The morning in the grassland is cold, but unfortunately there is always some stench in the city that even the strong wind cannot take away.
Chao Yong walked out of the yard and felt the stench in the air. He couldn't help but said to Shi Yong who was watching the night next to him: "Today, drive all the Kled people in the city to the river and let them take a bath. Those who can't get into the water will be tagged."
Slave stamp and send it to the mine."
In addition to prisoners of war, there were also women and children from some nearby tribes in the city. Chao Yong was obviously talking about women and children.
Although Shi Yong was a little confused as to why the prince was angry, he still accepted the order.
Chao Yong was having breakfast when he heard the sound of horse hooves coming from far and near quickly.
The sound of horse hooves ended outside the mansion, and then everyone ran in and reported: "Nearly ten thousand barbarians came from the north, saying that they had captured Yelu Yanxi's concubines and princes, and wanted to exchange them for prisoners of war and women from their tribe.
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Chao Yong was also planning to lead troops north to Zhenzhou to capture the remnants of the Liao Kingdom today. He did not expect the barbarians to be so filial, so he nodded and said: "Okay, one Khitan royal family can be exchanged for ten barbarians. Those who submit to us, their women and children can be returned to them; those who do not submit can be returned to them."
, you can exchange cattle and sheep, otherwise women, children and prisoners of war will all be reduced to slaves."
"yes."
Chao Yong finished his breakfast in a leisurely manner, and then led the five generals and soldiers in front of his tent to the north gate.
Han Shizhong, who was in charge of guarding the city last night, had already negotiated with the barbarians at the north gate, but it seemed that there were still some differences.
When Han Shizhong saw the prince arriving, he hurriedly went down to the city to greet him: "See the prince."
Chao Yong nodded and said: "Well, are the barbarians still entangled?"
Han Shizhong said: "Those barbarians thought that one Khitan royal family should be exchanged for at least a hundred barbarians. At first they wanted to exchange one Khitan royal family for a tribe of people."
Chao Yong shook his head and said: "These barbarians don't regard themselves as human beings. The Khitan people are all the same. Why do they want to change one tribe to another? Okay, open the city gate. I'll go talk to them. It's not okay to talk."
If they dare to come and block our city gate, kill them and scatter them."
"yes"
Upon hearing this, Han Shizhong hurriedly asked his subordinates to open the city gate.
The city gate slowly opened, and they saw several barbarians on horseback blocking the city more than ten feet away, and behind them there was a mess of barbarians that could not be seen.
When the barbarians in front saw Prince Daliang leading his troops out of the city, they all moved their horses back.
Translator Kled saw the big banner opposite and suddenly said: "This is Malhusi Khan. He is the son of Mogus Khan who led us to fight against the Liao Dynasty."
Chao Yong heard that he was the son of Mogusi who rebelled against the Liao Dynasty, and wondered: "Mogusi was killed for rebelling against the Liao Dynasty, how can his son still become a Khan?"
"Mogusi was unfortunately captured by the Liao people when he sent troops once, and the tribe was not dispersed by the Liao people. After Mogusi was captured, Malhusi Khan became the leader of the tribe and professed his vassalage to the Liao Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom could not catch him
Markhus Khan had no choice but to recognize his throne. However, Mogus was the khan of all the Klei tribe, while Markhus Khan was the khan of only a few tribes."
Chao Yong nodded and said, "Go and ask him to come out and answer."
"yes"
Malhusi Khan had five thousand tribal warriors who were good at fighting, so he was able to get the Liao Kingdom to accept his title of vassal. However, after Yelu Yanxi fled to Xiongzhou with 20,000 troops and horses, the pressure increased greatly and he had to fight with other small tribes.
Together they offered cattle, sheep and horses to Yelu Yanxi.
In yesterday's battle, he also brought 3,000 people to participate in the battle. After the defeat, he gathered people from several tribes near Zhaozhou, rushed to Zhenzhou without stopping, and raided Yelu Yanxi's home.
As long as he exchanges those useless Khitans for the women and children of the Kled tribes in the south and the prisoners of war captured by Daliang, and gets the support of the Kled tribes in the south, he will soon be able to unify the Kled tribes and become the Great Khan of the Kled tribe.
Reveal the glory of my father.
Malhusi Khan had a good idea, but he didn't expect that Daliang was only willing to exchange ten Kelei people for one Liao royal family. Even including Yelu Yanxi's concubines, the total number of Liao royal families he captured was only a few dozen.
People. If he exchanged it like that, he could only get back a few hundred people. This kind of favor could not make the southern tribes join him, so he asked people from the tribe who could speak party language to bargain.
