As Zhao Bing expected, this was indeed a false alarm for them, but this battle was indeed a large-scale battle. According to Xu Hong, they encountered the left-behind personnel of the Eighth Army Cavalry Regiment guarding the horses during the search. They were ordered to be transferred to Zan Emperor urgently. When the march came here last night, the provoy discovered several armed armed personnel activities, which aroused their vigilance.

At night, they were wandering around the valley in the cold, thinking that they were not doing good things, so the cavalry regiment tentatively launched an attack. This attack was fine, as if they had stabbed a hornet's nest. They found that there were nearly a thousand bandits ambushed in the mountains on both sides of the road. The cavalry was not convenient for them to move in the mountains, so they dismounted and started fighting.

Those bandits holding long swords and crossbows were rivals of the Song Dynasty imperial guards equipped with firearms. They were defeated in the first battle and were ambushed by a cavalry regiment that fled and were ambushed by a detoured cavalry regiment, causing heavy losses. However, although there was moonlight at night, their vision was poor and the terrain was not familiar, they did not dare to take further action, but only controlled the surrounding commanding heights and blocked the mountain passes.

After dawn, the cavalry regiment searched for the remaining enemies and pursued the fleeing bandits. The battle around the road has long ended. The cavalry regiment has gone deep into the mountains to chase and kill several enemy camps in a row, killing and wounding no less than four or five hundred bandits, eliminating the threat to the traffic line and can pass safely.

Zhao Bing just said no. He knew that there would be such a coincidence. It must be Tian Zhong who secretly arranged a secret escort of the troops. When he learned that there were still residual enemies and bandits in the Neiqiu Mountains, he cleared the roads for them first. Otherwise, which army would have taken the risk of marching at night, and then happened to encounter bandits setting up an ambush, and he still had the leisure to take on bandits' nests...

After more than an hour of delay, the convoy re-loaded. When the battle broke out, Zhao Bing saw that the terrain was indeed a good place for ambush. This section of the road was between the two mountains, which was about a few miles long. The vegetation on the mountain was dense, making it easier to hide soldiers. As long as the convoy entered the valley, it would be like catching turtles in a jar. Rolling wood and stones on the mountain, thousands of arrows were fired at the same time. If you want to leave no trace, set the fire and live.

Zhao Bing and others were used to seeing big battles, but those civilians, officials from the Transport Department, and even the state troops escorted, had never seen so many corpses. They had experienced such fierce battles. Seeing such a fierce battlefield, if the bandits were not just being wiped out by the imperial guards, they would have been lying here, so they couldn't help but speed up their pace.

Originally, a lot of time wasted due to the exploration situation, Zhao Bing thought that he could not reach the camp as planned today. However, no one said he was tired along the way, and he kept rushing to the road. In addition, the remaining journey was downhill again, and he actually completed the remaining itinerary and arrived in Lincheng when it was dark.

But it was too late after all, and I could not arrive before the city gate was closed. According to regulations, the door would not be opened until tomorrow. Xu Hong and the others wanted to hold the token and called the door, but were stopped by Zhao Bing, so they could only camp outside the city. After experiencing the daytime incident, the transport team of the Transportation Department was frightened and lived with them regardless of their face in order to obtain protection.

Zhao Bing disagreed with this and did not find anything funny. After all, talking about war on paper in a peaceful environment and witnessing the cruelty on the battlefield with one's own eyes are completely different feelings. I am afraid that Zhu Yu and Xie Bin have begun to be glad that they did not abandon their pen and join the army, and they no longer realize that warriors can be easily promoted with their military achievements.

Zhao Bing didn't care, but Chen Shishi and others did not dare to relax their vigilance. Even if they were not afraid of bandits attacking the camp, they were worried that the people in the Transport Department would be rude to the emperor, and if an accident happened, they would die. Therefore, they kept the famous general and the emperor in the tent because there was an emergency document that required His Majesty to review.

"Your Majesty, this is a joint letter from Wen Xiang who stayed in the capital and the ministers!" Seeing that the emperor quickly finished reviewing several volumes of the documents, Chen Shishi delivered another memorial.

"Oh, it won't be a congratulations to the victory or a New Year's greeting!" Zhao Bing took it and said with a smile.

As the end of the year approaches, the most recent comments are the preparations for the year-end ceremony and celebration of the New Year in Beijing. In addition, because the emperor was personally sent to the expedition, the officials from the border guards from all over the country were exempted from the congratulations in Beijing, but the congratulations were not exempted. Now they are sent to the imperial court like a rush. In order to show that the emperor is sympathetic to his subordinates, he naturally has to write a few words of joy and congratulations on the New Year.

"Your Majesty, Wen Xiangyuan's memorial is about how to deal with the Confucian scholars in the North." Chen Shishi reported.

"The reports received in the court said that the academy in Xinfudi was destroyed by war, resulting in many scholars having no place to live, living in distress, and even dying from difficulties. Some local officials regarded the Confucian scholars in the north as traitors, and were no different from the enemy, and were arbitrarily humiliated and imprisoned. They thought this move was not conducive to our dynasty's stability in the Central Plains, and should be treated well for those who were willing to serve the court. In addition, the destroyed academies were repaired and the unsuccessful scholars were given relief to the solicitation of the country in the future and help the court educate the people."

