Xia Xun attaches unusual importance to the resettlement of the Wugu tribe, because he wants to use this as a pilot to open up a new path.
If we want to develop Liaodong, whether we start with the economy, politics, or military, agriculture is the most important foundation and the foundation that cannot be ignored.
If Liaodong is turned into a large pasture, then it will not be able to feed so many people at all, although due to the weather and rainfall, the development of agriculture in the north is not as good as in the south, but the harvest of one acre of land is still much higher than the food provided by the cattle and sheep raised by the grass the size of one acre of land.
In addition, Liaodong is an undeveloped land, and as long as agriculture develops, with the construction of water conservancy facilities and the exploration and research of crops that are more suitable for the northern climate, the agricultural harvest will still be much higher than it is now, and agriculture will surely become a source of food for the northerners.
However, people have a strong sense of dependence and trust on the inherent mode of production, and if you want to force a free man to give up the mode of production that he is familiar with and trust, and to take on a job that he is completely unfamiliar with, the resistance is unimaginable.
But these captives are not, they are the fruits of war, originally there was only a way out of being degraded as slaves, and now Xia Xun organized them into people, telling them to put down the whip of the shepherd, put the pole of the horse, and go to the plough and hoe to learn to farm, which is better than being a slave, so it is very suitable to use them as a pilot.
Once the Wugu tribe is cut and dispersed, divided into households, resettled, and successful in farming, it will not only explore a way to accelerate the integration of nomadic and agricultural peoples, but also the herdsmen who are reluctant or afraid to take the risk of trying to farm, even if they are guarding a barren pasture, and whose cattle and sheep can barely make ends meet, will be the most convincing reason for them to change.
At that time, you don't have to go, ready-made afraid that the examples are there, and they will take the initiative to give up their backward mode of production.
At the same time, these Wugu people have been arranged, and they can also attract more tribes to join, and this kind of attachment will no longer be based on political significance, no longer just for the emperor to add luster to each other, and the ready-made successful model is placed there, we must accept them at the same time, but also use advanced production methods and life civilization, so that they can be completely integrated into us.
When those herdsmen who had worked hard as nomads but could not fill their bellies could settle down, they could eat and dress and live a stable life without running around or robbing their homes like outlaws, and they would become the goal that more herdsmen yearn for and pursue.
It's also herdsmen, you can do it, of course he can do it, and people will automatically and spontaneously flock to it.
Therefore, Xia Xun attaches great importance to this, he personally presides over this matter, the more than 10,000 people should be scattered as a family unit, where to be settled, what necessary production tools should be provided, where the farmers should assist them to complete the process of reclamation and planting, what means to ensure that these people who are familiar with farming are willing to be the teachers of these herdsmen, how to ensure the life of these herdsmen before agricultural output, and so on, every time he encounters a problem, Xia Xun must convene his staff, work together, and come up with a proper solution.
Detailed regulations were drawn up, and every decree issued had to be executed, supervised, and had to be supported by special funds.
The establishment of the administrative yamen gradually became an urgent local need, and in the midst of this busyness, Fancha appeared in front of Xia Xun again.
This time, Fancha's arrogance was gone, and he whispered to Xia Xun about the difficulties encountered by their tribe, repeatedly emphasizing that his brother was in a very dangerous situation, and if he could not leave the Tatar sphere of influence in time, he would most likely become a scapegoat for the Tatars, and would be executed by the enraged Arutai Taishi.
Xia Xun then understood the real reason why Meng Ge Timur couldn't wait to defect to the "light", he thought carefully for a long time, he was very welcome to Meng Ge Timur's refuge, but what he wanted was to maximize the benefits, and it would be a pity to only pull one of Meng Ge's tribes over.
Ten enemies with open swords and guns are no more dangerous than one enemy hiding among your comrades, so why not let Meng Ge play a bigger role According to the information he had, after the division of the Northern Yuan, the Northern Yuan general Arutai and the nobles of the Warat tribe in western Mongolia became the real rulers of the two countries after the split, and neither of them was a member of the Golden Family, so they each set up a descendant of the Golden Family as a puppet, and continued to fight and kill for the territory and population.
