The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty returned to the court in triumph, and personally escorted 20,000 to 30,000 slaves and captives back to Beijing. Then he held a grand celebration banquet in Wansheng Palace, and stayed drunk with the meritorious soldiers. After the celebration banquet, there was another generous reward! Those who were promoted were promoted, those who were rewarded were rewarded, and the most eye-catching thing was the title given to a village. The Marquis alone could seal out so many of them in one go!
Chen Qiyu, the general counselor of the armies in front of the tent, Cao Wenzhao, the general counselor of the armies in front of the tent, Lu Xiangsheng, the commander-in-chief of the left army in front of the tent, Zhou Yuji, the commander-in-chief of the right army in front of the tent, Sun Chuanting, the commander-in-chief of the army in front of the palace, Hong Chengchou, governor of Yanning, Ji Liao Governor-General Yuan Chonghuan, Liaoxi Commander-in-Chief Zu Dashou, Jizhen Commander-in-Chief Zhao Lijiao, Ningyuan Commander-in-Chief He Kegang, Datong Commander-in-Chief Man Gui, Xuanfu Commander-in-Chief Hei Yunlong, Daning garrison Sun Zushou, Pingliao Commander-in-Chief Mao Wenlong, and Zhangqian Zuojun Twenty people including deputy general Huang Degong, deputy general Sun Yingyuan of the front army, Yuanfu Wang Zaijin, Ge Lao Sun Chengzong, Ge Lao Zhang Fengyi, Ge Lao Bi Ziyan, etc. all deserved the title of marquis!
In addition, the deceased Yang Hao, Yuan Yingtai, and Xu Guangqi were all posthumously granted the title of marquis, and their titles were inherited by their sons. Don’t think that you can stop being granted the title of marquis after you die. Don’t work hard. All these actual knights are Hereditary and irreplaceable!
Under the twenty-three marquises, there are forty-five earls, fifty-one viscounts, and sixty-nine barons. Wu Sangui, Hei Wentao, Sun Dapao, Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, Yang Sizhong, Zhang Yiming, Qin Liangyu, Li Zicheng, Ma Xianglin, Meng Ruhu, Hu Dawei, etc. have made great contributions, but those who did not make enough to become a marquis have all been granted the title of earl. The younger ones were granted the title of viscount or baron. A total of one hundred and eighty-eight knights were awarded...a very auspicious number!
And these 188 barons are all enfeoffed. The youngest baron also has 250 enfeoffed households and a noble estate with 25,000 acres of arable land...a total of 110,800 households have been enfeoffed. , 11.08 million acres of land, and a total of 11.08 million pieces of money, grain, and cloth given!
What an unprecedented seal!
Of course, the population of 110,800 households is nothing... There are so many poor people in Ming Dynasty who have no food to eat! And by the 17th year of Chongzhen, there will be more and more people in the Ming Dynasty who have no food to eat! So Zhu Youjian didn't feel bad at all if he awarded some titles to the meritorious officials.
And more than 1.1 million acres of land that can be cultivated is nothing to Zhu Youjian now. It's not the mature fields within the Great Wall, but the wasteland outside the mouth, which is worthless at all. Moreover, although those lands were controlled by the Ming army, the rule was not reliable. It would be difficult for ordinary households to move there and gain a foothold. They might become the fat sheep of slave thieves and some Mongolian tribes who were unwilling to graze honestly.
In order to relocate the military households, Zhu Youjian had already thought of many ways and spent a lot of money on food... But don't think that as long as you give out land for free these days, there will be poor and lower-middle peasants who are crying. If you are willing to rush over and farm and fight at the same time, that is just a dream! Now is the Little Ice Age, droughts are happening everywhere, the climate in the north is extremely cold, and the lands conquered by the Ming army are not very stable, and immigrants who have no skills, or are not well organized and armed are basically moving there. Hu Lu gave away his head.
As for a well-organized and well-equipped armed immigrant gang...the operating costs are high, and management is also difficult. It would be good to break even after a few years of opening. Profitability is simply a dream!
Therefore, civilians will not go there at all. Only military household groups organized by the state or military household groups organized by military aristocrats will go to such places to engage in armed immigration. What they value is not the gains in money and food. What they want It's a blood tax!
The state's ability to manage military households has been fully proven through more than two hundred years of practice in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Zhu Youjian had to rely on Xunchen, Jiubianjiangmen and the feudal prince's palace to manage military households... Now Jiubianjiangmen and Lao Xungui have worked very hard in the past few years to build many new buildings in the border areas outside the mouth. Thousand households.
