Usurping the Mongols: My Father-in-Law is Genghis Khan

The officers of the Han army and the Eight Banners were also very satisfied.

Those heads of ten households and hundred households were mostly ordinary farmers before, but now their income is six to fifteen times that of farmers who can barely make ends meet.

What is the concept?

It is ten to thirty times their previous income!

It's like a modern person who used to earn only a thousand a month, facing the sighs of their parents and the contempt of their wife every day when they came home. As a result, after changing companies, they directly earned twenty thousand a month, becoming a high-income earner. What would that be like? What would it feel like in front of their family? Just thinking about it is exciting!

There are some differences when it comes to the level of thousand-household and ten-thousand-household heads.

For example, people like Zhang Rou and Yan Shi, who became local tycoons by virtue of their prestige, used to live only slightly better than middle-class farmers.

Didn't they want their wives to wear gold and silver?

Didn't they want their parents to enjoy their old age?

Didn't they want their children to have meat with every meal?

It's not that they didn't want to, nor that they didn't love money, or didn't have the means to make money. It's just that these people had a higher bottom line than ordinary people, so they didn't have much family property.

Now they have suddenly become big landlords, and this wealth is bestowed by the government, distributed by the government according to their positions, which is extremely legitimate. They are now feeling extremely comfortable.

Guo Baoyu, Shi Tianni, and others are different from Yan Shi and Zhang Rou.

Guo Baoyu, who inherited the title of Duke of Fenyang, had a family property of more than 300,000 mu of land after a hundred years of management. Now that he has surrendered to the Mongols, these lands will definitely be confiscated after the Jin Kingdom recovers its lost territory. The gardens and luxurious mansions built in his hometown will also be gone.

Shi Tianni's family was a powerful family in Yongqing, who could easily take out 80,000 shi of grain for disaster relief and raise 800 private soldiers. Their family property was not less than 200,000 mu.

Many of the other thousand-household heads were also local tyrants with private soldiers in the countryside, or simply local magistrates and military officers.

In fact, the land that Zhao Shuo distributed to them was far less than their losses. You must know that the grain yield of the land in the Hebei Plain is at least twice as high as that in Fuzhou, Changzhou, and Huanzhou, and may even be three or four times higher.

However, where is this?

They naturally chose to surrender to the Mongols, and naturally they were people with long-term vision.

It hasn't even been a year, and Zhao Shuo has made up for such a big loss for them, which has far exceeded their expectations.

In addition, there is also a huge bonus after capturing Zhongdu!

The wealth and women distributed among these thousand-household and ten-thousand-household heads, if converted into silver, would be 3.6 million taels of silver.

Shi Tianni's bonus alone exceeded 200,000 taels.

This is another large sum of money.

Although it still cannot make up for the Shi family's losses, it is not far off.

And if they didn't surrender to the Mongols? The Mongol army will defeat the Jin Kingdom sooner or later, can their land be preserved?

No matter how you calculate it, it's a profit.

Moreover, there will be more battles to fight in the future!

Why worry about not having the opportunity to be promoted and get rich?

Of course, if the battle is not fought well, it will be all over.

For the Eight Banner officers above the rank of thousand-household head, Zhao Shuo has set a five-level reward and punishment system. After each battle, Zhao Shuo, the Eight Banner ten-thousand-household heads, the Mongol thousand-household heads, and the military judge jointly assess the merits.

If a major defeat with heavy losses is fought, let alone promotion and wealth, even beheading is not uncommon, and all the land granted will be taken back, only their houses and movable property will be retained.

What? Too harsh?

The Dare-to-Die Camp has the lowest status in the entire army. The order of the next charge or siege is even ahead of the Balu Camp. Only after they have made military achievements can they rejoin the Han Army Eight Banners and have their property returned at discretion.

If the body of the hundred-household head is not retrieved, all will be beheaded and all property confiscated.

If ordinary soldiers are greedy for life and afraid of death on the battlefield, not only will they be executed and all their property confiscated, but their wives will also be reduced to slaves.

If ordinary soldiers fight bravely and die on the battlefield, their wives and land will be kept for them.

If there is no son in the family, half of the land will be taken back, and the remaining half will be retained until their wife dies. If the wife dies prematurely, it will be retained until the daughter is eighteen years old.