There were tens of thousands of women and children in the tribes under Malhusi Khan. However, they were separated from the Central Plains by the Liao Kingdom and Xixia. None of them could speak Chinese, and only a few could speak Dangxiang and Khitan.
Without women and children, the grassland tribes will not perish. They can steal women from other tribes to reproduce and continue the tribe.
Therefore, although Daliang captured Fangzhou and captured the women and children of several tribes, no barbarians came to surrender.
When Malhusi Khan heard that Prince Daliang asked him to answer, he also rode out and bowed to Chao Yong on the horse.
The conversation between the two began through the Klie people who took refuge in Daliang.
Chao Yong looked at Malhu and thought: "Wherever my dragon flag is inserted, that's Daliang's land. From today on, this grassland is my Daliang's land. If you surrender to me, Daliang, I can let you continue to live."
On this grassland. If you are unwilling to surrender, you can take people away from this land, otherwise the Daliang cavalry will kill all those who covet the Daliang land."
Malhusi was stunned when he heard Chao Yong's domineering declaration. Some of the barbarians behind him could not bear to swing their scimitars. They had lived on this grassland for generations, and they were the masters of this grassland.
Malhusi also flashed a hint of anger, but when he saw that the cavalry from the Daliang military camp on the left had gathered, he could only endure his anger and said: "If we submit to Daliang, how many cattle and sheep will we need to pay tribute to Daliang every year?"
Chao Yong shook his head and said: "If you submit to me, Daliang, you are the people of my Daliang. You don't need to pay tribute. Merchants from Daliang will come here without restrictions, and your cattle and sheep can be exchanged for more things."
After hearing Chao Yong's words, the barbarians from all tribes whispered to each other in disbelief.
Even though they were all Kerei people, small tribes had to pay tribute of cattle and sheep in order to get protection from larger tribes. They resisted the Liao State only because the tribute demanded by the Liao State was more than they could bear.
Malhusi doubted: "Are we going to fight for you like the party members?"
After hearing Malhusi's question, Chao Yong said to the translator beside him: "You have been on Ningxia Road for a few months, and you must know our military system in Daliang. You can talk to him about it."
Chao Yong has always wanted to implement a compulsory military system for all people, but it was initially decided in Daliang that it could not be enforced. Therefore, the current military system in Daliang is still voluntary participation in the army. The generous military pay, titles and generals are very attractive, so Daliang does not have to worry about the source of soldiers.
The Dangxiang vassal army is also a warrior of the Dangxiang department who voluntarily lives by swords and guns. They are different from the Daliang Zhengjun. It is just because they are not trained from Tokyo, but the pay is the same as that of the Daliang Zhengjun.
The settled party members have signed up like the Han people, and then went to Tokyo for training. The vassal army came from the tribes who were still grazing, but Daliang has also designated pastures for them. They can no longer nomadic, and when the time is right, Daliang will
The vassal army will be abolished, all soldiers and horses will be trained in Tokyo, and the assimilation of all ethnic groups will be accelerated.
Malhusi also heard some things about Ningxia Road, but he didn't believe it would be such a good thing. In addition, many Dangxiang people joined the army, so he always felt that it was Dangxiang people who worked hard for Liang instead of paying tribute.
Hearing that the Kerei people who went south in winter said that the party soldiers on Ningxia Road were completely voluntary, and that all the people in Daliang except merchants did not have to pay taxes, Malhusi wondered: "Only merchants pay taxes, so don't things in Daliang have to be very expensive?"
Is it expensive?”
Chao Yong smiled and said: "All the mines belong to the imperial court, and only the imperial court can sell tea and wine. The imperial court has a lot of income, and the commercial tax is not high. In the Central Plains, one of your horses can probably be exchanged for a hundred pounds of tea."
, if it is shipped here, it can be exchanged for four to five hundred kilograms."
Chao Yong was talking about coarse tea, and of course very few barbarians knew about fine tea. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the tea farmers used to make tea were coarse tea, but in the Southern Song Dynasty, the barbarians began to ask for fine tea.
In the Song Dynasty, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, they used copper coins to buy horses from the Ban people. But later it was discovered that many Ban people cast the copper coins into weapons, and then traded tea for horses. By the time of Zhao Ji, one horse had increased to 250 pounds of tea.
price.
This is the price for horses exchanged between the Han people and the Fan people in the northwest, and the Fan people will also resell the tea further north.
Tea can relieve greasiness, detoxify and eliminate diseases. After eating tea, the barbarians who mainly eat meat cannot do without tea, but the tea they eat is transferred from Xixia or Liao. A horse often only has
It can exchange for dozens of kilograms of tea.
Mal Husi always had tea. When Chao Yong said that one horse in Daliang could be exchanged for a hundred catties of tea, he was dumbfounded.
