Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 608
It was already past noon when Gao Wushi sent Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin away, and the lunch was naturally shared in the procuratorate. The three of them exchanged some information about Guangxi. Mainly, occasionally ask carefully.

Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin told Gao Wushi that they should try their best to exercise restraint with the chieftains of Cen and Huang when they patrolled in the west of Guangxi in the future, they also said two more important things.

The first thing is that after Ling Yunyi left, Liu Yaohui, who took over as governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was not friendly to Gao Dang. He was particularly disgusted by Gao Dang's opposition to giving lectures.He founded Lianxi Academy when he was the governor of Jiangxi, and he personally wrote a record for the academy. He also often gave lectures, teaching the set of "nothing outside the heart" of the study of the mind.

The Practical School never recognizes "there is nothing outside the mind", but takes "understanding the classics, cultivating morality, current affairs, and application" as its main meaning, and the formation of its connotation has a historical evolution process.

Pragmatism is actually a school with roots, which opposed Buddhism and Taoism in the Song and Ming dynasties.Taking Buddhism and Taoism as "virtual learning"; in the Ming Dynasty, they opposed the empty talk about the mind and nature of Neo-Confucianism and Xinxue, and regarded the late Neo-Confucianism and Xinxue as "virtual learning".

Moreover, Practical Learning has its own ontology, epistemology, and methodology, as well as its own theoretical and conceptual systems such as values, ethics, and social outlook.Therefore, practical officials and mental officials cannot urinate in the same pot at all.

If I have to put it simply and crudely, everyone thinks they are Confucian orthodox.

In fact, Gao Yushi is not against the establishment of academies, but he objects to these academies’ nonsense after their establishment. The “academy” in his mind is a school similar to the “Jinghua Craftsman School” he founded in Jianxinzhai. Transfer of expertise and technology.

So it's not surprising that Liu Yaohui can't understand him, and he can't understand officials like Liu Yaohui either.

But having said that, after all, Liu Yaohui has been working outside all year round. Unlike Xu Jie who has always been in the center, Liu Yaohui still has to do something. For example, the Eight Villages Rebellion in Guangxi was the one he dispatched [-] troops to quell. .

Speaking of the pacification of the Bazhai Rebellion, it happened to be the second thing Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin talked about.

The Bazhai Rebellion has a long history. If you want to talk about it, this area has not been very stable since the Hongwu period, and it has become a disorder from time to time, and it has become an intermittent disease.

It is worth mentioning that in the early years of Jiajing, Wang Shouren also led an army to crusade against Bazhai, but after his army arrived in Nanning, he thought it was not worthwhile to attack directly (Wufeng Note: Wang Yangming's memorandum can be found), so he successively went to the imperial court, Asked to reform and suppress to appease, and use the barbarians to control the barbarians, the court agreed to his request after repeated entanglements.

However, when Wang Yangming was in Guangxi, Bazhai was fairly honest. Once he left, this curse continued to sprout and blossom.In August of the 33rd year of Jiajing, the Bazhai rebels entered Nanning City, climbed a ladder into the treasury and beheaded Shoushi.

In December of the following year, the rebels entered Nanning again.In the 39th year of Jiajing, under the leadership of Wu Zongxian, the Bazhai rebels attacked Rong County, Lianzhou.In August of the 40th year of Jiajing, Bazhai rebels crossed the city and entered Xuanhua County Treasury.

In the fourth year of Longqing, Yin Zhengmao was in Binzhou, Wuyuan and other places around Bazhai. With the rate of ten families, the village established a Jiajia and the village established a Donglao. In order to control and collect taxes, he continued the policy of using barbarians to control barbarians, and recruited more than 200 Anding soldiers. , commanded by Huang Chang, and defended by Yu Longhasai.More than 200 Zhengxinglong soldiers, commanded by Wei Fu, guarded at Bukesai.Military supplies are borne by the two villages themselves.

In the second year of Wanli, under the leadership of Fan Shang, the children of Longhazhai continued to rebel. Guo, the governor of Guangxi, recruited chieftain soldiers and horses to besiege the rebels, and the rebels had to go to other places.

In the seventh year of Wanli, the Bazhai rebel army grew stronger, with more than 8 elite troops and [-] followers of the rebels.

