Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 110 Layout Success
"The four tribes have rebelled. I'm afraid that the Marquis of Xiping won't be able to wipe them all out at once..."

"Wei Guogong should leave early..."

"Not only that, but it seems that we still have to mobilize troops from Sichuan, Huguang and other places to quell the rebellion. Yunnan military households have fought three battles in Qitun, and there are only less than [-] border troops."

"Let's see what His Majesty says..."

In the Wuying Hall, dozens of civil and military officials from the Sixth Department, Sixth Section, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Fifth Military Governor's Office who were urgently summoned were whispering among themselves in the main hall to discuss the Yunnan rebellion.

Their voices were not loud, but they could still be heard in the side hall.

In that side hall, Zhu Yuanzhang had just listened to Zhu Gaoxu's suggestions on pacifying Japanese affairs from Li Jinglong.

In the area of ​​peace and control, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Zhu Gaoxu had many tricks and tricks, so he had no suggestions and just told Li Jinglong:
"When the officials sent by the Ministry of Rites return from North Korea, you can then make a decision and think about how to pacify the Japanese."

"Yes..." Li Jinglong agreed, but he was worried about the news about the Yunnan rebellion just now.

Not only him, but the four sons such as Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Shangbing were also uneasy about the Yunnan rebellion.

The latter three have never seen such a battle, and the former Zhu Yunwen is worried that this rebellion will last for a long time, which will affect the mining of gold, silver and copper mines in Yunnan.

He couldn't help but look at his grandfather, but saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was still as calm as before, and he was discussing the peace with Japan with Li Jinglong.

Sometimes Zhu Yunwen admires his grandfather's mentality of remaining unchanged despite the collapse of the mountain. Because he can't do it, he admires it.

In terms of Qi nourishing skills, he was still far behind his opponent.

"Your Majesty, all your ministers are here..."

Yi Shiha walked from the main hall into the side hall and reminded Zhu Yuanzhang at the same time.

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang also slowly stood up and greeted Zhu Yunwen and Li Jinglong: "You two will follow me. Ji Xi, you can continue to process the memorial here."

After that, Zhu Yuanzhang walked out, followed by Zhu Yunwen and Li Jinglong.

Looking at their backs, the three sons looked envious.

Since arriving at Wuying Hall, as they have dealt with more and more memorials, they themselves have been increasingly affected.

The feeling of being able to control the lives and deaths of hundreds or thousands of people with just one stroke of the ink pen cannot be replaced by anything in this world.

It's a pity that they are just the heirs after all. Even if they go further, they are just princes, too far away from that great position...

"Long live, long live, long live your Majesty..."

In the main hall of Wuying, as Zhu Yuanzhang appeared with Zhu Yunwen and Li Jinglong, the officials who were whispering to each other a second ago immediately changed their postures, knelt down respectfully, and bowed five times and kowtowed three times.

In front of them, Zhu Yuanzhang took Zhu Yunwen to the golden stage, and Li Jinglong entered the minister class.

"Get up, you've heard everything about Yunnan, tell me what you think..."

Zhu Yuanzhang gestured to stand down and saw Xu Huizu who was side by side with Li Jinglong.

With his permission, the officials who stood up also stepped forward to express their opinions as soon as they heard Zhu Yuanzhang's words.

"The Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Yu Xinqi..."

"allow!"

The first person to stand up was Yu Xin, who understood Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts best, and his speech was very consistent with his official position.

“I believe that Yunnan is related to the security of the southwest, and the 29 gold, silver, and copper mines in Yunnan are all rich and noble, and the copper mines in particular are lacking in the country and are necessary to mint money. Therefore, I sent troops to Yunnan as soon as possible to put down the rebellion as soon as possible... …”

"I'll wait for the second..."

Although Yu Xin's words are not detailed enough to divide the interests, at least the general direction is the direction that everyone is thinking about.

In this Wuying Palace, there are the Jiangyou faction from Jiangxi, the East Zhejiang faction, and the Huaixi faction. However, no matter which faction they are, they can make a profit by using banknotes to offset taxes, and the prerequisite for using banknotes to offset taxes is the gold and silver from Yunnan. Copper ore can be mined smoothly.

Nowadays, the Yunnan chieftains are greedy for gold and silver mines and are revolting, which is exactly what they want.

"Your Majesty, the Minister of the Ministry of War, Rujun, has begun to report..."

"allow!"

