These rescued serfs instantly became the group that most supported the Ming government.
They actively provided intelligence to the Ming army, captured the remnants of the chieftains who tried to rebel, and built roads and bridges for the Ming army so that the Ming army could patrol the Kham area unimpeded to maintain order. Because the Ming army consolidated the Kham area
The security order in the region has allowed local commercial activities to resume prosperity.
A large number of commodities are traded in Sichuan's mutual market, and there is no original limit on the number of transactions.
This led to the influx of salt, tea, cloth, medicinal materials and other items from the Central Plains into the Uzbek area on an unprecedented scale.
Local Uzbek farmers and herdsmen have benefited immensely.
In particular, the government of the Ming Dynasty distributed useful medicines for free, which finally enabled the people who lacked medical care and medicine to no longer die from minor illnesses.
The Ming Dynasty carried out drastic reforms in the Kham region and killed a large number of bully chieftains who resisted the policies of the Ming court. Not only did the Kham region become a peaceful paradise for the people, but it also made the Uzbeg chieftains in other areas afraid to death.
They clearly knew that the Uzang chieftains in the Kham area were already the most powerful among all the forces.
Everyone, please go and try it soon.】
If even the chieftains in the Kham region were not opponents of the Ming army, then they would not dare to offend the Ming court.
No matter how much resentment and anger they have in their hearts, they can only endure it silently.
The Ming Dynasty stationed 15,000 officers and soldiers in the Uzang area. They were all well-equipped, with thousands of muskets and hundreds of artillery pieces.
Such a powerful force is something that all the chieftains in the entire Uzang region cannot defeat. With the Kham region as an example, the recruitment and reform of chieftains in other regions will be much simpler.
In accordance with the policies formulated by Zhu Han, the Ming government adopted the method of redeeming or leasing the chieftains from various places, taking their land back to the court, and then distributed it to the freed serfs.
Everyone in the snow area has already obtained the citizenship of the Ming Dynasty.
Since he is a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, he cannot be treated as a slave.
This action to rescue the Uzang serfs not only freed thousands of serfs from the yoke of slavery and became free farmers, but also severed the direct relationship between the Uzang chieftains and the land.
From then on, the chieftains in the Uzang area no longer had the right to direct jurisdiction over their own land and population.
They either go to the Holy City of Sunlight to become devout pilgrims, or they go to Chengdu to become carefree rich people.
The reputation of the Ming Dynasty government is still very guaranteed, and the rent promised to them every year will definitely be no less.
After having this money, the chieftains in various areas of Uzang naturally had fewer complaints against the Ming Dynasty.
What's more, if anyone complains too frequently, the Ming Dynasty's Jin Yiwei is not a vegetarian. They can definitely arrest them and torture them, giving them a taste of the Ming Dynasty's iron-fisted education.
As the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty's Kangba Xingdu Division, Zhang Dingbian's daily routine is to train the army and then lead his soldiers to inspect various places.
Although the Kham area has now been completely taken over by the Ming Dynasty, there are still many chieftains in some places who take advantage of their remaining power to continue to do evil or oppress the newly freed serfs.
Zhang Dingbian led the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty and had to run more to let all the freed serfs know that the Ming Dynasty officials had always supported them strongly behind them.
This day.
As another snowflake falls.
The winter solstice among the twenty-four solar terms has arrived.
According to the customs of the Han people, the Winter Solstice is a very important festival.
Although Zhang Dingbian was born into a poor family, when he was a child, his family would get together for a meal every winter solstice.
Now he is thousands of miles away in Kham, and he doesn't have many relatives in his hometown in Hubei, so he can't help but feel melancholy.
At this time, Zhang Dingbian heard a burst of lively sounds of gongs and drums outside the military camp.
He quickly put on his bearskin coat and went out to check.
I saw a group of Uzbek peasants wearing Tibetan robes, beating gongs and drums and walking towards the Ming Dynasty military camp.
In front of them were several respected local Uzang elders.
These old men all held white hadas in their hands and walked at the front of the team with happy smiles on their faces.
Behind them were many children and women who were watching the fun. The children were running around the crowd chattering, while the women were a little shy and hid on the streets on both sides.
