On this trip south, Su Yonglin took many of his subordinates and grassroots members of Guangzhou Fuxing around and felt that he had learned a lot.
He had never been to the Lingnan area before, and he had no idea what kind of customs and customs the Lingnan area had in this era. This time he walked around and had a look, and he felt deeply.
He has publicly declared many times that the Ming Dynasty and its officials should not retain the bad habits of the past feudal dynasty. The Lingnan land was developed late and there are many wastelands, but it does not mean that it is an uncivilized barbarian land.
Lingnan is also the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of Lingnan are also the citizens of the Ming Dynasty. He does not want to hear insulting slanderous terms such as "Southern Barbarian" again, nor does Su Yonglin want to hear such things as a barbaric land or a terminal for exile.
He also had in-depth conversations with some immigrants from the Central Plains and Jiangnan areas in Meizhou, Huizhou and other places to learn about the reasons why their ancestors and fathers came to Lingnan to seek refuge. He also asked about their ancestral home, their living conditions and future plans.
Only a small number of them expressed the idea of going back to their hometown to visit, while most of them still wanted to stay there.
After decades, they have become accustomed to life here. Although their hometown is good, now they belong here, they belong to this brand new home.
They are not leaving.
It doesn't matter if you don't leave, stay and build locally. In the future, a considerable part of the Ming Dynasty's development policies will definitely be tilted towards Lingnan. The developed maritime trade can also bring sufficient construction funds to Lingnan.
It won't be long before Lingnan will become the next Jiangnan and a big granary for the people of the whole country.
At the end of the first month, Su Yonglin received a joint military report from Zhang Yuejing and Zhao Yucheng, and learned that Guangnan West Road had been completely captured by the Ming army.
The local landlord regiments and the chieftain forces who tried to attack the Ming army were all defeated by the Ming army. The few chieftain forces who chose to surrender and accept the Ming army were temporarily retained, and the official power of the Song Dynasty was completely wiped out.
In other words, the Song Dynasty, as a state power and entity, has been completely wiped out and no longer exists. It has lost the possibility of discussing the world with the Ming Dynasty and has completely become a thing of the past.
The Southern Song Dynasty was completely destroyed.
However, although the chieftains and local forces were willing to accept the entry and control of the Ming army, they were not willing to accept the Ming Dynasty's policies, and they still had a lot of room for maneuver.
If Su Yonglin is worried, he should arrange for some troops to stay in the local area in case of emergency, and launch land reform and land-return policies as soon as possible to bring the entire population under government control.
At the same time, the Li Dynasty of South Vietnam did not send troops to the north to covet the Great Nanguan Pass, and the Great Nanguan Pass was successfully captured.
There was no fierce fighting as expected in the Dananguan area. The Dananguan garrison surrendered and did not resist.
However, Zhang Xiaohu, a fierce general under Zhao Yucheng and one of the former leaders of the Jiangnan West Road uprising, led his troops to raid and capture the Great Nanguan Pass, but the tactical move had a miraculous effect——
Several fleeing teams formed by the Southern Song Dynasty bureaucrats, big landowners and powerful men who had been fleeing all the way south since the Ming army went south were captured by the Ming army in the Dananguan area.
After Zhang Xiaohu led his army to Dananguan, he found a group of more than a thousand people fleeing nearby, and then found three groups in Upper Shixi Prefecture and Lower Shixi Prefecture, all composed of Southern Song Dynasty bureaucrats. and the powerful landlords who dared not resist the Ming army, as well as their families.
They were very frightened when they saw the Ming army pursuing them, so they spent money to hire local chieftains to help organize troops to escort them into South Vietnam, hoping to escape the pursuit of the Ming army and gain a new life.
The local chieftains and some tribal leaders in the deep mountains and dense forests were jealous of the money, so they used armed forces to protect them, opposed the Ming army, and even attacked the Ming army, which aroused Zhang Xiaohu's great anger.
Zhang Xiaohu decided to use kerosene and gunpowder to deal with them. He used kerosene to burn the mountains and old forests, and used gunpowder to blow up their tribal buildings. Then the soldiers entered the dense forest to fight in small groups and successfully wiped out more than a dozen people who were against the Ming army. Chieftain, dense forest tribe.
The Ming army's large-scale use of kerosene to burn old forests in the mountains shocked many other chieftain tribes. While they tried to resist the Ming army, they felt that it was difficult to succeed and it would be difficult to win if they continued to fight, so they tried to fight with the Ming army. The Ming army negotiated.
While negotiating, Zhang Xiaohu also encircled and suppressed the chieftain tribes who had attacked the Ming army, making them pay a bloody price to establish the impression that the Ming army was tough and invincible.
After a hard battle, Zhang Xiaohu led the Ming army to eliminate many chieftains and their tribal armed forces, burned a large number of mountains and forests, established an extremely tough image, and captured the three fleeing teams they found, killing them all.
As a result, all four fleeing teams were captured by Zhang Xiaohu and taken into custody at Dananguan, with their total number exceeding 4,000 people.
And among this group of people, the Nankong clan members were discovered.
When Su Yonglin heard the news, he was really surprised. Then he laughed, shouted "Hello", and immediately started to make preparations to go to Da Nanguan.
When Su Yonglin went south a few months ago, he specifically told the right army to focus on attacking Quzhou and not to let go of the Kong family of the Southern Sect, which had Quzhou as its base camp.
The right army also followed Su Yonglin's request, especially the 21st Army of the 7th Corps under Zhao Yucheng, who rushed directly to Quzhou to arrest people.
As a result, the Kong family's mansion was empty. Not only that, all the houses were destroyed by themselves. They took away everything they could, and those that couldn't be taken away were either burned or smashed. They didn't reveal anything. The army stayed and fled so completely.
When he got the news, Su Yonglin was still a little angry and speculated about where they would go. Now it seems that everything is obvious.
The Kong family is the Kong family of the world, and the Kong family of the entire Greater China region. Whether it is Korea, Japan, South Vietnam, or even Ryukyu, as long as it is an area radiated by Confucian culture, the local rulers will definitely treat them well no matter what their purpose. Kong.
They even regarded Kong as a symbol and further attacked the Ming Dynasty from a cultural perspective.
Confucianism serves as the national "constitution" of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the status of the Kong family is self-evident. It can even be said that in the eyes of Confucian scholars, Confucian culture is Chinese culture. As the direct bloodline of Confucius, the Kong family is a symbol of Chinese culture. It can even be related to the legitimacy of rule.
If the Kong family were really allowed to escape to South Vietnam, we don’t know what kind of turmoil they would cause in the local area, and they might even come up with some nonsense like [Chinese culture was destroyed in the Ming Dynasty, and orthodoxy was in South Vietnam].
Not to mention that Su Yonglin has never denied some of the advanced ideas in Confucianism, and now he also specially picks them out for teaching in schools. Just saying that a piece of Confucianism can represent Chinese culture is enough. Su Yonglin struck hard.
The Chinese culture is vast, from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors who created civilization to the revolutionary theory of the Ming Dynasty. How come you, Kong Laoer, can summarize it all?
These Confucian disciples elevated Confucius' status too high, which made knowledgeable people feel angry and dissatisfied.
Now that the Nankong Sect has been caught, it is of course the best. Together with the more than 4,000 people, we can catch all these bastards who are lying on the people, knocking their bones and sucking their marrow, and make them pay the price. This is better than catching the Nankong people alone. It means something to come.
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