In the seventh year of Shaoming Dynasty in the Great Zhou Dynasty, 952 AD, the city was in Pingcheng, and the setting sun was like blood.
But what is redder and bloodier than the setting sun is the real river of blood outside the city!
What should we do if we capture Pingcheng Kyo? Of course they want to massacre the city! Is it possible to issue notices and three chapters of laws to calm the people?
Murong Nobunaga put on the diamond mask he wore when he and Zhang Gao wiped out the Hechuan rebel army in Guanzhong. This was a kind of inner hint.
Whenever Murong Nobunaga puts on this visor, the righteous Murong Baipao who favors the strong and supports the weak disappears, replaced by a cold king.
An invincible commander and ruthless king with the status of a prince, who had brought peace to the Khitan, Goryeo, and Japanese countries with a population of millions since the founding of Zhangzhou.
The reason why Murong Nobunaga issued the order to massacre the city so viciously had nothing to do with Zhang Gao.
I don't know what happened in history. At this time, the Japanese country was still a small transparent country in the Central Plains, with no bad deeds.
The reason why he wanted to go on a killing spree was entirely because of the strategy he and Zhang Gao had formulated.
To completely integrate the Japanese country into the core area of Central Plains culture, when they have begun to form their own cultural characteristics, the best way is to kill!
And this time, it was different from the previous Sui and Tang Dynasty attacks on Goguryeo.
When Pyongyang was captured in the past, Goguryeo had been bled by the Sui and Tang dynasties for decades. By the time Pyongyang fell, Goguryeo, which used to have 100,000 soldiers, had not a single male left alive, and had completely lost its will to resist and most of its soldiers. inheritance.
Even so, Xue Rengui still carried out a certain degree of massacre in Pyongyang.
As for Murong Nobunaga, the Japanese nation was quickly defeated in three wars, which only took more than half a year. Now they have only temporarily lost their force, but they have not completely surrendered, let alone cleansing the self-culture that the Japanese nation has begun to emerge. .
Even if it is to gain a temporary foothold, a great terror that can shock all potential resisters is needed!
In this case, Murong Nobunaga issued a cold order. First, Xiang Xun led five hundred soldiers into the Pingcheng Palace and executed all the warriors, attendants and internal officials in the palace.
Then the Emperor Suzaku, who had been frightened crazy, as well as the Empress Dowager Atsuko, Emperor Murakami, the Nakagashira, the Empress of the Imperial Palace, the Right Minister Fujiwara Shisuke, the Grand Prince Fujiwara Kentada, Nakagen Gengen Takaaki, and more than a hundred other ministers and nobles were all included. Detained.
Then, just outside the Zhuque Gate, he used a big iron-wrapped iron to hammer them all to death like pigs and dogs.
Subsequently, the army entered the city and began to search and arrest in Yinfang City. Since then, the officials in Pingcheng Jingzhong, including the seven subordinates Shaoyun, Neizangyou, Zhengqinyou and more than a hundred officials, whether they were actual officials or false officials, were all hunted down and killed.
After that, all the people in Pingcheng who were good at using pseudonyms, including the so-called Waka singers and copying scribes, were all arrested and executed.
While carrying out brutal killings, generals Chen Sirang and Wang Tingyi each led two thousand cavalry to launch a net-like search outside the city, not allowing even a dog or cat to escape from Pingcheng.
Fireworks were everywhere, wails filled the city, and the manhunt and killings that began at Shenmo (5 p.m.) continued into the night.
On the morning of the next day, Zhao Siwan and the beggar entered the city after a night's rest.
If you combed it with a comb yesterday, you need to sift it carefully again with a grate.
It is said that bandits are like combs and soldiers are like grates.
At this time, there were nearly 250,000 people in the capital of Pingcheng due to refugees fleeing. Murong Nobunaga's task for Zhao Siwan was to remove all the people with surnames in the city.
Regardless of whether he belonged to the Fujiwara family, Minamoto family, Taira family, famous family members such as Yamana, Oe, Ono, or some small family, all were found and executed.
Huh, many people in Pingcheng Jing thought that Murong Nobunaga would need their cooperation, which can be said to be the cultural class in the Japanese country, so as to control the Japanese country.
