Chapter 778: Scare away the Yuanman, and then soothe Goryeo

As soon as the three orders of the seed master arrived in Guangxi, they had immediate results and immediate results, which was good news for Liu Xing.

Good news often doesn't come, or when it does, it comes in a heap and one after another.

On the same day that the secret agents of the Military Intelligence Department in Guangxi reported that Zhong Xiang's army was in turmoil and that a large number of soldiers had mutinied and fled, two other good news were sent to Liu Xing's case from the north along with the eagle flying book.

These two pieces of good news are related to Yang Yi, but one is directly related and the other is indirect.

What is directly related is that those distant tribes who moved to the north bank of Heishui, after seeing the majestic and well-equipped military strength of the Northern Army, took the initiative to ask Hu Hongxiu to be a vassal and a vassal to the Great Song Dynasty.

After receiving such a report, Liu Xing knew that it was those barbarians who came from afar and were completely shocked by Yang Yizhong.

However, Liu Xing knew better why those distant barbarians appeared on the north bank of the black water, and he also knew that as long as they had the opportunity, they would break into the white mountains and black waters after the Jurchens were killed in large numbers to borrow corpses to resurrect their souls.

No matter how ferocious the Jurchens are, they are also the legendary Gonggong, and the real blood is closely related to the remnants of the Shang Dynasty. Compared with those distant barbarians, the contradiction between the Jurchens and the Han people has in fact become a contradiction within the Great Chinese nation, which is no longer so painful.

However, if those distant barbarians are allowed to enter the white mountains and black waters and do the thing of "borrowing corpses to return their souls", the consequence will inevitably be that sooner or later the pigtailed soldiers will re-enter the Central Plains to stage the tragedies of "Yangzhou Ten Days" and "Jiading Three Massacres".

That kind of situation is something that Liu Xing does not want to see again, and that kind of tragedy is something that Liu Xing will never allow to have the opportunity to happen again in the future.

So after just a little thought, Liu Xing gave Hu Hong a cabinet order: he was not allowed to go far or near Heishui, and he was ordered to leave the Heishui River and return to their former land within a time limit.

Expelling, to drive those distant barbarians away from the banks of the Heishui River, and not to give those distant barbarians any chance to enter the white mountains and black waters, this is Liu Xing's idea.

But the group of distant barbarians traveled thousands of miles from a more bitter cold place to the bank of the Heishui River. Liu Xing asked the family to roll back to their original land with a word, and those guys would definitely not be willing to obey.

Even if you have thick arms and great strength, if those distant barbarians are really anxious and ruthless, at least they will make the Northern Song Dynasty rekindle the beacon fire, and at least let Yang Yizhong have to waste some strength to settle them.

Liu Xing, who firmly believed in the creed of "where there is oppression, there is resistance", of course foresaw that possibility, so while asking Hu Hongxiu to expel the Yuanman, he also issued a Tianshu "Decree of Grace" to him: leave the Yuanban within ten days. Give him three months of grain and grass, and give him the first gold of the 'send-off gift'.

What is the concept of a head of gold, it is to tell those distant barbarians: get out, go back to your own hometown, and I will give you a reward of gold coins for a human head.

If you don't get out of here, continue to follow me in the Northern Song Dynasty. Then I will let this gold become a reward for my Great Song merchant army, and let those merchant soldiers who have arrived on the banks of the Heishui River have the opportunity to exchange your head and others for reward money......

People often don't be too polite when they have the confidence to speak, but Liu Xing's way of doing things this time has become very subtle. And what is the confidence to do such a thing and say such a thing?

In this short period of one month, the Shang Tuan Army, which had been spontaneously organized by the people of Shandong, Hebei, southern Liaoning, and Henan, and numbered 160,000, had quickly arrived to the north of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and was eyeing those distant barbarians across the Heishui River.

Although the equipment of the merchant regiment army of the four provinces could not be compared with Yang Yizhong's expeditionary army, they also had firearms in their hands, and each battalion was also bought from the Hunter Valley at the expense of its owner, and was equipped with at least one Shenwu cannon.

Confronted with firearms. Those distant barbarians are afraid. So, on the fifth day after Liu Xing's "decree of grace" was issued, Hu Hongxiu read it to the tribal leaders.

The barbarians from afar moved, but instead of re-migrating in the direction of their homeland in the west, they chose to walk in the vast snowy hinterland to the northeast......

The distant barbarians chose to march to the northeast to the place where even Liu Xing did not know what the situation was now, and Liu Xing took the time to send Zhang Xian another order to the cabinet and Tianshu.

What order is given to Zhang Xian? Those two commands were prompted by another piece of good news from the north.

The good news was that Wang Kai, the lord of Goryeo, sent a letter of apology to Liu Xing through Zhang Xian, stating that the Goryeo soldiers who were annihilated by Zhang Xianquan in Liaodong were not his army, but indeed a group of rebels.

As the lord of Goryeo, it was also a sin for him to fail to restrain his own army and civilians and cause a certain amount of trouble to the Great Song Dynasty, so he took the initiative to ask for the Song Dynasty to receive the punishment......

Return to the Great Song Dynasty. Goryeo has been a vassal of the Central Plains since ancient times, and this is something that Liu Xing can accept naturally. But after all, he is also the lord of a country. Even if the Great Song Dynasty is the sect master, it is not good to really punish it severely, at least to save some face for others.

Wang Kai's punishment was the main reason why Liu Xing delayed issuing orders to Zhang Xian for several days after issuing two orders against the distant barbarians.

Unpunished, the soldiers under Zhang Xian's command who sacrificed their lives to eliminate those Goryeo rebels did not get justice. and not to disturb other neighboring countries that may become vassals in the future.

After much deliberation, Liu Xing finally ordered Wang Kai to send his eight sons to study in Bianjing and Beijing Normal University together in the Heavenly Decree, in order to make the atmosphere of Sinology in Goryeo stronger and to use Sinology to speed up the naturalization of the Goryeo barbarians.

At the same time, Liu Xing also asked Wang Kai to select and form a team of 240,000 soldiers and horses within a month. The Goryeo Kingdom chose its own generals, and a month later went to the grassland to "assist" Yue Fei to sweep away the tribes that had been united on the grassland.

The Heavenly Decree set such a tone. Liu Xing gave Wang Kai a "punishment" of "turning merit into crime" and "proton entering Beijing". In this way, whether it is to save face, or traditionally, it will not really hurt the face of the Goryeo royal family, and at the same time, it declares the national prestige of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Since the declared national prestige, grace and power are a trick that will never become obsolete and be used to deal with vassals and subordinates, Liu Xing will naturally not abandon it.

So in the Cabinet Order. Liu Xing officially announced the canonization of Wang Kai as the king of Goryeo County, the privy envoy, and the Shangzhu State, and re-gave him a formal canonization of the Central Plains Dynasty, so that those in his country who had been preparing to move and wanted to take away his throne were afraid of him.

In the cabinet order, Liu Xing also gave Wang Kai two favors, that is, to allow the restricted use of dragon coins for circulation in Goryeo. At the same time, Liaodong was allowed to open up six new non-retreat fields, so that the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo could have long-term mutual exchanges. (To be continued.) )