Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 625

Goncourt died, and Timur also avenged Siqin.However, Fan Tong in Khobduo City is destined not to care about the grievances on the grassland, but whether he can get the evidence he wants.

At noon, Zhou Zhong sent a telegram, and they captured a lama named Lobsang. After preliminary interrogation, he was sent by Jebtsundamba Hutuktu.

The other guy who pretended to be the company commander of the North Navy was also caught.This person's name is Fulu, who belongs to Zhengbai Banner Mongolia, and his official identity is the Guard Academy of the Beijing Firearms Battalion.Because he participated in two battles against Beihai Town and was a prisoner after the "Battle of Fuerdan City", he has some understanding of the daily passwords and speaking habits of the Beihai Navy.

But it's a pity that when these two guys were arrested, they didn't find any paper letters with words.In this way, it is not easy for Fan Tong to turn against Jebtsundamba Hutuktu. After all, "to catch the thief and seize the stolen goods" must have solid evidence.

Two days later, Zhao Xin took Fan Tong, who had completed the handover, to bid farewell to Polya and came to Uliasu Terrace.

When the two of them followed Liu Sheng to the residence where he and Wu Xiha lived in the former general's office, they saw two little girls with rosy cheeks, one tall and one short, standing in the courtyard, wearing dark green military uniforms that had been changed to a smaller size. , also didn't wear a hat, and had a beautiful head flower on her head, which looked pretty.

"Pujie? Saihan?"

"Abu!" Pu Jie still remembered Zhao Xin. Before her mother passed away, she entrusted her siblings to this tall man on the spot.From then on, she regarded him as her father.Although she hadn't seen him for more than a year, she still remembered Zhao Xin's appearance.

Zhao Xin squatted down, leaned over and touched the heads of the two little girls, and murmured, "Hey, they've grown up!"

Although he was used to the joys and sorrows in the world these years, Pujie's "Abu" still made his heart tremble, and a feeling of joy and sorrow suddenly rushed into his heart.The small Modun station, the dilapidated yurt, the child he delivered by himself, and the woman named Urabada all appeared in front of his eyes at this moment
At this time, there was a soft creaking sound, the door of the main room opened, and a pretty woman with a round face appeared at the door, holding one in her hand, followed by a little guy who was poking around, not a black Who is Shiha.

Zhao Xin first greeted Wu Xiha with a smile, then looked at the two boys and said, "Which one is Sirchen?"

Wu Xiha chuckled and said, "Are you confused? Of course it's the little one. This is Batu."

Just as Zhao Xin raised his hand to stroke Batu's head, the little guy swished around behind Wu Xiha.He smiled awkwardly, then took Silchen from Wu Xiha, and took a closer look. The child was almost two years old, and he already had the appearance of Urabada in his eyebrows and eyes.Perhaps it was because Zhao Xin brought him into the world with his own hands, Xi Erchen didn't cry or make trouble in his arms, but just looked at him blankly.

At this time Liu Sheng said: "Come inside, it's cold outside."

Everyone chatted and laughed and entered the room, and saw a large copper plate on the Eight Immortals table in the middle, and a copper hot pot on it was boiling, hot white smoke rose, and the surrounding area was filled with pre-packaged venison. , mutton, beef louver, hump slices, tofu, cooked mushrooms, and the most eye-catching thing is a large pot of white and green Chinese cabbage, in addition to shaved green onion, coriander, sesame sauce and a large bowl of fragrant Fried chili oil.

Seeing the three of them in a daze, Liu Sheng smiled and said, "After much deliberation, it's easier and easier to eat hot pot. But I don't have tofu here, only the sesame paste and chive flowers I ground."

Fan Tong said: "Da Liu, why do you have hot pot here?"

Liu Sheng said: "Look for the blacksmith in the city to beat it."

"Where did the copper come from? Couldn't it be a cannon shell?"

"Nonsense!" Liu Sheng pointed to the copper washbasin by the window in the room and said, "There are several of these in the General's Mansion, two are enough."

Because Fan Tong didn't live in the government office in Khobduo City, he suddenly said, "That's good, that's good. I'll get someone to beat me up when I go back."

Zhao Xin looked at the pot of cabbage and said, "How is the cabbage harvest?"

Liu Shengdao: "With one hundred acres, the harvest was so-so in the first year, with a total of just over 60 catties. Don't look at this, the herdsmen are very rare. I asked the logistics to send five to every household in the city. , the army’s vegetables this winter all depend on it.”

Fan Tong said: "I planted [-] acres of cabbage over there, and I planted a lot of potatoes, radishes and onions."

