Daming Military Empire

Chapter 329 The Heavenly Dynasty Comes
The chieftain soldiers and horses assembled in Meng Gen Mansion were also recruited by Zhu Cijiong's decree. He originally planned to abolish all the propaganda and comfort departments while pacifying Nanyang, so he specifically asked Sun Yuanhua to check all the capital guards in Daming How many toasts are there? After checking, he was a little confused.

It turns out that not only Xuanweisi's Xuanfu envoys are called chieftains, but many people are also called chieftains:
The Xuanwei Division is actually equivalent to the nature of the capital, and the Xuanfu Envoy is equivalent to the commander of the capital of a province, and is a military officer of the third rank!

There is also the Xuanfu Division under the Xuanwei Division, which is equivalent to the guard, and the Xuanfu envoys of the Xuanfu Division are equivalent to the command envoys of Cong Sanpin;

The Xuanfu Division also has the Appease Division and the Changju Division, which are equivalent to the Qianhu Office, and the chiefs of these divisions are equivalent to the Qianhu of the fifth grade;
All the Xuanfu envoys and chief officials of the third, fourth and fifth ranks are called chieftains. There are twenty or thirty Xuanfu divisions and Xuanfu divisions under the Sichuan capital, Sichuan Xingdu, Yunnan capital, Guizhou capital, and Huguang capital. There are hundreds of appeasement and chief lawsuits!
To be honest, this is a bit too much. If he had to deal with it one by one, it would exhaust people to death. He simply ordered that all the Propaganda Divisions summon two thousand elite soldiers, all the Propaganda Divisions summoned one thousand elite soldiers, and all the Comfort Divisions and Chief Lawyer summoned a hundred elite soldiers, and all rushed to Menggen Mansion to assemble and prepare to attack Donghu, and all chieftains must be present!
Except for Taizu and Chengzu, if the other emperors of the Ming Dynasty promulgated such a decree, few chieftains would respond, but Emperor Chongzheng seems to have surpassed Chengzu, and he has the posture to catch up with Taizu. No one would dare not go with these chieftains. Because if you don't go, you will resist the decree, and if you resist the decree, you will be beheaded. Other emperors may not have the ability to kill them all, but Emperor Chongzheng definitely has it!

Therefore, the chieftains gathered elite soldiers one after another, packed their bags and rushed to Menggen Mansion. After more than two months, Menggen Mansion gradually gathered nearly [-] chieftains.

After all, Menggen Mansion borders the current Donghu Dynasty. Zhu Cijiong originally planned to send an army to garrison, but when he asked the commander of the capital of Yunnan and Wang Zhengnan who was in Menggen Mansion, he gave up this idea, because they all It is believed that even if the Donghu came to attack such a high mountain, it would be impossible to gather 10 horses, because they would not be able to transport food. Where can it be strong.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong finally ordered all the chieftains to organize elite soldiers to rush to Menggen Mansion, and the Yunnan Dusi organized the guards to deliver food and grass in turn. As long as the supply of food and grass for 5 people is guaranteed, he has already thought about it, as long as the chieftains who come In the future, according to the size of the position, they will be appointed as magistrates, prefectures, and counties respectively. They will only be in charge of civil affairs and will no longer be in charge of military affairs.

Fortunately, these chieftains are not stupid, they all know that the consequence of not coming is likely to be ransacking their families, so they all rushed over obediently.

Now that all the armies are ready, the next step is to send people to announce the decree. Zhu Cijiong carefully studied the information about the old man, and finally chose Mei Zhihuan.

Mei Zhihuan, courtesy name Binfu, alias Xintian, was born in Macheng, Huguang. He has led the army and civilians to wipe out local bandits many times. He is a rare all-rounder in civil and military affairs. However, he has a very bad background. He is also a member of the Donglin Party.

In the third year of Chongzheng, Qian Qianyi and other senior officials of the Donglin Party corrupted the law, abused power for personal gain, and assisted the Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrat group to devour Ming taxes. The emperor was so angry that he cleansed the Donglin Party. Participating in corruption is a good official for the country and the people. However, the actions of Qian Qianyi and others made him ashamed to be an official in the court, so he simply resigned and retired.

This Mei Zhihuan was actually a famous great poet in the late Ming Dynasty. The famous poem "Inscribing Li Bai's Tomb" was written by him. He dared to inscribe a poem in front of the tomb of the poet Li Taibai, and it could be recited by later generations. His literary talent It can be seen that he can be regarded as a well-known scholar in Ming Dynasty, and he is 65 years old, so he is fortunate to be selected as the envoy of the Celestial Dynasty to declare the decree for the emperor!
Because he is both civil and military, he is considered the strongest among the ten old men in their 60s, so he was honored to be named by the emperor as the first to go to Annan to announce the decree. Why should he choose a strong old man?Because Siming Mansion is nearly three hundred miles away from Shenglong City, the capital of Annan, and it is all mountainous. If you are not strong, you may die if you are not strong enough to reach there.

Three hundred miles, if it is a plain, it will take a day's journey at a fast pace. The problem is that it is a mountainous area, so the Daming envoys walked for five or six days.

Speaking of the arrival of the heavenly envoy, how did the emperor of the Houli Dynasty of Annan Kingdom react?The current Emperor Shenzong Li Weiqi of the Hou Li Dynasty didn't respond at all, because he was already under house arrest, and he didn't even know that the envoy of the Great Ming Dynasty had arrived!

If we talk about the reaction, what we need to see now is the reaction of the Zheng family, because the northern part of Annan is their territory, and the emperor of the Later Li Dynasty was also placed under house arrest by them.

The million troops of the Ming Dynasty gathered in the northern part of Annan. The Zheng family had known about this for a long time, but they judged that the Ming Dynasty was scary. Why? It’s all due to our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong, who insisted on taking 70 captives with him , so the information the Zheng family got was that more than half of the million-strong army of the Ming Dynasty were disguised as civilians!

Well, the captives were indeed dressed as civilians, and there were indeed more prisoners than the Ming army. This information cannot be said to be completely false.

The Zheng family was indeed terrified, but they thought that Daming was a bit of a bluff, and the purpose was to get them to surrender automatically, so they didn't intend to surrender. They were going to spend it with Daming just like that. Their natural barrier, if Da Ming wants to attack it, it will definitely cost a lot of money. They estimate that Da Ming will not attack hard.

Sure enough, it has been more than a month since Daming's "Million Army" has not moved at all, which seems to have completely confirmed Zheng's guess.

When they were notified that the Great Tomorrow Envoy was coming, the Zheng family didn't panic too much. If the threat failed, you would send someone to intimidate you. It's normal, come on, we'll avoid seeing you, there's nothing you can do about it!

Therefore, when Mei Zhihuan led a group of hundreds of people from the Daming Mission to the outside of Shenglong City, the city gates were closed, and no one paid any attention to them.

This was indeed beyond Mei Zhihuan's expectations. He thought that Annan would either send people pretending to be thieves to intercept and kill them halfway, or drive them away directly, or kill them all viciously. He could understand no matter how excessive it was, but, Closing the gate of the city made him feel rejected, which he really did not expect.

He thought for a while, gritted his teeth, and ordered the envoys to come dozens of steps away from the north gate of Thang Long City, and then whispered something to Jin Yiwei Qianhu, who was accompanying him, who immediately came to the front of the envoys. Shenglong City luck shouted: "Emperor Ming's imperial envoys have arrived, and King Annan hastened to pick them up!"

(End of this chapter)