Chapter 178 Mongolian nobles serving in labor
The military attachés of the Guards were not subject to civilian control.
Therefore, Zhang Cong, the magistrate of Yulin County, did not have the authority to command the Guards to guard Pang Guangyuan.
Pang Guangyuan has the power to handle military operations on an ad hoc basis.
According to Zhu Houzhao's order to the Guards, once the Guards came out of the fortress and encountered Tatars, small groups should gather to annihilate or defeat them, while large groups should withdraw and wait for reinforcements.
The strategic purpose is to erode the little prince's power step by step.
But now, this Mongolian fierce Anzac breed only has more than a thousand cavalry behind him, which is half the strength of the Ming army.
According to the principle of small groups gathering together to annihilate, the Ming Dynasty cavalry was naturally not polite. The horses under his command galloped over directly, and the short crossbows in their hands were fired. In an instant, thousands of arrows were fired, like a rain curtain.
Susu!
The short crossbow bows and arrows that accumulate huge momentum are made of new steel made in the Ming Dynasty. They can penetrate even double-layer plate armor, not to mention the leather armor of these Mongolian cavalry.
Therefore, there was the sound of countless crossbow arrows piercing the Tatar cavalry, and at the same time, bright blood flowers splashed.
The Ming Dynasty cavalry are now equipped with short crossbows and scimitars. They use crossbows for long-distance combat and knives for close combat.
Of course, the distance here is only for cavalry battles, unconventional so-called long-distance battles.
Since the Ming Dynasty improved its steelmaking method, it has become possible to produce high-carbon steel, and it is also possible to produce machine tools with tool steel through the earth machine tool drawings provided by Zhu Houzhao.
At the same time, hydraulic machinery can be used to process better crossbows and springs from tool steel, which has greatly improved the crossbow assembly, elastic structure, and sight placement technology.
The short crossbow specially made for the Guards cavalry is one of the masterpieces, which is helpful for taking a preemptive strike when confronting the enemy cavalry. When the enemy draws his strong bow, he can shoot a crossbow arrow first to defeat the enemy.
Zakzhong and the Tatar cavalry behind him were also well-trained. After a burst of arrows, they did not collapse. They immediately opened their bows and fired, forming a dense rain of arrows, which gave the Guards repayment.
But at this time, the Ming Dynasty cavalry had already rushed in front of these Tatars, and their faces could be seen clearly. Therefore, except for a few of the Guards who were hit by arrows, most of the cavalry had already slashed at these Tatars with their swords. cavalry.
With one strike, the sharp alloy high-carbon steel was slashed horizontally by the Ming Dynasty cavalry, and the head of a Tatar cavalry was easily sliced off into the sky.
The strong one took advantage of the inertia and slashed the waist of a Tatar cavalry with a thick-backed sword, cutting both men and horses in half, leaving only half of the body and half of the horse bleeding on the spot!
Zac was stunned, secretly wondering what kind of crossbow blade this was, it could break armor and hit people like mud!
More than two thousand cavalry of the Ming Dynasty circled around Zak Zhong's cavalry in a bifurcated manner and harvested his peripheral cavalry. Now Zak Zhong can only fight and retreat with his own cavalry.
The Ming Dynasty cavalry is still biting and refusing to let go. Once the cavalry under Zak's command escape in a certain direction, there will be countless crossbows in that direction to harvest the lives of the Tatar cavalry
If Zak Zhong wants to break out from the Ming Dynasty cavalry, the Ming Dynasty cavalry will not chop, but will directly throw a row of thunderbolts over. Iron beads, iron thorns, arsenic and other objects will explode in all directions as the gunpowder of the thunderbolts explodes. The explosion caused a huge splash, covering the bodies of these Tatar cavalry with scars, causing them to fall to the ground together with their horses, crying for their fathers and mothers!
Within half an hour, Zac's cavalry completely collapsed and retreated in a panic. Some even fell off their horses.
Except for a few Tatar cavalry who managed to escape, most of the Tatar cavalry were captured, including Zakzhong himself.
Zhang Cong has been watching this battle in situ. He really wants to say that this is actually a robbery and killing of the Tatars by the Ming cavalry. After Yongle, almost all Tatars robbed and killed Han people, but now the Ming Dynasty It can also give the Tatars a taste of being plundered and killed.
But what Zhang Cong had to admit was that these Tatars were very poor. Even the captured Tatar nobles did not seem to be well-dressed, let alone the ordinary Tatars and slaves at the bottom.
However, although Zhang Cong lamented their poverty, he would not be merciful to them. After all, these people were poor, but many of them were ruthless in robbing and killing people.
No matter who they were, as long as they had committed the crime of robbing and killing Han people, the prisoners were driven to the newly opened mines to serve for ten years. After ten years, their education level would determine whether they lived or died.
Other herders also made them work and received educational courses arranged by the government.
The primary method of education is to speak the Ming Dynasty Mandarin and change customs, then learn Confucian etiquette, and finally express their willingness to serve the Ming Emperor as the master.
Only in this way can one be forgiven or become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty.
The reason why these people are taught Confucian etiquette is naturally because Confucianism is very good at wearing away people's blood and creating dullness in people. Only by turning these herdsmen into docile sheep can they be easily ruled.
