What Yang Wanli calls "stability" is actually a thorough defensive strategy.
In Sichuan and Shu, we will use the existing conditions to hold on to Sichuan. I believe that the Sichuan and Shu army headed by General Wu Lin will be able to protect Sichuan and the border of the Song Dynasty.
In Jianghuai, he advocated making full use of the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, building border cities at every place suitable for landing, garrisoning heavy troops, practicing counterattack tactics, and preventing the Ming army from landing.
In the Jinghu area where his hometown is located, he advocated a step-by-step approach. When the troops were insufficient, he first blocked the occupied area of Jiangnan West Road with an economic blockade, and did not allow a single copper coin or a grain of grain to flow into the occupied area. Material embargo.
Through the economic blockade and material embargo, Jiangnan West Road, which was lacking in products and barren land, was in a serious economic crisis and survival crisis. By then, Jiangnan West Road would be in chaos without fighting, and the possibility of the Song Dynasty regaining its territory would be greatly increased.
In this way, the banditry on Jiangnan West Road will soon be quelled, and the Song Dynasty will be able to fully deal with the threat of the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, Hu Quan, a senior official of the main war faction who was also from Jizhou, Jiangnan West Road, also came up with this method.
He read Su Yonglin's "Hongwu Political Treatise" and was shocked by the gap between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty and the new system of the Ming Dynasty described by Su Yonglin.
After seeing the book describing the suffering of the people and the vitality that burst out after liberating them, Hu Quan once thought that what Su Yonglin did was right, that there was nothing wrong in what he did, and that he should indeed do it.
It wasn't until he discovered that Su Yonglin wanted to completely abolish Confucianism and adopt new ideas to govern the country that he felt that this was definitely not feasible.
Although he was dissatisfied with the dark politics of the court and the corrupt status quo of the court, and wanted to reform the bad government of the court, he never agreed with Su Yonglin's actions of deposing Confucianism and comprehensively liquidating the gentry. He believed that this was not good governance, but tyranny.
The political system of the imperial court has problems and needs to be improved. Some of the unreasonable things need to be reformed. But it is definitely not just about tearing it down completely and starting over. What's more, you not only have to tear it down completely, but you also have to kill people, many, many people.
People are living well, but if you have to kill them all, what does that mean?
Is this political change?
This is clearly a riot!
Of course, the main reason is that Hu Quan himself has a big family living in the local area. According to Su Yonglin's standards, they will be killed, so this is of course unacceptable.
With strong dissatisfaction with "tyranny", although Hu Quan believed that some of Su Yonglin's methods were reasonable and could even try to use them under his own rule, he still could not accept all of Su Yonglin's methods.
So when he heard the news that the imperial court failed to recruit bandits on Jiangnan West Road, he immediately reported to the court, hoping that the court could strictly implement the blockade policy and must completely block Jiangnan West Road, otherwise Jiangnan West Road would inevitably be in chaos without a fight. .
The bandits on Jiangnan West Road must not be allowed to continue to develop, otherwise once the Ming Dynasty goes south, the consequences will be disastrous.
Living in the border area, he understood more clearly that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were sharp. The Henan Corps of the Ming Dynasty drilled the army every day. Tens of thousands of troops continued to perform martial arts, which was extremely powerful.
Once such a terrifying elite army moves south, it will be extremely difficult for the Song border army to resist and will definitely fail. They cannot stop the Ming army from entering the country. They must rely on extending the Ming army's logistics supply line in depth and then look for fighter opportunities.
Before that, it was necessary to ensure that Song State had sufficient strategic depth.
When Jiangnan West Road fell, the Jinghu War Zone had almost no depth. Once it was broken by the Ming Army, wouldn't it be bad if the bandits joined the Ming Army?
The entire Southern Song Dynasty would be directly cut in half by the Ming army, and the head and tail would not be able to care about each other, and the consequences would be extremely disastrous.
With such emotions, Hu Quan put forward his own suggestions.
At this time when their lives were at stake, many officials didn't care about what they had or didn't have. They worked together to make suggestions for the court, so as to protect the court and themselves.
They felt that although this court seemed incompetent, it was actually quite incompetent, but after all, it was their own court. If Su Yonglin really wanted to go south, if the court was gone, then the court headed by his mud-legged man would definitely kill them all. Buried alive.
