The reason why Zhao made a punishment for Zhang Song, the governor of Raozhou, was not only to appease the people's hearts, but also to have a bigger reason behind it. You should know that since he took power, he has faced a chaotic situation. In addition to the biggest enemy of the Mongolian Yuan, it is the situation of national division.

Among them, there was the failure to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun after the founding of the Song Dynasty, which caused the Han residents living north of the Central Plains to live under the rule of the Khitan, and thus was not recognized by the Han people in the Central Plains and were called northerners. After that, the Khitan was destroyed, the Jurchens rose, the Song Dynasty crossed the south, and the Song and Jin Dynasties divided the ethnic division line with the Huai River as the boundary, which also moved south again, and Han people in Huaibei were generally classified as northerners.

More than a hundred years later, the Jurchens and the Song Dynasty were successively defeated by the Mongol Yuan. Because they successively surrendered to the Jurchens and the Mongol Yuan, they participated in the war to destroy the Song Dynasty, the relationship between the North and South Han people was even more acute in an opposition state. During this period, in order to prevent a large number of surrendered Song troops from causing chaos, the Mongol Yuan moved the surrendered troops, mainly the South, to migrate north to farmland or participate in the attack on Japan, while the Han army, mainly the North, stationed in Jiangnan to suppress the Southern uprising, which made the South regard the North as enemies and even hated them even more than the Mongols.

Of course, the army composed of the Han people in the north was also the main enemy of the dynasty. In the war between Qiongzhou and the regaining of Jiangnan, the Song army was the main target of combat. Zhao also believed that for a long time, the Han army in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties would still be their enemy. For the needs of the war, he had to make a choice in propaganda. After regaining Jiangnan, he also severely suppressed the Han bureaucrats and generals stationed in the north, and organized the captured surrendered troops into a hard labor camp to engage in dangerous and arduous work as punishment.

However, after Zhao recovered Jiangnan, he faced a new problem. They were facing a gathering place of the same Han people. In this way, it was impossible to treat them like Jiangnan. Instead, they became the target of their struggle and fought for national harmony. However, it was difficult to make the officials in the court, the soldiers and generals of the army and the people of Jiangnan suddenly braked suddenly and make another 180-degree turn.

However, it is difficult to do it, because if the Northern Expedition is not the case, even if Zhao Zhi responds with the previous policies, the situation he faces will be like the Mongolian Yuan in Jiangnan. When facing one after another, they will have to spend countless money, grain and troops to suppress it. In this way, they will fall into a vicious cycle of suppressing rebellion, suppressing the more severe rebellion, and suppressing the more intense rebellion, endlessly until one side is exhausted.

Therefore, before the Northern Expedition, Zhao issued an order to strictly order the participating armies not to kill the people indiscriminately for the purpose of revenge, not to plunder property, force the civilians to force the people to occupy, and not to forcibly occupy civilians and fields. The officials who accepted them have repeatedly emphasized that the established policies must be strictly implemented, and the division of the north and the south are not allowed, and the policies must be unified; the people's property must not be requisitioned or occupied; when punishing old officials and Han merchants and large merchants who colluded with the Mongolians, they must grasp the right position and not kill indiscriminately, etc.

Now, from the perspective of effectiveness, all the participating armies have basically done this, and no serious violations of military discipline have occurred. The officials who received the newly accepted places can generally implement the policy in accordance with the established policies. Although some problems have occurred, most of them are inaccurate grasp of the policies, which have led to excessive behaviors during implementation, but have also been promptly corrected, and there have been no large-scale escape incidents in Haozhou.

Zhao knew that there was no such major incident in Haozhou in various places for the time being, but it does not mean that there was no such sign. Therefore, no matter what the cause was, it must be dealt with quickly to warn others and avoid someone repeating the same mistakes. This will stabilize people's hearts, resume production as soon as possible, and lay the foundation for future national reconciliation. Of course, there is still a long way to go.

"Your Majesty, it's rare to have talent. Can you please let Zhang Song not be transferred for the time being and let him make meritorious service?" Wang Yinglin obviously did not give up and wanted to fight for another effort.

"Prince Wang, I'm asking for advice!" Zhao did not answer, but instead changed the subject and said.

"Your Majesty, please listen carefully." The little emperor said it to the left and right, which made Wang Yinglin stunned. Although he did not understand the intention, he quickly politely said.

"I have read the "Zizhi Tongjian" these days and nights. Among them, Jin Ji said that Liu Yuan sent the general Liu Jing to lead his army to attack Luoyang. Liu Jing drove more than 30,000 Han people to sink into the Yellow River. Liu Yuan was furious when he heard the news and said, "How can Jing see me? And how can the way of heaven to tolerate it! What I want to eliminate is the Sima family, what are the crimes of the people? Later historians called Zhao Han three generations and five masters, and it was the beginning of the twenty-six years of the country. I have some doubts. In history, barbarians drove our people to death and killed them all over the history. Why only talk about Zhao Han?" Zhao asked.

