Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 775

"How far is it from the Protectorate's Mansion to the East Exit?"

"Five hundred miles away."

"How long have you been on the road?"

"Ten days."

"How many cows, horses and alpacas have you driven?"

"Two thousand live horses, three thousand live cows, another thousand camels, and one hundred thousand live sheep, as well as many furs, herbs and mushrooms."

"The cows and horses are not fat this season, so will there be any deaths on the road?"

"We don't walk fast, and the drivers are all experienced herdsmen. Let alone five hundred miles, even if it is four to five thousand miles from Mobei to Zhangjiakou, we can guarantee the distance on the road for three months. Not only will the animals not die, but they will even gain weight.”

"Oh, what's the secret to this?"

"The secret is to drive the sheep in groups. About a thousand sheep form a flock, and ten flocks form a house. There are about [-] sheep. When driving, keep a distance between each flock. The distance between each flock is about two miles. The last flock of sheep must be selected. The most experienced herdsmen drive, the sheep move faster in the morning than in the afternoon, and faster in the morning than at noon, and the sheep are exhausted in the afternoon, and they move slowly. If you eat grass and choose the right autumn and winter for transportation, even if you catch up with it for three months, you will not only not lose fat but also grow meat.

There are also a group of more than a thousand live horses, about [-] horses per house, and they have to travel in two shifts, day and night, and take turns to rest. "

In the city of Zhangjiakou, the emperor summoned the princes and princes of Sunit, and the brothers Tengji, Sitengjite took the lead in meeting them.

As soon as the emperor met, he asked about the situation here, and Teng Jisi answered them one by one.

When it comes to driving cattle and sheep, they are veterans. Inexperienced people will drive cattle and sheep to death. Except for long distances in spring and winter, they can drive cattle and sheep to death. It is only five hundred miles away, which is only ten days away. , does not affect at all.

Speaking of which, he was quite proud.

This time, [-] live horses and [-] sheep came here at once, and that was just a small test.

"If Zhangjiakou can feed our livestock, I will immediately send people back to the tribe and bring more cattle, horses and sheep. It will not be a problem to drive hundreds of thousands of sheep."

Zhu Yihai laughed loudly.

"Wen Shoufu, for my draft edict."

"The imperial conferment of Teng Jisi, the guardian of the Huade Duhu Mansion, as Sunite Khan, King of the Shangdu County, Teng Jite as Sunite Jinong, King of Kangbao County, each conferred the rank of General of Huaihua."

Mongolian nobles have their own system of conferring titles, ranging from Khan to Jinong, Nuoyan, Taiji, etc., as well as titles such as Taishi and Prime Minister.

Khan is naturally the King of Khan, while Jinong means Deputy Khan, usually given by Khan's younger brother or son, and Nuoyan Mongolian means a high-ranking prince and tribal lord.

Taiji is also a Mongolian prince, and the honorable one is Huntaiji, or Hongtaiji.

Zhu Yihai is basically pacifying the various ministries that belong to Mongolia now. If there is enough, he will find a way to dismantle, reorganize, relocate, demarcate the boundaries, set up the capital guard mansion, the capital governor's mansion, bestow nobles and officials, and try his best to reach those who cannot reach it. To appoint a noble, first pull it into the Celestial Dynasty system, or at least start trading with each other.

There are basically two sets of titles for Mongolian nobles, one is to retain their original Mongolian titles, divided into Khan, Jinong (Deputy Khan), Nuoyan (Prince), then Huntaiji (Junwang), and Wutaitai Ji, (Mr. Gonghou Bozi male), a total of nine ranks.

One set is the titles of different surnames in the Ming Dynasty, the Duke of the State, the Duke of the County of Jianguo, the Duke of the County of Jianguo, the Marquis of the County of Jianguo, the Boss of the County of Jianguo, the Son of the County of Jianguo, and the Male of Jianguo County, a total of seven levels.For the foreign vassals, there are two levels of prince and county king.

Tengjisi was originally the leader of the left wing of Sunite, and the Sunite tribe was only one of the eight original Chahar tribes. Although Chahar was once the headquarters of the Mongolian Great Khan, it was only one of ten thousand households.

Speaking of it, the leader of Sunit may not even be able to get the title of Jinong, but now Zhu Yihai said that he would directly set up a Khan in the same way as Chahar, and Teng Jisi was very excited when he heard it.

He has always been proud of the greatness of his ancestor Dayan Khan, and has always wanted to revive the glory of his ancestors, but they are not direct descendants. The direct descendants are now Abnay of the Chahar tribe, the posthumous son of Lin Dan Khan, and are his nephews according to their seniority.

"Thank you Saint Khan, Your Majesty the Great Emperor Hong En!"

Teng Jisi knelt down and kowtowed a few times. He kowtowed sincerely, and he was already fantasizing in his heart that he would use this title of Khan granted by the Son of Heaven to command the tribes of Monan Mongolia, conquer the leaders, reunify Mongolia, and even In the future, Mobei and Moxi Mongolia will also be conquered and unified, becoming the Great Khan of Mongolia, and restoring the glory of their Borzigit clan.

