"How far is it from the Duhu Mansion to the east entrance?"

"Five hundred miles away."

"How long have you been on the road?"

"Ten days."

"How many cows, horses and alpacas have been driven here?"

"Two thousand live horses, three thousand live cattle, another thousand camels, and one hundred thousand live sheep, as well as many furs, medicinal herbs, and mushrooms."

"The cattle and horses are not fat this season. Will there be any loss of life on the road?"

"We are not walking fast, and the herdsmen who drive the animals are all experienced herdsmen. Let alone five hundred miles, even if we go from Mobei to Zhangjiakou, which is four to five thousand miles, it will take three months to travel.

Not only does the animal not die, it can even gain weight."

"Oh, what's the secret to this?"

"The secret is to divide the sheep into groups for transportation. There are about a thousand sheep in a group, ten groups in a house, and about 15,000 sheep. When driving, keep a distance. Each group is about two miles apart. The last group of sheep has to be picked.

The most experienced herdsmen drive the sheep. The sheep move faster in the morning than in the afternoon. In the afternoon, the sheep are exhausted and move slower. The driving speed must be based on the fact that the sheep can eat grass. It is not allowed to just rush without moving.

If you eat grass and choose the right time in autumn and winter to catch your luck, even if you make it three months later, you will not lose fat but will still gain weight.

When driving live horses, there are also a group of more than a thousand horses, and there are about 15,000 horses in a house. They have to move around in two shifts day and night, and take turns to rest."

In the city of Zhangjiakou, the emperor summoned the princes and princes of Sunit, and the brothers Tengji, Si, Tengjite took the lead in the audience.

As soon as the emperor met, he asked about his visit, and Teng Jisi also answered them one by one.

When it comes to driving cattle and sheep, they are veterans. Inexperienced people will drive cattle and sheep to death. They can only drive cattle and sheep to death when they travel long distances in spring and winter. It is only 500 miles away and only ten days away.

, does not affect it at all.

Speaking of this, he was quite proud.

This time, 2,000 live horses and 100,000 sheep were brought in at once, which was just a small test.

"If our livestock can be eaten here in Zhangjiakou, I will immediately send people back to the tribe to bring more cattle, horses and sheep. It will not be a problem to bring hundreds of thousands of sheep."

Zhu Yihai laughed.

"The first assistant of the text is my imperial edict."

"The imperial decree conferred the titles of Teng Jisi, the Protector of the Huade Protectorate, as Sunit Khan, the Prince of Shangdu, and Teng Jite as Sunit Jinong, the Prince of Kangbao, and each was awarded the rank of General of Huaihua."

Mongolian nobles have their own system of titles, ranging from Khan, to Jinong, Noyan, Taiji, etc., as well as titles such as Grand Master and Prime Minister.

Khan is naturally the king of Khan, Jinong means deputy khan, usually the Khan's younger brother or son is given the title, and Nuoyan means a high-ranking prince and tribal lord in Mongolian language.

Taiji is also a Mongolian prince, among whom the most distinguished one is Huitaiji, or Hongtaiji.

Zhu Yihai basically controls and appeases the various ministries that have surrendered to Mongolia. Those who can reach him will find ways to dismantle, reorganize, relocate, demarcate boundaries, set up Duhufu and Dudufu, and confer titles and officials on those that are out of reach.

To confer a title on the prince, we should first bring him into the Chinese system, and at least trade with each other first.

There are basically two sets of titles for the Mongolian nobles. One is to retain their original Mongolian titles, divided into Khan, Jinong (deputy khan), Nuoyan (prince), and then Huitaiji (prefecture prince), and the fifth level.

Ji, (male Duke Bozi), has a total of nine ranks.

One set includes titles with different surnames in the Ming Dynasty, including Duke of the Kingdom, Duke of the County of Kaiguo, Duke of County of Kaiguo, Marquis of Kaiguo County, County Bo of Kaiguo, Son of Kaiguo County, and Male of Kaiguo County, a total of seven levels. For foreign vassals, two levels are added: prince and county king.