"Your Majesty, when the Huns Liu Yuan raised an army to rebel against Jin in the late Western Jin Dynasty, the conflict between the Han and the Yi people was already very sharp. Liu Yuan originally wanted to follow Emperor Gaozu of Han and destroy the Sima family of the Western Jin Dynasty and unify the world, so he intended to ease the relationship between Hu and Han, but because Liu Jing drove the Han people to kill the Han people, the strategy he implemented was aborted. Liu Yuan had to compromise on reality, set up the Shanyutai, and implement the division of Hu and Han, with the intention of slowly easing the conflict between Hu and Han, but this instead made the relationship between Hu and Han even more sharp, resulting in the destruction of the country." Wang Yinglin pondered for a moment and explained.

"Well, a century of grievances can actually be resolved in one day. If our dynasty repeats the Central Plains, should we also implement the strategy of dividing and governing the north and the south?" Zhao nodded after hearing this, as if he thought it was authentic.

"Your Majesty, you must not!" Wang Yinglin was anxious after hearing this, and quickly waved his hand and said loudly.

"Wang Xiang whispered in a low voice!" Wang De reminded in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty atones for your sins. I am in a hurry and rude forever." Wang Yinglin immediately realized that he had lost his composure after he mentioned it. He also found that the guards outside the tent were looking into the tent. Obviously, his voice was too loud and had already alarmed the guards on duty. He quickly politely apologized.

"It's okay!" Zhao Qing chuckled, "I'm confused. Why can't I implement the division between the north and the south?"

"Your Majesty should tolerate the world and not be divided into the north and south according to the land." Wang Yinglin said anxiously when he heard this, "In the past, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty vigorously promoted the Han law, moved the capital to Luoyang, changed the name of Hu and changed the surname of Han, spoke Chinese dialect, intermarried with the Han people, and implemented a series of Chinese policies, and then integrated the Xianbei into the Han people, and was able to establish the country for 150 years."

"Emperor Xiaowen was also praised by later generations. Ouyang Xiu, a great scholar in our dynasty, said: The rise of Wei was far from that. Since Zhaocheng established the country and changed the era, inherited the decline and deficiencies of the world, he was able to strive for his strength and compete with China. As for Xiaowen in the seven generations, he left the Yi and became Hua, changed his surname and established the capital, and then determined the chaos in the world, and then cultivated rituals and music, and promoted the system and wrote it. Taking into account the foundations that gradually accumulated, although his morality was not as good as the three generations, his achievements were not different from the rise of the king. The famous scholar Ye Shi said that using Xia to change Yi was the way of a sage. He also believed that "Xiaowen was determined to be capable, and had the posture of Shun and King Wen."

"Oh, in this case, the barbarians advocate Han law, so our dynasty will definitely allow the northerners to be naturalized and unified. Wang Xiang also disagrees with the division of the Han people in the north and the south, but they must try to recruit and pacify them, so that the northern and southern Han people can be integrated and real unification. However, the resentment accumulated over a hundred years cannot be resolved overnight." Zhao Zuo suddenly said, and in a flash he was frowning again.

He actually knew that Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty was an alien, and his experience was somewhat similar to his own. Tuoba Hong ascended the throne at the age of five and the empress dowager took power. After Emperor Xiaowen formally took power, he further implemented reforms, first rectified the administration of officials, established the three-rank system, and implemented the equal-land system. Four years later, he insisted on moving the capital to Luoyang, comprehensively reforming the old customs of the Xianbei, and severely suppressing the conservative aristocrats who opposed the reforms, promoting the political, economic, cultural and military development of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and was known in history as the "Taihe Reform".

Zhao also knew that in later generations, some people said that Tuoba Hong moved his capital to Luoyang, changed his surname to speak Chinese, and intermarried with the Han people, so on, and so on, because he personally admired Han culture and worshiped Sinology. This statement is not necessarily wrong. Because of the monarch's preference, a country followed a certain culture, which has not appeared in Chinese history. The prevalence of Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty was related to the preferences of the monarchs at that time.

However, Zhao thought that perhaps Emperor Xiaowen himself really had a certain admiration for Han culture, but first of all, he was an emperor, a politician, and a minority politician. It is probably a bit reluctant to promote a culture based on his own preferences. As a ruler of both dynasties, he thought that maintaining rule was the emperor's top priority, and the promotion of sinicization was more about maintaining his own rule.

Because Emperor Xiaowen realized that only by promoting Han culture among the Hu people at that time and allowing the Hu people to quickly integrate into Han culture could the people of the two ethnic groups be no longer hostile and can hold their own positions. But it was his promotion of Hu culture that was completely assimilated under the influence of Han culture and formed a great integration of national culture in history.

"Your Majesty said it is right. Our dynasty must have the heart to embrace all rivers to achieve China's unification. It is the barbarians who naturalize our dynasty. Of course, there will be people who oppose or resist it. But as long as your hymn does it with all your heart, you will definitely succeed and leave your name in history." Wang Yinglin saw that the little emperor looked depressed, and quickly encouraged him.

"Zhang Song returned to the court to serve the country for many years and has contributed a lot to the court. Now that he has done this in his post as a senior official in Haozhou, he thought that he was deeply harmed by the Tartars, and then he acted too aggressively and did inappropriate things. If he was punished, would it disappoint the ministers?" Zhao sighed.
Chapter completed!