Chapter 228 Fear
Zhao Bing did not deny or acknowledge Ying Jieyan's "accusation", but just laughed it off.?? �
If you lose everything, you will be a joke. You will definitely make people sigh, "Your Highness will die before you fulfill your ambitions." But then again, if you win, you must consider these things. A long-lasting war without self-sufficiency is not enough to rely on robbery and smuggling cannot last long. In the end, it will only become a bandit and pirate, and perish in endless consumption.
Zhao Bing chose Jiyang Army as the strategic rear for his historical reasons. From this dynasty, in April and February, Taizu Kaibao conquered Guangzhou with general Pan Mei, the Southern Han Dynasty was destroyed, and Hainan Island began to rule the Song Dynasty. Less than two months after taking over Hainan, it was once again clear that the four prefectures of Dan, Zhen, Ya, and Wan'an were subordinate to Qiongzhou. At the same time, the Qiongshan County where Qiongzhou is located was moved to the present Fucheng, opening up the position of Hainan as a political, economic and cultural center for nearly a thousand years.
During the Song Dynasty, the administrative construction of Hainan Island was very frequent. The Northern Song Dynasty regime made major adjustments to the construction of Hainan, namely the so-called "bian cliff into Qiong" and "change into Qiong" - abolishing Yazhou, and relocating its three counties, Shecheng, Chengmai and Wenchang, to Qiongzhou, ending the situation of the coherence of the two states on the north and south coasts of Hainan. However, the Yazhou, which had been used for hundreds of years, was not abandoned, but changed Zhenzhou on the south south of the island to Yazhou. From then on, one cliff and one Qiong were divided into north and south, and it was not changed again until Shaoxing.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang realized the importance of Hainan Island's strategic position, which completely changed the fact that most feudal rulers in history despised or even vilified Hainan Island, and regarded the island as a shelter for criminals and demoted officials, which became a traditional view of fear of officials. Another important measure in construction was to promote Qiongzhou to a prefecture, and Qiongzhou Prefecture also became the highest local regime on Hainan Island in the Ming Dynasty, but changed Yazhou to Zhili Prefecture, which has since been on par with Qiongzhou, and its role on the island has become increasingly prominent.
From these changes, it can be seen that those founding monarchs with strategic vision had a clear understanding of the importance of Yazhou. Zhao Bing also believed that if the status of Yazhou was still maintained after the Southern Song Dynasty, Hainan Island would not have formed a situation where the north was heavy and the south was light, and the Yazhou development would not be much behind, resulting in a difficult situation of narrow and sparse land and weak development. Therefore, even if the strategic considerations are at the strategic level, it must change the state of Yazhou at this time and operate it into the rear of the entire island. In this way, even if the war in Qiongzhou is temporarily defeated, it can be defended by relying on the high mountains and ridges in the middle of the island, so that Qiongzhou will not be driven into the sea as soon as it is lost.
Of course, all this is just Zhao Bing's idea. He also knew that mobilizing a large number of manpower and material resources to manage Yazhou is unrealistic, and everything has to be said after stabilizing. In addition, he also lacks people, otherwise no matter how good the plan is, there will be no land and no one to mine iron, and he still follows Mao Kui's old path. Therefore, recruiting people has always been Zhao Bing's worries. In Guangzhou, he also tried to recruit refugees, but Qiongzhou's reputation is too bad, and no one is willing to give generous gifts, so Zhao Bing has to think of some bad ideas...
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Recently, several news has been circulating in the south of the Yangtze River, almost everyone knows it. The government has also clarified several times that the rewards for capturing the disseminators have not only not been curbed, but has spread more and more widely.
The most widely circulated one is that the thief chief Kublai secretly issued a secret order to kill all the ten surnames, which are divided into the upper five surnames and the lower five surnames. The "Upper five surnames" refers to Zhao, Liu, Li, Yang, and Wang. Because the Han people of these surnames have all had emperors, they must be killed; there are several versions of the "Under Five surnames", some say it is Han, Yue, Zhang, Di, and Yu, because these surnames have produced famous generals in this dynasty; there are also Han, Kou, Jiang, Jia, and Qin, because these surnames have produced prime ministers in this dynasty; there are also Qian, Zhang, Lin, Huang, and Sun, because these surnames have produced the most people in Jiangnan, it is difficult to control once they rebel, so they have to be killed. In addition to these few, there are several versions, which are nothing more than changing several surnames.
