Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1649 Cutting Yuan ([-]) Chaos in Bozhou
Gao Yushi wants to fight a battle of destroying the Yuan with strength, which means that he gave up the surprise attack of soldiers and speed, and chose to approach slowly in the wide front, forming a mountain rain that is about to come, wind is full of buildings, and black clouds are overwhelming the city. The momentum of destruction is unstoppable.

However, although this situation is magnificent, and it has indeed achieved his goal of "making the battle "attract the attention of China and the world", it also brought about a problem: it has been more than a month since he announced the dispatch of troops, and he himself has only been from the capital. Arrived in Daning, and stopped in Daning for half a month, so far there is no new movement.The rest of the three armies seemed to be advancing step by step, and none of the four fronts had fought.

But for such a long period of "more than one month", under the operation of the post system after the reform, the news has already spread all over the world, and everyone knows that the most capable commander and the most capable army of the Ming Dynasty have already left the Great Wall.Some people look forward to this news like a long drought and hope for rain. For example, Yang Yinglong, the propaganda envoy of Bozhou, is the first to bear the brunt.

The Yang family in Bozhou has a long history. In the 14th year of Xiantong (873) at the end of Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao invaded and captured Bozhou. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was no longer as strong as the Tang Dynasty. In terms of the court, there were vassals and towns, and they looked like folks. Then the uprisings swarmed, and it was really difficult to expect the central government to send troops to a place like Bozhou with eight mountains, one water and one field to recover the lost land.

However, the land can't just be lost like this, so in the third year of Qianfu (876), Tang Xizong recruited warriors from all over the world to recover the lost land. Yang Duan, a native of Taiyuan, joined forces with local tycoons to defeat Nanzhao.Since then, the Yang family has been entrenched in Bozhou and has been hereditary for more than [-] years.Gao Wushi said before that the history of the local emperors of the Yang family in Bozhou even surpassed Huang Zhiting's family, which is why.

Of course, there is a reason why a semi-independent regime can exist for so long. The main reason is that the Yang family is good at hugging the thigh and the thigh of the court.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Yang family hugged the thigh of the Song Dynasty.If Song Ting wants to send troops, Yang will send troops; if Song Ting wants food, Yang will send food; if Song Ting wants to pay tribute, Yang will pay tribute.In short, what the court needs, the Yang family is absolutely obliged.Facing such an obedient and obedient baby, Song Ting considered that Gata was not a place to mobilize troops, so he naturally let it go and let the Yang family of Bozhou continue to exist.

The Song Dynasty was able to accommodate the existence of the Yang family in Bozhou. On the one hand, it was because the Yang family was very obedient, but on the other hand, it was also directly related to the "government cost" issue that Gao Yushi had discussed with Liu Xin before.

Any court that directly rules any place will definitely have a ruling cost. If it does not collect much tax throughout the year, and the place where it rules often causes troubles, and the army must continue to go to the place to counter the rebellion, then the rule of this place will appear instead. loss.

After all, once the cannon is fired, it is worth ten thousand taels of gold. Even if the cannon is not used, the amount of food and military pay consumed by the large army is astronomical. For this kind of place, it can be summed up in one word: loss.

For example, the southwestern border where the Yang family is located has always been a barren land. Even if the imperial court directly governs it, it will not collect much tax, but the ethnic composition is extremely complicated, and the ethnic conflicts are also very sharp. There are conflicts every two days. To rule such a place, For the Central Plains Dynasty, it was the most typical loss-making business.

Therefore, throughout the dynasties, the chieftain management system was often adopted for the southwestern borderlands.To put it bluntly, it is to allocate a piece of land to the chieftain and let him "contract" it, as long as he pays the contract fee to the court on time, and of course he may be required to send troops to accompany the conscript.

In this way, not only the court saves the trouble of governance, but also receives contract fees regularly, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.To put it more bluntly, it is to use each other. There are places where the imperial court needs the chieftain, and there are places where the chieftain needs the court.

