Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 153 Opening of Ports for Trade

The news that the imperial court had opened ports to Mongolia and launched trade immediately flew all over the world like swallows in spring, stimulating the sensitive taste buds of merchants and making them rush in desperately to share this gluttonous feast.

Merchants big and small have organized a large amount of supplies, such as pots, pans, radishes, and common people. Even pickles, which are worthless in the mainland, are hot commodities for the Mongolians. Of course, the most popular thing is spirits.

They gathered at Sihaiweiguan. The originally deserted Sihaiweiguan, next to the Great Wall, suddenly became bustling with activity. Here, a large-scale market was immediately formed.

There is an endless stream of merchants passing through customs. Guardsmen in Jinyi and Dongchang Fanzi quickly and strictly inspect the goods, collect taxes and release them.

Outside the pass, Mongolian pulleys driving cattle, sheep, and furs and medicinal materials were jammed on the road.

When Lu Mou arrived with the goods, Zu Dashou came to contact him personally and also reported on the work.

The two parties met and after the ceremony, Lu Mou held a banquet to celebrate Laozu's birthday.

Zu Dashou turned into a rabbit in the blink of an eye, and launched a whirlwind attack on the vegetables and radishes on the table.

I was still not satisfied with the meal, but I could only put down my chopsticks and apologized to Lu Mou: "I have been in the grassland for more than half a year. Every day, I eat either horse milk or goat milk, or beef and mutton. I can't eat a mouthful of radish and cabbage all day long. It's so hard for us." These Han people are so greedy. For this reason, it is disrespectful in front of the regent."

Lu Mou laughed loudly: "I feel the same way, I feel the same way. When I came back from Mongolia, I dug up the grass roots and peeled off the bark of the trees. I just wanted to hug the trunks and gnaw them. For this reason, I had to forcefully buy the common people's storage. Vegetables make the people wonder why these bandits don't rob them of gold and silver, but only rob them of worthless radishes and cabbage. If you had told us earlier, we would just give them to you."

Then the two of them laughed in sympathy.

"How is it? How effective has it been in liberating the herdsmen over the past six months or so?"

When mentioning this matter, Zu Dashou excitedly slapped his thigh: "According to the method taught by the prince, things went surprisingly smoothly. Especially when the prince's attack on the left, middle and right banner of Haraqin attracted the Mongolian leader on my side If we pay attention, things will go more smoothly for us.

As long as we send out a military team of three or five people from our Mongolian battalion in advance, quietly enter a Mongolian tribe in advance, mobilize the herder slaves, and in a blink of an eye, the hatred of the herder slaves' enemies will be ignited. As long as my main force attacks, we can kill the leader. Then we will implement the prince's instructions and distribute the pastures and the leader's wealth, cattle and sheep to the herdsmen and herdsmen. We will only take the leader's jewelry, gold and silver. In this way, Come, those herders and slaves are all grateful to us.

We also implemented a law to recognize land deeds, stipulating that the allotted pastures will become their property forever. This has further strengthened the herdsmen's support for us.

Needless to say, the Manchu Qing occupied Mongolia and implemented a land enclosure policy. Even the original herdsmen became slaves and turned their property into the property of the Manchu masters. In this way, one plunders and the other gives, who is good and who is bad will be judged. The herdsmen supported us even more firmly.

One of the leaders launched a counterattack and wanted to take back their pastures, cattle and sheep. However, before my main force could attack, the local herdsmen spontaneously organized themselves, and young, old, women and children went into battle to destroy them. "

Then he laughed with great satisfaction: "Hahaha, in the grassland, the team of humble ministers are truly called King Masters by the herdsmen."

This result was not beyond Lu Mou's expectations, because the later liberation war and the contrast between the Northeast and the land reform were there.

The poor and oppressed people all want to be liberated, but they have no way out. And once you give them a backbone and a retreat they can rely on, they will burst out with energy that is unimaginable and will make the oppressors tremble.

