Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 230 Seeking to open up new territories

On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, when all the guards were revamped, the twenty guards in Yunnan were also abolished one after another.

Such a move naturally attracted the attention of all parties.

However, Yunnan is different from other places. At least the twenty guards in Yunnan can still pull out a soldier who can fight.

Therefore, after Ma Xianglin's three battalions had abolished [-] guards, four new battalions were formed immediately.

As a result, the situation in Yunnan is somewhat delicate.

Mu Changzuo led troops to store in Yuanmou, and hunted together with Yuanmou Chieftain Wu Bikui, and the two had more than [-] troops.

As for Kunming, Ma Xianglin's headquarters reached seven battalions, totaling more than [-].

The Mu clan of Lijiang in northwest Yunnan has more than [-] soldiers.

In the southeast, there is also the reputation of Tusi Pu in Ami Prefecture, with more than [-] soldiers.

In addition, there are Shiping chieftain Long Zaitian, Sie'e chieftain Wang Yangzu, Wangnong chieftain Sha Dingzhou, Ningzhou chieftain Lu Yongming, Jingdong chieftain Diao Xun and other chieftains with tens of thousands of troops.

The situation in the Southwest is still not optimistic. Even if the chieftains in Guizhou were pacified, there are still dozens of chieftains in Yunnan and Guangxi who have not accepted the conversion of the land and returned to the natives, and their combined strength is also worrying.

At this moment, all the chieftains are watching the confrontation between Mu Changzuo and Ma Xianglin, wondering if Mu Changzuo will turn against him.

If Mu Changzuo rebels, they can observe for a period of time first. As long as Mu Changzuo bears the pressure of Daming, they can also rebel one after another.

Such a situation is like a fierce tiger facing a giant bear, while a group of wolves are watching.

Naturally, as the two protagonists in this situation, Ma Xianglin from Kunming and Mu Changzuo from Yuanmou are very vigilant.

They are avoiding misfires and avoiding slack and being attacked.

In the Yunnan General Army Mansion, [-]-year-old Ma Xianglin frowned, looked at the paperwork in his hand, and did not speak for a long time.

After a long time, he didn't put down the documents until his wife Zhang Fengyi came with lunch.

"What's the matter? Frowning, I'm not afraid to frown myself."

Zhang Fengyi, who also led the army and participated in the She'an Rebellion and the Battle of Fuliao, had no intention of being afraid of Ma Xianglin at all, and his words were full of ridicule.

She is tall and slender, and in this era when the average woman is less than five feet, she has a proud height of five feet three inches.

However, compared to Ma Xianglin next to her, she looks much smaller.

Since Qin Liangyu is tall and long, and Ma Qiancheng is not bad, the twenty-seven-year-old Ma Xianglin is five feet seven inches tall.

Height plus his bravery, plus he likes to read and paint in his spare time, and after going to the battlefield, he likes to wear silver armor and ride a white horse. .

It's just that this little Ma Chao is in a dilemma at the moment, all because of the letter in his hand.

Regarding his wife's ridicule, he also breathed a sigh of relief:
"For the matter in the capital, His Highness asked the Western Army's Governor's Mansion to recruit troops first, and my uncle asked me to recruit eight more battalions in Yunnan, so I am having a headache because of this."

"Why? I gave you fifteen battalions of troops, and you have been wronged?" Zhang Fengyi teased, but Ma Xianglin shook his head and said:
"I know that I can't control the fifteenth battalion. If there are only three battalions, I may still have contacts with Duke Qian, but if I command the fifteenth battalion, I'm afraid I can only stick to it."

"I'm not afraid, I can lead a battalion for you." Zhang Fengyi walked behind Ma Xianglin and squeezed his shoulders.

Feeling the comfort of his shoulders, Ma Xianglin also exhaled a foul breath at this moment:

"Now that the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is being reformed, it will be difficult for civil servants to lead the troops."

"I don't know how His Highness plans to arrange Governor Hong, Governor Sun and others."

Ma Xianglin said something that most people were worried about. After all, the official positions given to Hong Chengchou and others by the imperial court were Governor Southwest and Three Sides.

With the reform of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies now, the military power does not belong to Hong Chengchou and others. Zhu Youjian has not given an answer to how they arrange it until now.

