In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 535: United and Mongolia defeat Mongolia
On the seventh day of March in the thirteenth year of Yuanzhen, the Song army broke through the city of Shiraz and captured and killed Du Boli, the local leader. Then some people in the city identified relatives, friends, and confidants who had good relations with Du Boli. , killing them one by one to frighten the resistance across Persia.

The city of Shiraz is one of the largest cities in Persia, and it ranks among the top three in southern Persia. The city has a population of more than 200,000. After the war, the Song army almost plundered the wealth of the entire city, except for food such as grain, cattle and sheep. We didn’t grab all the categories, and almost all the ones that could be sold for money were taken away.

Countless amounts of wealth were plundered throughout the city. Only Song Xiong, Song Zhuang and his group counted all the property after the war, and found that all the property was converted into more than two million silver coins.

Eighty percent of it was handed over to the Song Dynasty court, and the other 20% was divided equally among the officers and soldiers participating in the siege, excluding pensions for those killed in battle.

In the end, those who survived, including Song Xiong and Song Zhuang, plus their military exploits, each received at least two hundred silver coins, which equaled their military pay for several years.

Song Xiong believed that the Song court's plundering harvest in the entire Shiraz city should far exceed 10 million silver coins.

For example, the Du Boli family, a great leader, has been operating in South Persia for hundreds of years, and may have accumulated nearly tens of millions of wealth, not to mention that the Song army confiscated almost all valuable things in the city.

After the war, about 170,000 people survived in Shiraz City. According to the custom of the Song Dynasty, all the original officials, nobles, and wealthy merchants were basically killed, and then the lands of the lords, officials, nobles, and wealthy merchants were distributed to this city. People who survived.

Then they razed all kinds of temples, castles, and hall buildings in the city, and then lived according to the way of the Song Dynasty. Those who lived farmed and paid taxes. Regardless of the rich or the poor, everyone was treated equally, and they were all common people of the Song Dynasty.

Also according to the Song Dynasty method, ten households were compiled into one bailout, one hundred households were compiled into one big bailout, and one thousand households were compiled into villages, etc.

The ten protectors under Song Xiong are arranged from one to ten.

Before the Chinese language was available, they still needed Persian translators.

Later, the Song army completely attacked South Persia, and many things began to be transported to the Persian Gulf by water.

Song Xiong's ten guarantees were still a bit far away, and he only managed five guarantees that day.

Now the Song army defeated the officials and gentry, and distributed the fields to them. They only paid taxes and corvees, which they could accept.

Because both of them were involved in local reconstruction, each was the chief security officer of Yibao, also known as Baozheng.

Half a month after the war, Song Xiong and Song Zhuang were still staying in Shiraz City, while other Song troops had been sent elsewhere.

In late May, their families were brought over from Borneo Province.

At that time, Song Zhuang still wanted to continue to be a Song Army, because every time he conquered a city with the Song Army, he would get a lot of wealth. Like this time, he got more than two hundred silver coins at once.

Why is this happening?

The two took a group of people to look at the field site.

Song Xiong came to the courtyard gate early in the morning with a confidant. When he arrived at the gate, he saw four or five people waiting for him outside, each holding a horse, and some holding two horses.

Because Shiraz City is close to the seaside, Song Xiong and Song Zhuang could see various supplies being transported every day anyway.

"Da Baochang." When several people saw him coming out, they all said respectfully in Chinese.

But I don’t care about these details. Anyway, as time changes, sooner or later these people will be like him and can only speak Chinese.

The two are each the chief security officer of a hundred households, responsible for tax collection and corvee work for the one hundred households they manage. As the chief security officer and the chief security officer, they themselves are exempt from corvee labor, but they are not exempt from tax.

Song Xiong arrived at Yibao first, and the chief of Yibao, a native of Feilu Bing, had been waiting for him for a long time.

"Let's get on the horse and go to Ichibo first."

Song Xiong is the chief security officer, and every security guard needs to take a look at him today.

Song Xiong had been observing the mentality and expressions of the local people and found that they were similar to when they were first conquered by the Song army. The Persians were still relatively optimistic.

This time he conquered the city of Shiraz. Because of his good performance, he was selected by the Song army and served as a local official responsible for managing the local area.

But Song Xiong escaped death several times and did not want to fight anymore. Moreover, being a local official here was more prestigious. After a discussion between the two brothers, Song Xiong persuaded Song Zhuang. The two of them suddenly changed from the Song Army to the Song Army Local Government. Officials.

With a wave of his hand, he motioned for everyone to mount their horses. His confidant was a local Persian who first served with the Song Army in the Persian Gulf. Later, he became a civilian husband of the Song Army. Now he is his translator and housekeeper.

There are rewards for completing taxes and corvees, including various infrastructure required by the court.

These people had only learned Chinese for a few months, and their pronunciation was not very clear. Song Xiong felt that the person he was calling was not the chief security officer, but the chief cousin.

