The rise of the prince

Chapter 830 Tool Man + Post-war Layout
The redemption of prisoners of war had already begun on September [-]th, and the transaction took place at a temporary pavilion five miles north of the Jingguo Actual Control Line on the border of Huizhou.

The redemption fee must be a large sum of money, but many families also choose to only buy male heirs, regardless of whether the female relatives are dead or alive.

This move is not surprising in this era. In their concept, as long as the male heir is not cut off, the family blood can continue. As for women, would such a wealthy family be afraid of having no women?

Li Xingzhou didn't meet anyone. In fact, many people have implicitly expressed their desire to meet him, and are even willing to pay a high price. Some give money, and some hint that there are beautiful girls at home. After all, what the grandson of Emperor Jingguo did in Shangjing , Many people think he is a womanizer.

After the war between Jingjin and Jin that lasted for more than a year, the situation in the world has gradually become clearer, and the state of Jin has been reduced to the present state. Many people have already started to think about other things, and have begun to seek other ways out for themselves and their families.

There are many people in the world who want to please Li Xingzhou, and the same is true in the country of Jin.

Li Xingzhou didn't see anyone, but he met Pu Chayi who came to ransom him.

As he expected, Pu Chayi didn't have enough money to redeem all the Pucha family members.

Almost the entire family of Pu Cha's family was captured by Di Zhi, and their treasury in Liaoyang was also looted. Pu Chayi couldn't afford to buy so many people,

In the end, Pu Chayi only redeemed his eldest son and other male heirs, but he promised that he would raise enough money to redeem his family within a year, hoping that his family would be treated well.

Li Xingzhou said that he could agree, and then talked for a long time, and forced the conversation if he didn't speculate. With Li Xingzhou's current power and strength, Pu Chayi had no choice but to agree.

But Pu Chayi didn't know that he was tricked.

Because Li Xingzhou only saw him among the many people who asked to see him!
And Pu Chayi's daughter is in his hands again, when the time comes, the people of the Kingdom of Jin will think so, and the Lord of the Kingdom of Jin will think so?
However, these influences need time to settle, and Pu Chayi will slowly appreciate the changes. I don't know if he will scold his mother by then.

During the waiting period, on September 21, Li Xingzhou received an imperial decree from the south, which was delivered by an official named Zhou Wei of the Imperial Academy. He speculated that the emperor probably took this matter very seriously.

Receiving the decree requires burning incense, fasting, bathing and changing clothes, but a city like Huizhou, which has only experienced wars, obviously does not have these conditions, so everything can only be kept simple. Fortunately, Zhou Wei is not a pedantic scholar, so he didn't get entangled in the details.

Li Xingzhou originally planned to withdraw his troops, the key was to deal with the aftermath, so after receiving the order, he did not rush south, but started to deploy.

The first and most important thing is to stabilize people's hearts. From now on, all the land and people from the south of Huizhou to the west of Liaoyang will be the territory of Jingguo.

Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, this saying is not false at all.

For ordinary people, the country is a concept that can be near or far. Mencius has a famous saying: "The king treats his ministers like brothers and feet, and the ministers regard the emperor as his heart; Treat your ministers like dirt, and your ministers treat your ruler like a bandit."

This sentence may not be obvious on weekdays, but once there is a war, it will be vividly displayed when the country's destiny is chosen.

Without the aspirations of the people, no amount of population can organize an army, nor can it be organized to fight.

Therefore, in Huizhou, Zhongxing Mansion, and Liaoyang, the front line that will inevitably confront the north in the future, it is even more necessary to expand its influence, win the hearts of the people, and let these people have a sense of belonging to Jingguo.

To win the hearts of the people, the first thing is propaganda.

Li Xingzhou is ready to exempt several states that have suffered from the war for two years. At the same time, he ordered the army to bury the corpses, help the people clean up water sources, and strictly prohibited the army from burning, killing and looting the land south of Huizhou.

But these things he did must be known to the people, how to let the people know?In the current era of low literacy rate, the best way is the propaganda of grassroots officials.

However, in this area, Khitan people, Han people, Jurchens, Xi people and other ethnic groups are mixed, and the local common dialect is different from Chinese, so it is definitely not possible to send your own people.

Fortunately, Li Xingzhou picked up a Wulinhuang.

Wu Linhuang, after the Jurchen clan, was the first Marshal of the Jin Army, but he was timid and afraid of trouble, abandoned Shanhaiguan and ran away, hiding in Ningyuan.