Zhu Yihai saw all this, but only smiled.

It's just a sweat number, Zhu Yihai doesn't care.

He can bestow Feng Teng Jisi Sunite Khan today, Abunai Chahar Khan tomorrow, and Erdos Jinong Boer Jijin Elinchen the day after tomorrow.

In the future, Horqin Khan and others can also be set up.

For the Ming Dynasty, it was not costly to give the leader of the Mongolian tribe the title of Feng Khan and the deputy Khan, but it could further divide the various tribes of Monan Mongolia, making it impossible for them to reunify in the future.

The Manchu Qing established the alliance flag system for the tribes in Monan, and established six alliances. The original 25 tribes in Monan Mongolia were divided into more than [-] banners by them, and six alliances were formed. Later, some banners were even changed to internal belongings.

Zhu Yihai can also follow this way of thinking. The Tatars have six alliances, and the Ming Dynasty can have six capitals and guards. Each of the capitals and guards can confer a Khan, and it can be hereditary, and it can be matched with a county of the Ming Dynasty. For kings or princes, the court may not even need to give them salaries. All the ministries will pay tribute to the court every year, and the court will give them some rewards in return.

Those tribes who followed the Tartars fought and dragged them, and then moved them or even split them up and reorganized them, turning their twenty or so tribes into fifty or even seventy or eighty tribes. Khan or Nuoyan, and then give it to the king of the county or the Duke of the country, the name is good and it doesn't cost money.

"Qing's eldest son, Batu, served as an imperial guard, and was very loyal, brave and hard-working. I specially bestowed on him the title of Huntai Ji, and added the title of Duke of the county."

The word "founding the country" is not added to the titles of foreign vassals such as Mongolia and Jurchen.

Batu, a bodyguard, was directly awarded the rank of Hun Tai Ji, the Duke of the County, and the rank of General Huaihua.

Tengjite's son Dorji, etc., Zhu Yihai also awarded them Taiwan Ji, some leaders of Sunite also awarded first, second and third class Ji, and their nephews awarded fourth and fifth class Ji.

A large number of titles are given to make Mongolia's titles flooded and worthless, and to reduce the prestige of their leaders.

Those who are granted the title of Duhu and Dudu can get the titles of Khan, Jinong, Nuoyan, and Huntaiji. Their subordinates, Changshi and Sima, are sent by the imperial court to serve as Han officials. The military and so on are awarded to the leaders of the tribe, big and small, and these officials are also awarded various grades of auspiciousness and so on.

And these leaders who have obtained official titles, their titles can be hereditary, their titles will be inherited by the eldest son, and the rest will be inherited from the fifth-rank Taiji. If they have meritorious service, they can be promoted further, anyway. From generation to generation, they will be Mongolian aristocrats in the outer vassals.

However, regardless of whether or not they seized the title and position, the imperial court would not give them salaries or the like.

Moreover, it was stipulated that these children of the Mongolian nobles had to work as guards of the Ming Dynasty before they could formally claim the title.

In the future, these Mongolian nobles will be passed down from generation to generation, and their descendants will at least be a fifth-class auspicious, equivalent to a baron. This nobleman walks around like a dog, and it will not be a bad thing for the court.

Teng Jisi still only thinks that Daming Son is really kind to him, so he directly conferred the title of Khan on him, his son as Hun Taiji, and his younger brother Vice Khan. Khan is so kind, moved Sunit to the border of the Ming Dynasty to facilitate trade. Those Han merchants also contracted taxes with them, and they collected them if they were exempted. They even sold all kinds of goods directly to the grassland tribes. What do they want in the Central Plains? Luxuries and good things, as long as you write a list, they will get them directly.

It can even be customized on demand.

Zhu Yihai smiled.

"I recently received a new princess, who is young, beautiful and noble, so I bestowed him on Huntai Jibatu for marriage."

The emperor took out the method of making a marriage, and directly proposed to Teng Jisi to strengthen the marriage, and the two sides made a marriage.This time the scale of the marriage is huge, from Zhu Yihai to the crown prince, the king of Han, and then the cabinet scholars, etc., asked Tenjisi and others for a hundred Sunite noble girls, and then gave marriages to the Sunite princes and nobles for a hundred. Girls of the Han family include the righteous daughters of the emperor and the righteous daughters of university scholars.

Anyway, the Hammond family is close.

Zhu Yihai even proposed that in the future, those noble sons of Sunite who came to Daming to work as errands and study would give them a wife of a noble woman from the Han family.

Teng Jisi thanked you again.

He thinks this kind of marriage and marriage is also very good, it will help to enhance the intimacy with Saint Khan and Daming. Sunit will have a good relationship with Daming in the future, so it will naturally be convenient for commanding other tribes.

"Give Sunit Khan, the king of Shangdu the chiming bell, the telescope, silk, porcelain, tribute tea, etc."

