Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 870 City of Victory
1652 years.

Shaotian eight years, summer.

Gyantse.

The red palace is now the garrison of the Wei Zang camp of the Ming army. General Wei Zang moved from Lhasa to Gyantse himself.

After the Ming army took over the defense, they hired people to build a wall with a height of three feet and a width of one foot and five feet on the hillside with large stones.

The white wall extends to the back mountain of Baiju Temple, and many forts have been built along the wall and the front cliff, and city fire cannons have been erected.

On the ochre-colored Zongshan Mountain, the fortress is high and guarded, overlooking the mountain.

The battlefield at the foot of the mountain not long ago now has earth walls built, many houses built, and it has become a new market town. Many Han merchants came here with the Weizang camp to open shops and build warehouses, and purchased Gyantse local products. It has also become a direct link to Sikkim. An important transit station on commercial routes in , Bhutan, Bangladesh and other places.

All kinds of goods from the Central Plains, such as salt, tea, silk, and porcelain, came from the Central Plains through caravans. There were also Han merchants who came from Sichuan via Kangding to the west. The corridor passes through the Biandukou and crosses the Qilian Mountains to go south to Qinghai-Tibet. These silk goods gather in Lhasa and then go to Gyantse.

The hilltop-style castle, coupled with the cannons that defend the city, made the five hundred guard camps in Gyantse Fort look extremely majestic.

The sun and moon flag flying on the castle, and the wild yak army flag hanging from the white wall on the top of the red castle, all make this castle standing in the middle of the Nianchu River plain look so lonely and majestic.

The Tucheng at the foot of the mountain is becoming more and more lively.

The goods here are complete and cheap. Many surrounding tribes have never seen novelty gadgets such as self-ringing bells and telescopes, high-grade silk porcelain, green salt tea, and even various gold and silver ornaments, which fascinated them.

Drive herds of cattle and sheep over to trade.

Some nobles even drove the serfs in the manor directly to sell.

Slaves were very popular in Gyantse Tucheng. The Wei Zang camp moved to Gyantse and began to recruit family members from the interior to farm. On the Nianchu River Plain, military family members were allocated fields, all of which were fertile fields by the Nianchu River in Gyantse Fortress. These were donated to the U-Tsang Camp by Bandan, Dayan Khan, Jishepa, Baiju Temple and other temple monks and noble leaders.

Most of the imperial guards in the Weizang camp were immigrants from Longnan, western Sichuan, and Hehuang areas. They were relatively adapted to the plateau geography and climate. Their families migrated here and allocated a lot of land, but they lacked labor.

The slaves here are relatively cheap, so the military families of the Weizang camp began to buy slaves. It is very common to use slaves in Weizang. The manor system is generally implemented, and most of the manors are serfs.

Because the Weizang camp has a lot of land, the demand for labor is great, the desire to buy slaves is strong, and they are generous, so that the surrounding nobles and lords, and even some businessmen, began to sell here, and some even ran to the south of the Himalayas. Those small countries in China sell it, and even catch slaves to sell it.

Dayan Khan rode into the city, looking at this emerging town with some envy in his eyes.

Although the town under the fort is a newly built earthen city, there are still soldiers guarding the gate, but it is not the five hundred guards camp, but the militia from Nianchu Town.It is mainly composed of Yu Ding's children from the soldiers of the Weizang camp. They are also equipped with firecrackers, etc., and they take turns to train on duty.

Looking at the militia equipment of the Gyantse Ming Army, which is better than his own, it is impossible for Dayan Khan not to be jealous and envious. He has been licking his wounds during this time. Although the emperor's protection gave him a chance to breathe, You can keep a corner of your back.

However, his father's Heshuote Khanate lost Huijiang, Ngari, Qinghai, Kham and Qianzang, and the Heshuote tribe had only a few thousand tents directly under it.

Now there are only [-] Heshuo special cavalry left in his hands. He is the master of Houzang in name, but the big temples, Diba, monks and aristocrats’ estates occupy a very large area, which is a country within a country. His Dayan Khan is now prestige Sweeping the floor, you can only continue to hug Daming's thigh tightly, otherwise as long as the imperial court orders, not to mention Qinghai Dalai Khan can kill him immediately, even these Diba and masters in Houzang can easily overthrow him.

Dayan Khan has been submissive to Daming a lot recently. He can only rely on this foreign aid. He originally counted on his cousin Oqiertu, but now this Lut Khan is busy with his uncle Kundulun Utaishi. Can't care about this side.

Dayan Khan can only obey Daming's arrangements honestly, and now he can only cooperate and compromise with the two major classes, Bandan and Diba, to recognize their special status and the privileges of their manor in exchange for their recognition that they are descendants. Lord of Tibet.

