Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 602 How can this be good (4 more breaking ten thousand)
In the Ming Dynasty, there were not many roads to enter Sichuan. As far as the water and land stations set up by the imperial court were concerned, there was only one way to enter Sichuan from Huguang, which was the Yangtze River waterway. If the bandits occupy it, it is very dangerous to enter Sichuan from Huguang.

Gao Wushi couldn't help asking: "Can you take a detour? Really don't want to go to Changde Mansion?"

However, his idea was feasible after the period of the Republic of China, but not now, because of the inconvenient transportation in the Pianyuan area (note: roughly the Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Zhangjiajie and other places in later generations, the main theater of the famous Xiangxi Bandit Suppression) and the chieftains and Miao people. Much, basically out of Changde Mansion and walk two or three hundred miles westward, and then enter the boundaries of Yongshun Military and Civilian Consolation Commissioner and Baojingzhou Military and Civilian Consolation Commissioner.

This is the territory of Xiangxi chieftains, and as we all know, the mountains in Xiangxi are famous for their strangeness, danger, and steepness. There are also some mysterious customs and legends in the local area. They have little contact with the outside world, and they must treat strangers. It's far from friendly.

Even if you are really brave enough to go to Xiangxi, you usually have to take the official post road of the imperial court. You have to go from Chenzhou to the southwest, pass through Zhenyuan Mansion and enter Guizhou, then turn to the northwest, go to Zunyi Military and Civil Mansion, and then go north to Sichuan—then The place is the lair of the Banzhou chieftain. Thinking of the Bozhou Rebellion in the future, Gao Yushi subconsciously vetoed it.

On the contrary, Liu Xin was not timid about going to Guizhou. She said that her father, Liu Xianjiu, was in Guizhou, and led Liu Chen to wipe out Jiusiman, Duzhangman and other barbarian giants. It's too late to be respectful, how dare you make a bad idea?

But Gao Wushi didn't want to believe it, and he couldn't be relieved. If Liu Xian or Liu Ting came here, saying that Thaksin had this deterrent force, as for Liu Xin, it's hard to say, it's better not to take risks.

Since this road cannot be taken, let alone other detours. You can’t take a detour from Shaanxi to Hanzhong and go south to Sichuan. It is the most famous Panax notoginseng production place in later generations, and that location is close to the western border of Guangxi. He and Liu Xin might as well go to Guangxi together on the same road first.

Therefore, if you want to enter Sichuan from Huguang, you must take the Yangtze River, and you must cross the Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain if you want to go to the Yangtze River.

This is very annoying, Gao Wushi couldn't help but asked Zhang Jianxiu: "Near Jingzhou, if I remember correctly, there should be at least two guards from Jingzhou Guard and Jingzhou Right Guard. Isn't it easy to suppress a water bandit?"

Theoretically speaking, one guard in Daming has 1 soldiers. If there are two guards, the army will be more than [-]. It is enough to suppress any water bandits. You must know that these are just Yangtze River water bandits, not the later Zheng Zhilong. One Piece.

Zhang Jianxiu coughed dryly and said, "Well, to be honest, you don't know. Although Jingzhou has two guards, they don't actually have many troops. The two guards are already seriously short, and the Jingzhou guards usually don't go out to fight—for example, our Zhang family It is the military status of Jingzhou Guard."

"How many soldiers are there actually in the two guards?" Gao Wushi asked.

"I'm just kidding, how can I know the real number here?" Zhang Jianxiu smiled wryly, and said again: "But if you really want to ask, I can still make a rough estimate... The two guards can mobilize three or four troops at most in Jingzhou Thousands, uh, I guess four thousand may be too much, so three thousand is more secure."

Gao Wushi was taken aback: "The sum of the two guards is only [-]? Isn't that too little? Only a quarter of the real number is left?"

Zhang Jianxiu said with a wry smile: "It's not bad. Some guards have fewer real numbers, and Jingzhou's two guards have sent about 1000 people as squad troops. They have been stationed in Guangxi for at least six or seven years. The three governors of Yunyang have been on the scene several times. The imperial court said that Jingzhou was empty, and asked to be transferred back to guard the area, but the imperial court never agreed."

