Chapter 687
Just when the sea on the Mongolian grasslands pretended to believe in the Taoism and was preparing to send his precious daughter Hu Tulun to Yanjing to learn Taoism. Liu Xiaoyuan was waving, which was the city located at the entrance of the Fergana Basin. It is now the capital of the Great Mongolian Kingdom of "Kublai".
Hujin is a famous ancient city in Central Asia. It was built during the Persian Empire. It was an important northern town of the Persian Empire and a famous city on the Silk Road. In the next 1,000 years, it has always been a major town in Central Asia. The cities have developed commerce and are surrounded by rich farming areas. Even after the destruction of the Mongols, Hujin City and the nearby Fergana Basin are still the richest and most developed agricultural areas in the Mesopotamia Basin.
Huwu's city is a relic of the Arab Empire, with a magnificent spirit. Its area is not inferior to Yanjing City, and its population is not below Yanjing. There are as many as 100,000 residents in the city. The buildings in the city are all Arabic, with many tall and magnificent Tianfang Temples, as well as exquisitely decorated palaces and mansions.
However, compared with the heyday of Huwu, the city is still a little empty. There are also large abandoned residential areas in the city, which seem to be vast and sparsely populated. Most of the people who come and go on the road are Seme people with very obvious white characteristics. It is very different from the Central Asian races in later generations! Because the Mongols have only been ruled here for forty years, and there are not many Mongolians stationed in Central Asia. Although they have been working tirelessly to implement the "Genghis Khan Ethnic Integration Law", it is still not enough to achieve ethnic replacement.
When they saw Mongolians or Han soldiers walking on the streets, the Semi people who were suddenly hiding aside and bowed deeply to salute. It can be seen that the Tianfang Cult here is very afraid that the Mongols are not the Central Plains. The Semi people in the Tianfang Cult are not second-class people, but 90% of the untouchables who were massacred by the Mongols and are now oppressed and exploited by the Mongols.
Liu Xiaoyuan's method of using the "second-class Han to govern the Western Regions" seems to be very correct. The semen in the Western Regions is not the semen in the Central Plains. They have no common interests with the Mongols, only national hatred and family hatred! Kublai Khan could not "share the world" with them. Apart from the Mongols, there are only Han people who followed him in the Central Plains.
"Ba!Ba!Ba..."
The loud sound of a whip whipping the ground sounded on the main street of Huyin City. The brigade of ragged men, escorted by Han soldiers, was walking towards the construction site in Xicheng. They were going to build the construction site and the city walls for the Khan. At the suggestion of Liu Xiaoyuan, the chief commander of the Han army's commander-in-chief of the Han army, Kublai Khan, aimed at establishing the "Khan City" among all the big cities he ruled.
The so-called "Khan City" is equivalent to the "Mancheng" in the Qing Dynasty. It means that major cities are separated into two halves with city walls, half of which live in Semu people, and half belong to Mongolians and Han people. Mongolians and Han people and Semu people are in big cities. The isolation policy will be implemented. Basic Semu people rebel. The Mongolian and Han garrisons only need to close the Khan City to protect their families and can calmly stick to or mobilize troops to suppress them.
Watching the large group of Seminyaks build up the city walls that separate the city little by little. On the construction site, Liu Bingzhong, who served as the Yin of the Great Mongolian Khan Bali Prefecture (including Hujincheng and the Fergana Basin), and the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, still frowned tightly.
A city wall did not give him much security. Because the hostility of Semen was too strong, almost all of them could be touched with his hands.
"Mingjing, isn't it too much for us to do this?" Liu Bingzhong picked up his beard, a little worried and a little unbearable. "Don't do to others what he does not want others to do to others... Now, if what we do to Semu people falls on ourselves, we may endure it?"
Liu Xiaoyuan sneered and said, "Where has it been? He just killed a few princes and princes occupying the city. He drove away some nobles from Semu and then built a wall in the city."
Before, the Mongols were wandering on the grassland and did not establish direct rule. Although some troops were stationed in several big cities and sent out Daruwachi, they did not abolish and eliminate the original rulers. They were still allowed to manage the city, and they just needed to pay taxes to the Mongols regularly.
But now, under the leadership of Batulu and Liu Xiaoyuan, the Mongolians set up direct rule in the big cities in the Meso River Basin, and the original Seme rulers would naturally be suppressed. Moreover, each city had a "Khan City". Naturally, some residents would be driven out of their homes. Most of them were Seme nobles, because the location of "Khan City" mostly chose to be in a noble area with luxury houses. Their houses are good! The Mongolian nobles and the Han Eight Banners would of course have to rob their houses to live in.
"Isn't that enough?" Liu Bingzhong was surprised. He and veteran Confucian ministers such as Yao Shu, Yang Guo, Shang Ting, Song Zizhen, Zhao Liangbi, Li Dehui, Zhao Bi, Zhang Wenqian, Wang Pan, and Wang E are now mostly valued and alienated, and do not participate in Kublai Khan's core decisions. So I don't know what Kublai Khan's mind is planning.
