Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 851 Nobunaga's Decision

In the seventh year of Shaoming in the Great Zhou Dynasty, 952 AD, in Pingcheng, the setting sun was like blood.

But what is redder and bloodier than this setting sun is the real river of blood outside the city!
What should happen if Heijokyo is captured?Of course it is to massacre the city!Could it be possible to issue an Announcement for the Min, with three chapters of the agreement?
Nobunaga Murong put on the diamond mask he wore when he and Zhang Tie wiped out the Hechuan rebel army in Guanzhong in the past, which was a hint in his heart.

Whenever Murong Xinchang put on this visor, the white robe of Murong, who was so righteous and humble, disappeared, and was replaced by a cruel king.

An invincible commander and ruthless king who has the identity of a prince since the founding of the country by Zhang Zhou, who has pacified the Khitan, Koryo, and Wa countries with a population of one million.

The reason why Murong Nobunaga gave the order to massacre the city so viciously has nothing to do with Zhang Tie.

I don't know what happened in history. At this time, the Wa Kingdom is still a small transparency around the Central Plains, with no bad deeds.

The reason for the massacre is entirely because of the strategy he and Zhang Tie formulated.

To completely incorporate the Wa country into the core area of ​​the Central Plains culture, when they have begun to form their own cultural characteristics, the best way to use it is to kill people!
And this time, it is different from the Sui and Tang Dynasties attacking Goguryeo in the past.

When Pyongyang was destroyed in the past, Goguryeo had been bloodletted by the Sui and Tang dynasties for decades. When Pyongyang fell, Goguryeo, which used to have [-] armored men, had not one out of ten men killed, and completely lost the will to resist and most of the soldiers. inheritance.

Even so, Xue Rengui still carried out a certain degree of massacre in Pyongyang.

As for Murong Nobunaga, the Wa Kingdom was quickly defeated in three major wars. It took only half a year before and after. Now they have only temporarily lost their force, but they have not completely surrendered, let alone cleansing the self-culture that Wa Kingdom has begun to appear. .

Even if it is to gain a firm foothold temporarily, it needs a great terror that can deter all potential rebels!
Under such circumstances, Nobunaga Murong issued a cruel order. First, Xiang Xun led five hundred soldiers into the palace of Heijo Palace, and executed all the warriors, attendants, and internal officials in the palace.

Then the Emperor Suzaku, who has been frightened mad, as well as the Empress Dowager Onko, Emperor Murakami, the Nakamiya of successive emperors, the female emperor, the right minister Fujiwara Shifu, Dai Nayan Fujiwara Kentada, Nakano Yanyuan Gaoming and other officials and nobles. out of custody.

Then, outside the Suzaku gate, they were all hammered to death like pigs and dogs with a large gallbladder wrapped in iron.

Afterwards, the army entered the city and began to hunt and arrest officials in Pingcheng Jingzhong. Since the seven subordinates, Shaoyun, Neicangyou, Zhengqinyou, and more than a hundred officials, no matter whether they were real officials or fake officials, they were all arrested and killed.

Afterwards, all those who were good at using pseudonyms in the capital of Pingcheng, including the so-called waka song sen and scribes who copied, were all arrested and executed.

While carrying out the brutal killing, Chen Sirang and Wang Tingyi each led [-] cavalry to launch a dragnet-style search outside the city, not allowing even a dog or a cat to escape from Pingcheng Jingzhong.

There were fireworks and wailing all over the city. The search and killing started at Shen Mo ([-]:[-] pm) and continued until late at night.

On the morning of the second day, Zhao Siwan and Qi Huo Lang, who had had a rest all night, entered the city.

If it was combed with a comb yesterday, then it needs to be carefully sifted again with a grate.

The so-called bandits pass like a comb, and soldiers pass like a grate.

At this time, there were nearly 25 refugees in Pingcheng Jingzhong. Murong Nobunaga gave Zhao Siwan the task of killing all people with surnames in the city.

Regardless of whether he belonged to the Fujiwara, Minamoto, Heira, Yamana, Oe, Ono, or some small family, all of them were found and executed.

Hmph, many people in Pingcheng capital thought that Murong Nobunaga would need the cooperation of them, who can be said to be the cultural class in the Wa country, so as to control the Wa country.