Because Warat is located in the west of Mongolia, the area directly bordering the Ming Dynasty is very small, and the bordering area is also the poorest and most backward area of the Ming Dynasty, the uninhabited west, so before the Warat conquered Tatar, it is unlikely that there will be a large-scale conflict with the Ming Dynasty, so the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty at present, the most direct threat to Liaodong, is still Tatar.
If Liaodong can defeat the Wanhu Mansion where it is located and greatly weaken its military strength, which is closest to it, and greatly weaken its military strength, the Tatars will not have the strength to transfer enough men and horses from other places to replenish it, because the biggest threat to them at present is not the Ming Dynasty, but Wara, so that Liaodong can enter a period of peace for a long time and focus on operating and strengthening itself.
During this time, Liaodong can use Warat to contain the Tatars and solve their own problems first, and when Liaodong is monolithic and truly controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the threat from the grassland will not be a problem.
In view of this strategic purpose, Meng Ge Timur, who has already decided to defect to the Ming Dynasty and now belongs to the Tatar camp, will be of great use, if he can give full play to the use of the "anti-bone boy", the Liao army and the Ming army can get relatively greater benefits at a relatively small price, and there will be tens of thousands of Liaodong soldiers, and there will be no need to bury bones in the grassland for this.
Thinking of this, Xia Xun's mind became firm again, and he said to Fan Cha: "What you want to do, you still have to do it."
When it is done, it is a great achievement, and when your tribe comes, the governor will not treat the meritorious people badly.
As for Brother Ling's situation, I already understand, come, let's discuss it and see how to break the siege for your eldest brother."
Fan Cha stayed in Xia Xun's governor's mansion for a full day, and left quietly at dusk, and in the following days, Fan Cha went back and forth repeatedly, frequently contacted Xia Xun, and finally in the evening, Xia Xun quietly left the governor's mansion and rushed to the Eight Tigers.
On the grassland outside the pass, there was also a team of dozens of people quietly coming, and Xia Xun and Meng Ge Timur had a secret meeting at the Eight Tigers Pass.
There are very few people who know about this meeting, but when Xia Xun returned to Kaiyuan City, he already had an extra "Shun Table" signed by Meng Ge Timur in his sleeve, and it seemed that an agreement had been reached.
The number of prisoners of war camps in the prisoner of war camps where the Wugu tribe was housed was decreasing day by day, and the people who were taken away were taken away one by one, and they were to be resettled in various parts of Liaodong.
At present, their new identity has changed from the shepherd of the Wugu tribe to a tenant in Liaodong.
Yes, for the time being they are tenants.
Xia Xun has a place to settle them, and there is also wasteland for them to reclaim, but Xia Xun has no one in his hands to teach these nomads who can only herd horses and sheep, kill people and set fires to farm.
Xia Xun needed to have a crop control to teach these herdsmen who knew nothing about farming, but how to mobilize the peasants was a big problem.
It is impossible for an official to reward without that spare money, not to mention that even if you are rewarded with money, he may not be willing to do things for you with his heart.
Therefore, Xia Xun came up with a way to make the farmers of Liaodong willing to help these herdsmen, that is: let these Wugu tribe herdsmen become tenants of those Liaodong farmers who are willing to accept them, and the land is still cleared by the tenants themselves.
Of course, this is a tenancy for a limited period of time, and the time starts from the reclamation, and within ten years, the peasant families who are willing to help these herders complete the transition from herdsmen to farmers, the two sides will sign a contract, and within ten years, these farmers will become the temporary owners of these newly reclaimed wastelands, and those herders will become their tenants, and after ten years, the land ownership will return to the hands of these Wugu tribe herders.
