Chapter 8: The Great Wall of Xiangxi (II)

Another possible storm made Zhu Yinglong silently calm down. Han Yu and four other ministers took the blame. Afterwards, the emperor also gave him a banquet to have a meal together and comforted him. The blame must be willing to make people willing. A blow and then a sweet date is a kind of employment strategy that the superiors must learn.

When Huang Zongxi left, the debate on Confucianism, Law, and Miscellaneous Theory in the capital was temporarily calmed down. The stubborn conservatives thought they had won the victory and suddenly felt much prouder. Huang Zunsu was sent to the poor mountain and water in western Hunan, which made those who were severely scolded by Huang Zunsu very happy. He believed that the emperor was still wise, which further strengthened their determination to maintain the rules and regulations of etiquette and law. Wei Xuelian and others were also sent to other places as officials one after another. All scholars standing on Huang Zongxi's side, those who were fame and enough to be officials were almost sent by the Ministry of Personnel. The rest were all guided and stubborn and conservative.

There are a few of these idiots who have a long-term vision. Zhu Yinglong is determined to provoke a fight between them, in fact, to see the person's appearance and then disperse the seeds that meet his requirements. First, to let them make achievements in the local area, and to protect these people. Although it is not a good thing to keep these conservative and diehards in the capital and always sing against him, at least these people are attentive under their noses. If they are more noisy, they can remind themselves that they cannot take too fast. The consequences of the Great Leap Forward will not only ruin themselves, but also may also ruin the entire country and the entire nation.

However, Zhu Yinglong had ordered Tian Shulan to operate one thing quietly, that is, the new thing that has not appeared in this era - newspapers. With newspapers, there is a place where stubborn and seeking change to the two factions to fight, so that at least half of their energy can be used to fight verbal battles in the newspapers, saving them from the noise in their ears. By cultivating a "mouth tongue" to shout for themselves and cheer for the upcoming storm, the scholars looked down on businessmen. If this matter was operated by merchants, a war without gunpowder was being prepared in full swing.

Huang Zongxi went to Jiangxi to visit Jiangxi Academy Ni Yuanlu and then entered Huguang from Wusheng Pass. He galloped for five days before he arrived at Hankou, and then crossed the river to Wuchang. He then saw Xiong Tingbi, the governor of Huguang who was full of worries.

After more than half a month of travel, especially on the back of the horse, Huang Zongxi, whose equestrian skills were not very good, was about to pour out his internal organs. He was just a weak scholar who could not hold his hands and shoulders. If he had not relied on his youth and had not yet taken the job, he would have been tired on the way.

After completely annihilated Li Qi. After the 90,000 army led by Li Chaoqin, Xiong Tingbi deliberately let Li Qi and Li Chaoqin go. Li Qi was the protagonist of the last mutiny, and Li Chaoqin was just a fool except for posing horses. If he caught two people, he would probably not be able to escape death. It was not that he was compassionate or had any unfaithful intentions. The main reason was that he could see that there was a conflict between Li Chaoqin and Li Qi. After this defeat, Li Qi would inevitably shirke the responsibility, so the best candidate was Li Qi.

Let's kill Li Qi and let Li Chaoqin go. Can't you help Li Chaoqin? Kill Li Chaoqin and let Li Qi go. Wei Zhongxian will definitely not be able to spare Li Qi. Maybe Li Qi will be sentenced to prison as soon as he arrives in Nanjing. Both of them will be killed, so he will not see the internal struggle in Nanjing. Although Xiong Tingbi is unwilling to involve politics, he has to consider it from a comprehensive perspective and weigh the gains and losses of interests. Finally, he deliberately lets go and let Li Qi lead a group of mediocre generals and Li Chaoqin to escape. Sometimes

Letting a few people go back is better than completely annihilation. Li Chaoqin is alone. Li Qi is not helping her and there are still some trusted generals around her. If Li Chaoqin looks longer, she should work with Li Qi and fight the responsibility of defeat. If he shirks the responsibility, the eunuch party will inevitably be disloyal with Li Qi and other generals of the army. Li Qi surrenders to Wei Zhongxian for wealth and glory, but his life is almost gone. What's the use of wealth and glory? Li Qi can sit in Beijing

If the camp admiral cannot see this, even if he is unlucky, Wei Zhongxian will kill him, it will also be beneficial to his side, and it will definitely aggravate the fact that the civil and military generals in several provinces in Jiangnan were forced to recognize the fact that Wei Zhongxian's son was not the object of their loyalty, and the war was just a continuation of politics, and it was better for the emperor to say that different strategies should be used for both internal and external forces, forcing him, a general who commanded the army, had to study conspiracy and open up.

Of course, Xiong Tingbi gave Zhu Yinglong a memorial to explain his thoughts in detail, to guard against villains or gentlemen. Now, their father and son are in a large army, and their daughter is still the identity of a concubine. I wonder how many people are staring at him, a foreign relative. Xiong Tingbi had no intention of getting power. He and Zhu Yinglong had a long agreement that after conquering Huguang, they would return to Beijing and preside over the training of the Beijing camp. But what about those censors and censors, and those jealous civil and military officials? Will those Confucian officials who fight internally and externally and laymen let him go of a little mistake?

