"Your Majesty, I have come to report from Jizhou. Ma Shilong and others have raided Mantao'er and escorted a large number of Tatar prisoners and captured horses back to Jizhou. The specific number of prisoners and horses are listed above. Please take a look at it. .”
Capital.
Xiong Tingbi handed the memorial submitted by Wang Zaijin, Governor of Jiliao, to Zhu Youxiao.
After Zhu Youxiao took it and looked at it, he said: "The Tatars may think that we just capture some of their prisoners and that's it, but what they don't know is that this is just the beginning of our expansion of territory. The next thing we need to do is to use This group of captives started mining in the Yuanbaoshan area of Daningwei. The first step was to use these prisoners as miners and transform them from herdsmen to workers, so that the coal mines in the Yuanbaoshan area could be used by the imperial court as soon as possible."
"We need to hurry up, because today's climate is colder than ever before, and the world is already short of coal. Now that steam engines are in use, the shortage of coal is even more serious than the shortage of gold! Therefore, opening new coal mines as early as possible can also lead to a shortage of coal. Solve the coal shortage problem on a day-to-day basis.”
Yuan Keli took over the words and added something at this time.
"In addition to mining, there is also the matter of building more official roads. Fortunately, the road from Jizhou to the capital is already connected in all directions, and the official roads have been built wide. Now we only need to build one official road from Daning to Jizhou. So After calculation, there are still not enough prisoners, and we need to recruit more people from nearby areas."
Xu Guangqi said at this time.
"But now there is a shortage of migrant workers in the capital area. Water transportation requires a large number of water transport workers. Various manufacturing workshops between Tianjin and the capital also require a large number of migrant worker apprentices. However, the population in the capital area is not very large, at least not as large as People from the south of the Yangtze River, so now we can only recruit from places with abundant labor in the south, otherwise, the wages will have to be increased!"
Bi Ziyan said at this time.
"Then recruit from places with abundant labor in the south! Anyway, the road guide system has been eliminated, and the corvee has been abolished. This allows people from places with abundant labor but few construction projects to come to places with many construction projects such as the capital to earn money. In addition, Since there are not enough prisoners, we should capture more prisoners. In my opinion, the reward for capturing a prisoner can be increased. This will allow the soldiers to kill less and capture more alive, and even reduce the chance of killing good people and taking credit for their merits. After all, what the court needs most now is labor, and labor does not require a lot of labor. As far as I know, the labor required for local migrant workers in the capital is no less than the price of hiring a shopkeeper in a shop. It can be seen that my own people in Ming Dynasty It is becoming more and more valuable, and if this is the case, we should use more prisoners and capture more prisoners. This will benefit the country."
Zhu Youxiao then added: "But these captives must be managed well. As the saying goes, if they are not of our race, their minds must be different. What we need is their labor force, but we do not need their civilization that is different from ours, and The idea that each other belongs to different countries and ethnic groups requires us to assimilate them so that they can subconsciously forget that they are slaves of the Golden Family and only identify themselves as descendants of the Chinese who migrated to the grasslands. They are the same as the Han people and other ethnic groups of the Ming Dynasty. With the same culture and race, we can achieve complete assimilation of the Tatars!
Therefore, it is necessary to change the previous way of dealing with the Tatars and the way of recruiting the Tatar nobles, in order to rescue and assimilate the ordinary Tatars who are oppressed and enslaved by their nobles, and to win over the Tatar center to the nobles of the Ming Dynasty to suppress the reaction forcefully Moreover, the stubborn Tatar nobles have achieved the purpose of uniting the majority and suppressing the minority. They should also treat the un-Chinese students in the southwest in the future. Doing this now can be regarded as accumulating experience for the implementation of royalization in the southwest. This time, When the first batch of Tatar prisoners who were brought back were sent to work in the Yuanbaoshan Coal Mine, they had to be assimilated. The young ones were required to learn Chinese characters, learn Chinese, and wear Hanfu. The subjects they studied were first determined as Chinese language, history, and common sense, use the literature, history textbooks and common sense textbooks specially compiled by the Hanlin Academy to let them know that I am their savior and that they need to submit to the Ming Dynasty and become its people, and then completely eliminate all attempts to prevent them from submitting to the Ming Dynasty. , became slave owners of free people, and for the older ones, after the work was over, they would gather together in the evening to learn Chinese and ask for Hanfu. Those who did not comply would have their roots cut off until they died of exhaustion! "
"According to the order!"