The emperor was very polite and generous to the Sunite tribe to pay tribute and trade this time. Before coming, Teng Jisi was actually a little worried, fearing that the emperor would reprimand them for their previous plunder and attack on other surrounding tribes. He even thought of many excuses for punishment, etc., but unexpectedly, he didn't even mention it.

The summoning was followed by a banquet.

At the banquet, the monarch and his ministers had a good time, very harmonious.

Immediately afterwards, the cattle, alpacas, camels and horses they brought, the fur medicinal materials and mushrooms they brought were traded with the Han merchants very smoothly, and the price was very good. Although they brought a lot of things this time, the price was not suppressed.

They can freely choose whether to take silver bills or bank silver dollar exchange certificates, or directly take silver dollars in cash, or directly trade with tea bricks, etc.

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"Why doesn't Your Majesty take this opportunity to beat up Brother Tengjisi and reprimand them for not attacking other tribes?" Second Assistant Wang Zhiren asked, he thought it was too easy to talk to the Sunite people.

Zhu Yihai was looking at some prairie products brought by Sunit, such as extra-mouth mushrooms, which are good things, and the stewed meat is extremely delicious.There are also sheepskin and wool, which are also good things.

The Royal Shaofu Supervisor has opened a new woolen textile bureau in Zhangjiakou, intending to use Mongolian wool, camel hair, and Qinghe water to complete the localized woolen production in the Ming Dynasty, so as to change the woolen fabric that is now the third largest importer. status quo.

The Mongolian wool in Monan is indeed better than the wool in Ganlong, and the water quality here is also good.

The cows and horses brought in are really good, and they are still a little fat this season.

This large amount of goods, exchanged for tea bricks, shredded tobacco, porcelain, cloth, iron pots, etc., not only the amount is large, but also the profits and taxes from the business to the court will be very good.

"Don't worry, let the Sunite people be proud for a while, Abaga, Sizi tribe, etc. have been vacillating, let's let the Sunite people be arrogant for a while, let them continue to use tiger skin as a banner To rob those tribes, our court can also send envoys to take the opportunity to appease them.

On one side is the iron-shoe saber of the Sunit people, and on the other is the reward exchange market of our Ming Dynasty. As long as they are not stupid, they will know how to choose. Let the Sunit people help them decide. "

"And what's the deterrent effect of just verbal reprimand?"

"What does Your Majesty mean?"

While looking at the handful of Sunite wool in his hand, Zhu Yihai said expressionlessly, "After I have rested in Zhangjiakou for a few days, I will also go to the dam for a walk. Good evidence, when the time comes, one or two Sunit tribes who violated the will, crossed the border, plundered, burned, killed and did more evil and had a bad reputation, cut off all the leaders, princes, etc., and scattered their tribes to other tribes Tribes, livestock waiting for us to confiscate."

"Isn't this more effective than any verbal reprimand? Wouldn't it be more effective than anything else to destroy one or two small tribes, conduct a three-army exercise on the grassland, and invite princes and nobles from all ministries to visit?"

Wang Zhiren couldn't help applauding after hearing this.

"Indeed, it's only a combination of kindness and strength."

Wen Anzhi said, "Now the imperial court should reiterate to the Sunit princes that they must not cross the border or plunder other tribes. If they don't listen, then don't hesitate to say it!"

On the same day, Wen Anzhi personally summoned Teng Jisi and other princes and nobles, mentioned some of their recent violations of the order, reprimanded them, and told them to make corrections after going back, and not to cross the border to invade other tribes, especially if they still have Han slaves in their hands. Those who want to buy it should take the initiative to report it and send it to Zhangjiakou, where the emperor set up a special yamen to pay for the redemption.

It's just that when Wen Anzhi, the first assistant, said this, he just mentioned it. Teng Jisi was happy to drink and eat meat, so he didn't take it seriously. After all, the emperor didn't mention it.

They ate, drank, and had fun in Zhangjiakou for seven days. They were grateful for the grace of the Tengjisi brothers. Before they left, they specially held a lively Mongolian banquet outside the customs. They not only slaughtered cattle and sheep to entertain the emperor, but also danced Mongolian dances. , and wrestling and other competitions for the emperor to watch.

When they left, they all changed into the purple robes, jade belts, and mink fur brocade robes bestowed on them by the Son of Heaven, and they were very satisfied with their seals and ceremonial guards.

It's even a bit smug.

After all, Son of Heaven had to be polite to them.

"I didn't expect that we brought so many livestock furs here this time, and sold them all at once, and those plundered people were also sold for such a good price." Teng Jite sighed, "Shall we go back and rob them?"

Teng Jisi patted the dust from the official robes on his body, and said triumphantly, "Grab them, why not? We can grab as many as we can before they are attached to the imperial court and canonized by the Holy Khan."

"Chahar is now a young boy serving as the leader. They are no longer worthy and unable to take on the important task of restoring the glory of Dayan Khan and the glory of the Golden Family. This burden has to be borne by us Sunit. For the sixth descendants of Dayan Khan, we must shoulder this burden, we must unify Monan and restore Mongolia."

(End of this chapter)