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Chapter 972

After hearing Liu Chenweng's words, Zhao Bing fell into deep thought. He now understood that resettlement of the revised person is not only a policy issue, but also a problem that affects the overall situation. It is also a double-edged sword. If not done properly, it will hurt himself. Even in his previous life, modern immigration was a headache for all countries. After all, people face survival problems wherever they go, and the influx of large numbers of immigrants will also involve national security.

After analyzing the immigration policies implemented by the Song Dynasty, Zhao Bing also found that it revealed the helplessness and contradictions of ancestors of all generations. Because the Song Dynasty lost its geographical protection, external troubles were always an indelible nightmare, and the external threats to national security mainly came from the Liao, Xia, Jin, and Yuan. The threat of national destruction to the Northern Song Dynasty was much greater than that of Western Xia, while the national defense pressure on the Northern Song Dynasty was far greater than that of the Khitan. The Jin Dynasty not only destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, but also posed a serious threat to the national security of the Southern Song Dynasty for a long time. The Yuan eventually destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty. In contrast, the southwest ethnic minorities posed no threat to the national security of the Song Dynasty.

This difference led to the Song Dynasty adopting different strategies for them. For the ethnic minorities in the southwest, the Song Dynasty "when animals and animals are in custody and not to govern deeply." For the regimes in the northwest, they treat them with strong enemies, actively defend themselves, and do not easily initiate wars, fight and maintain peace. Although both strategies are aimed at maintaining stability in the border, the Song Dynasty showed great initiative in the former during the implementation process, while the latter was subject to the northwest. The regimes were extremely passive. The many differences in the Song Dynasty's policies on returning to the Ming Dynasty, returning to the Dynasties, and returning to the people actually originated from this.

Since the founding of the country, the Song Dynasty always wanted to recover, but due to the strong military power of the Khitan, it was unable to do so for a long time. Although the Chanyuan Alliance established a long-term peace situation between the Song and Liao, the passive status of the Northern Song Dynasty has not been changed in national defense. It is particularly important to grasp the trends of Liao in the Yanyun area in time, and the people of Yanyun returning to the dynasty can play an important role in it.

In this way, compared with those who returned to the court and those who returned to the Ming Dynasty, especially those who treated the Ming people in the northwest, they enjoyed more favorable treatment in terms of land, houses, jobs and fields, in fact, in order to attract more people in the Ming people. Although Shenzong once said: "There are many Chinese people, and they are not the Xia people", the Ming people had an irreplaceable role in the national defense of the Ming people in the Song Dynasty. However, the Song Dynasty's inducement and acceptance of the Ming people in the northwest was basically limited to the war, while the acceptance of the Ming people in the southwest was not subject to others. After absorbing a large number of immigrants, the Song court gained benefits while also carrying a heavy burden.

In the process of resettling "reformed people", the Song court has its corresponding policies for each type of people, which are very generous to "reformed people". However, the generous treatment of "reformed people" not only brought great financial burden to the Southern Song government, but also aroused dissatisfaction among local forces in the south. However, when the government handles such conflicts, it seems that there are not many good ways. On the one hand, they prefer "reformed people", but on the other hand, they do not trust "reformed people", and even forced the pressure of the Jin Dynasty to repatriate the "reformed people".

This has caused the embarrassing status of "reformed people" in society and also aroused the resentment of "reformed people". When the war-first faction is in power in the court, the Southern Song Dynasty will try every means to accommodate them, induce the northerners to move south, and provide the greatest material support. When the conservative faction is in power, the reformed people will fall into a very embarrassing situation, and sometimes face the consequences of being deported. These reformed people who are forced to return north suffer revenge and discrimination, and are often in desperate situations, which will inevitably cause this group to develop serious resentment towards the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, in the process of the Song Dynasty's extravagant officials and the financial crisis situation and the increasingly serious situation, returning to the Ming Dynasty, returning to the DPRK, and returning to the corrective people played a role in fueling the fire. In view of this, although the Song Dynasty generally adopted preferential policies for them, under pressure, it could only make appropriate adjustments based on the national security situation and the changes it played, based on the existing preferential policies, restrict preferential recipients and lower preferential standards, so as to alleviate the pressure of redundant officials, redundant fees and financial crisis.

The government and the opposition also argued endlessly about immigration issues. Supporters believe that the attitude towards converted people shows the "orthodox" of the Song Dynasty, which is a necessary measure to capture the hearts of the people in the Central Plains and compete for talents in the Central Plains. At the same time, it can increase the population and cultivated land area, supplement military personnel, and understand the internal situation and trends of the enemy country. Therefore, it is not only impossible to refuse, but also requires a lot of money to recruit.

Opponents believe that these rebels who moved south were poisonous schemes set up by the enemy country, and used these refugees to erode the Song State. On the one hand, the number of officials moved south made the phenomenon of redundant officials in the Southern Song Dynasty very serious and brought huge burdens to the country. On the other hand, the land was limited, and the rebels who flocked in occupied the land of the Song people, increasing the survival pressure of the people in the southeast, and forcing the original good people into "thieves".

In addition, among the Song army, especially among the most combat-effective troops on the front line, the proportion of converted people increased year by year, causing hidden dangers to the management of the army. During the Duanping period, the northern troops in Xiangyang, Tangzhou, Dengzhou, Huangpi and other places launched rebellions one after another. On the one hand, these northern troops were excluded, and on the other hand, the Song army did not have an advantage in number, causing the internal management of the army to be out of control.