Yuan Keli replied.
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Zhu Youxiao and his courtiers had already arranged to appoint the corresponding officials of the Daning Chengxuan Envoy Department and the officials responsible for the development of the Yuanbaoshan Coal Mine.
Qi Biaojia, as a member of the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry, concurrently served as the censor of Daning and admiral of the Yuanbaoshan coal mine business.
Soon after Zhu Youxiao issued such an instruction to the ministers in the Political Affairs Hall, Qi Biaojia also received such an instruction and made detailed preparations according to Zhu Youxiao's instruction.
Ma Shilong and other captive Mongolians had also been escorted to Qi Biaojia in Daning by troops sent by the governor of Jiliao in Jin Dynasty.
At this time, Qi Biaojia began to arrange for these prisoners to mine.
A large number of Mongolian prisoners were brought, and many of them were nobles of the Chahar tribe.
Because Ma Shilong and others previously sent troops to attack Lin Dan Khan's sweat tent, and the nobles of the Chahar tribe were naturally concentrated in his sweat tent.
Taiji Longan was one of the captured nobles of the Chahar tribe.
"What on earth is the Ming army trying to do? Why did they escort us to this barren mountain instead of going to the capital to present prisoners, to be executed late or to have our heads displayed to the public?"
At this time, Long An was surprised that he was escorted to Daning Yuanbao Mountain, and he spoke to Tai Ji, who was named Da Lei next to him.
D'Leh replied: "Are they going to bury us all alive here?"
When Long An heard what Darley said, he became more and more uneasy and said, "It's a shame that we are all handcuffed now. Otherwise, we should have run out immediately."
"All kneel down!"
Before these prisoners were asked to mine, Qi Biaojia first ordered all the prisoners to kneel down.
Naturally, Long An and others did not dare to disobey, so they knelt down.
"Easy to eat and easy to take!"
Then, Qi Biaojia issued a new order.
A group of soldiers who had been prepared began to appear in front of these prisoners. One of the soldiers stood in front of a prisoner and began to undo his braided hair, re-tie it into a bun, collect it at the top, then wrap it with a strip of cloth, and directly His hair accessories were transformed into Ming Han hair accessories of this era.
Many prisoners became puzzled and uneasy, and asked why.
Long An asked at this time: "What are you doing? Why are you changing our hair accessories?"
But what Long An didn't expect was that next, they were asked to stand up, and then their clothes were forcibly cut off and they were put into Hanfu.
Long An understood: "You are trying to make us easy to betray and betray our ancestors. You might as well just kill us!"
But not long after Long An shouted loudly, he was pushed on his back to the ground by the soldiers from the two government and army who came over, and his hands were held down.
Then, two more officers and soldiers came over and held down his legs.
Long An didn't know what they were going to do, but he just struggled.
At this time, a medical soldier came over with a first aid kit made of a wooden box. He squatted in front of Long An, opened the first aid kit, stuffed a ball of cloth into Long An's mouth, and then took out a knife. , and put the knife on the fire and burned it.
Not long after, Long An screamed.
At the same time, an interpreter outside shouted: "Anyone who refuses is a person who refuses to accept the king's transformation. There is no need to continue the heirs, and they will all be castrated!"
Dare and the other Tatars, who were about to join Long'an in objecting to being easily subdued, suddenly became quiet.
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