My life skills in Daming Liver

Grassland, the board rises.

Since the last Khan Ada Khan massacred the Han people and expelled the Han people from the Tumote tribe, Bansheng City has become increasingly dilapidated.

Bansheng City was built by Anda Khan when he took in Han craftsmen.

At that time, Anda Khan relied on these Han craftsmen to improve weapons and equipment, and also reclaimed land for farming near Bansheng City, which provided the foundation for the later rise of the Tumote tribe.

At the beginning, Anda Khan gave the Han people who fled to the grasslands the same treatment as the people on the grasslands, and also paid light corvees and low taxes, and exempted the Han people who reclaimed the land from taxes.

At that time, many Han people who could not survive on the border, as well as the White Lotus Sect who rebelled within the Ming Dynasty, fled to the grasslands, which was also one of the reasons for the rise of the Tumut tribe.

However, as the authority of Anda Khan deepened day by day, the Mongolian nobles became increasingly intolerant of the Han people who had wealth in their hands. This is what happened next.

After the establishment of Wuyuan City, almost all the Han craftsmen in Bansheng City fled, and the remaining ones were treated as slaves, with no one willing to work hard at all.

The royal palace in Bansheng City began to appear damaged, but there were no craftsmen in the entire city who could repair it.

The Han workshops near Bansheng City were soon abandoned because they could not operate them.

The city has become dirty and messy because there are no people who know how to govern the city.

Feces accumulated in the streets, and the aqueducts were polluted. Even the water in the palace was transported back from upstream, and ordinary people had to walk miles to fetch water.

There was no one to maintain the infrastructure in the city, and the Han lands occupied by the Mongolian nobles began to be abandoned.

Farming and grazing are two completely different things.

Moreover, the intensive cultivation of crops also requires a lot of knowledge. These Mongolian nobles do not know how to take care of the land at all.

The Han people who know how to take care of the land have almost run away. In Wuyuan City, as long as they are Han people, they can divide the land and grant the land after two years of cultivation. It is much better to cultivate your own land than to be a slave for others.

After the new Khan took office, Sanniangzi took control of the civil power of the Tumut Ministry.

Huang Taiji respectfully asked for the title of King Shunyi, bowed his head to the Ming Dynasty, and received a lot of support from the Ming Dynasty.

But the situation on the grassland was already very bad, and what Sanniangzi inherited was a mess.

Tibetan Buddhism has spread on the grasslands. Although tribes are prohibited from worshiping Tibetan Buddhist monks, Sanniangzi also reached an agreement with Suonang Gyatso to control the number of monks on the grasslands.

But once faith spreads, it is difficult for officials to contain it.

Not to mention that the grassland was originally a loose tribal republic political system. The scope of control of King Shunyi was the tribes on the left and right flanks of the Tumut tribe, plus an area near Bansheng. The remaining tribes were relatively loose military alliance relationship.

Religious issues are only one of the issues that Sanniangzi worries about. The increasingly rampant smuggling of spirits is what Sanniangzi is most concerned about.

Since the promulgation of the prohibition on alcohol, there have been almost no open sales of spirits near Ban Sheng.

But the business quickly went underground, and at the same time, a large number of horse bandits emerged along with rampant liquor smuggling.

All this was something that Sanniangzi had never thought of.

Originally, she simply thought that as long as the prohibition on alcohol was implemented and the supply of spirits on the grassland was cut off, the problem of alcoholism on the grassland would be eliminated.

In fact, Sanniangzi's alcohol prohibition did not have much effect at all.

As an addictive drug, spirits still have strong demand.

The spirits are produced by Daming next door, and there is no way to control Daming's workshop on the grassland.

A large number of smugglers gathered in the underground black market and handed over the spirits produced by the Daming Workshop to the horse dealers who transported the spirits.

The strict prohibition on alcohol issued by Sanniangzi made selling and selling spirits a crime of beheading.

In this case, ordinary merchants could not get involved in the business of transporting spirits.

Because it is an illegal business, it must be supported by force. A group of desperadoes who make a living by selling spirits gathered together and became the horse bandits of Whistling Prairie.

The high profits from spirits allowed these horse bandits to recruit more companions and even buy better weapons.

For example, the Delin Gang of horse bandits that appears near Bansheng City today is a gang of horse bandits organized by a desperado called Delin. This gang all rides the best war horses and is equipped with sabers and muskets. When they encounter people on the grassland, The anti-smuggling cavalry who arrived in Tumote were not afraid at all. They even directly fought with the anti-smuggling cavalry and forced Tumote's anti-smuggling cavalry back.

This also brought great prestige to the horse bandit Delin Gang. Many bankrupts and desperadoes on the grassland joined the Delin Gang. This horse bandit wandering near Bansheng City has become the most popular in the entire Tumut tribe. Threat of headache.

