I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 427 Pasture and Title Deeds

Surveying and mapping in various grasslands is a relatively boring job, but Niu Zhongxia is very successful in it. He rushes to do any job. The staff of the Royal Group who came to do surveying and mapping also like this Mongolian guy who speaks Chinese very well. They even taught Niu Zhongxia the surveying and mapping methods, and Niu Zhongxia actually learned the surveying and mapping methods. The surveying and mapping staff of the Royal Group were also happy and relaxed and taught all the work to Niu Zhongxia.

Niu Zhongxia really didn't think so much about it. Firstly, he had the mentality of atonement, and secondly, he wanted to practice speaking Chinese. Besides, surveying and mapping didn't seem tiring to him.

The Royal Group sent out many surveying teams like this. The accuracy of the grassland area does not need to be so high. An error of several hundred acres in 10,000 acres of grassland is acceptable, so the surveying speed is very fast. By the end of March, the surveying work was completed.
During the period of surveying the grassland, the returning Mongolian captives brought back new theories, which caused a great disturbance in the tribes. However, the ones who strongly opposed it were the elderly herdsmen. The elderly herdsmen's ability to accept is certainly not as good as that of the young people, and their values ​​are difficult to change. However, given the living conditions on the grassland, the proportion of elderly herdsmen in the total Mongolian population is still relatively small, so this disturbance was quickly suppressed.
After completing all the surveying work, He Song, the commander-in-chief of the Ming army in the Hetao area, summoned all the Mongolian herdsmen.
"Divide the pasture? Divide the livestock?" All the Mongolian herdsmen attending the meeting were stunned. They never expected that the Ming army summoned them for this matter.

Last year, the Ming army captured more than 4 million livestock in the Hetao area. After the Ming army ate the horses and gave them as rewards to 100,000 Ming immigrants who came to Hetao, the number of remaining livestock dropped to 2.7 million.
Although the Ming immigrants divided up a lot of livestock, they also brought better veterinary medicine.
Although the Mongols raised a large number of livestock, they were always blocked and lacked communication and medicinal materials, so the development of veterinary medicine could not catch up with that of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, Zhu Houxuan had summarized the veterinary techniques he had learned from watching short videos in his previous life into a book and let the veterinarians of the Ming Dynasty learn from it.

All of this resulted in the Ming Dynasty's veterinary technology being superior to that of the Mongols.
Therefore, the survival rate and conception rate of livestock in the Hetao region have increased significantly in the past year, and the number of remaining livestock has returned to more than three million.
These three million animals were herded by the captured Mongolian women, children, the elderly and the weak. They knew the situation best. But now the Ming army is announcing that they will divide up all the animals.
This simply dropped their jaws.
They couldn't believe it was real.
The distribution rules were soon announced. There was a priority in the distribution, and those who made the greatest contribution to the Ming Dynasty would get the best and largest grassland.

Those who are eligible for priority distribution are young and middle-aged Mongolian men. They will be allocated 4000 to 10000 acres of grassland and livestock proportional to the area of ​​the grassland based on their contributions. After these people have been allocated, it will be the turn of the elderly male herders.

There was no mention of women and children in this distribution, because the grassland is a place where the law of the jungle is particularly obvious. If a herdsman family does not have a young and strong male head of the household, it is easy to be swallowed up by other families.
In fact, this so-called contribution to the Ming Dynasty is actually determined based on the degree of friendliness of each herdsman towards the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Niu Zhongxia had a very high priority. He was directly allocated 10000 acres of grassland, and it was the best grassland. Niu Zhongxia was very familiar with this grassland because he had driven the leaders' cattle and sheep here to graze. He knew that this pasture was the pasture of Barsborot, the third son of Dayan Khan and the new Mongolian Khan. But now this grassland has become his.

Niu Zhongxia rushed to the platform excitedly. Although he knew the result of the distribution, he still had to hold a ceremony to get the pasture and livestock. "This is a deed to the pasture." He Song held up a beautifully decorated deed in white and gold. The appearance of this thing can refer to various hardcover certificates in later generations.

White and gold are the two most favorite and noble colors of the Mongols. Zhu Houxuan put a lot of effort into getting this land deed.

Sure enough, after seeing this exquisite title deed, everyone was attracted.

This deed also shows crossed cavalry pistols, crossed swords, and armored Ming cavalry. All of this is to increase deterrence.

"It has the signature and seal of His Majesty the Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, which means that this grassland was granted to you by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty himself. It has supreme effect! It will be recognized by the Ming Dynasty for generations." He Song continued.

Zhu Houzhao's signature was actually printed, as Zhu Houzhao did not have the time to sign it himself.

As soon as He Song finished speaking, the Mongolian herdsmen in the audience were immediately shocked. Zhu Houzhao was not well-known among the Mongolians before, but after the Battle of Yingzhou and the Battle of Hetao, Zhu Houzhao almost became the nightmare of the Mongolians. His reputation became so famous that he could stop children from crying at night among the Mongolian people.
Coupled with Zhu Houzhao's title as the Ming Emperor, the effectiveness of this deed became extremely high in the eyes of the Mongols.
In fact, this so-called land deed contained many additional conditions. For example, the Mongols only had the right to use the grassland surface, and the mineral deposits underneath had nothing to do with the deed holder. If the Ming Dynasty needed it, it could requisition the grassland to build roads and other facilities.
In fact, the grazing rights of the grassland were distributed to the Mongolians. The Mongolians had no objection to this. They could not see that far ahead now. Moreover, with their technical level, they could only use the grass in the grassland. They could not use anything else.
The deed contained a simple map of the corresponding pasture. Niu Zhongxia took the deed in a daze. He could not believe that all this was true. In addition, he was also given more than 500 livestock, which made him almost faint with joy.
After receiving the land deed of the pasture, he was also required to take a collective oath, the main content of which was loyalty to the Emperor of Ming, loyalty to Ming, and loyalty to the Chinese nation.
In short, the pasture granting ceremony focuses on creating a sense of atmosphere and experience. These Mongolian herdsmen really like this. After all, most of them were poor Mongolian herdsmen from the bottom of society. They have never seen such a scene before.
After receiving the land deed, Niu Zhongxia excitedly rushed to his own pasture and drove wooden stakes at the four corners of the pasture to mark that the pasture belonged to him, Niu Zhongxia.

When he finished all this and returned to his tent, he found someone waiting for him.
"Tuzhigen, are you crazy? You dare to take the Khan's pasture? He is the Khan, the descendant of Genghis Khan, with the blood of the Golden Family flowing in his veins. You are just a small herdsman, how dare you do this! Aren't you afraid that the Khan will come back to take revenge on you?"

(End of this chapter)