Tengjisi was originally just the leader of the left wing of Sunit, and the Sunit tribe was only one of the eight original Chahar tribes. Although Chahar was once the headquarters of the Mongolian Khan, it only had ten thousand households.

Speaking of which, the Sunit leader may not even be able to get the title of Jinong, but now Zhu Yihai said that he would directly establish the Sunit tribe as a khan like Chahar. Tengjisi was very excited after hearing this.

He has always been proud of the greatness of his ancestor Dayan Khan, and has always wanted to restore the glory of his ancestor, but they are not direct lineage. The direct lineage is Abnai of the Chahar tribe, the posthumous son of Lindan Khan, and his grandnephew by generation.

"I thank the Holy Khan for your great kindness, His Majesty the Great Emperor!"

Tengjisi knelt down and kowtowed a few times, kowtowing sincerely, and in his mind he was even imagining that with the title of Khan conferred by the Emperor of Heaven, he would command the tribes of Monan Mongolia, conquer the leaders, reunify Mongolia, and even

In the future, Mobei and Mongolia will also be conquered and unified, becoming the Great Khan of Mongolia, and restoring the glory of the Borjigit clan.

Zhu Yihai saw all this, but just smiled.

It was just a sweat number, Zhu Yihai didn't care.

Today he can confer the title of Tengjisi Sunit Khan, tomorrow he can confer the title of Abnai Chahar Khan, and the day after tomorrow he can confer the title of Ordos Jinong Boljijin and Erphochen as Ordos Khan.

In the future, Horqin Khan and others can also be installed.

For the Ming Dynasty, it was free to grant the title of khan or deputy khan to the leaders of the tribes that surrendered to the Mongols. Instead, it could further divide the various tribes in Monan Mongolia, making it impossible for them to unify in the future.

The Manchu and Qing dynasties established an alliance and flag system for the Monan tribes and established six alliances. The original twenty-five Mongolian tribes in Monan were divided into more than fifty banners and six alliances. Later, some banners were even changed to internal affiliations.

Zhu Yihai can definitely follow this idea. The Tatars have six alliances, and the Ming Dynasty can have six governors. Each governor of the governor can be granted a khan, and it can also be hereditary, and it can be matched with a county of the Ming Dynasty.

For kings or princes, the court does not even need to pay them salaries. All ministries pay tribute to the court every year, and the court gives some rewards in return.

Those tribes that followed the Tatars were beaten and pulled, and then moved or even split and reorganized, turning the twenty-odd tribes into fifty or even seventy-eighty tribes. They all set up governor's offices, and the governors were awarded the title of deputy agricultural officer.

Khan or Nuoyan, and then be awarded the title of a county prince or a duke. The name will be nice and cost-effective.

"Your eldest son, Batu, is a guard in front of the imperial court. He is very loyal, brave and dedicated. I specially confer on him the title of Huitaiji and the title of Duke of the county."

Mongolia, Jurchen and other foreign vassal titles do not add the word "founding the country".

A bodyguard in Batu was directly awarded the title of Huitaiji, Duke of the county, and the rank of Huaihua general.

Tengjite's son Dorji and others, Zhu Yihai also awarded them Taiji, some leaders of Sunit also awarded them first, second and third grade Taiji, and their nephews awarded them fourth and fifth grade Taiji.

The purpose of granting a large number of titles to Mongolia was to make Mongolia's titles unworthy and to reduce the prestige of their leaders.

Those who are granted the title of Protector-General will be given titles such as Khan, Jinong, Nuoyan, Huitaiji, etc., and their subordinates will be long history and Sima will be sent by the imperial court to serve as Han officials.

Military, etc. are awarded to the leaders of the tribe, big and small, and those who hold positions are also awarded various levels of Taiji and so on.

For these leaders who have obtained formal titles, their titles can be hereditary. Their titles are inherited by the eldest son without any reduction in rank, and the rest of the sons inherit it from the fifth-level Taiji. If they have meritorious service, they can be promoted to the next level. Anyway,

From generation to generation, they were all Mongolian aristocrats of foreign vassals.

However, regardless of whether they were promoted to titles or positions, the court would not give them any salary or the like.

