People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 409: Being clever turns out to be a mistake! !
Perhaps the relatives of Majapahit have been in this position for too long, and they always feel that my status can make you die if you want me to, and I have no choice but to die.

But they have always forgotten the most important thing. Power is never brought by status, but is determined by how much energy you have to influence others.

Those relatives had never led soldiers, so they naively believed that it was not up to us to decide what the big soldiers knew. They only knew how to work hard. Even Song and Ming would not resist, but Tula used practical methods to The action told them that as long as it harms our interests, we can overthrow your table.

Tula is in this state now, so even though he is a battle-hardened veteran in Majapahit and has a deeper affection for Majapahit than anyone else, he still made a resolute choice for the survival of himself and the tens of thousands of people under his command. betray.

He would rather bear the label of a traitor than tear the last bit of dignity out of those who stand above him.

Tula, who thinks like this, doesn't care what other people think of him. This is cruel politics.

Wang Bi obviously understands Tula, because they who are generals obviously understand the pain of being used as a tool. Even if we are loyal and patriotic, you can't betray our feelings like this. This is what we end up with. If this bottom line is breached and Laozi Wang comes that day, he will have to rebel against him.

Wang Bi patted Tula on the shoulder: "Old general, I understand what you are doing!"

When these words were spoken, Tula looked at Wang Bi, then his eyes turned red, he knelt down in front of Wang Bi with a plop, and then burst into tears.

He knew that he no longer had any dignity at all among his own people. He surrendered directly with his only fresh force without even fighting a battle. Once the civil servants in the country publicized his dignity, they would be scrapped, but he What I didn't expect was that Wang Bi would be respected here.

Perhaps this is the tacit understanding between soldiers.

They can better understand the simple feelings of soldiers.

It is for this reason that even though Wang Bi now knew that Tula was a surrendered general, he did not treat him as a coward.

I even admire Tula.

Tula is a person who can distinguish right from wrong. He will never be foolish or loyal. He will never say that your top management just gave orders and I led my good men to surrender one after another without their lives.

Dynasty changes happen too often in this era, and they still know this.

Even Tula and others have an idea in their hearts that even if we surrender, we can still protect our people on this land. As long as our people are still there, there will be no crisis of national subjugation.

On the contrary, with you high-level officials who casually trade other people's lives for bargaining chips, the common people will live in dire straits.

Wang Bi helped Tula up and said, "Old general, go down and rest. We will handle the rest."

After Tula left, Wang Bi's deputy came forward.

"Master Marquis, how should we deal with these tens of thousands of people?" the deputy general asked.

After all, there are tens of thousands of mouths waiting for food. The surrounding areas have just been conquered. Whether they can get food and grass is still a problem, and even if they can, can they be trusted?
The most feared thing when getting food and grass in other countries is poisoning the food. Even if the poison is not so poisonous that it will cause diarrhea to your entire army, you will not be able to bear it.

Originally, the problem of food and grass was a serious one. The people in Sanviqi gritted their teeth and scraped together the food and grass that supplied 5,000 people. However, these 30,000 to 40,000 people were extra, and they were from the enemy country. The centuries-old relationship between the two countries The issue of hatred is entangled with each other. Once the people of Sanviqi hear that the many times increased burden on them comes from Majapahit soldiers, what can they do?

So the armrest didn't speak just now, but after Tula left, she immediately asked this question. This is not a small question. The most important thing is that now it has penetrated deep into the rear of the empire. It is not good to put these people anywhere. .

Now that they have surrendered, they are also a new force. Regardless of whether they have strong combat effectiveness, no one can stand it if they suddenly do something behind their backs.

Seeing that Wang Bi didn't answer, the lieutenant general made a gesture: "Master Marquis, why don't we bury them alive while they don't react? This way, we can kill them all without losing any blood, and at the same time, the death of tens of thousands of them will shock the entire Manchu people." In Boyi's country, they had to surrender."

As soon as these words came out, Wang Bi cursed: "You are crazy! You think this is a counterattack. We are now a colony. According to what the Duke said, we now want both this land and the people above. Without the above, If we get this land from the people, will it be used to abandon it?”

Wang Bi's scolding immediately made the deputy general wake up.

Wang Bi said again: "These tens of thousands of people are not the soldiers on the battlefield. They are at best a temporary patchwork of strong men. This is the best labor force in the future and must not destroy the city wall."

The nonsense he just told Tula was not useless at all. At least he found out about this group of young people. They all looked young and strong but had never been on the battlefield. They were all raw melons and eggs. At best, they were in good health. If you fight in a war, you will definitely die, but if you farm, you must be a good person. If such a good labor force dies on the battlefield, it will take many years to reproduce in the future.

It is estimated that Tula also calculated correctly that the Ming Dynasty was not here to kill all Majapahit people, but to occupy this land and obtain the resources above, so he confidently and boldly surrendered with these tens of thousands of people.

After being scolded, the deputy general asked: "Then how do we collect food and grass?"

"The mountain man has his own clever plan!" Wang Bi immediately had an idea in his mind after scolding the deputy general.

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Five days later.

The leaders of the villages within a hundred miles of Gongya City, people similar to village chiefs, all arrived in Gongya City.

Tula looked at the thousands of people and began to mobilize.

Not to mention that when the people in a hundred miles radius heard it, they had been betrayed by the high-level officials a long time ago. In fact, the two or thirty thousand people were cannon fodder who came here to die. In fact, it had no effect at all. When the people heard this, they still thought Come on.

If the two or thirty thousand people came here as cannon fodder, wouldn't it mean that they couldn't stop the Ming army's attack at all.

After the Ming army breaks them, they can immediately come and eliminate themselves and others. How could the imperial court do such a thing? Knowing that these people can't do anything at all, but still sending them here, doesn't it mean that they don't take their lives seriously, and they don't take their lives seriously? Take your own people seriously.

