Qiming 1158

Chapter 1437 The flag of the Ming Dynasty will be flying everywhere on the grassland
According to the pre-war strategic plan, the Ming government will screen this large number of prisoners.

The first step is to separate the prisoners of the Tribal Alliance in the Forest from the prisoners of the Wanggu and Tatar tribes.

All the prisoners of the Forest Tribe Alliance and the upper classes of the Wanggu and Tatar tribes are of bad nature, and all the villains must be dealt with seriously.

The specific strategy is to select women of childbearing age and register them in the Ming Dynasty household registration, and then send them to various remote areas to marry local bachelors, help them form families, and increase the population and stability of the border areas.

No way, the living environment in the border areas of the Ming Dynasty was harsh, and even most residents who were willing to respond to the country's call to move to the border areas were reluctant to settle in these bitter and cold places.

Most of the people who are willing to settle in those places are poor single men who lost their homes and families in previous wars. They are willing to go because of the favorable immigration policies in the border areas.

Women are mostly reluctant to settle in border areas.

The policy of "immigration to the border" in the border areas must be carried out. To this end, Su Yonglin has thought of many ways, but the population structure in the border areas cannot be improved.

In the end, Xin Qiji proposed that he could obtain suitable-age women from the Northern Expedition, select them, put them into the national household registration, and assign them to the border areas to marry the bachelors, so that they can multiply locally, so that the problem can be solved.

After Xin Qiji opened his eyes to everyone, Lin Jingchun followed up and proposed that some of the extra prisoners after the allocation could be used as a special condition for recruiting people to settle in the border, and continue to recruit more single men who are willing to settle in the border, and continue to immigrate to the border.

Single men who are willing to settle in frontier settlement construction not only enjoy a very generous border settlement policy, but also enjoy a spouse arranged by the government.

It turns out that residents in the border areas are not only exempted from tax for five years, but also enjoy the government's policy of sending land, houses, farm tools and livestock.

Now even the government assigns spouses.

If you want to come, you can attract more single poor men to take the initiative to settle in the border areas and increase the population of the border areas.

Not only can the current problems be greatly improved, but in the future, after the Western Regions are retaken, it can also attract more single men from the mainland due to the war to live on the border, live with the garrison, multiply, and gradually change the local area completely. into China's native land.

This kind of advice was just a suggestion before, but now it is a policy that can actually be implemented.

After the school-aged women were stripped away, the remaining prisoners screened in this part were basically the important labor force for the construction of the border areas and the transportation of water conservancy projects in the Ming Dynasty.

They will spend a happy and happy life in labor, and they will become the "bricks and tiles" of building Daming without any complaints. In Daming's future actions to build frontier areas, they will be the "top priority".

Of course, the most important thing is to save money.

After all, when Daming dispatched the people to carry out the project construction, it was necessary to pay real money.

The other is the low-level herdsmen and their families who have been brutally and severely oppressed within the two major tribes of the Wanggu tribe and the Tatar tribe.

The Ming Kingdom will screen them out, create household registrations on a family basis, incorporate them into the Ming Kingdom household registration, and give them the national identity of the Ming Kingdom.

They have rich grazing experience and will become the main labor force of animal husbandry in the northern pastoral areas of Datong Province in the future. They will live together with Han herdsmen who will go north in the future, and make their own contributions to the development of animal husbandry in Daming.

For this reason, Su Yonglin dispatched a large number of officials and Fuxing members to the grasslands to assist the local army in arranging the disposal of this huge captured population.

It is relatively simple to deal with the prisoners of the Forest Tribe Alliance and the upper-level ruling class of the two major tribes of Wanggu and Tatar. It is enough to deal with the enemy.

For a large number of bottom herdsmen, it is relatively complicated, but not too difficult.

The main reason for this is that after the two tribes were subdued by the Ming Kingdom and accepted as dogs, due to the prosperity of trade, the ethnic conflicts in the border areas of the Ming Kingdom were greatly alleviated. .

What followed was the long-awaited peace, as well as the unexpected intensification of internal class conflicts between the two tribes.

In order to obtain more cattle, sheep, livestock and various grassland-specific handicrafts and trade in the Ming Dynasty, and earn high profits, the heads of the Wanggu and Tatar Departments transformed from the Predator incarnations to the gentry, and fought one by one. The idea of ​​making a lot of money.

They were dazed by the massive wealth and luxurious life, and their demands and oppression of the lower-level herdsmen of their tribes were greatly increased, to the point where they used all their baht like sand.

The herdsmen at the bottom of the tribe were originally the tribe’s reliable fighting power and the strong support of the tribe. By virtue of their contribution to the plundering of resources, the families of the herdsmen at the bottom could also be allocated relatively generous resources, and their lives were actually not bad.

Therefore, the conflicts within these tribes are actually controlled within a relatively reasonable range.

However, under the Jin Yuan offensive of the Ming Dynasty, the leaders of the two tribes found that they no longer needed a huge armed group, but a huge herdsman group to provide them with commodities.

They need a larger number of cattle, sheep, horses and various grassland handicrafts, they need a larger number of herdsmen and handicraftsmen, and no longer need so many soldiers.

So many warriors were forced to be reduced to cheap labor, exchanging their blood and tears for the decadent and depraved life of the upper ruling classes of the two major tribes and their extravagant customs of fighting for wealth.

The headmen drove the bottom herdsmen to overwork and exploited their cattle, sheep and horses too much, and the exploitation of them was terrible. The situation was almost the same as the end of the Central Plains Dynasty.

The internal contradictions of the two major tribes, which originally depended on exporting contradictions to transfer contradictions to obtain a relatively stable life, suddenly intensified, class contradictions quickly rose to the main contradiction, and the upper-level rulers lacked new means and goals to transfer contradictions.

Their original means of looting and diversion of blood and tears from the Han people could no longer be used, and new methods have not yet been discovered.

Or they didn't notice it at all, or they did, but they didn't want to and couldn't make any changes.

Because the new life is so comfortable, the good days are so comfortable.

Therefore, the Fuxing members who arrived in the grasslands used traditional skills to tie up the tribal leaders and marched among the bottom herdsmen, calling on everyone to smash them with all kinds of rotten and smelly things, scold them, and pour out their anger at them.

Then they were hanged in public, their bodies fluttering in the wind.

In a very short period of time, the bottom herdsmen of the two major tribes captured by the Ming army no longer felt that they were captives.

They fought against the greedy tribal leaders together with the Ming army, and they didn't feel that the Ming army was terrifying.

With this relationship in it, the matter of mobilizing them to assist in the construction of grassland pastoral areas will be settled.

They just need to tell them that they have been incorporated into the household registration of the Ming Kingdom, become Ming people, and will enjoy a series of policies and benefits for the grassland herdsmen of the Ming Kingdom. The flag of the Ming Dynasty will be fluttered everywhere.

They will sincerely recognize that they are from the Ming Kingdom and recognize the existence of the Ming Kingdom.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty can also train a larger number of cavalry on the wider grasslands, increase the number of cavalry stationed in the major corps in the northern Xinjiang, increase the number of horses raised, and do better breeding of war horses. It will also be easier.

Sometimes, turning an enemy into a friend may just require grasping the core contradiction and making a slight adjustment.

(End of this chapter)