The former landlords and gentry who fled to the Ming Dynasty crossed thousands of mountains and rivers, experienced the sufferings of the world, and finally escaped from heaven and came to the Southern Song Dynasty.

They went through ups and downs during their journey south. In order to avoid Luka, the local area of ​​Ming Dynasty, they had to take the mountain path that was rarely visited.

Although there are no Ming Dynasty pursuers on the mountain road, there are harsh natural environments and ferocious carnivores. They look at the group of charitable people who travel thousands of miles to deliver food to their doors with green eyes, and tears of emotion flow from the corners of their mouths.

Of course, a few people were killed by carnivorous beasts. Most of the dead people were still because they were difficult to walk on the mountain road, either fell to death, lost, or exhausted food, which turned into nutrients in the vast mountains and forests.

Those who survived to reach the Southern Song Dynasty were indeed considered to have used all their luck.

They not only knew what they meant to the Southern Song Dynasty, but also really hated the Ming Dynasty. So they cooperated with the propaganda requirements of the Southern Song government and compiled a large number of tragic jokes.

They described themselves as leading the tenants to live and work in peace and contentment and eat every meal and not hungry to bring good people.

The tenants all supported their good governance very much, but the Ming Dynasty court used a lot of money to buy their tenants, or threatened, tempted and intimidated their tenants, causing the tenants to attack them.

They either lost their kind and smart wives, their beautiful daughters, their brave sons, or their kind parents.

At the same time, they all described their families who died because of their escape as brave men who bravely sacrificed their lives for protecting more families from the tiger's mouth, or unfortunate people who were brutally killed.

They explained that the court incited mobs to plunder their property, encroach on their land, kill their families, and said that the tenants who had received their favor were bewitched and showed their fangs.

Either they killed the kind-hearted young master, or forcibly insulted the kind-hearted and beautiful young daughter, or killed their wife and ate them, or hung up their 80-year-old parents and whipped them to death with a whip.

They were kind-hearted all their lives, and they were reluctant to step on an ant to death. Even if they were so kind, they could not escape the murder of the brutal court and the ungrateful white-eyed wolf. Three or five generations of family business turned into ashes, and their families were destroyed...

I cried so miserably.

In short, they described the Ming Kingdom as a hell of riots, the vigorous revolution as a terrifying riot, and the people who broke the shackles of ideological liberation and rose up to resist as cruel mobs.

They are kind and gentle and correct. The Ming court and the Ming emperor are evil. The mud legs are treacherous and punished by God. The Ming army is cruel and unkind.

Such propaganda was very in line with the needs of the Southern Song court. The officials of the Southern Song Dynasty were overjoyed, so they were taken to Lin'an in large numbers and appeared in front of civil and military officials and the emperor to speak out.

They cried and asked Emperor Zhao Sheng for help, protection, and a bowl of rice.

They have a strong ability to make up stories. Zhao Xing was crying and the civil and military officials sighed.

All civil and military officials are not stupid, they are smart, not stupid.

Although they all knew that these guys could never be so gentle to the tenants and absolutely not so just, they were still deeply afraid of the great revolutionary action initiated by the Ming court and the Ming court's behavior of standing on the side of the mud legs.

They had never seen a regime standing with Mud Legs, never seen a regime that shoveled the landlords and squire for Mud Legs, and never seen an emperor who allowed all this and even dominated all this.

Is this the emperor?

They were worried that the present of these guys would be their future, and they were even more worried that some of these guys would escape, but they had no choice.

These guys can still cross thousands of mountains and rivers to escape to the Southern Song Dynasty to ask for food. Then when the Ming army goes south, where will they escape?

Lingnan?

Chameng Kingdom?

They began to feel deeply worried about their future.

And this is the purpose of Zhao Xing and the prime minister team.

Using this group of people to show their opinions, tell them the revolutionary policies of the Ming Dynasty, in order to unite people on a large scale, unite the unprecedentedly unprecedented class of the Southern Song Dynasty, and curb internal friction to a considerable extent.