Thinking of this, the common people were very angry. Tula had led troops to fight for so many years, and his agitation ability was quite strong.

After a wonderful speech, the people immediately believed that the imperial court had abandoned Gongya City long ago.

In fact, whether Gongya City can be saved or not is not a serious matter to them. Because what they want is to let the Ming army know that the entire Majapahit still has some fighting capabilities and cannot be occupied by you so easily. If you want to occupy it, you will have to pay a high price.

Since you don't want to pay the price, it's very simple, just be a little tolerant to us.

In other words, Majapayi's senior officials not only used these 30,000 to 40,000 people as cannon fodder, but also the surrounding people.

Because no one can stop the Ming army's attack, can the surrounding people be better off?

So when the people heard this, they were extremely angry. Then Tula said, since such a court is so collapsed, why should we follow them, why should we sacrifice our lives for them? We might as well all rebel against it, we might as well find a way to survive for ourselves, and the way to find a way to survive is to surrender like them.

The Ming army is not attacking now, which means that even if it overthrows the current court, it will not do anything to the people.

Anyway, no matter how the court is, it’s all the blessings of being an official. Everyone has seen that these Majapayi’s relatives now do whatever they want just because they have some relationship with the king. How are the people living these years? You guys I know it best in my heart.

Even around a city like Gongya City, life is miserable, let alone the people in other places.

In fact, such a court has been corrupted for a long time. In order to divert internal conflicts, they launched such a war.

But such a war is an evil and very inhumane to the people.

Treating ordinary people as cannon fodder and innocent people as cannon fodder is what senior officials are doing today.

If you want to hang out with such a court, you can go out and block the Ming army's guns without taking your life seriously.

Then under Tula's signal, the Ming army fired several shots directly in front of the people. After seeing the power of the muskets and artillery, the people were frightened and immediately believed Tula's story. of.

The Ming army had enough power to destroy them, but they just thought that even if they occupied Majapahit, it had nothing to do with the common people. As long as the common people cooperated, why should they attack the common people.

After these words, Wang Bi stood on the city wall and looked at the mobilization meeting below. He saw these village chief-level figures, all of them whispering to each other, and then they all agreed to Tula's request, which was to give up resistance to hostility. , but is willing to provide food and fodder for the army.

Tula also promised the people on behalf of Wang Bi that as long as they could win this war, they would be given a tax reduction of at least one-third.

After such conditions are offered, how can the common people refuse to agree?

For them, it doesn't matter who can be the emperor or the king, as long as they can leave us a mouth to eat, that's enough.

After Wang Bi's lieutenant saw the scene below, he had to admire Wang Bi's coordination ability.

He looked at Wang Bi and said: "Master Marquis, I have to say that you are really powerful in using this move. It attacks the heart first."

Wang Bi smiled and said, "This is called attacking the city first and attacking the heart first. The common people don't care who becomes the emperor. As long as you treat them well, it's the same if someone from outside becomes the king."

So after this vigorous mobilization meeting, the 30,000 Majapahit victorious troops no longer became a burden to the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, because they knew the local situation very well and received the support of the local people, a large amount of food and grass began to come from the Manchus. Zhe Boyi got together internally.

This time, the people of Sambuqi had no objection. They no longer followed Wang Bi's army, but turned around and returned home. This time, their mission of 6,000 to 7,000 people was completed.

And it was completed quite well, and they also got the Ming army's promise. After they returned, they only needed to publicize that the Ming army's purpose of occupying Sanviqi this time was the same as Majapahit.

What we overthrow is always your leadership and has nothing to do with your people.

The king's reforms within Sanviqi aroused the resentment of vested interests, so the Queen Mother faction, the pirate faction, and the foreign factions conquered each other, leading to the death of the king. If the senior officials of Sanviqi took power, The people of Sambuqi will live in dire straits just like the people of Majapahit.

This time the Ming army came to not only take charge of their senior officials, but also to take charge of the senior officials of Majapahit. How should the people below live? Even if the Ming army came to lead the taxation of the people on the entire island, it would not be like before. High, just like the people of Majapahit were promised a one-third tax reduction.

On the side of Sanviqi, the content of the King's previous New Deal reforms was carried out completely. In this way, the people of Sanviqi returned home happily to help the Ming army in propaganda.

After the people of Majapahit received the promise of a one-third tax reduction, they were willing to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty in counterattacking. After the strategy of attacking the heart had achieved full effect, Wang Bi launched another attack.

This time there is no need for Ming's army to spread out on its own.

In this hot and humid tropical environment, the Ming army suffered more injuries during the path exploration process than on the battlefield.

This time, Wang Bi led 5,800 men as an advance force to attack the city. Less than 200 people were injured on the battlefield. However, during the process of exploring the road, 500 Ming troops either fell into the swamp or were trapped. In the primeval forest, one is either devoured by wild beasts or attacked and killed by natives.

But this time with Majapahit's new force, there was no need to worry about this at all.

Five days later, Wang Bi led this mixed team to advance 200 miles eastward.

You must know that the depth of their entire country is only five or six hundred miles, so this time they directly occupied half of their land.

Under this situation, the relatives finally understood that the interior had been infiltrated, and even the 30,000 troops they sent out did not play any role in resistance at all, nor did they play any role in increasing their negotiating weight. They even revealed a very embarrassing fact.

That is, now they don't even have the ability to gather young people, and they don't even have the last cannon fodder. What leverage do they have.

Therefore, although the negotiators they sent out were not directly beheaded by Wang Bi, they were scolded back in despair.

In the end, the relatives could only feel terrified, and many even began to pack up their belongings and prepare to flee to the sea...

(End of this chapter)