The Mongols were able to dominate China, and even half the world, in addition to having military geniuses like Genghis Khan, iron cavalry who were good at cavalry and archery, and frenzied plundering and massacring of the occupied areas, Zhao Hao thought that it was also because the Mongols 'won the hearts and minds of the people'. Of course, the so-called winning the hearts and minds of all people is not to win the hearts of everyone, just like modern political party elections only mobilize their own supporters to the greatest extent, and can win the middle power is to win, while the Mongols obtained the allegiance of the Han warlords in the Central Plains, and relied on them as the main force to defeat most of China.

Most of the Mongol Great Khans have not read any books, especially the old ones during the founding of the country, so they don't know what Corporal Lixian is, but they can make these Han warlords die - confused accounts. Since the time of Genghis Khan, the Mongol Great Khan has been very careful to win over the forces of various ethnic groups, of course, not because he wants to achieve national unity, but because he is looking for cannon fodder for himself.

At first, after the Mongols entered the Han land, they couldn't distinguish between the Khitans, the Jurchens, and the Han people, so they called all the people who lived in the Han land Han people, but their attitude was not considered to be a corporal of Lixian. Yeluliuge rebelled in the hometown of Liaodong of the Jin Dynasty, raised more than 100,000 troops, captured Liaoyang, Tokyo of the Jin Dynasty, and was a good helper of the Mongols' Liaodong strategy, and Genghis Khan's preferential treatment for him was to get his son Xue Yan to be a hostage. When Yeluliuge died, Genghis Khan asked Yeluliuge's other son to replace him before letting Xue Yan go.

Later, this policy was also promoted to the Han army who defected to the Mongols, and whoever did not send his son to the Mongol Great Khan as a hostage would be a traitor in the eyes of the Great Khan. The second is that the Mongols adopted a policy of vague treatment of the Han warlord Shi Li regardless of their origin and blame for the past, and even put aside the traditional 'blood feud', which can be described as magnanimous.

For example, Dong Wenbing's father Dong Jun, who was called the eldest brother by Kublai Khan, Shi Bingzhi, the father of Shi Tianze, the only Han right prime minister, and Liu Heima, the head of the 30,000 Han households, were naturally reused. For example, Guo Kan's grandfather Guo Baoyu, Zhang Hongfan's father Zhang Rou and others who beat Baghdad were once highly used by the Jin people, and they were also very popular, and they didn't care that they had fought to the death with themselves.

It can be seen that the principle of Mongolian employment is: a man who can fight is like a beautiful woman, no matter what he did in the past, he can use it. And this policy is most profoundly reflected in the Li family, Li Quan and the Mongolian army for many years of bloody battles, his mother, eldest brother died at the hands of the Mongol rebels, can be said to have formed a deep blood feud. However, the Mongols were also receptive to him, and gave his family hereditary military and political power in Shandong.

In addition, the rewards given by Meng Yuan to the Han warlords far exceeded those of the Song court, and at the beginning it was a huge feudal equity, so that the Han military marquis had all the authority of justice, taxation and other powers in the territory, and could do whatever he wanted. After Kublai Khan formally established the Yuan Dynasty, although he reduced the fiefdoms of the Han military princes, he continued to receive huge rewards, and he also ignored their corruption. For such a generous and bold boss, he was naturally regarded as the best partner by the Han warlords.

Besides, the Mongols used the land of the Central Plains, and the profits of the Central Plains tempted to win over the warlords of the Central Plains. It's done, hehe, give you warlords a little sweetness first, stand firm and then clean you up, the Central Plains are all mine; No, I don't say a few words, just send a few more messengers, I don't have anything to lose, and it seems to be a profitable deal.

On the other hand, the Song court's attitude towards the Han people in the north was much worse, thinking that these Han warlords were mothers if they had milk, and they were no longer chaste martyrs, and they were not as loyal as their descendants. Therefore, when the army formed by the recruited northerners contradicted their own armed forces, they adopted a policy of unconditional support for the 'southern army'. Therefore, in the eyes of the Han warlords in the north, those old and young people have too many rules and regulations in their minds, and they can't treat themselves well, and the Song court is definitely not a good backer.

On the issue of dealing with the Han people in the north, Zhao Yu's mood is also extremely complicated. Although everyone is of the same race, as early as the founding of the Song Dynasty, they lost the sixteen states of Yanyun, and later lost the entire north when the Jurchens invaded. By the time of the Mengyuan Dynasty, more than a hundred years had passed, and the Han people in the north had long forgotten the 'imperial grace' of the Song Dynasty. And at this time, you can't expect all the people who haven't given any benefits to take the risk to do it with you, and you are still asking people to talk about their feelings for the family and country when the war is in chaos, and asking the northern Han people to "I don't care if you live or die, but you can't help Meng Yuan yet".

Thinking about it from another perspective, the emperor of the Song Dynasty proposed to rule the world with scholars, which also required the emperor to treat scholars well. This is like working for the emperor, a local boss is mean and unkind, and always uses "love the company and be loyal to the boss" to fool his subordinates; A foreign company boss is generous, and whoever has a lot of credit will be given a high salary and equity. Imagine that a foreign company wants to hire you directly, and the local company has to go to apply for the job yourself, and the salary is one-tenth of the other's, and the people who say it may not listen. So which one do you choose?

