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"Mongols...Mongols..."

Zhu Jishi held a candle and stood in front of a complete map of the Ming Dynasty. It includes the northern Mobei, southern Mobei Mongolia, East and West Siberia, Kazakh Khanate, Xinjiang, Qihe, Qinghai, Tibet, and even some areas in the northeast and outside the northeast. , all marked the names of Mongolian tribes in scattered manner.

The map was sent to Zhu Jishi, the Minister of Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs, Zeng Guofan, and Weng Tonghe, the Minister of Imperial Study, both held candles and stood behind Emperor Zhu, illuminating him together.

This map shows the general situation of the Mongolian issue in the Ming Dynasty. It was obtained by Zeng Guofan after spending more than half a year reading countless archive reports and sending people to conduct on-site inspections. It should be considered to be very accurate to reflect the Inner Mongolian tribes in the Ming Dynasty. There are also many distributions - unlike the population and distribution of various ethnic groups in China in later generations, there are currently no 56 golden flowers in the Ming Empire, only six ethnic groups including Han, Mongolian, Tibetan, Miao, Yi, and Annan. Compared with later generations New China has 50 fewer ethnic groups! This is not because Emperor Zhu intends to engage in Han chauvinism, but because Chinese ethnic minorities in the late Qing Dynasty were indeed not as colorful as those in later generations. In addition to the dominant Manchu and Mongolian (Mongols are only partially ruled. In addition to status), there is a large Han ethnic group, and there are also Miao, Yi, Zanghe Hui tribes (referring to the True God Cult in Xinjiang) and other ethnic groups with different living habits from the Han people and a large population.

As for the Zhuang, Tujia, Buyi, Yao, Bai and other ethnic minorities, there was no unified national name during the Qing Dynasty (it was just a five-span republic during the Republic of China), and the treatment was no different from that of the Han people... I took the imperial examinations and took the imperial examinations. There are no extra points, and if you violate the law of the king, you will not be two less or one more leniency. You cannot lose a copper coin when paying taxes and rents. In this way, who cares about what ethnic minority is? Even if the court makes a name for a family, there is probably no one. I want to join. It’s not like being a child of the Eight Banners... If it weren’t for the ethnic policy of New China, I’m afraid no one in the future would know about these ethnic groups.

Emperor Zhu and his officials were not interested in inventing nations. Besides, the Han people in the Ming Empire are now the ruling nations, and they are also the ruling nations in the entire Greater East Asia region! Just like the Aryan people of the Third Reich in later generations- Under the rule of the head of state, only people sharpened their heads and drilled into the Aryan nation. If they really couldn't help, they still had to fight for honor. No one was allowed to be a good Aryan. It was impossible to verify that they were Slavs or Jews.

Therefore, the ethnic groups whose culture and inheritance in the Ming Dynasty, which were not so distinctive, were quickly Chineseized within the past decade and integrated into the large family of the Han ethnic group. However, those ethnic groups have very distinct characteristics, are very different from the Han people, and do not live in a lot with the Han people. It is difficult to integrate the nations. The Mongolians are the most powerful and difficult to integrate. Therefore, on the map presented by Zeng Guofan, there are still hundreds of Mongolian tribes!

Zhu Jishi put down the candle in his hand and patted his hands, and breathed heavily: "There are more than 400 tribes, of which there are sixty or seventy people with a population of over 10,000. The distribution is wide, the number of people, and the strength of force. It has already surpassed the Pseudo-Qing Dynasty. It is probably not easy for so many people to integrate into the Chinese nation... What I want is to truly integrate into, not a name that deceives oneself."

"Isn't the Emperor a great Khan of the Mongolians? Who dares not listen to the Mongolians below?" Weng Tonghe, who made great contributions to the entry into China in Japan (Akiko was inspired by Weng Tonghe's instigation to the Tokugawa family, and then went on to Luo Luo, the Tokugawa family, to join the instigation of Weng Tonghe. The one who holds power is now in his prime. Although he is still a military advisor and minister of the imperial study, his title has been promoted to a marquis.

