Vol 2 Chapter 2939: Daqin style double standard

Vol 2 Chapter 2939: Daqin style double standard

Chapter 2939 Da Qin Style Double Standard

Chapter 2935 Da Qin Style Double Standard

The Yingzhou War can currently be divided into three stages.

In the first stage, Qin defended the coalition forces and attacked.

The four kingdoms of Wei, Song, Ming, Wu, and the remnants of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, jointly attacked Qin, while Da Qin responded passively.

It was during this process that Da Qin lost the eight counties of Xihai County in the west of Honshu.

The eight counties of the West Sea are not very populous, nor are they very fertile, but they are home to the Shijian Yin Mountain. Together with other small and medium-sized gold and silver mines, Daqin's overall gold and silver mine output has been reduced by two-fifths.

In this regard, Da Qin suffered heavy losses, but due to the chaotic situation and the inability to focus on Yingzhou in the short term, it was simply frustrating that it was unable to recover the eight counties of Xihai County.

In the second stage, the Qin army defended in the east and attacked in the west, challenging the five forces.

Wang Jian ordered Qin Zheng and Uesugi Kenshin respectively to lead their troops to guard Kansai County and Hokuriku County to resist the coalition forces in eastern Honshu and Hokkaido. While he led the army to launch a defensive counterattack, he invaded Nobi and Kinki. Sano'o led his army to capture Shikoku Island, while Kyushu's Tachibana Michyuki also went north to conquer Kyushu.

At this stage, the Qin army could be said to have achieved a complete victory. Not only did they capture large areas of Nobi and Kinki, but they also almost occupied the entire territory of Kyushu and Shikoku, completely crushing their opponents in terms of strategic layout.

Even if the enemy was aware of Wang Jian's purpose, the ship was turned around in a disaster and could not stop Wang Jian's encirclement plan. It only narrowly missed Wang Jian's plan to unify Yingzhou from the west and then from the east.

However, with the arrival of Wang Mang's reinforcements, Wang Jian's encirclement plan completely failed. Not only did Northern Kyushu and Shikoku gain and lose, but the Qin army once again fell into a passive state of being beaten.

This is the third stage of the Yin Yingzhou War. The Qin army fought on four fronts, and Wang Jian challenged the six countries.

In fact, when Wang Jian launched the second phase of the operation, he knew that if the encirclement plan failed, the Qin army would be trapped in a multi-front battle, and there would be a risk of being defeated one by one.

But at that time, Wang Jian was confident that even if he could not win quickly, he could still eat away at the opponent bit by bit and achieve final victory, so he ignored the risk of dividing his forces.

But Wang Jian didn't expect that Wang Mang would take a trip into this troubled water, which not only ruined his plan, but also completely revealed the sequelae of the failure of the plan.

Now the Qin army is scattered in Kyushu, Shikoku, Kanto and Nobi. It is forced to fight on four fronts and is besieged by six forces. Naturally, its military strength is suddenly stretched thin.

In fact, at the beginning of the war, Great Qin's military strength in Yingzhou was very sufficient. Not only did it have 80,000 local regular troops, but there were also 160,000 Qin associate troops, a total of 240,000 troops. It was definitely more than enough to defend the five counties of Yingzhou. .

But no one expected that the situation in Yingzhou would change so quickly. Not only did all the forces unite, but Wang Mang, an outsider, was also brought in, so that even Wang Jian's 240,000 troops could not solve Yingzhou's problems. .

In addition, the Qin army has suffered heavy losses since the war started. Not only did the local army lose 8,000, but the Qin Alliance army also suffered 40,000 casualties.

Faced with this situation, Wang Jian had to urgently recruit troops on the spot. However, the newly recruited Qin Xie Army was definitely not as good as before in terms of combat strength and morale. It could only be used to defend the city and could not fight in the field.

In order to maintain the current situation, Wang Jian decided to relax the restrictions on the local large clans and allow them to recruit troops on their own to cooperate with the Qin army in fighting. This resulted in the 25,000 coalition forces in Southern Kyushu.

In fact, there is not much difference between Wang Jian's actions and the order to relieve the Qiang issued by Yang Guang. However, the difference is that Da Qin did not do it out of necessity, but actively promoted it.

