Chu Hu hoped to exchange his military achievements for honorary titles. Liu Muzhi was embarrassed on the surface, but in fact he was very happy.

The court now implements the feudal system on the grassland, which is actually a variant of the silence and chieftain system. Although the court vigorously transforms the land and returns to the southwest, it is now conducting feudal system on the grassland, which is somewhat contradictory.

But Liu Muzhi grasped the emperor's intentions very accurately. As the saying goes, he must take advantage of the situation and have different strategies under different circumstances. The southwest has changed its territory and returned to the current because since the Tang and Song dynasties, the system of restraint has been continuously implemented in the southwest. In fact, the Central Plains dynasty and the tribes and barbarians in the southwest have been established.

In addition, the continuous immigration of various dynasties to the southwest led to the continuous strengthening of the power of the Central Plains court in the southwest. In the Ming Dynasty, the rebellion of chieftains in the southwest was due to the intensification of the conflict of interest between the central court and local chieftains.

Although the rebellion of the chieftains in the Ming Dynasty greatly weakened the strength of the Ming court in the southwest, on the other hand, it also weakened the strength of the chieftains in the southwest. One large chieftain after another was pacified and relocated to the land. The court continuously set up prefectures and counties, garrisoned troops to farm, further squeezing the living space of these chieftain tribes.

When the Han Dynasty was established and the army went south, although the remaining small tribes in the southwest rebelled, they could not make any trouble. The change of land in the southwest was the general trend. In particular, Liu Jun also attracted the top leaders of the chieftains through differentiation, while attacking the lower-level subordinates, which made the defeat of the chieftains unstoppable.

But the situation in the north is different.

The Central Plains dynasty and the grassland tribes can be said to have been fighting. Although the Central Plains dynasty has repeatedly defeated the grassland tribes, the grassland tribes have also gone south several times to take over the Central Plains.

The two sides fought to the death, especially the special environment of the grassland, which allowed the grassland to move south to establish dynasties and occupy the Central Plains. However, the Han people in the Central Plains, even the great masters such as Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang, could only defeat the grassland tribes and then implement a simple system of restraint, and could not truly rule on this grassland.

The Mongols once occupied the Central Plains and established the Yuan Dynasty. After being overthrown by the Ming Dynasty, although civil strife has been constantly chaotic for hundreds of years, it depends on the disintegration, but it still has extremely strong strength.

The methods of conquest by Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Han, Chengzu of Ming and others were proved that it was difficult to achieve radical cure. They could only be controlled for a while, but not for a lifetime.

Liu Jun didn't want to do it again without any effort.

The Tang and Song dynasties and other dynasties successfully controlled the barbarians in the southwest. They eventually assimilated these areas step by step and eventually took over the dominant position. However, the grasslands were different, and they could not use the method of dealing with the southwest barbarians to deal with the northern barbarians in the grasslands.

It was in this situation that Liu Jun finally combined the strategies of all dynasties in China, including the later Qing dynasties, and referenced some colonial strategies of various countries in the colonial era that he had the current strategy of enfeoffing princes.

Enfeoffment is a compromise.

But it is not a negative compromise. Although it gives great power to the Mongolian ministries, it also puts forward obligations and makes constraints.

Liu Jun felt that instead of pursuing the grassland that was impossible to conquer the force, it would be better to use this longer-term method.

In fact, the annual tributes of Liao, Xia, Jin and Mongolia during the Song Dynasty were also a compromise. After recognizing the actual control of these Hu people over the territory, the two sides were no longer in a war situation. Especially during the Song and Liao dynasties, after the Tan Yuan alliance, the peace that lasted for a hundred years was achieved in Song and Song's unprecedented prosperity.

Of course, Liu Jun could not give the Mongolians annual monies, but this is reflected from the side. In fact, even Hu people don’t necessarily think about fighting all day long.

In the past, more grassland invasions were mostly caused by disasters in the north or when the Central Plains were in chaos, giving the other party an opportunity to take advantage of.

Enemies mean clarifying the relationship between the two sides, establishing a solid relationship between the two sides, and no longer threats of war to violate and annex each other.

At the same time, on the basis of the ban, there will be open trade, and there will be mutual gains and benefits.

The enfeoffment is not a simple enfeoffment. Under the parallel system of provincial governments and prefectures, the court can better control the giant beast on the grassland.

This is actually just thinking from the perspective of others, and it always leaves room for people.

If we just come from the perspective of the Han Dynasty and only think about how to defeat the Mongols and conquer them, then the grassland people will naturally not do it. Even if they are divided now, wherever there is oppression, there will be resistance. This is something that cannot last.

Now that the enfeoffment is not annexation but cooperation, it is win-win and mutual benefit.

However, even if the feudal is divided, the Han Dynasty did not say that it would be sealed as soon as possible. The grassland belonged to all Mongolian tribes. Before that, each tribe had boundary ranges.