But they were wrong, Zhang Tie and Murong Nobunaga's plan had always been to kill all of these people, no matter how many people there were, anyway, it would be right to kill them all.

How to annihilate a civilization that has begun to have its own characteristics?It's simple, who started to be distinctive, no!Whoever is educated can just kill him.

Killing all those who can read, write, and have national consciousness is the most effective method.

This is why Zhang Tie carefully assigned hundreds of thousands of subjects to Murong Nobunaga.

Zhang Tie's plan at the beginning was to let these subjects become the cultural class of the Japanese country, and use them to replace the original cultural class of the Japanese country. As for the people at the bottom, there is some time to slowly adjust them.

If you want to destroy a country, you must first destroy its culture. This is the iron law that has been verified by the colonists who lacked virtue hundreds of years later.

When Zhao Siwan was dying physically, Murong Nobunaga also ordered the secretary Han Kuangtu to lead the clerical staff into the city.

After they entered the city, they burned all the books in Pingcheng capital, whether they were bamboo slips or paper, wooden boards, or animal bones, as long as there were written records.

At the same time, in Pingcheng Jingzhong, all buildings that did not conform to the shape of the Tang Dynasty were demolished and destroyed.

In the whole city, except for Monk Jianzhen, all the inscriptions, sculptures, and scriptures of the other Japanese monks were also smashed and burned.

The killing and screening lasted a total of four days. At first, they were stabbed with a knife, and then they used a sledgehammer when they got impatient. The effect of hammering was still too slow in the end, and finally they were directly burned with fire.

Zhao Siwan ordered people to drive more than ten thousand Japanese nobles who had been screened out to the official office of Minbu Province, and then poured tung oil on fire, and the surrounding soldiers only needed to shoot the people who ran out, and the efficiency was improved a lot.

. . . .

In the seventh year of Shaoming, on September [-], supplies from North Korea and the Central Plains arrived at the brand-new Daban City.

But before their arrival, there was no detailed explanation in this time and space, and only a few words of bloody catastrophe could be found from the history books, which had just ended not long ago.

In this catastrophe belonging to the Japanese nobles, at least 13 people were massacred in the three cities of Heian-kyo, Heijo-kyo, and Namba-kyo and their surrounding villages and towns. Most of them were burned to ashes without leaving their bodies.

Originally in the country of Wa, where the three capitals are located, there were more than 70 people living on the Osaka Plain, but among them were educated aristocratic officials and their collateral branches, which was about 10 people.

If you take into account that there are men and women, the number of men among them will not exceed 13, and more than [-]% of the [-] people killed this time are men, then.

Cough cough, these rich households and ordinary people also have a lot of thieves, if they don't kill some, how can they shock people's hearts.

On September 22, Murong Nobunaga retreated from the almost ghostly capital of Pingcheng to the seaside city of Osaka.

At this time, there were still 13 to [-] people in Pingchengjing who were detained in their hands. Including the people in Osaka, there were a total of [-] people.

They were all frightened to death, thinking that Murong Nobunaga would take them to Daban to drown in the sea.

When things got to this point, the killing would actually stop. If the killing continued, no one would be able to cultivate the land, and no one would be a slave.

And to be honest, the conquest and being conquered in this era have little to do with these common people.

Anyway, they are cattle and horses, and it doesn't matter what they do to anyone.

They also don't have any national consciousness. It is already the limit to take care of their families and neighbors. How can they think about so many things.

What's more, Murong Nobunaga did not choose to kill all the officials and warriors of the Wa Kingdom.

Those who stayed were naturally the Qin family headed by Qin Pingtong and his son, the Liu family of the son of Dazang Chunshi, and the Western Liu family who had been mainly engaged in literary and historical work in the Japanese country for generations.

If it was half a month ago, these three people still had some hints that they were waiting for a price. After all, at that time, in their opinion, Murong Nobunaga needed their cooperation very much.

But now, in the face of the terrifying existence that ordered the killing of 10,000+ people in half a month, and the devils under him can split the living people up in the street to take the liver and gallbladder to make wine, even the son of Dazang Harumi who came down from the battlefield, Dazang Sheng I was so scared that I almost peed my crotch.