Such a lively scene is really rare in the Kham area with a small population.
Zhang Dingbie walked out quickly and asked the old men in front of him.
"Fellow elders, I wonder why you came here today?"
The leader was a Kham Tibetan who was a well-known local businessman. Although he was a Us Tibetan, he had already mastered very fluent Chinese because he had been doing business for many years.
I saw this old Tibetan man named Zhawang saying to Zhang Dingbian, "General Zhang, these are cattle and sheep that we Kham people voluntarily raised money to buy. We know that today is the important festival of the Han people, the Winter Solstice! In order to express our blessings
, and in order to thank you for your love and care for our Kham people, I came here to congratulate the general and the Ming Dynasty soldiers on the Winter Solstice."
When Zhang Dingbian heard that this was the reason, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Since arriving in the Kham region, the most common news I have heard is that another rebellion broke out somewhere, and another crowd gathered to cause trouble somewhere.
It's been less than a month since he finally settled down, but his nerves are still on edge.
"Dear elders, this is really a waste of money. We are here to do some of our duties under the orders of His Majesty and His Royal Highness! Protecting the people is what we should do. You are not polite, please come back.
, you can also take these cattle and sheep back, we are determined not to have them."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were stationed in the Kham area, everyone's military pay was doubled, and the food treatment was also very good, with beef and mutton constantly available every day.
These cattle and sheep were nothing to the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but to these ordinary Uzbek farmers, they were rare and valuable things.
Zhang Dingbian naturally refused to accept these cattle and sheep.
In the end, after several rounds of negotiation between the two parties, Zhang Dingbian only accepted the hada sent by the Tibetans to represent their blessings, and returned all the cattle, sheep and fine wine.
Not only that, Zhang Dingbian also ordered the garrison kitchen to provide extra meals today!
He kept all the Tibetans who came to congratulate the festival and asked them to have a Winter Solstice celebration with the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
Seeing that the Ming officers and soldiers were so kind and loving to the people, the Tibetans represented by Zhawang could not help but send the hada to the necks of Zhang Dingbian and other Ming army officers and soldiers.
"Tashi Delek!"
"Da Ming Zha Xi Dele!"
Constantinople.
As the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, this is a famous thousand-year-old city.
Since the Romans built the Constantinople Fortress here, it has become the central city of Asia Minor and Thrace. Countless caravans gathered here, and Constantinople was once flooded with goods traveling from south to north.
The streets of Dimburg.
When East and West Rome first split, Constantinople had already surpassed Rome and became the most prosperous and prosperous city in the empire at that time.
However, today's Constantinople can be said to be in decline, because the Eastern Roman Empire was gradually forced to lose its territory by surrounding countries.
Many Romans had already realized the crisis and fled to other European areas that were relatively safer.
The current city of Constantinople is no longer as prosperous as it once was, with a permanent population of only about 200,000 at most.
And almost all commerce was monopolized by the Venetians and Genoese.
This result was not only unacceptable to the Eastern Roman Emperor John V, but also unacceptable to the Orthodox Patriarch Alexius and the Roman citizens of Constantinople.
In terms of their attitude towards the Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexius and the Roman citizens were very pious.
Far more than their emperor John V.
Faced with the increasingly embarrassing situation of the empire, John V even had the idea of changing his Orthodox Christian faith to join the Roman Catholic Church in order to obtain rescue for himself.
In order to save the Eastern Roman Empire on the verge of collapse, John V was even willing to give up his own beliefs.
One can imagine how excited he was when he knew that the Yuan Dynasty was coming to Europe.
That's why when the Genoese intercepted the Eastern Roman Empire's envoys and blocked the alliance between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Yuan Dynasty, John V became furious. Regardless of everyone's opposition, he ordered the Eastern Roman Empire's navy to retaliate against the Genoese.
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The two sides fought dozens of small-scale battles on the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.
The Eastern Roman Empire relied on its special skills to achieve some victories at the beginning.
The Roman Empire had a very powerful secret weapon in naval battles, and that was Greek fire.
In fact, Greek fire is a specially processed primitive petroleum extract, so it is indestructible when exposed to water on the sea and can easily burn the enemy's wooden warships.
