Chapter 637 0632 [Exploiting the People’s Power]

Liaoyang Prefecture.

Because the Denglai Ming army had repeatedly plundered the Liaodong coast, and Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang urged them to send troops, Shangjing (Harbin) finally sent people over.

One was to recruit soldiers, and the other was to collect grain!

The person in charge of recruiting soldiers and collecting grain was named Wanyan Ang, and he was Aguda's younger brother.

This guy only knew how to charge into battle, and his leadership talent was close to zero.

He was responsible for receiving the surrendered people from the Liao Kingdom, forcing the surrendered tribes to rebel against the Jin and return to the Liao Kingdom, which made Wuqimai so angry that he wanted to kill him, because he had just ascended the throne and turned to 70 canes.

Such a person actually served as the left general of the Marshal's Office this year, responsible for recruiting soldiers and collecting grain in Liaoyang Prefecture, Guangning Prefecture and other places.

It can be seen that Wuqimai really couldn't control the court!

The head of the civil servants in Liaoyang Prefecture was Zhang Xuansu, who was born in the Bohai Gao family. His great-grandfather changed his surname to Zhang when he surrendered to the Liao Kingdom. Later, Zhang Xuansu stabbed Gao Yongchang in the back and surrendered to the Jin Kingdom. From then on, he was reused by the Jin Kingdom and ruled Liaoyang.

When Wanyan Ang put forward his request, Zhang Xuansu was shocked.

Zhang Xuansu said in embarrassment: "Liaoyang Prefecture issued 10,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians. Although it is difficult, it can be done. However, there is really no 150,000 shi of grain. A lot of grain and grass were collected in the past few years. The people took a breath last year, but how can they get enough 150,000 shi?"

"Call the major families in Liaoyang, and you can discuss it among yourselves. Each family will share a certain amount," Wanyan Ang didn't care about it, and said with a ferocious expression, "If any family can't get the full amount, it will be dealt with by military law!"

Zhang Xuansu hesitated to speak, but finally accepted the order: "I will try my best to raise it."

Everyone knows that Wanyan Ang is cruel and brainless. If he says he wants to deal with it by military law, it will definitely kill a lot of people.

Wanyan Ang said again: "Let your brother lead the soldiers issued by Liaoyang."

"Yes!" Zhang Xuansu was not surprised by this.

Liaoyang Prefecture was the capital of Jin Dynasty. All the noble families here were married to the royal family of Jin Dynasty.

For example, Li Hongyuan, who later took Wanyan Liang's throne with her son, was a daughter of the Liaoyang Li family and was also related to Zhang Xuansu. The battle for the throne was launched in Liaoyang, and the backbone of the army were all Liaoyang clans.

The rapid sinicization of the Jin Dynasty was also secretly contributed by the Liaoyang clans!

There were even many Jurchen slaves in the hands of these clans, and they were redeemed as free people in large numbers by the Jin Dynasty in recent years.

After Wanyan Ang issued the order, he immediately went to Guangning Prefecture, which is the area of ​​the Liaohe River Basin. He also had to issue a recruitment and grain collection order to Guangning Prefecture.

As for Zhang Xuansu, he could only do his job honestly, call the Liaoyang clans together, and grit his teeth to provide soldiers and grain to the Jin Dynasty.

They were one with the Jin Dynasty and had long been bound by marriage. The second wives of the two generations of the Jin Dynasty royal family were almost all from Liaoyang.

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Wanyan Ang took a tour of Guangning Prefecture and quickly went to Hesuguan Road (which basically overlaps with the jurisdiction of Gaizhou City in later generations).

It was called Chenzhou during the Liao Dynasty. Now it is called this broken name because there is a Jurchen tribe called Hesuguan here.

When the Jin Dynasty attacked Gao Yongchang, the Jurchen leader of the Hesuguan tribe, Hu Shimen, claimed that his ancestors moved from Goryeo. And Aguda's ancestors also moved from Goryeo. So he helped the Jin Dynasty to fight and made great efforts. Not only did he rule Gaizhou City from then on, but his tribe name also became a place name.

