After a night's rest, everyone organized their equipment again and prepared to set off.
"Political Commissar, our armors will be returned to you." Baoli took a deep breath and said. Yesterday, these people of the Tang Dynasty believed in them and provided them with armors for their safety. Then they also followed the rules and wanted to return these armors. go back.
They are willing to trust themselves and others, and they are naturally willing to trust each other.
"No, as I said, these armors were originally prepared for you. Now that they have been distributed, you can just pack them up yourself. If you are too hot and don't want to wear them for the time being, just pack them up and take them away. There are a lot of people here now. Tang's territory is generally not dangerous." The political commissar said with a smile.
"Okay!" Baoli was silent for a moment, and finally agreed.
In the next few days, the relationship between the two parties seemed to have suddenly become closer because of that night. If the two parties had maintained a certain degree of politeness before, now, the two parties really seemed to be as close as brothers.
Zhou Min looked at the figure of the political commissar with some admiration. He was worthy of being a political commissar, and he had completely let down the guard of these Turkic people so quickly.
By the time they arrived at the tribe where Baoli and others were, the relationship between the two parties had become very close, and all the Turks regarded them as true friends.
Oh no, to be precise, they are also from the Tang Dynasty now.
At least, Baoli and others now regard themselves as Tang Dynasty people!
Baoli, who returned to his hometown tribe, directly took the political commissar to read out all the policies of the Tang Dynasty to these herdsmen, and accurately informed each herdsman household.
The herdsmen who knew the news had similar initial reactions to Baoli and others, they were all in disbelief.
So many cattle, sheep and horses were given to them?
In fact, most of the people allocated were cattle and sheep. The number of horses on the grassland was far more than that of later generations. But even for the Turks, the war horses were actually grazed by the nobles.
Herdsmen who are responsible for raising cattle and sheep also have horses, but each herdsman household only has five or six horses.
The major Turkic nobles had their own horse farms. These horse farms were not allocated, but were still assigned to the state-owned pastures of the Tang Dynasty. In addition, all cattle and sheep are distributed to the herdsmen on these grasslands according to their numbers.
The work was carried out far more smoothly than expected. Herder tribes began to gather one by one, and political commissars from each unit and some dispatched officials also began to penetrate into these herdsmen.
The first step is to organize them into villages according to the original herdsmen tribes, with fifty herdsmen households in one village, ten villages in one brigade, and then ten brigade groups form a township.
The first step is to distribute the cattle and sheep equally based on the number of herders and the number of cattle and sheep in the entire area.
It is unrealistic to evenly distribute the number of herdsmen, cattle and sheep in the entire Xueyantuo. In that case, many cattle and sheep would have to rush to other places because the grassland is too big.
In later generations, Inner Mongolia had a population of more than 20 million on a land of 1.18 million square kilometers. It was a vast area with sparsely populated areas, and many places were deserted.
Although it is because the city has gathered a large population, the current area of Hanhai Prefecture is much larger than that of Inner Mongolia in later generations! Even leaving aside the desert areas, the area available for grazing far exceeds the total area of Inner Mongolia in later generations.
With such a vast total area, the total population currently resettled will only have a population of more than 2 million when considering the future Shiwei and Khitan together.
Therefore, the number of cattle and sheep allocated is based on roughly counting the overall number of cattle and sheep in Xueyantuo, and then dividing it by the total population of Xueyantuo to get the average number of cattle and sheep each herdsman can own.
Then refer to the number of cattle and sheep needed to feed a person on the grassland to calculate and then distribute.
According to the current data obtained by Qibi Heli and others who went around the grassland to encourage these nobles to go to Chang'an, and then conducted a rough census of the population, cattle, sheep and horses, the number of livestock required to feed a person on the grassland is about 12, including 8 sheep. Only, 2 cows and 2 horses.
The dairy products and ancillary products produced by these animals can probably feed a person.
Of course, there must be discrepancies in this number. Li Ke and the others used average calculations, but in fact many of the cattle and sheep owned by the herdsmen on the grassland belonged to the nobles, and they had no right to deal with them. In other words, the number of cattle and sheep that can keep a herdsman alive must be far less than this number.
But where does the harm come from not comparing? Without comparison, how can you return to your heart? Therefore, the total number of cattle, sheep, and horses currently allocated by Xue Yantuo is based on 15 animals. If a herdsman household is calculated based on 5 people, it will be 75 livestock.
The policy promoted was tax-free for five years. After five years, taxes paid to the court would be based on the number of cattle and sheep paid annually. The number of cattle and sheep paid is also far lower than the original Turkic tax standards.
You must know that the Turkic Khan's previous tax collection method was to draw one tax directly based on the number of livestock. The ones drawn were not cubs, but adult cattle and sheep. But now the Tang Dynasty court collects lambs or calves.
And if the local allocation of cattle and sheep is less than 15 per person, if one less cattle is paid tax after five years, two less taxes will be collected, and two less taxes will be paid for two years.
Therefore, when the entire policy was implemented, it can be said that these herders instantly had no objection to their identity as Tang people.
The Tang Dynasty did not want their cattle and sheep, but distributed them cattle and sheep, and even allocated all the pastures to the herdsmen themselves. In the future, these pastures will be theirs.
And these pastures will be registered, and they will also be taught how to rotate the pastures. And help guide them to build sheepfolds, build villages, and establish fixed living places.
When have you ever seen such a good leader? They haven't even heard of it!
Why are you hesitating? Khan? What is a khan? From now on we will be herders on the grasslands of Datang!
Herdsman tribes began to gather one after another. After they gathered, they would form towns and villages on the grassland, until finally, with the economic prosperity of the grassland, large cities were formed.
Then these permanent cities were used as strongholds to connect and control the entire grassland in the northern border of the Tang Dynasty until there would no longer be unrest here.
At the same time, these political commissars who traveled to various places also began to do the same work as their colleagues in Qinghai, which was to hold grievance meetings in one village after another.
These grievance meetings not only allow them to see clearly the cannibalistic nature of these Turkic nobles, but more importantly, the stories brought by these grievance meetings will be summarized and then registered, and then the next batch of children will be given to these herdsmen in the future. During education, the stories of how these nobles bullied the herdsmen would be told to them.
Similarly, in the future, professional theater troupes will adapt these stories of complaints into plays and perform them for free in the towns formed by herdsmen on the grassland.
Well, His Highness said, this is called a heart-to-heart condolences group.
