Chu Hu hoped to exchange his military exploits for a medal, Liu Muzhi was very embarrassed on the surface, but he was actually very happy in his heart.

The imperial court is now implementing the feudal system in the grassland, which is actually a variant of the fetters and toast systems. Although the imperial court has vigorously reformed the land in the southwest and returned to the stream, and now it is engaged in the division of the grassland, which is somewhat contradictory.

But Liu Muzhi has a very accurate grasp of the emperor's intentions, as the so-called adaptation of the situation, different strategies must be had in different situations. The southwest changed the land and returned to the stream, because since the Tang and Song dynasties, the system of fetters in the southwest has been continuously implemented, and the Central Plains Dynasty and those tribes in the southwest are barbarians, in fact, the name of righteousness has been determined early.

In addition, the continuous immigration of various dynasties to the southwest led to the continuous strengthening of the power of the Central Plains court in the southwest. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, there were repeated Tusi rebellions in the southwest, precisely because of the intensification of conflicts of interest between the central court and the local Tusi.

Although the Tusi rebellion of the Ming Dynasty also greatly weakened the strength of the Ming court in the southwest, on the other hand, it weakened the strength of the Tusi in the southwest. One after another big Tusi were pacified, the land was changed and returned to the stream, and the imperial court continued to set up states and counties, and garrisoned Tuntian, further squeezing the living space of these Tusi tribes.

When the Han Dynasty was established and the army went south, although the only remaining small tribes in the southwest were reversed, they couldn't afford to make any waves. The southwest has changed its land and returned to the stream, which is the general trend. In particular, Liu Jun also fought at the upper level of the Tusi aristocratic leaders through division, and on the other hand, he greatly attracted the lower class of the people, which made the rout of the Tusi unstoppable.

But the situation in the north is different.

The Central Plains Dynasty and the grassland tribes can be said to have been fighting, although the Central Plains Dynasty has repeatedly defeated the grassland tribes, but the grassland tribes have also gone south several times to dominate the Central Plains.

The fight between the two sides is life-and-death, especially the special environment of the grassland, which makes the grassland go south and establish a dynasty and occupy the Central Plains. But the Han people in the Central Plains, even if they were male lords such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Tang Taizong, could only defeat the grassland tribes. Then a simple system of fetters was implemented, and it was impossible to really rule over this grassland.

The Mongols once occupied the Central Plains and established the Yuan Dynasty, and after being overthrown by the Ming Dynasty, for hundreds of years, although there were continuous civil strife and disintegration, they still had great strength.

The methods of conquest used by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty, Ming Chengzu and others proved to be difficult to achieve the effect of radical cure, and they could only be managed for a while. I can't manage it for a lifetime.

Liu Jun didn't want to bother to do it again.

The Tang and Song dynasties succeeded in controlling the southwestern barbarians, and gradually assimilated these areas, and finally controlled the dominant position, but the grasslands were different, and they could not use the methods to deal with the southwestern barbarians to deal with the northern captives of the grasslands.

It was in this context that Liu Jun finally combined the strategies of all Chinese dynasties, including the later Qing Dynasty, as well as some colonial strategies of various countries in the colonial era, to have the current strategy of dividing the vassals.

Packet. It's a compromise.

But it was not a negative compromise, although it gave a lot of power to the Mongolian ministries, but at the same time it also put forward obligations and made binding norms.

Liu Jun thinks. Rather than pursuing the impossible conquest of the steppe by force, it is better to use this more long-term approach.

In fact, the Song Dynasty was also a compromise with the old coins of Liaoxia, Jin, Mongolia, etc. Acknowledging the de facto control of the territory by these Hu people, the two sides were no longer in a situation of endless war. Especially during the time of Song Liao. After the Tanyuan Alliance, the hundred-year-long peace brought unprecedented prosperity to the Song Dynasty.

Of course, Liu Jun could not give the Mongols New Year's coins. But this reflects from the side, in fact, even if they are Hu people, they don't necessarily want to fight all day long.

In the past, more grassland people invaded, mostly because the north was affected by disasters, or when the Central Plains was chaotic, the other party had an opportunity.

The partition is to clarify the relationship between the two sides, establish a stable relationship between the two sides, and there is no longer the threat of war of mutual aggression and annexation.

At the same time, on the basis of separation, there will be open trade, and there will be mutual needs, and each will take what it wants.

And the division of feudalism is not a simple canonization, under the parallel system of provincial capital and state and county, so that the imperial court can better control the giant beast of the grassland.

This is actually empathy, and there is always room for people.

If you are just from the perspective of the Han and only think about how to defeat the Mongols and how to conquer them, then the steppe people will naturally not do it. Even if they are now divided, where there is oppression, there will be resistance, and this is something that cannot be sustained.

Now, if we are engaged in separation, it is not annexation but cooperation, and it is a win-win and mutually beneficial situation.

However, even if it is divided, the Han Dynasty does not mean that it will be sealed if it wants to, the grassland belongs to the Mongolian tribes, and before that, each ministry already has a boundary.