Chang Ru, the minister of the Ministry of War, who was in his thirties, stood up, and Zhu Yuanzhang also allowed him to speak as much as he wanted.

"According to the report of the Third Division, although the rebel chieftains' combined troops numbered tens of thousands, they were still far apart."

"I believe that the rebellion cannot be tolerated. After the rebellion is suppressed, the local officials should be beheaded, and the people should be organized into households and returned to the guard station for control..."

The Ministry of War, this embarrassing department in the early Ming Dynasty, was actually a yamen deliberately set up by Zhu Yuanzhang to restrict the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army. In order to facilitate checks and balances, he clearly separated the powers and functions of the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

The Ministry of War has the power to appoint and dismiss generals, promote and train the army, but it cannot command the army to fight.

Although the Fifth Army Governor's Office has the functions of commanding troops in combat, managing farmland, controlling military status, and selecting generals, it does not have the power to dispatch troops.

This split of power allowed the power of the military to be firmly in the hands of the emperor, and at the same time, it also allowed continuous competition between the governor's office of the five armies and the Ministry of War on the basis of civil and military divisions.

Rujun's words indicated that he was reorganizing the people into households to enhance the strength of the guard station. But in fact, what he wanted was to use the household reorganization of the people to interfere with the local guard station, so as to prevent the guard station from embezzling the gold and silver mined from the Mo Mine. .

After the war, the people in the southwest who were reorganized into households would have many relatives and friends who were related by blood and died on the battlefield, so they naturally felt hatred towards the military households.

Once the two sides are in opposition, it will be easy to obtain information.

Ru Yun's thoughts were not on the table, but everyone could see that the officials from the six departments did not stop him, but actively tried to distance themselves from him.

Facing their words, several military attachés present at the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion squinted their eyes, revealing a bit of ferocity in their eyes. Only Li Jinglong and Xu Huizu looked normal and were not angry because of Ru Jun's words.

In their view, the post of Minister of the Ministry of War is nothing more than changing lamps by the river. No one can stay for a long time, and Rujun is no exception.

Although the Fifth Army Governor's Office encountered the Hu Weiyong case and the Lan Yu case, the Huaixi noble faction is still strong because they hold sufficient military merits, which cannot be possessed by civil servants who cannot lead troops.

As for the surveillance that Ru Yu wanted, it was exactly what they wanted. After all, the Huaixi nobles had gone through several blood changes and still remained strong. They also had to show weakness to reduce the emperor's fear of them.

On the golden stage, he did not see the scene he wanted to see, which made Zhu Yuanzhang feel a little boring. As for the opinions put forward by Yu Xin and Ru Rui, they were good, but he still needed to add something.

"I will do as you wish. However, there are only more than 15 military households in Yunnan. Even including the military households that have been relocated this year, there are only [-]. This number is really too small."

"The Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Household Affairs drafted a charter to select [-] civilian households from the three provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian as military households, stationed in Yongchang, Yuanjiang, Lin'an and other places."

There are [-] households, which is nearly [-] people. Normally, the ministers would definitely argue, but now they are facing Yunnan, which has doubled in value, and there is no room for them to bargain.

"I will take your orders..."

Yu Xin and Zhai Shanshu bowed in agreement. Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang also looked at Ru Yu, Li Jinglong, and Xu Huizu.

"Although there are many military households in Yunnan, there are not many soldiers. The three divisions in Huguang, Sichuan, and Guangxi each sent ten thousand troops under the control of Wei Guogong."

After saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Xu Huizu: "Wei Guogong will set off tomorrow, and Song Qianshi will too."

"The minister leads the decree..."

After receiving Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions, Xu Huizu bowed in response, and a military attache in his early fifties behind him also raised his hand to bow.

This military attache has thick eyebrows, a serious mustache, a high nose and long eyes, and a serious look that seems to have the words "Keep away from strangers" written all over his face.

Not surprisingly, he was Song Sheng, the governor of the Chinese Army Governor's Mansion mentioned by Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Go away!"

After giving his instructions, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and walked towards the audience. While the officials shouted long live, they also bowed and exited the palace step by step.

When they left, Zhu Yuanzhang had also returned to the side hall with Zhu Yunwen.

Seeing them walking into the side hall, Zhu Gaochi and the other three stood up and bowed to each other one after another. They watched the two of them return to their seats before sitting down happily.

They thought Zhu Yuanzhang would say something to them, but Zhu Yuanzhang handled the memorial as usual and did not want to tell them about the Yunnan rebellion.