Hu Shimen himself was renamed Wanyan Hu Shimen from then on, and was given the royal surname by Aguda himself.

In order to centralize power, the Jin Dynasty has changed the Hesuguan Road to a military commander system, and the military and political chief must be appointed by the court. But for practical considerations, after Hu Shimen's death, his son Wanyan Gou Shi inherited it.

This place has undergone the Meng'an Mouke reform, and the feudal lord slavery system is implemented in detail.

The Jurchens of the Hesuguan tribe all moved out from the nearby mountainous areas. There were four Meng'an in total, with about a thousand households. Each Meng'an leader was a small lord, and a large number of Han people in Liaodong were used as slaves.

In addition, there were Khitans and Xi people who moved inland, as well as a small number of Han and Bohai landlords. These forces were free people, and there were more or less slaves. The landlord-tenant system had collapsed long ago.

"Can your place be plundered by the Ming country?" Wanyan Ang asked.

Wanyan Gou Shi said proudly: "With the strong Jurchen soldiers here, how dare the southern barbarians come? Those Han people in Ming are bullies who only dare to plunder places where there are no Jurchen men."

Wanyan Ang said: "Before September, in addition to recruiting Jurchen warriors, you must also sign at least 3,000 soldiers from all ethnic groups and raise at least 15,000 stones of military rations."

"Where can I get 15,000 stones of grain?"

Wanyan Gou Shi immediately cried poor: "The year before last, I followed the army to conquer Song, and only brought back many slaves. I did share some wealth, but the food was eaten up on the way. My population is sparse here, and there is not much harvest from farming. Where can I get 15,000 stones of grain?"

Wanyan Ang said: "This is the order of the court, you can think of a way yourself. This time, the whole country will go to war, and we will surely win a great victory. We can rob as much as we want in Ming."

"I said so last time, how can it be so easy?" Wanyan Gou Shi was full of resentment.

After all, this person was a Jurchen nobleman, so Wanyan Ang's attitude was not that bad. He said, "12,000 dan, no less. I'll reduce 3,000 dan from you, and I'll make up for it from other places."

"I'll try my best to collect grain, but don't blame me if it's not enough." Wanyan Gou Shi didn't say anything final.

He was a Jurchen noble warlord, holding both military and political power. The territory of Gaizhou City was full of his tribe's private soldiers. The Jin court had always wanted to take back power, but it couldn't do it at all.

Not only could it not take back power, but the Jin court had to coax it well and had to rely on the Hesuguan Jurchens to control the Liaodong Peninsula.

Otherwise, why would they give the surname Wanyan?

"Da da da da..."

A fast horse came from the north. The messenger rushed into the city and quickly found Wanyan's room: "Yelu Yu saw his father and son defecting. Your Majesty has ordered that all the men in his family be killed and all the women and children be made slaves!"

"I understand." Wanyan Goushi took the edict smoothly.

Wanyan Zonghan had no idea where Yelu Yujian had fled. He just made a routine report to the Jin court and urged the court to collect grain and grass quickly.

After walking around in Harbin, Wu Qimai's imperial edict was finally sent, ordering the execution of all the men in Yelu Yujian's family.

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Yelu Yujian's family was in the city and was soon surrounded by Jurchen soldiers.

All adult men were beheaded, and women and children were used as slaves.

Yelu Yujian's wives and concubines, as long as they were young, were all taken into Wanyan's hook room.

When the news spread, the Khitan tribe who was forced to migrate here became even more resentful towards the rulers of the Jin Kingdom. Before they migrated, family members had been killed in tandem uprisings. During the migration process, and at the beginning of the migration, many tribesmen died of illness and starvation because the Jin Kingdom did not do a good job in resettlement at all.