After Wu Xiha called everyone to sit down, Liu Sheng lifted the lid of the hot pot, added two pieces of charcoal, and then sat down and said: "The coriander is grown in the three greenhouses set up by the logistics department, and how many are the shallots and mushrooms?" The little guy picked it in autumn, and the cow louver was specially bought by the cooking team from the herdsmen."

"Okay, I had a good life."

After joking for a while, Wu Xiha took the four children to Westinghouse to open a single table.Neither Zhao Xin nor Fan Tong could drink much, but the three of them hadn't seen each other for more than a year, and each filled a small glass, touched each other, and took a sip.Afterwards, the three of them ate while listening to Zhao Xin tell about his experiences in Europe and Southeast Asia.

When Zhao Xin talked about how to sneak attack on the Temple Tower, how Louis XVI was injured by a sword, and how Robespierre was like, Fan Tong's eyes behind his glasses widened, and Liu Sheng was also thrilled.

The three of them ate and chatted for more than two hours. When the orderly was clearing the table, Zhao Xin went to the Westinghouse to check on the four children. When he came back, he whispered to Liu Sheng: "Da Liu, when the spring warms up, send someone Send their siblings to Beihai Town. Pujie is almost 11, and Saihan is 7 years old."

In fact, last summer, Zhao Xin planned to send someone to send the four children back to Beihai Town, but Wu Xiha refused because Xi Erchen was too young.

Liu Sheng had a look of reluctance. He and his wife took care of their four children for more than a year, and they also had feelings for each other.However, he also knew that the army would have to leave after staying in Uliasutai for at most another year, and it would not be a problem for the four children to always follow, so he nodded.
Two days later, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, and Fan Tong arrived at Kulun City at night. Liu Zheng, who had been notified in advance, led the guard battalion to put a one-kilometer radius around the predetermined location under strict guard.

After getting into the carriage, Zhao Xin asked Liu Zheng with a smile, "Governor Liu, how did you experience this year?"

Liu Zheng pointed at the other person's nose and said, "Boss Zhao, you really made me suffer. I'm going to be the governor, and I'm almost becoming a neighborhood committee member!"

"What about Su Luke?"

"That's not true! Giving an extra sheep is like cutting their flesh with a knife. Just talking about salary has been talking for several months."

Zhao Xin nodded and said, "Where is the ranch owned by the public?"

Liu Zheng said: "It's okay for the princes and herdsmen of the various banners to say, after all, the Tula River was terrified of being killed when a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood were brought down. Besides, opening up the pastures of the Lama Banner is also good for them, so no one No. But the lamas in Kulun City are a bit troublesome, and I'm still trying to figure it out."

Zhao Xin snorted, and said with a serious face: "Just tell me what I said when you turn around. The best pastures in the entire Tushetu Khan Department have been occupied by them, especially Kubusugul Lake and Qingning The area around the temple must be open to other herdsmen. There is no need to talk about it! And the Lama Banner, like other Zasaks, must implement the new Suruk. Would you like me to come forward and help you shake up the place?"

"No, no, no. When you Boss Zhao showed up, didn't you frighten their butts to piss?"

The "Suluk" mentioned by the two is a pastoral tenancy system that originated in the Monan area in the Ming Dynasty.As early as Dayan Khan’s reign, he abolished the privileges of all descendants of meritorious lords with different surnames in the Eastern Sixty Thousand Households, changing the situation since Genghis Khan that two lords with the same surname and meritorious officials with different surnames coexisted side by side.Although the feudal privileges of those heroes with different surnames were revoked, they suddenly became the new great shepherds because of their rich family background.Because the leaders were gone, they loaned some of the livestock to the inferior herdsmen for grazing, and gave them a certain amount of remuneration.

By the Qing Dynasty, the Su Luke system had been widely implemented in Monan and Mobei.According to the agreement with the herdsman, the herdsmen who accept the herds will pay a certain amount of breeding animals, some meat, dairy products and ghee to the herdsman on a regular basis. Remuneration is paid annually.

Since the Northern Navy captured the city of Khobduo, it indicated that the entire Mobei Mongolia had broken away from the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Then Zhao Xin asked Kulun, Uliasutai and Khobduo to jointly issue the first decree, which was to abolish the The feudal privileges of the Zasak princes Taiji and Lama Banner.

As in the Dayan Khan era, the abolition of feudal privileges does not mean the elimination of feudalism.A large number of slaves and citizens became free people, and the policy of combining soldiers and peasants was abolished, but the problem is that except for a few who participated in the Beihai Navy, everyone else had to eat and live; so the loose personal attachment replaced the previous personal control, and the princes Nobles and lamas became great shepherds—that is, masters of Suruk, and slaves became households of Suruk.

After Liu Zheng took office last year, he first quietly visited the top figures in Kulun City, and then asked the princes Taiji of each Zasak Banner to come to Kulun City to summon them separately. He knew the characteristics of these people very well.Then he formed a task force and went down to the gathering points of the banners.

