RPAGF Chapter 453: All I want is a basic standard of living
Chapter 453: All I want is a basic standard of living
"Your Majesty!" An old minister walked into the imperial study and said to the new emperor of Beiyi who was sitting on the floor, "King Pingshan said that if we Beiyi surrender, he will not kill the people of Beiyi."
"I will not surrender!" The new emperor of Beiyi said excitedly. He looked at the old minister with bloodshot eyes: "Whoever dares to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty will be killed by me!"
The old minister wanted to say something, but the new emperor of Beiyi suddenly rushed over and stabbed a dagger into his heart: "Old man, you dare to deceive me here, I will kill you!"
The old minister looked at him in disbelief: "I am your uncle, how dare you..."
Before he could finish his sentence, he fell to the ground with his eyes open.
The new emperor of the Northern Wing kicked him and said, "I am the emperor, and your uncle cannot disobey me."
The new emperor of the North Wing refused to surrender, but the soldiers could not hold on any longer and did not want to work for him anymore. They did not care about the imperial order or the royal family. They only had one life and they just wanted to survive.
The soldiers laid down their weapons one by one. A deputy general ran over and took his men to open the city gate, allowing the Yuan army to enter in one fell swoop.
The soldiers and civilians on the northern wing knelt on the ground, waiting tremblingly for the Yuan army's decision.
After the new emperor of Beiyi killed two ministers who tried to persuade him, he packed up some valuables and fled to the secret passage with a few guards and eunuchs.
Before he could enter, he was captured by Nangong Jingxuan's men.
"Let me go, I am the emperor, how dare you!"
"The North Wing is gone, and you are no longer the emperor!" Nangong Jingxuan looked at the new North Wing emperor coldly: "If I had known this would happen, why did I do it in the first place? My dynasty wanted to live in harmony with you North Wing, but you were restless and thought about invading my dynasty day and night, seizing my Yuan Dynasty's mountains and rivers, and bullying my Yuan Dynasty's people. Now, my dynasty is repaying you with an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Are you convinced?"
"I don't accept it, I don't accept it. If it weren't for the natural disaster, if it weren't for your Yuan Dynasty's many tricks, my Beiyi would have won a great victory long ago. I don't accept it!" The new emperor of Beiyi shouted madly: "I will never surrender, nor will I sign a letter of surrender!"
“This is not up to you!” Nangong Jingxuan took out the letter of surrender, took the hand of the new emperor of Beiyi, and pressed a blood seal on the letter of surrender.
The new emperor of Beiyi wanted to snatch the letter of surrender, but Nangong Jingxuan cut off his head with a sword.
Since then, the Northern Wing Kingdom was destroyed and the territory of the Yuan Dynasty expanded.
On the Fuso side, the situation was the same as on the North Wing. It was attacked from three sides by Shangguan Peng, Wei Chi and General Mo, and was trapped like dumplings.
The Fuso Emperor was also a man of integrity. He refused to surrender. Not only did he not surrender, he also killed all the soldiers, ministers, dignitaries and common people who wanted to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty.
For a time, the Fusang Imperial City was flooded with blood.
The few remaining Fuso troops put up a stubborn resistance. When the Yuan army broke into the imperial city, the remaining Fuso soldiers, led by the Fuso emperor, all committed suicide under the city walls.
The city walls were stained with blood and corpses were piled up like mountains!
The scene was so shocking that Shangguan Peng, Wei Chi and General Mo could not help but curse.
"Crazy! What a bunch of crazy!"
After the army entered the city, Shangguan Peng immediately discovered that all the wells in the city had been poisoned and the food had also been mixed with poison.
The Fuso Emperor would rather destroy the food and water than leave even a little for the Yuan army!
The people of Fuso did not know that the well water was poisonous, and many of them were poisoned. The poison entered their throats and they were killed in a moment.
Watching the people of Fuso die one by one from poison, Shangguan Peng and the other two were helpless and could only curse the Fuso Emperor's cruelty again.
"He is not worthy of being a human being!" Shangguan Peng found the body of the Fuso Emperor, tied it to a tree and whipped it.
No wonder the Fuso bandits were so cruel to the people of the Yuan Dynasty when they attacked it. They skinned them alive and roasted them over charcoal, and tore them apart like pigs. From the eighty-year-old elderly to newborn babies, anyone who fell into the hands of the Fuso bandits died a miserable death.
It turns out that they were all influenced by the Fuso Emperor. If the emperor was so cruel and evil, what more could his subjects do? It was true that what kind of leader you have, what kind of subordinates you will have.
It took ten days and ten nights for the corpses in the Fuso Imperial City to burn. After the burning, the sky above the imperial city was gray and black, as if bitten by the mouth of the devil, and there was a disgusting smell everywhere.
The Yuan Dynasty army did not kill prisoners, but the Fuso people suffered heavy casualties. Those people were not killed by the Yuan Dynasty soldiers, but by the Fuso army.
Anyone who disobeys the emperor's order will be killed.
After experiencing a natural disaster, the people of Fuso had to endure brutal treatment at the hands of the powerful, and very few people survived.
Shangguan Peng and his companions made a count and suddenly realized that the number of Fuso captives in their hands was less than 30,000.
You know, Fuso had a population of three or four million, but now there are less than thirty thousand people.
How tragic!
War brings too much harm to civilians!
Shangguan Peng didn't want to stay in Fuso any longer. This country made him feel sick and nauseous.
General Mo patted his shoulder gently: "Just bear with it, it won't be long before we can return to Beijing!"
"Report!" Two young generals rode on tall horses and rushed Baili to the palace.
"Our army is victorious!"
"The North Wing is defeated!"
"Fuso is defeated!"
"Our army has captured Fuso!"
"The North Wing surrenders!"
The good news spread throughout the palace. Emperor Yuanwu was so happy that he immediately summoned his ministers to the court to discuss how to deal with Beiyi and Fuso.
"According to the battle reports sent by Fuso and Beiyi, there are less than 30,000 people left in Fuso and about 500,000 in Beiyi. Most of these people are innocent civilians. How do you think we should deal with the slaves of a fallen country?" Although Emperor Yuanwu was not a kind-hearted person, he was also cruel and merciless. Moreover, most of the survivors in Beiyi and Fuso were ordinary people and not a threat. There was no need to kill them all.
Ministers came forward one after another to express their opinions.
Before the Yuan Dynasty, China was divided into eight kingdoms. After unification, the remaining seven kingdoms either became vassal states or second-class citizens.
In any case, their status is definitely not as good as that of the native people of the Yuan Dynasty.
Although the status of the people who surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty was lower, they had no problem with food and clothing.
The Yuan Dynasty would not only solve the problem of food and clothing and housing for the people of Beiyi and Fuso, but would also re-register those people and incorporate them into the civilian population of the Yuan Dynasty. The court would grant them land and the right to reclaim wasteland, so that they could live like ordinary people.
However, their household registration would show that they had changed from being subjects of Fuso and Beiyi to subjects of the Yuan Dynasty.
Emperor Yuanwu's decision on the captives from Fuso and Beiyi was quickly sent to Beiyi and Fuso. When the news spread in Beiyi and Fuso, the people of Fuso and Beiyi were stunned.
They had originally prepared themselves to be slaves, to be displaced and to migrate to other places, but they never thought that the Yuan Dynasty would accept them and give them a normal life.
Many people burst into tears.
"We will not be enslaved!"
"We can settle down now!"
"We have a family!"
They are just ordinary people. All they want is a stable home. It doesn't matter to them who is the emperor or who rules the world. As long as that person treats them as human beings, it's enough.