Chapter 941: Grassland Strategy

After a night's rest, everyone gathered their gear again and prepared to go.

"Commissar, return our armor to you." Baoli took a deep breath and said, Yesterday these Datang people believed in them and provided them with armor for their safety, so they also talked about the rules and wanted to return these armors.

Comparing their hearts to their hearts, they are willing to believe in themselves and others, and they are naturally willing to believe in each other.

"No need, I said it, these armors were originally intended for you, since they are sent down, you can just tidy them up yourself, if you don't want to wear it for the time being, then pack it up and take it away, now this is the territory of Datang, and there is generally no danger." The commissar said with a smile.

"Good!" Baoli was silent for a moment, and finally simply agreed.

In the next few days, the relationship between the two sides seemed to be closer because of that night, if the two sides still maintained a certain politeness before, then now, the two sides are really like brothers.

Zhou Min looked at the figure of the political commissar and admired it a little, worthy of being a political commissar, so quickly he completely let these Turks let down their guard.

By the time they arrived at the tribe where Baoli and the others were, the relationship between the two sides was already very close, and all the Turks looked at them as if they were true friends.

Oh no, to be precise, they're also from the Tang Dynasty now.

At least, the current Baoli and others have regarded themselves as Datang people!

Baoli, who returned to his hometown tribe, directly took the political commissar to read out all the policies of the Tang Dynasty to these herdsmen, and accurately notified the herdsmen of each household.

The herders who knew the news had a similar reaction to Baoli at first, and they were all in disbelief.

So many cattle, sheep, and horses were given to them?

In fact, most of the distribution was cattle and sheep, and the number of horses on the steppe was far more than in later generations, but even among the Turks, the war horses were actually concentrated grazing by the major nobles.

Herders who are responsible for raising cattle and sheep also have horses, but each herdsman has only five or six horses.

The major Turkic nobles had their own horse farms, which were not allocated, but were still assigned to the state-owned pastures of the Tang Dynasty. In addition, all the cattle and sheep are distributed to the herders of these grasslands according to their numbers.

The work unfolded far more smoothly than expected, and the herdsmen tribes began to gather, and the political commissars of the various detachments and some dispatched officials also began to penetrate into these herdsmen.

First of all, according to the original herdsmen tribes, they were divided into villages, according to 50 herdsmen in one village, ten villages in one brigade, and then ten brigades into a township.

The first is to distribute the cattle and sheep evenly according to the number of herders and the number of cattle and sheep in the whole area.

It is not realistic to distribute the herdsmen and cattle and sheep of the entire Xue Yantuo equally, in that case, many cattle and sheep will have to rush to other places, and the grassland is too big.

In later generations, there were more than 20 million people in Inner Mongolia on a land of 1.18 million square kilometers, and the land was vast and sparsely populated, and many places were deserted.

Although it is because the city gathers a large number of people, the area of Hanhai Prefecture today is much larger than that of Inner Mongolia in later generations! Even if the desert area is abandoned, the area that can be grazed far exceeds the total area of Inner Mongolia in later generations.

With such a vast total area, the total number of people currently resettled, considering the future of the Murwei and Khitan together, is only more than 2 million people.

Therefore, the number of cattle and sheep allocated is to use the approximate statistics of the overall number of cattle and sheep in Xue Yantuo, and then divide by the total population of Xue Yantuo to get the average number of cattle and sheep that each herdsman can have.

Then refer to the number of cattle and sheep needed to feed a person on the grassland to calculate, and then distribute.

According to the data obtained by the current Qibi He Li and their encouragement of these nobles to go to Chang'an in the early stage of the grassland, and then by the way they carried out the general statistics of the population and cattle, sheep and horses, there are about 12 livestock needed to support a person on the grassland, including 8 sheep, 2 cattle and 2 horses.

The dairy products produced by these animals, as well as the ancillary products on their bodies, can probably feed one person.

Of course, there must be discrepancies in this figure, Li Ke and the others use an average calculation number, but in fact, many of the cattle and sheep owned by the herdsmen on the grassland are noble, and they have no right to deal with them. In other words, the number of cattle and sheep that keep a herder alive must be much less than that.

But there is no comparison, where does it hurt? Without contrast, how can we return to the heart? Therefore, at present, the total number of cattle, sheep and horses per capita allocated by Xue Yantuo is distributed according to 15, and if a herdsman is calculated according to 5 people, it is 75 livestock.

The propaganda policy is tax exemption for five years, and after five years, the tax paid to the imperial court is paid according to the number of cattle and sheep paid each year. And the number of cattle and sheep paid is far lower than the original Turkic tax standard.

You must know that the previous method of taxation of the Turkic Khan was to draw one directly according to the number of livestock, and it was not the cubs that were drawn, but the adult cattle and sheep. And now the Tang Dynasty court is leviing lambs, or calves.

And if the local distribution of cattle and sheep is less than 15 per person, one less tax will be collected after five years, and the tax will be reduced by two years.

Therefore, when the whole policy is down, it can be said that these herdsmen have no objection to their identity as Datang people in an instant.

Datang didn't want their cattle and sheep, but also distributed them cattle and sheep, and even allocated all the pastures to their herdsmen themselves, and these pastures would be theirs in the future.

And these pastures will be registered, and they will also be taught how to rotate pastures. He also helped guide them to build sheepfolds, establish villages, and establish fixed living places.

When have you ever seen such a good leader? They've never heard of it!

What are you hesitating about? Khan? What is Khan? From now on, we will be herdsmen on the grasslands of Datang!

One by one, the herdsmen tribes began to gather, and after they gathered, they would form towns and villages on the grassland, until finally with the economic prosperity of the grassland, they would form large cities.

Then, these permanent cities were used as fortified points to connect the grasslands of the entire northern frontier of the Tang Dynasty and control them until there was no more turmoil here.

At the same time, these political commissars who went to various places also began to do the same work as their colleagues in Qinghai, that is, to conduct grievance meetings village by village.

These grievances will not only let them see the essence of these Turkic nobles cannibalism, but more importantly, the stories brought by these grievances will be summarized and registered, and then the stories of how these nobles bullied the herdsmen in the future will be told when educating the next batch of children of these herdsmen.

Similarly, in the future, there will be a series of professional theater troupes adapted from these stories of distress into a repertoire to perform for free in the towns formed by herdsmen on the grassland.

Well, His Highness said, this is called a heart-to-heart condolence group.