Chapter 315 Unification of the World 9
During the voting, Han Zhongwei sent another 10,000 guards to supervise for the sake of fairness. In order to show complete justice, this voting adopted the registered method. Although this is somewhat unfair to the voters, who will fight for such rights for themselves in this era?
Instead, they believed that the detailed registration of their voting was to ensure the fairness and openness of the voting. Everyone's voting was registered. If they were not satisfied with the voting results at that time, they could check the voting data. Because the Mongolians were mainly distributed in three cities, and some people did not live in the city, they still grazed in the wild as before. Therefore, the entire voting lasted for nearly a month.
The first thing the Mongolians who lived in the city asked each other during this period was: Have you voted?
After half a month of statistics, the best result came out. Jamuha invited Han Zhongwei to open the sealed parchment roll with him.
"Jamuha, you have to be mentally prepared. I feel that the result this time is not satisfactory." Although Han Zhongwei did not see the results, his people supervised the voting of most Mongolians and had a rough impression of the voting situation. Just last night, Lin Rufeng reported to Han Zhongwei that about 20% of the Mongolians did not agree to the incorporation into China. Although this proportion is not high, in the agreement between Han Zhongwei and Jamuha, as long as less than 10% of the Mongolians opposed it, Han Zhongwei would accept the incorporation of the Mongolian Khanate into China.
"No matter what the result is, they chose it themselves." Jamukha did a lot of work during this period. He asked the former leaders of each tribe to advise their respective tribes and ask them to agree to the merger of the Mongolian Khanate into China. However, the situation after the feedback was not optimistic, and some people were not very cooperative.
Jamukha opened the voting results, and the numbers clearly showed that only 75% of the people agreed to the incorporation into China, and some 20% of the people clearly opposed it, while another 5% did not vote, but filled in their names on the voting form, which means that this group of people was disclaimed as abstention.
"Jamuha, I'm very sorry. Maybe in a few years, the opportunity will be better." Han Zhongwei also saw the numbers above. He admired Lin Rufeng's analytical ability, and the results were almost no different from what he analyzed.
"I'm very sad. Many people have not made wise choices." Jamuka sighed.
Although Jamukha was very depressed, he felt a little relieved in his heart. After more than three years of invisible win over Han Zhongwei, more than 20% of the Mongolians unswervingly saw his essence.
Han Zhongwei left the grassland the next day, and Jamuha immediately issued an order. Jamuha was very grateful for the votes designed by Han Zhongwei for him, because he could use those votes to know who supported the incorporation into China and who opposed it. Those who opposed it, Jamuha would organize them into a tribe and be commanded by his confidants himself. If they were soldiers, they would also form an army alone to make them real Mongolian warriors.
According to Jamukha's plan, those who voted against and abstained from the city must move out of the city and cannot live in brick and tiled houses, but must live back to their former tents. They are herders and must grazle outside the city, and can only return to the city on a specific day. But the soldiers must also be sent to protect the herders as before.
The real Mongols in the Mongolian Khanate, not including the Naiman tribe, Tatar tribe, etc., now have about 500,000, while the 25% of the people have more than 100,000. It is also a big project to ask more than 100,000 Mongolians to move out of the city at once. At the beginning, Jamukha felt that this thing should be easy to do. Since these people did not want to see the Mongol Khanate incorporated into China, they were truly bloody men.
But in fact, except for the thousands who are willing to live back, the other 100,000 people are unwilling to move out of the city. They lived in tents for the first half of their lives. Although some people felt that living in tents was more comfortable than brick and tile houses, but after they lived in brick and tile houses for a few years, they were asked to move to their original tents, but they all felt that the tent they lived in was so small and so dilapidated.
"They are not worthy of being Mongolian people." Jamukha heard that most of the people who voted against and abstained from leaving the city were unwilling to leave the city. He screamed in anger. Can human will really be erased? When did Mongolian men become dissatisfied?
"King Khan, if they don't leave, they will drive them away and force him to leave." Chitai said sternly.
"These people are really hateful. Since they do not agree to the merger into China, they must take action and pass on my order, Akata, you will bring a team of ten thousand people and drive them all out of the city. Such people cannot be forced." Jamuka really wished to kill these people, and the guy who won't succeed and fail.
Now, no matter how Jamukha deals with these people, he cannot change the fact that the Mongolian Khanate can only continue to be slowly and tenaciously annexed by China, not by the country, but by the hearts, will, culture and other aspects. These invisible invasions are even greater than directly cutting off the heads of the Mongols and occupying Mongolian land.
Han Zhongwei has returned to China and lived in the capital for nearly three months. This is unimaginable for a monarch. Han Zhongwei has proved his sincerity to everyone. However, Jamuha has failed to provide data that can convince Han Zhongwei, which has led to his miscarriage. Now Han Zhongwei has shown full sincerity. The Mongolian Khanate cannot be incorporated into China. This is not Han Zhongwei's problem, but Jamuha's problem. He failed to communicate with his tribe members in advance. It can be said that it is no wonder that Han Zhongwei is on the head.