Some of the construction was done by local people who pooled their labor resources, and some were funded by the royal court from taxes collected in Shiraz City.

Moreover, the Song army was paid for corvées, which was different from other dynasties. The resistance of ordinary people was not very strong, and the key point was that they could not resist.

And Song Zhuang is from eleven to twenty.

Let’s look at the grain fields first, and then the cotton fields.

The two people live next door, but they live in different directions.

For a big security guard like him, the basic salary is one silver coin per month, and then there are rewards based on performance at the end of the year.

Because starting from May, the Song Army required planting 30% cotton and 70% rice.

There is enough food in the Persian Gulf. Cotton was grown in the past, but the output could not increase, and it could not compete with the Song Army and the Delhi Sultanate (India). Now that the Song Army completely controls South Persia, it needs to plant a large amount of cotton, and at the same time, it must ensure There is enough food to eat.

Every time you visit a Bao, you have to check the ditch construction of local grain crops and the supporting facilities for cash crops such as cotton.

The Song army used ten households as one security guard and one hundred households as one large security guard.

Both of them were able to take over Bo Ni's family, and the Song army assigned them a large house in Shiraz City. Each household was given a hundred acres of land and a tax of 30%.

At this time, the Song army had conquered almost the entire South Persia, and there were countless horse-drawn carriages every day, transporting cartloads of wealth to the Persian Gulf, some to Lin'an, and some to other places.

When the two of them were in Bo Ni Country, they were just ordinary people.

Song Xiong had to ensure grain output, the payment of grain taxes, and a bumper harvest of cotton and other cash crops in order to get his reward.

Because like Song Xiong before, they were all local slaves and ordinary people. Many of them did not have their own fields and had to depend on nobles and wealthy families.

These people are all tenants of his family, many of whom were attached to the families of former nobles and lords, and are now considered to be attached to Song Xiong.

This is the first year, and his tasks are still relatively heavy, so Song Xiong runs very diligently and comes down to supervise when nothing happens.

They are also responsible for ruling over new populations.

After seeing the five security guards that day, he said the same thing to all five security chiefs: "Before the end of June, the imperial court will rule the counties and villages under Shiraz City. The total population of the security, men, women, old and young, You all have to make statistics and report them to me. I will give you three days to make statistics and report them, and I will report them to Murakami again. "

"Promise." All the security chiefs agreed one after another.

Each household must count how many people there are, how many males and females there are, what age group they are, how many are able to work as corvees, and how many children they have.

"In July, the imperial court will open a Chinese language school in Shiraz City. All those aged above seven and under sixteen must learn Chinese. The tuition and other fees will be paid by the imperial court. Each person only needs to pay five measures of grain every year."

"Promise." All the security chiefs also agreed one after another. Five buckets of grain per person is not much. Now each household is divided into fields by the Song army. Each family has a few acres or more. Calculated based on the output, one stone per person per year is enough.

However, the imperial court only collected five dou as a symbol, and mainly used the collected grain tax to provide food for the children to study.

At the end of June, Shiraz's population of 170,000 people was counted as 43,000 households, with an average of four people per household.

But there were not many young men, because many of them died when the Song army attacked the city.

There are only more than 20,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 35.

The rest were either younger than eighteen or older than thirty-five.

The whole city of Shiraz has more than 3 million acres of grain fields, and each household can be allocated an average of 17 acres. The Song army began to divide the fields equally. They first took half of the fields and divided them equally among households, leaving half of the fields. Regardless, when the population was counted later, it was found that some families had more men, and some had more women.

So in July, they redistributed the other half of the fields according to the strength of the men in the family.

According to the two-season grain production in Persia at this time, the annual output was three to four shi. As long as there were no natural disasters and famines, the Song army collected 30% of the tax, and the Shiraz City could collect about 3 million shi in tax every year. This was even in the late Ming Dynasty. It's a big deal.

The entire Ming Dynasty only collected less than 20 million dan in the whole year.

The Song army divided the land evenly in foreign countries. There were no nobles or big men who were stationed in the fields. The taxes were as high as 30%. A Shiraz city could collect more than three million shi, which was enough to support the local garrison and officials, and there was a huge surplus.

Moreover, the city of Shiraz has relatively few grain fields.

Persia is a large agricultural country, with an area of ​​about 800 million acres of arable land, accounting for more than 30% of its land area. In fact, only about 300 million acres were cultivated in later generations, and nearly 500 million acres were left uncultivated.

Moreover, the local water resources are abundant, and there will be no severe droughts like the late Ming Dynasty. Half of their farmland can be irrigated naturally, so the investment in water conservancy and ditches in the Song Dynasty is much less than that in China.

After the Song army occupied this area, they began to cultivate large areas and expand grain fields and cash crop fields.

