The red palace is now the headquarters of the Ming army's Weizang camp. General Weizang first moved from Lhasa to Gyantse himself.
After the Ming army took over the defense, they hired workers to build a wall with large stones on the hillside, which was three feet high and about one foot and a half wide.
The white wall extends to the back hill of Baiju Temple, and many forts were built along the wall and the front cliff, and city defense artillery was mounted.
On the ocher-colored Zong Mountain, the fortress stands tall and guarding the mountains, overlooking the bottom of the mountain.
The battlefield at the foot of the mountain not long ago has now been built with earthen walls and many houses, and has become a new market town. Many Han merchants came here with the Weizang camp to open shops and build warehouses, and purchase local products from Gyantse. It has also become a direct link to Sikkim.
, an important trade route transit station in Bhutan, Bangladesh and other places.
Salt, tea, silk, porcelain, and all kinds of Central Plains goods flowed down through the caravans. Han merchants and Chinese goods came west from Sichuan via Kangding. There were also Han merchants and Han goods from Xining passing through the Riyue Mountain in the Hehuang Valley and heading south. There were even goods from Hexi.
The silk goods that cross the Qilian Mountains and go south to Qinghai-Tibet pass through Biandukou. These silk goods converge in Lhasa and then go to Gyantse. Some continue west to Shigatse, Ngari, Yarkand, Kashgar, and some go south to Gyantse to Bhutan.
The mountaintop-style castle and the cannons used to defend the city make the 500 Weizang Battalion in Gyantse Fort look majestic.
The sun and moon flags fluttering on the ancient castle, and the wild yak military flags hanging from the white walls of the red castle top make this castle standing in the middle of the Nianchu River Plain so arrogant and majestic.
The Tucheng at the foot of the mountain is becoming more and more lively.
The goods here are complete and of high quality and low price. Many surrounding tribes have never seen such novelties as chiming bells and telescopes. They are fascinated by the high-end silk porcelain, green salt tea, and even various gold and silver jewelry.
Driving herds of cattle and sheep over to trade.
Some nobles even brought serfs from the manor directly to sell them.
Slaves were very popular in Gyantse Tucheng. The Weizang camp moved to Gyantse and began to recruit Jiajuan from the mainland to work in the fields. On the Nianchu River plain, the military family members were assigned fields, which were all beside the Nianchu River under Gyantse Fort.
These fertile fields were donated to Weizang Camp by monks and noble leaders from temples such as Pandan, Dayan Khan, Jishepa, and Baiju Temple.
Most of the Imperial Guards in the Weizang camp were immigrants from Longnan, western Sichuan, and the Hehuang area. They were relatively adapted to the geographical climate of the plateau. Their families were moved here and their fields were divided. They divided them a lot, but they lacked labor.
The slaves here are relatively cheap, so the military families of the Weizang camp began to buy slaves. It is very common to use slaves in Weizang. The manor system is generally implemented, and most of the manors are serfs.
Because Weizang camp has many fields and a large demand for labor, it is powerful and generous in purchasing slaves, so the surrounding noble lords and even some businessmen began to sell here, and some even went as far as the Himalayas.
Those small countries in the south are selling and even catching slaves to sell.
Dayan Khan rode into the city and looked at this emerging town with some envy in his eyes.
Although the town under the fort is a newly built earthen city, there are still soldiers guarding the city gate. However, the people guarding the city are not the 500 Weizang camp, but the militia of Nianchu Town. Yu Ding, a soldier from the Weizang camp,
The main body is composed of disciples, who are also equipped with firecrackers, etc., and take turns to be on duty for training, etc.
Seeing that the militia equipment of the Gyantse Ming Army was better than his own, it was impossible for Dayan Khan not to be jealous. During this period, he had been licking his wounds. Although the emperor's protection gave him a chance to breathe,
You can keep a hidden place behind.
However, his father's Heshuote Khanate had lost Huijiang, Ngari, Qinghai, Kham and Qianzang, and the Heshuote tribe had only a few thousand tribes under its direct control.
Now there are only 3,000 Heshuote cavalry left in his hands. He is nominally the master of the rear Tibetan area, but the big monasteries, Diba, monks and noble estates below cover an extremely large area. They are a country within a country. He, the Dayan Khan, now has great prestige.
Sweeping the floor, we can only continue to hold Ming's thigh tightly, otherwise as long as the court orders it, not to mention Qinghai Dalai Khan can kill him immediately, even the masters in the back can easily overthrow him.
Dayan Khan has become much more submissive to the Ming Dynasty recently. He can only rely on this foreign aid. He originally counted on his cousin Eqirtu, but now this Jorut Khan is busy fighting with his uncle Kundulun Utesh, and there is no way to
I can't care about this.
Dayan Khan could only obey the Ming Dynasty's arrangements honestly. Now he could only cooperate and compromise with the two major classes, Bandan and Diba, and recognize their special status and the privileges of their manors in exchange for their recognition that they were queens.