However, the secret order mentioned in this statement is surprisingly consistent. It is said that one of the envoys who sent the order to Jiangnan was overturned when crossing the Yangtze River. The envoys and followers who sent the order were drowned. The body floated to the shore and was discovered by a fisherman surnamed Liu. He took away all the property on the body and threw the body back into the river. He could not read or read goods, so he threw the imperial order to the children to play with. It happened that a master named Li in the village saw it, so he hurriedly took his family away.
That night, the people from Liu and Li in the village were killed by the Tartars. When the Master learned about it, he felt guilty and told the others about this. But everyone thought he was crazy and said nonsense, so he took out the imperial edict for everyone to show. Those who believed it ran away overnight and changed their surnames, while some people were killed soon after they didn't believe it. Therefore, many people on the list fled their hometowns, but now the Tartars have occupied Jiangnan, and the court has retreated continuously, so it is not safe to run anywhere. Some people say that King Wei is now managing Qiongzhou, and he has 200,000 soldiers and thousands of warships, and the Tartars dare not invade the territory...
There is another rumor that is very terrifying, saying that the Tatars are all cavalry not good at attacking cities, and our dynasty is good at defending cities, but why do they fail to stop the Tatars' attacks? That is because the Tatars have a secret weapon called the Golden Juice Cannon. After the shells they shoot will break and flow out, and gold Juice will flow out. As long as it is touched by people, they will ulcerate all over and die, and there is no cure to save them. Why is the golden juice so powerful? That is because it is refined with human oil, and it is best to refine it with living people, followed by dead corpses. It is precisely because of this that the city will be destroyed.
Now the Goryeo people rebelled, and the thief chief Kublai Khan wanted to send troops to suppress it, but there were countless cities there that could only be broken by using golden juice cannons. However, because the Central Plains had long been pacified and the population was sparse, and the Jiangnan region was dense and rebellious, they thought of catching people in Fuzhou and Guangnan for the purpose of conquering Goryeo. Now the thief general Li Heng and Suodu received secret orders. In order to prevent people from escaping after hearing this, they used the method of drawing 2 out of ten to remote places in the name of requisition of civilians, and then threw them into a big pot to refine human oil.
The person who was rumored to be the first king of the Song army, Erlang, who was once the Song army. After surrendering, they were assigned to the Tartars. One day, the people who were deceived had their own brothers and fellow villagers, so they contacted the old subordinates of the army to kill the Tartars who were monitoring them and went out, and fled out of the enemy camp with hundreds of rescued people. But if you think you had nowhere to go, you went south to throw the General's Mansion in Qiongzhou. On the way, in order to prevent anyone from being deceived, they told everyone about this. They went to Qiongzhou because the General's Mansion had meteor cannons specifically for breaking gold juice cannons, and they were not afraid of the Tartars at all...
Another news made people both afraid and hated. It was said that a group of monks had gone south, and these people would specialize in kidnapping children. As long as they were asked to touch the children they liked, the children would forget that their parents and relatives would follow them. They kidnapped young children because they wanted to refine immortal medicine for the thief chief, and they needed to use the hearts and livers of three thousand boys and girls as medicine introductions.
At the same time, these monster monks will disperse miasma, causing epidemics to prevent them from being spotted by others. Because of this, no one knows how many children they have abducted, because wherever they have passed, people are dead due to the plague. Now it is said that only the Shuaifu Medical Hospital has the magic medicine for miasma, and those who are dying after taking their medicine can be rescued. Many people in Leizhou can survive because of the medicine given by the Shuaifu...
Although these rumors are circulated in different places and different versions, they are extremely terrifying and scary, but they have no way to resist, because the enemy they face is too powerful, and the only way is to escape as soon as possible to avoid misfortune. And there are also smart people who appear that demons point to Kublai Khan, but the Savior is the King of Wei who is far away in Qiongzhou. Only by escaping there is safe. Ying Jieyan is not stupid. If you think about it, you can think that it must be the Lord of the Highness who is making trouble in it, but he does not admit it and cannot grasp any evidence.
