In the evening, Yun Zhao couldn't help but look in the direction of Uzang. He always felt that there was a fire in that direction. Burning.
What Han Lingshan said was completely different from what was written in his report.
This time it was not only officials, slave owners, and big landowners who were affected, but even the monks in the temples could not escape the disaster.
The entire Uzbeg aristocracy was basically wiped out by the slave uprising this time.
According to the figures on the documents, at least 21,000 people died in Qamdo alone.
The entire population of Qamdo is less than 60,000.
There are not so many people in the aristocracy, which means that anyone who owns property is basically swallowed up by this trend.
As Zhang Guozhu said before, how much suffering the slaves have suffered is how crazy the anger that breaks out now is.
Sun Guoxin opened the shackles of the slaves' hearts, which made the slaves no longer have any scruples. Under the shining of the Buddha's light, they even thought that this was a war between the real Buddha and the false Buddha. , they need to devote themselves wholeheartedly.
That’s right when you think about it. The Buddha should be compassionate and should not let them live the most miserable life. He should not look at the misery in the world and be indifferent. After all, the Buddha would cut off the flesh of an eagle and feed it to him when he saw it. Where's the eagle...
The rule of the Uzang nobles over the serfs was actually ten times more brutal than Zhu Ming's rule over the people of the Ming Dynasty. If there were no spiritual shackles, Uzang would have been in chaos long ago. In a ball.
Now, Han Lingshan has liberated the slaves in action, and Sun Guoxin has liberated the slaves in spirit. These slaves who also know that food and clothing are good things in the world will naturally follow their own needs. , the smoke billowing all the way forward.
In other words, it’s not that the Uzbek slaves don’t want to resist, but they don’t know how to resist. In this regard, Han Lingshan’s experience is very sufficient.
After a method is used and found to be very useful, it will be promoted immediately in the Lantian Imperial Court.
Duan Guoyu is doing the same thing in the Western Regions now. The eighteen imams under him have begun to preach in the Western Regions.
You must know that people in the Western Regions generally believe in the old religion. Anyone who wants to join the sect and get help from the gods must pay a large amount of money to the temple.
Now, the believers in the Western Regions are blessed. There are eighteen great imams from Dongfang Yushan who have also begun to spread the gospel here. They also need to be paid, but they don’t need much.
If you take a sip of the water you offer, it will be considered as a donation, and if you eat a green date as you offer, it will be considered as a donation. In short, as long as you are willing to believe in Protestantism, it will be considered as a donation. Give them a handful of dirt and they will call you brother... (This is not a fabrication. In the late Qing Dynasty, this is how the Northwest Protestantism defeated the old religion. It’s just that the prophet of the Protestantism,He was beheaded by the old religion in collusion with the Manchu government. Every year on the day when the Protestant prophet was killed, the prophet would be overwhelmed by the crowd at the place where he died in Lanzhou)
In Yun Zhao's view, free teachings are easier Spread, after all, the majority of people in the Western Region are still poor.
Duan Guoyu’s army entered Ili. The fully armed army ensured the success of the Imams’ missionary work. At the same time, the Imams also allowed the people in the Western Regions to recognize this army and no longer follow Master Bayi in hostility. This is an army.
At this time, most of the Western Region was still under the rule of the Mongols. However, these Mongols never ruled the place. Apart from collecting taxes and robbing, they basically never left their own country. city.
So, these imams, who already had some followers, turned their targets to shepherds, farmers, and even bandits and horse thieves outside the city...
Duan Guoyu had no idea about these imams. Very satisfied with their work.
It is impossible for people here to completely abandon their faith.
The Western Region is vast and sparsely populated, and human life is like a mayfly in front of nature. In this lonely and terrifying environment, if a lonely person does not have the company of gods, his life will be miserable every day. Can't survive.
After all, the people living in the city are a minority, and the herdsmen, farmers, and bandits outside the city are the mainstream people. After these imams complete the move of surrounding the city from the countryside.
Duan Guoyu is about to consider launching a campaign to expel the old believers in the Western Regions.
Only in this way can we, like Han Lingshan, obtain an exotic land for the Ming Dynasty. The most important thing is that through the Yushan Ala Temple, the Lantian Imperial Court can completely complete the control of the Ming Dynasty. Rule of the Western Regions.
At this time, religion has become a weapon in Yun Zhao's hands, and it is the sharpest weapon.
The ignorant Mongolians will not notice this small change.
The greedy old religious imams will not notice. After all, for them, wealthy urbanites are their main targets.
The Western Region is in a strange balance. The Ming Dynasty and Junggar Khan's troops are still facing each other in Ili. Junggar Khan does not have the confidence to completely defeat Duan Guoyu.
