Chu Hu'er is the front banner of the left wing of the Eastern Tumut Division, and he, like the vast majority of the herdsmen in the three banners of the main wing, is not a Tumut, but a Uliangha person. Today's Kharqin tribe is actually the same as them, the Uliangha people under the banner of the golden family.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Mobei Mongolia was divided into three parts, Uliangha, Tatar, and Warat. Among them, Wuliangha lives in the area of the Laoha River of the West Liao River, closest to the Central Plains. Therefore, it was also the first Mongol to belong to the Ming Dynasty, and in the early Ming Dynasty, it was compiled as Duoyan Sanwei.

After that, the Uliangha people first attached themselves to the Tatars, and then to the Warats, and repeatedly violated the border of the Central Plains. Then to the struggle between the left and right flanks of Mongolia, Uliangha also attached themselves to the left wing Chahar and the right wing Tumut respectively.

Since the end of the Yuan Dynasty, this tribe has almost always been wandering, more like a wall grass, following countless strong men, repeatedly acting as the vanguard of thugs, but repeatedly for the Tatars, Ming Dynasty, Jurchens and other heavy blows.

In the war of the Ming and Qing dynasties, they fell to the Jurchens, and now, they have attached themselves to the Han Dynasty.

Chu Hu'er is a Uliangha and an Albatu at the same time.

Before the Mongol tribes submitted to the Han Dynasty, the Monan tribes had submitted to the Jurchens for many years. The Jurchens established alliance flags in the Mongol tribes of southern Mo, and there were even differences between the inner and outer Zasak banners.

But whether it was in the era of the tribes or the era of the alliance flag, there was also a clear hierarchy among the Mongolian tribes.

The Mongolian tribes can be divided into four classes, princes and nobles, religious monks, albatu, and slaves.

Chu Hu'er belongs to the commoners, that is, Al Batu, but Al Batu is also divided into two classes. One is a freeman and the other is a subject.

Al Batu is a large number, the basic of the herdsmen, they are civilians, they have to pay taxes and labor to the tribal leaders to which they belong, and they also have to serve in the military for the chiefs. But the princes and nobles own Al Batu as much as they own livestock.

The freedmen include the Arrows and the Degree Spies, and the Arrowmen are tribes. And Du Spy Ding belongs to the temple.

The other level of Albatu is the people, and among the subjects there are Suiding, Lingding, Miaoding, Zhuangding, etc., Suiding is exclusive to the princes and nobles, and has no obligations to the tribe. The mausoleum is dedicated to guarding the mausoleum, the temple is dedicated to the temple, and the village is dedicated to farming.

The status of the subjects was much lower than that of the freedmen.

Regardless of whether they are subjects or free people, their affiliation with the lord cannot be changed at will, and they cannot even leave the lord's territory without the permission of the lord. Even the disposal of one's own livestock requires the consent of the lord first.

As for the slave class, it is naturally inferior to cattle and horses.

Chu Hu is better. He was an albatu, a freedman, and an archer, belonging to a tribe rather than a follower of a prince and nobleman.

But the burden he bears is also very heavy, although he herds cattle and sheep, and his family has a few camels, more than 10 horses, more than 30 cows, and more than 300 sheep, but he has a family of more than 20 people, and his family depends on these livestock to live.

In the event of war, the tribe gathers. He had to take his horses and weapons and go with the army.

You have to bring your own weapons and equipment, and sometimes you can't take care of your family after a few months of walking. But even if he often goes on expeditions with the army. But there is not a penny of tax to be paid.

The tax of their tribe was not light, and as an albatu arrowman, he had to pay the tax of one sheep if he had more than five years and twenty sheep. There were forty sheep. Two sheep had to be handed in. A person with two cows will hand over six pots of rice and a cow. Three pots of rice.

On the surface, it is stipulated that if the number of sheep exceeds 40, the tax will not be increased, but in fact, the tribe often sends additional taxes, such as tribute, alliances, relocation camps, even weddings, funerals, wars, etc., according to the regulations, those who have more than 100 families will be levied in the family for a horse and an ox cart, and those who have more than three dairy cows must pay a belly of cream. There are five cows who hand over a bottle of cream.

and a hundred sheep, and one piece of felt.

At this time, all kinds of temporary burdens will also be borne by them.

And in a disaster year, they may lose everything, and they may not even be able to fill their stomachs.

Chu Hu was a fierce warrior, big and powerful, and the two big axes he used to use to maintain the life of his family for free by participating in battles, plundering and rewarding with the tribe.

This time, he went south with the tribe to join the alliance, opened his eyes in Chifeng, and gained a lot of knowledge.

Over the years, he followed the tribe and fought many battles with the Jurchens, fighting the Jurchens, Koreans, Mongols, and Ming Dynasty.

He also saw with his own eyes how Mongolia was weakening step by step.

At the time of Lin Dan Khan, there were nearly 500,000 people in the Chahar tribe, but in the wars and in the final Jurchen expedition to the west, less than 50,000 people died in the Chahar 500,000.

