Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 375: Guangdong is in chaos?

Today's Ming Dynasty is actually not as peaceful as Zhu Ming thought.

Not only have chieftains rebelled in Yunnan, Sichuan and other places since last year, or even earlier, but there are threats from the grasslands in the north, and even Japanese pirates from overseas dare to invade.

Even Guangdong has never been peaceful.

It can be said that the Ming Dynasty has been fighting wars to this day.

There have been more than a dozen major battles against Beiyuan alone, and domestic rebellions have been suppressed.

And when Zhu Chu came to Guangdong, he happened to catch up with banditry in the village or rebellion by the natives, and there were even riots in several counties.

Chaos, Guangdong today is simply a mess.

In addition, Guangdong's economy is already very poor, and bandits are rampant, which makes it worse.

After hearing about this situation, Zhu Zhen made a decision on the spot: "Since this king has encountered it, naturally he cannot sit idly by and ignore it. I will be the one to take charge of suppressing the bandits and suppressing the rebellion. General Hua, how many troops do you have under your command?"

Hua Mao reported truthfully: "Your Majesty, there are twelve guards and sixteen stations in Guangdong. Later, three more Dangshi Guards, Shendian Guards, and Lianzhou Guards were added, and twenty-four more. However, most of them are forty. They are all residences for hundreds of households, so they are difficult to use. Among them, the Guangzhou Prefecture Camp has four guards: Guangzhou Vanguard, Guangzhou Left Guard, Guangzhou Right Guard, and Guangzhou Guard, totaling 20,000 soldiers."

There are five thousand-household residences in one ward, with an establishment of about 5,600 people.

As the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong capital, Hua Mao can be described as a big official.

If this was in the Tang Dynasty, he would be a proper military governor. If it was in the late Tang Dynasty, he could be a prince.

The number of soldiers and horses of the Twelve Guards alone is 60,000, not to mention the newly-established Twenty-four and Three Guards, which add up to forty and fifteen guards.

"But please be clear to Your Highness that Guangzhou Mansion cannot make any mistakes, so I can only let Quanzi lead the two battalions of Guangzhou Left Guard and Guangzhou Right Guard to fight the rebellion with you, and I dare not use all my strength," Hua Mao continued.

Zhu Xi nodded.

Guangzhou Prefecture is the seat of the provincial capital of Guangdong, which is also the highest administrative district there. If something goes wrong here, it will be a big deal.

What's more, the two guards have 10,000 troops, and Zhu Chu himself has 15,000 troops. It would be too embarrassing if he couldn't even deal with some bandits and rioters.

Next, Zhu Zhen asked the prefect of Guangzhou to bring up the map.

Then Zhu Chu discovered that Longchuan County was actually to the north of where he came from, but Zhu Chu went to Huizhou Prefecture, so he did not pass through Longchuan County.

Dongguan County has passed by before.

Dongguan is now just a county town, and Zhu Chu just passed by two days ago.

There are also Wengyuan Village and Yingde Village, which are actually Wengyuan County and Yingde City in later generations, and they are also around Guangzhou Prefecture.

No wonder the prefect of Guangzhou looked sad before, co-author, it’s all about you.

Zhu Ming couldn't help but look at the Guangzhou Magistrate and asked, "Guangzhou Magistrate, could it be that you did something outrageous and caused public outrage?"

Zhu Ming hated these corrupt officials the most, even more harshly than his father Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang only hated corrupt officials and cruel officials. Zhu Ming also hated all Confucian scholars and wished to think that all scholars were bad people.

After all, "Every time a person is righteous but a dog is slaughtered, a person who is unkind is a scholar."

But the prefect of Guangzhou was very aggrieved and said: "Your Highness is aware of this. Although Guangdong is not as mixed as Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, we have Cantonese, Hakka, Chaozhou and Leizhou people here. Except for Leizhou people, they are all in Qiongzhou. Bian rarely goes out, and these three houses alone are chaotic enough."

Guangfu people are actually people from Guangzhou Prefecture. They have been living here since the Song Dynasty.

However, they are all Han Chinese, but they have lived here for a long time. They call themselves Cantonese, not ethnic minorities.

It is said that as early as the Tang Dynasty, this area of ​​Guangzhou Prefecture had its own cultural characteristics because of the Guangfu people.

So they are very proud.

As for the Hakka people, they are believed to have migrated from Fujian, Jiangxi and other places.

Chaozhou people are naturally from Chaozhou Prefecture.

