Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 177: Seize the slaves of Mongolian nobles and declare the right to rule!

Newly arrived people like Lu Zimin also care about their children's academic performance.

For them, hearing their children studying in the city every day can make them forget all the hard work.

However, if their children do not make progress or are slow in academic progress, they will get angry and feel ashamed.

These people even cannot hold their heads up in front of others, and sigh that this is their fate. They are just ordinary people and should not have any wishful thinking. However, as long as their children study well, they will be filled with great hope, as if they have been injected with chicken blood. They will work harder, as if their family's destiny will change because of this, and they may even be able to become officials like the county magistrate.

Lu Zimin is quite lucky. His children are quite promising. They are among the best in Chinese studies, mathematics and general knowledge. As a result, he has to start thinking about making more money to prepare for the travel expenses for his children to go to Beijing to take the imperial examinations and to get married in the future.

Following Zhu Houzhao's instructions, Zhang Cong directly compiled the social school curriculum in Yulin City into three courses: Chinese studies, mathematics, and general knowledge, based on what he had learned at the Imperial University of Peking.

Chinese studies mainly include elementary school textbooks such as the Three Character Classic.

Arithmetic is naturally mathematics.

Common sense is to know that you are a Han Chinese, your emperor, your country and hometown, etc., and it also introduces the method of determining test scores based on scores.

This also means that even illiterate people like Lu Zimin can know whether their children are doing well in school or not, without having to listen to the teacher's flowery words like "this child is teachable" or "this child still needs to be encouraged" to guess whether their children have a promising future.

Lu Zimin was not worried about not being able to earn more money. Many of the royal family, court officials and businessmen had opened mines nearby or hired people to farm, and they would pay them wages. Moreover, since the city had just been built, there was not much labor and the wages were not low, so as long as he was diligent and willing to work hard, it would not be a problem for him to earn forty or fifty taels in a year or two.

Zhang Cong now understood more and more why his Majesty the Emperor always used any flattering words to boast about his Han people when he was at the Imperial University of Peking.

He now had to admit that these Han people, who were usually disdained or even looked down upon by the literati like him, were indeed the most hardworking people in the world. If they were given a piece of land and a stable environment, they could turn a barren and uninhabited place into a fertile land with chickens and dogs coexisting and houses in good condition.

"Captain Pang! Zhang is ready. Now we can follow your majesty's order and declare our rule to those herdsmen!"

After Zhang Cong bowed to Pang Guangyuan, the garrison officer of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Guards, he and Pang rode towards the grassland outside Yulin City.

Following them was naturally the entire Third Cavalry Regiment of more than 2,000 cavalrymen.

Yulin City is located outside the Great Wall, on the east side of the Hetao River. This area was close to Hohhot in later generations. It not only had arable land, but also hundreds of thousands of acres of pastureland with lush grass and water.

Because the Ming Dynasty moved inland, these places were naturally occupied by the Mongols, and they were occupied by the Mongols in the tribes under the little prince. Although the little prince and his big tribe are not here now, some small tribes and some scattered herdsmen still graze in this area.

But now the Ming Dynasty has returned and turned this place into a county of Datong Prefecture, and set up itinerant officials. These pastures and the herdsmen grazing on the pastures naturally belong to the Ming Dynasty! Naturally, they can no longer belong to the little prince and other Mongolian nobles!

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Cong, with the help of the Imperial Guards, declared the Ming Dynasty’s ruling power over these herdsmen!
As the county magistrate appointed by the Ming Dynasty court, he is naturally the only person who currently has legal ruling power over these herdsmen, and the ruling power of the previous Mongolian nobles was illegal!
When Zhang Cong and Pang Shoubei led the Ming cavalry to a grassland, the herdsmen there instinctively became alert and prepared to resist. They also seemed a little panicked, and some even went to inform the leaders of their tribes.

Zhang Cong did not order Pang's cavalry to attack first, but only asked his Mongolian-speaking staff to shout:
"Everyone! The land you are grazing now is the land of the Ming Dynasty. You can own the sheep you graze on this grassland, but you must acknowledge from now on that you are the people of the Ming Dynasty!
Otherwise, I will kill you as an intruder!
But to become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, you must first learn the official Chinese language and wear the clothing prescribed by the Ming Dynasty. If you are willing, the court can allocate pastureland to you, but the prerequisite is that you must truly become a citizen of the Ming Dynasty!
In addition, anyone who has killed or robbed the people of the Ming Dynasty must first serve ten years of hard labor! "

"They are all slaves of Ben Meng'an (an official position lower than Wan Hu)! You Han people are so bold to rob Ben Meng'an's slaves!"

At this time, a Mongolian noble named Zak Zhong came riding with hundreds of Mongolian cavalry, pointing at Zhang Cong and yelling.

If Zhang Cong had not had thousands of Ming cavalrymen standing behind him and if Zhang Cong had not been wearing Ming official uniform, he would have wanted to rush over and chop Zhang Cong in half, because as a Mongolian nobleman, he had never seen Han people dare to rob his slaves, and it was usually these Mongolian nobles who plundered Han people as their slaves.

"Everyone, why do you have to be slaves to the Golden Family? It would be much better to be a citizen of the Ming Dynasty. You will have your own pasture and property, and you will not be killed by slave owners at will. Your wife's chastity will belong only to you!
We are here to rescue you by the order of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Ming. Since you are on this land, you can become the subjects of His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Ming and own this pasture!
Our great Ming Emperor is the ruler of the world! He is your Eternal Heaven!

Only He can give you the Gospel!
Even if you are punished for your past sins, you will only be required to perform labor, and you will not be asked to sacrifice your lives. Only those who enslave you or even force you to sacrifice everything, including your wives, daughters and lives!
The Tartar nobles who oppose the Ming Dynasty will be severely punished by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is not only killing them for the Han people, but also for you!"

Zhang Cong's staff continued to shout.

After hearing this, the Mongolian noble Zakzhong became even more angry and embarrassed, because he had seen some of his newly captured slaves showing some signs of being tempted, so he threatened:

"If anyone dares to surrender and become a Han Chinese, I will kill his entire family and chop off his flesh to feed the wolves!"

After such a threat from Zak Zhong, the Mongolian slaves who had long been intimidated by his tyranny hid their hope of becoming normal citizens. But because of this, they lost the morale to fight against the Han cavalry before them. After all, they said they were here to rescue them.

Guard Pang took the initiative to attack, and led more than 2,000 cavalrymen under his command to kill the Zak cavalry.

However, those herdsmen suddenly turned into spectators. Many of them were tribesmen that the little prince had just captured from other tribes. Naturally, they had no feelings for the Zak clan and other tribesmen. They were even willing to see the enemy tribes that bullied their wives and daughters being slaughtered by the Han people.

Thanks to the book friend, 榧苦苦ku, for giving 1000 Qidian coins

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