Chapter 562: The Great Famine T
.“ Who is Arabutan? Zhu Jun leaned on the cushion, and looked puzzled about the list of old tributes, to the dozens of civil, military, and pacification officials who came with the army.
Galdan was defeated, and Zhu Jun sat in Liaodong. Within half a month, the tribes of the southern desert, the northern desert, and the western part of the desert sent envoys to pay tribute, which was not unexpected by Zhu Jun. These small tribes are called Mingzhe self-preservation if they are good, and they are just a bunch of wall grass if they don't sound good. Follow the Manchu people, the Manchus are finished, and finally conquer the Galdans, and then bow down to the Galdans, and now the Ming Dynasty has killed the Manchus and the Kaldan, and even the descendants of the Golden Family are attached to the Ming, in this world, who else is the opponent of the Ming? For these small tribes, there must be none, to this extent, do not send a tribute, invite themselves as vassals, then not looking for death, there is no need for the Ming Dynasty to send envoys to request, the ministries are stunned with the best gifts.
It's just that it has been purged by the Ming cavalry. These tribes really can't get anything good, the list of gifts is even the poor officials of the Ministry of Rites can't look down on it, Zhu Jun is naturally not eye-catching, seeing hundreds of sheepskins Zhu Jun is very angry, but soon, his attention turned to an inconspicuous corner of the list, on which it is written that the Dzungar Ministry is plotting Alabutan Khan, what kind of famous thing is this Arabutan? Why did he suddenly become the leader of the Dzungar Department, Zhu Jun asked the officials below, and while looking at the tribute sent by the Arabutan, there was something that aroused his interest, and it was written on it that the first one of the Galdan people.
Interesting, interesting, Zhu Jun instantly understood what was going on, at this time, the Jinyi guard official on the side stood up and said, "Your Majesty." Arabutan was the nephew of Kaldan. Usually in the Junggar Department is not outstanding, so the Zhenfu Division did not collect too much information about him, if the emperor needs, Weichen immediately went to register and make a book, and sent a fan to investigate. ”
Zhu Jun waved his hand: "No need, their envoys are here, Lianlian is not willing to go around the bend and call all the envoys of all ethnic groups and tribes outside the country in." ”,
The Chongzheng Palace was originally the largest palace in the Shenyang Imperial Palace, and Zhu Jun thought it was too deserted earlier. Therefore, ordinary affairs are handled in the Qingning Palace, but now, more than a dozen tribes in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, more than a dozen tribes in the south and north of the desert, and more than 70 all the envoys have rushed in, but it is obviously quite crowded, which includes both the Hui Department of the Tianshan Mountains, the Kazakh Department, the Mongolian Departments, and some unknown small tribes, anyway, those who can be called tribes outside the Guan, basically all of them have come together, these envoys do not have the shame of defeat, but they walked out of the Ming Dynasty, according to the old habit of the Heavenly Empire's preferential treatment of the envoys, but they all feel that this is a lying fat difference, anyway, everyone knows whether it is Manchu or Han. The most important thing about this dynasty is decency. I don't value anything else, this time I went to Nagong to be a minister, it is impossible to lose my head, this Ming Dynasty has been open for so many years, and I haven't heard of killing envoys. But this reward must have been very rich, and these envoys received the appointment of the leader, and one by one they happily bought some tribute and set out on the road, as if they were on an outing. That feeling. It was really comfortable, and when they arrived in Shenyang City, although the Ming side did not have a grand welcome, they arranged food and lodging for them, maybe for the real prince! This kind of treatment is too low, but for these envoys who live in yurts and eat mutton and mare's milk all day long, it is quite grand. Sure enough, it was worth the trip, after a few days of hard work, the envoys gained a lot of weight, and they just wanted to live like this for the rest of their lives, and they ate what they should eat. It's time to drink what should be drunk, and it's time to do it.
The envoys' apartments were close to each other, so occasionally everyone would get together and sum up, and the final consensus was that what the Ming Emperor wanted was face, and the rest of the things would not be valued. Therefore, it is necessary to make the errand run a good job. also got some rewards from Daming for the winter, and the top priority was to appear groveling, naturally, and there were not many people who could not cry and cry poor.
More than eighty of the messengers who fell each made up their minds, and after entering the hall, they fell to their knees, and sang in unison: "Long live the Emperor Tian Khan of the Ming Dynasty."
Standing on the side of the hall, the official of the Ministry of Rites who had lost more than a year's salary to fight the landlord was very satisfied with the scene in front of him, and secretly praised these people for being quite interesting, and finally being able to do this scene enough, so that the people of the world could see the majesty of the Celestial Empire, and he was even thinking that now the emperor must be very excited. I'm afraid that even the Yongle Emperor back then didn't have such a big style.
Zhu Jun sat steadily, but he didn't have the excitement imagined by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, he understood better than anyone else that these were actually false, what the Heavenly Empire, what the Heavenly Khan, now it is called happy, maybe one day when your strength is weak, ensure that these people are a catty, they all rush out and fall into the well, you don't have a fist, people will be willing to call you Tian Khan? It's just a joke.