The current emphasis on and alienation is exactly the opposite of being close to but not being used. When Kublai Khan was in the Central Plains, all the Confucian ministers were counselors of his shogunate residence and gave him advice. But Kublai Khan never gave these Han Confucian ministers any real power. On the contrary, those ministers who could not come up with any ideas could get a lot of official positions with great power.
But now, the Han Confucian officials around Kublai Khan have been sent to the poor. They either become local officials or manage money, craftsmen, or the chief commanders of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty participated in the management of the army. However, they were mostly far away from the decision-making level. Only Liu Xiaoyuan, who held great power and participated in the plan, was really popular.
On the contrary, a group of Seme people who originally held real power, such as Lian Xixian, Ali Hague, Yehedier, Zamaruddin, Ahhema and others, have now become Kublai Khan's advisers, giving advice for Kublai Khan and rectifying Seme people in the Meso River Basin.
And these erotic counselors are also very loyal and kind, and have given Kublai Khan a lot of good ideas.
"When the Khan City of several big cities is completed, the next step is to enclose land." Liu Xiaoyuan did not hide his uncle and whispered, "The land of Khanbali Mansion must be enclosed! Samaritan, Yulongjiechi, and the land of Khanbali Mansion must also be enclosed, and the land of Khanbali Mansion must be distributed to the Mongolians."
"Oh." Liu Bingzhong's brows frowned.
"The other is the power of the sage..." Liu Xiaoyuan said, "Any Mongolian tenant family who is in charge of marriage must let the Mongolian master sleep first. If the tenant family is unwilling, they have to pay the money to buy the power of the sage."
"It's really unethical!" Liu Bingzhong said sincerely. The Mongols' sleep with their daughter-in-law is also in the Han area. However, the Mongols did not directly rule the Han area, and did not distribute all the land of the Han people to the Mongolian nobles. So this kind of thing exists, but it is not common. The two rivers are different...
"The other one is to form a scout."
"Scout?"
Liu Xiaoyuan explained: "It is to recruit some boys around ten years old to join the army, find an oasis to circle them and train them into combat soldiers. This is Ye Heidier's idea. It is said that this is how the Mamruk soldiers in the west came from. Many of them sold them from the Two Rivers. Da Khan thought he could follow the example and train 350,000 scouts, and let them take the lead in the war in the future."
Liu Bingzhong thought: "It's another unethical idea, and it's why He Die'er is like this..."
"There is also the great promotion of Buddhism and Confucianism. Buddhism governs the mind, Confucianism governs the country, and the Buddhist and Confucian imperial examinations must be practiced, just like the Dali Kingdom..."
Liu Bingzhong nodded. Only this one is like this! Education is the way to be able to empower people! But there are still too many harsh policies. It is difficult to calm people's hearts by just educating them, and they are afraid that officials will force the people to rebel.
Liu Xiaoyuan seemed to know what Liu Bingzhong was thinking, and laughed: "The Seminar people can't make a fuss... It's hard to say in another 100 years, but it's impossible now. They have already made the Mongols afraid of killing, just like the Han people in the Central Plains back then. If you want to rebel... unless there is a Seminar Chen Dexing!"
"That's true..." Liu Bingzhong sighed, "Although the Mongols' administration was harsh, the effect was also good."
While the uncle and nephew were chatting, a coward suddenly walked over quickly and greeted Liu Xiaoyuan with a bow.
"The official who cuts off the affairs will be summoned by the Khan."
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When Liu Xiaoyuan felt that when Kublai Khan was in the palace, he saw the Mongolian generals who were staying in the Bali of Han, gathered together. Everyone had complex expressions of sadness and joy on his face. Only Xulagu's son Yaomuhuer was crying loudly, as if his biological father had died.
Kublai Khan sat upright on a Hu bed in the style of Tianfang Sect, holding a letter in his hand, and a few tears on his face, as if he was very sad. However, Liu Xiaoyuan seemed to be a little fake.
"Liu Qing, my brother Xulagu has returned to the embrace of Changshengtian." Kublai said sadly.
‘No wonder Yao Mu Hu'er cried like this. It turned out that his father died.’ Liu Xiaoyuan looked at the Mongolian sect with some sympathy and saw that he was standing in the wrong team in the struggle between Kublai Khan and Alibuge. He could have today's status, which was entirely due to the blessing of Xulagu's biological father. Now that his father is dead, his good days are almost over.
"Hulagu's heir is his eldest son Abaha," Kublai Khan continued, "and Abaha hopes to get my enthronement!"
Once Hulagu dies, the Ili Khanate will definitely need time to transition power. Although Ahaba is the successor Hulagu has already decided, he still cannot do without Kublai's support if he wants to settle down. In this way, the Ili Khanate will stand with Kublai Khan in the next few years and admit that he is the Khan of the whole Mongolia.
'Kublai was really lucky!' Liu Xiaoyuan said in his heart, 'In this way, he could concentrate his strength to teach the Golden Horde in the north a lesson.'
Kublai Khan paused and said, "Liu Qing, let you and Yao Mu Huer go to Melahawu to pass the order to sign Abaha as a khan." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!