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

Chapter 566 Hojo Tokiyori
The nearest mountain was more than five miles to their south, which was a bit far, but there was no other way, they had to go up the mountain to chop firewood every day.

The usual practice here is that several families use a horse-drawn carriage from Tunbu No. 87. It is very fast to get to the mountain, and it takes less than an hour to cut a full cart of wood. They can make several round trips a day.

The firewood brought back can supply ten households for more than half a month.

While Park Dayong was busy building the house, he would every now and then get a horse-drawn carriage and take his son and wife up the mountain to chop firewood.

In less than a month, the family had stored up several tons of firewood.

This guy is also afraid of being poor. When he was in Goryeo, firewood was very valuable and could not be cut casually.

Now that we are here, the first thing we do is to stock up on firewood so that we won’t get frozen in the winter.

But Song Jinzhong quickly told him that coal was distributed here in winter.

The imperial court has a coal mine here, and distributes coal every winter, and every household uses coal for heating.

Park Dayong also saw a coal stove and coal briquettes in Song Jinzhong's house, which can be used to boil water and cook.

He was very envious at the time. Song Jinzhong said, when you become a chief, the imperial court will also issue an award.

Park Dayong's family had been here for less than half a year, and their house hadn't been built yet, but new neighbors had arrived. There were new people in his village.

At this time, the court also asked his children whether they wanted to learn Chinese characters.

He agreed without hesitation.

In early November of the fifteenth year of Yuanzhen, just as the autumn harvest in Goryeo was about to begin, someone suddenly came to the door again.

The imperial court was going to send troops and mobilize the people to follow. If there were two strong men in their families, they had to send one.

Park Dayong was stunned. He didn't expect that he would have to do corvée labor so soon.

At this time, the family's fields had not been well-maintained, the water wheels and ditches were not complete, and even all the houses were not built. They needed manpower, but there was no way. They had been here for nearly half a year, and the Song army had been supporting them and helping them build houses.

Park Dayong thought about it and originally wanted to go himself, but his son Park Young-hoon insisted on going.

In fact, Song Jinzhong had never told them before that they would have to serve as laborers so early, but Park Dayong and his son did not care about it. The Song army had supported their family for half a year, distributed land and built houses for them, so they thought it was their duty. They just didn't know where to use the troops.

Park Young-hoon made some preparations and reported to Cheolju on November 7th.

When he arrived at the designated place, he saw a sea of ​​people, including many young and strong Koreans. But later he discovered that there were not only Koreans in the crowd, but also Song people and Mongolians, all of whom were local people.

Of course, there were the most Koreans at the scene, and Park Young-hoon also saw an acquaintance.

"Uncle."

"Ah, Young-hoon." Park Ji-hae smiled awkwardly when he saw his nephew, then asked curiously, "You guys are in Cheolju too?"

"We were assigned to the area near Yanzhou." Park Young-hoon was very unhappy with this uncle, but after all, he was a family member and an elder, so he couldn't say anything.

The two chatted for a while, and Park Ji-hae was instantly petrified when he heard that Park Dayong became the head of the village as soon as he arrived.

This is really frustrating. Park Zhihai was speechless.

He swam across the river with all his might, but he never expected that his younger brother and his family made it across safely and even became the head of the village.

Park Young-hoon didn't understand why his cousin didn't come and asked his uncle to come.

Park Ji-hae also has a son who is older than him.

Park Ji-hae is already in his forties, but he rushed to come this time.

Park Ji-hae said he was afraid his son would die on the battlefield.

Park Young-hoon said, "I heard that the Song army is fighting, so we are still relatively safe."

"Don't be afraid of one thing, just be afraid of ten thousand." Park Zhihai murmured.

While the two were talking, some soldiers from the Song army came over to assign manpower.

The two were lucky enough to be assigned to the transport group.

Responsible for driving the horse-drawn carriages loaded with food and supplies, following behind the army.

"Behind the army?" Hahahaha, Park Zhihai danced with joy, obviously very happy.

This is a good job and relatively safe.

At the end of the 15th year of Yuanzhen, during the autumn harvest in November, the Song army officially began the war to attack Korea.

Zhao Yurui chose a very good time.

First, during the autumn harvest in November, the Song army moved so fast that many places did not have time to collect the grain.

Secondly, Choi Yi's health was deteriorating, Choi Hang and Kim Il were fighting openly and secretly for the succession, and the Goryeo high-level leadership was extremely unstable.

Again, during the past decade or so, Goryeo and the Song Dynasty maintained trade and had no precautions against the Song army.

The commander of the Song army was Wang Jian.

Divided into two routes.

The vanguard was Wang Dechen (son of Wang Shixian), who set out from Tiezhou, first conquered Tongzhou, then Xuanchuan, and headed straight for Anzhou. After taking Anzhou, he divided his troops into two groups: half to guard Anzhou and resist the Goryeo troops in the north, and the other half to go south to Xijing.

The main general was Lu Wenxin. He led the navy from Jeju Island, attacked Ganghwa Island directly, and then landed in the south of Kaesong.

Considering that Goryeo fled to Ganghwa Island when it could not defeat Mongolia, the Song army attacked Ganghwa Island first and then opened up the capital.