Although Hong Chengchou and others believed in Zhu Youjian, but if time dragged on, things might change.

Ma Xianglin also didn't want to part ways with people who had known him for several years because of this kind of thing.

"You..." Zhang Fengyi squeezed Ma Xianglin's shoulders hard, and complained:

"You still have the mind to care about others, so you should care about your own affairs."

"If you want me to say, the western army and the southern army entered Yunnan together and wiped out all the chieftains."

"It's easy to say..." Ma Xianglin, who was grinning because of some pain, shrank his neck and said:
"There are dozens of chieftains in Yunnan, Guangxi, and Sichuan, and their military strength is no worse than that of She'an."

"If you want to calm them down, I'm afraid you have to spend tens of millions of taels of silver."

"The imperial court has just finished fighting the Liao Dynasty. How can it stand such a toss?"

"Forget it, I have no choice but to take one step at a time."

Ma Xianglin shook his head, and Zhang Fengyi also pushed his shoulder: "Let's eat your meal..."

The two couples were flirting and flirting, but they didn't know that Mu Changzuo, who was more than three hundred miles away, was impatient like an ant on a hot pot.

Yuanmou, a county with a large population of Yi people, has gathered [-] Han and Yi soldiers at this moment, but Mu Changzuo, as the commander of the army, has no confidence in going to war with Daming at all...

"Yeah (grandpa), mother and grandma wrote, but Ma Xianglin didn't make things difficult for them."

In the barracks of the Waiming Army in Yuanmou County, Mu Qiyuan took the letter sent by the Qian Guogong's mansion, glanced at it, and explained to Mu Changzuo who was sitting in the main seat.

But at this time, Mu Changzuo replied unhappily:

"Family is in the hands of others, and if nothing happens now, it doesn't mean nothing will happen later."

"This time, the imperial court wants our Duke Qian government to hand over the military power and all the guard land. If they really hand over, at least half of the land in the mansion will disappear."

half gone...

Hearing this, Mu Qiyuan was terrified, because for the Mu Mansion, at least [-] mu would disappear.

In Yunnan, the number of acres of paper land that Daming can control is more than [-] million acres, and the Qian State Government has more than one-third of it.

From this, it is not difficult to understand why Mu Changzuo thought of bargaining with the court.

Other family honorables occupied at most hundreds of thousands, or two to three hundred thousand acres, but he occupied millions of acres.

Among them, the gifts of the emperors of the past dynasties accounted for less than half, and more half were encroaching on the common people and encroaching on the land.

Zhu Youjian wants to reform, but this is not reform, it is Ge Mu Changzuo's order.

He was reluctant to die, and he was also reluctant to hand over his land and military power.

He already knew that Zhu Youjian's innovative policy of honorable ministers, to put it bluntly, would end in three generations!

With the title of duke of another country, after a few years passed to his grandson Mu Qiyuan, he would become Marquis of Qianguo, and then he would be the uncle of Qianguo, and then there would be no more.

Although Zhu Youjian also said that as long as the ministers go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, they can retain their titles by virtue of their merit, but who knows how much this so-called merit is?
This is also a problem that he has been worried about. If Zhu Youjian can clarify this problem, he may feel a lot more at ease.

It's just that Zhu Youjian has never sent him a letter, nor has anyone sent him a letter, which made him feel uneasy.

He is not a fool, he knows that the other party is taking the initiative, and waits for him to take the initiative to write a letter.

But the problem is that in this situation, it is obvious that whoever sends the letter first will be the first to surrender.

If he is subdued, then when negotiating the price with Zhu Youjian, it will not be so easy to negotiate...

"The child is vicious..."

When he thought that Zhu Youjian could still sit in Yanshan calmly, Mu Changzuo became very angry.

"Isn't he afraid that if I gather the chieftain together, there will be another extravagant chaos?"

Mu Changzuo couldn't help asking himself in his heart, but after thinking about it, he understood why Zhu Youjian wasn't worried.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youjian probably saw clearly the reason why he didn't dare to rebel, that's why he was so comfortable.

"The next step is to send the Western Army and the Southern Army to Yunnan, or what to do..."

Mu Changzuo only felt a splitting headache, and couldn't think of the reason why Zhu Youjian was so calm.

However, when he was having a headache, Zhu Youjian's letter was also delivered to the person who should be delivered...