If there is a son, he must pass the examination organized by the government within five years of adulthood before he can continue to own the land, otherwise the land will be taken back. If there are multiple sons, and the eldest son fails to pass the government test five years after adulthood, the land will also be taken back. Those younger sons can apply to the government to join the Eight Banners within three years of adulthood and regain the land.

Those who retire due to war injuries receive half the salary they received while on duty until they die. If they die prematurely, it will be retained until the youngest child is fifteen years old.

Those who retire due to their own illness or old age receive one-third of their salary until they die. If they die prematurely, it will be retained until the youngest child is fifteen years old.

What is this?

It's a pension for the wounded and dead, and retirement benefits!

Even if you go back a thousand or ten thousand years, ordinary soldiers have never enjoyed such treatment!

Even the magistrates of the Jin Dynasty, only a few people can serve as "ancestral officials", only taking money and not working when they are old.

In the eyes of ordinary soldiers, the county magistrate in their hometown is already a remarkable figure.

Thinking about their treatment after retirement, which is higher than that of the county magistrate in their hometown, how can the soldiers not be excited?

On the day the regulations were announced, cheers of "Willing to die for the驸马" resounded continuously in Fuzhou, Huanzhou, and Changzhou.

Wherever Zhao Shuo went, the soldiers paid their respects with loud voices and fanatical eyes, full of love and loyalty.

This is also Zhao Shuo's purpose.

The reason why he is so generous is not to protect human rights, but to maximize the combat effectiveness of the Han Army Eight Banners.

Why is the combat effectiveness of good families strong?

It is because they have wives and children, which has become their weakness.

Zhao Shuo gave the Han Army Eight Banners such generous treatment in order to make them have money, land, wives and children, and have weaknesses all over their bodies, completely tied to Zhao Shuo's chariot.

In this way, when the situation is unfavorable, it is the best choice for these Eight Banner soldiers to die in battle.

Of course, Zhao Shuo's rewards for officers and soldiers below the rank of thousand-household head are also very heavy during wartime.

In addition to the distribution of spoils of war during wartime, there is also a sound promotion channel.

The Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were divided into twenty-four levels, also known as twenty-four futures, from the lowest level of Aha (slave) to Nurhaci himself. According to the military merits, the level can be increased.

In later movies, TV dramas, and novels, "awarding half a future" refers to this.

Zhao Shuo simply set up six futures from ordinary officers and soldiers to thousand-household head: soldier, deputy ten-household, ten-household, deputy hundred-household, hundred-household, deputy thousand-household, and thousand-household. As long as enough futures are accumulated, they can be promoted.

There are clear regulations on what merits a person can make and how many futures they can get.

For example, an ordinary soldier who beheads three enemies in one battle gets half a future. Beheading six enemies can directly promote him to deputy ten-household.

For example, the first to climb the city during a siege is two futures for ordinary soldiers and ten-households.

An ordinary soldier who is the first to climb the city can not only get a lot of spoils of war, but also be directly promoted to ten-household. The same is true for ten-households, who can be directly promoted to hundred-household.

However, if a hundred-household wants to be promoted to a thousand-household, he has to climb the city three times before he can get one future and be promoted to a thousand-household. For those above the rank of thousand-household, the military merit evaluation presided over by Zhao Shuo is another set of calculation methods.

For example, being trapped in an isolated city for more than a month, all those below the rank of thousand-household, regardless of whether they participated in the battle, will be given half a future. Then, various promotions and rewards will be given according to the size of the merits.

Of course, if the battle is unfavorable, futures will be used to offset the losses, and even their heads and family property may not be preserved.

In short, Zhao Shuo's management of the Han Army Eight Banners is both heavily rewarded and heavily punished, and he must build the Han Army Eight Banners into a fierce and war-loving army.

After three months, after all the Eight Banners were settled and the various military merit reward and punishment systems were fully explained, Zhao Shuo also completely won the hearts of all the Eight Banner Han troops.

Then, Zhao Shuo came to Huanzhou's animal husbandry supervision.

The four thousand households and twenty thousand people of the animal husbandry supervision are not accurately called "herdsmen", but should be called "herding households" or "herding slaves".

Like those "craftsmen households" in Jinzhongdu, they have no personal freedom and specialize in grazing for the Jin Dynasty court. The clothing and food needed for daily life are supplied by the government. The pastures and the livestock in the pastures are naturally not their private property, but belong to the Jin Dynasty government.

Now they all belong to Zhao Shuo.

Now there are only more than 74,000 horses, 60,000 cattle, and 170,000 sheep left in Huanzhou's animal husbandry supervision.