But they thought wrong. Zhang Yan and Murong Nobunaga's plan had always been to kill all of these people. No matter how many there were, they would just kill them all anyway.
How to annihilate a civilization that has begun to have its own characteristics? Quite simply, who starts to become distinctive, no! Just kill whoever has culture.
Killing all those who can read, write, and have national consciousness is an effective method.
This is why Zhang Gao carefully assigned hundreds of thousands of subjects to Murong Nobunaga.
Zhang Yan's initial plan was to let these subjects become the cultural class of the Japanese country and use them to replace the original cultural class of the Japanese country. As for the people at the bottom, there was plenty of time to slowly train them.
If you want to destroy your country, you must first destroy its culture. This is an iron rule verified by the colonists who lacked great virtue hundreds of years later.
When Zhao Siwan was undergoing physical death, Murong Nobunaga also ordered Secretary Han Kuangtu to lead various clerical and staff officers into the city.
After they entered the city, they burned all the books in Pingcheng's capital, whether they were bamboo slips, paper, wooden boards, or animal bones, as long as they had written records.
At the same time, all buildings in Pingcheng Jingzhong that did not conform to the Tang style were demolished and destroyed.
In the whole city, except for the Jianzhen monk, all the inscriptions, sculptures and scriptures of the other Japanese monks were smashed and burned.
The killing and screening lasted for four days in total. At first, they stabbed them with knives, then when they got impatient, they just used a big hammer. In the end, the hammering effect was still too slow, and finally they burned them directly.
Zhao Siwan ordered people to drive more than 10,000 selected Japanese nobles directly to the official offices of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and then poured tung oil and set them on fire. The surrounding soldiers only needed to shoot those who ran out, and the efficiency was indeed improved a lot.
. . . .
On September 20th, the seventh year of Shaoming, supplies from North Korea and the Central Plains arrived at the completely new Osaka City.
Before their arrival, this time and space was unclear, and only fragments of it could be found in history books. The bloody catastrophe had just ended.
In this disaster belonging to the Japanese nobles, at least 130,000 people were massacred in Heiankyo, Heisejokyo, Nambakyo and their surrounding towns. Most of them were burned to ashes without even leaving their bodies.
Originally, in the Japanese country, there were more than 700,000 people living on the Osaka Plain where the three capitals were located, but among them, the number of educated noble officials and their collateral branches was only about 100,000.
If we take into account that there are both men and women, there will be no more than 60,000 males among them, and of the 130,000 people killed this time, more than 80% were males, then.
Ahem, there are many thieves among these wealthy households and ordinary people. How can we scare people's hearts if we don't kill some of them?
On September 22nd, Murong Nobunaga retreated from Heicheng Capital, which was almost filled with ghosts, to Osaka Castle on the seaside.
At this time, there were still 70,000 to 80,000 civilians in Pingchengjing being held captive. Including the civilians in Osaka, there were a total of 130,000 people.
They were all frightened to death, thinking that Murong Nobunagaxiang was taking them to Osaka to drown them in the sea.
When things have reached this point, the killing will actually stop. If the killing continues, no one will be able to farm the land and no one will be a slave.
And to be honest, conquest and being conquered in this era have little to do with these people.
They are making cows and horses anyway, and it doesn't matter who they do it for.
They also have no national consciousness. They can only take care of their families and neighbors, which is their limit. How can they have the brains to think about so many things.
What's more, even among the Japanese officials and samurai class, Murong Nobunaga did not choose to kill them all.
Those who stayed were naturally the Qin family headed by Qin Pingtong and his son, the Liu family headed by the son of Da Zangchunshi, and the Xiwen Liu family who had been mainly engaged in literary and historical work in the Japanese country for generations.
If we say half a month ago, these three people had some vague intention of selling at a price. After all, in their opinion at that time, Murong Nobunaga needed their cooperation very much.
But now, facing this terrifying existence that ordered the killing of hundreds of thousands of people in half a month, and whose demons can split living people open in the street, take their livers and gall bladders and soak them in wine, even Ozomori, the son of Ozo Harumi who came down from the battlefield, I was so scared that I almost peed my crotch.
And Murong Nobunaga did not keep them simply because they were descendants of the Han people who crossed the sea, which was different from the emperor and high-ranking ministers who were most likely from Baekje.
