Chapter 502 Cutting braids and changing clothes to return to the Tang Dynasty
Chapter 502: Cut braids, change clothes and return to the Tang Dynasty
Golden autumn October.
Yanzhou.
Tudiji and his son came with Wu Huaiyu and his entourage. There were cattle and sheep everywhere, and it was peaceful. These Sumo Shuihe people who once lived in the Songhua River Basin mainly engaged in fishing, hunting and grazing water and grass. Because they were not convinced by the Goguryeo people, they went west Moved to the Central Plains.
The Taogu Mountain area where I live today is to the west of the Chaobai River.
Liaoxi County, the seat of Yanzhou, is where the Huaihe River merges into the Chaobai River.
This area is very good. There are mountains not far to the north, and here is a plain, suitable for farming and grazing.
Li Keyong is now Wu Huaiyu's adopted son, and he is his personal attendant. He warmly introduces his family to Wu Huaiyu.
This is like their feudal state. The Mohe tribe basically still maintains its old customs. However, in addition to the Mohe people, there are also a large number of Han people, Xi people and even Khitan people. Those Hu people were all attached in the early years, or were involved in tribal wars. The losers moved in.
The Han people were mostly refugees and hungry people in the early wars. Now many of them are tenants of the Mohe people and even slaves.
Tudiji alone had thousands of servants and many tenants.
Each person in Tudiji owns more than a thousand hectares of land, and it is basically cultivated by Han tenants.
Yanzhou's registered population is not large, but its actual population is large.
"Cut your braids when you have time. You are ten years old. Now is the year of the chief minister. In a few years, you will have to tie your hair at the age of fifteen. The saint has given you the surname of your family and country. You should not use Hu in the future. If you are self-reliant, you must learn Chinese etiquette and change your customs."
"Please my adoptive father, please cut it off for me now!"
Although Li Keyong is young, he grew up in Youzhou and even went to school in Youzhou. Not only does he speak Chinese well, but his ideas are also relatively Chinese. He is different from his father's generation, and even from his more than ten-year-old generation. The two brothers have very different concepts.
He really hated his braided hair. All the Han students in Youzhou City had their hair braided, but he and some Hu youths had their hair braided, braided, or tied up, so they were often laughed at by their classmates. .
The so-called tribal traditions are no match for the civilizational aspirations of the Central Plains.
However, Tudiji and the others had attached themselves to the Central Plains. They had been loyal for many years and still wore garb and braided hair. This was not entirely because they were old-fashioned. When the emperor was established and the Daye Year was over, the Central Plains became strong and many barbarian Hu tribes attached themselves. Even the Turkic Khans had been asking for it. He changed the Han people's clothes and tied their hair and wore a crown, but Yang Guang refused.
The Turkic Great Khan did not have the qualifications to change clothes and tie his hair. Tudiji could only be regarded as a small subordinate leader, and of course he was not qualified.
From Yang Guang's point of view, he may have felt that they were originally barbarians who had just attached themselves or just surrendered. They were not real Chinese people and had to be distinguished.
Wu Huaiyu was a little surprised by the young man's happiness.
"Aren't you reluctant to give up?"
"I went to school in Youzhou, and many classmates laughed at me for dragging a pig's tail."
When Han Chinese boys are eight, nine or ten years old, they are called Zongjiao boys because they divide their hair into two halves and tie a small knot on the top of their head to look like two horns.
Only the Hu people like to wear various strange hairstyles. For example, the Turks are used to having their hair braided, and the Khitans are used to having a flat hair. They shave their heads but not completely. Men are used to shaving the top of the head and the back of the head, but leaving the temples. It looks like artificial baldness.
Children are generally shaved from all sides, leaving only a small area on the top of their head.
Even the Khitan women also had their hair shaved into a bald head with a strange hairstyle on all sides.
The Mohe people like to braid their hair and leave a small braid on the back of their head. Some tribes will also shave off other hair.
It is said that braiding hair is actually a tradition of Donghu and other tribes.
Donghu is an ancient nation. It lasted more than a thousand years from the Shang Dynasty to the Han Dynasty. Later, the Donghu were defeated by the Xiongnu. The Donghu tribal alliance collapsed and each tribe became the slaves of the Xiongnu.
Some of the remaining tribes retreated to the Wuhuan Mountains and became the Wuhuan people, and some retreated to the Xianbei Mountains and became the Xianbei people.
Wuhuan moved south twice during the Han Dynasty and gradually grew stronger, but it was always under the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty. Each tribe worked independently and failed to form a unified alliance. The last great chanyu was killed by Zhang Liao in the battle of Bailang Mountain. Wuhuan himself
This was scattered and equated by Han and Xianbei.