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"Father, His Royal Highness Qi Wang is too domineering, actually asking us to hand over military power?"

In Lijiang's Mu Mansion, following the words of Mu Yi, the son of Mu Zeng, Mu Zeng, who was calmly depicting Danqing, paused for a while, then exhaled, put the pen on the pen holder, and took the letter from his son.

He read it at a glance, and his brows naturally began to frown along with the content, but when he saw that after the military power was handed over, he would be able to get the position of the left counselor of the Western Army, he relaxed his brows.

He took out the white paper, polished it and began to write, and Mu Yi also stepped forward to watch.

"Father! Do you really want to give him the military power?!"

When Mu Yi saw what his father had written, his eyes widened immediately, and he looked at him in disbelief.

However, compared to Mu Yi's surprise, Mu Zeng said calmly:

"The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies has [-] soldiers and horses. Let alone the other armies, I cannot face the Western Army alone."

"Then you can find Mu Changzuo to form an alliance with other chieftains!" Mu Yi was puzzled, and Mu Zeng shook his head and said:

"All the chieftains in Yunnan, the Duke of Guizhou's government, and us together are only [-] soldiers and horses."

"Once we hold back the Western Army, King Qi is likely to dispatch Shangzhi..."

Speaking of Shangzhi, Mu Zeng immediately thought of the Shangzhi three-step guard led by Sun Yingyuan.

Whether it is a rifle or a cannon, it is a headache for Mu Zeng.

If the Shangzhi Sixteenth Guards were equipped with such artillery and firecrackers, Mu Zeng could be sure that the southwestern chieftain would not survive the attack of the Shangzhi Sixteenth Guards for two years, and would eventually fall like She'an.

His Royal Highness, King Qi, is obviously going to change his country and return to the country. Instead of going all the way to the dark, it is better to exchange military power for some benefits.

Therefore, Mu Zeng asked Zhu Youjian in the letter to hand over the gold and silver mines in the Duogan area and Lijiang area to the Mufu for mining. In return, the Mufu will also give [-]% as a tribute.

"Okay, give the letter to Jin Yiwei in the mansion, and let them forward it to His Royal Highness King Qi."

Giving up military power was a very difficult decision for Mu Zeng, but he had no choice, he was unwilling to make enemies of Shangzhi and the entire Ming Dynasty.

As long as the matter of the gold and silver mines is finalized, according to Daming's previous attitude, the Mu family can still thrive for hundreds of years.

Because of this, even though his son Mu Yi was reluctant, Mu Zeng still asked him to hand over the letter to Jin Yiwei in the mansion.

As for Jin Yiwei, who received the letter, he sent it to the capital as soon as possible.

However, when the letter was sent back to the capital, the guards in Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Huguang, etc., which were originally pacified, were once again violated after the army withdrew.

Due to the shortage of scribes and the shortage of local soldiers and horses, the clan forces began to block the Qi Wangfu's measurement of the Weisuo's fields under various pretexts.

Among them, Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian are the most frequent and intense.

Today it is said that the field occupies Fengshui, and tomorrow it is said that the measurement is not accurate enough. In short, after the soldiers and horses withdrew, they began to stop them openly.

When such news reached the Yanshan camp, Zhu Youjian was inspecting the Duogan soldiers in the Duogan camp.

"Shanxi transferred the ten battalions to go south to Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and then transferred Yingyangwei, Wuxiangwei, and Tengxiangwei to Huguang, Fujian, and Shaanxi respectively."

Closing the document, Zhu Youjian, who was standing in the Duogan Camp barracks, said with a cold face:

"I don't want to use the knife, but let them think that they can't use the knife alone!"

"The field in the guard station is not theirs, it belongs to the imperial court and the governor's mansion of the five armies. The imperial court granted them official positions in the guard station, not for them to use the clan's children to fight against the imperial court."

"Since you don't want to sort out farming, then throw them all in Guangxi, Ryukyu, and Yunnan!"

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao next to him responded, and at the same time, Cao Huachun, who came next to him from the capital, also bowed and said:

"Your Highness, there are ninety-one guards in the four provinces of Beijing, involving [-] households and three to four million people. If you really want to do something, I'm afraid..."