When Ningyuan City was broken, he was still captured. He kowtowed in front of Li Xingzhou to beg for mercy, begged to be surrendered, and said that he would do his best for Jingguo in the future.

At that time, all the generals felt that this man was weak and unreliable.

Yang Hongzhao proposed to kill him, and then inform the Kingdom of Jin to damage the morale of the Jin army. After all, the capture and killing of the former Marshal of the Army and Horse of the World must have a great blow to the morale of the Jin army, which is beneficial to the war.

However, Li Xingzhou did not kill him despite all the arguments, and accepted his surrender, keeping him until today, just to let him help.

There is a word called "convert fanaticism", which refers to a phenomenon. In religious beliefs, converts who join halfway often show a higher degree of piety than original believers, even to the point of inexplicability.

This is also a very interesting research phenomenon in psychology.

This phenomenon abounds in daily life. For example, among the people studying abroad and living abroad in some countries, some people obey and respect foreign rules even more than the local aborigines.In terms of attacking and discrediting their own motherland, they are even more active, hard-working, and extreme than hostile countries.

Sometimes even the locals who are born and bred will be confused. Are we as tall as you say?
It can also be summed up as an old saying, "two devils are more fierce than devils".

From a psychological analysis, this kind of people are empty inside, do not have enough spiritual support, and are eager to find new support and comfort, so they want to gain the approval of the new group by "voting a certificate".

But because of their weakness and unreliability, they cannot give people a sense of security and trust. Often, whether it is a new group that is eager to integrate or an old group that is eager to get rid of the relationship, they will look down on them.

Therefore, such people will become more sensitive and extreme, and more and more want to acquire new group cognition through extreme behavior;
But in fact, no matter what group, it will naturally resist and reject such unreliable and extreme individuals, thus forming a vicious circle.

Wu Linhuang is such a person at this time. Seeing that Jing Guo is powerful and Jin Guo is weak, and he is able to surrender to Jing Guo, he will definitely use all means to prove his loyalty to Jing Guo.

The best way is to suppress one's original colleagues and compatriots to show loyalty.

That being the case, let him promote his lenient policy. He will definitely do his best to show his loyalty and prove that his choice is correct, so that those hard-headed people in the Kingdom of Jin who do not surrender will regret it, so as to eliminate him. Hidden inferiority complex and anxiety.

But what he didn't know was that for a person like him, the people of Jin country hated him, and the people of Jing country also looked down on him.

Li Xingzhou will not reuse him. He is still valuable at this time. When he is worthless, Li Xingzhou does not intend to keep such a person.

Today, he can easily switch from Jin Kingdom to Jing Kingdom, and then go south to Mongolia. Wouldn't it be easy for him to vote for the Mongols again?That's not planting a bomb for yourself.

Li Xingzhou couldn't keep this kind of uncertainty, but he couldn't do it this way, he surrendered after all.

Of course, Li Xingzhou is not afraid that there is no reason to touch him. People like Wu Linhuang will dig a grave for themselves, because converts worship them, and because "the second devil is more fierce than the devil."

"I put Wu Linhuang under your command. In the past two years, you can let him do whatever he wants."

On the tower at the top of Huizhou City, Li Xingzhou told Yang Hongzhao beside him that there were only the two of them here, and the army was about to return to the north. Li Xingzhou decided to leave Yang Hongzhao to preside over the north, and temporarily act as envoys on Liaodong Road and Liaoxi Road.

In the army, only Yang Hongzhao, a stable veteran, is suitable.

But there are some things he needs to explain himself.

Yang Hongzhao frowned, "Your Highness, Wu Linhuang is not a kind person. This person is vacillating. He has no ability. Apart from rhetoric, standing in a team temporarily is nothing, the old minister thinks."

Li Xingzhou raised his hand to stop him, and then said bluntly: "I look down on him too."

"Then why is Your Highness?"

"Looking down on him doesn't mean we don't need him." Li Xingzhou put his hands on his hips and looked towards the vast land in the south with his head tilted: "Master Yang, do you know that Huizhou to the south, Zhongxing Mansion, and the coastal states are the most affluent areas in Jin Kingdom , how many wealthy families in these places have been operating for hundreds of years.

The gold and silver piled up like mountains in the house, they surrendered quickly when the Khitans came, and they surrendered quickly when the Jurchens came, and now that the labor and capital are going north, they also surrendered in anticipation, not giving them any chance to beat the local tyrants, tsk tsk."