The Xianbei retreated to the Xianbei Mountains and came under the rule of the Xiongnu. After the Xiongnu split, they began to get rid of their control. After the Xiongnu was forced to move westward, Xianbei took the opportunity to occupy the grassland.
Xianbei rose up and became rampant for a while.
Many powerful tribes developed, such as the central Xianbei Rouran who once ruled the grassland, and the Tuoba Xianbei who later established the Northern Wei Empire. The eastern Xianbei were mainly Yuwen Xianbei, Duan Xianbei, Murong Xianbei, etc., as well as some Xianbei who migrated westward.
For example, those who established Tuyuhun were the tribe of Murong Xianbei, and the Qifu tribe, Tufa tribe, etc. who moved to Longyou, Hexi.
Today's Khitan and Kumoxi are of the same kind and different species, originating from the Yuwen tribe of Xianbei and belonging to another species of the Yuwen tribe. Their orthodox species is naturally the Yuwen family who later established the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
The Xianbei Yuwenbu was the product of the combination of the Xiongnu and Xianbei. When the northern Xiongnu withdrew from the Mongolian Plateau, many Huns did not leave. Later, it was renamed Xianbei and gradually merged with the Xianbei people.
Today's Shiwei is actually a Xianbei person who stayed in his hometown.
However, Li Keyong and his Mohe clan have nothing to do with Xianbei or the Xiongnu. The ancestor of Xianbei is Donghu, while the ancestor of Mohe is Sushen.
Sushen, Donghu, Huiqi and Ancient Han are the four major ancient tribes in Northeast China.
From Songhua River to Heilongjiang, the vast Baishan and Heishui areas have always been the activity area of the Sushen people. From Sushen to Yilou, they have always been relatively primitive and backward. They fished, hunted, herded, farmed, and generally raised pigs, eating pork and wearing pig skins.
, it did not change until the Tang Dynasty.
Since the Han Dynasty, the power of the Central Plains dynasty has spread as far as the Korean Peninsula. Various forces have competed in the Northeast. Although they have brought war, they have also brought civilization and technology. As a result, the Mohe people have developed rapidly.
Historically, after the Mohe people destroyed Goguryeo in the Tang Dynasty, they also established the Bohai Kingdom, which was called the Haidong Sheng Kingdom. In the late Tang Dynasty, the Bohai Kingdom was destroyed by Yelu Abaoji of the Liao Kingdom.
Sushen's family was called Jurchen during the Liao Dynasty and continued to resist. Later, Wanyan Aguda came out and established the Jin Dynasty.
The Jin destroyed the Liao and oppressed the Mongols, and the Mongols destroyed the Jin.
Later, the Jurchen descendants rose up, established the Hou Jin Dynasty, and then changed the dynasty to the Manchu and Qing dynasties.
One of the four major tribes in the Northeast, the Uryu, also known as Yuyu. Today, its descendants are mainly Buyeo and Goguryeo. The king of Baekje was founded by the prince of the former Buyeo Kingdom. Similarly, the current Goguryeo Kingdom was also the former Buyeo Kingdom.
Founded by the prince.
Among the descendants of several ancient tribes, Goguryeo is now the strongest, Mohe is relatively scattered, and Shiwei, a descendant of Donghu, has the least sense of existence.
"What are you reading now and what do you want to do in the future?"
"I read the Spring and Autumn Period and poetry books, as well as the Analects of Confucius and the Classic of Filial Piety. I want to be a general in the future, command thousands of troops, and destroy Goguryeo for the imperial court!"
Wu Huaiyu laughed loudly, "You are ambitious,"
Taogu Mountain, Liaoxi City, Yanzhou.
Wu Huaiyu shaved Li Keyong's hair and changed his clothes. Tudiji led all his disciples and leaders of the eight tribes to watch the ceremony.
He cut off his braid, removed the leather robe on the left side, and replaced it with a round-collar robe on the right side. He was not old enough to be crowned and did not need to wear a crown. Wu Huaiyu gave Li Keyong a jade pendant and a quilt belt.
After changing into a round-neck robe, black leather boots, a quilt belt, and a jade pendant around his waist, Li Jin shaved off his pigtails and shaved his head, Li Keyong no longer looked like a Mohe barbarian.
Li Keyong thanked Wu Huaiyu profusely and handed him some tea.
Today is also the ceremony for Wu Huaiyu to officially accept Li Keyong as his adopted son. A group of officials and generals from Youfu, as well as people from the Mohe tribe in Yanzhou, are watching the ceremony.
After Li Keyong shaved his hair and changed clothes, Li Tudiji, who was given the national surname, also immediately asked Wu Huaiyu to also shave his hair and change clothes.
Wu Huaiyu expressed appreciation for this.