In fact, there are indeed a few rat shit mixed in the rice warehouse. Among the large number of converted people, many speculators are among them. Some forged their resumes to deceive the official positions of the Southern Song Dynasty, or constantly asked for official positions to make the Southern Song court exhausted. Some converted officials acted in power in the local area, bullied others, and corrupted the administration. Some were spies installed by the Jin people, or stole intelligence or engaged in sabotage activities.

These all increased the doubts and distrust of Southern Song officials towards the corrected people. Distrust was the mainstream attitude that had long existed in the Southern Song court. Including Zhu Xi, they directly regarded the corrected people, the eunuchs in the Han Dynasty and the vassal states in the Tang Dynasty, and believed that these people were the root causes of social unrest. Therefore, many reformed civil servants were not assigned real positions, and after adding extra points, they were placed in various prefectures and counties.

In the army, the phenomenon of corrective people being excluded is even more serious. The biggest impact is the "Zhongyi Army" of Li Quan, Shandong. Because Song adopted a strategy of exploitation and provocation against him, the "Zhongyi Army" was eventually destroyed, and the entire Shandong territory that nominally surrendered to the Song State was therefore in the hands of Mongolia. The other is Liu Zhen at the end of the Song Dynasty, who surrendered to Kublai Khan because of his exclusion, became an important force to destroy Song...

"Your Majesty, do you need to discuss with the ministers in the court before making a decision?" Liu Chenweng saw that the young emperor was speechless for a long time and seemed very embarrassed, so he couldn't help but say.

"No, I think I should treat these converted people well!" Zhao Bing raised his head and said.

"Your Majesty, you must not forget the lessons of the past!" Liu Chenweng still reminded.

"The current situation is very different. Although our dynasty is still on the defensive, our strategy is to attack the Central Plains in the northern part of the Central Plains, seize Yanyun, and drive the Tartars away from the north of the desert. Therefore, recruiting people to rectify is not a long-term solution, but it is just a temporary solution. Once we recover Huaibei and march into the Central Plains, we only need to resettle on the spot, so how can we return to the right? " Zhao Bing waved his hand.

"What Your Majesty said is very reasonable, but I..." Liu Chenweng nodded after hearing this, but wanted to speak but stopped.

"Mr. Xu Xi is worried that the Northern Expedition will fail, and everything will be empty. We still need to face the current problems again, and it will be even more difficult at that time, right?" Zhao Bing smiled and said that he was worried.

"I am not worried about Your Majesty's determination to attack the Central Plains in the north and recover his hometown, nor am I worried about Your Majesty's ability. It's just that if there is a situation, it will be too late to regret it if it repeats the mistakes of the previous dynasty!" Liu Chenweng said with a polite manner.

"Master Liu should not be too worried. You should know that the present is not the same as before. Now the Mongol Yuan has lost the financial resources of Jiangnan, and the finances are becoming increasingly difficult. Moreover, the troops have been severely damaged for decades, but it is difficult to replenish them. It depends entirely on the support of the Han army, and its combat effectiveness is not the same. Our dynasty will return to Jiangnan without a few years, and there will be abundant granaries and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in hand. The success of the Northern Expedition is just around the corner!" Chen Fenglin seemed to have forgotten His Majesty's warning and interjected again.

"I know the truth about Chen Zhenfu's words." Liu Chenweng nodded and said.

"Then what are the worries about the prefect Liu? In this battle, our army mobilized only one division of troops and eliminated the enemy in Guabu Town. It was no longer the time when hundreds of cavalry could defeat our tens of thousands of troops. As long as the emperor gave the order, the army along the river crossed the river in one fell swoop, and could directly take Bianjing and recover the old capital..." Chen Fenglin said in a coquettish manner.

"Well, even if our dynasty is difficult to recover Jiangbei for a while, it is a foregone conclusion that the troops went to the southwest and advance to Sichuan and Shu. After several massacres in the Mongolian Yuan, the population has been greatly reduced and a large population needs to be filled. Although the southwest region has been further developed, it is still vast and sparsely populated." Zhao Bing couldn't listen to his words, but he did not scold him and coughed dryly.

"Your Majesty's words are true. Even after decades of war in Jiangbei, the population has been greatly reduced, which is less than one in ten." Liu Chenweng sighed.

"In this way, our dynasty has not had too many people, but too few. In the future, it is possible that a large number of immigrants to Jiangbei to fill the gap. And with the increase of overseas trade, the required goods will surge, and many craftsmen will also need to participate. It is not just limited to farming land, and there will be no such thing as competing for land with the people of Jiangnan and invading interests." Zhao Bing saw that his voice had loosened, and then said.

"I understand that Your Majesty wants to absorb the corrective people to come to Jiangnan with generous treatment, which can supplement the shortcomings and further weaken the strength of the Mongolian Yuan!" Liu Chenweng said.

"Absorbing and treating the right people well can also shake the morale of the Mongolian Yuan army. This time, thousands of Mongolian Yuan drove Dings, who sacrificed their lives to actively assist our army in fighting, can show that they have long been unable to bear the oppression of the Mongolian Yuan, and will risk their lives to return. With their own opinions, more people from Jiangbei can be willing to accept our dynasty, and at the same time, they can also remind the people of Jiangnan. Although they are expelling the Tartars from Jiangnan, they are not able to rest assured. Strong enemies are still on the side. If they go to Jiangnan again, they will still be ravaged. Only by completely defeating the Mongolian Yuan can they live a truly comfortable life!" Zhao Bing emphasized again.
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