Jingnan Strategy
Chapter 456 Returning home in glory
Chapter 456 Returning home in glory
"kill!!!"
"Crack, crackle -"
At the foot of Cangshan Mountain and beside Erhai Lake, when shouts of killing rang out, hundreds of cavalrymen, led by a man, repeatedly charged and trampled on the thousands of bronze-armored enemies who were against them.
They rode their horses back and forth to face each other, and the cavalry flintlocks in their hands became the most excellent killing weapons.
Every time they faced each other, hundreds of the thousands of chieftain soldiers would fall. After repeating this several times, the thousands of chieftain soldiers finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to flee westward.
At the same time, hundreds of Ming troops rushed out of Taihe County, the seat of Dali Prefecture, which was surrounded by them.
Facing enemies from both sides, thousands of fleeing chieftains were either captured or became dead souls at the feet of the Ming army.
Standing on the hill, Jiang Huai had a panoramic view of this scene, which shocked him quite a bit.
Although he knew that the officers and soldiers were powerful in battle, he did not expect that the officers and soldiers could use hundreds of cavalry to defeat the chieftain soldiers who captured ten times his own number.
From this point of view, this reform and return will only take a year or two.
In addition, since the Dali Guards also had to garrison Longwei Pass and other passes, they could only station a few hundred soldiers in Taihe County.
In addition, they did not replace their muskets with matchlocks and flintlocks, and were still using old matchlock guns. Therefore, they did not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field alone, but there was no problem in coordinating with each other.
He walked in with more than a dozen generals. Seeing this, Jiang Huai quickly stood up and bowed.
Without time to stay too long, he was taken to Taihe County by two cavalrymen.
Xijiang Town has no city walls. If they encounter chieftain soldiers, they may not even have a chance of being surrounded.
Not far from it, there are also the ruins of Taihe City in Nanzhao during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Walking on the stone road, Jiang Huai had to admire the prosperity of Taihe County. In his opinion, Taihe County was much more prosperous than Kunming City, and the culture and learning atmosphere here were also very good.
About half an hour later, Jiang Huai heard the rustling sound of nails.
During the journey, the cavalry reined up their horses to show that they had arrived at the target. Jiang Huai looked sideways and saw the Yamen, the commander of Dali Wei.
The local Shaomin architecture incorporates many construction methods of the Han people, but still has great development in comparison. For example, the local ethnic minorities like to make their houses taller and attach great importance to the decoration of the exterior of the house, especially the decoration of the gatehouse and main room doors and windows. .
"This time the western Yunnan chieftains united in rebellion, you immediately sent Tangqi to investigate and see how many of the ninety-six chieftain families in western Yunnan participated in the rebellion."
Walking into Taihe County, there are various ethnic groups living there, wearing various costumes.
Wang Xuan raised his hand and motioned for him to sit down. Then he led the generals into the main hall, turned around and told everyone:
Suddenly, the sound of cannons sounded, and on the hill, the cavalry on both sides of Jianghuai also spoke:
Although he knew that many young people in western Yunnan had been repatriated very early, he still couldn't help but feel a little worried after seeing the situation in Dali.
"I heard about your deeds in Nanjing. You did a good job and made us proud!"
Because the war had just ended, the people in the city stood in front of their homes with lingering fear, and their homes had their own styles.
In addition, their Mandarin is much better than that in western Yunnan. Waterwheels are everywhere inside and outside the city. The advanced agricultural irrigation technology brought by military households has turned many dry fields around Erhai Lake into fertile farmland. Therefore, the price of food here is much cheaper than other places.
Taihe County, governed by Dali Prefecture, is located under Cangshan Mountain and on the shore of Erhai Lake. Its city was built in the 15th year of Hongwu and has a history of 35 years.
He dismounted and was searched, then escorted into the main hall where he sat and waited.
Although they had just experienced a war, many people who had calmed down were reading historical books or novels.
A cavalryman spoke, and Jiang Huai nodded when he heard the words. He shook his horse's reins and walked down the hill under the escort of two cavalrymen, heading towards Taihe County a few miles away.
The Dali Guards were originally supposed to be stationed here, but due to the implementation of the New Deal, the field troops in the Dali Guards were abolished, leaving less than 1,500 soldiers retained.
"We're here, please ask Mr. Jiang to come in with me to rest and wait for my uncle to come back."
"Yes!"
"boom!"
He looked towards the door of the Yamen, and sure enough he saw Wang Xuan and others walking in.