And Murong Nobunaga kept them, not simply because they are descendants of Han people who crossed the sea, and they are not the same as the emperor and high-ranking ministers who are most likely Baekje people.

Another important reason for keeping them is to rely on them to help control the place.

To destroy the political and cultural center of the Wa country, killing can be used because the people are very concentrated.

But how to rule the people in the following counties who can't even communicate with the Central Plains people still needs their assistance.

Murong Nobunaga's plan is very simple. After continuing to defeat the remaining resistance forces of the Wa Kingdom in the future, he will start a large-scale distribution.

Specifically, except for the Sankyo land in the Osaka Plain, the area around Dazaifu in Kitakyushu, the Kanto land, which is obviously of great development value, and the Ono Plain where Nagoya is located, they will all be sealed off.

Murong Nobunaga's feudal country is different from the distribution of daimyos in Japanese history. The distribution of daimyos in Japanese history was produced by continuous games for thousands of years, but now, Murong Nobunaga can make a decision with one word.

I am not going to make any major changes to Japan's current administrative divisions. I just need to downgrade the prefectures to prefectures and sub-counties to prefectures.

As for the title, you might as well make it a little higher. The place where the big country and the upper country are located is the upper mansion, and it is directly given to the Marquis.The rest of China is the central government, and Xiaguo is the lower government, which is given to the earl.

For the lower viscounts, barons, and inspectors, there are sub-counties under this county, and so on.

For example, the mountain city where Ping An Jing is located, if it is sealed, it can be sealed as a mountain city.

There are also counties such as Atago and Geye below. If you want to divide a county into a viscount or baron, you can directly confer the titles of Atago Junzi and Atago Junnan.

Since most of the place names of the Wa Kingdom are similar to those of the Central Plains, even the effort of changing the name is saved.

However, Murong Nobunaga is not going to confer so many marquises, that is to say, to independently control a country, according to the standards of the Japanese Warring States period, there will not be too many Shi Gaosan with more than 40.

Most of them should be small feudal lords with a dozen or 20 shi and vassals with [-] to [-] shi.

And when they go down to rule the region, they will be allowed to recruit some soldiers who have not reached the level of feudal lords from the current army as guards.

Otherwise, there are often tens of thousands or even 10 people under the rule of an earl, and if they take office alone, they will not take office but die.

And because of the language barrier and unfamiliarity with the geography, Murong Xin deliberately kept these descendants of the Duhai Han people.

When some lords go to take office, they will bring some with them, and they can also help them choose some Japanese as companions to take with them.

Anyway, among the national government army gathered in Pingcheng capital this time, most of the people from the prefectures and countries were there, and they were lucky enough to survive and were frightened into a coward, which happened to be usable.

. . . .

In the seventh year of Shaoming, 952 of the Convention, on the first day of October, with the arrival of Zhao Kuangyin, the number of soldiers and horses under Murong Nobunaga's command has expanded to nearly 4, and more than [-] Japanese coolies have also been recruited.

And with the arrival of the grain ship from the land of Wuyue, Murong Nobunaga had hoarded 35 shi of grain in Osaka alone, so he had no worries at all.

Therefore, on the second day of October, Murong Xinchang appointed Zhao Kuangyin as the general of the Kanto Conquest, leading [-] water and land riders and tens of thousands of civilian husbands, and marched by sea and land.

Going to conquer the countries such as Kai, Musashi, Ueno, Shimono, Shangso, Shimoso, Hitachi, Mutsu, Dewa and other countries that are still controlled by the Japanese, it is almost the Tokyo and Sendai area of ​​the later Japanese kingdom.

At the same time, he appointed Wang Jing as the envoy of the South China Sea conquest, and led five thousand horses to pacify Tosa, Iyo and other countries on Shikoku Island belonging to Nankaido.

Murong Nobunaga himself sat in Osaka City and began to appease people. He first issued the Land Survey Law, which recognized that the possession of land by manor owners formed after the collapse of the Bantian System was legal.

However, each manor is limited to [-] mu of upper fields and less than [-] mu of middle and lower fields. All manor owners must rush to Osaka Castle to pay homage and offer their loyalty at the time stipulated by each county.

This move is quite ruthless. The owner of a manor of seven or eight thousand acres should have dozens or hundreds of households under him, so it won't have much influence, but if you let him give up this little family property, he will definitely reluctant.