And it was this method that made the war of liberation three to four years earlier than countless people expected. After introducing these, Zu Dashou carefully took out a list of invitations in his arms: "This is the list of invitations accepted by the minister and Wu Xiang. Please take a look at it by the regent."

Lu Mou took it and read it carefully. At that time, Zu Dashou was staring at Lu Mou's facial expression.

Because it was on the list, the one who was invited to be sealed was so right. He was really afraid that Lu Mou would break his promise, and it would be difficult for him to explain it when he went back.

After Lu Mou read the list carefully, he smiled and shook his head.

At that time, Zu Dashou's heart sank, and he quickly stepped back and said: "These are all people who are being rewarded. Of course, there are also a few small tribes with only ten or twenty thousand people who can be set aside."

Lu Mou smiled and shook his head again.

This made Zu Dashou dumbfounded: "Because the imperial court promised the reward in the first place, those soldiers dared to form small teams, dispersed alone, and went to various Mongolian tribes to agitate. If they cannot get the promised reward, I am afraid that this will be cancelled. The enthusiasm of latecomers will disappoint the herdsmen and will be detrimental to our development."

Lu Mou smiled: "The Marquis misunderstood me. I think you only reported more than 30 candidates for the title this time, and only 4 asked for the title of County King. You have not done enough work. Compared with me, It’s much less than expected.”

This was completely beyond Zu Dashou's expectation.

Lu Mou said: "I will report the names on the list back to the imperial court, and then report them to the emperor. They will all be canonized, given gold-seal iron coupons, and python robes."

Zu was overjoyed and stood up and bowed to Lu Mou: "On behalf of those people, I would like to thank the emperor for his grace."

"You should be grateful, but you see, according to my paper estimate, the number of Mongolians who have been naturalized in our Ming Dynasty is only about one million. From our estimate, the entire southern and northern Mongolia, There are about tens of millions of people. How can this be possible?

Another thing is that what you are doing now is blatantly poaching Manqing. Although you are thousands of miles apart from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in the area where you are liberating, and the news does not spread quickly, the snow on the grasslands melts, and the news of the Mongols asking for help will not take more than two months to reach the Manchu and Qing dynasty's home base of Shengjing and Dole. Gon will not sit idly by. Then in half a year at the latest, he will respond to rescue Mongolia and stabilize his basic market. "

Zu Dashou frowned and nodded: "Your Majesty is right. This is what Wu Xiang and I are worried about."

"Based on your current estimate of the population under control, the most you can gather to resist the main force of the Qing Dynasty is 50,000 soldiers. This is far from enough. If you, the old man, cannot gather enough strength in a short period of time, , to block the Qing Dynasty's crusade against you, you will eventually waste all your efforts."

Zu Dashou nodded in agreement: "The prince is worried. So when I go back this time, I will increase my propaganda and execution efforts to expand my territorial power as soon as possible. But this requires our court to provide me with a large amount of equipment."

"There is no problem with this. This is considered a transaction between our court and you, as long as there is real money."

Zu Dashou immediately nodded: "To be honest with you, the most valuable thing I have on hand now is gold, silver and jewelry. They are all obtained from the Mongols' plundering of our Central Plains for hundreds of years. To be honest, when they plundered, that It is indiscriminate. But these gold, silver, jewelry and antiques are actually of no use in the grassland. A priceless antique is not as practical as an iron pot for the grassland people. A few kilograms of gold, For the grassland people, a pound of tea bricks can save lives. Therefore, these suppressed leaders have many of these things at home. It was during this period that the veteran truly felt what money is like dirt."

Lu Mou laughed loudly: "Old man, you can see the nature of the world. But the dung in your eyes is in the Central Plains. In the eyes of this king, it is life. As long as you have enough dung, I will have it." There are enough supplies to satisfy you. Let your excrement grow our Ming Dynasty."

There is a very tacit understanding of the different feelings between the two people now, which can't help but make the old and the young laugh.

(End of this chapter)