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

Chapter 438 Economic Policy
At this time, nearly three years had passed since the battle of Yingzhou, a year and a half had passed since the battle in the Hetao area, and nearly half a year had passed since the Ming Dynasty conquered the three guards of Duoyan and distributed pastures and livestock to the Mongols under its rule.
The Ming army's attack on the Three Guards of Doyan was one of the reasons why the Tatar tribes stopped fighting, but it was not the main reason. After all, the Three Guards of Doyan were not considered their own people by the Tatar tribes.

The main reason that made the Tatar tribes stop fighting was the Ming Dynasty's land reform and kind treatment policy towards ordinary Mongolians.

These policies not only made the captured Mongols more loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but also attracted the surrounding Mongolian tribes.
The land reform policy alone was attractive enough, and Zhu Houxuan also implemented the previous trade policy towards the Mongols under the Ming Dynasty.
In the past 100 years, the Mongols have launched numerous wars against the Ming Dynasty in order to gain the right to trade with the Mongols, but they were only able to gain the right to open trade for a short period of time. As soon as the Ming Dynasty recovered, it closed the trade with the Mongols. The Mongols did not live well under this economic blockade, so they could only launch more and more intense wars.
And now this group of captured Mongols have easily obtained something that previous generations of Mongols have paid countless blood for but have not yet obtained.
Moreover, the trade led by Zhu Houxun was very different from the previous Ming-Mongol trade. The biggest difference was the intensity of the trade.

Zhu Houxuan opened all civilian goods to the captured Mongols.

Then there is the price. The prices of industrial products produced in Tangshan Industrial Zone are relatively low. In addition, the northern part of Ming Dynasty already has a relatively complete railway system. These Mongolian tribes are close to the Nine Borders. Maybe the last one or two hundred miles, or even two or three hundred miles, still need to use the original transportation method, but the overall transportation price has dropped a lot.
Finally, coupled with the high prices caused by the long-term economic blockade of Mongolia by the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolians were surprised to find that the prices of various commodities on the market were generally several times lower than before the Ming army came, and some were even more than ten times lower. This brought them a shock no less than the land reform.
The most important thing is that through land reform, every Mongolian herder household has acquired certain assets and has a certain level of consumption capacity.

This economic exchange also restored the prices of some things produced by the Mongols to normal levels.

For example, dairy products, skins, furs, horns, and horses were produced in large quantities in various Mongolian tribes, and each tribe had enough of them. Under the economic blockade of the Ming Dynasty, there were no trading channels, so the prices were very low. After the mutual trade began, the prices of these things quickly caught up with those of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty's demand for these things must be much higher than that of the Mongolian tribes.
Therefore, under Zhu Houxuan's series of economic policies, the Mongols under the Great Ming Dynasty were extremely surprised to find that the value of their property had generally increased several times, while the prices of various commodities on the market had dropped several times. As a result, the value of their property now was more than ten times that of before.
And this is not the end, because many ordinary Mongolians were very poor before and did not have much property of their own. The property they owned before was far less than the property they received from the land reform. If the land reform factor is added, the value of the property owned by most Mongolians is dozens or even hundreds of times more than before.
After such a series of calculations, the quality of life of ordinary Mongolians can be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes.
The common people have a scale in their hearts. Although ordinary Mongolian people have not received much education, they are not stupid. They all know the reason for such a big change, so their centripetal force towards the Ming Dynasty has become stronger.
The Mongols under the Ming Dynasty were thus tied to the Ming's economic chariot.
Strong economic policies are also the source of Ming Dynasty's confidence. The ethnic nature of nomadic peoples determines that they are difficult to control and supervise.

After all, as long as they stole a horse and took some dry food, they could go north to join the Tatar tribes. It would be difficult to catch up with them in the vast grasslands.
The Ming Dynasty did not implement a high-pressure policy towards the Mongols under its rule. The Ming Dynasty's policy was simple: if you want to leave, you can leave, as long as you understand what you will lose.
Zhu Houxuan was really very confident. He was confident that his land reform and economic policies would be much more attractive to ordinary Mongolians than the grassland military aristocracy system.
Things turned out just as Zhu Houxuan expected. This set of policies won the hearts of the vast majority of Mongolians, and the influence of this set of policies continued to spread outward, spreading to those Mongolian tribes that were not under the control of the Ming Dynasty.
This is how the Ming Dynasty ruled the existing Mongolian tribes.
First, the Ming Dynasty "decentralized" all the Mongols under its control. The Mongolian nobles captured in the Battle of Yingzhou, the Battle of Hetao, and the Battle of Doyan Sanwei were thrown into the Kailuan Coal Mine to mine in the dark.

This caused all Mongolian tribes to lose their ruling order, and Zhu Houxuan quickly established a new ruling order using the Mongolians whose minds had been transformed.

The young and strong people in the Hetao area were sent back to the Hetao area after a year of ideological transformation. Because their origins were too single, the Ming Dynasty was reluctant to do something that would lose the support of the people and break up their families.

But the origins of the 19,000 Mongols captured in the Yingzhou battle were more complicated, and their origins covered almost all the tribes ruled by the Tatar Mongols.
After detaining more than a thousand Mongolian nobles and people related to the Mongolian nobles, the remaining more than 17,000 people were placed in various Mongolian tribes controlled by the Ming Dynasty, where a new ruling order was established.

For example, a full 10,000 people were sent to the Three Guards of Doyan to strengthen the Ming Dynasty's control over the Three Guards of Doyan.

Three thousand men were sent to Xuanfu town to govern the more than 30,000 Mongolian refugees who surrendered through the Mongolian Fugitive Order.

The remaining 4,000 people were sent to the Hetao area to strengthen the rule.
These 17,000-plus Mongols have undergone two years of ideological transformation and can be said to be the most loyal Mongols to the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty did not let them down for their loyalty. They got the best deal during the land reform and played an important role in the affairs of various tribes.
They are also the biggest beneficiaries of the Ming Dynasty's series of policies. Many of them were just ordinary Mongolian soldiers before, but now they live a relatively affluent life in their eyes.
There is an old Chinese saying: If you don't return home when you are rich and powerful, it is like walking in the night in fine clothes.

The Mongols also had this mentality. The most important thing was that these more than 17,000 Mongols still had many relatives and friends in the various tribes ruled by the Tatar Mongols.
According to the most simple human values, these naturalized Mongolians could not enjoy themselves in the south while leaving their relatives to suffer in the tribes in the north.
(End of this chapter)