This is naturally different from the Han education method in Yulin City. According to Zhu Houzhao's intention, the people of the Han family in the Ming Dynasty no longer need to focus on moralizing Confucian education, but must gradually open up their wisdom, so they are asked to learn a variety of knowledge; while the people of the newly attached Ming Dynasty naturally have to learn to respect their teachers and respect their teachers. Only by adhering to the Tao and the principles of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness can we no longer have the intention to kill.
The children of herdsmen who had not committed crimes against the Han people of the Ming Dynasty were also gathered together for unified Chinese education.
Specialized Confucian scholars passed on Confucian etiquette and Neo-Confucian knowledge, taught them how to be loyal to the emperor, and allowed them to change their customs and completely Chineseize them into Han people.
"This is your surname. Your surname is Shi now, because the loyalty of you and your descendants to His Majesty the Ming Emperor must be as hard as a rock! Your name is Shi Biao! Do you remember it? Read it again, your name is Shi Biao ! ”
The names of these herdsmen will also be changed accordingly.
But these herdsmen did not fail to accept it. On the contrary, they became very active and serious in accepting Confucian education and Chinese culture, because the county magistrate had already said that only in this way can they be qualified to become the true people of the Ming Dynasty, and Become a true citizen of Ming Dynasty and you can have your own Makita.
This is a power that only the people of the Ming Dynasty can have.
The herdsmen on these grasslands and the farmers on the cultivated land are naturally the same, and they both value the land most.
Therefore, the herdsman named Shi Biao actively accepted Confucian education and actively began to speak Chinese and learn Han customs.
As far as he knew, there were several talented herdsmen who had obtained their own pastures from the county government. In the future, the sheep on these pastures would no longer belong to the slave owners but to themselves.
Because Shi Biao often had contact with the Han people in the border towns and conducted trade activities before, he also learned some Ming Dynasty Mandarin and recognized some Chinese characters, and he accepted it very quickly. Therefore, he soon became a common man with his own pastureland.
Since Shi Biao got his pastureland, he has begun to herd his sheep actively and diligently. He is very happy that he can become a subject of the Ming Dynasty, and he is also very happy to have such a life now, because in this way, he no longer has to As a slave, you can still have your own wealth and be protected by the Ming court.
For many low-level herdsmen and slaves who were oppressed by the Mongolian nobles in the past, they now have some sense of being human.
Yuan people like Zach who have committed crimes are naturally not so lucky. Now they have been organized into labor. They will wear special labor uniforms and be arranged by the government to do the dirtiest, most tiring and most dangerous work in designated mining areas. , and unlike migrant workers, they are not paid and must work for more than ten hours a day.
This kind of intensive work will last for ten years.
Zakzhong couldn't stand this kind of abuse. He originally thought that the Han people were really kind and would not kill him, but now he had to admit that the Han people were not kind but more ruthless than before. They could only kill him with a knife, and now they made him feel like a slave. Working day and night is really life worse than death!
"Pa! Hurry up, don't wait!"
Because Old Man Jia, a Han man, was too old to do physical work in the mining area, he became the supervisor of the mining area and was responsible for supervising the work of these Yuan people criminals every day. At this time, he whipped Zak Zhong on the back. The beating left a bloody mark on Zack's back, and the pain made him grit his teeth.
But now Zak Zhong has nothing to do against the Han old man Jia, because he is no longer the fierce Yuan man he used to be. He also knows that if he is slightly dissatisfied, the Guards on the high slopes on both sides will use him to plot chaos. He was hacked to death for the reason. The dead bodies piled up in the ditch opposite were all the bodies of Yuan Ren criminals who were unwilling to do hard labor and tried to escape.
Zach didn't want to die. It was human nature to be afraid of death, and he was no exception. He could only endure this torture and continue to work.
But what makes Zac species collapse is that they, metahuman criminals, have even more unbearable torture.
Zak Zhong didn't know how the Han people came up with such a method. They would regularly take the captured Yuan people to the largest square in the county, where his former slaves would criticize him or listen to the Han people in the border towns crying about how their families were. Mutilated by Yuan people.
Zach is becoming more and more afraid of this kind of thing. At first, he was very angry and angry that these slaves dared to scold him. Later, he became afraid and afraid of these slaves. Now he is still a little guilty. Now he begins to feel that he is a The sinner is a devil who owes a lot of blood debt.
Therefore, in the end, when the overseer continued to whip Zak Zhong, Zak Zhong was already numb, and his original idea of gathering some Yuanren criminals to kill the overseer and escape was completely wiped out in his mind.
Like the Zak species, other Yuan criminals have lost their former vitality after being scolded by the slaves and Han family members and subjected to heavy labor. They are sluggish and numb, like walking zombies who only work and eat every day. .
In any case, these Yuan people criminals made up for the shortage of labor force in Yulin City, allowing a large amount of iron ore to be produced in less than half a year after the city was founded.
At the same time, the construction process of the official road from Yulin City to Datong has also been accelerated a lot.
In September of the fourth year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao was preparing to leave for Datong.
On the surface, the little prince did not immediately plunder the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, but according to the information provided by Jin Yiwei, the little prince's ministries were gathering in secret, which made Zhu Houzhao even more worried that the little prince would make bigger moves.
Therefore, he could not just wait for the little prince's actions in the capital, he had to take the initiative.
(End of chapter)