The Yang family also deeply understood this truth. After the fall of the Song Dynasty, they quickly turned to the Yuan Dynasty, and after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, they quickly turned to the Ming Dynasty. This is how the Yang family has established a foundation in Bozhou for more than 700 years.

But when the Bozhou Yang family passed down to Yang Yinglong's generation, they suddenly didn't understand this truth.At the beginning, Yang Yinglong was still very obedient, and he also helped the Ming court put down several rebellions. Because of his military achievements, he was awarded the title of "Hussar General" by the Ming court - this is the second rank.

At this time, the Yang family has been entrenched in Bozhou for more than 700 years, and it can be regarded as deeply rooted in the local area. Yang Yinglong is a real rich N generation. He inherited the family business at the age of 20. The local officials are naturally proud of themselves.

Proud of the spring breeze, Yang Yinglong began to rely on his achievements and arrogance, arrogance and arrogance.But fortunately, his place is really remote, and the imperial court usually would not specially send people to investigate, so everything was fine.

But at the same time, the Yang family and other families in Bozhou are in the same situation, with many disputes and fights.During Yang Yinglong's reign, he was extravagant and promiscuous in Bozhou, committed crimes, ran amok, and wantonly plundered other people's land.

What is speechless is that the direct fuse that triggered Yang Yinglong's rebellion turned out to be a murder caused by adultery.

Yang Yinglong's official wife is called Zhang Chunhua, she is from the Zhang Tianshi family in Longhushan, Jiangxi, but Yang Yinglong doesn't like this wife, and he lost interest in Zhang Chunhua not long after marriage.Later, he fell in love with the Tian family again, this Tian family was originally the fiancee of his younger brother Yang Duanlong.

Later, Yang Yinglong found out that his wife Zhang Chunhua was having an affair with his subordinates, so he wanted to kill Zhang Chunhua in a fit of anger. Fortunately, his old mother interceded and saved Zhang Chunhua's life. Afterwards, Yang Yinglong promised Zhang Chunhua to his other younger brother Yang Shenglong.

I don't know if it was because he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of well ropes. Later, when Yang Yinglong got drunk, he thought that Mrs. Tian was also committing adultery, so he wanted to kill Mrs. Tian.At the critical moment of life and death, Tian brought up Zhang Chunhua's past again. Yang Yinglong fainted on the spot and ordered Zhang Chunhua to be killed.

Zhang Chunhua is not a fuel-efficient lamp either, calling on her mother, Guan's family, to avenge her, and Yang Yinglong also delayed Zhang Chunhua's mother, Guan's family, which completely offended Zhang's mother's family.As one of the leaders of Taoism, the Zhang family of Longhushan had always had a considerable status in the Ming Dynasty. The title of "Heavenly Master" was not his own title, but was often conferred by the imperial court, which shows its particularity.

In the 16th year of Wanli, the leader of the Zhang clan brought other representatives of the five divisions and seven surnames who had been oppressed and persecuted by Yang Yinglong to sue in Sichuan and Lake, and boldly exposed Yang Yinglong's various illegal deeds. beginning.And this year was also the beginning when Gao Wushi began to pay attention to Banshu.

The memorial to the impeachment of Yang Yinglong was quickly delivered to the center of the imperial court, and the imperial court appointed officials from Sichuan and Guizhou to conduct a detailed investigation.Hearing this, Yang Yinglong was furious and launched cruel revenge on the five divisions and seven surnames. He also colluded with the Miao people as foreign aid, and at the same time sent troops to plunder the surrounding counties and chieftains.

At that time, the imperial court was also divided into two factions internally regarding the matter of Yang Yinglong. Ye Mengxiong, the governor of Guizhou at that time, believed that Yang Yinglong's crime was unforgivable, while Li Hualong, the governor of Sichuan, was defending Songfan at this time and needed the help of Yang Yinglong's Bozhou soldiers, so he suggested that the imperial court suspend Yang Yinglong. The meaning of this matter is to ask him to send troops to help me fight the war first. As a result, the two factions within the court are at odds.

