Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2196 Talk about conditions

Daming's Fuyao policy is very arbitrary.It often depends on the individual talents of local officials.However, during the Taiping Festival, local officials often have two extreme attitudes towards the Yao people. One is: "Officials in Guangdong and Guangxi are only responsible for security, and the military and government are unprepared." The local people are not allowed to sue.Even after the Yao people rioted and plundered wantonly, the local officials were helpless and could only "prepare flowers, red cattle and wine to caress them"; the second extreme was the opposite, extorting and extorting, exploiting and humiliating the already settled Yao people's village, " They even bully him from afar without warning, pick up cruelty, reverse right and wrong, harm his life and destroy his nature."

Li Sanjiu has been by the chieftain's side for a long time, and he knows a lot about the mentality and behavior of Ming officials.In his opinion, since Australians call themselves Song Dynasty, they are also Han Chinese—he knows too much about the way Han Chinese officials behave.

In his more than ten years of experience in the army, when generals send troops to fight, as long as the soldiers are not dangerous, it is a good opportunity to make a fortune.The same is probably true of this Australian "Great Song".After all, this city of Lianzhou belonged to Ming Dynasty, and the generals of Song Dynasty had no responsibility to guard the land, and I am afraid they might not be very enthusiastic to rescue them—they were so fast because they took a fancy to the children and jade silk in the city.Li Sanjiu is not easy to discuss this matter.Don't look at the fact that the Yao people went down the mountain to plunder every three days, but what they actually wanted was nothing more than daily necessities such as salt, grain, and iron.For other things, if the Australian official is greedy, he can't give up his love-compared to his ambition, what is this child's wealth?
If the Australians wanted to be pampered, he would subdue them. Not only would he be subdued, but he would also give them large sums of gifts;A headache for Australians - eventually had to.

Now that the Australian has come, he has to express his sincerity:

He found a confidant with good water skills, whispered a few words, and let him swim across the west bank.

Huang Chao heard that there was an envoy coming to see him.He really couldn't believe that the rebel leader would take the initiative to seek peace talks with him.

The Eight Pai Yao Rebellion in history lasted for a long time and affected a wide range. It can be seen that the leader's attitude is very "firm". How could it come to me that the other party is coming to talk about appeasement so soon?

In Huang Chao's heart, he naturally hoped that there would be fewer wars and fewer deaths. It was not wrong for the other party to ask for peace talks - at least he could listen to the other party's thoughts and learn the details by the way.

The guards brought in the searched envoy.The envoy was also well-behaved. When he entered the tent, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed, and reported his name as Li Wu. He was ordered by "Li Sanjiu, the head of Lianyang Yaozhai" to meet "General Song".

Naturally, Li Sanjiu made up the title himself. Although the eight platoons of Yao troops under Lianzhou City were under his command, he was only a temporary commander of the coalition forces. Zhuang has his own head in charge, and in war, he "obeys the tune but not the announcement".

"Get up and talk." Huang Chao looked down at the person. He was short and sharp, and could speak fluent Cantonese mandarin. He was obviously not an ordinary Yao people.

He already knew the name Li Sanjiu from the Yao people in Yonghua Township.However, their news is relatively simple. They only know that this person "has been an official" and has only returned to the Horse Arrow Pai not long ago, and is very popular.He is in charge of the dispatch of troops this time.

Li Wu got up respectfully, feeling half at ease in his heart-although there is a saying "don't behead envoys", but in wars, envoys are a high-risk industry, and if they fail, they will be beheaded by spies. There used to be.

He secretly looked at the "General of Song Dynasty" in the tent, and saw that there was neither "Tiger Case" nor "Wang Ming Banner" in the tent.As for the men who were surrounded and sat behind a big table, they didn't look like a general. They were just ordinary men, wearing Australian homespun coats, neither armor nor black gauze boots.If he hadn't opened his mouth to ask, he would have been impossible to recognize him among a crowd of people.He fought with Li Sanjiu back then and had seen the ostentation of the generals of the Ming Dynasty.In comparison, the Great Song General was shabby.

"I am Huang Chao, the envoy of Lianyang in the Great Song Dynasty who also knows Lianzhou's military," Huang Chao read out his official title in one breath, "Since you came here under orders, what exactly do you want to say, let's just say it!"

Li Wu was a little nervous, he raised his head slightly, and saw a lot of people crowded in the tent, he knew a few of them: Lord Tianchang and the head of affairs in several villages of Yaomin in Yonghua—he gave a slight smile. Dazed, hasn't the Yaomin of Yonghua already surrendered to Li Sanjiu?Why did you surrender to the Australians as soon as you turned around?Could it be that Yangshan has lost all of them?

Surprised by surprise, Li Wu still tried his best to maintain his composure, but his attitude became a little more humble when he spoke:

"Our head of affairs said: Great Song Dynasty also fought against Ming Dynasty, and we even the people of Yangyao did not want to be ruled by Ming Dynasty, so we rebelled. Lianyang Yao people have no intention of becoming an enemy of Great Song Dynasty. If the general is willing to help We conquered Lianzhou City, and we eight platoons of Yao people don’t want all the children’s treasures in the city, and give them all to the general, as long as we are allowed to transport the salt, grain and iron in the city. Lianzhou City is also under the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty.”