This kind of thing also existed in ancient China.
The navy of the Song Dynasty had fire oil tanks and put them on warships, and then burned hundreds of warships of the Jurchen Jin Kingdom in one fell swoop.
Such a powerful secret weapon gave the Eastern Roman Empire's navy a considerable say at sea.
The two sides fought in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
In the end, the Genoese relied on their powerful navy and subsequent supplementary capabilities to drive the Eastern Roman Empire's navy back to the port of Constantinople.
John V, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, once again suffered a tragic failure.
After gaining the advantage in naval warfare, the Genoese immediately issued a threat to the Eastern Roman Empire.
They demanded that John V pay them a large sum of military expenses and war compensation, otherwise the Genoese navy would attack all the Eastern Roman Empire ports along the Mediterranean coast, destroying the last remaining financial source of the Eastern Roman Empire!
After receiving this threat, John V immediately became panicked and at a loss.
The Eastern Roman Empire is now facing a serious financial crisis, and the land in various local military districts has become the private property of the military district lords.
Not only was the central government of the Eastern Roman Empire unable to collect sufficient local taxes, but in order to maintain the loyalty of the various military regions, the Eastern Roman Empire had to give them large rewards to the commanders of these military regions who were in a state of separatism.
Continue to be loyal.
The current situation of the Eastern Roman Empire is like the separatist rule of vassal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
The separatist forces in various places supported the central government on the surface, but in fact they were engaged in protecting their own territory. The military governors in various places neither paid enough taxes to the Eastern Roman emperor nor provided various materials.
The only remaining financial resources of the Roman Empire were the few ports along the Mediterranean coast.
These places can collect port taxes from passing ships. Once these places are lost, the fragile finances of the Eastern Roman Empire will completely collapse. Even the mercenaries guarding Constantinople, John V, will not be able to return.
maintain.
Facing the threat from the Genoese, John V immediately changed from his original tough attitude to one that was almost groveling.
but.
Seeing this, the greedy Genoese were even more unwilling to give up.
In line with the principle of squeezing out the last copper, they made a lot of unreasonable compensation demands to John V.
John V was completely unable to oppose or resolve these demands for land cession and compensation.
At this time, John V began to convene his cronies to start discussions, and wanted to go to Rome in person to ask for the support of the Pope for mediation.
The people of Genoa believe in the Roman Catholic Church, that is, Catholicism, and they must give face to the Pope.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! It must be said that John V was a poor politician.
In other words, he is not even a politician, he can only be said to be a childish monarch.
In fact, the Pope did not have much intention to restrain the Genoese.
Even if all the citizens of the Eastern Roman Empire converted to Catholicism, the Pope would not be able to send a single soldier to rescue the Eastern Roman Empire.
After the idea of John V was proposed, it immediately aroused opposition from many people around him.
However, John V insisted on going his own way and insisted on going to Rome in person to ask for an audience with the Pope and let the Pope save the Eastern Roman Empire that was about to collapse.
Facing the stubborn John V, his officials and cronies all showed disappointment.
Many people already think that John V was going crazy to do such an outrageous thing.
Before seeing any real help, he was about to abandon the Orthodox Church.
This is definitely a stupid decision.
That night, someone immediately told the Orthodox Patriarch Alexius the news.
Alexius, as the highest leader of the Orthodox Church, was immediately furious when he heard the news.
Alexius entered the palace overnight to see John V, trying to persuade the Eastern Roman Emperor to give up this foolish idea and continue to maintain the same faith as the Roman citizens.
However, John V, who had suffered a mental breakdown due to the imperial finances, was not willing to accept the advice of the Orthodox Patriarch Alexius.
He was stubborn and shouted that whoever could save the Roman Empire could become the new state religion, whether it was Orthodox or Catholic.
Such deviant remarks by the Eastern Roman Emperor John V immediately made Patriarch Alexius furious. He cursed John V in the palace as a shameful traitor and hypocrite who would inevitably be punished by God.
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After leaving the palace angrily, Alexius summoned several of his archbishops overnight.
After a brief discussion, they agreed that John V might really have gone crazy.