Through this wave of public opinion work, the ruling class of the Southern Song Dynasty was basically full of crisis, the desire for internal struggle was not so strong, the party struggle was not so fierce, and the fighting spirit against the Ming Dynasty became unprecedentedly strong.

After this, Zhao Xing keenly realized that his government orders had worked much better.

There were always some bumps and bumps before, and some people were unable to work hard, and their administrative efficiency was touching.

Now, the administrative efficiency has been greatly improved, which is more efficient than before.

By mid-October of the fourth year of Hongwu, the recruitment plan for 70,000 troops was successfully completed.

This time, there were 70,000 people who were actually 70,000 without adding water. All of these 70,000 people were enriched into the Jianghuai War Zone and the Lin'an Imperial Army. It was quite rare.

It would be really unobjective to say that it would not be the credit of these Ming gentry and man.

After the Lin'an Imperial Army suffered two devastating blows, it finally had a quota of 40,000 again. The remaining 30,000 were sent to the three armies of Zhenjiang Prefecture, Jiankang Prefecture and Chizhou Prefecture.

Zhao Xing organized all of these 40,000 people into the guards' horse and guards' infantry commanded by him. As for the palace front office, he did not give any assignment because he was still with Zhao Gou outside.

But of course these 70,000 people are not the end, they are just a starting point.

On the day when the 70,000 recruitment plan was completed, Zhao Xing proposed an ambitious 80,000 recruitment plan, requiring the army to be restored to the scale before the First Ming and Song War within two years.

And with the implementation of this 80,000-person recruitment plan, the Southern Song Dynasty court also began to announce the convening of a special military exercise to recruit brave and capable talents from the whole society.

As long as you pass the exam, you can directly grant military positions and generous benefits.

At the same time, in the formal imperial examination, the questions were also biased towards military strategy.

In addition to the traditional classical issues, at Zhao Xing's request, military problems arose in the palace examination, requiring military talents to be selected from the candidates who took the imperial examination.

Zhao Xing also recruited military talents from officials who had become officials, prepared to expand the scale of the Privy Council on a large scale, give the Privy Council greater power, and encourage the Privy Council and encourage the military of the Southern Song Dynasty.

With the implementation of a series of new policies, more and more military talents have entered the Privy Council, and their arrival has provided guarantee for the professionalism of the Privy Council.

Zhao Xing was finally unable to satisfy Zhou Linzhi's conservative military strategy and was ready to adopt a more radical military strategy to fight against the threat brought by the Ming Dynasty.

To this end, Zhao Xing transferred Chen Kangbo, who returned from the Ming Dynasty, and Zhou Linzhi, who was promoted to the Privy Council, and appointed Zhou Linzhi as the deputy governor and Chen Kangbo as the Privy Council envoy.

Zhou Linzhi breathed a sigh of relief for this, while Chen Kangbo took on the mission with a serious expression.

After Chen Kangbo returned to Lin'an, he submitted a detailed report to Zhao Sheng about all his experiences and experiences of him and the envoys in Ming Dynasty.

Zhao Sheng was uneasy when he learned of the series of changes in the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhao Xing learned that Su Yonglin was trying to interfere with the internal affairs of the Southern Song Dynasty, he was indeed very angry and frightened and immediately rejected the suggestion.

"I thought Su Yonglin suddenly had a kind heart, but I didn't expect that he was so cruel and attempted to use this method to seize the hearts of the people of the Song Dynasty and interfere with the internal affairs of the Song Dynasty. It was extremely hateful!"

Zhao Xing said angrily: "It seems that Su Yonglin is determined to destroy me after all!"

Chen Kangbo nodded.

"Although the Ming Dynasty was determined to destroy me, they still had a lot of things to do after all. If they want to build the Yellow River, they need to concentrate a lot of manpower and material resources, so it is unlikely that they will be enemies with me in the short term, nor will they go south."

"Didn't you say that they won't be able to fight just because of building the Yellow River?"

Zhao Xing whispered: "This kind of thing cannot be misjudged, otherwise the Song Dynasty will be very dangerous."

Chen Kangbo nodded.
Chapter completed!