At the beginning, Tumut was also one of the two heroes of Monan who competed with Chahar, with a population of nearly 600,000 at one time, but when the Houjin soldiers came to Hohhot, they ordered it to be burned, and when the last Xitumut Khan descended to the Qing Dynasty, there were only more than 3,000 people left.

Many of the great Mongolian tribes were weakened by this.

It is Chu Hu's own family, several of his brothers, and after years of scuffle, now he is the only one left.

In Chifeng, he saw a new kind of future.

The Han and Mongols don't have to die anymore, and hundreds of years of grievances can finally be put aside. The Mongolian tribes were vassals to the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, and the Emperor of the Han Dynasty gave them a title, and the Mongolian tribes could still receive money from the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty would also completely liberalize trade in the future.

In the future, there is no need to be pitted by those Central Plains Jin merchants, a small iron pot, dare to change them for a horse. A pound of the worst tea bricks, and dare to ask them for many sheepskins.

In Chifeng, he saw that the Han people had a wide variety of goods, but they were of good quality and low price.

He came on three horses, and at last he sold the best one, which was a very fast horse. In the past, the cunning Jin merchants were willing to pay a maximum of twenty taels of silver, but this time, the Han merchants of Chifeng praised his horse and gave out two hundred silver dollars in one go.

This is five times the previous Jin Shang's bid.

Chu Hu brought three horses, and originally intended to come here to trade one or two, so he happily sold the horse.

Then he saw excellent double-edged two-handed battle axes and steel rope armor and other excellent equipment from the Han Chinese. The price was too low for him to believe, and he had tried the tomahawk himself, and with one axe he could cut off an iron nail without damaging the edge. But such a battle axe only costs fifteen yuan a piece, if those Jin merchants had such a good battle axe in their hands in the past, at least dare to ask him for eight horses.

He didn't even tell the price, he bought two battle axes in one go, and then bought a set of stainless steel rope armor of twenty silver dollars, a total of only fifty silver dollars, but the Han merchant also took the initiative to give him a waist knife and a dagger.

And this time, it was with this rope armor and two sharp battle axes that he killed twenty-five Korqin people, captured dozens of war horses and more than twenty pairs of armor and weapons, and the two young nephews who followed him, if they were not too young and ran away from several horses, they would have gained even more.

If he had achieved such a record and captured so much loot in the past, he would have been satisfied.

But now he is not satisfied.

After Chifeng saw a new future, he couldn't let it go. He hopes to be a knight, to be a knight of the Great Han.

The sky of Dahan is bluer than that of the grassland, and the moon of Dahan is also rounder than that of the grassland, as long as he can join Dahan, Chu Hu is willing to do anything.

"Will you break away from your tribe?"

"I do!"

Liu Muzhi smiled, he was very happy to see this kind of answer. Chu Hu, an ordinary Mongolian herdsman, was able to kill twenty-five heads alone on this battlefield, and this bravery was really fierce among ten thousand enemies. If such a soldier becomes a knight of the Han Dynasty, he will not be the same as a soldier under the feudal princes.

"Brother Chuhu, if you are willing to do this, you still have to agree with your leader. But remembering your courage in this battle, we will definitely play the court and let the court reward you heavily. ”

"I don't want to be rewarded, I just want to be a knight directly under the Great Han, and I am willing to be loyal to the Great Han."

"Don't worry, we'll get in touch with your lord." Liu Muzhi said with a smile on his face, "But there are some things that must be made clear to you in advance, even if your lord is willing to let you go, however, the knight of the Han Dynasty is not quite competent." You have military merits now, but there is another point to be made clear, once you become a knight or warrior directly under the Han Dynasty, you will have to bear the corresponding obligations while you get a piece of your own fiefdom and enjoy the rights and treatment given to you by the imperial court. ”

"No matter what the obligation, I am willing." Chu Hu said hurriedly.

"I'll listen to me, according to the imperial court system, all knights and samurai in the imperial court will automatically become reserve officers of the empire, and they will be assigned to the reserve army, and they will have to take a certain amount of time to receive intensive training every year. Once the war broke out and the empire needed it, then the reserve officers had to obey the call unconditionally, and each reserve officer had to prepare his own weapons and equipment. ”

"No problem." Chu Hu'er agreed without hesitation, what kind of condition is this, isn't it just a war.

Hearing that he agreed so happily, Liu Muzhi nodded, "Okay, you register here first, and we will report to the authorities immediately." After saying this, he took out two hundred and fifty silver dollars from a silver box on one side, and wrapped them in paper into long strips of copper, one hundred pieces each, two and a half pieces, exactly two hundred and fifty pieces.

"This is your reward, as much as it should be, one yard to one yard." Liu Muzhi handed the silver dollar to Chu Hu.

Chu Hu refused to accept it, and the two of them pushed and pulled for a while before he accepted it.

"Brother Chuhu, I see that you have also seized a lot of loot this time, including a lot of war horses, if you are interested in making a move, you can sell him to the imperial court, and we will give you an absolutely honest price to recover."

Chu Hu'er did have about thirty horses in his hands, all of which he had captured during the battle.

But according to the custom, these booty must be handed over to the public, and finally distributed by the tribe, as a capaturator, he can not hide it privately, but when it is distributed, he can get a little more. (To be continued.) )

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