Chapter 665: The Valuable Khotanese People

Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dun, the two bad guys, have already eaten Wang Ningan's eight words thoroughly on the way here.

As soon as they arrived in the Western Regions, they immediately gave everyone a completely new system.

And the core of this system is a strict hierarchy, that's right, it is the garbage that has been eliminated by the Central Plains for a thousand years, and it has been resurrected again, and it is still shining.

Wang Ningan said that there is no garbage in the world, only misplaced resources, and if you want to govern the Western Regions, you must have a system suitable for this place.

According to the regulations of Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dun, the people of the Western Regions should be divided into three categories, of which the first category is naturally the Song people, and the Khotanese people, who are as noble as the Song people.

This is the very top level of the pyramid.

Under the Song, there were the Gaochang and Uighurs, both of whom were in conflict with the Qarakhanid and were potential allies, and the third group, the Qarakhanids and the Tanguts, all of whom were enemies.

In Puchanghai, the first group of people enjoyed all the preferential treatment, could intermarry with each other, cultivated farmland, and operated businesses, and had the privilege of being exempt from tax and military service.

Moreover, the army and the government were only open to them, and only the children of the Han and Khotanese could directly join the army and the yamen, and eat Lulu.

As for the Uighurs, they had to pay a 10 percent poll tax in order to survive in Puchanghai, and if they had a conflict with the Khotanese and the Khotanese killed the Uighurs, they only had to pay a cow, and the Uighurs killed the Khotanese, they would have to be razed to the tribals!

Di Yong and Zhao Zongyi are extremely difficult to accept such unreasonable regulations.

The same human life, why is it worth it differently? Why are there three, six, nine, and so on?

You're going to get in trouble if you do that!

Di Yong is a colt and a military general, he has no ability to quarrel with Lu Huiqing, so he can only focus all his energy on training troops and strengthening defense, and simply ignore these two guys.

As for Zhao Zongxi, he quarreled a few times, and was demoted by Lu Huiqing, who was responsible for selecting the site and building the city.

In the face of the eldest brother being kicked out of the decision-making circle, Zhao Zongjing did not object, on the contrary, the little prince was quite happy, and he kept discussing various things with Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dun every day.

Then formulated a lot of rules that are very different from the Great Song!

Here, there is no concept of private property, and the system without constant property and perseverance does not work at all. If you look closely, it looks like the Jingtian system in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

For example, according to the decree, all pastures, fields, mountains, forests, rivers, and minerals belong to the Great Song Emperor and are managed by the Western Regions Protectorate.

Every Han and Khotanese can be given the right to use 100 acres of land per person according to the head, note that the ownership of these lands is not theirs, although exempt from military service and exemption, but the capital protectorate has the right of first refusal.

In order to ensure the supply of military rations, everyone must sell the surplus grain to the Metropolitan Protectorate at a parity price.

When the official warehouse is filled, it can be sold on the market.

In the case of Uighurs, they were required to pay 30 percent of the land tax.

Obviously, this is another cheating policy.

The Uighurs with a little brain will not be willing to exploit it, and the three percent of the field endowment, one adult poll tax, and forty percent of their harvest will be handed over to the Metropolitan Protectorate, isn't it fatal!

"That's what you want!"

LΓΌ Huiqing was full of smiles, "When the Uighurs realized that they were suffering, they would put their land in the names of the Khotanese and Han Chinese to avoid the land endowment, so that a group of landlords and tenant farmers would appear in the Western Regions. ”

Zhang Dun added: "This is like the scholars and farmers of the Great Song Dynasty, the people of the Western Regions can't even write their own names, let them study and improve, and then evolve into scholars, farmers and businessmen, which cannot be done in a short time." Therefore, people must be distinguished by blood. As long as this order is implemented, the identity of the Khotanese people will definitely be better than gold, and they will definitely support the imperial court! ”

Although the remnants of Khotan they found were only a group of old and weak women and children, there were only a few thousand.

But over the years, there are still many Khotanese people who have become slaves, and during this time, the army has continued to go out to sweep, and has rescued two or three thousand Khotanese slaves.

From the bottom, they climbed to the top of the people at once, and these Khotanese people showed unprecedented loyalty.

Young people all joined the army, women, children, and the elderly, all of whom worked for free, and they almost did not stop leveling the land, building houses, building walls, and building weapons......

Do whatever you can, never be lazy.

They have firmly tied their fate to the Great Song Dynasty, as long as the Western Regions Protectorate is in one day, they will be able to be masters, if the Western Regions Protectorate is finished, their fate is not as good as before!

Crawling from hell to heaven, no one will want to suffer any more.

That's why Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dun designed this hierarchy.

Only in this way can the Great Song Dynasty obtain a group of the cheapest loyal subjects!

Someone has to ask, wouldn't the Uighurs be jealous of the Great Song?

Bought off a group of people, and offended another group of people, carrying the same weight on his back, what is the value?

This is not clear about the situation in the Western Regions.

Even the worst rules are better than no rules.

The Great Song Dynasty has established a hierarchy, but at least there is still safety and rules under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty!

