Chapter 553: Transforming Mongolia (4)
Today, only the city of Ulanqab is fully built, so only 20,000 people were emigrated in the first batch.
The nineteen-year-old man, Chen Shi, was lucky enough to be on the list of the first batch of immigrants to Ulanqab, Mongolia, and in mid-April, he followed the first batch of immigrants to the city of Ulanqab.
The imperial court kept its promise to house them free of charge and distribute cattle, sheep and horse cubs.
Chen Shi smiled and hugged a sheep cub, although he had not raised sheep and horses before, but he had raised cattle, he expected that since they were all grass-eaters, they were all taken out to graze, he just wanted to raise the first batch of cattle, sheep and horses as soon as possible, so as to exchange for the first silver dollar, to prove that his idea was correct, to come to the Mongolian steppe to graze, he will definitely be able to make a fortune.
Next, what Chen Shi looked forward to the most was what kind of Mongolian woman the imperial court would introduce to him, for this reason, Chen Shi also specially asked a general of a regiment of the First Army stationed in Ulanqab City.
"Boy, wait in peace, someone will bring a willing Mongolian woman to you in a few days at most." The general smiled and patted Chen Shi on the shoulder.
The first army is the Ying Long Army, and Chen Shi will never doubt the words of the generals of the first army, and he immediately went back with anticipation.
Although Zhu Ciji said that he would try his best to arrange for some young Mongolian women to marry bachelor young people who immigrated to the Mongolian steppe, considering that in the future, people will live together for a lifetime, in order to avoid unnecessary things happening, Zhu Ciji hopes that those Mongolian women should be better out of a certain voluntariness.
For this reason, Zhu Ci made a decree that Mongolian women who were willing to marry Han Chinese youths who immigrated to Mongolia could not continue to participate in the construction of cities in other places, but also obtain the household registration of the Ming Dynasty and live a good life with Han youth.
This initiative was conveyed to the ears of various Mongolian women, and immediately attracted their attention, and many Mongolian women moved their minds.
A young Mongolian woman of about twenty years old, named Alan Etu, was still carrying a stone in her hand at the moment, and when she heard the news, she bit her lip and was silent for a while, then suddenly put down the stone in her hand and turned to walk towards the Ming army general who was supervising them.
Alan Etu is from the Khalkha tribe, when he was seventeen years old, he married a Khalkha tribesmen, but the tribesmen died in less than half a year, she has not found another Khalkha man to marry in the past two years, there are many steppe tribes, and the steppe men are fighting outside most of the time, even if she finds another tribe man to marry, she can't predict whether it will be when, this tribe man will also die outside. And if the tribesman had another brother who hadn't died in battle, she might have been inherited from it, and she didn't want to see that day coming.
Husbands and wives of the Mongolian tribe rarely have real affection, but fortunately, the husband who died outside the tribe had no other brothers and uncles, so she was lucky not to be inherited.
If she could, Alan Etu didn't want to continue to marry, but she always knew that it was impossible, because even if the Khalkha tribe was still there, if she didn't marry another person for two years of celibacy, the tribal leader would force her to arrange it, and she didn't have much affection for the Khalkha tribe, so she didn't care much about whether she married a Han man, at least it was not bad if she didn't have to continue to work here.
Besides, she also has another idea of her own.
Alan Etu was soon arranged to meet with the immigrant Han youth, who happened to be Chen Shi.
Chen Shi waited for two days, and a soldier from the First Army brought a Mongolian woman to him, Chen Shi's heart was immediately full of excitement, and he didn't know what his future daughter-in-law would look like, whether she was beautiful or not, and whether her ass was big
In Chen Shi's reverie, he saw Alan Etu.
Alan Etu is not a very beautiful Mongolian woman, but her appearance is definitely average, at least Chen Shi is extremely satisfied, when it is determined that Alan Etu is his future wife, this rather honest boy has a little shy red on his face.
On the night of the candles in the cave room, Alan Etu suddenly made a request to Chen Shi.
She hoped that Chen Shi would go to the Chahar tribe to take care of a 60-year-old Mongolian woman.
The old Mongolian woman was none other than the mother of her husband, who had died in battle early, and she had always regarded the old Mongolian woman as her own mother, so she felt obligated to take care of her.