It seems that in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, this seemingly massive rebellion will be put down by the Ming army in a short time.

Even Xu Huizu, Li Jinglong and others did not have this kind of mentality. I am afraid that only this kind of mentality is worthy of the founding king of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that he was the only one who could face the rebellion of the Yunnan chieftains so calmly, but Xu Huizu seemed to be worried when he walked out of Wuying Hall.

After walking out of the Wuying Hall, the civil servants returned to the Wenhua Hall on the left, while the military attachés from the Dudu Mansion, led by Xu Huizu and Li Jinglong, walked to the Xihua Gate on the right.

Among the military attachés, Li Jinglong and Xu Huizu took the lead, followed by Yuan Hong, Song Sheng and others.

"For this rebellion in Yunnan, we must first find out the specific number of each rebel army."

Li Jinglong and Xu Huizu were chatting. Xu Huizu also took the opportunity to change the topic to improve his relationship with Song Sheng. He turned to look at Song Sheng and Yuan Hong and said, "What do Governor Yuan and Song Qianshi think?"

"It is true that we should first identify the troops and then choose good ones to suppress the rebellion." Yuan Hong made an evaluation based on his own experience, but Song Sheng, who was younger than him, spoke boldly:

"Among the local officials who rebelled this time, the Yuezhou guards Mu Azi and Guangnan Nong Zhenyou were the most violent, while Ningyuan Daobei died attached to Annan to provoke provocation."

"In my opinion, the Duke should let Xipinghou and He Dudu hold their ground temporarily, and wait for Qu Neng and Gu Cheng to lead the Sichuan and Guizhou Dusi soldiers into Yunnan, and then immediately attack Tumu Aziz and Nong Zhenyou, and kill them with swords. I will not dare to act rashly, and I will even surrender."

Song Sheng has experienced many battles, and he knows very well that if Ming Dynasty only dares to knead the soft persimmon, the powerful chieftain will harden his back.

On the contrary, if every time a chieftain rebels, he launches a powerful attack to put it down, then the remaining small chieftains will only surrender after the big chieftain collapses.

"Song Qianshi is right." Li Jinglong nodded in approval and looked at Xu Huizu.But facing his gaze, Xu Huizu hesitated.

It wasn't that he thought what Song Sheng said was wrong, but that he instinctively thought of Zhu Gaoxu.

Although Song Sheng had experienced hundreds of battles, he had always fought in the north and had never gone deep into the southwest.

His theory is actually very applicable to the north, and Xu Huizu also knows it, but they all lack understanding of the southwest.

Now in Nanjing, only Fu Youde, Feng Sheng, and Guo Ying are familiar with the southwest. However, Guo Ying has been resting due to the cold these days, and Fu Youde and Feng Sheng cannot see guests.

After thinking about it, Xu Huizu thought of his nephew, Zhu Gaoxu, who had guided him in fighting the Japanese and achieved good results.

"Pack your things first, you and I will leave for Yunnan tomorrow."

Xu Huizu did not directly agree to Song Sheng's idea, but advised him to go back and pack his things first.

Song Sheng didn't take this too seriously. After all, although Xu Huizu didn't have any outstanding military exploits, he had followed King Yan on his northern expeditions and patrolled the border several times. He was not an ignorant person. When he couldn't think of a good way, he would naturally use his own method. .

Song Sheng didn't say anything, and Yuan Hong naturally wouldn't say anything. He was more anxious about pacifying the Japanese at the moment, so he was discussing how to pacify the Japanese with Li Jinglong.

On the other hand, although Li Jinglong was discussing with Yuan Hong how to deal with the Japanese, his eyes were looking at Xu Huizu from time to time.

He had just learned how to quell the Japanese from Zhu Gaoxu, so he naturally didn't believe that Xu Huizu would leave such a talented person like his nephew unused.

Although Li Jinglong had not talked about Yunnan with Zhu Gaoxu, his intuition told him that the boy's view of Yunnan was probably not inferior to that of veterans such as Guo Ying and Geng Bingwen.

Everyone walked out of Xihua Gate with their own thoughts, got on the carriage and dispersed.

Before leaving, Li Jinglong glanced at the direction Xu Huizu was leaving, and when he saw him walking towards the Fujun Qianweifang, he understood everything in his heart.

After whispering "go back to the mansion" softly, Cao Guogong's carriage started to take him back to the mansion.

