Yunyang.

This city on the Han River is located at the intersection of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces, and after two million refugees broke out in the Jingxiang Mountains during the Chenghua period, the imperial court established a special Yunyang Prefecture here, and since then it has permanently set up Futai and governed the military affairs of the admiral.

More than a hundred years later, Yunyang City has already jumped from a remote town to become a powerful vassal town in the world.

Yunyang was not just a palace at this time, but in fact it was one of the four special zones of the Ming Dynasty.

From the Ming Dynasty to the Jiajing period, the governors had been institutionalized and localized, but there were four specific types. One was to pay tribute to one place. As the highest provincial power organization, it governed the three departments and led all the various traits. For example, the governor Huguang and other places also praised military affairs. This is commonly known as the governor of Huguang. Both the Thirteenth General Administration and the General Secretary of the Ming Dynasty had such governors.

Another type is to strengthen border management and establish new control areas. For example, on the Jiubian, there are several governors under each major governor. For example, the Governor of Ji Liao, which is equivalent to the commander of a large war zone. He is under the control of the four towns of Shuntian, Baoding, Liaodong, Jizhou, Changping, Liaodong and Baoding. The third governor is also equivalent to the commander of the military region. The four towns including Liaodong can be regarded as the commander of the field zone. Rushuntian also has the jurisdiction of Jizhou soldiers, Changping soldiers, Yongping soldiers, Miyun soldiers, and Bazhou soldiers. These soldiers are equivalent to the commander of the military sub-district.

The third type is to strengthen border war zones, and the fourth type is a special setting for special affairs. Governor Xunyang belongs to this example. There are only four special zones like the Ming Dynasty. Governor Nangan, Governor Yunyang, Governor Panyuan, and Governor Songfan are all set up in mountainous areas at the junction of several provinces. They are difficult to manage and are often thieves and bandits. Special governors are set up to mobilize the forces of the surrounding provinces. These governors generally add admirals, first of all, in charge of military affairs.

The full name of the Governor of Yunyang is to govern the military and governor of Yunyang and other places. The new governor Li Changgeng's jurisdiction is not only a small Yunyang Prefecture, but also a jurisdiction over more than 60 counties in eight prefectures and nine prefectures at the junction of four provinces in Huguang, Henan, Shaanxi and Sichuan.

The city of Yunyang on the Han River is not only the county government office, but also the government office. The Futai government office is located. There is even a Huguang Xingdu Office here. The Huguang Xingdu Office is a yamen slightly lower than the Huguang Commander Office. There are only five Xingdu Offices in the Ming Dynasty. conad1;

Now, Yunyang Prefecture has been established for more than a hundred years, and Yunyang has also controlled the Han River with its control and stern control. Its regional advantages are connected to Qinba, Hubei, Henan, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces, attracting countless merchants to gather. It has become a commodity distribution center at the intersection of the four provinces, and it is also the center of economy and culture.

And at this time, this place has become a place that military strategists must fight for.

However, Yunyang City was strong and the walls were high. None of the bandits who had been rampant in the world since the Chongzhen Dynasty had ever captured Yunyang. After Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai rebelled again, they also thought about capturing the city, but they could only sigh at the high walls.

Now, the commander Yang Sichang led his troops into Yunyang City and set up his commander headquarters in Yunyang City.

Yang Sichang came from afar, but the owner of the city, the governor of Yunyang, Li Changgeng, did not come to greet him. Li Changgeng followed Mei Zhihuan to Sichuan. When he thought of this, Yang Sichang was secretly angry.

After entering the city, Yang Sichang moved directly into the Censorate Office, which originally belonged to Li Changgeng. He thought hatefully that after he captured and killed Zhang Xianzhong, he would see how Li Changgeng reacted. He would definitely regret his choice today. He should come to pay homage to him, rather than follow Mei Zhihuan to Sichuan and sing a counter-tune with him.

Thinking of Mei Zhihuan, Yang Sichang was even more angry. He sent several urgent letters to Mei Zhihuan, asking him to lead his troops to meet him, but so far there was no news.

In a fit of anger, he wrote several more memorials impeaching Mei Zhihuan in the past two days and sent them to the capital. However, the memorials were sent to the capital, like mud cows entering the sea, without any movement.

There was also no movement on Zuo Liangyu's side, Zuo Liangyu and others intercepted the troops on the Hubei-Shaanxi border, and no trace of the bandits such as Zhang Xianzhong has been found yet.

This situation made Yang Sichang very dissatisfied. He was anxious and uncomfortable. He even began to doubt his judgment. Maybe the situation was really confused by Mei Zhihuan. The thief was going to enter Sichuan instead of Shaanxi.

He sent several teams of horses to search for the traces of Zhang Xianzhong and other bandits, while sitting in Yunyang City waiting for the reply of the emperor in the court.conad2;

He believed that the emperor would definitely support him. If Mei Zhihuan was not replaced, how could he still take charge of the overall situation of bandit suppression?

