Shao Jiechun was a Marquis of Fuzhou, with the courtesy name Zhaofu and the nickname Yeyuan. He was a Jinshi in the 1619th year of Wanli ().

In the second year of Chongzhen's reign, he came to Sichuan to participate in politics, and was responsible for guarding southern Sichuan. During his tenure, he used both suppressive and pacifying tactics to put down the rebellion caused by the Gao and Yang families in the Sixth Division of Tianquan.

Later, he was transferred to Zhejiang as the inspector, but because some actions touched the interests of the Zhejiang gentry, he was taken advantage of by others during the major examination and was demoted.

It was not until the tenth year of Chongzhen that he was promoted to the position of Deputy Envoy of Sichuan Inspector again.

At that time, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others flowed into Sichuan and attacked cities and plundered territory. The main force and elite of Sichuan soldiers were mobilized to suppress the bandits.

The ambitious people in Chengdu took the opportunity to collude with the bandits and wanted to seize Chengdu while Shao Jiechun was accepting refugees, but they were discovered by Shao Jiechun.

After capturing the bandits, Shao Jiechun recruited young men and old generals to defend Chengdu.

At that time, the governor of Sichuan was dismissed from office due to his failure to deal with the rebels. Fu Zonglong took up the post of governor. Knowing that Shao Jiechun was capable of both military and political affairs, he recommended him to participate in politics and supervise the army.

Later, Shao Jiechun followed Fu Zonglong in driving the bandits out of Sichuan and made a lot of contributions.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen's reign, Fu Zonglong was transferred to Beijing to take charge of the Ministry of War, and Shao Jiechun was promoted to governor of Sichuan.

Therefore, he was regarded as a member of Fu Zonglong's party and was involved in the subsequent party disputes between Yang Sichang, Fu Zonglong and others.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang's plan to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and other rogue bandits failed, so he placed the main responsibility on him.

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen still believed in Yang Sichang, so he sent people to take him to Beijing for questioning indiscriminately.

Of course, due to the long road and the war, by the time Shao Jiechun was taken to Beijing, it was already the second half of the 14th year of Chongzhen's reign.

At that time, the situation changed again. Yang Sichang died of illness, and the "crime" thrown at Shao Jiechun became uncertain, so he was imprisoned in the sky prison by Chongzhen.

There are examples of Fu Zonglong, Sun Chuanting and others who were thrown into the Heavenly Prison by Chongzhen and then recovered again. Although he was in the Heavenly Prison, Shao Jiechun did not despair - he had been in high and low officialdom for ten or twenty years before, and it was not that he had not been wronged.

He believed that as long as he behaved upright and sat upright, he would eventually see the light of day again.

But he never expected that the situation would change so quickly.

He had only stayed in Tianlao for less than a year. The intruders, who had been beaten down by the Ming army to only a dozen riders, grew to the point where it was difficult for the court to control them, and even invaded Beijing in one fell swoop!

During the chaos after the bandits broke through Beijing, he was released - after all, he was the main official who had encircled and suppressed Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other bandits. He was not tolerated by the bandits. He did not want to surrender to the bandits, so he hid in Beijing anonymously. In the city.

Originally, depending on his personal connections and abilities, even if the city of Beijing was destroyed, he might not be able to get out of the prison; even if he got out of the prison, he might not be able to hide in the city of Beijing.

The reason why we can do this is all thanks to the help of Damei Xunfengwei.

In the past, like most civil servants, he was disgusted and even hostile to the emperor's personal soldiers who were similar to the royal guards. But this experience greatly changed his view on this kind of special army.

He felt that if this kind of special army was used against the enemy rather than internally, it would indeed have many functions and could solve many problems for the court.

The court he was talking about was not the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty.

Chongzhen did not distinguish between right and wrong and threw him into the sky prison; Liu Sheng sent people to rescue him when he was in danger; in addition, the Ming Dynasty was conquered and Chongzhen hanged himself to die for the country, so he changed his family and joined Ming Dynasty without any psychological burden. .

As for later, when the intruders abandoned Beijing, he was transferred from Xunfengwei and sent to Nanjing to recuperate and recuperate.

After that, he went to Da'ei Government Affairs Council to observe the government for several months.

A few days ago, Liu Sheng summoned him for a review and decided to appoint him as the governor of Sichuan. This is where he can be used again...

"Although Sichuan is rich, it is a vast area and has experienced years of war. Your main purpose here is to appease the refugees and restore people's livelihood and economy.