It’s all because of these people who voted against and abstained. Jamukha has decided to punish them severely. But what after they are severely punished? These people will definitely realize how much impact their choice has brought to them. These people can no longer live in tall and spacious houses, nor can they do things in the city, and even their livestock and fur can only trade at the previous price of Han Zhongwei, and they cannot trade directly with Han Zhongwei, but can only trade with the Mongolian Khanate first.
Originally, a horse could be sold for fifty cents, but now it is only worth ten cents in a blink of an eye. How can they accept this? If it weren't for the 10,000 troops in Chitai, they would have run to the Guard City to trade directly with Han Zhongwei's people. They were used to low input and high output, and suddenly they had to return to the original low input and low output, and low output means a comprehensive reduction in the quality of life and living conditions.
Mongolia is about to enter winter. On the vast grasslands, the cold winter is very deadly. It can not only freeze and starve the livestock on which the herders live to live to death, but also make the Mongolians tremble in the cold wind. In winter, it has always been the peak period for the deaths of the elderly and children in Mongolia.
The capital of the Mongolian Khanate has been built for two years, so the people who were forced to move out of the capital have spent at least two winters in the city. In the capital, not only can they and the Mongolians escape the cold winter, but their livestock can also greatly reduce the mortality rate in the winter. When the capital was built, this issue was considered. The capital had a special livestock area, which was enough to keep millions of livestock.
But now, people and livestock have been driven out of the capital. They are all used to sitting at home and roasting stoves when the weather is snowflakes and the cold wind is raging. There is no need to be careful about their livestock. The capital has special institutions and personnel to take care of them, and even if they don’t want to do it, they can still hire people. The commissions for the Han people are very cheap. If they even feel troublesome, they can sell the livestock to merchants, and their prices will not be deliberately lowered no matter when.
"Ba, this winter is colder than before. We can live in tents, but what should we do with those sheep and horses? Should we ask Lord Akata to help me and send it to the capital to be raised, and then get it back after winter." Shuletai is a typical Mongolian and a tribe of Jamuka. Of course, he has a deep affection for Mongolia. Therefore, he, including his family, firmly opposed the merger of the Mongolian Khanate into China. Even though Jamuka was their chief, and Jamuka also persuaded them to vote for approval, they still voted against it very firmly.
But now, they were also ruthlessly driven out of the capital by Jamuka. The capital was originally the territory of the Zhadala tribe on the plateau. The Shuletai family was very familiar with the surroundings of the capital. Their pasture was originally near the capital. However, they were used to living in the capital. Now they suddenly had to return to their original life, and encountered a rare cold. This winter was not easy, and it was really cold.
"Shuletai, since King Khan drove us out of the capital, would he let our livestock live back? In the past, there were no cities on the Mongolian grasslands, and our ancestors came here the same way?" Wututai sighed. Last year, the two animals of his family lived well in the capital. Only two sheep died in the winter, and later he took them back to eat them. But this year, more than 200 people died. Their choice of residence is more than 100 miles away from the capital. It is not too far away, but it is not close.
"What should I do? Can you just watch them freeze to death?" Shuletai said anxiously.
"I said, how did our ancestors live, and how we live now. Those livestock should die if they want to die." Wu Tutai sighed. This was his choice. Since he opposed the merger of the Mongolian Khanate into China, he had to think that there would be such a day.
"No, I have to go to Lord Chitai. If I can't send it to the capital for winter, it's OK to sell it now. The price of live sheep is much higher than that of dead sheep." Shuletai disagreed.
"Child, don't you know that this is the punishment of the Khan to us? Don't say that you go to find Chitai, even if you find the Khan, there will be only one result, you will die for yourself." Wututai shook his head and stopped Shuletai from looking for Chitai.
But how could the young and energetic Shu Letai be persuaded? At night, he quietly went to Chitai. Originally, Chitai was the leader of their tribe, and Shu Letai wanted to find him and be familiar with him.
"Lord Chitai, it's extremely cold this winter. I don't know how many animals in the tribe will freeze to death. I wonder what good will I do?" The Mongolians did not have as much red tape as the Han people. When Shuletai saw Chitai, he was straightforward and explained his purpose directly.
"Shuletai, I'm not here to help you spend the winter. I have only one task to protect your safety and prevent you from returning to the capital without authorization. No matter whether it's cold or not this winter, even if it's heavy snow, as long as the tribe members do not die on a large scale, he doesn't need to worry.
