Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 333 Get used to it
Long before Zhu Youxiao came to Zhangjiakou, Cui Chengxiu, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and Qian Qianyi, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, had already been asked to jointly prepare to fill the vacancies of the new county magistrates.

For this reason, after occupying the vast territory of Monan Mongolia such as Horqin and Khalkha and the land in the Ningjin area, Zhu Youxiao immediately appointed Yang Tinglin, the governor of the Fourth Army, as the governor of Monan temporarily. The third brigade will be stationed in Yingchang City, Horqin Department, Monan, and Liu Shiyu, the commander of the brigade, will be the commander of the Monan capital to deter the force.

After Yang Tinglin was appointed governor of Monan, he announced the end of military control in the Monan area, and represented that Monan Mongolia had officially become a political envoy of the Ming Dynasty.

Before the imperial guards withdrew, the administrative division was immediately carried out to establish the division of specific prefectures and counties.

The Ministry of Officials, together with the Ministry of Rites, immediately conducted an assessment of the candidates for candidate officials, and selected qualified candidates to serve as official seal officials, chief ministers, inspectors, and academic officials in various prefectures and counties.

In particular, the establishment of a school, the appointment of a large number of Confucian scholars as teaching staff, to impart Confucian knowledge to ordinary Mongolian herdsmen, and let them learn Han culture, in order to achieve the purpose of education is a top priority.

For a while, countless scholars who had been waiting for several years to be selected by the Ministry of Officials were suddenly promoted to magistrates or even fourth-rank magistrates. He was also very reluctant, and even refused the imperial court's appointment on the grounds of illness. Zhu Youxiao simply used this to directly remove his fame.

In desperation, a large number of talented scholars had to come outside the customs to become officials. However, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of these scholars, Zhu Youxiao also promulgated some incentive policies. Promoted one level above the same level of officials.The salary is also paid three times as much as that of officials of the same level in the customs, and those with outstanding talents will be given priority in being selected into the pavilion in the future.

As a result, many people with lofty ideals have been attracted to the Ministry of Officials to apply for posts in Monan and Liaodong.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also encouraged middle- and lower-level officials, especially prefectural assistant officials such as Tuiguan and county magistrates, to report to the Ministry of Officials and request to be transferred to Monan and Liaodong as chief officials.

In addition, Tongsheng is also encouraged to report to the Ministry of Officials, and some officials such as decrees, professors, county magistrates, and classics can be served by Tongsheng.

Anyway, there is no shortage of people who want to be officials in Ming Dynasty. Gao Hongjiang was a student in the 42nd year of Wanli. He was also appointed as the magistrate of Xilin Gol Prefecture in Horqin Prefecture.

Although it is only one state, it is larger than several prefectures in the pass. Gao Hongjiang wore an indigo five-rank official uniform, white moire boots on his feet, and a black gauze hat on his head. Xilin Gol Prefecture.

But when he arrived, he found out that although the state was big, it didn't have a decent city. There was only a wooden village built by the imperial guards during the temporary military management, and there were a few simple huts, which were the yamen.

And there are fewer people under the rule, and it is difficult to see a few people within a hundred miles, and the distribution is very scattered.

Gao Hongjiang's father used to be a magistrate of a certain prefecture in Huguang, so he also knew the responsibilities of some local officials. Therefore, as soon as he took office, he first summoned the magistrates in his own county in accordance with the requirements of the court, and prepared to count the number of registered households in the prefecture and the number of pastors. The amount of land, and plans to do land division contracting according to other local arrangements that have been divided.

But Gao Hongjiang discovered that there are only three counties in the entire Xilin Gol Prefecture, except for Xilin Gol County, which are Sunit and Wuzhu counties, but now only Sunit and Wuzhu counties have county magistrates, which means that Gao Hongjiang himself The magistrate also had to lead the county magistrate of Xilin Gol.

Gao Hongjiang had to do it himself. At the price of ten silver dollars a month, he hired an old Mongolian man who knew Chinese as his staff to assist him in his work.

Then, I started my own administrative work.

It took almost half a month for him, the other two magistrates and other officials to gather all the herdsmen in Xilin Gol, register them, and compile their household registrations. According to the pros and cons, the statistics are completed.

It wasn't until half a month later that the more than 3000 herdsmen families in Xilin Gol Prefecture were allocated pasture land, the number of sheep and horses, and even ironware according to the size of their population.

Zamuhar was originally a serf of a certain tribe in the Horqin tribe. In his consciousness, everything here, including himself, also belonged to the leader of the tribe. The Han officials personally gave themselves three hundred acres of grassland, and also distributed ten rams, thirteen ewes, two lambs, three mares, two stallions, and one old horse. These are the wealth of my family of eight, and others have no right to take it away. If anyone dares to plunder, they can go to Zhizhou Yamen to sue.