Later, Gao Wushi returned to Beijing from Liaodong and intervened a little bit in the matter. Therefore, the Ming court asked Yang Yinglong to go to the Chongqing government for an investigation. The result of the interrogation was that Yang Yinglong deserved to be executed for his crime.

However, there was an accident after this incident, that is, Gao Yushi went to pacify Bobai because of the chaos in the Northwest. Since Chongqing is not the main position of the Real School, some demon moths caused trouble in the end. In short, Yang Yinglong paid 2 taels of gold Redemption, that's how things went.

After returning to Beijing, he discovered that Yang Yinglong had managed the officialdom in Sichuan so easily. Although he didn't say anything harsh at the time, his subordinates acted without hesitation. Soon the court sent Song Liangzuo to Sichuan as the governor. .

Song Liangzuo is a student of Gao Gong, but he is not considered the most core group, he can be regarded as the "core peripheral circle". Before becoming the governor, he was You Shaoqing of Dali Temple, but his qualifications are old enough to be a governor. of.

After Song Liangzuo took office, he brought up the matter of Yang Yinglong again and asked Yang Yinglong to be interrogated again.Yang Yinglong saw that even the governor had been replaced by someone he didn't know, so he knew that his visit was bound to be a bad one, so he didn't listen to the imperial edict, and made up a lot of reasons, anyway, he just refused to come out for interrogation.

At this point in the matter, Song Liangzuo began to think about how to lure the snake out of the hole, but man is not as good as God. When Yang Yinglong heard that Gao Wushi led an army of 60 to attack Yuan, he immediately thought that the court had no spare time to pay attention to him.

Even in his opinion, as long as he jumped out and acted tougher at this moment, in order to avoid affecting the great cause of cutting Yuan, the imperial court could only choose to calm down, and even made a major compromise to write off the previous affairs.

So he chose to take the risk and ordered to kill all the more than [-] officers and soldiers sent by the imperial court to Songkan (in the jurisdiction of Bozhou).Regarding this, Yang Yinglong claimed that it was done by the Miao people and had nothing to do with Yang Qiansui.

To some extent, this is clearly a rebellion.

The biggest reason why the imperial courts of all dynasties, including Daming, were able to accommodate the existence of the Banzhou Yang family was that the Banzhou Yang family was very obedient, but if they were not obedient, or even rebelled, that would be another matter, especially for those who thought they wanted ZTE For Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of provocation must not be tolerated.

So Song Liangzuo's six-hundred-mile rush to report to the capital, before Gao Yushi had time to respond, the emperor's imperial pen Zhu Pi personally issued the final instruction: conquer Yang Yinglong.

Governor Song Liangzuo of Sichuan obtained the permission of the emperor and carried out the holy will as quickly as possible.Immediately send troops to three routes: the north route leads 5590 troops from Guo Cheng, marching all the way from Qijiang, Anwen, and Songkan; the south route leads 11400 troops from Wang Zhihan, marching all the way from Huangping and Meitan; the west route leads troops from Cao Xibin, the deputy general 9000 people marched from Yongning and Jima Mountain all the way, and the three armies planned to encircle Yang Yinglong.

Here is a problem to explain: Among the three generals who sent troops, there were two generals and one deputy general, but Liu Ting, the general of Sichuan, was not included.The reason is that although Liu Ting's department had previously accepted Gao Yushi's order to transfer to Syria and planned to prepare for the Bozhou event, there were some accidents that could not be changed by manpower: the climate was not acclimatized.

Many people in Liu Ting's department were originally from Sichuan. It stands to reason that Sichuan should not be acclimatized, but it is not that simple.It has been several years since his men and horses went to Burma, and after the war, they have been guarding there and have never moved. In fact, they have become accustomed to the climate and environment of the border area between Yunnan and Burma.

When I arrived in Syria on this sudden long-distance trek, although it seemed to be arriving from one mountainous area to another, the climate and environment still had a lot of changes, so there were still a lot of acclimatization in the army, and many people even lost their minds due to vomiting and diarrhea. combat effectiveness.