The last feudal was actually just the Han Dynasty officially confirmed the boundary range of each tribe. Although the thirteen marquis, fifty-six Counts, and hundreds or thousands of lords of sons and sons were divided from dozens of tribes, the original sphere of influence was not broken.

The marquis were all the original Khan, the Count, etc., the brothers and nephews of Khan, Beile, Taiji, etc. The Mongols themselves also had this tradition of redistribution of tribes and property. Now they were enfeoffed by the Han Dynasty. In essence, the land, livestock, tribes, and tribes were still within the tribe, but they were just distributed to the brothers and nephews of the leaders.

They can accept such redistribution. As for the departments and departments, they can also accept it as the Zhili territory of the court. After all, the court will set up trading markets in these places in the future, which will be of great benefit to them.

Liu Jun has set up two new Knight and Warrior Level Medal, but this is not about to be divided into vassals.

The grasslands have been enfeoffed and have masters, so Liu Jun cannot enfeoff any more. The knights and warriors he established were prepared for the Mongolian princes. They can enfeoff their sons in the future. As long as they report to the court, they can enfeoff their sons as knights and warriors. In this way, in addition to the eldest son’s hereditary title, other sons can also have titles.

Of course, the princes conferred their sons, knights and warriors. If they wanted to give them another territory, they had to divide them from their territory. In this way, they could also weaken the strength of the princes in disguise.

If Chu Hu'er wants to get a lord, it will not be too difficult if he is a son of a prince. As long as his father and brother report to the court, the court can issue an order to award him a medal.

Of course, according to the court system, such titles must be paid and the territory itself is responsible, so the court will not give up its salary.

Only those vassals that the court itself formally enthroned and hereditary vassals can receive their salary.

Liu Jun even planned that if the children of the princes think that the titles of knights and warriors were too low, they could pay for promotions, and they would give him a higher level if they had any money. Anyway, the court was only responsible for promoting them, and there would be no other treatment.

Even the princes in the future can pay for promotion. The price will be marked clearly at that time, and the only one will never be able to do so. I think the baron's name is not very famous? Then, if you pay a sum of money to the court, the court can consider promoting you to a viscount. If you think the viscount is not loud enough, you can also promote you to an earl. Anyway, if you are promoted to an earl, your territory will be the same as the original baron, and your salary will be increased, but the price of promotion is definitely not low. The amount of extra salary will be earned by the court a hundred times and a thousand times.

But Chu Hu'er is not a nobleman's son.

He was just an ordinary herder from the front banner of the East Tumot. This time, he brought his own horse weapons to participate in the order of the banner owner. He cut twenty-five levels in one battle. He also wanted to be a title and own a piece of his own territory.

After Liu Muzhi thought about it, it was a little trouble. He was not a child of a noble family, so the court could not directly grant him titles and grant him a fief.

But there is still a solution.

Liu Muzhi quickly came up with a countermeasure against Chu Hu's situation.

First, the court granted Chu Hu a title of warrior or knight, but only a title, but no fief.

Second, the court granted him a fief in Zhili territory.

Third, the court set apart a piece for Chu Hu to make a fief in the newly-captured Ten Banners of the Zhelim League.

The former is just an empty title, while the latter two are actually awarded medals and fiefs. But the second one is not feasible, because the Zhili territory of the court is not large, and the courts in those places will use it to station troops and immigrate, build castles, stations, etc., and it is impossible to take it out and then entrust it to the Mongolians. Those territories were finally squeezed out from the hands of the Mongolian princes.

In the end, there was only a third one left, and he was sealed from the newly-captured territory. But in this way, there was also a problem, that is, Chu Hu had to leave the left-wing front banner of the Dongtumot, where he was originally located, and he would become a knight of the Zhili court in the future.

Or, Dongtumot will definitely be divided into the newly captured territory by then. As long as Chu Hu's banner master is willing to grant him a title of warrior or knight, he can also become a lord.

However, the possibility of this is very low and the territory is limited. Even if the leaders of each department get a new fief from Korqin, they will definitely be granted to their brothers and nephews, so how could they give it to an outsider?

Liu Muzhi was more willing to directly enfeoff Chu Hu on the newly captured land such as Korqin, so that he would no longer be a nobleman of the Dongtumote tribe, but a nobleman of the court, directly under the imperial court.

But there must be a prerequisite, that is, Chu Hu himself is willing to leave the tribe, and his tribe leader is willing to let him go.

After Liu Muzhi carefully explained all this to Chu Hu, the man on the giant ship said without hesitation, "I want to become the direct seal of the Han Empire."

Liu Muzhi was a little surprised.

At this time, a staff officer next to him asked, "Chu Warrior Chu Hu, what is your identity in the tribe?"

"Albatu." Chu Hu said.

When they heard that it was Albatu, Liu Muzhi and others breathed a little relieved, they were afraid that he was a slave, so it would be difficult to deal with it.

The staff officer then asked, "Do you have a free citizen?" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!