A person like Wang Xuan would naturally not pay attention to a small person like Jiang Huai, but Jiang Huai's background as a son of a serf, coupled with his deeds of being ranked first in his grade for five consecutive years in Nanjing, undoubtedly made Wang Xuan pay a lot of attention to him. .
After all, in his impression, Dali seemed to have been peaceful for more than thirty years, but it was still surrounded by chieftain soldiers.
Taihe County was built by King Muying of Qianning on the basis of Yangjume City, one of the capitals of Nanzhao. The city wall was more than two feet high, the city was ten miles in circumference, and the city was four feet thick. It was extremely strong.
Except for the occasional Shaomin language that can be heard and the Shaomin costumes that can be seen everywhere, this place is no different from other Han cities. Unlike many cities that Jianghuai passes through, it still has a very strong Shaomin culture. .
The degree of Chineseization here is very high, which is Jianghuai's evaluation of Taihe County.
In five years, Jiang Huai has become a handsome gentleman, and judging from what he did just now, he has not been attracted by the impetuousness and prosperity of Nanjing, but has developed his own unique temperament.
The generals bowed, then turned and walked out of the main hall. In the end, only Wang Xuan, who was sitting in the main seat, and his two guards were left, as well as Jiang Huai, who was restless.
Walking into Taihe County, Jiang Huai also saw at close range the chieftain soldiers who besieged Taihe County. They came from Tibet in the northwest, but now they had been captured. There were many corpses lying on the ground, and blood was flowing all over the ground.
If Wang Xuan hadn't led the cavalry to relieve the siege, we don't know how long we would have been besieged.
"Member Jiang Sheng, uncle sent a message asking us to go to Taihe County."
Some soldiers inside poured him a cup of hot tea, and while he drank it, he quietly waited for Wang Xuan to arrive.
He couldn't pronounce Jiang Huai's name just now, but he still had some impression of his appearance.
The courtyard with three sides, one screen wall, four courtyards and five patios is combined with the shape of the large building, wide corridors, and the stone foundation made of stone strips. The whole courtyard is very bright and very different from Jiangnan.
Thinking of this, he felt a little heavy, but fortunately Wang Xuan didn't keep him waiting for too long.
"You came back this time for the imperial examination, right?"
Wang Xuan asked Jiang Huai, and Jiang Huai did not hide it: "The student came back really for the imperial examination."
"Are you sure?" Wang Xuan asked. Without waiting for Jiang Huai's answer, he asked again: "How do you think Yunnan should develop?"
"Students are not fully sure. As for the development of Yunnan..."
Jiang Huai pondered for a moment, and then continued: "The student followed a classmate and saw a map at his home. Judging from the map and the student's experience, Yunnan's traffic is congested, especially the roads from Yunnan to Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi."
"However, Yunnan also has an advantage, that is, it can communicate with Jiaozhi along the river."
"If the water stations at Manmo, Jingding and Lihuayi are built, then Yunnan can transport goods by water to Haiyang in Jiaozhi, Dagu La and Vientiane in Sanxuan and Tenwei, as well as Ganbozhi and Siam in the south. country."
"Students have calculated that from western Yunnan alone, the journey from Longchuan to Manmo is only about 200 miles of mountain road. Once you reach Manmo, you can use the Great Jinsha River to go all the way south into Xiaoxiyang."
"Not to mention the millions of people along the way, there are dozens of countries along the Little Western Sea alone, with populations in the tens of millions."
"The environment of Longchuan can plant mulberry trees, produce silkworm cocoons, develop handmade textile industry, and then walk along the Jinsha River to the Little Western Ocean."
"By taking this route, Longchuan can travel 10,000 miles less than Jiangnan, and this 10,000 miles of sea frontage will take at least two to three months."
"That is to say, the transportation process of cloth in western Yunnan during the ocean trade is three months shorter than that in the south of the Yangtze River."
"Taking one year as an example, the journey from western Yunnan to Tianzhu to sell cloth takes only two months, while it takes six months in the south of the Yangtze River."
"One trip to Jiangnan is enough for us to sell three times, and the time cost saved is enough to make the price of cloth in western Yunnan lower than that in Jiangnan."
Jiang Huai was born in western Yunnan, so he naturally wanted to develop his hometown in everything. This made Wang Xuan very satisfied, but there was another problem besides this.
"Although your idea is good, is it too slow to start planting mulberry trees now? As far as I know, there are only a hundred or so mulberry households in Longchuan."
"Besides, whether the imperial court will agree to allow Yunnan to go to sea via Dagu La is also a question."