This is still a lot.

Fuzhou and Changzhou were not conquered by Zhao Shuo. Those livestock have become the spoils of other nobles and have all been taken away.

Zhao Shuo realized that his previous estimates were somewhat optimistic. I am afraid that the animal husbandry supervision of Fuchang and Huanzhou will need his subsidies in the next two or three years. Especially in the first year, it is estimated that 30% of the agricultural tax of the three states will have to be subsidized to the animal husbandry supervision of these three states.

But it doesn't matter, there is still a long way to go.

After Jin Hailing Wang's failed southern expedition to the Song Dynasty, there were only about 1,000 war horses and 90 camels left in the national animal husbandry supervision. But only twenty-six years later, it reached 470,000 horses, 130,000 cattle, and 470,000 sheep.

Now Zhao Shuo's starting point is much stronger than that of the Jin Kingdom at that time.

Zhao Shuo estimates that if he manages well, the animal husbandry supervision of the three states will be able to restore its former appearance in less than five years.

The Jin Kingdom can raise so many horses in the animal husbandry supervision of the three states, which shows that the various rules they set for the animal husbandry supervision are very scientific, and Zhao Shuo does not intend to make major changes.

He only transferred more than 200 people to the pasture that Zhao Shuo built in Hulunbuir to breed excellent war horses, and exchanged experiences with them, and then looked at what rules need to be changed in the pastures on both sides.

In addition, Zhao Shuo comforted the people of Huanzhou's animal husbandry supervision and asked them to send half of the livestock to Fuzhou and Changzhou. And he promised that he would give these officials and herding households the same treatment as the Jin Dynasty court, without any discount.

If they do well, they will also be rewarded.

Not only that, Zhao Shuo also drew a big cake for the "herding households" in Huanzhou.

Those “herders” not only had to work within the pastoral farms without any personal freedom, but their children were also subjected to the same fate. It could be said that once a person became a slave, they would be a slave for life, and their descendants would never be able to escape.

Zhao Shuo announced that as long as these “herders” diligently served him for twenty years, they could be considered workers of the pastoral farm and would be free to come and go as they pleased. Moreover, during these twenty years, their sons could pursue other occupations.

If they died before completing twenty years of service, their sons could make up for the remaining years, and they would still be granted their freedom.

“Thank you for your great kindness, Prince Consort!”

“We are willing to die for you, Prince Consort!”

“I don't know how to do anything else, but I know how to raise livestock. Prince Consort, don't worry, I guarantee that next year, the livestock I raise will not only be fat and strong, but they will also produce more offspring!”

“I will set up a longevity tablet at home, and my descendants will forever remember the great kindness of the Prince Consort!”

… …

As soon as Zhao Shuo finished speaking, the herders all knelt on the ground, kowtowing vigorously, expressing their gratitude for Zhao Shuo's great kindness.

There was no other way, East Asians valued their descendants the most.

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Although, judging from the horse-breeding efficiency of Huanzhou's pastoral farms, the treatment of these “herders” should be considered acceptable, who wouldn't want their children to live better lives than themselves, surpassing them in every way?

They also wanted their children to become merchants, accumulating vast fortunes.

Even more, they wanted their children to become high-ranking officials, bringing glory to their ancestors, and securing titles and privileges for their wives and children.

If that wasn't possible, serving as soldiers for the Prince Consort would also be good!

Look at those Eight Banner soldiers, what kind of treatment do they receive now?

A year ago, their lives were far inferior to these herdsmen!

Now, they have houses, land, and money. Apart from the very demanding training, they live an incredibly comfortable life!

Their descendants never had these opportunities before, but now they have them all.

It must be said that Zhao Shuo's granting these “herders” the freedom to choose their descendants' professions was truly something they were grateful for.

The people of Huanzhou were even more grateful to Zhao Shuo.

Zhao Shuo directly distributed a large amount of disaster relief supplies to those farmers who lacked food and clothing, requiring them to repay only ten percent interest after the autumn harvest.

In this era, not to mention ten percent interest, even fifty percent interest would be considered a great act of kindness. Doubling the interest would be praised by the people. Tripling the interest was considered normal. Otherwise, how could those wealthy households exploit and plunder to become rich?

Ten percent interest? Wasn't that the same as not charging interest at all? These poor people simply regarded Zhao Shuo as their reborn parents, a reincarnation of immortals and Buddhas.