Goryeo was unaware when the Song army dispatched troops.

The land vanguard Wang Dechen led his troops swiftly and first captured Tongzhou, and then reached Xuanchuan.

Xuanchuan surrendered without a fight, and Wang Dechen entered Xuanchuan within one day.

They told the Song army that, unlike the Mongolian invasion, the Koreans and the Song people had lived in peace for more than ten years. Knowing that conditions were better on the Song side, many of them wanted to immigrate to the Song army.

Now that the Song army had come in, the people had very little resistance and they all put up a passive resistance. Some even helped the Song army set fire to the city.

The Goryeo nobles were unpopular and were simply welcoming the royal army with food and drink.

When the Song army's vanguard just arrived in Xuanchuan, Park Young-hoon and Park Ji-hae also returned to their hometown Tongzhou.

They were outside the city at the time and could only hear continuous gunfire in the city. The Song army was clearing out sporadic resistance.

Not long after, a group of Song soldiers suddenly came over and asked in Korean: "Are there any people from Tongzhou?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Park Ji-hae and Park Young-hoon raised their hands almost at the same time.

"Do you know any officials or powerful people in Tongzhou? Some of them are hiding among the people. Do you want to catch them?"

Park Zhihai immediately shrank his head and shook his head in confusion.

Park Young-hoon said decisively: "I know Cui Bun."

Cui Fen was their master, who collected 40% of their rent and also asked them to pay taxes on top of that.

After Park Ji-hae ran away, Choi Bun's housekeeper still asked them to pay neighborhood taxes.

"And Cui Fan's housekeeper, his family is also a small landlord, owning hundreds of acres of land." Park Young-hoon wants revenge.

"Very good." Song Jun said excitedly, "Come on, follow us into the city to recognize people."

When he entered the city, he found a large square with many people, all of whom were citizens of the city.

They were dressed in different clothes, but they all looked respectable.

The Song army was also good at selecting people. No matter what clothes you wore, if your skin and appearance were decent, you must be in good condition. You couldn't fake it. You looked like an ordinary citizen, with a pale face and skinny body, and dry and dark skin, which was a feature that noble officials did not have.

After the city was broken, many rich people pretended to be ordinary people, and the Song army didn't care. If they saw someone who didn't look like the rich man, they would first arrest him and put him in a special group. Then they would let ordinary people in the city identify him, and there would be rewards for reporting him.

Park Young-hoon followed the Song army in and quickly identified Cui Ben.

At that time he didn't think anything would happen, but unexpectedly, later on, the Song army posted a notice saying that someone in the city had identified someone else, who had made great contributions and would be rewarded with so much money and property.

Then all the landlords, powerful people or officials like Cui Fen were dragged outside the South Gate and beheaded.

The rest of the family was taken to dig coal.

A few days later, Park Young-hoon found out about this and felt uneasy.

Now he is going to be famous all over the country, betraying his master?
But the next move by the Song army made him give up completely.

That day, the Song army called him and gave him a carriage.

The carriage was loaded with two hundred silver coins, several hundred copper coins, a small amount of silk and other items, and then he was told that this was the reward for his reporting of Cui Fen, and that he no longer had to be a laborer and could go home.

The sudden windfall left Park Young-hoon stunned.

When uncle Pu Zhihai found out, he cried and regretted it very much.

Before long, they also learned the Song army's tactics.

After the Song army entered the city, they would kill almost all the powerful people, landlords, and some officials in the city. They would allow some officials with better reputations to stay, but just to save their lives, and they would move to the Song army's territory, such as Tiezhou and other places.

Then all the land will be distributed to ordinary people, and a 40% tax will be levied in the first five years, a 30% tax after five years, and after twenty years, the land will become private property of the people.

Although the tax is super high, it is still less than before.

Compared with the treatment Park Young-hoon and his men received in Cheoljuk and Yanzhou, the treatment here that belonged to the Song people was obviously much worse.

The two of them couldn't help but feel fortunate that they had joined the Song people earlier.

Less than a month after the Song Dynasty launched military operations against Goryeo, a merchant ship quickly approached Japan from Jeju Island.

It was mid-January in the sixteenth year of Yuanzhen (1248).

The heavy snow in Kamakura (Kanagawa Prefecture) had just stopped, and it was all white outside. The weather was freezing cold, and many people gathered in the shogunate.

The fifth regent, Hojo Tokiyori, sat upright, while the retainers on both sides were discussing something.

Hojo Tokiyori was the second son of Hojo Tokiuji, and his mother was Matsushita Zenni, the daughter of Andachi Kagemori. In 1237, he was born into a family and was named "Tokiyori" after the general Kujo Yoritsune. After that, he served as the Left Guard and the Left Omi Governor. In 1246, his elder brother Hojo Tsunetoki gave up the position of regent to him due to illness.

In other words, Hojo Tokirai was in this position for less than two years.

The past two years have been quite difficult for him. The famous figure of the Nagoshi-ryu, Mitsutoki, coveted the position of regent, and the former shogun, Fujiwara no Yoritsune, the fourth shogun of the Kamakura clan, was also accumulating strength.