In this anxious waiting, Yang Sichang finally waited for good news on that day.

There was a return from the horse exploration that sent out. In the mountains between Zhuxi County, Huguang, Huguang and Pingli City, Xing'an Prefecture, Shaanxi, where Hubei and Shaanxi Province, clues of the bandits were found. It seemed that they were Zhang Xianzhong and others. Hearing this news, Yang Sichang had finally let go of his heart for many days. Zhuxi was just west of Zhushan County. Zhang Zhe and others must have ambushed Zuo Liangyu and continued to move westward. They are now hidden in the mountains, preparing to find loopholes that break into Shaanxi.

While happy, Yang Sichang hurriedly issued several military orders to Zuo Liangyu, Zheng Chongjian, He Renlong and other generals, asking them to be more careful, be careful and be careful to break through the thief.

After sending the letter, Yang Sichang wrote another letter to Mei Zhihuan, urging him to come immediately after the orders, and also wrote a letter to Li Changgeng, urging him to see him. Finally, he wrote another memorial to the emperor, reporting to the emperor that Mei Zhihuan did not keep up with the times and ordered him.

Shortly after the letter was sent, the emperor's decree was delivered from the fast horse in the capital.

The emperor appointed Yang Sichang as the crown prince's tutor, which was a first-rank increase, which was quite honored. But Yang Sichang was not very happy because he was not the only one who added the title. Mei Zhihuan was also given the title of Prince's tutor, and also the title of Minister of War and the title of Left Censor. Li Changgeng was given the title of Left Minister of War, the Right Deputy Censor and the Minister of Dali Temple, and also the title of Prince's Young Master.

In addition, Zuo Liangyu got the title of Prince Young Master and was appointed as the Right Minister of War. He also sealed the general of the thief whom Zuo Liangyu requested and awarded the seal of the general of the thief. Liu Jun, who had just been promoted from General Practice to guerrilla not long ago, was promoted to a lieutenant general and served as the position of a military officer under the premiership. The former commander-in-chief of the Commission also removed the name of the official.

After working for a long time, the emperor came to a mix of the emperor, and everyone was rewarded. Yang Sichang was very dissatisfied and could not accept the emperor's behavior.

"Let you be proud for a moment. When someone holds the thief, can you still laugh? conad3;" Yang Sichang murmured, as if he had seen Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng, Liu Jun and others waiting in Sichuan for a long time. As a result, Zhang Xianzhong did not go to Sichuan at all. Instead, he was defeated and helpedless in the border between Hubei and Shaanxi by him and Zuo Liangyu and others.

Just when Yang Sichang was thinking that Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves were really heading to Shaanxi, Zhang Xianzhong had already stepped into the land of Sichuan and stood at the head of Dachang, the first city in eastern Sichuan.

Zhang Xianzhong took down the city almost without any effort. Yang Sichang dispatched 5,000 troops from the Sichuan deputy general Zhang Zukai who was responsible for the garrison. The defeat was quite ugly.

Although Zhang Zukai was ordered to lead his headquarters to Dachang City, he thought that the bandits could not enter Sichuan like Yang Sichang. Therefore, after arriving in Dachang City, he was not careful and warned. Moreover, his subordinates were not five thousand, only three thousand. Among them, the only ones were his 500 clans, and the rest were all unpaid for more than a year. Even the weapons of the number-robbers and military robes had been pawned, and almost all of them were bare hands.

After entering Dachang City, Zhang Zukai did not immediately build fortifications and strengthen the city defense, but instead sent his subordinates to find merchants and wealthy families in the city to seek wages. Zhang Xianzhong just used the most common trick used by the thieves and took down Dachang City. He sent a group of elite subordinates to pretend to be merchants and people, and sneak into the city.

The defenders of Dachang City did not investigate the people sent by Zhang Xianzhong at all. They just handed over the silver ingots. The defenders immediately let them go. When it was dark, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to touch the unprepared Dachang City, and then the secret work lurking in the city opened the city gate and led Zhang Xianzhong into the city.

Zhang Zukai was still sleeping and was woken up by his servants. After discovering that the Eight Kings and Cao Cao had entered the city, Zhang Zukai did not organize a defensive counterattack. He quickly changed into ordinary people's clothes, and then took advantage of the chaos to escape from Dachang under the escort of his servants.

Zhang Zukai, the deputy general of Sichuan who was known as commanding 5,000 troops to guard Dachang, was defeated and lost Dachang City. His thousands of soldiers remained in the city, but did not resist, and almost all surrendered at the first time. Zhang Zukai's 500 servants also surrendered to the bandits, and only more than ten people followed Zhang Zukai out of Dachang.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai easily captured Dachang, captured more than 2,000 officers and soldiers, and collected tens of thousands of stones of grain and countless cloth from the large households and shops in the city. They interrogated the rich as soon as possible, and then dug out tens of thousands of taels of silver from the various silver warehouses and cellars.