Li Xingzhou clicked his tongue: "I was thinking of squeezing some money from them to build roads in the south."

Yang Hongzhao was ashamed, "Do you want me to send troops?"

"No, it won't work either.

After all, they will be the citizens of Jingguo in the future, and using swords and guns will have bad effects and easily lose the hearts of the people. Li Xingzhou said and looked at him: "Besides, even if you want to take it, you can't take the blame." "

Yang Hongzhao has experienced a lot in his life, and he is considered an old fox. He seemed to recall something, blinked and said, "Your Highness is talking about Wu Linhuang."

"That's right." Li Xingzhou nodded without hesitation: "He's here to take the blame, and this person is now racking his brains on how to get a certificate from me.

Just give him a little hint, and he will definitely attack the people and colleagues of the former Jin Kingdom crazily to prove his loyalty.

At this stage, let him do it for now, even if you despise and disgust in your heart, don't show it on the surface.Just pretend to agree. "

Li Xingzhou smiled immediately, "When he has cleaned up those rich and powerful families, it will probably be to the point of resentment.

He was originally a traitor to the Kingdom of Jin, and the people were resentful towards him, and he did something to attract people's hatred. It is inevitable that the people will be violent.

At this time, you will appear on the stage, on behalf of the imperial court, to uphold justice for the people and those big clans, and clean up Wu Linhuang.

The people are grateful to the court, and those big families will be more loyal.He distributed [-]% of the collected money to the common people, and returned a little to the rich families in a symbolic manner.

The rest. Hehe, seal them up and send them to Kaiyuan. "

Yang Hongzhao nodded again and again with an expression of enlightenment, "Your Highness is brilliant! In this way, it is only natural that there will be no complaints except for the unreliable person like Wu Linhuang, and it will also take the opportunity to win the hearts of the people and search for the money of the rich."

Li Xingzhou nodded: "Remember, God knows this matter, you know it, I know it, don't let the third person know."

"Your Highness, you can rest assured! The old minister will fulfill his mission and serve His Highness." Yang Hongzhao said solemnly.

"Also, two years is just my estimate. When to close the network depends on the performance of public opinion. You can decide for yourself. If Wu Linhuang takes action against ordinary people, you should beat them appropriately so as not to hurt the hearts of the people."

Yang Hongzhao nodded.

Li Xingzhou then explained: "There is one more thing to pay attention to.

Now the remnants of the Jin army are divided into two parts, one part is the guards of Shangjing, and the other part is the elite of Wanyan Zongbi, who have retreated to the northeast snow forest.

Wanyan Zongbi and Wanyanli were two uncles and nephews who were at odds with each other. In this battle, Wanyan Zongbi even disobeyed the order of the lord Wanyanli. "

"The old officials have also heard about this matter. It would be great if they could fight, and our pressure will be much less."

Li Xingzhou laughed and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't if!
If they don't have friction, create friction for them!
Now that both of their forces are bordering us, it is not easy to do tricks.

Besides, we can use some other means. Now that the Kingdom of Jin has lost its most fertile land, a large number of young and strong have died in battle or been captured, and they have to pay annual tribute and redeem people. It can be said that internal and external difficulties, and the living conditions of the people will definitely go from bad to worse. At this time It's better to buy someone, you know what I mean. "

Yang Hongzhao nodded: "The old minister understands!"

Li Xingzhou chuckled, "When they fight, both of us will be able to sell things."

Then he recommended Gu Lichuan to Yang Hongzhao, "Pingzhou guard Gu Lichuan, this man is young, but he is brave and resourceful, and can be reused. General Yang can teach him more when he has time."

The reason why Li Xingzhou recommended Gu Lichuan was because the territory that Jingguo had acquired now had a center of gravity, and he was ready to turn these lands into two roads, Liaodong Road and Liaoxi Road.

With Zhongxing Mansion in the west and Liaoyang Mansion in the east, it is impossible for Yang Hongzhao to be stationed in both places at the same time, and he needs the help of a capable lieutenant general.

"The old minister will bear in mind His Highness' teaching." Yang Hongzhao said seriously.

"Don't talk about teaching, since these places are entrusted to you, I trust you. There are many things that Mr. Yang needs to think about and arrange by himself. Now he is only acting as Jiedu envoy. If he does well, maybe he will congratulate Mr. Yang for his promotion in the next year Liaoxi Jiedu envoy."