Today they were discussing the matter of Fujiwara no Yoritsune.

After Fujiwara no Yoritsugu was forced to resign from the post of shogun, he did not leave Kamakura, but became a monk in a Kamakura temple.

His heart is as clear as day.

His great uncle Hojo Shigetoki proposed today that Fujiwara no Yoritsugu should be sent to Kyoto as soon as possible to prevent him from causing trouble here.

Hojo Shigetoki also saw the clues and knew that something would happen sooner or later if Fujiwara no Yoritsugu stayed in Kamakura.

But his proposal was opposed by some, including Celebrity Hour.

Mingliu Shiguang had secretly colluded with Fujiwara no Yoritsugu and was looking for an opportunity to overthrow the Hojo clan. At this important time, Fujiwara no Yoritsugu could not be allowed to return to Kyoto.

Hojo Tokiyori has only been in this position for a short time, and his abilities have not yet been fully demonstrated.

As a result, many people in the shogunate were still hesitant and were waiting and watching.

This gave Mingliu Shiguang and others an opportunity, and they had been delaying the matter of Fujiwara no Yoritsugu leaving.

Today, Hojo Shigetoki mentioned again the matter of Fujiwara no Yoritsuge returning to Kyoto, and Mingliu Shiguang was the first to step forward to stop it.

He also said that Fujiwara no Yoritsugu had weak legs and was not suitable for long-distance travel.

Fujiwara no Yoritsugu was only thirty years old at this time, and was too old to be of any use. Celebrities said that he had weak legs and feet.

Hojo Shigetoki immediately turned to Fujiwara no Yoritsugu, the son of Fujiwara no Yoritsugu, and asked, "When did your father's legs become damaged?"

Fujiwara no Yoritsugu was only nine years old at the time, and because of the pressure from Hojo Tokiyori, his father was forced to give up the title of Shogun to him.

As a great general, he knows nothing.

The nine-year-old Fujiwara no Yoshitsugu's face flushed and he stammered, "Father, I accidentally fell down a few days ago."

Hojo Shigetoki immediately said, "Then please ask the doctor to check your father's injuries. General Fujiwara is in his prime, so he must take good care of his body."

Hojo Shigetoki repeatedly mentioned the word "prime of life" in order to remind Hojo Tokiyori that he could not let Fujiwara no Yoritsune stay here and should send him to exile to Kyoto immediately.

It is necessary to say here that Japan at that time usually had two ways to deal with political opponents. One was to send them to exile in Kyoto, and the other was to force them to become monks.

Becoming a monk is a bit similar to resigning from office in later generations. That is, I will become a monk and will no longer participate in politics, and you cannot touch me.

Of course, the Japanese are usually more martial and will not kill their political opponents unless they go too far.

But how could Fujiwara no Yoritsugu be willing to do that? He was forced by the Hojo clan to give up the throne to his five-year-old son and then become a monk.

If he hadn't colluded with Mingliu Shiguang behind the scenes, Hojo Tokirai would definitely not have touched him.

But now Hojo Shigetoki received news that the two were in collusion, so he planned to go a step further and send him to exile to the capital.

Three years later in history, Hojo Tokiyori got the evidence that Fujiwara no Yoritsune and Mingli Shiguang had teamed up to deal with him. Unable to tolerate it any longer, he finally exiled Fujiwara no Yoritsune to Kyoto.

Even so, Hojo Tokirai didn't kill him.

If this had happened in the Southern Song Dynasty or the Han Dynasty, Fujiwara no Yoritsugu's entire family would have died a hundred times already.

Sure enough, the two sides discussed for a while today, because Hojo Shigetoki only heard rumors and had no substantial evidence to prove that Mingliu Shiguang and Fujiwara no Yoritsugu were secretly planning a rebellion, and Fujiwara no Yoritsugu also said that his father's feet were not good.

Although Hojo Shigetoki repeatedly reminded him that he could be sent to Kyoto by carriage and boat, Hojo Tokiyori still hesitated.

Just as both parties were discussing this matter, a noise was suddenly heard outside.

"Report--" Someone rushed in from outside the door and knelt down: "A letter from Kyushu Dazaifu--"

Dazaifu in Kyushu was the local administrative agency of Chikuzen Province (called Dazaifu in Chinese and Dazaifu in Japanese). It was the frontier position for the Japanese imperial court to conduct diplomacy, trade, and external defense.

Hojo Shigetoki's face changed slightly when he heard this. What kind of occasion is this today? Who allowed you to just barge in casually?

He originally wanted to get angry, but Hojo Tokirai sensed something keenly.

If it is not a particularly important matter, the assistant will not come in to sign.

This assistant is equivalent to a secretary. Unless it is important information, he will not rush in on such occasions.

"Present it." Hojo Tokirai's voice was also very majestic.

The assistant quickly delivered the letter.

After taking a few glances, Hojo Tokirai's face changed drastically, and then he immediately forwarded it.

The people below, starting with Hojo Shigemitsu, looked at him and their faces changed drastically.

"The Song people attacked Goryeo?" It was like a bolt from the blue.

(End of this chapter)