In this era, the method of vilifying the enemy was very rough. In addition, ordinary people basically had no concept of state, let alone "patriotism". Even the rich and gentry with high political awareness only had the idea of ​​loyalty in their minds, and they were safeguarding the ruling class itself, not the illusory country.

Of course, this is mainly because the gentry and wealthy families are the beneficiaries of the entire ruling class, so they spontaneously maintain it.

However, when they find that the cost of maintaining this foundation is too high, it will cause their family to be destroyed, and they will be shaken or even change their camps!

The richer the more flexible the brain, the more you will be. As long as you are not forced into a dead end, you will leave a way out for yourself in advance.

Of course, those who are in high positions are not as easy as those who change their camps when enjoying the scenery at a high place because they stand at a high position. In the end, they can only choose to share life and death with the camp class they are in!

Therefore, the impact of ugliness on the enemy in this era is far less serious than that after the awakening of national consciousness in later generations. At most, the common people are afraid rather than fighting desperately. Most of the gentry and wealthy families will not resist the invincible enemy unless the enemy mobilizes their fundamental interests!

For example, the slogan "Juntian" that peasants like to shout when they are uprising.

As long as someone dares to slogans of equal fields, while regaining the hearts of the lower classes of poor people, it is also equivalent to offending the most powerful local gentry class of this era.

The local gentry class is full of local tyrants with wealth and people. If they fight desperately, the whole country will be in vain!

This is the fundamental reason why peasant uprisings have caused tragic losses to the local area in history!

On the contrary, the struggle for power and profit among the top leaders has little impact on local losses, because the top leaders know that they can protect and support their gentry class and dare not shout slogans like "equal land and exemption from taxes", which will not arouse opposition from large-scale local powerhouses, and will naturally not ignite war on every inch of land.

In this era when national consciousness has not awakened, the gentry class, that is, the intellectuals, are the real level that needs to be appeased, because they control the trend of public opinion and a large amount of land!

In this era, land is directly linked to population and financial resources!

The gentry class is a large landlord. Some of their lands are tenants, and their families also have a large number of errand guards and other young men. In addition, the gold and silver accumulated over the years, it is really not too easy to pull up a team...

Although this kind of local civilian team is very watery, the united power of the entire gentry class is enough to form a sea of ​​people!

It can even determine the fate of the country!

The local gentry class in the Tang Dynasty in another world was undoubtedly more powerful than in the history of the earth, because of the existence of green skins, they generally controlled one or several servants similar to mercenaries.

During peacetime, these servants guarded the houses were guards of the escorts, and during wartime, they surrounded the private property of the local gentry class and were powerful iron fist!

This is why the wars in the Western Regions have been repeated, but the local gentry class has not been greatly affected, and only a few large families who want to fight for power and profit to make a world of power were entangled!

The local gentry class was not affected much, which means that the local production order was not completely destroyed. This allowed the territory captured by Richard to restore the production order before the war in a very short period of time. All Richard needed to do was change a group of bureaucrats who were loyal to him to take over the power gap left by the former government.

By the same token, the Tufan Expeditionary Force did not dare to arouse large-scale rebellion among the Han gentry class in the Western Regions, at least not until all opponents were resolved. In this regard, Songtsen Gampo and Richard had the same political philosophy, which was also the most suitable management method in the Western Regions.

The base of Seme people in the Western Regions was too large, which led to the fact that in order to protect their own property and class, the Han gentry class generally mastered the force that exceeded the original gentry class in the Tang Dynasty. It doesn't matter if these gentry forces were taken out individually, but the united power was stronger than either Richard and Tufan Expeditionary Force!

Without solving the open opponent, whoever dares to touch the interests of local Han people and gentry classes will die without a place to bury them!

Fortunately, the local Han gentry class has never been a unified organization, and even the Han gentry class will take the initiative to move closer to the government and the ruling class, forming a common phenomenon of collusion between officials and gentry and officials and businessmen throughout the ages.

Richard, who had originally started out as a rampant, was warned by the local Han gentry class, but the policies promulgated after Richard's rise turned the Semu people into serfs, and the Han gentry class became beneficiaries. Richard naturally got rid of the hostility of the local gentry class brought about by his humble origin.

At this time, in the Western Regions, a similar situation occurred in both Richard and the places controlled by the Tufan Expeditionary Force on the opposite side and the two major families.

The military is completely controlled by the heads of various forces, and the local gentry class cannot get in at all, or they dare not interfere!

However, the administrative side is infiltrated by the local gentry class, because most local grassroots officials themselves come from the Han gentry family!

This phenomenon cannot be changed because the Han gentry class has mastered the "intellectual property rights" in the Western Regions. Every family has studied and often has a top student. The poor children do not mention the issue of talent and are busy spending all day long to eat, so how can they have time to study with peace of mind?

What's more, in the Western Regions, Semu civilians were strictly prohibited from studying, and at most they could only gain the right to enlightenment and recognize words. Han civilians basically had to serve in the military unless they had a family, which was born in a gentry family of Han people...

This has made the civil service of the government in the Western Regions almost firmly controlled by the local gentry class. Only in the army with a high mortality rate, there are a large number of poor children with grassroots rising.

This is why Richard has a much higher control over the army than the government.

The danger of the army is a high threshold for preventing the entry of the children of Han gentry. If anyone has a wealth of wealth, he will not be willing to take risks in the army easily. After all, it is a war period!

However, this situation was also beneficial to Richard. As long as he defeated the Tufan Expeditionary Force and the two major warlord families, he could basically accept their territory.

Those civilian officials from local gentry families who have normal minds will never fight the winners. Anyway, they can be safe to be a landlord whenever they come. Richard has long shown his sincerity and leniency.

Therefore, the vilification of both sides can at most disgust the opponent among the people, and in fact it cannot threaten the enemy's fundamentals.

After being rejected by Richard repeatedly, Songtsen Gampo's side finally gave up the way of peace talks.
Chapter completed!