The Lord of Hidden.
He granted many nobles official positions and titles in exchange for their money and support in establishing an army for the Hou Zang Khan Court. The 3,000-man Hou Tibetan camp was similar to the Ganden Phozhang Army built during the reign of Gushi Khan.
The standing army was under the jurisdiction of the Khan's court, not the private armies of monasteries and nobles.
In order to make this army have some combat effectiveness and be under his control, he asked the court to purchase ordnance, muskets and artillery. The Ming Dynasty said that it could consider this request, but suggested that they hire some Ming army instructors to teach the use of weapons and equipment.
and new tactics, etc., and even suggested that they invite some Ming officers to serve as staff officers.
This is the model that was modeled after the establishment of the Jingsai Army, the Han Navy, the Zhenxi Army, etc. in the Turpan Khanate, Junggar Khanate, Durbot Khanate, etc. in Beiting Anxi and other places.
Dayan Khan agreed to this 'suggestion' to jointly build a new army after long consideration. Although his new army may no longer be so pure, he is now unable to fight against the Ming court, which is the biggest threat in front of him.
These powerful local forces came from Houzang, and then came Qinghai's brother Dalai Khan.
After the agreement was concluded, Ming Dynasty immediately opened a list for them, including the establishment of 3,000 people, weapons and equipment, as well as the officer staff group, training team, etc. The price was relatively affordable, including Shaotian's three-year-old matchlock shotgun.
, quite sophisticated, and equipped with some front-mounted general smoothbore cannons, some rear-mounted Fran machine cannons, and even a few battalion infantry cannons.
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The Ming army even included the uniforms and flags of the new army in a package, all provided at an affordable price.
An army of 3,000 people, plus several hundred officers and staff, and all the equipment of the teaching group were all covered by the Ming army. The package price was so favorable that Dayan Khan could just pay for it.
Today Dayan Khan came from Shigatse to receive his three thousand new army equipment. In addition, he also ordered a batch of new equipment for his three thousand Heshuote cavalry.
From cotton armor to sabers, to helmets, firecrackers, tents, felt blankets, etc., they are all available. Although convenient, it is not a small amount of money.
Finally, he reached an agreement with the Weizang Yamen and mortgaged some of Houzang's tax collection rights. In the future, the taxes from Houzang would be handed over directly to the Weizang Yamen. The Weizang Yamen would then invite Ming businessmen for bidding and contracting. After the businessmen contracted the tax revenue, they would be paid annually as agreed.
Part of the tax was given to the Weizang Yamen to cover military loans. Part of it was given to Dayan Khan, and the rest was the profits of the merchants.
A result that seems to satisfy all parties.
After passing the militia inspection at the city gate, Dayan Khan entered the city with only a small team of guards. Looking at the lively scene of hawking along the street, he was very envious. How many transactions were there and how much tax was collected that day?
Now he has to raise 6,000 men and horses, and he feels that the burden of raising troops is heavy.
In the past, when Gushi Khan was still in the Tianshan Mountains, he grazed cattle in his free time and had soldiers in war. There was no such thing as military pay. Even the war horses, weapons and equipment were self-prepared. After entering Qinghai and establishing Heshuote, Qinghai was enfeoffed to various states.
Ji commanded the nomadic people, grazing in peacetime, and recruiting soldiers to fight when there was war. The tribute money and grain collected from the Kham region were used to support the Eight Banners and Shuote cavalry stationed in Dangxiong.
Now there is only one Houzang left in Dayan. Most of the manors, land and population in Houzang belong to monasteries and nobles. The sects, land and population under the direct management of the Khan's court are not large.
"We are here to receive the ordnance and greet the officers and staff of the training group." Dayan Khan's eldest son Pensuke Jinong stepped forward.
He was greeted by an officer, who raised his right arm and struck his left chest, "God bless China, long live our emperor!"
"God bless our emperor!" Yue Suke said quickly.
Dayan Khan also said from behind, "God bless the Holy Emperor!"
The officer was young and tall. He was a lieutenant with neat military uniforms. "The equipment has been prepared. The officer advisory group is now at Zongshan Castle. The first general of the Dynasty is receiving them. Please wait a moment for the Great Khan and Jinong."
The King and the General will come over together with the officer advisory group."
"We have tea and snacks here, please."
Dayan Khan, his sons and several Taiji generals followed him to the living room on the other side and sat down to wait.
A group of people were waiting to come in with tea and snacks.
Dayan Khan and others were all attracted by this group of people. These people serving tea and water were not officers like the young man just now. It was obvious at a glance that they were slaves.
What is more striking is that these people look different.
The young officer came in again, and a young Taiji couldn't help but ask him about these slaves.
"Oh, these are a group of newly shipped slaves from the mainland recently. Look at that short and docile woman. That is a Japanese slave girl. She comes from Japan. She is a Japanese villager who was captured by the Matsuura pirates on the coast of Japan and then sold to the Ming Dynasty.