"Secondly, my Yunnan cloth is not as exquisite as Jiangnan cloth. Will the people of Tianzhu pay for it?"
Wang Xuan asked three questions, and Jiang Huai explained them one by one.
"As long as more than a hundred mulberry households gather together and lead the team in the "One Belt and Three" method, it will take three or four years for the mulberry saplings to mature. In three or four years, in the "One Belt and Three" method, Longchuan will Thousands of mulberry households can be developed.”
"On the issue of going to sea, I thought that the imperial court would definitely agree, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to let you build the Manmo Water Station."
"As for the quality of the cloth, as long as the price of cloth from western Yunnan is low enough, we can completely give up the dignitaries and focus on the tens of millions of poor people in India."
"As far as the students know, when a piece of coarse cloth from Jiangnan is shipped to Tianzhu, the price immediately rises from the cost price of 150 Wen to the selling price of 600 Wen per piece."
"If our cost is within 200 Wen, then even if we only sell 500 Wen, excluding transportation costs, we can still earn at least 200 Wen in profit,"
"Even if only one million pieces of coarse cloth can be sold every year, Western Yunnan can still make a profit of 200,000 pieces."
"Of course, this is a government-run situation. If it is a private-run tax collection situation, then the tax revenue in western Yunnan will only be 20,000 yuan per year."
After Jiang Huai finished speaking, Wang Xuan knew that this guy was not a Confucian scholar who could only show off his articles, but a rare talent.
"If you serve as the magistrate of Longchuan County, how much income can you guarantee every year?"
Wang Xuan asked Jiang Huai. Jiang Huai did not answer immediately after hearing this. Instead, he spoke after careful consideration:
"If my uncle can ensure the smooth flow of the Dajinsha River, then the student can guarantee that Longchuan will be able to make at least 400,000 yuan in profit every year..."
"But before that, the students still need the imperial court to dispatch some Taixue scholars who study biology and agriculture to come and help."
"Okay!" Wang Xuan heard this and looked highly towards Jiang Huai.
He didn't think Jiang Huai was talking nonsense. After all, he also knew about Jiang Huai and Huangsun. Since the man from the East Palace didn't stop him, it must mean that Jiang Huai was outstanding.
"You only talked about the development of Longchuan, but what about the overall development of Yunnan?"
Although Wang Xuan was satisfied, she still wanted to take the exam to Jianghuai University.
Jiang Huai was not worried when he heard this, but said without thinking: "The development of Yunnan is actually mainly on the rivers."
"As long as Yunnan can control the three rivers of the Great Jinsha River, the Red River, and the Lancang River, and then have an impact on Jiaozhi, Sanxuan and Shiwei, it can trade with Siam, Kampochi, and the Sanxuan and Liuwei areas through handmade goods. Tax."
"Kampos, Siam, as well as Champa, Manchuria, Dadi, Tingalu, Pahang and other countries are more or less involved in the Kunlun gold rush." "Although students don't know that they can find gold every year. How much gold, but there is no doubt that they have money in their hands now, and the court has goods in their hands."
"What Yunnan needs to do is to seize the market for some Jiangnan commodities, such as planting sugar cane to produce sugar, planting mulberry trees to raise silkworms and weave cloth, as well as various types of pottery, porcelain, etc..."
"In terms of trade issues, Yunnan has more geographical advantages than Jiangnan, and commodity prices will be lower, and people will only choose cheap and affordable goods. This is our advantage and development."
Jiang Huai said everything he thought. After hearing this, Wang Xuan nodded and couldn't help but think about it.
For a moment, the main hall suddenly became quiet...
"You are going home this time, right?"
After thinking for a moment, Wang Xuan raised his head and asked, and Jiang Huai nodded.
Seeing this, Wang Xuan explained to him: "Although there is peace in western Yunnan, to prevent the white-clothed rebellion in southern Yunnan from heading north, I will send my brothers to escort you back when you go home this time, and then escort you back to Kunming to take the provincial examination. When do you want to leave?"
"It's best tomorrow." Jiang Huai responded.
"Okay, let's set off at 10:00 tomorrow." Wang Xuan agreed and told his guards: "Find him a yard. Tomorrow you will take a small group of brothers to escort him back to Xijiang Town. Then rest in Xijiang Town and wait for him to go to Kunming Mansion. Keep escorting.”
"If he can participate in the imperial examination, I will send someone to send him money and food, and you will continue to escort him to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination."