The reason why the prefect of Guangzhou felt a headache was that he even said that the three ethnic groups were in chaos.

This is because people in Guangfu speak Cantonese, Hakka people speak Hakka, and Chaozhou people speak Hokkien.

Hearing this, even Zhu Zhen couldn't help but feel a headache.

In fact, all three ethnic groups are Han, but none of them speak Mandarin.

Seeing that the Guangzhou magistrate looked aggrieved and about to cry without tears, Zhu Zhen could only pat his arm with his hand and comfort him: "It's okay, it's okay. I don't blame you. Look, why are you still crying? Really? of."

The prefect of Guangzhou is very aggrieved. He was sent from the capital, but in fact he is from the north. God knows how he came here all these years.

Once there is a conflict between several people speaking different languages, good guys, they can't understand a word and can't control it even if they want to.

The government is like this, and there is natural friction among the people. In addition, the current situation in Guangdong has been mentioned before. Bandits are everywhere in the first place, so why is it so confusing?

Even in the 1990s, it was said that Guangdong was in chaos.

This is not bias, but consensus.

"Sure enough, the First Emperor had the foresight. When the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms, if the First Emperor hadn't gone his own way, traveling on the same track and writing the same text, leaving a province would be like leaving a country, would it still be okay?" Zhu Ming sighed and said, "It seems, From now on, standards for Mandarin must be set as early as possible.”

Zhu is not a populist, but the question is, if every nation has a culture and a separate dialect, how can they be unified in the future?

In Xiaoliuqiu alone, there were sixteen ethnic groups and probably sixteen languages.

To send someone there, wouldn’t it be necessary to be proficient in sixteen languages?

The Mongols have Mongolian, the Jurchens have Manchu, the Koreans have Korean, and the Japanese have Japanese. Good guy, what a waste of time.

Culture and history can be preserved, but some things must be enforced.

But now is not the time, Zhu Xinxin said, is he afraid that he will also imitate Qin Shihuang and burn books to embarrass scholars?

But so what? Those who achieve great things do not stick to trivial matters.

Zhu Zhen looked at the map again while thinking about the future.

After a while, he had already made some calculations. He drew a mark on the map with his expert hand and said: "First pacify Dongguan, then pacify Xin'an County, then go around Longchuan County and go to Wengyuan County, then pacify Yingde, and go straight to Yangchun. After that Go to Gaozhou Mansion for supplies, then go to pacify Leizhou Mansion, and also stop by Qiongzhou Mansion on the way."

Although Zhu Chu just pulled it casually, he almost covered half of Guangdong Province.

It is also enough to see that even if not all of the huge Guangdong Province rebelled, chaos was frequent in various places.

"Hua Rong listens to the order," Zhu Zhen suddenly shouted softly.

Hua Rong was stunned for a moment, then realized what he was doing. He clasped his hands and lowered his head and said, "The general is here."

"You will take command of the left guard and right guard battalions of Guangzhou Prefecture, and prepare to send troops immediately," Zhu Chu ordered.

Hua Rong looked at Hua Mao dumbfounded.

Even the prefect of Guangzhou couldn't help but said: "Your Highness, why don't you take a rest before talking?"

Zhu Ming glanced at the Guangzhou magistrate and said angrily: "Since I already know that chaos is happening in Guangdong Province, how can I have time to rest? Are you kidding me?"

Not to mention the chaos in the world, how can there be any leisure time? From now on, this will be Zhu Chu's world.

Just kidding?

Hua Mao stroked his long beard with his hands and praised: "You are worthy of being the King of Dian. He is so famous that it is better to meet him. No wonder even Marshal Tang and Marshal Xu want to betroth their daughters to you."

"If you want to praise me, let's wait until the king returns in triumph," Zhu Zheng was not complacent. While letting Hua Rong prepare, he also returned to the army.

Because he knew that Guangdong was not at peace, Zhu Zhen did not let the army enter the city, but rested outside the city.

When he brought back the news, the soldiers not only were not worried at all, but were eagerly anticipating it.

Especially the two fools Niu Sheng and Li Jinglong.

"Now I finally have a use for my old Niu, hahaha," Niu Sheng said and was about to pull off the armor.

Now that the weather is hot, he always wants to go shirtless. He doesn't know if it's a problem left behind on the grassland.

But there are two girls, Xu Miaojin and Tang Xin, in the army.

Zhu Ming glanced over coldly.

Niu Sheng only felt chills standing on end, but where did he feel the heat?

"But we passed through Dongguan County before and didn't think there were rioters there?" Tang Xin felt strange.

