Chapter 578: Grassland Decision

Under the ferocious artillery bombardment, the enemy in the Tucheng of Ordos had almost no power to fight back, and those fish that ran fast and slipped through the net were pursued and killed by the light cavalry of the Ma Lie Division, the Badu Division, the Etuoke Division, and the Hangjin Banner who were waiting for dozens of miles, and in the north they encountered the Chahan Buhua Division, which came to pick up the bargain, and only more than 6,000 of the 50,000 soldiers escaped. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe cavalry of the Volunteer Battalion was not suitable for pursuit, and therefore did not participate.

This battle was able to completely wipe out the Ordos Division, the largest force in the Eastern Set, because of the suddenness of the battle, the advantage of the grassland light cavalry was that the fast horses galloped, and when they encountered the fierce guns of the volunteer battalion, they were completely vulnerable to building a city and defending themselves.

In this battle, the important leaders such as the 10,000 households in Ordos and the thousands of households in Ordos were almost killed and wounded, and the soldiers in the Tucheng were slaughtered and burned on the spot.

From the tribal books dug out of the ruins, it is known that there are 60,000 households under the rule of Wanhu in Ordos, nearly 250,000 people, and at least 60,000 soldiers can be summoned according to the calculation of one household and one ding, which is only the herdsmen of the headquarters who have been nomadic in the Ordos grassland all the year round, and the population of temporary nomadism is more than 300,000.

The herdsmen on the grassland live in pursuit of water and grass, and in autumn and summer, the water and grass are abundant, and the foreign herdsmen can graze here as long as they hand over a certain amount of livestock and money. In the winter and spring, when the snow and ice freeze, the available places for grazing are drastically reduced, and the herders of the headquarters will occupy the pastures, driving away and plundering the foreign herders, so that those people can only find other places to stay, which is the reason for the constant wars and fights on the grasslands, especially when there is no strong and unified Khan court.

In this way, the original estimate of 2 million people will at least double, plus Oirat in Warat, Khalkha and Korqin in Houjin, etc., the population on the steppe is not about the same if not 10 million.

The only regret in this battle is that it was not able to kill Chahan Buhua, however, after this battle, the combat power of the Ming army completely deterred the Khanting cavalry, and no one dared to disobey Ma Lie's military orders from then on, Chang Wei's identity needs to be kept secret for the time being, and the nomadic cavalry does not know except for Ma Lie.

The other is that the main personnel of the Frost Hall also took advantage of the chaos to run away, often talking about the main hall of the Leaning Moon Sea, Fang Huan'er only knew the origin of the Frost Palace, but compared to occupying the East Set, this is just a trivial matter.

There are still many things to do after the war, the Ordos grassland is 800 miles long from north to south, 700 miles wide from east to west, and the grassland covers an area of tens of thousands of miles.

The more than 500,000 displaced people from Fugu just happened to be sent over, and there was a strong force to ensure that they could graze on the grassland and settle down and reproduce for decades, and this grassland was Han Chinese.

Chang Wei wrote a note to the emperor, requesting that the prefecture and the banner rule be carried out in parallel on the grassland. The flag is the establishment of the Later Jin, but in the past few decades, many tribes in the steppe have been conquered by the Later Jin and canonized as the flag, so it has gradually become popular. This kind of structure is more detailed than 10,000 households or 1,000 households, and it is naturally easy to manage.

Chang Wei suggested that the counties since the Qin and Han dynasties should be restored, and the old cities of Shuofang, Jiuyuan, Yunzhong, and Dingxiang, Xihe, and Dongsheng in Ordos should all be built. There are 500,000 or even more displaced people in the future, and the manpower is enough, and the abnormal Wei has received millions of silver and grain from King Qing, and he can eat and wear, and it is enough to last for several years with one or two taels a month.

The Han Chinese and other alien races who settled in and around the city were all under the administration of the government located in the city, and a large number of Han people who moved to the outside of the city were all given preferential treatment. There is no need to pay taxes to reclaim land and occupy pastures, but if the imperial court wants to use troops on the grassland, each household should send at least one Ding Zhuang and bring their own war horses and weapons to recruit, forming a system in which all the people are soldiers, and in the long run, they can completely confront the people on horseback.