"Haha, why do I rarely see such a report? Did you neglect or do it on purpose?" After hearing the introduction, Zhao Bing quickly browsed the memorial and asked everyone in the account with a smile.

"Your Majesty, some local reports are reported and written by the ministers, but they did not reach the imperial court, but were dealt with. There may be omissions in it, or they think that such trivial matters do not need to alarm Your Majesty!" Chen Shishi hurriedly explained.

"Your Majesty, since Jingkang, Confucian scholars from the north and the south have fought and defamed each other, and they all regarded themselves as orthodox, and the two sides had the same power. However, after their subordinates entered the Central Plains, they found that Confucian scholars in the Central Plains died when the city was broken. At first, they felt that they were serving the thieves and harming the country, and they deserved the crime. But then they felt that they still had a loyal and righteous heart, and they couldn't help feeling sad!" Ma Duanlin sighed softly.

"So you have sympathy for those who treason the enemy!" Zhao Bing asked with a frown.

"Your Majesty, I have no intention of this. I just think that the Confucian scholars in the Central Plains are not all treacherous people. If the court is good at guiding, it can be used by our dynasty and contribute to the country!" Ma Duanlin quickly explained.

"If they have the intention of returning to the Song Dynasty, they must be used by our dynasty, but those who are stubborn and unrealized will not be cherished!" Zhao Bing pondered for a moment.

He ruthlessly suppressed the Confucian scholars who served in the Yuan Dynasty in Jiangnan, seized their fame, collected their property, and cut off their descendants from becoming officials. The measures were very fierce. These methods also allowed him to dominate public opinion in a short period of time, eliminated the influence of the Mongolian Yuan on the Confucian class. Later, he suppressed Neo-Confucianism by opening statutory subjects, establishing official schools, and discussing "to apply what you learn", and then promoted the new policy, which also strengthened his control over it.

However, in terms of attitude towards the Confucian scholars in the north, Zhao Bing was actually in a grudge. After all, the Song Dynasty had lost the Central Plains for two hundred years and had been ruled by foreign races. They had long forgotten their homeland, and they had been revising classics and tampering with the words of sages for the enemy. Now, they were asked to give up on their old masters and turn to the new dynasty. Not to mention that they felt humiliated, they could not accept them for the time being.

Therefore, Zhao Bing's attitude towards the Confucian scholars in the Northern Expedition was not clear, but he treated them vaguely. Anyone who defected to the Yuan court, or who depended on the powerful and powerful, resisted the royal army was regarded as enemies and resolutely eliminated. However, those so-called ordinary "Confucian households" were regarded as ordinary people, and did not deliberately suppress them, and they also introduced preferential policies.

But Zhao Bing also understood their feelings. From the perspective of Confucian scholars in the north, the dynasty was far away, and the alien race had long been orthodox, and now the change of dynasty and different dynasties was a strange change in the country. For intellectuals who were deeply educated in traditional Confucianism, they had to endure the suffering of displacement and psychological fear caused by the collapse of the country and the collapse of the system, and also endure the suppression of the new dynasty and had to surrender and obey the spiritual humiliation.

Such a huge change has caused the Confucian scholars in the northern region to fall into a mental dilemma. For many people, when news of the collapse of the country comes, their initial impulse may be to die, and the higher the status, the greater the psychological pressure. Their thoughts at this time may be similar to many Confucian scholars in Jiangnan when the Song Dynasty was destroyed, so it is not surprising that people who have experienced the same experiences such as Chen Shishi and Ma Duanlin will inevitably feel sad about the death of rabbits and foxes.

"Your Majesty, the court officials in the capital learned about the news from the north. What they knew might not be through local reports, but private letters." Zhang Song interrupted at this time, "The Mongols and Yuan siege and encircle many Confucian scholars to move to the north. Not many of them were able to enter the government. Many of them were either skilled in swords and pens, or held servants to serve bureaucrats, or used skills to sell as craftsmen and merchants, and some of them retired to give lectures in the countryside!"

"There are many of these people with the current officials of the court, famous scholars in the opposition, either as classmates or as colleagues. After the royal army attacked the Central Plains, they were able to communicate with each other, which would inevitably involve their experiences and inform them of their own situation, and of course they might also have the intention of seeking help."

"Whoever swears to sacrifice his life is not easy to kill himself!" Zhao Bing chanted softly. Of course, the two lines of poetry did not come from him, but from the "Sighing Self" by Xia Wanchun, a 16-year-old boy in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which quite reveals his inner confusion when he experienced the change of dynasties.

He knew that as early as the Ogedei period, under the influence of the Han people and other ethnic scholars with a deeper degree of sinicization, the Mongols selected officials based on the standards of "Confucianism and official affairs" and "officials and classics". This shows the policy orientation of the Yuan court towards Confucian scholars, and this also shows his emphasis on Confucianism and classics.

Later, according to Yelu Chucai's proposal, the Confucian household was set up. Although the Confucian household was a policy reference for Buddhists and Taoists, and treated scholars with craftsmen and butchers, they also brought preferential treatment to scholars who became Confucian households to exempt taxes and service. They were given the scholars who did not rely on blood, did not rely on family backgrounds, and had no permanent property to establish their status as spiritual aristocrats.
Chapter completed!