In addition to the Delin Gang, large and small horse bandit gangs continued to rise in the grassland. Some of these horse bandits were armed. They soon discovered that in addition to selling private liquor, there were many profitable businesses on the grassland.

This includes, but is not limited to, attacks on small tribes on the grasslands, attacks on caravans on the grasslands, robbing other horse bandit bootlegging caravans, smuggling military horses and cotton and wool, which are prohibited exports, and all other matters promulgated by King Shunyi. ban.

In short, the most profitable businesses on the grassland are all written in the ban of King Shunyi.

This sentence was quickly regarded as a guideline by the horse bandits. The order established by the predecessor Ada Khan in a lifetime collapsed in a short period of time.

An Dahan was stabbed to death by his second son. Later, his eldest son Huang Taiji married An Dahan's wife Sanniangzi and inherited the status of Tumote Khan.

Huang Taiji's compromising attitude and subservience to the Ming court originally made many tribes dissatisfied, and the prohibition on alcohol and religious bans intensified the dissatisfaction of other tribes.

The rise of the horse bandits once again weakened the status of the Tumut tribe as the leader of the Mongolian grassland. Sanniangzi soon discovered that the current situation was not even as good as when An Dahan was in power.

Sanniangzi even issued a decree to free some Han slaves, hoping that they could cultivate the land well.

However, the capriciousness of the Mongolian nobles made it impossible for these freed Han slaves to farm with peace of mind, and a large amount of fertile land remained abandoned.

On the contrary, freeing slaves and taking back the fields occupied by the nobles made these Mongolian nobles even more dissatisfied.

Sanniangzi couldn't understand it. She obviously did what she should do. The prohibition on alcohol was also for the good of the people on the grassland. Why did it become like this?

She didn't understand at all why everyone was thinking about their own immediate interests but not willing to think about the future of the grassland.

In Wuyuan City, Gao Wuguan sat on a camel and said to Yu Dayou who saw him off in person:

"General, you should go back. This time I am just preparing to open up the trade route to Turpan and will return to Wuyuan City soon."

After Gao Wuguan came to Wuyuan City, he accepted a lot of pressure from Yu Dayou on internal affairs, which also allowed Yu Dayou to focus more on the military.

In addition, Gaowuguan also established a smuggling route from Wuyuan City to Daming. Relying on the intelligence station in Daming, a stable trade route was established.

Gunpowder can be transported to Wuyuan City through trade routes, and then made into grenades by the arsenal in Wuyuan City, which solves the problem of insufficient grenade supply.

Therefore, Gao Wuguan wanted to personally lead the team to establish a trade route to Turpan in the west. Yu Dayou was a little worried.

He specially handed over the personal guard cavalry he personally trained to Gao Wuguan as his guard, and ordered them to protect Gao Wuguan.

The goods in the caravan this time were also carefully selected by Gao Wuguan.

In addition to a large amount of silk and tea that were very popular in the Western Regions, Gaowuguan also carefully prepared gifts for the princes of the Western Regions along the way.

This includes exquisite glass products, colorful glass "handicrafts", and sophisticated clocks.

These things were all tied into bags on the camels, and the camel bells were ringing in the long camel caravan. They were leaving Wuyuan City all the way west, crossing the grasslands and the Gobi Desert, heading to the oases of Turpan.

Gaowuguan did not expect to open up the trade route to Central Asia at once. After crossing Turpan, there was also the Yarkand Khanate. This was established on the basis of the Chattaitai Khanate established in Central Asia when the Mongolian cavalry was whipping the world. The country has been competing with Turpan for dominance in the Western Regions.

Gao Wuguan did not want to go too far at once. He just wanted to establish a trade channel with the princes of Turpan and prepare for the opening of the Silk Road in the future.

The Turpan Khanate also inherited the Chagatai Khanate, but was slightly weaker than the Yarkand Khanate.

There are a lot of deserts and oases in the territory of the Turpan Khanate, so the Khanate does not have much control over its princes.

The so-called Turpan Khan was just a co-owner elected by the princes of the oasis, so Gao Wuguan tried to integrate the oases along the way to form a stable trade route.

When the camel bells of Gaowuguan disappeared, Yu Dayou said to Lu Er beside him:

"It's time for us to take action."

In May, the grenadier cavalry of Wuyuan City, which had been repaired for a long time, was dispatched again and began to attack the entire Hetao area.

The Mongolian tribes in the Hetao area were completely unable to resist. Some of them chose to submit to Wuyuan City, while others left the Hetao area and fled to Bansheng City.

In June, Yu Dayou occupied the entire Hetao area and built cities on the ruins of several ancient cities.