You can't leave a lot of fields empty and unused.

Persia's agricultural resources are so good, but it would be a waste not to use them.

The Song army also planted another economic function in Persia, which was the famous pistachio.

Pistachios were introduced to China from Persia in the Tang Dynasty, but people in the Tang Dynasty did not grow them much, they only ate them, and they were quite expensive.

Persia is the world's largest producer of pistachios, accounting for 50% of the world's annual output.

Of course, they were not working hard on this at this time. After Zhao Yurui arrived, they planted rice and wheat in the paddy fields, and planted cash crops in other cultivated lands, including vigorously growing pistachios, and then sold them to various countries.

If you sell this thing back to Lin'an of the Song Dynasty, you can make the Song people's own money.

In May, when Song Xiong was working as a junior official in Shiraz City in accordance with the imperial decree, the main force of the Song Army had already broken through the ancient city of Yazd in central Persia.

This is the birthplace of Mingjiao. The locals first used petroleum as a sacred fire. There is the famous Zoroastrianism. Even in later generations, the sacred fire is still burning in the temple of Zoroastrianism.

There are many temples and temples here. Liu Zheng's attempt to surrender failed, so the other party wanted to keep whatever temples or temples he wanted to keep.

Without saying a word, Liu Zheng immediately ordered a strong attack and at the same time used a large number of trebuchets to throw incendiary bombs.

Aren't you the Holy Fire Holy Land of Zoroastrianism? I will help you and burn the whole city directly. Gold and silver coins are not easily burned anyway.

As a result, Song's catapult lasted less than an hour, but the people inside couldn't stand it anymore and surrendered immediately.

As before, the Song army formed a team to clean up and plunder the wealth.

This area is very suitable for growing cotton. The main crops are cotton and barley. The famous Persian carpets are also popular here.

In mid-June, the Song army came to a more important city, Isfahan.

This is the oldest city in central Persia. It was built during the Achaemenid Dynasty in the 4th and 5th centuries BC. It has been the capital of the dynasty many times. At that time, merchants traveling from north to south had to pass through this city.

Now that the shipping industry has developed, many people don't go here, but go to the Persian Gulf. Back then, this was a must.

There is a local proverb in Persia called "Isfa Khan is half the world", which represents the scene at its peak and heyday.

This is a larger and richer city than Shiraz, and it is only more than 600 miles away from the city of Rai where Kublai Khan was stationed.

Kublai Khan once considered sending troops to support, but in the end he canceled the idea because Guyu's troops were also coming from the east coast of the Caspian Sea and heading towards the city of Rai.

Guyou's Southern Route Army made an agreement with Liu Zheng to meet up at Lai City before August to jointly attack Kublai Khan.

This is an alliance between the Song Army and the Eastern Khan of Mongolia to jointly attack the Western Khan of Mongolia.

Kublai Khan contracted the defense of Rai City and ignored Isfa Khan. In fact, he could not control it.

The lord of Isfa Khan also refused to surrender. He had no choice. The conditions of the Song people were too harsh, and according to the Song people's way of doing things, they would plunder all the wealth after entering the city.

The lord wanted to surrender, but other nobles refused.

In mid-June, Liu Zheng led 28,000 Song troops to attack the city.

When he came out of the Persian Gulf, he brought more than 36,000 people with him. He attacked cities and plundered territory along the way, and had to divide his troops to garrison. When he got here, he only had 28,000 people.

The Song army's artillery and trebuchets came together, and there was a continuous flow of incendiary bombs and bombs.

However, the Song army did not bring much, and they still had to attack Lai City, so they only used a small amount.

Isfahan is not easy to fight either. It is an ancient city with a large population.

Originally, there were approximately three to four hundred thousand people in the city, and people from a hundred or two hundred miles outside the city also fled in, resulting in nearly half a million people gathering in the city.

Because they were all fighting with cannon fodder and servants in the front, Liu Zheng fought for several days but failed to defeat him. There were too many people in the city and the defense was very strenuous. He was not afraid of casualties.

He also wanted to leave artillery shells and incendiary bombs to deal with Rye City, so he paused.

At this time, he discovered that it was June, which was originally the season for harvesting barley and wheat. Due to the arrival of the Song Army, some had already been harvested quickly, while others had no time to harvest.

Considering that he and Guyuk had agreed to besiege Rai City in August, Liu Zheng simply surrounded Isfa Khan and was not in a hurry to fight.

There are more than 500,000 people in the city of Isfahan. Let’s see what they eat.

Then the Song Army sent civilians and troops to plunder and harvest food in the surrounding areas. At the same time, the food in Shiraz City and Yaz City could also supply the Song Army. However, the small lords in other parts of Persia had no time to take care of themselves, so they would come to rescue Isfa Khan. .

In this way, the Song army's territory in Persia could be supplied. The Persians were surrounded but had less and less food.

(End of this chapter)