Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 166

While the Legislative Army was sweeping the Western Regions, after Sun Chuanting quickly wiped out She Chongming, chieftains everywhere were terrified and drew a line with An Bangyan.

Later, Sun Chuanting moved to Guiyang, Guizhou, and recruited refugees to reclaim the land and restore the economy.In dangerous places, set up camps.After establishing a solid defense in Guiyang.

Without waiting for An Bangyan to attack Guiyang again, Yongning sent troops to recover Chishuiwei, which opened the prelude to a decisive battle with the main force of the rebels.

In August, An Bangyan divided his troops to guard Luguang, Yachi, Sancha and other important places, and advanced to Zunyi.Sun Chuanting lured the enemy to the Yongning area, defeated the rebels successively in Wufeng Mountain, Taohongba, and Exiangling, and beheaded tens of thousands of them. An Bangyan and She Chongming retreated all the way.

On August [-]th of the first year of Tianqi, there was a heavy fog, and the general army of Gansu led its troops to lie down in Hongtuchuan to intercept She'an here. The Ming army concealed and killed She'an from behind.

An Bangyan's son settled down and led the rest of his troops to continue to resist.Sun Chuanting adopted the combat policy of "attacking repeatedly on all sides and cleaning up gradually", stationed troops in a dangerous position, surrounded them on all sides, gradually compressed them, and exhausted their resources. After more than [-] days of encirclement and suppression, more than [-] rebels were killed.

In the spring of the second year of Tianqi, Anwei sent envoys to beg for surrender, and the anti-rebellion war ended.

Originally, the She'an Rebellion in the previous life lasted for 17 years, involving Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi provinces, causing more than one million casualties, and the large-scale fighting lasted for nine years.

Today, the counter-insurgency has been quickly completed in less than a year, saving the majority of people in the southwest from military disasters.

Sun Chuanting also took advantage of the power of the great victory to start reforming the land of the chieftains in Sichuan and Guizhou.

After regaining Hami, Zhang Zongxian did not report his merits to the court, and he still needs time to plan the next step.

Otherwise, when Tianqi learned that he had regained Hami, he would definitely not let him continue to be the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, and he might just let him join the cabinet.

Now joining the cabinet can't do anything, it will only be restrained by all parties.Zhang Zongxian plans to repay his merits after he has completely controlled Shaanxi.

In the second year of Tianqi, Wei Zhongxian was already full-fledged, and there were a large number of officials in the court, and he was ready to fight Donglin.A lot of things are easy to handle, unlike when Tian Qi first came to power, everything had to be looked at by Dong Lin.

In March, Zhang Zongxian’s tribute gifts to Tianqi arrived in the capital. In addition to all kinds of knacks, there are also models of various buildings, especially the Crystal Palace model of the Ming court architectural style, which is most loved by Tianqi.

Zhang Zongxian also thoughtfully donated 100 million taels of silver as funds for the construction of the palace.

He also used the excuse that because too many heavenly secrets had been leaked, he needed a personal item of Tianqi every year to save his life.Ask the apocalypse to give him something to save his life.

On weekdays, Zhang Zongxian was very generous to those eunuchs who supervised the army, and from time to time he had to act in front of the eunuchs, making them feel that Zhang Zongxian's time was numbered, and he looked as if he would not survive.

This kind of behavior dispelled Tian Qi's doubts about Zhang Zongxian. After all, he was in charge of the three elites at this time, and the Donglin cabinet often impeached Zhang Zongxian on weekdays.To say that he is domineering and authoritarian is almost to say that he has a heart of disobedience.

Even if Tianqi has completely believed that Zhang Zongxian was sent by Emperor Zhenwu, he is still wary when it comes to the fundamentals of imperial power.

In Tianqi's view, if he has something to handle Zhang Zongxian, he is not afraid of his rebellion. After all, Zhang Zongxian not only expands his territory for him, but also donates money to him every year. Like the cabinet gang, they all know to stare at him. internal money.

Zhang Zongxian not only prepared gifts for Tianqi, but also for Wei Zhongxian. After all, Wei Zhongxian had to rely on Wei Zhongxian to protect him from the wind and rain in the capital.

A glass workshop was specially built in the capital and given to Wei Zhongxian. This glass workshop is making a lot of money every day, which makes Wei Zhongxian very satisfied.I lamented my original wise decision.

Originally, Tianqi intended to reward Zhang Zongxian again, but Zhang Zongxian was already a prince and grand protector, and it was difficult to be promoted again. After learning that Zhang Zongxian already had a son, he had thousands of households in Jinyiwei and his descendants hereditary hundreds of households.

Zhang Zongxian also took advantage of Tianqi's trust in him, and began to attack bureaucrats in Xi'an, Shaanxi, Hanzhong and other places.

The bureaucrats in these places are either marrying his disciples, or waiting to be dismissed from office. Except for Hai Rui, who was an official in Ming Dynasty, his background is clean, and it is easy to check.

While replacing officials, Zhang Zongxian carried out his policies in Qingjian County in various places. People all over Shaanxi welcomed the replacement of land deeds.

This time it was stated in the land deed that the tax collected was [-]% of the average harvest of the year, and it was promised to exempt all corvees except for disaster relief and war.

In order to prevent the local government officials from harassing the common people after the gray income from taxation is gone, Zhang Zongxian gave subsidies to local government officials in the name of their investment in wool workshops and share dividends. Monthly, literature and history is five taels of silver a month, classic history is ten taels of silver a month, and the county magistrate is 100 taels a month, all of which are Taiping bills.
Zhang Zongxian will also arrange the well-trained disciples of the school to serve as assistants to the officials in various county government offices.

Zhang Zongxian also set up an audit department under the Governor's Mansion to go to various counties to audit, and asked Zhao's staff to inspect various places on his behalf to punish corrupt officials.

For a while, the people in Shaanxi were praising Zhang Zongxian's benevolent government, and many people made new words for Zhang Zongxian at home.

In the second year of Tianqi, the reclaimed land outside the side wall also reached 500 million mu, and the number of people making a living outside the side wall also reached 12 households. Six cities of Wuhai, Wuyuan, Yunchuanwei, Zhenluwei, Yulinwei and Xuandewei were newly built.

Shazhou and Hami, which were recovered by novices, are still important military towns, and no immigration has been carried out.

The horse-drawn railways in various places are also being built one after another, and the horse-drawn railways have begun to be replaced with steam railways outside the side wall.

The coal output of Shuofang City and Jiuyuan City also exceeded 5000 million catties, and the output of steel reached 7 million catties.There are more than [-] related workers in both places.

The annual output of gunpowder reached 200 million catties, and the daily output was [-] long and short flintlock guns, [-] rockets, and five ten-jin bronze cannons.The thirty-jin bronze siege gun is still being further developed.

Even so, the production of steel is still in short supply, especially after the steam railway starts to be laid, more steel is consumed. Zhang Zongxian also needs to replace all the railways outside the side wall with solid rails that can run steam trains.

And it is planned to build the steam railway to the capital according to the route of the previous Beijing-Suizhou Railway.

Before Zhang Zongxian was transferred to the cabinet, the railway should be repaired to Zhangjiakou, so that even if something happened in the capital, Zhang Zongxian could quickly transfer the army from Guihua City and other places to the capital.In case of falling out with the Ming court, they can quickly win the capital and control the overall situation.

(End of this chapter)