Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 617
The newcomer Gao Yantai did not order to summon all the chieftains in western Guangxi. Naturally, the chieftains are not willing to leave the country and come to Liuzhou Mansion to see him. According to Taiwan exactly how to deal with the Bazhai area.

At present, Zhang Ren, the governor of Guangxi, is seriously ill. Liu Yaohui, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, supports the establishment of chieftains in Bazhai. The family sent people to serve as the chieftain of the Bazhai area on the central axis of Guangxi, but there was no need to worry about the imperial court taking this opportunity to gradually push its power to the west of Guangxi.

Of course, if the imperial court insisted on advancing, the chieftain of Western Guangxi was not really panicked. In fact, as early as the 28th year of Hongwu, the imperial court had set up the Nandan Guard in the decent Nandan Prefecture of Western Guangxi, and the guard It is powerful, far more than the normal establishment of 5600 guards. At that time, it put tremendous pressure on the chieftains in western Guangxi.

But only nine years later, that is, in the second year of Yongle, the imperial court moved Nandanwei away and relocated it to Shanglin County in the east of Si'en Mansion (there were two Shanglin counties in Guangxi at this time, this is the one on the east, In the central part of Guangxi), and later moved a little during the Zhengtong period, but it is still not far from the Bazhai area.

At that time, there were two reasons for moving Nandanwei. One was that the Bazhai area in central Guangxi continued to be unstable and frequent disturbances continued. Overcast, snakes and insects leave poisonous grasses", "after the rain, poisonous streams, miasma everywhere", "farming is difficult to achieve, it is not a happy place to live", so soldiers died less in battle but more died of illness, it was not worthwhile, so they had to be transferred.

Therefore, the chieftains in western Guangxi were not afraid of the imperial court’s brain twitching, and insisted on forcibly entering western Guangxi regardless of everything. They were only afraid that the imperial court would slowly pass through the newly built cities and towns from east to west, and rely on the newly established guards to gradually move forward.

This kind of encroachment is what they can't stand, because it means that the imperial court's power will expand slowly, firmly but unstoppably westward.

The current arrangement in the Bazhai area is the weathervane for them to understand the new attitude of the imperial court.In their view, if the imperial court set up chieftains in the Bazhai area, it means that the imperial court is content with the status quo;

It is a matter of survival, and there is no chieftain who does not care, so a few days later, representatives of the major chieftain families met secretly in Longtan Town to discuss how to deal with the crisis.

This meeting can not be called a meeting, it is just a meeting of representatives of various families to express to each other their opposition to the imperial court's establishment of exile officials in the Bazhai area.As for how the chieftains should respond if the high chieftain insisted on not agreeing to set up a chieftain in Bazhai, and the court finally listened to his words, no one mentioned it publicly in this meeting.

No one has publicly mentioned it, but it doesn’t mean that no one cares. After all, the permanent residence of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is in Zhaoqing, Guangdong. In short, not in Guangzhou.

At this time, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was officially named "Governor of Guangdong, Guangxi, Military Affairs, Food, Salary, Salt Law and Governor of Guangdong." Therefore, his influence on the administrative establishment of Guangxi is not necessarily more important than the governor of Guangxi and the governor of Guangxi in the center of the imperial court.

In the other courtyard of Longshou Lake in Jinghu, there is a small building near the water that is unique to the south. There are four people in the building, and they are the four remaining after the chieftain's meeting.These four chieftains are different from other chieftains, but they are the representatives of the four chieftains who have the most to say on the resettlement issue of Bazhai.

In addition to the Seventh Young Master and Miss Huang who were on the list that day, there were two other people who stayed behind, one was Zhao Lizhong, the second master of the Zhao family in Si'en Mansion, and the other was Mo Wei, the eldest son of the Qingyuan Mo family.

If Bazhai is set up to be managed by local officials, the families represented by these four have the opportunity to become hereditary chieftains in Bazhai, so a closed-door meeting was held here.

Although this place is a separate courtyard of the Huang family, and Miss Huang is the convener, the seventh son of the Cen family was still the first to speak.

The Seventh Prince was still as handsome and unrestrained as that day, holding a Japanese fan with black bones painted in gold (that is, a folding fan), and wearing a white gown with gold and embroidered edges that only a chieftain in Guangxi can wear. : "Master Zhao Er, your family doesn't think about how to squeeze out the officials and magistrates of the Sien Mansion, so that you can be the master of the Sien Mansion, but you just stare at the land of the Eight Villages. I really don't understand... ...Do you think the imperial court would be willing to see the Zhao family's forces united like this?"

Zhao Lizhong, the second master of Zhao, showed a hint of sarcasm on his chubby round face, and said with a fake smile: "Although the Tongzhi of Si'en Mansion sounds inferior to the prefect of Si'en, the imperial court in Si'en is nothing more than a clay sculpture-like master of the prefect. The only imperial garrison in Si'en Mansion is still far to the south of Si'en, besides, there is only one Wu Yuan guarding the Thousand Households, less than a thousand soldiers, what's the use? Who doesn't know that Si'en Mansion is my Zhao family It's up to you...why, your father is still obsessed with the old land of our ancestors?"

Young Master Cen Qi was not angry when he heard this, he waved his hands and said, "Master Zhao Er, you don't need to provoke me. Although Si'en is the old land of the Cen family, it has been lost for five or sixty years, and it's not my Sicheng that lost it. My father What's there to keep in mind? I'm just worried that my brother will follow in the footsteps of Cen Meng back then, and expand with all his strength, attracting the imperial army. It's fine that Mr. Zhao Er doesn't appreciate it. Why are there so many doubts? My father has never been interested in these things , doesn’t Mr. Zhao Er know?”

Master Zhao Er chuckled and said, "Since your father is not interested, why do you come here, Young Master Seven?"

Seventh Young Master sighed: "Of course I don't want to make this trip, but as long as there is something related to the chieftain, I will always be in trouble with Cen, so I can't be lazy if I want to."

As soon as he said this, the faces of the other three were a little unfriendly—you really confirmed that the Cen family is the king of Guangxi chieftains?In Guangxi, you, Mrs. Cen, have to come forward when it comes to matters related to chieftains?

But everyone couldn't express their objection directly, so they just kept silent, Master Zhao Er and Mr. Mo looked at Miss Huang.

Miss Huang's face was indifferent, she smiled slightly, and said, "Since that's the case, what does the Cen family think about the ownership of the Eight Villages?"

I thought Mr. Seventh Cen would say that this is the place that Mrs. Cen likes to use power to overwhelm others, but Mr. Seventh Cen sighed: "Mr. Cen's ownership of the Eight Villages has no other meaning, as long as it is not I, the Cen family, have no objection to the court officials coming here, but I don’t know who among the three is interested in this place?"

(End of this chapter)