Farmers with slightly better family conditions also greatly benefited from Zhao Shuo's favor.

Zhao Shuo eliminated a large number of warhorses from the army and either rented or sold them to these people for farming. Anyway, they were eliminated warhorses, so whether renting or selling, the prices were extremely low. If they really couldn't afford to pay, they could temporarily buy on credit and repay after the autumn harvest, with ten percent interest.

In addition, the three prefectures of Fu, Chang, and Huan originally had four iron mines. Zhao Shuo recruited a large number of farmers or citizens from the three prefectures who were unwilling to continue farming to mine and smelt iron. Zhao Shuo's blacksmiths numbered over a thousand, forging a large number of iron plows and other iron farm tools.

Farmers who couldn't afford to buy them could also rent them at very fair prices.

What was the farming efficiency of a horse-drawn iron plow? It was three times that of an ox-drawn iron plow! Six times that of an ox-drawn wooden plow!

It was just that the price of horses was high, and they were prone to disease and had high breeding costs, which is why they were not popular in the East.

These farmers could still afford short-term refined feed, and it looked like the autumn harvest would be a good one.

Originally, the grain yield in Huanzhou was very low, due to both local climate and soil factors, as well as production efficiency factors. Tenant farmers had difficult lives and naturally could not afford to buy iron farm tools. Renting landlords' plowing cattle had extremely high rents, and they could only simply plow once.

Now, farmers estimated that grain yields would increase by at least 20% this year.

Calculating it this way, after handing over 40% to the authorities, wouldn't they be able to keep 80% of their income from previous years?

These were truly good days that they had never dreamed of before!

Oh, right, there was also land rental.

In the past, renting land wasn't that easy either.

“Those with daughters cultivate irrigated land, those with good daughters-in-law cultivate good land, those with bad daughters-in-law cultivate bad land, those without women cultivate wasteland.” Although this describes the evil deeds of landlords in later generations, the evil in the world is interconnected.

In order to rent enough land for the whole family to survive, poor farmers had to endure much humiliation.

Now, the Eight Banner soldiers were governed by military law, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was related to the lives and futures of the high-ranking officers, so such despicable things were absolutely not allowed to happen.

Besides, most of those Eight Banner soldiers were originally farmers, and they empathized with the farmers' plight. At least in the short term, they wouldn't even have that kind of thought.

Farmers who rented land without being harassed simply felt that the sky in the three prefectures was a bit bluer than in previous years.

Oh, right, now the Eight Banner soldiers were busy building houses.

They had originally made a fortune in Zhongdu, and they had brought all their belongings to a strange place, and the first thing they wanted to do was to settle down.

First, they temporarily lived in military camps or the ruined mansions of wealthy families.

Then, they hired farmers, and even personally took action in their spare time from training, with the whole family working together to build new homes.

According to Zhao Shuo's instructions, they adapted to local conditions, gathering together in tens of households, or twenty or thirty households, or forty or fifty households, and new manors began to take shape.

In this way, they also gave farmers the opportunity to work.

A large amount of wealth from Zhongdu began to flow into the private sector in the three prefectures of Fu, Huan, and Chang, which could be considered a certain degree of “equalization of wealth.”

Farmers who had money naturally wanted to spend it.

Eight Banner soldiers who had money wanted to spend it even more.

The economy of the three prefectures of Fu, Huan, and Chang suddenly became active.

Throughout the three prefectures, everyone had hope and the scene was thriving.

Such a scene naturally attracted a large number of merchants to come here, either to purchase property or to conduct business, and the economy of the three prefectures became more and more active.

Of course, as a result, it also attracted spies from the Jin, Song, Western Xia, and Western Liao, to inquire about the news of Zhao Shuo, the Mongol prince consort's territory.

These spies came to the wrong place.

Not to mention the Eight Banner soldiers, if Zhao Shuo said the sun was square, they would say it looked like a red-lacquered Eight Immortals table, their loyalty was directly off the charts.

Those farmers weren't much weaker either.

Zhao Shuo's lending grain to particularly poor farmers at ten percent interest not only made those poor farmers grateful, but even ordinary people were extremely shocked.

In this era, agriculture depended on the weather. If there was a famine, even middle-class families would be reduced to poverty. And Prince Consort Zhao Shuo directly gave them the most basic safety net!