"So what?" Zhu Youjian frowned and glanced at Cao Huachun, not caring about the so-called clan power.

If these clan forces were really that powerful, it would not have been so easy in history when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

Judging from the information from Beizhen Fusi, the so-called ninety-one guards cannot even pull out five thousand elite soldiers and horses in armor.

Wearing armor and not wearing armor, having guns and not having guns are two different things.

Besides, Zhu Youjian didn't want to take away their land, but to re-divide the land.

More importantly, it was the officers of the guards that Zhu Youjian wanted to reform, not ordinary military households.

If these clan elders really had the guts, they should have all rebelled at the first step of the Ming army's reform, which would have caused Zhu Youjian a headache.

As a result, as soon as they saw the army approaching the city, they immediately put down their weapons because they were afraid of death.

Now they don’t dare to rebel on the surface, and they can only stop innovation. After all, is it because the number of Ming troops cannot be divided equally into each guard post to form a deterrent force?
That being the case, then Zhu Youjian will increase the innovative force, as long as a large number of soldiers and horses are placed in each guard, he will see who dares to stop him!

As long as the first wave of land distribution is successful, the clan children who have gained the sweetness will not think of helping the clan elders to work hard.

To put it bluntly, it is these clan elders who have occupied the most Weisuo fields. How many acres can those clan children have?

The fields in the hands of the clan elders were released, and it would be troublesome for them to unite and take them back, because at that time, the fields were already owned by ordinary clan children.

At that time, the competition for land will change from the competition between the clan and the army to the competition between the elders and the children of the clan.

Of course, this alone is not enough, because most of the clan elders are actually people with fame and fame, and they can enjoy the privilege of being exempt from corvee.

Therefore, the division of land was only the first step. To really stabilize the plot of the land division policy, it was still necessary to abolish all the privileges of the gentry, so that the gentry would receive food and work as one.

This thing can't be done soon.

However, Zhu Youjian didn't want to solve the problem of Weisuotian in a short period of time. At least judging from the current situation, the abolition of Weisuotian in the south, or the Weisuotian in the southeast, Beijing and three provinces, will cost at least one year. time of year.

Zhu Youjian was not in a hurry, Wei Suotian in the southeast only needed warm water to boil the frogs. His real problem was the toast in the southwest.

Da Ming must thoroughly reform the land and return it to the people in the southwest. If it cannot be done, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to integrate the forces in the southwest and open up the Indochina Peninsula.

"The number of chieftains and soldiers in Guangxi, Yunnan, and Xingdusi of Sichuan have been investigated clearly?"

Zhu Youjian turned his head to look at Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao bowed when he heard the words:

"There is no thorough investigation, but as far as the current situation is concerned, [-]% of the [-] chieftains have been detected, and the number of soldiers and horses will not be less than [-]."

"Your Highness..." Cao Wenzhao bowed suddenly when he heard Lu Wenzhao's words:
"Your Highness, the southwestern chieftain soldiers and horses are nothing more than chickens and dogs in front of Shangzhi soldiers and horses. The only thing we need to worry about is the road problem in the southwest."

"When the last general and Sun Dudu took care of the two thieves, She and An, it wasn't because our soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty couldn't quickly destroy the thieves, but because the thieves always cut off the roads and dug mountains to fill the roads, making our army march slowly."

"As long as the road problem can be solved, I can attack tens of thousands of native soldiers with my upright guard."

After several years of recuperation, iron smelting and forging, the sharpest weapon of the Ming army was not the artillery and riding blunderbuss, but the large-scale rifle blunderbuss.

From February of the first year of Tianqi to the present, three years have passed, and a total of [-] rifles have been produced.

The [-]th Guards and the [-]th Battalion of Shangzhi, with nearly [-] soldiers and horses, were equipped with rifles one after another, and the surplus was equipped with the Third Division of the Imperial City, General Dahan, and the [-]th Battalion of Shanxi.

The equipment of the [-] soldiers and horses was not completely announced until April this year, and then began to equip the three guards of Daning.

By the end of the First Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty, the infantry of the Three Guards of Daning had not only been equipped with rifles, but even more than [-] rifles had been hoarded in the Yanshan Ordnance Institute.

As of now, there are still more than [-] rifles and more than [-] riding guns in stock in the armory.