"The last general takes orders!" After hearing his uncle's words, Qian Huguan, despite all his reluctance, escorted Jiang Huai to get up and go to a courtyard somewhere in the Yamen to rest.
After they left, Wang Xuan got up and walked to the study. He wrote Jiang Huai's insights and his own thoughts, and sent them to Beijing quickly.
In the early morning of the next day, Wang Xuan led hundreds of cavalry to Dengchuan Prefecture in the north before dawn. He was also surrounded by chieftain soldiers there, and he had to rescue the siege.
Not only him, but almost all the generals in Yunnan were directing the troops to put out the fire.
Compared with Guizhou and Guangxi, the chieftains in Yunnan have more strategic depth, and the complex terrain of Yunnan also brings great trouble to the reform of the land.
But all this does not seem so important to Jiang Huai who is eager to go home.
It is nine hundred miles from Dali to Xijiang Town. Even if we walk hundreds of miles every day, it will take nine days to arrive.
For Jiang Huai, who was eager to return home, the perseverance he showed in the next few days made the officials responsible for escorting him raise eyebrows.
Fang Zheng is a native of Chuzhou, Nanzhili. He is a hereditary Jining guard with thousands of households. He is only twenty-eight years old now.
Two years ago, the Jining Guard was abolished. He passed the National Defense University examination and was able to lead the reorganized 1,000 Jining Guard soldiers to Yunnan and exchange defenses with the local garrison, thus starting his journey of guarding the border.
Not surprisingly, after this transformation, he was at least a commanding officer. However, with the emergence of Jiang Huai, his plan was disrupted.
According to the military order, in the next two years, he, an official of thousands of households, has to protect this guy Jiang Huai.
You must know that you are an official of thousands of households commanding thousands of people, but now you are doing the work of a small banner official.
Fang Zheng didn't dare to criticize his uncle, but he didn't have a good look towards Jiang Huai.
He originally thought that Jiang Huai would only be able to talk, but he didn't want to get on the back of the horse. Jiang Huai's equestrian skills were much better than those of them, and he could travel more than a hundred miles a day without saying a word.
For some officials, riding a horse for thirty miles would cost half their life, let alone riding a horse for more than a hundred miles.
After the exchange, Fang Zheng gradually became more interested in Jianghuai.
The two communicated with each other for the next nine days, and Fang Zheng was shocked to learn that Jiang Huai was actually the child raised by a serf couple.
In this era, it was extraordinary for ordinary civilians to be admitted to the student body, let alone Jiang Huai, who had a serf background.
Moreover, Jiang Huai's performance of ranking first in his grade for five consecutive years at Jiangning Middle School also shocked Fang Zheng, who had been in the middle of the pack after attending military school for five years.
After some understanding, he finally understood why his uncle sent him to escort Jiang Huai.
This guy is simply a hot commodity in the land of western Yunnan, and his willingness to return to his hometown to serve as an official is admirable enough.
Although Yunnan currently has more than ten Jinshis in each imperial examination, these Jinshis basically choose Jiangnan when taking up their posts. The worst is Huguang, Shandong and other places, and the worst is Sichuan and Shaanxi. As for Yunnan, which is so remote, it is prone to outbreaks. The place of rebellion is usually not the scope of their consideration.
This situation also led to the fact that the officials sent to Yunnan, except for the official in charge of the mining class, were basically outstanding.
With Jianghuai's talent, there is no way to get Jinshi. After all, there are many similarities between the imperial examination and the nine subjects in middle school. Even if Jianghuai's classics, history, and policy theory are not good, he can still pass other test papers to determine the score.
On the premise that he already knew that he could pass the Jinshi examination, he actually dared to say that he would return to Yunnan to serve as an official. This choice is really admirable.
Not to mention remote places like Yunnan, it is Fang Zheng's hometown of Chuzhou. Anyone who comes out of a wealthy family would like to take all three generations of relatives to the capital, considering his hometown as the most difficult place.
In such an atmosphere, it is difficult not to admire people like Jiang Huai.
"Ahead is Xijiang Town."
"It's finally here. I have to see your parents and see how they educate you. Then I will learn from you and educate my son in the same way when he is born."
"What if it's a daughter?"
"I bother!"
"Hahaha……"
While talking and laughing, Jiang Huai gradually saw the Xijiang Town archway in the distance under the protection of Fang Zheng.
Counting the time in detail, he has not been home for nearly six years. The young man who was once sixteen years old is now twenty-one years old.