This condition, according to Li Sanwu's view, is very generous - compared to money, he now values ​​"name" more, as long as Da Song can recognize his right to rule the Lianyang area, a mere Lianzhou city can be counted What?
I want it all.Huang Chao almost blurted out this sentence, if you really want to rob Lianzhou City, you don’t need to help Ba Pai Yao, he can do it with the National Army alone, but robbing is impossible, the Fubo Army is not the Ming Army, they will do everything come out.

"Absurd! It's really absurd! You and other barbarians dare to come and negotiate terms with our Song Dynasty." Zhou Liangchen jumped up.Regardless of the short time since he surrendered, and his qualifications under the various naturalized people in the headquarters, he is afraid that he is not "firm" enough in his attitude.This time he came to Lianzhou with Huang Chao. Although he was only a "consultant" and no one discussed the specific situation with him, from the usual conversation arrangements of Huang Chao and others, he knew that the Australians were definitely not willing to use "consolation" to fool them. , in exchange for the Lord of peace for a while.So this time he immediately stepped forward and denounced the messenger.

Huang Chao signaled him not to interrupt, and Zhou Liangchen shut up immediately knowingly.

"Is there anything else?" Huang Chao temporarily ignored Li Shuangwu's first condition, thinking about what else Ba Pai Yao wanted.

"As long as the Song Dynasty is willing to canonize our Majian Pai Li Sanjiu as the local magistrate of the three cities of Lianyang, he will immediately lead the eighth row 24 to surrender to the Song Dynasty. Lianzhou City will also be offered with both hands, without any spoils of war. "

This condition made Huang Chao dumbfounded. Seeing Zhou Liangchen's eagerness to try, he gave him a wink.

"It's funny to know the state. Can Li Sanjiu know how to read?"

"It doesn't matter if you don't know the state, you can also be the chieftain and Lianzhou Xuanwei—whatever name the Song Dynasty wants to be named."

Huang Chao shook his head secretly: If a chieftain can stabilize one party and appease the people, there will be no Bozhou Rebellion, She'an Rebellion, and Shapu Rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty in the old time and space would not need to reform the land Flow, levy big and small Jinchuan.

In the final analysis, the fetter system such as chieftain is a "last resort" means in a state of insufficient strength. It can achieve temporary peace in the short term, but in the long run it will inevitably become a big problem.

"You go down." Huang Chao did not answer his proposal.He waved his hand and asked the guards to take Li Shuangwu down.Then he signaled all the descendants to go out, leaving only the naturalized civilian cadres.

"What do you think of Li Sanjiu's suggestion?"

"Of course we can't agree." Yang Zeng said, "If we agree, what are we doing here?!"

"That's right. But you can see he has a lot of appetite."

"Chief, I think this matter can be used."

The person who spoke was Fu Debang, the naturalized county magistrate of Lianzhou who was planning to take office in Lianzhou.

He suggested first agreeing to Li Sanjiu's request for title, in exchange for Lianzhou's release from the siege.After their vigilance is weakened, they will be wiped out by "canonization".

Huang Chao shook his head again and again: "This is not appropriate."

Fu Debang still lacks some prudent sensitivity in politics. From a strategic point of view, this is an excellent strategy, but they are not bandits and pirates, and they cannot trample on their faith without limit.Those in power should cherish their feathers as much as possible, and do less treachery.Fu Debang is still lacking in this aspect, so I would like to mention him when I have the opportunity.

"Let the Li Miao team find someone to interrogate this Li Wu properly." Huang Chao said, "Especially the personal situation of this Li Sanjiu."

Then he asked the others to retreat, leaving only Yang Zeng to discuss the battle strategy.The two studied the map. The West Bank River and the Xingzi River converged to form the Lianjiang River in the west of Lianzhou City. Except for Yanxi Mountain, Beishan Mountain, and Jinfeng Mountain, the vicinity of Lianzhou City was flat land.Yang Zeng's plan was to leave one nationalist army to guard the Lianjiang Ferry, and the rest of the troops first crossed the West Bank River to the north, and then crossed the Xingzi River to the east.

The reason why we chose to cross the West Bank and Xingzi Rivers from the north instead of crossing the Lianjiang River in the south is because the West Bank River and Xingzi River are narrow in width, shallow in depth, and low in flow, so it is convenient to build temporary pontoon bridges to allow large troops to pass quickly.The structure of the pontoon bridge to be built is very simple. The collected boats are used as the base, and the top is covered with wooden boards-even if there are no engineers, it is not difficult.

"This battle is actually not difficult. Their equipment level is very poor-even inferior to the Ming army, and they don't have many firearms." Yang Zeng said, "The point is to wipe them all out. Annihilate the main force of the Ba Pai Yao, Ba Pai Yao has no conditions to talk about appeasement—only to surrender."

Ethnic minorities are often fought by all men, and the mobilization rate is often very high. Very few people can pull out a large number of troops. However, once they are wiped out, they will lose the ability to continue fighting.

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