Being able to own something that belongs to him makes Zamuhar very excited and looking forward to his future life. He is confident that his family will have dozens of sheep and dozens of horses in the future.

Although he had to pay a certain amount of tax to the Ming court every year, it was not high, so Zamuhar did not resist because of this. On the contrary, like other serfs, he was sincerely grateful to His Majesty the current Emperor of Ming.

Due to the release of the production materials controlled by the feudal lords and the liberation of the serfs, the enthusiasm of the herdsmen has been greatly improved. The herdsmen in the entire Monan Mongolia have forgotten to plunder, but are diligent in herding their flocks and sheep. The horses, in order to feed the sheep and horses more, some are still grazing in the evening.

They don't rest even at night, because all prefectures and counties are now recruiting craftsmen to build cities and government buildings, which requires a large number of migrant workers, and thus gives these herdsmen a chance to earn extra money.

After a year and a half, dozens of cities and official roads suddenly appeared in Monan, and the life of herdsmen also began to change. Some wealthy families also began to move into the city and build their own whitewashed walls. Deva.

And the effect of education has also begun to be systematic. If you go to Monan to do business, when you enter a new city that has just been built to rest, you can see the school palace in the city and hear round-faced Mongolian children in the classroom in front of the statue of Confucius. Read the Three Character Classic.

But in addition to being taught the Confucian classics, they also have a must-learn political course and historical geography course, which is to learn how great His Majesty the Ming Emperor is today, and why he represents the Changshengtian.

The history and geography class is to learn the vastness and greatness of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the great achievements in history, such as the beauty of the south of the Yangtze River, the majesty of the Yellow River, the majesty of Mount Tai, the boundlessness of the East China Sea, the legend of the commoners of Emperor Taizu Gao, and the 5000-year history of the Chinese nation. The glory of the year, etc., began to be instilled into the minds of these children bit by bit.

Moreover, the imperial court encourages children under the age of ten to change their Chinese surnames and take Chinese names. As long as a child of any family changes their Chinese surnames to Han people, [-]% of the tax can be reduced or exempted.

Since they can get benefits, for ordinary herdsmen, these sugar-coated cultural invasions have not aroused their vigilance, and they cannot resist the temptation of such benefits.

Wang, Li, Liu and other Chinese surnames that are easy to recognize and remember, and are most familiar to grassland people, were widely used. For a while, families with these common surnames sprung up on the grassland like mushrooms after rain.

Although countless serfs were liberated from the tribal feudal lords and made them the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, in order to achieve the purpose of establishing the Ming Dynasty’s ruling system completely in Monan and prevent the Raksha Kingdom from occupying these places, due to the fact that Monan Mongolia The vastness of the country and the sparse population make many places still not truly included in the ruling system.

For this reason, Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to encourage the people in the interior to immigrate outside the customs, and to go to the west entrance and enter the east of the Guandong. For this reason, Zhu Youxiao also directly stipulated that as long as they are willing to immigrate outside the customs or newly occupy the Mongolian area, they can reclaim fields at will, regardless of the amount. The imperial court recognized it as its private property and did not pay taxes for three years.

In addition, both the Monancheng Announcement Political Envoy Division and the newly established Liaodong Cheng Announcement Political Envoy Division will have quotas for the examination, so that some traditional families who have cultivated and studied their families can be attracted to settle outside the Great Wall, and because the competition outside the Great Wall is less difficult And realize the ideal of Guangzong Yaozu.

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More than a dozen wolves were released, and the soldiers of the Imperial Guard, drenched in heavy rain, unceremoniously moved the spring, and shot iron bullets at the wolves who were the targets.

The continuous and intensive shooting caused the wolves to run away exhaustedly, and finally all died in the field outside Zhangjiakou City, and the smoke that filled the air in the heavy rain was even more persistent.

And this scene made Lin Danhan stunned. He didn't expect that the firearms of these imperial guards could really fight in the rainy day. He couldn't help thinking that it's no wonder that the imperial guards were able to resist Jiannu's attack on the capital. Now it seems that, It doesn't seem to be just luck, either.

"King Shunyi, how about my Daming Apocalypse Type [-] flintlock gun?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help laughing and asked Lin Danhan at this time.