This wealthy city surprised the thieves such as Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai and gained great rewards.

"Damn it, all the official warehouses in the government offices are empty, and there is no one rat shit to be found. But the gentry and local tyrants in the city have silver buried in every family." Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son was a wall. Zhang Kewang excitedly reported to his adoptive father. Zhang Kewang was originally surnamed Sun, and was a fellow villager of Zhang Xianzhong. When Zhang rebelled, he followed him and was later adopted by Zhang Xianzhong as his adopted son. Because he was brave and cunning during the war, he always responded calmly whenever he encountered an enemy, so he was called a wall by his subordinates.

In the eleventh year, Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by Zuo Liangyu. That time, Zhang Xianzhong was shot by Zuo Liangyu and was cut in the face, almost killed. Zhang Kewang desperately saved Zhang Xianzhong. Therefore, now he is more and more respected by Zhang Xianzhong, and even specially caught scholars to teach Zhang Kewang to read and read. Among Zhang Xianzhong's large group of adopted sons, Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo and other three young people who love to trust and value the most.

Zhang Xianzhong was excited when he heard Zhang Kewang's report of his gains, and finally smiled, "Actually, this is not a rare thing. Have we seen fewer such things in recent years? The dog court was so poor that he kept expending bribes, but he still had no money to pay the officials and rescue the people. But no one in the local gentry landlords and salt merchants were rich. In Jiangnan, he could easily build a county town, and the local gentry's family with a little face could easily dig out tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of silver. This Dachang City has only obtained tens of thousands of taels of silver, which is not enough to be a wealthy family. There must be many people here who are not honest. Give them some color to see if they sacrifice their wealth or their lives."

Zhang Xianzhong and others were all old thieves. As soon as they entered Dachang City, they believed that they could at least squeeze out 200,000 to 300,000 taels of silver from the city. Now they have only been examined for tens of thousands of taels, so how could he believe it?

"I'll give you another day to interrogate." Zhang Xianzhong said.

"It's too urgent. Give me a few more days. I will definitely be able to dig out all the money hidden underground by these landlords and wealthy people."

"I only give you one day, and you can do as much as you can. It's not a pity. Now that we have entered Sichuan, you are still afraid that you won't get the money." He said that to his adopted son, Zhang Ding Guodao, "The most important thing at the moment is not to get the money. This money cannot be eaten or drunk. The key is to collect more food and grass and recruit more people. I will hand over the recruitment to the country. Anyone who is willing to come to vote for us will reward him with five taels of silver."

"Send so much money" Zhang Dingguo, who has been following Zhang Xianzhong since he was ten years old, was a little surprised.

"What can we be reluctant to let go? When we conquer other cities, the money will continue to flow. We won't be reluctant to let go of money. What we lack now is people. As long as we grow the team, the whole world will belong to us." Zhang Xianzhong smiled ambitiously.

"Where will we play in Wushan or Daning, or Fengjie?" Zhang Kewang asked.

"First fight against Daning, then attack Wushan, then fight Fengjie, and then go along the river to Chongqing and Chengdu." Zhang Xianzhong said that in his opinion, Yang Sichang foolishly placed his heavy troops on the border of Shaanxi, but he did not expect that they did not have to go back to Shaanxi. Sichuan was empty and richer than Shaanxi. Why did he go back to Shaanxi? Wouldn't it be better to go directly to Sichuan?

In the past two years, he suffered repeated defeats and his strength was greatly reduced. This time he entered Sichuan, and he was going to recover. In fact, the success of this breakthrough made him a little unbelievable. He knew that the court was planning to dispatch troops and generals and were preparing to surround and kill the surrendered rebels, so he was forced to raise an army in advance.

At that time, he was still very worried about the prospects. After the two years of encirclement and suppression of the government army, although Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of the fraudulent surrender to get a breather, his strength was still weakened. He was facing his old rival Zuo Liangyu and other generals, but who knew that Xiong Wencan was really a human being. When he was suppressed, he accepted his request for surrender without saying a word. This time he kept urging Zuo Liangyu and others to advance, but he did not raise food and money, which resulted in Zuo Liangyu being defeated.

After Xiong Wencan was dismissed and arrested, he was still somewhat pity and worried, fearing that Yang Sichang would be difficult to deal with, but unexpectedly, Yang Ge's troops were more famous. They actually made Zhang's loopholes and wanted to block him. Sichuan actually sent Zhang Zukai to defend like this. Isn't this obviously sending him into Sichuan?

Once Zhang Zukai was defeated, there were no more decent officers and soldiers in Sichuan. Zhang Xianzhong is now extremely optimistic about their prospects. Who can stop him to be continued. Mingshu.com mobile reading address:

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