Chapter 168 The best time to stretch your fists
In the evening, Yun Zhao couldn't help looking in the direction of Uszang. He always felt that there was a big fire burning in which direction.
What Han Lingshan said is completely different from what he wrote in his report.
This time, it was not only officials, slave owners, and landlords that were affected, but even monks in the temple could not escape the disaster.
The entire Uszang aristocratic class was basically swept away by the slave uprising this time.
According to the numbers in the document, at least 21,000 people died in Chamdo alone.
The population of the entire Chamdo is less than 60,000.
There are not so many people in the aristocratic class, which means that anyone who owns property is basically swallowed up by this trend.
Just as Zhang Guozhu said before, the number of suffering the slaves suffered is so crazy that the anger that erupts now.
Sun Guoxin opened the shackles in the hearts of the slaves, which made the slaves no longer have any concerns. Under the light of the Buddha, they even thought that this was a war between the real Buddha and the fake Buddha, and they needed to devote themselves wholeheartedly.
Think about it, that's true. The Buddha should be compassionate and should not let them live the most difficult life. They should not be indifferent to the misery of the world. After all, the Buddha would cut his flesh and feed the eagle when he saw an eagle hungry...
The rule of the serfs by the Uszang nobles was actually ten times more brutal than that of Zhu Ming's rule over the people of the Ming Dynasty. If there were no spiritual shackles, the Uszang would have been in chaos.
Now, Han Lingshan liberated slaves from action, and Sun Guoxin liberated slaves from spirit. These slaves who also knew that eating and clothing were the beauty of the world would naturally follow their own needs and move forward with the smoke of war.
In other words, the Uszang slaves did not want to resist, but did not know how to resist. In this regard, Hanlingshan had sufficient experience.
After a method is used, it is found to be very useful, and it will be promoted immediately in the Lantian imperial court.
Duan Guoyu is now doing the same thing in the Western Regions. The eighteen great imams under his command have begun to preach in the Western Regions.
You should know that people in the Western Regions generally believe in the old religion. Anyone who wants to join the sect and receive help from the gods must pay a lot of money to the temple.
Now, the believers in the Western Regions are blessed. Eighteen imams from Yushan, Dongfang, and they have also begun to spread the gospel here. They also have to pay them, but they don’t need much.
Take a sip of the water you offer. Even if you have already given it, eat a green date you offer it. In short, as long as you are willing to believe in Protestantism, even if you give it to them, they will call you a brother... (It is not a fabrication. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Northwest Protestantism defeated the old sects in this way. However, the Protestant prophet was cut off by the old sect and the Qing government. Every year, when the Protestant prophets were killed, the prophets would be flooded by the crowd in Lanzhou.)
In Yun Zhao's view, free doctrines are easier to spread. After all, most of the people in the Western Regions are poor.
Duan Guoyu's army entered Yili, and the fully armed army ensured the smooth preaching of the imams. At the same time, the imams also made the people in the Western Regions recognize this army from the side and no longer follow Master Baiyi to hostile to this army.
At this time, most of the Western Regions were still under the rule of the Mongols. However, these Mongols never ruled the area. They basically did not leave their cities except for tax collection and robbery.
So, these imams who already had some followers turned their targets to the shepherds, farmers, even robbers, and horse thieves outside the city...
Duan Guoyu was extremely satisfied with the work of these imams.
It is impossible for those here to completely abandon their faith.
The Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, and human life is like a mayfly in front of nature. In this lonely and terrifying environment, if a lonely person does not have the company of the gods, he will not be able to live a day.
After all, there are a few people living in the city, and the shepherds, farmers, and robbers outside the city are the mainstream people. After these imams complete the action of surrounding the city in the countryside.
Duan Guoyu is about to consider launching a campaign to expel the old sects in the Western Regions.
Only in this way can we get a land full of exotic style for the Ming Dynasty like Hanling Mountain. The most important thing is that through the Yushan Arah Temple, the Lantian Imperial Court can completely complete the rule of the Western Regions.
At this time, religion had become a weapon in Yun Zhao's hands, and it was the sharpest weapon.
The ignorant Mongols would not notice the slight changes in this.
The greedy old culprits would not notice that, after all, for them, wealthy city people are their main targets of plunder.
The Western Regions were in a strange balance, and the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Junggar Khan were still confronting each other in Ili, and the Junggar Khan did not have the confidence to completely defeat Duan Guoyu.