Only a few days after Yeluyu saw that his whole family was killed, Wanyan Goushi issued military orders and food requisition orders, and every household had to send troops and provide food.

Landowners who had slaves at home had to provide slaves as husbandmen.

The Han people, Khitan people, and Bohai people all suffered terribly from this. There are no big clans here anymore. Once they are recruited, they will be reduced to cannon fodder.

There is only one month for the militia and food to be delivered outside Jian'an City on time.

In a mountain village more than thirty miles away from the coast, the nearby Khitan leaders gathered to discuss.

"Where can Dutong (Yelu Yujian) escape?"

"I don't know, maybe I went to summer."

"Why don't we run away too."

"This is the hinterland of the Kingdom of Jin. Where can we escape?"

"I heard that the Han soldiers were plundering the coast, so why don't they all surrender to the Song Dynasty?"

"Song soldiers are cowardly and I'm afraid they can't defeat the Jin people. There are Jin soldiers guarding here, and they don't dare to plunder."

"I heard that the Song Dynasty is gone, and what kind of Ming Dynasty is now in the south."

"Who did you listen to?"

"Someone came to collect mountain goods a while ago. I heard what the businessman said. He said that those who came across the sea to plunder were not Song soldiers, but Ming soldiers."

"We don't have a boat, how can we swim across the sea? Besides, there are many people from the Tsint tribe. How can the old, weak, women and children escape to the seaside?"

"Well, it's time to conscript soldiers and food. How will we live in the future?"

"If we don't give it to them, the Jurchens will come to snatch them. I hope we can win the war. We can go to the Song Dynasty to grab some and bring them back. Maybe we can survive this winter."

"It's the Ming Dynasty, not the Song Dynasty."

"It doesn't matter which country it is, we can only go with the army to rob it."

"..."

Not only these Khitans, but also the people on Hesuguan Road, as long as they were not Jurchens, were all in mourning.

They kept some grain in jars and buried it in the soil, waiting for the officials to search from house to house. The men at home were wiping their crude weapons, and when the deadline was approaching, it was time to go on the road. They didn’t know if they could come back from serving as soldiers.

Countless slaves continued to live as usual and continued to work for their masters. After a while, they would be sent to work as civilian husbands.

This situation occurs in various places in the Kingdom of Jin.

The Kingdom of Jin has gone completely crazy, squeezing the people's power without any bottom line, and going south to fight against the Ming Dynasty.

They did the same thing when dealing with the Liao Kingdom, and won again and again. It doesn't matter how many people starve to death in the country, as long as they win the battle, they can be replenished. As long as the power of the goddess is still there, there is no fear of rebellion.

Often, before the battle on the front line was over, uprisings broke out in the country, and the people were forced to rebel again and again.

Han people, Xi people, Khitans, Bohai people...all ethnic groups have experienced rebellions, but unfortunately they were successfully suppressed by Jurchen soldiers every time.

Therefore, the Kingdom of Jin is not afraid of the people's rebellion. They can just kill a group of people and be done with it.

The population is just a consumable. There are many in Liao and Han, and they can always be snatched back for replenishment.

Wan Yanang traveled around Liaodong and then returned to Liaoyang to wait for the militiamen from various places to gather.

Soon, Wanyan's mother also came to Liaoyang. He wanted to take the troops here to join Wanyan Zongwang in Yanjing and serve as Wanyan Zongwang's supervisor.

Wanyan Zongwang was weak and still had to listen to the Jin court and did not dare to challenge openly like Wanyan Zonghan.

"Urgent report from Huesuguan Road, the Nanmanzi are coming across the sea to kill, and the rebellious Yelu Yujian is also here!"

"What?"

Wanyan's mother was still gathering troops and food when she received an urgent report from Wanyan's hook room, saying that Jian'an City (urban area of ​​Gaizhou) was besieged by the Ming army.

After reading the letter asking for help, Wanyan's mother was shocked and angry: "Send an order to all the ministries and follow me to reinforce Hesuguan Road immediately!"