Xu Miaojin said thoughtfully: "Because we are marching in a large army. After all, we are just rioters. Even if there are people, they will not dare to make trouble in front of us." "But is the magistrate of Dongguan County also rebelling?" Tang Xin felt Strangely, if the local people become rioters, what about the government? Did they also rebel? Why not ask for help from Zhu Zhen who was passing by?

"Don't worry about it for now. Wait for Hua Rong to lead his troops to gather and go straight to Dongguan County. Let the brothers work harder and try to arrive before noon tomorrow. Then we can enter the city and rest," Zhu Zhen said to Peng Yue and Wang Fu.

As a result, Peng Yue said with a sinister smile: "Your Highness, you should first care about General Hua Rong."

At this moment, from inside the city gate, Hua Rong came on horseback, leading a force of 10,000 people.

Zhu Ming turned his head to look and couldn't help but pat his head with his hands.

He was negligent.

It turned out that in Hua Rong's team, only a few deputy generals had mounts with Hua Rong, the general. As for the entire army, they were all infantry troops.

Looking at Zhu Zhen again, the entire army is made up of cavalry, and even the supply troops with food, grass and baggage have horses and carts.

Comparing the two cars, one can judge the difference between them.

Peng Yue's meaning is very clear. Our troops are all cavalry, how can we be tired?

But these brothers are really going to suffer.

Let the infantry run with the cavalry?

Be human.

When Hua Rong came to Zhu Chu, he was shocked when he looked at the 15,000 cavalry troops, especially the military formation that was ready to go and exuded an iron-blooded momentum.

He is worthy of being the world-famous King of Dian. People say that his soldiers are brave and not afraid of death. They are iron-blooded elites. Today, when we see him, he truly deserves his reputation.

No wonder even my father always praises me.

Again, there are not so many frivolous people in the army. You can use your noble status to overwhelm people, but if you want people to sincerely admire your abilities, you have to punch and kick them.

"Major General Hua," Zhu Zhen greeted Hua Rong.

"Don't dare, Your Highness Chitose, just call me Hua Rong," Hua Rong said quickly, clasping his fists on his horse.

Before coming, Hua Rong was warned by Hua Mao Erti that he must not offend the Dian King. They were Tang He's old tribe, and they had also followed Marshal Xu. Now Zhu Chu is still the son-in-law of Tang and Xu's family, and he is also the noble one. My lord, in ancient times, they would have been considered retainers.

Therefore, Hua Rong seemed particularly respectful.

Zhu Ming nodded, no longer being polite, and said: "Hua Rong, gather your troops and horses, follow my king's troops, and set off with the whole army."

"Here."

Hua Rong loudly accepted the order and came down.

But suddenly, Xu Miaojin poked her head out of the carriage and begged Zhu Chu: "Brother, Xin'er and I also want to ride horses. Sitting in the carriage is really boring."

Zhu Zhen nodded accommodatingly. This small request was of no consequence.

As a result, when Xu Miaojin and Tang Xin came out, they saw that their children had already changed into military uniforms, and without help from others, they freed the two horses they brought from home from the carriage and took out the saddles to saddle them.

When the two women got on their horses, they suddenly transformed into two female generals who could not be inferior to their men.

Hua Rong couldn't help but take another look. He already knew that the two daughters were the daughters of Tang He and Xu Da respectively, but he didn't expect that the tiger father had no dog daughter. It turned out that the two daughters were also capable of killing enemies in battle.

Especially Tang Xin, even on horseback, her long whip can still fight, but it's just not as long as Xu Miaojin's spear.

A female general who uses a steel whip?

The corners of Hua Rong's eyes twitched, and he subconsciously looked at Zhu Ming, saying in his heart that His Highness is worthy of being His Highness. Even such a violent woman can surrender and admire him.

"I always think your eyes are very impolite," Zhu Zhen glanced at Hua Rong.

Hua Rong even said he didn't dare.

"Set off."

The army immediately turned around and headed towards Dongguan County, which it had passed through before.

Where Hua Rong didn't notice, the guards around Zhu Chu also carried out several boxes from the carriage of Tang and Xu.

Some of those boxes contained the two women's carry-on clothes, including Zhu Chu's carry-on luggage, and even a set of python robes and jade belts that he had never worn.

But the most important thing among them is a wooden box.

These boxes were put into one of the supply trucks and guarded by two guards alone. The whole army began to rush towards Dongguan County.