The last separation, in fact, was just a formal confirmation of the boundaries of each ministry by the Han Dynasty. Although thirteen marquises, fifty-six counts, and hundreds of sons and lords were divided from dozens of them, in fact, on the whole, the original sphere of influence has not been broken.

The marquis are all those original khans, the leaders of the big tribes, the counts and so on are also the brothers and nephews of those khans and Beile, Taiji, etc., the Mongols themselves also have this tradition of redistributing the tribes and property, and now by the Han Dynasty, in essence, the land, livestock, and tribes in the tribe are still in the tribe, but they are just distributed to the brothers and nephews of some leaders.

They can accept this kind of redistribution, and as for the ministries to take part of the land and allocate it to the emperor of the Han Dynasty, as the direct territory of the imperial court, they can also accept it, after all, the imperial court will set up trading markets in these places in the future, which is also very beneficial to them.

Liu Jun set up a new knight and samurai ranks, but this is not to divide them in a big way.

The grasslands have been sealed, and they all have owners, and Liu Jun can't be sealed anymore. These knights and warriors he set up were for those Mongol princes, who could later divide their sons into knights and warriors, as long as they reported to the imperial court, they could divide their sons into knights and warriors, so that in addition to the hereditary title of the eldest son, the other sons could also have titles.

Of course, the princes divided their sons knights and warriors, and if they wanted to give them another territory, they had to divide it from their own territory, so that the strength of the princes could also be weakened in disguise.

Chu Hu'er wants to get the lord, if he is the son of the princes, it will not be too difficult. As long as his father and brother report to the court, the court can issue an order to award him a medal.

Of course, according to the imperial court system, such a knighthood has to pay money, and the territory is responsible for itself, and the imperial court will not issue a salary.

Only the kind of princes officially canonized by the imperial court itself, as well as hereditary princely titles, can receive the title.

Liu Jun even planned that in the future, if the children of those princes thought that the knights and warriors were too low, they could also pay for the promotion of knights, and they would give him a promotion as much as they wanted, anyway, the court was only responsible for giving them promotions, and the rest of the treatment was nothing.

Even those princes in the future can also pay for promotion, and the price will be clearly marked, and there will be no time for children. Think the baron isn't famous enough? Then pay a tribute to the imperial court, and the imperial court can consider promoting you to a viscount. If you feel that the viscount is not loud enough, you can still be promoted to an earl, anyway, if you are promoted to an earl, your territory is still the original baron's piece, and the price of the promotion will be increased, but the price of the promotion is definitely not low, and the court has earned it back a hundred times a thousand times earlier.

However, Chu Hu'er is not the son of a noble leader.

He was just an ordinary herdsman of the left wing of the East Tumut Left Wing, and this time he responded to the order of the banner owner to bring his own horses and weapons to participate, and he cut down twenty-five heads in the first battle, and he also wanted to be knighted and have a territory of his own.

Liu Muzhi thought about it, this is a little troublesome. He is not a noble child, so the court cannot directly confer a knighthood on him and give him a fief.

But there is a solution.

Liu Muzhi quickly came up with a countermeasure for Chu Hu's situation.

First, the imperial court gave Chuhu the title of warrior or knight, but he only had a title, but he did not have a fief.

Second, the imperial court gave him a piece of mining in the territory of Zhili.

Third, in the newly defeated territory of the Ten Banners of the Zhelimu League, the imperial court set aside a piece for Chuhu to be used as a miner.

The former is just an empty title, and the latter two are actually awarded with a mined. But the second article is not very feasible, because the direct territory of the imperial court is not large, and those places will be used by the imperial court to settle troops and immigrate, build castles, military stations, etc., and it is impossible to take them out and then seal them to the Mongols, and those territories are finally squeezed out of the hands of the Mongol princes.

In the end, only the third one remained, and he was given a piece of the newly laid territory. But in this way, there is also a problem, that is, Chu Hu has to break away from the left wing front banner of Dongtu Mote, where he was originally located, and he will become a knight of the Zhili court in the future.

Or, in the newly conquered territory, Dongtu Mot will definitely be able to get a piece at that time, as long as Chu Hu's banner lord is willing to award him as a warrior or knight, then he can also become a lord.

However, the possibility of this is very low, the territory is limited, and even if the leaders of each department get a new fief from Horqin, they will definitely give it to their brothers and nephews, how can they give it to an outsider.

Liu Muzhi prefers in his heart that the imperial court will directly seal a territory of Chuhu on the newly defeated land such as Horqin, so that he will no longer be a nobleman of the Eastern Tumut tribe, but a nobleman directly affiliated to the imperial court.

But this has to be premised, that is, Chu Hu himself is willing to leave the tribe, and his clan leader is willing to let him go.

After Liu Muzhi explained all this carefully to Chu Hu, the big man of the giant ship said without hesitation, "I want to become the direct seal of the Han Empire." ”

Liu Muzhi was a little surprised.

At this time, a staff officer next to him interjected and asked, "Warrior Chuhu, what is your original identity in the clan?" ”

"Al Batu." Chu Hu replied.

Hearing that it was Al Batu, Liu Muzhi and the others breathed a sigh of relief, they were afraid that he was a slave, and it would be difficult to do.

The counselor then asked, "Free people or subjects?" (To be continued.) )