Although Jingzhou is Huguang, it is now under the control of the governor of Yunyang.Because Yunyang has the geographical advantages of controlling the Han River, connecting Qinba, and adjacent to the four provinces of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan and Shaanxi, merchants have gathered since the ancient Taiping years, and it has been a commodity distribution center at the intersection of the four provinces, an economic and cultural center; The military strategists must contend for it, the wars are everywhere, the soldiers are in trouble, and the disaster is doubled.Therefore, in Yunyang, which is located in the middle of the country, in the past dynasties, the country is peaceful when it is calm, and the country is in chaos when it is turbulent.During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng, Hong Chengchou, Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong and Jiaqing all paid close attention to Yunyang.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Yunyang, a place with deep mountains and deep valleys, was prone to chaos, and chaos would make the world restless!So he ordered the expulsion of the Yunyang mountain people, and listed Yunyang as the largest forbidden mountainous area in the country.

This ban, which lasted nearly 80 years, certainly prevented Yunyang from advancing with the times, making it closed and backward; but on the other hand, it also restored the ecology of Yunyang, which was devastated by wars in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

The old Nanshan forest in the Qinba Mountains stretches from Lueyang and Fengxian County in Shaanxi Province to Yunxi [-] counties in Hubei Province, from Ningqiang and Baocheng in Shaanxi Province through Sichuan to Zhushan, Zhuxi, Fangxian, Xingshan and Baokang Shiba in Hubei Province The contiguous Bashan old forests and other large areas of virgin forests in the county have gradually recovered.Therefore, the history of the Ming Dynasty said that "the three provinces of Huguang, Henan, and Shaanxi have a lot of open soil, congested valleys, deep and dense forests, and vegetation in the middle, which can be plucked for food."

This kind of rich natural ecology provided a valuable place for survival and reproduction for refugees all over the country in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.Therefore, from the reign of Tianshun to the reign of Chenghua, millions of refugees who lost their land in [-] provinces across the country successively came here to make a living.The imperial court sent troops several times to drive out and kill them, but the refugees dispersed and reunited.

Under such circumstances, the imperial court ordered the establishment of Yunyang Mansion in Yun County in the 12th year of Chenghua (1476), which governed the six counties of Liangyun and Liangzhu, Fangxian, and Baokang, and resettled refugees on the spot.In particular, when Chenghua established Yunyang Prefecture in Yunxian County in 12 years, in order to coordinate the management of refugees in neighboring provinces, it also set up a larger administrative agency in Yuncheng - Huguangxingdusi (Yunyang Futai), which governs the territory At its largest, it reached 62 counties and counties in eight prefectures in the contiguous areas of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi.

There is good and there is bad. The troops in the governor's jurisdiction of Yunyang are too concentrated near Yunyang, while Jingzhou is much more empty.

Gao Yushi frowned, and asked, "Then there are no other troops near Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain? Are there no thousands of households and hundreds of households?"

Zhang Jianxiu said: "Speaking of which, there are thousands of households in Yiling in Yiling Prefecture in the north of Huya Mountain, and there are thousands of households in Zhijiang in the south. However, although these two thousand households are called Qianhusuo, In fact, there are more than 300 soldiers in each place. Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain are between them, and they have a strong reputation. The two thousand-household offices are pushing each other, and they are unwilling to provoke them anyway. When Zhou Zhan first came to Jingzhou, Withdrawing thousands of households from the two places did not allow them to really mobilize to suppress the bandits, both places went out with soldiers and then went back, Zhou Jian was furious, but there was nothing he could do about it."

Gao Wushi rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said in his heart: Although the guards in Daming border town are bad, they are not so bad. At least they dare not move when they are asked to send troops. In comparison, the guards in the interior are really bad. It's muddy!I don't know if it will be the same in Guangxi?

Seeing that Gao Wushi was too angry to speak, Liu Xin asked, "I don't know how strong this Huyashanshui bandit is. Although the army is not strong enough, most of the officers' army suppressed bandits did not rely on strength alone. Is there any other reason?"

Hearing this, Zhang Jianxiu stretched out his thumb and said, "Miss Liu is indeed a tiger girl, and she immediately asked the key point. Speaking of which, this Huya Shanshui bandit really has some background, and his strength is not weak."

(End of this chapter)