Yearly tribute is the tax of the grassland tribe.

Unlike the people who settled farming and settled, the grasslands are very vast, and each tribe is even separated by hundreds of miles. Coupled with the nomadic seasons throughout the year, it is like sending bureaucrats to manage and collecting taxes, which is not worth the loss.

So, there was a New Year's tribute.

Each tribe has different populations, and then handed over to the overlord of the grassland.

The overlord today is naturally the Khitans. The rule of the Youyun area has been transferred, and then it has become the Tang Dynasty.

The annual tribute is basically around ten taxes. This ratio does not seem to be high, but in fact it is at a medium level on the grassland, which is even more extreme for small tribes.

For example, on the grassland, if you want to survive, every family must support at least a hundred sheep, eat horse milk and goat milk on weekdays, and only during the festival can you eat some meat.

Drinking alcohol and eating meat every day is the life of aristocrats.

Moreover, in addition to this total annual tribute, there are also dozens of sheep who have to be handed over to the leaders and nobles, and they have reproduced dozens of them over the past year. In addition to paying taxes, few of them have left themselves.

If there is a natural disaster, there will be no saying that food is stored.

Therefore, the reserve of cattle and sheep determines the future of a tribe. The larger the grassland it has, the more reserves it will be, and the more it can withstand natural disasters.

And annual tribute is an extremely important burden for ordinary tribes.

For the Qilijin tribe, annual tribute is the biggest burden for fifty tents, nearly a hundred dying tyrants, and small tribes with more than three hundred ounces.

More than 6,000 sheep have to hand over 50 sheep and fifty horses every year. Such pressure is almost overwhelming.

Even if she was under such a great pressure in Youyun area, she was unwilling to go back because the annual tribute was heavy, at least she could survive. She could exchange some food with the Han people on weekdays and get some cavalry.

However, in the northern grasslands, disasters are frequent, the land is barren, and the annual tribute is rarely collected, but they may not survive.

It is a miracle that a small tribe like them can survive for decades.

"If you pull the hole in the room, it will be even more difficult in the future!"

Urqi shook his head and said with a serious look on his face: "The Han people are greedy and have more money, and they may be more difficult in the future!"

"There's no way!" Bali shook his head and said, "The grassland here is so good. We can't bear to leave. If Tangren is easy to deal with, let's just live it!"

Urqi looked at the flock of sheep grazing in the Qilijin tribe and the happy children, and couldn't help but feel silent: "Forget it, the Wuman tribe can't afford to toss, let's see what the Tang people said!"

Urqi then said that he was preparing to migrate. After all, the Tang people are different from the Khitan people. Who knows what they think? If several tribes go together, it will be much safer.

But in the end he was convinced.

The pasture here is really great, if you want to fly, who wants to leave!

In the northwest of Youzhou, Weizhou, Tanzhou, Ruzhou, Shunzhou, Wuzhou, Xinzhou and other places, there are hundreds of tribes of all sizes, and there are more than ten tribes with more than a thousand tents. More than 100,000 herdsmen settled in this land, and even the Khitans themselves cannot tell.

Even the neighbor of King Xi's Mansion, which is the six Xi tribes conquered by Yelu Abaoji, are located in the north of the western Liaoning Corridor. The six Xi tribes live freely in this vast grassland, obeying the Khitan's sect, and their specific internal affairs will not be interfered with.

It is normal for these Xi people to grazle freely, and it is very normal for them to cross the domain.

As soon as Yang Tingzhang arrived in Wuzhou, the Wuding Army of the Khitans, he immediately organized manpower. Under the intimidation of tens of thousands of cavalry under his command, the tribes under his command must obey orders.

As a result, he even followed the emperor's will and convened a conference of the tribal alliance.

Tribes of all sizes must come to participate, and those who do not follow will be executed.

With the reputation of seizing Youyun, this tribal meeting has come in a lot of people.

On the first day of July, it was a very hot day on the grassland, and hundreds of tribal representatives participated in the meeting.

Those who come and go, either the leader or the son or brother, are important figures.

Everyone was very curious about Tangren's ideas, and they kept saying all kinds of words.

Yang Tingzhang looked at everyone and counted. He found that there were about 237 people. Tribes above a thousand tents had arrived, and some tribes that were too remote were no longer considered.

Seeing this, he faced everyone with a knife-cut face, full of solemnity: "This time I summoned everyone to say that after driving away the Khitans, you will live locally as usual, but you must follow the laws of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Dear General, we don't know Chinese characters, how can we learn the Tang method?" The head man from a certain tribe widened his eyes and asked directly.

Other tribes are also praised. For grassland herders, word of mouth is the king, and the law is completely useless to them.

"The Han people have laws of Han people, and of course you have them too. Tian Khan stipulated that there are only three laws on the grassland."

"Anyone who kills someone will pay for his life-"

"The thief is slave for one month—"

"The tribe's private fighter, the head man chopped off his left hand-"

Many people applauded these words, which was the fairest and easiest to be accepted.

"General, this law, but the tribes must also obey it?"

He raised his head and asked with a bright look.

"That's right!"

Yang Tingzhang shouted: "These are the three simplest rules, and they are also iron laws. Any tribe must comply with them. From then on, large tribes must not bully small tribes at will. As long as they are discovered, they will be severely punished."

Faced with the cheers of the small tribe, the large tribe looked ugly and breathed an inexplicably relieved. Being able to live a stable life is also a blessing in a sense.

"General, I wonder what the Tang Dynasty's annual tribute is like?" Urqi stood up and said respectfully: "As early as April, the Khitans had already collected the annual tribute. Did Tiankang receive it once?"

"This is a must-have for annual tribute, and this is something that the surrender must do!"

Yang Tingzhang said righteously that taxes are the foundation of rule in a sense, and how can they be exempted at will?

However, considering that the Khitans had already confiscated once, the emperor of Youzhou naturally needed to appease the people and could not impose excessive taxes.

"If you have annual tribute, starting this year, there will be two ways: cattle, sheep, war horses, and the other is Ding Tax!"

Yang Tingzhang looked at the crowd intently, then looked at the translator, and then continued: "For every ten tents, a male 12-year-old will be released. They will act as personal guards by Tian Khan, enjoy the best training and have no worries about food and clothing."

"In other words, if you cannot afford the annual payment, you can use D tax to replace it."

"General, that male man will be his personal guard. How long will it take to come back?" Bali couldn't help asking.
Chapter completed!