Ying Hao, who was born in a wealthy family, knew very well the dangers of aristocratic families. He also adopted a strict defensive attitude towards domestic aristocratic families, but why was he only so tolerant to the Yingzhou family?

The reason is actually very simple. Although the Japanese empire established by Oda Nobunaga lasted for a short time, it was unanimously recognized by all Japanese people just like the Yuan, Meng and Manchu empires established by Temujin and Nurhachi. national consciousness.

These three countries, Yuan-Meng, Manchu and Qing, and Japan, all have their own history, writing, and civilization, and they will naturally reject foreign civilizations, even the highly similar Great Qin civilization.

Therefore, before complete unification, even if Great Qin implemented a series of assimilation policies, it is obviously not an easy task to completely assimilate Yingzhou. It will take a lot of time and even the efforts of two or three generations. .

This is the price that must be paid for aggression. Without such a long period of assimilation, it is impossible to completely assimilate a nation.

Yingzhou is a mountain of gold and silver. Daqin, which has already tasted the benefits, cannot give up this treasured land. However, the assimilation process is too long. As the emperor, Ying Hao wants to shorten this period, and the best way is actually There are two more:

The first one is naturally to unify Yingzhou, but it is obviously impossible before the unification of Jiuzhou. Da Qin must complete the unification of China first before it can free up its hands to complete the unification of Yingzhou.

As for the second method, it is to imitate the policy of the Qing Dynasty when they entered the customs and support a group of Japanese traitors. The speed of assimilation of the Japanese with the Japanese is obviously much faster than the control of the Japanese with the Han.

As for how to support a gang of Japanese traitors and completely tie the Yingzhou family into Great Qin's chariot, it can be summed up in nine words: Great Qin and the family rule Yingzhou together;

Since Da Qin has not yet unified Yingzhou, and there are still many enemies in Yingzhou, naturally it cannot treat the Yingzhou family according to domestic standards, so there is no need to completely control the territory under its command, only the majority of the population and the most elite land can be controlled.

As for those places that are difficult for the Qin Dynasty to control, as well as the population hidden by the family, they will all be managed by the Yingzhou family. At the same time, they will actively give up part of their interests and completely bundle the interests, allowing the Yingzhou family to become the basis for Great Qin's rule in Yingzhou. . For example, if Yingzhou is a listed company, then Da Qin is the chairman, and the major families in Yingzhou are small shareholders.

This is also the main reason why after the Yingzhou War broke out, all the small families in Da Qin rebelled, and none of the big families rebelled.

Under this strategy, the Yingzhou family not only has local control but also military power. It is almost equivalent to a small warlord. However, this is exactly what Da Qin wants to see. After all, it still needs to rely on them to fight against the coalition forces.

In fact, even if Wang Jian does not lift the restrictions, the Yingzhou family, which has money, food and people in the local area, will still secretly expand its strength to protect itself, and lifting the restrictions will only make them more upright.

As for when these families have armies, will they, like the local families in Shikoku and Kyushu, rebel with the coalition forces?

Naturally, this possibility cannot be completely avoided, but the facts prove that in the end, it is the small and unworthy families who rebel, and no big family chooses to rebel.

This also just shows that the interest-binding policy of co-governance between Da Qin and the Yingzhou family is extremely successful.

It is precisely because the interests of the Yingzhou clan have long been closely related to Da Qin, and the coalition army not only cannot bring them greater benefits, but will also take away their rights from them, so they ignore the interests of their family and country, such as In the late Ming Dynasty, he joined the Manchu Qing Dynasty in destroying the Ming and Han clans, and tried his best to help the Qin Dynasty fight against the coalition forces.

Because to oppose Qin is to oppose themselves, it is naturally impossible for them to oppose themselves.

However, the policy of Da Qin and the Yingzhou family to jointly govern Yingzhou had a considerable impact after it was spread back to the country.

After all, the Great Qin Family only has economic dominance, but no local control or the right to recruit private soldiers, but it has given the Yingzhou Family so many privileges. Isn't this a perfect double standard?

Why do those subjugated barbarians in Yingzhou enjoy higher treatment than their own aristocratic families?