In addition to preferential treatment of Han people, Chang Wei's strategy has two other cores, one is that the flag boundary is closed, and the public builds to share their strength!

Since Genghis Khan, nomadic boundaries have changed constantly in warfare, and nomads have also been on the move over a large area, constantly receiving new information, and have a considerable ability to absorb advanced technology and culture.

At present, it is forbidden to teach herdsmen to learn and come into contact with the advanced techniques of the Han people, such as gun-making, cannon casting, smelting, mining, and other technologies, to prohibit them from studying and going to school, to set up household registration for herdsmen, to strictly prohibit herdsmen from doing business and working, and that their ancestors can only herd herds for generations; and the nobles of the steppes are not allowed to ask Han gentlemen to teach them to read or become scribes, and they are not allowed to approve their official documents and words, nor are they allowed to use Chinese without permission.

Han people are encouraged to marry herdsmen as wives and concubines, but Han women are forbidden to marry herdsmen, even prostitutes, and it is forbidden to take herdsmen's names. In short, through these strict laws to isolate herders from the Han people for cultural and technological exchanges, strict nomadic boundaries will strengthen the ecological isolation of the steppe peoples, so that they will not be able to obtain the advanced production technology and tools of the Han people, and will always be in a nomadic position, and will not be allowed to develop and progress.

In addition, in addition to Ezhe Khan, according to the status of the nobles of each tribe, the degree of loyalty to the imperial court, and the degree of merit, various titles such as princes and princes of different sizes were conferred, so that they could enjoy various privileges. According to his title, the imperial court allocated silver taels, satin and other luxury goods to reward them in the form of money. Of course, food and weapons are strictly controlled strategic materials and are not included in the list of rewards.

There were originally 30,000 households in the Hetao area, and according to Changwei's strategy of dividing the seals, it would become more than 100 flags of all sizes, and the nomadic tribes outside were divided into flags according to the mountains, rivers, etc., and they were under the command of the banner lord, and each flag had its own pasture, and it was strictly forbidden to cross the territory to be nomadic, otherwise they would be severely punished.

In this way, there will no longer be a big aristocracy with tens of thousands of troops and a population of hundreds of thousands, and it will become extremely difficult to unite. And just like the vassal kings before the Ming Dynasty, they were not allowed to contact each other privately, and even the routes into the city and the mutual market had to be strictly divided, in short, the influential nobles had to be kept in captivity and let them corrupt and degenerate.

2. Elevate the status of the Yellow Sect and worship the interpretation to control its life!

Vigorously advocate monks, the imperial court gave monks, lamas a variety of titles, silk, porcelain and other luxuries, no need to produce, superior status, encourage herdsmen to become monks, the doctrine of the Yellow Sect is not allowed to marry a wife, in the long run, the population will inevitably decline. The Han Chinese, on the other hand, are absolutely not allowed to become monks.

This policy may seem very favorable, but it follows this strategy, which on the one hand envelops the nobility on the one hand, and on the other hand, puts a large number of herders under house arrest like lambs in the sheepfold, and at the same time uses lamas to turn many people into parasitic populations.

If these strategies are strictly implemented, then the fierce nomads of the entire Monan grassland will be subdued into a weak and weak people who are in a state of collapse, disintegration, population decline, poverty and backwardness, and will no longer have the ability to threaten the Han people, and the steppe nomads who have plagued the Han people for thousands of years will be completely dismembered.

Of course, this kind of insidious and huge plan also requires officials from the six ministries, nine secretaries, two capitals and thirteen provinces of the imperial court to conduct a grand court discussion, otherwise the departure of 500,000 displaced people from the customs is enough to give Chang Wei a major charge of conspiracy and rebellion.

The next day, the 60,000-strong army galloped north and launched an attack on the last unsurrendered enemy of the Hetao, the Tumo River entrenched in Guihua City! )