And as soon as they arrive in Osaka, they can immediately arrange for them an immediate boss, or they should be called Fengjun.

Murong Nobunaga's idea is that an inspector will lead such more than 20 manor owners, bring a guard of [-] people, and directly escort such manor owners, and then they can start to take office.

Then put more than ten inspectors under a viscount or baron.Place five or more viscounts or barons under the marquis and earl.

In this way, let them have a subordinate relationship first, and then adjust after the overall situation is settled.

On the fifth day of October, Murong Nobunaga once again promulgated the law on the taxation of land and acres, adjusting the horrible taxation of five lords and five people implemented by the Japanese court at that time to three gongs and seven people for self-cultivating farmers, one for the farmer and three for the lord, and three for the lord and three people.

All commercial rents and taxes have also been adjusted from four publics and six people that directly bankrupt small traders to two publics and eight people.

The rest of the more than [-] kinds of exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes such as cattle tax and silk cloth tax set up by the Japanese court were all cancelled.

The self-cultivating farmers here refer to the people who cultivated on the lands such as the Osaka Plain, the Ono Plain, the Kanto Plain, and Dazaifu directly under the direct control of Murong Nobunaga and the imperial court.

There are no feudal monarchs or manor owners in these places, so no matter whether the people are living well or not, they are all self-cultivating farmers.It is implemented that [-]% belongs to oneself, and [-]% is turned over to the court.

Zhuangke refers to the manor farmers on the land with the king, er, or they can be called serfs.

They keep [-]% of their income, the manor owner gets [-]%, the king gets [-]%, and the king gets [-]%.

Uh, it looks miserable, and only [-]% is paid for hard work, but in fact, compared to eating wild vegetables in good years and starving to death in bad years, it is much better.

And don't look at the owner of the manor taking [-]%, but organizing production, observing the weather, domesticating cattle, and minor repairs to water conservancy all require money and effort from the manor owner.

Generally speaking, the income of the manor owner has dropped a lot, but in this horrible and troubled time, the family business has been preserved, the basic power has been recognized by the court, and the income of the people below has increased to varying degrees.

As soon as these two edicts came out, the Wa country, which was like boiling water, suddenly seemed to be poured into a large basin of cold water, and became less reactive.

The people at the bottom began to wait and see, instead of listening to the instigation of some remnant officials and nobles.

Afterwards, Murong Nobunaga began to issue an edict to release the people of Heian-kyo, Heijo-kyo, and Namba-kyo in batches, so that they could reunite with their surviving family members.

At the same time, because almost all the officials and nobles in the three capitals died, Murong Nobunaga generously allowed them to choose the houses of some low-level officials by themselves, which was a small compensation.

But all of this is conditional, that is, the citizens and farmers in the three capitals need to be recruited to do a big project.

On the eighth day of October, Murong Nobunaga ordered that 16 people and farmers in Sanjing should be recruited to destroy all the tombs of the emperor and the tombs of the Fujiwara family near the Osaka Plain, whether they were real or based on legends.

At the same time, the major Buddhist temples that began to have Japanese characteristics were also destroyed.

The reason why so many people were confiscated for some small tombs, and even many farmers were only taken to register, and then pushed down a few stones to make a show, is because it is not how much they did, but whether they did it or not.

Now, most of the citizens and farmers are basically accomplices, and Murong Nobunaga can barely feel relieved of them after receiving the vote.

On October [-]th, the news of the success of the four countries of Nankaido came. Wang Jing defeated the resistance of the samurai of the four countries in Wuchuan County of the Tosa country, and cut more than a thousand ranks.

The former Nankaidao hunting envoy of Wa country, Iyo country guard, Tosa Kunisuke and other officials and generals were all killed, and the four countries were basically pacified.

On the ninth day of November, Zhao Kuangyin arrived in the Kanto Plain, and immediately encountered the Dongguo pioneering samurai group in Toyota County, Xiazongguo.

At that time, most of Zhao Kuangyin's [-] troops were still at the seaside ferry. The soldiers under his command were only more than a thousand cavalry and two thousand cavalry and infantry.