Li Qi and Li Chaoqin whoever dies, whoever dies, will have no impact on Xiong Tingbi now, but Zuo Liangyu's battle report made Xiong Tingbi, who is in charge of Wuchang, all his eyebrows were pulled up.

After Zuo Liangyu attacked Yuezhou, he was promoted to the lieutenant general by Xiong Tingbi after his merits. In this way, he and Zheng Nansheng would be qualified to be the commander general. Otherwise, how could he command a lieutenant general by a guerrilla?

After receiving Xiong Tingbi's order, he went south. Shizhouwei surrendered without fighting. Later, he received Xiong Tingbi's military order to bypass Yongshun Xuanwei Office and Baojing Xuanwei Office and attack Chenzhou Prefecture, but he was not allowed to use force on the Miao towns in the territory. All the imperial envoys sent by the court went to Chenzhou to deal with the conquest of Miao Xinjiang in Xiangxi. Although Zuo Liangyu was not optimistic about Xiong Tingbi's military order, Zheng Nansheng was familiar with the situation of the Miao people and tried his best to urge him not to use weapons. The Miao people have always been united, otherwise they would have been wiped out by the court long ago.

There were tens of thousands of troops in it, and it might not be an opponent of the Miao people who became angry. Zuo Liangyu naturally did not believe it. If Zheng Nansheng did not go to persuade him, if Xiong Tingbi's military order was there, he would not be stupid enough to disobey the military order. However, Zheng Nansheng said the Miao people so powerfully, and Zuo Liangyu was arrogant and of course he did not believe it. Something happened to hit me. A team of scouts sent by Zuo Liangyu was to investigate the terrain. He went there for a day and a night but did not come back. But the scouts were in the Miao people living in the border wall area of ​​Miao.

After suppressing the Miao people's uprising in Hunan and Guizhou, the Ming Dynasty specially established the Governor of the Three Feudals, and established the prefecture of Yuanzhou (now Zhijiang County, Huaihua City), and Zhang Yue was appointed as the governor. According to records, Zhang Yue "shuo, Ganzi, Dongkou, Qingxi, Wuzhai, Yong'an, Shiyang, Tongxin, Xiaopo, Bingtangao, Shuitianying and Zhenxi Station, and there were dozens of three posts. Each post was made up of soldiers and hundreds of people, including thugs, etc.." At the same time, two generals were assigned, one stationed in Mayang and the other stationed in Tongren. Two years later, the generals of Mayang moved to Wuzhai Sicheng (now Fenghuang County). A member of the Chen Shen Army Preparation Road was established in the early Ming Dynasty, and still stationed in Yuanzhou.

In addition to 14 whistles, 2 battalions, and 1 place, there are two battalions: Longshou camp and Gongchen camp to prevent "seedlings" from "outside two miles" (now Huayuan County). It isolates the north and south of the Miaojiang in western Hunan, and stipulates that "the seedlings do not leave the country, and the Han do not enter the cave", "the east (cooked seedlings) cannot move westward, and the west (cooked seedlings) cannot enter the eastward", "Whenever the seedlings and seedlings are born, they are captured and sent to the tent, they are bound and imprisoned, placed high rods, gathered strong soldiers to shoot them, cut off their limbs, and cooked and eaten the soldiers. Those who are guilty of being less likely to be cut off their ears and noses and get them away." A series of measures to prevent seedlings and pressure them.

Judging from the distribution situation of the above camps and posts, the initial architectural concept and strategic considerations were the command and coordination center and rear of the military operations of "Miaojiang" and "Fengmeng" in Hunan and Guizhou. Based on this, the camps and posts were clearly divided into second lines: the first line was Wanghuiying, which was at the junction of Tongren and Phoenix, and went south through Xiaopo, Tongxin, Bingtangao, and went east to water through Xiaopo, Tongxin, Bingtangao, and went east to water through Xiaopo, Tongxin, Bingtangao, and then to the east.

Tianying, Wuzhaisi, and then to Shiyang, Longshou, Gongchen and other camp posts, which can be called the back defense line; the other line starts from Fenghuangying in the west, goes southeast through Yongning and Yong'an, and then northward through Shenghua and Jiantang, and goes eastward to Qingxi, Dongkou, Ganzi, Qianghu, Qianghu, and Qianzhou camp posts to Zhenxi. This is the front line, close to the border of the "Shengmeng" area. Each camp post is stationed in troops and garrisons all year round, forming a military blockade against the "Miaojiang" borders of Hunan and Guizhou and the "Shengmeng" on Laer Mountain.