After hearing this, Yang Hongzhao burst into tears and knelt down on one knee, "The old minister will definitely live up to His Highness's trust!" A sinful person like him never thought that he would ever be able to recover.

Unexpectedly, now following His Majesty to the north, he would have another chance again, and he will act as the envoy of the two routes. Such an honor has never been imagined in his dreams. The ups and downs of his life made him have mixed feelings, and his gratitude to the emperor and grandson The debt is beyond words.

That night, Li Xingzhou summoned Wu Linhuang and had dinner with him to express his favor.

During the banquet, Wu Linhuang flattered him in every possible way, constantly belittling his old club, Jin Guo, to set off how powerful and prosperous Jing Guo was.

Li Xingzhou is not a fool, and he will not be complacent because of such low-level flattery.

Although he has done many bad things in the past five or six years, at least he has a bottom line, and he feels disgusted with Wu Linhuang in his heart.

The Kingdom of Jin was his motherland, and it had been brilliant in the past, and produced many outstanding people, but it seemed worthless to him.

The last emperor, Wanyan Wugu, was a hero of the generation. He led more than 3000 people out of Liaodong, and in just two or three years defeated Liao, the largest country in the north.

The eldest princess Wanyan Yingge is a heroine who does not give in to men, gallops on the battlefield as a daughter and is loved by soldiers;

As a prime minister, Liu Xu has far-reaching meanings, has insight into the overall situation, and is loyal to the late emperor and dedicated to serving the public;
Yelu was rich in war experience, loved and nursed the soldiers, and even died generously after losing the enemy;

Wanyan Zongbi used his troops like a god, and was flexible. To be honest, if the new army didn't have new muskets and cannons, and he didn't have binoculars, maybe he would really fall into Wanyan Zongbi's hands.

These people are now defeated or dead, but everyone is a hero, but Wu Linhuang said that they are nothing.

For such a person, Li Xingzhou hated him, not to mention that Jin people hated him. Although he was smiling on the surface, he had already arranged for him to die in his heart, even where to dig his grave.

Afterwards, Li Xingzhou greeted his relatives, expressed "concern" to him, and then gave him an official status, and proposed that he be responsible for publicizing the benefits of the new government among the people, and publicizing his new policies for benefiting the people and Jingguo laws to the people in these areas. .

At the same time, let him be responsible for arranging contact with northern literati, and later teach Chinese characters on Liaodong Road and Liaoxi Road, and use Central Plains Chinese as the official language.

After explaining these things, he complained intentionally or unintentionally about his dissatisfaction with the local big clans, saying that these big clans have accumulated tens of millions of money in private, but they are unwilling to give part of it to the court. Sooner or later they will be dealt with.

Sure enough, when he turned around, he found that Wu Linhuang was listening with pricked up ears, and nodded again and again.

Li Xingzhou understood that his goal had been achieved.

On September 26, Li Xingzhou ended the hostage redemption, and then went south with the knowledge that there were more than 200 people who had no one to redeem.

More than [-]% of these people are women.

The older ones were all sent back by Li Xingzhou, and it would be a burden to take them with them, and they might have died in the middle of the road before reaching Kaiyuan.

Killing is not good either, it is not easy to live to this age, if a younger man Li Xingzhou would hang them directly.

As for the remaining women, there are nine out of ten that no one will come to redeem them. He plans to reward the soldiers who have made great contributions on the battlefield. It is also a better place for these women. As for how they will be treated, it depends on their fate. alright.

However, there are some exceptions. The nineteen women who were not ransomed from Pucha's house, the youngest was only 13 years old, and the oldest was 39 years old.

They are relatives such as Pu Chaling's niece, sister-in-law, younger brother and younger sister.

On the premise that Pu Chaling repeatedly pleaded for mercy, obeyed everything, and did whatever she was asked to do, and served Li Xingzhou comfortably, she agreed not to kill them or send them away, and to bring them back to Kaiyuan for resettlement. There are relatives in Kaiyuan, Pu Chaling Nor is it lonely.

By September 29, the armies from all walks of life rejoined Jinzhou.

According to the previous promise, Li Xingzhou distributed most of the financial statistics collected from the state treasuries to the soldiers as rewards. Di Zhi, Wei Yubai, Yan Shen, and Shen Lin took charge of this matter.

Li Xingzhou himself also reaped a lot of benefits, part of the treasures of the treasury, and the money from the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin to buy the hostages were all a huge windfall.

(End of this chapter)