Moreover, it is stipulated that these Mongolian nobles must serve as guards of the Ming Dynasty before they can formally ascend the throne. If you do not serve as guards of the Ming Dynasty, you cannot formally ascend the throne. This is a disguised proton system.

From now on, the descendants of these Mongolian nobles will be passed down from generation to generation, and their descendants will at least be a fifth-level auspicious person, which is equivalent to a baron. This nobleman travels around like dogs, and it will not be a bad thing for the court.

Teng Jisi still only thinks that the Ming Dynasty is so kind to him. He directly conferred the title of Khan on him, conferred on his son the title of Huitaiji, and made his younger brother the deputy khan.

Khan was so good that he moved Sunit to the Ming border to facilitate trade. The Han merchants also contracted with them to collect taxes, so they were exempted from collecting them. All kinds of goods were even sold directly to the grassland tribes. What did they want from the Central Plains?

For luxury goods, just write a list and they will get them directly.

It can even be customized as needed.

Zhu Yihai smiled.

"I have recently acquired a new princess, who is young, beautiful and noble in temperament, so I will reward him to Huitai Jibatu for marriage."

The emperor took out the means of making peace and directly proposed to Teng Jisi to strengthen the marriage and the two sides made peace. This time the marriage was very large, from Zhu Yihai to the prince, the King of Han, and then the cabinet bachelor, etc., asked Teng Jisi and others for one hundred sou

Nite noble girls, and then one hundred Han girls were given in marriage to Sunit princes and nobles, including the adopted daughters of the emperor and the adopted daughters of university scholars.

Anyway, the Hanmeng family is close.

Zhu Yihai even proposed that in the future, those Sunit noble children who came to the Ming Dynasty to work as errands and study would be given a Han noble woman as their wife.

Teng Jisi thanked him again.

Regarding this kind of marriage and marriage, he felt that it was quite good. It would help to enhance the intimacy with the Holy Khan and the Ming Dynasty. In the future, Sunit would have a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty, which would naturally make it easier to order other tribes.

"Given Sunit Khan, the king of Shangdu has a self-ringing bell, a telescope, silk, porcelain, tribute tea, etc."

The emperor was extremely polite to the Sunit tribe for coming to worship and pay tribute and trade. Teng Jisi was actually a little worried before coming, fearing that the emperor would reprimand them for their previous raids and attacks on other surrounding tribes.

Even punishing him, he even thought of many excuses, but to his surprise, he didn't even mention them.

The summons was followed by a banquet.

At the banquet, the king and his ministers enjoyed themselves in great harmony.

The cattle, alpacas, horses, furs, medicinal materials, mushrooms, etc. they brought in were soon traded with the Han merchants. The trade was also very smooth and the prices were very good. Although they brought a lot of things this time, the prices were not lowered.

They can freely choose whether to take bank notes or bank silver dollar exchange coupons, directly take silver dollars in cash, or directly trade with tea bricks, etc.

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"Why doesn't Your Majesty take the opportunity to give the Tengjisi brothers a beating and reprimand them for not attacking other tribes?" Wang Zhiren, the second assistant, asked. He felt that it was too easy to talk to the Sunit people.

Zhu Yihai was looking at some of the grassland products that Sunit brought, including mushrooms outside the mouth, which are good things, and the stew is extremely delicious. There are also sheepskin and wool, which are also good things.

The Royal Young Master has opened a new woolen textile bureau in Zhangjiakou, intending to use Mongolian wool, camel hair, and water from the Qinghe River to complete the localized woolen production in the Ming Dynasty. In this way, woolen goods are now the third largest imported commodity.

current situation.

The wool from Monan Mongolia is indeed better than the wool from Ganlong, and the water quality here is also better.

The cows and horses we brought are really good, and they are still a little fat this season.

This large amount of goods can be exchanged for tea bricks, tobacco, porcelain, cloth, iron pots, etc. Not only will the amount be large, but the profits and taxes from the merchant house to the court will be very good.

"Don't worry, let the Sunit people be proud for a while. Abaga, the Sizi tribe, etc. haven't been wavering. Let's let the Sunit people be arrogant for a while and let them continue to use the tiger's skin as a banner.
To be continued...