Another important reason for keeping them is to rely on them to help control the place.
To destroy the political and cultural center of Japan, you can use killing methods, because the people are very concentrated.
But how to govern the people in the various counties below who can't even speak the same language as the Central Plains people still requires their assistance.
Murong Nobunaga's plan is very simple. After continuing to defeat the remaining Japanese resistance in the future, he will start a large-scale enfeoffment.
Specifically, except for the Sankyo Land in the Osaka Plain, the area around Dazaifu in Kitakyushu, the Kanto Land that obviously has great development value, and the Ono Plain where Nagoya is located, all will be sealed off.
Murong Nobunaga's feudal kingdom is different from the feudal feudalism of daimyo in Japanese history. In Japanese history, the feudal feudalism of daimyo was the result of thousands of years of continuous competition, but now, Murong Nobunaga can decide it with one word.
We are not planning to make any major changes to Japan's current administrative divisions. We only need to downgrade prefectures to prefectures and sub-prefectures to counties.
As for the title, you might as well make it a little higher. The location of the big country and the superior country is called Shangfu, and it is given directly to the marquis. The rest of China is called the Zhongfu, and the lower country is called the Xiafu, and they are given to the earl.
As for lower level viscounts, barons, and inspectors, there are also sub-counties under this county, and so on.
For example, if the mountain city country where Ping'an Capital is located can be granted a title, it can be granted the title of Mountain City Marquis.
There are also Atago, Kuzuno and other counties below. If you want to divide a county into a viscount or baron, you can just directly create Atago kunzi or Atago kuno.
Since most of the place names in Japan are similar to those in the Central Plains, even the effort of changing the names is saved.
However, Murong Nobunaga was not prepared to grant so many titles. In other words, to independently control a country, according to the standards of Japan's Warring States period, there would not be too many people with a stone height of three to four hundred thousand.
Most of them should be small feudal lords with more than 100,000 or 200,000 dan and vassals with 10,000 to 20,000 dan.
When they go down to rule the place, they will be allowed to recruit some soldiers from the current army who have not reached the level of feudal princes as guards.
Otherwise, there are often tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people under the rule of an earl. If he takes office alone, he will not take office but die.
And because of the language barrier and unfamiliar geography, Murong Xin deliberately kept these descendants of the Han people who crossed the sea with several surnames.
When a lord takes office, he will bring some with him. At the same time, he can also ask them to help select some Japanese people to take with him as companions.
Anyway, among the government troops gathered in Pingcheng Jing this time, most of the people from the county were there. They were lucky enough to survive but were frightened into cowards, so they could be used just right.
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In the seventh year of Shaoming Dynasty, in the year 952 of the Convention, on the first day of October, with the arrival of Zhao Kuangyin, Murong Nobunaga's troops had swelled to nearly 40,000 people, and more than 10,000 Japanese coolies were also recruited.
And with the arrival of grain ships from Wuyue, Murong Nobunaga had stockpiled 350,000 shi of grain in Osaka alone, and he had no worries at all.
Therefore, on the second day of October, Murong Nobunaga appointed Zhao Kuangyin as the general of the Guandong expedition. He led 20,000 land and water infantry and tens of thousands of civilians to advance by sea and land.
To conquer Kai, Musashi, Ueno, Shimono, Kamosou, Shimotsou, Hitachi, Mutsu, Dewa and other countries that were still controlled by the Japanese, it was almost the Tokyo and Sendai areas of the later Japanese countries.
At the same time, he appointed Wang Jing as the envoy to conquer the South China Sea, and led five thousand troops to pacify Tosa, Iyo and other countries on the Shikoku Island belonging to the South China Sea.
Murong Nobunaga himself sat in Osaka City and began to appease people's hearts. He first promulgated the Land Appraisal Law, recognizing that it was legal for manor owners to occupy the land after the collapse of the Pantian system.
However, each manor is limited to 3,000 acres of upper land and 5,000 acres of middle and lower land. All manor owners must rush to Osaka Castle to pay homage and offer their loyalty at the time specified by each county.
This move is quite ruthless. The owner of a manor of seven or eight thousand acres should have dozens or hundreds of households below him, so he won't have much influence. But if you ask him to give up this little family property, he will definitely also Reluctant to part with it.