If the land is allocated to you, it will not be taken away.

As long as the field tax is paid, the rest of the ration is your own.

As long as you pay the tax, you can trade in the market.

These things that seem to be natural in the Central Plains are placed in the Western Regions, which are even rarer than the rolling of the Wang family!

The rulers of the Western Regions have always only known how to rob, in their eyes, aliens are prey, and their own people, under certain conditions, are also prey, and they will never be soft when robbing.

For example, according to the latest rules, raising a pig has to offer a pig leg as a tax, which seems to be heavy, but in the past, the grass kings of the Western Regions would take advantage of the pig's fattening time to take it away, and they would also leave a note to tell the people to raise pigs well, and when they got fat again, they would come again!

The big turbans in Luoyang, Kaifeng, the things they are keen to talk about, what kind of benevolent government, royal road, love for the people, law, good sex, evil sex...... In the Western Regions, they are all too extravagant things, like clouds on the horizon, beautiful and ethereal.

All you need here is a simple set of rules, even if it's rough and barbaric.

Of course, as students of Wang Ning'an, Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dun will not fail to understand the role of social mobility.

They formulated two sets of assessment standards for civil and military affairs.

Among the third-class people, it is possible to upgrade.

For example, a Uighur can take the literary exam, as long as he is fluent in Chinese, knows 500 words, and is admitted to the Metropolitan Protectorate, he can automatically obtain the status of a Han and enjoy the same treatment as a Han Chinese.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't know how to write, he can join the army, and the field army does not want the Uighurs, but they can be incorporated into the militia, have outstanding performance, or have a record of killing enemies, and by virtue of their rank, they can be promoted to Han Chinese.

As for the Qarakhanid captives, after serving five years of hard labor, they were automatically promoted to the rank of Uighurs, and then they could also take the literary examination or be recruited into the army in exchange for the qualification to advance.

And every festival, or battle victory, the whole world celebrates, Zhao Zongjing will represent the Great Song Dynasty, in a wooden box full of names, draw a few lucky people, directly become Han people, enjoy the top preferential treatment.

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These regulations, placed in Xijing, are guaranteed to be laughed to death by a bunch of Confucians, and they are simply children's toys.

But in this desolate land in the Western Regions, it becomes sacred and solemn.

Many Uighurs would rather be subject to a poll tax and endure high land rents than go to Puchanghai and obtain the right to cultivate a field from the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

In addition, there were many more people claiming to be the remnants of Khotan, and they also ran over.

There are mixed good and bad, some true and some false, and the fish and eyes are mixed.

There is everything, and many guys with red hair and green eyes also say that they are Khotanese, but the funny thing is that they can't even speak Khotan.

Zhao Zongjing handed over the power to identify the Khotanese to Zhao Li and Wei Chiyan.

It's a great power.

As long as they nod their heads, after becoming Khotanese, they can register to do business and enjoy free privileges.

Therefore, there are many people who take gold cakes and silver ingots in exchange for the status of Khotanese people.

Zhao Li usually went through the process carefully, and when the price was about the same, he would sell a Khotanese identity certificate, and then he would give the money he collected to Zhao Zongjing as military expenses.

The special corruption of the prince himself is really no one!

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There are a lot of absurd things happening in the Western Regions, and some of them are even unbelievable.

The secret agents of the Imperial City Division will be no worse at all, and they will all record it, and then use the flying pigeon to pass the book, send it to Qingtang, and then send it from Qingtang all the way to Xijing.

The fastest, only ten days, Zhao Zhen can see.

No, in the face of a bunch of strange things, Zhao Zhen was also confused, and he had to call Wang Ningan back.

"Jingping, your two precious students, can you govern the Western Regions like this? I see that they are all messing around, even Zong Jing's kid is confused, and he actually instigated his subordinates to be greedy for ink, if he comes back, I have to deal with it strictly! ”

Wang Ningan smiled, "The saint doesn't have to worry, the common people have a saying, saying that the wicked have their own wicked grinding." In that place in the Western Regions, if you don't turn yourself into a villain first, you can't survive, after all, after so many years of war and killing, the good guys have long been eliminated, and the rest of the people, they will eat this set! ”

"How so?" Uncle Zhao asked with a dark face.

"Sage, the minister also got a secret report here, in the past month, in order to exchange for the identity of the Khotanese, there are more than 20 groups of sand thieves, who have taken the initiative to attack the Western Xia and the Qarakhanid. The king of the Qarakhanids, Xizhi, and his closest elders, were even assassinated. ”

Wang Ningan sent the secret report to Zhao Zhen, and then said with a smile: "The minister doesn't know anything else, at least in the Western Regions now, the identity of the Han people is not easy to obtain, but the identity of the Khotanese people is very expensive." In just two or three months, tens of thousands of people claiming to be Khotanese have already emerged! ”

Uncle Zhao snorted, "Most of them are fake, right?" ”

"Your Majesty, it seems that there is no need to investigate the truth at this moment." Wang Ningan said with a smile.

"yes!" Zhao Zhen laughed rarely, "I wish everyone would recognize themselves as the remnants of Khotan!" ”