Duan Guoyu was not ready to swallow the Junggar Khan in one breath. Before the number of people under his command reached an order of magnitude, Duan Guoyu felt that a peaceful confrontation should be a good thing.
He needs time, people, and support from local people.
Anyway, the Han and Mongols are currently ruled by the Western Regions, both outsiders, and Duan Guoyu feels that he and the Mongols should be on the same starting line.
For the locals, they have been ruled by countless people, so they don’t care who the new ruler is. Anyway, they all have to pay taxes. Whoever wants less taxes will be a good and kind ruler.
In this regard, the Mongolians had no way to compete with the Han people.
One side collects taxes after statistical calculations, and the other side simply asks for taxes to be paid in a rough manner. Many tax quotas are simply determined by whether the officials are happy or not, and they don’t care about the lives of the people.
Therefore, the people in the Western Regions ruled by Duan Guoyu generally lived better than those ruled by the Mongols.
When the first year of China arrived, Duan Guoyu had already begun to accept refugees who escaped from the Mongolians.
In the Western Regions, the most unabashed thing is land, and talent is the greatest source of wealth.
Duan Guoyu knew clearly that many people in the Western city-states were hoping that he could defeat the Junggar Khan and hoped to live under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
The dark clouds of war have already enveloped the Western Regions, and the stupid Mongols are still dreaming, thinking that the Western Regions will always be the place for the Mongols.
What they didn't know was that Yun Zhao had sent another army of 50,000 people to leave Zhangye in spring and arrive in Yili in autumn.
If all the enemies around him could be killed, Yun Zhao thought he would ignore the national defense line.
As long as the country is strong, demarcating national borders is a very disadvantageous thing for you.
National borders are a prerequisite for small countries to accuse and complain to the world. For a powerful country, it is a kind of restraint and a kind of constraint, and what a big country hates the most is being bound.
Hong Chengchou returned to the southwest and was actively implementing the new policy. However, what he had to do in the southwest was to ask the people of all ethnic groups who were hiding in the deep mountains and old forests to come out of the mountains and forests first.
[Fiction of Yanyu Hongchen ] Otherwise, a village or a village would be hundreds of miles apart, and there would be no way to truly rule here.
Therefore, the method he used was very cruel - to cut off the salt trade of mountain people...
Only those who come to live at the foot of the mountain can buy salt, which is cheap and of high quality.
People who go down the mountain receive not only salt, but also land. In the southwest, land is more precious than gold.
In order to speed up the mountain people to leave their hometown and move down the mountain, Hong Chengchou had to send small troops to impersonate robbers and enter the mountains to destroy the residences of the head men in the mountain village, destroy their villages, and kill the head men when necessary, so that the entire mountain village becomes a refugee and has to go down the mountain.
The endless mountains in the southwest are the biggest unstable factor for the Lantian imperial court.
When Hong Chengchou destroyed these mountain villages, he even discovered ancient dynasties that had lasted for thousands of years in the mountains... Although the number of these dynasties was less than 5,000, this did not prevent them from becoming kings and dominating in their own places.
There are also some tribes who are almost in the extremely primitive slash-and-burn farming. The most exaggerated race is still eating raw food, just like the savages. These people make a living by catching rock sheep on the cliffs, watching them walking on flat ground.
Hong Chengchou immediately ordered to use food to recruit all these people into the military camp. He felt that Jinhu would definitely use these people in places like Jiaozhi.
With Hong Chengchou's unremitting efforts, people nearby in the mountains and forests have slowly walked out of the jungle and started living around the city.
At this time, the population in the southwest was still seriously insufficient. Therefore, Hong Chengchou still wrote a letter to Yun Zhao, hoping to continue to adopt Zhu Ming's national policy of "changing land and returning to flow" and assimilating the wild people in the southwest bit by bit.
Living in small countries around big countries is destined to be unfortunate, especially when this big country has an ambitious king, their disaster will completely come.
The reason why countless great powers became great powers is not that they were born with such vast land, and they were gradually expanded bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit.
As long as your history is long enough and as long as you can merge the other party, these lands will become part of the land of a great country, which has been the case since ancient times.
This is how the dragon totem of China was produced.
It is said that the earliest dragon is no different from a snake. His horse face, cow eyes, deer antlers, fish whiskers, eagle claws, and fish scales are all obtained through continuous devouring.
Therefore, expansion is a country's instinct.
The reason why it does not expand is simply because the cost of expansion is too high.
Chapter completed!