And as soon as they arrive in Osaka, they can immediately arrange an immediate boss for them, or it should be called a lord.
Murong Nobunaga's idea was that an inspection envoy would lead more than twenty manor owners, bring a guard of ten or twenty people, and directly escort such manor owners before taking office.
Then put more than ten patrol envoys under a viscount or baron. Below the marquis and earls, there are five more viscounts or barons.
Using this method, let them have a subordinate relationship first, and then adjust it after the overall situation is settled.
On the fifth day of October, Murong Nobunaga promulgated the land tax law again, adjusting the terrible tax of five public and five citizens implemented by the Japanese court at that time to three public and seven citizens for the owner-cultivators, one public and three for Zhuangkejun, and three for the master and three citizens.
All commercial taxes have also been adjusted from four public and six citizens, which directly bankrupted small traders, to two public and eight citizens.
The remaining 20 kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes set by the Japanese court, such as cattle tax and silk cloth tax, were all cancelled.
The homesteaders here refer to the common people who farm the Osaka Plain, Onono Plain, Kanto Plain, Dazaifu and other lands under the direct jurisdiction of King Murong Nobunaga and the imperial court.
There are no feudal lords or manor owners in these places, so no matter whether the people are living well or not, they are still farmers. It is implemented that 70% belongs to oneself and 30% is handed over to the court.
Zhuangke refers to the manor farmers on the land where there is a lord. Well, you can also call them serfs.
They keep 30% of their income, the manor owner gets 30%, the lord gets 30%, and the king gets 10%.
Well, it looks miserable, and they only get 30% for their hard work in farming, but in fact, it is much better than when they would eat wild vegetables in good years and starve to death in bad years.
And even though the manor owner took 30%, the manor owner had to pay for organizing production, observing the weather, domesticating cattle, and making minor water conservancy repairs.
In general, the manor owner's income has dropped a lot, but he has managed to keep his family business in such horrific and chaotic times, his basic rights have been recognized by the court, and the income of the people below has increased to varying degrees.
As soon as these two edicts came out, the Japanese people, who were originally like boiling water, suddenly seemed to have been poured into a large basin of cold water, and their reaction became less violent.
The people at the bottom began to take a wait-and-see attitude, and no longer listened to the instigation of some remaining noble officials.
Later, Murong Nobunaga began to issue an edict to release the people of Heian Kyo, Heicheng Kyo, and Namba Kyo in batches so that they could reunite with their surviving families.
At the same time, since almost all the nobles of the three capitals were dead, Murong Nobunaga generously allowed them to choose the houses of some low-level officials, which was a small compensation.
But all this is conditional, that is, the citizens and farmers of these three capitals need to apply for a big project.
On the eighth day of October, Murong Nobunaga ordered that 160,000 people and farmers from the three capitals be recruited to destroy all the tombs of the emperor and the tombs of the Fujiwara family near the Osaka Plain, whether they were true or based on fabricated legends.
Also destroyed at the same time were major Buddhist temples that began to have Japanese characteristics.
The reason why so many people were recruited for some small tombs, and even many farmers were just taken there to register, and then knocked down a few stones to make a show, is because it does not matter how much they did, but whether they did it or not.
At this time, most of the citizens and farmers were basically accomplices. After receiving the petition, Murong Nobunaga could reluctantly trust them.
On October 17, good news came from the Shikoku of Nankaido. Wang Jing defeated the resistance of the Shikoku samurai in Gogawa County of Tosa Province and killed more than a thousand people.
The former Nankai Road Pursuit Envoy of Japan, Iyo Kunshou, Tosa Kunisuke and other officials were all killed, and the four kingdoms were basically pacified.
On the ninth day of November, Zhao Kuangyin arrived at the Kanto Plain, and immediately encountered thousands of people from the Eastern Kingdom's pioneering samurai group in Toyota County of the Lower Kingdom.
At that time, most of Zhao Kuangyin's 20,000-strong army was still at the seaside ferry, with only a thousand cavalry and two thousand mounted infantry under his command.
It was said to be an encounter, but in fact it was an ambush carefully planned by Dongguo warriors who were familiar with the geography. However, even if he faced an enemy force several times larger than his own, Zhao Kuangyin was not afraid at all.