Liu Yao, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, recruited elite wolf soldiers from Guangxi and Huguang hook swordsmen, and replaced the "Longqing II Type" muskets produced by the Jinghua Gun Factory for the governor, Biaoniao, and marched in a concentrated manner. The road advanced towards Bazhai. Although the rebels were extremely brave, they were outnumbered. Half a year later, more than 3 rebels and civilians in Bazhai sacrificed more than 5000 people and captured more than [-] people.

The Bazhai Rebellion was put down this time, and Liu Yaohui thought he had made great contributions, so he went to the Shu to ask for rewards for his subordinates.But there is a problem, that is, the new inspector has arrived, and the military merit verification has been delayed.In addition, after the rebellion of Bazhai was suppressed, what kind of model this territory with a radius of two to three hundred miles will be governed in the future will also need to be discussed and decided by the governor, governor and inspector before it can be reported to the cabinet.

Because of these reasons, both Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin felt that Gao Yushi should have rushed to Liuzhou Mansion earlier to check his military achievements nearby and decide what to do with Bazhai in the future.

The location of Bazhai is located in the southwest of Liuzhou, roughly in the triangular area of ​​Xincheng County, Laibin County, and Binzhou in later generations, and almost in the center of Guangxi.

Of course, this center refers to the geographical center. In fact, this area is very complicated. The reason is that this area is the central axis. To the west, it is almost entirely dominated by chieftains. There is only one Nanning Prefecture that is directly controlled by the imperial court. Even if there are still two Sien Mansions and Taiping Mansions in the rest of the area that are nominally managed by the prefects sent by the imperial court, in fact, all the people working under them are local officials and local orders.

Except for these two prefectures, this area, which is nearly half the size of Guangxi, is completely controlled by chieftains. From the Tuzhifu to the Tuzhizhou, to the various Tuji lawsuits and Tujia inspection divisions, all are hereditary chieftains. world.

And the east of this central axis is the eastern part of Guangxi, where the imperial court has a relatively high degree of control. There are a few sporadic soil inspection divisions, basically nothing too big will happen.

Therefore, the future arrangement of the Bazhai was agreed upon this time, which is actually a confrontation between the two schools of thought of "using the barbarians to control the barbarians" and "reforming the land and returning the natives".

Although the rebellion in the Eight Villages was peaceful, the people in the area did not die out, so the rule must be re-established.

If "use the barbarians to control the barbarians", we will continue to follow Wang Shouren's thinking, then it must be to re-establish chieftains at all levels, and the specific settings will not be known until after discussion.

If it is "reform the land and return to the brigade", it will take the line of the hardliners, forcibly pushing the area under the direct rule of the imperial court's dispatched officials from the "central axis" to the west.

The former method has been practiced for nearly 50 years, and the actual results have proved to be ineffective. However, Wang Shouren has great influence, and the use of barbarians to control barbarians is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the high-level pragmatism can even guess how the officials of the School of Mind will evaluate this "poor effect"——Obviously When Uncle Xinjian was in Guangxi, the effect was very good. It can be seen that the "ineffective effect" was all due to the incompetence of the later governor!
In theory, the latter method is of course once and for all, but if you do this, you will face the possible revenge of the chieftains in western Guangxi, and this kind of revenge is very likely to be a group revenge-for example, if there is a "rebellion in western Guangxi", the consequences It is not something ordinary people can afford, and the officials who insist on "reforming the land and returning the locals" will not be sure what the result will be.

Liu Yao said that the governor is a disciple of Xinxue, and it is basically certain that he will insist on "using the barbarians to control the barbarians", while Gao Yushi thinks that only "reforming the land and returning the barbarians" is the general trend.

Thinking of this, Gao Yushi couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional. It seems that "partisan struggle" is no longer limited to the high-level or the center. Even in the local areas, party struggle is everywhere.

Practical learning and mental learning are now in line with the famous saying: "Either the west wind overwhelms the east wind, or the east wind overwhelms the west wind."

I just don't know who will have the upper hand this time?

Gao Wushi got up and walked into the back hall, and said to the clerk, "Go and get the official documents that have been accumulated recently, especially the official documents related to the Eight Villages Rebellion and the movements of the chieftains in the left and right rivers in western Guangxi. Don't miss any of them. gone."

Several scribes responded repeatedly, and went to find official documents without mentioning it.

(End of this chapter)