Among them, most of the young and strong men are bought to manors and mines in various places, while the women are manipulated and used as servants and maids. They are very gentle, so they are very popular in the mainland now.
As for those dark and tall slaves, they were shipped to Guangzhou by the British East India Company from Africa. These people have great endurance and are the best laborers in sugar cane, cotton and other plantations. They can also be used as housekeepers.
Hospital etc.
Those who are equally dark but slightly less dark and shiny are the indigenous people from the Nanyang Islands and Indochina. In the Tang Dynasty, we called them Kunlun slaves. These were mainly sold to the Central Plains by the Dutch and Spanish. They did not have Africa.
Those are of good quality but cheaper, but they need to be carefully monitored.
There are also those with round heads and wide faces and rat tail braids on the back of their heads, these are the Jurchen slaves of the savages, and those with long heads and big ears and braids are the Jurchen slaves of Jianzhou.
These tall, white-skinned, red-haired, yellow-haired and blue-eyed men were mainly Tsarist Russian prisoners captured in the north, while those with black hair and beards were mostly Tsarist Russian Cossacks.
These lean and small ones are mainly prisoner-of-war slaves captured in Annan, including Zheng family, Mo family, Wu family and even Ruan family, as well as some barbarian slaves of chieftains in Yunnan. There is a lot of chaos there now.
, no matter who fought with whom, captured the other side's soldiers, or even directly attacked and plundered the other side's people, they were usually sold directly to slave traders, and then sold to the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty is now expanding its territory everywhere, but the emperor is very generous to the soldiers and people, constantly allocating fields to them, allowing them to move to the border areas, and giving them large amounts of land. This has caused the population in the heart of the traditional Han Dynasty to increase.
There was a massive outflow. Many of the original landless peasants could only work as tenants for landlords and rich peasants, or work in workshops, or mines, etc. But now they have a better choice, accepting the imperial court's immigration policy and settling in the frontiers.
Divide the fields and settle down.
As a result, the labor force in the mainland has been greatly reduced. Whether it is wealthy landowners or owners of workshops and mines, they are all in short supply. In the border areas, immigrants who have newly acquired fields are also short of labor. And those emerging military aristocrats, some traditional
The powerful nobles also began to build manors, mines and factories in the border areas, but they were all in desperate need of labor.
However, the emperor's policy of opening up new territories and immigration could not be changed. Many gentry landowners also thought about opposing these policies of the emperor. However, with the rise of several big eucalyptus, a large number of outstanding birds were wiped out, and no one was left.
I dare not oppose this policy easily.
Therefore, we can only seek other solutions. This solution is the slave trade, purchasing slaves to replace the former poor people and become a new labor force.
Directly replacing tenants and hired workers with slaves is cheaper and more suitable for the development of intensive industries. Whether it is manor cultivation on large farms or emerging factories and mines, the slave trade is becoming more and more popular.
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They are sold everywhere in the world.
Especially places with wars have attracted countless slave traders. War means that there will be many captives, and large numbers of slaves can be obtained cheaply.
Realistic needs also forced the court to gradually relax and regulate this emerging market.
Even in the snow-covered plateau of Gyantse, slaves are constantly coming, not only from the surrounding areas, but also from overseas slaves from the coast.
Just like this group of slaves who came to bring tea and water to Dayan Khan and his companions, some came from Africa, some from Southeast Asia, some from Japan, Annan, and even Tsarist Russians from Siberia, Gossats, and people from the Western Regions.
Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Yarkands, Persians, etc. came.
There were also Tatars from Turkey and Crimea who sold Slavs, Germans and other white slaves to the river, Persia sold black people to the Western Regions, and the Mughals sold slaves from South Asia.
Ming Dynasty's huge market demand is like a sponge thrown into water, desperately absorbing water.
In fact, the scene in the living room was intentional by the officer, deliberately showing it to Dayan Khan, and also showing off the strength of the Ming Dynasty.
Especially those Jianzhou Jurchens who were captured as slaves. They were originally warriors. They were personally led by the Ming Dynasty Crown Prince in the Northern Expedition. After defeating the captives, they became slaves. They were also forced to keep the money rat tail and even had their faces branded.
The word "Manchu slave" refers to people who were sold as slaves to various places.
Asking them to serve tea to Dayan Khan and his son was to tell him that Manchuria, which once made Mongolian princes and princes scramble to please and pay tribute, has now completely become a slave of the Ming Dynasty. With the establishment of the state like this, Mongolia must be more respectful.
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Although Heshuote is Oirat Mongolia and not Mongolia itself, they were not as strong as Mongolia before, so they need to be more respectful.
"These slaves are quite interesting. I wonder if I can buy some?" Dayan Khan asked.
"Of course, there is a special cattle and horse market in Nianchu town. Not only cattle and horses are sold there, but slaves are also auctioned. Whatever the king wants, he can just go and auction it. The one with the highest price will get it." The officer replied with a smile.