He coughed lowly, moistened his throat, and said, "It's all polite, Lian is not one of those who loves to be polite." You can come to call the ministers, the union is still happy, especially the envoys of the Dzungar Ministry, well, stand up and let the union take a look.
"Emperor Tian Khan." An envoy stepped forward, pressed his chest and bowed
Zhu Jun saw that the Dzungar envoy was short and the building looked ordinary, and nodded: "What?" Your ministry brought the head of Xierdan? ”
"Yes." The messenger said: "The Dzungars have always been vassals of the Ming Dynasty, and Galdan usurped the original Khan of my Khan and became enemies of the Celestial Empire. The Dzungar people are a catty, regard him as a thorn in the flesh, and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is the rightful heir of my Dzungar Ministry, and is the eldest son of the first Khan monk, and has successfully become the new Khan under the recommendation of the tribe. ”
The corners of Zhu Jun's mouth sneered, these Dzungar people will shirk their responsibilities, and everything will be pushed on Galdan's head, if it makes people go away with tea, it has become an excuse for Dzungar people to push Tan. Now that the Dzungar people have suffered heavy losses, they are no longer in the same way as before, and the population in the tribe has also decreased by sixty percent, and the threat to the Ming Dynasty has been reduced to the minimum, with such strength, still thinking about Feng Khan, Zhu Jun said with a smile: "At this time, he paused and continued: "I have read the gift list sent by the various ministries, hmph, which one is the envoy of the Wei Special Department?" ”
A slender envoy stood up and said, "Heavenly Khan, I am the envoy of the Guardian Ministry. ”
"A hundred sheep, three hundred cowhides, is this your tribute?" Zhu Jun still had a smile on his face. Now he straightened his face, and shouted without anger and self-authority, this emperor has been doing it for a long time, and he will naturally have some power.
The envoy of the Ministry of Guards was quite frightened, this is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, his mission is to become a minister of the Ming Dynasty, just because now the Ming Emperor's fist is the hardest, but looking at the posture of the Ming Emperor, it seems that he is not satisfied with the amount of tribute. In a small Mongolian tribe like the Ministry of Guards, where there are any full-time envoys, they often have to make good friends with others, and they can receive a pound at will. The nobles of the tribe went to it, and he was naturally the first time to go on an envoy, not to mention being able to speak well, I am afraid that he did not even know the rules of etiquette: "Tian Khan". This is already the most honorable gift of our department," he stammered to explain, but the more he explained, the more unclear it became.
However, the envoys in the back glanced at each other, to be honest, as long as the smarter people could see that the Ming Emperor was ostensibly blaming the Wei Special Department, but in fact, the real intention was to beat all the tribes.
In conscience, in fact, the tributes sent by the various ministries, if they were in the past, they would also feel too shivering, this little thing, I am afraid that a nobleman must be able to send it, but these envoys are also bitter and self-aware, who does not know that you send a gift to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming will give back ten times the return, so many years ago, when the Ming Dynasty was still there, the vassal states were full of efforts to pay tribute, in order to get rich rewards, but the ministries were first sacked by the Dzungar people, Then it was killed by the Ming cavalry into the desert to burn and loot, kill when you see people, take away what you can take away when you see animals, burn and bury what you can't take away, and see that it is about to pass the winter, there is not even a single hair left in this desert, these tributes are still pieced together.
But this kind of thing can't be said, who dares to say anything in front of this palace to return to the Heavenly Khan, don't be too little in tribute, it's really because the army of the Heavenly Khan burned and looted on our grassland, killed our cattle and sheep, and burned all the grain we stored for the winter, and now we can't open the pot ourselves, and we are still waiting for relief from the Celestial Empire, so it's not an idiot.
Finally, there is an envoy who can't hold back, in fact, they are also anxious, in fact, it is about to enter winter now, but the stored grain is less than two percent of previous years, the grassland has not been peaceful at all over the years, this year is even worse, if there is no relief, this clan, I am afraid that I will starve to death I don't know how many people, this year of war has lost a lot of people, if you go hungry, when is it a head.
"Yao Khan, although our gifts are few, but to the Ming Dynasty is out of the sincerity, and now the grassland has been invaded by the Dzungars. All the departments can no longer open the pot, these gifts are still squeezed out between the teeth of the tribesmen, and please don't blame the Khan for standing up this time but the leader of the Kazakh department, Baihak is the first pound in the battle of Shenyang, the tribal leader who led people to escape, he knows that he is killing the crimes of the Dzungar people, in the implementation, in the western Xinjiang, although the Dzungar people resented Galdan and led the tribe into a place of no return, but they also have the same resentment towards Baihak, they think, if it is not for Baihak to flee first, The battle may not be a one-sided rout, so the Baihak, whose tribe is in the western frontier, is feeling the pressure. Although the Dzungars were defeated, the emaciated camel was bigger than his horse, and it would not be fun for the Dzungars to send troops to seek revenge in the future.