The shepherds behind were even more excited and shouted. They also needed tea, but in the past, the price of tea was so high that no one except the tribal leaders and witch doctors could afford to drink tea every day. If a horse can be exchanged for several hundred kilograms of tea, they
Just like the leader, he can drink tea every day.
For the grassland people, the most attractive thing in the Central Plains is tea. Cloth is a woman's hobby. For rugged men, wearing a sheepskin is fine.
When Malhusi heard the discussion of the tribesmen behind him, he knew that everyone had the same idea as him, so he jumped off his horse and knelt down and said: "We are willing to submit to Daliang."
The barbarians behind saw them sweating and knelt down. They also dismounted and knelt on the ground.
Chao Yong didn't expect to subdue these ten thousand people so easily. He waved his hand and said: "Don't kneel down, Daliang. You all can get up."
The cavalry in the military camp outside the city had also gathered. Seeing that the prince made the barbarian soldiers kneel down with just a few words, they felt that the prince was extremely domineering.
Chao Yong did not disappoint Malhusi, and directly assigned Malhusi to the Klei Department for inspection, making Malhusi prostrate himself to the ground again.
"Are there any Khitans in Zhenzhou?"
Mal Husi shook his head and said: "No more. There were only a thousand Khitan soldiers in Zhenzhou, and we killed them all. The Khitan soldiers who escaped yesterday all followed Yelu Dashi in the Liao Kingdom to the west, probably to Weizhou in the west.
Or Zhaozhou."
Chao Yong was also stunned when he heard that Yelu Dashi was leading the Khitan soldiers to the west.
In history, Yelu Dashi created a Xiliao. Is it possible that he can create another Xiliao?
If Yelu Dashi really fled to Central Asia, Chao Yong would not pursue him now. There are countless small countries in Central Asia. Let Yelu Dashi destroy them, and then Daliang will go to destroy Xiliao. This will undoubtedly save a lot of trouble.
Instead of fighting to the west, it is better to fight to the east. Wipe out Japan and mine Japan's gold and silver mines to mint coins. The court of Daliang minted gold and silver coins, but because gold and silver were scarce, the gold and silver coins put in were basically collected by big households or made into coins.
Without gold and silver utensils, it was rare to see gold and silver coins circulating in the market. This allowed the smooth implementation of large-value banknotes issued by Daliang Bank.
Now all the banknotes in Daliang can be cashed at the bank, and the Royal Bank will not issue banknotes indiscriminately. But there is no guarantee when a prodigal will appear and start issuing banknotes indiscriminately, causing the credit of the Royal Bank to collapse, so
After careful consideration, Chao Yong decided to use gold, silver, and copper coins as currency, so as not to leave any loopholes for future generations to exploit.
Japan's gold and silver mines are very rich, and the Japanese are ready-made mine slaves. They only need to threaten their emperor with force, or support a puppet. Let them pay a fixed amount of gold and silver to Daliang every year, and there is no need to send troops to station in Japan for a long time.
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It is no secret that Japan is rich in gold, but the mining of silver has not yet begun.
As early as the Tang Dynasty, Japan had excavated a large amount of gold, and a large number of envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty also relied on gold to live in the Tang Dynasty. The Song Dynasty imported a large amount of placer gold from Japan, and exported copper coins, silk, and ceramics.
Japan's reputation for being rich in gold spread to Central Asia and even Europe. In the second half of the ninth century, Islamic geographer Ibn Holdazbeh recorded rumors about the land of gold. The record said that the dogs raised by the Japanese were
Chain locks and monkey collars are all made of gold.
Later, Marco Polo also had this description in his travel notes: "On the Japanese islands, there are also precious stones and pearls. The color of the pearls is like roses, they are very beautiful and the price is very huge. The pearls are big and round, and everyone has them."
Countless gold, the rooms of the king's palace
The roof is covered with pure gold, and the floor is covered with gold as thick as two fingers. Many rooms have thick pure gold tables, and the windows are also decorated with gold. This palace is so luxurious.
The level is simply beyond description with words.”
Of course, this is a deceptive description, but it also shows that people at that time knew that Japan was rich in gold.
In February of this year, Japan sent an envoy to declare its vassalage to Daliang, and at the same time sent hundreds of foreign students to study the culture of Daliang. When the Japanese envoy heard that the prince of Daliang was going to open a noble academy, he immediately asked the Daliang court to allow the Japanese prince to enroll. The imperial court sealed Japan
The king and their prince also had titles in theory, so the court agreed to their request.
When Chao Yong learned that the Ministry of Rites had agreed to this matter, he was about to refuse immediately, but then he thought that his aristocratic academy was not there yet. Japan has never been a peaceful nation. It is easy to catch their mistakes. Chao Yong has already asked the spies to pay attention.