As the archway of Xijiang Town got closer and closer, Jiang Huai also saw patches of rice fields, which were more than twice as big as when he went out.
When the farmers in the fields saw Jiang Huai being escorted by the army, they also poked their heads out and looked at the high-spirited Jiang Huai, feeling a little familiar.
Suddenly, a person in the field shouted to the team: "Jianghuai?"
"Huh?" Hearing the strange yet familiar voice, Jiang Huai stopped his horse and looked towards the field.
When the man saw Jiang Huai reining in his horse and stopped, he quickly ran from the field to the official road. He looked excitedly at the handsome young man in a round collar robe on the horse and said as calmly as possible: "Are you Jiang Huai?"
"You are..." Jiang Huai tried hard to identify, and finally said in disbelief: "Gao Guan?"
"Yes! It's me! You actually remember me!"
Standing on the ground, with his legs covered in mud and wearing patched clothes, Gao Guan excitedly took off the hat on his head. His skin was dark and he looked to be at least 27 or 28 years old.
"Why are you like this?"
Jiang Huai was shocked by what happened to his former classmates. Although Gao Guan could not go to middle school, he at least graduated from elementary school. It is logically easy to get a job as an official in this land in western Yunnan.
Besides, his uncle was also an official of hundreds of households, so why did he end up like this...
"This..." Gao Guan was a little embarrassed. As the excitement gradually subsided, all that was left was the status gap and sense of class. An insurmountable gap seemed to have appeared between the two.
"I will work on the farm first. You have just returned home. Go and meet the eldest lady and the others first."
Gao Guan smiled awkwardly, then put on his hat and made way for them.
"I'll go find you later."
Jiang Huai's brows were filled with sadness, which was the sadness of the former bamboo horse brothers' downfall.
"well……"
Gao Guan nodded restrainedly, just like a long-term employee of a landlord's family.
"I'll go find you in a moment. Remember to wait for me at your house."
Jiang Huai confessed again, then shook the horse's reins uncomfortably and walked towards home.
After they walked away, Gao Guan returned to the field with his body bent.
Feeling his legs sinking into the paddy field, he looked back at the figure wearing a round collar robe and riding a tall horse gradually leaving.
Not to mention that Jiang Huai was escorted by officers and soldiers when he came back this time. Even if he came back alone and on a horse, he was not someone with a mud-legged attitude like himself.
With indescribable feelings, Gao Guan lowered his head and continued to pick up the weeds in the field.
At the same time, Jiang Huai and the others also entered Xijiang Town. Many people recognized Jiang Huai, including many "Jiangnan" students who thought highly of themselves.
They once stood on the mountain and mocked Jiang Huai and others at the foot of the mountain, thinking that they would soon be graduating from high school and would take their families to clean up their sins and return to Jiangnan.
But now it seems that Jiang Huai, who was looked down upon by these scholarly families in the past, has become someone they need to look up to.
This gap is really uncomfortable...
But compared to them, many young people in Xijiang Town gathered around Jiang Huai when they saw him, and some elders who spanked him when he was a child took the initiative to lead his horse.
In their view, Jiang Huai was the first student in western Yunnan who passed the high school entrance examination as a former serf's son and was recommended to study in the capital.
Although they didn't know if Jiang Huai was a high official now, they could tell from the dozen or so cavalrymen who escorted him that his current status was different from what he used to be.
For a time, there were countless people making connections, and even those who looked down on Jiang Huai in the past started to get familiar with him.
In an instant, Jiang Huai's uncomfortable mood after encountering Gao Guan outside the town became much happier, and he wanted to see his parents even more.
Perhaps it was due to the shyness of being close to home. When a familiar alley appeared, Jiang Huai felt uncomfortable no matter how he sat. Finally, he simply got off his horse and took the reins from his elders.
The news of Jiang Huai's return has spread among the neighbors, so Jiang Da Ri and Jin Hua, the couple, have taken Jiang Huai's younger brother Jiang Hu out of the alley surrounded by neighbors.
Facing the tall and handsome man outside the alley, whether it was Jiang Da Ri, Jin Hua, or Jiang Huai's younger brother Jiang Hu, they did not dare to take the initiative to step forward and recognize each other.
In Jiang Huai's eyes, Jiang Da Ri and Jin Hua have aged a lot, while his younger brother Jiang Hu has grown up a lot.
Seeing their awkward looks, Jiang Huai put down the reins and stepped forward to kneel down and kowtow to his parents.
"The unfilial son Jiang Huai returned from his studies and his parents were troubled..."
(End of this chapter)
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