In fact, the initiator was Zhao Bing. What he wanted was to create horror and make people feel scared and want to find a safe place. However, it was necessary to achieve the standard of making people fearful and not fearing the sinister evil of Qiongzhou, but also to cause large-scale panic and to keep accounts on Kublai Khan's head. So this job is not as easy as you think, but it must be easy to operate. Then the way to meet these conditions is to incite people's emotions, and the most difficult part is to make up a "good story"!
Zhao Bing is not good at making up a good story, but he is familiar with how to operate it. Because in his previous life, a person could become famous overnight and a rumor could spread to every corner in an instant. And the reason why this is so in addition to the special nature of events or people, there is a storytelling team behind it.
Zhao Bing knew that a story with strong incitement sometimes did not require factual basis at all. The communication effect and incitement will not be discounted due to the lack of evidence. The absence of evidence can show that the enemy's strong strength to destroy evidence and can better highlight their threat to their own side. Moreover, if physical "evidence" appears in the hatred story, it is easy to be flawed and affect the incitement effect. For example, the story of "pahuazi" was born in the shoulder-patterning story of the late Qing Dynasty. Because it cannot be falsified, it has continued to be popular for more than a hundred years. It is still floating in the subway and dark alleys to "conduct", which makes people believe it.
Now the sources of several stories are all real. The news of "killing ten surnames" comes from the imperial edict. It fell into the hands of the villagers due to the accidental death of the envoy. He was unintentionally seen by the Master and escaped in advance to avoid disaster. After that, because the Master felt guilty, he told others and presented the imperial edict he picked up. The characters in the whole story have time and source. But if he wanted to find the source, he had no way to find it, but it was also impossible to believe it, because someone saw the imperial edict, which was written on it.
In the same "Golden Juice Cannon" time, the Han officer Zhang Erlang revealed the truth because he was angry that his relatives were killed. The Song army that rebeled from the Song Dynasty and surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty were all tens of thousands, and there were not a thousand or eight hundred people named Zhang Erlang. It would be easy to find this person. Besides, this person had already run to the Qiongzhou General's Mansion to join the army. Where can you find it? The story of "killing children" is the same. There are thousands of children lost in the war. Although there are all reasons, people will believe that their children were kidnapped by foreign monks. This is a sure thing, because there are many such things around.
Furthermore, the stories compiled must be communicative and inciting, and need to have two major characteristics: one is sensationalism, and the other is to be able to connect with the present. Only by satisfying these two points can horror stories cater to people's sense of crisis, mobilize their emotions and spread. In an era when the real crisis is serious and people already have a strong sense of crisis, such stories can certainly rely on the mountains to earn the mountains.
The Mongols are already famous for their cruelty, and it is also true that they use gold juice cannons, but they contain oil, not human oil. However, the Mongols kept it secret for the needs of war. Outsiders did not know that, and they could not explain it. The more they were, the easier it was to believe. The Mongols also did a lot of things to exterminate their enemies. After the demise of the Jin Dynasty, all the royal family surnamed Wanyan was killed by the Mongols. With this criminal record, the story of the Mongols killing the "ten surnames" had a basis, which made people very easy to believe that it was true.
Of course, extreme things like plague, political upheaval and economic collapse are hard to come by and cannot be used as the soil for hatred stories. The best way to give people a sense of crisis all year round is to threaten their children. Therefore, until the present day, stories of children as victims have been emerging one after another. Most of the stories of child-type hatred are bloody and tyrannical, and the stories of the emperor making immortal medicines to seek immortality are widely circulated. Qin Shihuang once forced three thousand boys and girls to go out to sea to seek victory in the future is even more known. In this way, as the weakest compatriot of the tribe, one must be punished by the cruelest foreign tribe to arouse the strongest hatred of the people of the tribe.
Zhao Bing has seen some psychologists who have fear of the spread of rumors. They have shown that people are more likely to empathize with negative emotions and more likely to empathize with the emotions of the same group. Therefore, fear and hatred will become an effective mobilization mechanism and survival strategy in the cruel extreme environment between the ethnic groups. In other words, hatred has naturally gained advantages, and struggle will automatically enter into it, and will also concentrate resources under the banner of the inciteer.
Chapter completed!