As soon as this policy was promulgated, the herdsmen of the Wugu tribe immediately became sought-after goods, and the farmers of Liaodong broke the head of the grabbing people, they snatched these herdsmen back, and then took the initiative to help these herdsmen build houses, reclaim wasteland, and teach them how to rake the ridges, how to raise seedlings and plant, how to weed and fertilize every step, every link, the farmers of Liaodong are actively thinking ahead, they have tried their best, and they can't wait to do it in one day.
He passed on all the knowledge he knew about farming to these herdsmen, who only knew how to wield a big knife and wield a whip, knowing that the sooner these herdsmen became skilled and became experts at handling crops, the faster and more they would benefit.
And for these herdsmen, scattered, organized, deep into the interior of Liaodong, they bring their families with their mouths, even if they want to escape, even if they still have some wild surnames, until a few years of serving the crops this mind will be light, they are originally homeless, the four seas for the home, when they see the benefits of farming, they will miss where will be nostalgic for the wandering life of chasing water and grass Ten years later, the land will be theirs, and the temptation is enough to tie them up tightly.
After that, they will treat all those who come as enemies for the sake of their land and their crops But there are still a small number of people who have not been allocated because these people are not claimed by the farmers.
Some of the remaining people are young and strong in the family who have all died in the war, and only the old, weak, women and children or the disabled, and no one wants these people.
Still others are women who have lost their families.
Although most of these Mongolian women are physically strong, they are all good at doing things, and they are all very diligent and capable women, but the Han people in Liaodong still instinctively think that women have little strength, and it is better to pick a family with young and strong laborers at home, and it is more suitable to be a "gang of one, a pair of red" to help the object.
So these women are still in the captive camp, some people who want to buy serfs heard about it and started their idea again, and wanted to buy female slaves, but Xia Xun refused, he planned to wait for the court's reward to come down, and then marry these girls who have lost their husbands or have not yet married to those single meritorious generals, so that they can form families.
In this way, these women have a home, and those soldiers can take root in Liaodong with more peace of mind, which can be regarded as the first step of national integration.
These female prisoners didn't know about Xia Xun's plan, they only saw that the clansmen were taken away from each other, leaving them waiting there silently, waiting for the arrangement of fate.
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On this morning, several officers and soldiers suddenly came to the prisoner camp, and a Jurchen with a pointed hat and leather robe, picked and chose the women in the prisoner camp, selected four women, and drove them away in a Lele car.
Along the way, the Jurchen and several Han officers and soldiers talked and laughed loudly, and most of the four Mongolian women in the car could only understand some simple Chinese words, so they didn't pay any attention to the conversation of these people, but one of them listened very carefully.
She was dressed much more ornate than the average Mongolian woman, embroidered with bright flowers on the shoulders of the placket, and decorated with colorful sequins, which was originally worn by the concubines in the court of the Yuan Dynasty, and later began to spread among the people, but only the powerful could afford to wear it.
The carriage was not spacious, and the four women could only be squeezed together, but the other three women preferred to be more crowded and gave her a more spacious place, no doubt a woman of great status among the Ugu tribe.
Although the Ugu tribe no longer exists, these people still instinctively have a sense of reverence for her.
She is the wife of the leader of the Ugu tribe, Hadan Batar, the daughter of Dolzataiji, a member of the Mongolian upper class, and speaks Chinese very fluently.
From Ming Jun's conversation, she knew that she had been bought as a slave girl by the Jurchen, whose home was on the mountain outside the Eight Tigers.
She also heard the Ming army boasting proudly that they had bought off the herdsmen of which tribe they had last seen, and then they were going to attack somewhere.
"The Eight Tigers Road is the outermost pass between Liaodong and Tatar, and that Jurchen head lives in the mountains outside the Eight Tigers, if I can grab a horse after leaving the pass, I can escape to the tribe of Möngke Timur, and let him send someone to send me back to my father's tribe."
Thinking of this, Wuyun's heart pounded To be continued: