Chapter 45: Seeking Allegiance (Part II)
This Mongolian question immediately got to the point, and it was a big question, and it was even related to the future Mongolian social and political system. In fact, there are many such problems as Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info and they are also worried about Mongolians. Because if Tan Feng overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty, what means would he use to deal with the governance of the Mongolian steppe. Will it continue to canonize a few Mongol princes and nobles to rule, continue to oppress the Mongols for generations, or directly appoint officials to rule? Neither of these methods is very good. Let the Mongol princes and nobles be oppressed in the era, so that the Mongols will still return to the old ways. However, it is not good to let Han officials directly govern according to the methods of Han territory, which is not suitable in terms of ethnic customs or various living and production habits.
However, this Tan Feng knows how to deal with it, because in Inner Mongolia in later generations, he has already had a lot of experience.
"That's a good question! I declare here that in the future we have overthrown the Manchu court and do not intend to continue to rule the nobility. However, it was not intended to directly appoint court officials to rule directly. We intend to adopt the approach of ethnic regional autonomy, and you Mongols can choose your own suitable leader. First of all, we will form the Knights, which are somewhat similar to the Eight Banners of the past, but also different. The Knights are military and political, but they are only composed of simple knights, not including the knights' families. After obtaining the status of a knight, you can join the knights nearby, and all the knights' fiefs can be handed over to the knights for unified management, and you can also manage them yourself, up to your own decision. However, the knights train on weekdays, and when they fight, they are led by the knights. ”
"The Knights can choose their own leader, but this is only the head of the day-to-day management in peacetime. The head of the Knights, who can also serve as the commander of the local flag. All knights can participate in the election of all Mongolian herders to elect the head of the knights and the local flag commander who govern the day-to-day administration. On weekdays, the flag commander and the head of the knight are one, and only in wartime, after the knight is promoted, will an officer be appointed from above. ”
"Only after obtaining the status of knight can you participate in the election for the status of flag commander and head of the Order. These people will become the Mongols who govern the local area on a daily basis, which will solve the local customs, language and culture and so on. As for our presence in this ethnic autonomous region, our court has only set up a governor at the top to be responsible for acting as the spokesperson of our central court. Then several flags can set up a league, where we will set up a commissioner who will be responsible for the day-to-day management of ordinary affairs, they will only be responsible for cultural, educational, medical and other affairs, and will not manage the daily production of the herdsmen. ”
Tan Feng combined the knightly system of the West, including the later means of ethnic regional autonomy in the East, so that they gained the power of gradual autonomy. In fact, this autonomy is a very good means and an important means to solve these minority areas. The means of the autonomous region in the later situation of Mongolia were very good in easing local contradictions, at least in the early days, and it was a very important means.
First of all, they can elect their own flag commander, but this flag commander is like a local official in later generations, and often also serves as the head of the reserve forces. This order is similar to the reserve of later generations, but the members of this knight order are not absolute soldiers, and they are also nobles with some fiefs. However, this fief and knighthood must be meritorious to the Han people before they can obtain knighthood. In this way, it is like only these knights have the right to be elected, and they cannot become flag commanders without knighthood. This was an important means to fool the Mongols into selling their lives and gaining knighthood.
This is also combined with some methods of rural autonomy in China, and a part of the autonomy is given at the grassroots level, so that it will not be too rigidly managed. However, as long as the granting of knighthood is controlled, they can also ensure that the control of the grassroots is maintained to a large extent. Even those who can elect themselves, reassuring them, the Mongols, expressed that Tan Feng will not affect their daily lives.
"As for the formation of an alliance of several flags and the establishment of a commissioner, this is a pit! On the surface, I am only responsible for education, medical care, culture, etc., and it will not involve your daily production. But education and medical care are what you Mongolians lack the most, and what we lack more than we Han people, and when the time comes, we can gradually expand our power, and after we gradually expand our power, you will be gradually controlled. Tan Feng thought.
Tan Feng still has a certain understanding of the Mongolians, this Mongolian actually has a serious lack of education and medical culture, and they actually lack it. Tan Feng deliberately formed an alliance of these several flags, and on the surface, the commissioner of the office of this alliance would not be responsible for daily production. However, it has largely deprived those Mongolians of the right to education, medical and cultural rights, and these Mongolians can be well controlled through education and medical culture in the future.
In fact, the so-called autonomous regions of later generations are just changing the soup but not the medicine. In fact, the real personnel power, as well as all kinds of important resources, is in the hands of the main ethnic group, so that even the minority cannot hold the real important power. After a few generations, the so-called autonomous region, in fact, will suddenly find that most of them are actually Han Chinese.
"After your autonomous region, I just said that only with knighthood can you have the right to be elected. But when a large number of Han people poured in, these Han people had the right to vote! As long as you are a local, you can participate in the election. In other words, the Han people in the Mongolian steppe can also participate in the election, at most they do not have the right to be elected. When the time comes, on the one hand, I will control the knighthood award, and on the other hand, I will use a large number of Han Chinese to dilute the proportion of your Mongol population, and I will kill you at both ends! Tan Feng thought sinisterly in his heart.
It's a pity that these Mongols don't know Tan Feng's sinister intentions in the future, and they are still happy about this method, so it seems that Tan Feng can understand the ideas of these Mongols very much, so that they can exercise autonomy, which can be regarded as respecting their ideas.
"Alright, everyone, hurry up and prepare. This reward for grassland and knight status is not only obtained by killing enemies, but also doing a good job of logistics production on a daily basis, which is also an important merit, and it can also be qualified for grassland and knight status! Tan Feng said.