These rifles and riding guns will all be sent to Liaodong, and from next year, a large number of rifles will be sent to the southwest, and riding guns will be sent to the northwest.

We need to innovate internally, but we also need to develop externally.

Therefore, the experience of Cao Wenzhao and Sun Yingyuan in the southwest is very important.

In Zhu Youjian's memory, the She'an Rebellion was already the best martial art of the southwestern chieftain in the late Ming Dynasty.

Although the Shapu Rebellion that followed lasted for several years, it was completely incomparable with the She'an Rebellion.

What Zhu Youjian has to do now is to open up overseas, stabilize the frontier, and innovate internally within three years.

Zhu Youjian is not worried about the development of the sea at all. As long as the navy's twelve guards are successfully established, according to the current tonnage of the Ming Navy, attacking Nanyang will be ruined.

He didn't even need to use his brain to fight Nanyang, Huang Long could solve it by himself.

What he wants to think about is how to stabilize the local forces in Nanyang who are close to Ming and how to solve the local forces that are hostile to Ming after the destruction of the Dutch and Spanish Nanyang armies.

Ming can do without Papua Guinea and Borneo, but Malacca must be taken.

Not only for Daming's taxes, but also for the stability of the ocean-going fleet.

There is not much time left for him to promise the feudal lords. In the fourth year of the apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty does not need to open up territory on land, but Nanyang must be won.

But at the same time, the land frontier must also be secure.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian thought of Southwest and Duogan, as well as Uszang, Shaanxi and other places.

The matters in these places need him to solve one by one, and the largest southwestern chieftain cannot support it with the current money and food of the Yumajian, so he has to wait until next year when the rifles and artillery are in place.

As for Uzang, Shaanxi, and Duogan, these three places can be prepared now.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked at the Duogan barracks in front of him, and said to Cao Wenzhao:
"These Duogan soldiers must teach them to learn most of the Chinese characters and Chinese within one year, and at the same time teach them how to use the riding guns and rifles."

"Tell them that what Gu wants to do is to liberate the serfs in Uzbek and Dogan, and disintegrate all the chieftains."

"They will be my military officers in Uzang and Dogan provinces in the future!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness, the general will definitely teach them well in the end." Cao Wenzhao bowed in response. In this snowy field, he only felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavier.

When he answered, Cao Huachun also looked at his highness in fur, and tentatively said:
"Your Highness, is it too early to start the matter of Duogan and Wu Sizang?"

"Dogan and Uszang have a population of less than one million. We only need to subdue the more than [-] soldiers and horses of the Lijiang Mu Clan in Dogan, plus the more than [-] Duogan cavalry after the war, equipped with cavalry and rifles. , Artillery, taking these two places is a piece of cake."

Facing Cao Huachun's words, Zhu Youjian snorted lightly and made his plan clear.

Seventeen thousand people wanted to conquer the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. If this idea was placed in the Tang and Song Dynasties, it would definitely be a daydream.

But what's the climate right now?Little Ice Age...

Zhu Youjian said that there are nearly a million people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to save face, but in fact there may not even be [-] people.

In history, Gushi Khan of Heshuote Mongolia led [-] people to conquer Qinghai-Tibet, although this was because he had the support of the Gelug faction, and only [-] Mongolian cavalry from Wai Khalkha entrenched in Qinghai and the Shannan army had to deal with it. There are more than [-] Tibetan cavalry in the area.

But this also shows in disguise that the whole of Qinghai-Tibet, even with the Gelug faction's soldiers and horses, is no more than [-] to [-] soldiers and horses at most.

Relying on the post road from Songpan to Lhasa during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, plus the [-] cavalry and artillery rifles, Zhu Youjian did not believe that these [-] to [-] roving soldiers with less than [-]% armored rate could stop the Ming Dynasty. Bingfeng.

Since Gushi Khan's [-] people can take Qinghai-Tibet, it is impossible for Ming's Ming army to be worse than them!
"Your Highness, if you want to fight Duogan and Wu Sizang, you must first deal with Hetao, Duogan, and the three northern captives in Ningxia..."

Suddenly, Cao Wenzhao spoke cautiously, and Zhu Youjian squinted his eyes when he heard the words:
"These three movies have offended me for many years, so it's time to clean up..."

(End of this chapter)