Zhu Jishi smiled faintly, turned his head to look at Zeng Guofan, "Zeng Qing, what do you think?"

"Emperor, I think the military advisor's words are only half right." Zeng Guofan said with a serious expression, "The emperor issued an order in the name of the Mongolian Khan to abolish the Mongolian clan name, and it is of course no problem to be confused with the Greater Chinese nation. People on the grassland are of course. He has always followed the strong. In the past, there was no Mongolian race before Genghis Khan's rise. Now the Mongols also came from Genghis Khan's fusion of the grassland tribes. Today, the emperor's power is far greater than Temujin. How dare the people on the grassland not obey?"

Zhu Jishi nodded slightly. This is the rule on the grassland. Whoever has the final say is the biggest fist! Even the males who kill a clan are natural. Even Genghis Khan calls this the greatest pleasure for men! He is now also a great Khan of Mongolia, and his military power is The strength is far better than Temujin. If the Mongols don’t accept it, they will use the methods of their ancestors to treat them.

"But the Mongolians surrender does not mean integrating into the Greater Chinese nation. Taking the name of Greater China and truly integrating are completely different. If the emperor wants to truly integrate into the Mongolian people, he must do something for the Mongolian people. .Just like the emperor helps protect the Japanese people.”

Zeng Guofan shook his head and said, "I have been dealing with the Mongols over the years, and I am well aware of the poverty and weakness of Mongolia. The poverty and weakness of Mongolia are not due to the small land or the lack of wealth in property. On the contrary, they live in The lands are extremely vast and abundant, which makes the Han people live in wealth, and makes it extremely difficult for Mongolia to live in food and clothing. Therefore, in a place where Han and Mongolia live in a mixed place like the Kazakh Khanate, the difference between Mongolia and Han is not due to the mixed And when they live, they dissolve, and the gap between Mongolia and Han has become more and more obvious due to the inequality of wealth and poverty. In recent years, the Mongolian and Han people in the Kazakh Khanate have often had conflicts and fights, and there were no deaths or injuries in that year."

Yes, conflicts and fighting between Han immigrants and Mongolians are very common! This is caused by Emperor Zhu's armed immigration policy, and of course it is also related to the habit of Mongolian nomads being brave and fierce. It is not only in the Kazakh Khanate, but also in the northeast. , in the East and West Siberia Company, in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Qihe, and in the southern and northern provinces of the desert, as long as there are collective farms, the conflict between the Han and the locals will not be interrupted.

Moreover, the local Ming governments and garrisons usually support Han collective farms, and the Han collective farms have both good military power, excellent weapons and strong fortresses. Therefore, the Mongolians often suffer losses in their struggles with Han people. On one side... But the loss is one aspect, but the expansion of the Ming Empire also gave the Mongolians in the Ming Dynasty a broader living space. The large grasslands of East Siberia and Central Asia, which were originally occupied by the Russians, have now become another The Mongolian ranch.

So the Mongols have to say that they still benefited under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and the conflicts with the Han people were actually within their acceptable range. In fact, even if there were no Han people, their Mongolian tribes had been fighting for thousands of years. Fighting around. The rules on the grassland are only more respected by anyone's fist. If the Han immigrants are not organized or armed, they are all the ones who can fight and kill, and in the eyes of these descendants of the Khan, they are just useless and inferior. People. On the other hand, they always suffer under the foreign guns of Han immigrants, which makes the Mongolians feel that Han men are warriors who are not easy to bully...

Zeng Guofan paused for a moment and said in a serious tone: "Although being brave and ruthless is the true nature of the people of the grassland, it is not a way to continue to fight like this. Your Majesty finally wants to integrate all races into one and seek harmony in the world. Therefore, I think that the Mongolian seeds should be given both kindness and power, and to remove their wildness with the method of gentle education before they can be integrated into China. If you want to practice gentle education, you must first transform them from nomadic people to livestock and farming people. For example, There are settled Mongolian races in Rehe, Chahar, Suiyuan and other places in the south of the desert, and now they are no different from the Han people. During the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, there were also the Eight Banner Mongolian tribes, but now they are completely integrated into the Han people.
Chapter completed!