In just half an hour, Xu Huizu's carriage appeared at the front guard square of the Fujun Army, and even stopped at the back door of Zhu Gaoxu's yard.

Without Zhu Yuanzhang's consent, he could not meet Zhu Gaoxu, but he also knew that the emperor's restraint on Zhu Gaoxu was very light, so after he got off the carriage, he told the two soldiers with a small flag with the word "A" at the back door:

"You ask Gao Xu to come to the back door, and I will chat with him through the door."

"This..." The two soldiers looked at each other in confusion. They naturally knew that Duke Wei was his uncle, but they also knew that this was against the rules.

"Go ahead. If Your Majesty is dissatisfied, I will bear the blame."

Xu Huizu calmly explained to the two of them. Seeing this, the two had no choice but to separate one person and go to the hospital to inform Zhu Gaoxu.

Not long after, Xu Huizu heard the familiar footsteps.

Those were the footsteps of Zhu Gaoxu alone. Perhaps because of his strong strength, his walking was much heavier than the footsteps of ordinary people.

"uncle?"

Zhu Gaoxu tentatively asked behind the door. Xu Huizu, who was standing in front of the door, also glanced at the soldier with a small flag with the letter "A" on duty next to him. The soldier left knowingly, and then Xu Huizu stepped forward and told Zhu Gaoxu through the door about Yunnan. Thing: "Yunnan..."

After Xu Huizu finished talking about what was happening in Yunnan, he then asked Zhu Gaoxu:

"What do you think, do as Song Qianshi said?"

Xu Huizu believed in Song Sheng more and came to ask Zhu Gaoxu just to make sure it was correct.

Behind the door, Zhu Gaoxu listened to everything Xu Huizu said. He was surprised not only by the rebellion in Yunnan, but also by the attitude of the officials in the temple towards Yunnan.

His mine map really changed the attitude of the literati towards Yunnan.

If the previous temple literati simply wanted to use Yunnan to protect Sichuan, then now Yunnan is their pocketbook.

This group of hypocritical scholars valued money bags more than anyone else, otherwise they would not have supported Zhu Yuanzhang in emigrating [-] households from the southeast to Yunnan.

"What Song Qianshi said about Yunnan is generally correct, but it should be noted that Yunnan is no better than the north. The area is mountainous and forested and the terrain is complex. The overall terrain is higher in the northwest and lower in the southeast."

"To deal with Tumu Aziz, it is best to hand him over to the Marquis of Xiping, who will lead the troops in Kunming, Qujing and other places to put down the rebellion."

"To deal with Dao Bailan and Nong Zhenyou, it is best to mobilize the troops from Sichuan and Guizhou to quell the rebellion."

"For these chieftains, the best way is to capture their leaders to lure them, confiscate the leader's treasury and give them to the soldiers as rewards, and give the leader's land to the local people to win people's hearts."

During the Hongwu period, Guizhou had not yet established a province. In the 15th year of Hongwu's reign, the Guizhou Capital Command Department was established to be responsible for the management of the garrison in Guizhou.

Therefore, it was too late for them and Qu Neng to send troops to attack Yuezhou Tumu Azi, and they could only rely on Muchun Chichi to quell the rebellion.

Regarding Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement, Xu Huizu frowned slightly after hearing this, but finally nodded: "Okay, I will go back and draw up a charter for this matter."

After talking about business, Xu Huizu also talked about Zhu Gaoxu's current experience: "I am going to Yunnan, and I am afraid I won't be able to come back in three to five years. You should just stay in Nanjing and don't continue to cause trouble..."

Although he said this, Xu Huizu also knew that he could not persuade Zhu Gaoxu, so he sighed and said: "Even if something happens, it is best to discuss it with me. The correspondence will only take half a month at most."

"I understand." Zhu Gaoxu, who was behind the door, could only respond helplessly after listening to Xu Huizu's words.

He wanted to stay calm all the time, but his grandfather wouldn't agree to it at all.

"Then I'm leaving. I'll have someone deliver you some rice flour and cotton tomorrow." Xu Huizu breathed a sigh of relief, but the next second he was choked by Zhu Gaoxu's words.

"Don't bother uncle, just give me a discount!"

Zhu Gaoxu was afraid that Xu Huizu had left, so he hurriedly lay on the crack of the door and shouted. This move made Xu Huizu almost lose his footing on the steps. Fortunately, the soldiers with quick eyes and hands next to him helped him.

