Chapter 213 North and South Houses
Chapter 211 North and South Houses
After four months, Mungo returned to his loyal holy city of Vaes Dothrak.
According to the time of his correspondence with Bachelor Bass Porter, it can be known that the continent of Westeros had officially entered 299AC a month ago.
Mungo's speed on the way back to the grassland was not fast because he was waiting for people.
Freeman representatives from various city-states in Slaver Bay, and the merchant group of Qarth.
Some of these people were elected or recommended by people from all walks of life in accordance with local customs.
They will accept Mungo's canonization in the Holy City, and then return to their respective regions to serve as officials in the places ruled by Dothraki.
The rest of the people accepted his call or voluntarily swore to join the Blood Guard.
They will stay in the Holy City as hostages, take it as their responsibility to protect the great khal, fight for him in all directions, and make achievements.
Mungo is waiting for this group of people, and there is also a group of people with the same identity waiting for him in the Holy City.
That group of people came from the northern countries conquered by the Dothraki, Ivovelon, the Ober Peninsula, and Ibben.
That's right, when Mungo incorporated Qarth into his territory, the northern expedition led by Elihu Phoenix captured the port of Ibben, and the Ibben Islands surrendered.
In this way, the Dothraki have become a country with vast land and diverse ethnic groups.
The Wanhu system alone is not enough to maintain the kingdom, or the empire's rule over the local areas.
In this regard, Mungo adopted two methods.
One is assimilation, mainly targeting Ivovelon and the Lazarin.
They are geographically adjacent to the Dothraki, and even originally shared the same land, and their own civilization is more backward than that of the Dothraki.
Mungo mobilized their priests and tribal uppers to promote the concept of the same ancestor and the same bloodline.
They are all descendants of the horse god who came out of the womb lake of the Holy Mother Mountain, but Ivovelon went north and the Lazarin went south.
In a moment of carelessness, Ivovelon got lost in the forest, and the Lazarin ran too far.
Now, I have found you, my long-lost relatives, and it is time to return to the embrace of the Mother Mountain.
The forest walkers and Lazarin of Ivovelon are both gentle and simple races, and from the appearance alone, they are exactly the same as the Dothraki, and the Lazarin are even a smaller version of the Dothraki.
Therefore, ordinary people have a very high degree of recognition of this statement, and they have spontaneously made up for the shortcomings.
For example, why are the Lazarins not as tall as the Dothraki.
That must be because they ran too far, and the Mother Mountain and the Womb Lake could no longer feed them.
Why did the Dothraki always rob them before?
In a big family, it is not a very normal thing for the elder brother to bully the younger brother, not to mention that they ran so far, how is this behavior different from the rebellious son?
On weekdays, they did not offer sacrifices to the sky and the earth, so their father and mother were angry and sent their Dothraki brother to punish them, hoping that their brother Lazarin would realize his mistakes as soon as possible and return to the family.
The same is true for Ivovelon on the other side, and it is even simpler.
The Dothraki people were afraid of the mines and the big forest where the forest walkers were located, so they did not rob them, and they also avenged the Ibbenese for them. Isn't this a big brother who takes care of his younger brother?
Ordinary people are easy to fool, and the upper class who know a little about politics are afraid of the power of the Dothraki, and there is no reason to oppose this good thing.
In their view, the identity of a Dothraki is extremely noble, much more noble than the king of a small country.
Therefore, the process of Dothraki assimilating Ivovelon and Lazarin was extremely smooth.
The real difficulty is the second way, ruling.
The Orber Peninsula, Slaver Bay, Qarth, and even Ibben, they all have their own civilization and history, and have a long-standing hatred with the Dothraki.
Most of the residents on the Orber Peninsula are the remnants of Sarnor.
That is a nation with a glorious history. Their country Sarnor was destroyed by the Dothraki.
Slaver's Bay, in the words of the Gith themselves, when the Valyrians were still wearing animal skins and herding sheep, Gith was already a world empire.
Their clearly recorded history can be traced back to the Age of Heroes, five thousand years ago, and even the beginning of the legend is the beginning of creation.
Qarth, not a free trade city-state, was originally a kingdom, and its name was also Qarth.
As for the grievances between him and the Dothraki, looking at the bones on the red wasteland will make everything clear.
Ibban, although it looks backward compared to Slaver's Bay and Qarth, its civilization is not short.
Before the Doom of Valyria, Ibban was ruled by a ruler with the title of God-King, and there were at least hundreds of God-Kings in his history.
Moreover, the Ibban people also have the characteristic of reproductive isolation, which is very unfavorable for foreign management.
Mongol thought about the above countries and regions for a long time, but failed to find a reasonable way to govern them.
In the end, he decided to learn from the official system of the Liao Kingdom before the time travel and establish a dual-track or dualistic ruling organization, that is, to rule by the North and South Courts.
The North Court governs tribes and pastoral areas, mainly managing the affairs of the Dothraki Wanhu and other nomadic peoples, and is in charge of the military and horses of the country. All military and national affairs are handled by the North Court.
The South Court governs city-states and regions, mainly managing the affairs of other ethnic groups such as the Ghis and Qarth. The civil affairs and taxes of the city-states in various regions are all under the jurisdiction of the South Court.
In addition to complying with the core laws of the Great Code, such as prohibiting slavery, each ethnic group shall govern itself according to the customs of each city-state, and the local people shall govern the local people according to local conditions.
Afterwards, Mongol will set up a king's hand in each of the North and South Courts, namely the prime ministers of the North and South Courts.
The prime minister of the North Court assists the king, and is in charge of military and national affairs, as well as tribal civil affairs. His subordinates are Dothraki left and right Wanhu.
The prime minister of the South Court is in charge of regional city-state civil affairs, and his subordinates can be any ethnic group.
On the surface, this system is parallel to the North and South Courts. In fact, the main power institution is the North Court, and the most important core power is still in the hands of the Dothraki.
Because the North Court is in charge of the military and the South Court is in charge of the people, the officials of the North Court can be transferred to the South Court, but the officials of the South Court may not be able to transfer to the North Court. There is a restriction on origin.
Moreover, Mongol will not allow untrusted foreign officials to hold the highest official position in the South Court.
In addition, he will select Dothraki governors to serve in various regions to supervise local officials and be responsible for recruiting soldiers and commanding the army during war.
This is the connection between the two official systems of the north and the south, with the purpose of unifying power to the central government and ultimately to Mongol.
Now, the governors of various regions are all Mongol's most loyal subordinates, and in the future, these people will be filled by his descendants.
In this way, even if the Dothraki are divided, Mongol's descendants will rule the world he conquered.