dynasty was a little better, and the degree of discrimination against businessmen was much lower than before, but that doesn't mean there was no discrimination at all.

In short, businessmen were previously discriminated against and had no protection. Once the country was short of money, they began to raid homes for various reasons.

The Dayuan Empire established by Jiang Hongfei not only introduced many policies to encourage trade, but also abolished all discrimination against merchants - as long as merchants paid taxes prescribed by the government, they would enjoy the rights of ordinary citizens.

The Yuan Empire's strong support for commerce directly led to the unprecedented prosperity of southern Jidi.

This also made the lives of people in the south of Jidi quickly become better.

The northern area of ​​the Goryeo Dynasty controlled by Miaoqing can be said to be extremely poor. Most of the people do not have enough to eat or wear warmly. It is not an exaggeration to say that the people live in dire straits, so much so that their people are even willing to risk their lives to escape. To the south of Jidi.

In order to prevent the people under their rule from escaping, Miaoqing and others set up various tortures and various series of tortures.

But it was of no use at all.

After the initial passion and brainwashing of national justice, uprisings continued in the north of Jidi, despite Miaoqing's continuous bloody suppression.

If this continues, the country will be destroyed even without the Yuan army attacking.

In short, the northern part of Goryeo has now been completely dragged down by the Yuan Empire, with a depressed economy and complaints from the people.

This is the effect that Jiang Hongfei and his ministers want.

Just at this time, the Yuan Empire destroyed Japan and transferred hundreds of thousands of troops from Japan.

Sun An and Shi Wengong finally waited for a strong army, and they immediately led their troops to advance towards Goryeo Xijing.

Seeing that the Yuan army was approaching and unstoppable, Zhao Kuang killed Miaoqing and Liu Yu and his son, and led the people to submit to the Yuan Empire.

But Zhao Kuang proposed that he wanted to govern the northern part of Jidi for the Yuan Empire.

How could Li Jun agree to such a thing?

Zhao Kuang immediately raised the banner of rebellion in Xijing again, pushing Cui Yong as the marshal and himself as the deputy marshal.

Given that Xijing was strategically located and fortified, it had not been successfully conquered before. Therefore, Li Jun, Sun An and Shi Wengong divided their troops into three routes to attack Xijing and pacify it in one fell swoop. Zhao Kuang burned himself to death, and Cui Yong and others were captured and beheaded.

The slaves and civilians in the north of Jidi, who had suffered from the oppression of Miaoqing and others, lined the streets to welcome the Yuan army.

Lehe personally came to preside over the public trial, debt relief, land distribution, and grain distribution...

Next, the Yuan army continued to advance northward.

Li Jun personally led the Yuan army and fought three battles with Tuojunjing, winning three battles.

Seeing that the situation could not be violated, Tuojunjing could only lead his people to surrender.

In the end, only more than 50,000 Goryeo troops went north to surrender to the Jin Kingdom, and the rest of Jidi and Goryeo people opened their cities and surrendered.

The Goryeo Dynasty also became history, and the social order in Jidi gradually stabilized.

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