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    "Go and gather all the people in Anshi outside the Anshi City Lord's Mansion!" Jing Wen said.  Soon, tens of thousands of Goguryeo people in Anshi were called out of their homes, and then gathered outside the city lord's palace, waiting for disposal.  In this attack on Anshi City in Goguryeo, the Tang army suffered a heavy loss, almost thousands of people.  And all this was caused by the people in Anshi City. They helped many Goguryeo soldiers resist the Tang army, so the Tang army suffered such heavy losses.  So of course now they have to take revenge and complain, so now Jing Wen calls them here.  "We, the Tang Dynasty, came to recover the territory, but you helped the Goguryeo people to resist? So the crime is unforgivable! Now, I announce your punishment. Anyone who helped hide the Goguryeo soldiers during the battle will be demoted to the slaves of the Tang Dynasty. You all  Half of the land in hand will be distributed to families in Anshi who have not hidden Goguryeo soldiers and who have not helped hide Goguryeo soldiers. They will be exempted from taxes for three years and enjoy the rights of citizens of the Tang Dynasty.  But we must also fulfill our obligations as citizens of the Tang Dynasty," Jing Wen said.  Jingwen quickly reduced the status of half of the Goguryeo families in Anshi City to slaves, and distributed half of their land to the other half of the families who did not participate in hiding soldiers.  This was equivalent to more than 10,000 Goguryeo people becoming slaves, and all their land was divided.  This is their punishment for supporting Goguryeo. After all, if there is no punishment, many people will dare to support Goguryeo to resist the Tang army in the future. This will be very inconvenient for the Tang army to conquer Goguryeo.  "Jie Shuai, why do you want to degrade them into slaves? Aren't you afraid of their resistance?" Lin Fei asked.  But Jing Wen said: "Not necessarily. In fact, we are doing this to punish those who resist. As for the ordinary Goguryeo people, what do you think they will choose? I will deprive those who support Goguryeo of their land.  Then give them half of it, and it will be tax-free for three years. "What will they choose?" Lin Fei doesn't know what they will choose.  "Lin Fei, in fact, national justice is useful, but it is useless. National justice is something only the upper class pays attention to, and only educated people can talk about it. As for ordinary people,  , although they usually have ethnic thoughts, but if foreign ethnic groups can bring them higher benefits, they might instead take refuge in the hands of foreign ethnic groups," Jing Wen said.  "Will it?" Lin Fei was also a little confused.  Of course Jingwen would not talk about the anti-Japanese period in later generations.  Because the Kuomintang-controlled areas taxed the people too heavily, they wanted to regain the territory after the fall. As a result, the people in the occupied areas supported the Japanese to resist the troops who regained the territory.  And how should these people evaluate them?  Call them traitors?  However, they were also exploited too severely by their own governments. In the end, the exploitation by the Japanese was not that severe, and in the end they supported the Japanese army.  And Jingwen knew that no matter which government it was, it exploited the people in ancient times.  The same is true for Goguryeo. A large amount of their land was occupied by high-ranking officials and nobles, and ordinary people could not obtain much land.  And it is very difficult to cultivate land.  Because newly reclaimed land requires a lot of energy.  If Jingwen directly deprived some of the reclaimed land and gave it to them, and promised low taxes, then they would be satisfied with Datang.  Submit to the rule of the Tang Dynasty.  "But can't we just give them benefits directly? Why do we have to demote some people into slaves?" Lin Fei asked again.  Jing Wen immediately said: "If they get it too easily, they will not cherish it. Instead, they think this is what the Tang Dynasty should do, and it is what the Tang Dynasty owes them. We must divide these Goguryeo people into two  Class. Only those who are under the rule of our Datang can achieve a higher class. As for those who resist our rule, they are the slave class. Only in this way can we show the kindness and deterrence of our Datang."  Wen deeply understands the role of class. In fact, these people are all of the same class, and they are all poor people.  However, Jing Wen deliberately divided them into two classes, that is, the first class supported the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and the other was the slave class that opposed the rule of the Tang Dynasty.  In this way, those classes who support the Tang Dynasty will naturally rely on the Tang Dynasty. Only when the Tang Dynasty becomes stronger can they protect their own interests.  Therefore, they will inevitably suppress and exploit the slave class.  In this world, there is no shortage of people. Originally, they were all the same class, but now they are considered to be divided into different classes. In this way, those Goguryeo people who supported the rule of the Tang Dynasty also had a target to bully.  And these bullied targets were the same people as themselves not long ago, but now they have a higher status, and they have all lost themselves?Property becomes a slave.  In order to maintain their class status and obtain more property, they naturally had to maintain the rule of the Tang Dynasty.  If they choose to give up their property and become slaves, then Jingwen will help them.  So Jingwen deliberately divided the classes, so that they would also have class gaps, and they would be divided and disintegrated.  After all, there were millions of people in Goguryeo, so of course it was impossible to kill them all.  Therefore, one faction must fight against another, and the same is true for the people.  It is necessary to allow some people to gain benefits, and the benefits gained by these people are taken from other people.  Through such deliberate exploitation, those Goguryeo people who gained benefits formed a "spoils-sharing" class. In this way, in the eyes of those Goguryeo people who had become slaves, they were traitors.  But since they have become traitors, in order to protect their own interests, they can only continue to rely on the Tang Dynasty as their backer, and then exploit the lower class.  This is the difference in human nature and class, which makes them have different ideas.  Originally, the Goguryeo people were artificially divided into different classes. Their internal "class struggle" would probably consume their energy. As for resisting the Tang Dynasty, they would not have a chance at all.  If those slaves wanted to resist, the Goguryeo people who had benefited would not agree. After all, they had become a class that relied on the Tang Dynasty.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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