At the beginning, the Ming army broke through the Mongolian tribes, captured millions of Mongolian men, women and children, and only let people over ten years old and under sixty years old participate in the construction, and the elderly people over sixty years old were all thrown to Chahar to take care of, and as for children under ten years old, the Ming Dynasty took care of it himself. Naturally, Chahar had no objection to Daming's arrangement, and immediately accepted the group of elderly Mongolian people over sixty years old, and the old Mongolian woman mentioned by Alan Etu was among them.
Chen Shi was obviously stunned for a moment, he never thought that Alan Etu would suddenly make such a request to him, but then he thought about it, how can a sixty-year-old Mongolian woman not live for a few years, take care of it, just take care of it, just be a good life in God, besides, Alan Etu can have this thought, doesn't it mean that this is a Mongolian woman with affection and righteousness, and it is worth him to do so.
Seeing that Chen Shi agreed, Alan Etu showed a bright smile, and the last trace of mustard in his heart for marrying a Han young man completely disappeared.
Like Chen Shi, over the course of a few days, a large number of young Mongolian women were arranged to marry young men who had immigrated.
For these steppe women, the Ming court is extremely tolerant, in fact, there is another consideration for letting Mongolian young women marry Han Chinese young immigrants, Han immigrants first captive cattle, sheep and horses, many things do not understand at all, and Mongolian women have lived in the grassland since childhood, herding sheep and horses, they understand, when they are combined with the immigrant Han youth, there is no consideration of helping the immigrant Han men to graze with their experience.
Chahar tribe.
Naturally, Da Ming's actions could not be concealed from the Mongols of Chahar.
"Daming is preparing to completely occupy my Mongolian steppe, let my Mongolian tribes die, and all of them will become Han from now on!" An old Chahar man said to Prince Hutu, who led Chahar.
Everyone is not stupid, it can be seen that the purpose of the Ming Dynasty is to do this, it will not take long, at most ten years, the population of the Han people on the grassland may exceed the Mongols themselves, and then the Mongols will really have no room to turn over, and there is even the possibility of being completely assimilated into the Han Chinese.
"Maybe the Ming is intending to completely assimilate all my Mongols." Prince Hutu said categorically.
"Even if this is the case, I Mongols will not be able to resist!" The old man Chahar shook his head and said weakly.
Prince Hutu suddenly, except for Chahar, all the other Mongolian departments are finished, and Chahar has more than 20,000 elite cavalry left, not to mention driving the Han people out of the grassland, even if Chahar moves slightly, I am afraid that it will be wiped out by the Ming army in an instant, so Chahar can't move anyway, even if they know that the Han people want to completely occupy the grassland, and assimilate all the Mongols, they can't move.
"No matter what, Genghis Khan's blood is still flowing in our Chahar people's bodies, even if one day we become Han Chinese, Genghis Khan's blood will still be passed on by our children and grandchildren, and the immortal heaven will favor our Chahar." Prince Hutu said gloomily.
The old man also sighed and said no more.
After the Han immigrants settled down in Ulanqab, Zhu Ci immediately issued an order to attract investment for Ulanqab, after all, such a large city was built, and a certain amount of commerce was still necessary.
At the same time, Zhu Ci also ordered to set up a school in all the cities that were built and about to be built, and he planned to introduce the compulsory education of the Ming Dynasty into Mongolia, teach the children of the Han people themselves and the children of the Mongols to learn Chinese characters and Chinese etiquette, learn the etiquette, righteousness, honesty and shame of Confucius, and finally completely assimilate all the Mongols in the steppe in a cultural way.
Chahar actively cooperated with Daming's moves, and even took the initiative to ask Daming to establish a school in Chahar, and was willing to send all Chahar's children to learn Chinese characters, etc.
For Chahar's cooperation, Zhu Ciji and the Ming ministers were extremely satisfied, and even some officials proposed to release the Chahar King back to Mongolia, but then Zhu Ciji refused, he felt that Chahar was still led by a person like Prince Hutu who knew the times.
Across the Mongolian steppe, the large-scale construction of castles is still underway, and may continue for at least two years.
Nothing big happened, and then Zhu Ci withdrew his gaze from the Mongolian steppe.
"North Korea and Annam have been bouncing for two more years, and it's time to prepare to take them under the knife!" Zhu Ciji suddenly smiled, his eyes were full of sharpness, and it seemed that he was ready to find time to make a move on North Korea and Annan.
A few days later, Zhu Ci ordered the transfer of a large amount of military supplies to the border between Liaodong and Guangxi, while the Ming Army's Third Army stationed in Shenyang City, Liaodong, and the Second Army stationed in Guilin, Guangxi, were ready to wait for an order to immediately rush to Korea and Annam.