For this reason, many officials from aristocratic families wrote letters, ostensibly opposing Da Qin's interest-binding policy, but in reality they wanted to gain the same status for local aristocratic families.

But this is obviously impossible.

At a certain court meeting, Ying Hao became furious over this. After dismissing sixteen opposing officials in a row, he suppressed all kinds of opposition voices inside and outside the court.

But Ying Hao also knew that this could only be suppressed for a while. If the fundamental problem was not solved, those aristocratic families would not give up.

As for what is the fundamental problem? In essence, it is still the same country, but two different systems have emerged. Da Qin's aboveboard and double-standard behavior makes many people unwilling and at the same time feel lucky.

Ying Hao naturally attached great importance to this. After all, if this trend was not suppressed, there would be endless troubles in the future, so he held eight consecutive court meetings to discuss Yingzhou's policies.

After a series of intense discussions, the ministers finally came to the conclusion that if they wanted to completely incorporate Yingzhou into the territory, they must rely on the power of the Yingzhou family, and if they want the horses to run, they must be fed.

Ying Hao knew that there were still many people who were unwilling to give up, so he also expressed his position and made it clear that the policy of beneficial co-governance was only a transitional policy before the unification of Yingzhou. It would be changed after the entire territory of Yingzhou was unified and completely naturalized. By adopting the same policy as Great Qin, this evil trend was completely stopped.

Ying Hao also knew that the co-governance policy also had many hidden dangers, but it was indeed the most suitable response strategy for Da Qin under the current situation. Moreover, he did not think that he could not do what Dorgon could do.

As long as the Qin army continues to be strong, even if the Yingzhou family has some small thoughts, they will never dare to reveal it, but this thunder can be regarded as laid.

Ying Hao estimates that he is the only one who has completed the unification. Even if Yingzhou is unified later, the policy of co-governance will still exist for a long time. After all, it is not that easy to assimilate a nation.

There is a high probability that he will not be able to completely assimilate Yingzhou during his reign, and can only leave it to his son to abolish this extremely dangerous co-governance policy. And the Yingzhou family will definitely not be willing to give up the rights in their hands. Forcibly taking it back will probably set off another uprising. There were twists and turns, but he believed that Ying Sheng's wisdom would be able to solve this problem perfectly.

As for Wang Jian, although he was aware of the hidden dangers, compared to Ying Hao, he didn't think that far ahead.

In Wang Jian's view, the Qin Dynasty had not yet completed its unification, and Yingzhou was in danger. It might be a good idea to rely on the power of the Japanese to tide over the difficulties, so he relaxed the restrictions so readily.

As for what will happen to Yingzhou in the future? Wang Jian didn't know, and he didn't want to know. He only knew that when he was the governor, he would never let Da Qin lose the five counties of Yingzhou. So what if he used any means necessary to do so?

Wang Jian lifted the restrictions, and the Yingzhou family was overjoyed. If there were still people who had concerns before, they no longer have any concerns. After all, Da Qin's policy of co-governance is not just talk, but actual practice. Naturally, it has to be I was determined to follow Da Qin's path to the end.

The Yingzhou family vigorously recruited troops and horses, and at the same time sent people to express their loyalty to Wang Jian and strongly support Wang Jian's wise decision.

Regarding this, Wang Jian could only sneer in his heart, looking at these people as if they were looking at dead people. He knew that these people were already withered bones in the grave, and their only purpose was to be squeezed out of their remaining use value by Da Qin.

Although Wang Jian is strong and his command ability is the best in Yingzhou, he is only one person after all and cannot take care of the entire Yingzhou. Therefore, even with him, the Qin army fighting on multiple fronts is still at a disadvantage.

However, with the participation of local coalition forces such as Oda, Tokugawa, Uesugi, Hojo, and Shinomiya, the Qin army greatly made up for its disadvantage in military strength, and finally defeated the Wei, Song, Ming, and Ming dynasties at a very low cost. The five forces of Wu and Toyotomi jointly counterattacked.

Looking at the map in front of him, Wang Jian couldn't help but sigh: "Well, it depends on the governor of Qin Zheng next. If we win the battle of Jiuzhou, the encirclement and annihilation plan can still be implemented. If we lose, the battle of Yingzhou will be fought."