Chapter 16: Taming

A harsh winter caused the Turghut tribe to hemorrhage, and many slaves and young people of the tribe were traded to the Hechiti tribe, and even the surrounding tribes also suffered. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThis year, there were a total of 20,000 slaves traded by the Hechiti Ministry, and in order to prevent long nights and dreams, Burhan transferred these slaves to Zi Nao as soon as possible. As the grain stocks of the Hechiti tribe dried up day by day, the slave trade also came to an end, which made many small tribes and communities separated from the major tribes breathe a deep sigh of relief, and they no longer had to worry about being caught as slaves all day long. There are also people who can see that it is better to simply raise the clan and go to the Hechiti tribe than to be captured by those robbers and become slaves. For such people, Burkand was never stingy, and gave all the treatment of freemen, so that they could have no worries about food and clothing, and they did not have to worry about being captured as slaves, nor did they have to run around for food and clothing, and the rise of slave hunting also facilitated this process.

However, he has also just joined the Hechi Ti Ministry, but the treatment is completely different. On the one hand, it was the treatment of free people equivalent to the people of the Hechiti tribe, and on the other hand, it was the treatment of slaves. Although being a slave in the Hechiti tribe is definitely better than the original tribesmen, and even in the eyes of some people, their current life is simply better than that of the nobles. However, it is always a sign of slavery, which means that it is always inferior and humble, and because of this, the contradictions between each other suddenly heat up.

Since the slaves were concentrated in Zini Nao, there were 20,000 more people in the Hechiti tribe at once, which accounted for nearly 2/3 of the total population of the Hechiti tribe. In order to prevent people from inciting slave revolts, Alat set aside a special area to restrict the movement of slaves, surrounded by horses and wooden fences, and sent heavy guards to garrison them. The Hechi Ti Department is so guarded, these slaves don't think about it for a day or two, and if it lasts for a long time, their hearts will not surge with hatred. For his father's approach, Burhan did not agree very much, he advocated division and taming, if it can be used by me is to increase the strength of the Hechiti tribe, and in the future, these slaves will also be absorbed by the Hechiti tribe, why not start now?

After several heated arguments, Burhan finally explained his father, and he took General Guo Wei, the owner of the Han army camp, to the slave camp to select Han slaves. In fact, regardless of whether there is a Han soul in Burkand, the Han people are the objects he has decided to rely on. Because the Han people seem to be the most patient people in the world, no matter how they are squeezed, as long as there is a glimmer of life, they will not take the initiative to rebel. And Guo Wei's Han military camp has been well integrated into the big family of Hechi Ti Department over the years. If these Han Chinese slaves were the first to be tamed, then they would become a flaunt and thus stabilize the uneasy mood of the slaves.

Burhan and Guo Wei stood outside the fence, and a clerk shouted to the crowd inside, "Bah! It's the Han people who stand up and come with me! "Because it is said in Chinese, it is naturally easy to recognize, and I am not afraid of others pretending to be it.

Soon more than a thousand people came forward, and they were escorted outside by the soldiers. The Han people are really very perverse, and there is no dissatisfaction between the pushes. Burhan didn't know whether to rejoice or feel sad. Now that he is a big ruler, such feelings are becoming more and more contradictory.

Looking at the Han slaves kneeling on the ground in front of them, Burhan and Guo Wei set up a small table to eat, Burhan may be really hungry, or it may be to make people more greedy, eating with a mouth full of oil, thinking about it. But Guo Wei just ate a little as usual, and as a Han, he still couldn't let go.

When he was in a hurry, Burhan threw a roast leg of lamb towards the crowd, and immediately stretched out dozens of pairs of big hands to catch it, for fear of falling to the ground and wasting it. Burhan originally thought that when these people received the leg of mutton, there would be a scramble, and even a fight. However, the facts surprised Burhan that it was a man in the prime of life who received the barbecue. He didn't keep it to himself, but tore the meat apart and distributed it to the old man and the child, as well as the weak, while he and the dozens of strong men in front just kept swallowing their saliva, but no one came to fight. A woman holds a two- or three-year-old girl in her arms, carefully tears off the barbecue meat with her dark hands, and feeds it to the child in her arms. Watching the child mumble on the barbecue, there was a hint of comfort in his eyes. But she could only lick the grease stuck to her hands and enjoy it, and she didn't have the slightest covetousness for that piece of meat.

This scene stabbed the heart of Borkand, who was accustomed to seeing reality and selfishness and ruthlessness, and looked at the formation of the Han people, with the young and strong in front and the women and children surrounded in the middle. Look at them snuggling up to each other and helping each other, it is really not comparable to modern people. At the signal of Burhan, the food that had already been prepared was served in one go, and everyone could eat enough. Even when I saw food, there was no scramble, and it was still orderly.

Guo Wei told Burhan, "Childe! These Han people in the north have been taken captive to be slaves since they were beaten, and they are even more interested in the feelings of the same township, the same clan, and the same clan, and they are not quite the same as the people of the Central Plains. ”

Thinking about it, Burhan felt that the Han people of the Hechiti Department were very different from the Han people in the Central Plains, and they were more united.