Lin Danhan smiled awkwardly: "It's the best firearm I've ever seen. I didn't expect it to be not afraid of rainy weather and can fire continuously, but its structure seems to be different from the bird's gun, without the matchlock. "

"I don't know the exact reason, but I only know that Jiannu also valued this kind of firearms, and insisted on taking out 100 million silver dollars to buy a batch of such firearms from my Daming, so that I can rule the grassland in the future." Zhu You The principal was not in a hurry to ask Lin Danhan if he intended to buy the weapons eliminated by his Imperial Guards, but he just made up a pretense that he would buy his own arms as a slave, so as to induce Lin Danhan to buy his own arms.

Lin Danhan was really shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "No, Your Majesty, didn't you just build slaves to fight? Why did you sell him such good firearms?"

"No way, I signed an armistice agreement with Jiannu in order to fight for a truce to benefit the people. The agreement is that he, Huang Taiji, recognizes me as his son, but I have to allow him to sell firearms to him," Zhu Youxiao continued. He made nonsense with a helpless look, but Lin Danhan was a little convinced, and said: "I wonder if His Majesty the Emperor is willing to sell it to my Chahar department."

Zhu Youxiao pretended to think about it carefully, and then said: "In this way, after all, you have belonged to my Ming Dynasty, and I naturally deserve to be your brother of Prince Shunping. My Ordnance Department still has [-] Apocalypse-style flintlock guns in stock. How about selling it to you for one hundred silver dollars (the actual cost is twenty silver dollars) at that time? You must know that my ordnance department cost a hundred silver dollars to make this one. Now because it is you, I will suffer a bit. In the future I also have to rely on you to defend the northern border for me."

"Thank you, Emperor Daming, please rest assured, I, Lin Danhan, will never betray Daming!"

After Lin Danhan finished speaking vowedly, Zhu Youxiao asked Wang Chengen to take him to sign a firearms purchase contract with Bi Maokang, the ordnance department doctor who followed him. Lin Danhan had accumulated a lot of gold and silver by annexing other tribes over the years. Ten thousand silver dollars, equivalent to more than two million taels of gold, he can afford it.

But Lin Danhan was not satisfied with buying a batch of arms from Daming. He was still thinking about Zhu Youxiao's promise to give him part of Horqin's territory.

Therefore, he would still come to Zhu Youxiao from time to time, but he would always be prevaricated by Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Youxiao did not leave Zhangjiakou immediately and ignored him.

After his Chahar Ministry handed over the first batch of funds for purchasing firearms, that is, 50 taels of gold, Zhu Youxiao refused to meet him and started to return to Beijing.

But Lin Danhan still refused to give up. Seeing that Zhu Youxiao ignored him, he stopped Wang Chengen: "My lord, why did the emperor not see me? Then when will Xilingol give me the Chahar department?" , why doesn't the emperor have an accurate statement?"

Wang Chengen, who received Zhu Youxiao's instruction, couldn't help laughing: "It just so happens that His Majesty is going back to Beijing today. If King Shunping wants to know, he can ask His Majesty face to face."

"Well, I have asked several times, let me ask again this time." Lin Danhan's heart was broken at this time, but he had no choice but to follow Wang Chengen into the palace to meet Zhu Youxiao. Immediately couldn't wait to ask him about it.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao pretended to be stunned and asked: "When did I promise you King Shunping, King Shunping won't remember it wrong, right?"

"That's right! Your Majesty, you are also a man of your word, and you can't say anything." When King Shunping said this, Zhu Youxiao suddenly scolded him: "Presumptuous!" King Shunping was so frightened that he was stunned at that time After a moment, he still held on and said, "Could it be that your Majesty the Emperor really wants to go back on his word."

"It doesn't matter whether you regret it or not. King Shunping, you have to adjust your mentality. This kind of thing will not only happen once, but I will make such empty words a few more times. By then, you will get used to it."

After Zhu Youxiao said that, he turned and entered the dragon chariot, ready to leave for Beijing.

But Lin Danhan didn't come back to his senses for a while, his fists were clenched tightly, and his teeth were clenched. It was obvious that he was very angry now, angry that Zhu Youxiao was playing him like a monkey.

Lin Danhan wished to go back immediately and lead tens of thousands of cavalry to avenge this hatred, but when he thought that Zhu Youxiao said a few days ago that Sun Chuanting and Wang Zaijin were to strengthen their defenses, and the imperial guards also retreated to the Jizhou area, I am afraid there will be It means to prevent yourself from aggressively entering the army.

Therefore, Lin Dan could only endure the sweat, but when he thought that besides spending a lot of money to buy a batch of firearms, he seemed to get some benefits from belonging to Daming and borrowing from the Imperial Guards, and instead fell into the encirclement of Daming like Jian Nu, so he let He felt very aggrieved.

(End of this chapter)