Now it’s up to the new rich to shoulder the heavy burden!
These 188 titles are just the beginning. According to Zhu Youjian's thoughts, he has to be given the title of 888 princes and uncles no matter what!
It's just that he couldn't afford so much money and food to "reward" the meritorious officials below, and he was embarrassed to let them stick to their duties and become the meritorious officials... After all, not everyone can make money like Zheng Zhilong and Zhu Cixiang.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian had to move money and food from the treasury to supplement the heroes in the name of rewards...
After the 188 knights were sealed, a reward was given to the soldiers who participated in the war, and a large amount of pension was paid to the soldiers who were killed or seriously injured. Finally, there was a warehouse to store money and food, but it was empty again - two With tens of millions going out like this, of course the treasury is empty!
And the food stored in the two life-saving warehouses in Nanyang and Xiangyang could not be moved... In the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian's money was tight again.
You have been emperor for eight and a half years, why are you still so poor? How could the traitor back then be so rich? I can’t spend all my money no matter what, so why do I have to use it so much when it comes to me?
In the Wansheng Hall, Zhu Youjian had just finished listening to the report of Zi Yan's cry for poverty. He was hoping that his traitor would grow up quickly so that his father could "nibble on him." When the eunuch guarding outside the Wansheng Hall started shouting .
"Your Majesty, please see me!"
Hearing this, the elders who were having a small meeting with Zhu Youjian were stunned.
what 's wrong? National affairs are being discussed here. What is the queen doing here? Do you want the harem to interfere in politics?
"Xuan!"
Zhu Youjian said the word "Xuan", and then explained: "The noble concubine is here today to discuss with you the enfeoffment of thousands or thousands of Mongolian households. It is a rule of the Ming Dynasty that the harem does not interfere in politics, not a rule of Mongolia ...On the Mongolian side, the concubines are asked to help manage Orduo. Together with Uyuta from Nenhorqin, I now have six Mongolian noble concubines, and they all own Orduo."
Zhu Youjian is now the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and the Great Khan of Mongolia... This does not mean that Ming Dynasty annexed Mongolia, but that Ming Dynasty and Mongolia have become a co-king alliance through Zhu Youjian.
Mongolia still maintains its own system and does not accept the management of the Ming Dynasty - in fact, it cannot be controlled. Setting up counties in Mongolia will make Bi Ziyan vomit blood.
According to the Mongolian system, the basis of Zhu Youjian's rule in Mongolia is the six powerful concubines Ordo...and the eldest concubine Wu Liangha is the first of the six Ordo concubines!
Wu Liangha, wearing a gorgeous Mongolian robe, walked into the hall quickly, holding an account book in his hand. He knelt down respectfully in front of Zhu Youjian and then handed the account book to him with both hands: "Tian Khan, 107 The household registration books of the Mongolian tribes and ten thousand households are here, please take a look."
"Okay," Zhu Youjian took the account book and said to Wu Liangha while flipping through it, "Ping Shen."
Wu Liangha then stood up, stood in front of Zhu Youjian with a smile, and said: "Excluding the Eight Banners of Jin Mongolia and the Eight Banners of Zhaowuda League, there are a total of 107 Mongolian tribes in Monan, Mobei, Dongdao, and Qinghai. There are about 250,000 nomadic households in each tribe and 10,000 households, of which more than 50,000 households belong to the six Ordos of Tian Khan, and the remaining 200,000 households belong to 101 large and small tribes."
The total of 101 large and small tribes is only 200,000 households, with a population of just over 1 million...it is really scattered into sand! Although the Mongolian enfeoffment system boosted the speed of expansion when they were strong, once it weakened, it became a piece of scattered sand and it was difficult to unite.
Zhu Youjian nodded, closed the account book, and said: "This won't work. We have to organize it into 250 thousand households and 25 10,000 households... We will occupy 70,000 households. You can take 20,000 households each." Household, the other concubines can each have one!"
Wu Liangha thought for a while and said: "Long live the Lord, what about the ten thousand households in Chahar? Do you want..."
"Also give Ezhe two ten thousand households, let's call it Chahar's ten thousand households!" Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "The Orkhon River Basin has always been the center of the Mobei grassland. It can't be suppressed without some strength... ...Let Ezhe stay there permanently! I will also occupy a large piece of pasture there, build a palace, and six Ordos will take turns to go out of the town. In addition, the big Ordo is also mine, and you will send your hand One of the ten thousand households below is permanently resident.”