Which company do you think is worth working for? The answer must have been settled in everyone's minds. But if you enter a foreign company, some people will definitely say that you are a traitor. Zhao Yu thinks that everyone is profit-oriented, and governing the country also needs to respect this basic human nature, you can't expect everyone to be a saint, and you can't ask everyone to be like Boyi and Shuqi without eating Zhou Su.

Think about how Zhao Yu knew how to govern the country at the beginning, and he also used the way of managing the company to govern, providing stable salaries, improving treatment, and distinguishing rewards and punishments to gather people's hearts and use them for his own use. But let him be like the Mongols to recruit rebels with such a big hand, he still thought that he could not do it. It's not that I'm cautious and can't tolerate people, but the objective conditions don't allow it.

On the one hand, there are not so many resources to distribute, and trying to do so will only return to the old path of the financial collapse of the Mengyuan Dynasty; The two of them can't be equalized with their own people, think about the beginning, we ate bran and followed you to fight the world, but the final treatment was not as good as a group of descendants, who can be convinced; The three, who wantonly rewarded the surrenderer, was afraid that those old Taoists would jump out and scold him and drown him with spittle stars.

As a result, not only will it be difficult to implement policies, but it will also lead to internal unrest. But how to win over the hearts of the Han people in the north, Zhao Hao thought that it was necessary to break the current class structure in the north, implement a universal policy, and show favor to the common people, so as to gain their support. The privileged classes of the Mengyuan lost the support of the common people and had to fall, and the people turned to seek a regime that was beneficial to them......

Zhao Yu thought that he had won a series of great victories and seized a large area of land in the Lianghuai region, but he still had not been able to enter the belly of Meng Yuan, shake the foundation of his rule, and still had the ability to fight again. Therefore, before receiving a fatal blow, it is not so easy to recruit the enemy army, especially the guards and pro-army, as one of the pillars of the Mengyuan military, as the biggest beneficiary, will not surrender without a fight. Therefore, the current point is to hurt them, break them, and make them lose confidence in the Mengyuan regime, and at that time they will take the initiative to surrender in order to survive.

Next, Zhao Yu inquired in detail about the situation of the Mengyuan Firearms Battalion, and Liu Zhixue also told him what he knew, most of which he knew from the interrogation of captured enemy prisoners, although it was not exhaustive, but it could roughly outline its appearance.

It turned out that the Mongol and Yuan sides also realized the power of firearms in the process of fighting with the Song army, and Kublai Khan launched the development of firearms when he was alive, wanting to establish a fully armed firearms army like the Song army. Therefore, he allocated a thousand-man team from each of the five guards of the Han army, and returned to the artillery army with a thousand-man team and a cavalry team of one thousand-man team from the Mongolian guards on the left and right to form a guard with firearms.

At the same time, craftsmen were sent from various guards to make firearms, and at first they wanted to imitate them based on the firearms of the Song Dynasty collected from various sources. However, as Zhao Hao estimated, due to the immaturity of the process and the material, many reasons have failed. In the end, they had to abandon the whole imitation and instead make a simplified version of the firearms equipped with firearms according to their own conditions.

As a killer and seed unit of Meng Yuan, the firearms guard was naturally valued by the Great Khan at the beginning of its establishment, not only completely out of production and did not participate in the tuntian, but also supplied according to the standards of the cowardly Xue in terms of treatment, and commanded by those who were 'proficient' in the use of firearms in the cowardly Xue army. In order to keep it secret, after forming the army, he was sent to Liangxiang Mountain for training, so that it would not be known to outsiders.

However, the troops have been formed, but how to train has become a big problem, after all, they do not have the guidance of a traverser like Zhao Yu, and they have no experience to learn from, and it is difficult to obtain the training methods of the Song army. So some people remembered the loyal and filial piety army of the Jin Kingdom, but the Jin Kingdom has been destroyed for 50 years, and the survivors are all old men in their seventies and eighties, but the hard work pays off, and they really found a few veterans of the year and were invited to be coaches to guide them in military training.

As a result, this army trained by the veterans of the Jin Kingdom and equipped with 'Mongolian-made' firearms was born, and they were not only equipped with the newly invented bowl-mouth guns, single-eyed guns, but also traditional firearms such as rockets and thistles. He also developed a battle formation supplemented by cavalry and sword and shield soldiers and pikemen, as well as tactics and tactics against the Song army.

After several years of training, the firearms guard had been hidden in the snow and had not participated in any wars between the two countries, until the Song army now endangered the security of Gyeonggi, and Jinjin decided to send this long-hidden elite army to the battlefield. After further understanding, Zhao Yu also put his mind at ease, it is difficult for such a nondescript firearms army to pose a substantial threat to his side, and it may be okay to scare and scare Brother Du, but it is difficult to say about himself.

But what is surprising is that the Meng Yuan Firearms Guard disappeared after a surprise in the battle to defeat Du Gebu, and did not appear in the subsequent battles, and did not know its whereabouts during the reconnaissance......

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