"Shuzi!" Xu Huizu cursed secretly to cover up his embarrassment, then rolled his sleeves and got into the car and left.

"I'm really gone..." Listening to the rumble of the carriage in the distance, Zhu Gaoxu murmured to himself, then turned around without interest, put his hands on his back, hummed a tune and left the back door, touching Chi Huan as he passed by the stable. forehead.

"Your Highness, are you okay?"

Lin Wuliu worriedly stood in the corridor of the backyard and looked at Zhu Gaoxu. Zhu Gaoxu also smiled and waved his hand: "If anything happens, you can go and rest."

After saying that, Zhu Gaoxu crossed Lin Wuliu and turned back to the study in the main hall.

Since it was winter and the doors and windows were closed, Zhu Gaoxu finally didn't have to worry about Jin Yiwei seeing his actions, so he relaxed.

"Yunnan, there is indeed a rebellion..."

Zhu Gaoxu put away his smile, and his eyes flickered while he was calm, as if he had expected this day.

"Song Sheng... Qu Neng... Gu Cheng... He Fu... Muchun..."

He recited this string of names silently in his heart, feeling a little happy: "If we can drag them in Yunnan, things will be much easier to handle."

Yunnan Mine Map, this mine map was a great gift from Zhu Gaoxu to Lao Zhu and Zhu Yunwen, but it was also a disaster.

At first, he did not know that there were 580 seven chieftain families in Yunnan in the early Ming Dynasty, and he only thought that the Luchuan Dynasty was the most powerful.

However, no matter what the situation in Yunnan is, in short, the local interests are complicated and complicated, and the various chieftain ethnic groups are different, so it is easy for rebellion to break out.

Under such a situation, once dozens of gold and silver mines explode in Yunnan, the huge benefits will be enough to blind the hearts of many people.

The 29 gold, silver and copper mines can provide millions of kilograms of copper ore and gold and silver mines worth millions of pounds every year.

These gold, silver and copper mines should have been discovered bit by bit over the five hundred years of Ming and Qing Dynasties, but now they were discovered by Zhu Gaoxu.

In other words, the current situation of gold, silver and copper mines in the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to that during the Yongzheng and Qianlong years.

Even if there are still some parts that have not been discovered, it is far stronger than in the late Ming Dynasty.

How many silver mines are there in Yunnan? Song Yingxing in the late Ming Dynasty said when talking about the production of silver mines in the Ming Dynasty: "Combined with the eight provinces of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Huguang, Guizhou, Sichuan, Henan, and Shaanxi, they are not as good as Yunnan." Half.”

It can be seen from this that in the late Ming Dynasty, Yunnan's position in the national silver mine production of the Ming Dynasty was high, and this situation reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty.

Now Zhu Gaoxu has revealed these things all at once, and it just so happens that the strength of Yunnan Chieftain is still at its historical peak.

Therefore, if you want to successfully mine these gold, silver and copper mines, you must send enough troops to sit in Yunnan. The previous 14 military households could only draw less than [-] soldiers, but the chieftains involved in Yunnan had tens of thousands of soldiers. .

If you add the Luchuan, Burmese and other Sanxuan and Liuwei toasts, this number can be doubled several times.

Originally, many of this group of people would rebel during the Hongwu and Jianwen years, and the value of the gold, silver, and copper mines revealed this time confirmed their desire to rebel.

It can produce more than two million gold, silver and copper mines every year, and its value is self-evident. Even Japan, which has just completed its reunification next door, has a fiscal revenue of only more than three million gold.

Not only the chieftains of Yunnan and Sanxuan and Liuwei, I am afraid that Annan next door will also find it difficult to settle down. Perhaps this is why Ningyuan Dao worshiped him and rebelled.

Yunnan will become a quagmire, and it will be difficult for the Ming army to get out of it. This is the situation Zhu Gaoxu wants.

Use Lao Zhu's hand to deal with the 570 eight chieftains in Yunnan, and at the same time deter the countries in Southeast Asia.

This incident will last through the remaining years of Lao Zhu's life, and once people like Song Sheng are unable to escape, they will have the opportunity to return to the north.

Zhu Gaoxu clenched the pen in his hand. The layout he had been planning for several months had finally succeeded. Now he only needed to wait quietly.

With the generals in the north, perhaps Fu Youde, Feng Sheng, Wang Bi and others would not have to die.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath, and an old face appeared in his mind.

"Grandpa, I have given you the steps, so what are you going to do now..."

(End of this chapter)