International students sent from Japan.
The navy of the three heroes of the Ruan family, Zhang Heng brothers, and Li Jun has been established, and Chao Yong's ship has also been built.
When Zhao Ji was in power, he had been planning to build a large-scale Shenzhou to send an envoy to Goryeo to show off the country's prestige. During the reign of Song Shenzong, the Song Dynasty had built two giant boats. Zhao Ji, who was so happy with his achievements, naturally aimed to surpass the giant boats built during the Song Shenzong era. Wood materials, drawings
They had all been drawn, but just when they were about to start building it, the Song Dynasty fell and the building of the Shenzhou was put on hold.
When the navy commander was ordered to build a seagoing ship, the shipyard reported the plan. Chao Yong learned that there were ready-made materials and drawings, and immediately asked the shipyard to make them into his ship.
In addition to his flagship "Prince", he also built three frigates.
The frigate is more than ten feet long, three feet deep, two feet and five feet wide, and has a load of two thousand stones. The Prince's length, breadth and height are three times that of the frigate, as are its utensils and equipment.
The main mast of the frigate is ten Song Zhang high, and the foremast is eight Song Zhang high. There are a total of one hundred and ten sails. The sail is used when the wind is facing the wind, and the canopy is used when it is slightly biased. There are eight directions of wind, and only when the wind blows from directly ahead,
It cannot move forward with sails. However, there are oars and treadmills that can make the ship move forward.
(The data is from the envoy ship of the Song Dynasty to Goryeo in the fifth year of Xuanhe. The Prince is a Shenzhou. There is no specific record of the load, but it is estimated that the load is more than a thousand tons)
Malhusi led his tribes to surrender, and Chao Yong immediately ordered the release of all the women and children of the tribes who had surrendered. However, the prisoners of war were required to be redeemed by the tribes with cattle and sheep, and those who were not redeemed had to serve the imperial court for three years.
Chao Yong wanted to build more cities on the grassland. In addition to hiring people from various tribes, the most affordable option was naturally prisoners of war.
After Malhusi got the official position of Daliang, he was also very active and immediately sent people to persuade other tribes in Kelie to submit.
Two days after Chao Yong led his troops north to Zhenzhou, all the Klie tribes surrendered to Daliang. Thousands of the Khitans who fled also returned to Daliang, and thousands of them followed Yelu Dashi and fled to Xizhou Uighurs.
After recruiting and surrendering all the Kelie tribes, Chao Yong sent people to recruit and surrender the Naiman tribe, the Merkid tribe, the Mongolian tribe, the Tatar tribe, the Ugu tribe, the Enemy tribe and so on. At the same time, he invited more than a thousand tribal leaders to join the tribes.
General Assembly.
Because the divisions were so dispersed that the farthest enemy troops were more than two thousand miles away from Zhenzhou, Chao Yong set the date for the meeting of the leaders of each division on June 15th.
In order to ensure the safety of the leaders of each tribe, Chao Yong ordered that within three months each tribe should not attack or kill people from other tribes. If anyone violated the regulations, Daliang would send troops to wipe out the tribesmen, leaving no chickens or dogs behind.
Before the meeting of various ministries, many tribes sent envoys to express their submission to Daliang. In their view, they did not need to pay any tribute to submit to Daliang. Instead, they could buy Daliang's things cheaply, with no harm at all. If they resisted Daliang, they would
They had to face the Daliang cavalry. Although they didn't know what Daliang's military strength was, Daliang was able to carve up the Liao Kingdom with the Jin Kingdom, and its strength was obviously greater than that of the other grassland tribes.
The meeting place of the various grassland ministries was held on the grassland. Before the arrival of the leaders of the various ministries, Daliang prepared tents for the leaders of the various ministries.
Without actual combat, just looking at the equipment, the Daliang cavalry is undoubtedly more intimidating than the Khitan soldiers back then. Many tribal leaders lost a trace of rebelliousness when they saw the well-equipped Daliang cavalry, and behaved towards Daliang from beginning to end.
docile and obedient.
Under the threat of Daliang Kuanhe's surrender and strong military power, as well as the fact that many tribes had surrendered in advance, all participating tribes quickly surrendered to Daliang.
At the conference, Chao Yong announced the establishment of a grassland road, designated pastures for each ministry, and selected 20 places to build cities. Millions of Han people would be moved from the Central Plains to farm and teach farming to each ministry. Dong Ping was appointed as the first commander-in-chief of the grassland road.
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The Grassland Road starts from the Altai Mountains in the west, to the Daxinganling Mountains in the east, from the desert in the south, to the northernmost tip of Lake Baikal in the north. It spans more than 7,000 miles from east to west and two thousand miles from north to south. (To be continued...)