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Chapter 1838 Refugee Wave

Not only did Yunnan Road not calm down, it once again ushered in a wave of refugees in India.

This time, the number of refugees was more intense and their attitude was more intense. They brought their families and were in groups of hundreds of thousands. Wuyang was on the border of the Song Dynasty, and countless low tents were like dark graves.

Although there are so many people here, they give people a lifeless feeling, and the atmosphere of despair has always permeated here, and everyone wanders in the camp like a walking corpse.

However, Tianzhu took action, but this action was too cruel to the people of Tianzhu. The high castes, nobles and monks needed a limited number of slaves, and the remaining people naturally became unnecessary labor.

These people need to eat, eat, and have a place to live, and their placement has become a big problem.

The most ridiculous thing is that Tianzhu has large tracts of wealthy land, but these lands have nothing to do with them, and are all controlled by high castes, nobles and monks.

Often after the untouchables opened a piece of land in a remote place, they would not be "expropriated" in various names, and they would select strong people from these poor people to be responsible for farming and maintenance.

The key is that these selected people are not angry, but instead happily transformed from victims to perpetrators. They bullied people who were born on the same level as them even more hated than the higher surnames. It was not because of anything else, but because they thought they were favored by the higher surnames.

Compared with these strong people, other untouchables are even worse than their opponents. They can only flee in a hurry and go to the next piece of land for cultivation, and pray that they will not be seen. However, there is no airtight wall in the world, and there is no land that higher-ranking surnames cannot find.

No matter where the Indian untouchables reclaimed land, they would be manifested by the high castes and expropriated. Over time, the land in India was almost occupied and monopolized by the higher surnames, and the common people were completely reduced to landless refugees.

Refugees in India have different lives and are different. Refugees are just people who have lost their land. Their status is still above the untouchables. Castes are born. Even if they lose their land, Vaishya is higher than Ra and Dhara is higher than Untouchables.

Therefore, even in the refugee camp, there is a distinction between high and low status. The family of Vaishya still asked Dhara to serve him, and Dhara was willing to obey.

This seemed to be an unreasonable thing to the soldiers of the Song Dynasty, but it was the most normal in the eyes of the Indians.

The tall wooden walls have been built, which are fences formed by the thick wood being nailed straight into the land. The wooden walls are strong and sturdy, at least for the refugees in India.

After the wooden wall, the stone city wall had begun to be built on Yunnan Road. Su Shi used the simplest method to deal with the riots on the border to cut off all possible exchanges.

Aren’t the refugees in India going to enter the Song Dynasty to make a living? Then cut off your chances of entering the Song Dynasty and prepare for border defense. If one day the Song Dynasty and India start a war, the powerful border lines and border walls are the best defensive means.

Su Shi knew that before the war between the Song Dynasty and the Indians had reached war, the Indians were now harming their own people. This alternative method was really puzzling. For the Song Dynasty, everyone has value and is a labor force. How could they harm it like this?

Building a border wall is almost a representative of the passive defense of the Chinese dynasty. The first thing that happened after the Song Dynasty took over Yanyun was to repair the Great Wall, which almost became a compulsory course for the Central Plains dynasty. Of course, this is related to the habits of China.

As long as it is to treat external forces, the Han Dynasty generally adopts a passive defense attitude, especially when facing weak external forces.

On the contrary, the Tang Dynasty and the prosperous Han Dynasty did not build the Great Wall from beginning to end, but only implemented active defense policies based on the original Great Wall foundation.

The Tang Dynasty had a vast territory and had a long border line, which had direct contact with multiple foreign forces. It can be said that the situation on the frontier was very complicated, but even in this situation, the Tang Dynasty did not build the Great Wall.

In Chinese history, building the Great Wall was basically a compulsory course for the Central Plains dynasty. The first thing the Song Dynasty did after seizing the land of Yanyun was to repair the Great Wall.

Since the Zhou Dynasty, the system of border walls has been repaired. By the rule of Qin, Qin Shihuang connected the Great Walls of Yan and Zhao countries in the past, and then the prototype of the Great Wall was later formed.

The reason why the Tang Dynasty did not build border walls was its active defense strategy.

This is actually one of the main strategies that Zhao Zhen has always adhered to. When encountering a powerful enemy, it is not to wait for the enemy's attack before launching a counterattack with a backlash, but to predict the enemy's initiative and take the initiative first.

The important means of gradually eliminating threats from all sides over the years in the Song Dynasty was an active defense attitude.

Whoever emerges and threatens the Song Dynasty, then try every means to destroy him and let this threat disappear on the map of the Song Dynasty. This is the best defense policy. Therefore, from Dali to Dangxiang, from Yanyun to Japan, from the Western Regions to the Black Khan, and finally to the Liao Dynasty, they all disappeared under the iron hoof of the Song Dynasty.

At the same time, in order to solve the future problems, Zhao Zhen even treated the grasslands with urbanization policies, centralized management of scattered grasslands, and continuously built the city on the vast grasslands. This is active defense.

The passive defense policy for building the border wall has been abandoned by Zhao Zhen, but the main reason why Su Shi did this and Zhao Zhen agreed was that the Song Dynasty was not interested in the land of India, and there was no war conflict between the two countries.

This wall is not to defend against the army of India, but to prevent the refugees from entering the territory of the Song Dynasty.

From the gap between the wooden walls, the refugees in the Tianzhu saw that the Song Dynasty continued to build stone walls. Once the stone wall was built, they would lose their last chance, so the conflict began to escalate. Whenever night fell, the refugees in the Tianzhu began to attack the wooden walls and tried every means to cross the border of the Song Dynasty.

There are too many refugees. Wu Wanquan estimated that there were only 30,000 Tengchong troops on the border, but the number of refugees was more than 300,000. Even if the soldiers of the Tengchong troops were fighting, one person had to kill ten people to finish the killing...

Fortunately, these refugees were a mess of sand, and no one was in command, and they all fought on their own. Their target was only one to attack the side walls of the Song Dynasty. Some people began to dig tunnels and planned to use them to enter the Song Dynasty.

But the Tengchong army is easy to fool? They are veterans who retreated on the battlefield and are very prepared. There is a listening urn every fifty steps. They can hear everything underground clearly.
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