Chapter 401 The King of Benevolence and Righteousness
I agree with Zhao Gou's rule, obediently, and hand over a portion of Ding Zhuang to form an army to serve Zhao Gou. As long as I can do these three things, these tribes south of Yinshan can get everything they want now!
It is these three very simple conditions. Zhao Gou did not need them to break up their tribes and completely engrave households and people; he did not need them to give up their rights, behave as pigs, and even send officials into every department.
You should know that the Khitans had established a complete system during the 200-year rule. Early tribal leaders could still have tribal rights to a certain extent, but as their titles changed from "Yilijin" to "Lingwen" and "Lingwen" to "Jingdushi", the meaning of those tribal leaders had already undergone earth-shaking changes.
This can be said to be a process of centralization within the Khitan. The governor, the tribal leader, has become a title for official positions today, rather than a private authority that can be inherited by the father and son.
In a sense, those tribes have also become administrative units, just like the prefectures in the Han area, even if they still live a nomadic life.
Zong Ze promised not to send officials to recognize their current status. This is not simply maintaining the original state, but delegating power to them so that they can greatly consolidate their authority in the "tribe". This means that every governor smiles happily.
This superior condition was completely beyond their imagination, and some governors didn't even believe what they heard.
Especially when I heard Zong Ze’s subsequent mention of the wool trade.
The Han people who have always only stared at cattle, sheep, leather, sheep horns, and cow horns have now put away their wool. This is really surprising and surprising. For them, wool is almost useless except for making felt. Although the technology of wool has always existed, and the latter has a certain scale in the Song and Western Xia areas, the Khitans did not have the word wool spinning at all, and they only needed felt.
Because the former is too troublesome, while the latter is very simple and easy to understand.
Felt is to add wool and cashmere to water, and repeatedly roll and press it, bonding the coarse hair and the fluff together to form felt, commonly known as "rolling felt". Rolling felt is similar to rolling noodles, and the tool only requires a wooden stick. The production process is so simple and crude that even idiots can do it, but it has a wide range of uses. Its value is even better than that of a blanket.
The four walls and curtain roof of the Khitan tent were covered with felt, which means that the frame was first made of wood and then the entire tent was covered with felt.
For grassland people in nomadic environments, this simple and easy-to-use felt is obviously much more practical than tedious wool textiles.
In winter, those herders at the bottom use a piece of cattle and sheepskin and a piece of felt to protect themselves from the wind and cold, and the effect is not very good.
Therefore, the Khitan had strict control and management of felt and had ordered many times to ban felt from entering the Song Dynasty.
But in fact, the Han people demanded it very little because not many people could withstand the strong smell of smell. You should know that even the low-priced wool felt in later generations would inevitably have a strong smell of smell. In today's era, especially in the hands of the Khitans, the felt would not have a smell of smell of smell.
The Khitans had a well-developed animal husbandry industry, and the wool produced by the tribes every year was not consumed by their own needs. In the past, they could only throw it away at will, but now the Han people suddenly came to collect the wool. Even if these leaders could immediately determine that the wool trade would be profitable, and they were still very happy.
It is a great joy to exchange for money for valuable things. The Han people can make money with wool, which is the ability of the Han people. They only have money to make wool.
"The Meigusi tribe led by the villain can give three hundred warriors to serve His Highness the King of Yan. The villain hopes to borrow 20,000 yuan..."
"Jie's troops can produce 500 warriors to follow the king. We are still rich in supplies, so we don't lend money..."
"We have hidden the ancient Tang Dynasty tribe and sent six hundred warriors to the king through fire and water,..."
Zong Ze gave the governors in front of him an hour to think, but in fact, he had not even waited for a quarter of an hour, and a group of people had already surrounded him.
There are still a few people in a wealthy tribe like Jie's tribe, but most of them are poor people like Meigusi tribe.
They used the money they borrowed to buy food, salt, tea and medicinal materials, and used as much as possible to arm the tribes they were led so that their tribes could survive this harsh winter smoothly.
As long as they can do this, they can even have the authority that the leader in the tribe has in the true sense.
Although they could only abide by the price given by Zong Ze when purchasing materials, just like the 10,000 shi of relief and compressed military rations given by Zong Ze can actually make 20,000 shi or 30,000 shi, the amount they borrowed from Zong Ze's hand can only be used as a 20,000 shi.
But this is enough to win the gratitude of the governors.
Standing on the edge of the cliff, they can receive unexpected assistance. Even if the assistance is somewhat conditional, it will save too many of their lives.
The Khitans were already over, but the Khitans were not willing to die. The number of their tribe members was even their reliance on the officialdom in the Zhao and Song dynasties in the future.
Don’t think that the hungry grassland herders will wait for death in their tents obediently. When despair comes, it is when war breaks out between these tribes. Before they are starved to death, they will pick up the knife in their hands and win the last bit of vitality for themselves.
Otherwise? Relying on Dangxiang people or Jurchens?
In this way, after a long and cold winter, some tribes south of Yinshan will inevitably be completely buried in the blizzard.
For the ethnic groups on the grassland, this scene is too familiar and common.
Since the Jurchens rebelled, the Khitan national strength has been getting worse day by day. Not to mention on the endless grasslands, even in Hanzhou, Hanzhou, two roads, Nanjing and Xijing, there are countless refugees and refugees. I don’t know how many lives it will be wiped out in a long winter.
They who live under the jurisdiction of the Southwest Road Raiders Office naturally have many fighting and fighting with each other, and everything is just for the sake of living.
The same is true for this year.
Just like last year, the Jurchens only took away their cattle and sheep when the autumn was high and the horses were fat, but ignored them when the snow was floating. They sat and watched tribes disappear in the wind and snow, and watched people's lives disappear in the cold.
The more they die, the happier the Jurchens will be.
But even so, they did not dare to rebel from the Jin people. Because the absolute gap in strength between the two sides made all the governors know that they were dying when they rebelled!
Chapter completed!