Are you kidding me? He was not worthy of such a majestic battle to defeat Pingcheng Kyo. He could still be a coward in fighting a warrior from the Eastern Kingdom.
So, the howling Japanese came out of the battle holding Mao Tachi swords that were about the same height as them and spears that were taller than them, and then ran into the copper and iron walls.
Zhao Kuangyin personally led his troops to charge forward. The three armies used their lives to defeat more than 10,000 Eastern warriors, beheading more than 4,000, and almost annihilating the main force of these Eastern warriors.
Subsequently, Zhao Kuangyin established a foothold in the fortress built during the original Ping Jiangmen rebellion and divided his 20,000-strong army into four divisions to attack.
In less than half a month, the army broke through more than 30 settlements of Dongguo warriors in the heavy snow, beheading thousands again and capturing tens of thousands.
In February of the eighth year of Shaoming Dynasty, 953 AD.
When the ice and snow in Kanto melted, Zhao Kuangyin personally led nearly 10,000 elite troops on an expedition all the way to the vicinity of Sendai City in later generations.
At this time, the Eni people had not been completely defeated by the Japanese, so although Zhao Kuangyin was unfamiliar with the place, the Japanese did not have much room for change.
At this time, there were still more than 100,000 Ezo people. Although they were almost forced to Hokkaido, they could still draw out thousands of warriors.
With them blocking the retreat of the Japanese warriors, these guys could only desperately choose to fight Zhao Kuangyin.
And Zhao Kuangyin had also known about the existence of the Ezo people for a long time, and had even made contact with them.
So in this battle, under the guidance of the Eni people who were familiar with the road, the desperate Eastern warriors were defeated again. Thousands of people were killed, and almost all of the Taira family, the local snake in Kanto, were killed.
In the cold wind, Zhao Kuangyin looked at the land in the distance and said to his general Zhang Huan:
"Spring starts very early here, with four distinct seasons and a pleasant climate, much better than Lingnan and Hexi. The sage once said that the Japanese country is not wild, and now I know it is true.
In the future, water conservancy projects will be built here and wasteland will be reclaimed, which will be enough to support millions of people. "
In fact, apart from frequent earthquakes, Japan still has some good places.
Representative ones are Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo, Sendai and other areas along the eastern coast.
The climate here is mild, the land is fertile, and the fish are abundant. It is simple to support a million people in one place.
Zhao Kuangyin sighed softly. He knew that his brother Murong Nobunaga wanted to implement the vassal system of Xia Jun and Yi Min in the Japanese country. Murong Nobunaga even expressed that as long as Zhao Kuangyin was willing, he was willing to make Mutsu and Deyu the two countries.
He even thought about the name. Murong Nobunaga had heard his father Zhang Shengren call this place Sendai before, so he expressed his willingness to make Zhao Kuangyin the Sendai Lord, with jurisdiction over Mutsu and Dewa Prefectures.
Zhao Kuangyin was very excited!
Can you not be excited? If this were the Warring States Period in Japan in later generations, this would be a super-large vassal state composed of Sendai Domain, Aizu Domain, Morioka Domain, Miku Domain, Hirosaki Domain, etc.
The height of the stone is almost 2.5 million dan, and the household registration is in the millions!
Even now, Mutsu and Izuku have almost 700,000 koku, and the number of common people should not be less than 250,000.
Should he return to the Central Plains to become a general or prime minister, or should he stay here and be a lonely man under the care of his benevolent brother?
It’s really hard to decide! Zhao Kuangyin, who had always been calm and thoughtful, began to feel confused.
At this moment, the soldiers under their command were about to report that the twenty-one powerful chiefs of the Ezo people had been invited to the small town that had just been named Sendai. They came to receive the reward for helping to defeat the Japanese.
Zhao Kuangyin looked at Luo Yangui next to him and asked, "Are all the warriors of the Eyi people here?"
Luo Yangui chuckled, "We are all here, more than four thousand people, and our people have already brought the fat sheep wine to reward them."
Zhao Kuangyin looked at his confidant Zhang Huan again and asked, "Are the soldiers you have summoned ready?"
Zhang Huan smiled even more sinisterly, "General, don't worry, the servants will personally select the people. Just wait for the general to throw a cup as a sign, and we will rush in and chop these barbarians into mincemeat!"
(End of chapter)