Song Liangzuo, who is also from the Gaodang branch of the Real School, naturally knew about this news.Not only that, but he is even more aware that Liu Xin's younger sister, Liu Xin, has been staying with Gao Yushi as the "Secretary-General".Whether there is any other relationship between the two is hard to say, but at least she can be sure that she is an absolute confidant around Gao Situ. By extension, Liu Ting's status is naturally not comparable to that of ordinary generals.

Under such circumstances, Song Liangzuo of course did not dare to take the risk of sending Liu Ting's troops out to take advantage of the sickness, so he only sent a letter to Liu Ting, asking him to stabilize the epidemic situation in the army as soon as possible, restore combat effectiveness as soon as possible, and replenish troops at any time. front.

The generals of the Ming Army of the Three Routes also inquired about some news, knowing that Liu Zongrong not only had the shadow of his father Liu Xian in Sichuan (Liu Xian also served as the general soldier of Sichuan for a long time), but also that his family was related to Gao Situ and Gao Jing Slightly closer, plus his unit has always been known as the elite, when it was fighting Burma, it was called cutting melons and vegetables.So, once he fully recovers, the three of us may have nothing to do with this battle, so the three of them tacitly said: The key to this battle is to be fast!
Speaking of it, "Soldiers are precious and fast" also happens to be in line with the plan that Song Liangzuo made before.At that time, Song Liangzuo, the new governor of Sichuan, came to his post and called a gathering of officials of four or more ranks in one province. Everyone had seen the governor. Song Liangzuo greeted him and sat down and said: "Before I took office, I had already heard that Yang Yinglong, the governor of Bozhou, often went crazy and rebelled. For example. The former governor deliberately covered up, and some of you in central Shu also accepted bribes from Bozhou, and these governors can forget the past.

I also know that Yan Kan Yang Yinglong in Guizhou actually wants to bring Bozhou under the rule. I would like to tell you that the ownership of Bozhou should be fought by each of us, and the emperor will make his own decision.But Yang Yinglong's wolfish ambition, harming one side is like separatist regime and self-reliance. For the sake of the world, he must remove the foundation of Yang's family in Bozhou.The two provinces of Guizhou and Shu are consistent, and there is no need for objection.

In addition, since Benfu took office, he asked for investigation many times, but Yang Yinglong refused to listen to the order, showing his dissatisfaction. Must hurry.Today, when Liu Zongrong's troops came from afar, there was an epidemic in the army, so they had to sit in Xuzhou to recover.The rest of the troops can be divided into three groups and attack each way. What's your opinion? "

A Sichuan official persuaded: "Please be calm and don't be impatient, the Fujun. The Yang family has been in the town for 700 years. It is deeply rooted and extraordinary. Moreover, Bozhou has always been brave and has a good location...Liu Zongrong and his son fought nine times in the past. Si Man, the man who was strangled in World War II was in charge of the barbarian, the power shocked Sichuan and the nobles, and the local people on all sides trembled and dared not raise their eyes. If he sent troops, it would be of great help. Now that it is inconvenient for Liu Zongrong to go out, is it a little bit unreasonable for us to rush into the army? inappropriate?"

Song Liangzuo replied: "You don't know the general situation of the imperial court, so I don't blame you. Now the world's attention is on the extermination of the remnant Yuan, and the small matter of Bozhou, how can we compete with the Yuan Yuan? Therefore, we must put down the rebellion as soon as possible, so as not to mistake A major event in this world.

I have made up my mind, the so-called soldiers are expensive and fast, and they are unprepared to attack. Besides, there is no need to occupy the entire territory of Bozhou this time. The three-way army is only to occupy the dangerous place and deter Bozhou.If Yang Yinglong is willing to go out and wait for trial, I will still keep the Yang family's foundation; if the Yang family rebels bravely, then when Liu Zongrong stabilizes his troops, it will be the time when our army enters and suppresses Bozhou, and there will be no future troubles and future generations. and also! "
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