The average size of the garrison on the side wall was 5,000 to 7,000. By the time Zuo Liangyu's army arrived, the maximum number of troops in the Phoenix Battalion was about 1,500, and the other three battalions had outposts totaling only 3,500. In the 43rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court, in a helpless situation, adopted the advice of Cai Fuyi, the "treasury" of Huguang's political participation, allocated more than 40,000 taels of "treasury" and built a "border wall" from Tongren Talc Pavilion Pass to Xique Camp in Baojing, Hunan (part of today's South Great Wall), and set up a "front camp" in Luochaojing, Liaojiaqiao, and launched a "back camp" to carry out military blockade and dismantle of the Miao people in Xinzhai.

More than ten years have passed, the imperial government has been corrupt and the bureaucrats in various places have been corrupt. Since Wei Zhongxian forced the palace to establish a crown prince last year, this place has become a place of no control. The local government colluded with the lords (masters) of the Miao people to exploit ordinary Miao people, and at the same time, they have pushed all the crimes to the local Han people and government officials, further deepening the ethnic conflicts here. In addition, the Han people have always practiced the concept of "not our race, their hearts must be different", which has even harsh taxes on the Miao people. Anyone who resisted would send troops to wipe out them. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been no less than millions of Miao people who died under the swords of the Han people, which can be said to be full of blood debts.

Zuo Liangyu also followed the Han people's usual ideas and found that his scout team was missing. He immediately sent someone to ask the Miao people in the nearby caves. The Miao people always hated the Han people, but they colluded with the Han people. Zuo Liangyu was just a passing general. Who took him seriously? All the messengers sent out came back in shame. Zuo Liangyu was furious. He had all the etiquettes. If it weren't for the military order, he would have sent troops to find people by himself. He immediately ordered Cao Hu to lead a five thousand army to sweep several caves.

, and found most of the bodies of his scout team. The fatal scars on the bodies proved to be done by the Miao people, and Zuo Liangyu became even more popular. He had personally instructed these thirty people. He still believed his soldiers and could not do anything to harm the Miao people. Moreover, Zuo Liangyu's military discipline was very strict. He believed that his soldiers would not take his words as a warning to him, so he believed that the Miao people deliberately provoked and killed the soldiers of the court and ordered the chieftain who found the place of the body to hand over the murderer, otherwise the Miao village would be washed away by blood.

Zuo Liangyu's approach was not very wrong, but the methods were a little more intense, but he didn't know that he had been used. On the second day after he captured the chieftains and Miao people, Wu Heimiao from Xinzhai called him "king" in Xinzhai, and issued a vigorous Miao people uprising that "expelled guests (mainly the title of Han people) and returned my land". The rebel army quickly occupied the border wall of Miao. The Mayang Ginseng General stationed in the Phoenix Camp had not had time to think about his way out and was chopped off his head in a dream. The other Ginseng General Tongren Ginseng became

The captives of the uprising army, under the call of Wu Heimiao, suddenly responded to the Miao people in western Hunan. Even the Miao people who surrendered to the court for many years were in a state of great influence. Wu Heimiao even put forward the slogan of "Miao people will not fight the Miao people". The uprising army grew rapidly within three days, known as the "100,000 army". The fuse of the uprising was that Zuo Liangyu rashly swept several Miao villages and captured their chieftains and Miao people. Using this as an excuse, he defeated the compatriots who were innocently captured by the Han people. Wu Heimiao summoned the chieftains of dozens of holes in the Miao people in Xiangxi and decided to revolt.

Zuo Liangyu then remembered that the military order made him unable to anger the Miao people. Now that everyone has been arrested, it would be useless to put it back. He quickly wrote a military newspaper and sent it to Wuchang, asking Xiong Tingbi to decide.

Xiong Tingbi was shocked after reading Zuo Liangyu's military newspaper. Although Zuo Liangyu's approach was a bit extreme, it was the same thing that the army had always done in the past. It cannot be said that he did something wrong. Zuo Liangyu did not make things difficult for the chieftains and Miaomin, but it was nothing wrong with them asking for the murderer. However, it was a bit exaggerated to stir up a mutiny in Miaojiang. He would have raised an army without waiting for the outcome. If Zuo Liangyu was still in the same style as before, I am afraid that the chieftains and Miaomin had already become the soul of the sword. Fortunately, the emperor reminded him that Zuo Liangyu did not directly kill those people. This was clearly a premeditated rebellion, which undoubtedly added many variables to his recovery of Huguang.

Not long after, his personal soldiers came to report that the imperial envoy Huang Zongxi, who had fully managed the affairs of Miaojiang in Xiangxi, arrived. This was also the smallest imperial envoy in the Ming Dynasty. From the fifth-rank Chenzhou Supervisor Censor and the Miao Affairs Minister in Xiangxi, the imperial envoy was added in front by the court, and the latter by Zhu Yinglong himself. Since the court had a Jiangfang minister, there has been a Miao affairs minister. Although the censors have complained, this is the emperor's intention. Even if they are dissatisfied with great dissatisfaction, they have nothing to say. Especially now, Zhu Yinglong is more noble because of his son, and is covered with a halo of the true destiny of the emperor!
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