Duan Guoyu was not ready to swallow up Jungar Khan in one go. Before the number of people under his command reached an order of magnitude, Duan Guoyu felt that a peaceful confrontation would be a good thing.
He needs time, people, and support from local people.
Anyway, the Hans and Mongols currently rule the Western Regions, both outsiders. Duan Guoyu feels that he and the Mongols should be on the same starting line.
For the locals, they have been ruled by countless people, so they don’t care who the new ruler is. They all have to pay taxes anyway. Whoever wants less taxes is a good ruler. benevolent ruler.
In this aspect, the Mongols have no way to compete with the Han people.
One side collects taxes based on a balanced value after statistical calculations, while the other side simply requires payment of taxes. Many tax amounts simply depend on whether the officials are happy or not, and do not care about the lives of the people.
Therefore, the lives of the people in the Western Regions under Duan Guoyu's rule are generally better than those under the Mongols.
When the first year of China arrived, Duan Guoyu had already begun to accept refugees who had escaped from the Mongols.
In the Western Region, the most indispensable thing is land, and talents are the greatest source of wealth.
Duan Guoyu already knew clearly that many people in the city-states of the Western Regions were hoping that he could defeat Junggar Khan and live under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
The dark clouds of war have shrouded the sky over the Western Regions, but those stupid Mongols are still dreaming. They think that the Western Regions will always be the place of the Mongols.
What they don’t know is that Yunzhao has sent another army of 50,000 people, which left Zhangye in the spring and will arrive in Ili in the autumn.
If he could kill all the enemies around him, Yun Zhao thought that he would not have to worry about the defense line.
As long as a country is strong, delimiting national borders is a very disadvantageous thing for itself.
National borders are a prerequisite for small countries to complain to the world. For a powerful country, they are a kind of restraint. What big countries hate most is to be subject to constraint.
Hong Chengchou returned to the southwest and was also actively promoting the New Deal. However, what he wanted to do in the southwest was to ask the people of all ethnic groups who were hiding in the mountains and forests to come out of the mountains and forests first.
Otherwise, a village or a stockade is hundreds of miles apart, and there is no way to truly rule here.
So, the method he used was very cruel - to cut off the salt trade of the mountain people...
Only people who come to live under the mountain can buy salt, and the price is low and the quality is high. Superior.
Those who come down the mountain receive not only salt, but also land. In the southwest, land is more precious than gold.
In order to speed up the mountain people to leave their homeland and move down the mountain, Hong Chengchou had to send small armies one after another to pretend to be bandits and enter the mountains to destroy the houses of the leaders in the village and destroy their villages. If necessary, When the time comes, he kills the leader and turns the whole village into refugees, forcing them to go down the mountain.
The endless mountains in the southwest are the biggest instability factor for the Lantian Imperial Court.
When Hong Chengchou destroyed these forts, he even discovered ancient dynasties that had lasted for thousands of years in the mountains... Although the number of these dynasties was less than 5,000, this did not prevent them from establishing their own empire in the mountains. Become the king of the place.
There are also some tribes that are still practicing primitive slash-and-burn farming. The most exaggerated tribe actually still eats raw food, just like savages. These people are on the cliffs to catch rocks.Sheep make a living, watching them walking on the cliff as if they were walking on flat ground.
Hong Chengchou immediately ordered to recruit all these people into the military camp with food. He felt that Jin Hu would definitely use these people in places like Jiaozhi.
With Hong Chengchou's unremitting efforts, people in the nearby mountains and forests have slowly come out of the jungle and begun to live around the city.
At this time, the population in the southwest was still seriously underpopulated. Therefore, Hong Chengchou still wrote to Yunzhao, hoping to continue to follow Zhu Ming's national policy of "returning the land and returning it to the locals" and assimilate the savages in the southwest little by little.
Small countries living around big countries are destined to be unfortunate, especially when this small country has an ambitious king, their disaster will completely befall them.
The reason why countless big countries became big countries is not that they were born with such vast land, but that they were slowly expanded bit by bit by the kings of the past dynasties.
As long as your history is long enough, as long as you can integrate the other party, these lands will become part of the territory of the great country. This has been the case since ancient times.
This is how the Chinese dragon totem came into being.
It is said that the earliest dragon was no different from a snake. Its horse face, bull's eyes, antlers, fish whiskers, eagle claws, and fish scales were all obtained through continuous devouring.
So, expansion is a country’s instinct.
The reason why we do not expand is simply because the cost of expansion is too high.
For Yun Zhao, now is the time when the cost of expansion is cheapest and easiest to succeed. If he cannot show his arms at this time, he will definitely be written down in history as the stupidest king in history. .