He conferred official titles and titles on many nobles, in exchange for their money and people to support the formation of an army of the Houzang Khan. The 3000-strong Houzang camp is similar to the Ganden Phodrang Army built by Gushri Khan. The standing army under the jurisdiction of the Khan Court is not the private soldiers of monasteries and nobles.

In order to make this army have some combat effectiveness and be able to obey his own control, he asked the imperial court to buy military equipment, guns and cannons. Daming expressed that he could consider this request, but suggested that they hire some Ming army instructors to train and teach the use of weapons and equipment. And new tactics, etc., and even suggested that they invite some Ming military officers to serve as staff officers.

This is the model that imitated the establishment of the Jingsai Army, the Han Navy, and the Zhenxi Army in the Turpan Khanate, the Junggar Khanate, and the Durbert Khanate in Beiting Anxi and other places.

Dayan Khan agreed to the 'suggestion' of building a new army together after a long consideration. Although his new army might not be so pure in this way, he is now powerless against the Ming court, the biggest threat in front of him It still comes from these powerful local forces in Houzang, and then Dalai Khan, the brother of Qinghai.

After the agreement was concluded, Daming also immediately opened a list for them, including the establishment of 3000 people, weapons and equipment, as well as the officer staff group, teaching team, etc., and the price was relatively affordable. Shaotian's three-year-style matchlock shotgun, It's pretty good, and it's also equipped with some front-mounted general smoothbore guns, some rear-mounted Francophone sub-cannons, and even a few battalion-owned infantry guns.

Although the artillery is generally only at the level of the Ming army's towns, it is already able to suppress the local nobles and monastery private soldiers in Tibet.

The Ming army and even the military uniforms and flags of the new army were packaged in one package, and they were provided uniformly at affordable prices.

An army of 3000 people, plus hundreds of officers, staff officers, and all the equipment of the coaching regiment, the Ming army has all the equipment. The package price is really discounted, and Dayan Khan can just pay.

Dayan Khan came from Shigatse today to receive the equipment of his [-] new army. In addition, he also ordered a batch of new equipment for his [-] Heshuo special cavalry.

From cotton armor to sabers, to helmets, guns, tents, felt blankets, etc., although it is convenient, it is not a small amount of money.

In the end, he reached an agreement with the U-Tsang Yamen, and took some of Houzang’s tax collection rights as mortgages. From now on, Houzang’s taxes would be directly handed over to the U-Tsang Yamen. A part of the tax was handed over to the Weizang Yamen to offset the military loan.Part of it was given to Dayan Khan, and the rest was the merchant's profit.

A result that seems to be satisfactory to all parties.

After being inspected by the militiamen at the city gate, Dayan Khan only brought a small team of guards into the city. Looking at the bustling scene of hawking along the street, he was very envious. How many transactions and taxes were collected on this day?
Now he wants to raise 6000 troops, and he deeply feels the burden of raising troops is heavy.

In the past when Gushi Khan was still in the Tianshan Mountains, he was grazing in his free time, and he was a soldier in wartime, and there was no saying that he was paid. He even prepared his own horses, weapons and equipment. After entering Qinghai-Tibet and establishing Heshuote, Qinghai was divided into various Taiwan Ji led the nomadic tribes, grazing in normal times, and recruiting soldiers to fight in wars. The tribute money and food collected in Kham were used to support the Eight Banners and Shuote cavalry stationed in Dangxiong.

Now there is only Houzang left in Dayan, and most of the manors, land, and population in Houzang belong to monasteries and nobles, and the clans, land, and population under the direct management of the Khan Court are not many.

"We're here to collect the armaments and meet the officers' staff teaching group." Dayan Khan's eldest son, Peng Suke Zinon, stepped forward.

An officer greeted him, raised his right arm to him and slapped his left chest, "God bless China, long live my emperor!"

"God bless my emperor!" Yue Suke hurriedly said.

Dayan Khan also said behind, "God bless the Holy Emperor!"

The officer was young and tall, a lieutenant, and his uniform was neat. "The equipment is ready. The officer advisory team is now at Zongshan Castle. General Chaoxian is receiving them. Please wait a moment for Khan and Jinong." General Huiwang will come with the officer advisory team."

"There are tea and snacks here, please."

Dayan Khan, several sons, and several Taiji generals followed to the living room on the other side and sat down to wait.

A group of people came in with tea and snacks.

Dayan Khan and others were all attracted by this group of people. These people who brought tea and water were not officers like the young man just now, but they could be seen at a glance as slaves.

What is more striking is that these people look different.

The young officer came in again, and a young Taiji couldn't help asking him about these servants.

"Oh, these are a new batch of slaves brought in from the mainland recently. Look at that short and docile woman. She is a Japanese slave girl from Japan. She was a Japanese villager captured by the Matsuura pirates on the coast of the Japanese country and sold to Ming Dynasty. Among them, most of the young and strong men were bought to go to various manors and mines, and the women were called to serve as servants and maids. They are very gentle, so they are very popular in the mainland now.

As for those dark and tall slaves, they were transported to Guangzhou by the British East India Company by sea, and they came from Africa. hospital and so on.

Those who are also dark but not so dark are the aborigines from the Nanyang Islands and the Indochina Peninsula. We called them Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty. These were mainly trafficked to the Central Plains by the Dutch and Spaniards. They did not have Africa. Those are of good quality, but the price is cheap, but they have to be strictly guarded.

There are also those with round heads and wide faces and rattail braids behind their heads, which are the slaves of the wild Jurchens, and those with long heads and big ears with braids are the slaves of Jianzhou Jurchen.

These tall, white-skinned, red-haired, yellow-haired and blue-eyed people were mainly Russian prisoners captured in the north, and those with black hair and beards were mostly Russian Cossacks.

These thin and small ones are mainly prisoners of war slaves captured by Annan, including those from the Zheng family, the Mo family, the Wu family, and even the Ruan family, as well as some barbarian slaves from the chieftains in Yunnan. It is very chaotic there now. No matter who fights with whom, captures the opponent's soldiers, or even directly attacks and loots the opponent's people, they are usually sold directly to slave traders, and then sold to Daming.

Now the Ming Dynasty is expanding its borders everywhere, but the emperor is very generous to the soldiers and the people, constantly giving them land and granting them land, allowing them to move to the border areas, and giving them a large amount of land. This makes the traditional Han area, the population is increasing A large number of exodus, many original landless peasants, could only be tenants for landlords and rich peasants, or work in workshops, mines, etc., but now they have a better choice, accept the immigration policy of the imperial court, and go to the frontier to settle down. Settle down the fields.

As a result, the labor force in the interior has been greatly reduced. Whether it is a wealthy landlord or a workshop owner, there is a shortage of manpower. In the border areas, immigrants who have newly acquired fields are also short of labor.And those emerging military aristocrats and some traditional nobles have also begun to build manors, mines and factories in the border areas, all of which are extremely short of labor.

However, the emperor's policy of opening up territories and immigrating cannot be changed. Many gentry landlords have also thought about opposing these policies of the emperor, but with the rise of several major cases, after a large number of young birds were overthrown, no one was there anymore. Dare to easily oppose this policy.

So they can only seek other ways out, and this way out is the slave trade, buying slaves to replace the former poor people and become a new labor force.

Directly replacing tenants and hired labor with slaves, this way is even cheaper and more suitable for the development of those intensive industries. Whether it is the manor planting of large farms or the emerging factories and mines, the slave trade is becoming more and more popular now. .

Where there is demand, there will naturally be a market, and naturally there will be businessmen seeking to exploit it.

What's going on everywhere, selling everywhere.

Especially where there is war, it attracts countless slave traders. War means that there will be many captives, and a large number of slaves can be obtained cheaply.

Realistic demands also forced the court to gradually let go, and has been regulating this emerging market.

Even the snow-covered plateau of Gyantse, slaves continue to come here, not only from the surrounding slaves, but also from overseas slaves from the coast.

Just like this group of slaves who came to bring tea and water to Dayan Khan, some came from Africa, some from Southeast Asia, some from Japan, Annan, and even Tsarist Russians and Cossats from Siberia, as well as slaves from the Western Regions. Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Yarkands, Persians, etc.

There were also Turkish and Crimean Tatars who sold Slavs, Germans and other white slaves to the river, Persia who sold blacks to the Western Regions, and Mughals who sold people from South Asia.

Daming's huge market demand is like a sponge thrown into the water, desperately absorbing water.

In fact, the scene in the living room was also deliberately done by the officer, to show it to Dayan Khan, and also to show Ming's strength.

Especially those Jianzhou Jurchens who were captured as slaves. They were originally warriors. The Crown Prince of Ming Dynasty led the army to the Northern Expedition. After defeating the captives, they became slaves. The three characters of Manchurian slaves were sold to various places as slaves.

Asking them to serve tea to Dayan Khan and his son is to tell him that Manchuria, which once made the princes and auspicious men of Mongolia compete to please and pay tribute, has now been completely reduced to the slaves of Ming Dynasty. .

Although Heshuote is Oirat Mongolia, not the Mongolian headquarters, they were not as strong as the Mongolian headquarters before, so they need to be more respectful.

"These slaves are very interesting. I wonder if Ben Khan can buy some?" Dayan Khan asked.

"Of course, there is a special cattle and horse market in Nianchu Town. Not only cattle, horses and livestock are sold there, slaves are also auctioned. Whatever the King Khan wants, just go to the auction and the highest price will win." The officer replied with a smile. road.

(End of this chapter)