Chapter 1238 Thunder, Lightning, Rain, and Dew Are All Grace From the King

That night, many bandits were captured, including people from Daji and people from the northern tribes. In terms of the number of people, there was actually not much difference. In fact, the number of people from Daji who were willing to become bandits was even higher.

However, the news spread that the northern barbarians were still vicious and stubborn.

In fact, many people from the tribes did not resist the army and chose to surrender. But the news spread that they were extremely vicious and killed not only civilians but also soldiers.

Why is this so? Because the people like to hear this. Under the national justice, criticizing their enemies not long ago is a "politically correct" thing. If you tell them that the main robbers are themselves, do you think they will accept it?

People always accept what they are willing to believe. There is no lack of true insights in this world, but arrogance and prejudice have blinded many people's eyes.

So, as a microscopic witness of this matter, Wu Yi has personally experienced everything from the beginning of this matter to the climax now.

The tribesmen left their homes and were on alert day and night, and were frightened three times a day. Their lives were already very difficult, and they could barely make ends meet. Now, with the shift in public opinion towards them, their lives became even more difficult. At first, they were able to trade with the people nearby to obtain what they needed for life, but now, almost all connections have been cut off, and a large-scale famine has occurred.

Large-scale famine must have brought about the growth of dissatisfaction.

Neither the military stationed nearby nor the local government that managed the transportation of food noticed the development of this emotion, or consciously ignored it.

Then, the result was predictable.

When the tribesmen who went out to steal that night were caught, it was only half a month before nearly 3,000 people starved to death in this place where 50,000 tribesmen lived. The tragedy of cannibalism had already occurred. The chief begged the officers to allocate food to no avail, and he didn't even get in the door.

After the chief came back, he was full of bitterness and committed suicide, which shocked the entire gathering point.

However, when such a huge news reached the desk of the garrison officers, the other side remained indifferent. Not only did they not allocate a grain, but they strengthened their vigilance. It is obvious why they wanted to do so.

It cannot be said that he was heartless. If there was grain, he would not refuse to allocate it. However, every time he mentioned this matter to the county magistrate, the other side evaded the question. When the notice was sent to the higher level, it was also a drop in the ocean. There was no response.

Therefore, uprising, or rebellion, was inevitable.

The emperor tried hard, but he still failed to maintain peace between the two tribes. Why did this war break out?

Talking nonsense is the result of the influence of both subjective and objective factors.

But is it the objective factor, that is, the impact of this blizzard, or the subjective factor, that is, the cumbersome and slow bureaucratic system and the mutual suspicion between the two sides, that has a greater impact?

Is it 50-50, 30-70, or 70-30? This is a thought-provoking question.

Wars happen all the time and have different manifestations. So what are the laws behind wars? What are the factors that lead to wars?

Wu Yi's human body and inner demon body have both been promoted to Taichu, and his inner demon body has also refined the blood demon statue, and is deeply involved in the catastrophe. Naturally, it is impossible for him to look at the problem from the perspective of the bottom or middle level. A transcendent person naturally has a transcendent attitude.

The rebellion was not organized, and tens of thousands of tribal people were like a group of sheep. Although they had the advantage in numbers, they were unarmed and were quickly wiped out. What followed was a bloody massacre. Blood flowed all over the field, the snow melted, and the snowflakes flying all over the sky could not cover the blood color.

In extreme despair, some people knelt down and begged for surrender, but their heads were cut off by the whistling soldiers. A burst of hot blood gushed up, and their bodies fell straight down.

In the end, there were less than a thousand people left, who were lucky enough to escape from the chaos and fled in all directions. They were the first group of people to spread the news, and they were also the ones who set off the climax of the dispute between the two tribes in the future.

Wu Yi looked up at the horizon. The sky had changed again. The calamity grew. The boundless calamity enveloped the entire north. The shadow of war was weighing on everyone's heart. The tribesmen who surrendered were all wondering whether they should continue to maintain the status quo and wait to starve to death step by step. Or should they fight hard and maybe they could grab food.

In short, this incident started a very bad start. The hostility of the Daji Dynasty towards the tribesmen was unprecedentedly rising.

"Look, what do you say? I said that these people are not of my kind, and their hearts must be different! Now they really rebelled!" Many people said so, with a smug look on their faces, as if they were very proud of predicting this matter correctly, but they didn't know that they had gained nothing except talking.

A bigger war was about to start. What choice would the emperor of Zhongdu City make?

You may not imagine what he did. He rewarded and comforted all the ordinary soldiers who suppressed the rebellion, eliminating the accusations of being more pro-foreign.

However, those officers who commanded the war, including the county magistrate, county magistrate, county lieutenant, and a series of people who governed the local area, were all arrested and punished. Some were whipped and some were exiled. Although the reason given to the outside world was that they were incompetent and caused rebellion, anyone with a discerning eye knew that the emperor's eyes were bright. It was not easy to fool him.

One reward and one punishment, the reward is for the inside, the punishment is for the outside, each takes what he needs, and each is punished with fifty lashes, which once again reconciled the conflict between the two tribes and delayed the dispute between the two tribes with his own strength.

Wu Yi seemed to see a child who was trying hard to stack blocks, adding blocks one by one, and trying to maintain balance, but the child's blocks collapsed. If the blocks built by the emperor collapsed, the people of Jiuzhou would suffer.

A child did something wrong in school and was excluded. Even if it was not a wrong thing, he was actually excluded by the surrounding students. If you were the parent of this child, what would you do?

Change schools, change learning environments, and rebuild the child's interpersonal relationships. I guess you will think so. In fact, the Great Emperor also thought so and did so.

The living environment of the people of the northern tribes in the north has become worse and worse due to various events. It is not a short-term achievement to eradicate the ideas of the local people. Therefore, the Great Emperor chose to continue to migrate the people of the tribe and let them continue to move south.

In addition to allowing the tribesmen to change their living environment, the south was less affected by the blizzard, and the local food could sustain the tribesmen's food, so that such a change would not happen again.

The people of the Song Dynasty did not believe that the proportion of Han people in the rebels during the Anshi Rebellion was higher than that of ethnic minorities. They were more willing to believe that the military preparations were slack in the middle and late Tang Dynasty; the people of the Ming Dynasty also did not believe that the Japanese pirates in the southeast were mainly local people pretending to be Japanese pirates, and the real Japanese pirates accounted for less than 10%.

The world is really magical, what do you think?