Then they won't have anywhere to run.
The world is so big, where is their place?
Obviously there is no more.
To save the Southern Song Dynasty was to save themselves.
At this time, Zhao Hao's illness was almost healed, and he started to manage politics again. After seeing the memorials of the ministers and the numerous suggestions and suggestions, he suddenly felt that Su Yonglin's showdown at this time was actually not a bad idea.
Su Yonglin's showdown was tantamount to driving all the elites of the Southern Song Dynasty to his side.
Because he made it clear that he wanted to kill them all, eradicate them, make revolution, leave no future troubles, and never compromise. This was tantamount to cutting off the retreat of these elites.
They didn't want to be killed, so they had no choice but to follow the Zhao family. Only the Zhao family could protect their interests.
Isn't this another form of capitalizing on the enemy?
Su Yonglin, are you too arrogant?
You don’t really think that you can completely stop compromising with local forces like Jiangnan just because of the success of the Ming Dynasty, do you?
During the Northern Song Dynasty, Jiangnan was severely suppressed. The original Northern Song government also felt that the southerners were not strong and could be controlled. As a result, once they crossed south, they realized how powerful the local forces were.
Zhao Han felt that perhaps the huge success made Su Yonglin arrogant, so he underestimated the power of these elites.
Although the Southern Song Dynasty was not as powerful as the Ming Dynasty, they did not even engage in appeasement policies and face-saving projects. When they directly told people that I would kill you, the elites of the Southern Song Dynasty who did not want to be killed could only devote everything they had. " Serve the Song Dynasty."
Perhaps before this, many people no longer wanted to resist the Ming Dynasty, and they all thought about surrendering directly when the Ming Dynasty came, changing their clothes, and continuing to be officials of the Ming Dynasty.
Then his Da Song is really dangerous, and he can even prepare for his own funeral.
But things are different now. Su Yonglin himself blocked this road, forcing the elites of the Southern Song Dynasty to fight to save the Southern Song Dynasty. Zhao Hao suddenly felt like he was the savior.
A feeling of turning the tide and holding the building back from falling came over him. Zhao Xing felt that he had never felt so good.
He felt that maybe this time, many of his decrees could be implemented, and this time, a lot of money would not be embezzled.
Unless these bureaucrats really want to watch Su Yonglin come over and kill them all one by one.
It seems that things have taken a subtle turn for the better.
So at this time, Zhao Zhen was no longer worried. He began to try to test whether the ministers would change because of this incident.
So he decided to recruit troops again, recruiting at least 50,000 soldiers, and expanded the recruitment scope to the entire southeast region.
This time, the finance department did not complain about poverty, the ministers did not stop him, and they did not give a lot of reasons to tell Zhao Xun that he should not do this.
Because it was so smooth, Zhao Hao even felt a little unreal.
When he took the initiative to ask Ye Yiwen whether this matter was difficult, Ye Yiwen said on the spot that even if it was difficult, he would do it despite all odds.
Zhao Min was immediately shocked and speechless.
You...have all changed species?
But it should be said that this matter is indeed difficult. The empty treasury of the Southern Song Dynasty cannot actually provide money for training, but Ye Yiwen has other ways to make money.
He spread the news that the imperial court wanted to train troops but did not have enough money, and called on everyone who had money to contribute money and others to contribute individuals to help the imperial court organize and train new troops in case of emergencies.
The result was a response.
Some old foxes who used to cry about poverty and want nothing more can take out dozens of dollars and hand them over to the national treasury.
Some corrupt officials who are already very wealthy cannot donate money to the national treasury in their own names, so they use wealthy private businessmen as their white gloves as intermediaries to donate money, food, and cloth to the government.
By early September of this year, Ye Yiwen had raised enough resources for the court to organize and train 70,000 to 80,000 new troops, and more resources were still being gathered.
Everyone worked together to contribute to the construction of the new army, and the resource problem was solved in such a short period of time, which fully demonstrated that everyone is actually very rich, and as long as the motivation is sufficient, the work efficiency will be very high.
Such an efficient action not only surprised Ye Yiwen, but also Zhao Min was so surprised that he was speechless.
What is an opponent?
My opponent is my other hand in realizing my dream.