"Then I'm going to trade now. Now the sheep and horses are still alive. Who knows how many more will be left after this winter?" Shuletai said again. In fact, his favorite thing was to trade with the Han people, but now Chitai is monitoring here and there is no way to sneak out.
"No, except for spring and autumn, trading is prohibited during the rest of the time." Akata cannot allow it. If these people are not allowed to suffer a little, wouldn't they be expelled for nothing?
"What should we do?" Shuletai was stunned. He could neither send livestock to the capital nor trade them. Could it be that he could only watch the livestock being frozen to death one by one? If it was just one or two, or even ten or eight, he could eat it himself, but if it was thirty or fifty, or even three or five hundred, even roasted whole lamb every meal, he would not be able to finish it.
"How could I know? Why don't I have a dream to ask God at night?" Akata sneered.
Shuletai just glared at Chitai coldly and left his big tent. The big tent was burning with charcoal fire, and the tent was covered with thick blankets. The inside was as warm as spring. Whether it was cold outside was really not related to him.
Shuletai decided to go to the Han people to trade by himself, but he didn't dare to go to the capital. Although it was only more than 100 miles away from the capital, Chitai had very strict precautions for going to the capital. If you just went to a few people alone, just take a detour. But you had to bring thousands of cattle, horses, and sheep, and you might want to hide the truth.
But it is different to go to the escort city. It is more than a thousand miles away from here, and it is not under the jurisdiction of the Mongolian Khanate. If you can trade directly with the escort city, the price will be five times higher than it is now.
When Shu Letai left, there were already snowflakes falling from the sky. He took three horses and walked for five days before he arrived at the Guard City. But in the Guard City, he almost couldn't get in. Later, Shu Letai had an idea and said that he came from the capital and was then put in.
But Shuletai had been in the Guard City for ten days and there was ice outside, but he had not contacted the buyer yet. Although there were many merchants in the Guard City, no one wanted to buy sheep from his tribe. If Shuletai could send all the livestock to the Guard City, they could buy it at half price. Of course, this was the price set by Han Zhongwei, which was still two and a half times higher than the price set by Jamuha for them now.
When Shuletai asked all the merchants who purchased livestock, heavy snow had already covered the earth. If he walked alone on the grassland, even if he grew up on the grassland since childhood, he would easily get lost. Moreover, in such weather, it would be impossible to send cattle and sheep to the guard city.
The only thing that could allow Shuletai to send cattle and sheep to the guard city was the carriage, the four-wheeled carriage brought from Black City. But in this way, Shuletai would have to pay half a share of the rent. In other words, if everything goes well, Shuletai's livestock could be twice as expensive as it was when he was selling it to Jamukha. Of course, it was only 40% of the time he used to live in the capital. But even so, Shuletai would have to take huge risks. Once his livestock died accidentally on the road, or the road was blocked due to heavy snow, the carriage could not move, and he would bear all the losses at that time.
But what Shuletai did not expect was that when he returned to his residence and told his father, Wututai disagreed no matter what. This is a big mistake in the world. Once Jamukha knew, what would happen? Aren’t you always saying that you don’t want the Mongolian Khanate to be incorporated into China? Why did you dare to take risks once you touch your own interests?
"Dad, I've already contacted you. Instead of freezing the cattle and sheep to death, it's better to send them to the bay city for a good price." Shuletai said.
"Don't you do this, aren't you slapping yourself in the face? If we voted for it at the beginning, we could live in the capital, guarding the stove, drinking milk tea and chatting, and we still had to be sad?" Wu Tutai said angrily. If he voted for it, would it still be necessary to do so now? The 10,000 troops in Chitai were guarding outside. If he knew about it, he would probably not have good results.
"How could I know if I voted against it, this would be the result." Shuletai whispered. Who doesn't want to live a comfortable life? Who doesn't want to eat delicious food and drink spicy food every day? But sometimes, a casual decision will change all this.
"I tell you that Chitai had sent someone to find you a few days ago, but it was not found at that time. You still dare to do such a thing now. Once the truth is revealed, our whole family will not die well." Wututai told Shuletai another shocking news.
"Oh my God, do we still have a way out?" Shuletai shouted sadly. In fact, they had been living this kind of life a few years ago, but after enjoying the city life for two years, they were no longer used to living their original life.
This winter, there are many people who think about the idea of the slaughter platform. This winter is particularly cold. Many people can already foresee the death of a large number of livestock. If they are in the capital, they don’t need to worry about this at all. But this is in the wild. No matter how many tents they have, they are not enough livestock to live in, let alone the problem of forage.
If Jamuha voted again now, the approval rate would definitely be more than 95%. However, Han Zhongwei would not give Jamuha such an opportunity, and Jamuha would not give them such an opportunity. Not long after Shuletai came back, Akaitai sent someone to arrest him. Soon, all the property of the Ututai family was confiscated, and the whole family would become slaves.
Chapter completed!