Because of the differential treatment of Burhan, these Han people are greatly envied. They eat, drink, and dress better than others. Although not comparable to the freedmen and the tribesmen, they were often able to spare some of the good food and distribute some of the good food to the Mongol slaves, and the Burkand acquiesced in this behavior.

A few days later, Burkand again feasted Han Chinese slaves, this time naming a small slave who also jumped out and said in jerky Chinese, "Master! I... I'm Han too! ”

As soon as this statement came out, someone who knew him immediately reported that "he lied!" He is a Tumut, how can he be a Han Chinese? The young man retorted, "What do you know? My mother is Han Chinese, my father is a Tumut slave, I was born in Tumut since I was a child, but this does not erase the fact that I have Han Chinese ancestry! ”

Burhan laughed, and he nodded and asked the guards to treat the young man like a Han. When the other slaves saw this, they could endure the desires of their hearts. Although it was treated differently, Burhan did not blindly make a fuss about eating and drinking, he intended to let the Han slaves travel freely and assign them to his subordinates to do what they could to make a living. Because the harsh winter has just passed, the herdsmen of the Hechiti tribe have also begun to get busy, but after all, there is no work except for feeding the livestock every day. The Han slaves were liberated, and they finished their work very neatly, and then they consciously returned to the fence to rest, and no one escaped. In fact, in the territory of the Hechiti tribe, Burhan would never mind them escaping, if they could evade the pursuers of the Hechiti tribe, it would be impossible to escape the wrath of nature, and it was impossible for a person to survive on the grassland. Han slaves generally knew that it was a stable "home" no matter how they were said here, and it was better than floating outside.

Although they were slaves, they were able to move freely around the camp for a month, and the people of the Hechiti tribe did not use scolding as if they were livestock, as if they were part of the Hechiti tribe. Soon, some wise slaves found that as long as they followed the example of the Han people, they were diligent, neat, hard-working, and did not have those bad ideas, then they were treated the same as Han slaves. Even the Mongols themselves, in the hands of the herdsmen of the Hechiti tribe, they were treated better than Han slaves.

The 20,000 slaves were not all wise, but also lazy and did not like to endure hardship. Seeing that the Hechi Tibu had no worries about food and clothing, and a kind of mentality of getting by, they were not willing to make a little progress that people could afford, but would form small groups with interests, hobbies, or the encouragement of others. As soon as such a group emerged, Burhan was already aware of it.

At night, people are mostly asleep, and only those with bad intentions are still active. A young man with a thief head and a thief shook up a few people around him, and said softly, "Hey! Friend! The Hechiti guards are so lax, why don't we run away? Anyway, there is no one now, I have been observing for two months, and I can definitely escape. ”

As soon as the man said the plan, a great sweater next to him scolded with disdain, "Sick! Lao Tzu finally entrusted the talent to be traded to the Hechi Ti Department, there is food and drink here, and running away with you is really fucking sick. Immediately fell asleep, and a few people around him also looked at the man with a little disdain when they heard this, and fell asleep quietly.

He was specially sent by Dugan to mix sand with the Hechiti tribe, but after a few days of contact, the people who originally had the same mission as him did not urinate him, they had been corrupted by the life of the Hechiti tribe, and he was the only one who did not forget Dugan's teachings.

Today's encounter did not make him abandon his mission, and the next day he wandered around the fence while deliberately looking for faults, and the soldiers on the lookout in the distance had been paying attention to him for a long time. I saw an unlucky Han slave hit the muzzle of the gun, he passed by and accidentally stepped on the man's foot, the Han man immediately apologized, and wiped the man's boots. However, in the face of people who deliberately find faults, it is not so easy to solve. He began to beat the poor Han man frantically, and when the guards saw that the situation was not right, they immediately blew their whistles and reported the incident to the nobleman in charge, Burhan.

When Burhan and the others arrived, the Han man was already lying in a pool of blood, with a short blade sharpened from the bones of a lamb stick pierced around his neck. Burhan frowned, it was clear that it was a premeditated murder, and the murderer was the Mongol who found fault. He killed, but he didn't run away. As the Han Chinese gathered more and more, the physical conflicts between them became more serious. In order to calm the anger, it is also to kill chickens and monkeys. With a wave of his hand, Burhan immediately separated the crowd and took the man down. And at this moment he shouted "Kill! The Hechiti tribe slaughtered the slaves! What are you waiting for? Despite this, the response was in the minority. When he got out of the fence, Burhan didn't say a word, and directly ordered someone to correct him on the spot.

When the hot blood gushed out, many Mongols surrounded him, and the guards, fearing that Burhan would be injured, protected him in the middle. But Burhan was not afraid, and he said fiercely, "What? Do you want to rebel? ”

As soon as the word "rebellion" was spoken, they heard the sound of the bowstring tightening outside the fence, and the crowd involuntarily retreated. Burhan continued: "It is an eternal truth that murder pays for life. If someone feels sorry for him, you can try. After saying that, he saw that there was no movement and left.

The incident did not have much of an impact, and the slaves continued to live as usual, and there did not seem to be any conflict over it. Because they all know that as long as they keep to themselves, they will be better than their original tribe, so naturally no one is willing to take risks, not to mention that Burhan is currently in a strong mood. However, the death of two slaves was always reported to the father.