It is precisely because of such worries that Baihak decided to personally go to worship Daming's catty, the dock, and always climb this big tree, so as to find a good backer for himself, so that the Dzungar people will not dare to act rashly. So, he, the leader of the Bu tribe in the western Xinjiang, came in person and saw that the Ming Emperor Long Yanfu was angry. immediately came out to explain, but he played a little trick in this explanation, hiding all the things about the killing and looting of the Ming Dynasty, and only mentioning the looting of the Dzungar people.
As soon as Baihak's words fell, except for the Dzungar envoy, the envoys of Gonger nodded yes. began to pour bitter water, and the dignified dynasty did not stand old. Ashamed of the grievance conference, these messengers are well aware of the truth that crying children have milk to eat, a catty. His face seemed to be miserable, and he talked about how his tribe was invaded by the Dzungar people and how the Dzungar people oppressed, it was just blood and tears, and every sentence was mixed with helplessness.
Only Zhu Jun knows best in his heart, these people don't dare to mention the Ming Dynasty's sweep of the desert, and only pick up the number of Dzungar people, in fact, they are bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, at this time, if they don't find a scapegoat to come out, wouldn't they be sorry for themselves.
Zhu Jun snickered in his heart, originally he was just watching the excitement, anyway, they wanted to complain that the Dzungars had nothing to do with them, but they came later. The situation gradually spiraled out of control, after complaining. One of the messengers with tears in his eyes proposed that the Ming Dynasty should give some food to help these poor buddies, Zhu Jun couldn't sit still, for the nomadic tribes outside the Guan, Zhu Jun has always adopted a policy of suppression, starving to death about his, is it possible to fatten these people and then invade the border of the Ming Dynasty? It is absolutely impossible to get any thanksgiving for sending some food to these people, and it is too late to weaken them as much as possible, let alone provide any relief.
Zhu Jun was about to refuse, but his every move fell into the eyes of Zhou Mubai on the side of the hall. Zhou Mubai immediately stood up and preemptively said: "Your Majesty, there is a batch of grain stored in Liaodong City for the army, and now that the northern Xinjiang is pacified, all the armies must return to the Guannei, why don't you send this batch of grain and grass to the ministries." ”
"Oh?" Zhu Jun probably knows Zhou Mubai's temperament better than anyone else. This guy belongs to the type who doesn't suffer if he doesn't have any other ideas. Where can it be so generous: "What Zhou Aiqing said is exact, but this northern Xinjiang is a place of repetition after all." Who knows when there will be another rebellion. In the future, there will be few teachers who will have to work again
Zhu Jun tacitly made a look of embarrassment. Just waiting for Zhou Mubai to put forward an idea, Zhou Mubai stood up with a smile and said: "The emperor is a benevolent king, how can he see the mourning outside the border?" Although Siyi is rather stubborn, but I am dignified and the Heavenly Dynasty is a country based on virtue, and Ze has his back to the world, the emperor, and Weichen implore the emperor to be sure to think of the good Yi people, and my Heavenly Dynasty can save countless lives by touching the rain and dew. ”
Zhou Mubai talked eloquently with a dignified look. The momentum, as if it was a persuasion to the king, those envoys who could understand Chinese, heard Zhou Mubai's words, they couldn't help but admire, and felt that this Zhou Mubai was simply a living Bodhisattva.
Zhu Jun scolded Zhou Mubai in his heart, this guy pretended to be sad and pitiful, and made it clear that he was singing with a white face, and let himself find a dignified emperor to be a bad guy, he coughed and deliberately made a hesitant look.
Zhou Mubai then turned back to those envoys and said: "The grain of the Celestial Empire is not picked up, since you want food, the Celestial Empire will naturally not let your people starve to death, but there are some regulations in it, but it must be made clear first, those who are willing to receive grain will receive grain, and those who are unwilling to receive it will not be forced." ”
The envoys pricked up their ears one by one, for them, food is a big thing, without food there will be many people starving to death, once there is a famine, then the whole catty, the grassland will fall into chaos, the food of each tribe is not enough, every tribe is facing the danger of starvation, therefore, at this time, the usual practice on the grassland is to rush to loot before the winter comes, it is impossible to loot Guannai and Liaodong, and the time is not enough, so in the end the goal of all the tribes is locked on their side, their neighboring tribes.
Then, a big robbery officially began. Every man is a robber, and he can also be robbed at any time, and countless whole tribes attack each other, perhaps just for a few or a few hundred cattle and sheep, and the slaughter of each other often lasts for a winter, and after the winter, the population of the whole steppe will be reduced to less than thirty percent due to killing and starvation, and the real disaster will begin
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For the horror of the grassland, almost all the tribes are still fresh in their memories, when the Ming Dynasty Yongle was in the last years, the whole grassland had a great famine, thousands of people died, a catty, the hatred between the tribes continued to accumulate, and finally burst out, the Mongols were torn apart, and entered the stage of a long-term civil war.
Therefore, for these envoys, as long as the conditions of the Ming Dynasty do not violate the bottom line of the survival of the tribe. As long as Da Ming is willing to give them food for the winter. Then everything can be discussed. Food is their most fundamental interest. ,,,,
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