He sternly warned the work teams that pastoral areas are different from farming areas, and that the practice of "beating local tyrants and dividing livestock" in some areas before will not work. What Beihai Town needs to do is not to completely overthrow the Su Luke system, but to Transform the existing system of exploitation.

You must know that Governor Liu was a veterinarian, and he has been in charge of military horses and livestock breeding in Beihai Town for more than two years, so he is very clear about the reason.He understands that if he really wants to divide the livestock of the big herdsmen and practice egalitarianism, it will affect the reproduction of livestock due to group grazing, resulting in a decline in the number of livestock.

Of course, as long as the banner owners and big shepherds who are stubborn and commit heinous crimes are approved by the military control committees of the three places, their livestock will still be confiscated and the military control committees will deal with them.

To transform the Suruk system, the first thing to do is how to benefit both herdsmen and herdsmen and reduce oppression.Liu Zheng borrowed a practice from another time and space history. He asked the work team to negotiate with the big herdsmen of each banner, and generally stipulated that the time limit for releasing "Suluk" was three years. .It also stipulates that the owner, the grazing household and the guarantor should sign a contract and submit it to the local military control committee or work team for record.

Take the sheep-herding "Suluk" as an example. The herdsmen have to take 6% to 7% of the offspring and the sheared wool of the "Suluk" that the herdsmen took over, and what the herdsmen have left can only make ends meet.After the coordination of Beihai Town, every 50 ewes will hand over 50 lambs to the herdsman every year, and the rest of the lambs, wool and dairy products will all belong to the "Suluk" herdsmen; If there is only one goat, the "Suluk" households only get wool, not wages.

We must know that Mongolian herdsmen in the [-]th century used the felting process to utilize wool. This is a kind of felt that has not been degreased, but is only made by beating, paving, stacking, and felting. Necessities in pastoral life.Ordinary felt can be used for the felt walls of yurts or for making clothes and shoes, while fine felt made of plush can be used for weaving carpets.

In terms of compensation and relief, it is stipulated that in addition to losses due to irresistible infectious diseases, blizzards, and wolf disasters, other losses caused by improper grazing of livestock should be compensated by the "Suluk" household.

In addition, Liu Zheng also personally formulated the "Suluk" specific standards for herding horses and cattle.

Such a series of measures have greatly improved the lives of the middle and lower herdsmen, especially the poor herdsmen, and provided them with all kinds of female animals and breeding animals necessary for the development of animal husbandry.At the same time, the shepherds also benefited, although not as much as in the past, but after all, Bei Haijun dispelled the worries of dividing their family property.

Half a year later, when the new Suruk system was fully rolled out in the Zhasak banners of the Tuxietu Khan tribe, Liu Zheng promulgated an order from the governor's office to fully implement it in all parts of Khalkha in the form of decrees.

Another thing is to sell high-quality and cheap brick tea and other daily necessities to the Zasak Banners through the leadership of the Beihai Trading Co.In addition to salt and tea, the most popular are all kinds of large and small aluminum pots, kitchen knives and needlework, wool scissors and .Liu Zheng hated the old Shanxi merchants' practice of exchanging two sheep with a pottery pot. It seemed smart, but sooner or later the herdsmen would wake up to it;

Even though it’s only been a year now, the entire Tushetu Khan tribe, except for the Lama Banner of Qingning Temple, has increased the overall number of livestock by 20%, and the fastest growing ones are the Zhong Banner, Right Wing Youmo Banner and In Zhongyoumo Banner, the number of heads has increased by as much as 25%.

Liu Zheng told Zhao Xin that his next goal was to deal with Jebtsundamba Hutuktu's tens of thousands of acres of arable land in Qingning Temple, so as to limit the size of Jebtsundamba's territory.

"By the way, how did I ask you to unite with the weak big lama?"

The "weak great lamas" that Zhao Xin mentioned are actually Diruba Hutuktu and Narubanchen Hutuktu among the six major lama banners of Khalkha.Both Hutuktus originated from India, and because the latter was the apprentice of the former, they shared a territory.However, because the territory is not large and the number of households is very small, it belongs to the poorest branch among the six lama banners.

"Before the winter, I asked Da Liu to buy a thousand sheep and a hundred camels and sent them there. That surprised Shan Zhuo Teba, and sent someone to send gifts to Da Liu and me. , wrote a thank you letter. I only kept one or two presents, and let them take the rest back.”

Zhao Xin nodded in satisfaction. What else can he say besides being relieved that his brother is doing so well?

Hey, I really know how to use people well.
　I read all relevant materials on the democratic reform movement in the pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)