In fact, Guangzhou is not far from Dongguan, only dozens of kilometers.

But after all, this is ancient times, and Hua Rong's 10,000 people are all infantry.

So Zhu Chu slowed down and even camped for a night's rest halfway through. It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day that he finally came to Dongguan County again.

After hearing the news, the magistrate of Dongguan County rushed outside the city to greet him.

"See the king of Dian, he is a thousand years old. I wonder why your highness passed here the day before yesterday and turned back again?" the magistrate asked carefully as he accompanied him.

Zhu Ming raised his eyebrows and sneered: "What? Are you afraid that the king will know that there are rioters hiding here?"

"Rogue people? Where do you start talking about this?" The county magistrate raised his head with a blank look on his face, and it was not like he was pretending.

Zhu Ming frowned and scolded: "So that you can understand clearly. Hua Rong, tell me."

Hua Rong rode out from behind Zhu Chu, looked down at the Dongguan County Magistrate, and scolded: "Didn't you just report the civil unrest here around the beginning of this month?"

It is now late June, only about ten days have passed.

The Dongguan County Magistrate suddenly couldn't laugh or cry and said, "I know you, you are Major General Hua Rong, right?"

Today's military household registration has a tradition of hereditary succession, so as long as nothing goes wrong, Hua Rong will inherit Hua Mao's position as the capital commander, that is, the military boss of Guangdong Province. There is no problem in calling him Major General.

Hua Rong didn't dare to be proud in front of Zhu Chu, so he just snorted and didn't answer.

The Dongguan County Magistrate continued: "It is not a civil unrest or rebellion. What the official reported at that time was that because Xin'an County had just been established, many wastelands needed to be reclaimed, which required a large number of people to work as laborers. But how should the reclaimed fields be distributed? "

"The lower official thought that there would be brave men under the heavy reward, so he planned to cultivate the fields tax-free for five years."

"But I didn't expect that the people from Guangfu came, the Hakkas came, and the Chaozhou people came. Now Xin'an County is rapidly reclaiming a large number of fields. It's just that there will be some friction during the period, but it's not a big deal. Please be aware of this, Your Highness."

Zhu Zhen felt dumbfounded when he heard this.

If it's just this little thing, then I'm really making a fuss out of a molehill.

"But then again, Xin'an County, isn't that Hong Kong and Shenzhen?" Zhu Zhen's eyes widened, good guy, there is news of civil unrest.

That was the location of Hong Kong and Shenzhen in later generations. Once such a large area of ​​land was controlled by one of them, it would bring great wealth and wealth.

No wonder there are reports of civil unrest from all three clans here.

At first, Shenzhen and Hong Kong were part of Dongguan County. It was not until the Wanli Period that they were separated separately and the so-called Xin'an County was established.

However, because Hua Mao had requested to set up twenty-four institutes before, and coupled with the butterfly effect, if Zhu Chu became emperor, there would be no Yongle or Wanli in the future.

So this year, Xin'an County began to be divided separately, and a large amount of farmland was to be reclaimed.

This resulted in this misunderstanding.

"But my official heard that there was really a civil uprising in Longchuan County," the Dongguan County Magistrate lowered his head and said this.

"Oh?" Zhu Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly and asked coldly: "Since you know about this, why didn't you report it?"

The Dongguan County Magistrate sighed softly: "I dare not hide it from Your Highness. According to the news I heard, the Qianhu garrison in Longchuan County was sent from Guangzhou Prefecture and is from Guangfu. But Longchuan County is Hakka. The living area of ​​​​people. Later, the thousands of guards fell in love with a local girl and forcibly married her, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the local Hakka people. Originally, the Hakka people also wanted to sue the government, but our county government has no right to interfere with the army The matter had to be left alone. This aroused public outrage."

To this day, Longchuan County is considered an ancient Hakka town and a place where the Hakka language is spoken.

It just so happened that the person sent was a Cantonese who spoke Cantonese.

Zhu Chu laughed in anger, and also heard the hidden meaning of Dongguan County Magistrate's words, and turned to look at Hua Rong.

Hua Rong quickly got off his horse, knelt on the ground with his hands clasped in his fists, and shouted: "Please forgive me for your sins. If the local guards are really violating the law and discipline, please be unselfish and punish my Hua family as well."

After thinking about it, I knew that the Qianhu garrison was sent by Hua Mao, and Hua Mao could not escape his involvement.

Zhu Ming snorted coldly: "Don't worry, I have clear rewards and punishments, and I will never tolerate it."

(End of this chapter)