In addition, Zhao Shuo gave them very low-priced eliminated warhorses, allowed them to keep 60% of the harvest, and there were those iron farm tools…

Putting everything else aside, just comparing it to being under the rule of the Jin Dynasty, it was simply a world of difference!

Many people educated their children that the good days of today were all thanks to the Prince Consort. When they grew up, they should practice martial arts diligently, join the army, and repay the Prince Consort. If they were greedy for life and afraid of death on the battlefield, they would be letting down their parents and their descendants.

These people were simply too vigilant against those who would undermine the Prince Consort's great cause.

Many secret agents had just revealed a little suspicion when they were beaten half to death by the people and then handed over to the Eight Banner centurions.

It can be said that the hearts and minds of the people and the army in the three prefectures were entirely won over by Zhao Shuo.

It had already become Zhao Shuo's fundamental territory, just like Liu Bang's Guanzhong region during the Chu-Han Contention.

At this time, news of the war between the Song and Jin dynasties also began to reach Zhao Shuo's ears.

An Bing, the Pacification Commissioner of Sichuan, after receiving Zhao Kuo's imperial decree, mobilized troops and generals for a month, and gathered a large army of 5,000 cavalry and 95,000 infantry, launching an attack on Qin Prefecture.

The army besieged the city for forty days, and Qin Prefecture was in imminent danger of being captured.

However, at this time, the original Qin Prefecture Prefect, Shu Hu Gaoqi, who had been promoted to Marshal Right Supervisor of the Jin Dynasty, led 3,000 Zhǎn soldiers and 2,000 elite cavalry, a total of 5,000 cavalry, and suddenly arrived, attacking the Song army's camp at night. They fought bravely while loudly shouting that the Jin Dynasty's 100,000-strong army had come to reinforce them, disrupting the Song army's morale.

An Bing was really frightened and abandoned his army, fleeing in panic.

The Jin army inside Qin Prefecture took the opportunity to kill their way out, cooperating from the inside and the outside, and the 100,000-strong Song army suffered a great defeat, scattering and fleeing, with countless casualties.

Song generals An Fan and He Jiuling died in the chaos.

The Jin Dynasty took advantage of the situation to pursue, burned Dasan Pass, and completely occupied the Lizhou East Circuit and Lizhou West Circuit of the Great Song.

The Lizhou East Circuit and Lizhou West Circuit were actually the Hanzhong area that Cao Cao and Liu Bei fought over in history.

Hanzhong is located between the Qinling Mountains and the Daba Mountains, connecting the Guanzhong Plain and the Sichuan Basin. Controlling Hanzhong, one can pacify Guanzhong to the north and directly invade the Sichuan Basin to the south.

Sichuan had dispatched 100,000 troops, and the defending forces were not many. Hearing that Shu Hu Gaoqi had even occupied the Lizhou Circuit in the Hanzhong area, there was fear in Sichuan day and night.

However, at this time, the Great Song court could no longer care about Sichuan.

The Jin Dynasty had dispatched more than just Shu Hu Gaoqi!

Jin general Pu San Anzhen had long been fighting with peasant uprisings in Shandong, and had an elite team under his command called the “Flower Hat Army.” This time, when the Mongols attacked the Jin Dynasty, Pu San Anzhen led the Flower Hat Army, in front of Muqali, to protect the three prefectures, which was indeed a great achievement.

When the Song people attacked Qin Prefecture of the Jin Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty not only sent Shu Hu Gaoqi back to reinforce Qin Prefecture, but also ordered Pu San Anzhen to lead 20,000 Flower Hat troops south.

In addition to the 30,000 regular troops and 50,000 conscripted soldiers from Henan, there was a total of 100,000 troops.

These 100,000 troops were all under the command of Pu San Anzhen.

Pu San Anzhen crossed the Huai River, winning battles one after another, capturing seven cities of the Song army in succession, defeating more than 30,000 Song troops, and capturing more than 70 members of the Song Dynasty's imperial family, men and women, and directly watered his horses in the Yangtze River!

The Song Dynasty's capital, Lin'an, was only 300 miles away from the Yangtze River, and the Song Dynasty's ruler and ministers were greatly frightened.

They couldn't figure out how such a powerful Jin army could have been forced by the Mongols to sign the humiliating “Daan Agreement?”

Could it be that the Song army was too weak?

That didn't seem right either.

Zhao Shuo, who was also a Han Chinese, had become the Mongols' First Baatur, a powerful figure in the Mongol ranks, second only to Temujin!

Where exactly was the problem?