Chapter 1106
Chapter 1106
Chapter 1106
"The strength of an object can break through all laws." Pan Yun led Zhu Jianji to Wuzhewei, and looking at the increasingly prosperous area with more and more houses along the Songhua River, he said, "But only benevolent governance can break down ethnic prejudices."
Nine-year-old Zhu Jianji's eyes shone brightly, and he nodded repeatedly, saying, "Master Hu also taught me this: to treat all races equally, and if I treat them as brothers, they will reciprocate with brotherly affection."
Pan Yun smiled: "Have you written it all down?"
Zhu Jianji replied obediently and loudly, "I've got it!"
"Alright, now keep it in your heart. Remember, those who are not of our kind will surely have different intentions. If the Ming Dynasty wants to maintain long-term peace and stability, we must be wary of foreign races!"
Zhu Jianji stared wide-eyed in shock, looking completely bewildered.
Pan Yun said, "To be an emperor, one must know how to be gentle and kind, but not be gentle and kind."
Next, Pan Jun broke his preconceived notions and led him on a wild tour of various tribes.
This is Wuzhewei, the military garrison of the Nurgan Regional Military Commission.
Three years ago, the emperor issued an edict to abolish the Nurgan Regional Military Commission and named the place after the Heilongjiang River, a major river within the territory of the Nurgan Regional Military Commission.
The Ming Dynasty officially took direct control of this area, establishing guard posts and provincial administration offices in Wuzhewei, and changing the thirteen offices of the two capitals to fourteen offices of the two capitals.
Within six months of the order being issued, the number of rebellious tribes had reached sixteen.
But before they could unite, they were defeated and scattered by the Ming army that appeared out of nowhere.
When they came to their senses, they discovered that the Ming Dynasty had not only relocated a large number of Han people to the Nurgan Regional Military Commission, but had also rebuilt the previously abandoned military garrisons.
The Nurgan Regional Military Commission is a vast region with a sparse population. These people wanted to hide, so they used the merchants who frequently traveled to and from this area to conceal themselves, and the tribes did not discover them.
The tribes discovered were of impeccable lineage and would never betray the Ming Dynasty.
They were insulted by other tribal nobles as traitors, but of course, they weren't intimidated at all. They turned around and cursed them as rebels, saying that their Nurgan Regional Military Commission was of the same lineage as the Ming Dynasty, and had already submitted a petition to submit during the reign of Emperor Hongwu. They warned, "Don't drag us down with your rebellion!"
While the nobles of the various tribes were busy cursing each other, Pan Yu and Li Song paid no attention, focusing on their work and quickly taking control of the situation.
Only a few tribes eventually chose to lead their people into the deep mountains and forests, while the rest of the tribes surrendered obediently and apologized to the Ming Dynasty.
From the start to the end of the rebellion, it only took half a year. The people of various tribes were swept along, completely bewildered, and had no idea what was happening.
Suddenly led to the front lines and told to block the Ming army, they suffered many casualties. Before they could even feel angry and sad, the tribe suddenly surrendered.
The Nurgan Regional Military Commission originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming army that entered did not enslave them, nor did it increase taxes. They continued to live the same way they had before.
They simply rebuilt the garrisons that had been established during the Yongle reign but were gradually abandoned, moved the soldiers in, reclaimed wasteland nearby, and relocated a large number of military households.
Since we all live under the same sky, there will always be areas where interests clash, and conflicts are inevitable.
But soon, the imperial court sent a large number of officials over. They built a general's mansion and a provincial administration office, and changed the Nurgan Regional Military Commission to Heilongjiang.
These officials selected a new, unclaimed area to resettle the relocated military households and civilians.
Instead of increasing taxes, they sent teachers to each tribe to teach them farming, weaving, and how to gather herbs.
Many ethnic minorities live in the Nurgan Regional Military Commission, and they are mostly semi-nomadic.
Several other groups migrated from Siberia further north, and they also have their own conflicts. Pasture requires a lot of land, but farming is different; it can achieve greater output value with less land resources.
But none of these ethnic groups are good at it.
This is a vast and rich land.
But this land is still alive.
The so-called black soil is overgrown with weeds and shrubs. To grow crops, you must first tame the soil.
For farmers, there is no land in the world that cannot be cultivated; if there is, it is simply because they haven't cultivated enough.
The Ministry of Agriculture accepted the task and dispatched twelve officials to lead the farmers from the official fields to migrate with their families. They not only guided the newly arrived military households and civilians in farming, but also guided the ethnic minorities who had lived there for generations and were mainly nomadic.
A year later, the ethnic minorities who had harvested grain from the land gradually accepted the Han people who brought them liveliness and vitality.
They used animal pelts, medicinal herbs, and various precious gems from their tribe to exchange for rice, flour, cooking oil, cloth, cotton, and salt at the Han people's markets.
They could also use horses, cattle, and sheep to exchange for textile machines, farm tools, and teachers at the provincial administration office.
However, in addition to teaching them for free, these teachers who taught them farming and weaving could also be exchanged and taken to the tribes to serve them wholeheartedly.
As long as the teacher exchanges the materials, the Provincial Administration Office will give them books, writing brushes, ink, paper, and other teaching aids.
It's like exchanging for a teacher; they only need to provide a classroom and room and board to receive a year of instruction in the skills that teacher excels in.
All relevant teaching materials were provided free of charge by the Provincial Administration Office.
Clever tribes would exploit loopholes by exchanging for teachers who could instruct in weaving and farming. This way, when they took the teachers with them, they could at least take two spinning machines and two sets of complete farming tools, which was much cheaper than exchanging for spinning machines and farming tools separately.
The first provincial governor of Heilongjiang, Xue Shao, seemed oblivious to this loophole, allowing them to take away these teaching aids by exchanging the teacher's talents.
These gentlemen scattered like sparks among the tribes, and two years later, the Nurgan Regional Military Commission underwent a dramatic transformation, with life flourishing everywhere.
The reason Pan Yun chose this place as the first stop for her practical course is because this land was a semi-slave society before the Ming army completely occupied it.
The tribes here claim to be subjects of the Ming Dynasty, yet they have always maintained a distant relationship with the court, and the Ming Dynasty has the least control over them.
But now, workshops are everywhere here, including steel mills, bicycle workshops, and textile workshops.
The third railway of the Ming Dynasty was also built here. It is the third railway after the Beijing-Tianjin Railway and the Nanhang Railway, and it is also the longest railway in the Ming Dynasty at present.
Before this, this land was inhabited only by the original inhabitants, criminals, refugees, and migrants from the west and north. You could walk for three days and three nights without seeing a single person, which shows how sparsely populated it was.
But now, with a large number of criminals being exiled here and a large number of displaced people who have lost their land being relocated, this place is no longer deserted.
Besides workshops, plots of land were cleared in the wilderness to grow crops, and as the mode of production changed, the semi-slave production relations also changed.
Ordinary members of the Mongol and Jurchen ethnic groups, who had always been treated as private property, gradually broke away from their original tribes, either by fleeing, redeeming themselves, or gaining freedom and a new life through other means.
Meanwhile, the lives of ethnic minorities such as the Daur, Evenki, and Oroqen, who are still in the primitive society period, have undergone a qualitative leap.
(End of this chapter)