Said it was an encounter, but in fact it was an ambush carefully planned by Dongguo warriors who were familiar with geography, but Zhao Kuangyin was not afraid at all even in the face of an enemy army several times larger than his own.

What a joke, he didn't have a share in such a majestic battle to break through Pingchengjing, and he can still be persuaded to fight a warrior from the Eastern Kingdom.

So, the screaming Japanese came out holding a Maotai sword about the same height as them and a spear taller than them, and then hit the iron wall.

Zhao Kuangyin led his troops to charge forward, and the three armies used their lives to defeat more than [-] Eastern warriors, beheading more than [-] ranks, and almost wiped out the main force of the Eastern warriors.

Later, Zhao Kuangyin established a foothold in the fortress originally built during the Pingjiangmen rebellion, and divided the [-] army into four divisions to attack.

Within half a month, the army smashed through more than [-] settlements of the warriors of the Eastern Kingdom in the heavy snow, beheaded thousands again, and captured tens of thousands.

In the eighth year of Shaoming, 953 AD, February.

The ice and snow in the Kanto melted, and Zhao Kuangyin led nearly [-] elites in an expedition all the way to the vicinity of the later city of Sendai.

At this time, the Ainu people had not been completely defeated by the Japanese people, so although Zhao Kuangyin was unfamiliar with the place, the Japanese people did not have much room for change.

At this time, there were more than [-] Ainu people. Although they were almost forced to Hokkaido, they were still able to draw thousands of soldiers.

With them blocking the back of the Japanese warriors, these guys can only desperately choose to be tough with Zhao Kuangyin.

And Zhao Kuangyin knew about the existence of the Ainu people long ago, and even made contact with them long ago.

So in this battle, under the guidance of the Ainu people who were familiar with the road, the desperate warriors of the Eastern Kingdom were defeated again. Thousands of people were killed, and the Kanto Landlord Snake Ping's family was almost completely killed.

In the cold wind, Zhao Kuangyin looked at the land in the distance, and said to Zhang Huan, the general beside him:

"The spring here is very early, the four seasons are distinct, and the climate is pleasant. It is much better than Lingnan and Hexi. The sage once said that the Wa country is not wild, and now I know it is true.

In the future, water conservancy will be built here, and wasteland will be reclaimed, enough to support millions of people. "

In fact, apart from the frequent earthquakes in Japan, there are still some good places.

The representative ones are Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo, Sendai and other areas along the east coast.

The climate here is mild, the land is fertile, and the fish catches are abundant. It is easy to support a million people in each place.

Zhao Kuangyin sighed softly. He knew that his brother Murong Nobunaga wanted to implement the vassal system of Xia Jun and Yimin in Wa Kingdom. Murong Nobunaga even said that as long as Zhao Kuangyin is willing, he is willing to use Mutsu and Deyu as the seals.

Even the name has been thought of, Murong Nobunaga has heard his father Zhang Shengren call this place Xiantai before, so he expressed his willingness to make Zhao Kuangyin the prince of Xiantai, governing the two prefectures of Mutsu and Deyu.

Zhao Kuangyin was very moved!

Can you not be tempted, if this is in the Warring States period of Japan in later generations, this would be a super feudal kingdom combined with Sendai, Aizu, Morioka, Michi, and Hirosaki.

The stone height is almost 250 million stones, and the household registration is several million!
Even now, Mutsuga Izuyu can have about 70 shi, and the common people should not be less than 25.

Should I go back to the Central Plains to become a general, or stay here and be lonely under the care of my brother?

It's really hard to choose!Zhao Kuangyin, who was always calm and thoughtful, also began to get confused.

At this time, the soldiers under his command reported that the 21 chieftains of the Ainu people had been invited to the small town just named Sendai, and they came to receive the reward for helping to defeat the Japanese people.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at Luo Yangui who was beside him and asked, "Have all the warriors from the Ainu people arrived?"

Luo Yangui chuckled, "It's all here, there are more than 4000 people, and our people have already brought fat sheep wine to reward them."

Zhao Kuangyin looked at his confidant Zhang Huan again and asked, "Are the soldiers you summoned ready?"

Zhang Huan smiled even more sinisterly, "Don't worry, the general, I will personally select the people. We will rush in and chop these savages into minced meat just after the general throws a cup!"

(End of this chapter)