For chieftains from various places, as long as they do not raise troops to rebel, they must first be appeased, especially the chieftains of Shideng. "Wei Chen, remember this." "

Liu Sheng had chatted with Shao Jiechun several times, and he knew more about him than Lu Daqi, so this time, there were fewer questions and more direct instructions.

Another reason is that Shao Jiechun has served in Sichuan twice before. He is capable of both military and political affairs. He knows enough about the situation in Sichuan, maybe even better than Liu Sheng, and does not need too many instructions from him.

In fact, although Sichuan is vast, its political issues are not as complicated as Guizhou.

For one thing, Han Chinese accounted for the vast majority of the population in Sichuan. Although there were many chieftains, they were all on the fringes. There were only a few that were powerful. Among them, the chieftain of Shili was considered to be very powerful.

Secondly, although Sichuan has suffered from repeated military rebellions, it has a solid foundation. As long as the government is a little more clear-minded, there will not be much financial difficulties.

As for the military aspect, most of it is handled by He Lianyue and other generals guarding Sichuan, and Shao Jiechun is basically not in charge.

For example, the preparations and actions against the Ming army in Yunnan, the preparations against the forces of Qinghai-Tibet Gushi Khan, the military deterrence of chieftains, etc.

Of course, treating chieftains requires not only military intimidation, but also administrative means to appease them.

Liu Sheng specifically mentioned Shidui Tusi for this reason.

Historically, due to the difficult times, lack of troops and food, and the decline in combat effectiveness of Shizhu Baigan soldiers due to years of inactivity, even with Qin Liangyu's ability, he was defeated by Zhang in the 13th year of Chongzhen and the 16th year of Chongzhen. A loyal hand.

One of them was defeated by Li Dingguo, which made Li Dingguo famous.

Although Qin Liangyu was defeated only once in this time and space, the military strength of the Yi army when they entered Sichuan was not comparable to that of Zhang Xianzhong in history. Not to mention that the Yi army had already done propaganda early, and its good reputation spread to Qin Liangyu's ears.

In addition, when the Wei army entered Sichuan, all the state capitals surrendered at a very fast speed. Therefore, until the Wei army captured Chengdu, there was no movement from the Shili chieftain soldiers.

After the Wei army almost captured all of Sichuan, and the message was sent to the territory of Chieftain Shili, Qin Liangyu simply resigned from the position of chieftain and passed it on to his son Ma Xianglin. Historically, Ma Xianglin died in the battle when Zhang Xianzhong captured Xiangyang, but in this time and space , because the Wei army captured Xiangyang in advance and Ma Xianglin was not there, changing the fate.

Although Ma Xianglin was also loyal to the Ming Dynasty, with the current situation, he knew that he could not do anything, so he could not bring the stone chieftain to be buried with the Ming Dynasty, so he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty like other nearby chieftains.

Of course, because most of the chieftains in Sichuan surrendered directly, they, like many chieftains in Guizhou, maintained great independence. It can even be said that the current degree of control of the chieftains in Damei is not even as good as that of the Ming Dynasty in the early years of Tianqi and Chongzhen.

In fact, many of the gentry and landowners who directly changed their banners and surrendered to the lands of Wei were equally powerful and still stubbornly controlled the grassroots people, seriously eroding the power of the Da'ei government.

Such problems must be solved one by one, but it must be after Da'ei captures the northwest and southwest.

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Before Shao Jiechun, the Da'ei imperial court only appointed left and right chief envoys and a few councilors in Sichuan. One of the chief envoys and one councilor were transferred from military and political officials.

In addition, it had been a year since the Ei army took over Sichuan, so this time Shao Jiechun took office as governor and had a certain basis for implementing various policies set by the Da Ei court.

Just because Sichuan is vast, the task of administrative governance is not light.

The duel lasted for an hour before it ended, when Shao Jiechun exited Tianxin Hall.

Immediately, Secretary Lang brought a telegram from Fujian from the telecommunications office.

Liu Sheng looked calm after reading the telegram.

What the telegram said was that the Zheng family had selected a girl and wanted to send her to Nanjing.

Although Zheng Zhilong was still unwilling to hand over all his troops, horses, and warships, he did not dare to be fooled when it came to choosing a woman to marry. He had no legitimate daughter, so he changed the eldest daughter of his concubine to a legitimate daughter. (End of chapter)

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