As a result, Tu Diji immediately asked Huaiyu to shave off his braided hair. He had kept the long braid for many years, which was covered with pearls and jade, but he did not hesitate to give it up at this time.
shave,
Easy to take.
Unable to wear a crown on his bare head, he put on a turban and a purple robe and jade belt given by the court. Tu Diji, with a full beard and a big belly, immediately changed his mental outlook and transformed from a mink braided wild boar.
The tribal chief of Ya became a powerful high-ranking official of the Tang Dynasty.
The leader took the lead, and the other tribal leaders also shaved their heads and changed their clothes.
The government office in Liaoxi City, Yanzhou suddenly felt much more pleasing to the eye.
Take advantage of the good atmosphere.
Wu Huaiyu made a small request, saying that due to wars and other conflicts in recent years, the registration of household registration land has often been suspended. Now that he came to Youfu to take office, the first thing he did was to reorganize the household registration records and count the land acres.
The old fox named Guo, who was also a spirited old fox, immediately understood what Wu Huaiyu meant, and did not find any excuses to shirk it. He directly patted his chest to express his cooperation, starting with their Yanzhou.
"I heard that the Duke of Pei has been very kind in recent years. He has collected many refugees who were forced to leave their homes due to war and famine, allowing them to cultivate wasteland in his territory, and even leased his own land to them."
After a long praise, Wu Huaiyu made a small request. He hoped that the tenants of the Mohe people in Yanzhou would be included in the imperial household registration and listed as customers, and that the tenants of the Mohe people such as Tudiji would be released according to the practice in Zhengzhou.
If you want to own land, you can simply give permanent lease rights to those customers who lease the land, and they will charge fixed rents from now on.
They don't even need to take action to collect the rent. From now on, the Youzhou Governor's Office will do the work for them, manage it for them, collect the rent, and then hand it over to them after collecting the rent.
As soon as this statement came out.
The atmosphere in the Yanzhou Governor's Office seemed a bit stagnant.
Many Mohe nobles showed dissatisfaction.
Before anyone could stand up to object, Tu Diji had already stood up with a smile, "Shaobao has been so kind to us. Although we people have been moving westward for more than thirty years, we are really not good at farming. Now Youzhou
We are so grateful to the Governor's Mansion for helping us manage it."
Tu Diji was the first to express his position, and directly handed over the permanent lease rights to the Youzhou Governor's Office for more than a thousand hectares of land under his name, and asked them to take care of it and hand it over to the clients for permanent farming. From now on, he would enjoy the benefits and earn tens of thousands of dan per year.
Just rent.
The old fox is very smart and very aware of current affairs.
It has been attached for many years and has great privileges, but now the situation has changed.
At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were actually regulations for those who were affiliated with Fan Hu from various countries. As long as they were naturalized, they would also be taxed in the ninth class of households. The fourth class and above were the top households, and the seventh class and above were the second ones.
Households, and those below the eighth grade are lower households.
The tax for the upper household is ten cents, the second household is five cents, and the lower household is exempted from it.
For those who have lived for more than two years, the upper household will lose two sheep, the second household will have one, and the three lower households will have one sheep in total. If there are no sheep, they will be assessed as white sheep, and light goods will be discounted. If there is a conquest, they will be ordered to prepare their own saddles and horses.
, more than thirty days later, no sheep will be lost that year.
Anyone who has a son within his body is a member of the same people and cannot be a fan household.
In the north, there were Tibetan and Hu people, and the people were organized into households. They also had to pay taxes and serve. There were both household taxes and Ding taxes. The Ding tax on the upper household was ten silver coins. This refers to Xizhou silver coins. One silver coin was equal to thirty-two copper coins. So
The household tax for the above households is 320 Wen, the next household tax is 160 cents, and the lower households in the 8th and 9th grades are exempted.
Ding tax lost sheep, and the household Ding lost only two sheep.
However, although the tax is based on households, it is also based on ding. Regardless of whether the household tax is money or sheep, if there are more dings in the household, the amount will be more.
Of course, tribes like the Tudiji tribe in Yanzhou have been migrating inland for many years and have basically never paid any serious taxes. At most, they are levied when they go on expeditions.
The Tang Dynasty had been established for such a long time, and the Tudiji people basically only paid some tribute, and like the Lingnan people, they never really paid taxes.
Wu Huaiyu now not only wants to take away the permanent tenant management rights of their fields, but also starts to levy taxes on them.
It was even particularly emphasized that starting from the time when they were annexed during the Kaihuang reign, those born after that were no longer treated as peasant households, but directly according to the standards of normal Tang people, that is, according to the official tax and military regulations.
Wait.
Tu Diji showed unusual cooperation. No matter what Wu Huaiyu asked, he always agreed with a smile on his face.
